Hong Kong players in the FISTF rankings

After some months of trouble, FISTF has just released the world rankings of December 2012 and January 2013. In december, Antonio Carabillo was 84th in the Open ranking, and 191th in the veterans table. In January he was 83th in the Open section and 193th in the veterans ranking.

A new FISTF Board has been elected last saturday in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France). Luis Filipe Horta (Portugal) is the new president. Vincent Coppenolle (Belgium) is General Secretary, Fred Vulpes (Germany) is Finances director, Joe Zammit Pavia (Malta) is communication director, George Drazinakis (Greece) is sports Director and Thomas Petersen (Denmark) is marketing director.

Subbuteo TV ad from Italy

Well done subbuteo for launching this TV ad for the italian market and good luck! Buffon, the famous goalkeeper of the italian football team, is part of the show!

A fantastic video about subbuteo

Congratulations Sarah Lee!

Congratulations to Sarah Lee Wai-Sze for winning the bronze medal at the London Olympics in the women's keirin. Sarah Lee Wai-Sze was the happiest rider on the podium. Her bronze medal feat handed Hong Kong their first ever Olympic medal in a cycling event, and only their third overall. Hong Kong athletes had previously won one gold from windsurfing in 1996 and one Olympic silver medal from table tennis. Well done!

www.subbuteo.com is online

Our friends from SUBBUTEO have officially launched their website at http://en.subbuteo.com/

There are tips for new players, a list of available products and even the list of retailers. The game is currently available in Portugal, the UK, Spain, Italy, Singapore and Australia. Many more nations should have distributors soon.

Hopefully this will help to get a lot of new players interested in the beautiful game.

A big change for the WASPA circuit

There were a lot of comments in the last few days about the possible change to have WASPA tournaments with only three players instead of four. A mail has been sent to several tournaments organizers and players and, apart from two people who didn't really know if a change like this would be a good thing, everyone gave support. The idea is not to lower the standards of organisation but just to help smaller associations and isolated groups of players. In countries such as Australia, Canada or the US, it's difficult to get players together for a tournament because of the long distances between cities. Also, in the last few months some tournaments were held with only three players. Despite of the efforts made by the local organizers to have something great, the tournaments could not count for the WASPA ranking and archives. Hopefully the change will motivate more clubs and players to organize tournaments under WASPA banner. The idea is to have more nations involved in the near future. The decision is therefore taken with immediate effect.

For more details about the WASPA circuit, take a look at http://waspa-circuit.blogspot.com/ 

A first tournament in Hong Kong

There are some excellent news coming up from Hong Kong. There will be the very first tournament in the country on sunday, April 29 as four players will meet for a great time of flicking football. Local players Antonio Carabillo and Stephen Peaker will meet Tan Kok Wee and John Ho from Singapore! Results will be announced early next week! Contact: Antonio Carabillo at pacway@netvigator.com

More events in Singapore

The Singapore association will organize some more FISTF events this year. It might interest many players around Asia & Oceania to travel there. The events will be as follows:
- Future tournament on October 18
- Challenger on November 20
- Satellite on November 21
For more details, feel free to contact Tan Kok Wee at tfasingapore@gmail.com
As a reminder, the top 100 players in the Open world rankings can not play Satellites, the top 200 players in the Open world rankings can not play Challengers and the top 300 players in the Open world rankings can not play Futures.