Adrian Grunbach and Steve Dettre winners in Sydney

There was WASPA action this week in Sydney, Australia as the Northern Falcons and the Western Sydney club held their monthly tournaments.

Adrian Grunbach claimed his first WASPA when he went unbeaten to claim the August Northern Falcons event.
A smaller than normal turnout didn't deter Adrian, who beat Steve 2-0, Torben 1-0 before clinching the night with a 2-1 win against Tony.
Torben came away with second place because of a better goal difference.
The night also featured two newcomers, in Paolo Credentino and Steve James.
In their Group B with Neil Brener, Steve came out on top courtesy of his 1-0 win against Paolo, while the other two matches were draws.

An enthusiastic collection of players made lots of noise to add to the buzz at Good Games Bella Vista. A few players that haven't featured in competitive play for a long time made their way back into the fold to warm up for upcoming spring league.

Visiting Falcon, Steve Dettre, started out with a sprightly 3-0 victory over Ben Gilbert on the sticky Subbuteo pitch, while Imojjen Elmer and Othniel Antwi played out a highly entertaining 0-0 draw, with both goalkeepers forced into some great saves. Costa Kamarados and Adrian Elmer doubled up their fixture as a Sydney Cup game. Costa rued a double shot of slow beginnings, conceding goals in the opening 30 seconds of each half. Imojjen was able to edge past Ben as they both came to terms with the slow pitch while, in the pick of the round's games, Othniel defended stoutly and then scored a magic shot-on-the-run-from-a-corner goal to earn a point against Steve. In the next round, Adrian cruied past an always improving Ben, Imojjen was no match for Steve, while Costa and Othniel went tit-for-tat attacking each other, with both goalkeepers emerging as figures of the match. In the final round of games, Steve was determined to get his revenge on Adrian on the slow pitch, having lost the fixture in last month's tournament but, in the end, both cancelled each other out with a scoreless draw. In fact, goals proved impossible to find anywhere as Costa and Imojjen, and Ben and Othniel were unable to trouble the back of the net in their final fixtures.

As with last month, a slightly lopsided fixture count meant that the Power Ranking ™ system was used to separate the players and a late night message from Richard Wilson in Kiama affirmed Steve as the evening's winner.