Eid Mubarak July WASPA 2016

After almost a month of no flicks the boys of Jurong CSC came back to the club hungry to play, with several of them  high with the festive mood of Eid Mubarak syndrome. 12 players came but only 9 were able to participate in the competitive July tournament.

The players were drawn into 3 main groups (A, B & C) of 3 where the top from each group qualify to the Cup Group followed by the runners up qualifying in the Plate Group while the last in the group qualifying in the Bowl group. The groups after the draw:-

Main Groups
Group A - Rudy, Nic Tan & Fauzi
Group B - Noor Haikal, Anas & Fino
Group C - Simon, Irwan & Vikas

After the group games, Rudy, Anas & Vikas qualified tops while Fauzi, Noor Haikal & Irwan qualify in the Plates group while Nic, Fino & Simon filled the Bowl group.

The games were thigh & close but in the end Rudy came up tops in the tournament with Anas 2nd & Vikas 3rd. Fauzi won the Plates group while Nic won the bowl group.

Finally, we applauded  the best dressed players, namely Fino & Irwan who were then invited to be the Guest Of Honour to hand over the prizes to the winners.

In behalf of Jurong Central SC, we wish all of you a Eid Mubarak & well wishes to all.

The final standings
1st - Rudy
2nd - Anas
3rd - Vikas
4th - Fauzi
5th - Noor Haikal
6th - Irwan
7th - Nic Tan
8th - Simon
9th - Fino

(Report by Rudy Hesty)

Elliott Bellefontaine wins in Plumstead

There was action this Friday in Plumstead (England) where six players competed in a round robin. In the end Elliott Bellefontaine was the winner with 12 points in five games while Martin Hodds was runner-up with 10 points, Martin Bellefontaine had 8, Brian Butterworth also had 8 points, Marco Ghigliotti had 2 and Colin Tarry was sixth with 0.

Second title for Renaud Parisel

The latest tournament organized by SC Semois in Vresse had the usual players taking part. Despite the last minute dropout of Gregory Berte, it was another nice day with Pascal Droeven finishing on top of the group stage but being unable to defeat Renaud Parisel in the final. Parisel won the game on sudden death to claim his second WASPA title. Patrick Vanderlinden took the third spot after defeating Marc De Vos in the 3rd place play-off.

Rudi Peterschinigg wins in Harrow

The Latest tournament of the Harrow League was held on June 28 with 6 players competing. Everyone played four games and in the end, Rudi Peterschinigg took the honors, finishing on top of the table with 12 points while Paul O'Donovan Rossa, who was practicing before the Major of Enderby, was runner-up.

The final standings were as follows:
1. Rudi Peterschinigg
2. Paul O'Donovan Rossa
3. Victor Jones
4. Panos Stemitsiotis
5. Matthias Peterschinigg
6. Clelio De Souza

A lot of action at the Major of Enderby

Final of event number 4 between Daley & Boyer

Final of the Flymo & Shedbuilder
Trophy between Canicchio & Candelas

During the recent Major of England in Enderby, several WASPA tournament have been played for eliminated players.

There was one WASPA event in the Open category, which was named The Trevor Spencer Cup. There were three WASPA events in the veterans for the third, fourth and fifth placed players. The third place cup was named The Flymo & Shedbuilder Trophy, named after the Subbuteo novel written by Terry Edge. There was also a small event on Sunday, The Major of England Sunday.

The two main characters - Flymo & Shedbuilder - aka Terry Edge and Paul O'Donovan

Results were as follows:

Event 1 final (Open category):
Lawrence Alvarez (Gibraltar) - Mark Farrell (Ireland) 1-1*

Event 2 final (Veterans category):
Lucio Canicchio (Italy) - Julio Candelas (Spain) 2-0

Event 3 final (Veterans category):
Andy Boyer (England) - Brian Daley (England) 2-3

Event 4 final (Veterans category):
Robert Conway (Scotland) - Tony McCann (England) 1-1*

Event 5 ranking (The Major of England Sunday):
1. David Busch - Austria
2. Frank Stiller - Germany
3. Howard Romain - England

U19 final:
Connor Bowden (England) - Paul Naszalyi (France) 1-2

U15 final:
Louis Singh (England) - Thomas Price (England) 2-1

U12 final:
Carlos Pinto (Spain) - Joshua Foreman (England) 2-3

Latest tournament of the Western Flickers

Western Flickers Melbourne 4th WASPA tournament (8 July 2016)
Reported by Benny Ng (Melbourne, Australia)

