Attard tournament tonight

16 players will be competiting in tonight's tournament in Attard (Malta), which is the second WASPA tournament held on the island. Players will be put in four groups of four players and the draw is as follows.
Group 1: Simon Gauci, Joseph Azzopardi, Nicholas Sciberras (Hamrun SC), Robert Azzopardi
Group 2: Daniele Spadaro, Clint Abela Wadge, Joseph M. Debono, Lon Joseph Cachia
Group 3: Hector Scerri, Etienne Deguara, Mario Spiteri, Darren Bezzina (SPQR Roma)
Group 4: Timothy Spiteri, Brendon Borg, Gordon Caruana, Marco Mifsud
PS: all players are members of Attard Subbuteo Club unless noted.

A second tournament in Sweden

We are pleased to announce that there will be another tournament in Sweden on October 8. The tournament, organized by Lars Löfgren, will be held at the O'Leary restaurant and the games will start at 13.00. The address of the venue is Järntorgsgatan 5, Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Details available at the following e-mail address: lars.lofgren@bordshockeyexperten.se

A first tournament in Japan

We are pleased to announce that the very first WASPA tournament in Japan will be held on September 4 in Yokohama. Details can be found from Kenzo Koi at koikoifulie@hotmail.com

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

Some more pictures from Stockholm

Here are some more shots from last week-end's tournament in Sweden

A great t-shirt!

Robert Green (Australia) and Marcus Tilgner (Germany)

As you can see, subbuteo is back in Sweden and the local players wear great t-shirts

 

Singapore, the largest WASPA tournament

Last sunday's tournament in Singapore was definately the most important WASPA tournament ever held with 25 players competing in 2 categories. Den Mulia won the Open section after defeating Henry Peh. Fadzly won the Junior tournament, beating Farhan in the final. Well done to all players and special thianks to Rudy Norita for organizing a great tournament.

The players still present for the presentation of the trophies

Open Winners (from Left to right: Ezan (Plate winner), Den Mulia (Champion), Henry Peh (Runner-up) & John Ho (2nd runner-up)

Junior Winners (From Left: Fadzly (Champion), Azhar (Plate winner), Manto (2nd runner-up) & Farhan (runner-up)

Den Mulia, Singapore's top player!

Marcus Tilgner wins in Stockholm

Marcus Tilgner became this sunday the first player to win a tournament in Sweden. The Stockholm tournament was part of the WASPA circuit and attracted players from Sweden, Australia, france, Italy, Finland and Sweden. The event was played in the O'Leary restaurant and the 8 competitors could play a good number of games as the tournament was set up as a group of 8. The top 2 qualified for the final and int he decisive game, Marcus Tilgner beat France's David Cremoux (1-0). It was a good day for the sport and for the game of subbuteo. Hopefully more tournaments will be held in Sweden. Special thanks go to Lars Löfgren for being the organizer of the event!

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

Johannesburg on September 9th

The very first WASPA tournament in South Africa will be held on September 9th at the Panorama Sports Club. Details are available from Clifford Graaff at graaff@mweb.co.za

A new baby in the Gauci family

The current number 1 in the WASPA ranking became a father for the thrid time on August 7th. Simon Gauci and his wife are the happy parents of a little Yasina. She's the third child in the family after Micwen (11) and Colton (9).

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

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

The first WASPA tournament in Australia

Brett Davis has confirmed that the venue for an Australian WASPA Tournament is booked in for 1st October 2011 at MOAB (Mother of All Battles) organised by Southern Battle Gamers, Sylvania Heights Community and Youth Club - Box Road, Sylvania. NSW 2224. Brett needs to thank Kym Pennell from the Battle Gamers who allowed us to come and play at MOAB and give our great game some public view. Details available from Brett Davis at wolfden@bigpond.net.au

Another tournament in Malta

It is now confirmed there will be a tournament in Malta on August 31. The event will be organized by Attard Subbuteo Clbu and will be called the "Joseph M. Debono Cup". This competition is Open to all Maltese players. The exact venue is going to be published later during the month of August. Closing date for the registration is Wednesday August 24th 2011. Details: jmdebono@onvol.net