The Italian Flames Of War Championship With the end of June, the Third Season of Italian Flames Of War Championship has ended too! The final event, which occurred June 28 in Florence, had 30 gamers attending - an astonishing result for an Italian wargame tournament. Moreover, that is not the only big achievement we got this year!

During 2014/15 season the Federazione Italiana di Flames of War (Italian FOW Federation) has successfully organized 21 FOW tournaments in 18 cities in 4 countries, attending and organizing tournaments in every and each important wargame cons in Italy, notably at Empoli, Lucca Games (where we had “Lucca Flames of War Contest”) and Comics, Leghorn and the most important Italian wargame show at Agliana, Hellana Games, with a lot of participation and public interest around FOW wargame.

Aside from the regular season, the Federation has organized several different events in order to captivate interest in Flames of War game system and create new player where they were not:   Mission Possible, a project with a lot of player from around the world in order to create a new playable “mission”. The Xmas tournament, during Christmas, where games comes with wishes and gifts! A new event, the Flames Of War Week in Europe, where we had a week of tournaments in different European cities (Zurich in Switzerland, Graz in Austria and Agliana in Italy) with the same tournaments rules and standard and a single, common ranking for prizes.

For the same reasons, this year we had a lot of Media & Communications: a new web site -  www.fowitalia.com a new Blog for posting live pictures and comments during tournaments, live streaming for the most important events a Facebook page with 300 (!) followers. We had a lot of interest for media and gadgets too: Stop-motion presentations, tournaments booklets, a book complete with each and every army list played at tournaments, T-Shirts, Mugs, Cups, Medals and whatever we could think of!

A lot of technology has been involved too! In each tournament, we used videos, projectors and audio systems to make easier following games and ranking, we successfully developed a digital system to insert game results, with a badge and a pin number unique to each player. Then we let the computer to calculate results, ranking and pairing. And it was a very sensitive computer too! It paid attention not to mix players from the same club (no one likes to travel miles to have a game with usual buddies!) and to assign different tables to each player (not 2 games on the same table. Ever.). Managing this required just a little effort on tech side… 4 PC have been used to manage each tournament! So, what a great and successful season it was!

More than 130 players, with the most part of them attending to more events during the year (45% has attended 4 or more events!), 21 events, 18 cities, 8 regions and 4 countries involved (we had tournaments in Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia too!). We made Italy playing with us!

Therefore, we like to gift everyone who is interested in with a “souvenir” or memorial from this happy gaming season we enjoyed together! Please download it at: www.fowitalia.com Finally yet importantly, we paid particular attention on the human side of players (Yes, we think they have it!). We sought interesting locations for tournaments, like the Navy Officers Club at Leghorn Military Academy, Museums (Liberation Museum in Lucca, Military Museum in Pivka), wargame trade shows and… luxury resorts! Among other facilities, we try our best to make wives and kids happy too; we had a swimming pool, a shopping center and a sort of kids’ playground to entertain the other half of our world during matches… So, see you after summer holidays with an all-new season, new proposals and events.  Up the FOW!

Final Results of the Season

1	Marco Zampini	350,00		57	Jakob Brunner	64,62
2	Alberto De Luca	332,15		58	Thomas Hofer	61,88
3	Massimo Moriglioni	330,41		59	Marco Natalini	61,50
4	Andrea Cecchettini	320,73		60	Etienne Dufour	59,27
5	Antonio Pietra	319,85		61	Francesco Foto	58,53
6	Stefano Regazzoni	317,29		62	Jan Rugerj	56,67
7	Alessandro Vanzetti	304,07		63	Simone Frosini	54,80
8	Marco Cevoli	291,47		64	Alexandr Shekochihin	54,68
9	Nils Reddig	286,71		65	Christophe Fischer	51,86
10	Marco Bonavita	274,68		66	Niccolò Lucioli	50,00
11	Andrea Rosi	272,31		67	Daniele Monti	48,60
12	Luca Baroni	272,25		68	Giuliano Bonaccorsi	48,60
13	Antonio Soncini	269,61		69	Lorenzo Prosperi	48,26
14	Fabio Vanzetti	263,23		70	Rafael Viscarelli	48,00
15	Roberto Plebani	233,68		71	Andreas Geretschlager	47,22
16	Giacomo Petrucci	232,13		72	Victor Nelipovich	44,74
17	Davide Peruzzi	226,75		73	Wasilios Kloukas	44,45
18	Claudio Tiso	223,84		74	Rob Shirley	42,50
19	Francesco Bendinelli	212,35		75	Tommaso Morini	42,00
20	Paolo Satanassi	196,34		76	Marco Valerio Arbolino	41,00
21	Matteo Simonetti	179,76		77	Paolo Perantoni	40,83
22	Paolo Martiniello	174,67		78	Fabio Casini	40,80
23	Riccardo Vanzetti	171,50		79	Dusan Kostic	37,78
24	Rino Foto	168,41		80	Raphael Bosson	37,05
25	Fabio Bortolussi	161,77		81	Mauro Albanesi	35,57
26	Anže Horvat	160,06		82	Christian Zaufl	34,79
27	Lukas Brunner	159,81		83	Matic Sodnik	33,06
28	Alessandro Roscini	157,70		84	Andrea Cerrai	32,40
29	David Melani	155,75		85	Agostino Marcialis	32,40
30	Giacomo Velini	155,05		86	Alessandro di Blasio	32,40
31	Alarico Oliva	152,57		87	Marco Sandri	32,00
32	Erik Gillio	149,25		88	Federico Degli Esposti Venturi	31,45
33	Simone Galfrè	147,51		89	Andrea Pesci	29,89
34	Daniele Stabile	145,80		90	Samo Planinc	29,82
35	Tevž Delak	144,65		91	Maurus Markwalder	29,64
36	Romeo Agostinelli	133,73		92	Andrea Dal Dosso	28,80
37	Dario Segalla	131,23		93	Marco Monzani	27,30
38	Maurizio Cisotto	122,60		94	Fabio Ronco	26,43
39	Giacomo Agostinelli	114,00		95	Luca Amaduzzi	23,61
40	Alessandro Parlanti	103,10		96	Anthony Pinto	22,23
41	Rok Braz	101,15		97	Marco Starnini	21,53
42	Flaviano Maggioni	97,70		98	Daniele Fontana	21,00
43	Luca Santarelli	97,50		99	Enrico Sbaragli	20,50
44	Andrea Gualano	85,49		100	Valerio Anania	20,50
45	Stefano Giombini	84,65		101	Valerio Vacchini	20,00
46	Samuele Togno	83,34		102	Tomislav Borosa	19,89
47	Sebastien Freudiger	81,50		103	Chris Ulreich	19,88
48	Alexey Kirsanov	74,56		104	Giacomo Bosio	17,79
49	Raman Vinna	74,09		105	Stefano Cherici	17,10
50	Milan Avramovic	70,83		106	Jacopo Nappini	16,20
51	Primož Pirš	69,59		107	Andrea Guidi	15,75
52	Stefano Mozzetta	68,30		108	Sebastiano Ravanetti	14,97
53	Federico Mangili	68,30		109	Milan Grašič	14,91
54	Peter Marič	67,35		110	Simon Kunzle	14,82
55	Cédric Balmat	66,68		111	Zlato Horvat	14,17
56	Milan Pirs	66,11