Rasmus Lund did it again in Hamburg!

Saturday 2nd March saw the 2. SuSP-Cup was held in the “Fanladen” of the Millertor-Stadium, home of Subbuteo St. Pauli.

This year we had a turnout of 20 players, although we had some cancellations in the last few days before the tournament.

We saw 5 players from the home club and 5 guests from Berlin including the only lady Daria Prazynski and the junior Marian Flemer. Denmark was represented by 7 players including the defending champion Rasmus Lund and the U12 players Daniel Raarup and Julius Kluge. Tim Mourant and his teammate Adam Fraser made their way from England and we had a lonely visitor from Northern Ireland named Simon “who” (Stewart).

This year we used the swiss sytem (6 rounds), which nearly no one understand but the organizer.

In the first round the danish players showed that the want to take the cup to Denmark again. Daria takes advantage on the usual nervousness of Marius, when he recognized that this was not a friendly match but a tournament, where he is used to have a difficult start.

In round 2 we saw Jesper defeating his brother Kristian and old Wilfried showed his son Nico, who still is the boss of the family. Marcus did an important win against Thomas for the fight of the top ranking.

Round 3 saw Rasmus defeating Jesper very clearly, taking the lead of the ranking and declaring his claim on the cup. Marcus turned a backlog against Sven in a win. Daria made a lucky draw against Philip, who hit the crossbar in the last second. Ralf made his first ever goal for his first ever win against his clubmate Marcos.

Then we had a dinerbreak with some cake and coffee, salad and a chili con whatever, cooked by St. Paulis best ever housewife Marcos.

After round 4 it was still very close on top of the ranking, because Rasmus and Marcus played a draw ans Sven surprisingly made a draw against Jesper after ahard defense fight, while Kristian defeated Thomas.

In round 5 Rasmus, Marcus, Sven and Jesper did their expected wins and took the lead of the ranking. The Danish youngsters Daniel and Julius get another point against their St. Pauli opponents.

In round 6 Rasmus made it for the cup with an well deserved win against Sven. Marcus saved his 2nd place with a last-minute goal against Jesper, who meanwhile passed him with a 3:0 lead.

In the end Rasmus defended the SuSP-Cup in front of Marcus and Jesper, who all got a trophy made in the pottery of the “elbewerkstätten” by mainly mentally disabled workers.

After the tournament we had a nice diner in an Italian restaurant and afterwards we went to a small pub with a strong flavour of marihuana, which Philip called his second living room. THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR!

In the end all participants were riding happy into the sunset (which honestly happened some hours before).

(Report by Sven Schilling)

Final ranking:
1. Rasmus Lund (DEN) 17:2 16
2. Marcus Tilgner (GER) 13:7 13
3. Jesper Staal Nielsen (DEN) 11:5 13
4. Thomas Petersen (DEN) 11:3 12
5. Kristian Staal Nielsen (DEN) 9:4 12
6. Sven Schilling (GER) 6:4 10
7. Marian Flemer GER 10:9 10
8. Wilfried Pretzel (GER) 7:6 9
9. Jonas Böge (DEN) 6:9 9
10. Adam Fraser (ENG) 5:10 9
11. Daria Prazynski (GER) 5:4 8
12. Philip Hansen (GER) 5:5 8
13. Simon Stewart (NIR) 4:5 8
14. Marius Willhaus (GER) 4:5 7
15. Nico Pretzel (GER) 7:9 7
16. Tim Mourant (ENG) 5:7 7
17. Marcos Perianes (ESP) 2:8 4
18. Ralf Offenborn (GER) 1:9 4
19. Daniel Raarup (DEN) 0:8 2
20. Julius Kluge (DEN) 0:9 2