Hello everyone, here are the news of the week. There isn't much to say this week but hopefully there will be more soon!
News from El Palomar de Barcelona - The spanish club from Barcelona is now clearly promoting the WASPA circuit. The club run by Flavio Watzka will host their first WASPA tournament on November 27. Check more info at the club's blog: http://tablesoccerbarcelonapalomar.blogspot.com/
16 players for the Attard tournament - The following players are confirmed for this friday's tournament organized by Attard subbuteo club: Simon Gauci, Etienne Deguara, Joseph M.Debono, Timothy Spiteri, Daniele Spadaro, Clint Abela Wadge, Gordon Caruana, Brendon Borg, Nicholas Sciberras, Lon Joseph Cachia, Darren Bezzina, Robert Azzopardi, George Ebejer, Marco Mifsud, Hector Scerri, Sharlo Barbara.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You can see the contact person for every tournament in the section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
- December - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa) -> Details coming soon
- Tournament in Nicosia (Cyprus) -> Details coming soon
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Finland, Singapore, Belgium, the US, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Portugal.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
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Showing posts with label Weekly newsletter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekly newsletter. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
The news of the week (17)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Updated results file - The results of the Stockholm tournament have been updated in the "golden book" that you can find in the download section.
Some pictures from Stockholm - Here are some pictures of the Stockholm tournament where Robert Green (with the yellow shirt) reached the final.
Another tournament in South Africa - The Johannesburg club has announced there will be a second WASPA tournament in december. The exact date and venue will be announced soon.
Contacts in Cyprus - Stefanos Kouratzis is happy to announce that the club of Nicosia is thinking about organizing a tournament. More details will be announced soon.
Well done Andrea - American player Andrea Gasparini, who recently won the WASPA tournament in Yokohama (Japan), won the FISTF Open of Rio (Brazil) last week-end. Antonio Carabillo (Hong Kong) was also taking part. Congratulations to both players for supporting tournaments in such an exotic place!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You can see the contact person for every tournament in the section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
- December - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa) -> Details coming soon
- Tournament in Nicosia (Cyprus) -> Details coming soon
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Sweden, the US, Finland, Belgium, Italy, Greece, the UK, France and Germany. We also ad some visitors from the United Arab emirates, Hong Kong and Russia :-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Updated results file - The results of the Stockholm tournament have been updated in the "golden book" that you can find in the download section.
Some pictures from Stockholm - Here are some pictures of the Stockholm tournament where Robert Green (with the yellow shirt) reached the final.
Contacts in Cyprus - Stefanos Kouratzis is happy to announce that the club of Nicosia is thinking about organizing a tournament. More details will be announced soon.
Well done Andrea - American player Andrea Gasparini, who recently won the WASPA tournament in Yokohama (Japan), won the FISTF Open of Rio (Brazil) last week-end. Antonio Carabillo (Hong Kong) was also taking part. Congratulations to both players for supporting tournaments in such an exotic place!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You can see the contact person for every tournament in the section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
- December - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa) -> Details coming soon
- Tournament in Nicosia (Cyprus) -> Details coming soon
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Sweden, the US, Finland, Belgium, Italy, Greece, the UK, France and Germany. We also ad some visitors from the United Arab emirates, Hong Kong and Russia :-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 6 October 2011
The news of the week (16)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
A promising tournament in Sweden - There will be a good field of players this saturday in Stockholm for the second tournament organized by Lars Löfgren. 16 players are currently registered but even if a few of them don't show up, it will be an interesting tournament. This time there will be less "top men" from abroad but David Cremoux (France), finalist of the first Stockholm tournament, will try to confirm his job of favorite player.
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions "What should be the main priority of WASPA?" and 9 people (45%) said "Have more tournaments in more countries?", 6 (30%) said "Make sure it becomes a registered non-profit organisation ASAP". Other answers were "Have tournaments with different age categories" (5%), "Have a better website" (5%) and "Have a better rulebook" (10%). 1 person had no opinion. Right now our priority will therefore to try to have more tournaments in more countries but we need to find ways to convince people to host tournaments. Despite we have very positive contacts in the US, Canada, Greece, Argentina and Australia, we struggle to find people ready to organize events. Tournaments in Malta, Sweden, South Africa and Singapore have been very successful while events in the US, Japan and Belgium had a poor turnout but a great feedback from the players. It seems like some nations like France and Italy are a bit scared to organize WASPA tournaments because the national associations just want to give a priority to national events. Spain will be our next guest. We struggle to find contacts in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and the UK despite some players from these nations told us they support the WASPA movement. So if you have ideas to develop the WASPA circuit, feel free to contact me at vincent.cop@rsca.com or post messages on the WASPA section of the international table football forum at http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
Possible tournament to be added in Belgium - The Templeuve United club is thinking about hosting a WASPA tournament in december again. Templeuve United will hold a national tournament on december 17 but plans are under way to host a WASPA tournament a week earlier due to the visit of Singapore's Erza Aripin in Belgium. More details later.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain & the US (both as number 1), Finland, Germany, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Greece, Australia, Italy.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
A promising tournament in Sweden - There will be a good field of players this saturday in Stockholm for the second tournament organized by Lars Löfgren. 16 players are currently registered but even if a few of them don't show up, it will be an interesting tournament. This time there will be less "top men" from abroad but David Cremoux (France), finalist of the first Stockholm tournament, will try to confirm his job of favorite player.
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions "What should be the main priority of WASPA?" and 9 people (45%) said "Have more tournaments in more countries?", 6 (30%) said "Make sure it becomes a registered non-profit organisation ASAP". Other answers were "Have tournaments with different age categories" (5%), "Have a better website" (5%) and "Have a better rulebook" (10%). 1 person had no opinion. Right now our priority will therefore to try to have more tournaments in more countries but we need to find ways to convince people to host tournaments. Despite we have very positive contacts in the US, Canada, Greece, Argentina and Australia, we struggle to find people ready to organize events. Tournaments in Malta, Sweden, South Africa and Singapore have been very successful while events in the US, Japan and Belgium had a poor turnout but a great feedback from the players. It seems like some nations like France and Italy are a bit scared to organize WASPA tournaments because the national associations just want to give a priority to national events. Spain will be our next guest. We struggle to find contacts in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland and the UK despite some players from these nations told us they support the WASPA movement. So if you have ideas to develop the WASPA circuit, feel free to contact me at vincent.cop@rsca.com or post messages on the WASPA section of the international table football forum at http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
Possible tournament to be added in Belgium - The Templeuve United club is thinking about hosting a WASPA tournament in december again. Templeuve United will hold a national tournament on december 17 but plans are under way to host a WASPA tournament a week earlier due to the visit of Singapore's Erza Aripin in Belgium. More details later.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain & the US (both as number 1), Finland, Germany, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Greece, Australia, Italy.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Friday, 30 September 2011
The news of the week (15)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week. Sorry for the delay but yesterday was a busy day at work.
