2 days ago
4/27/2025 Loft Again
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
13 players
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1 - Jim King / Mark Proctor
2 - Casey Nelson / Anthony Laube
3 - Jim Hubred / Mark Williams
4 - Michael Carey / Steve Jarzyna
5 - Tony Dardano / Rick Rivlin
5 - Jim Sherman / Jeff Foote
7 - Gary Hillyer / Jeff Foote
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5 days ago
4/23/2025 Main St. Billiards
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Handicapped Monster Roto Doubles
Main St. Billiards
10 players
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1 - Jeff Minnig / Gary Hillyer
2 - Steve Jarzyna / Chris Serrao
3 - Noel Rooney
4 - Jason Collicott
5 - Esperanza Medina
6 - Jeff Foote
7 - Jim Dickson
8 - Rolfe Criddle
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6 days ago
4/20/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
18 players
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1 - Jim Dickson / Doug Purcell
2 - Miles Johnson / Michael Johnson
3 - Jim Hubred / Rick Rivlin
4 - Ronnie Garrett / Holly Neff
5 - Michael Carey / Gary Hillyer
5 - Adrienne Mccormack / Jim Sherman
7 - Mark Williams / Mark Proctor
7 - Casey Nelson / Jeff Foote
9 - Jeff Minnig / Rolfe Criddle
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6 days ago
4/13/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
10 players
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1 - Jim Sherman / Adrienne Mccormack
2 - Tony Dardano / Gary Hillyer
3 - Jim Hubred / Rick Rivlin
4 - Casey Nelson / Jeff Foote
5 - Doug Purcell / Steve Jarzyna
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14 days ago
AZ players at Hall of Fame
Slam DuncanPosts: 46
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graykat777 wrote:
Daniella Avalos just took 2nd in Expert Women's Singles!
edited by graykat777 on 4/13/2025 Daniella was the highest placing player from Arizona. 2nd place in Women's Expert Singles. And she was sick at the time. Vinny was the 2nd highest rookie in Open Singles. Ben Crawford placed 3rd in Goalie Wars. And there several players that placed 5th in different events. 438 players registered.... Not too shabby!
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17 days ago
AZ players at Hall of Fame
graykat777Posts: 179
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Daniella Avalos just took 2nd in Expert Women's Singles!
edited by graykat777 on 4/13/2025
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18 days ago
AZ players at Hall of Fame
graykat777Posts: 179
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Here is list of our AZ players in vegas. Please add if I have not discovered them all, OK?
Daniella AVALOS
ERIC BORKOVEC
BRAD CHAMBERLAIN
BEN CRAWFORD
Rolfe Cridde
BOB DUNCAN
DAN Fiederlein
Vincent Fiederlein
Ronnie Garrett
Pat Hutson
Miles Johnson
TERRY KILWEiN
JIM KING
Jeff Minnig
Tori Minnig
Afshin Mirzazadeh
Holly Neff
Townsend Saunders
PHIL SCHLAEFER
Xocoyotzin Telles
Follow each of their exploits at: http://ifp.everguide.com/commander/tour/public/
edited by graykat777 on 4/13/2025
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20 days ago
4/9/2025 Main St. Billiards
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Handicapped Monster Roto Doubles
Main St. Billiards
9 players
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1 - Steven Collicott / Jim Sherman - $50
2 - Daniel Blech / Jason Collicott - $20
3 - Billy Nolan
4 - Gary Hillyer
5 - Doug Purcell
6 - Noel Rooney
7 - Nart Novak
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22 days ago
4/6/2025 Loft Again
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Handicapped Roto Bring-or-Draw
The Loft Again
24 players
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1 - Ronnie Garrett / Holly Neff - $130
2 - Tori Minnig / Anthony Laube - $60
3 - Jeff Minnig / Jim Hubred - $40
4 - Jesse Rhode / Jim Sherman - $10
5 - Jeff Foote / Casey Nelson
5 - Tony Dardano / Ash Mirzazadeh
7 - Billy Nolan / Michael Carey
7 - Gary Hillyer / Jim Dickson
9 - Steve Jarzyna / Johnny Miller
9 - Jim King / Mark Proctor
9 - Adrienne Mccormack / Rick Rivlin
9 - Miles Johnson / Vivek Arora
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3/30/2025
3/30/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
20 players
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1 - Ash Mirzazadeh / Tony Dardano
2 - Jim Dickson / Jeff Foote
3 - Casey Nelson / Ronnie Garrett
4 - Jesse Rhode / Steve Jarzyna
5 - Jeff Minnig / Adrienne Mccormack
5 - Julie O'Halloran / Holly Neff
7 - Doug Steele / Mark Williams
7 - Jim Hubred / Gary Hillyer
9 - Bill O'Halloran / Rick Rivlin
9 - Jim Sherman / Vivek Arora
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3/30/2025
Saltfire BYP 3/28
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Open Doubles
SaltFire Brewing Co.
