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As we count down the days to the start of the next winter league you can enjoy some fun facts about the league.
Fun Fact #1 - This is the 18th OFA winter league.
Bonus Fact - The largest league was 44 players on 11 teams. Leauge fees were $10 and we sent 8 people to Vegas for the International Championships.
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Given the current 14 teams of 3 players each that record could be starting to crack
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yes, and there is one more potential team ready to join.
Making this all logistically a nightmare (tier structure, weekly match ups, rotations....)
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forgot about the 5-bar wars. Good call.
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Fun Fact #2 - The league used to be less popular than the DYPs. On Friday nights we could get over 30+ guys coming out for trash talk, king of the table and DYP fun.
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Bonus Fact: OFA (RFL- Regent Foosball League) held the first ever VIFA charter. We were charter #0001.
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Bonus Fact - The largest league was 44 players on 11 teams. Leauge fees were $10 and we sent 8 people to Vegas for the International Championships.
How did you managed to send 8 players with a league fee budget of $440? Or am I missing something?
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$10/week * 16 weeks
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OFA was a traveling league where teams would play at a variety of bars around the city. We had 5 different locations.
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sounds complexicationed.
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Fun fact:
The first Vifa league in Ottawa was in 1997 won by Merv Buske, Manny Arruda and John Babin. Manny won the mvp. The team won a trip to the U.S. nationals in Oshkosh Wisconsin to compete in the first Vifa championships. Tyler Paradis served as the reserve player when John could not attend the event.
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That trio won the final play-offs. Me, Adriano and his cousin had won the regular season (oh quasi-glory days, where have you gone?)
Eric Dunn was running everything initially, then Manny took over the League for a while. I believe the rest of the sequence was Chris then Frank then Chris, but I could be missing one.
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16-Oct-2011, 07:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 16-Oct-2011, 08:18 PM by 5000 Years Old Man.)
well it was the play-offs/league ending tournament that counted, so you won it
winning the league was a bit of a consolation prize: team shirts and maybe a "bye" -- we got 1997 and 1998 league winner shirts -- then the real "bye-bye's" were later on when we would regularly lose at the final tournaments
in the Fall of 1996 there was a league that run only a few weeks, maybe 8. We won that one too, it was smaller but no final tournament: the winners got the money prizes
(this is a little-known fun fact)
For 1999 Frank's team won the "regular" league, we ended up 2nd -- so it was their turn to then lose at the final tournament
but I'm sure they treasured the shirts
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