Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Some news from South Africa - Friday evening will see the first WASPA tournament on African soil and Clifford Graaff is hoping for a good turnout. Plans are discussed to hold a series of these tournaments every three months - so it will be 4 tournaments for the year and then have a series winner. As per the SATFA statutes there will also be holding the national champs towards the end of the year - this is the highest seeded tournament.
More about the Yokohama tournament - Massimo Conturso's excellent SC Connecticut website gave a some more details about Andrea Gasparini's win in Yokohama. The presence of a dozen of spectators (men and women), who cheered for the home players until the very end, enriched the well organized, 3 hours long tournament. The local club was particularly gracious and
offered a snack of pizza and Japanese specialties half way the event, as well as an after-tournament dinner. The competition saw a clear supremacy of the Italian expats, Andrea Gasparini (USA) and Hong Kong's Antonio Carabillo. Andrea & Antonio shared points in their scoreless match and the first place position. However, Andrea claimed the final victory thanks to a better goal differential. What better way to celebrate his 37th birthday! Andrea Gasparini had also won the FISTF Grand Prix of Argentina last season and played the FISTF World Cup in Palermo in July.
News from Malta - The "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" of September 18 will be another great tournament as 16 players are already registered to play.
Results, rankings and statistics - The updated "golden book" is available from the "Download Section" (right column). The file reveals the new ranking and there are already 59 players ranked in the table of august. The points of the Yokohama tournament will be added in the ranking of september.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 18 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - date to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the US, the UK, Malta, Germany, Finland, Greece, Belgium, Singapore, Italy and Portugal. Among the "exotic" countries, we also had visitors from Indonesia, Chile and Burkina Faso!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Thursday, 8 September 2011
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Updated results and rankings file
If you like results, statistics and rankings, the updated file with all the WASPA stuff is now available from https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4_PpphlADgVNDU3MTY1ZGEtOGRiNS00YWYyLWIwMmEtYzJlOWM3ODRmOTA0&hl=en_US
Ideas, suggestions, proposals are always welcome to make things better!
Ideas, suggestions, proposals are always welcome to make things better!
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Andrea Gasperini wins in Yokohama
The very first WASPA tournament took place this sunday at the Noge Hana Hana Hall in Yokohama. The tournament was not only a chance for the best local players to meet foreign players (Andrea gasparini from the US and Antonio Carabillo from Hong Kong), there was also a workshop for beginners. Andrea and Antonio teached the game to the new players and in total, 14 players were taking part.
The top 5 players played the "official" tournament under WASPA banner and every player played each other. At the end, Andrea Gasparini and Antonio Carabillo had 10 points but Andrea won the tournament thanks to a better goal-average!
The top 5 players played the "official" tournament under WASPA banner and every player played each other. At the end, Andrea Gasparini and Antonio Carabillo had 10 points but Andrea won the tournament thanks to a better goal-average!
Monday, 5 September 2011
New date for the next maltese tournament
The "TAZZA INDIPENDENZA" tournament organized by Attard SC will be held on September 18, 2011 at "FX. Dingli Club H'Attard", Main Street. The kick-off will be at 10.00. there will be trophies for the four semi-finalists. Entries must be sent to Joe Debono at jmdebono@onvol.net
Friday, 2 September 2011
A few more shots of the Attard tournaments
Here are a few more pictures of the tournaments held in Malta this wednesday.
Thursday, 1 September 2011
The news of the week (11)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Darren Bezzina wins the "Joseph M. Debono Cup" - 16 players competed in this wednesday's tournament in Attard (Malta). Darren Bezzina, who now plays for the italian team of SPQR Roma, was the winner of the competition. He came on top of his group before beating Nicholas Sciberras in the semi-final (1-0). In the final, he beat Daniele Spadaro (5-3). Gordon Caruana was the other semi-finalist.
From left to right: Darren Bezzina (winner), Daniele Spadaro (runner-up), Nicholas Sciberras (3rd), Gordon Caruana (4th).
New leader in the WASPA ranking - After his victory in Attard, Darren Bezzina becomes the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. The full table will be published as soon as we get the full results of the Singapore tournament.
