smart health connected table football challenges the Blues

Next March 22, a new challenge awaits the Blues of Didier Deschamps. Six of them will have to warm up their wrists for an unprecedented table football tournament, on a fully smart health connected machine, meeting only the rules of their supporters.

Who has never tried to change the rules during a table football game? Next March 22 at 12 p.m. Volkswagen, partner of the French Football Federation, will organize the first table football tournament smart health connected to Clairefontaine, within the training center of the French team.

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A totally new experience, since supporters will have control over the rules of the game, in real time, via social media. If the concept of a smart health connected table football has already been developed for a long time, with for example the Foosball society which proposed online arbitration, here the car manufacturer with DDB ° Paris and Unit 9 goes even further by creating a real removable playground, fully made available to Internet users via the FraFra.com platform.

Table football that responds to tweets

The fans will be able to reverse the roles and play with the nerves of the players of the French team, by acting directly on the structure of the ground and on the rules of play, in increasing for example the number of balls (up to three), playing on the size of each goal, Theterrain slope, removing certain players from the game, reversing control of the joysticks, and even directly influencing the score of each game.

To do this, Internet users will simply need to tweet the desired actions on the match from the site with the hashtag #FraFra. The most tweeted actions will then be directly observed on the current game.

Thirty seconds of rules imposed

Asked about Influencia.net, Alexis Benoit and Alexandre Lagoët from the agency DDB ° Paris explain the rules of the game more clearly than they imagined: “For 30 seconds, players will be subject to the rules imposed by Internet users and will be entitled to 10 seconds of time-out. And so on for seven minutes ".

A whole range of actions possible thanks to a unique foosball 2.0, with a 55-inch 4K screen and built-in cameras to film the players and review the slow motion, all smart health connected to a computer smart health connected to the internet. Everything has been studied to reproduce on the screen the exact movements observed on a standard table football, from the wrist to the legendary bowls, all in a European Cup atmosphere. What spice up the game a little more for players who had already been challenged on a baby giant two years ago.

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– Volkswagen France (@vw_france) March 16, 2023

“Inciting collective fervor”

And the experience will not stop at the Clairefontaine grids since throughout Euro 2023, the organizers have decided to share it with the general public on the Volkswagen “fan zone”, where the table football will be installed on match days, with a random play mode. Thierry Sybord, director of the Volkswagen France brand, explains the intention of the sponsor of the Blues by organizing this event in a press release relayed by sportbuzzbusiness.com : "3 months before Euro 2023, we want to support our team, encourage collective fervor and train France around the FFF slogan: Proud to be Blues".

A way to restore even more proximity between the players and supporters of a French team which should gradually build up pressure before their big debut on June 10, against Romania, this time on the real lawn of the Stade com France.

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