Brian Daley wins the Manchester tournament

The monthly tournament of the Manchester club took place on wednesday with 6 players taking part and everyone having 4 games. Brian Daley won the event again with four wins while Steve Clarke had 9 points, Danny Lilley was third with 6 points. Craig Pardoe was 4th, Greg Sammons 5th and Connor Bowden 6th.

As a reminder, the final stage of the Sliders Tour 2013 will take place on November 2nd in at Heckmondwike, Yorkshire.

A tournament in Toongabbie

WASPA has just been in touch with another group of players in the Sydney area. Adrian runs a subbuteo tournament every year in september for 15 years now. As a coincidence, the date of this year's tournament clashes with the Penrith tournament as it will be held on September 14. The good thing is that Adrian and his friend might be able to attend other tournaments in Penrith or in the area in the future. Anyway, Adrian's tournament will have the WASPA status this year.

Adrian reported he has been a subbuteo fan for many years: "Subbuteo has been very quiet in Australia for a long time. I went to a tournament once as a teenager in the late 80s and there were 50 or so competitors, but there hasn't really been anything much since then! Every year around september I have a look around online to see if anything is around and was very happy to see the australian website, which has only appeared since the last tournament my friends and I had! So, I've been in contact with them and will hopefully be able to get involved."

Interested players should get in touch with Adrian at ajebec@netspace.net.au to try to arranger more games in the future!

Big efforts of promotion by TSC Black Rose '98 in Roma

A.S.D. Table Soccer Club Black Rose ’98 Roma celebrates the 15th anniversary of the foundation (dated 1st September 1998) with an extraordinary and unprecedent promotional for durability (29 consecutive days), intensity (170 hours), advertising exposure (planned and edited by Centro Commerciale ROMAEST), prestige and attendance of the friendly complex that hosts us (Centro Commerciale ROMAEST) and the importance of the partners with whom we work (AS Roma, G.E.CO Animation).
This is the 8th Black Rose promotional event since september 2012 after:
1) Campus dei Licei – Cisterna di Latina;
2) Istituto De Merode – Roma;
3) In Vino Veritas – Frosinone;
4) Frosinone Calcio – Frosinone;
5) Istituto Comprensivo Mar dei Caraibi – Ostia;
6) Sport Village For You – Porto Turistico di Roma;
7) Sport e Disabilità – Fiumicino.
A.S.D. T.S.C. Black Rose ’98 Roma is the main partner of AS Roma Party, AS Roma official licensee, for the Subbuteo Area where the ROMAEST customers can play the “Subbuteo Training Game” designed by Andrea Strazza for A.S.D. T.S.C. Black Rose ’98 Roma and AS Roma Party.
Untill 10th September 2013, 137 ROMAEST customers played at “Subbuteo Training Game”. Other statistics in the next update.

A.S.D. T.S.C. Black Rose ’98 Roma will publish a photographic reportage at the end of the event on its website: http://www.blackrose98roma.com/ (URL corrected)

(article written by Enrico Guidi)

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All-Ireland championships this week-end

The All-Ireland Championships will take place on Sunday 15th September 2013 at 9.30am in Celbridge Mill. The Irish Circuit has already been won by Mark Farrell but Kenny Beggs will be hoping to defend his title of All-Ireland Champion. Organizers have confirmed it will be the very first "national cup" under WASPA banner. Full details can be seen on www.nitfa.org.uk

Winners of the FISTF World Cup

Congratulations to the winners of the FISTF World Cup held in Madrid this week-end.

Individual champions

Open: Alberto Mateos (Spain)
Veterans: Massimo Bolognino (Italy)
U19: Luigi Di Vito (Italy)
U15: Claudio Panebianco (Italy)
U12: Claudio La Torre (Italy)
Ladies: Delphine Dieudonné (Belgium)

Teams winners

Open: Italy
Veterans: Italy
U19: Italy
U15: Italy
U12: Italy
Ladies: Belgium (unofficial, only 2 nations taking part)

News from Ontario

After a fantastic season with 27 tournaments held in Canada, the first events of the year in the country will be held in the next few days. Calgary had already announced a tournament for September 15. Now the guys from Hamilton have confirmed they will have an event on September 14. Interested players can contact Peter Sexton at peter.sexton@ymail.com

Peter has also officially become the WASPA contact for Ontario.

