News - March 2009

Season 7 End of Stage One date moved (Tue Mar 31 09)

The deadline for the completion of Stage One of the Southern California Subbuteo Club's Season 7 was April 13.  As there are 27 games remaining to be played in Stage One the deadline has been moved to April 30.

If a player fails to complete all of his Stage One games by the new deadline the rules state that:

Forfeits

• Players who do not complete their games before the deadline...
  • If they have played less than 75% of their games their record will be expunged.
  • If they have played at least 75% of their games all remaining games will be forfeited as a win to their opponents.
• If a player does not complete Stage 1 they will not be invited to participate in Stage 2.

From Season 7 rules

Season 7 photographs (Tue Mar 31 09)

There was only a handful of photographs taken during Friday's Season 7 action.

The best of these have been added to the Season 7 slideshow here»

You can find many more slide shows and videos from other Southern California Subbuteo Club tournaments on the Photographs page.

Season 7 (Friday Mar 27 09)

In a very closely fought first leg of their League Cup semi final Wayne Smith finally got the better of Kevin Nieman in a five goal thriller with less than a minute left.  Wayne carries a one goal lead to his "home" leg.

In league play Simon Hutchinson and Munir Merchant played back-to-back games.  The first game ended goalless, and Simon won the second by a single goal.  Wayne ran up the largest score of the season beating Dominic Hutchinson, who was so shell shocked that he did not want to play again tonight.  Kevin won his second league game of the season in a game he described as the "most intense" match he has played.

There is no change at the top of the league table.  Wayne has twelve points more than second place Simon.  Simon remains in second with four more points than Jason Mitchell.  Dominic is in fourth, just a point behind Jason and with a game in hand.  Kevin moved up to fifth, two points behind Dominic, and with four games in hand.  Steve Tucker is in seventh and has the most games of any player left to play, twelve.  Munir dropped one place to seventh, and Adam Carlson remains in eighth.

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Season 7 photographs (Tue Mar 24 09)

Photographs taken during Friday's Season 7 games have been added to the Season 7 slide show.  You can view them and the ones from earlier "match nights" by clicking on the link here»

You can find many more slide shows and videos from other Southern California Subbuteo Club tournaments on the Photographs page.

Season 7 (Fri Mar 20 09)

Steve Tucker started his league play with two wins, defeating Dominic Hutchinson and Jason Mitchell by the same score.  Jason had earlier won his third game of the season beating Munir Merchant.  Munir went on to play out an exciting draw with Wayne Smith.  It is always a scary thing to play Wayne after he is beaten or held to a draw.  Adam Carlson was the unfortunate who was crushed by Wayne in the last game of the night.

Wayne remains in first place.  There is only seven points separating second and eighth places.  Jason's victory has him sharing second place with Simon Hutchinson.  Dominic is a point behind them in fourth.  Steve's two wins has him in fifth place three points behind Dominic and with games in hand over all the other players.  Kevin Nieman and Munir share sixth place.  Adam is in eighth just a point behind Kevin and Munir.

Jason pointed out at the end of the night if Steve can tie both of his games with Wayne and beat everyone else he would finish in first place at the end of Stage One.

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Season 7 photographs (Tue Mar 17 09)

On Friday a few of the players who were between games took turns taking photographs of the games being played.  These photographs have been added to the Season 7 slide show.

To view these photographs and the others from earlier Season 7 "match nights" click on the link here»

You can find many more slide shows and videos from other Southern California Subbuteo Club tournaments on the Photographs page.

League Cup semi final draw (Sun Mar 15 09)

Jason Mitchell made the draw for the semi finals of the Southern California Subbuteo Club's Season 7 League Cup on Friday night after the last of the first round ties was played.  The player named first will be the "home" player in the first leg.

There were howls of disappointment as the draw was made as the two favorites, Wayne Smith and Steve Tucker, were kept apart.

The semi finals must be completed by April 17.

Season 7 (Fri Mar 13 09)

It was a high scoring night with 24 goals scored in six league and cup games.