Western Flickers Melbourne was formed to cater for players living on the north/west side of Melbourne and provide more opportunities to play the wonderful game of Subbuteo table football.
If you are reading this and new to Subbuteo table football, watch this video (https://youtu.be/2GwgHF8IrXQ) for a brief introduction to the game.
After a hiatus of over 6 months, the Western Flickers hosted its 4th WASPA tournament. It almost felt like a new beginning with 3 new faces – including 1 junior – to the club having their first WASPA games and a new venue.
With a few kids joining in, it was decided to run 2 tournament categories – Adult and Junior – with a simple round-robin ladder format.
Adults – Beth Everleigh, Adam Deverall, Kevin Grant, Adrian Connolly and Benny Ng
Juniors – Benjamin Ng, Aidan Deverall, Jack Connolly

Junior category
2015 Asian junior champion and favourite Benjamin Ng kicked off proceedings with a match against newcomer Jack Connolly. In a game of missed chances and resolute defending, Jack finished his first competitive Subbuteo table football match with a very credible 0-1 loss to Benjamin.

Benjamin then renewed his rivalry with Aidan Deverall in the next game. It was a close game but Benjamin managed to fashion and put away two excellent goals for a 2-0 win to ensure another WASPA win. Aidan and Jack then battled it out for the runners-up spot. Aidan dominated as expected but just couldn’t find a way past the ever improving Jack. It ended up as a goalless stalemate with Jack snatching second spot in his first tournament. Well done Jack!

Junior category:
1. Benjamin Ng
2. Jack Connolly
3. Aidan Deverall

Adult category
The Adult category welcomed 2 new WASPA players in Kevin Grant and Adrian Connolly. Kevin started out with a 0-2 loss against Subbuteo veteran player Adam Deverall, but improved as the night wore on with his next matches both slim single goal losses.

Beth – who just returned from a trip to England to learn from legendary Subbuteo masters – had an excellent night with very good performances all round especially a 1-1 draw with Adam. Unfortunately, she was just pipped for third spot by Adam who had a slightly better goal difference.

The surprise packet of the night was Adrian Connolly. The former #1 Subbuteo player in Tasmania was making a comeback after decades away from the game and had an amazing night. With wins against Kevin and Beth and a draw against Adam, he went into the final title deciding game against an in-form Benny having secured at least second spot.

In the end, Adrian was unable to cause another upset and Benny won the match and also the WASPA title!

Conclusion
Thanks to all who attended for helping to make it an awesome night. Most importantly, everyone has loads of fun and went home happy. Subbuteo was indeed the winner.
GO WEST!

The final standings are:
1. Benny Ng
2. Adrian Connolly
3. Adam Deverall
4. Beth Everleigh
5. Kevin Grant

P.S. If anyone is interested in taking part in future Western Flickers events or just popping by for chat and look-see, please visit the Western Flickers Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WesternFlickers/) or send an email to bennidokk@yahoo.com

Jayden van der Merwe wins the 2016 PFC Gold Cup

Saturday 9 July 2016, Pretoria, South Africa
(Report by Julian vd Merwe)

The 2016 edition of the PFC Gold Cup was played under the theme "EURO 2016" with each player "adopting" a nation from the Euro's. We had 8 entries with the following nations partaking : France, Belgium, Croatia, Portugal, England, Germany, Italy & Poland. The players got to play 4 matches by way of random draw - with 2 points per win & 1 point per draw awarded. What followed was some tasty match-ups which afforded the "fallen giants" from the 2016 Euro's the chance to "rise up" again !!! Aside from a few "runaway" results, the match-ups produced some evenly contested matches & we witnessed 29 goals scored on the day, dished up "the Subbuteo way". The shock result came as early as Round 1 when Sherwin (Germany) beat Julian (France) by 1-0, a result which marked Sherwin's first ever triumph over Julian!
At the end of Round 1, Chessray (Croatia) went top of the standings after a thrilling 2-1 victory over Kegan (Portugal).
Round 2 produced two massive results as Jayden (Belgium) was held 0-0 by Sherwin (Germany) and elsewhere Kegan (Portugal) equalised with a long range shot against Bevin (England) to earn a 1-1 draw !!! Round 2 also saw Adam (Italy) record his highest scoring match to date, as he beat Subbuteo debutant Bradley Drywer (Poland) by 3-0!
Round 3 then shaped the day's event. A defensive error by table topping Chessray (Croatia) allowed Bevin (England) to win the match 1-0, the result knocking Chessray back to 4th place. Sherwin (Germany) then beat debutant Bradley (Poland) by 1-0 to tie elder brother Bevin at the top on 5 points. The last match of Round 3 produced the "match of the day" - more so for the response from Jayden (Belgium). The match got off with Julian (France) taking the lead after 2min's. Jayden knew a big response was needed if he were to successfully defend his 2015 Gold Cup title - Jayden stormed back with fast furious attacking play to score 4 unanswered goals in a constant 8 min assault on Julian's goal to triumph by 4-1 and reclaim top spot at the end of the round !!! At the end of Round 3 we had three players tied on 5 points each, making Round 4 matches even more intense.
Chessray (Croatia) beat Adam (Italy) by 2-0 to end the day 3rd overall - an effort which saw Chessray rewarded with the new PFC club shirt. Jayden (Belgium) beat elder brother Kegan (Portugal) by 3-0 to maintain 1st spot with 7 points. Bradley (Poland) gave Julian (France) a real scare as he hit Julian's left post but in the end Bradley earned his first point by way of a 0-0 draw, bringing host Julian's (France) miserable day to an end !!! When the two brothers Sherwin (Germany) and Bevin (England) met, the objective was clear - a win for either would tie Jayden on 7 points to force the event into a Final Play-Off match. Bevin secured that Play-Off match thanks to a 3-0 win over Sherwin. The result saw the ever improving Sherwin capture 4th place overall on the day. As was expected, the Final between PFC's top two ranked players produced a quiet, tense but yet exciting affair - a defensive error by Bevin (England) on 4 min's allowed Jayden (Belgium) to take the lead. With 3min's left to play, Bevin done well to penetrate Jayden's tight defense but saw his final shot go sailing over Jayden's crossbar! In the end Jayden held out to win the Final by 1-0, to successfully defend his Gold Cup crown and record his first title for the 2016 calendar year after so many runner up placings for the year. As is now customary, Jayden was also rewarded with the new PFC club shirt for his efforts. Finally, PFC wishes to welcome newcomer Bradley Drywer to it's ranks - happy flicking!
Thanks to all for attending and making the day a success once again.

