Question 1 - What Foosball is Better...

I am contacting you because you are an expert at foosball according to foosball.com. I just bought a "brown top" $1,000,000 Tournament Table.  What is the best type of foosball for this table? I am a novice.  I've seen reddish balls, white balls, soccer (black and white) balls, and even orange balls for sale. Is a "machine ground" ball better than the others?  There's a lot of great information on your site. I can't wait to learn more. (Shelti ball)
Thanks for the advice.
Tom Z.

2.  i have a sportcraft table with single goalie would ibe able to use tornado brand balls on my table my email is destro921@xxx.xxx some insight would be appreciated. (sure)
destro921.

Answer

-I encourage you to get either Shelti balls or Tornado red balls.
-Tumbled balls are better.  Many of the non-competition balls are not even or warble, that sucks to play with.  On the other hand they are kind of funny to watch them roll across the table!
-All balls will get dirty after a couple weeks or so, then they will be slick, what you do is buy 6 new balls every two months.  That's about $20 every 2 months. Then you use the balls in a mixed basis, some new balls and some old balls.  This way you will have experience on new and older balls.
Hope this helps,

-stacey, foosball.com staff and certified official