December 23: more results from Christmas time tournaments

The WASPA circuit is still going during Christmas time. We collected more results from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Australia and Belgium in the last few days and here is a summary of the results.

Alan Lee winner of the first stage of the Old School circuit

"Congratulations to Alan Lee who won the round One of the English Subbuteo Association Old School 23/24 WASPA (World Amateur Subbuteo Players Association) Circuit organised by the London Subbuteo Club at La Pizzica Restaurant - London in Fulham. Runner-Up Simon Goodman. Third Victor Jones, fourth Tony Kiely. The club star Tony Banks won the Plate, runner up Richard Roper.

Alan brought home the Mike Dent Cup offered by the Surrey Saracens Subbuteo a permanent trophy that will be used again. Richard received the Plate Runner Up trophy sponsored by Garyoke Karaoke thanks to Gary Gladwell."

Quarter-finals: Simon Goodman - Jason Christopher 2-1 ; Alan Lee - Paul Andreas 1-0 ; Victor Jones - Luca Lanzani 0*-0 ; Tony Kiely - John Ellis 2-0.

Semi-finals: Simon Goodman - Victor Jones 0*-0 ; Alan Lee - Tony Kiely 1-0.

Final:  Simon Goodman - Alan Lee 0-0*

London SC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083345050371

Bradley winner in Derry

Congratulations Martinog Bradley ‘Christmas Cup ‘23’ winner, Barry Spence runner up and Lawrence Watson 3rd place.

1. Martinog Bradley
2. Barry Spence
3. Lawrence Watson
4. Craig Stewart
5. Oisin Mór
6. Stephen McAllister

Derry city on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DerryCityTableFootball

Action in Perth, Australia

Tan Yew Loy (aka Mark Ryan) won this month's tournament in Perth as he finished on top of a league of 5 players.

1. Tan Yew Loy
2. Alan Kimber
3. Chris Thorn
4. Hugh Best
5. Noel Mani

Subbuteo in Perth: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233903783292458

Edinburgh is back in the circuit

We are very happy to see the Monday night Subbuteo players in Edinbirgh hosting their first WASPA tournament. Marco Bevilacqua finished on top of a group of 5. We hope to see many more events in Scotland in the future!

1. Marco Bevilacqua (Golazzo)
2. Kevin Christopher (Hot Club)
3. Neil Christopher (Hot Club)
4. Andy Kent (Golazzo)
5. Paul McFadyen (Golazzo)

Monday night Subbuteo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SubbuteoEdinburgh

Kevin Cordell on fire

The Haverhill Rovers held their monthly tournament last week and 9 players competing in Swiss ladder. Congratulations to Kevin Cordell for winning another event!

Final table:
1. Kevin Cordell (Stanway)
2. Martin Hodds (Yorkshire)
3. Adam Douglas (Stanway)
4. Jason Mitchell (Haverhill)
5. Gerry Harrington (Haverhill)
6. Jamie Samuel Warren (Stanway)
7. Joe Harrington (Haverhill)
8. Ian Welby (Stanway)
9. David McCartney (Chasers)

Haverhill Rovers on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/378921166394976

Sébastien Scheen wins in the Belgian Subbuteoland

for the first time a tournament was held last Friday in Nassogne and was organized by players of the Wamme club. The event took place in the "Belgian subbuteoland" at Thomas Janssens's and Sébastien Scheen was the undisputed winner of the evening!

Final table:
1. Sébastien Scheen
2. Pascal Scheen
3. Noah Janssens
4. Bruno Mottet
5. Thomas Janssens

Marain wins Templeuve Christmas tournament

The Templeuve club held the traditional Christmas tournament on Saturday with 19 players taking part. Players were divided in 5 groups and after the barrage round, the top 8 players had games for positions 1 to 8 while the other players competed in Swiss system to decide positions 9 to 19. Geoffrey Marain was in a great day, winning his games in a solid way. SC Flanders's Geert Leys had an impressive row of good games but couldn't beat Marain in the final. The young AS Hennuyer players Jann segers and Matthias Averlant made it to the final while Vincent Coppenolle won the consolation tournament. It was an important day with Sébastien Rochez deciding to play for Templeuve for the first time while French players Sébastien Sorge and David Sardi de Letto played for the first time in their new jerseys of the new french club ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole. It was nice also to see Marc Sceraert playing his very first tournament.

