Jos Ceulemans is still a winner

The first tournament of the season at SC Flanders had a small turnout of 5 players as the event was played the day after the world cup week-end. Jos Ceulemans won his four games and took the title. Frank Lannoy (SC Temploux) was runner-up.

This season Jos Ceulemans and Geert Leys play again for SC Flanders after two seasons in England. SC Flanders are hoping to reach a higher number of players and to welcome some newcomers this season.

Another win for Rudy in Singapore

WASPA Satellite (3rd Sept 17) 

A tournament to encourage more game play was organised in the backdrop of TFAS Satellite tournament. 5 players (Isaac Lim, Yew Loy, Noor Haikal, Ezan & Muhd Firdaus) who did not qualify to the next stages of the Satellite event were joined with 3 other players (Anas, Bernard Lim & Rudy) who could not participate in Satellite, played in a 4 round Swiss format.

A few surprises but encouraging results notably the youngest player in the tournament, Isaac Lim, winning against Yew Loy & drawing against Haikal. Also not forgetting veteran player 😂 Ezan pulling an upset by drawing with Bernard Lim. However, in the end of the rounds, the two tournament favourites topped the table, with Rudy coming in 1st with 4 wins & Anas coming in 2nd with 3 wins.

Colored players attended the WASPA event

Results

Round 1
Bernard 1 v 1 Ezan
Anas 3 v 0 Haikal
Rudy 5 v 0 Firdaus
Yew Loy 1 v 2 Isaac

Round 2
Rudy 1 v 0 Anas
Isaac 0 v 3 Ezan
Bernard 1 v 0 Yew Loy
Haikal 4 v 0 Firdaus

Round 3
Rudy 3 v 0 Ezan
Bernard 0 v 3 Anas
Haikal 2 v 2 Isaac
Firdaus 1 v 0 Yew Loy

Round 4 
Rudy 5 v 0 Haikal
Anas 3 v 1 Isaac
Bernard 4 v 0 Firdaus
Ezan 1 v 0 Yew Loy

Final Standing 
1st - Rudy (Jurong CSC)
2nd - Anas (Jurong CSC)
3rd - Bernard Lim (SG Lions TFC)
4th - Ezan (Jurong CSC)
5th - Isaac Lim (SG Lions TFC)
6th - Noor Haikal (Jurong CSC)
7th - Muhd Firdaus (Jurong CSC)
8th - Tan Yew Loy (SG Lions TFC)

The first tournament in Rosario

On Saturday, August 19 was held in the vicinity of Rosario the open "Las Carolinas" a valid date for the circuit FISTF. All players who were eliminated before the semifinals of the tournament could choose to play the consolation tournament that added points for the WASPA circuit.
For the second tournament there were 6 players who were distributed in the box according to their final location in the main event.
In the first round, Norberto Martinez managed to advance to the next round after beating Martín Gallimó in shoot-outs. On the other key Marcelo Rossi managed to beat Brian Gonzalez (who debuted in Subbuteo tournaments) 2-0
In the next round were added Mariano Di Luozzo and Sebastián Pesci. The first confronted Norberto, in what is already a derby of the city of Buenos Aires by the number of times they faced and by the great parity between them. Mariano managed to advance to the final after winning by shoots-out (again). For his part Marcelo returned to win and also qualified for the final.
For the fifth place, Martín Gallimó took advantage of the inexperience of Brian and was left with the victory. Norberto also beat Sebastian and took third place.
In the final, Mariano knew how to take advantage of every opportunity that was presented to him and beat Marcelo with what was left with the first tournament of the WASPA circuit.

(Report by Mariano Di Luozzo)

First victory for Matthias Averlant

On August 29 11 players met in the premises of the Templeuve United club for the last promotional event of the season. Geoffrey marain, Michaël Dupret and Vincent Coppenolle played friendlies and also helped beginners to understand the rules. As for the results, Matthias Averlant won his four games to claim the title. Stéphane Lambert was runner-up and Franck Santer from France was third. The first Templeuve United tournament of the new season will be held on September 26.

More action in Japan

Last Saturday oour friends in Japan were holding a tournament in their premises of Sakura Living in Yokohama city. The tournament was organized by OSC Yamato and attracted seven players from several different clubs. The tournament winner is Suguru Fujino. Huge thanks to Hideaki Wada for helping to organize WASPA tournaments in Japan in 2017. Huge thanks also to M. Kenzo Koi, NOSK President, and Suguru Fujino, Sakuragicho TFC President  for their continuous support. OSC Yamato and Sakuragicho TFC have filled all conditions to become WASPA top clubs next season and we would be please to welcome them.

Gábor Baross wins in Szombathely

Last Saturday there was an Internation Open in Szombathely, Hungary. After that the main event there was also a small WASPA tournament. There were five players, and everybody played against everybody. Gábor Baross won the tournament and Zoltán Baross was the runner-up. This was the final trophy of TFKN Dragons, because unfortunately this team dissolves in the end of the season. Károly Szathmáry, the hungarian sectorball champion, took the third place.

A first victory for Nikos Psomiadis

16 players - all members of the Flaming Flickers - competed in the 26th "Flaming Flickers Evening WASPA tournament" on Saturday, August 12 before the club's summer break.

Due to the heat in Athens this tournament started in the evening and ended way passed midnight. The winner was Nikos Psomiadis who beat 2-1 Alekos Apatzis in the final.

Congratulations to Nikos for the title and to all the participants for the nice games.

