Second WASPA title for Angelo Borg

The winner: Angelo Borg, winning his first title under the cloros of his new club of Stabiae

The final between Daniele Spadaro and Angelo Borg

8 players attended the Attard tournament on wednesday. In the semi-finals, Daniele Spadaro had to wait the shootout to beat Simon Gauci after a 1-1 draw while Angelo Borg gave noc hance to Gordon Caruana (4-1). The final ave no surprise with Angelo Borg winning his second WASPA title, beating Daniele Spadaro 2-0. Simon Gauci won the final for the 3rd place on shots after a draw (2-2) against Gordon Caruana.
The next tournament in Attard is still to be confirmed but it should take place on December 13.

First success for Matteo Del Brocco

The third leg of the "WASPA Lazio League" was played on wednesday in Rome. 14 players were present and as always games were played in swiss format. Every player had the chance to play five games. At the end of the evening, Matteo Del Brocco was the winner. The 20 year old player won four games and tied against Gabriele Silveri. Simone Trivelli finished second while Gabriele Silveri and Gianmarco Del Brocco are taking the third place. Gianmarco Del Brocco is the new leader of the WASPA Lazio League with 64 points while Simone Trivelli has 56 and Matteo Del Brocco 47.

The 4th leg of the league will take place on December 12.

Some small updates

There are updated files in the Download section. The handbook has been modified with several updates and some pages are now in a more readable format.

The standard scoresheet to send tournament results is also modified and now contains a page for tournaments played with the swiss system.

As for tournaments, the next tournament in Calgary (Canada) has been moved to December 8. There is also a new tournament added. The next Limassol tournament in Cyprus will take place on December 23 and will be organized by Limassol TFC.

Phil Holmes wins in Berlin

The winner of the Berlin tournament is... Phil Holmes from England. He beat Alfred Strommer from Austria on shots after a close final (0-0).Georgios Tzimas of Greece and Maxime Devigne of Belgium reached the semis.

Second title for Peter Sexton

The new Hamilton Subbuteo Club in Canada hosted a tournament on November 24th which was won by Peter Sexton. It is already Peter's second title under WASPA banner. The Hamilton club had a good turnout for short notice with 6 players introducing a couple to the sport. Well done!

Some good news from Limassol

The final between Stylianou and Zangylos

Georgios Zangylos won his first WASPA title but had a difficult time in the final as Giorgos Stylianou (13 years old) put the Cypriot organizer to the sudden death. The game ended on 6-5 in the extra-time. Marios Nikolaou & Vangelis Zorbis were the 2 semi-finalists.

Nice promotion for the tournament in Barcelona

Subbuteo TV ad

Well done subbuteo for launching this TV ad for the italian market and good luck!

A tournament in Berlin, Germany

Breaking news: another tournament will be played in Berlin (Germany) on November 25 for the players who have no team to play the FISTF Open for club teams. This is an idea of Marcus Tilgner that is fully supported by WASPA. Well done!
Link: http://www.gpberlin.de.vu

Some news about the WASPA calendar

There are some good news about the forthcoming tournaments in the WASPA circuit. First of all, the tournament in Attard (Malta) has been postponed to November 28. The tournament will start at 7.00 pm at the Dingli club. Interested players can contact Joseph M. Debono at jmdebono@onvol.net

Players interested to attend the tournament in Hamilton (Canada) can contact Peter Sexton at peter.sexton@ymail.com

There will be a WASPA tournament at Famagusta TFC in Limassol on November 25. Interested players can contact George Zangylos at zangylos@yahoo.gr

Finally, the next tournament in Calgary (Canada) has already been set up. it will take place on December 30th. Interested players should contact Shane Hoopfer at Hoop27@gmail.com

News from Canada and Malta

Congratulations to David Baxter for winning his second WASPA tournament yesterday in Calgary. Dave beat Shane Hoopfer int he final. There were 3 last minute dropouts so only 5 players were present but that's still positive for Canada.

Unfortunately the tournament in Malta has been postponed due to problems in the hall but a new date should be announced soon.

Tournament in Hamilton

The newly born Hamilton Subbuteo Club in Canada will be holding their inaugural tournament on November 24. Interested players can contact Peter Sexton for details.

