First results of the season 2023-2024

Here is a quick look at the first tournament results collected for the new season.

First of all we collected some "old" results from Australia as the Hipfingerz clubs in Sydney (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1063342333730453) had a tournament a few weeks ago. 9 players were taking part and Geoff Sirmai took the honors after defeating Jeremy Simpson in the final. Neil Brener and Francis Cozzarin made it to the semi-finals.

A nice venue in Pedmore

Mick Hammonds receiving his certificate

In England, the Pedmore tournament played last week-end was an amazing success with 31 players taking part. Players were dropped in 8 groups and then knock-out games were played to decide the big winner and the Plate winner. Mick Hammonds (Wolverhampton) defeated Kevin Cordell (Stanway) in the big final. Jason Christopher (Solent) and Richard Badger (Wolverhampton) made it to the final 4. Cayne Matthews (London Road) defeated Gager Badger (Wolverhampton) in the Plate final. Congratulations to the organizers (and Richard Roper in particular) for an amazing event!

The Stanway Rovers Flickers (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063670742239) players their monthly event on Tuesday with 8 players from several different clbus taking part. After the five sessions of Swiss ladder, host Kevin cordell took the honors while Alan Lee (Wobbly Hobby SC) was runner-up and Martin Hodds (Yorkshire) took the third spot. Peter Holmes (4th), Mike Williams (5), Adam Douglas (6th), Jamie Samuel Warren (7th) and Paul Matthews (8th) were the other entries of the evening.

In South Africa, the Easterns TFC (https://www.facebook.com/EasternsTFC) players met this week-end and Ian clark was the best of the six players taking part. Gary Downs was runner-up and Craig Smith was third. Rui Dos Santos (4th), Keegan Paolini (5th), Christopher Paolini were also taking part.

Derry City TFC (https://www.facebook.com/DerryCityTableFootball) had the "Last of the Summer Wine Cup" tournament on Monday. Seven players played in a lague format and Martinog Bradley was the man of the night, finishing with 5 wins and a draw to take the honors! Barry Spence took the second place while Ernie Bickerstaff was third. Other involved players were Oisin Mór (4), Frankie Connolly (5), Lawrence Watson (6), Sean Connolly (7).

Finally, we received the results of the first WASPA promotional tournament organized in England by the Leicester Foxes Club (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083610377617). Mark Weaver won the league format with Alex Ashcroft being runner-up, Scott Hunt 3rd and Paul Taylor 4th.