I don’t know if you already knew, but I’m a passionate tabletop football (“Kicker”) player. Yesterday evening my mate Kai (see links: mates) went to our favourite pub Cafe Provinz (german description on Wikifun.de) . It’s an quite amazing pub with a lot of different people ages 16-40+.

A while back we met Hans there, he’s a member of a band called “Helle Hefe”, one of the best players in the Cafe and one of our biggest rivals when it comes to tabletop footie – but don’t get me wrong: we’re playing for fun and get along real well…but yesterday evening we had a real streak of bad luck…(we do a summary (overall standings) each time we play and we lost 1-9 ).

A little “Cafe” rule check

• Games are played 2 vs. 2 if not stated otherwise
• Games are played to 6, if a match is 5-5 the next goal decides (closest result 6-5)
• A challenge can be put forth at any time: the loser of the current match leaves and the challenger tries to beat the team already in play
• The new challenger pays if you run out of balls (3 games = 1 Euro, 1 game = 11balls)
• Trash talking is allowed, but be careful not to write cheques with your mouth that your arms can’t cash in ;-)
• Depending on the players involved a 0-6 game loss may result in the need to buy the other team a schnaps