Saturday, 16 July 2011
Michele Lanzarotto's visit in Singapore
Here is a picture of Michele Lanzarotto's vist at the Leste' Aquila SC in Singapore. These are the players who played with Michele from club "OSC UfoRobot" of Verona, Italy. Players who played the friendly are from left to right: Rudy, John Ho, Kok Wee, Michele and Ezan.
Friday, 15 July 2011
The news of the week (4)
Hi there, here we go for some short news about table football and WASPA.
News from Malta - the tournament held by the club of Attard was played on thursday. At least the group stage was played by 13competitors but the tournament was stopped when the Mayor of Attard showed up and all players had a drink together with him. The semi-finals and the final will be played shortly.
News from Singapore - The club of Leste Aquila decided to move the date of their tournament to August 21. There will also be a ladies tournaments and a friendly team match between the local club and the team of Elias SC. Team matches are not yet very popular in Singapore but with the increasing number of clubs in the country, there will be more team matches for sure in the future! Also, the local club was happy to meet an italian player, Michele Lanzarotto, earlier this week and several friendlies were played. Local players are
News from the US - Congratulations to Daniel Cranston for winning the national title last week-end. daniel was not only playing, he was also the organizer of the National. Well done. Congratulations also to Paul Eyes for winning the veterans title and to the club of Maryland for being the team champion. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1RiU30UdM
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Germany (34), Singapore, Belgium, Greece, Finland, Italy, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malta. We were also happy to see visitors from Indonesia, Switzerland and Ireland ;-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
News from Malta - the tournament held by the club of Attard was played on thursday. At least the group stage was played by 13competitors but the tournament was stopped when the Mayor of Attard showed up and all players had a drink together with him. The semi-finals and the final will be played shortly.
News from Singapore - The club of Leste Aquila decided to move the date of their tournament to August 21. There will also be a ladies tournaments and a friendly team match between the local club and the team of Elias SC. Team matches are not yet very popular in Singapore but with the increasing number of clubs in the country, there will be more team matches for sure in the future! Also, the local club was happy to meet an italian player, Michele Lanzarotto, earlier this week and several friendlies were played. Local players are
News from the US - Congratulations to Daniel Cranston for winning the national title last week-end. daniel was not only playing, he was also the organizer of the National. Well done. Congratulations also to Paul Eyes for winning the veterans title and to the club of Maryland for being the team champion. Read more: http://americansubbuteo.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=recent#ixzz1RiU30UdM
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 21 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Germany (34), Singapore, Belgium, Greece, Finland, Italy, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malta. We were also happy to see visitors from Indonesia, Switzerland and Ireland ;-)
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Monday, 11 July 2011
New date for the Singapore tournament
The tournament scheduled on August 14 in Singapore (and hosted by the club of Leste' Aquila) will finally take place on August 21.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
The news of the week (3)
Hi there, there isn't much to say this week but the news are rather exciting.
First of all, there are some good news from Malta as Attard Subbuteo Club will be hosting their first tournament next week. 13 players are registered and will be dropped in four groups. The club also announced another tournament might be organized in august.
Australia - There are discussion with Ron Shipp (ronshippau@yahoo.com.au) to organize a tournament in january during Cancon in January 2012. Cancon is Australia's biggest games convention. Ron is trying to organize the Australian championship as well but this still needs to be discussed. There are also plans to host a tournament in Sydney later this year.
Sweden - There are now 8 confirmed entries for the tournament. Francesco La Torre from Italy is also likely to take part. There are plans to prepare the future of the game in Sweden as hopefully this tournament will be the first of many more to come.
Singapore - The Leste' Aquila SC is also thinking to host a second tournament later this year as there is already enough demand from local players. More details coming soon.
United States - Massimo Conturso announced the Subbuteo Club Connecticut will celebrate next month the 10th year of activity with an ASA Open to be played in Salem, MA (1st choice location) or CT. Also, a second ASA Open (not approved yet) could be played in CT on Sunday, August 28th as part of the WASPA circuit. Details for both events will follow shortly!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- July 14 - Tournament hosted by Attard Subbuteo Club (Malta)
- August 14 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Finland (35), Germany, Singapore, Italy, Malta, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
First of all, there are some good news from Malta as Attard Subbuteo Club will be hosting their first tournament next week. 13 players are registered and will be dropped in four groups. The club also announced another tournament might be organized in august.
Australia - There are discussion with Ron Shipp (ronshippau@yahoo.com.au) to organize a tournament in january during Cancon in January 2012. Cancon is Australia's biggest games convention. Ron is trying to organize the Australian championship as well but this still needs to be discussed. There are also plans to host a tournament in Sydney later this year.
Sweden - There are now 8 confirmed entries for the tournament. Francesco La Torre from Italy is also likely to take part. There are plans to prepare the future of the game in Sweden as hopefully this tournament will be the first of many more to come.
