EUROPE – Ah, fall — the season when couch potatoes everywhere glue themselves to comfy chairs, turn on their TVs…and exist on chips, cardboard pizza and beer until their favorite sports teams leave the field in February.

Get off your butts, webmasters! The toned and ready crew at internet payment service provider Epoch is eager to beat the skimpy shorts off everyone else during futbol matches scheduled to take place at Webmaster Access and The European Summit. Honor, bragging rights and industry pride are at stake.

So are bruises, exhaustion and everlasting embarrassment. The folks at Epoch take their futbol seriously.

The rest of the world will have two opportunities to knock Epoch’s team from its pedestal: Sept. 19 from 5-7 p.m. in Amsterdam and Sept. 22 from 4-6 p.m. in Prague. No registration is required for either event, and Epoch will provide enemy combatants with everything except skimpy shorts and shoes.

It’s the least they can do before pounding the opposing team into the pitch.

The Amsterdam and Prague matches are the second and third such events organized by Epoch this year. The first took place during Qwebec Expo in August. Harmik G., Epoch’s head of sales and chief futbol engineer, declined to gloat (mostly), but did say that based on the popularity of the Montreal match, Epoch’s Soccer Madness may become an annual series.

“With Epoch, everyone wins,” he said. “With these matches, someone will lose.”

The competition is all in the spirit of fun, he added, noting that the fans had as much fun in Montreal as the players themselves — though the fans didn’t sweat anywhere near as much.

Harmik also said Soccer Madness — inexplicably named using the American term for a sport called futbol or football everywhere else — is one way for Epoch to say “thank you” for the industry’s support. Epoch’s ever-increasing number of local and regional payment solutions using the world’s most accepted payment brands attracts new webmaster clients daily…and the payment processor’s roster was significant to begin with.

Serving the adult online industry since 1996, Epoch is known for offering “the most streamlined international billing solutions available,” Harmik said.

More information about the company and its services is on its website, Epoch.com.