Topic: Results from the Arnold Classic Foosball Championships.

[jerrydiday]

(cut and pasted from the https://www.facebook.com/ohiofoosballpromotions/ website.)

Results for the inaugural 2019 Arnold Sports Festival Foosball Championships. We paid out over $3000 in cash prizes at this event, 100% payback on all events! There was close to 100 registered players at The Arnold.

Open Doubles: 1st. Michael Stahl Jr. & Gary Chirhart $450 2nd. Bill Haydon & Mark Vennitti $250 3rd. Steve Beine & Brian Tankersley $140 4th. Derek Brown & Dusty Bambenek

Open Singles: 1st. Mason Graham $210 2nd. Gary Chirhart $110 3rd. Michael Stahl Jr. $60 4th. Fouad Srour $40

Amateur Doubles: 1st. Bill Parsley & Ken Osman $350 2nd. Bill Saxton & Donna Carroll $180 3rd. Dan Bennett & Joe Garbuglio $120 Timothy Gechter & Tom Discenzo $80.

Amateur Singles: 1st. Dale Jaeger $200 2nd. Tim Litteral $100 3rd. Chris Gray $70 4th. Ricardo Mejia $40.

Goalie War: 1st. Kenneth Dale $90 2nd. Dale Jaeger $50 3rd. Mark Vennitti $30 4th. Ben Winnell $10

Friday DYP: 1st. Mark Vennitti & Bobby Esdale $180 2nd. Kenneth Dale & Rodney Schwartz $90 3rd. Pat Myers & Ken Osman $60 4th. Jim Brownfield & Terry Fightmaster. $30

The 2019 Arnold Sports Festival Foosball Championships was a huge success! Where typically a tournament is held in a hotel, with a couple hundred players or more, and there's never much coverage from local media, this event had over 200,000 attendees over a three day period in the Columbus Convention Center. Professional foosball exposed to thousands and thousands of people. TV, newspaper and social media coverage of this event was off the charts. And to top it off, the host, Arnold Swarzenegger made his appearance in the foosball tournament room! I would expect the 2020 Arnold Foosball Championships will be even larger. Big thanks to everyone that helped contribute to it's success, especially Captain Timothy Litteral for his pursuit of this vision! Results and more photos will follow.

[jerrydiday]

If you plan on attending next year, be sure to figure out parking in advance. The Convention Center itself does not have much parking. There was a park and ride shuttle available to people from the state fair grounds. The Cota Bus (the Columbus public transit system) is a very reliable system that even has a free circulator bus in the downtown area. There are park and ride places through out Columbus.

Also make sure you only buy your event pass from the Foosball Championship location. If you buy your pass from the Foosball Championship location it only costs 15$ for all three days included. If you buy a regular Arnold pass it will cost you 25$ for one day. The event was great fun and great for foosers in the area, who now have a major foosball event they can attend every year.