****** UPDATE (2/11/2013) ******
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* - Game List
* - Optional Pre-registration
* - T-Shirts
* - 1 hr early Friday admission for Pre-registered players
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* LINK TO UPDATE POST:
* http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/10th-annual-fairfax-pinball-open-virginia#post-659004
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10th annual FAIRFAX PINBALL OPEN
Fri-Sat, Feb 22-23, 2013
Fairfax, VA - Best Western
http://www.virginiapinball.com/
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The 10th year of the Fairfax Pinball Open will be moving into a new space - the BEST WESTERN FAIRFAX !! With the loss of John's Place and the scramble to find a new home for FPO10, the details are still being worked out.

However, this is what is being worked on for now:

- $10 daily entry fee, machines on Free Play
- Tournament entries cost extra ($5, $10)
- Upwards of 30 pinball machines
- Some games reserved for tourney, some games available to all
- New Stern Games: Avengers LE & PRO, AC/DC
- Full game list and detailed schedule is Coming Soon
- Earn WPPR points to improve your world ranking

FRIDAY, FEB 22:
- Freeplay pinball on non-tourney games
- Qualifying for Main Tourney starts in afternoon
- Main Tourney entries cost $10 (A div) or $5 (B div) each
- Qualifying for Classics Tourney ($5 entries) starts in afternoon
- Last entry to qualify for Classics is 7pm
- Classics Bracket at 8pm: Top 24 qualifiers with significant seeding advantage to the top 8.
- Play pinball all night into Saturday (overnight qualifying is limited)

SATURDAY, FEB 23:
- Freeplay pinball on non-tourney games
- More qualifying for Main Tourney
- Main Tourney entries cost $10 (A div) or $5 (B div) each
- Finals for Main Tourney to start at 5pm
- Format will be similar to previous years, i.e. similar to the Pittsburgh Pinball Open.
- Games will start leaving as he get deeper into the brackets.
- Close at 10pm ??

We have recently launched a new web site at http://www.virginiapinball.org, and information will be posted there and on our facebook events page.

Tilt Amusements is our Ball Sponsor, providing shiny new balls for all games at the 10th Annual Fairfax Pinball Open. DID YOU KNOW?: Tilt Amusements was the #1 Stern Pinball distributor in the USA and the World in 2011 and 2012!
www.TiltAmusements.com

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_{Post edited by The_Dude_Abides : Please do not use all caps in thread headers.}

Facility will be open to play pinball ALL NIGHT Fri into Saturday morning and continue with Saturday's activities. Sales of qualification entries will cease Friday at midnight, but can be scored overnight as we will have scorekeeper(s) on site throughout the night. Sales of qualification entries to resume Saturday at some point.

It's a no brainer then.

a good group of pinheads

The 804 in the house...

They are targeting a 2pm start on Friday.

- $10 to get in the door each day, whether you are a tourney player or non-tourney player.

- Non-tourney players can then play as many non-tourney games they want on freeplay (except Avengers which will require coin drop).

=== CLASSICS TOURNAMENT ===

- Similar to Main Tourney, but smaller, quicker and more informal. I recommend doing this even if you never have done a tournament.

- All games limited to pre-DMD games (or some similar vintage-based restriction)

- Friday only. One division only. All qualification entries are $5.

- Classics players will need to buy and play at least one qualification entry ($5) which is an aggregation of the 4 scores on 4 games you choose from among those in the tourney bank of games. No coin drop needed for any tourney games.

- You can attempt to improve on your submitted entry by buying more entries.

- As the day goes on, your submitted entry may get weaker as more players accomplish better scores than you for the games played on your entry.

- Last entry sold at 7p Friday with bracket play starting by 8pm Friday, seeded according to collected entries.

=== MAIN TOURNAMENT ===

- Main Tourney players will need to buy and play at least one qualification entry ($5 for B div., $10 for A div.) which is an aggregation of the 4 scores on 4 games you choose from among those in the tourney bank of games. No coin drop needed for any tourney games.

- Main Tourney players can choose to buy another entry (for any 4 games) in hopes of improving their position.

- As the day goes on, your submitted entry may get weaker as more players accomplish better scores than you for the games played on your entry.

- You can submit an entry/entries on either Fri or Sat or both. If you skip Friday, you can do an entry/entries on Sat (before 5pm).

- Sometime before 5pm Saturday (like 4pm ??), the sale of entries ceases and an A division bracket and B division bracket is constructed with seeding based on the ranking of collected entries. The 2 brackets are then played through to determine the winners.