14 players
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1 - Nick Bourdos / Mike Sames
2 - Eric Borkovec / T. J. Telles
3 - Brad Chamberlain / Townsend Saunders
4 - Ronnie Garrett / John Scully
5 - Terry Kilwein / Adrienne Mccormack
5 - Jim Sherman / Ash Mirzazadeh
7 - Patrick Hutson / Jesse Rhode
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3/27/2025
3/26/2025 Main St. Billiards
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Handicapped Monster Roto Doubles
Main St. Billiards
17 players
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1 - Jason Collicott / Jeff Foote - $80
2 - Jeff Minnig / Miles Johnson - $40
3 - Tori Minnig / Chris Serrao - $20
4 - Daniel Blech
5 - Gary Hillyer
6 - Billy Nolan
7 - Ash Mirzazadeh
8 - Esperanza Medina
9 - Jim Dickson
10 - Nick Bourdos
11 - John Neff
12 - Holly Neff
13 - Vivek Arora
14 - Townsend Saunders
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3/26/2025
Team Shirts and personalization -- Contact n
Anthony LaubePosts: 1
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Hey Team Captains and fellow Foosballa's
Below is contact information for a local guy that designed our shirts last year. He is very easy to work with, reasonably priced and does all your custom design.
Zachary Swinbourne
Owner, Swini Shirts LLC
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3/24/2025
3/23/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
26 players
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1 - Jim Dickson / Jeff Foote - $140
2 - Casey Nelson / Anthony Laube - $70
3 - Ash Mirzazadeh / Tammy Vincent - $40
4 - Jim Hubred / John Neff - $10
5 - Jesse Rhode / Doug Purcell
5 - Michael Carey / Adrienne Mccormack
7 - Steve Mathews / Tony Dardano
7 - Jim King / Rick Rivlin
9 - Vivek Arora / Gary Hillyer
9 - Mark Williams / Rolfe Criddle
9 - Levi Klein / Holly Neff
9 - Jeff Minnig / Steve Jarzyna
13 - Laxcy Vincent / Miles Johnson
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3/24/2025
First Ever "Upside-Down Monster Mash"
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Are you ready for a big foosball experiment?!
This Wednesday at Main Street Billiards in Mesa we will be hosting the first-ever event using a new Tornado table innovation! This is something that I've considered for many years and have discussed with several of you, but never had the opportunity to actually give it a try. It involves a change to the Tornado table setup that is quite radical, but IMHO, possibly revolutionary as well. Though I could just state what it is and end this post, I think it would be best if I added some context to it, because I promise you, you're initial response will likely be "has Billy lost his G.D. mind??!". LOL! Bear with me...
THE ACTION:
Invert the player figures on both ends of the rear goalie rods (3 bar).
THE EXPLANATION:
As many of us old-timers know, most foosball tables before the 80s came with a single-player-figure rear goalie rod and side ramps to help fetch the ball from the corners. In 1981, the new design came out with a 3-player-figure rear goalie rod, which in effect, served several purposes:
1. It sped up the game, as players could now instantly get control of a ball in the corner without having to bounce the ball up and down the ramps several times to get it in position.
2. It made the tables cheaper to produce (and purchase), as it eliminated the need to produce ramps and a rod with special bumpers to hold the single-figure rod in place.
3. It made the tables more resistant to damage and "down time", since the ramps and special rod were prone to damage, and harder to obtain and replace.
In my opinion, this was an excellent change, and I think most players would agree. However, as with most things in life, there are some PROS and CONS, and despite the various positive effects stated above, this change did come with a (minor?) downside: More "junk" goals!
I don't have official statistics, but just from 30 years of experience I am going to make a wild guess and estimate that out of all random/lucky/junk goals that happen in a typical match, 3/4 of them probably involved one or more ricochets off corner player figure(s) on the rear goalie rod. Think about it - you know it's true!
