Greg Sherrod and Rob Trout stand in the Champions Spotlight on FoosTalk Live! Hailing from the Knoxville, Tennesee foosball scene, Greg and Rob took the top spot in Amateur Doubles at the 2024 TKO in Kentucky. Find out what gave them the edge.
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[00:02:08] At ITSF World Cup, we are on the air episode number 198, just two episodes away from 200.
[00:02:15] Hey there, I'm Tom Robinson.
[00:02:17] Welcome on Twitch TV.
[00:02:19] We're broadcasting live tonight.
[00:02:21] And yes, we're going to be talking about Foosball.
[00:02:24] Why wouldn't we?
[00:02:25] It's Foostalk Live.
[00:02:26] And of course, always pays to have somebody with you who likes to talk about Foosball.
[00:02:31] No pardon me, loves to talk about Foosball.
[00:02:34] That would be Mr. Randy Reposa from the great state of Alabama.
[00:02:37] Hello Randy.
[00:02:38] What's up dude?
[00:02:39] Nothing.
[00:02:40] Quick shout out if I could.
[00:02:43] A couple of Patreon's Judy, Miss Judy was on last week.
[00:02:47] Yes.
[00:02:48] Really, really talking to her and then player I've never met but I've watched and played
[00:02:52] a bunch of times on opposite sides of the continent.
[00:02:56] He's actually from Canada.
[00:02:58] Shout out to Cam Burrow.
[00:03:00] Cam Burrow, yes.
[00:03:01] Just won the equivalent of open singles at Washington State.
[00:03:04] Just wanted to say congratulations being a champion junior, great player from Montana.
[00:03:10] So shout out to Cam, great play buddy.
[00:03:11] I just actually, I watched the match tonight and it was 87 and the fifth, no bider.
[00:03:17] So.
[00:03:18] Nice.
[00:03:19] Yeah.
[00:03:20] How was the coverage by the way?
[00:03:21] Good.
[00:03:22] So it was Adam and goodness.
[00:03:32] Adam and Clay?
[00:03:33] Clay, yes.
[00:03:34] Adam and Clay.
[00:03:35] Yeah.
[00:03:36] Funny as hell.
[00:03:37] This guys are great.
[00:03:38] Funny as hell.
[00:03:39] They do a great job.
[00:03:40] Yeah, it was a good time.
[00:03:41] It was a good time.
[00:03:42] Yeah.
[00:03:43] Shout out to Chase Penel II.
[00:03:44] I know he's watching.
[00:03:45] Hey buddy.
[00:03:46] You just, yeah.
[00:03:47] Love you.
[00:03:48] So it's going to be fun tonight every week.
[00:03:51] I say the same thing.
[00:03:52] It's going to be a good one time.
[00:03:54] But we're going to have some fun tonight.
[00:03:56] Oh, yeah.
[00:03:57] Got some some great players from Knoxville just pulled out a big win at the kickoff amateur
[00:04:02] doubles thick field.
[00:04:03] Really, really nice guys.
[00:04:05] I've played them a bunch of times.
[00:04:07] I'm like, I'm like five hours in Knoxville and I love going up there.
[00:04:10] They got a great scene.
[00:04:11] So I'm really looking forward to talking to these guys about their win.
[00:04:15] Likewise.
[00:04:16] Yeah.
[00:04:17] Yeah.
[00:04:18] We probably mentioned that this, this feature have been kind of undertaking in the last few
[00:04:23] weeks and over the last couple of months is called champions in the spotlight.
[00:04:27] And these guys are champions, man, you know, taking first place at the TKO.
[00:04:31] So without further ado, let's, let's welcome for the great state of Tennessee Rob Trout
[00:04:36] and Greg Sherrod.
[00:04:38] A drink, Greg Sherrod.
[00:04:39] He corrected me before airtime but Greg Sherrod and Rob Trout.
[00:04:43] Welcome.
[00:04:44] Welcome to the show guys.
[00:04:46] Thank you.
[00:04:48] Do I dare ask what's the weather like in Tennessee tonight?
[00:04:54] It's beautiful.
[00:04:55] It's actually beautiful tonight.
[00:04:57] Nice.
[00:04:58] Yeah, way way up.
[00:04:59] Yeah, I was going to say what's 70.
[00:05:01] What's your description?
[00:05:02] Beautiful.
[00:05:03] Yeah, 70.
[00:05:05] Oh, it's real nice.
[00:05:06] Man, 70.
[00:05:08] Along the walk outside to hear the crickets and the stars.
[00:05:12] Oh, nice.
[00:05:13] And it's just that perfect comfortable temperature.
[00:05:16] Tennessee's got some humidity and it's not too humid, which is.
[00:05:21] That's always nice.
[00:05:22] It's very nice.
[00:05:23] It's nice.
[00:05:24] Yeah.
[00:05:25] It's not real.
[00:05:26] And you guys are beautiful.
[00:05:27] And you're both from the Knoxville scene, right?
[00:05:30] Yes, sir.
[00:05:31] Nice.
[00:05:32] Well, I think about here about nine months ago.
[00:05:35] Oh, nine months.
[00:05:36] Okay.
[00:05:37] And you're originally from Denver, Rob?
[00:05:39] Yep.
[00:05:40] Okay.
[00:05:41] And Denver.
[00:05:42] Got it.
[00:05:43] So let's do this.
[00:05:44] I know we always have to start from the beginning.
[00:05:47] But Greg, I'd like you to go first.
[00:05:50] When was the first time you saw Fuzball table?
[00:05:53] How old were you and what kind of table was it?
[00:05:55] Uh, yes.
[00:05:56] So yeah, I got way back.
[00:05:59] I was just kid.
[00:06:01] So I had the fortune of my uncle grew up.
[00:06:05] Well, he grew up in Kater Outland, but he lived in Houston for a long time.
[00:06:09] And he played Fuzball.
[00:06:11] Okay.
[00:06:12] And he was probably in the bars.
[00:06:13] I don't know if he played in tournaments so much, but he knew how to play the right way.
[00:06:17] So he'd come over and we'll bust.
[00:06:21] So we got to see what we were supposed to play like.
[00:06:25] So it wasn't just the spinning game, et cetera from a young age.
[00:06:27] So he convinced my mom to buy tornadoes.
[00:06:31] So I had the home version of a tornado, you know, whatever.
[00:06:35] From a fairly young age.
[00:06:37] So that's really the only one I've ever played on.
[00:06:39] I never had really any of the other.
[00:06:42] You mean you didn't work?
[00:06:43] You didn't do anything.
[00:06:44] Yeah, on a Sears rowback or the one or the other great tables of the time.
[00:06:50] No.
[00:06:51] So it didn't have any of those.
[00:06:52] That's I would straight into it.
[00:06:54] So we'd, you know, plan around at the house for a long time.
[00:06:57] But I started playing more seriously in college, took my table to my apartment.
[00:07:05] So you just play all day.
[00:07:08] Yeah.
[00:07:09] But then I hooked up with playing with Eddie and Jackson and Benji and some of these old
[00:07:13] guys, old school guys that were playing in the early 2000s and the 2000s.
[00:07:19] And I'd go over there weekly every once in a while and get pummeled.
[00:07:22] John Cunningham used to go as well.
[00:07:26] So I learned how to play back then, tournament style.
[00:07:30] But I never went to a tournament.
[00:07:32] Huh?
[00:07:33] Didn't get in my first tournament until 2018 or 19.
[00:07:38] Oh, that recently.
[00:07:39] So yeah, so fairly.
[00:07:40] Yes, a fairly.
[00:07:41] And so making it into the first place position and especially at the TKO in amateur doubles,
[00:07:48] that's that's saying something.
[00:07:49] You made some some great moves.
[00:07:53] Yeah, it's been a fun ride.
[00:07:54] I can I'd like to go to more tournaments.
[00:07:58] I could basically go to TKO in worlds and then Asheville.
