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Huge promotion in Tombelle, Italy
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A first trophy for Francesco Fucci
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Sven Schilling, a happy traveller in South Africa
Still no local winner in Cape Town!
Cape Town Open 2015
15 November 2015
Venue: Sports Science Institute of South Africa (Newlands, Cape Town)
As always, a good time was had by all, with much commitment shown to further developing the game in Cape Town.
(Report by Cape Town TFC)
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Easy win for Geoffrey Marain
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| Geoffrey Marain and Vincent Coppenolle |
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Western Flickers 3rd WASPA tournament!
Reported by Benny Ng (Melbourne, Australia)
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The Western Flickers - a sub-group of the Melbourne Table Football Club – was formed to to cater for players living on the north/west side of Melbourne and provide more opportunities to play the wonderful game of table football.
Today, the Western Flickers hosted its 3rd WASPA (Regional) tournament. Coinciding with one of our player’s birthday, what better way to celebrate than with a Subbuteo themed party / tournament!
Subbuteo Melbourne had one of our best WASPA turnouts of the year with 11 players taking part. These included 2 brand new players having a go at Subbuteo for the very first time and both of them loved it. I have to say both took the game very quickly and played very well! Lots of potential and hopefully we will see them at future Subbuteo events. We also welcomed a special guest player all the way from Italy – Claudio Ranelli. Using a Swiss system variant to give everyone even gameplay amount, the players were drawn into 3 groups:
Group A – Beth Everleigh, Aidan Deverall, David McCall
Group B – Benjamin Ng, Claudio Ranelli, Paul Mercer, Christos Garagounis
Group C – Fauzi Rahman, Choon Lee, Benny Ng, Adam Deverall
Qualifying Group Round
In Group A, Beth emerged as the winner with wins over rising junior star Aidan and newcomer David. The battle for the runners up spot ended up in a stalemate with Aidan squeezing into second spot because of goal difference. Congrats to David for earning his first Subbuteo point!
Group B was a much tighter affair with Claudio and Paul hotly contesting top spot. Both players had wins over Benjamin and Christos, but Claudio had the slightly better goal difference. It meant that Paul had to beat Claudio in order to win the group, and in a tense match, Paul managed to grab a 1-0 win!
Group C pitted Western Flickers stalwarts Benny and Adam together with newcomer Choon Lee and Fauzi (who was only playing Subbuteo for the second time). As expected, the deciding match was between Benny and Adam, with Benny getting the edge this time with a 2-0 victory.
As a result, the following groupings emerged for the next round:
Winners group – Beth, Paul and Benny
Runners Up group – Aidan, Claudio, Adam
Plates group – David, Christos and Fauzi
Consolation group – Benjamin and Choon
Deciding Finals Round
As the Consolation group had only 2 players, the single match was won by Benjamin in a narrow 1-0 victory.
The pumped-up Christos won the Plates group, romping home with comfortably wins against David and Fauzi. The match between David and Fauzi had to be decided by penalty shots, with David celebrating wildly when he won a lengthy 26-shot shootout! Well done David on your first Subbuteo outing.
In the Runners Up group, nothing could split Adam and Claudio so it went to shots as well. Adam came out winner to take the group.
In the Winners group, Beth played bravely despite equipment issues and only just lost to both Paul and Benny. So the deciding match for the overall tournament winner was between Paul and Benny; with Benny having not beaten Paul in a competitive match.
In an exciting and tense game where either player could easily have won, Benny snatched a late goal and held out for a memorable very first WASPA Regional tournament win.
Conclusion
Thanks to all who attended for helping to make it an awesome day filled with Subbuteo fun, food and friendship! It was a blast!
Well done everyone ... GO WEST!!!
The final standings are:
1. Benny Ng
2. Paul Mercer
3. Beth Everleigh
4. Adam Deverall
5. Claudio Ranelli
6. Aidan Deverall
7. Christis Garagounis
8. David McCall
9. Fauzi Rahman
10. Benjamin Ng
11. Choon Lee
P.S. If anyone is interested in taking part in future Western Flickers events or just popping by for chat and look-see, feel free to send Benny Ng an email at bennidokk@yahoo.com
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Today, the Western Flickers hosted its 3rd WASPA (Regional) tournament. Coinciding with one of our player’s birthday, what better way to celebrate than with a Subbuteo themed party / tournament!
