Georgios Zangylos wins in Limassol

The Cyprus circuit held already their third event of the season this sunday and there was a good field of 16 players. It was nice to see some players from Nicosia taking part. Two of them, Nikolas Ioannou and Demetris Tsagarides, reached the semi-finals. At this stage of the tournament, they couldn't resit to the pressure of the favorites. In the final, Georgios Zangylos beat Kostas Kalopsidiotis (2-0) to claim his 17th WASPA title. To be noted that Marcos Kalopsidiotis lost tpo brother Kostas in the quarter-finals. Well done to the winner and organizers!

More pictures here

The first tournament in France

France will be the next nation to host a WASPA tournament. The club of CFT Puylaurens will organize a tournament in their premises at the "MJC de Puylaurens" on October 17. The contact e-mail for the event is ctqui@club-internet.fr

WASPA Monthly report of September 2014

Here is the monthly report of the WASPA circuit.

The new season has started an we had 17 tournaments in September (16 regional and 1 promotional).

Action from Limassol, Cyprus

Scotland and Cyprus had one extra event but everything will be sorted out during the season. The Tayside Kickers are running a circuit of 9 tournaments and 2 of them were played this month. The Cyprus circuit had also 2 of their 12 tournaments during the first month of the season.

Subbuteo demo in Budapest, Hungary

There were some positive happenings this month:
- Wales organized their first WASPA tournament since April 2013.
- Several clubs and associations are running their own circuits: Templeuve United, the Tayside Kickers, SS Lazio,... Austria and Cyprus have their development circuits under WASPA banner. Clubs like SC Flanders, NETFA, Yorkshire,... have also regular WASPA events.
- Hungary expressed their wish to host some events in the near future. Indonesia might be the next new nation among organizers.
- Australia had 2 tournaments over the same week-end, which is a proof the development is continued down under.
- Australia and Austria will have tournaments with the double status (FISTF and WASPA) in the next few months.
- The German association organized their "Starters Cup" in Hamburg to support new players and new clubs in St. Pauli (Hamburg) and Aachen.
- Chile is definitely the most active nation in South America so hopefully Argentina and Brazil will join the WASPA circuit soon.
- Cyprus organized their first Promotional tournament

Continued development in Melbourne, Australia

Besides the sports news, WASPA is now building a Board. 8 players from 8 different nations have expressed interest to join the Board. Right now, the Board members are Steve Bennett (Scotland), Mike Parnaby (England), Vincent Coppenolle (Belgium), Thomas Eppensteiner (Austria), Panos Panagiotides (Greece), Zach Walker (USA), Brett Davis (Australia) and Rudy Hesty (Singapore). The two jobs of the WASPA Board will be to continue the promotion of the game Subbuteo by organizing more WASPA tournaments and to vote the strategic decisions for the future of WASPA. People interested to join the working team should contact WASPA at vincent.cop@rsca.com

A great field for the Starters Cup in Hamburg, Germany

Please keep in mind you only need 3 players to run a WASPA tournament. Don't hesitate to send your tournament requests to vincent.cop@rsca.com

Please also note the news are updated on a very regular base on the blog at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com

Well, that's all for now, have a great week and a fantastic Subbuteo season!

Vincent Coppenolle

First season win for Giannis Metaxas

The first tournament of the season in Greece took place on sunday in Kallithea, near Athens. 18 polayers competed in the tournament organized by the Flaming Flickers and as always, the system of "three games per player" was used. Giannis Metaxas was the only player to win three games and therefore he won the tournament. Dimitris Mihalios was second with 6 points while Panos Panagiotides finished third, just before newcomer Alfonso Franco.

Here is the final table of the evening:
1. Giannis Metaxas
2. Dimitris Mihalios
3. Panos Panagiotides
4. Alfonso Franco
5. Filippos Vavoulakis
6. Antonis Krisylas
7. Kostas Kritikos
8. Spyros Pensas
9. Mike Tastsoglou
10. Nikolas Georgoulis
11. Giannis Pashalides
12. Chris Panagiotides
13. Makis Kazatzoglou
14. Vangelis Vavoulakis
15. Stavros Kandianopoulos
16. Spyros Stratoudakis
17. Stavros Alexandrides
18. Thanasis Koukogiannis

New fences for subbuteo table

Great job by the Hartamas Tigers clubs in Malaysia!

5th WASPA title for Marcos Kalopsidiotis

The second stage of the Cyprus circuit took place this sunday (September 28) in Limassol with a good field of 17 players taking part. Players were dropped in five groups. There were many close games but the semi-finals were exciting as well and scores were as follows:
Marcos Kalopsidiotis – Kostas Kalopsidiotis  2-1
Georgios Zangylos – Charalambos Constantinou 3-0

In the final, Marcos Kalopsidiotis tied with Georgios Zangylos 1-1 but Mars won the shots to claim his 5th WASPA title. Congratulations to him. Marcos will now prepare for the next event and then move back to Greece for his studies at the university. He will be back in Cyprus in December to prepare the world swimming championships taking place in Qatar!