[00:08:02] I got about a three or four hour.
[00:08:04] Uh, traveled limit.
[00:08:07] Right.
[00:08:08] I don't think it over there.
[00:08:08] I said I get it's too far of a draft for me personally.
[00:08:12] That is a long sleeve.
[00:08:13] Yeah, starts this long weekend.
[00:08:16] Yeah.
[00:08:17] Yeah, that's that's all of our problems.
[00:08:19] I want to go to all of them.
[00:08:20] But right now, what life is a football player.
[00:08:25] So so Rob, how about you?
[00:08:26] What was the first time you saw a football table?
[00:08:29] How old were you and what kind of table was it?
[00:08:33] It was it was a tornado table.
[00:08:35] And I was probably 12 13 years old.
[00:08:39] OK.
[00:08:41] And I believe it was when tornado.
[00:08:43] I believe it was tornado's first table, first like tournament style table.
[00:08:50] And my parents on the video game arcade.
[00:08:53] And how lucky was that?
[00:08:55] I've been able to get there.
[00:08:58] And so that was really the first time I saw a table and I kind of just naturally took to it.
[00:09:04] And so you got a chance to see Tom Spear play early on.
[00:09:08] I mean, how old were you at the time you've met Tom Spear?
[00:09:11] I was 12 or 13.
[00:09:12] Wow.
[00:09:14] Dude.
[00:09:16] Yeah, I think we probably had the arcade for about a year and then I think Tom.
[00:09:20] I don't know if he was your representative for tornado or if he just bought tables and put
[00:09:24] him in places.
[00:09:26] He had two tables in the arcade.
[00:09:29] And so he would come every week to divvy up quarters, you know with my parents.
[00:09:35] And I just naturally took a gate, took a liking to the game.
[00:09:40] And so we'd play a little bit and he'd pummel me.
[00:09:43] And you know, he'd make the post-bought and he'd play, you know, keep away and just bounce
[00:09:48] the ball from his two to his five, five to his three and back to his five.
[00:09:51] Oh man.
[00:09:52] Wow.
[00:09:53] So I was kind of determined at that age to at least give him a little bit of a game.
[00:10:00] Right.
[00:10:01] How many people can say that they play with that level of a player legend of the sports early on?
[00:10:08] I mean early on.
[00:10:09] That's extraordinary.
[00:10:12] Did you get to know Tom very well?
[00:10:16] It's pretty much when he came in during the week.
[00:10:19] Yeah.
[00:10:20] So whatever, if I happen to be there when he came in, you know, I'd always bug him and say,
[00:10:24] well, I'll just play a couple of games.
[00:10:25] Of course.
[00:10:27] So.
[00:10:28] And the first time you actually found a tournament that for competition, what was the
[00:10:33] first time you went out to compete?
[00:10:36] The first time I went to a tournament was in Lidlton.
[00:10:40] So my parents arcade was in West Denver.
[00:10:42] Lidlton is more south Denver.
[00:10:44] That's where a lot of the players that people were recognized from the Denver area played.
[00:10:49] Right.
[00:10:50] So I didn't get to go play in a tournament until I was 16.
[00:10:53] I think I just got my driver's license and drove all the way to Lidlton and played
[00:11:00] in a tournament there.
[00:11:01] I think I got knocked out right away.
[00:11:04] Just remember feeling like, man, these guys are serious.
[00:11:09] I remember going to the bathroom and washing my hands, getting cold water on my hands because
[00:11:14] I'd be sweating.
[00:11:15] I was like, holy cow.
[00:11:16] I never really played, you know, foosball competitively.
[00:11:22] We had two tables and on the weekends there were a couple of high schools where they would
[00:11:27] come to the arcade a lot on weekends and play and stuff.
[00:11:29] So there was kind of a local group that we played.
[00:11:33] Cool.
[00:11:35] But it wasn't until I think I did a Colorado tournament, probably after I certainly
[00:11:42] after I graduated.
[00:11:45] And so I didn't really take it too seriously, although I loved it and enjoyed it.
[00:11:49] But I didn't take it too seriously until probably 10 or so years ago.
[00:11:55] Really?
[00:11:56] You guys are both late bloopers.
[00:11:58] Yeah.
[00:11:59] That's amazing.
[00:12:01] And so I got to say, you know, after what is it?
[00:12:06] Since 1975, since I started playing Bonsini.
[00:12:10] I wasn't aware of tournaments either.
[00:12:12] But you know, I thought, man, you know, by the time I'm 65, I should be some further
[00:12:17] along than beginner but you know, stuff happens.
[00:12:23] Man.
[00:12:24] Maybe I'd just go guys.
[00:12:27] Yeah.
[00:12:30] They're all over the tour now.
[00:12:31] Yeah, right.
[00:12:32] Randy knows all about that.
[00:12:34] Yeah.
[00:12:35] I think I'm more like reading the love of Fruisball.
[00:12:38] Oh, it is.
[00:12:39] Yeah.
[00:12:40] It is.
[00:12:41] It's got such an age range to play competitively.
[00:12:44] It's fun.
[00:12:45] Mm-hmm.
[00:12:46] Mm-hmm.
[00:12:47] Oh yeah.
[00:12:48] And of course somebody like Todd LaFredo who's, you know, of that Denver scene.
[00:12:52] My God.
[00:12:53] I mean, what's he 63 now?
[00:12:56] 94.
[00:12:57] Yeah.
[00:12:58] 94.
[00:13:00] But no, it's, it is amazing that he's still at the top, you know, really can be very competitive
[00:13:06] in the top 10 for sure.
[00:13:08] Yeah.
[00:13:09] He's 63, 63, 60.
[00:13:11] Something like that.
[00:13:12] You know how old he is because they changed the limit for senior events.
[00:13:16] Is that what it is?
[00:13:17] Something like that.
[00:13:18] Yeah.
[00:13:19] Yeah.
[00:13:20] We moved it up a year.
[00:13:21] Yeah, every year they bump it up according to how old he is.
[00:13:23] So, uh, yeah, that's kind of like so.
[00:13:25] Yeah, 63 now.
[00:13:26] He's the bar I guess.
[00:13:28] I've never struggled with him but I feel like someone said he felt bad for winning the
[00:13:33] probably not, but when that ITSF gold seniors like it wasn't just in no contest.
[00:13:39] Yeah.
[00:13:40] Seriously?
[00:13:41] I don't know about feeling bad, but yeah, right?
[00:13:43] Yeah.
[00:13:44] I think maybe they were saying why is he playing this?
[00:13:46] Because he can.
[00:13:47] Why is he allowed?
[00:13:48] It's allowed.
[00:13:49] Because he can why shouldn't he be allowed?
[00:13:50] Come on man.
[00:13:51] Sure.
[00:13:52] He should 100% be allowed.
[00:13:53] Yeah.
[00:13:54] Yeah.
[00:13:55] Yeah.
[00:13:56] Oh, seriously?
[00:13:57] Oh, look at somebody else Steve.
[00:13:58] Steve Biny.
[00:13:59] I mean he's you know, he's up there and he's still really competitive.
[00:14:03] Well, the thing now with the 50 and over like you okay.
[00:14:06] So I'll look.
[00:14:07] Terry Rue over 50.
[00:14:09] Ron Olson over 50 Mike Philbrook over 50.
[00:14:13] There are and that's just a few of the master players that are now over 50 playing 50
[00:14:17] and over trying to qualify to get on the senior team.
[00:14:20] The senior team.
[00:14:22] Our senior team is going to be stacked dude.
[00:14:24] Stacked.
[00:14:25] Yeah.
[00:14:26] Stacked.
[00:14:27] Oh yeah, him Tracy although yeah, but the problem those guys have been on the regular team.
[00:14:33] So you know now it's like you've got you know, you don't do well.
[00:14:38] Well no, you either play on one or the other so like you got you know, you got Blake,
[00:14:43] Blake Tony Ryan Billy.