Subbuteo Melbourne had one of our best WASPA turnouts of the year with 11 players taking part. These included 2 brand new players having a go at Subbuteo for the very first time and both of them loved it. I have to say both took the game very quickly and played very well! Lots of potential and hopefully we will see them at future Subbuteo events. We also welcomed a special guest player all the way from Italy – Claudio Ranelli. Using a Swiss system variant to give everyone even gameplay amount, the players were drawn into 3 groups:
Group A – Beth Everleigh, Aidan Deverall, David McCall
Group B – Benjamin Ng, Claudio Ranelli, Paul Mercer, Christos Garagounis
Group C – Fauzi Rahman, Choon Lee, Benny Ng, Adam Deverall
Qualifying Group Round
In Group A, Beth emerged as the winner with wins over rising junior star Aidan and newcomer David. The battle for the runners up spot ended up in a stalemate with Aidan squeezing into second spot because of goal difference. Congrats to David for earning his first Subbuteo point!
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| Beth giving newcomer David McCall some pointers |
Group C pitted Western Flickers stalwarts Benny and Adam together with newcomer Choon Lee and Fauzi (who was only playing Subbuteo for the second time). As expected, the deciding match was between Benny and Adam, with Benny getting the edge this time with a 2-0 victory.
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| Newcomer Choon Lee in action |
Winners group – Beth, Paul and Benny
Runners Up group – Aidan, Claudio, Adam
Plates group – David, Christos and Fauzi
Consolation group – Benjamin and Choon
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| The mini-Subbuteo table was a big hit with the younglings! |
As the Consolation group had only 2 players, the single match was won by Benjamin in a narrow 1-0 victory.
The pumped-up Christos won the Plates group, romping home with comfortably wins against David and Fauzi. The match between David and Fauzi had to be decided by penalty shots, with David celebrating wildly when he won a lengthy 26-shot shootout! Well done David on your first Subbuteo outing.
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| Christos in deep concentration |
In the Winners group, Beth played bravely despite equipment issues and only just lost to both Paul and Benny. So the deciding match for the overall tournament winner was between Paul and Benny; with Benny having not beaten Paul in a competitive match.
In an exciting and tense game where either player could easily have won, Benny snatched a late goal and held out for a memorable very first WASPA Regional tournament win.
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| Winner Benny with runner-up Paul |
Thanks to all who attended for helping to make it an awesome day filled with Subbuteo fun, food and friendship! It was a blast!
Well done everyone ... GO WEST!!!
The final standings are:
1. Benny Ng
2. Paul Mercer
3. Beth Everleigh
4. Adam Deverall
5. Claudio Ranelli
6. Aidan Deverall
7. Christis Garagounis
8. David McCall
9. Fauzi Rahman
10. Benjamin Ng
11. Choon Lee
P.S. If anyone is interested in taking part in future Western Flickers events or just popping by for chat and look-see, feel free to send Benny Ng an email at bennidokk@yahoo.com
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| Subbuteo cupcakes anyone? |
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| Special guest player from Italy – Claudio Ranelli – in action against U12 Junior Champion Benjamin Ng |
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Andrea Pagano and Alberto Gagliardi win old rules tournaments in Italy
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| Presentation of the trophies |
1. Andrea Pagano (Norwich City), 10
2. Ugo Custo (Catanzaro), 9
3. Alessio Talarico (Borussia Dortmund), 9
4. Alessandro Corigliano (Austria Vienna), 7
5. Raffaele Gangale (Roma), 7
6. Davide Colace (Albion Rovers), 6
7. Sandro Vasapollo (Eintracht), 6
8. Gianfranco Gallelli (Ajax), 5
9. Domenico Giglio (Manchester City), 5
10. Alfredo Priamo (West Ham), 4
11. Salvatore Scalise (Inter), 0
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| Players in Ascoli |
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Subbuteo Parramatta Spring League Cup
Following the great success of the second annual Subbuteo Parramatta Spring League, The celebratory Spring League Cup brought Subbuteo Parramatta’s official program for 2015 to a close. 8 players descended on the New Trafford Subbuteo Complex in North Parramatta, 7 who had competed in the league plus one extra. A change of date meant that Spring League winner, Eliot Kennedy was out of the country, leaving the door open for someone else to take the consolation title. 2014 League Cup winner Steve Diasinos turned out to defend his crown, but knew he would be facing a battle. Fabrizio Coco started as tournament favourite, the event also marking the one year anniversary of his first competitive Subbuteo on Australian soil. Steve Dettre and the Lombardi brothers were also in with a shot. Mathew Barrie, Adrian Elmer and Louis Dettre, while knowing they probably didn’t have a realistic shot at the title, were keen put in good performances, however, and throw a few spanners in the works of the front-runners.