A look at the agenda

This sunday there are tournaments organized under WASPA banner in Attard (Malta) and Calgary (Canada). The tournament in Jambes (near Namur, Belgium) on November 23 is now confirmed. The next events in November will take place on the 24th in Penrith (near Sydney, Australia) and on the 28th in Rome (Italy).

A few tournaments are already in the agenda for December. The events will take place on the 1st in Ellicott City, Maryland (USA), on the 2nd in Barcelona (Spain), on the 15th in Penrith (Australia) and on the 22nd in Templeuve (Belgium). Feel free to contact us for more tournament requests! WASPA has easy rules for tournaments and we are looking forward to have more and more players involved. Drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com for any question about WASPA.

Another tournament in the US

Great news from the US. The forthcoming "Holiday Silver 2012" to be playd on December 1 in Maryland will be part of the WASPA circuit. Interested players can drop a line to Paul Eyes.
E-mails: eyevman@netscape.net & eyevman@verizon.net

Daniel Cranston wins the Delaware Valley Open

The final between Massimo Conturso and Daniel Cranston

Daniel Cranston won the Delaware Valley Open held in Newark on sunday. the Maryland player beat Massimo Conturso from Connecticut in the final. Congratulations to those who travelled on long way to play and well done Andrew Zunino for hosting the tournament.

Updated results file

You can now check the last update of the results file from the DOWNLOAD section or by clicking here.

The results of the ten (10!) tournaments played in October and the updated rankings and statistics have been added. We have now 314 ranked players and 22 nations.

Another tournament win for Geoffrey Marain

The finalists, Michaël Ponthieux and Geoffrey Marain

After the tournament

There was a good field of 8 players competing on November 1 at the Templeuve tournament. After the group stage where every player played seven games, the ranking was very close with 15 points for both Michaël Ponthieux and Geoffrey Marain, 14 for Logan Carette and 13 for Vincent Coppenolle. Ponthieux and Marain played a great final but finally Marain scored the winning goal in the last seconds of the game to win 3-2. Here is the final standing of the tournament:
1. Geoffrey Marain
2. Michael Ponthieux
3. Logan Carette
4. Vincent Coppenolle
5. Michaël Dupret
6. Renald Deloose
7. Max Hoguet
8. Jean-Luc Platiaux

New champions crowned in South Africa

Friday the 26th of October saw the third Randburg Table Football Challenge take place with a good field of 17 participants.

The entrants were divided into two groups: under 14 and seniors. In the Under 14 section, defending champion, Fraser Kilian, and previous champion, Tristan Berry was vying to secure their second title. However, they faced extremely tough competition from other youngsters who were keen to get their hands on the trophy. Group A saw Marcello Figuerro and Tristan Berry qualify for the semi-finals along with Alex Rodrigues and Denver Lawson. The first semi-final saw Alex defeat Tristan on penalties after a very entertaining one all draw. Marcello progressed to his first final by edging out Denver by the odd goal in a very tense semi-final.

The final proved to be a great game with Marcello taking an early lead only to see Alex equalize with only a few minutes left on the clock. In the penalty shoot-out Marcello held his nerve to win his first title after an exciting shoot-out. Marcello is the third winner of the Junior Randburg Challenge and proves that the quality of table football amongst the juniors is improving at a rapid pace. Both finalists received Superfooty teams courtesy of Randburg’s Bryan Shenkyl. Well done to all the boys who took part.

In the senior section, 8 players participated including the only lady – Claire Figuerro. Clifford Graaff and Bryan Shenkyl qualified from Group A along with Fernando Rodrigues and Kenny Mather. Clifford accounted for Bryan in the semi-final and was joined by Fernando who beat Bryan Shenkyl by the odd goal in a very entertaining game.

The final proved to be a very tight affair between two veteran adversaries. Fernando played a great game and absorbed all the pressure from Clifford and could’ve scored a late winner only to be denied by a heavy touch. The penalty shoot-out proved to be entertaining with Fernando taking charge from the first kick to secure his first Randburg Title – and deservedly so!!!!

Once again the third Randburg Challenge proved to be great advert for table football. Many new players were introduced to the game and Randburg have decided to start their own table football club and an exciting 2013 is planned for the new table football club.

(report by Clifford Graaff)