{"id":170,"date":"2014-04-18T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T05:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-04-19T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T13:18:47","slug":"subbuteo-melbourne-anniversary-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Subbuteo Melbourne Anniversary Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_5350b447797a51447684938\">\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-173 alignleft\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/image.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Benji Batten<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Subbuteo Melbourne Anniversary tournament was held on the 13th of April 2014- Exactly 1 year after the clubs formation.<\/p>\n<p>A hotly contested group stage saw seeded players Carl Young and Peter Thomas finish on top of their respective groups with Benji Batten and David Simpson (who had both scored against their respective table toppers) also qualifying for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>After the group stage, the competition split in two with Alex Stefanos, Dillon Izon and Peter Lipsett competing in a tight group for 5th Place.<\/p>\n<p>There were no surprises in the semi-finals and so two of Australia\u2019s top players; Carl and Peter would meet in the final.<br \/>\nThe final itself was a high quality match in which after 30 minutes and then a further 10 minutes extra time: the scores were locked at 1-1. A great crowd assembled for the shootout in which Peter Thomas claimed the victory with the final shot. (Shootout score 3-2)<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from the tournament are now available<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_53828\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XawGNXWhxKo?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to all involved.<br \/>\nFinal Placing\u2019s:<br \/>\n1. Peter Thomas<br \/>\n2. Carl Young<br \/>\n3. Benji Batten<br \/>\n4. David Simpson<br \/>\n5. Peter Lipsett<br \/>\n6. Alex Stefanos<br \/>\n7. Dillon Izon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benji Batten The Subbuteo Melbourne Anniversary tournament was held on the 13th of April 2014- Exactly 1 year after the clubs formation. A hotly contested group stage saw seeded players Carl Young and Peter Thomas finish on top of their respective groups with Benji Batten and David Simpson (who had both scored against their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-results-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}