[00:14:45] I can't I mean I'm just saying like they could they could fill up the normal the regular
[00:14:51] team with masters in their late 20s and 30s.
[00:14:56] And even in their 40s and then the senior team could just be you know, a bunch of Hall of Fame
[00:15:00] world champions if they wanted to be and then they could go crush they go crush the seniors.
[00:15:05] They think you know, dude, it could be terrible.
[00:15:08] But you know, I'm interested to see what the world cup is going to look like.
[00:15:14] You know, I you know being just a fan of Fuzball.
[00:15:17] I love watching that stuff.
[00:15:19] I love multi table Fuzball and all that good stuff, but anyway.
[00:15:25] So I want to talk to you guys about your win.
[00:15:28] Was this the first time you guys ever played together?
[00:15:32] Like at a big one.
[00:15:34] Yeah, I have a beat for sure.
[00:15:36] Yeah.
[00:15:37] So you guys you guys played a I know you played some locals.
[00:15:41] I think you guys played that last one you had in Nox.
[00:15:43] You guys have been running some good stuff in Noxville man.
[00:15:46] I just I want to tell everybody on the stream now if you if you haven't been to Noxville
[00:15:51] to play Fuzball, you have to make.
[00:15:54] You have to make a trip because what they're doing in Noxville is outstanding.
[00:15:59] The groups wonderful.
[00:16:00] The locations great.
[00:16:01] They are awesome.
[00:16:03] They the stickers go for the stickers because the stickers all the ones right behind
[00:16:08] you, Randy.
[00:16:09] Yeah, I got them all on my table right here.
[00:16:11] You got.
[00:16:12] I got the.
[00:16:13] Yeah, shout out the Thomas.
[00:16:15] Yeah, Thomas.
[00:16:16] And you know everything going to those the go for the stickers man.
[00:16:21] I still remember one of the first times I just drove through like I was driving a Massachusetts.
[00:16:27] Like I just left my house one night was driving a Massachusetts and I was like I'm gonna
[00:16:30] stop in it was a Tuesday night.
[00:16:32] I know you guys plan Tuesday.
[00:16:33] I popped in and then Thomas was like dude.
[00:16:37] He gave me a keychain some stickers.
[00:16:38] He's like thanks for coming out.
[00:16:39] I played Fuzball for like an hour and then I got in the car and took off.
[00:16:43] And it just welcoming everything's great.
[00:16:45] The one days you guys run are outstanding.
[00:16:47] You knock it out people need to make an effort to get to Noxville and support the Fuzball.
[00:16:52] I know I know Eddie's there and Eddie got promoted the year and look I love Eddie.
[00:16:59] I love Eddie.
[00:17:00] Eddie's a good dude loves Fuzball and then Chase came along and Chase is a great teacher
[00:17:05] and I've seen the group.
[00:17:07] The level of play start to improve and you guys winning amateur singles also people might
[00:17:13] not know but two guys from Knoxville won rookie doubles.
[00:17:17] You guys won amateur doubles.
[00:17:18] TKO.
[00:17:19] That's right so Knoxville starting to put it then in the scene and people need to recognize
[00:17:25] what's going on.
[00:17:26] Chase is a great teacher.
[00:17:28] Road to Pro is his YouTube series if anybody's interested.
[00:17:32] Great stuff.
[00:17:33] Yes.
[00:17:34] So you guys have played some locals this with your first one.
[00:17:37] You went out, you knocked it out of the park, you won amateur doubles.
[00:17:40] Do you retire now?
[00:17:41] Are you done?
[00:17:42] Where do you go from here?
[00:17:44] We're not done.
[00:17:46] Yeah, no we got to we'll have to take on.
[00:17:50] Sorry, Rebecca.
[00:17:51] I think you may be on mute.
[00:17:54] They will have to get on the next one for sure.
[00:17:58] I don't know when it'll be.
[00:17:59] Worlds are nationals or what have you but.
[00:18:04] Well for you, I think we're two for two Rob.
[00:18:09] We played the amateur in under event in Knoxville one in and then the next one we played was
[00:18:16] five feet of it so we get it we're close to winning street.
[00:18:22] Rob, we're having a tough time here.
[00:18:24] There you are there you are.
[00:18:27] Yep, I can hear you better now.
[00:18:28] There you go.
[00:18:30] OK, I'll speak up a little bit.
[00:18:32] God you're good.
[00:18:34] So, so you guys are two for two right?
[00:18:38] So talk about your run through the bracket and amateur doubles.
[00:18:42] You guys have any nail biters tough teams like you know, you got you guys double dipped right?
[00:18:47] You came through the losers correct?
[00:18:50] Now it was straight through it.
[00:18:51] No, you guys went straight through.
[00:18:52] OK, OK, cool.
[00:18:54] So was it was it easy?
[00:18:56] It's struggle anything?
[00:18:59] No, it was there's no easy.
[00:19:01] It just yeah, nothing's easy.
[00:19:04] But I do remember playing Hunter and Dylan the first time we ran into him and it was I believe
[00:19:09] it went three games.
[00:19:11] And I think that's right afterwards.
[00:19:13] I said that's if that's not the toughest team we've played they are you know second and
[00:19:18] of course we meet them in the finals.
[00:19:20] Yeah, yeah, we got started off in that bracket.
[00:19:23] It was a bit dicey.
[00:19:24] Yeah, we had to play.
[00:19:25] Toria Joe who you mentioned who won rookie doubles who are our local buds.
[00:19:29] We had to play them our first match up, which is always scary playing someone you know
[00:19:34] that you've always been weak for years.
[00:19:36] It's the tougher game.
[00:19:38] Yeah, we were about when I think actually went three games too.
[00:19:41] We were happy to get through that.
[00:19:45] And then we played our next match which I frankly I don't remember what happened in
[00:19:49] that match, but then we waited our do recall like seven hours.
[00:19:53] Seven.
[00:19:54] Seven hours.
[00:19:55] Seven hours.
[00:19:56] That's the curse of the kids.
[00:19:57] It's Sarah Money.
[00:19:58] Yeah, you know they had the news there for the finals match like everything went against
[00:20:03] us and we had it like one thirty in the morning.
[00:20:07] Oh man.
[00:20:08] So okay so this is good.
[00:20:10] I want to talk about this right?
[00:20:12] So so what do you do?
[00:20:15] Do you eat?
[00:20:16] Do you take an app?
[00:20:17] Do you stay on the table?
[00:20:18] What did you guys do each of you separately maybe Rob you go first.
[00:20:22] What do you do?
[00:20:23] What's your mindset going through this break wondering when you're going to play?
[00:20:28] How do you stay warm?
[00:20:29] Do you do you hydrate drink water?
[00:20:31] You get drunk.
[00:20:32] You do drugs.
[00:20:33] What do you do man?
[00:20:34] I want to know.
[00:20:35] I want to listen to who's football.
[00:20:38] Who's ball players are different man so like what's the process for you you know sitting
[00:20:43] for seven hours before you go play?
[00:20:46] Yeah, I don't remember exactly what I did this time, but I will stay busy.
[00:20:50] I do try and stay warm.
[00:20:53] Actually I think it got to the point though where I went up and took a nap.
[00:20:57] There you go.
[00:20:58] And woke up to my phone going off and me having to run down and play but sometimes
[00:21:03] I play better at like that so anyway I do try and stay I'll play a lot just to try
[00:21:09] and stay loose and from my past history I do better when I play one match after another
[00:21:17] after another and just keep going.
[00:21:19] Of course, of course.
[00:21:22] What about you Greg?
[00:21:24] What would you do?
[00:21:25] Yeah well I tried to try to set up other events so I don't have to sit as long.
[00:21:31] So I had a couple extra events that I just sprinkled in there to really stay warm.
[00:21:37] Now I did expert doubles.
[00:21:39] We did not play well in expert doubles.