More events and activities in Arabona

The italian club of ASD Arabona Subbuteo Table Soccer Brasilia has just announced the calendar of events of the new season. There will be several tournaments in different cities of the area. Interested players can contact Fabrizio Fedele at arabonasubbuteo@gmail.com

The calendar:
September 22: meeting in Manoppello
October 27: meeting in Pescara
November 10: location to be decided
December 14-15: 3° Open Extreme Works Cup Manoppello - FISCT

There will be a table football school in Arabona Manoppello every wednesday from 8.00 pm in both "Subbuteo" and "Table football" versions. Meetings will also be organized every friday evening from 6.00 pm at "la chiesa del Mare" in Pescara.

Email: arabonasubbuteo@gmail.com
Website: www.arabonasubbuteo.jimdo.com

Diederik Boyen wins the first WASPA tournament of SC Flanders

14 players attended the very first WASPA tournament organized by SC Flanders in Hofstade-Zemst (Belgium). The event was played under swiss system with everyone playing four games. Diederik Boyen was the winner of the event with 4 wins in the pocket. Jos Ceulemans (picture) ended at the second place of the event with 9 points and a better goal difference than Peter Pollaert and Frank Lannoy. There will be WASPA tournaments every first monday of the month in Hofstade-Zemst this season (from September till June).

The tournament ranking:
1 Diederik Boyen (BEL/-) 12 pts - GA: 7
2 Jos Ceulemans (BEL/zur) 9 pts - GA: 10
3 Peter Pollaert (BEL/fla) 9 pts - GA: 5
4 Frank Lannoy (BEL/tem) 9 pts - GA: 5
5 Stephane Lambert (BEL/kei) 5 pts - GA: 2
6 Rudi De Smet (BEL/leu) 5 pts - GA: 0
7 Vincent Guyaux (BEL/fla) 5 pts - GA: -1
8 Filip Van Hulle (BEL/fla) 4 pts - GA: 1
9 Bart Van de Vliet (BEL/fla) 4 pts - GA: -1
10 Johan Lourdon (BEL/fla) 4 pts - GA: -4
11 Danny De Greef (BEL/fla) 4 pts - GA: -4
12 Eddy Beernaert (BEL/fla) 4 pts - GA: -5
13 Bert Feyens (BEL/fla) 2 pts - GA: -6
14 Steven De Greveleer (BEL/fla) 1 pts - GA: -9

Agenda of the WASPA Lazio League 2013-2014

The club of SS Lazio has set up the dates of the WASPA Lazio League 2013/2014. Details (in english and in italian) can be found on the webpage http://www.laziotfc.com/?q=node/2571

The dates are as follows:
Tuesday September 24
Tuesday October 29
Wednesday November 27
Wednesday January 29
Wednesday February 26
Wednesday April 30
Wednesday May 28
Wednesday June 25

For more details, you can contact Stefano Tagliaferri at stefano@laziotfc.com

Josef Camilleri wins the 200th WASPA tournament

24 players attended the WASPA tournament held in Attard (Malta). It was already the 200th regional tournament since the creation of WASPA and players from the clubs of Attard and Bormla were present in numbers to fight for the "Brendon Borg Cup". After the first round, the top 16 players qualified for the last 16 round but there were no surprises before the quarter-finals. The Bormla players dominated the event to put four players in the semi-finals. Josef Camilleri and Mauro Camilleri qualified for the final and Josef won the final on shots after a great final (2-2). the game for the third place also ended on shots and George Ebejer beat Alex Grima. Special thanks for Joseph M. Debono for organizing the event and Congratulations to the Bormla players.

Action in the hall

The final

The final for the third place

Mauro Camilleri: finalist

Josef Camilleri gets his trophy

Josef Camilleri the tournament winner