Final table:
1. Geoffrey Marain - AS Hennuyer
2. Geert Leys - SC Flanders
3. Jann Segers - AS Hennuyer
4. Matthias Averlant - AS Hennuyer
5. Benjamin Marain - AS Hennuyer
6. Fabrice Guyaux - USC Huy
7. Jean-Pierre Genart - SC Temploux
8. Sébastien Rochez - Templeuve United
9. Vincent Coppenolle - Templeuve United
10. Eric Caillaux - Templeuve United
11. Franck Santer - Templeuve United
12. Didier Moons - Templeuve United
13. Pascal Flémal - BX Subbuteo Club
14. André Flémal - BX Subbuteo Club
15. David Sardi de Letto - ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole
16. Sébastien Sorge - ALC Wattrelos-Subbuteo Lille Métropole
17. Xavier Outters - SC Eugies
18. Marc Sceraert - no club
19. Adam Guyaux - USC Huy

Templeuve United on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/25637672693 & https://www.facebook.com/TempleuveUnited

David Wouters wins Antwerp tournament

The SC Flanders club also had a Christmas tournament on Saturday. 10 players from different clubs were taking part but in the end it was local player David Wouters defeating Frank Lannoy in sudden death to claim the trophy.

Main results:
Final: David Wouters - Frank Lannoy 3-2sd
Final 3-4: Richard Boulanger - Nico Marks 1-3
Final 5-6: Jos Ceulemans - Jarno Marks 1-0
Final 7-8: Vincent Wouters - Stéphane Lambert 3-0
Final 9-10: David Boulanger - Marc Weber 3-0

SC Flanders on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/479038732231303

December 2023: results from England, Italy, Ireland and Belgium

December is another busy month so here is a quick summary of recent results collected from different tournaments held in England, Italy, Ireland and Belgium.

The latest CHASERS (Chadwell Heath & South Essex, Romford Subbuteo) Club tournament took place last week with 12 players competing in Swiss system and Martin Bellefontaine taking the honors. Final table:
1. Martin Bellefontaine
2. Kye Arnold
3. Mark West
4. Jason Kettley
5. Adam Jackson
6. Stephen Moreton
7. Jonathan Beales
8. Terry Arnold
9. Thomas Lacey
10. Billy Attwood
11. Samantha Levy
12. Jerry Whelband

Chasers page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/314595413269756

Mario Frittelli winner in Tralee

An enjoyable night of Subbuteo in Tralee. Once again Mario Frittellitook the honours but other players are closing the gap. It's also great to see Silvia giving the game another go. It’s not easy but she’s getting there.

1. Mario Frittelli (Italy)
2. William Magnier
3. David Elton
4. Jeff Murphy
5. Silvia Martin Simal (Spain)

Table football Munster: https://www.facebook.com/groups/382626976190248/

More good games in Leicester

The Leicester foxes club held a tournament (counting as promotional event) with 6 players cometing in league format. Woburn's Ian aggett was on top, winning his 5 games. The club will hold a FISTF Satellite on January 27 (inviduals) and 28 (teams).

1. Ian Aggett (ENG/wou)
2. Alex Ashcroft (ENG/lei)
3. Paul Taylor (ENG/lei)
4. John Cooper (ENG/wou)
5. Kevin Coleman (ENG/lei)
6. Liam Johnson (ENG/lei)

Leicester page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1388271968705973/

Jamieson and Christopher winners in Solent

The Solent club held 2 tournaments in the last few weeks. The November tournament was played in Swiss system and Malcolm Jamieson was on top of the table including 7 players.

