Stamokostas and Olympia are the winners in Patras

This week-end, the Satellite of Patras was played in Greece. The host club was the local club of Achaioi and there was a good turnout of 32 open players, 9 veterans, 10 U15 kids and 7 teams. The guys of Olympia B beat Roligans in the team final while Athinaikos and Achaioi reached the semis. In the Open category, Kostas Stamokostas was the big winner as he defeated Dimitris Kosmopoulos in sudden death. The other winners were Dimitris Dimopoulos (U15) abd Periklis Dimopoulos (veterans).

Wayne Smith wins at home

The Southern California Subbuteo Club had a tournament in Simi Valley, California this sunday with 7 players taking part.T he torunament had the double status as it was a FISTF Challenger and also a WASPA tournament. After the group stage, Wayne Smith and Varant Kurkeyerian respectively beat Cameron Tucker and Rob Tucker to qualif for the final. In the decisive game, Wayne Smith scored the winning goal in the sudden death to claim the trophy. Congratulations to Wayne.

Poster of the Open of Rome

Poster of the Major of Stembert

The Falcons win in Athens

The Falcons Athens won on saturday the International Open of Athens "Dimitris Salamouris", playing in the final against Olympia Club Subbuteo (score 2-0).

On sunday, 32 players competed in the Open category. Nikos Beis was the winner of the day after beating Spyros Hantzaras in the final. Giorgos Koutis and Antonis Kastelanos reached the semis. Periklis Dimopoulos was the best of the 15 Veterans, beating Sotiris Korologos in the final while Giorgos Aggelinas and Lazaros Papakonstantinou were the semi-finalists.

Results of Issy

The grand prix of France took place this week-end in Issy, near Paris. There were more than 180 players taking part. On saturday, the belgian team of "Rochefort TS" won the team event as they beat the italian squad of Fiamme Azzurre in the final (3-1). On sunday, Vasco Guimaraes, the portuguese player of the Bristol club, won the Open category while Charles Aquilina from Malta on the team event. Emilie Despretz beat Lydie Pinchart to win the ladies section.

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Filipe Maia and Tiburones players take the honors in Tires

The International Open of Tires took place on January 25 and 26 in Portugal with a good field of players from the home country and from Spain. Int he Open category, it was a surprising final beteen the "old" Filipe Maia and the "young" António Casín. The player of CCT Roma took the honors and won 2-0. António Casín later beat David González in the U19 final while Jesus Moreno, also from Tiburones, won the U15 section. António Montaño from Spain beat clubmate Nuno Noronha to win the veterans final. The team event was played as a group of five team and the A-team of Tiburones FM won all their games to win the title.

Good job by Filipe Maia, the Open champion

Antonio Montano gets the trophy from Ricardo pPvao

Kaspar Bennett wins the Leicester Open

Bristols Kaspar Bennett shown why he is Number 1 in England and 4th in the World, with a fantastic display at the 2014 International Open.

Defeating some high standard players along the way in Bradley, Varney, Lampitt and a fantastic final against Dave Pawsey.

The Open category was streamed live across the World, but due to an Air Conditioning problem, The camera work for the final was produced by Matt Lampitt.

In the Veteran category, it was top Belgium, Daniel Scheen who overcome Luis Mendez 3-1 in the final.

On the U15′s scene, Manchester TFC player Connor Bowden was the victor.

In other results, Noe Scheen defeated England’s Kye Arnold 3-0 in a quality final.

The English Subbuteo Association would like to thank all participants, and hopes to see you at our next event.