The lobby area is huge and has a bunch of tables and chairs where people can hang out and talk. There is also a pretty large cafeteria separated mostly from the main room with tons of tables and chairs and a lower volume atmosphere. The main room is fairly loud, it's one gigantic room with 400-500 pinball and arcade games, packed full of people, announcements, etc. The Nitro booth is a great place to meet and greet and show the game, but year, for serious rules and strategy talk, grabbing a table with a group of people in the lobby or cafeteria area would be the way to go!

JP has been running and ad on CL advertising cheap playfield glass in a number of sizes. I'm sure he can hook you up, but I'd message him first to let him know what size you need so he brings it.

Wednesday May 15th is the last day to volunteer your games online if you want the show to pick them up from your house, deliver them to the venue, and bring them back after the show. And we do need more games!

Incentives for games we transport:
3 Machines (minimum) = 1 weekend pass + five $1 raffle tickets
4-7 Machines = 2 weekend passes + ten $1 raffle tickets
8-12 Machines = 4 weekend passes, a show t-shirt + ten $1 raffle tickets
13+ Machines = Let us know what you'd like, we can cater something to you (which will include a $50 gift certificate to any show vendor!)

Volunteer your games today at: https://volunteer.nwpinballshow.com/

Nailed it!

Yeah, it's gonna happen, we will have:

Black Knight
Black Knight 2000
Black Knight: Sword of Rage

The legacy of the Black Knight from it's start to newest pin!

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The day before the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show game deadline to submit games for show pickup is always super stressful, trying to get enough local collectors to volunteer their games to make the show happen. I'm always in a panic if we can pull it off again this year... about now a few people start listing big collections and a bunch of people add games and start making it happen. Fingers crossed, make it happen y'all!

The list is live, they appear immediately, I'm guessing without a real title though it might not appear. There is no automated response after submitting games, people add, subtract, change, add more, so it seemed an automated response would be unwanted.

When you log into the volunteer site, you should see "Your Volunteered Games" with the titles listed below. But maybe if you didn't submit actual titles, it didn't happen. You might find it works better to submit 3 actual game titles, even if you change them out in the 2 weeks before the show.

This sounds amazing! If you want to share anymore info before the show, please PM me and I can hype it. --Dan

I you want inside scoop on throwing a bigger event or to grab a beer, feel free to hit me up!

Thanks for the heads up on the map, I'll get that updated tomorrow, along with the seminar schedule. Hung out with Kayla and Graham of the Skill Shot pinball podcast and recorded episode #70 today, mostly about the show. Hyped Rob's seminar along with lots of other other stuff about the show, it should out next weekend! I had a good weekend working on my games and prepping for the show, just a few small problems left. Hope everyone's game prep is going well!

The NWPAS Satellite: Nitro Battle Royale took place yesterday afternoon and evening at the NITRO PINBALL Beercade at Another Castle Video Games, only to encounter a major issue in Round 2, when the Matchplay Events software crashed, and was unavailable for a few hours. But we were determined to continue anyways. Thank you for the patience to all players through the delays while we transitioned to running this fair strike tournament manually with the help of Excel. The final results are shown in the attached image, and they will be submitted to IFPA.

Congratulations to Anthony Giles for the victory, accumulating only 3 strikes over the 8 rounds of play. Neil Kubath and Ramsey Sierra shared second place. All three of them have earned a weekend pass and entry into the Open Match Play and Classic PinGolf at the 2019 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!

Our Amateur/Rookie winner is Zofia Gil, who put in a strong performance to finish 8th overall, and tops among all players with IPR of 3 or less. Zofia wins the same entries as the top 3, plus entry into the 2019 Northwest Women's Pinball Championship at NWPAS and into the Rookie/Amateur Match Play tournament. Zofia was coincidentally also the raffle prize winner of a Stern Beatles Translite, courtesy of Stern Pinball.

Only two more satellite tournaments left, one is the NWPAS Satellite: Georgetown Flipoffs this Thursday at Flip Flip, Ding Ding and the final event, the NWPAS Satellite: Memorial Day Masters at 8-Bit in a week on Memorial Day. Don't miss out on your final opportunities to win your way to the show!

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There are only two satellite tournaments left before the show! So far, we've had 60 different winners, with five of them winning a guest package as well. If you won a package, you can verify your name is on the list here: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/satellite-winners.htm

Furthermore, if you will be receiving a weekend pass through some other means (volunteering time, volunteering games, sponsorship of show), then please let me know via private message and we'll convert your winning weekend pass to a $65 gift certificate that can be used anywhere at the show.

