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The score so far
| Company | Games Played | Score |
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| VDAJ | 19 | 15 |
| IOS | 8 | 5 |
| H&R | 7 | 2 |
| Nichiai | 12 | 7 |
| Hotoku | 10 | 4 |
| Lutron | 6 | 2 |
| Arup | 3 | 2 |
| SPD Meiji | 12 | 4 |
| Clestra | 15 | 6 |
| Steelcase | 9 | 6 |
| Team For | 10 | 3 |
| Schiavello | 12 | 3 |
| CVP | 2 | 2 |
| Cassina | 6 | 1 |
| Hako Design | 13 | 7 |
| Plug In | 4 | 0 |
| Snack treat | 9 | 5 |
| Oshima Pros | 9 | 1 |
| Reuters | 4 | 3 |
| Hutsu | 7 | 6 |
| Sugoi | 7 | 6 |
| NDR | 5 | 3 |
| Itoki | 3 | 0 |
| Team Net | 3 | 0 |
| Modular | 8 | 0 |
| NSK | 2 | 1 |
| JRD Vision | 4 | 3 |
| Ted Tokyo | 4 | 2 |
| Milliken | 2 | 0 |
How do you rank yourself as a player? Here’s how you do it according to foosball.com
| Rating | Rank | Comment |
| 0 | Marsupial (never played): Usually someone’s kid under the age of 4. My kids are here now. | |
| 200 | Average person (played 10 times): Spin like and egg beater, misses’ the ball a lot. Not very good at all. | |
| 300 | Better Player (played 25 times): Spins some, swings some. Can actually hit the ball most of the time. | |
| 500 | Good player (played 50 times): Good player who does NOT practice. Can shoot the ball and block some shots. | |
| 700 | Beats all their friends (played 100 times): Actually plays weekly. Learning to have a strong, consistent shot. Not very much controlled passing, just smacks at it on the 5-bar. Always beats their friends and the guys at work or the dorm. | |
| 800 | Beats everyone they know (100’s of games): Has a good shot and is learning to pass the ball from 5-bar to 3-bar. Easily wins virtually every time they play at work or a bar/club. Thinking about going to a tournament at a bar/club and play for money. We suspect 50% of the people reading this are at this level. You think your good enough to beat anyone, sorry to tell you this, but you are going to be butchered for a couple years at tournaments. There are people who will make you look like an 8 year old kid on the table. Don’t get to disappointed, give it some time and learn!!! | |
| 900 | Competitive Player (Just started playing competitively, under a year): This is the lowest level of “Professional Foosball Tour” players. They do not win very much, if ever, on the ‘tour’. You start to see the signs of an “un-raceable” shot or pass. This player would blow away any normal player but the tour vets are just too much. | |
| 1000 | Tournament Level Player (1-2 years): This is a solid player: Starts to win money and prizes on the tour, lowest level “Pro” players. Has a strong shot, but the accuracy is not so great and the consistency is lacking. This player will have at least one “un-raceable” shot and maybe one pass. Needs more practice. | |
| 1200 | Solid tour players (3 years): This person can go to a local tournament and place in the top 5 or so. This person has a good shot, a good pass and very good defense (the key is their solid defense). A 500 point person (your average good player) would be destroyed by this person. An average player (200 points) would be lucky to score on this person more then 1 time a game. Accuracy is there, consistency may need some work. “Un-raceable” in many areas, you will start to witness shots and passes which are “Un-seeable”, you just can’t see them and you have to say what just happened. An average player would not understand how good this person is because the game would be so controlled and so quick it starts to look ‘easy’ to an observer. | |
| 1500 | Very good tour player (5 years): Places in top 10% in all events they play in. Can compete with all but the best players in the world. This person shoots and passes at a 95% range on lower players. We are now at Accuracy and Consistency, always. This player hits the spot they are shooting at, every time. Now surely you will witness shots that you do not “see”. This person is going to do stuff that seems unbelievable, but they will do it over and over again. The 800 point player (likely you) is going to be smushed. But this person is far from the best in the world. | |
| 1800 | Best ‘normal’ human player (10 years): Top of the game. This is the best the average person can get. If you do not have a ‘knack’ for the game, you will never get any better then this. You could practice 12 hours a day for 10 years and unless you are quick like a cat and smart like a fox, this is the best you can be. Everything they do is “un-stoppable” and mostly “un-seeable” to an average player. You will have fun playing this person, if you have a good sense of humor, because it is going to be funny how badly you lose. If you score on this person, celebrate like you just won the super bowl, it will happen that rarely. If it takes them more then 3 minutes to beat you, that also would be a miracle. Don’t be surprised if they only shoot trick shots, their normal tournament shots would be silly easy. | |