We all remember that nail-biter of a match just last month in the second set of the finals, where the action came down to "meat ball" and our opponent fired a rocket at our goal. Unfortunately for him, we were ready and made a great block, only to have it bounce into the corner goalie figure and carom back into our middle goalie and into the nets for a heartbreaking loss.
So when you think about, you realize that the overwhelming majority of use-cases for those two corner goalie figures is to retrieve balls off the wall and into play. But when we are playing defense, we would prefer that those two fellas would just get off the damn field and let you block!
THE EXPERIMENT:
So with all of this in mind, we have come to an exciting new plan to see if we can have the best of both worlds.
Can we have the PROS without the CONS?
Can we have our cake and eat it, too??
...And the answer is: heck if I know!!
Of course, playing goalie with this configuration will take a little adjustment. One would need to get comfortable with knowing when and how to proficiently invert their goalie figures depending on the situation. So while we could discuss the various pros and cons of the new configuration, it seems to me that the only way to truly decide if it is an improvement or not is to GIVE IT A TRY! And naturally, I expect that we each will hit a few bumps in our initial ventures (and possibly an own-goal or two), but I wouldn't be surprised if the learning curve wasn't so bad, and after a tournament or two, we started to think "hey, I kind of like this new rig, and maybe Billy isn't so crazy after all!"
The action this Wednesday at Main Street starts at 7pm. It is a Monster Roto DYP with league handicaps. But as I'm sure you will agree, it will be like no other tournament you've ever played! Come out this week to try it out with us, and perhaps be a part of foosball history! 
See you there!
edited by BillyBoy on 3/24/2025
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3/24/2025
Saltfire Friday 3/22/25
chambiePosts: 771
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Open Singles
1st - Jim Sherman
2nd - Levi Klein
3rd - Brad Chamberlain
4th - Terry Kilwein
5th - John Scully
6th - Luke Manchester
7th - Doug Steele
7th - Noel Rooney
9th - Miles Johnson
9th - Gary Hillyer
Handicap BYP
1st - Holly Neff/Levi Klein (two scoop)
2nd - Eric Bork/John Scully
3rd - Doug Steele/Brad Chamberlain
4th - Phil Schlafer/Miles Johnson
5th - Jesse Rhode/Laxcy Vincent
5th - Julie O'Halloran/Luke Manchester
7th - Bill O'Halloran/Scott Manchester
7th - Jim Sherman/Afshin Mirzazadeh
9th - Jeff Foote/Noel Rooney
9th - Jim Dickson/Gary Hillyer
9th - Terry Kilwein/Jim King
9th - Eric Frisen/Adrienne McCormack
13th - Phil Schlaefer/Tammy Vincent
13th - Bryan Hendricks/Michael Carey
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3/20/2025
AZ HoT ratings 3/20/25
chambiePosts: 771
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| Park | Trevor | Legend | 3000 | | Schlaefer | Phil | Master | 2830 | | Scherkenbach | Garrett | Master | 2573 | | Bourdos | Nick | Master | 2454 | | Chun | Ricky | Master | 2452 | | Sanchez | Eric | Master | 2450 | | Jensen | Cory | Master | 2450 | | Sherman | Jim | Master | 2375 | | Sames | Mike | Master | 2326 | | Telles | TJ | Master | 2312 | | Hendricks | Bryan | Master | 2305 | | Mulgrue | Dan | Pro | 2296 | | Ybarra | Kohji | Pro | 2237 | | Vincent | Laxcy | Pro | 2234 | | Klein | Levi | Pro | 2224 | | Chamberlain | Brad | Pro | 2206 | | Fiederlein | Dan | Pro | 2205 | | Fiederlein | Vincent | Pro | 2186 | | Mendoza | Michael | Pro | 2167 | | Hutson | Pat | Pro | 2159 | | Hobbs | Ditto | Pro | 2101 | | Serrao | Chris | Pro | 2092 | | Borkovec | Eric | Pro | 2080 | | Fross | Zach | Pro | 2072 | | Paramore | Russ | Pro | 2066 | | Rhode | Jesse | Pro | 2062 | | Rooney | Noel | Pro | 2047 | | O' Halloran | Bill | Pro | 2010 | | Scully | John | Pro | 1955 | | DeOlivera | Mark | Expert | 1900 | | Nelson | Casey | Expert | 1900 | | Carey | Michael | Expert | 1900 | | Duncan | Bob | Expert | 1899 | | Mitts | Bill | Expert | 1890 | | Schachtschnel | Gary | Expert | 1860 | | Nolan | Billy | Expert | 1860 | | Mirzazadeh | Afshin | Expert | 1854 | | Minning | Jeff | Expert | 1850 | | Dickson | Jim | Expert | 1828 | | Garrett | Ronnie | Expert | 1811 | | King | Jim | Expert | 1800 | | Olgesby | Kenny | Expert | 1780 | | Crawford | John | Expert | 1773 | | Manchester | Scott | Expert | 1758 | | O'Halloran | Julie | Expert | 1756 | | Crawford | Ben | Expert | 1750 | | Tays | Scott | Expert | 1750 | | Saunders | Townsend | Expert | 1748 | | Hubred | Jim | Expert | 1672 | | York | Lou | Expert | 1664 | | Austin | Jeremy | Expert | 1663 | | Stults | Jim | Expert | 1654 | | Manchester | Luke | Expert | 1650 | | Stath | David | Expert | 1650 | | Cooper | Gary | Expert | 1648 | | Steele | Doug | Expert | 1625 | | Medina | SP | Expert | 1612 | | Lawerence | Michael | Expert | 1610 | | Thompson | Dana | Expert | 1601 | | Romanowycz | Robert | Expert | 1601 | | Waid | Steve | Amateur | 1600 | | Taylor | Steve | Amateur | 1600 | | Hubred | Travis | Amateur | 1600 | | Avalos | Daniella | Amateur | 1599 | | Jones | Keith | Amateur | 1590 | | Neff | Holly | Amateur | 1579 | | Mathews | Steve | Amateur | 1559 | | Blanco | Janet | Amateur | 1520 | | Dardano | Tony | Amateur | 1500 | | Dolan | Gene | Amateur | 1454 | | Dektor | Graham | Amateur | 1400 | | Troupe | Tyler | Amateur | 1376 | | Collicott | Jason | Amateur | 1356 | | Vincent | Tammy | Amateur | 1304 | | Thibodeaux | Jason | Amateur | 1302 | | Pagenkoph | Chris | Beginner | 1283 | | Freund | Paul | Beginner | 1244 | | Kaylander | Kaylen | Beginner | 1224 | | Fair | Liz | Beginner | 1224 | | McCormack | Age | Beginner | 1134 | | Hillyer | Gary | Beginner | 1121 | | Zombo | Zombo | Beginner | 1100 | | Radas | Josh | Beginner | 1094 | | Purcell | Doug | Beginner | 1058 | | Minning | Tori | Beginner | 1050 | | Rivilin | Rick | Beginner | 1000 |
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3/16/2025
3/16/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
15 players
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1 - Rick Rivlin / Jim King - $100
2 - Ken Oglesby / Steve Jarzyna - $40
3 - Casey Nelson / Holly Neff - $10
4 - Jim Hubred / Gary Hillyer
5 - Mark Williams / Adrienne Mccormack
5 - Levi Klein / Mark Proctor
7 - Ronnie Garrett / Tony Dardano
7 - Jim King / Jeff Foote
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3/13/2025
3/12/2025 Main St. Billiards
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Handicapped Monster Roto Doubles
Main St. Billiards
15 players
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1 - Noel Rooney / Jason Collicott - $70
2 - Tori Minnig / Chris Serrao - $35
3 - Jeff Minnig / Miles Johnson - $20
4 - Levi Klein
5 - Billy Nolan
6 - John Neff
7 - Esperanza Medina
8 - Rick Rivlin
9 - Townsend Saunders
10 - Rolfe Criddle
11 - Gary Hillyer
12 - Jeff Foote
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3/12/2025
3/9/2025 Loft Again
BillyBoyAdministrator Posts: 1432
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Roto Doubles (Hi-Low)
The Loft Again
16 players
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1 - Ash Mirzazadeh / Anthony Laube
2 - Levi Klein / Holly Neff
3 - Julie O'Halloran / Gary Hillyer
4 - Jim Hubred / Rolfe Criddle
5 - Casey Nelson / Adrienne Mccormack
5 - Bill O'Halloran / Rick Rivlin
7 - Tony Dardano / Jim Sherman
7 - Ronnie Garrett / Miles Johnson
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