INSIDE FOOS Newsletter NO.
3 JUNE 2003
Published By Inside
Foos Productions Huntington Beach, California
http://www.insidefoos.com
CONTENTS:
From The Editor
Inside The Pro Tour
Inside Foos Special Offers
Inside The Numbers
Upcoming Events
Foos Sites
*Order your 2003 Texas State DVD...Only $25
at http://www.insidefoos.com
Archer and Moreland Continue Hot Streak at $25,000 Texas States
The Inside Foos Productions crew made the 1500 mile trip to the great
state of Texas this past Memorial Day weekend to
cover the sport's largest regional event, the Texas State Championships,
held for the second straight year at the Holiday Inn Select in Irving.
This year's tournament, which offered $25,000 in cash and prizes (up $5000
from last year), emphatically lived up to its billing as the tour's
"fourth major" with a well-attended, super-competitive three day
foosball extravaganza.
Tournament Director Steve Murray had guaranteed optimum playing conditions
for the 2003 event, and he delivered on his promise in a big way with a
spacious ballroom housing 40 brand new, individually-lighted Tornado
tables, and a pit area to rival any major championship. Murray, David
Radack, Ben Kennon, Mike Simons, Stefan Glenn, Marcos Reyes, Richard
Wight, Rex Bennett and the rest of the staff are all to be congratulated
for their efforts in helping make the 2003 Texas State Championships a
truly first class event.
The competition at this year's event was also first class, with a field
nearly equal in talent to just about any major championship. Thirteen of
the world's top 20 foosers were in attendance, including the two highest
ranked men (Mares and Moore) and the top four rated women (Head, Tielens,
Fuchs and Murray). Former open world champions Louis Cartwright, Adrian
Zamora, Gregg Perrie, Becky Cherry, Mike Bowers and Tracy McMillin also
helped to make this one of the toughest regional fields ever assembled.
The competition in Open Singles and Doubles was especially fierce, with a
large majorirty of the matches being decided by one final game.
There were several notable performances in the open events at this year's
Lone Star classic including Terry Moore who played flawlessly in his
four game Open Singles victory over defending champ Rob Mares, and Tom
Yore and Dusty Bambanek who defeated Adrian Zamora and Christina Fuchs to
claim their second Texas State Mixed Doubles title in a row.
Vancouver's Moya Tielens also won a second straight singles trophy in
Texas, while Cindy Head and Dawn Foust earned their first title together
in the competitive Women's Doubles event.
But for me, the highlight of the weekend was the
Open Doubles competition where 2002 Texas State champs Mike Archer and
Brandon Moreland somehow held off the hard-charging Tony Spredeman and
Amedio Gilmore in a very exciting two-set final to win their second
straight Texas title. In that entertaining final match, Spredeman and
Gilmore, fresh off a 3 game sweep of Rob Mares and Dana Marr in the
loser's side final, won the first set in equally dominating fashion, 5-3,
5-3, and 5-4 to force a second and deciding set.
Playing outstanding team foosball, Tony and Amedio continued their
scorching run by coming back from a 4-2 deficit to win game one of the
second set, 5-4, and it appeared as if they were headed for the 2003 Texas
State title. But in game two, Brandon Moreland clamped-down
defensively on Spredeman and Mike Archer slowly began to control the
five-rod and execute his pull shot with precision and intelligence. Mike
and Brandon seized the momentum, winning that game, 5-3, and the next two,
5-3 and 5-4, to claim their second straight Texas State title.
Proving himself to be a great clutch player, the explosive Moreland scored
the last two points of the third game from goal, and then followed that up
by scoring the final three points of the fourth and final game (two
from forward, one from goal) to help secure the title for his team.
Heading into the Nationals as the hottest pair on tour, Mike Archer and
Brandon Moreland must now be considered one of the favorites to bring home
hardware from the upcoming July 4th event.
On a video note, The Texas State DVD, which is ready and available for
shipment now, features that exciting doubles final and much more,
including an incredibly entertaining winner's bracket singles match
between two of the sport's most talented performers, Rob Mares and Tony
Spredeman. These two quick-handed and aggressive players put on a show
reminiscent of a great boxing match where both fighters stand in the
middle of the ring and throw one punch after another. Top tour pros Terry
Moore, Trevor Park, Gregg Perrie, Steve Murray, Richard Wight, Dana Marr,
Matt Steward and Eddy Gartman also make appearances on the DVD with
several of the featured matches going right down to one final ball.
Getting to watch the game's two most exciting young players, Tony
Spredeman and Brandon Moreland, going head to head in the doubles final is
probably worth the price of admission alone.
