A good start for Kebun Baru TFC

What is Kebun Baru TFC?
Kebun Baru Table Football Club (KBTFC) is association with Kebun Baru Heights Residents’ Committee. Kebun Baru is a precinct located at Ang Mo Kio, Singapore. The KBTFC was officially formed on 1st August 2016.
KBTFC are nicknamed The Doves, due to Kebun Baru’s unique location for Singapore popular Doves (Merbok and Zebra) enthusiasts’ community who have been there for more than 30 years.
The aim of KBTFC is to establish a kampung-like camaraderie and atmosphere that the community is able to find comfort and meaning in, even as the world has gone on to celebrate a different kind of tweet - the social-media type. Besides recruiting home grown players, the keys to long-term growth and continued club existence are a strong membership base and well-defined executive roles.
With the connection of friends from the other table football clubs in Singapore, KBTFC hope to share the love of the game with the rest of the world and KBTFC believe it will help the club establish a higher level of playing standard with competitive games.

KB League Cup (Season one)
KB League Cup organised by Kebun Baru Heights Residents’ Committee is open to all. The first season started on the 26th October 2016 and will end on the 27th May 2017. The competition is played accordance to FISTF and WASPA Rules. The League Champion will be determine by the total number of points accumulated on the final game. The number of points for each game depending on the participants on game day i.e. if the turnout is 10 players, the champion will be awarded 20 points, 2nd position 18 points so on until the last position 2 points.
Awards will be given for each individual game (Champion and Runners-up). KB League Cup will be presented to the Champion on the after final game at Kebun Baru Community Club on Saturday, 27th May 2017.



Following are the dates, times and venues for this season:

Dates, Times and Venues
Game 1: 26th October 2016 @ 7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 2: 9th November 2016 @ 7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 3: 11th January 2017 @ 7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 4: 8th February 2017 @ 7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 5: 8th March 2017 @ 7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 6: 12th April 2017 @7pm (Kebun Baru Heights RC)
Game 7: 27th May 2017 @ 1pm (Kebun Baru Community Club)
 
KB League Cup (Game 1 Results)
(Reported by Nic Tan)

On Wednesday (26 Oct 2016), the Kebun Baru Table Football Club has its first tournament in its KB League Cup, and seven players turned up: club captain Yew Loy, Kok Wee (aks SG Subbuteo), Rudy (aka Encik JurongSubbuteo), Anas, John Ho, Nic Tan and Noor Haikal.
Each played four games in a Swiss format (on the club’s newly-made tables), and in the end, the winner was Rudy (aka Encik JurongSubbuteo) who dominated with 12 points from four wins out of four. Nic came in second on 7 points. The next session will be held on Wed, 9 Nov 2016 (i.e. 2nd Wed of every month except Dec) so please join in if you can. All are invited!

Game 1 Table
1. Rudy (KB PTS: 14)
2. Nic Tan (KB PTS: 12)
3. Yew Loy (KB PTS: 10)
4. Anas (KB PTS: 8)
5. Kok Wee (KB PTS: 6)
6. Haikal (KB PTS: 4)
7. John Ho  (KB PTS: 2)

Giorgos Pitihoutis wins in Pireas

The very first WASPA tournament of the Pireas Lions took place last week-end with 8 players taking part. There were 4 local players and 4 representatives of the Flaming Flickers.

In the final, Giorgos Pitihoutis defeated Leonidas Koutromanos to take the title (1-0) while Spiros Stratoudakis took the best on Panos Panagiotides to take the third place. Thanks to both clubs for making a good day of Subbuteo.

