They plan to share it with the family next door, which is buying a table-tennis table, and another neighbor, who's getting an air hockey table.
Mr. Campbell is the "Sidney Crosby of table hockey, " a reference to the young Pittsburgh Penguins star, according to longtime player and table hockey legend Sid Kloosterman.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
The South Asian nation of 1.2 billion is fielding 84 athletes in 13 sports including hockey, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, shooting and badminton, as well as 58 officials.
Across from him, 35-year-old, No. 1 ranked table hockey champ Mark Sokolski hunched over his own players.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
Mr. Kloosterman has won a number of tournaments throughout Canada and makes his own table hockey sets.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
Young players are looking for "real-life camaraderie, " said Mr. Sokolski, a grade-school teacher from Petawawa, Ontario, and the president of the Ontario Table Hockey Association.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
But recently, table hockey's veteran ranks have been recruiting younger players, and many of the new breed are now facing off in the sport's growing tournament circuit.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
At stake was a slot in the elite eight of this year's Canadian Table Hockey Championships, the best-attended North American tournament that the game has seen in decades.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
Across the U.S. and Canada, a resurgence of table hockey is under way, drawing younger players and women to a sport that has long been the domain of older men in their basements reliving a game that hasn't been popular since they were kids.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
Bars like the Monarch Tavern in Toronto are having table-hockey nights, where the mini-pucks fly.
WSJ: Table Hockey, on Ice Since Heyday in 1970s, Makes a Comeback
And the 13 channels in Asia show sports like table tennis and men's field hockey.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.
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