First title for Chris Kaberry

Mike Parnaby sat this one out and opted to help mentor our new face, Rob Heseltine. Rob just turned up at the club and earns his first WASPA ranking points at his first attempt. He shows good signs already. The stage was set for anyone to win the night but it was Chris Kaberry who rose to the challenge and won his three games. Jeff Parsons kept up the chase and played Mike in a demostration match after the main event using the old flats teams. Ben finsihed mid table, John came 4th. Andy Mill scored his first win of the season to earn a few exytra points!

Date of next NETFA Teesside WASPA tournament will be 28th February 2014.

Home win for Steve Bennett

The 4th WASPA event of the Tayside Kickers was played this sunday. In all nine players competed with two newcomers who travelled all the way from Rannoch which is a 180m round trip so thanks to Andy & Rob for that terrific effort. Four rounds of Swiss system were played. Final placings:
1. Steve Bennett 10pts +12gd
2. Gareth Christie 10pts +8gd
3. Greg Dand 7pts +6gd
4. Stuart Peacock 6pts -9gd
5. Scott Fleming 5pts +2gd
6. Andy Beskaby 5pts -7gd
7. Colin Matthew 4pts even gd
8. Dave Baxter 3pts -4gd
9. Rob Conway 3pts -6gd

Next stop for Tayside is the International Open of Glasgow. Good luck to everyone!

Chessray Jooste wins his first title

Saturday 1 February 2014, Pretoria, South Africa: The Pretoria Flickers Club staged it's opening event for the year, namely the "Copa del Apertura".

The event attracted a small field of 5 entries, whereby each participant played each other once in a round robin format and 2 points per win and 1 point per draw was awarded.

The opening fixture ended Chessray (3) vs (2) Jayden and proved to be a blistering start to the event (and to the start of the PFC 2014 calendar) whereby an actioned packed

match-up of attacking play unfolded. In the end, Chessray ended the day undefeated with figures of P4-W4-D0-L0-GF7-GA3.

Well done and congratulations to Chessray for winning your first title !

A special thanks to all the other participants for making the event a success.

Final Standings
1st Chessray Jooste - 8 points
2nd Jayden vd Merwe - 5 points
3rd Adrian Otto - 4 points
4th Julian vd Merwe - 3 points
5th Kegan vd Merwe - 0 points
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(Report by Julian Van der Merwe)

Tournament in Lurago d'Erba

... and it was snowing, and there were family commitments... and there was the guy which car that smashed in the curve ... But three courageous survivors played alike! So, despite the hitches, the WASPA-ETF project goes on anyway... Not Only! This event is part of the new TSC Black Rose project called "Tournaments by Specialties". They consist of to play with a specific mono-materilal production of the past.

After the two small torunaments played during the inauguration of the project (look here: http://ilforumsubbuteo.forumfree.it/?t=68032058) this is the third tournament of this typology. This time the ultimate decision was to play with original Subbuteo moulded HW production.

Thank you to all the WASPA staff for this so kind hospitality in the circuit!

Ranking:
Claudio Dogali 4 points
Luca Rajna 1 point
Fabri Olla 1 point

Teams employed:
Fabri Olla had a "Club Bottini Genoa" on rare white thick bases. Claudio Dogali played with on Alessandria 60s, always on rare blue thick bases. Alessandria is the only woldwide (may be...) team to have a grey shirt. Luca Rajna played with two different teams: the first match he had an Israel 1970 and for the second one he had the "Veneto Serenissimo Governo"; bases were in both cases of normal thickness.

(Report by Luca Rajna)

WASPA monthly report with results, statistics and rankings

Hi everyone,
here is the monthly report of the WASPA circuit (click here). We had a fantastic month with 22 events played all over the world. These were 18 "regional" tournaments, 3 events with the old rules and 1 with the advanced rules in Greece (with 22 players!)

Among the importants facts of the month, we can mention:
- the first tournament ever in Switzerland. It seemed to be very positive as two more tournaments are already in the agenda!
- good turnouts in events in England, Portugal, Italy and Hamilton (Canada)
- Geoffrey Marain did not play this month but remains number 1 in the ranking
- Australian players attended the Colorado Cup in Denver (USA)
- Paul O'Donovan from California attended the Penrith tournament (Australia)
- the first leg of the Scottish circuit had 12 players and counted also for the WASPA circuit
- 11 players competed in Valdivia (Chile)
- the tournament in Macerata played with the old rules had 32 entries (!)
- we have now 1138 players in the ranking!

