Jérôme Heyvaert wins in Auvelais

Winner Jerome Heyvaert and runner-up Michaël Hallin

The club of "Etoile Sarthoise" ran their first WASPA tournament this wednesday in Auvelais. Six players competed in Swiss system and Jérôme Heyvaert (Charleroi) won the event with 10 points in four games. Michaël Hallin (Temploux) was runner-up, ahead of Vincent Guyaux (Bormla) and local players Fabrice Guyaux, Dany Timmerman and Alyssa Guyaux.

Marco Trevisan wins in Pistoia

Time for modern table soccer at the Breda Pistoia clubhouse with 6 players in 2 groups. The newcomer Mirko Cappelli, good subbuteo player, showed his skill and class by winning his group, while the orange Marco Trevisan easily ruled his matches with stunning actions. The final match was played open face with offensive attitude by both players, but the experience and precision of Trevisan lead him to the victory.

(Report by Alfredo Granato)

Maurizio Pugi wins in Florence

This tuesday evening, the second stage of the North Florence SC Challenge was held in the premises of the club. The winner is Maurizio Pugi. He finished on top of a group of 5 while Marcello Monti was runner-up. Monti and Pugi share the leadership of the overall standings.

Challenge Standings:
Monti 7
Pugi 7
Cianferoni 3
Girardi 3
Zampieri 1

Number 45 for Geoffrey Marain

On monday evening 10 players met in Hofstade-Zemst for the monthly tournament of SC Flanders. The evening was played in Swiss system between 5 Flemish players and 5 players from the Tournai area. In the end, Geoffrey marain won his four games to claim to victory. Frank Lannoy was runner-up and Jos Ceulemans was third.

Frank, Geoffrey and Jos

Ranking of the evening:
1. Geoffrey Marain (Flickers Milano)
2. Frank Lannoy (SC Temploux)
3. Jos  Ceulemans (London & Essex United)
4. Bart Van de Vliet (SC Flanders)
5ea Johan Lourdon (SC Flanders)
5ea Vincent Coppenolle (Templeuve United)
7. Renald Deloose (Templeuve United)
8. Stéphane Lambert (Kent Invicta)
9. Jason Delattre (Templeuve United)
10. Vicky Vanoverskelds (SC Warcoing Ducks)

English winner in Cyprus

This sunday the second tournament of the season in Cyprus was held in the premises of Famagusta TFC. Among the 12 competitors, there was a special guest from England. Nick Maclochlain (London & Essex) defeated Marcos Kalopsidiotis in the final to claim the title. Demetris Parperis and Kyriakos Stylianou were the losing semi-finalists.

Great promotion of the game in Paington

WASPA tournament in Paignton, Devon

(Report by Terry Arnold)

Kent Invicta held some Subbuteo sessions for 3 days to keep some of the boys occupied whilst their sisters were competing at the National Baton Twirling Championships. The first 2 days were for practicing and learning the game then finishing off with a WASPA tournament on the Thursday. Many Thanks must go to Tony McCann of Yorkshire Phoenix who lives locally and lent us the table and also donated some teams to the new players. After a fun tournament with some close games, it was Kent Invicta’s Kye Arnold who won the final 2-0 over his ‘old-man’ Terry with Louis Singh and Kieran Dominque the losing semi-finalists. Hopefully the new players who tried the game for the first time will be back playing again soon as we try to grow the game!

Final standings:
1. Kye Arnold (Kent Invicta)
2. Terry Arnold (Kent Invicta)
3. Louis Singh (Kent Invicta)
4. Kieran Domingue (Kent Invicta)
5. Josh Mitchell
6. Rhys Holloway
7. Jacob Silvester (Kent Invicta)
8. Alfie Webb
9. Lee Elkington
10. Reece Bailie
11. Nathan Silvester (Kent Invicta)
12. Archie Harding
13. Jenson Fellows
14. Jake Woods

Eliot Kennedy wins in Penrith

The players

Eliot Kennedy gets cholocates for his win

Last sunday the club of Deportivo La Katoomba (run my Paul Magee) organized a WASPA tournament in the Mega Games store in penrith (Australia). 8 players were taking part and Northern Falcons' Eliot Kennedy won the final against Parramatta's Daniele Lombardi (2-0). Steve Dettre and Paul Magee were the semi-finalists while Mathew Barrie defeated Adrian Elmer in the consolation final.

Rudy Hesty wins Halloween Cup

Halloween Cup held in Jurong Central Subbuteo Cup, Singapore

Jurong Central Subbuteo Club held its usual end-of-the-month WASPA tournament on 30 Oct 2015 with a Halloween theme. Participants donned light Halloween costumes and played their games with them on to the best of their ability (until comfort, and some would say, better sense, prevailed).

There were 10 participants and the club adopted a Swiss format of four rounds, before final placing matches. Things heated up quickly with three 4-0 wins in the first round for Fauzi “Russian Mafia—Singapore Chapter”, Vikas “Jack the Ripper” and Rizal “Grim Reaper”, and cautious 2-1 wins for club league leaders Rudy “Carlos Valederrama” and Anas “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, which entailed innovative rock-paper-scissors techniques to determine the next round of fixtures.

After four rounds, Rudy “Carlos Valderrama” breezed to the top position and final top placing match with four wins. Despite losing his first game to Rudy “Carlos Valderrama”, Nic “High Witch” managed to enter the final by taking advantage of several draws by other players and eking out three straight 1-0 wins, thus finishing second. In the final, Rudy “Carlos Valderrama” outmagicked Nic “High Witch” comfortably 4-0, and took top honours for the third tournament in the row in the club.

(Report by Nic Tan)

Peter Alegi wins the 616 Cup

Peter Alegi took out revenge on Marcus Fila for his historic round robin defeat and won the 616 Cup held in Grand Rapids, MI in a tight affair by a 1-0 scoreline. Paul Pate and Mike Ewer were the losing semi finalists, both being knocked out by 4-1 scorelines.

Group stage:
1. Marcus Fila (Kentwood MI) 10
2. Peter Alegi (E.Lansing MI) 9
3. Paul Pate (Rockford MI) 6
4. Mike Ewer (Grand Rapids MI) 4
5. Alex Galarza (Grand Rapids MI) 0

Semis:
Marcus 4 Mike 1
Peter 4 Paul 1

Final:
Marcus 0 Peter 1

Marcello Monti wins in Florence

On tuesday the "North Florence Subbuteo Club" started their "1st North Florence Subbuteo Challenge", a Subbuteo old rules stages tournament.

The Challenge will be played on 5 stages assigning points to each player according every single stage standing. Players are 6 all from the club in Florence Italy. All the stages will be played at our club (New Master Club, via Valdinievole, 34 Firenze) located in the north part of Florence-Italy.

Marcello Monti won the first tournament.

The next stages will be held on:
Second Stage November 3, 2015 – Florence – IT
Third Stage November 17, 2015 – Florence – IT
Fourth Stage December 1, 2015 – Florence – IT
Fifth Stage December 15, 2015 – Florence – IT

Interested players can contact Marcello Monti at monti.marcello@gmail.com