Updated results file - You can now download the updated "golden book" from the download section. Results of the last tournament in Templeuve are included, just as some more statistics and the ranking of september.
A new number 1 - Darren Bezzina of Malta is the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. Darren, a player of the italian club "SPQR Roma", was semi-finalist of the last tournament held in Attard.
Tournament cancelled in Australia - Due to the lack of entries, the tournament scheduled in Sylvania hs been cancelled. Even if this is disappointing, many discussions between australian players came up in the last few days to organize meetings and tournaments in the future.
More tournaments in Europe - The WASPA Calendar has been growing over the last few days as there will be some more tournament in Attard, Malta (october 21) and Barcelona, Spain (November 27).
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Singapore, Finland, the US, Greece, Australia, the UK, Malta, Belgium & Germany.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Updated results file - You can now download the updated "golden book" from the download section. Results of the last tournament in Templeuve are included, just as some more statistics and the ranking of september.
A new number 1 - Darren Bezzina of Malta is the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. Darren, a player of the italian club "SPQR Roma", was semi-finalist of the last tournament held in Attard.
Tournament cancelled in Australia - Due to the lack of entries, the tournament scheduled in Sylvania hs been cancelled. Even if this is disappointing, many discussions between australian players came up in the last few days to organize meetings and tournaments in the future.
More tournaments in Europe - The WASPA Calendar has been growing over the last few days as there will be some more tournament in Attard, Malta (october 21) and Barcelona, Spain (November 27).
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- October 21 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- November 27 - Tournament in Barcelona (Spain)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Singapore, Finland, the US, Greece, Australia, the UK, Malta, Belgium & Germany.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 22 September 2011
The news of the week (14)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Some more picture of the Attard tournament - Here are some pictures of the final between Angelo Borg and Nicholas Sciberras in last week-end's final of the Attard tournament. The other picture is showing the presentation of the trophy to the winner, Angelo Borg.
Updated results file - Results of the Attard tournament have been added to the "Golden Book" (available from the "download section").
Ideas are welcome - There are 3 more tournaments to come in the agenda but we are looking for ideas on how to get more tournaments played in the future. We are looking for organizers to host events. Ideas are more than welcome!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- September 28 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Finland, the US, Greece, Malta, Belgium, Italy, the UK, France & Germany.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Some more picture of the Attard tournament - Here are some pictures of the final between Angelo Borg and Nicholas Sciberras in last week-end's final of the Attard tournament. The other picture is showing the presentation of the trophy to the winner, Angelo Borg.
Updated results file - Results of the Attard tournament have been added to the "Golden Book" (available from the "download section").
Ideas are welcome - There are 3 more tournaments to come in the agenda but we are looking for ideas on how to get more tournaments played in the future. We are looking for organizers to host events. Ideas are more than welcome!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- September 28 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Spain, Finland, the US, Greece, Malta, Belgium, Italy, the UK, France & Germany.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 15 September 2011
The news of the week (13)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Attard tournament on sunday - 16 players will be attending the "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" tournament in Attard on sunday. Players will be droped in 4 groups of 4 players, games will start at 9.00 am and the final should take place at 12.45. The event will be plat at FX.DINGLI CLUB - MAIN STREET H`ATTARD. Visitors are more than welcome.
Updated results file - Results of the Johannesburg tournament have been added to the "Golden Book" (available from the "download section").
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- September 18 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 28 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Russia, the US, Finland, Greece, Singapore, South Africa, Belgium, Germany, Canada and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Attard tournament on sunday - 16 players will be attending the "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" tournament in Attard on sunday. Players will be droped in 4 groups of 4 players, games will start at 9.00 am and the final should take place at 12.45. The event will be plat at FX.DINGLI CLUB - MAIN STREET H`ATTARD. Visitors are more than welcome.
Updated results file - Results of the Johannesburg tournament have been added to the "Golden Book" (available from the "download section").
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future. You cans ee the contact person for every tournament int he section "forthcoming events" (on the right column).
- September 18 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 28 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Russia, the US, Finland, Greece, Singapore, South Africa, Belgium, Germany, Canada and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 8 September 2011
The news of the week (12)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Some news from South Africa - Friday evening will see the first WASPA tournament on African soil and Clifford Graaff is hoping for a good turnout. Plans are discussed to hold a series of these tournaments every three months - so it will be 4 tournaments for the year and then have a series winner. As per the SATFA statutes there will also be holding the national champs towards the end of the year - this is the highest seeded tournament.
More about the Yokohama tournament - Massimo Conturso's excellent SC Connecticut website gave a some more details about Andrea Gasparini's win in Yokohama. The presence of a dozen of spectators (men and women), who cheered for the home players until the very end, enriched the well organized, 3 hours long tournament. The local club was particularly gracious and
offered a snack of pizza and Japanese specialties half way the event, as well as an after-tournament dinner. The competition saw a clear supremacy of the Italian expats, Andrea Gasparini (USA) and Hong Kong's Antonio Carabillo. Andrea & Antonio shared points in their scoreless match and the first place position. However, Andrea claimed the final victory thanks to a better goal differential. What better way to celebrate his 37th birthday! Andrea Gasparini had also won the FISTF Grand Prix of Argentina last season and played the FISTF World Cup in Palermo in July.
News from Malta - The "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" of September 18 will be another great tournament as 16 players are already registered to play.
Results, rankings and statistics - The updated "golden book" is available from the "Download Section" (right column). The file reveals the new ranking and there are already 59 players ranked in the table of august. The points of the Yokohama tournament will be added in the ranking of september.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 18 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - date to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the US, the UK, Malta, Germany, Finland, Greece, Belgium, Singapore, Italy and Portugal. Among the "exotic" countries, we also had visitors from Indonesia, Chile and Burkina Faso!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Some news from South Africa - Friday evening will see the first WASPA tournament on African soil and Clifford Graaff is hoping for a good turnout. Plans are discussed to hold a series of these tournaments every three months - so it will be 4 tournaments for the year and then have a series winner. As per the SATFA statutes there will also be holding the national champs towards the end of the year - this is the highest seeded tournament.
More about the Yokohama tournament - Massimo Conturso's excellent SC Connecticut website gave a some more details about Andrea Gasparini's win in Yokohama. The presence of a dozen of spectators (men and women), who cheered for the home players until the very end, enriched the well organized, 3 hours long tournament. The local club was particularly gracious and
offered a snack of pizza and Japanese specialties half way the event, as well as an after-tournament dinner. The competition saw a clear supremacy of the Italian expats, Andrea Gasparini (USA) and Hong Kong's Antonio Carabillo. Andrea & Antonio shared points in their scoreless match and the first place position. However, Andrea claimed the final victory thanks to a better goal differential. What better way to celebrate his 37th birthday! Andrea Gasparini had also won the FISTF Grand Prix of Argentina last season and played the FISTF World Cup in Palermo in July.
