Anas takes the champion belt in Singapore

Anas won the tournament

The Jurong Central Subbuteo Club (JCSC) League WASPA for the month of March saw 13 ‘wrestlers’ battling it out for glory in this wrestling-themed tournament. Players were represented by well known wrestlers, and are random drawn into 4 groups, with the top 2 in every group qualifying for the quarterfinals. The quarter and semi finals saw intense matches, and the’final showdown’ was between Rudy a.k.a Mankind and Anas a.k.a The Rock. Anas ‘The Rock’ slammed Rudy ‘Mankind’ with an early goal. With victory almost certain for Anas ‘The Rock’, Rudy ‘Mankind’ managed to score a goal in the dying seconds of the match, bringing it to sudden death extra time. With no goals scored in extra time, a sudden death shootout proceeded. Rudy’s shot was saved, while Anas’ shot found the back of the net. The Rock wins the title! Congrats to the winners!

(Report by the organizers)

The Copa Libertadores for Andrea Pagano

This friday evening the club of Catanzaro was holding a tournament with the old rules under the theme of the "Copa Libertadores". Estudiantes (Andrea Pagano) finished on top with 14 points after playing a round robin of 6 games for every player. Vasco de Gama (Alessandro Corigliano) was runner up (11 points) while Penarol (Davide Colace) was third (8) and Boca Juniors (Salvatore Scalise) ended in last position.

A nice win for Tan Kok Wee

Sunday TFAS WASPA were participants who did not progress to the 2nd rounds of the International open event. The plates event had several senior players namely John Ho, Tan Kok Wee, Chandru and Sham who were grouped with several of our promising under 19s and adult players where the 10 players dished out several fierce games in the 4 rounds of swiss games.

In the end, Tan Kok Wee emerged as the WASPA champion while John Ho came in 2nd.

The end of the Kingdom?

Big suprises at Breda club last night: the "King" Massimo Lapucci is resoundingly eliminated by an astonishing Alfredo Granato who played an amazing offensive strategy. Final match for Stefano Braschi and the "Maestro" Pierluigi D'Amico, qualified after a long series of shoot-outs over Granato (he also lost the 3rd place at shoot-out lottery). A shocked Lapucci also lost the consolation final. Lapucci still stands at the top of ranking, now threatened by the round winner Braschi.

(Report by Alfredo Granato)

Gagliardi wins the provincial championship

 

This week-end the "provincial championship" was played in Macerata (Italy) with 12 players competing with the old rules.

Alberto Gagliardi defeated Paolo Guidara in the final. Mario Marcolini and Massimo Garbuglia reached the semi-finals.

Another good night in Sydney

Only six players, but some good competition on a Tuesday night at the Northern Falcons’ ‘home’ at GoodGames. Fabrizio Coco took the title unbeaten, though he had a couple of scares. He only beat Johnny Ball with a goal  seconds from time, then did the same against Steve Dettre. Eliot Kennedy found his shooting finger after a sluggish start against Fabrizio (0-2), before beating Steve 2-0 and Simon 5-0. Simon Cole continued his impressive performances with his mighty West Ham Snipers, pipping Johnny. Quote of the night had to go to Johnny, after a delightful move and chip to score against Steve. “I love playing this game.”

(Report by Steve Dettre)

A first trophy for Renaud Parisel

Renaud Parisel and beginner Tom Léonard

This saturday the club of Semois SC was hosting their 5th WASPA tournament in their premises of Vresse-sur-Semois. The event saw Tom léonard making his first appearance in a tournament and a surprising final result as Renaud Parisel, the runner-up of the four previous events, finally managed to beat Pascal Droeven to claim the title. The club is growing slowly but surely and is now expecting to get more table to welcome more players from other clubs.

Erich Hinkelmann wins in Ebreichsdorf

A few weeks ago Austrias youngest Club, the TFKN Dragons, celebrated their second birthday. Their home tournament is the same age. The Anninger Cup , named after a mountain in their home region, was held last weekend.

The Open final

This year the Anninger Cup was played as a FISTF Satellite and also a WASPA tournament. Besides a group of Dragons, almost every Austrian team was represented at Ebreichsdorf. With Erich Hinkelmann (TFC Mattersburg), Thomas Busch (TFKN Dragons) and David Busch (Master San Remo) three players from Austrias top tier participated. Erich Hinkelmann and David Busch did mange to go through to the final.

The final was a hard fight. David Busch put a strong performance to the table. But in the end the former worlds number 1 won. Erich Hinkelmann took the glory with an outstandig goal, which led to the final score of 2-1.

The players of the U19 section

Next to the Open Category a Under 19 Competition was held. Jonathan Nichtenberger (TFC Wien West) showed his current top form and claimed the titel of the „nFusion Cup“ (Named after the Sponsor). With an unbeaten run he topped his group and defeated his teammate Marios Strommer 2-1 in the final.

The TFKN Dragons say thank you to all the participants and are looking forward to the Anningers Cup 2017 edition.

(Report by Thomas Eppensteiner)

Gus Gillespie takes the honors in Brisbane

The 13th tournament of Brisbane Subbuteo Club was held this sunday in Mooloolah. Due to some last minute dropouts, only four players were taking part and Gus Gillpsie took the honors after winning 3 games and drawing 3 times. Giuseppe Tardiata was runner-up, Rick Bland was third and Andrew Ridgen took the fourth place.

Clifford Graaff wins again in Pretoria!

(Report by Julian vd Merwe)

Saturday 12 March 2016, Pretoria, South Africa
The 4th edition of the PFC Founder's Cup saw a field of 10 entries take part, including Clifford Graaff from the Johannesburg Table Football Club. The Founder's Cup is staged each year in March to celebrate the birthdate of Pretoria Flickers Club - PFC will celebrate it's 3rd year of existence on 24 March 2016 - thanks to all members for your continued support over the past 3 years, you have made it possible to continue playing! The event had 4 rounds of play - where each round of play was determined by ''random draw", with 2 points per win & 1 point per draw awarded. The random draw proved to be exciting in itself, but for some reason…..the pre-tournament favourites Jayden vd Merwe, Bevin Reed & Clifford Graaff were never drawn to play each other - but this did not detract from the entertainment levels at all! In the end Clifford Graaff won all 4 of his matches to gather 8 points in total - taking the honours on the day by 1 point over Pretoria's Jayden vd Merwe and Bevin Reed who were placed 2nd & 3rd respectively. A mention must be made about one of PFC's newest members….Adam Murray….whose efforts on the day earned him a well deserved 4th place overall. Adam managed to hold Jayden to 0-0 in round 1, and then suffered his only defeat by 1-0 to eventual event winner Clifford in round 4 - Clifford getting the winner with 30 seconds left to play!
On the day we witnessed a total of 35 goals over the 20 matches played….with only 4 matches ending 0-0. This made for a great day of goal action, thrills & spills - only as the game of Subbuteo can produce! The win for Clifford marks his 3rd triumph in as many months during 2016! Thanks to all for attending and making the day a success once again!

Final Standings - Pts
Clifford Graaff 8
Jayden vd Merwe 7
Bevin Reed 7
Adam Murray 4
Julian vd Merwe 4
Kegan vd Merwe 3
Chessray Jooste 3
Rowin Wilson 2
Stanton Nortjie 2
Neilon Waterson 0

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