Viestit

Good luck today everyone. Have a great day and be nice to Greenie! Wish I could be there. 

I am coming with my family to Finland over Christmas/New Year again this year so I hope to see some of you then.

All the best.

Eliot

Thanks Kari and Vincent.

It would great if Greenie and I could make it to Finland at the same time one day and kick some Finnish butt  On the other hand, I think it far more likely that we would be ones who were spanked, but it would be great fun whatever the result. One day, one day....

That's good news too regarding Melbourne Vincent. And it would be nice to be playing more regularly for sure.

All the best.

Happy to see the "in english" section of the forum is still alive!

Thanks Vincent for your support. We had our tourney yesterday and it went really well, with 13 players including 6 'newbies', that is guys who'd never played before, taking part. Brett Davis, the organiser,did a great job and  hopes to get a club together in western Sydney, which would be terrific.  It is possibly too far for some us to go to regularly - it is more than 100 kilometres there and back from my place! - but if we could have even quarterly tournaments where more of us come to play it would be a big advance on the last couple of years.

A real plus yesterday was having Robert Green play - he is over in Australia for his sister's birthday - as well as Steve Dettre. I know some of the Finnish boys have met Steve and Greenie in the last few years.

We played the 'Swiss' system, four rounds. I managed to just win on goal difference from Greenie, but the main thing was just playing again and getting some new guys interested in the game 

All the best.

Eliot

Hi everyone

Long time no post! Hope you are all going well.

Just to let you know that we will be having our first tournament in Sydney for over two years next Saturday 15 September. It will I think be as much a promotional thing as a competitive tournament, but it will count for WASPA points purposes.

There is a link to the tournament at http://www.subbuteo-australia.blogspot.com.au/

I am completely out of practice as usual, but looking forward to having a flick again! I'll let you know who we go.

All the best.

Eliot

Thanks boys for the chance to play yesterday. I really enjoyed catching up with some of you again and playing a few games, even if I lost most of them I hope you keep playing and to see you next time I'm in the area!

Cheers.

Eliot

Hi Zinga and Vesa

Great to hear from you.

Hope to catch up with you soon. I'll talk again to Jutta about our programme in Finland and see if I can manage two trips to see you guys. Could be a bit tricky, but I'll let Hönkki know and find out what you can arrange at your end. 

As for playing with the little finger, I don't know whether to laugh or cry 

How the 'mighty' (or not so mighty) have fallen 

All the best.

Eliot

Hei pojat

Long time no email/blog! I hope you are all well and have enjoyed the Finnish summer.

I have just sent Hönkki a message, but I am coming on a flying visit to Finland with my family soon. We will be in Finland from 22 September to 5 October, but have a very full program mainly catching up with Jutta's family and friends.

At this stage I have a little free time on the evening of Monday 26 September and free days on Monday 3 and/or Tuesday 4 October.

Are you guys still meeting regularly? Would love to catch up if at all possible. I have not played since early last year, but what the heck!

All the best.

Eliot

Hi Vesä!

Nice to hear from you too. Sorry for the delay in replying - have not logged on for a while.

It'd be great if some boys from Finland could make it, but it is a long way.

I'll see if I can find out how the Swedish guys is and get back to you.

Cheers.

Eliot

Hi Guys

I hope this finds you all well and enjoying the Finnish summer.

Just a quick post to let you know that we will be holding our next official FISTF tournament here in Sydney on Saturday 20 November, the Sydney International Open. It is still not clear if we will have an event on the Sunday too, but I'll let you know as soon as it's decided. So far, there is interest from players in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, New Zealand & Sweden as well as from Australia of course.

If anyone is palnning a trip Down Under and is interested, please let me know (either by posting a reply here a sending me an email to eliotjutta@gmail.com). It'd be great to have some Finnish lads here and we would be sure to show you a good time!

All the best.

Eliot

Kiitos paljon Zinga! Some very interesting results there. Well done to the organisers and players, and well done Marko 'Little Bear' Karhunen for winning on the Sunday 

IO 23.5 su

open final: Karhunen - Mattiangeli 2-1

Hyvä Marko! Go Finland 

Boys

Have you posted the results anywhere? have not been able to find them on your website.

Hope it all went well.

 

Good luck boys. Have a great turnaus, and may a Finn win!

Eliot

Hi guys

Thanks for the good wishes Vesa!

Our tournament went well today, with 10 guys showing up. We had 2 groups of 3 and one of 4.

The tournament was won by an Englishman, Peter Thomas, against another Englishman (who has actually lived here for 9 years and now represents Australia), Rob Smith - 3-1 in the final. Bloody Poms!! Peter is the brother of a top English player Chris Thomas, who coincidentally beat me 6-1 when I played a tournament in Milton Keynes in 2007.

Peter beat me 2-1 in the semi (I won my group with two wins). I was 1-0 up against Peter a bit against the run of play and he deserved to win, but overall I was pleased how I played against him (it was his closest result) and generally. I won the play-off for 3rd 2-1 against Antonio Carabillo, an Italian guy living in Hong Kong, who is a friend of Rob's a flew down just for the tournament! He scored with 2 seconds left, so I was not in danger of losing.

I used my new Profibase figures for the first time and generally liked them - still need to practice and play with them more, but they seem very good.

It's great to have finally had a tournament here in Australian after a 15 year break! We will see what happens but hope that a small group of us can get together every month or two for a flick, with more formal tournaments 2 or 3 times a year. Will definitely give more notice of any future tournanments and expect to see a planeload of Suomelainen here for it

All the best.

Eliot