One more tournament in Malta - After the Attard tournament, Joe Debono announced the club of Attard will hold a third tournament on September 25, which will be called the "Independance Cup".
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions about the structure of the WASPA circuit. The question was "Do you think we should have 2 types of tournaments already next season if we keep "regional" tournaments as they are and "national tournaments with the possibility for each club to host one tournament per season?"
12 answered that "Yes but National events would need to have better organisation standards than regional events" (60%)
2 answered that "National events can give more ranking points but it's not a priority" (10%)
4 answered "I'd better keep things as they are now" (20%)
2 had no opinion
Conclusion: there will be some proposals to make some bigger tournaments in the future. As we are not sure it will be a very good thing to make different types of tournaments, the circuit wil remain as it is at least till January. If there are good proposals and ideas to make sure "national tournaments" are something special, this will be discussed through another survey.
Status update from Stockholm Tournament at O´Learys Gamla Stan - The event to be held on October 8 is being prepared and the following players will problably participate in the tournament: Robert Green, Yupa Kaewwongsa. Peter Elio, Jesper Willaume, Lars Löfgren, Ari Kainu, Anders Virtala. Players have a 15 % discount at Collectors Hotels that lies in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. Feel free to contact Lars Löfgren for more details.
A growing circuit - With new events added in the agenda (in Malta, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, Belgium, Australia), the circuit is growing quickly. There is interest also from Spain, Greece and the UK so hopefully there will be many more tournaments in the next few months.
New project in Malaysia - CK Au (jack208@boardgamecafe.net) is trying to start a new project at Boardgamecafe.net, which is moving to a new place that will allow him to set up a subbuteo table. CK and his partners are planning to give another shot at reviving this game in Malaysia and once they have settled into their new centre, the will get back on details. This might be an important step to develop connections with players from Singapore in the future!
Postponed tournament in the US - The tournament planned for last week-end in Connecticut has been postponed. More details on the new date will be announced soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 4 - Tournament in Yokohama (Japan)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 25 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the UK, Finland, Russia (!), Greece, Malta, Sweden, Canada, the US, Germany and Italy. We also had visitors from Indonesia!
Subbuteo in Russia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Russia over the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Darren Bezzina wins the "Joseph M. Debono Cup" - 16 players competed in this wednesday's tournament in Attard (Malta). Darren Bezzina, who now plays for the italian team of SPQR Roma, was the winner of the competition. He came on top of his group before beating Nicholas Sciberras in the semi-final (1-0). In the final, he beat Daniele Spadaro (5-3). Gordon Caruana was the other semi-finalist.
New leader in the WASPA ranking - After his victory in Attard, Darren Bezzina becomes the new number 1 in the WASPA ranking. The full table will be published as soon as we get the full results of the Singapore tournament.
One more tournament in Malta - After the Attard tournament, Joe Debono announced the club of Attard will hold a third tournament on September 25, which will be called the "Independance Cup".
Results of the survey - 20 people answered to the questions about the structure of the WASPA circuit. The question was "Do you think we should have 2 types of tournaments already next season if we keep "regional" tournaments as they are and "national tournaments with the possibility for each club to host one tournament per season?"
12 answered that "Yes but National events would need to have better organisation standards than regional events" (60%)
2 answered that "National events can give more ranking points but it's not a priority" (10%)
4 answered "I'd better keep things as they are now" (20%)
2 had no opinion
Conclusion: there will be some proposals to make some bigger tournaments in the future. As we are not sure it will be a very good thing to make different types of tournaments, the circuit wil remain as it is at least till January. If there are good proposals and ideas to make sure "national tournaments" are something special, this will be discussed through another survey.
Status update from Stockholm Tournament at O´Learys Gamla Stan - The event to be held on October 8 is being prepared and the following players will problably participate in the tournament: Robert Green, Yupa Kaewwongsa. Peter Elio, Jesper Willaume, Lars Löfgren, Ari Kainu, Anders Virtala. Players have a 15 % discount at Collectors Hotels that lies in Gamla Stan in Stockholm. Feel free to contact Lars Löfgren for more details.