| 2000 | Fantastic player, top 1000 in the world (playing whole life): This person is a foosball machine. Can do any shot and any pass at any time and blocks everything you try to do. This player will play at such a level they will beat anyone and everyone who walks up. These players catch any ball bouncing around the table, they block most every shot and the shoot like lightning. If you are so drunk as to play a player at this level for money, I hope you have a good job to earn the money back because you are going to LOSE EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! | |
| Above 2000 | Foosball players from mount Olympus (Playing before time started): This is where the players who win $1,000’s of dollars are rated. These people are just ridicules. No matter how drunk you get, you will never think you could beat a person of this skill level. These people could beat you with 1 arm and an elbow, I actually mean that. | |
Hot summer games in Jiyugaoka yesterday. While the Japanese Olympic team was losing against the US team, about 10 teams competed in our monthly Vitafeetleague. The ahum, “vintage” Harvard table, (look at the pictures to see this poor old battle-hardened table)
did at some point not withstand the brutal force of some of our shots and one of the players broke in half. Fortunately, the always resourceful SPD Meiji came well prepared and brought some tape. After a patch-up by Aaron the player was as good as new and the games continued well into the night.
Aaron patching up the broken player,
SPD Meiji shooting some sneaky shots,
Yas, Makino from Clestra (seeing something weird on the ceiling) and James Ferrer from Snack Treat,
Nakashima from Schiavello enjoying the evening while Toshi is having a peak at Japan’s Olympic team on the screen,
Oshima Pro’s highly concentrated at play,
Cassina did not get time to order a drink, the moment they arrived they had to play,
No comment,
Waiting to play is the hardest part.
Some of our VDAJ players joined the German Embassy Cup. Despite some outstanding play VDAJ did not win any prizes, next year we’ll be there again.
VDAJ!
…in action
VDAJ fan!
Stiff competition…
Smiles of confidence…
…but alas! no prizes this year. Next year we’ll be back!
Another Vitafeet League night was held on Tuesday 7/8/08 in Roppongi’s Bagus game hall.
It was the first night away from the home field at VDAJ. Our initial venue no-longer had a table so everyone was diverted to Roppongi thanks to some quick Ota-style sleuthing. Games began around 7:30 with many close final scores, partly due to the foreign table. VDAJ was finally beaten by the Steelcase team lead by Aoyama-san in a back and forth grudge match (final:5-4). And a newcomer, the Reuters team took claim to the evening’s bragging rights and VDAJ-wine prize.
We thank all the participants that made it to the night’s games despite the last minute location change.
Despite the guerilla techniques were used as you can hear and see here:
VDAJ again managed to clench on to the tittle of having scored 6 points out of 6 games played. Obviously the home advantage is working, or was it the beer?
Jonathan and Aaron working hard…
And this is what the Vitafeetleague does to some people…
Nichiai ended up as second best for the evening and clearly were very happy with the results!
Another great table by the Eleven Forty company this time. (Click on products and then the great game) Beautiful hand moulded players.
| June 12, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
We are planning to play outside for our June games. Come and join us for some outdoor table football fun! We’ll send a separate notice out soon.
…to the end of last night’s vitafeet league play witnessed an exciting final game to claim the day’s bragging rights.
VDAJ took the lead after an early tit-for-tat exchange of points, but the IOS/Metropolis team made a strong come back push to 9-9. The final ball, VDAJ 10-IOS/Metropolis 9.
Bragging rights stay with VDAJ, but just barely.
The day’s prize of Vitafeet wine goes to IOS/Metropolis.
We thank all of you that could attend. Remember, you can take away our home field advantage with a foosball table in your own office! Our current table was found at www.newart.co.jp for those interested.
The beautiful game” is a collaboration of two companies: GRO Design and Tim Modelmakers , both from the Netherlands. The Beautiful Game, a game of table football, introduced it at Milan Design Week, 16th - 21st April, Via Forcella 8, Milan, Italy
You can find more pictures of this extraordinary, beautiful table here
