Topic: What do think of Time Limit Foosball?

[Daniel]

This is where the winner is the player that scores the most in a set time not first to 5 points.

Here is a link to a discussion on this.
http://www.foosball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2699.0

[foozkillah]

This is where the winner is the player that scores the most in a set time not first to 5 points.
Here is a link to a discussion on this.
http://www.foosball.com/forum/index.php?topic=2699.0

Time expiring tournament foosball is the MOST IDIOTIC HARE-BRAINED MORONIC SACRILEGIOUS SELF-DEFEATING RETARDED way to speed up games, even for TV or media broadcast.  But otherwise normal and standard for Tornado, of course.

Think of the reigning king of the PBA's TV series, Wes Mallott being down a pin after 7 frames, but time runs out.  HE LOSES?

Think of pool legend Buddy "the Rifleman" Hall playing in a race-to-eleven for the 8ball IPT or BCA Pro championships, having one more stripe or solid in the 21st game of a race-to-eleven, but time runs out.  HE LOSES?

Think of Nadal, Federer or Djokovich, down 4-5 in the 5th set at a GrandSlam event, but with everyone on serve and no one broken, but time runs out. HE LOSES? WTF?

Think of baseball being called in the 7th inning in the 7th game of the world series, with no rain delay or technical difficulties.  OMG.

Think of most other indoor sports or games, (foosball being one of them, duhhhhhh....) all with traditional points-to OR turns/inningsl like volleyball or table-tennis or badminton or even diving, for chrissake!  Stop these games at time-expiration even though all adversaries can continue (this is for those morons who argue about a knockout or TKO or injury loss in boxing, or a rain delay or technical breakdown like in tennis or golf - where they cannot continue) and you develop players who will rely more on conservative "keepaway" strategies once they get a lead.  Less on skill and ability...
Think of the legendary Hank Iba and his teams that won 10-8 or 10-6 after getting a 10-4 or 10-2 lead in the first quarter of basketball games decades ago, and playing keepaway the rest of the game.  Compare this with today's modern NBA and its 24 second clock.  Which develops the better, more athletic, more skilled and more refined players?

Keepaway being allowed in modern ITSF foosball is the European leagues' best way of equalizing the money-games hardened skill and talent of North American Foosball, bringing finals down to the level of electronic bubble ice hockey and electronic air hockey in their junior high or middle school gymansiums.  They didn't suggest or try out a 7 second clock on the 5bar or a 10-12 second clock on the others.... they wanted time-play.  Keepaway is the same skill exhibited in the worst most boring field soccer matches after a team gets up 1-0 or 2-1 after 10 minutes and just starts kicking the ball, whenever threatened, away to the sidelines the rest of the 80 minutes.  STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.