Second tournament win for Sandro Ceppi

On April 27 the 11th WASPA tournament in Trieste was played by 7 players divided into two groups. Furio Segnai won group A while Sandro Ceppi (DLF Gorizia) finished on top of group B. Ceppi later qualified for the final and met Gianfranco Grahonja for the tile. The Gorizia player won in extra time to claim his first WASPA title. Furio Segnani won the game for the third place against Gianluca Venturini.
Huge thanks to the club of trieste for their efforts of promotion. The next event will be played on May 25.

Bevin Reed retains the Founders Cup

Saturday 14 April 2018, Pretoria, South Africa
After a 2 month break, the second event on the 2018 Pretoria calendar saw 10 players battle it out for Founders Cup honours. Bevin Reed survived a day filled with upsets to lead the standings from start to finish - the triumph even made more special by a hard fought 1-0 victory in Round 4 over the much fancied Chessray Jooste.
Starting a new trend for this event, the following individual accomplishments were also acknowledged :
"Goal Blitz" : went to Bevin Reed ending the day as the top scorer.
"One to watch - Player of the Day" : went to Gary Downs with an impressive 2nd place overall, as he pushed Bevin all the way right up until the final match in Round 4, making Bevin work for his title!
"Tough as Nails" : went to Osvaldo van Niekerk who displayed great goalkeeping skills to shut out Jayden vd Merwe in their Round 3 encounter, and record a massive upset by beating Jayden by 1-0!
"Moment of the Day" : went to Imtiaz Ahmed for a well executed low & fierce shot in Round 2 to overcome Sherwin Reed by 1-0!

Another "Moment of the Day" candidate worth mentioning has to be the Round 1 result which saw Conway Julie upset Chessray Jooste by 1-0 : a result which obviously spurred Conway onto his way for an impressive 3rd place finish overall!
This triumph for Bevin Reed marks his 11th WASPA title to date, but equally important is his successful defence of his Founders Cup title to maintan the bragging rights for another year - it is also worth mentioning that no other player has won this cup more than once in the 6 editions that it has now been staged !

Finally, a special Thank You to Gary Downs for his generous donation of the mini plaques used to acknowledge the individual accomplishments on the day !

As always, a big thank you to all who attended to make the day a great success.

(report by Julian vd Merwe)

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Western Flickers Promotional WASPA

Western Flickers Promotional WASPA
April 6, 2018 – The Good Games Experiment

Western Flickers TFC held a promotional WASPA on Friday 6 April 2018 at Good Games in Greensborough, located in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Good Games are one of the official distributors for Subbuteo in Australia and the club decided to attempt to establish links to assist growing the game in Melbourne.

Six Open players and 7 juniors attended to play and thus the format decided was a Swiss System with each player playing 4 games. The games themselves were played over 1 x 10 minute period with draws being decided by a sudden death shot shootout. It is a fast action format that allows multiple games to be played where there are limited tables and was used successfully at the recent Illawarra Open WASPA warm up.

In the Open competition, the key result was a 1-0 win for Simon Briffa over Steve Wright which ultimately led Simon to his 3rd WASPA win. He won 3 of his 4 games and won the shootout in his 4th game. Steve won 3 games to finish 2nd. Arjuna Hanafi finished 3rd over Beth Eveleigh from Northern Phoenix TFC purely on the basis of scoring more goals in the competition, with both players winning one game, winning a shootout, losing a shootout and losing a game. Kevin Grant finished 5th and new girl Juliette Littlewood played her first WASPA tournament and played some great games with 3 narrow losses.

Open standings:
Simon Briffa 11
Steve Wright 9
Arjuna Hanafi 6
Beth Eveleigh 6
Kevin Grant 3
Juliette Littlewood 1

In the Junior competition, the same format of competition was utilised. The tournament was a high quality tournament which all competitors enjoyed immensely. Alex Briffa rolled into his 4th WASPA win with 3 wins and a shootout loss to Benjamin Ng who finished 2nd. Siblings Charlotte and Billy Wright finished level on points and separated only on goal difference despite Billy beating Charlotte in a shootout. New player Liam Browne was 5th with some creditable efforts against much more seasoned campaigners. Aiman Arjuna was 6th, resuming competition after a short break and he showed some real improvements in his game. Lastly, new player Sean Browne was 7th although he managed to take 2 experienced players to a shootout following a hard earned draw.

