This week, we had two exciting foosball tournaments lined up: one for Zoology and one for Neuroscience students.
On Monday evening, we brought together Zoology students (both undergrads and postgrads) for a thrilling competition, getting to know each other and Zoology staff in a friendly and relaxed environment during the Zoology Postgrad Welcome and Orientation 2024. We first had a short introduction from Mark (the Head of the Zoology department) and pizza and drinks. After Paul explained the most important rules of foosball, the foosball tournament started. We had 19 Zoology students and staff playing on five Leonhart foosball tables. There were fierce battles for the top rankings during the tournament. The tournament style was MonsterDYP, which means that the number of games was not predefined (it can go endlessly and become ‘big as a monster‘) and for each round the partners and opponents were randomly selected (Draw Your Partner) by the tournament software Kickertool.
After 37 games, we congratulate Juliet who was highest ranking student of the tournament and won the book ‘A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of New Zealand’ from Oscar Thomas. Well done!
Then, a day later, we had students from the Neuroscience programme competing against each other. The Neuroscience students had the chance to get to know their peers and some of the Neuroscience lecturers. After an introduction into the neuroscience programme, we had pizza and Paul explained the rules of foosball. Then the Neuroscience foosball tournament started. We had 23 students and staff joining the MonsterDYP tournament. After 36 games, it was Alex who was ranking at the top of the table by winning all his games(!) and as a present he got the book ‘Your brain, explained’. Congratulations!
It seemed that all the students had at least as much fun as we had. We welcome all students and staff that got hooked with foosball to join our weekly foosball practice in the foyer of the Unipol (5 – 8pm).
And stay tuned – we have more tournaments lined up!