Congrats Moose! What is that...3 titles in 4 years? Something like that? And this one as a goalie to show you can do it all. Just awesome.

Way to go Knapton too. You were playing super sick all weekend...hanging with the masters.

Congrats to Rusch...what a great run in Expert singles. All the brackets were stacked with high quality foosers. Love to see great people do well. I think Rusch wins the award for least amount of foos preparation for a strong performance in a big event. Haha...

Good job Deadbar....

And Garrett for almost doubling in Open too...and now we can claim Cindy. She's so badass.

And of course Ryan Moore for just deciding to switch from a pull to roller in the middle of the tourney and rape everyone with that shot too.

It really did feel like a major in there. There were a lot of strong foosers in there who didn't win a title, but still pulled out some good runs and wins. Dustin you were a stud in there, knocking off all kinds of strong pros and masters. That was the first time I ever watched your game and thought "wow...strong expert/pro playing". You're mental toughness is unmatched...lots of good comebacks.

Thanks to everyone who was a part of the crew running this. It really does mean a lot that you guys can sacrifice a part of your own foosball weekend to ensure everyone else there has a blast.

Thank you to everyone involved for such an amazing, well-run event. Total class act. On a national level, people are obviously realizing what a terrific tournament this is. My one concern was this: during the KOTR final, there was a hold on all other tables. I would like the other matches to continue during the KOTR final. Or at least give people the option of playing matches.

*disclaimer*

That delay did help Nick win Rookie Singles.

*disclaimer#2*

Nothing helped X, the new ruler of 33-48.

All kidding aside, the waiting and delays with not knowing when your events and matches really are going to start or finish for that matter, does influence one's choice to play in any tour event. It definitely is foosball and this event was definitely done very well considering. Great job and big congrats to all involved in running it! Well done! I enjoyed being a fan!

Come on Walter can't you show a little class. Everyone in the world knows you don't like me. Enough already.



I don't think this was a big factor in the finish times we were already stopped for the HOF ceremony so it was really just the match time that delayed anything. I understand this is something obvious people can point at and say it was a certain amount of delay, but there are several other items we can tighten up and still be able to keep this kind of main event focus. Thanks for the feedback.


X, I completely agree with the wait time comments. Hopefully lines of communication might open up to help get the software updated. Saturday night when we had to focus on specific events we tried to make announcements so players at least knew they could take a break if they were not in specific events. With some schedule changes this could be mostly avoided.

On Friday night I think I understand the problem you describe. I won't go into details but I was aware of the issue and tried to do better the rest of the weekend. I tried to answer questions as people came up to the stage, next time feel free to come ask me at the time. I know I can be rude or grouchy at times but it isn't personal and I do really listen if people can have patience to let me deal with things one at a time when 12 people are there trying to talk to me.


I came to Colorado State this year because I wanted to make it the best run tournament around. Any issues people had with matches or waits were directly my failings and I want you to know I will try to do better if I am invited again next year. I think things went pretty good given the massive turnout and the incredible event that was put on by TSK/BB. Colorado is extremely luck to have them and all of the MANY people that help make this tournament happen.

I want to thank all of the people that made comments to me in person (complimentary and constructive). If people want to comment further about the match/event running you can PM or email me I don't want to see the thread get derailed or clogged with those.

I also need to say a special thanks to Sheri, Tommy and Tim. You are great promoters of the sport and it was an honor to work with you. Also thanks to Dana, John Lee, and Kristen Grogan for all of the work at the stage. Too many others to list specifically, but this was a special event for me and I thank everyone involved and the players that attended.

-Mike Sames

PS Sorry for the long post.

Sorry, but 45 minutes for a gimmicky singles event final is not worth it. Not to the players staying up until 5am Sunday, or the ones who are already waiting crazy amounts of time.

Like I said, I "get" it...but that finals doesn't hold the same excitement that something like Super Doubles does. More than half the room wasn't watching.







Loved that. Well, not personally, because I wasn't in OS, and didn't have a hotel room lol...so that just meant more couch time hanging with Rusch, but it was a good idea, and I did like that.





I did go up, and got the "The computer says this" response. lol




I thought you did great Mike. You and Dana both, especially the last day with recalls. In fact, I would have liked to have seen stricter recalls, despite all the ones you guys did. I was in the room 100% of the weekend and there were TONS of players who heard their name called and made no effort to get to their table. What are you supposed to do with that...no software is going to fix that, but you guys tried with the table monitor walking around. Next year, maybe have 2 or 3 of those monitors, going strong all weekend long, and I'll bet that trims up the fat A LOT.

X

Good Suggestions, X.

I had fun! Thanks to everyone involved with the tourney.

Next year I will learn to score a 5th point!

Big Dye

How about The Law and Krause dipping for PD! CO can claim those two.

I didn't even see that.

They beat a smoking hot Knapton, Sprouse, Harvey, then dipped Walker...

That event was stacked. Nice work guys

One quick comment from me about the "waiting".

When you have sandbaggers playing in every event, they tend to clog up the brackets and hold everything and everyone else up. There were a handful of people that killed the tourney from running quicker due to going deep in every bracket. Then, there was a lot of issues with getting people to turn their results in. If we don't get results, we can't move forward.

Aside from that, I had a blast calling matches and just being there since I couldn't play.

Thanks to everyone who made the weekend possible. Colorado is the best!

Nice job to all who did well. (But stop clogging the brackets! Lol)

Love to you all.

Dana

Congrats to all the winners!
I can't imagine how hard it is to run a 300 player tourney!

Lows: Couldn't make it because of a last minute schedule conflict with work!
Highs: Watching the brackets and seeing such a great turnout with very strong players!

TrashyNextYear

Impressive: OM Knappy and Kristin well done!
Nick
Grouse and Cardenas
Ryan M. (Beast)
Todd L. (Still got it)
Moose and Knappy
Kristin and Jackie
Daniel L.
TSK