[00:21:40] I played with Thomas.
[00:21:43] I had a couple of single events going on but other than that yeah I mean I like to
[00:21:47] get I go in there and eat.
[00:21:49] Okay.
[00:21:50] At TKO they get that nice restaurant now.
[00:21:51] Oh yeah.
[00:21:52] Yeah.
[00:21:53] It's a big upgrade.
[00:21:54] Yeah.
[00:21:55] But yes it and then I try to come back.
[00:21:58] Try to time it so I'll come back and can warm up for maybe 30 minutes or so before
[00:22:02] game and then watch it like especially if I haven't seen the guys play before.
[00:22:06] I'll you know bounce around track the tables.
[00:22:09] Yeah.
[00:22:10] Scouting.
[00:22:11] Scouting is big.
[00:22:12] Yeah that's big.
[00:22:13] Did you, did you you know, did you try the filet the restaurant?
[00:22:16] No.
[00:22:17] I didn't.
[00:22:18] No I did.
[00:22:19] Actually made a mistake.
[00:22:20] I got this weird shrimp thing.
[00:22:21] I was trying to like not.
[00:22:22] Did you get the shrimp shrimp shrimp shrimp grits?
[00:22:24] No I got like the shrimp scampy thing.
[00:22:26] Oh the scampy.
[00:22:27] Yeah.
[00:22:28] I'm going to pass on that next time.
[00:22:30] Yeah.
[00:22:31] It's great for the chicken sandwich or something.
[00:22:32] Yeah I'm weird about that.
[00:22:33] Nah man.
[00:22:34] Listen you can't miss with the filet.
[00:22:35] I'm telling you.
[00:22:36] Yeah.
[00:22:37] I think I had like seven or eight filets throughout the weekend.
[00:22:40] So I guess I go I go filet with mashed potatoes and then and then that corn, that little
[00:22:45] corn.
[00:22:46] It was like, oh it's just yeah.
[00:22:49] I felt it on the way out.
[00:22:51] It was good though worth it.
[00:22:52] You know what?
[00:22:53] This explains a lot Randy because every time I talk to you especially you know getting
[00:22:57] ready to go in there like hey man I'm going to go I'm going to go to bed.
[00:23:00] I'll see you later.
[00:23:01] As soon as we're done I'm out.
[00:23:03] Yeah I'm out.
[00:23:04] Listen listen I'm on the clock bro.
[00:23:06] I'm like I'm what they call regular every day.
[00:23:09] It's the same things.
[00:23:10] So anyway.
[00:23:11] Eight filets.
[00:23:12] I'm out.
[00:23:13] So I'm out.
[00:23:16] Delicious right?
[00:23:17] They were the that restaurant's huge upgrade.
[00:23:20] Oh yeah.
[00:23:21] So did you guys play pro or open doubles by any chance either one of you?
[00:23:26] No Rob.
[00:23:27] I played pro singles I believe but it no doubles.
[00:23:33] Okay because I wanted to ask you guys so even though you didn't play what did you guys
[00:23:37] think about the championship format?
[00:23:39] Did you like it?
[00:23:40] Were you opposed to it?
[00:23:41] Like what do you think about it?
[00:23:42] I like it.
[00:23:43] I mean so as if I'm promoting I love it.
[00:23:47] If I'm playing I thought it was for me watching I liked it because I don't think I've actually
[00:23:54] watched the finals match in a long time before this.
[00:23:57] I was genuinely I was like all right this is done.
[00:23:59] I don't have to wait three hours for them to play the next two, three match up to come
[00:24:04] back.
[00:24:07] It's not like extremely late at night.
[00:24:10] I enjoyed it as certainly a controversial topic.
[00:24:15] Yeah.
[00:24:16] Now Rob you I think you played open singles because I think we played each other.
[00:24:20] I think you might have been my first match in open singles.
[00:24:23] Yeah yeah so what did you?
[00:24:28] What effect you so I really I mean my initial thought was I didn't like it but again it didn't
[00:24:36] affect me so but in past tournaments you know when you get a chance to come back and
[00:24:42] double dip somebody that's huge.
[00:24:44] So from that standpoint I get the advantage of being able to come back and double dip
[00:24:50] but I also get the championship format too.
[00:24:54] So you know IFP is talking about making all events championship format right so that would
[00:25:00] include amateur expert rookie like how do you guys feel about that if they were to make
[00:25:06] if they were to make the lower ranked events championship format do you guys think I mean
[00:25:10] you know we can you can disagree but I feel like this tournament ran really really well
[00:25:17] with those formats right like it was over 300 players Sunday night done before midnight
[00:25:24] that's I mean that doesn't really have that's amazing so what do you guys think about them
[00:25:29] making rookie amateur expert also championship format do you agree disagree like what are your
[00:25:33] thoughts?
[00:25:34] If they do that they need to see they need to see the brackets absolutely yeah I think
[00:25:40] they do that regardless but yeah I mean it would have made for a quicker bracket in our
[00:25:49] I was telling Tori and Joel like we got to do championship bracket I was like man I kind
[00:25:54] of wish they had it right now we'd be done we'd are to move it hard to be over right?
[00:25:59] Basically the last tournament I'm all for it
[00:26:03] Cool I don't I did anybody ever look like did anybody get double dipped
[00:26:08] there was a TKO I mean I don't even know and like the
[00:26:13] So so Dustin we had Dustin and Ben on
[00:26:19] I don't I don't think they I thought they won the winners bracket
[00:26:25] They did they I think they did won the winners okay somebody in twitch in the stream correct us if
[00:26:32] we're wrong yes in the chat and then you know you know obviously Tori and his partner that
[00:26:39] they win the winners bracket of their event yeah because yeah if you if you have the ability to
[00:26:47] pull the brackets up I know an amateur singles they did have King's seed they want okay so and I
[00:26:54] know an amateur singles my buddy Matthew Contoise um he that was that guy an amateur by the way right
[00:27:03] I really well see I've heard that someplace before okay so he got he got a set in and then lost
[00:27:11] in the second set so there was no dip no dip in amateur no either singles or doubles
[00:27:17] rookie I'm not sure about the singles and then expert there was a dip because Ivan double dipped
[00:27:23] Taha yeah okay Ivan double dip Taha so there was one dip there was a
[00:27:29] singles double dip to well so two dips for the weekend so uh look I'm gonna be honest with my
[00:27:36] the the two pro titles I have were both out of the losers bracket right so I'm I'm I get it right
[00:27:45] but at the same time I feel like you just just play good just play good and don't lose
[00:27:53] yeah and so for pro events now they're making them three out of five which I think is really
[00:28:00] I think it's freaking great man so much more it's gonna make a huge difference yeah I think it's gonna
[00:28:05] then they did I think you gotta make it uh so they didn't doubles they didn't in singles
[00:28:09] they made the call they made the call a little late but going forward pro singles and doubles are
[00:28:14] gonna be three out of five one by two just like open and I think that's I think that's huge
[00:28:19] I think that's gonna be a really big deal so um I'm I personally I'm excited so yeah um
[00:28:26] yeah yeah so what did you guys think is the uh the camera coverage with television coverage for
[00:28:32] the for the open singles and I believe they are what was it the open doubles too wasn't it
[00:28:36] was or was it just singles yeah that was that was astounding and everybody was there watching
[00:28:43] I mean it what a what an exciting moment with Ryan and and Tommy your wow yeah really that was
[00:28:50] worth the price of admission right there it was good yes that's that's one of those
[00:28:54] missions as the first one I think I've watched all the way through in a long time um and it
[00:28:59] was a great match but yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah uh Ryan did you read the new story no they had
[00:29:08] a new story yeah from the from the TV channel Kentucky yeah no no I can't read sorry
[00:29:19] he likes the big pictures I never learned to repeat no I just know look look I don't know if you
[00:29:25] guys know this about me but I'm not on Facebook and I have social media so I don't keep up with
[00:29:29] a whole lot of stuff so everything I hear I get you know secondhand information or I just get
[00:29:35] it straight from the was as mouth so I know that if it wasn't for the fire there's no news crew so
[00:29:43] I feel like something was intentionally done to get the new I don't look I pulled up it was fire
[00:29:49] trucks everywhere and I left to go eat so you know it is it is what it is so let me okay let me ask
[00:29:56] you guys another question finals coming up you know you guys are getting psyched up to play the final
[00:30:01] um what's your mindset going into uh final this big right amateur there was like 400 teams in amateur
[00:30:08] doubles it was big right amateur team field kickoff yeah right it was huge
