I don't see tickets for the tourney on your page??

Also, this sounds like a BLAST!

That's amazing, I always wanted to enter an EM tournament.

Sounds like fun!

Moved to Events forum

My buddy and I are IN.

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I would like it to be for WPPR points, but can also understand the reasons to not.
$20 seems like a fair price. Would be great to offer a food add-on for an additional $10. Always nice to not have to worry about food when playing in a day long event.

I like whacky trophies, but suggest prizes go deeper than top 2 in a field of 64. Even certificates are fun/cheap, but something to shoot for that is realistic for normal people.

Maybe do a consilation bracket for the first 8 people to get knocked out completely. Some people are going to get blasted in the first 3 rounds and be done after 45 min. It is always fun to let those people have a side bracket for fun and bragging rights.

Could you please have someone else do the cooking.

This would be an awesome event if there were WPPR points. Without them it sounds like I am just paying another $20 to play the same machines I could play during the regular showcase. Doubt I will make the drive without WPPR points.

Sounds like a great time and a great way to meet some new pinball people. Count me in. ALL EM's WOOHOO!!

whats the $20 for? if no payout, no prizes besides the couple trophies, and no charity event..just curious.

Win or lose it all goes to me. I appreciate it guys

We'll all play EMs....You'll be playing wood rails...hope that isn't a problem?

cost should also be justified as pinball typically cost money to play (esp nice ones that play GREAT!) and events like this take a large amount of staff to run!

Aside from that I am VERY excited to play in an all EM event and have a good time.

Happy to pay just to support what the VFW is!

Tickets purchased!

Happy to not have you in the tournament. Stay by the baby food factory instead if WPPR points are so important to you.

Count me in!

Petition the WPPR to award points for distance driven. 8-)

It was just a question seeing as how your post said you wanted comments. 64 players brings the total entry over 1 grand so I was curious. Good luck. maybe ill show up just to beat why snow; )

please do and then we can have a beer and enjoy the limited access to the main event before everyone else comes in.

VFW has 2 NBA Fast Breaks linked together you and Silver Spinner and go head to head!

actually one of the things I am most looking forward to is playing linked NBAs

Man I'm so f'ing sick and tired of people saying that tourney players don't know how to play for fun. Just because ONE guy on the board goes all ballistic every time anything tournament-wise is mentioned, now the rest of us get lumped in with this too?

An EM-only (okay, there was a solid state Power Play, okay?) tournament is what *really* got me into competitive play. Was my 2nd WPPR tourney. So just be aware, you're creating more of "us" and less of "you", even if it's not for WPPRs! Hope that "you" can have "fun" in this brave new world. Love wacky trophies....even cheapskate ones like the jar of marbles I have that's mis-dated from a local tournament that was run. I have to keep telling the 5 year old to stay out of the marbles....I need a trophy case.

'Course, NOTHING I have beats the Garage Gauntlet sword.

It's $20! Who the hell bitches about $20!!!!

High Speed is an EM right?

Shhhh...don't bum Whysnow out yet...NBAFB will take care of that by itself

Well lets see what the $20 does get you.

You get tournament play PLUS early entry to the Friday Showcase.

Up to 64 players will have access to ALL of the showcase games before the Showcase opens. Note the Showcase open to regular ticket holders at 4 P.M. Or about 3-4 hours of play depending on your skill vs opponents.

After 4 PM regular admission ticket required.

By baby food factory are you referring to the Baby Food Festival tournament that was ran this summer? or just about Fremont in general?

Way to chop his head off for simply giving a comment.... Clay asked for comments

Paid and in for the WPPR-less fun. EM's RULEZ!

Bump to build up the tournament

What will we be playing? Whom knows...there's a lot to choose from looking at the master list of games.

http://www.vfwpinball.com/games.php

I don't give a shit if I even place in the tournament, I just want early access to probably the best pinball collection in the state.

I will be there, and I am coming To WIN !

Prepare yourselves to be beaten like you could never have imagined.

No prisoners.

Tyrone

I could always supply smoked pork butt instead of Clay cooking....

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Clay, I'm down for it. Give me a call to discuss.

As a member of the Ann Arbor Pinball Museum, willing to help out, I sent an Email to the WPPR to inquire what had to be done to make the tournament qualify for WPPR points...
A MONTH AGO, STILL NO RESPONSE.

Try again. People are busy, emails get lost in the shuffle, stuff happens.

I can answer that for you (I think?).

You need:
1 the event listed on a public website with some info about it
This should already meet the requirement but will need to update language to reflect that it is now for WPPR if that is the case.
http://vfwpinball.com/?p=128

2 the event put on the IFPA calendar at least 30 days prior to the event
Register it here. You are more than 30 days out currently so should be good to go.
http://www.ifpapinball.com/calendar/submit.php

3 the event can not have any restrictions in whom can play (i.e. can't exclude anyone based on age, WPPR status, etc...)

That is pretty much it.

Where did you send the email, because I don't show having received one.

Hilton pretty much nailed the requirements!

Josh

also, I say go for it. I would love to be able to play in a first (for me) EMonly WPPR event!

from the IFPA web site "contact us"

With a limit of 64 players would this be an "open" tournament.

Sounds like alot of fun..!!

Yes a limit of 64 players is considered open.

this sounds like fun. As long as it doesn't change the format having it be for WPPRs doesn't really do any harm. There should be more EM tournaments.

clay used to have an em tourney at crazy carls and it went fine. a mix of normal tourney players and locals and people who play good but don't enter tourneys often. best i did was 2nd place to mike wiley, and in fact out of the few times he had the event, no "top" known avid tourney players won..
i miss that tourney.
not every good player is an a--hole or wppr hound.
i dont recall if the events at crazy carl's had wppr or not...but it did have cash payouts which make it enticing if you are paying money in and making a drive. plus games on coin drop earned location and operator money.
id rather have cash payouts or gift cards over trophies or plaques as the single prize any day.
trophies are dust collectors and end up getting tossed out. over 100 sit cluttered in my house between me and the kids.
playing for "fun" or money in 100% going to charity every time can only get you so far. dont get me wrong, donating to charity is great, but if all events had zero payouts or all monies in donated, competitive pinball would be over. any tourney would be local only with a handful of players.
for an extreme local its fine, but when driving a distance to a tourney or taking time off from work and travel expense, its opportunity cost.
its different if hanging at a buddies house getting in free, playing games on free play and having a free tourney.

wppr ifpa events try to encourage EVERYONE to play, not just good players. that's why there often are multiple divisions. As a whole, all of us who are involved try to push competitive pinball, and its larger today than it ever has been. its very insulting to here certain statements where it binds us all together as a bunch of "point mongers" or basically snobs to the pinball community.
What happens if there is a "top" player amongst the "non wppr hound crowd"? will they be shunned as well if they win an event such as the one at vfw? when does it stop? same question when banning players from tops tournaments? well, the best "non" banned player will continue to win as what happened at marvin's when me and koz were asked not to play.
I find its usually people who don't have adequate playing pinball skills who raise such a fuss.
practice and play better. easy enough. when you play with people who are better than you, you learn things, and get better.
you will also find out we arent such "a--holes" afterall .

BUMP for vfw event. clays em's play superb.

No doubt aboot that. Gotta play with better people to get better. I can attest to the fact that tourney players, at a high %, are very nice people. Sometimes there are some of them that are too nice.
I'm only a complete asshole to people after I know them for awhile.

so is this going to be for WPPR now?