A growing circuit - With new events added in the agenda (in Malta, Sweden, Japan, South Africa, Belgium, Australia), the circuit is growing quickly. There is interest also from Spain, Greece and the UK so hopefully there will be many more tournaments in the next few months.
New project in Malaysia - CK Au (jack208@boardgamecafe.net) is trying to start a new project at Boardgamecafe.net, which is moving to a new place that will allow him to set up a subbuteo table. CK and his partners are planning to give another shot at reviving this game in Malaysia and once they have settled into their new centre, the will get back on details. This might be an important step to develop connections with players from Singapore in the future!
Postponed tournament in the US - The tournament planned for last week-end in Connecticut has been postponed. More details on the new date will be announced soon.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- September 4 - Tournament in Yokohama (Japan)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 25 - Tournament in Attard (Malta)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
- October 8 - Tournament in Stockholm (Sweden)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the UK, Finland, Russia (!), Greece, Malta, Sweden, Canada, the US, Germany and Italy. We also had visitors from Indonesia!
Subbuteo in Russia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Russia over the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Attard tournament tonight
16 players will be competiting in tonight's tournament in Attard (Malta), which is the second WASPA tournament held on the island. Players will be put in four groups of four players and the draw is as follows.
Group 1: Simon Gauci, Joseph Azzopardi, Nicholas Sciberras (Hamrun SC), Robert Azzopardi
Group 2: Daniele Spadaro, Clint Abela Wadge, Joseph M. Debono, Lon Joseph Cachia
Group 3: Hector Scerri, Etienne Deguara, Mario Spiteri, Darren Bezzina (SPQR Roma)
Group 4: Timothy Spiteri, Brendon Borg, Gordon Caruana, Marco Mifsud
PS: all players are members of Attard Subbuteo Club unless noted.
Group 1: Simon Gauci, Joseph Azzopardi, Nicholas Sciberras (Hamrun SC), Robert Azzopardi
Group 2: Daniele Spadaro, Clint Abela Wadge, Joseph M. Debono, Lon Joseph Cachia
Group 3: Hector Scerri, Etienne Deguara, Mario Spiteri, Darren Bezzina (SPQR Roma)
Group 4: Timothy Spiteri, Brendon Borg, Gordon Caruana, Marco Mifsud
PS: all players are members of Attard Subbuteo Club unless noted.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
A second tournament in Sweden
We are pleased to announce that there will be another tournament in Sweden on October 8. The tournament, organized by Lars Löfgren, will be held at the O'Leary restaurant and the games will start at 13.00. The address of the venue is Järntorgsgatan 5, Gamla Stan, Stockholm. Details available at the following e-mail address: lars.lofgren@bordshockeyexperten.se
Monday, 29 August 2011
A first tournament in Japan
We are pleased to announce that the very first WASPA tournament in Japan will be held on September 4 in Yokohama. Details can be found from Kenzo Koi at koikoifulie@hotmail.com
Thursday, 25 August 2011
The news of the week (10)
Hello everyone, here are the news of the week.
Results of the Stockholm tournament - After the tournament, the winner, Marcus Tilgner from Germany, gave his feelings about the event: "The impression of the whole tournament was really good. Lars did a great job in organising everything perfectly including new tables, discount at the bar for the players, t-shirts and so on. Well done, I am already looking forward too seeing you all again!"
The results can be seen on a very nice page at http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/international/stockholm11.htm
About the Singapore tournament - The results of the Singapore tournament will be published as soon as we get the results file from the organizers. The feedback about the tournament was really positive
Tournament in England - There are good chances a tournament will be held on September 24 by the club of Yorkshire Phoenix. Paul Lawrenson's club is organizing a circuit of 4 "Super League" meeets throughout the season, which are generally held in September, November, February and April and the tournaments could be classed as WASPA events. The first of these is to be staged on September 24th at Wakefield Wilcats Rugby Stadium. More details will be coming soon.
Singapore players on tour - Christopher Soh (Subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com), a player from Singapore, will be in Europe between September 22 and October 4. He would be happy to play some games, in particular when he is in LONDON and BARCELONA. Feel free to contact him to arrange a game. Also, Erza Aripin will probably be playing some game in Belgium on December 10 & 11 so it will be a good chance for Europeans to meet him!
