Thursday, 22 August 2013
10 more tournaments in Belgium
There is a big announcement coming up from Belgium as the club of SC Flanders will organize a circuit of 10 WASPA tournaments in the new season. All events will be held at 8.00 pm at the club venue in HOFSTADE-ZEMST and the calendar of events is scheduled as follows: September 2, October 7, November 4, December 2, January 6, February 3, March 3, April 7, May 5 and June 2. Interested players should contact Filip Van Hulle at filip@subbuteovlaanderen.be
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Winter Challenge a flicking success!
Saturday the 17th of August saw the successful hosting of the South African Table Football Association’s Winter Challenge. History was made in local table football circles when members of all three local table football clubs, namely Panorama TFC, Randburg TFC and Pretoria Flickers, were represented for the first time in a tournament.
A total of 21 participants flicked off in a Junior and Senior section. The junior section had three groups where the winner and runner-up progressed to the knock-out stages. The top two group winners progressed automatically to the semi-finals and the remaining 4 players competed in a barrage round for the remaining semi-final berths. Alex Rodrigues, who won his 4 group games convincingly, carried on his good form and defeated Fraser Kilian by 3 goals to 1 in an entertaining semi-final. Jayden van der Merwe, from Pretoria Flickers caused the first upset when he accounted for a previously undefeated Fraser Kilian by the odd goal in a tense eliminator. The junior final proved to be an extremely good advertisement for junior table football with the quality of play proving to be of a very high standard. After a tense and goalless final, the dreaded penalty shoot-out resulted in which Jayden held his nerve to edge out Alex by 4 goals to 3.
The senior section also proved to be a tight affair with some great action and goals showcasing a very successful tournament. Clifford and Fernando won their respective groups and were paired against their Pretoria counterparts in Chesseray and Adrian. Fernando needed a penalty shoot-out to oust Adrian in a very tense game and was joined by Clifford who outlasted Chesseray in a free-flowing game.
The senior final saw old adversaries, namely Clifford and Fernando squaring off again in a very entertaining and exciting final. In the end it was Clifford who proved victorious by 2 goals to 0 after a very tough final.
The tournament was concluded with a Champions clash between Junior champion – Jayden, against the senior champion – Clifford. In a very entertaining Final Clifford edged out Jayden by the odd goal in three. However the quality of play by Jayden was extremely impressive and big things are expected from Jayden in the future as his playing maturity level is way ahead of his age.
The post-tournament epitaph will once again reflect a very successful tournament where new friendships were made and as always, enjoyment was the buzz word with participants leaving with broad smiles.
Once again, thanks must go to Bryan Shekyll for allowing us to make use of the very impressive Randburg Soccer club-house.
(report by Clifford Graaff)
A total of 21 participants flicked off in a Junior and Senior section. The junior section had three groups where the winner and runner-up progressed to the knock-out stages. The top two group winners progressed automatically to the semi-finals and the remaining 4 players competed in a barrage round for the remaining semi-final berths. Alex Rodrigues, who won his 4 group games convincingly, carried on his good form and defeated Fraser Kilian by 3 goals to 1 in an entertaining semi-final. Jayden van der Merwe, from Pretoria Flickers caused the first upset when he accounted for a previously undefeated Fraser Kilian by the odd goal in a tense eliminator. The junior final proved to be an extremely good advertisement for junior table football with the quality of play proving to be of a very high standard. After a tense and goalless final, the dreaded penalty shoot-out resulted in which Jayden held his nerve to edge out Alex by 4 goals to 3.
The senior section also proved to be a tight affair with some great action and goals showcasing a very successful tournament. Clifford and Fernando won their respective groups and were paired against their Pretoria counterparts in Chesseray and Adrian. Fernando needed a penalty shoot-out to oust Adrian in a very tense game and was joined by Clifford who outlasted Chesseray in a free-flowing game.