[00:30:13] amazing no but realistically at what there was a lot of teams in that event right so you guys
[00:30:18] you have a game plan you know how are you feeling are you excited are you nervous do you talk or
[00:30:24] you just like you know what we're just gonna do what we've been doing like kind of walk us through
[00:30:29] this final how tough was it how many games how did it look give us you know give us some insight please
[00:30:36] the uh well I was I was thankful to get there first off because uh about had a mental breakdown
[00:30:45] getting robbed at the table for the semi final match this is this was the nappy spoke of before
[00:30:50] and we're on we're on recall like double recall like 30 seconds left and I'm like I can see him
[00:30:57] running through the parking lot outside and that luckily the other guy was a good sport about he
[00:31:03] didn't want to win that way cool yeah he waited for us um but yeah I don't know you know the final match was
[00:31:11] like and the rob said we had played them the night before so we had a decent idea of what we were
[00:31:17] getting into so you know game plan with the the five bar in our positioning front first bag we just
[00:31:24] really we went over the same game plan as they did the night before and it just it worked out I
[00:31:31] did not play well I don't know if you you so they they didn't they didn't they didn't adjust like
[00:31:38] the other team didn't they didn't come and do anything different they just kind of they figured
[00:31:42] we're gonna do what we've been doing and see if the you know see if the outcome is different yeah
[00:31:46] they had a true forward and a true goal they so I mean there how they were set up was dealing
[00:31:52] with going to play front and hunter was gonna play in the uh fully so yeah there's just pretty
[00:31:57] straightforward um I honestly don't know if you didn't watch the match that played that
[00:32:03] big that game too was the worst game I played all weekend um but luckily we won but they um
[00:32:12] they were a tough team Dylan's really good that fraud I didn't do anything against his five bar
[00:32:18] defensively Rob was just an absolute wall back there so he really just carried me in that final
[00:32:25] that's great Rob's rough man Rob's a good player at any point did you guys have to switch
[00:32:30] you bring that right arm now you know up front to shoot a bull shot or yeah buddy we did
[00:32:37] took me three times to get in there I was watching the video earlier tonight I watched it one
[00:32:40] other time but um but yeah it took me three times you know that whole taking your time thing man
[00:32:46] that's huge right yeah man I'm happy to expect for Hunter and Dylan they they played awesome
[00:32:52] and Hunter man he kept so composed I was just really impressed with him at his age just how well
[00:32:58] he played and you know he yeah those guys played awesome yeah talking about young guys hunter is 12
[00:33:05] years old he was playing goal for yeah exactly and uh I feel pretty fortunate to get a win off of them
[00:33:11] right now I still 12 yeah fours I think in the rookie and amateur brackets for the next little bit
[00:33:20] it's uh I remember that yeah that was that was Bob I kept calling him Bob he was running around the
[00:33:25] tables I kept calling him Bob yeah I can't I can't play and then the other Dylan he won
[00:33:30] amateur that was a kid of one amateur singles right he won amateur singles and I think he
[00:33:35] think he won Colorado did he had a big win out there right that yeah that joker's good man he put me
[00:33:42] in Kristen the loses bracket and opened up he three straight at us and opened doubles man that kid
[00:33:47] took his time nice five smooth good shot like he beats for for being a amateur he doesn't play
[00:33:54] like an amateur very well composed uh he played he played really well he had me had a good weekend you
[00:33:59] know finals of amateur doubles finals of amateur singles uh you know shout out to to that kid Dylan
[00:34:06] Dylan knew some correct yes yeah man you guys that's that's a good win for you guys and that's a tough
[00:34:12] team so you know that's that's big now going into the final um you know again I know you guys have
[00:34:19] Chase and Eddie like this Eddie come up to you and give you advice and you guys go well we're just
[00:34:24] gonna do whatever like the opposite of whatever Eddie says okay the dragon true miss
[00:34:32] that's where yeah you just do the opposite of whatever Eddie says and you'll be good so all right
[00:34:37] I just I wanted to make sure we threw that out there I know he's watching because the song postal
[00:34:41] I love you Eddie I love you yeah last time I was in Knoxville last time I was in Knoxville every time Eddie
[00:34:47] shot the ball the floor moved the whole floor the whole floor oh dude listen listen Eddie Eddie is
[00:34:55] made of stone Eddie's you know Eddie's one of those guys man you don't want to get his hands on
[00:35:00] you he will snap you like a twig sweetest hi I love him but he's working on it he's working on it
[00:35:06] he says he is practicing with his table unlocked so he can know when he's lifting the table really
[00:35:13] so he's working on it there we go that's great that's great you go Eddie yeah it's wonderful yeah he
[00:35:21] need he needs to do that what he needs to do is he needs to take he needs to make sure it's unlocked
[00:35:26] and then he needs to take the hinges off the other side that's how he's really gonna know it's working
[00:35:31] is when he does that so yeah let's go he's subtle he's subtle what can he say he's not subtle not even a
[00:35:38] little bit no no I love you Ed yeah that's my guy but yeah so so what's the rest of the year
[00:35:45] looking like for you guys I mean obviously Greg I know you know you're probably you'll hit worlds
[00:35:50] and if they run the battle in Nashville again you'll probably be there but you have any other
[00:35:56] planes are like what's what's what's Knoxville looking like if you want to you know you want to
[00:36:02] talk about any of the Knoxville stuff yeah I'm gonna do my best to hit a bunch of the locals up
[00:36:08] the uh it turns out either did they announce the nationals okay so I'll tell you what I know
[00:36:15] yeah I'll tell you what I tell you what I know okay no no no no I'll tell you what I know okay so
[00:36:25] obviously everybody knows that the hotel in Colorado got sold so nationals will not
[00:36:31] and it's it's a mix there's no more national that's not gonna happen there so I have a very
[00:36:36] reliable source and I asked them this is the only question I asked I said is it gonna be in the south
[00:36:44] and they said it's gonna be in the south baby and I said okay that's all I need to know because if
[00:36:48] it's in the south I can thrive there so we're good yeah you're gonna be a drama about where the
[00:36:53] south actually is when the location well listen the mason the mason Dixon line runs through Maryland okay
[00:37:01] where where where so hang on it will be right in between the two that'd be a
[00:37:09] personally but look I don't know I don't know I look I'm not crossing my fingers I don't know where
[00:37:15] it's gonna be okay but in my in my gullet I feel like it's either gonna be New Orleans or Atlanta
[00:37:24] that's how I feel I don't know okay that's what I that's what I think I hope it's Atlanta yeah I can get
[00:37:31] there in half hours right personally I wish it was in Birmingham because I'm 30 minutes away right
[00:37:37] if Knoxville had a major airport I'd say let's do it in Knoxville because that would be right
[00:37:41] right and the land would be perfect yeah they don't have $79 room rates anywhere I think it's in Atlanta
[00:37:47] bro what do you have you ever seen the super eight in downtown Atlanta
[00:37:55] you can listen you can there are so many things you can buy at that hotel and then there's
[00:37:59] things you can get for free that you don't want to take home yeah yeah who's that but that's
[00:38:05] well free and ugly nationals wherever it may be that maybe the one that I can make otherwise
[00:38:11] we'll see how close it is yeah but yeah it will be what we write in our locals I know Randy you've
[00:38:15] come up to a few of them but we do a lot of one days I think we're gonna run we're gonna try to
[00:38:20] run them every month it will skip months in which there's like a major just to give a break so like
[00:38:25] we want anything after worlds after Thanksgiving probably not in December but yeah we're gonna run
[00:38:32] at BYP in April and then I know we've got some non-pro events and some draws and some no two
[00:38:38] pros and stuff cool and that's how to run it yeah we got we got a break
[00:38:45] you and Chris up we still want you to come up here you have to fix somebody else