First tournament in Spain - There are plans to organize a tournament in Barcelona during the celebrations days at "Sant Andreu del Palomar" in Barcelona. The tournament will be held in November but the exact date is still to be decided. More details with the location and the date will be announced soon.
First WASPA tournament in Australia - Brett Davis is announcing details about the firstW ASPA tournament in Austraia can be found here: http://www.southernbattlegamers.org/moabsite/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95:1st-waspa-subbuteo-tournament-2011&catid=11:competitions-a-events-2011&Itemid=3
Tournament in Malta - The forthcoming tournament in Malta will be held on August 31. 16 players are registered and theyw ill be dropped in 4 groups of 4 players. the top players of each group will play the semi-finals.
News from Canada - Due to the low number of competitors, there was no tournament in Toronto last week-end but the players had some games and talks about how to get more players involved in the future. Hopefully there will be some good news from Canada in the next few weeks.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the Singapore, Finland, the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, Belgium and Malta.
Subbuteo in Latvia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Latvia orver the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
Results of the Stockholm tournament - After the tournament, the winner, Marcus Tilgner from Germany, gave his feelings about the event: "The impression of the whole tournament was really good. Lars did a great job in organising everything perfectly including new tables, discount at the bar for the players, t-shirts and so on. Well done, I am already looking forward too seeing you all again!"
The results can be seen on a very nice page at http://home.arcor.de/mtilgner/international/stockholm11.htm
About the Singapore tournament - The results of the Singapore tournament will be published as soon as we get the results file from the organizers. The feedback about the tournament was really positive
Tournament in England - There are good chances a tournament will be held on September 24 by the club of Yorkshire Phoenix. Paul Lawrenson's club is organizing a circuit of 4 "Super League" meeets throughout the season, which are generally held in September, November, February and April and the tournaments could be classed as WASPA events. The first of these is to be staged on September 24th at Wakefield Wilcats Rugby Stadium. More details will be coming soon.
Singapore players on tour - Christopher Soh (Subbuteo_aficionado@hotmail.com), a player from Singapore, will be in Europe between September 22 and October 4. He would be happy to play some games, in particular when he is in LONDON and BARCELONA. Feel free to contact him to arrange a game. Also, Erza Aripin will probably be playing some game in Belgium on December 10 & 11 so it will be a good chance for Europeans to meet him!
First tournament in Spain - There are plans to organize a tournament in Barcelona during the celebrations days at "Sant Andreu del Palomar" in Barcelona. The tournament will be held in November but the exact date is still to be decided. More details with the location and the date will be announced soon.
First WASPA tournament in Australia - Brett Davis is announcing details about the firstW ASPA tournament in Austraia can be found here: http://www.southernbattlegamers.org/moabsite/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95:1st-waspa-subbuteo-tournament-2011&catid=11:competitions-a-events-2011&Itemid=3
Tournament in Malta - The forthcoming tournament in Malta will be held on August 31. 16 players are registered and theyw ill be dropped in 4 groups of 4 players. the top players of each group will play the semi-finals.
News from Canada - Due to the low number of competitors, there was no tournament in Toronto last week-end but the players had some games and talks about how to get more players involved in the future. Hopefully there will be some good news from Canada in the next few weeks.
Forthcoming events - Here is a list of the forthcoming WASPA tournaments. We hope many more will be added in the near future.
- August 27 - Tournament in England (details coming soon) - to be confirmed
- August 28 - Tournament in Farmington, CT (USA)
- August 31 - Tournament in Malta (details coming soon)
- September 9 - Tournament in Johannesburg (South Africa)
- September 27 - Tournament in Templeuve (Belgium) - to be confirmed
- October 1 - Tournament in Sylvania (Australia)
Top 10 nations this week on the blog - This week the bigger number of visitors were from the the Singapore, Finland, the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Latvia, Sweden, Belgium and Malta.
Subbuteo in Latvia - The blog has had a lot of visitors from Latvia orver the last few days. If there are some players over there, don't hesitate to drop us a line at vincent.cop@rsca.com. We are here to help you!
Keep on flicking,
Vincent
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