For the first time in the history of Subbuteo Parramatta, a true Swiss System was trialled, with 5 rounds programmed. The opening round was drawn randomly. Mat drew Adrian and immediately made full use of the home ground advantage, forcing Adrian to both play on an unfamiliar surface and with a borrowed team, due to a colour clash. Adrian took some time to find his feet, but settled in and eventually held on for a 0-0 draw. Fabrizio drew Steve Dettre and, in a tight tussle, took a 1-0 victory, though a desperate header from one of his defenders was needed to hold out Big Steve’s late onslaught. Daniele saw off Louis 4-0, while Raffaele had a much sterner test against Little Steve, earning a tight 1-0 victory.
Round two pitted Daniele against Fabrizio and, in a forecast of the final standings, the two first round winners battled out a dogged 1-1 draw. Raffaele again won by the finest of margins, with Mat defending sternly and only allowing the solitary, unanswered goal to pass him. Big Steve had the run of the early play against Adrian and took a 1-0 lead to the break. Adrian, however, fought back in the second, taking a deserved equaliser, only to fall tantalisingly short as Big Steve picked up the winner with a sweeping counter-attack and the last flick of the match. Little Steve made hard work of his victory over Louis. In spite of peppering Louis’ goal, only one shot managed to break Louis’ stern goalkeeping performance.
In round three, Fabrizio made extra certain that everyone knew exactly how he felt about Little Steve’s constant reminders that he had beaten Fabrizio exactly one year ago to take the last League Cup title. Fabrizio pumped 5 past Little Steve’s hapless defences, well and truly consigning memories of that first showdown (where Fabrizio had to use a borrowed team in his first games in a couple of years) to the dustbin. Mathew repeated a common theme for his performance for the evening, a tight draw, this time against Big Steve, each player slotting one past the other. Adrian scored rapid goals at the beginning of each half as well as a third in an, otherwise, well contested match against Louis. However, all the action took place on pitch number 1. Raffaele had jokingly begged for a referee before the showdown against his flesh and blood but, of course, with all participants playing, they were left to their own devices. Midway through the second half all hell broke loose, and the familiar Italian curses that regulars at Subbuteo Parramatta events are beginning to now understand were flying. A contentious decision in the middle of the field led to a goal, lots of yelling and an eventual forfeit.
With 10 minutes to settle, Raffaele and Daniele were coaxed back onto the pitch by their next opponents. While Daniele was not his usual fluent self, he managed to slip 3 past Adrian. Meanwhile, Raffaele struggled against Fabrizio, a 3-0 victory to the latter realistically sealing the title for him. In the ongoing battle of the Steves, the Little version took the honours with an, as ever, tightly contested 1-0 victory. Louis scored his first goal of the evening in his draw with, you guessed it, Mathew, who was making a habit of picking up solitary points from his close games.
The final round saw Fabrizio do his lap of honour around the unfortunate Louis, who was only drawn against the winner in the swiss system due to clashes in the draw amongst other players. Raffaele and Big Steve fought out yet another close tie and Mathew proved he possesses one of the stingiest defences, in spite of going down 1-0 to Daniele, the win slipping him into second place on the table. Adrian and Little Steve fought out one of their regular close encounters, this time both having to settle for a 0-0 draw, in spite of both creating a couple of good chances each.
Many thanks to Mat for hosting us, the first ever WASPA tournament to be held at New Trafford, and thanks to the neighbouring flats for the great smells of cooking that came wafting through the windows throughout the evening!
Final ranking:
1. Fabrizio Coco (Subbuteo Parramatta)
2. Daniele Lombardi (Subbuteo Parramatta)
3. Raffaele Lombardi (Subbuteo Parramatta)
4. Steve Diasinos (Subbuteo Parramatta)
5. Adrian Elmer (Subbuteo Parramatta)
5. Steve Dettre (Northern Falcons Club)
7. Mathew Barrie (Subbuteo Parramatta)
8. Louis Dettre (Northern Falcons Club)
(Original report from www.subbuteoaustralia.com)
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| Louis and Daniele prepare to go head to head |
Round two pitted Daniele against Fabrizio and, in a forecast of the final standings, the two first round winners battled out a dogged 1-1 draw. Raffaele again won by the finest of margins, with Mat defending sternly and only allowing the solitary, unanswered goal to pass him. Big Steve had the run of the early play against Adrian and took a 1-0 lead to the break. Adrian, however, fought back in the second, taking a deserved equaliser, only to fall tantalisingly short as Big Steve picked up the winner with a sweeping counter-attack and the last flick of the match. Little Steve made hard work of his victory over Louis. In spite of peppering Louis’ goal, only one shot managed to break Louis’ stern goalkeeping performance.
