I had that in there for the rough draft, but we tried to cut the text down to a bare minimum. Exactly what burned_fork said.

I bet you just got one from Toby about prepping games. I don't think they have the routes and pickup times planned yet, at least I haven't gotten my email about it either. It's always cool to contact me, but I really just handle press, promotions and sponsorships, so I'll refer you to the people in other departments. --Dan

We are going to have a 7 foot sign there. The last thing we want to do is slow down the line, we do it pretty fast and efficiently and I heard about a recent show disaster with lines around the block to get in where people just left. We will have good signage though.

The Ed Fries seminar is now called "Fun with Bronze Age Arcade Machines"

And Matt is bringing his collection of excellent black and white 70s arcade games for the floor!

It sounds like transportation is meeting right now to plan the pick up routes for everyone's games. They emailed out the game prep info to SMAC and WPC tonight and will send it out to all the individual people in the next day or two.

Marco's Booth Line-up for the show:

8- Black Knight Pro
2- Black Knight Premium (prototype versions!)
1- Batman 66
4- Munsters Premium
1- Iron Maiden Premium
2- Deadpool Premium
1- Star Wars Premium
1- Deadpool Pro
And potentially a Beatles or two

Today is the last day to buy presale tickets for the show online. If you buy a 3-day pass online we will include a limited edition show button and 11x17 poster: http://nwpinballshow.com/tickets

You are very optimistic! I don't yet have the Nitro booth game list, but should soon!

Ways to sell games at the show:
-Bring a game during set up, put it out on the floor, put a for sale sign with price and contact info, sell game!
-There will be a bulletin board in the lobby as usual for buying, selling and trading games. Post and ad there with contact info.

I've definitely gotten a lot of emails from the website and phonecalls from people looking to buy their first game, buy a game, or sell a game they've had for years and don't know how to sell. Also one restored 70s slot machine a nice woman is trying to sell or trade and to buy a 70s or 80s pin. There will be lots of buyers.

We considered it years ago. The general consensus was it would cost more money for the show to rent another room and facilitating sales is not really one of the goals of the show. The main reason we suggest people sell games at the show because we want more games on the floor for people to play.

Why'd you be selling a game you think might not hold up to less than 40 hours of play? I will say, we have a great team of medics that fix almost all the problems with games as the break during the show and Dave Okert, who leads the medic team, did a seminar on fixing WOZ's a year or two ago.

I need this 3 day weekend to finish getting all my games ready and make show buttons! It's crunch time!

The NWPAS Satellite last night at Flip Flip, Ding Ding attracted a field of 60 players! Bryan Eastman had a very strong showing including wins against several of the top players in the world, to take the win. It's by far the biggest win of his pinball career, and will earn him more than triple the number of IFPA WPPR ranking points as his next best finish. Germain Mariolle took second place, and Maureen Hendrix and Mike P. tied for 3rd. Mike Corbett finished 5th, and David Johnston and Sean Irby tied for 6th.

All of the above win NWPAS Tournament packages, except for Mike Corbett who had already won the maximum of two packages during the satellite events and was playing for fun You rock Mike! George Kent also wins a tournament package as the top Amateur/Rookie eligible player; while he didn't make the final 8, he was the top finisher of four eligible finishers to make it into the top 16. Congratulations to all the winners!

There is now only one NWPAS Satellite tournament remaining before the big show, the Memorial Day Masters at 8-bit on Monday. There are still a few tee-off times remaining, sign up here to reserve your start time: https://tinyurl.com/memorial-day-masters

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Thursday is the main load in day, but you could bring it Friday morning early, a few self transport games do arrive a few hours before the show starts. But it would get a more primo spot for sale if it came Thursday. Ideally someone buys it and takes it home Sunday instead of you, right?

Someone is interested in your Sprint 2 project game, they posted looking for a Sprint on SMAC and I referred them to your FB post Ronnie.

This is true and the one person I know that wanted one just bought one. That said, there are a lot of techie folks in the area with money to burn that show up to the show, decide they want to buy a game, and dropping 7-8K is nothing to them.

That cheesesteak place is the bomb, old school huge sandwiches!

If you go to the show website and click More in the top menu, Godot put together a great Google map with all the local restaurants he recommends pinned on it.

My faves:
Evergreen Cafe, located right near the hotel on the lower side on the corner. Good breakfast and lunch options for sandwiches, coffee, etc. I grab breakfast and half my lunches here during the show.

The Social is across the skybridge over the freeway down by the water, it's a 10 minute walk and had outdoor and indoor seating. There happy hour is great, $12 pitchers of sangria and all kinds of small plates for pretty cheap. If it's sunny, it's an awesome place to sit outside and eat and drink.

The Swiss, The Rock pizza and the Harmon Brewery are all within a couple blocks and good for lunch and dinner for American style pub food. Nothing amazing, but a decent meal.

For nice nearby restaurants, Pacific Grill and Indochine. There are a ton of restaurants if you take a 10 minute walk towards Dorky's.

Don't sleep on either of the tiki bars too, they are great!