I haven't made it out to Mighty Mike's myself, but looks like we've got 28 players:
http://fspa.league.tater.org/meetStats.php?section=all&latest=true&leagueId=10

A bit of a logistics challenge as there are only 5 machines, but we are glad to be running a VA league. Stern was nice enough to tweet out this article you may have seen covering the new league:
https://twitter.com/sternpinballinc/status/299558455449096192

Dan, hope you can make it out to FPO or to Mighty Mike's as a guest or for a season.

jeffC

You have inside info ? I have yet to see the design.

UPDATE (2/11/2013):

- Game List
- Optional Pre-registration
- T-Shirts
- 1 hr early Friday admission for Pre-registered players

No payment is being requested until you get there. $40 cash only for the preregistration package, and no penalty if you can’t make it there. We want to get an idea who is coming and get your T-Shirt size. We are offering one hour early admission for Pre-Registered Players.

The $40 covers: 2 days admission ($10 each), T-shirt ($20), 1 mini-tourney entry & 1 hr early admission on Friday

PRE-REGISTER Here:
http://www.mcglonelaw.com/library/pre-registration-for-10th-annual-fairfax-pinball-open.cfm

This GAME LIST is subject to change and other games may be added. We do expect to have 30 working games:

MANUFACTURER	YEAR	GAME
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Gottlieb	1970	Snow Queen
Williams	1975	Satin Doll
Bally		1976	Cap't Fantastic
Bally		1976	Flip Flop ???

Gottlieb	1978	Joker Poker
Bally		1979	Harlem Globetrotters
Bally		1979	Paragon
Bally		1980	Skateball
Bally		1981	Eight Ball Deluxe
Bally		1981	Fathom
Bally		1981	Flash Gordon
Stern		1981	Lightning
Bally		1982	Baby PacMan
Williams	1982	Cosmic Gunfight
Bally		1984	Black Pyramid
Bally		1985	Beat the Clock
Williams	1987	F-14 Tomcat
Bally		1989	Mousin Around
Williams	1990	Rollergames

Bally		1992	Addams Family
Williams	1992	White Water
Williams	1994	Demo-Man
Bally		1994	World Cup Soccer
Williams	1998	Monster Bash
Stern		2003	Lord of the Rings
Stern		2008	Shrek
Stern		2011	Rolling Stones
Stern		2012	AC/DC *
Stern		2013	Avengers LE (TOPS tourney) *
Stern		2013	Avengers Pro *

* New Sterns are courtesy of TILT Amusements, providing shiny new balls for all games at the 10th Annual Fairfax Pinball Open. DID YOU KNOW?: Tilt Amusements was the #1 Stern Pinball distributor in the USA and the World in 2011 and 2012!
http://www.TiltAmusements.com

Not Classics. They typically run a side tourney or 2. Split-flipper 2-person game. Or one-handed game - something like that.

Bump for FPO10 this weekend.

Supposed to start Fri 2pm. It doesn't close at all Friday night - it runs all night Friday overnight into Saturday. Saturday's end time is a bit loose. At some point Sat evening the non-tourney games will start to be moved out. The tourney games will stay until the tourney ends which is targeted for around 10p.

Congrats to Trent Augenstein for winning Friday's Classics Tourney.

Thanks to jshprentz for the photo

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1 minute video from Friday:

Results are below. Hope people enjoyed it - especially newbies. Even if you don't think you are that great, you still have the possibility for great games. And it is fun to compete even if you end up doing poorly (as I did in Classics).

FPO 2013 A DIVISION WINNERS
1st Trent Augenstein
2nd Frank Romero
3rd Dave Hubbard
4th Mark Steinman
(top qualifier was Mark Steinman)

FPO 2013 B DIVISION WINNERS
Shawn Hillman, 1st
Jeff Brocketti, 2nd
Jason Salce, 3rd
James Daley, 4th
(top qualifier was Taylor Reese)

FPO 2013 CLASSICS WINNERS
1st Trent Augenstein
2nd David Horner
3rd Joe Said
4th Pete Hendricks
(top qualifier was Trent Augenstein)

_{Post edited by jeffc : typo fix: Salce, not Salle}

Once a year. We used to also do a Fall tourney, but with the closing of John's Place I'm not sure that will happen in 2013. Next FPO would be Feb 2014, but dates are not set.

PM me your email address and I will add you to the announcement list.