Home win for Mike Parnaby

Six players turned out for this edition of the Lionsraw Championship at the NETFA club. As the season nears the end, who would take a stranglehold on the title for this year? With Jeff parsons missing, Chris Kaberry had the chance to take pole position and he did just that, but the pack is closing in behind him. Going into the final session, there are still 5 players who could take the 2014 title. Tonight's winner was Mike Parnaby, but as can be seen by the results, the league is still very competitive and anything could still happen!

Date of next NETFA Teesside WASPA tournament will be early December 2014

Final standings of the evening:
1st: Mike Parnaby
2nd: Neil Youngson
3rd: Ben Staples
4th: Chris Kaberry
5th: Rob Heseltine
6th: Andy Mill

(Report by Mike Parnaby)

Erich Hinkelmann wins in Austria

Last sunday there was another WASPA tournament in Austria and this time the host club was TFC Wiener Neustadt. 12 players were taking part. Among them, there were 2 beginners, 2 visitors from Hungary but also a subbuteo legend, Mr Erich Hinkelmann. Erich was the winner of the tournament, beating the Strommer family (father & son) in the last two games. John Luc Magdits won the consolation tournament. Well done to all!

Tayside circuit: Steve Bennet does it again

The third stage of the Tayside circuit took place in Arbroath on Sunday with a good field of 11 players. The usual Swiss system was used once again and two players ended the tournament with 10 points. Steve Bennett and Gareth Christie tied in the "big derby" but Steve had a final better goal-difference and claimed the trophy.

The final standings were as follows:
1. Steve Bennett
2. Gareth Christie
3. Rob Conway
4. David Baxter
5. Martin Campbell
6. Stuart Peacock
7. Kevin Perkins
8. Andy Beskaby
9. Colin Matthew
10. Fraser Bruce
11. Craig Thom

Monthly results file of the WASPA circuit

Dear players,

here is the monthly report of the WASPA circuit.

October has been a busy month with 21 tournaments (18 "regional", 1 "old rules" and 2 "promotional events") and for the first time, we have reached the number of more than 1400 ranked players (1422 exactly) from 38 different nations.

Peter Thomas won the FISTF/WASPA event in Australia

We had a lot of great news with the first FISTF/WASPA tournament in Australia, which proves once again both circuits are working together for the good of table football.

Nice people in Puylaurens

France held their very first tournament in Puylaurens. It is fantastic to see that France is now part of the WASPA circuit!

The club Basel in Switzerland held their first WASPA tournament.

Scotland is definitely a very active nation in the WASPA circuit with the Tayside circuit, the Scottish circuit and now also some Hot Club events being held under WASPA banner.

South Africa is back in action after a break of several month. Pretoria had a tournament on October 25 and the city of Cape Town will also join the WASPA circuit in November.

Couldson Subbuteo Club hosted not only a "regional" but also a "promotional event" this month.

Great players and big friendship in Singapore

21 tournaments are already confirmed for November, including the first events ever in Indonesia and Hungary.

Please keep in mind you only need 3 players to run a WASPA tournament. Don't hesitate to send your tournament requests to vincent.cop@rsca.com

Please also note the news are updated on a very regular base on the blog at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com -> You can also check the FISTF news on www.fistf.com

Well, that's all for now, have a great week and a fantastic Subbuteo season!

Vincent Coppenolle

A first trophy for Alfonso Franco

Franco Alfonso vs Mixalis Kalogerakis

This friday 12 players attended the 10th tournament of the Flaming Flickers in Athens. There were many close games and a new winner as Alfonso Franco took the honors after winning all his games. Here is the final ranking of the evening:
1. Franco Alfonso
2. Panos Panagiotides
3. Makis Kazatzoglou
4. Panos Pothos
5. Thanassis Koukogiannis
6. Dimitris Georgoulis
7. Chris Panagiotides
8. Nassos Sigalas
9. Spyros Pensas
10. Kostas Pappas
11. Mihalis Kalogerakis
12. Vasilis Pitihoutis

A nice win for Gianpaolo Vitulano in Couldson

Gianpaolo Vitulano (right) here with Chris Thomas during the recent FISTF Europa Cup in Belgium

The Couldson Center of Table Football hosted for the very first time a "promotional event" on October 31. Six players were taking part and played a group stage. Gianpaolo Vitulano (Kent Invicta) was the final winner with 5 wins. Gerald Brightwell was 2nd, Lee Fenton 3rd, Scott Freeman 4th, Colin Lindsey 5th and Michael Freeman 6th.