[00:38:52] so you're ready so yeah I mean Tom said you know we run the Swiss format yes on a bad we'll do six
[00:39:00] or seven rounds and we'll take the top 16 that's the way it goes so it divides very nicely with
[00:39:06] 16 teams very efficient when just two rounds are two that's a lot of foosball by the way playing
[00:39:13] played a lot of foosball that way you know really really like that so the first time I did I drove
[00:39:24] home and it was fun because I'm it's like five hours it wasn't bad the last time my wife and I we
[00:39:30] just so we'd like to go to pigeon forge so we went up for the weekend so I was actually up there
[00:39:35] and it was like an hour ride into downtown I played and then I went back to the cabin so
[00:39:40] and and I you know I like doing that it's it's we just enjoy going up there so anytime you guys
[00:39:48] want to run something I can probably almost always go because I just tell my wife we're gonna
[00:39:53] go get a cab and and then I can go play who's done so it's a win-win yeah done yes
[00:39:58] the goals they get done by 10 to 10 30 of the latest so that's cool yeah we of course you know
[00:40:06] we're in a bar so we're a little bit restricted to them closing which we ran into an issue running
[00:40:11] a true devil elimination bit last fall so we didn't want that to happen again so we switched it
[00:40:19] out we've done two or three of these now and they work they've been working pretty darn well
[00:40:26] I remember that event because I went and I won both I won both both events that you had
[00:40:31] I want to drive the brink oh really oh real I remember okay thank you for that
[00:40:39] I'm listening I'm humble what do you want from him I'm a humble guy what do you want
[00:40:45] I give I'll give Raydie just this is just his head's gonna not gonna fit the screen
[00:40:49] anymore and they give him I'm gonna give him a minute well 1% credit for my mindset in Kentucky
[00:40:57] I took it he called me out in our local event in January from doing a stupid shot
[00:41:04] when I wasn't on a quote PowerPoint and thought about that all weekend about not doing something dumb
[00:41:11] in a close game so it probably can't be from doing something silly and giving it just
[00:41:17] that point so you just got to minimize the stupid body that's all you got to do
[00:41:22] that tape would have gone in yeah no no I didn't really got you got to minimize the stupid
[00:41:29] buddy I'm telling you especially when you're up uh-uh that was a bad move I don't remember
[00:41:34] I remember that I didn't forget that I'm like oh oh oh oh and then you did it and oh
[00:41:40] nope no yeah yeah Tom this Tom Tom this Joker was up they were up like three two they're playing
[00:41:47] Eddie and Chase they were up this Joker I'm like Greg's five has gotten so good it's just I mean
[00:41:52] nice it's gotten really nice and and he's getting the ball getting the ball and then this Joker
[00:41:57] shoot to dank oh I miss executed it was day two but three two to go up you were up three two I mean
[00:42:07] I feel like it was yeah Raydie's Rob's fall Rob told me to hit shoot the date literally at the time
[00:42:17] I got a bump roasted in different Adam yeah I get gonna listen to your teammate sometimes hey Chris
[00:42:22] tells me all the time coming out of time out she goes hey uh shoot that far while slingshot or
[00:42:26] tell you something like that right and I go I go okay and then I don't but one of these days
[00:42:32] I'm going to do it and then I'm gonna look him and go hey you told me right I just do what you said
[00:42:36] so the thing is if you make if you make it you're the hero and if you don't you're the zero
[00:42:41] so right that's it man but but you got to understand it's all part of the progression right you learn
[00:42:46] you learn you learn in the losses that's how I feel like I lose and I learn like nobody walks away
[00:42:53] from a win and goes what did I learn right like I won I got here so when you lose that's when you go
[00:43:00] okay why yeah what happened that's that's my thing every tournament it's like what's the take away
[00:43:04] what you know even that even when I go I play well I win an event I still go okay if I'm not learning
[00:43:11] I'm not progressing so what's the take away and then I just I have this conversation with myself
[00:43:16] the matches I did lose I playing back in my head and and that's one of the really nice things about
[00:43:21] inside foos now where I don't know if you got you know you guys have been playing tournament foosball
[00:43:25] for like six years now right but in the early 2000s pros even pros really didn't get into inside
[00:43:33] foos tables 1 2 3 4 5 how many tables were in the pits that was master only area right so true
[00:43:41] the matches you would see were only master level foosball right it was more of a learning tool which
[00:43:46] is fine but now that you know players like us are getting to play on those tables and getting
[00:43:53] to actually be on inside foos we can go back and critique ourselves so you know inside foos is
[00:43:59] a really great learning tool I mean now like with modern because you know like Clay and Adam
[00:44:05] are recording matches yeah yeah yeah you know like having the ability to to to watch yourself like
[00:44:13] like you said Rob you went back and you watched the match you know it really it really is a great
[00:44:19] learning tool to help you improve quickly so but what's the rest of your year you're looking like
[00:44:28] I'm hoping for Vegas not hoping for Vegas I there's like pretty much planning on Vegas
[00:44:34] and then hoping for Colorado State and then Nationals we'll see if Nationals is close and yeah I'd
[00:44:41] really like to go to Nationals sure nice there you go Greg's in the locals yeah well Greg's in
[00:44:52] Greg's hitting locals Greg's murdering locals he's going to worlds and and Asheville maybe Nationals
[00:44:58] so you know are you guys going to keep playing together at locals are you going to mix it up or like
[00:45:03] are we seeing the birth of a potential long-term relationship here more you guys is this a one-off
[00:45:09] like what's what's the plan oh you know I don't know I mean I think we just we played well together
[00:45:16] you were talking earlier about having a plan ahead of time and stuff and I think since we played
[00:45:20] together well in in Knoxville we didn't really have to talk too much about a game plan you know other
[00:45:26] than when he's up front he's got his man down and ready for a pass it gives me a target and when
[00:45:33] we switch same kind of thing um and so other than that it was just you know hey no just let's just
[00:45:41] kick some butt there you go yeah and our games are you know the offensive the three rods are
[00:45:47] totally different so like obviously Rob doesn't at least I've never seen you shoot a roller but
[00:45:53] yeah yeah yes I mean he's just got the hammer pull kick and the hammer pull um and I don't so
[00:46:02] just that switch up on a timeout like the speed is just totally different point of view at least
[00:46:08] he's like chase I mean he has zero patience immediately goes for the rolling pool dead bar
[00:46:15] and it's almost always there especially lower in the lower ranks I mean and so if you need
[00:46:21] a quick one that's what we switched and he got it there in the final and that just we were down
[00:46:27] so he asked about game count we won that game and that match in two games but
[00:46:32] the first game Rob I think you scored two us for three that we actually we kind of breeze
[00:46:36] through that and a little bit but this the second game was really rough we were down three one
[00:46:42] and I think we went through maybe like four or five shots of just getting I just couldn't do anything
[00:46:48] I couldn't catch paths I could score and then Rob switched hit one and then the floodgates have
[00:46:56] been I hit my next two we switched back I hit my next two off the drops oh passes and really
[00:47:00] Rob bearated for the last one like it's three one it was five three and like but then 45 seconds
[00:47:06] nice nice I watched that match before the before the podcast and uh that fourth ball well
[00:47:14] fifth ball I guess because yeah it was three one it lasted forever I'm like oh my god how when is
[00:47:19] this ball gonna go I could remember I'm pretty sure we could I couldn't remember how but just
[00:47:24] watching it was like holy cow is that ball lasted I don't know but it was a long time that and that
[00:47:31] turned the tide I'm always curious about uh in situations like that when you're when the ball
[00:47:35] is going on forever never never is that is that a strategic moment where you think about this
[00:47:40] good time to take a time out step away from the table oh for sure absolutely it's like it took me um