Final Standings
Jayden vd Merwe (Belgium)
Bevin Reed (England)
Chessray Jooste (Croatia)
Sherwin Reed (Germany)
Adam Murray (Italy)
Kegan vd Merwe (Portugal)
Bradley Drywer (Poland)
Julian vd Merwe (France)

Results, statistics and rankings of June 2016

Dear all,

you will find in the attached files the updated results, statistics and rankings of the WASPA circuit.

Excel file
PDF file

We are waiting for results from Verviers (Belgium) but they will be added next month.

Group picture of Mostoles players

In June we had 21 regional tournaments but also a tournament with advanced rules and a tournament with the old rules.

It was nice to see some new clubs hosting their first WASPA tournaments: Euskal Subbuteo and SC Mostoles in Spain but also TFC Mattersburg from Austria and the Ipswich Kestrels from Australia. Welcome also to the West Midlands club in England.

A good turnout in Templeuve

32 players have joined the circuit and we have a total of 1595 ranked players from 42 nations. Welcome back to Jamaica's Kevin Mason.

We are happy to know that the first Subbuteo tournament in Romania will be held in August under WASPA banner.

Action in Harrow, England

Keep an eye on the WASPA blog at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com as there are updates almost every day.

The FISTF website can be found here: http://www.fistf.com

First event in the Basque country

Please remember you only need 3 players to register your tournament. Don't be scared to join. It's free and tournament requests can be sent by e-mail to vincent.cop@rsca.com

Have a great day!


Yours sincerely,


Vincent Coppenolle

Euro 2016 tournament in Mostoles

Earlier in June, there was Subbuteo action in Mostoles, Spain, where the local club SC Mostoles was hosting a Euro 2016 tournament in a shopping mall. It was not only a chance to play a tournament but also to promote the sport. The 12 players were divided into two tournaments of six plyers. Int he Junior section, Carlos Pinto (Sweden) defeated María Muñoz (Croatia) in the final. In the Open section, Alberto Gómez (Northern Ireland) took the honors after beating Juan Antono Garcia (Wales) in the final.

Jérôme Heyvaert did it again in Auvelais

Players: Fabrice Guyaux and son, Dany Timmerman, Bruno Timpano, Richard Boulanger, Geoffrey Kelner.
Bottom: Jérôme Heyvaert and Vincent Guyaux

Final between Coppenolle and Heyvaert

This week-end there was Subbuteo action again in Auvelais (Belgium) where the local club "Etoile Sarthoise" was hosting a tournament that attracted 8 players. The group stage consisted in two groups of 8 and Jérôme Heyvaert (Charleroi) and Bruno Timpano (Seraing) ended as group winners. In the semis, Timpano lost to Vincent Coppenolle (Templeuve) while Heyvaert defeated Richard Boulanger (Seraing). The final did not deliver any surprise as Jérôem heyvaert took the best on Coppenolle (4-1). Special thanks to brothers Vincent and Fabrice Guyaux for hosting a good day of table football in a positive and fair spirit.
More action in Belgium is expected for this Sunday in Vresse, for July 8 in the premises of the "Black devils" and in Templeuve on July 15.