The senior final saw old adversaries, namely Clifford and Fernando squaring off again in a very entertaining and exciting final. In the end it was Clifford who proved victorious by 2 goals to 0 after a very tough final.
The tournament was concluded with a Champions clash between Junior champion – Jayden, against the senior champion – Clifford. In a very entertaining Final Clifford edged out Jayden by the odd goal in three. However the quality of play by Jayden was extremely impressive and big things are expected from Jayden in the future as his playing maturity level is way ahead of his age.
The post-tournament epitaph will once again reflect a very successful tournament where new friendships were made and as always, enjoyment was the buzz word with participants leaving with broad smiles.
Once again, thanks must go to Bryan Shekyll for allowing us to make use of the very impressive Randburg Soccer club-house.
(report by Clifford Graaff)
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| After the tournament, the junior & senior winners played a friendly. Clifford Graaff (right) beat Jayden van der Merwe 2-1 |
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| Superb group picture |
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| Junior final between Jayden van der Merwe and Alex Rodrigues |
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| Junior and senior finalists |
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| Open final between Fernando Rodrigues and Clifford Graaff (0-2) with Bryan Shekyll as referee |
Sunday, 18 August 2013
Jeremy Bradley wins the third leg of the Sliders Tour
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| Jeremy Bradley gets his trophy from Paul Lawrenson and Danny Lilley |
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| Justin's broken ankle :( |
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| The trophies of the day |
Friday, 16 August 2013
End of the season in Hamilton: another victory for Peter Sexton!
The first year of the Hamilton Subbuteo Club is in the books and thanks to the core and regular group of revolving players. We have many players coming back from a busy summer and some new players starting in September and the club is expecting to be having full 16 man tournaments (and for the regulars it's time to get a pitch and board so the same two don't have to always lug theirs or a collective purchase). We have asked WASPA if we can hold two tournament in our boring months of November & February and have the second tourney in each month count for July & August and it's been granted. We will see if we adopt this. I would also like to propose a Champions tournament as we have enough to run a league within a league, extra games played at tournaments and possibly off days if need be.
As for the tournament, 10 players took part, both quarter-finals went to penalties. Kevin Suffoletta beat Liam Sexton and Brodyn Sexton beat Shaun Burt. Semi-finals results were Peter Sexton beating Kevin and Stephen McNab beating Brodyn. With Peter already cementing the league title, Stephen could have propelled to runner-up over Shaun but the cards weren't in his favour. Peter finished up with another victory.
(report with the help of Peter Sexton)
As for the tournament, 10 players took part, both quarter-finals went to penalties. Kevin Suffoletta beat Liam Sexton and Brodyn Sexton beat Shaun Burt. Semi-finals results were Peter Sexton beating Kevin and Stephen McNab beating Brodyn. With Peter already cementing the league title, Stephen could have propelled to runner-up over Shaun but the cards weren't in his favour. Peter finished up with another victory.
(report with the help of Peter Sexton)
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
8th WASPA title for Shane Hoopfer
(report by Shane Hoopfer)
Thursday, 8 August 2013
Elliott Bellefontaine wins the Chingford tournament
Seven players attended the WASPA tournament held in Chingford on wednesday and organized by the Essex Subbuteo League. There were many games as every played in the league system. At the end of the evening, there was a small surprise as Elliott Bellefontaine won the event with five wins and one loss. It is the very first tournament win for Elliott in the WASPA circuit. Kevin Cordell was second, Rudi Peterschinigg was third and Martin Bellefontaine (Elliott's dad) was fourth.
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| First WASPA title for Elliott Bellefontaine |
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| Kevin Cordell took the second place of the tournament |
First WASPA title for Brian Daley
Seven players attended the Manchester tournament held on Augst 7th. Organizers decided to play under swiss system in four sessions and everyone had a good time. Brian Daley won all his games to win the title while Steve Clarke was second, Danny Lilley was third and Greg Sammons was fourth. Well done Brian!
