The Balloon Inn welcomed eight players for the rookie draw your partner tournament.

First Place ($40) was claimed by J.J. Humble and Chance Rice.

Second Place ($20) went to Dominick Lovato and Rick Lykou.

Highest Placing Female Player was Ashley Cajero ($5).

Thank you to Jerry Todd, a local Denver area foosball player who is currently ranked an expert (and four-time coach of the United States Men's International Foosball Team), for conducting a short pro clinic on how to block the roller before the tournament started.

Send us your foosball beginners and rookies, they will gain valuable experience under realistic foosball tournament conditions. Learning to deal with the pressure of meat nut during game three? Six of our players have already been through that. Figuring out how to accomplish a double dip? J. J. and Chance were the first to do it. Chance stayed in the pits most of the way to shore up the D.