Pinburgh tkes place concurrently with the ReplayFX convention (Thursday - Sunday). From the start of ReplayFX there are over 100 pinball machines and 100s of video arcade machines available for free play inside the show, just buy a ReplayFX show ticket.

Pinburgh starts on Thursday and finishes on Saturday. Once competition is finished on Friday and Saturday's final banks have been set up, the majority of machines that were reserved for Pinburgh are opened up for freeplay to the rest of ReplayFX attendees.

So if you are not planning on going for multiple days, Saturday and Sunday will have the most free play pinball machines available.

Pinburgh has an offline list with your name and IFPA ID. When you pick up your wristband/lanyard, they check your name off that list, it doesn't actually matter what your ticket generated by showclix says.

epthegeek I think the question is how far up from the day the waitlist was posted. There's also the consideration of whether player Waitlist 100 passed on his pinburgh ticket when he finally wouldve made if off the list.

I would imagine more game-duration testing has occurred over the past year... also there are likely many, many configurations where you get equal duration banks... not just the one configuration from last year.

Do not be shy about asking for a TD ruling, better safe than sorry. Bowen will probably warn us all at the beginning against playing another player's ball... but it's going to happen so try not to make it you.

Happened to me on Cleopatra last year. first time on the game, I'd only been in the hobby for 6 months, wasn't familiar with the era of gottlieb etc etc. Player 2 ball drains and she walks away from the machine. I walk up and there's a ball in the plunger lane. I'm a little confused by the lights on the playfield... and all the lights on the backglass look the same (no clear indication of which player is up)... but i know there are older games that kind of randomize what lights are lit (golden arrow, for instance) so I assume i'm good to go. Plunge the ball and points are being added to player 2. get a 0 on the game because of the malfunction of not advancing player. (though someone suggested that first era gottlieb SSs have a minute chance of ball save at random???)

Speaking of... Any updated details on the VIP area?

Deadpool, Knockout, Twilight Zone, Royal Flush (SS)

Carousel?

Or the pinburgh VIP lounge is on a giant lazy susan.

who's got juicy deets on the VIP lounge?

How are Divisions made in this scenario? Is it the top 200 players overall divided into groups of 40? Is it finishers 1-40, 200-240, 400-440, etc?

I don't really see the downside of being bumped down a division due to tiebreakers or restricted players. The WPPR difference (2018) between last place in A, and first place in B was .02, the difference between middle of A and bottom of A was 1.5. These aren't very significant differences. If you were middle of A versus middle of B it's a difference of less than 3 points, which is only a ~40 rank difference if you're sitting at rank 1000. The upside is you have a MUCH better chance of getting to play on Saturday in B than in A. As in all things pinball, it just comes down to: play better. If you got one more point on Thursday you don't have to worry about being bumped from your "rightful" division.

Right, that would be the correct usage, but that's not the current rules.

The top 10 A players are restricted to A, by merit of being top 100 in WPPR ranking.

If he had been bumped to A he would not have been assigned to your group. All bumping (due to restrictions and tie-breaks was done before groups were made)

Regarding VIP, there was no indication of a VIP check-in line on Thursday morning.. The check-in desk seemed to have individual lines for each volunteer checking people in, but then it actually looked like some lines fed to two volunteers, while other lines fed to one volunteer. It's much much more efficient to have one long line feeding to any volunteer who becomes available. Also feels better from an attendee perspective, imo, as you're not concerned that you accidentally joined the line with the slow volunteers/slow attendees.

Anyways, I waited in a line at random, got to the front and checked in, only to learn that to get my VIP bag I needed to speak to one specific person, in a different line. The VIP area was also not well marked.. it would be nice to have it more accessible than seemingly shoved into a remote corner. Would it be possible to make it accessible from outside the Pinburgh area as well?

Overall the show and tournament was fantastic!