News from Malta - The "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" of September 18 will be another great tournament as 16 players are already registered to play.
Results, rankings and statistics - The updated "golden book" is available from the "Download Section" (right column). The file reveals the new ranking and there are already 59 players ranked in the table of august. The points of the Yokohama tournament will be added in the ranking of september.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 18 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - date to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the US, the UK, Malta, Germany, Finland, Greece, Belgium, Singapore, Italy and Portugal. Among the "exotic" countries, we also had visitors from Indonesia, Chile and Burkina Faso!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 1 September 2011
The news of the week (11)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Darren Bezzina wins the "Joseph M. Debono Cup" - 16 players competed in this wednesday's tournament in Attard (Malta). Darren Bezzina, who now plays for the italian team of SPQR Roma, was the winner of the competition. He came on top of his group before beating Nicholas Sciberras in the semi-final (1-0). In the final, he beat Daniele Spadaro (5-3). Gordon Caruana was the other semi-finalist.
From left to right: Darren Bezzina (winner), Daniele Spadaro (runner-up), Nicholas Sciberras (3rd), Gordon Caruana (4th).
New leader in the WASPA ranking - After his victory in Attard, Darren Bezzina becomes the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. The full table will be published as soon as we get the full results of the Singapore tournament.
One more tournament in Malta - After the Attard tournament, Joe Debono announced the club of Attard will hold a third tournament on September 25, which will be called the "Independance Cup".
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions about the structure of the WASPA circuit. The question was "Do you think we should have 2 types of tournaments already next season if we keep "regional" tournaments as they are and "national tournaments with the possibility for each club to host one tournament per season?"
12 answered that "Yes but National events would need to have better organisation standards than regional events" (60%)
2 answered that "National events can give more ranking points but it's not a priority" (10%)
4 answered "I'd better keep things as they are now" (20%)
2 had no opinion
Conclusion: there will be some proposals to make some bigger tournaments in the future. As we are not sure it will be a very good thing to make different types of tournaments, the circuit wil remain as it is at least till January. If there are good proposals and ideas to make sure "national tournaments" are something special, this will be discussed through another survey.
Status update from Stockholm Tournament at O´Learys Gamla Stan - The event to be held on October 8 is being prepared and the following players will problably participate in the tournament: Robert Green, Yupa Kaewwongsa. Peter Elio, Jesper Willaume, Lars Löfgren, Ari Kainu, Anders Virtala. Players have a 15 % discount at Collectors Hotels that lies in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. Feel free to contact Lars Löfgren for more details.
A growing circuit - With new events added in the agenda (in Malta, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, Belgium, Australia), the circuit is growing quickly. There is interest also from Spain, Greece and the UK so hopefully there will be many more tournaments in the next few months.
New project in Malaysia - CK Au (jack208@boardgamecafe.net) is trying to start a new project at Boardgamecafe.net, which is moving to a new place that will allow him to set up a subbuteo table. CK and his partners are planning to give another shot at reviving this game in Malaysia and once they have settled into their new centre, the will get back on details. This might be an important step to develop connections with players from Singapore in the future!
Postponed tournament in the US - The tournament planned for last week-end in Connecticut has been postponed. More details on the new date will be announced soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 4 - Tournament in Yokohama (Japan)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 25 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the UK, Finland, Russia (!), Greece, Malta, Sweden, Canada, the US, Germany and Italy. We also had visitors from Indonesia!
Subbuteo in Russia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Russia over the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Darren Bezzina wins the "Joseph M. Debono Cup" - 16 players competed in this wednesday's tournament in Attard (Malta). Darren Bezzina, who now plays for the italian team of SPQR Roma, was the winner of the competition. He came on top of his group before beating Nicholas Sciberras in the semi-final (1-0). In the final, he beat Daniele Spadaro (5-3). Gordon Caruana was the other semi-finalist.
New leader in the WASPA ranking - After his victory in Attard, Darren Bezzina becomes the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. The full table will be published as soon as we get the full results of the Singapore tournament.
One more tournament in Malta - After the Attard tournament, Joe Debono announced the club of Attard will hold a third tournament on September 25, which will be called the "Independance Cup".
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions about the structure of the WASPA circuit. The question was "Do you think we should have 2 types of tournaments already next season if we keep "regional" tournaments as they are and "national tournaments with the possibility for each club to host one tournament per season?"
12 answered that "Yes but National events would need to have better organisation standards than regional events" (60%)
2 answered that "National events can give more ranking points but it's not a priority" (10%)
4 answered "I'd better keep things as they are now" (20%)
2 had no opinion
Conclusion: there will be some proposals to make some bigger tournaments in the future. As we are not sure it will be a very good thing to make different types of tournaments, the circuit wil remain as it is at least till January. If there are good proposals and ideas to make sure "national tournaments" are something special, this will be discussed through another survey.
Status update from Stockholm Tournament at O´Learys Gamla Stan - The event to be held on October 8 is being prepared and the following players will problably participate in the tournament: Robert Green, Yupa Kaewwongsa. Peter Elio, Jesper Willaume, Lars Löfgren, Ari Kainu, Anders Virtala. Players have a 15 % discount at Collectors Hotels that lies in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. Feel free to contact Lars Löfgren for more details.
A growing circuit - With new events added in the agenda (in Malta, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, Belgium, Australia), the circuit is growing quickly. There is interest also from Spain, Greece and the UK so hopefully there will be many more tournaments in the next few months.
New project in Malaysia - CK Au (jack208@boardgamecafe.net) is trying to start a new project at Boardgamecafe.net, which is moving to a new place that will allow him to set up a subbuteo table. CK and his partners are planning to give another shot at reviving this game in Malaysia and once they have settled into their new centre, the will get back on details. This might be an important step to develop connections with players from Singapore in the future!
Postponed tournament in the US - The tournament planned for last week-end in Connecticut has been postponed. More details on the new date will be announced soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 4 - Tournament in Yokohama (Japan)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 25 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the UK, Finland, Russia (!), Greece, Malta, Sweden, Canada, the US, Germany and Italy. We also had visitors from Indonesia!
Subbuteo in Russia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Russia over the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 25 August 2011
The news of the week (10)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Results of the Stockholm tournament - After the tournament, the winner, Marcus Tilgner from Germany, gave his feelings about the event: "The impression of the whole tournament was really good. Lars did a great job in organising everything perfectly including new tables, discount at the bar for the players, t-shirts and so on. Well done, I am already looking forward too seeing you all again!"
