Home win for Mark Farrell

Mark Farrell won the Kildare Open, topping a 5-player league with maximum points. His victory also secured the 2012/13 Irish Circuit Championship, as he can no longer be caught with only one event remaining. Two 1-0 victories over Runner-up, Kenny Beggs, made the difference in Kildare, while the other players battled for 3rd place. Ernie Bickerstaff, who has been playing for about a year, had a notable win and draw against the experienced John Moore but John just pipped him into 3rd place. Unfortunately, England's Colin Tarry had to drop out at the last minute due to illness. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Final table:
1. Mark Farrell (ROI) 24 pts
2. Kenny Beggs (NIR) 18 pts
3. John Moore (ROI) 7 pts
4. E.Bickerstaff (NIR) 5 pts
5. Nicky Moore (ROI) 4 pts
The tournament was played under the WASPA Banner in Celbridge Mill which, as usual, was a great venue.

(report by Kenny Beggs)

First trophy for Brodyn Sexton

Eight players attended the Hamilton tournament played on June 22. The top players qualified for the semis and the final was a family affair between father and son. Brodyn Sexton finally beat Daddy Peter on shots after a close final (1-1).

Short news from England, Italy, Malta and Switzerland

The Lincoln tournament scheduled on saturday has been postponed due to local organizer John Devaney being ill. We wish John a quick recovery!

The event in Sforzacosta (Italy) has also been postponed. Some games of the tournament with old rules were supposed to take place outside during a big outdoor exhibition but the whole event was cancelled because of the extreme bad weather in the area. We are sure Alberto Gagliardi's group will find more opportunities to promote the game.

George Ebejer won the Attard tournament on saturday. More details and pictures will be added in the next few days.

In Switzerland, Brian Butterworth ahas just launched his website at http://www.subbuteografix.com/home.html
We wish him all the best as he's doing some great work to make superb kits.

Details and resutls of the tournaments in Kildare (Ireland) and Melbourne (Australia) should be announced soon. Stay tuned.

First tournament in Colorado

Three players attended the "Tucker Semi-International Open" held in Denver, Colorado on friday evening. Players played each other twice and the top two players qualified for the final. Zach Walker beat Simone Di Pierro from Italy in the final to win the title while Tory Reed took the third place. Well done Zach. Hopefully there will be a growing interest for the game in Colorado in the future.

Simone vs Tory

Simone and Zach

Action between Tory and Simone

Small international tournament in Tampa

Four players attended the tournament held in Tampa, Florida last sunday The event was small but it was something special with the visit of Tony McCann from England. The tournament was a big group stage where all players played each other twice. Alex Batacchi won all six games to win the title while Tony Mccann was second, Daniel Louis was third and Steve Husley was fourth. It is good to know subbuteo is alive and flicking in Florida. Hopefully more events with more players will be held over there in the future.

Colciago ETF Cup in Lurago d'Erba

On monday, the Colciago ETF Cup was held in Lurago d'Erba (Italy). There were 5 players, including Daniele Lopresto, a player who used to compete with the great Stefano Beverini in the italian national team in the 70's. Every player played four games and at the end, Roberto Cavallo won the tournament with three wins and a better goal-difference than Fabrizio Olla. Alberto Grazioli was third, Daniele Lopresto fourth and Luca Rajna fifth.

Action during the games

Group picture

New poster for the Sliders Tour

After the success of the second tournaments, evenrything is getting prepared for the next event to be played on August 17 in Manchester!

Subbuteo official sets for Arsenal and Tottenham

Our partner Mad About Games has just announce dthe new kits for Arsenal and Tottenham are available. Collectors will definately love the brand new kits. Links:
http://mad-about-games.com/ARSENAL-201213-Subbuteo-Team-P3167097.aspx
http://mad-about-games.com/TOTTENHAM-HOTSPUR-201213-Subbuteo-Team-P3167098.aspx

Report of the third NETFA tournament in Thornaby

This meeting saw two new players to the club. Mark Parkin is a local player from the venue we hold our meetings in. But Jeff Parsons is an old time Table Soccer player who is spending some time in our area and was very welcome at the club. There was never any doubt about who would win the event, David Russell was on fine form all night and it was a race for second place. As often happens, it was a battle between Mike Parnaby and Neil Youngson for this place and Mike had the better goal difference. Jeff came 4th in his first WASPA event. All the other players picked up valuable ranking points and valuable experience.

Date of next NETFA Teesside WASPA tournament will be 19th August 2013

(report by Mike Parnaby)

Chris Kaberry defends against Neil Youngson

Geoffrey Marain beats Paulo Gouveia in Templeuve

14 players were present on sunday at the Templeuve tournament and there were many interesting games and it was really an international event with 6 nationalities in the starting line as four players had travelled from the UK to meet the Belgians and 2 French players. In the first round, players were dropped in two groups of seven. The top four players qualified for the next round. In the quarter-finals, there were some surprises as Gerald Brightwell beat Kevin Cordell while Grégory Puissant beat Rudi Peterschinigg. The closest quarter-final ended on shots when Paulo Gouveia beat Jos Ceulemans. In the semis, Geoffrey Marain took it easy again Gerald Brightwell (5-0) while Paulo Gouveia managed to beat Grégory Puissant (2-1). The final was very close with still the score of 2-2 after the sudden death. On shots, Geoffrey Marain managed to beat the Portuguese to claim the title. Jean-Luc Platiaux won the Plate. It was a very good day and the Templeuve Unied club would like to thank again those who travelled to play the tournament!

The final table:
1. Geoffrey Marain
2. Paulo Gouveia
3. Grégory Puissant
4. Gerald Brightwell
5. Jos Ceulemans
6. Kevin Cordell
7. Renald Deloose
8. Rudi Peterschinigg
9. Jean-Luc Platiaux
10. Vincent Coppenolle
11. Maxime Hoguet and Cyprien Godart
13. Dirk Vekemans
14. Philippe Godart

Grégory Puissant vs Rudi Peterschinigg

Gerald Brightwell reached the semis

The final beatween Marain and Gouveia

The final four: Puissant, Gouveia, Marain and Brightwell

Players during the presentation of the prizes