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Incredibly strong finishes by our local foosers this year at the Hall of Fame Classics Tournament, especially for our Pros-Masters, Pros, and Beginners! We’re bringing home THIRTEEN pieces of hardware!!!

Before even talking about the wicked results, I want to comment on the number of people from the bay area that showed up.  25!!  We had 25 foosers go to Vegas!  It was incredible!  This is the largest turnout I’ve seen since I started going to tournaments.  It was very special for all of us!  Ok, onto the results..

The highlight of the tournament belonged to Sergie and Kin; they won an epic 5-game battle against Tony Spredeman and Rob Mares to make it to the finals of Open Doubles. The finals was another 5-game battle – they almost forced a second set against Ryan Moore and Bobby Diaz. Aside from finishing 2nd in Open Doubles, Sergie and Kin also finished 2nd in Elite Doubles and Pro Doubles!

Adrian and Dana also had a great and FUN weekend (the fun part, only us HoFC foosers will know). They too had long battles in Open Doubles, finishing 5th. Their event of the weekend was Dinosaur Doubles (Senior Doubles) where they made quick work of the other teams to win it!

The other great story of the weekend is our two beginners, Xavier and Marcos. This was their first tournament ever and they finished 2nd in Beginner Doubles! Not many of us, if any, have ever brought home hardware on our first tournament, so WOW, great job guys!

On the women’s side, Maryam and Ginger navigated through a strong field to finish 2nd in Women’s Amateur Doubles! These two don’t play regularly (especially Ginger who’s coming back from a 1.5 year hiatus), which makes this a even more impressive finish. On the expert level, I also managed to finish 2nd in Women’s Expert Singles. That’s two 2nds in two tournaments in this event, so I’m hoping that 3rd time’s the charm at the next one!

Congrats to Sergie, Kin, Adrian, Dana, Xavier, Marcos, Maryam, Ginger, and all the other local foosers!

Below are our top 10 finishes for the weekend:

We have 20+ players going to Vegas this year for Hall of Fame, good luck out there!

Non-Vegas foosers, you can follow our progress here (http://ifp.everguide.com/commander/tour/public/) and watch live streaming of the pits tables on the IFP website.

64 Teams.  5 Hosts.  1 Champ.

Foosbrawl starts this Thursday, register here: http://foosbrawl2013.eventbrite.com/

This isn’t your typical tourney but should be a lot of fun: play events at local start-ups in SF, lots of players and non-players hanging out, streaming March Madness games and free beer and refreshments!

PLAYER RESTRICTIONS:

•  Each team must be composed of players from the same company, which must be either a start-up -or- a tech company.  They are inclined to interpret this broadly, so if you’re at all unsure just ask them!  For example, they had several teams from google last year, not a start up but still welcome.
• Tournament players of all levels are welcome!

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:

• Teams will play in one of the four “regional” 16 team tournaments (3/14, 3/19, 3/21, 3/26), from which the top 4 teams from each play in the final tournament on 3/28.
• For those going to HoFC, you will still have a chance to play on 3/14 at ClearSlide or 3/26 at Spotify, Ben will be at ClearSlide this Thursday.

RULES & CONDITIONS:

• Single elimination, best of 3 games to 5 points.
• Each event will have Tornado tables of some type, most events will have at least one T3000 table.  New foosballs, parts, etc. will be provided.
• Rules are more “bar style”, (no strict time limits, no wall limits, drops only, dead balls are dropped, etc.) – of course, no one will stop you from imposing tournament rules on yourself.
• Tournament players will be the only ones seeded, so you will not have to play another tournament player in an elimination game in the regionals.

More info at Foosbrawl.com, and also, Ben is happy to answer any questions, so just email him here.

This past weekend, Daniel flew home to Chicago to attend the 2013 Illinois State Championships. He’s coming back with some very strong top 10 finishes! Congrats and way to represent, Daniel!

Rookie Singles
2nd – Daniel Dechert

Expert Doubles
4th – Daniel Dechert & Adrian Sliwa

Open Doubles
9th – Daniel Dechert & Adrian Sliwa

Despite the AZ State Tournament being held on the same weekend, we still had a nice turnout for our warm-up event.  Our tournament director, Phil, would like to thank all the players who showed up and those who helped throughout the weekend.

Thank you Phil for a great tournament.  We all appreciate your effort and sacrifices to make this weekend possible!

Results are below.  Congrats to all the winners!  Full charts and standings coming soon!