Ten youngsters for Scrabble WYC
View(s):Ten youth will be featured at World Youth Scrabble Championship Ten students from Sri Lanka will participate in this year’s World Youth Scrabble Championship (WYSC), to be held from October 31 to November 2 in Perth, Australia.
From left: Radinka, Thirandi, Aabid, Lambotharan, Janidu, Thavalakshman and Janul. Absent: Migara, Mukkesh, Vignesh and Hasindu.
This is the 10th WYSC with youth from all over the world taking part in an exciting battle over minds, words and letters.
Migara Jayasinghe (Lyceum (LIS) Wattala), Janidu Karunaratne (LIS Wattala), Thavalakshman Yoganathan (LIS Wattala), Hasindu Arumapperuma (Royal), Aabid Ismail (Royal), Janul de Silva (Royal), Mukkesh Selvaraj (Stafford), Vignesh Pirapaharan (S. Thomas’), Radinka Dissanayake (Bishops) and Thirandi de Silva (Ladies) will be representing Sri Lanka at this tournament.
All the representatives have played in at least one previous WYSC event while Migara will be making his 6th consecutive appearance. He has won the awards for the best under 12 player in 2010 and best under 14 player in 2012 at the WYSC.
At previous championships the Sri Lankan team has performed strongly and emerged as the 3rd best country at the 9th WYSC held in Colombo in 2014.
Yeshan Jayasuriya (S. Thomas’) was placed 4th and 5th in 2011 and 2012 respectively while Premakumar Nimalan (Royal) and Yasiru Fernando (Royal) were placed 5th and 6th in 2011 and 2012.
Gayanath Chandrasena (D S Senanayake) and Viggnah Selvaraj (Stafford) were placed 6th and 10th respectively in 2014.