Useful links
Here are the few links to check when you have time:
the WASPA blog: http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com
the WASPA map: http://goo.gl/maps/MP4gu
the WASPA Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/waspasubbuteo/
the WASPA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WASPA-World-Amateur-Subbuteo-Players-Association/231789816834700
the FISTF website: http://www.fistf.com
the independant table football forum: http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/

If some of your friends want to receive the monthly report by e-mail, they can drop a line to vincent.cop@rsca.com to be added in the mailing list

Use also vincent.cop@rsca.com for tournament requests or for sending results and pictures

Again, thanks to all players and organizers for the continued support over the last few months. So much support is a best reason to keep on working for the game!

Yours sincerely,

Vincent Coppenolle

Next event in Lincoln

There will be a tournament in Lincoln (England) on February 23 at 1.30 pm. Venue is the Eastgate Tennis, Bowls and Squash Club, Langworthgate, Lincoln LN2 4AD. These premises are spacious and have the added benefit of boasting ample free onsite parking. There is a well stocked bar, and just across the road from the venue is a pub, The Peacock Inn, which offers a wide-ranging lunch menu. The competition will be known as The WASPA Valentine Cup, the idea being that players will be encouraged to play with teams bearing the colours of the club they love the most, r support. There will be a range of trophies on offer. Contact is John Devaney at jaypeedee1956@yahoo.co.uk

The perfect evening for Simone Trivelli

Simone Trivelli, after convincing victories in the last two events made the "hat trick" with four wins out of four matches at an average of four goals per game.

Another trophy and the 5th WASPA title for Simone Trivelli

In the decisive match of the last round of play, Simone Trivelli found himself in front of the surprise of the evening, Simone Lo Iacono who had 7 points in the ranking and attempted to climb over the opponent who had 9 points: good game, with Simone Lo Iacono. The game ended on 3-1 and Simone Lo Iacono ended third of the tournament.

The second place goes to Gianmarco Del Brocco with 9 points, losing only against Trivelli (2-4). The fourth and fifth place respectively go to Stefano Tagliaferri and Matteo Del Brocco. In their game together, it was like a fireworks with 10 goals scored and a final draw (5-5).

there were ups and downs for the other participants in the tournament: Claudio Paolino and Marco Moretti closed with 4 points, 3 points with Mario Lo Iacono, Louis Aniballi with 2 points and Alessandro Spoto with a point.

In the General Classification of the WASPA Lazio League Simone Trivelli  is the leader (93 points) followed by Gianmarco Del Brocco (89), while the third place is Stefano Tagliaferri (74), followed in fourth place by Patrizio Lazzaretti (65) and then the fifth and sixth respectively by Claudio Paolino (60) and Paolo Barone (58). Matteo Del Brocco has 42.

Fedele wins again

The club of Arabona organized a small tournament last friday in their premises of Manoppello (Italy). Fabrizio Fedelle finished on top of the league system while Gaetao Monticelli was second and Simone Di Pierro was third. Well done Fabrizio!

24 players at the tournament in Macerata

This week-end the italian club of Macerata organized a tournament with the old rules with a superb number of 24 entries. Players were divided in six groups of four players and after the first stage, 12 players competed for the main title while other played for the "small cup". In the final, Alberto Gagliardi was the big winner after he beat Ciabattoni (2-1). Giammusso was 3rd and Chieppe 4th.
Iorio beat Gambella in the final of the "Europa League" (consolation tournament). Congratulations to all the players for a great day of Subbuteo.

Alberto Gagliardi, the winner of the tournament

Superb trophies

Second tournament of the Flaming Flickers in Greece

A total of 22 players of all ages participated in the tournament of the Flaming Flickers Subbuteo Club that took place at Marcana Grill in Athens. Material used was subbuteo (Hasbro bases and figures) on Subbuteo Astropitches with the modern rules. The organizers also attracted four new players and the main event was played in a swiss system of three sessions while the "juniors" played their own tournament. Panos Panagiotides was the winner of the day while Yannis Metaxas was second.