Photos from Friday (Thu Jul 22)
A handful of photographs from two of last Friday's friendly games have been added to the Summer 2010 slide show here»
You can see more slide shows and videos of the Southern California Subbuteo Club in action in the Photographs section of this web site.
Friday Subbuteo (Fri Jul 16)
It was a mixed night of mainly friendly games, with only two Season 9 matches being played.
The two league games were important in the race for second place. First Kevin Nieman's Inter Nieman, who were in eighth place, beat Wayne Smith's left handed team, Left Hannover the Table 96. Inter could not continue their success in the second game as they were defeated by Simon Hutchinson's Simi City. These results mean that Simi need to win seven points in their five remaining games to claim the runners up position, from the Lefts. Inter's win widens the gap between them and bottom club, Jason Mitchell's Valley Irons, to six points.
There were four friendly games played as David Jensen and Dominic Hutchinson joined the three Season 9 participants. David and Simon finished the night with the best records with two wins and tied the game where they played each other. Wayne and Dominic fared the worse losing both of their games. Kevin just played the two league games.
Twin wins in Austrian tournament (Sun Jul 11)
Trisha Baumeler, of our Swiss twin Subbuteo Players Aargau Süd, won the Womens and was runner up in the Under 15 competitions in the FISTF International Open tournament held in Traiskrichen, Austria, on June 5-6.
August, 2009, Trisha and her father Thomas visited the Southern California Subbuteo Club for the Father of the PlayStation's birthday bash. Where she proved a very good player, winning three out of five games.
We would like to say "Glückwünsche" (congratulations) to her for her success in this International Open.
FISTF International Open tournament results»
Friday's friendlies (Fri Jul 9)
With the prospect of a second Friday without Subbuteo the Hutchinsons took matters into their own hands and played two friendly games.
Simon used the two teams he uses in Season 9, Simi City and Red Star, while Dominic used his new teams that he will be using in Season 10, Kumba '11. Dominic's Kumba '11 are mounted on G2 bases, previous versions of the Kumba franchise have been on SureShot bases. These games are part of his plan to be to be fully familiar with the new bases in time for the start of the new season.
Both games played out the same way: a goalless first half, Simon taking the lead early in the second half, Dominic equalizing, and then Simon going on to win. Simi City beat Kumba '11 "A" (first choice team) 2-1, and Red Star beat Kumba '11' "B" (second choice) 3-1.
ASA Open a month away (Mon Jul 5)
The Southern California Subbuteo Club will be hosting an American Subbuteo Association Open on Saturday August 7 in Porter Ranch, starting at 10:00 AM.
If you are interested in taking part in this competition, and earn yourself some national ranking points, you can either email Simon Hutchinson or use the Contact page to register.
You can learn more about this event on the ASA Open August 2010 page»
Season 9 Match Day 18 photos (Fri Jul 2)
Photographs from two of last week's Season 9 Match Day 18 games, Left Hannover the Table 96 v Red Star and Inventus v Valley Irons, have been added to the Season 9 slide show. You can see them and the rest of the photographs from Season 9 here»
The Photographs section of this web site contains links to many slide shows of photographs and videos of the Southern California Subbuteo Club.
Season 9 Match Day 18 video (Tue Jun 29)
Dominic Hutchinson, the Southern California Subbuteo Club's chief video editor, has created a highlights video of last Friday's Season 9 Match Day 18 games, you can watch it here»
You can see more of Dominic's handiwork on the Photographs section of this web site.
Games left page changed (Mon Jun 28)
As we approach the exciting climax of Season 9 the Games Left page has got confusing. It was difficult for the players to easily see which fixtures they had left to play.
To remedy this when a team has played all the games with an opponent the row in their outstanding fixtures table has been deleted. The page now only shows the teams each players has outstanding games with.
Season 9 Match Day 18 (Fri Jun 25)
Simon Hutchinson's Red Star became the second team to have finished all of their league games in Season 9. They finished with three wins out of four games beating Kevin Nieman's Inventus and Jason Mitchell's Valley Irons in back-to-back games. Their only defeat was in a closely fought game against Wayne Smith's Left Hannover the Table 96.
The nine points won by the Reds move them into second place, behind the champions, Wayner Bremen, who beat the Hollywood Hammers and Valley Irons. Simi City, who did not play today, are now in third place with five points less and with six game in hand over the Reds. The other contender for the runners up spot, Left Hannover the Table 96, won twice defeating the Reds and Inter Nieman, and are now six points behind second place with five games left to play.
Kumba, the only other team to have played all of their games, remain in fifth place as the Hollywood Hammers, who are a point behind them, were beaten by Wayner. The Hammers have one game left, against Left Hannover, which they have to win to move above Kumba, a draw would mean they would have the same number of points as Kumba. The favorite for fifth place must be Inventus. They have the same number of points as the Hammers, and have four games left.
There is no change at the bottom of the league as both Inter and the Irons lost the games they played. The race for the Wooden Spoon is not over as the Irons are three points behind Inter and with two games in hand. As they have to play each other twice before the end of the season the Irons could still win enough points to avoid winning the Wooden Spoon.
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