In round three, Fabrizio made extra certain that everyone knew exactly how he felt about Little Steve’s constant reminders that he had beaten Fabrizio exactly one year ago to take the last League Cup title. Fabrizio pumped 5 past Little Steve’s hapless defences, well and truly consigning memories of that first showdown (where Fabrizio had to use a borrowed team in his first games in a couple of years) to the dustbin. Mathew repeated a common theme for his performance for the evening, a tight draw, this time against Big Steve, each player slotting one past the other. Adrian scored rapid goals at the beginning of each half as well as a third in an, otherwise, well contested match against Louis. However, all the action took place on pitch number 1. Raffaele had jokingly begged for a referee before the showdown against his flesh and blood but, of course, with all participants playing, they were left to their own devices. Midway through the second half all hell broke loose, and the familiar Italian curses that regulars at Subbuteo Parramatta events are beginning to now understand were flying. A contentious decision in the middle of the field led to a goal, lots of yelling and an eventual forfeit.
With 10 minutes to settle, Raffaele and Daniele were coaxed back onto the pitch by their next opponents. While Daniele was not his usual fluent self, he managed to slip 3 past Adrian. Meanwhile, Raffaele struggled against Fabrizio, a 3-0 victory to the latter realistically sealing the title for him. In the ongoing battle of the Steves, the Little version took the honours with an, as ever, tightly contested 1-0 victory. Louis scored his first goal of the evening in his draw with, you guessed it, Mathew, who was making a habit of picking up solitary points from his close games.
The final round saw Fabrizio do his lap of honour around the unfortunate Louis, who was only drawn against the winner in the swiss system due to clashes in the draw amongst other players. Raffaele and Big Steve fought out yet another close tie and Mathew proved he possesses one of the stingiest defences, in spite of going down 1-0 to Daniele, the win slipping him into second place on the table. Adrian and Little Steve fought out one of their regular close encounters, this time both having to settle for a 0-0 draw, in spite of both creating a couple of good chances each.
Many thanks to Mat for hosting us, the first ever WASPA tournament to be held at New Trafford, and thanks to the neighbouring flats for the great smells of cooking that came wafting through the windows throughout the evening!
Final ranking:
1. Fabrizio Coco (Subbuteo Parramatta)
2. Daniele Lombardi (Subbuteo Parramatta)
3. Raffaele Lombardi (Subbuteo Parramatta)
4. Steve Diasinos (Subbuteo Parramatta)
5. Adrian Elmer (Subbuteo Parramatta)
5. Steve Dettre (Northern Falcons Club)
7. Mathew Barrie (Subbuteo Parramatta)
8. Louis Dettre (Northern Falcons Club)
(Original report from www.subbuteoaustralia.com)
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Chessray Jooste captures his 4th WASPA title
Saturday 21 November 2015, Pretoria, South Africa
Over the 16 scheduled fixtures we had 29 goals scored in total - ensuring for a great day of Subbuteo fun & action ! For the individual standings 2 points per win and 1 point per draw were awarded, whereas for the team standings we had 3 points per win & 1 point per draw awarded. The day got off to a bang with Barcelona (Chessray Jooste) beating Liverpool (Bevin Reed) by 1-0. All day long Chessray kept the Spain flag flying high - posting three wins and one draw. The only points Chessray dropped was during a 1-1 draw against Everton (Jayden vd Merwe). Chessray clinched the title in Match 14 when he won 2-1 against Kegan vs Merwe (Crystal Palace) - a match which marked the fastest goal of the day with Chessray attacking from the start and scoring on 32sec of play! Chessray then doubled his lead on 3 min, with Kegan pulling one back on 11 min to ensure a tense finish to the match - certainly the candidate for "Match of the Day". For Chessray.....this was his first title since April 2014 - are we witnessing a comeback from one of PFC's stalwarts?