The first title for Giuseppe Cascioli

On October 29 the second tournament of the WASPA Lazio league was played in Rome with the usual Swiss system with four session. This time the winner was Giuseppe Cascioli, a player who wins his very first WASPA tournament. Giuseppe won all his games and deserved the win. Luigi Aniballi finished second with three wins. He lost to Cascioli (0-2) in the second session. Congratulations to the winners and well done to the club of SS Lazio.

Geoffrey Marain does it again

29th WASPA title for Geoffrey Marain

The school holidays can be the main reasonf or the poor turnout at the latest Templeuve tournament on tuesday with 5 players competing in a group to decide the winner. Geoffrey Marain was the man of the evening, scoring 32 goals in four games to claim the title. Vincent Coppenolle finished second and Michaël Dupret was third. Renald Deloose and Matthias Averlant were the other entries. 81 goals were scored in 10 games so the evening was quite exciting for all. Hopefully there will be more entries at the next tournament as we will have 2 events in Templeuve on November 11: a FISTF in the morning and a WASPA tournament in the afternoon.

Michaël Dupret vs Matthias Averlant

Action in Cape Town

There was some Subbuteo action this monday evening in Cape Town where the local group of players hosted Julian van der Merwe from Pretoria for a few games. Cape Town players have plans to hold their first WASPA tournament later this year, hopefully with visitors from other clubs.

Dave Allen wins in South Queensferry

8 players attended the most recent WASPA event at the South Queensferry Rugby Club, home of Hot Club D'Ecosse. A few regular players couldnt make it but still a good turnout regardless including 1 new player in the shape of Shinpad Smith from South Queensferry.

The format of the event due to time constraints was for 2 groups of 4 with the group winners going straight to the final.

Malc was always going to be hot favourite for group 2 and so it transpired as he made light work of all the players. However it was good to see a new player attending the club and having his first taste of subbuteo and hopefully Shinpad will keep coming back for some more Hot Club Subbuteo action.

Group 1 would be a tighter affair with Mike and Dave starting as favourites but the recent form of Craig meant he couldnt be ruled out and the ever improving "Crazy" John Marshall looking to throw a spanner in the works somewhere along the line. Mike and Dave both started off with comfortable wins with neither Craig or John able to trouble them. The second round of group games saw Craig take a tight 1-0 win against John whilst the virtual group decider between Mike and Dave finished 1-1. Dave took an early lead and Mike equalised before half time. The second half saw no more goals so it went to the last round of games and it would go down to goal difference in their respective last matches to see who would go to the final against Malc. Mike with a slight goal advantage beat Craig 1-0 but Dave showed no mercy and against John to win 4-0 and take top spot in the group on goal difference.

Dave and Malc would play out a tight, tense match which could have gone either way. Malc took the lead with a long range vital strike and dave equalised in the 2nd half with a well worked goal down the left hand side and scored before Malc could set his keeper. The match went to shots and Dave took it 2-1 scoring his first shot and his last shot but missing the 11 shots in between! Malc scored to make it 1-1 with his 3rd shot but a mixture of erratic shooting and amazing goalkeeping saw the shots go to the 2nd round of sudden death shots where Dave planted his shot in the onion bag over Malcs keeper and with Malc having to score to stay in it he hit his shot high wide and handsome to give Dave his 1st WASPA win and deny himself of a second title!

All the players enjoyed the evening and welcomed playing matches that had a friendly but competitive edge. Special mention to Shinpad for playing in the event at his first ever club meeting and picking up the rules so quickly and a second mention for the Rugby Club who provided the players with some tidy pies on a cold evening in South Queensferry. We hope to build on this for our next WASPA event, "The Pizza Invitational" and look forward to welcoming all the Hot Club players back (and anyone else that wants to play) for that event next month!

(Report by Mike Burns)