Singapore - The Leste' Aquila SC is also thinking to host a second tournament later this year as there is already enough demand from local players. More details coming soon.
United States - Massimo Conturso announced the Subbuteo Club Connecticut will celebrate next month the 10th year of activity with an ASA Open to be played in Salem, MA (1st choice location) or CT. Also, a second ASA Open (not approved yet) could be played in CT on Sunday, August 28th as part of the WASPA circuit. Details for both events will follow shortly!
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- July 14 - Tournament hosted by Attard Subbuteo Club (Malta)
- August 14 - Tournament hosted by Leste' Aquila SC (Singapore)
- August 21 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
We wait for the exact date of the tournament in Australia (planned for January 2012) and we have had interest from South Africa, Denmark, Germany, England and the US. Who will come next?
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Finland (35), Germany, Singapore, Italy, Malta, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom and France.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Friday, 1 July 2011
A tournament in Australia?
There are big chances a tournament will be held at Cancon in January 2012, this is Australia's biggest games convention and there are hopes it will be the Australian Championship as well. Contact Ron Shipp at ronshippau@yahoo.com.au for more details.
Thursday, 30 June 2011
The news of the week (2)
Hello everybody, just a quick message to keep you updated about the latest WASPA news. We had a great week full of good news and promising developments. Last week we were happy to learn that a tournament would take place in Stockholm, Sweden but more great news came from Scandinavia. It looks indeed that it will be a very international tournament as many foreign players will be there. Marcus Tilgner (Germany) and Robert Green (Australia) had already confirmed they would make the trip but we know that there will be an Italian, a couple of Finns and even David Crémoux, a french player who is living in Sweden for many years who is very excited to start playing again as he was one of the best players in France 20 years ago. This kind of achievements proves WASPA can help the global community of table football/subbuteo fans to grow in numbers. last but not least, Jeremy Bradley from England will more than probably be in Sweden at the time of the tournament so there are great chances he will be able to take part.
Malta is there - I must say that iw as a bit worried about the position of the clubs from Southern Europe when Is tarted the WASPA project. Now that it has been confirmed that there will be a tournament in Malta (and there is interest from Italy and Greece), I feel like we are reaching a growing number of players. The Attard club has already 12 entries for the tournament to be held on July 14, which is a great number.
Singapore, the hot place in Asia - When I was told the club of Leste Aquila would host a tournament in Singapore on August 14, I was very happy. Singapore has been the most active country on the asian scene for the last 10 years and the local organizers are doing a fantastic job. Singapore has now four active clubs and the level of the local players is growing very quickly. Players like Erza Aripin and Christopher Soh have already attended FISTF world cups and players like John Ho and Den Mulia are probably the best players on the continent. As the Singapore association is doing a great job to promote the game, we hope in the near future there will be some clubs in other asian countries, possibly in Malaysia (there is also a club in Hong Kong run by an Italian who lives there for years and there is a very small group of players in Japan, too).
Table hockey - Benoît Racette from Canada is working on a project of "table ice hockey" and he would be happy to hear suggestions from as many subbuteo players as possible. Feel free to contact him at canadatabletopgames@gmail.com
The future? - Any idea, any tournament request, any question can be sent directly to my e-mail address. It will be a pleasure to answer every message.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Malta, Portugal and the United States.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook and 38 Facebook users have already joined, which helps them to be updated on a daily base.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Malta is there - I must say that iw as a bit worried about the position of the clubs from Southern Europe when Is tarted the WASPA project. Now that it has been confirmed that there will be a tournament in Malta (and there is interest from Italy and Greece), I feel like we are reaching a growing number of players. The Attard club has already 12 entries for the tournament to be held on July 14, which is a great number.
Singapore, the hot place in Asia - When I was told the club of Leste Aquila would host a tournament in Singapore on August 14, I was very happy. Singapore has been the most active country on the asian scene for the last 10 years and the local organizers are doing a fantastic job. Singapore has now four active clubs and the level of the local players is growing very quickly. Players like Erza Aripin and Christopher Soh have already attended FISTF world cups and players like John Ho and Den Mulia are probably the best players on the continent. As the Singapore association is doing a great job to promote the game, we hope in the near future there will be some clubs in other asian countries, possibly in Malaysia (there is also a club in Hong Kong run by an Italian who lives there for years and there is a very small group of players in Japan, too).