Gus Gillespie wins in Brisbane

On a very cool Sunday morning, four friendly flickers finally fronted up to join  Pino at the home of Brisbane Subbuteo, Woody Pointe.  Sadly Andy Ridgen was not on the team sheet, get well soon Andy.  We did however have a new player turn up, travelling North from the Gold Coast, welcome to the fold Gerry Vickers. Gerry originally from NZ and a very keen ex Subbuteo player. The usual suspects Rik, Shane and Gus made up the remaining five.
Gerry being a typical Kiwi was happy to jump straight in after many years away from the game – a brief 5 minute warm up introducing the rules and he was into it. Gerry had his Parodi Base team un polished on the pitch and ready to go. He faced Shane who had travelled East to join us from Ipswich. A very friendly game then broke out with the result being 0-0, and Gerry learning lots of new rules. The other match was not a 0-0 affair, and Pino was 1-0 up within 45 seconds after a keeper blunder by Gus, can’t give Pino an inch.  Gus rallied though and put up a good fight, managing to equalise halfway through the first half. This irked Pino who promptly regained his lead from the kick off, and so it was 2-1 at half time, but a close contest. The second half was end to end, but with a couple of well taken goals by Gus, the tables had turned, and Pino was behind 3-2.  This normally triggers a Pino whirlwind, but amazingly Gus nicked a 4th. Pino did get one back to make Gus sweat but the beeper went with the score 4-3, a good come back and a great match between the two.
Rik who was the spectator for the first round came into the action, and Pino was involved in another 1 goal decided thriller, but on the wrong end again to last months champion. Shane and Gus played the other game, which is historically very close, was an unusual 4-0 win to Gus, who was obviously fired up from his rare win over Pino.
Midway through the rounds, Pino saw off Shane 2-1, Shane finally getting his first goal of the day, and Rik welcomed Gerry with a 5-1 win, but well done Gerry getting a goal against Rik in your return from the wilderness.
The penultimate round gave Gerry a chance to go up against our genial host, who gave Gerry some more pointers, but ensuring a 1-0 win to stay in with a distant chance of making the final.  The other match up saw the top two in the table go head to head. Rik took the lead against Gus in what turned out to be a very tight contest (the last time they played Rik won a tight semi  final against Gus).  Gus managed to equalise in the second half, and the game could have gone either way, but it was Gus who eked out a winner in what seemed to have been a game of two five minute halves.
The last round would have no effect on the final two as Pino had played all his games, and Shane finished with a credible 2-1 loss to Rik, whilst Gerry who ironically had borrowed Gus’s spare keeper gave the keeping performance of the day, and was definitely starting to regain his flicking mojo narrowly losing 2-0.
So after  lunch Rik and Gus faced each other , Gus’s first final since March, (the rest between Rik and Pino). Gus the only player of the day without a defeat was just happy making the final after a long absence
The game was end to end, Rik dominating at the start, but Gus worked his way back into it, and it really was even. Half time came and it was 0-0. Shortly into the second half Rik gave a free kick away just outside the shooting zone. Gus saw an opportunity and passed through Riks defence and as the ball was travelling left to right struck with an attacker which hit the ball perfectly to send the Newcastle Utd team into a 1-0 lead. Rik then seemed to step up a gear, but Gus dug in and defended as well as he could, however it wasn’t to be enough, and Rik broke through with clinical style and speed to score a great equaliser. With less than two minutes left (neither player really aware of the time, just going full on) Rik charged forward with his spare keeper which after a couple of deflections gave possession away.  Gus kept his calm (never won a penalty shoot out yet) and manoeuvred himself with a good scoring opportunity with the 5thflick, which in training would have been dispatched with aplomb, now it looked really, really, hard. It went in. Rik flicked off and 15 seconds later the buzzer went off. Gus had snatched it through a rare gaff by Rik. So a new –ish face on the winner podium (since January).
Another exciting competition, great to welcome Gerry, and it probably won’t be long before our Kiwi Bro is challenging for honors. Thanks again to our host Pino who didn't make the final but did a great job with the sausages, always a winner..  And a big shout out to Rik who has been in every final so far in 2017, he’s lost a few but won more.

(Report by Giuseppe Tardiota)

Geoffrey Marain still reigns in Templeuve

The last Templeuve tournament of the season took place on August 22 with a small turnout of 8 players. geoffrey marain managed to win his 73rd WASPA title, a few days after being honored as WASPA number 1 in the ranking for the 60th month in a row. Marain won his four games and nobody was feeling able to defeat him. matthias Averlant was in a great day and was runner-up with 9 points. There will be a promotional tournament in Templeuve on August 29 and the first event of the new season will be held on September 26.

Home win for Peter Alegi

Grand Rapids TSC hosted a small tournament in East Lansing, Michigan, on Sunday, August 27, in honor of our visitor from Chicago: Ilias Gikas.

The nice weather allowed us to play some games outdoors and everyone enjoyed themselves. It all came down to the final round of matches. Peter Alegi defeated Ilias to top the table and Paul beat Joe to claim third place.

WASPA East Lansing Invitational results:

Joe Legatz - Peter Alegi 0-3
Paul Pate - Ilias Gikas 0-3
Peter-Paul 4-0
Ilias-Joe 4-1
Peter-Ilias 3-1
Paul-Joe 2-0

Final Standings

Peter 9 points
Ilias 6
Paul 3
Joe 0