FA Cup revisited competition in Lincoln

This sunday's 19/12 FA Cup Revisited competition was held in Lincoln and was played as a straight knock-out so as to simulate the FA Cup. The first photo shows John Devaney shaking hands with Lou prior to our historic first match in forty-seven years. The second photo shows Ian Johns about to take a corner against Lou during the 3rd and 4th place play-off.

Second title for Roger Trouillard

Roger Trouillard won the last tournament of the season in Puylaurens (France). He defeated Serge Leroy in the final (1-0). Alexandre Marc and Jean-François Balard reached the final four. Nine players were competing and Loïc Trouillard also finished the evening with two wins to claim the consolation tournament.

Hector Scerri wins in Attard

Attard Subbuteo Club ran a small WASPA tournament with six players this week-end. Hector Scerri took the honors, defeating Daniele Spadaro on shots in the final while Joseph M. Debono and Gordon Caruana lost in the semis. Attard SC is preparing seriously to attend the Europa CUP for clubs in October in Frameries, Belgium.

The young Flaming Flickers play the Copa America

Flaming Flickers Junior SC organized an ongoing promotional subbuteo tournament  . Young players followed their favorite Copa America teams all the way to the final .For the record the winner was Mexico (Mihalis Dragossis) that beat Uruguay (Vasilis Panagiotides) in the final at penaltiis after a 1-1 draw in regular time and after extra time.

(Press release of the Flaming Flickers)

Monthly report of the WASPA circuit (June 2015)

Dear all,

here is the monthly report of June 2015. We had 22 regional tournaments and one tournament with the old rules this month.

WASPA rankings (june 2015) in Excel file
WASPA golden book (june 2015) in PDF file

We are still waiting results from the tournament in, Kuala Lumpur (May 2015) an,d Tolentino (Old rules, June 2015).

For the first time, a WASPA tournament was held in Brazil this month

1581 players (+16) from 39 nations are ranked. Sweden has just desappeared fromt he rankings whjile Brazil is a newcomer with 8 different players. Welcome Brazil!

This month we had tournaments for the first time in Rio (Brazil) and Verviers (Belgium).

Big action at SS Lazio in italy withthe final leg of the WASPA Lazio League 2014-2015

England (4), Belgium (4), the US (3) and Australia (3) where the most active organizers but we were happy to see action as well in Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Brazil, Spain, South Africa, Singapore.

Big credit to Geoffrey Marain attending three events in three different cities and winning all of them.

Good to see foreign players attending WASPA events (French, Australian and Belgian guys in Singapore, US player in England,...).

Bernard Lim and Steve Dettre were the finalists of a big tournament in Singapore!

Welcome back to Ireland after they hosted their first event of the season.

Your ideas to develop the game and the WASPA circuit are more than welcome. Will we still grow next season? Who knows?

Don't hesitate to ask for WASPA status if you are hosting some events. Just send a request to vincent.cop@rsca.com

Action in Florida (Dario Passadore and Alex Batacchi)

Please note the blog is updated almost every day at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com

The FISTF website is http://www.fistf.com

Have a great day and keep on flicking!

Vincent

Geoffrey Marain does it again

The final: Coppenolle vs Marain

There was a small turnout of five this tuesday in Templeuve where the Templeuve United club was hosty their monthly tournament in a very hot place (over 30° C -> Looks like it was too hot for many players to show up). Geoffrey Marain won his four group games to qualify for the final. He beat then Vincent Coppenolle in a easy way (9-4) while Stéphane Lambert won the game for the third place against Matthias Averlant.

The game for the third place: Averlant vs Lambert

Gus Gillespie wins in Brisbane

28/06/15 – Woody Point

This month’s tournament was a long day, but very enjoyable for all. A new member and a new name on the trophy too. The first round of games had Rik Bland topping the league table, with Giuseppe Tardiota, Andrew Bennett and Gus Gillespie completing the top four spots. The semi finals were a repeat of last month’s encounters, with the same outcome – Andrew beat Giuseppe 2-0, and Gus beat Rik 2-1, (in which Rik scored a bizarre own goal). The final again went to extra time, and this time Gus prevailed and earned a 2-1 victory. Having built slowly, and peaked at the right time, Gus was delighted with his first trophy.

New member Andy Rigden, previously represented Wales internationally, and after a very lengthy lay off, is keen to get back into the flick of things again. A little time to polish up on the latest rules will no doubt see him contesting the trophy.
Congratulation Gus Gillespie

(Report by Giuseppe Tardiota)

Mark Farrell and John Moore win in Celbridge

The first Irish tournament this year held last Saturday and was called "The Celbridge open". Organizers had a low turnout of 5 players but played two tournaments. Both were on a league system with 4 games each. The first was to fistf rules in the morning which Mark Farrell won on 12 pts from John Moore on 9, Ken McKenzie in 3rd on 6pts.

In the Afternoon we played an old rules with 1980's style figures. John Moore (his first WASPA title!) won this on 10 pts, Mark Farrell in 2nd on 7, Nicky Moore 3rd on 6pts.

Gianpaolo Vitulano wins in Coulsdon

Gianpolo Vitulanot (left), here during the recent Gillingham tournament

Last friday five players met at the Coulsdon tournament in England. Gian paolo Vitulano took the honors after defeating his opponents. Rudi Peterschinigg was runner-up.

Fabrizio is... Coco-lossal!

Fabrizio Coco of Subbuteo Parramatta claimed the June 23 WASPA at the Northern Falcons club night, but was pushed all the way in the final phase.

A good turnout of 10 players on a cold, winter’s Tuesday night contested the event at the Good Games Chatswood venue, using four Extremeworks pitches.

In Group 1, Neil Brenner did well and pushed for a semi final place, before succumbing to the experience of Johnny Ball.

It was great to see Neil’s son Matt in action, and he will undoubtedly have benefitted from the evening’s action. As always, the more experienced players passed on tips and advice during matches.

In Group 2, Dom “Mad Dog” Grenot continued to hold the wood over Steve Dettre, with a pulsating 2-2 draw. Louis continued his fast paced game, which unsettled Raffaele, though the Subbuteo Parramatta man swept the group.

In the semi-finals, Raffaele just managed to edge out Johnny Ball, while Steve took the lead against Fabrizio only to see an equaliser in the last two minutes. The match was settled on shots, in sudden death, with Fabrizio taking the shoot-out 2-1.

The final was evenly matched, with Fabrizio squeezing the only goal just before the break, with a lovely series of flicks through the heart of Raffaele’s defence, before shooting on the run.
In the second period, Raffaele did everything he could, but he was too often caught with several figures in off-side positions, forcing him to backtrack his attack.
And then when he did get a sight on goal, Fabrizio’s reflexes denied him. This was no better illustrated than with a few minutes to go, Raffaele won a corner. His flick was beautifully weighted, and a centrally placed figure caught the ball on the run, but as it flew to the goal, somehow Fabrizio swept it away for a breathtaking save!

In the end, a great game to finish the night. Many thanks as always to the players, and to Andy and Sonny for letting us use their venue.

(Report by Steve Dettre)