1. Malcolm Jamieson
2. Corey Martin
3. Nigel Morgan
4. Kyle Jamieson
5. Tim Hill
6. Dave Hunter
7. Roger Duckworth

The December tournament was held last week. The Solent December Club WASPA ‘The Xmas Cup & Plate’ was originally set for 16 players but Steve Smith withdrew 3 days prior due to a bereavement so we were set for 15 plus one Bye, so we did the draw etc….

Unfortunately, on the night of the tournament, there was a serious road accident which prevented Paul Izard, Tony Martin and Dan Parsons from attending. However, they had started out on their journey’s but were forced to turn back.

Bailey Challinor and Dan Parsons made theis WASPA debut, which is great.

Jason Christopher won the main event while Connor Gregory defeated Kyle Jamieson in the Plate final.

Semi-finals:
Malcolm Jamieson - Dave Hunter 1-0
Jason Christopher - Paul Pearson 5-0

Final:
Malcolm Jamieson - Jason Christopher 2-3

Plate: Semi-finals:
Bailey Challinor - Kyle Jamieson 1-2
Connor Gregory - Nigel Morgan 2-1

Final:
Kyle Jamieson - Connor Gregory 2-2*

Solent on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2759539824274495/

Luca Bignardi winner in Genova

The Rebels Genova held their first "regional" tournament of the season. 14 players were divided into 2 categories. Luca Bignardi was on top of the "gold league" while Davide Balito won the Silver league. It was great this time to have young and older players competing together!

Gold League:
1. Luca Bignardi
2. Samuele Bignardi
3. Fabio Balito
4. Tommaso Sani
5. Lorenzo Fazio
6. Filippo Careddu
7. Giacomo Alessi

Silver league:
1. Davide Balito
2. Davide Ramazzotto
3. Simone Pennati
4. Andrea Bolioli
5. Teo Peretti
6. Filippo Sottili
7. Davide Uva

Genova Subbuteo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063518110653

Kaberry winner in Darlington

North Shields STF held a small WASPA event with 5 players in Darlington on Saturday. Chris Kaberry won the tournament. Thank you Nick Pearson for your excellent hospitality and a big thanks to Shaun Dunne for making the trip up from Accrington.

1. Chris Kaberry
2. Nick Pearson
3. Shaun Dunne
4. Tom Heslop
5. Jeff Parsons

North Shields STF on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northshieldssubbuteotablefootball

Sunday league format in Gillingham

In Gillingham, 7 players attended the latest Kent Invicta tournament and Kye Arnod finished on top thanks to a better goal difference.

1. Kye Arnold
2. Terry Arnold
3. Dave Collier
4. Daniel McCormick
5. Martin Colwell
6. Thomas Lacey
7. Hadley Chapman

Kent Invicta on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KentInvictaTFC

Patrick de Jong winner once again in Belgium

In Belgium, Patrick de Jong won the latest tournament held in Antwerp. This is the third time Patrick travels from the Netherlands to play in the premises of SC Flanders and this is his third victory. Congratulations!

1. Patrick de Jong (Valletta Lions)
2. David Wouters (SC Flanders)
3. Geert Leys (SC Flanders)
4. Marco de Bruin (SC Flanders)
5. Gary Moore (SC Flanders)
6. Jos Ceulemans (SC Flanders)
7. Robin Somers (SC Flanders)
8. Martijn de Jong (Dutch Legends)

SC Flanders: https://www.facebook.com/groups/479038732231303

Carl Young wins Xmas tournament

We are glad to receive Beth Eveleigh's report of the Xmas tournament organized by the Northern Phoenix club in Australia.

"Great turnout for the Phoenix Xmas Cup WASPA on a hot & sticky night in Melbourne! We welcomed new player Nathan Heard, having previously played old style subbuteo he adjusted impressively! 