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Paolo Barone on top in Harrow

Round 2 of the Harrow league was played last week as usual at the Tithe Social Club in Rayners Lane and a field of 9 players took part to it.
They were divided in 3 groups of 3 each, where, Elliott, Paolo and Rudi were seeded due to their placement in round one.
First group saw Elliott Bellefontaine easily cruising as leader of it whilst Kevin Walker and Neil Doherty were left to deal for the consolation spot, in the end Elliot won both his matches (2-1 vs Kev and 3-1 vs Neil) not as easily as you would imagine, sign that the other two are coming along nicely. Kevin came 2nd after a 0-0 draw with Neil thanks to a better goal difference.
The 2nd group was the so called group of death, where Paolo Barone, Panos Stemitsiotis and Victor Jones were drawn together, Paolo topped the group with 4 points, after beating Victor 3-0 and drawing 0-0 with Panos, Victor came second with 3 points by beating 1-0 Panos.
In the last group, not so surprisingly, Marco Ghigliotti came 1st with 4 points by a better goal difference due to a draw (1-1) with Rudi Peterschinigg and a win (6-1) vs John Ellis, John in the end came last by loosing also to Rudi (3-0).
The second round of the evening, was again a 3 groups affair, all the winners in the same group to fight for the first 3 positions, the runners up in another one for the 4th, 5th and 6th position and lasts in a group for the last 3 position of the evening.
Group 3, with surprisingly Panos in it, saw Panos beating both John and Neil 2-0, and Neil win over John (1-0) meant that Panos ended 7th, whilst Neil 8th and John last.
In the Group of the runners up, Rudi came out top and 4th on the evening by beating Kevin 4-0 and Victor 2-0, whilst Victor win over Kevin (2-0) guaranteed him the 5th spot on the night as Kevin obviously ended 6th.
The group of honour was a thrilling head to head between Paolo and Elliott, with Marco well capable of upsetting the two. The first match saw Paolo and Elliot drawing (1-1), Elliott scored an amazing goal (where's Rudi TV when you need it?) Paolo's equaliser, with 10 seconds left on the clock was another masterpiece, but incredibly gifted by Elliott which had possession of the ball when there were only 50 seconds left to play, Elliott would later find out that that mistake would cost him dearly, in fact after beating Marco 2-1, everything was still to be decided in the last match between Marco and Paolo. The Italian derby saw Marco taking the lead within the first few seconds of play, Elliot's giggle was soon to disappear when 5 minutes after Paolo equalised. In the second half, Paolo managed to put his nose in front, a momentary 2-1 lead that would have meant shots with Elliot if that would have been the final score, as the live table was stating Elliott and Paolo 4 point with same goal difference, but when only 2 minutes were left to play, Paolo thought that was enough playing for the night and hit his 3rd from distance for a 3-1 final score that handed him the win of the Waspa night and 2nd spot in the general League table.

Final table for the night:
1st Paolo Barone
2nd Elliott Bellefontaine
3rd Marco Ghigliotti
4th Rudi Peters
5th Victor Jones
6th Kevin Walker
7th Panos Stemitsiotis
8th Neil Doherty
9th John Ellis

As usual, was a great night, thanks everyone and hopefully see you all soon, just before the nationals in Enderby.

(Report by Rudi Peterschinigg)

Marco Zucchi wins in Prague

This week, the city of Prague i Czech Republic hosted a WASPA event in a hotel. Marco Zucchi reported the location as "the only Subbuteo Hotel in Europe". It was nice to see David Vacke back in action and the first appearance of Cedric Farrugia, a Maltese who is now living in Prague.

Marco Zucchi finished on top of the group while David Vake was runner-up, David Young took the third place and Cedric Farrugia took the fourth place. Well done!

A first victory for Stanley Farrugia

This Sunday 12 players attended the tournament organized by Attard Subbuteo Club in Malta. Stanley Farrugia defeated Joseph Agius in the final (1-0) to claim the title.

Miguel Zahra took the best on Zven Zahra to take the third place. It was the very first tournament win for the Stanley Farrugia in the WASPA circuit.

Western Flickers Goes North!

