{"id":5017,"date":"2019-03-16T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2019-03-16T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:44:25","slug":"canberra-satellite-trials-swiss-format-as-benny-ng-claims-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/?p=5017","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Satellite trials Swiss format as Benny Ng claims top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore\u2019s Benny Ng (Western Flickers) claimed the first FISTF event staged in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, ahead of a strong field of 23 players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5023\" src=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"be\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557-624x832.jpg 624w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/be-e1552718464557.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Swiss format competition was staged over five rounds, with some dramatic matches and equally dramatic final rankings.<br \/>\nNorthern Falcon\u2019s young duo of Oli Ollnow and Torben Pfister claimed second and third places, while Canberra TFC\u2019s Nick Brill finished fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Top ranked Fabrizio Coco (Sydney TFC) fell 3-1 to Benny, and with two 1-1 draws (against Northern Phoenix Paul Mercer and Brisbane\u2019s Giuseppe Tardiota), he fell to 8th place in the final ranking.<\/p>\n<p>There was much discussion both before and after the tournament as to the pluses and minuses of the Swiss format, and ATFA will present a final report to FISTF on their views on the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5024\" src=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0590\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0590-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Canberra-FISTF-Satellite.htm\">Canberra-FISTF-Satellite<\/a><br \/>\nTable<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Canberra-FISTF-Satellite_table.htm\">Canberra-FISTF-Satellite_table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore\u2019s Benny Ng (Western Flickers) claimed the first FISTF event staged in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, ahead of a strong field of 23 players. The Swiss format competition was staged over five rounds, with some dramatic matches and equally dramatic final rankings. Northern Falcon\u2019s young duo of Oli Ollnow and Torben Pfister claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/subbuteoaustralia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}