From the new to the ‘old’!! Carl Young & Peter Thomas dominated their round robin games with Carl coming out on top by goal difference! 

Exciting to see Anthony Madiona play his first minutes in the yellow & black. 

All games flicked in fantastic spirit, with mince pies & Xmas cheer rounding off the night! 

Many thanks to Preston Druids C.C for hosting once again."

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/780610992079187/

Final standings

1. Carl Young (Melbourne TFC)
2. Peter Thomas (Melbourne TFC)
3. Christos Garagounis (Northern Phoenix)
4. Paul Mercer (Northern Phoenix)
5. Nathan Urbaniak (Melbourne TFC)
6. Anthony Madiona (Northern Phoenix)
7. Beth Eveleigh (Northern Phoenix)
8. Nathan Heard (Northern Phoenix)

December 2023: News from around the globe

Over the last few days we collected results from several countries. It's amazing to see WASPA tournaments played in many different places! Small and bigger events are always welcome int he WASPA circuit. As long as players have fun and keep on promoting the game, we are happy to have everyone involved!

In Australia, the Brisbane guys had their monthly tournament in their new venue. Six players competed in home and away fixtures and Gus Gillespi finished on top of the table. Well done! 

Final table:

1. Gus Gillespie - 25 points
2. Giuseppe Tardiota - 18
3. Gareth Whalley - 14
4. Kevin Halliday - 14
5. Gordon Orr - 6
6. Wayne Miller - 6

In England, the Morecambe Bay players were joined by Yorkshire's Shaun Dunne for the club's monthly event. Shaun took the honors after winning his 4 games. Finale table was as follows:

1. Shaun Dunne
2. Luca Lanzani
3. Stuart Andrews
4. Keith Carman
5. Rob Wilkinson

In Belgium the Magic Team Tournai club was glad to host another tournament just before Michaël Dupret and Stéphane Lambert took the plane to travel to Japan for the forthcoming FISTF tournament. 11 players competed in Swiss laddr. It was funny to have the top 3 players finishing the evening with 9 points; Matthias Averlant, who lost his first game of the night, was the final winner of the evening with Michaël Dupret being runner-up. Final table:

1. Matthias Averlant
2. Michaël Dupret
3. Stéphane Lambert
4. Jean-Pierre Genart
5. Vincent Coppenolle
6. Sébastien Rochez
7. Sébastien Sorge
8. Jocelyn Celton
9. David Sardi de Letto
10. Olivier Bodelle
11. Eric Caillaux

In Italy, a small "old rules" event took place in Terni with Marco Perotti taking the honors, Moreno Margheriti being runner-up and Leonardo Ascani third.

In South Africa, the latest "Easterns" tournament Johannesburg had a poor turnout of three players and Ian Clarke won the home and away fixtures to win the day. Craig Smith was runner-up, Gary Downs third.

In Scotland, it was fantastic to have the Glasgow TSA players meeting for their second tournament of the season. This time 8 players were taking part. Tom Burns won the final against Andrea Andreoni (3-0) while John Halpinand Chad Wright made it to the semi-finals.

Finally, there was a "Old Rules Mini WASPA" at the London Subbuteo Club (England) on Sunday 10 December 2023 in Fulham.

Results:
Gianluca Zucchelli 2 - 1 Paolo Matteo Agostinelli
Andrea Alessandro Agostinelli 1 - 2 Gianluca Zucchelli
Paolo Matteo Agostinelli 2 - 2 Andrea Alessandro Agostinelli.

Table:
Gianluca 4 points, 4 scored, 2 against, +2 GD
Paolo 1 point 3 scored, 4 against-1 GD
Andrea 1 point, 3 scored, 4 against 1 GD
Gianluca winner, Paolo and Andrea 2nd ex aequo.

