Calgary & Saskatoon & Vancouver & TSAC
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Good luck to all of you who made the trek...Play hard and represent us all well.....and if not, stay away from all the french gals with no teeth! |
Posted: Jan 8 2009 3:15PM
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I thought I'd pass along the results from Thursday that I've gleaned from following links here: http://www.table-soccer.org/tournaments/information.php?ID=216 (click on world CHAMPIONSHIPS or world CUP at top of page) Keep in mind Thursday was World CHAMPIONSHIPS only. This is where Canada's participants are: Singles - Eric Dunn Doubles – Eric Dunn, Matt Botros Doubles(wild card) - Julien Beaumier-Ethier, Dominic Auger The World CUP starts tomorrow, with the Can team of six players trying to qualify thru the pool stage. More on the schedule later. Today Eric failed to qualify in order to play in the top 32 World Singles elimination bracket. This event was eventually won by someone named Correia from Luxembourg (beating Tony S!) Also today: our two doubles teams HAVE qualified into the single-elimination 32-team chart for World Doubles. This event will be played Friday starting at 9am Paris time. There is a link to live video at the site above. All below is in PACIFIC local time zone: 12 midnite tonight until 5am Friday: World CHAMPIONSHIP elimination (not sure when our teams will play) 11am - 1pm Friday World CUP team competition: Canada vs Lithuania 1am - 3am Saturday World CUP team competition: Canada vs Cameroon 3am - 5am Saturday World CUP team competition: Canada vs Belgium You're welcome. |
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Team Canada streaming live...right now. |
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Jeff is online warming up now! |
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GO JEFF!!! |
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Canada has won it's bracket and is sceduled to play Slovakia in the first round! |
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Yes! So the top 16 countries are now going to play it out, single-elimination. This is being shown now on the live link, no Team Canada yet tho. The match I just watched had many multiple camera angles including a swooping crane camera. It's a bit too much movement for the internet feed but it seems they're recording these matches for rebroadcast later on Eurosport 2. |
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Chart is here: http://www.table-soccer.org/worldcup/results/2009/men/index.htm |
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Wow some nasty pairings there, USA v Belgium with the winner playing France, Italy v Germany with the winner playing Austria all in the same bracket. Looks like it is the equalizer draw in Nantes  |
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Canada defeated Slovakia in the first round! They are set to play Denmark in the 1/4 finals. Hopefully this one will get some airtime on netfoos. |
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Ditto on airtime! But with the Eurosport 2 TV connection they may concentrate on other matches instead. Hope not. This match starting now may be the most entertaining for us in N.America to watch: USA vs France. No love lost and I believe USA is going down. |
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Sounds like Canada lost to Denmark.... |
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Yeah, they didn't show any of it. Last I heard it was 4:2 for Denmark - so it could have come down to us not having a full team. If it went to 4:3 the next match would've been a forfeit cause we didn't have 4 doubles teams. They did do well to WIN the group stage, AND advance one round into the quarter finals. Congrats Team Canada for all your efforts and victories!! Looking forward to more details when the guys get back. |
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Still watching this USA/French match - quite entertaining. Now looking like USA will prevail. Gummy & T-mac to play soon. |
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Gummy and Tmac was quite the match too bad france only scored one goal on tornado |
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Cool, no side strips and green ramps on the tornado's. I think the ball is softer too. |
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i just got to the airport in paris and i fly home in the morning, had to check the emails so i checked this board too. that was super fun, we played awesome i think and got pretty good results. jeff beat the top seeded player at the tournament from slovakia, second in the world after rico. the guys euro was so fast, but jeff dominated the 5. julien and dominic beat gummy and tmac 3 strait on tornado to knock them out of the world championships, that was awesome. eric hit a monster pull in the slovakia game to keep the tournament alive for us on meat ball of the knockout game we played. more to come later |
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i just got to the airport in paris and i fly home in the morning, had to check the emails so i checked this board too. that was super fun, we played awesome i think and got pretty good results. jeff beat the top seeded player at the tournament from slovakia, second in the world after rico. the guys euro was so fast, but jeff dominated the 5. julien and dominic beat gummy and tmac 3 strait on tornado to knock them out of the world championships, that was awesome. eric hit a monster pull in the slovakia game to keep the tournament alive for us on meat ball of the knockout game we played. more to come later |
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Congratz to Team Canada! Way to go everyone. Great playing Jeff. Way to represent the wet coast. |
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Stories please!! How was the tournament??!!!! |
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what about slop goals? can a get a full report. |