[00:47:48] I kept they had so Dylan and Hunter they got up three one um they scored their first goal
[00:47:56] switched on the drop and so um Hunter was that fraud under got the ball I don't know if he stole
[00:48:04] it or whatever but he got the ball in five called a timeout real quick scored did the same thing
[00:48:09] right again so it's three one and they were out of timeouts really Dylan was in the back
[00:48:14] and so Dylan was he was kind of stuck back there so I that really didn't want to call a timeout
[00:48:19] to get him the opportunity to switch so I probably probably probably took one to me shots
[00:48:26] certainly one or two more than I would have had Hunter been back there
[00:48:29] so to balance that out with yeah I didn't want to have an opportunity to switch back yeah
[00:48:34] and I think you know that that kind of hurt him at the end because we had some big points there
[00:48:41] that they couldn't switch with the momentum we had yeah yeah well they that look they choked
[00:48:49] they choked out one man there were three and one and and you know just like a basic game plan
[00:48:54] in Fuzball is get ahead stay ahead right like you you you you burn your timeouts early using your
[00:49:00] switches to get ahead you have to maximize your possessions to stay ahead so you know they
[00:49:06] they they they implemented their game plan but they didn't obviously capitalize and finish so
[00:49:16] but sometimes you know realizing in the moment like you said it's like I don't know if I want
[00:49:21] to call this timeout because I don't want them to switch it's it you know it's a double-edged sword
[00:49:27] I've been in the same position it's rough right but ultimately you know you guys made
[00:49:33] good switches good decisions and and the outcome you know if you play good the outcome is going to
[00:49:39] be what it is right I've told people before if my my goal is to just play consistent Fuzball and
[00:49:45] the results are gonna be what they are if somebody plays better than me I can't be mad if they beat
[00:49:49] me so obviously the better team won right so you know and and and the team dynamic like like Greg
[00:49:56] pointed out you know Rob shooting a pull shot Greg shooting a roll over that's I think sometimes
[00:50:03] players really underestimate that type of team dynamic right like you know like Chris on myself
[00:50:10] again I can only speak about myself I can't talk about other teams but you know our passing styles
[00:50:16] different our defensive styles different our shots are different I shoot a roll over he shoots a
[00:50:20] pull shot I told Chris before I'm like dude let's just play Roto let's play Roto and keep I'm not
[00:50:26] looking I'm all about stuff like that because it's like no the team they're never gonna get comfortable
[00:50:32] right how can they ever get comfortable and adjust to what we're doing so you know having
[00:50:36] that type of team dynamic is great for you know for two players like you completely different styles
[00:50:41] different shots the you know the approach is different so you know I think like I said the
[00:50:48] win is a really really big win I really hope you guys understand yeah how big of a win this is
[00:50:55] for you guys and if you guys just keep you know just keep pushing forward I mean you know this
[00:51:01] could be the start of something big you know what's what's the practice like obviously you guys play
[00:51:06] your locals and stuff but how much table time are you putting in during the week any couple hours
[00:51:11] a couple minutes what like what do you guys do Rob's do for a rocket ship lift rocket ship I've
[00:51:19] done even have a table Rob doesn't have a table I had a table I moved to Knoxville and so yeah that's
[00:51:26] that's definitely on the radar in the near futures to get a table so that yeah I can practice Greg
[00:51:32] and I were talking about this the other day it's just man just 10 15 minutes doing some passing
[00:51:37] mm-hmm yep that's what I give that's probably what I do I mean I'd probably do 15 minutes maybe
[00:51:44] here or there and I do if my wife's watching she's probably gonna come down here saying line but
[00:51:49] yeah it feels like 10 or 15 minutes maybe 20 every day I try to do it every day yeah
[00:51:56] um it's mainly five bar yeah five bar just keep it warm yeah yeah number five bar I had basically
[00:52:07] I lived on my brush up all we came along Dylan was the only one that really blocked it in both
[00:52:13] rookie and the amateur events he said the laymore and so I just had to get brushed down which was
[00:52:19] thankfully working as well now I added up my stats uh in that because I was curious I was one for
[00:52:27] nine 11% in my brush up who catching it four oh wow I was I was seven of eight brush down
[00:52:36] okay so I decided to go back I mean I had no answer for you but that was the same thing from
[00:52:41] the night before he left the brush down open he sent a lane the whole time so it's so again you got
[00:52:49] you gotta take it just take it yeah it's there take it take it take it now it's too stubborn I wanted
[00:52:55] the one that was gonna look good on camera oh yeah you know it looks good on camera that picture
[00:53:01] you guys holding that first place black there's good on camera right sometimes you got to win ugly man
[00:53:09] yeah oh I'm curious uh you know we're all kind of curious about this itsf event that's coming up
[00:53:17] in a Memorial Day weekend in Dallas Texas world series of tornado um Rob have you heard about
[00:53:25] this thing and uh are you tempted I have not and yeah it's you've peaked my interest yeah it's a it's
[00:53:33] kind of a late-comer to the to the the schedule but it's there and it's getting a lot of um I don't
[00:53:39] know a lot of people wondering what is going on uh and it turns out it's it's a it's a full European
[00:53:45] style series and they're they're bringing it here to our doorstep yeah yeah you go ready uh so
[00:53:57] um i'm i'm on the fence it's it's like it's like a p for peat type thing like it's it's 100% payback
[00:54:04] right so the more people they go the more the more they're gonna pay out which is pretty cool
[00:54:08] the the setup like it's Swiss format which is cool um it's not like a bunch of events which is
[00:54:15] cool like i see like a lot of benefit to it but i'm hearing a lot of like mixed reviews from players and
[00:54:24] but at the end of the day i mean it's fuzball and who can be mad when they're playing fuzball right so
[00:54:30] um look look i'm gonna i'm gonna divulge this information to you guys in secret and i hope you
[00:54:36] don't tell anybody else from you with this okay so so my wife my wife and i are celebrating our 10-year
[00:54:44] anniversary this year right so we're trying to figure out where we're gonna go thank you we're
[00:54:48] trying to figure out where we're gonna go for our 10-year like i wanted to go back to Hawaii but it's
[00:54:52] gonna be like 30 grand then i'm not dropping 30 grand on a trip so not not not right now uh yeah
[00:54:58] no it's crazy so i um what i'm trying to do again this is a secret don't tell anybody i'm trying to
[00:55:05] convince her that we can go to Gabelston and spend the week on the beach because we've never been
[00:55:10] in Texas we want to go down to the coast and stay on the Gulf some like like Memorial Day weekend
[00:55:14] you finish work she's a teacher fry that friday's her last day and she's off for the summer so i'm
[00:55:20] like how about we go to Gabelston for the week right and we'll stop in Dallas for a couple days
[00:55:25] i'll play fuzball and then we'll drive down to Gabelston and we'll just hang out on the beach for
[00:55:29] life ever six days and then we'll go everybody wins yeah it's a win-the-win right but i haven't
[00:55:34] i haven't told her about the fuzball part yet so
[00:55:40] so look i really i really do want to go
[00:55:43] can't help you man don't know how to be able to
[00:55:48] yeah i love the uh i love the format i've wanted to play in that style for
[00:55:54] yeah um for sure so i think it'd be
[00:55:59] that would be really neat just the qualification i mean
[00:56:01] you have the quality quality like i don't yeah i mean there's gonna be
[00:56:04] like i don't play in open and i don't play in pro generally because i've
[00:56:08] my um points have been so low that every time i do i know range can say it's for the experience
[00:56:16] and so does chase and so it's good for you it's good for you
[00:56:19] yeah you gotta take your lips like i always have that like playing game that i draw into one of the
[00:56:24] top like four to eight seeds are one eight seed so it's it i end up getting like i've played
[00:56:30] moonia's or somebody and i just get hooked and like well
[00:56:33] those at thirty five dollar donation so like i i like the idea of the open and the pros being
