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Results 8/4/13

Tom Burns became the first player to complete all his league games when he defeated Ronnie McKenzie 6-1. This win took Burns back to the top of the table, 2 points clear of Dave Butler. Butler therefore needs only 3 points from 3 games to clinch the title. McKenzie fared better in his other league matches, winning both, against Dave Houston and Colin Berry. He remains, however, second from bottom. Burns and Willie Fleming will have to replay their Glasgow Cup semi-final after neither player was able to score. In the Handicap Cup Fleming overcame a 6 goal deficit to defeat Martin Phee whilst the two Colins, Berry and Day drew 2-2.

 

League

 

McKenzie 1 6 Burns
Houston 0 2 McKenzie
Bari 0 0 Houston
McKenzie 1 0 Berry

 

Glasgow Cup

 

Semi-Final

Fleming 0 0 Burns

 

 

5-8 place semi-final

Gladman 0 1 Day

 

 

Handicap Cup

 

Phee 6 9 Fleming
Berry 2 2 Day
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Hegedus reaches final in Hungary

Congratulations are due to Zoltan Hegedus on reaching the final of the Mezobereny Open in Hungary! Unfortunately he lost narrowly to Pedro Reis of Portugal. After qualifying out of his group with 3-0 and 6-0 victories, Zoltan defeated Zsolt Pal 2-0 in the quarter-final. A 3-1 victory over Andras Hicz in the semi set up the final clash against the Portuguese. With the players locked at 1-1 at half-time it was Reis who scored the only goal of the second half. Well done to Zoltan, so close to the first FISTF Open victory outside Scotland for a GTSA player.

 

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World Rankings

The World Rankings for March have been released by FISTF. Most players have risen up the rankings due to participation in the Grand Prix. GTSA ‘B’ team have moved up 41 places to 80. Top Open player is Dave Butler up 34 to 121. Colin Berry rises 106 places! Barry Corr enters the rankings for the first time. Top Veteran is still Tom Burns but he remains at 57. Last month’s placings are in brackets.

 

Open

 

Dave Butler 121 (155)
Zoltan Hegedus 215 (236)
Colin Berry 284 (390)
Ronnie McKenzie 434 (503)
Barry Corr 621 (—–)
Baver Bari 355 (423)

 

 

Veteran

 

Tom Burns   57  (57)
Colin Day   88  (95)
Dave Gladman 150 (172)
Willie Fleming 169 (151)

 

 

Teams

 

GTSA ‘A’   48  (50)
GTSA ‘B’   80 (121)

 

 

Top Scottish Open player is Steve Bennett (55), top Vet is Malcolm Lees (43) and top team is Hot Club D’ Ecosse (42). Number 1 Open player is Saverio Bari (Italy). Francesco Mattiangeli (Italy) is top Vet and SC Stembert (Belgium) is the number 1 team.

 

 

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Zoltan to play in Hungarian IO

GTSA wishes good luck to Zoltan Hegedus as he returns to Hungary for the International Open ‘B’ of Mezobereny. Having just risen 21 places up the World Rankings to 215, this is an opportunity for Zoltan to break into the top 200! The Hungarian Association is still in its infancy and Zoltan has high hopes of a good performance. The competition takes place on Sunday 7th April. Full details of the outcome will be posted here on the GTSA website.

 

 

The opposition in Hungary shouldn’t be as tough as Kaspar Bennett!

 

About 200km from Budapest, Mezobereny (population about 11,000) is in south-east Hungary, quite close to the Romanian border.

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Results 1/4/13

Despite a turnout of seven players only one competitive match was played.  This was an Association Cup clash between Burns and Gladman. Neither player was able to find the net although a number of chances were had by each player. Gladman enjoyed long periods of possession whereas Burns preferred a more direct approach to his opponent’s goal. They will have to do it again.

 

Association Cup

 

Burns 0 0 Gladman
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Results 18/3/13

Butler moved level on points with Burns after a narrow victory over Gladman. Gladman was in confident mood and enjoyed long periods of possession. Just before half-time, however, a careless error cost him the only goal of the game. Burns still leads due to superior goal difference but Butler has two games in hand. Elsewhere the Handicap Cup got underway. Phee, Day and Houston progressed to the next round but Burns and Corr will have to play again. The Second Round draw was made. Jones has a baptism of fire against Butler but he has a cushion of nine goals!