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Tournament was good. We should have beaten Denmark easily (Slovakia was a way tougher team) but I had some mental mistakes and I think some of us at that point were just mentally exhausted. I had a shot to close my Tornado game and was blocked and ended up losing to someone I should never lose to, and I just chalk it up to mental exhaustion as I was just making poor decisions the whole match. Me and Eric didn't finish our doubles match, so if everything played out it would have been closer. With a full team I think we could have made it all the way to the finals. Overall, everyone played great. We had a strong team, and we adjusted pretty well to the other tables for the most part. I think Tornado was the best table by far, but the others are all playable. But when it comes down to fun and just playing around, I really think the Tornado offers the widest ranges of things to do on the table. As for the ramps. Well, they kind of suck. A singles tactic I use against good zones is to throw it off the back wall and retrieve, and you can't do that with the ramp. The ramp makes the ball stay in the zone, so you can either catch it on the 3 or just give up the possesion. You can't do the 2 man pass off the wall either in singles because the ramp keeps it in the zone. Setting up your shots take a little longer, but the 3rd man didn't take away too much from that. The new ball was slick, but it played okay. It was easier to lose it once it was in a pin then on all the other tables (every other table is super pin friendly, and I would almost say pin mandatory - pin passes, and shots for the most part). Our team match against Slovakia really was a highlight, so many matches went to the wire and into extra points. The venue was great, really really well set up. Huge screens and everything was laid out really well. I couldn't bring my beer or my jambon sandwhich out into the table areas which bothered me, but other than it, I can't think of anything in the past that could match the professionalism of their setup. The whole city of Nantes had tons of fliers and advertisements (from inside hotels, to the tram having a line for the tournament), and posters all over the city. That's all I can think of at the moment, a bit worn out as I didn't get in until 12 last night. And the jackets are cool - I'll be wearing mine around for sure. Thanks Eric. |
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Jeff, Were any of your matches on a Bonzini? What did you shoot on the 3 bar on Bonzini? How did you find the passing? What about the other tables? Did you have to change your style? Did you get to see any of the Chinese team? I think only a few made it due to Visa problems. Which teams were the most obnoxious? Which had the most disagreements with the referees? Enquiring minds want to know. Well done. I forgot to congratulate Eric as well. Way to go Eric. Regards to all, Fred PS What are B.C. players thoughts on going to Vegas in March or Dallas in September? |
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Our last match against Denmark was on Bonzini. We were set to play Cameroon but they didn't show up (I think they are working in restaurants throughout France...). I shot a pullshot on Bonzini (I learned one 5 minutes before my match - thanks Matt!). I tried rollovers (possible, but the stroke on bonzini is different then all the other tables), front pins, and tic tacs. For the 5 I did a chip series which worked fine enough. I lost 5-3 to a bonzini pro-master, but given more table time, and what I know now, I think I could beat him once my consistency improved. As for the other tables, I had changed my style on all of them (for the 5 and 2 bar). I shot rollovers on all the tables (very easy). I sometimes did a front pin on the roberto sport, but overall the rollover worked best. My 5 on the other 3 tables was a pin brush. Pin on the 2nd man, bring it into brush position, and then do a standard brush series. It worked okay at times, given more time my consistency would improve more and I think it would be better overall. On garlando I did a brush off the ramps with the stick wall option (which I used every match). My rollover on the garlando was insane. My 2 bar was garbage on all the tables. I tried 2-5, shooting, etc. nothing really worked out that great at all. Garlando is a shooting table, but I didn't have the best two bar on it. 2-5 is best for tec ball, bonzini, and the roberto sport (in my opinion - but dominic and julien seemed to have good success shooting pulls). I saw the chinese team, and Eric talked to them a bit. I think one of the girls was upset Moya wasn't there (I honestly believe she is an inspiration to woman players everywhere). I don't think any countries had problems with referees, that I seen anyway. I think most of the countries were pro-europe, if that makes any sense. |
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Jeff, Thanks for the details. The last I saw of Roberto Sport it had a square toe so obviously that has been changed to a contoured toe. I assume it also had a synthetic playing surface so that you could do a decent rollover on it. The lady player from China was likely Yuan Xiao Mei (Charmaine Yuan) she was my top lady student and the best lady player in China by far. I gave her some DVDs of Moya playing so she always is hoping to meet her. Most of the players don't speak much English and can't pronounce my English name but they know me by my Chinese name - Gao Fei. Charmaine was one of the four players that were on the China team with me for the Asian Open in Malaysia in 2007 and 2008. At one time I was thinking of bringing in one of the Chinese tables which is close to Warrior in design and quality and then getting some Garlando, Roberto Sport and TecBall men, re-drilling or filling them etc, so they will fit on the bar and adjusting somehow for man height differences and then be able to swap men in or out to practice 2 bar shooting, 5 bar passing, and 3 bar shooting. I never got around to doing that but might rethink it if it ever looks like I will have a chance at qualifying as a Senior for Canada in 2010 onward. Prepping on a Bonzini is still something I have not figured out without buying one which is not in the plans. I really don't like playing on it but have a lot of admiration for players who have mastered it. I do hope to figure out how to defend them a little but and learn to score the odd one likely from a pull shot. Good for you for going and congratz on making it as far as you did. I hope to see everyone on my next visit. Fred |
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