The results can be seen on a very nice page at http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/international/stockholm11.htm
About the Singapore tournament - The results of the Singapore tournament will be published as soon as we get the results file from the organizers. The feedback about the tournament was really positive
Tournament in England - There are good chances a tournament will be held on September 24 by the club of Yorkshire Phoenix. Paul Lawrenson's club is organizing a circuit of 4 "Super League" meeets throughout the season, which are generally held in September, November, February and April and the tournaments could be classed as WASPA events. The first of these is to be staged on September 24th at Wakefield Wilcats Rugby Stadium. More details will be coming soon.
Singapore players on tour - Christopher Soh (Subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com), a player from Singapore, will be in Europe between September 22 and October 4. He would be happy to play some games, in particular when he is in LONDON and BARCELONA. Feel free to contact him to arrange a game. Also, Erza Aripin will probably be playing some game in Belgium on December 10 & 11 so it will be a good chance for Europeans to meet him!
First tournament in Spain - There are plans to organize a tournament in Barcelona during the celebrations days at "Sant Andreu del Palomar" in Barcelona. The tournament will be held in November but the exact date is still to be decided. More details with the location and the date will be announced soon.
First WASPA tournament in Australia - Brett Davis is announcing details about the firstW ASPA tournament in Austraia can be found here: http://www.southernbattlegamers.org/moabsite/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95:1st-waspa-subbuteo-tournament-2011&catid=11:competitions-a-events-2011&Itemid=3
Tournament in Malta - The forthcoming tournament in Malta will be held on August 31. 16 players are registered and theyw ill be dropped in 4 groups of 4 players. the top players of each group will play the semi-finals.
News from Canada - Due to the low number of competitors, there was no tournament in Toronto last week-end but the players had some games and talks about how to get more players involved in the future. Hopefully there will be some good news from Canada in the next few weeks.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the Singapore, Finland, the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, Belgium and Malta.
Subbuteo in Latvia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Latvia orver the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Results of the Stockholm tournament - After the tournament, the winner, Marcus Tilgner from Germany, gave his feelings about the event: "The impression of the whole tournament was really good. Lars did a great job in organising everything perfectly including new tables, discount at the bar for the players, t-shirts and so on. Well done, I am already looking forward too seeing you all again!"
The results can be seen on a very nice page at http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/international/stockholm11.htm
About the Singapore tournament - The results of the Singapore tournament will be published as soon as we get the results file from the organizers. The feedback about the tournament was really positive
Tournament in England - There are good chances a tournament will be held on September 24 by the club of Yorkshire Phoenix. Paul Lawrenson's club is organizing a circuit of 4 "Super League" meeets throughout the season, which are generally held in September, November, February and April and the tournaments could be classed as WASPA events. The first of these is to be staged on September 24th at Wakefield Wilcats Rugby Stadium. More details will be coming soon.
Singapore players on tour - Christopher Soh (Subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com), a player from Singapore, will be in Europe between September 22 and October 4. He would be happy to play some games, in particular when he is in LONDON and BARCELONA. Feel free to contact him to arrange a game. Also, Erza Aripin will probably be playing some game in Belgium on December 10 & 11 so it will be a good chance for Europeans to meet him!
First tournament in Spain - There are plans to organize a tournament in Barcelona during the celebrations days at "Sant Andreu del Palomar" in Barcelona. The tournament will be held in November but the exact date is still to be decided. More details with the location and the date will be announced soon.
First WASPA tournament in Australia - Brett Davis is announcing details about the firstW ASPA tournament in Austraia can be found here: http://www.southernbattlegamers.org/moabsite/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95:1st-waspa-subbuteo-tournament-2011&catid=11:competitions-a-events-2011&Itemid=3
Tournament in Malta - The forthcoming tournament in Malta will be held on August 31. 16 players are registered and theyw ill be dropped in 4 groups of 4 players. the top players of each group will play the semi-finals.
News from Canada - Due to the low number of competitors, there was no tournament in Toronto last week-end but the players had some games and talks about how to get more players involved in the future. Hopefully there will be some good news from Canada in the next few weeks.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the Singapore, Finland, the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, Belgium and Malta.
Subbuteo in Latvia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Latvia orver the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 18 August 2011
The news of the week (9)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week. Big moves are coming up with big tournaments this week-end and some more announcements of future events.
Stockholm tournament - Lars Löfgren looks very happy to organize the first tournament ever held in Sweden this sunday. the tournament will start at 12.00 at O´Learys restaurant in sundbyberg and it looks like there will be 10 participants in the tournament. We will play 2 groups where the first 4 advances to quarter-finals. The reason for this is that everyone should feel that they have played a couple of games. The final should be around 18.00-18:30. Participants:
1, Marcus Tilgner (GER)
2, Massimilano Ria (ITA)
3, Kari Hakkarainen (FIN)
4, Robert Green (AUS)
5, David Cremoux (FRA)
6, Francesco La Torre (ITA)
7, Jeremy Bradley (ENG)
8, Lars Löfgren (SWE)
9, Ulf Gullstedt (SWE)
10, Glenn Nordh (SWE)
It's not too late to join! Late entries are still possible by joining Lars. For any question, Lars's number is +46737025177.
Singapore tournament - Rudy Norita is happy to announce that the best singapore layers, John Ho, Christopher Soh, Den Mulia and Kok Wee will be attending the first WASPA tournament inn the country. Unfortunately Erza Aripin will not be present due to work commitments but there will be a good field of players.
South Africa - Not only the club of Panorama TFC will hold their first WASPA tournament on September 9 but the club will start their new season this friday with a great field of 13 players competing in the league. Well done and good luck to all players involved. details can be seen on the club's website at http://premiersubbuteoleague.leaguerepublic.com/
Tournament in the US - The upcoming ASA Open in Connecticut of August 28 will count as a WASPA event. The organizer Massimo Conturso hopes they a good number of players. The tournament will take the name of 14th New England Cup. The New England Cup or Championship was first played as Fall Interleague in Farmington, CT on October 20, 2002. Since then, 12 more editions followed, the last of those is dated May 2009. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1VA4SBxsc
Tournament in Belgium - A tournament should be organized on September 27 in Templeuve. Matches should start at 6.30 pm to finish between 10 and 10.30. More details should be available soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) - to be confirmed
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the UK, Finland, Singapore, the US, Canada, germany, Malta, Belgium, Japan and Spain.
International visitors? - The blog has had visits from Russia, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Ivory Coast,... If there are players over there, we would really be happy to hear from you! Please drop me a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com so that we can see if we can help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Stockholm tournament - Lars Löfgren looks very happy to organize the first tournament ever held in Sweden this sunday. the tournament will start at 12.00 at O´Learys restaurant in sundbyberg and it looks like there will be 10 participants in the tournament. We will play 2 groups where the first 4 advances to quarter-finals. The reason for this is that everyone should feel that they have played a couple of games. The final should be around 18.00-18:30. Participants:
1, Marcus Tilgner (GER)
2, Massimilano Ria (ITA)
3, Kari Hakkarainen (FIN)
4, Robert Green (AUS)
5, David Cremoux (FRA)
6, Francesco La Torre (ITA)
7, Jeremy Bradley (ENG)
8, Lars Löfgren (SWE)
9, Ulf Gullstedt (SWE)
10, Glenn Nordh (SWE)
It's not too late to join! Late entries are still possible by joining Lars. For any question, Lars's number is +46737025177.