Western Flickers Melbourne 6th WASPA – WTF Goes North! (22 Oct 2016)
Reported by Benny Ng (Melbourne, Australia)

Western Flickers Table Football Club was formed to cater for players living on the north/west side of Melbourne and provide more opportunities to play the wonderful game of Subbuteo table football.
If you are reading this and new to Subbuteo table football, watch this video (https://youtu.be/2GwgHF8IrXQ) for a brief introduction to the game.It may have been the 2nd coldest (and probably wettest!) Melbourne day in history, but nothing was to stop Western Flickers from holding its 7th

WASPA tournament. The event was staged at WTF’s Northern HQ – Meadow Park Soccer Club – a regular venue for social Friday Flicks but hosting its first tournament.
Despite the grim weather, there was a good turnout of 10 flickers in the Open category and 4 kids in the Junior category.

“Veteran” Benjamin Ng vs up-and-coming Alex Briffa

Junior Category
Four of our club juniors faced off for honours. With the Briffa boys – Harrison and Alex – improving with every game, “veterans” Benjamin and Aidan has their task cut out for them. The category was played as a simple round robin format. It was a close tussle in most of the games with little to separate the boys. In the end, the more experienced Benjamin won the category by only a single point over the promising Harrison.

And away we go!

Open Category
The 10 players in the Open category were split into 3 groups. The top 3 WASPA ranked players – Luke Radziminski, Benny Ng and Adam Deverell – were spread across the groups and the rest randomly allocated.

Group Stages
The groups with Adam and Benny went to script according to WASPA rankings, but the real surprises were in Luke’s “Group of Death”. Beth Eveleigh – the “Queen of Australian Subbuteo” – put in a fantastic performance to hold MTFC president Luke to a goalless draw. This proved to be the key result of the group. With the returning Paul Mercer – once ranked the top player in Victoria – undefeated, it meant that he pipped Luke as group winner.
The other significant results of the first stage was draws achieved by newcomers Chris Hirst and Tim Kee (only his 3rd time playing table football!) against much more experienced opponents. Well done guys!

Kevin Grant facing off against Western Flickers co-founder Adam Deverell

Pool Stages
In the Consolation Pool, Beth won the pool comfortably dominating all her matches comfortably. It was a close tussle between Simon and Chris Hirst for second spot, with Simon coming ahead on goal difference. While Tim was unable to repeat his feats in the Group stages, it was a really good performance in his very first WASPA tournament and the fact that he hasn’t even heard of Subbuteo a couple of months ago!
In the Plates pool, Christos Garagounis demonstrated his continued improvement by following up a good win against Kevin Grant with a magnificent 2-2 draw against the much higher ranked Luke. Luke still emerged as pool winner by goal difference.
With Paul and Benny winning their opening matches against Adam in the Winner’s pool, it meant that the final match between the two flickers would be the tournament decider. It was an exciting match-up with Paul attacking and Benny defending resolutely hoping to catch Paul out on the break. In the end, Benny’s counter attacks turned out to be the difference and won his second WASPA title in a row.

Conclusion
Thanks to all who attended for helping to make it another extremely successful Western Flickers WASPA event. Finally and most importantly, everyone has loads of fun and went home happy. Table football was indeed the winner.
GO WEST!

Tournament winner Benny Ng and Runner-up Paul Mercer

The final Open category standings are:
1. Benny Ng
2. Paul Mercer
3. Adam Deverell
4. Luke Radzminski
5. Christos Garagounis
6. Kevin Grant
7. Beth Eveleigh
8. Simon Briffa
9. Chris Hirst
10. Tim Kee





The final Junior category standings are:
1. Benjamin Ng
2. Harrison Briffa
3. Alex Briffa
4. Aiden Deverall

P.S. If anyone is interested in taking part in future Western Flickers events or just popping by for chat and look-see, please visit the Western Flickers Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/WesternFlickers/) or send an email to bennidokk@yahoo.com

Belgium: wins for Denooz and Marain

Michaël Denooz - picture by Steve Closset

Action in the premises in Pecq

Two WASPA events were in the agenda in Belgium on Friday as the "Black Devils" and the "Warcoing Ducks" had events in their premises. There was no competition between both clubs as Pecq is about 200 kilometers away from Theux. The Back Devils tournament had 12 players. In the semis, Christophe dheur defeated Pascal Scheen (6-4) while Michaël Denooz took the best on David Fraikin (3-1). There was a surpris ein the final as Denooz defeated Dheur in sudden death to win his first WASPA title (3-2). In Pecq, Geoffrey Marain and Vincent Coppenolle tied on top of a group of 6. There was a sudden death to decide the winner but no goal was scored. Finally Marain won the title on shots, winning the trophy after making the difference while scoring his 12th shot! Congratulations to the winners.