Remember tournament packages are not transferable, except for a Guest/+1 second package win. For that Guest/+1 package, the winner needs to accompany the guest when obtaining the weekend pass at the show registration desk, or retrieving their tournament entry at the tournament registration desk.

We need a few volunteers to score-keep at the NWPAS Satellite: Memorial Day Masters at the 8-Bit Arcade in Rentorn. We're looking for someone to cover a 2-hour slot. We'll cover cost of your PinGolf entry if you can help us out. Please send me a private message if you're able to help out.

There is now a pinned location on the Pinside map with the pins coming to the show listed, please feel free to add games and info for stuff you are brining! https://pinside.com/pinball/map/where-to-play/12568-nw-pinball-amp-arcade-show-tacoma-wa

We never have a list of games people are bringing to sell, I wonder if any shows are able to pull that off and get people to submit their for sale info before the show. I've seen a number of people post on different threads and in different forums they are bringing games to sell, but that's about it.

For the first time you can battle head-to-head in real time on two linked Firepower pinball machines--It's Dual Firepower and it's making it's world debut at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!

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I realized that about 2 hours after I posted it... I'll edit it! We often do split angled pins at the ends of rows, I think that's how it would probably work best. I try to stay out of the game layout and let the floor folks plan it all, but I'm there all set up day schlepping games, so I'll see what I can do.

If Aaron from Fast is around, he might know if it's coming, he's usually up on what homebrew games are coming and the ones that use Fast hardware often are in the Fast booth.

Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show 2019 Seminar Area Schedule!

FRIDAY MAY 31st
SHOW HOURS: 12pm‐11:30pm

3:30-4:30pm Dave Okert / David Shoemaker "Say What? Ask Anything About Game Repair"
5-6pm Rob Kahr "Party Zone to the Power Fix: Tech Tales of WPC Power"
7-8pm The Champions 2 "IFPA World Champion Raymond Davidson vs. IFPA Women's World Champion Keri Wing"

SATURDAY JUNE 1st
SHOW HOURS: 10am‐11:30pm

12:30-1:30pm Victor Tan "Electron Vision: Pinball Superpower"
2-3pm Butch Peel "Pinball Shopping and Repair: Plain and Simple"
3:30-4:30pm Zombi Yeti "Why Can't Zombi Yeti Draw Nice Things?"
5-6pm Ed Fries "A History of 8‐Bit Game Design"
8-9pm John Robertson "Reading Schematics 101 ‐ How an EM Pinball Game Starts Up"
10:30-11:30pm Northwest Women's Pinball Championship: Final Match Hosted by Dave Stewart & Chase Nunes

SUNDAY JUNE 2nd
SHOW HOURS: 9am‐3pm

1-2pm Closing Ceremony with Scholarship Announcements / Awards / Recognition

As in show transport/pick up or self transport load in times? I can check with Justin and the transportation/load in crew.

Well it took us 12 years, but we finally are making some big game etiquette signs. We tried to keep them concise and on point so people will actually read them. One can hope?

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MAY 27th is the NWPAS Satellite: Memorial Day Masters hosted by 8-bit Arcade!

Details
Pinball Golf Style! This will be the same PinGolf format that will be used in the qualifying round of this year's Classic PinGolf Tournament at the 2019 Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show. This is an All-Ages Event.

72 Tee-off time slots (two every 10 minutes), between Noon and 6:00PM. Players are allowed one attempt. Players can reserve their first tee-off time using the link below. (Note that tee off times between 5 and 6pm will only be used if 60 or more players). 75% to the tee-offs are already reserved, so get in there now if you want to play!

There are no finals. The results of the round are the final results of the tournament. Once you've played your round, you don't need to stick around for finals. Live results will be online, and you'll be notified (email or Facebook) if you've won a package.

More details on the format and rules of PinGolf are online in the details of the NWPAS Classic PinGolf tournament: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/classic.html

Guarantee of 4 NWPAS Tournament Prize Packages, with each packet providing a weekend pass and entry into each tournament the winner is eligible for. Players who have already won such a package in a prior tournament are allowed to win a second guest package to transfer to a friend or family member. Additional prize package at 39 players, plus one more package at every 8 players beyond 39.

One of these packages is guaranteed to a Rookie/Amateur-Eligible Player (IPR of 3 or less) see http://pinballstats.info/search/.

There will be a raffle prize drawn each hour, among players who played that hour.

Tee-Off Time Reservations are Open:
https://tinyurl.com/memorial-day-masters

Want to get some practice? Although we can't say precisely which machines we use, likely it will be similar to last year, which are the ones on the back wall, about half closest to wall on left, and half closest to window on right.

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