A World Cup is every 2, er, 3 years.

After 2019, the next World Cup will now take place with a one-year delay. In 2017, the World Cup was in Hamburg. And those who have experienced the spectacle at Kampnagel at Easter 17 or elsewhere know that the world championship in table soccer is THE top sporting event. The international federation ITSF seems to reach a next level: Alone 250 sport devices of the 5 official table models are built up and the tournament management is pleased now already, if the single disciplines with up to 150 participants ran well over the stage and the sporty dramaturgy culminates with the team competitions at the weekend.

Experience from home

Anyone interested in the World Championships can, of course, find out more via the event website or the ITSF Instagram channel. But most of all, those at home are longing for live pictures and this is where the DTFBtv team comes in: "Our streaming team is traveling to Nantes with 11 people to be able to present the highlights of the World Cup to many foosball enthusiasts. It will be great fun and at the same time a big challenge for us," says Julian Wortmann, who with his team took live streaming to the next level in foosball with the platform Twitch back in the Corona days.

DTFBtv takes off

One and a half years ago the journey started on Twitch, before that table soccer events were streamed mostly on Youtube or own platforms. Above all, the user interactions provide all participants with a new, valuable entertainment value: At the women's final of the German Championship in Münster in April, 10700 people actively watched the match simultaneously. Particularly pleasing was the fact that the chat was buzzing with questions from beginners about skills, playing mode and top players, as well as technical banter. For the World Cup, the DTFBtv cooperated with the production company Ecom Events: Around 20 people from the Czech Republic, USA, France, Germany then tackle together. Commentated in German, English and French, all disciplines and all tournament days will be broadcast from approx. 18-23 hrs. for free. KOMM KICKERN can only say: Join in!

And: We keep our fingers crossed

And we also hope that we will see Maura from the KOMM KICKERN team on July 1 at the public viewing in the exhibition halls on the SKC or in the Kixx - and we are already keeping our fingers crossed for her. Together with Linh from Hamburg, they are part of the women's national team. And after they had to admit defeat to Team USA in the final in Spain in 2019, both clearly have one goal this year: gold.

So from 6/28 to 7/3, watch the World Cup. Click here to go to the DTFBtv Twitch channel. Just follow and don't miss anything..