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Interview of Luke Radziminski
Can you introduce yourself as a player? When did you start playing?
My name is Luke Radziminski and I am from Melbourne, Australia. The day I started playing subbuteo was roughly around the time I was turning 18 last year in November. The way I became interested in subbuteo in the first place was during a lengthy period of the off-season of football while I was an active member on the Melbourne Heart forum and one member started a thread on Subbuteo around April 2012. Others have contributed sharing their memories when they were kids with their dad’s introducing them to the game, and others posting pictures of different stadiums that subbuteo enthusiasts posted on the internet. I was not only astounded by the amount of effort put into those particular stadiums but finding out that a strategy-like table top game that is based on football has really caught my attention.
After researching for a couple of months about subbuteo, watching numerous video clips of game plays and learning the rules, I was very ambitious to invest in my first subbuteo set and managed to during the week of my 18th birthday.
I started to play with friends to experiment its mechanics but my first ever tournament I attended was around the month of April which was also the first ever tournament in Melbourne.
Why do you like subbuteo table football?
I am a fan of strategy games and table top games as well a passionate football fan (my primary sport) and I must say subbuteo does create a very good mixture for my enjoyment. The game is underrated and underestimated with the enjoyment and competition it provides and the fact that it can substitute snooker/pool in your home. Not only that, I am not a good footballer myself and only found to be more skilled in field hockey that’s why I played it for 6 seasons (and probably more), I have 2 younger brothers that play high division football in their age group and the youngest one is representing his state! Feeling a bit left out, however, with subbuteo in my household, the game allows me to be part of the footballing culture and maintain my love for the game.
What are your greatest achievements in the game?
In terms of playing? Attending the second tournament and finishing on top of other players who were new to subbuteo as much as me but finishing outside of the top 4 which consisted of players who had many years of experience, but it did provide a massive confidence boost.
Off-field achievements? To start off, I am a Melbourne Heart supporter and also part of their active group “Yarraside”. I am not your “Ultras/hooligan” type I am just an individual who loves the club and community and to maximise my enjoyment I would join in this group to provide my vocal support throughout the 90 minutes. To show my appreciation to Yarraside, I have committed myself to a mini-project where I bought piece of a terrace stadium and hand painted every single spectator, applied legitimate Yarraside banners and flag, past and present. (Was fortunate enough through a friend who has happy to email me pdf files of these so I could print them off). From there, I took photos and managed to have them displayed on the Yarraside Facebook page which received well over 100 likes, and introduced subbuteo to many who have not heard of it, from there I upgraded the terrace to a grandstand dedicated to Yarraside.
Also, during the month of December, this was the period where I have started collecting teams, the start of my project and other forum members sharing their subbuteo journey through purchasing their own starters kit. Somewhere also were inspired to create their own stadiums and supporters after they viewed my photos of my own stadia. The subbuteo thread on the Melbourne Heart forum was very active following with the producer of the Melbourne Heart match day magazine: Schip Happens! To write an article about Subbuteo and how it was being revived here in Australia and give a slight hint of the current activity reviving the game here in Melbourne which arguably started from the forum. The revival of the game here in Victoria was inevitable and I was honoured to take part in the first Melbourne tournament with 3 Yarraside members (including myself) contributing to make this tournament happen under the WASPA banner.
For the record, this isn’t an exclusive, Melbourne heart supporter’s only club. Any person is invited, victory supporters or neutral.
If you had to improve something in table football tournaments, what would it be?
Although the 2 successful tournaments had past, Weare in the talks of expanding and re-adjusting future subbuteo sessions. Quoting Carl Young from the Subbuteo Melbourne Facebook group: "Hi everyone, after the success of our recent get togethers and I have been asked what is next for Melbourne Subbuteo and any chances of more games?
Therefore, could you let us know by July 22nd if you would be up for playing in a local league. Don't worry about the format and how many times we'd meet just let us know if you are interested for now.