The Texas State DVD also includes a new feature, "The Inside Foos
Tournament Hot Shot", which showcases the most creative and
exciting (in our opinion) offensive play that we see during the course of
tournament action on table number one in the pits. The "Hot
Shot" featured on the new Texas State DVD took place in a
winner's bracket doubles match and caused spectators to literally jump out
of their seats in astonishment. You can order our most economical DVD ever
for just $25 at http://www.insidefoos.com. If you've already ordered the
Texas State DVD, shipping will begin later this week.
We now look ahead three weeks to the Minneapolis Hyatt Regency and the
$55,000 National Championships, which is always one of the more popular
stops on the tournament schedule. At last year's event in Atlanta,
Frederic Collignon made the most of his first nationals appearance by
winning Open Doubles (with Todd Loffredo), Open Singles and Masters
Singles in yet another awe-inspiring performance. Rob Mares and
Minneapolis native Debra Pflipsen earned Mixed Doubles honors in 2002,
while Moya Tielens won Women's Singles, and Doubles with partner Stephanie
Ohashi.
The National Championships are also home to the exciting Masters Singles
competition, which takes a collection of the world's top Tornado-style
players and puts them into a 3-out-of-5, single-elimination bracket, with
the winner taking home the prestigious Green Jacket, cash,
the Masters Cup, and the number one seed in singles at the World
Championships. My Pick for the 2003 title? Tough to call, but don't count
out that hungry kid from Wisconsin. As of this writing it is not known
whether the defending champion Collignon will make the trip across the
Atlantic to Minnesota for this year's event.
Thanks for your continued support, and we'll seeya in the land of the
lakes...
Jim Stevens
Editor
http://www.insidefoos.com
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2003 TEXAS STATE CHAMPIONS
OPEN DOUBLES: Mike Archer & Brandon Moreland
OPEN SINGLES: Terry Moore
MIXED DOUBLES: Tom Yore & Dusty Bambanek
WOMEN'S DOUBLES: Cindy Head & Dawn Foust
WOMEN'S SINGLES: Moya Tielens
SEMI PRO DOUBLES: Randy Price & Louis Adams
SEMI PRO SINGLES: Kevin Munro
ROOKIE DOUBLES: David Molony & Larry Easter
ROOKIE SINGLES: Mike McKinley
DYP: Trevor Park & Jim McKenney
3500 LTD: Steve Fisher & Tommy Ackerman
VIFA DYP: Spirit Mollice and Ray Simmons
INSIDE THE PRO TOUR...
Clearing out the notebook...
Mike Archer and Brandon Moreland have proven once and for all that they
are a team to be reckoned with on the major pro tour...
Beginning with the 2002 Texas State event, Michael and Brandon have been
in three straight Open Doubles finals in tournaments with payouts above
$25,000, winning two of them...
The underrated Archer continues to get the job done with his
subtly-effective offensive and defensive 5-row, and intelligent
shot-selection on the three...
In Las Vegas, Mike defeated the great Collignon in both Open Doubles and
Open Singles, after Frederico had lost a grand
total of just three matches in the previous twelve months...
Brandon Moreland has become one of the most intimidating offensive goalie
to come along in quite a while...
And with those lightning-fast hands and tremendous anticipation, he's
proving to be no slouch defensively either...
At this point of the season, Brandon must be the front-runner for 2003
Male Goalie of the Year honors...
Your list of other early award leaders would include Moore and Archer for
Forward of the Year, and Tielens and Head for Female
Forward. The other categories are probably still too early to call...
The hustling Mike Yore followed-up his fifth place Open Singles finish in
Vegas with a solid fourth-place result in Texas...
Don't tell Mike, but his brother Tom, a four-time tour champion, says that
Mike's the better singles player...
Tony "The Tiger" Spredeman and the vastly-underrated Amedio
Gilmore played awesome foosball as well, winning seven straight
tension-filled games in a row down the stretch, before succumbing to
Archer and Moreland's final match onslaught...
Seven-time world champ and Foosball Hall of Famer Steve Murray continued
his comeback to the pro tour with a hard-earned fifth place finish in
Texas with Richard Wight...
Steve still has that fiery table persona and highly productive five-row,
and possesses as much experience as anyone this side of the great Loffredo...
A big congrats to the two newest Texas Legends of Foosball, Eddy Gartman
and Charles Britt...
Britt, from Dallas, became the first-ever two-time winner of the Masters
Singles title, claiming the title in both 1990 and 1992...
Gartman, who comes from a long line of Pasadena, Texas foos-stars, was the
1992 Male Goalie of the Year on the pro tour and continues to this day to
be one of the sport's best goalkeepers...
Hard working Photo Journalist Robert Ismert was on hand every day at the
Texas event shooting footage for a documentary he's producing on the sport
of foosball...
To add an historical perspective, Robert interviewed Tornado table
designer Bob Furr, Hall of Famer Mike Bowers, and your's truly, among
others, for his project which will also include scenes from local Dallas
area tournaments, Texas States, and the upcoming World Championships...