Table hockey - Benoît Racette from Canada is working on a project of "table ice hockey" and he would be happy to hear suggestions from as many subbuteo players as possible. Feel free to contact him at canadatabletopgames@gmail.com
The future? - Any idea, any tournament request, any question can be sent directly to my e-mail address. It will be a pleasure to answer every message.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from Italy, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Malta, Portugal and the United States.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook and 38 Facebook users have already joined, which helps them to be updated on a daily base.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
First tournament in Singapore
The Leste' Aquila SC in Singapore will be holding a WASPA tournament on august 14 in the premises of the club. So far Tan Kok Wee, John Ho, Noor Haikal, Jaslin Tan and Rudy Norita have confirmed their attendance. The others are welcome to play :-)
Monday, 27 June 2011
Tournament in Malta
There are already 10 registered players for the tournament, which are: Joseph M.Debono, Gordon Caruana, Robert Azzopardi, Marco Mifsud, Maria Coppola, Sharlo Barbara, Etienne Deguara, Lon Joseph Cachia, Daniele Spadaro, Hector Scerri.
Here is a picture of the trophies to be awarded during the tournament.
Friday, 24 June 2011
Welcome Leste Aquila SC
We wish a warm welcome to our Singapore friends of Leste Aquila Subbuteo Club as they have expressed their interest to host WASPA tournaments int he near future. They will more than probably become the first asian club to host a WASPA event. Well done. For more details about this club, check thei website at http://www.wix.com/tablefootball/lasc
Thursday, 23 June 2011
The news of the week (1)
Hello everyone, I decided to use the blog to publish news every thursday. When I was in charge in the FISTF Board, I published a newsletter every week. Right now I will change the way to work. News will be published ont he blog but people who want to receive the newsletter by e-mail can leave their e-mail address in the "Follow us by Email" section (in the right colomn of the blog). Feel free to tell your friends to join!
Tournament in Sweden - The big news this week come from Sweden. Lars Löfgren decided to organize a tournament on August 21 in Stockholm. You can contact Lars at bordshockeyexperten@hotmail.se and I'm sure those who travel to Stockholm will enjoy the trip. Marcus Tilgner from Germany will be there to play and there are good chances to see some players from Finland as well. Robert Green, an Australian living in Sweden, is likely to take part with an english friend.
More tournaments? - Right now only 2 tournaments have been held int he WASPA circuit and only 10 players are part of the ranking. Hopefully more events will be held soon as 2 clubs from England are interested to host tournaments and we have also had constructive contacts with Malta, Argentina, Ireland, Germany, Finland and South Africa. So hopefully more events will be added in the calendar in the near future.
News from Japan - Our friend Kenzou Koi from Japan wrote us to say the major newspaper Nikkei Shimbun made an interview of himself last week-end and there was some positive feedback. hopefully more players will join the "Subbuteo Japan" group and feel part of our community.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - We have had more than 4200 visits ont he blog since it was launched. Over the last 7 days, the visitors came in priority from Italy (108), Greece (62), United Kingdom (52), the US (36), Finland (28), Germany (25), Belgium (23), Portugal (23), Singapore (20) and the Netherlands (14).
Handbook - The first WASPA Handbook was made a few weeks ago and since there, there were no improvements. I'm hoping to get more feedback and ideas to improve the Handbook as soon as possible.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook. Feel free to join it to get the latest updates on the WASPA circuit.
Ideas - If you have new ideas for the future of WASPA, feel free to send them. WASPA is an associations of players so all suggestions are welcome.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Tournament in Sweden - The big news this week come from Sweden. Lars Löfgren decided to organize a tournament on August 21 in Stockholm. You can contact Lars at bordshockeyexperten@hotmail.se and I'm sure those who travel to Stockholm will enjoy the trip. Marcus Tilgner from Germany will be there to play and there are good chances to see some players from Finland as well. Robert Green, an Australian living in Sweden, is likely to take part with an english friend.
More tournaments? - Right now only 2 tournaments have been held int he WASPA circuit and only 10 players are part of the ranking. Hopefully more events will be held soon as 2 clubs from England are interested to host tournaments and we have also had constructive contacts with Malta, Argentina, Ireland, Germany, Finland and South Africa. So hopefully more events will be added in the calendar in the near future.
News from Japan - Our friend Kenzou Koi from Japan wrote us to say the major newspaper Nikkei Shimbun made an interview of himself last week-end and there was some positive feedback. hopefully more players will join the "Subbuteo Japan" group and feel part of our community.
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - We have had more than 4200 visits ont he blog since it was launched. Over the last 7 days, the visitors came in priority from Italy (108), Greece (62), United Kingdom (52), the US (36), Finland (28), Germany (25), Belgium (23), Portugal (23), Singapore (20) and the Netherlands (14).
Handbook - The first WASPA Handbook was made a few weeks ago and since there, there were no improvements. I'm hoping to get more feedback and ideas to improve the Handbook as soon as possible.
Facebook - WASPA has now a page on Facebook. Feel free to join it to get the latest updates on the WASPA circuit.
Ideas - If you have new ideas for the future of WASPA, feel free to send them. WASPA is an associations of players so all suggestions are welcome.
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
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