Tonight was the last night for first round games in the Southern California Subbuteo Club's Season 7 League Cup.  Wayne Smith had taken a slender one goal lead to the "away" leg in his tie with Jason Mitchell.  He came on strong in the second leg and beat Jason by four goals.  In the other outstanding tie Kevin Nieman and Adam Carlson played back-to-back legs.  Kevin won both games comfortably.  Wayne and Kevin join Simon Hutchinson and Steve Tucker in the semi finals.

In League play the battle of the Hutchinsons saw son, Dominic, take a two goal lead and then father, Simon, fought back to score two goals in the last three minutes, including penalty scored right at the end of the game, for a tie.  In the highest scoring game of the season Jason Mitchell and Wayne Smith shared eight goals as Wayne's winning ways continued.  Jason bounced back to beat Adam Carlson in the last game of the night.

There are no changes in the positions of the players in the league table.  Wayne remains in first place, leading second place Simon by nine points.  Simon has still have a single point lead over Dominic, who has a game in hand.  Jason, fourth, is two points behind Dominic but has played one game more.  Kevin is in fifth place, three points behind Jason with four games in hand.  Adam and Munir Merchant have three points, and Munir has two games in hand.  Steve Tucker sits at the foot of the table and he is yet to play a game this season.

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Next ASA Open on April 4 (Thu Mar 12 09)

Steve Tucker will be hosting an American Subbuteo Association Open tournament at his home in Simi Valley, on Saturday April 4.

These Opens are the only way to win ASA ranking points, and improve your standing in the ASA's Rolling Rankings.

If you would like to take part in this tournament use the Contact page to tell us.

More information can be found on the ASA Open April 2009 page»

Season 7 photographs (Mon Mar 9 09)

The best of the photographs taken during Friday's Season 7 play have been added to the existing Season 7 slide show.

You can view the entire slide show by clicking on the link here»

You can find slide shows and videos from other Southern California Subbuteo Club tournaments on the Photographs page.

Season 7 (Fri Mar 6 09)

In the first round of the first round of the Southern California Subbuteo Club's Season 7 League cup Wayne Smith narrowly beat Jason Mitchell, and carries only a 1-0 to Jason's home leg.

League play opened with a highly contentious game between Adam Carlson and Dominic Hutchinson.  The argument over a goal resulted in the second half being replayed.  Dominic, who had scored in the first half, managed to hang on to win the game.   Adam bounced back to cause an upset beating Simon Hutchinson, taking advantage of his opponent using the "away" goalkeeper to score two well taken goals.  He was not so fortunate in his last game being beaten by Wayne by the biggest winning margin this season.

In the other league game Jason won his first game of the campaign, defeating Dominic.

Wayne remains in first place, with seven more points than second place.  The surprise results have kept the rest of the players only separated by a few points.  Simon is in second place, with one more point than Dominic, who has a game in hand.  Jason's first win puts him ihas him tied for fourth place with Kevin Nieman, who has two games in hand.  Adam and Munir Merchant are in sixth place one point behind fourth place and with games in hand.  Steve Tucker is yet to play a league game.

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ASA Rolling Rankings (Wed Mar 4 09)

The American Subbuteo Association published the latest Rolling Rankings on March 1, and they appear to include the points won from the ASA Open on January 25.

This is how the Southern California Subbuteo Club players are ranked:

Everyone, except Wayne Smith, climbed in the rankings when compared to last month's rankings.  The biggest improvement was by David Jensen who rose 29 places.  David was the beaten finalist in the Open.

What are the Rolling Rankings?
Only the ranking points won in the last twelve months are counted. If the player has played in more than five ASA tournaments in that time period only the points won in their best five finishes are counted.

Season 7 photographs (Mon Mar 2 09)

The photographs taken during Friday's Season 7 play have been put into a slide show along with the few photographs taken during the previous Season 7 games.

To view this slide show click on the link here»

You can find slide shows and videos from other Southern California Subbuteo Club tournaments on the Photographs page.