Kebun Baru Game 2

Game 2 was held on the 9th November.

The club has recruited a couple of new players with the inclusion of 2 female players who have also participated in the game.

Before the games took off, 2 certificates were presented to the last winners of Game One. Champion Rudy and Runners-up Nic Tan. These Certificates were endorsed by our advisor Mr Henry Kwek (Grassroots Advisor of Nee Soon GRC) to show his strong support to Kebun Baru Table Football in particular Kebun Baru Heights Residents’ Committee who has organised the event.

It was a long night and we ended the games quite late at around 11pm. Game Two Champion went to Rudy. He is currently World Number 3 on the WASPA ranking board. Runners-up went to Anas.

Game 3 will be played on the 11th Jan 2017.

Damien Denooz in a great day

Top 3 of the day

For his second WASPA appreance, Damien Denooz claimed his second WASPA title on Friday in Templeuve after putting pressure on Geoffrey Marain while winning the first game of the Swiss system ladder against the current number 1 of the WASPA ranking. Denooz defeated Marain (2-1) and John Verfaillie (5-0), tied with Vincent Coppenolle (2-2) and won the final game against Matthias Averlant (7-3). In the last sessions, Coppenolle defeated Marain to take the second place. Michaël Dupret took the third place. The final standings were as follows: 1. Damien Denooz ; 2. Vincent Coppenolle ; 3. Michaël Dupret ; 4. Geoffrey Marain ; 5. Corentin Boltz ; 6. Matthias Averlant ; 7. John Verfaillie ; 8. André Boltz ; 9. Jérôme Cyganek.
To be noted it was a long day for local flickers as the WASPA tournament took place in the afternoon while players already met in the morning to play the first leg of the provincial league (geoffrey marain took the honors), which means most competitors played a total of 8 games during the day.

Christian Filippella wins Los Angeles Satellite

The presentation of the trophies

Two weeks ago, members of the California Subbuteo Club welcomed Simone Di Pierro from Italy for the second time. Simone travelled 7 hours overnight by Greyhound bus from Las Vegas to LA to play in the tournament. Hosts were also glad Max Ambrosio who was in town from Kansas City. The event was a FISTF Satellite but also a WASPA tournament. In the end, Christian Filippella defeated Paul O'Donovan Rossa (3-0) in the final. Varant Kurkeyerian and Simone Di Pierro reached the semi-finals while Rob Tucker won the consolation tournament against Max Ambrosio. Thanks go to Rob Tucker and Varant Kurkeyerian for great hosting and organization.

Next pretoria event

Jos Ceulemans strikes back!

Geert Leys - Jos Ceulemans - Frank Lannoy

This Monday the SC Flanders players met for their monthly tournament. Jos Ceulemans, who is currently ranked 13 in the WASPA ranking, managed to win the tournament - his 16th WASPA win, the first one since March 2016 - with 10 points in the end of the Swiss Ladder played in four sessions. Jos tied in a close game against Geert Leys who was runner-up of the evening with 8 points. Frank Lannoy was third with 6 points, just like Johan Lourdon and Bart Van de Vliet. Bert Feyens finished with 4 points, 3 for Danny De Greef and 2 for Willy De Bandt.

Dario Passadore takes the Suncoast Open

Dario and Alex

Craig and Alex

The Suncoast Open 2016 took place this Sunday in Tampa, Florida with the presence of Craig Thom from Dundee United TFC. Dario Passadore, who recently joined the Italian team of Aosta, won the tournament, after finishing on top of the table while usual winner Alex Batacchi was runner-up. Congratulations to all.

A very international event in Prague

This Saturday there was another tournament in Prague, Czech Republic. It was a great day with seven players playing a league format so that everyone could play six games. Organizers, who prepared sandwiches and cakes and hosted the event in their "Subbuteo Hotel", were happy to host Anika Hentrich and Filippo Vitali from Berlin but also Martin Novotny who was back on the pitch after a break of 20 years and beginner Cedric Farrugia from Malta. In the end, Marco Zucchi finished on top with 16 points to take his second WASPA title. David Young (14) was runner-up and Filippo Vitali (13) took the third place. Jiri Uchytil finished on 4th place, Martin Novotny was 5th, Anika Hentrich 6th and Cedric Farrugia 7th. Thanks to all the players for their fair spirit.

3 in a row for Chessray Jooste

(report by Julian vd Merwe)

