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Impressive! Are there always three players in the goalie position? I seem to remember playing with one goalie (1-2-5-3 players), but that’s a while ago.
I've never seen a table with 3 players in the goalie position in my life.
Impressive! Are there always three players in the goalie position? I seem to remember playing with one goalie (1-2-5-3 players), but that’s a while ago.
Thanks for all the answers. Perhaps it’s a US/Europe thing. At least the official table of the International Table Soccer Federation only has one goalie, and raised corners. https://www.tablesoccer.org/tables/leonhart.php Now I need to quickly climb out of this rabbit hole before I start to dig into the 41 page rule book. https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/Standard_Matchpl...
This is extremely cool! I think the next step is to put both sides of the table under robotic control and have an online competition for the best foosball-playing AI. I would tune in every week to see different AIs duke it out.
+1 - Yes please
Impressive! Are there always three players in the goalie position? I seem to remember playing with one goalie (1-2-5-3 players), but that’s a while ago.
The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.
From what I've seen during my travels, there are lot of variations for foosball tables. Each countries seem to have their own variations.
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Thanks for all the answers. Perhaps it’s a US/Europe thing. At least the official table of the International Table Soccer Federation only has one goalie, and raised corners. https://www.tablesoccer.org/tables/leonhart.php Now I need to quickly climb out of this rabbit hole before I start to dig into the 41 page rule book. https://www.tablesoccer.org/rules/documents/Standard_Matchpl...
Surprised any federation would have anything other than a Bonzini table, honestly it's barely even a game IMHO unless you play it on one of those.
I'm kind of curious if you could track the ball with two wide angle cameras embedded in each axis of the table. I guess the players could obscure the ball doing that. Although I guess the players are raised a bit from the table, so might work?
I did wonder also if some kind of RF tracking could be used by embedding an RFID tag or similar in the ball.