The Halloween Cup for Rudy Hesty

Halloween came a week early for Singapore Jurong flickers; as they organised their monthly WASPA league tournament on 21st Oct.
The magnificent 8 club players were drawn in 2 groups with the top 2 of each group qualifying the Cup semis while the others qualifying the Plates Semis.

Group Games 
The upset of the day was definitely Fauzi beating Michael & drawing with Rudy, hence Fauzi winning group A, with Rudy securing 2nd & Michael Choong A.K.A Mr Juventus not qualifying the cup rounds. Group B also produced some blips with,  Haikal beating Anas, but the later still managed to top the group.

PLATES Semis / Final 
The father & son game saw Michael winning 2-0 against Giovanni while Nic edged Ding Heng 3-0 for an Epic Plates final.
The final between Michael & Nic ended in a stalemate with sudden-death shots to settle the winner, where Michael came out tops as Plates winner.

CUP Semis / Final 
Anas and Rudy played out to an entertaining goalless full time draw before the later grabbed the winner in extra time; while  Haikal solitary goal ended Fauzi impressive run.
The Final ; Rudy vs Haikal was a tensed affair with Rudy using his new Man City blues for the final against Haikal's, Bayern Munich.  The game was open with many missed chances but a moment of brilliant by Aguero ended the show and Rudy's walked away with a 1-0 scoreline plus the Halloween Cup.



The Final Standings -
1st - Rudy
2nd - Noor Haikal
3rd - Anas
4th - Fauzi
5th - Michael Choong
6th - Nic Tan
7th - Giovanni Choong
8th - Ding Heng

One tournament - three winners

This Wednesday there was a very special tournament in Maida, Catanzaro, Italy. There were three categories under the theme of "old subbuteo". The categories were as follows: HW, LW and Replay (only Top Spin material). The three tournaments were played under the theme of European Football. In the end, winners were Alessandro Corigliano (Chelsea) in HW category, Nicola Carelli (Inter) in LW category and Antonio Marullo (Panathinaikos) in Replay category. Thanks to Antonio Marullo for organizing things and sending the results.

Daniele Lombardi claims 16th AGFA Cup

Subbuteo Parramatta’s Daniele Lombardi claimed the 16th AGFA Cup at the Northern Falcons on Sunday, edging teammate Fabrizio Coco 2-1 on shots after a scoreless draw.

The AGFA Cup is a great link between the three eras of Australian Subbuteo (70s, the 80s-90s, and now post-2010) and that tradition continued over the weekend with the staging of the 16th Cup at Good Games Chatswood.

A highlight of the tournament was the appearance of some new faces — Mark Killingbeck and Heidi van Scheik of Hipfingerz and young Ollie Kruse for the Northern Falcons.

With 16 players, four groups were lined up.

In group 1, young Gabriel Lombardi caused a surprise with a 0-0 draw against Fabrizio, while he also beat Harley Ullrich 1-0. In Group 2, Gary Hosie clinically disposed of Tony Credentino 3-0, while Daniele did the same to Johnny Ball. Gary then beat Daniele 1-0 in a tense encounter, while Johnny eclipsed Tony 1-0.
In group 3, Hermann Kruse edged out Dave Sultana 1-0, before scoring an absolute cracker in his 2-1 loss to Raffaele Lombard. In Group 4, Steve and Adrian continued their ongoing rivalry, with Steve clinching a 1-0 win to take the group.

Daniele gained revenge in the quarterfinals, beating Gary 1-0, while Adrian pipped Hermann 1-0 and Raffaele beat Steve by the same score, as Fabrizio overcame Gabriel 2-0.

Many thanks to Sonny at Good Games and the rest of the crew for hosting us.

Full results here
Original report by Steve Dettre here