• When you're ten-pinning tonight at Bowling 2.0, remember: guns aren't allowed in league play, no matter how many times that fucker from Skype shouts over his staticky VoIP phone. [Upcoming]

Forget foosball and bowling — The Tennis Channel ping-pong team upped the ante for geek not-really-sports competitions when, still high from a victory over Activision, it swept a twelve-game match against Googlers in Santa Monica. The very serious press release follows.

The first night of Vinnie Lauria's Silicon Valley bowling league went off without a hitch, according to the clip below. Unfortunate, I know. It's all Vinnie (one of the boys at social startup Meetro) talking about the friendly competition and inevitable VCs who want to hang with the dot-commers.

Foosball games in the dot-com-heavy South Park neighborhood don't mean there's a bubble — it'll be a bubble when a San Francisco startup has room for ping-pong tourneys. But it still felt like 1993 (for those of us who weren't still in grade school) at the offices of Jumpcut.com today. A team from the online-video-editing startup battled the guys from Valleyschwag (the schwag-magazine division of web-dev company Rubyred Labs, which lives across the street). It was a foosball tournament for the ages — or at least for the weekend.

Tournament dodgeball too much for you? Get your pansy ass down to Startuplay, "a club for startups" organizing foosball, ping pong, and pool games.