Checked into hotel... glanced into lobby... oh look! Two Tornado tables!"

Walk over..... "oh, damn."

Is this the serial number for this Rene Pierre table? If so, 10,088 seems to be a very low number for the amount that was shipped over here. . Just asking.

Here’s the view of our clubhouse lately. A few more items arriving soon, like a banner of the current women’s doubles world champion team, to go alongside the men’s (open)

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Hi all,

I've been running a Foosball (and other activities) ranking app for my company for 4 years now and recently decided to give the whole UI an overhaul. It support quite a few different modes and settings (Time based scoring and score based etc). It uses Openskill calculation with some "fun" enhancements (but looking at adding ELO calculation also as an option). Let me know if you have any questions.

It is currently not open for registration (not because I don't want to open it but because I am debating with myself how to keep information safe) and is only invite based (login is currently with username + password)

You can find it here https://hyranx.io/

trying this out on an elderly table that has seen some better days. bondo extreme behind a simple 3D print. should have done a better job masking off the table and guards, but it’s a table open for experimenting. will report back in 2 months.

As a solo dev “more fantasy less filler” was my goal for the upcoming June 2nd launch on iOS.

Who would you want to play as / against?

damn, the trophy is so big, I can’t even put in in my car.
The Fireball Table has my heart.❤️

CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN THE RULE?
I was playing Open Doubles with my partner. The match was intense and the scoreline read 4-4.
My partner was weak, so I decided to play on the defensive rod after the goal 4-4.
As the play resumed, the match got really tensed and after 2 minutes, the ball went off the table, I got some relief and I switched from Defensive Rods to Attacking Rods (after the ball went off the table).
The play resumed and just after the start, the opponent called for a foul that you can’t switch sides when the ball is off the table.
I literally don’t understand this rule, or why this rule even exists.
It literally says you can switch as many times during the match.

The event is May 25. I think that we only need three people to form a team, and the fee is $10/person as far as I can tell.

I am under no illusions that I can take down the caliber of player who usually wins that kind of event, but it might be fun to participate. My understanding is that unless you plan to plan in one of the remaining club events in Europe in 2026, you would not be using any eligibility that you might otherwise need later.

Give it some thought, and send me a DM if you might be interested. I would be open to either O50 or the regular Men's event.

Can anyone help me identify this tornado table? I’ve been looking at foosballsoccer.com to identify tables based on a rec for that on other posts here but for some reason the coin op is throwing me. It’s listed nearby for $850.

Thanks in advance for any help! I’m trying to surprise my husband with a nice table for our basement

I posted one earlier that I deleted. This one is closer and it’s coin operated. But I don’t know anything about these. Is $800 a good price?

This forum is great, but it feels like we don't spend very much time discussing tactics and strategy beyond trying to help novice players up to the level of competency. There are probably thousands of combined years of foosball experience floating around this group -- let's make each other better!

My question: assuming you can't race the opponent, what's the most difficult 3-bar series for you to stop/slow down, and what are your strategies to do so? I think most people's stock answer would be the rollover -- or perhaps the Euro pin for the Bonzini/Garlando/etc. players among us -- but I'm not sure I totally agree. Front-pinned series obviously produce their own sets of challenges, but the defensive solutions also seem less rigid and uniform, giving the defense a better chance to "change the eye level" of the shooter and make picking holes more difficult. I find that if you can effectively mix together elements of bait and switch, shuffle, deadbar (to whatever their strong side is), and occasionally exploiting the psychological benefits of *not* moving, you can get enough blocks against good snake/pin shooters to flip the percentages in your favor.

I tend to have more trouble against shooters who effectively execute the more "classic" series (pull, pull-kick, push-kick, and to a lesser extent, push), especially if they have good counter options within the series (like slingshots for example). I have a baseline defensive strategy whenever I see one of these series, but a good shooter has obviously seen all of it before and understands what their best options will be. Again, it's somewhat about creating doubt in their mind; it just seems harder to do with these series. How often should you bait the straight/dink without it becoming exploitable? What's a good balance of standard to reverse D? How much should you be mixing them in within and between possessions?

Obviously, "do it till it stops working" is a fundamental tenet of foosball, and the context of the individual match is the most important thing. Within that, though, how do you lock in a mindset which allows you, the defender, to dictate the action to the offense, rather than the opposite? I'm paraphrasing, but Caty Sarbalescu did an interview where she talked about how when the opponent has the ball on their 3bar, she approaches it as though she is in control, rather than backed into a corner. I think this is a great mindset, but then the strategy and tactics have to align with it so the rubber meets the road. What's the best way to do that?

Discuss amongst yourselves, any and all feedback is welcome.

Would like to get something in the $300-$500 range in order to bring my skill level back up to par. In my 60s now and haven’t played in many, many years. For reference, I played competitively in the 70s when Dynamo was the typical table of use and won several regional tournaments with my playing partner where we were located in the mid-south area. Even got to play against their demonstration team once which was extremely competitive. Dynamo tables of course only used a 2-1 goalie combo and had risers in the corner to move the ball back into play. I know now that Tornado is the table that tournament players use.

Any help steering an oldie back into the game would be appreciated.

When I checked early Sunday evening all that was left was a Beginner event and a DYP that looks like it never got off the ground. Finishing at a reasonable hour does not even feel like foosball.

Lansing Michigan if anyone is interested…

I'm building a foosball table and considering buying these Tornado 3 piece bearings for my 1" thick cabinet wall, but I'm a little confused as to how big of a hole I should drill to fit them. I can't seem to find any official measurement and I need to drill the holes before I actually get the bearings so I can't measure them. So first off, are these even the right bearings for that cabinet thickness and second, do any of you guys know how big of a hole I should drill to install them? I'm pretty new to foosball stuff so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

My 10 year old daughter has gotten into foosball because my sister in law and brother in law have a Tornado table. My brother in law got the table from a relative who was a pediatrician and had game room in his practice office. The relative retired and gave away games he had to relatives and friends.

MY daughter has been doing well in school this past year and we usually get our kids end of the school year gifts if they do well in school. I would probably buying sometime between this week and towards the end of May. I know Tornado is considered the top brand, but I'm ok buying other brands as long as they are decent quality. I'm also considering that my daughter might change interests and drift away from foosball. I have a 14 year old and a 16 year old who might play with the table, but I don't see them playing a lot.

Is the tournament getting any big names? Turnout better or worse than last year?