Liverpool (Bevin Reed) could only manage 3rd place overall after faltering in the first two rounds of play. Perhaps what will hurt more for Liverpool (Bevin Reed) is that they surrendered 2nd place to their bitter rivals, Everton (Jayden vd Merwe)!
Everton (Jayden vd Merwe) was the only other unbeaten team on the day - posting two wins and two draws to secure 2nd place overall.
Finally a mention must be made about the effort from Manchester United (Sherwin Reed) - taking 4th place overall and suffering only one loss on the day, to the eventual victors Barcelona ! Certainly a great achievement by Sherwin - considering he only made his Subbuteo debut as recently as April 2015!
The event also marked the Subbuteo debut of PFC's latest recruit, Neilon Waterson (Valencia) - at PFC we gladly welcome new members amonst our midst as we eagerly anticipate their development in this beautiful game that is Subbuteo! As far as team accolades go - Team England occupied three of the top four individual places, accumulating a total of 24 points compared to the 18 points earned by Team Spain. Is the Premier League better than La Liga. only time can answer that question!
(Report by Julian van der Merwe)
Individual Standings
1. Chessray Jooste (BARCELONA)
2. Jayden vd Merwe (EVERTON)
3. Bevin Reed (LIVERPOOL)
4. Sherwin Reed (MANCHESTER UNITED)
5. Julian vd Merwe (ATLETICO MADRID)
6. Kegan vd Merwe (CRYSTAL PALACE)
7. Adam Murray (MALAGA)
8. Neilon Waterson (VALENCIA)
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A second tournament win for Rik Bland
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The second semi-final was fought out between last month’s finalists. With Rik losing to Adam in his previous 2 matches, Adam was the favourite to progress. However, Rik had found his form and pulled off a very credible 3-0 win.
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Second trophy for Pascal Droeven
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| The podium of the tournament! |
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Isaac Lim wins the Merlion Cup Plate event 2015
The players were then placed in 3 groups of 3 players each with Isaac, Ming Liang and Dylan in Group A; Quan Feng, Luke and Ding Heng in Group B; and Hashim, Yew Seng and Bolkiah forming Group C. The players had to play group matches to determine who finishes top in each group and the best player to finish second among all groups.
In the Plate Semi-finals, the winner of Group A will then go on to face his counterpart in Group C whereas the winner of Group B will then face the best player to finish second. The winners of each semi-final match will go head to head with each other in the Plate Final to compete for the title of Plate Champion.
Plate Preliminary Rounds:
The Plate Preliminary Rounds saw players putting in their best efforts to enter the semi-finals. After a couple of group matches, Isaac, Quan Feng and Bolkiah went on to top Groups A, B and C respectively; while Luke ended up as the best player to finish second. The above four players then progressed to play in the Plate Semi-finals.
Plate Semi-finals:
Semi-final 1 (Isaac vs Bolkiah):The first match of the Plate Semi-finals was a face-off between the winner of Group A, Isaac and the winner of Group B, Bolkiah, both who secured top 4 spots in the Merlion Cup U19 Individual Category the previous day. The match was rather tight with both players engaged in a battle of wits and accuracy to fight for a well-deserved spot in the final. Despite the good fighting spirit that both players put up, Isaac managed to secure a 1-0 victory against Bolkiah to take the lead and earn a spot in the final.
Semi-final 2 (Quan Feng vs Luke):
Just like the preliminary match which saw Quan Feng beating Luke by a 2-1 scoreline, both players played against each other once more in the semi-finals. This match was rather exciting as both sides had an equal amount of chances to score goals but could not capitalise on them, resulting in a goalless 0-0 draw and the game taken to a round of shots. The result still remained the same after countless attempts to score from shots which saw the game being brought to sudden death where Luke managed to net in a goal to secure a spot as one of the two finalist.
Plate Final (Isaac vs Luke):
The day drew down to this match for all Plate Event participants. It was a match that decided who will emerge victorious and be crowned Plate Champion and who would return from the competition as Plate Runner-up. The Lim brothers, consisting of Luke and Isaac were to compete for the champion’s title in this very match which despite the ongoing Merlion Cup Open Final, was also a nail-biting affair of both skill and accuracy.
The match was literally an adrenaline rush for both players who were playing to their limits and not planning to show any signs of mercy to the opposing side. However, despite the pressure both sides were putting in for their opponents, Isaac was more accurate with his touches and more clinical with his shots, thus allowing him to defeat Luke with a whopping 5-0 victory. Congratulations, Isaac!!!
