Office Foosball

For the past 6 months or so, we’ve been keeping score of the winner and losers in our daily foosball breaks. The way it works is, we play 2 on 2 games, so 4 players in full set. A set consists of 3 games, so each player plays a game with every other player. A game is won by the first team to 10 points and the team switches position (front / back) after they have 5 points scored against them.

Da Foos

After 3 games, mathematically, there is always someone that either won all 3 games or lost all 3 games. This person is crowned with the title of “King” or “Joker” and thus, must put a king or joker sticker by their name on the scoreboard.

Foosball Scores

As you can see, some of us have so many Kings, we’re off the chart! ;) I also have my share of Joker stickers, which I like to say were due to thrown games by those that don’t like me to win.

We have a coined a couple new foosball terms:

  • foosed, as in “You just got FOOSED!”. This occurs when a player hits the ball away from thier own goal (typically a goalie or guard) and the defender (which is an offensive player) slams the ball right back at them and into the goal.
  • toshed, as in “toshed it!” or “don’t tosh yourself”. This occurs when a player hits the ball so hard, it bounces off the far wall and back into their own goal. Named after our very own, hard hitting Tosh M.

— July 16th, 2008

4 Responses to “Office Foosball”

  1. Mark says:

    You know, if I had seen this chart a few months ago…

  2. Brian says:

    We use “foosed” in the same way. We also used “Marktron” as a verb.

  3. brett says:

    Wow. Chris is like the King of Jokers or something.

  4. Ken says:

    I’d like to take this moment to point out that I’m in second place for both Most Kings AND Most Jokers. I’m almost the best and almost the worst. I don’t really know what that means.

    @Mark
    That chart is still there you know…