TRIVIA TIME: In the 1997 Masters Singles final Don Swan defeated Terry
Moore in three straight games to earn the coveted Green Jacket. How long
did it take Swan to win the first game, and how many minutes total did it
take him to win all three games and the title?
The Tornado pro tour now heads for the upper midwest and the Minneapolis
Hyatt Regency for the $55,000 National Championships, July 2-6...
Vancouver superstar Moya Tielens enters the 2003 Nats having won the last
four Women's Doubles titles on the major pro tour...
>From the History Department: The Twin Cities area was home to one of
the sport's greatest all time teams, Jim Wiswell and Doug Furry, who
dominated the doubles category in the late 1970's...
"Wiz and Furr" won a number of major open titles including the
$100,000 Super Doubles event in 1978 and the $250,000 World Championship a
year later...
And that's back when $250,000 was really $250,000...
More History: The last time the tour was in Minnesota, Terry Moore swept
the open events, winning Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles at
the 1998 U.S. Open...
Even More History: At the 1994 U.S. Open in Minneapolis, unseeded Chris
Dube and Merv Srock staged one of the biggest upsets in foosball history
when they defeated Dave Gummeson and Steve Mohs to win the Open Doubles
title...
At the time Srock, the goalie, was still rated as a novice (non-pro)
player...
With that victory nine years ago, Chris Dube became the only player in the
last 20 years to win a major U.S.T.S.A. title shooting a pull-kick...
However, Pull-Kicker Thor "The Hammer" Donovan did win three
titles in 1993-94 on the short-lived Dynamo/Striker tour...
TRIVIA ANSWER: Swan won the first game 5-0 in an amazing one minute and
fifteen seconds and followed that up with two more hyper-speed wins to
earn his only Masters title in an unbelievable 14 minutes total. Making it
all the more bizarre, Swan had been swept in three straight games by Moore
in the Open Singles championship match held just a few hours earlier...
Top-rated Rob Mares has won three National titles and one Masters
championship in the last four years and, along with Todd Loffredo, will
try to become the first three-time winner of the Green Jacket in
Minneapolis...
Good luck to everyone headed to the Twin Cities...
NEXT MONTH: Information and insights from the 2003 National
Championships.
INSIDE FOOS SPECIAL OFFERS...
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS...
At last year's National Championships Frederic
Collignon became the 12th different winner of
the prestigious Masters Singles title. Here is a
list of all of the previous Masters champions:
1988 Steve Murray
1989 Tom Spear
1990 Charles Britt
1991 Gregg Perrie
1992 Charles Britt
1993 Dave Gummeson
1994 Rob Mares
1995 Todd Loffredo
1996 Louis Cartwright
1997 Don Swan
1998 Terry Moore
1999 Todd Loffredo
2000 Ron Sipiora
2001 Rob Mares
2002 Frederic Collignon
NOTES:
-Pull Shot shooters have won 8 Masters titles, including the first 5.
-Roll-Overs have earned 5 titles, and the Push-Kick and Euro-Pin 1 each.
-Pin shots have won 4 of the last 5 titles, and 5 of the last 7.
-There have been 7 different Masters winners in the past 7 years.
-No one has ever won in back-to-back years.
At this year's Hall of Fame Classic Rick
Macias
became the first male player from the state of
North Carolina to win an open title in more than
14 years. Here is a list of the states whose players
have won the most U.S.T.S.A. open titles since 1992:
1. Colorado
53
2. Illinois
50
3. Oklahoma 47
4. California 37
5. Florida
34
6. Alabama 32
7. Ohio
26
8. Texas
17
9. New York 12
10. Washington 10
NOTES:
Terry Moore won 11 times while living in his homestate of California
and 34 times since moving to Illinois.
Todd Loffredo earned 24 titles while living in Colorado, 8 while in Ohio.
All 32 of Alabama'a wins belong to Cindy Head.
In 2002 Frederic Collignon was victorious
six times on the major pro tour. Here is a
list of the best individual seasons in recent
open history:
MEN
1. Terry Moore
1997
eight titles
2. Todd Loffredo
1991
seven titles
2. Terry Moore
1998
seven titles
4. Frederic Collignon 2002 six titles
NOTES:
Terry Moore won a combined 15 open titles during the 1997 and '98 seasons.
Frederic Collignon's 6 titles in 2002 are the most since the pro tour was
shortened to three major events.
WOMEN
1. Liz Hill
1992
six titles
1. Cindy Head
2000
six titles
1. Moya Tielens
2002
six titles
4. Tiffany Billirakis 1992 five
titles
4. Cindy Head
1999
five titles
4. Liz Hill
1995
five titles
NOTES:
Cindy Head won a combined 11 titles in 1999 and 2000 while playing in only
5 major tour events.
Moya Tielens won every major Women's Singles and Doubles title during the
2002 season.
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