Saturday 5 November 2016, Pretoria, South Africa : 
The 2016 edition of the PFC League 3 Cup attracted a small field of 6 entries, with a return of Subbuteo action in Pretoria after a 2 month break due to various postponements of this event. Two time winner (2014 & 2015) of this event, Jayden vd Merwe got the event off with a bang - scoring after only 59sec of play against Julian vd Merwe in Match 1. Jayden then added a second goal after 11min to make the final score 2-0, with Jayden making the early statement of intent to hold onto his League 3 title? Another big result in Round 1 was when Chessray Jooste dispatched of Bevin Reed by 1-0, with the 2 month break evident as Bevin's shooting was not up to his usual standard! In Round 2 action, Bevin hit the target as he beat Kegan vd Merwe by 1-0 in an early contender for match of the day - an action packed match where Kegan's shooting was left wanting this time. Conway Julie then held the high flying Jayden vd Merwe to a 0-0 draw, paving the way for Chessray to go top as he (Chessray) beat Julian by 2-1.
Round 3 saw Conway score his first ever goal as he managed to force a 1-1 draw by scoring after 10min of play against the much fancied Chessray Jooste ! Jayden was once again left frustrated by elder brother Kegan in a 0-0 draw, and Jayden sensed his chances slipping of holding onto his title. Elsewhere Julian recored an impressive 1-0 victory over Bevin to lift himself off the foot of the standings.
Round 4 saw two heavyweights in Jayden & Bevin clash for the runner-up spot, as the match ended 1-1 with the draw being enough for Jayden to secure 2nd spot and Bevin had to settle for a dissappointing 4th palce overall !! Elsewhere Conway held Julian to a 0-0 draw. The match of the day then unfolded as Chessray beat Kegan by 2-1, with Chessray leading by 2-0 and only 5min left to play Kegan suddenly sprung into action taking the game to Chessray - his efforts rewarded by a goal with still 3min left on the clock, but Chessray held out & the win ensured that Chessray captured his 7th WASPA title to date!
Finally, a word on the effort from Conway Julie on the day - Conway managed an unbeaten run to capture 3rd place overall, an impressive result as Conway battled against the 5 most seasoned players within the PFC ranks! For his exploits, Conway was rewarded with the new PFC club shirt as well!
As always - thanks to all for attending and making the day a success once again.

More images from the event can be viewed here :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B24jpUVAP3Rkd0hvTFhpTDFYTTQ?usp=sharing

Final Standings - Points
Chessray Jooste 10
Jayden vd Merwe 6
Conway Julie 4
Bevin Reed 4
Julian vd Merwe 4
Kegan vd Merwe 2

The PFC website & facebook page will be updated shortly with photo's & news content at :
http://pfctest.leaguerepublic.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/PFC-SA/519566284755728

Number 62 for Geoffrey Marain

Winner Geoffrey and runner-up Matthias

Last Wednesday the Warcoing Ducks had to move their tournament to the premises of templeuve United as their own room in Pecq was being repainted. 8 players competed in a group stage so that everyone played 7 games of 20 minutes. Surprisingly there was no draw during the 28 games and Geoffrey marai (Flickers Milano) ended on top of the table while the young Matthias Averlant, who was celebrating his 15th birthday, was a surprising runner-up, a few days after lifting the National U15 Cup in Rochefort. Matthias improved a lot over the last few weeks and managed to win important games against Vincent Coppenolle (3rd in the final table) and Corentin Boltz (4th). John Verfaillie also proved he's improving by taking the 5th place while André Boltz won his decisive game against Florian Renaut to take the 6th places. The young Benjamin Marain ended in last position but he's also showing great improvements. There will be a Templeuve United tournament in November 11 in the afternoon while on the same day, Templeuve will also host the first leg of the provincial league in the morning.

WASPA updates of October 2016

Dear Subbuteo friends,

here are the monthly updates of the WASPA circuit with statistics, results and rankings.

Excel: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_PpphlADgVZFpzLTkzVjJIV28/
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_PpphlADgVbGMzYTZOQzR4ems/

We are pleased to announced October was a fantastic month for WASPA with 33 events held in many different countries. We had 31 regional events and 2 tournaments with the old rules (one was "off-records" due to the fact every player played in three different categories over the same day).

Pete Alegi from the US paid a visit to the Cape Town flickers in South Africa

Among the good surprises of the month, we can notice:
- Japan made a come-back in the WASPA circuit with the presence of a player from Nepal who... won the tournament (!);
- Canada is back after a long hyatus and we are very happy to welcome back the club of Montreal;
- It was very exciting to see the first WASPA tournament in the North of Portugal as players from Orfeao Foz do Douro organized their first tournament;
- the new club of Kebun Baru SC in Singapore hosted their first tournament this month;
- WASPA was present again in Crete with a tournament held in Heraklion (Greece);
- In Greece the Pireaus Lions hosted their first WASPA event. Welcome to them;
- We were glad to see action in Prague, Czech Republic;
- Belgium and England had 6 different tournaments;
- Australia was very active with tournaments in Parramatta, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne;
- Italy had no tournament in September but we were glad to see events in Milano, Firenze and Catanzaro in October;
- the young Kye Arnold from England is on top of the Season ranking.

Japan and Nepal in action in Tokyo

47 players played for the first time in the WASPA circuit and we now have more than 1600 ranked players from 45 different nations.

9 clubs have joined the "top clubs" project and we really hope to see some more clubs joining soon.

Hallowween cup in Singapore

Keep an eye on the WASPA blog at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com as there are updates almost every day.
The FISTF website can be found here: http://www.fistf.com

Please remember you only need 3 players to register your tournament. Don't be scared to join. It's free and tournament requests can be sent by e-mail to vincent.cop@rsca.com

A good turnout of 14 in Melbourne

Ideas to develop the WASPA circuit or to make things more attractive are always welcome. We stay at your disposal for more info.

Yours sincerely,
Vincent Coppenolle (vincent.cop@rsca.com)