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In the blogs (Tue Sep 30 08)
Posts about Saturday's Maricopa Cup round seven can be found in two blogs:
- Federation International Sport Table Football (FISTF) blog, here»
- Livre Indirecto the Portuguese Subbuteo blog, here»
Season 6 photos (Mon Sep 29 08)
A selection of photographs taken during Friday's play have been added to the Season 6 slide show. You can see them here»
Merchant reaches 100 milestone (Sun Sep 28 08)
During yesterday's Maricopa Cup seventh round Munir Merchant played his one hundredth game. Munir becomes the eighth Southern California Subbuteo Club player to have reached this milestone. This is all the more remarkable as he has only been playing for eight months.
Maricopa Cup R7 (Sat Sep 27 08)
After two weeks of Season 6 league the players returned to the more relaxed play of the Maricopa Cup.
While this is only the third time David Jensen has taken part in a Southern California Subbuteo Club event he is proving a tough opponent, finishing the day with one victory and one draw...
Season 6 (Fri Sep 26 08)
Adam Carlson played his first games of Season 6. He was unfortunate to lose his first game of the night to Dominic Hutchinson, who scored the only goal of the game on his only attack in the game. Despite losing to Wayne Smith and Simon Hutchinson Adam's flicking ability showed how much he is improving.
In the first of the "derby" games, the battle of the Hutchinsons, father, Simon, beat son, Dominic.
Wayne remains unbeaten in first place. Simon's two wins confirmed him in third place. The three points from Dominic's victory over Adam allowed him to move up from sixth to fourth place, tied with Munir Merchant with four points.
Season 6 photos (Tue Sep 23 08)
The best of the few photographs taking during Friday's Season 6 play can now be seen in a slide show here»
Season 6 (Sat Sep 20 08)
Another four games were played. There were wins for Munir Merchant, Wayne Smith, and Simon Hutchinson. It was a tough day for Kevin Nieman who lost both of his games. Wayne moves into first place, Munir and Simon are tied for third.
As David Jensen is not participating in Season 6 so four games included in the Supplemental series. David was beaten by Simon, and went onto to draw with Kevin (twice) and Munir.
Season 6»
Season 6 reports»
Season 6 supplemental»
Season 6 (Fri Sep 19 08)
Three wins for Steve Tucker and two wins for Wayne Smith has them tied at top of the table. Kevin Nieman's victory over Jason Mitchell moves him into third place. After drawing 0-0 Dominic Hutchinson and Jason share fourth place. Winless Simon Hutchinson is in sixth place. Munir Merchant and Adam Carlson are yet to play any games.
Subbuteo museum exhibit (Tue Sep 15 08)
Subbuteo was invented by Peter Adolph and manufactured in the town of Tunbridge Wells, in the county of Kent in the UK. The Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery has an online exhibition about Subbuteo and people's recollections of making and playing the game. You can see it here»
Navigate to the other pages in the online exhibition by using the light blue menu on the right side of the page.
Subbuteo with all the trimmings (Sat Sep 13 08)
Thank you to Mike Talbot for sending me this link to a video in YouTube. It features Subbuteo collector Peter Whitehead showing off parts of his collection to Gloria Hunniford on British TV in the 1990s. You can see it here»
Season 6 kicks off (Fri Sep 12 08)
Only three members of the Southern California Subbuteo Club showed for opening night of Season 6, and the first three games were played.
Wayne Smith beat Steve Tucker and Kevin Nieman and leads the league with six points. Steve's victory over Kevin has him in second place. Kevin is in third place eventhough he has no points as all the other players have not played any games.
Season 6 league table and scores»
Season 6 reports for the games played on September 12»
MassaCa 2, return to Boston (Sun Sep 7 08)
Simon Hutchinson returned to New England for a rematch with the Metro West Boston Subbuteo Club’s champion, Ugo Capet, for MassaCa 2, the second Massachussetts versus California friendly tournament. Simon finished the series with a record of 4-2-1. The only game he lost was the MassaCa Cup final, losing in a sudden death shoot out. You can read a full report on the MassaCa 2 page»
From FISTF newsletter No. 220 (Thu Sep 4 08)
The following is taken from the Federation International Sport Table Football (FISTF) newsletter.
10. USA: Western States Open
The Southern California Subbuteo Club hosted the last American Subbuteo
Association tournament of the season with the Western States Open. The WSO
is the Major competition for the western region of the USA. Wayne Smith
won the Open competition for the third time beating Steve Tucker in a
thrilling match, scoring the winner with just seven second left in extra
time. Ian Sayer won his second Mary Jane tournament in a row defeating
Dominic Hutchinson in the final. Dominic had better luck in the Under 19
tournament beating Adam Carlson in the final. A full report and the
results can be found on the Southern California Subbuteo Club's website.
Western States Open report»
Western States Open photographs»