Ferran Coll winner in Barcelona

This Sunday the fourth stage of the "Circuit Català" took place in Barcelona.

Ferran Coll won this time while Vicenç Prats was out in the semi-final after losing against Alex Araujo. The other semi-finalist was José Luís Márquez.

24 players were taking part. Joan Flores won the consolation tournament against Carles Puertas.

Marco de Bruin winner in Mechelen

Bob Green, Marco de Bruin and Aaron Skinner

Congratulations to Holland's Marco de Bruin for winning this Saturday's WASPA competition at the FISTF Golden Grand Prix of Mechelen, in the North of Belgium. The SC Flanders club had an amazing tournament in the venue of KV Mechelen. The consolation event was played under WASPA banner with 27 players taking part in Swiss ladder.

legendary football player Piet den Boer gave the kick-off of the tournament

Marco de Bruin was the only player to win his four games. Three players finished the event with 10 points. Australia's Robert Green was runner-up, England's Aaron Skinner was thrid and Belgium's Frank Lannoy was fourth.

Huge thanks to the organizers for an amazing tournament!

Derry City Spring Cup 23

A great evenings play for the 6 competitors. Martinog Bradley topped the table over Barry Spence’s second place by 3 points. An excellent night for Donegal’s Frankie Connolly who took the third place spot with some great wins in his games.

Derry’s Oisin Mor took home the monkey finishing bottom of the table.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/DerryCityTableFootball

USA: Peter Vahle wins Condors tournament

The inaugural Condormania ASA Open/WASPA tournament was a huge success and highly competitive event. Hosted by the Central Coast Condors TSC in Atascadero, California, 7 total participants competed in a modified Swiss format. Peter Vahle of the NorCal Subbuteo Club defeated Varant Kurkeyerian 2-1, to capture the Championship. After jumping out to a 2-0 first half lead, Varant was able to pull one back in the second half, however Peter finished strong to seal the victory.

Peter

Varant

Semi-finals: Varant Kurkeyerian 3-1 Jake Schoonmaker ; Peter Vahle 2-1 (OT) Cameron Tucker.

Final: Peter Vahle 2-1 Varant Kurkeyerian.

Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/772997653588384

Melbourne: Luke Radziminski takes the anniversary WASPA

We are glad to see the Melbourne TFC players hosting a tournament again on Saturday. here is the report from their club page: "Very fitting to have 7 players today, just as we had 7 at our very first WASPA tournament back in April 2013.

Thanks everyone for a fun day. Here's to the next 10 years!

Plan for the next tournament will be a Winter Cup WASPA in late June/July, also a weekend daytime event at Louis Joel. Details to be confirmed over coming weeks."

1. Luke Radziminski (Melbourne)
2. Benji Batten (Melbourne)
3. Paul Mercer (Northern Phoenix)
4. Adrian Connolly (Western Sydney)
5. Kevin Grant (Central Victoria)
6. Beth Eveleigh (Northern Phoenix)
7. Anthony Madiona (Western Sydney)

Final: Luke Radziminski (Melbourne) - Benji Batten (Melbourne) 2-1

Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/359073844214135

WASPA standings of March 2023

Dear friends,

Results file

Rankings

here come the updates files with the latest WASPA standings as per March 2023. Last month was another busy month with 36 regional tournaments, 6 tournaments with the old rules and 3 promotional events. 24 of the 45 events have been held in England!

Old rules players in Italy

No need to put too many comments about the events here. We have a very active circuit with many new players and some new clubs joining every month. It's also fantastic to see the clubs involved in the "top clubs "and "development league" table being so active and we are sure some more clubs will be added in the Development League before the end of the season (we add new clubs once they have organized 3 tournaments).

Don't hesitate to run tournaments under the WASPA banner. It's a great way to promote your club, to attract new players and to create local or regional development and we all agree this is what the game needs nowadays.

Table football tournament in Barcelona, Spain

All your ideas to make the WASPA circuit more attractive are more than welcome. Don't hesitate to send your feedback. We also hope to see more and more clubs running events under the WASPA banner in the future.

We also take to opportunity to thank our partners:

- SubKits at https://www.facebook.com/subkits

- Flicks for Kicks at http://shop.flickforkicks.com/

- MAD ABOUT GAMES at http://subbuteo2012.co.uk

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.

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 new 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 or vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Vincent Coppenolle, WASPA organizer

Week-end of promotion in Switerland

On April 1 & 2, 2023, "SWISS SUBBUTEO" participated in the 30th Spielfest. Parlour games, speedcubing, Japanese games and Subbuteo were presented.

The separate room for Subbuteo table football was visited by about 200 people. Great prizes offered by the local football club FC Wil 1900 could be won in a competition.

For the spectators organizers held WASPA games.

Tournament 1: Winner Edin Mulasmajic (Wuppertal). Participants: Clinton Gähwiler (Cape Town) and John Imbrogiano, Martin Wiesmann, Peter Erb (subbuteo.ch).

Tournament 2: Winner Milan Knezevic (Baden-Baden). Participants: Pietro (Suttgart), Clinton Gähwiler (Cape Town) and John Imbrogiano, Martin Wiesmann, Peter Erb (subbuteo.ch).

Link to Swiss Subbuteo: https://www.swiss-subbuteo.ch/

April starts with events in France and Italy

We are glad to start the month with news from France and Italy. 

France: Hervé Fino winner in Buhl

The "Subbuteo Club Alsace" was holding a second tournament on Saturday with six players taking part. After the group stage, there were several games to decide final positions Hervé Fino defeated Jérôme Deffolin (2-1) in the semi and U20 international Lorenzo Lo Preti on shots to claim the title. Hervé Rakowski was the other semi-finalist while Pierre Troestler won the game for the 5th place against new player Martial Foechterlé. More importantly, all players had a great day and there was a TV coverage on France 3, which is a great proof once again that WASPA tournament can be a way to promote the game in a wider scale!

Link to the TV coverage

Link to Alsace Subbuteo Club on Facebook

Italy: French winner in Valponte

This week-end the club of Valponte was organizing a Junior tournament under WASPA banner. There were 11 kids competing in the tournament and besides four players of the homes clubs and six players of the neighbors of Rebels Genova, there was a special guest from France as Liam Lupo (Le Cannet) made the trip. Lupo was on fire and defeated Lorenzo Fazio (Rebels) in the final (2-0) to claim the trophy. Tobia Vallebone was 3rd and Alessandro Gandin was 4th.

Huge thanks to the Valponte organizers for doing an amazing job with the kids!

Old Subbuteo event in Teramo

The latest tournament in Teramo was divided into two categories (Senior and Junior). Massimiliano Bonomo is sending us a report of the games: "The tournament on March 23rd saw the protagonists of the first and second of the internal ranking of the Club (separated by a handful of points) with a good Esposito, who sees the victory of the tournament blown away only for the goal difference by a not exciting Bonomo, who struggles to find the goal and when time runs out during the match with Maurizio Di Francesco, makes a defensive mistake that Di Francesco himself doesn't let slip, scoring the equalizer. The Tournament of 28 March is another story, which sees a continuous reversal of the standings with Di Francesco and Puglia dominating one and the other in the first round but wasting in reverse matches. Tournament that goes to Bonomo who extends the club ranking on a totally out of competition Esposito.

Separate mention for the Junior tournament which sees the debut and victory of Andrea Santoro, new member of the club. Second Bonomo Niccolò and third position for Di Francesco Mattia."