Singapore tournament - Rudy Norita is happy to announce that the best singapore layers, John Ho, Christopher Soh, Den Mulia and Kok Wee will be attending the first WASPA tournament inn the country. Unfortunately Erza Aripin will not be present due to work commitments but there will be a good field of players.
South Africa - Not only the club of Panorama TFC will hold their first WASPA tournament on September 9 but the club will start their new season this friday with a great field of 13 players competing in the league. Well done and good luck to all players involved. details can be seen on the club's website at http://premiersubbuteoleague.leaguerepublic.com/
Tournament in the US - The upcoming ASA Open in Connecticut of August 28 will count as a WASPA event. The organizer Massimo Conturso hopes they a good number of players. The tournament will take the name of 14th New England Cup. The New England Cup or Championship was first played as Fall Interleague in Farmington, CT on October 20, 2002. Since then, 12 more editions followed, the last of those is dated May 2009. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1VA4SBxsc
Tournament in Belgium - A tournament should be organized on September 27 in Templeuve. Matches should start at 6.30 pm to finish between 10 and 10.30. More details should be available soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) - to be confirmed
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the UK, Finland, Singapore, the US, Canada, germany, Malta, Belgium, Japan and Spain.
International visitors? - The blog has had visits from Russia, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Ivory Coast,... If there are players over there, we would really be happy to hear from you! Please drop me a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com so that we can see if we can help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 11 August 2011
The news of the week (8)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week. There isn't much to say this week but there will be much more in the coming week as several tournaments will be held.
New ball in Singapore - The Singapore association is always full of great ideas. Rudy Norita has sent us a picture of the ball that will be used for the forthcoming WASPA tournament organized by Leste' Aquila SC. Enjoy :-)
Big turnout for the Stockholm tournament - Lars Löfgren has announced 16 players (and maybe up to 20) will be competing in the forthcoming WASPA tournament inS tockholm, Sweden on August 21. New tables have been built and some trophies will be offered. As a reminder, this will be an historic event for table football as it will be the first tournament ever in Sweden.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 12 (or 19) - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) (-> to be confirmed)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the Finland, Belgium, Portugal, germany, Greece, Canada, Italy, the US, the UK and Astralia.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
New ball in Singapore - The Singapore association is always full of great ideas. Rudy Norita has sent us a picture of the ball that will be used for the forthcoming WASPA tournament organized by Leste' Aquila SC. Enjoy :-)
Big turnout for the Stockholm tournament - Lars Löfgren has announced 16 players (and maybe up to 20) will be competing in the forthcoming WASPA tournament inS tockholm, Sweden on August 21. New tables have been built and some trophies will be offered. As a reminder, this will be an historic event for table football as it will be the first tournament ever in Sweden.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 12 (or 19) - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) (-> to be confirmed)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the Finland, Belgium, Portugal, germany, Greece, Canada, Italy, the US, the UK and Astralia.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 4 August 2011
The news of the week (7)
Hello everyone, here is a quick look on the news of the week.
A big month for the WASPA players - August will definately be an important month for WASPA as several tournaments are being organized in the next few weeks. The Stockholm tournament is probably the most expected event as it will be the first tournament in Stockholm, Sweden and players from 7 different nations are expected to take part. We hope that there will be enough tables so that players can have a good number of games.
Malta is also preparing to have their second tournament. Attard Subbuteo Club will be the host club on August 31 and 15 players are already registered! Simon Gauci will try to defend his leadership in the WASPA ranking.
South Africa is coming up with their very first tournament. Clifford Graaff is still doing a great job to promote the game in Johannesburg and all over the country and it will a great moment in the history of subbuteo, not only because it is one more nation organizing a tournament but also because it's important to have some presence in Africa! Details: http://premiersubbuteoleague.leaguerepublic.com/
The tournament in Singapore on August 21 will also be very important for WASPA and for the local community. The club of Leste' Aquila recently organized a FISTF Future tournament with 34 different players coming from the 4 clubs of Singapore. We hope the next event will be very successful as well.
Possible tournament in Canada - Allan Thornton is trying to organize a tournament in Toronto on August 21. He is trying to get players together and hopefully he will have enough interest. Details: allan@torontosubbuteo.com
You can also visit Allan's shop at http://www.torontosubbuteo.com/store
Great news from Australia - As we already announced it earlier this week, there will be a tournament in Australia on October 1. For any question, feel free to contact Brett Davis at wolfden@bigpond.net.au
Structure of the calendar - I created a survey to know the opinion of our players about the future development of the calendar. One of the ideas is to create several types of tournaments. The positive point in creating "national" tournaments is to try to have bigger events with better venues and better organisation standards. The negative point is that it could make a bigger gap between players who can play many tournaments and those who can play just once a year. All opinions are welcome!
A blog in green - the colors of the blog have been changed. There are also some minor change in the way the articles are posted. I hope you like it!
Our forum - Don't forget that you comment about what's going on in WASPA in the WASPA section of the International Table Football Forum at http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 12 (or 19) - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) (-> to be confirmed)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the US (35), Italy, the United Kingdom, Malta, Greece, Belgium & Germany, South Africa, Finland and Canada.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
A big month for the WASPA players - August will definately be an important month for WASPA as several tournaments are being organized in the next few weeks. The Stockholm tournament is probably the most expected event as it will be the first tournament in Stockholm, Sweden and players from 7 different nations are expected to take part. We hope that there will be enough tables so that players can have a good number of games.
Malta is also preparing to have their second tournament. Attard Subbuteo Club will be the host club on August 31 and 15 players are already registered! Simon Gauci will try to defend his leadership in the WASPA ranking.
South Africa is coming up with their very first tournament. Clifford Graaff is still doing a great job to promote the game in Johannesburg and all over the country and it will a great moment in the history of subbuteo, not only because it is one more nation organizing a tournament but also because it's important to have some presence in Africa! Details: http://premiersubbuteoleague.leaguerepublic.com/
The tournament in Singapore on August 21 will also be very important for WASPA and for the local community. The club of Leste' Aquila recently organized a FISTF Future tournament with 34 different players coming from the 4 clubs of Singapore. We hope the next event will be very successful as well.