Juniors standings:
Alex Briffa 10
Benjamin Ng 9
Charlotte Wright 7
Billy Wright 7
Liam Browne 4
Aiman Arjuna 3
Sean Browne 2

(Report by Steve Wright)

Fernando Gomez wins again in Javea

Earlier this month the club of Marina Citerior was holding a tournament in their premises of Javea. there was a small turnout of six due to last minute droputs. Fernando Gomez and Pedro Benavent travelled from Valencia to play.

The group stage saw some surprises and the Valencia players easily qualified but also scored less goals against novices than against experienced players and contributed to see Alex Iliev and Stefka Pirova qualify for the semi-finals. In the end, there was no surprise.

Fernando Gomez won the final against Pedro Benavent.

Huge thanks to Marina Citerior Subbuteo Club for their efforts. Hopefully they will have some more new players joinging soon.

The first tournament in Saint-Petersburg

Russia made a real effort this Sunday to organize the first WASPA tournament in the country. The event was hosted by "Lakhta Subbuteo", a family and friends club. Unfortunately, for the first event, only three players were taking part but this is a real important way to see some more developments in the future. After all, we all need a beginning at some point. Evgenii Vlasov and Andrey Vlasov had previously attended several Subbuteo tournaments but for Vasilii Nikolaenko, this was a real "premiere". Andrey Vlasov finally won the tournament, Evgenii Vlasov being runner-up and Vasilii Nikolaenko took the third place.
Huge thanks to our friends in Russia for making this first tournament possible!

Results:
Evgenii Vlasov - Vasilii Nikolaenko - 2:0
Andrey Vlasov - Vasilii Nikolaenko - 4:0
Andrey Vlasov - Evgenii Vlasov - 1:0

A fresh new start for Farrer Park Flickers

0n 20th Apr 18, Friday club flicks began again after a month absence.  A fresh beginning with a new club name (Farrer Park Flickers) & venue (Pek Kio Community Club) attracted 6 senior club players.

A round of 4 format was adopted with several expected results occurring, where end of the rounds, Rudy came up tops followed by Nic Tan. Irregardless of the results, the players all had fun flicking.

Hope to see more players in the coming Friday’s.

4 Rounds (Results)
Rudy 2 - 0 Anas
Nic 1 - 0 Rizal T
Vikas 1 - 0 Fauzi
Rudy 0 - 0 Nic
Anas 3 - 0 Vikas
Fauzi 3 - 0 Rizal T
Nic 2 - 0 Rizal T
Fauzi 2 - 2 Anas
Rudy 4 - 0 Vikas
Rudy 2 - 0 Fauzi
Rizal 1 - 3 Anas
Vikas 1 - 1 Nic

Final Standing 
1- Rudy 10pts +8
2- Nic 8pts +3
3- Anas 7pts +3
4- Fauzi 4pts +2
5- Vikas 4pts -6
6- Rizal T 0pts -8

Lincoln Flickers Eostre Cup

WASPA event 4 - April 15, 2018
Andrew Garbutt claims a second win in the fourth Lincoln Flickers WASPA of the season against the tournament favourite Jez Boothman. The game finished goalless with an extra time hit and run the difference in the end. Andrew Garbutt had initially lost to Jez in the groups after another close contest. a An earlier goalless draw in the final deciding game against Andy Boyer was enough to see Andrew Garbutt to the final after Boyer had lost 0-3 to Jez who won all his games to the final.
The Eostre Cup (Easter Cup) is named after the pagan Spring Goddess in Anglo-Saxon. This fourth WASPA was played under Old Subbuteo rules with HW players and wibbly wobbly bases in the hope of encouraging some external players and to mix things up a bit. However, just four Flickers contested the Cup with two pulling out on the day. This leaves Andrew Garbutt in a strong position to clinch the Flickers WASPA league on 42 points with Andy Boyer and Jez Boothman both on 33 points. Newcomer Clint Simpson lost all his games today despite some accomplished play. His 7 points takes him equal sixth with John Devaney in the league standings.

