December 23: more results from Christmas time tournaments

The WASPA circuit is still going during Christmas time. We collected more results from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Belgium in the last few days and here is a summary of the results.

Alan Lee winner of the first stage of the Old School circuit

"Congratulations to Alan Lee who won the round One of the English Subbuteo Association Old School 23/24 WASPA (World Amateur Subbuteo Players Association) Circuit organised by the London Subbuteo Club at La Pizzica Restaurant - London in Fulham. Runner-Up Simon Goodman. Third Victor Jones, fourth Tony Kiely. The club star Tony Banks won the Plate, runner up Richard Roper.

Alan brought home the Mike Dent Cup offered by the Surrey Saracens Subbuteo a permanent trophy that will be used again. Richard received the Plate Runner Up trophy sponsored by Garyoke Karaoke thanks to Gary Gladwell."

Quarter-finals: Simon Goodman - Jason Christopher 2-1 ; Alan Lee - Paul Andreas 1-0 ; Victor Jones - Luca Lanzani 0*-0 ; Tony Kiely - John Ellis 2-0.

Semi-finals: Simon Goodman - Victor Jones 0*-0 ; Alan Lee - Tony Kiely 1-0.

Final:  Simon Goodman - Alan Lee 0-0*

London SC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083345050371

Bradley winner in Derry

Congratulations Martinog Bradley ‘Christmas Cup ‘23’ winner, Barry Spence runner up and Lawrence Watson 3rd place.

1. Martinog Bradley
2. Barry Spence
3. Lawrence Watson
4. Craig Stewart
5. Oisin Mór
6. Stephen McAllister

Derry city on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerryCityTableFootball

Action in Perth, Australia

Tan Yew Loy (aka Mark Ryan) won this month's tournament in Perth as he finished on top of a league of 5 players.

1. Tan Yew Loy
2. Alan Kimber
3. Chris Thorn
4. Hugh Best
5. Noel Mani

Subbuteo in Perth: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233903783292458

Edinburgh is back in the circuit

We are very happy to see the Monday night Subbuteo players in Edinbirgh hosting their first WASPA tournament. Marco Bevilacqua finished on top of a group of 5. We hope to see many more events in Scotland in the future!

1. Marco Bevilacqua (Golazzo)
2. Kevin Christopher (Hot Club)
3. Neil Christopher (Hot Club)
4. Andy Kent (Golazzo)
5. Paul McFadyen (Golazzo)

Monday night Subbuteo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SubbuteoEdinburgh

Kevin Cordell on fire

The Haverhill Rovers held their monthly tournament last week and 9 players competing in Swiss ladder. Congratulations to Kevin Cordell for winning another event!

Final table:
1. Kevin Cordell (Stanway)
2. Martin Hodds (Yorkshire)
3. Adam Douglas (Stanway)
4. Jason Mitchell (Haverhill)
5. Gerry Harrington (Haverhill)
6. Jamie Samuel Warren (Stanway)
7. Joe Harrington (Haverhill)
8. Ian Welby (Stanway)
9. David McCartney (Chasers)

Haverhill Rovers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378921166394976

Sébastien Scheen wins in the Belgian Subbuteoland

for the first time a tournament was held last Friday in Nassogne and was organized by players of the Wamme club. The event took place in the "Belgian subbuteoland" at Thomas Janssens's and Sébastien Scheen was the undisputed winner of the evening!

Final table:
1. Sébastien Scheen
2. Pascal Scheen
3. Noah Janssens
4. Bruno Mottet
5. Thomas Janssens

Marain wins Templeuve Christmas tournament

The Templeuve club held the traditional Christmas tournament on Saturday with 19 players taking part. Players were divided in 5 groups and after the barrage round, the top 8 players had games for positions 1 to 8 while the other players competed in Swiss system to decide positions 9 to 19. Geoffrey Marain was in a great day, winning his games in a solid way. SC Flanders's Geert Leys had an impressive row of good games but couldn't beat Marain in the final. The young AS Hennuyer players Jann segers and Matthias Averlant made it to the final while Vincent Coppenolle won the consolation tournament. It was an important day with Sébastien Rochez deciding to play for Templeuve for the first time while French players Sébastien Sorge and David Sardi de Letto played for the first time in their new jerseys of the new french club ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole. It was nice also to see Marc Sceraert playing his very first tournament.

Final table:
1. Geoffrey Marain - AS Hennuyer
2. Geert Leys - SC Flanders
3. Jann Segers - AS Hennuyer
4. Matthias Averlant - AS Hennuyer
5. Benjamin Marain - AS Hennuyer
6. Fabrice Guyaux - USC Huy
7. Jean-Pierre Genart - SC Temploux
8. Sébastien Rochez - Templeuve United
9. Vincent Coppenolle - Templeuve United
10. Eric Caillaux - Templeuve United
11. Franck Santer - Templeuve United
12. Didier Moons - Templeuve United
13. Pascal Flémal - BX Subbuteo Club
14. André Flémal - BX Subbuteo Club
15. David Sardi de Letto - ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole
16. Sébastien Sorge - ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole
17. Xavier Outters - SC Eugies
18. Marc Sceraert - no club
19. Adam Guyaux - USC Huy

Templeuve United on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/25637672693 & https://www.facebook.com/TempleuveUnited

David Wouters wins Antwerp tournament

The SC Flanders club also had a Christmas tournament on Saturday. 10 players from different clubs were taking part but in the end it was local player David Wouters defeating Frank Lannoy in sudden death to claim the trophy.

Main results:
Final: David Wouters - Frank Lannoy 3-2sd
Final 3-4: Richard Boulanger - Nico Marks 1-3
Final 5-6: Jos Ceulemans - Jarno Marks 1-0
Final 7-8: Vincent Wouters - Stéphane Lambert 3-0
Final 9-10: David Boulanger - Marc Weber 3-0

SC Flanders on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/479038732231303