New York Tales: Table Fights

…lets fight some tables…

You couldn’t make up.

Before we departed for NYC one of those events that was already written in heavy ink in our diaries was the second annual Table Fights at Magnan Galleries.

Honest.

Even as we sat in Leipzig blithly assuming tables would be freely available in NYC, we were planning watching tables fight.

In many ways the inevitable consequence of too many childish “my table is better than yours” arguments between drunken first year design students, Table Fights has evolved from an underground, quasi-legal event into a global spectator sport.

Last years championships at ICFF was the first official recognition for the sport and in the 12 months since the international expansion has been phenomenal. Aside from the establishment of the trans-national “Balkan League” , national Table Fighting competitions are currently organised in lands as varied as Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the isolated Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.

And so it was therefore sad to see that once again only American tables had qualified for the ICFF Masters Tournament.

That said the competition was as fierce as we’d expected and the organisation equally perfect – OK a little more free beer would have kept the crowd a little more on edge a little longer, but hey that’s small stuff and we know you’ll get that sorted by next year.

And we’re looking forward to next year – our crack team of German precision engineers are already working on the blueprints in a secret Alpine bunker.

For those of you not yet familiar with the wonderful world of Table Fighting, you can get more information at the official website, or we have packaged our videos from the evening in the smow youtube channel.

A smaller taster can be found below.