A Teqball match in the spring of 2025. Photo provided.
After a successful inaugural season in 2025, the Northwood Teqball tournament is back for a second year, this time, bigger and better. Teqball is a rapidly growing sport combining soccer and table tennis, played on a specially curved table (TEQ™ table).
The sole, but significant, change from last year’s tournament is that it will now truly be a schoolwide event. In 2025, the bracket was comprised only of soccer players; fast forward to this year, and the event is open to everyone. This was something that current commissioners Hamish Riddell ’26 and Ashton Khory ’26 felt was important: “For me and Fry (Ashton), making the event open to anyone was the biggest thing we wanted to improve on when we took over the operation from Ryan [Farr ‘25],” said Riddell.
Not only will Hamish and Ashton oversee the competition’s operations, but they will also play in them. Ashton had a very blunt answer when I asked him what he’s looking forward to changing as league commissioner: “To change my finalist run to champ.” It seems that he is just as excited to play as to organize the event.
There is no official start date yet, but the word is that it will begin sometime this week. I was told that the NBL’s scheduling complicates things, as players are participating in both tournaments, and spectators will likely decrease in both events due to the conflicting times. So, nothing confirmed yet, but it will have to happen at some point, sooner rather than later. My hunch is that we will get an announcement sometime this week as to when the first round will take place.