The final

Results:
Andrew Garbutt 0 : 1 (0) Jeremy Boothman
Andy Boyer (1) 3 : 0 Clinton Simpson
Andy Boyer 0 : 3 (2) Jeremy Boothman
Andrew Garbutt (1) 2 : 0 Clinton Simpson
Andrew Garbutt 0 : 0 Andrew Boyer
Jeremy Boothman (2) 5 : 0 Clinton Simpson

Jeremy Boothman W3, 6 points (+9 gd)
Andrew Garbutt W1 D1, 3 points (+1 gd)
Andy Boyer W1 D1, 3 points ( - gd)
Clinton Simpson L3 (-10 gd)

Third Place Play-off:
Andy Boyer (1) 2 : 0 Clinton Simpson

Final:
Jeremy Boothman 0 : 1 Andrew Garbutt aet

Kye Arnold and Colin Tarry are winners in Kent

Action in the playing room

Kent Invicta recently held three tournaments under WASPA banner.

On March 9, Kye Arnold finished on top after defeating Nicky Chappell in the final. Kye, who is currently number 1 in the WASPA Junior ranking, was a in a good day and won the final on shots.

Final Standings:
1.  Kye Arnold
2. Nicky Chappell
3. Dave Collier
4. Terry Arnold
5. Paul Frank
6. Mel Stanford
7. Tony Whitelock

Adrian vs Kye

On March 16, there was another good field of 7 players. After the group stage, the were no surprises and Kye arnold defeated Terry Arnold in the final.

Dave vs Tony

Final Standings:
1. Kye Arnold
2. Terry Arnold
3. Paul Frank
4. Rob McCormick
5. Mel Stanford
6. Ian Galloway
7. Chris Galloway

The event run on April 6 had 10 players competing and saw Colin Tarry and Adrian Davies back in action. Tarry defeated Davies on shots in the final to offer the title to his club of TSPA White star.

Paul vs Colin

Final Standings:
1. Colin Tarry
2. Adrian Davies
3. Nicky Chappell
4. Kye Arnold
5. Josh Foreman
6. Terry Arnold
7. Dave Collier
8. Tony Whitelock
9. Rob McCormick
10. Paul Frank

The next tournament in Gillingham will be held on April 27.

Lima is now on the map

Claudio, Davide and Manuel

Action on the beautiful pitch

Last Saturday was definately a day to remember for international table football. The very first tournament in Peru took place in Lima. Of course, there was a very small field of three but results were not the thing to remember. Local organizer Manuel Delgado was the happy host of the day while the other two competitors were Davide Bozzano, an Italian based in Lima, and Claudio Murcilli, the well-known champion from Argentina. Claudio won the historic tournament, a good way to settle strong bases for Subbuteo in the country. "Fenix Subbuteo Club 18" might become the first club in the country with hopefully more new members joining soon. The three involved players will receive their first WASPA points and for our circuit, it is simply fantastic to welcome a new nation.

With Peru joing the international Subbuteo scene, this is another step forward for the game in South America. We all remember the try to establish the game in Colombia in the early 2000's while players in Argentina, Brazil and Chile have already competed in FISTF and WASPA events. In the past, Uruguay also had a couple of players. With Peru being now on the map, there are real hopes to create a stronger circuit in South America. Fir sure the WASPA circuti will be a great help for all these players to get experience in minor events before playing for glory in FISTF level.

Good luck to all the people helping the game to grow all over the world!

Martinog Bradley wins the Easter Cup

Martinog Bradley retains his Easter Cup Champion title, topping the table in a league format. Mark McCrossan took runner up with new comer Simon Stewart returning to the game after a 16 year absence with a very respectable round of games for 3rd place. Today also saw the long awaited return of James McGillian to DCTFC.

Perfect evening for Rémi Soret in Templeuve

The final four of the evening: Marain, Soret, Despretz and Lambert

Good field of 17 including 8 players from AS Hennuyer

A fantastic turnout of 17 made the latest Templeuve tournament very special. Among competitors, there were four players from France but also a strong presence of the AS Hennuyer teams with 8 representatives. The tournament was played in Swiss system with good games for everyone. Rémi Soret was on fire and won his four games. Geoffrey Marain was runner-up with 9 points and more goals scored than Steffen Despretz and Stéphane Lambert.