Possible tournament in Canada - Allan Thornton is trying to organize a tournament in Toronto on August 21. He is trying to get players together and hopefully he will have enough interest. Details: allan@torontosubbuteo.com
You can also visit Allan's shop at http://www.torontosubbuteo.com/store
Great news from Australia - As we already announced it earlier this week, there will be a tournament in Australia on October 1. For any question, feel free to contact Brett Davis at wolfden@bigpond.net.au
Structure of the calendar - I created a survey to know the opinion of our players about the future development of the calendar. One of the ideas is to create several types of tournaments. The positive point in creating "national" tournaments is to try to have bigger events with better venues and better organisation standards. The negative point is that it could make a bigger gap between players who can play many tournaments and those who can play just once a year. All opinions are welcome!
A blog in green - the colors of the blog have been changed. There are also some minor change in the way the articles are posted. I hope you like it!
Our forum - Don't forget that you comment about what's going on in WASPA in the WASPA section of the International Table Football Forum at http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 12 (or 19) - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament hosted in Toronto (Canada) (-> to be confirmed)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the US (35), Italy, the United Kingdom, Malta, Greece, Belgium & Germany, South Africa, Finland and Canada.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 28 July 2011
The news of the week (6)
Hello, here are some updates about what's going on in the WASPA circuit and int he international subbuteo scene.
Stockholm tournament update - There are now 9 confirmed players (from 7 different nationalities) for the Stockholm tournament and 21 "possible entries", which includes Denmark's Rasmus Lund. The event will definately be one of the most exciting ones this season.
Another tournament in Australia? - Brett Davies (wolfden@bigpond.net.au) is trying to organize something in October at the MOAB, one of the largest Wargaming events in the country. Interested players can drop a line to Brett so that he can arrange the location and the exact date.
Subbuteo back in the stores - One of the breaking news at the FISTF world cup in Italy was the announcement made by the spanish company Netcam, owner of Total Soccer, confirming "they have purchased Hasbro's subbuteo trademark rights for the next 10 years with an option for the next 10 years. They also purchased the right to manage everything concerning the material and they will produce do two samples for all, mold bases and the original Astropitch. The relaunch os Subbuteo will start next June at the European Football Championships in all countries of Western Europe and even in some of Eastern European nations." The bad news about this change is that Netcam intends to regulate the use of the name Subbuteo, which means everyone wanting to use the world subbuteo (in a subbuteo club, association, an Internet forum,...) will have to ask Netcam's permission. And that's not great....
Small nations at the FISTF World Cup - The FISTF world cup took place lastw eek-end in Palermon, Sicily (South of Italy). It was one of the smallest world cup ever with only 121 players (including 18 U12 players) from only 12 nations. 5 countries managed to have a strong team (Italy), Belgium, Malta, Austria and Spain) while Wales had 5 players, Germany and England had 4 players. The last 4 nations had only one player. Andrea Gasparini was the US representative and didn't panage to pass the first round int he Open category. Margot Diradourian, a young U12 girl, was one of the surprises of the U12 section. Some people comparred her to the Delphine Dieudonné, the legend of the ladies section, of 20 years ago (!) while Wendy Wang Yang, a chinese girl who is Austria's Worlfgang Haas's wife, was plying in the ladies section (with a swiss jersey as she's living in Switzerland). But the big surprise of the week-end was the peformance of Swiitzerland's Trisha Baumeler. The young girl of the Zurich club reached the final of the Ladies tournament. She lost to Giuditta Lo Cascio but she can be very proud of her performance. Well done.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon).
- September - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon).
We wait for the exact dates of the tournaments in Australia (planned for October 2011 & January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy (53), Australia, the United Kingdom, Greece, the USA, Germany, Finland and Greece, Belgium, and South Africa
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Stockholm tournament update - There are now 9 confirmed players (from 7 different nationalities) for the Stockholm tournament and 21 "possible entries", which includes Denmark's Rasmus Lund. The event will definately be one of the most exciting ones this season.
Another tournament in Australia? - Brett Davies (wolfden@bigpond.net.au) is trying to organize something in October at the MOAB, one of the largest Wargaming events in the country. Interested players can drop a line to Brett so that he can arrange the location and the exact date.
Subbuteo back in the stores - One of the breaking news at the FISTF world cup in Italy was the announcement made by the spanish company Netcam, owner of Total Soccer, confirming "they have purchased Hasbro's subbuteo trademark rights for the next 10 years with an option for the next 10 years. They also purchased the right to manage everything concerning the material and they will produce do two samples for all, mold bases and the original Astropitch. The relaunch os Subbuteo will start next June at the European Football Championships in all countries of Western Europe and even in some of Eastern European nations." The bad news about this change is that Netcam intends to regulate the use of the name Subbuteo, which means everyone wanting to use the world subbuteo (in a subbuteo club, association, an Internet forum,...) will have to ask Netcam's permission. And that's not great....
Small nations at the FISTF World Cup - The FISTF world cup took place lastw eek-end in Palermon, Sicily (South of Italy). It was one of the smallest world cup ever with only 121 players (including 18 U12 players) from only 12 nations. 5 countries managed to have a strong team (Italy), Belgium, Malta, Austria and Spain) while Wales had 5 players, Germany and England had 4 players. The last 4 nations had only one player. Andrea Gasparini was the US representative and didn't panage to pass the first round int he Open category. Margot Diradourian, a young U12 girl, was one of the surprises of the U12 section. Some people comparred her to the Delphine Dieudonné, the legend of the ladies section, of 20 years ago (!) while Wendy Wang Yang, a chinese girl who is Austria's Worlfgang Haas's wife, was plying in the ladies section (with a swiss jersey as she's living in Switzerland). But the big surprise of the week-end was the peformance of Swiitzerland's Trisha Baumeler. The young girl of the Zurich club reached the final of the Ladies tournament. She lost to Giuditta Lo Cascio but she can be very proud of her performance. Well done.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon).
- September - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon).
We wait for the exact dates of the tournaments in Australia (planned for October 2011 & January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy (53), Australia, the United Kingdom, Greece, the USA, Germany, Finland and Greece, Belgium, and South Africa
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Friday, 22 July 2011
The news of the week (5)
Hello, nothing much to say this week as most people are concentrating on the the forthcoming FISTF World Cup to be held in Palermo, Sicily. Despite the tournament will be one of the smallest world cup ever due to the very poor number of players and countries taking part, we wish everyone a lot of fun for the week-end. We also hope that, in the future, the FISTF will listen to the needs of the players and chose beter locations and, more importantly, a beter date for the World Cup. There mere many voices concerned about the fact the WC is held in July, which makes things more difficult for everyone to travel. Instead of waiting how things are advancing, the Board has confirmed the next world cup will be held in July 2012 in Greece. And surprisingly, the Greeks have just announced they will not attend the world cup this week-end...