Steve Bennett does it again in Arbroath

The second stage of the Tayside Club Championship 2014-2015 took place this sunday. Steve Bennett beat Gareth Christie in the final to claim the victory.

Group A
Scott Fleming 0-5 Steve Bennett
Gareth Christie 1-1 Andy Beskaby
Andy Beskaby 0-4 Steve Bennett
Scott Fleming 0-3 Gareth Christie
Steve Bennett 0-0 Gareth Christie
Scott Fleming 4-0 Andy Beskaby

Group B
Craig Thom 0-3 Colin Matthew
Dave Baxter 0-0 Colin Matthew
Dave Baxter 5-0 Craig Thom

Semi-finals
Steve Bennett 5-0 Colin Matthew
Gareth Christie 5-0 Dave Baxter

3rd & 4th Playoff
Colin Matthew 0-2 Dave Baxter

Positions 5,6 & 7 round robin group.
Scott Fleming 3-0 Andy Beskaby
Andy Beskaby 5-0 Craig Thom
Scott Fleming 3-0 Craig Thom

Final
Steve Bennett 1-0 Gareth Christie

Final Placings (9.2)

1, Steve Bennett (40 pts)
2, Gareth Christie (36 pts)
3, Dave Baxter (34 pts)
4, Colin Matthew (33 pts)
5, Scott Fleming (32 pts)
6, Andy Beskaby (31 pts)
7, Craig Thom (30 pts)

Probably the best result of the day has to go to Andy Beskaby for his 1-1 with Gareth and a big result for Dave Baxter as he won the playoff match for 3rd place against Colin Matthew 2-0, and looking at the results there were a lot of clean sheets today, altogether there were 16 of them!

Ignacio López Campbell wins in Valdivia

The "Winter tournament" took place this saturday in Valdivia (Chile). The event was played by 8 players from 3 nationalities (one from the US, one from New Zealand) but the winner was not a surprise as Ignacio López Campbell beat Abigail Warner in the final (2-1). Emilia López  and Alfredo Erlwein were the smei-finalists! Congratulations to all.

First tournament of the season in Templeuve for Vincent Coppenolle

The finalists: Vincent Coppenolle and Jason Delattre

The first tournament of the "Challenge de Templeuve 2014-2015" was held this thursday with a small field of 8 players. There were some missing players among the usual "big names". Geoffrey Marain (work), Renald Deloose (birthday party), and a few others couldn't make it so the title was supposed go to either Eddy Beernaert or Vincent Coppenolle. As it is often the case in such a situation, there were many surprises and in group 2, things were crazy as after two sessions, the four players had on victory and everything was going to be decided in the last group game. The improving Jason Delattre and U15 player Matthias Averlant managed to qualifyu while Eddy Beernaert and Olivier BOdelle were dropped in the consolation tournament. The semi-finals were very different as Matthias Averlant had no chance to beat Vincent Coppenolle while Jason Delattre score the winning goal in the last 30 seconds to beat Jordan Bonte on an amazing score of 6-5. The final was close till the last 5 minutes but Vincent Coppenolle finally beat Jason Delattre to win his 7th title in the WASPA circuit.

To be noted the event was played with the new FISTF and despite some of the rules don't really bring any improvement to the game, everyone accepted and understood them.

Sudden death in the semi-final between Jordan Bonte and Jason Delattre

Final table of the evening:
1. Vincent Coppenolle
2. Jason Delattre
3. Matthias Averlant
4. Jordan Bonte
5. Eddy Beernaert
6. Olivier Bodelle
7. Philippe Godart and Jérémy Zenner

Patrizio Lazzaretti wins the first event of the WLL 2014-2015

The first tournament of the "WASPA Lazio League 2014-2015" was held this week in Rome with the usual Swiss system. 16 players were present and some good games were played at all levels. Patrizio Lazzaretti was the start of the evening as he was the only player to win four games. Marco Caviglia contested the victory to Lazzaretti but in the final game, the score was 1-3 and it was of course the decisive game of the evening. Gianmarco Del Brocco finished second with 10 points and Paolo barone finished with three wins. Patrizio Lazzaretti takes of course the lead of the WLL.

Final table of the evening:
1. Patrizio Lazzaretti - 12 points
2. Gianmarco Del Brocco - 10
3. Paolo Barone - 9
4. Marco Caviglia - 7
5. Stefano Tagliaferri - 7
6. Simone Trivelli - 6
7. Mario Lo Iacono - 6
8. Micael Caviglia - 6
9. Matteo Del Brocco - 6
10. Simone Lo Iacono - 6
11. Luigi Aniballi - 4
12. Riccardo Galieti - 4
13. Marco Moretti - 3
14. Alessandro Spoto - 3
15. Fausto Pascucci - 2
16. Ernesto Poncetta - 1