Hi all,

I hope you are all enjoying your beautiful end of summertime and beginning of Autumn up in North America.
In South America we are saying goodbye to the wintertime and waiting desperately for our summer to start.
I would like to update you on the future ISA Championship locations.
The 2012 ISA World Team Championship will take place in Seattle, Washington from 6 -10 August 2012. Rob and Margaret Robinson will be running the show and they tell me it will surpass the 2011 ISA World Singles Championship which was held in Dieppe, Canada.
I have selected Rocky and Gigi Briggs to be the Men’s and Women’s United Nations Team Captains respectively.
As you can see planning starts 11 months in advance for ISA Championships.
The 2013 ISA World Singles Championship, by unanimous vote among the National Presidents, will take place at the
St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club in St. Petersburg, Florida sometime in the latter part of October 2013. Final dates are yet to be determined. ISA Committee Chairman Jim Allen is spearheading this event.
In November of this year, TAFISA will be holding its World Congress in Turkey and proudly Dieter and Birgitt Hussmann will be representing the ISA.  And a final note, the ISA Delegation headed to Siauliai city, Lithuania from 5-12 July 2012 for the 2012 TAFISA World Sport Event has been selected.  Dieter and I will be taking 3 Germans and 3 Brazilians as well as 2 Canadian Senior players. Within the delegation are 5 youth representatives and 2 women. My selection was made on players having additional language abilities. Among our delegation we have the capability to speak 6 different languages and I feel this is extremely critical for communications with the public and media.

Quote: If the shot can be made by me, I’ll probably miss it, however it is not the end of the world because it’s only a game !

Michael Robert Zellner
ISA President