Marcel Schulz winner in Karlsruhe

Last Saturday 14 players travelled to Karlsruhe, Germany for the WASPA tournament organized by Milan Knezevic. As always, Subbuteo was the real winner as every player was given the chance to play many games. Competitors were divided in 2 groups of 7 and then knock-out games were organized to decide places 1 to 8 while the other six players played for places 9 to 14. Marcel Schulz was the big winner of the deay after defeating club mate Janus Gersie.

It was nice also to see several french players coming from new clubs "Guebwiller Alsace Subbuteo Club" and "RC Lorrain Subbuteo Club". It was a great experience for them to play against players from Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Serbia and Bosnia.

Thanks to Milan Knezevic for an excellent tournament and for playing it under WASPA banner!

WASPA rankings of November 2023

Dear all, you will find in the attached files the WASPA rankings, results and statistics after the 37 tournaments add in the records last month.

PDF file with results

Excel file with rankings and statistics

Great turnout of 26 in Spain

Before we comment about tournament, let me remind your help is needed for several things:

- we are not sure every player has the right club in the database. If you see mistakes, please drop a line!

- we think many "juniors" (born in 2007 or later) are not in the rankings because we don't have the birthdates. If you see missing players in the junior ranking, contact me.

- we are still looking for national delegates ready to promote the WASPA circuit in their country. Right now we see some great work done in several countries but it's not the case in many other nations. We try to find people who can be the link between local organizers and WASPA in order to develop local and regional events, in particular in nations where there are currently not many WASPA tournaments. Are you interested to help?

- Stories are always welcome for the WASPA blog. Some players sometimes wonder why their tournaments are not reported on the blog but it's just because we don't get stories and pictures. Your help is more than welcome!

39 players attended the Roligans tournament in Greece

Top news from November 2023:

- We had Scotland back in action. Thanks to Andrea Andreoni, there was a first (promotional) tournament in Glasgow and we hope to see many more in the future.

- It's great we had a tournament in Florida as Tampa Bay TSC is back in action. It was the first WASPA tournament of the season in the US and we hope to see more clubs in North America hosting WASPA tournaments.

- In Italy the club of Fienze was also back after a long break. It's good to have Marco Bonciani's club in the circuit!

Old rules tournament in London

- There were several tournaments in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne, proving Australia remains one of the most active nations in the WASPA circuit!

- England remains an amazing Subbuteo nation with some great events run by Yorkshire Phoenix and Dewsbury Moor TFC, Chesterfield, Chasers, Bristol, Haverhill, Leicester, Stanwy, London SC,...

- Switzerland had 2 tournaments run under theWASPA banner, which proves the game is alive in the country!

Anniversary Cup in Derry, Northern Ireland

- the largest tournament of the month was held in Greece and attracted 39 players (!). Thanks to the Roligans for an amazing event!

Action in Johannesburg

- South Africa had the visit of Germany's Sven Schilling and that was a good reason to run a WASPA tournament in Johannesburg!

- Ireland and Northern Ireland have regular WASPA meets and it's good to see old and new faces during great Subbuteo meets!

- In Spain the "Circuit Catala" had another WASPA event with 26 players and another prestigious name as winner: Ferran Coll won the final again Alex Araujo!

Hipfingerz tournament in Sydney, Australia

We stay at your disposal for any question regarding the WASPA circuit.

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 vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

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

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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 vincentcoppenolle@gmail.com

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

Vincent Coppenolle, WASPA organizer

Tampa Bay TSC is back!

After several years of absence, the club of Tampa Bay, based in Florida, was back in action last week. It was great to have Alex Batacchi relaunching the activities of his club and 5 players attended the first tournament, the 7th edition of the Turkey Classic, played in home and away fixtures. This was also the first WASPA tournament in the US this season and this will hopefully motivate other american clubs to hold WASPA tournaments.

Alex Batacchi took the honors but the most important thing was to have the game back in Florida. "Hopefully we will have some visits from other clubs during this season", commented Alex after the event!