season 2013/14 starts - Sunshine Cup

[batabomber]

Hopefully we will meet with Colin Day from the Glasgow Table Soccer Association [ G.T.S.A.] number 97# in the F.I.S.T.F. World ranking in the Veterans Category, probably the Sunshine Cup with Daniel and Isabel and then Alex and Colin for the traditional Pond Challenge Cup.

We will have also our League Cup 4th edition on September the 29th.

Hopefully a great start for the new season !

[batabomber]

All is ready, Dan please bring your pitch for Monday night.

Today I will pick up the trophies.

[batabomber]

A very late report about the events at the Sunshine Cup...

We played the tournament last Monday, September the 23 rd at the Batacchi Grounds, welcoming Colin Day from the G.T.S.A., with the late addition of James Husley.

Great evening of table soccer even though we just played one round robin round and then a final.

Colin very good player that play quite regularly in a league with his Club in Glasgow, it has been a pleasure and great experience to play with him for the Tampa table soccer players, looking at a different tactics/strategy style of playing.

Daniel Louis as usual showed some progresses and even James did a lot better , Isabel did not have one of her best day of Subbuteo.

here the results:

First Round

Alex - James 6-0
Colin - Daniel 2-0

Second Round

James - Colin 1-4
Isabel - Alex 0-4

Third Round

Daniel - James 2-0
Colin - Isabel 3-0

Fourth Round

Isabel - James 2-0
Daniel - Alex 0-3

Fifth Round

Isabel - Daniel 2-1
Alex - Colin 6-1

The final was won by Alex over Colin 3-1 and recorded , hopefully soon or later we will show it on You tube.

[batabomber]

The final Group stage standings were:

Player.Pl....W....D.....L......gs.....gc.......... Pts

Alex.....4.....4.....0.....0......19......1...........12
Colin....4.....3.....0.....1......10......7.............9
Isabel..4.....2.....0.....2........4......8.............6
Daniel..4.....1.....0.....3........3......7.............3
James..4.....0.....0.....4.......1......14............0

We decided to cancel the League Cup , hopefully we will play it in October.

Good to see James scoring is first goal in a tournament.

[batabomber]

First of all thanks to Zach that through facebook informed me of Colin presence in Florida .

Tuesday September the 24th ,Colin and myself met for the Traditional Pond Challenge Cup, now at his third edition.

We played no stop 7 [15 minutes halves ] really competitive games and the hard fought battles gave these results:

Alex - Colin [1-0] 3-0
Alex - Colin [1-0] 2-0
Alex - Colin [1-0] 3-0
Alex - Colin [1-0] 2-0
Alex - Colin [0-0] 1-0
Alex - Colin [0-0] 0-0
Alex - Colin [0-0] 0-0

Most of the games were really tight encounters, in game two Alex snatched a win against the run of play and in game six was really lucky to came out with a draw and a clean sheet, saved by a couple of posts with his goalkeeper well beaten.

Great pleasure to meet and play with Colin, which showed a different style of strategies/tactics letting me work very hard for winning.

Thanks again Colin for coming and play with us!

[colinday]

Hi Tampa Bay Table Soccer Club, I am glad to say that American table soccer is alive and FLICKING.

I would like to Alex & Isabel for inviting me to their home and Daniel & James for also turning up to make a great Monday night of table soccer.
I have to add that the flicking was a very high standard by every player, I get frustrated when I play against someone who foul flicks all the time.

Tuesday WOW what a day of great table soccer against Alex, I really enjoyed all the games defeated 5 times and 2 draws, his shooting is electrifing.

I have adapted my game slightly since playing Alex, have played another 3 games in the G.T.S.A. league, winning all 3 without conceeding a goal. I have to thank Alex for that.

I will get something on the GTSA web site soon, as I explaned to Alex by email on the 9th Oct my email account had been taken over and i was a wee bit scared to use the computer.

PS If anyone is ever over in Edinburgh or Glasgow please get in touch.

[batabomber]

Thanks to You Colin for the kind words and for taking the time for playing with us, it has been really great to meet you... I think you will do very well in your league in Glasgow, please keep me posted.