Once again, a big congratulations to all players who stayed on to play in the Plate Event despite their defeats in the Main Event. We hope to see you in action once more at our next tournament!
(Report by Luke Lim and Isaac Lim.)
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The 2015 Turkey Shoot for Peter Alegi
For full results go to: https://grtsc.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/2015-turkey-shoot-tournament/
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Jürgen Dreyer wins in Dachau
At the end of the day, Jürgen Dreyer sat with 5 points and won his first WASPA tournament. Second place went to the absolute novice Jörg Lappöhn who surprised his opponent with exceptional feeling and strong shots. He managed to get 3 points. Third place went to our team's Manfred Guth, who also ended with three points. Unfortunately, he used his many shot opportunities not consistently. For him there would have been even more. Also an extraordinarily good performance delivered from Peter Seebach, with 2 draws and only one defeat scored 2 points and were referred only very scarce on the 4th Place.
In sum can be stated clearly that any player could win this tournament, since the power levels were nearly identical.
Noteworthy was for us as organizers that all involved players necessarily want unsubscribe again a tournament of this kind. We will seek a bigger tournament of its kind for our newcomers to organize.
The newcomer Peter and Jörg äussertensich that you would also like to visit our club evenings in Subbuteo Club München 2014 us. We would be happy about it very much.
(Translated from thre German - Report from SC München)
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Thorn and Kimber winners in Perth
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| Players from left to right; Alan Kimber, Chris Thorn, Ross McNulty, John Harty |
Growing from an initial player base of just Chris Thorn and John Harty in 2014, the club has now expanded to four players with Ross McNulty and Alan Kimber joining the fray. We have also been told two more players are expected in the new year bringing the total up to 6.
In the meantime, the club has followed suit with fellow Australian clubs and has purchased their own club shirts (red and blue as seen in above photo).
Now to the tournaments. In September it was Chris Thorn who came out on top undefeated in his 6 games:
1. Chris THORN (16)
2. Alan KIMBER (10)
3. Ross McNULTY (5)
4. John HARTY (3)
And in October Alan Kimber took his first WASPA title, well done Alan!
1. Alan KIMBER (11)
2. Ross McNULTY (8)
3. Chris THORN (8)
4. John HARTY (6)
(Original report from http://subbuteoaustralia.com/?p=2048)
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Anas takes the honors in Singapore
Jurong Central Subbuteo Club (JCSC) League 2014/15 (Friday 27 November 2015) WASPA
Group Stage
The players were split into 4 groups, with the top seeds (according to the SG Ranking table) assigned to each group. The rest of the players were drawn into their respective groups.
The draw resulted in a “group of death” in Group C, with competitive players, namely Fauzi, Rizal Taib and Vikas in the same group. The groupings are as follows:
Group A: Noor Haikal, Simon, Quan Feng
Group B: Anas, Yew Seng, Bolkiah
Group C: Vikas, Fauzi, Rizal Taib, Ding Heng
Group D: Nic, Amin, Dylan, Ah Liang
After the group round, the top seeds for each group (Haikal, Anas, Vikas and Nic) comfortably topped their respective groups by winning all their games.
The top 2 players from each group proceed to the quarter finals while the rest of the players would enter the Plate Payoffs.
Plate Playoffs
After a long knockout round, Group A 2nd runner-up, Quan Feng, met Group C 2nd runner-up, Rizal Taib in the plate final. With experience under his belt, Rizal managed to secure a convincing 3-0 win to win the plates.
Quarter Finals
QF 1: Haikal vs Fauzi
Haikal managed to score a sneaky long shot goal, and the score remained at 1-0 as Fauzi failed to overcome Haikal’s strong defence strategy after the first goal.
QF 2: Anas vs Amin
After several shots and relentless pressure from Anas towards Amin’s defence, Anas finally managed to sneak a goal past Amin’s goalkeeper to secure a 1-0 win.
QF 3: Vikas vs Simon
In a battle between two veterans, Vikas managed to secure a 2-1 win over his old rival, Simon, who just recently came back to playing Subbuteo again.
QF 4: Nic vs Yew Seng
With his amazing shooting skills, Nic managed to secure a comfortable 4-0 win over Yew Seng.
Semi Finals
SF 1: Anas vs Haikal
In a battle between two youths, Anas managed to score 3 goals to secure a spot in the final.
