In Love and Foosball, Anything is Allowed

Friday 1/15/10 time 9:23 AM - Sjoerd @Moogo

Popular belief has it that people who work in the internet field, or the computer field in general, are not very good at sports. We are supposedly very bad at sports and worst of all, we don't like sports. This blog post will prove that, as very often, popular belief has it wrong!

For months we have been running an extensive and serious Foosball competition, one of the most underestimated and beautiful sports that this planet is rich. Every employee participated with his/her own team.

A famous person whose name I can't remember once said: "In love and foosball, anything is allowed." Never was this more true than during this competition. Friendships no longer meant anything. Ranks no longer meant anything. It was dog eat dog. Brother against brother. Sister against sister.

Today, there was The Final: Niklas (shown above here on the right) from Support  against Antti (left), our CEO. Five games. First one to win three would be the undisputed champion.  After two games Niklas was leading 2-0. Niklas could take the gold in the third provided he would stay focused. In the third game Antti was leading for a long time (an astonishing 35 seconds) but 30 seconds before the end Niklas got in the equalizer. And with only a few seconds left on the clock, he went in for the kill. 2-1. Poor Antti never stood a chance.

We salute you, Niklas, undisputed Champion of the Moogo Foosball League.
(Until next month's tournament, of course.)