Malta - As you could read earlier this week, Simon Gauci won the first WASPA tournament in Malta and became number 1 in the new rankings. Congratulations Simon! We also expect Malta to organize another tournament in september. The exact date and locationw ill be announced soon.
England - A tournament mught be held in Kent on August 27 as Miguel Pereira is organizing the "Subbuteo Summer School" to try to attract more new players in the summer. More details will be revealed soon.
Surveys - Looks like the big majority of visitors of the blog like the WASPA project. 63% of visitors said they will attend WASPA events in the future.
Rankings - From what the survey on the blog revealed, most people think it's important to have rankings even if many of them think it's not a priority. Therefore the WASPA rankings will be edited every month and published in the "Golden boo" (see download section).
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon).
- September - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon).
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy (100), Malta, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Greece, Belgium, the USA, Spain and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Malta - As you could read earlier this week, Simon Gauci won the first WASPA tournament in Malta and became number 1 in the new rankings. Congratulations Simon! We also expect Malta to organize another tournament in september. The exact date and locationw ill be announced soon.
England - A tournament mught be held in Kent on August 27 as Miguel Pereira is organizing the "Subbuteo Summer School" to try to attract more new players in the summer. More details will be revealed soon.
Surveys - Looks like the big majority of visitors of the blog like the WASPA project. 63% of visitors said they will attend WASPA events in the future.
Rankings - From what the survey on the blog revealed, most people think it's important to have rankings even if many of them think it's not a priority. Therefore the WASPA rankings will be edited every month and published in the "Golden boo" (see download section).
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon).
- September - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon).
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy (100), Malta, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Greece, Belgium, the USA, Spain and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Friday, 15 July 2011
The news of the week (4)
Hi there, here we go for some short news about table football and WASPA.
News from Malta - the tournament held by the club of Attard was played on thursday. At least the group stage was played by 13competitors but the tournament was stopped when the Mayor of Attard showed up and all players had a drink together with him. The semi-finals and the final will be played shortly.
News from Singapore - The club of Leste Aquila decided to move the date of their tournament to August 21. There will also be a ladies tournaments and a friendly team match between the local club and the team of Elias SC. Team matches are not yet very popular in Singapore but with the increasing number of clubs in the country, there will be more team matches for sure in the future! Also, the local club was happy to meet an italian player, Michele Lanzarotto, earlier this week and several friendlies were played. Local players are
News from the US - Congratulations to Daniel Cranston for winning the national title last week-end. daniel was not only playing, he was also the organizer of the National. Well done. Congratulations also to Paul Eyes for winning the veterans title and to the club of Maryland for being the team champion. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1RiU30UdM
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Germany (34), Singapore, Belgium, Greece, Finland, Italy, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malta. We were also happy to see visitors from Indonesia, Switzerland and Ireland ;-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
News from Malta - the tournament held by the club of Attard was played on thursday. At least the group stage was played by 13competitors but the tournament was stopped when the Mayor of Attard showed up and all players had a drink together with him. The semi-finals and the final will be played shortly.
News from Singapore - The club of Leste Aquila decided to move the date of their tournament to August 21. There will also be a ladies tournaments and a friendly team match between the local club and the team of Elias SC. Team matches are not yet very popular in Singapore but with the increasing number of clubs in the country, there will be more team matches for sure in the future! Also, the local club was happy to meet an italian player, Michele Lanzarotto, earlier this week and several friendlies were played. Local players are
News from the US - Congratulations to Daniel Cranston for winning the national title last week-end. daniel was not only playing, he was also the organizer of the National. Well done. Congratulations also to Paul Eyes for winning the veterans title and to the club of Maryland for being the team champion. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1RiU30UdM
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Germany (34), Singapore, Belgium, Greece, Finland, Italy, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malta. We were also happy to see visitors from Indonesia, Switzerland and Ireland ;-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 7 July 2011
The news of the week (3)
Hi there, there isn't much to say this week but the news are rather exciting.
First of all, there are some good news from Malta as Attard Subbuteo Club will be hosting their first tournament next week. 13 players are registered and will be dropped in four groups. The club also announced another tournament might be organized in august.
Australia - There are discussion with Ron Shipp (ronshippau@yahoo.com.au) to organize a tournament in january during Cancon in January 2012. Cancon is Australia's biggest games convention. Ron is trying to organize the Australian championship as well but this still needs to be discussed. There are also plans to host a tournament in Sydney later this year.
Sweden - There are now 8 confirmed entries for the tournament. Francesco La Torre from Italy is also likely to take part. There are plans to prepare the future of the game in Sweden as hopefully this tournament will be the first of many more to come.
Singapore - The Leste' Aquila SC is also thinking to host a second tournament later this year as there is already enough demand from local players. More details coming soon.
United States - Massimo Conturso announced the Subbuteo Club Connecticut will celebrate next month the 10th year of activity with an ASA Open to be played in Salem, MA (1st choice location) or CT. Also, a second ASA Open (not approved yet) could be played in CT on Sunday, August 28th as part of the WASPA circuit. Details for both events will follow shortly!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- July 14 - Tournament hosted by Attard Subbuteo Club (Malta)
- August 14 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Finland (35), Germany, Singapore, Italy, Malta, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
First of all, there are some good news from Malta as Attard Subbuteo Club will be hosting their first tournament next week. 13 players are registered and will be dropped in four groups. The club also announced another tournament might be organized in august.
Australia - There are discussion with Ron Shipp (ronshippau@yahoo.com.au) to organize a tournament in january during Cancon in January 2012. Cancon is Australia's biggest games convention. Ron is trying to organize the Australian championship as well but this still needs to be discussed. There are also plans to host a tournament in Sydney later this year.
Sweden - There are now 8 confirmed entries for the tournament. Francesco La Torre from Italy is also likely to take part. There are plans to prepare the future of the game in Sweden as hopefully this tournament will be the first of many more to come.
Singapore - The Leste' Aquila SC is also thinking to host a second tournament later this year as there is already enough demand from local players. More details coming soon.
United States - Massimo Conturso announced the Subbuteo Club Connecticut will celebrate next month the 10th year of activity with an ASA Open to be played in Salem, MA (1st choice location) or CT. Also, a second ASA Open (not approved yet) could be played in CT on Sunday, August 28th as part of the WASPA circuit. Details for both events will follow shortly!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- July 14 - Tournament hosted by Attard Subbuteo Club (Malta)
- August 14 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Finland (35), Germany, Singapore, Italy, Malta, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 30 June 2011
The news of the week (2)
Hello everybody, just a quick message to keep you updated about the latest WASPA news. We had a great week full of good news and promising developments. Last week we were happy to learn that a tournament would take place in Stockholm, Sweden but more great news came from Scandinavia. It looks indeed that it will be a very international tournament as many foreign players will be there. Marcus Tilgner (Germany) and Robert Green (Australia) had already confirmed they would make the trip but we know that there will be an Italian, a couple of Finns and even David Crémoux, a french player who is living in Sweden for many years who is very excited to start playing again as he was one of the best players in France 20 years ago. This kind of achievements proves WASPA can help the global community of table football/subbuteo fans to grow in numbers. last but not least, Jeremy Bradley from England will more than probably be in Sweden at the time of the tournament so there are great chances he will be able to take part.