Also, who would be interested in helping to run/organise the league/club? The more the merrier.
Finally, and I are looking into running a full weekend tournament at sometime in the future. On the Sat we'd have an individual comp followed by a team comp on the Sunday. This in the hope we'd get players from interstate and even Singapore (I've already contact my Subbuteo mate Den in Singapore who might be interested). We'd be able to have Melbourne A, B, C teams if we had enough local players."
What are your thoughts about WASPA? Why do you like (or dislike) it?
I love the fact that WASPA exists which enables all players to communicate and form a strong connection and provide the ability to advertise future tournaments to increase participation rates.
Nothing wrong with WASPA but I just hope someday more businesses in Australia would make investments on the subbuteo product and hopefully people would catch on and follow up on WASPA and join the association and willing to participate in tournaments.
The only thing about WASPA (from what I experienced here in Australia) is that I only heard about them once I started collecting subbuteo equipment and a mention of it on the Heart forum, courtesy of Vincent Coppenolle himself. Perhaps there could be ways of WASPA or 3rd parties reaching out to football communities and mention something about Subbuteo just like the magazine Schip Happens? Follow the link if interested.
http://www.redwhiteunite.com/schip-happens-volume-2-edition-3/
My name is Luke Radziminski and I am from Melbourne, Australia. The day I started playing subbuteo was roughly around the time I was turning 18 last year in November. The way I became interested in subbuteo in the first place was during a lengthy period of the off-season of football while I was an active member on the Melbourne Heart forum and one member started a thread on Subbuteo around April 2012. Others have contributed sharing their memories when they were kids with their dad’s introducing them to the game, and others posting pictures of different stadiums that subbuteo enthusiasts posted on the internet. I was not only astounded by the amount of effort put into those particular stadiums but finding out that a strategy-like table top game that is based on football has really caught my attention.
After researching for a couple of months about subbuteo, watching numerous video clips of game plays and learning the rules, I was very ambitious to invest in my first subbuteo set and managed to during the week of my 18th birthday.
I started to play with friends to experiment its mechanics but my first ever tournament I attended was around the month of April which was also the first ever tournament in Melbourne.
Why do you like subbuteo table football?
I am a fan of strategy games and table top games as well a passionate football fan (my primary sport) and I must say subbuteo does create a very good mixture for my enjoyment. The game is underrated and underestimated with the enjoyment and competition it provides and the fact that it can substitute snooker/pool in your home. Not only that, I am not a good footballer myself and only found to be more skilled in field hockey that’s why I played it for 6 seasons (and probably more), I have 2 younger brothers that play high division football in their age group and the youngest one is representing his state! Feeling a bit left out, however, with subbuteo in my household, the game allows me to be part of the footballing culture and maintain my love for the game.
What are your greatest achievements in the game?
In terms of playing? Attending the second tournament and finishing on top of other players who were new to subbuteo as much as me but finishing outside of the top 4 which consisted of players who had many years of experience, but it did provide a massive confidence boost.
Off-field achievements? To start off, I am a Melbourne Heart supporter and also part of their active group “Yarraside”. I am not your “Ultras/hooligan” type I am just an individual who loves the club and community and to maximise my enjoyment I would join in this group to provide my vocal support throughout the 90 minutes. To show my appreciation to Yarraside, I have committed myself to a mini-project where I bought piece of a terrace stadium and hand painted every single spectator, applied legitimate Yarraside banners and flag, past and present. (Was fortunate enough through a friend who has happy to email me pdf files of these so I could print them off). From there, I took photos and managed to have them displayed on the Yarraside Facebook page which received well over 100 likes, and introduced subbuteo to many who have not heard of it, from there I upgraded the terrace to a grandstand dedicated to Yarraside.