In the agenda there will be a very international tournament on June 16. Interested players and clubs can contact Vincent Coppenolle at vincent.cop@rsca.com or check detail on the club's website.
Link: http://templeuveunited.blogspot.be/p/templeuve-international-challenge-cup.html

Final standings:
1. Rémi Soret
2. Geoffrey Marain
3. Steffen Despretz
4. Stéphane Lambert
5. Benoit Lagneau
6. Eric Caillaux
7. Vincent Coppenolle
8. Matthias Averlant
9. Corentin Boltz
10. Louis Soret
11. Franck Santer
12. André Boltz
13. Florian Renaut
14. Léa Despretz
15. Benjamin Marain
16. Soan Marain
17. Héléna Marain

Nikos Pappas takes Easter Cup

A great turnout of 27

On April 1, 27 players from different clubs competed in Olympia's Easter Cup. It was nice to see Olympia Subbuteo Club holding a tournament again.

The winner was Nikos Pappas, a member of the local club. He defeated Dimitris Kourabas (SBSC) in the final. Alberto Di Maggio (Nostuas) and George Kollias (Falcons) reached the semi-finals. There was a festive atmosphere and a lot of fun was had by all players.

Congratulations to the winner Nikos, to the hosts Olympia and to all the participants for a great tournament.

Ciaran Rodgers wins in Donegal

In Donegal, Ireland, four players attended the tournament held on April 13. Ciaran Rodgers took the honors after finishing on top of the league with 7 points while Brendan Rodgers was runner-up. A good day was had by all. We are very glad to see action in the Republic of Ireland!

A good turnout in Harrow

On Wednesday the Harrow Hawks met for another day of their local circuit. The evening was fantastic as there was an impressive record of 12 entries. Among them there were some youngsters, proving efforts are made to attract new blood. It was good also to see Andy Zelinger doing a come-back after a very long hiatus. Marco Ghigliotti proved to be in a great day as he finished the evening with 10 points, which was enough to claim the title. Zoran Higgins was runner-up and Elliot Bellefontaine took the third place.

Final standings:
1. Marco Ghigliotti
2. Zoran Higgins
3. Elliot Bellefontaine
4. Rudi Peterschinigg
5. Martin Bellefontaine
6. David Peterschinigg
7. Victor Jones
8. Francesca Bellefontaine
9. Neil Doherty
10. Panos Stemitsiotis
10. Andy Zelinger
12. James Higgins

Some more action in Letham

Last Sunday Dundee United players met for another day of the domestic circuit. A group of seven gave a chance to everyone to play six good games.

Steve Bennett finished on top of the league with 6 wins while Gareth Christie was runner-up.

Final standings:
1. Steve Bennett
2. Gareth Christie
3. David Baxter
4. Rob Conway
5. Andy Beskaby
6. Dave Minty
7. Craig Thom

Jos Ceulemans wins in the Flanders

On Monday Subbuteo Club Flanders was holding another tournament in Hofstade with a good turnout of 8. Jos Ceulemans finished on top after winning the decisive game in the last session against Geert Leys. Good job Jos!

Final standings:
1. Jos Ceulemans
2. Frank Lannoy
3. Matthias Averlant
4. Vincent Coppenolle
5. Johan Lourdon
6. Geert Leys
7. Stéphane Lambert
8. Philippe Thys

Giorgos Pitihoutis wins Kallithea tournament

On April 31, the last tournament of the month took place in the premises of the Kallithea Flame. Giorgos Pitihoutis took the honors as he defeated Nikos Liakopoulos in a close final.

Panagiotis Panagiotides and Mike Tastsoglou took the 3rd and 4rth places.

It was another good day of table football with fair and friendly players.

Wolverhampton Easter Cup

Another huge success, the 2018 Easter Cup was contested by 12 players. Congratulations to our winners, Ian Keay (Am's) and Robert Ramsey (Pro's). A brilliant evenings play with some fantastic subbuteo skills on show. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it a fantastic night of Subbuteo.

David Leroy wins in Bande

On Saturday 12 players were present in Bande to play the monthly tournament of Wamme Subbuteo Club. As there was plenty of time, a "Super-Swiss system" was played so that everyone had six games. David Leroy was on top as he won all games to win the tournament. Brothers Bruno and Antonio Timpano from Seraing finished in the top 4 while SC Temploux's Michaël Hallin was a surprising third in the end of the day. Congratulations to all the players involved!