 

League

 

 

Butler 1 0 Gladman

 

 

Handicap Cup

 

Corr 4 4 Burns
Bari 3 4 Phee
Houston 2 0 Gladman

 

Day 3 1 Hegedus

 

Second Round Draw

 

Phee v Fleming/McKenzie
Corr/Burns v Houston
Butler v Jones
Day v Berry
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Grand Prix: message from Tom Burns

Message from Tom Burns to Grand Prix participants

 

In the aftermath of the latest event in Scotland, and aftermath is probably the best word to describe it, I would like to thank all the players who took the time and effort to attend and helped make a successful event. There were very few complaints and the lack of excessive shouting would back up claims that most games were played in a very sporting manner. This also may have been attributable to the fact that the calibre of players fell into two very different groups. But overall I was very pleased with the behaviour of all present (although I have no knowledge of what went on in the hotel, your honour). My main concern was the people who came to enjoy themselves as opposed to those who only came to win or collect ranking points. So on that score I think we did ok. I think a special mention is due to both Yorkshire Phoenix and Netfa Teeside for travelling in very good numbers and getting involved in the spirit of things, SPIRIT being the operative word here. Although, to be fair, Yorkshire did enter into it more than most, just gutted I couldn’t join you. I would also like to thank the rest of the GTSA guys for their assistance with a special mention to Dave Gladman who was an absolute star in dealing with the majority of the admin work and having the results on our website almost as soon as the event was finished. I wish next year’s host every success with the event.

Tom Burns

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Results 11/3/13

Despite the club night following straight after the Grand Prix there was a good turn-out of 10 players. The club welcomed back Martin Phee after a gap of three years. Martin was one of the original members from 1973. It was Martin’s first meeting with Dave Houston since that time! Houston moved three places up the table after a draw with Colin Day and a win over Colin Berry. Dave Gladman had 2-1 wins against Berry and Baver Bari. Gladman has now had seven successive league victories. He only managed three points in his first ten games.

 

Gladman 2 1 Bari
Houston 0 0 Day
Berry 1 2 Gladman
Houston 2 0 Berry

 

Handicap Cup

 

Each player was allocated a handicap and the first round draw was made.

 

Handicaps:

 

Butler 0
Burns 1
Fleming 2
Day 2
Gladman 3
Houston 3
Hegedus 3
Berry 3
Corr 3
McKenzie 3
Bari 4
Phee 8
Jones 9

 

Corr v Burns
Fleming v McKenzie
Houston v Gladman
Hegedus v Day
Phee v Bari

 

 

Byes: Berry, Butler and Jones

 

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Grand Prix: results from knock-out stages

Open

Last 16

 

Mark Gauci Colin Berry 10 0
Neil Youngson Mark Farrell 1 5
Dave Pawsey Mike Burns 1 0
Paul Lawrenson Hansel Mallia 0 3
Pascal Scheen Ben Staples 7 1
Dave Butler Paulo Gouvia 1 0
Steve Bennett Sam Curtis 7 0
Gareth Christie Kasper Bennett 0 1

 

Quarter-Finals

 

Mark Gauci Mark Farrell 4 0
Dave Pawsey Hansel Mallia 1 2
Pascal Scheen Dave Butler 4 1
Steve Bennett Kasper Bennett 2 3

 

 

Semi-Final

 

Mark Gauci Hansel Mallia 0 1
Pascal Scheen Kasper Bennett 1 0

 

Final

 

Hansel Mallia Pascal Scheen 3 1

 

Veterans

 

Quarter-Finals

 

Joe Mifsud Malcolm Lees 4 1
Colin Day Mike Parnaby 0 1
Justin Finch Colin Tarry 6 0
Adrian Curtis Daniel Scheen 1 3

 

 

Semi Finals

 

Joe Miifsud Mike Parnaby 6 1
Justin Finch Daniel Scheen 3 1

 

 

Final

 

Justin Finch Joe Mifsud

 

Justin Finch forfeited the final. He had to leave to catch a flight.

 

For all group tables and results  see ‘Grand Prix’ on menu bar

 

Under-19

 

Final

 

Noe Scheen Sam Curtis 1 2

 

Plate

 

Final

 

Tom Burns Russ Harker 7 0

 

 

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