[00:56:41] qualification at least get five matches yeah exactly i played that all day get your money's worth
[00:56:45] for sure don't you know from a seeding standpoint people
[00:56:50] i think people can play in all about the points then that'd be a whole hour show as well but
[00:56:55] um i think the qualification in that style makes it a little bit more of what have you done
[00:57:01] for your lately with the players like with the seeding um because like you said rainylight you
[00:57:06] got people that are 50 60 that are masters and that open champions but maybe they haven't played
[00:57:11] routinely like five years but their points are they still got six thousand points or something
[00:57:15] so they come in and they're like a seven seed and then played in four years and so i feel like the
[00:57:21] that whole idea of like it gets you in the framework of this is probably where it should be the
[00:57:28] last two years there's people are going to come out of qualifications and meet the top seeds
[00:57:32] mm-hmm that have been playing well recently and anything that happened well
[00:57:38] yeah well generally you know if you don't know one of those tops yeah i guess not going to be
[00:57:43] me like i saw like rubs they don't really have a huge dog in that fight uh
[00:57:48] those guys that have had played five years but still stopped me so well i mean not necessarily look man
[00:57:54] again it's it's it's all about your mindset and your approach and the thing is like
[00:58:01] when you when you start to play those guys at that level
[00:58:06] you get better quicker right like i feel like if you look at a player base in general
[00:58:11] you're only as good as your weakest player so when you start to build a base and build it up and
[00:58:16] and build your players up but like you guys your your group has gotten really good really fast
[00:58:21] and i think that's because players like eddie and chase have been infused into your group so
[00:58:27] oh really you know so so the same thing goes for like your tournament mindset if you go out and you
[00:58:34] just play rookie in amateur you're gonna progress at a very slow rate as opposed to if you're going
[00:58:40] out and you're playing rookie amateur x4 pro open now you're like you're playing these top players
[00:58:45] and you feel like it's a donation but the thing is you play these guys and it's really has change
[00:58:50] from like the 90s and early 2000s where you would play these guys and then you ask them for advice
[00:58:55] and they just kind of brush you off now like these masters are so willing to divulge information
[00:59:00] and tell you about what you're doing and what you could do to get better and you could take that
[00:59:04] when walk away and go home and learn and practice and so like i said it's it's all about the approach
[00:59:10] but i feel like i agree with you as far as this tournament it goes right like the the layout
[00:59:19] i like this one format i do i like it the the the the elimination uh the the five rounds into
[00:59:26] the elimination single elimination i think it's great it's a lot of foods well to play it's all time
[00:59:31] know when you're gonna be done there's no sitting around um you know Dallas is great
[00:59:36] i hope we get a lot of international support i don't know if we're going to because i think it's
[00:59:40] between a couple of big European events right the way they did it i don't know if they they really
[00:59:47] you know i know there was a lot of thought that went into this and i think we're gonna have
[00:59:50] Donald and Steve Murray come on and kind of very soon talk a little bit more about it uh but
[00:59:56] we're staying in announced it like two months earlier yeah yeah you know yeah yeah what have been going
[01:00:03] i i hope it's i hope it's well-supported i think you're probably gonna see a lot of local
[01:00:07] like Dallas still has a pretty thick local scene so i i think you'll probably see a lot of local
[01:00:11] support and you'll probably see a good southern support right like Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi
[01:00:19] uh you know even on the other side it'd be nice to see like some Arizona guys there um Colorado
[01:00:23] obviously i don't know how far variety that is for them but i feel like it's still going to be well
[01:00:28] you know i i think it's gonna be a good tournament and i really do want to go i just i just have to uh
[01:00:35] i have to uh you know what i have to do so you gotta be nice
[01:00:42] i look i do all that i do all that i'm a good boy we gotta leave out on those
[01:00:48] oh i'm a good boy oh man oh believe me i look my my wife's real good about me going to play who's
[01:00:53] well she really is i appreciate it so no but it's like we're all looking uh man uh i wanted i
[01:01:00] wanted to hit six this year i i wanted to hit six and i'm good so yeah i heard Georgia states not
[01:01:06] gonna happen because they they couldn't find a hotel so um that's why i'm kind of hoping
[01:01:11] national season in Atlanta so uh that would be actually good i don't know i don't know fuzball you
[01:01:16] know we all love fuzball and anytime we get to play it's a good thing so i'm thankful but hey listen
[01:01:22] again you guys uh congratulations again on a big win yeah thank you thank you for coming on
[01:01:30] about a great time i really appreciate it it's uh i have a feeling that uh that one of these
[01:01:37] tourist stops that we're we're gonna be on the other side and say well they're
[01:01:40] they're side of the table from each other just take it easy on me okay yeah just saying
[01:01:45] don't take it easy you're not gonna get better if they take it easy on you too oh i know i know
[01:01:52] god man keep keep i keep hearing that in the back of my head Randy okay you're you're on on
[01:01:58] on loop um oh before we go you know i should probably mention that this weekend was the Arnold
[01:02:03] yet Columbus Ohio and Blake Robertson got to play with a special well a special partner in goal
[01:02:12] Arnold Schwarzenegger really yeah all that yeah isn't that cool at one yes
[01:02:19] and uh you know Arnold look like he was enjoying himself
[01:02:26] they're playing who they're playing in uh Dustin and uh oh it was his partner there were serious
[01:02:32] players on the other side of the table these guys have their jackets on i mean they're you know
[01:02:36] they're ready for for for a battle and yet uh i think somebody ever get yeah and uh Blake
[01:02:42] i think he he probably just said Arnold watch watch this hold my beer keep school uh
[01:02:48] Arnold keep school uh exactly yeah i watched Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a alien once all right i'm not
[01:02:55] messing with that guy so that's right look out look at well yeah so so uh rob and Greg i mean you guys
[01:03:04] have uh certainly uh made it made our night and it's been a lot of fun it's uh we're looking
[01:03:09] forward to getting to Knoxville and just hanging out sometime uh Thomas Dyke is now one of our
[01:03:15] newest members of the patreon pillars and so we're grateful to Thomas but we definitely got to
[01:03:20] make your scene and and uh one of these old days i keep threatening that i'll take this thing on
[01:03:24] the road and we'll go from from uh from club to club you know maybe take a year and RV in a
[01:03:31] year and go from club to club and and uh oh that would be that would be awesome right yeah do this
[01:03:37] thing long Thomas will Thomas will do it up right for you oh man it's uh you guys certainly do it
[01:03:42] right in the south there's no doubt about that that's right right so much i appreciate it yeah absolutely
[01:03:51] you're you're totally welcome and the door is always open guys looking forward to chatting with you
[01:03:54] again and uh this has been episode number 198 of uh who's talking about well we're working on it
[01:04:04] working on it it's um well we'll see what happens but uh next week i understand there may be a
[01:04:09] couple of guests that may be popping in that we i don't know may have heard of before we'll see
[01:04:15] could possibly Randy's not with us next week but uh so they kind of leaves the door open we'll
[01:04:20] see we'll see what happens uh who I don't know if anybody can fill your shoes though dude
[01:04:24] well i have to i have to do work so i can go play food as well so i got i gotta actually look i'll be
[01:04:30] i'll be in pitch of forage with my wife okay all right cool well guys have no food
[01:04:38] ball next weekend no no no we'll be playing a different type of game it won't be flusable anyway okay
[01:04:44] and with that but um but uh guys thanks again and our best to what the Knoxville scene in Tennessee
[01:04:53] and thanks guys uh foos talk live continues with the foos bowl or the foos talk live tournament
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