Malta is there - I must say that iw as a bit worried about the position of the clubs from Southern Europe when Is tarted the WASPA project. Now that it has been confirmed that there will be a tournament in Malta (and there is interest from Italy and Greece), I feel like we are reaching a growing number of players. The Attard club has already 12 entries for the tournament to be held on July 14, which is a great number.
Singapore, the hot place in Asia - When I was told the club of Leste Aquila would host a tournament in Singapore on August 14, I was very happy. Singapore has been the most active country on the asian scene for the last 10 years and the local organizers are doing a fantastic job. Singapore has now four active clubs and the level of the local players is growing very quickly. Players like Erza Aripin and Christopher Soh have already attended FISTF world cups and players like John Ho and Den Mulia are probably the best players on the continent. As the Singapore association is doing a great job to promote the game, we hope in the near future there will be some clubs in other asian countries, possibly in Malaysia (there is also a club in Hong Kong run by an Italian who lives there for years and there is a very small group of players in Japan, too).
Table hockey - Benoît Racette from Canada is working on a project of "table ice hockey" and he would be happy to hear suggestions from as many subbuteo players as possible. Feel free to contact him at canadatabletopgames@gmail.com
The future? - Any idea, any tournament request, any question can be sent directly to my e-mail address. It will be a pleasure to answer every message.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Malta, Portugal and the United States.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook and 38 Facebook users have already joined, which helps them to be updated on a daily base.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Malta is there - I must say that iw as a bit worried about the position of the clubs from Southern Europe when Is tarted the WASPA project. Now that it has been confirmed that there will be a tournament in Malta (and there is interest from Italy and Greece), I feel like we are reaching a growing number of players. The Attard club has already 12 entries for the tournament to be held on July 14, which is a great number.
Singapore, the hot place in Asia - When I was told the club of Leste Aquila would host a tournament in Singapore on August 14, I was very happy. Singapore has been the most active country on the asian scene for the last 10 years and the local organizers are doing a fantastic job. Singapore has now four active clubs and the level of the local players is growing very quickly. Players like Erza Aripin and Christopher Soh have already attended FISTF world cups and players like John Ho and Den Mulia are probably the best players on the continent. As the Singapore association is doing a great job to promote the game, we hope in the near future there will be some clubs in other asian countries, possibly in Malaysia (there is also a club in Hong Kong run by an Italian who lives there for years and there is a very small group of players in Japan, too).
Table hockey - Benoît Racette from Canada is working on a project of "table ice hockey" and he would be happy to hear suggestions from as many subbuteo players as possible. Feel free to contact him at canadatabletopgames@gmail.com
The future? - Any idea, any tournament request, any question can be sent directly to my e-mail address. It will be a pleasure to answer every message.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Malta, Portugal and the United States.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook and 38 Facebook users have already joined, which helps them to be updated on a daily base.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 23 June 2011
The news of the week (1)
Hello everyone, I decided to use the blog to publish news every thursday. When I was in charge in the FISTF Board, I published a newsletter every week. Right now I will change the way to work. News will be published ont he blog but people who want to receive the newsletter by e-mail can leave their e-mail address in the "Follow us by Email" section (in the right colomn of the blog). Feel free to tell your friends to join!
Tournament in Sweden - The big news this week come from Sweden. Lars Löfgren decided to organize a tournament on August 21 in Stockholm. You can contact Lars at bordshockeyexperten@hotmail.se and I'm sure those who travel to Stockholm will enjoy the trip. Marcus Tilgner from Germany will be there to play and there are good chances to see some players from Finland as well. Robert Green, an Australian living in Sweden, is likely to take part with an english friend.
More tournaments? - Right now only 2 tournaments have been held int he WASPA circuit and only 10 players are part of the ranking. Hopefully more events will be held soon as 2 clubs from England are interested to host tournaments and we have also had constructive contacts with Malta, Argentina, Ireland, Germany, Finland and South Africa. So hopefully more events will be added in the calendar in the near future.
News from Japan - Our friend Kenzou Koi from Japan wrote us to say the major newspaper Nikkei Shimbun made an interview of himself last week-end and there was some positive feedback. hopefully more players will join the "Subbuteo Japan" group and feel part of our community.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - We have had more than 4200 visits ont he blog since it was launched. Over the last 7 days, the visitors came in priority from Italy (108), Greece (62), United Kingdom (52), the US (36), Finland (28), Germany (25), Belgium (23), Portugal (23), Singapore (20) and the Netherlands (14).
Handbook - The first WASPA Handbook was made a few weeks ago and since there, there were no improvements. I'm hoping to get more feedback and ideas to improve the Handbook as soon as possible.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook. Feel free to join it to get the latest updates on the WASPA circuit.
Ideas - If you have new ideas for the future of WASPA, feel free to send them. WASPA is an associations of players so all suggestions are welcome.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Tournament in Sweden - The big news this week come from Sweden. Lars Löfgren decided to organize a tournament on August 21 in Stockholm. You can contact Lars at bordshockeyexperten@hotmail.se and I'm sure those who travel to Stockholm will enjoy the trip. Marcus Tilgner from Germany will be there to play and there are good chances to see some players from Finland as well. Robert Green, an Australian living in Sweden, is likely to take part with an english friend.
More tournaments? - Right now only 2 tournaments have been held int he WASPA circuit and only 10 players are part of the ranking. Hopefully more events will be held soon as 2 clubs from England are interested to host tournaments and we have also had constructive contacts with Malta, Argentina, Ireland, Germany, Finland and South Africa. So hopefully more events will be added in the calendar in the near future.
News from Japan - Our friend Kenzou Koi from Japan wrote us to say the major newspaper Nikkei Shimbun made an interview of himself last week-end and there was some positive feedback. hopefully more players will join the "Subbuteo Japan" group and feel part of our community.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - We have had more than 4200 visits ont he blog since it was launched. Over the last 7 days, the visitors came in priority from Italy (108), Greece (62), United Kingdom (52), the US (36), Finland (28), Germany (25), Belgium (23), Portugal (23), Singapore (20) and the Netherlands (14).
Handbook - The first WASPA Handbook was made a few weeks ago and since there, there were no improvements. I'm hoping to get more feedback and ideas to improve the Handbook as soon as possible.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook. Feel free to join it to get the latest updates on the WASPA circuit.
Ideas - If you have new ideas for the future of WASPA, feel free to send them. WASPA is an associations of players so all suggestions are welcome.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
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