SF 2: Vikas vs Nic
In what seemed like a closely fought match, Vikas managed to score the winning goal against Nic to secure a 2-1 win.
Anas vs Vikas
Although Anas managed to score an early goal with his fast paced game play, he could not maintain the scoreline with Vikas’ fearsome long shots, with one of them finding the back of the net.
With the game tied at 1-1 at full time, sudden death penalty shootout followed. Anas managed to score a goal while saving Vikas’ shot, hence ending the game with Anas securing victory.
(Report by Anas)
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Dave Pawsey wins the English national league
On November 14 and 15, the English Subbuteo Association ran a great week-end of subbuteo in Enderby. The winners were as follows:
Division 1 - Dave Pawsey
Division 2 - Martin Blanchard
Junior Division - Kye Arnold
Saturday Cup - Andy Boyer
Sunday League - Rob Ramsay
As decided with the organizers, the events also counted for the WASPA circuit. The Division 1 was a "regional" tournament, with the division 2 and the Junior section counted as B-events. The Saturday Cup and the Sunday League were promotional tournaments. Congratulations to the organizers and to the winners.
A few pictures of the tournament
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Division 1 - Dave Pawsey
Division 2 - Martin Blanchard
Junior Division - Kye Arnold
Saturday Cup - Andy Boyer
Sunday League - Rob Ramsay
As decided with the organizers, the events also counted for the WASPA circuit. The Division 1 was a "regional" tournament, with the division 2 and the Junior section counted as B-events. The Saturday Cup and the Sunday League were promotional tournaments. Congratulations to the organizers and to the winners.
A few pictures of the tournament
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Chris Thomas wins in Cardiff
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| Chris Thomas (left) and Colin Lewis |
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Comebacks the order of the day
Sydney Premier League #4
(Report by Steve Dettre)
It was a day of comebacks in more ways than one at the Sydney Premier League #4.
Gary Hosie and Harley Ullrich played in their first competitive tournaments for more than 20 years; then Benji Batten staged two remarkable comebacks — first beating Steve Dettre 2-1, then getting a last second equaliser in the final, before succumbing in sudden death to Eliot Kennedy, who had himself fought back in his semi-final.
After a short but panicky decision to switch the venue, play took place at Chez Dettre, with a decidedly upstairs/downstairs feel to it.
Once again the Extremeworks pitches showed a dislike for being kept constrained in their tubes, and after a match breathing the rarified air of the north shore (well, the second floor of Chez Dettre), they came to life.
Benji struggled against a determined Simon Cole, while Geoff Sirmai and Johnny Ball revived ancient battles from the 70s in a 0-0 draw.
In Group B, Fabrizio and Gary traded blows in a fantastic match, won 3-2 by Fabrizio. Eliot overwhelmed Daniele, who then succumbed to Gary 2-0. Eliot then draw 1-1 with Gary, before beating Fabrizio 2-1.In the last matches of their group, Gary had to beat Harley and hope Daniele could pull out something special against Fabrizio, but Fab put on a great show to win 3-1.
In Group A, Steve took the lead against Benji with a shot on the run, only to see the Melbourne lad return the favour, before scoring a second excellent goal.
In the semi-finals, Fabrizio was left shocked by some excellent play from Benji, who scored a major upset win 2-0. In the other match, Steve took an early lead, but almost straight from the flick off in the second half, Eliot levelled the scores, then took his chance for victory 5 minutes from the end.
The final was a close tussel. Both players did well in defence, until deep in the second half a crucial defensive mistake opened up Benji’s defence and he was punished.
Counting down the seconds, Benji threw caution to the wind, and literally with the last flick he equalised with a sweeping move.
But a calmer head from Eliot was the edge, and with just under two minutes in extra time, he blasted the winner.
Congrats to Eliot and Benji, and great to see Gary and Harley back in action.
Thanks to everyone for accommodating the venue change.
Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aWjLTvE2WIe2qLMZRtljhKvrAHFXnJAuU1Qf79v2lbo/edit?usp=sharing
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A good evening of play at SC Flanders
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| Frank Lannoy, Geoffrey Marain and Jos Ceulemans |
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Monthly report of November 2015
Dear all,
Excel file with the November rankings
PDF file of the WASPA Golden Book
like every month, I have sent the WASPA golden book to the people who are in the WASPA mailing list (feel free to ask to be part of it) to give an idea of our activity over the last few weeks. In November 2015, we have had a lot of tournaments and this also means a lot of work to create files and statistics. We had 27 regional tournaments, 4 promotional tournaments (all of them in England) and 3 tournaments with the old rules (all of them in Australia). We are waiting results from a tournament played two weeks ago in Singapore. It will be added in the next ranking.
