What has now become TornadoFoosball.Com, Inc. really began thirty
years agoin 1976 when Charles Mackintosh first played foosball on a Tornado
table. "The increased precision, control, and overall enjoyment factor won me over immediately," he once said. After
four years in the USAF and while attending the University of Texas at San Antonio, Charles and his best friend and foosball
forward Chip Lambert, assembled student loans to start a Tornado foosball route with six tables in the hottest rock and roll
nite clubs in San Antonio in 1980. There were local tournaments each week. After moving back to his home state of North Carolina
in 1982, he started Tornado of North Carolina.
Since the early 1980’s, he has been involved with foosball on the national, state and local levels and has run
local, guaranteed, sanctioned tournaments since 1982. On Thanksgiving weekend, 2007 he ran his 25th annual NC State Championships.
This is the longest-running State Foosball Championship Tournament in the country. Charles is a professionally ranked player
and he and Russ King won the 3500 Limited in 1988 at the World Championships in Dallas, TX.
He also made the finals of Open Doubles that year with long-time partner Rick Macias. (They were double-dipped in the
finals.) He continues to play in a weekly local tournament and also a limited number of regional events.
Charles is literally the only person in the world who does nothing
but Tornado Foosball full time. There is no other occupation to distract him and this business has been built on the
excellent, focused customer service that only he can provide with his unique background and knowledge of the game. In
addition to sales, he is involved in limited promotional events and continues to operate a foosball route that runs from Eden
to Charlotte, NC.