Also, during the month of December, this was the period where I have started collecting teams, the start of my project and other forum members sharing their subbuteo journey through purchasing their own starters kit. Somewhere also were inspired to create their own stadiums and supporters after they viewed my photos of my own stadia. The subbuteo thread on the Melbourne Heart forum was very active following with the producer of the Melbourne Heart match day magazine: Schip Happens! To write an article about Subbuteo and how it was being revived here in Australia and give a slight hint of the current activity reviving the game here in Melbourne which arguably started from the forum. The revival of the game here in Victoria was inevitable and I was honoured to take part in the first Melbourne tournament with 3 Yarraside members (including myself) contributing to make this tournament happen under the WASPA banner.
For the record, this isn’t an exclusive, Melbourne heart supporter’s only club. Any person is invited, victory supporters or neutral.
If you had to improve something in table football tournaments, what would it be?
Although the 2 successful tournaments had past, Weare in the talks of expanding and re-adjusting future subbuteo sessions. Quoting Carl Young from the Subbuteo Melbourne Facebook group: "Hi everyone, after the success of our recent get togethers and I have been asked what is next for Melbourne Subbuteo and any chances of more games?
Therefore, could you let us know by July 22nd if you would be up for playing in a local league. Don't worry about the format and how many times we'd meet just let us know if you are interested for now.
Also, who would be interested in helping to run/organise the league/club? The more the merrier.
Finally, and I are looking into running a full weekend tournament at sometime in the future. On the Sat we'd have an individual comp followed by a team comp on the Sunday. This in the hope we'd get players from interstate and even Singapore (I've already contact my Subbuteo mate Den in Singapore who might be interested). We'd be able to have Melbourne A, B, C teams if we had enough local players."
What are your thoughts about WASPA? Why do you like (or dislike) it?
I love the fact that WASPA exists which enables all players to communicate and form a strong connection and provide the ability to advertise future tournaments to increase participation rates.
Nothing wrong with WASPA but I just hope someday more businesses in Australia would make investments on the subbuteo product and hopefully people would catch on and follow up on WASPA and join the association and willing to participate in tournaments.
The only thing about WASPA (from what I experienced here in Australia) is that I only heard about them once I started collecting subbuteo equipment and a mention of it on the Heart forum, courtesy of Vincent Coppenolle himself. Perhaps there could be ways of WASPA or 3rd parties reaching out to football communities and mention something about Subbuteo just like the magazine Schip Happens? Follow the link if interested.
http://www.redwhiteunite.com/schip-happens-volume-2-edition-3/
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| Luke and his teams |
Friday, 2 August 2013
Monthly report of July 2013
You can download the monthly report file here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4_PpphlADgVeDFLdUZ6S25DQTQ
Here is the monthly report of the WASPA circuit.
1) Statistics
July 2013 was supposed to be a calm period due to the holidays but there were many events:
- 19 regional tournaments
- 2 tournaments with the old rules
- 1 promotional tournament (for the first time in italy)
- 1 tournament with the advanced rules (played in Ireland)
57 new players have been added in the rankings and we have now a total of 823 players ranked!
2) What happened this month?
For the first time Canada is on top of the ranking of nations, which is a good reward for the great efforts to relaunch the game in the country in the last 12 months.
Due to the summer and some special circumstances, some clubs asked to have 2 events in July. This was possible because they had no tournament in June or they will have no tournament in August.
We were glad to see the second tournament in Finland and also the double event in Ireland. The advanced rules brought very good things as there were many close games and some surprises in the results.
We wish a warm welcome to the Maltese club of Bormla. After the great efforts done by Attard Subbuteo Club, it is good to see another club in the island organizing a WASPA tournament.
Well done the the Pretoria Flickers for promoting the game in South Africa.
WASPA was also very honored to have the first tournament in South Carolina (USA) played under their banner.
Congratulations to the Italian club of Bari for organizing their first 2 events with a good turnout of players.
Finally, we would like to thank all organizers for helping WASPA to grow and for putting energy to host tournaments. Even when there are notmany players, there can be many good games and many players can be introduced to the game.
