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6/29/99 New photos from Gordon from 1999 USTSA Tornado Hall of Fame Classic in Las Vegas.

From Distant Shores. . . Team Germany and Team Hawaii, all smiling with trophies: Team Germany's Adnan Zagarevic and Patrick Knirim took home trophies for 2nd in Rookie Doubles and 2nd SemiPro Doubles. Team Hawaii's trophies are: Frankie & Peter 1st SemiPro Doubles, Frankie 2nd SemiPro Singles, Gordon and Ross 1st Rookie Doubles. See below for other placing finishes. Back Row L to R: (Adnan or Patrick), Frankie Balecha, Peter Algoso. Front Row: (Adnan or Patrick), Gordon Furuto, Ross Nagaji. Adnan, Peter, and Frankie all took home tables as the best rookies in Open Doubles (P & F), and Open Singles (A).
Team Hawaii at Table 1. Ross Nagaji, Peter Algoso, Frankie Balecha, Clay Sato, DJ, Winston VanTreese, Gordon Furuto.
Marv Puha and his Northern California doubles partner Bruce Van Buskirk. Marv & Bruce took 5/6th in SemiPro Doubles. Marv just moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, and is a former pro. Bruce is a San Jose, CA area promoter. Two of the coolest and nicest guys in foos.
Team Germany's Patrick Knirim and Adnan Zagarevic. Trophies are for 2nd SemiPro Doubles and 2nd Rookie Doubles.

3/22/1999: Final results for top 50% placement in events for Team Hawaii. Total number of entrants is in parentheses. Some placements are ties among many teams because of the elimination format; these placements are listed as ties among many places, e.g. "5-6th" = a two-way tie for fifth place, and "65-81st" = seventeen-way tie for 65th.

Peter Algoso	Open Doubles (164) 49-64th w/Frankie Balecha Semi Pro Doubles (141) 1st w/Frankie Balecha Rookie Doubles (104) 17-24th w/Frankie Balecha Rookie Table Playoff Doubles (26) 1st w/Frankie Balecha
Frankie Balecha	Open Singles (317) 65-81st Open Doubles (164) 49-64th w/Peter Algoso Semi Pro Singles (264) 2nd Semi Pro Doubles (141) 1st w/Peter Algoso Rookie Table Playoff Doubles (26) 1st w/Peter Algoso Rookie Singles 1st Rookie Doubes 17-24th w/Peter Algoso
Gordon Furuto	Semi-Pro Singles (141)65-81tst Semi-Pro Doubles (141) 33-48th Semi-Pro Singles (264) 65-81st Semi-Pro Doubles (141) 33-48th w/Ross Nagaji Rookie Doubles (104)1st w/Ross Nagaji No Pro DYP (96) 33-48th w/A.J. Broussard
Ross Nagaji	Semi-Pro Singles (141) 65-81st Semi-Pro Doubles (141) 33-48th w/Gordon Furuto Rookie Singles (173) 17-24th Rookie Doubles (104) 1st w/ Gordon Furuto No Pro DYP (96) with Dusty Bambenek 33-48th
Marv Puha	Open Singles (317) 33-48th Open Doubles (164) 65-81st with Bill Maloney Semi Pro Doubles (141) 5-6th with Bruce Van Buskirk Semi Pro Table Playoff Singles (23) 9-12
Clay Sato	Rookie Singles (173) 49-64th Rookie Doubles (104) 33-48th with Robert So Forward Shoot Out (27) 9-16th
Winston Van Treese	Semi Pro Doubles (141) 5-6 w/ Dale Trynchuk Rookie Singles (173) 17-24th Rookie Doubles (104) 33-48th with John Fritch

If anyone has more pictures of the Hall of Fame Classic, lend them to me to scan & I'll put them up here. If you have any other stories to tell, I'll put them here too, like what did you think of Mainland foosball (rollovers, hacks, etc.), and what about those tables for Frankie and Peter, are they paying for the shipping too??? And Layne, let's get photographs from USTSA of the winners with their trophies to put up in ZAPP!

BTW Marv Puha, listed above, is formerly from here, and now resides Hilo, so I"ve listed his results. Maybe we'll see him once in a while on this island too... he's got that big open-hand pull-kick, among other shots (tic tac, saturday night razzle-dazzle), and is active in the SF/San Jose foosball scene.

3/19/99: Ross was running his rollover for most of the tournament and they came straight through the winners' bracket, and defeated the German team with the intimidating European-style front-pin shot, which Gordon scoped out telegraphing earlier in the tournament; Gordon & Ross won in two straight, 5-1, 5-3! These German players were good enough to take 2nd in Semi-Pro doubles, behind Frankie & Peter, and one player (Adnan Zagarevic) also took third in Rookie Singles, and I think they also played Frankie & Peter again for the table playoffs, so they were very good too.

Gordon Furuto (goalie) and Ross Nagaji (forward) on left. Adnan Zagarevic and Patrick Knirim on right.

3/18/99: I'm waiting for official results, but I heard through the grapevine about several Hawaii wins.
I heard first from Toki N. that Gordon Furuto & Ross Nagaji had won Rookie Doubles! I also found a photo of their finals matchup, and there they are on the left, Ross up front and Gordon on defense.