Final standings:
1. David Leroy (Rochefort TS)
2. Bruno Timpano (SC Seraing)
3. Michaël Hallin (SC Temploux)
4. Antonio Timpano (SC Seraing)
5. Corentin Wauthy (Rochefort TS)
6. Jean Grosdent (Wamme SC)
7. Richard Boulanger (SC Seraing)
8. Henri Grosdent (Wamme SC)
9. Giulio Bonfanti (Wamme SC)
10. Philippe Thys (Wamme SC)
11. Geoffrey Kelner (SC Seraing)
12. Maxim Grosdent (Wamme SC)

WASPA standings of March 2018

Dear friends,
you will find in the attached files the monthly standings of the WASPA circuit after all events held in March.

Well, you will find the details about the circuit in the attached files:
- the season results (PDF);
- the rankings and statistics (Excel).

March has been a very busy day with 38 regional events, 6 promotional tournaments, 1 tournament with old rules and 1 test-match.

The first event in Tucson

We are pleased to have seen the first events run by some new clubs: AS Hennuyer (Belgium), Tucson Subbuteo Soccer Club (USA), Toronto SC (Canada), Illawarra TFC (Australia), Barcelona FT (Spain), Subbuteo Angri (Italy).

We have also seen the first events held this season in Czech Republic and Spain and for the very first time we have a player from Russia in the records.

We are glad to see action in Toronto

There are some big changes in the ranking of "top clubs" as we are pleased to welcome the Lincoln Flickers (England), the Northerns Falcons (Australia) and Sydney TFC (Australia).

The big changes in the rankings is the first version of the Junior rankings. Please note some details:
- the individual ranking is made of players born in 2001 or later. Probably many players are missing so if you have some birthdates to send, it will be more than welcome.
- the club ranking is made of clubs with at least 3 juniors. Probably the list will grow in the near future.

Flickers in Canberra

I want to insist on the fact some FISTF organizers are giving us a lot of support by organizing WASPA tournaments during their events. We have had WASPA games at the Major of Frameries (Belgium), the Grand Prix of Heckmondwike (England), the Open of Barcelona (Spain), the Satellite of Prague (Czech Republic), the Illawara Satellite (Australia), the Singapore Open.

We want to wish good luck to Mike Sgro who is the new president of the Canadian association and who has great goals to make Canada great again on the international Subbuteo scene.

Good turnout of 26 for the WASPA tournament held during the Major of Frameries

Congratulations to Australia and Belgium for running 8 regional events this month in many different locations. This is very impressive.

Great news also as we have a new partner. Flicks for Kicks (http://shop.flickforkicks.com/) will be helping us to promote the WASPA circuit and we really hope we can also help their project to grow.

Once again, thanks to all organizers and players for contributing to make the WASPA circuit great.

The first Russian Subbuteo player in the WASPA ranking competed in Prague

Maybe some results didn't arrive in due time. Do not worry, they will be added next month.

Well, that's all for now. 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

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

Youth in action in Sydney

Please invite your friends to join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/waspasubbuteo/
We also have a WASPA page here: https://www.facebook.com/WASPA-World-Amateur-Subbuteo-Players-Association-231789816834700/

Keep in mind WASPA is also looking for partners. If you know any company ready to support us (we don’t ask for money but we want some win-win agreements so that we can promote each other), don't hesitate to contact me at vincent.cop@rsca.com

Ideas to develop the WASPA circuit, to get new clubs/nations involved or to make things more attractive are always welcome. We stay at your disposal for more info.

Yours sincerely,
Vincent Coppenolle

Promotional events in Sydney

The Northern Falcons have recently organized two WASPA promotional events for their young players. The first event was held on March 23 and seven kids were taking part. After the group stage, Oliver Ollnow defeated Torben Pfister (3-0) in the final to claim the tile while Niklas Raab beat Jonas Hahn (1-0) in the game for the third place.

On April 6, there was a smaller turnout of 4 and Jonas Hahn took the honors after finishing on top of the league. Niklas Raab was runner-up while Moritz Hahn and were the other players taking part.

Congratulations to the players and huge thanks to Hermann Kruse for the great job with the kids.

Second tournament in Thessaloniki

On March 28 the new club of Panorama 1978 SC was holding a second WASPA tournament in Thessaloniki, Greece. Players were dropped in two groups and there were then finals. Ioannis Terzidis defeated Christos Agrios in the final. Constantios Giapoutzis took the third place. Congratulations to the Thessaloniki players. We wish them the best of luck for future events.