3) Useful links
Here are a 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/127530464069377/?fref=ts
the WASPA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WASPA-World-Amateur-Subbuteo-Players-Association/231789816834700
the independant table football forum: http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
To add tournaments or to send results, please use this e-mail address: vincent.cop@rsca.com
4) Help needed for interviews
REMINDER:
For the future, we will try to have more interviews on the blog. If you are interested to be interviewed or if you want to interview one of your friends, you cans end a picture to vincent.cop@rsca.com and answer the following 5 questions:
- can you introduce yourself as a player? When did you start playing?
- why do you like subbuteo table football?
- what are your greatest achivements in the game?
- If you had to improve something in table football tournaments, what would it be?
- What are your thoughts about WASPA? Why do you like (or dislike) it?
5) WASPA is waiting your feedback
Any idea on how to improve WASPA is more than welcome. A new season is going to start and we are looking for ideas to get more players involved, more nations taking part and more clubs organizing events. Your ideas to improve things can be sent by e-mail to vincent.cop@rsca.com
6) 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
Have a great month!
Vincent Coppenolle
Here is the monthly report of the WASPA circuit.
1) Statistics
July 2013 was supposed to be a calm period due to the holidays but there were many events:
- 19 regional tournaments
- 2 tournaments with the old rules
- 1 promotional tournament (for the first time in italy)
- 1 tournament with the advanced rules (played in Ireland)
57 new players have been added in the rankings and we have now a total of 823 players ranked!
2) What happened this month?
For the first time Canada is on top of the ranking of nations, which is a good reward for the great efforts to relaunch the game in the country in the last 12 months.
Due to the summer and some special circumstances, some clubs asked to have 2 events in July. This was possible because they had no tournament in June or they will have no tournament in August.
We were glad to see the second tournament in Finland and also the double event in Ireland. The advanced rules brought very good things as there were many close games and some surprises in the results.
We wish a warm welcome to the Maltese club of Bormla. After the great efforts done by Attard Subbuteo Club, it is good to see another club in the island organizing a WASPA tournament.
Well done the the Pretoria Flickers for promoting the game in South Africa.
WASPA was also very honored to have the first tournament in South Carolina (USA) played under their banner.
Congratulations to the Italian club of Bari for organizing their first 2 events with a good turnout of players.
Finally, we would like to thank all organizers for helping WASPA to grow and for putting energy to host tournaments. Even when there are notmany players, there can be many good games and many players can be introduced to the game.
3) Useful links
Here are a 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/127530464069377/?fref=ts
the WASPA Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WASPA-World-Amateur-Subbuteo-Players-Association/231789816834700
the independant table football forum: http://tablefootball.friendhood.net/
To add tournaments or to send results, please use this e-mail address: vincent.cop@rsca.com
4) Help needed for interviews
REMINDER:
For the future, we will try to have more interviews on the blog. If you are interested to be interviewed or if you want to interview one of your friends, you cans end a picture to vincent.cop@rsca.com and answer the following 5 questions:
- can you introduce yourself as a player? When did you start playing?
- why do you like subbuteo table football?
- what are your greatest achivements in the game?
- If you had to improve something in table football tournaments, what would it be?
- What are your thoughts about WASPA? Why do you like (or dislike) it?
5) WASPA is waiting your feedback
Any idea on how to improve WASPA is more than welcome. A new season is going to start and we are looking for ideas to get more players involved, more nations taking part and more clubs organizing events. Your ideas to improve things can be sent by e-mail to vincent.cop@rsca.com
6) 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
Have a great month!
Vincent Coppenolle
Thursday, 1 August 2013
First title for Andy Boyer
Andy Boyer won the Morning Star Cup held in Lincoln on wednesday. Andy came on top of the league with Jeremy Boothman finishing second, John Devaney was third and Michael Hardy was fourth.
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