Hot summer games in Jiyugaoka yesterday. While the Japanese Olympic team was losing against the US team, about 10 teams competed in our monthly Vitafeetleague. The ahum, “vintage” Harvard table, (look at the pictures to see this poor old battle-hardened table)
did at some point not withstand the brutal force of some of our shots and one of the players broke in half. Fortunately, the always resourceful SPD Meiji came well prepared and brought some tape. After a patch-up by Aaron the player was as good as new and the games continued well into the night.
Aaron patching up the broken player,
SPD Meiji shooting some sneaky shots,
Yas, Makino from Clestra (seeing something weird on the ceiling) and James Ferrer from Snack Treat,
Nakashima from Schiavello enjoying the evening while Toshi is having a peak at Japan’s Olympic team on the screen,
Oshima Pro’s highly concentrated at play,
Cassina did not get time to order a drink, the moment they arrived they had to play,
Another Vitafeet League night was held on Tuesday 7/8/08 in Roppongi’s Bagus game hall.
It was the first night away from the home field at VDAJ. Our initial venue no-longer had a table so everyone was diverted to Roppongi thanks to some quick Ota-style sleuthing. Games began around 7:30 with many close final scores, partly due to the foreign table. VDAJ was finally beaten by the Steelcase team lead by Aoyama-san in a back and forth grudge match (final:5-4). And a newcomer, the Reuters team took claim to the evening’s bragging rights and VDAJ-wine prize.
We thank all the participants that made it to the night’s games despite the last minute location change.
Despite the guerilla techniques were used as you can hear and see here:
VDAJ again managed to clench on to the tittle of having scored 6 points out of 6 games played. Obviously the home advantage is working, or was it the beer?
Jonathan and Aaron working hard…
And this is what the Vitafeetleague does to some people…
Nichiai ended up as second best for the evening and clearly were very happy with the results!
…to the end of last night’s vitafeet league play witnessed an exciting final game to claim the day’s bragging rights.
VDAJ took the lead after an early tit-for-tat exchange of points, but the IOS/Metropolis team made a strong come back push to 9-9. The final ball, VDAJ 10-IOS/Metropolis 9.
Bragging rights stay with VDAJ, but just barely.
The day’s prize of Vitafeet wine goes to IOS/Metropolis.
We thank all of you that could attend. Remember, you can take away our home field advantage with a foosball table in your own office! Our current table was found at www.newart.co.jp for those interested.