We have had 51 players competing in WASPA tournament for the very first time and the big surprise this month was to welcome the first player from Afghanistan. Hussein Bakhshi is currently living in Austria and has been introduced to the game by the members of TFC Wien West. COngratulations for the nice efforts. For the first time we have 41 nations involved in the circuit and the ranking.
About the ranking, I must apologize for mistakes in the calculation of last month's overall ranking. I forgot to remove one colomn in the Excel file and therefore the ranking was calculated on the basis of 25 months instead of 24. Everything is back to normal but it explains why we had a new record of involved players in the end of October. We have now 1681 players in the ranking and I think this is fantastic.
I am a bit worried about the future of the WASPA circuit because some nations give a huge support while some others seem to have a much reduced activity. I'm happy to see many tournaments played in Australia, Belgium, Singapore, Cyprus, England, Austria, Scotland, the US and South Africa. Some nations like Portugal and Canada haven't organized any WASPA tournament for a very long period and I don't know what we can do to change it. Some nations host tournaments only from times to times but it only reflects the real activity of the game in countries like Hungary, Switzerland, Ireland, Indonesia, Germany, Wales, the Netherlands,... and I'm fine with that. Italy has a huge potential but curiously there were only 2 regional tournaments in Italy in November (one of them was organized by Davide Lazzari with 16 new players). Some nations like France, Spain, Greece, Malta, Japan have a real potential to have more events but how can we convince organizers to host WASPA tournaments? Finally, how can we be more involved in nations such as Argentina, Brasil, Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Denmark), Gibraltar while there are still a few players there? I just wonder what more WASPA can do to get people interested. We really want to become a "world game" but ho can we achieve that? Your ideas are welcome.
Well, back to the game, I can conclude that November was positive with the first tournament of the "Etoile Sarthoise Val-de-Sambre" in Belgium, action again in Indonesia after a break of a few months, a tournament in Swiss system with 20 players in Templeuve, bit action in Gillingham (England) with 5 tournaments being played in one week-end, the visit of Germany's Sven Schilling in Cape Town (later in the same month Justin Fich from England also met Cape Town's organizer Clinton Gahwiler), many great events in Australia, the first tournament of SC München 2014 in Germany,...
WASPA would like to congratulate Dario Passadore for becoming the new President of the American Subbuteo Association. We are sure he will do a good job to have better connections between the ASA and both FISTF and WASPA.
Remember the circuit is yours so your ideas to improve the WASPA circuit are more than welcome. Don't hesitate to send your proposals to my e-mail address at vincent.cop@rsca.com
Don't hesitate to ask for WASPA status if you are hosting some events. Remember you only need three (3) players to have the WASPA status. Just send a tournament request to vincent.cop@rsca.com
Please note the blog is updated almost every day at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com
The FISTF website is http://www.fistf.com
Have a good week and keep on flicking the plastic.
Yours in sport,
Vincent Coppenolle
Excel file with the November rankings
PDF file of the WASPA Golden Book
like every month, I have sent the WASPA golden book to the people who are in the WASPA mailing list (feel free to ask to be part of it) to give an idea of our activity over the last few weeks. In November 2015, we have had a lot of tournaments and this also means a lot of work to create files and statistics. We had 27 regional tournaments, 4 promotional tournaments (all of them in England) and 3 tournaments with the old rules (all of them in Australia). We are waiting results from a tournament played two weeks ago in Singapore. It will be added in the next ranking.
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| Action in Melbourne by the "Western Flickers" |
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| Youth in action in Tombelle, Italy |
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| A good tournament in Vienna, Austria |
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| The Dalaware valley Open in the US |
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| Flickers in Indonesia |
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| Players at the Cape Town tournament in South Africa |
Don't hesitate to ask for WASPA status if you are hosting some events. Remember you only need three (3) players to have the WASPA status. Just send a tournament request to vincent.cop@rsca.com
Please note the blog is updated almost every day at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com
The FISTF website is http://www.fistf.com
Have a good week and keep on flicking the plastic.
Yours in sport,
Vincent Coppenolle
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