Well, there went my one chance.. : P Still going.

Cool.

Wish I could make it, maybe next year. Be sure to post some photos on this thread!

Will this be streamed?

For those that are still on the fence about attending, maybe this will help sway you to attend.

Bally Paragon w/7-Volution Displays

Stern Dragonfist

Gottlieb Neptune

Gottlieb Atlantis

>Paragon

Hope everyone else is as inept at tap passing as me.

Marcus...you're not taking games up there are you?

I just made hotel reservations and my time off is scheduled...silverball is go!

Yes I am. Cactus Jack's needed some old school infusion.

Expect 3-4 EMs and 3-4 SSs to be added to the Cactus Jack Line Up. One weekend only.

Marcus

alveous, Rob Goodner is listed twice. Not sure if intended or not.

Is that midnight Thursday night or thursday morning (Wednesday night)?

LAST DAY TO REGISTER!

ONE WEEK AWAY!

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Nice trophy!

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gl everyone!

Congrats guys! The event was fantastic!

I kicked this guy's ass all weekend and he ended up taking 4th? Awesome.

Robert too for that matter. I love it. Totally beautiful when the underdogs come back and bite ya in the ass. That is FREAKIN' AMAZING.

I ended up 12th overall, I can't complain. I had a ton of amazing games, and a handful of really bad ones that put me in a so-so finals position, but I got to pick my bank, and I made it past the byes round, which is all you can really ask for in that situation. Getting to play in a group with Bob Matthews on day 2, and then Trent today was fantastic.

I can't pick between my two favorite games of the event:

Game 1 - AFM - I was attempting a come-from-behind miracle on AFM, I had multiball, didn't get there, but I did have most of my shots done for Total Annihilation. On ball 2, I shot two left orbits to finish that one, only needing two shots to each orbit, and because I suck at loop passes, the ball arced off the flipper and into the left outlane. So ball three, I make one of the two shots to the right loop, the ball goes wild. I had to do a HUUUUUGE slide save in one direction and back the other way to save the ball, I got two warnings, had it trapped, and tried to make a shot with it ending up in the pops. The game was heavily favoring the exit to the scoop, but it came out the right side...it rolled over the switch, TA animation got about 10 frames off and TILT.... F....M....L.

Game 2 - Atlantis - Game just outright screwed me all weekend long, so I picked to play first in my quarterfinals group with Trent. I was basically already pooched at this point with a 0 and a 1, but if I could get a 3, I could still save myself.. put up 40k, which any other round probably would have gotten me in the points, but not with Trent, Colin, and Phil. Trent played his game, had a save come literally off the left outlane mini post that's an inch into the "death zone" back out of the outlane (which I have only seen once before today), he ended up with 500 points more than me.

500 points.

That's ONE SWITCH, PEOPLE. ONE SWITCH, ONE SINGLE DROP TARGET, EITHER WAY...500 points. Bleargh!

Not that it would've mattered, because Phil played after him, and had THE EXACT SAME BALL SAVE....and then just destroyed the game. So for my "pretty good score", I got 1 point.....which eliminated both Colin and myself on game 3 of our round. Trent put up 1.8 billion on ball 1 on WCS, got to Sea of Simulation on the fastest Tron I've EVER seen, and then just for laughs got the triple stack on BSD which was our last game..

If there is any question about the quality of the games at CJ's, I will slap that person. It was my first time there, and the play and appearance of the games makes Pinballz look ridiculous by comparison. I would seriously sell my Congo RIGHT NOW if they would let me take home their WCS or BSD... they're THAT good.

I have some nitpicky points about how a few specific games were set up, and I'll be passing those on in private, because it's mostly tournament specific stuff. All I'm going to say here is that Jackbot and RBION were....not appropriate.

Had a ton of fun.

Nice to see some Missouri boys bringing home some trophies

Really wish I could have made it.

what were the payouts?

Thank you, Shawn and Mark for organizing such a great event. It was fun and ran very smoothly.

Thanks to Dan for operating an amazing location for pinball! My boys and I had a fantastic time there playing pinball and making new friends in the pinball community.

Lots of props to the Oklahoma pinball crowd for being very welcoming and friendly, and for supporting a location like Cactus Jacks. I know that quite a few of them helped get pins shopped/ready for the event, organized food, and designed/produced the custom-made trophies.

I echo a previous comment about the condition of the pins: outstanding!

Last, thanks to Marcus (Xerico) for hauling up 7 classic pins to add to tourney banks.

I highly recommend that people pay a visit to Cactus Jacks or participate in a pinball event at that location.

Huge thank you to Shawn (Alveolus - the OKC competitive pinball guru and Tournament Director), Mark and Anastasia (PAPA leadership), Marcus (Xerico - who graciously supplied the SS and EM machines), and especially to all the players from around the country who came to play.

The level of competition was mind-blowing and getting to watch Chris Basler, Bob Matthews, Jon Drew, Trent Augenstein, Phil Grimaldi, Adam McKinnie, Steve Hill, Garrett Hayes, Colin MacAlpine (and his boy who necessarily sat on a stool as he thumped me between Nintendo DS sessions and his other boy who destroyed ALL his competition on Jack*Bot), and many other great players was humbling and motivating.

The tournament ran like clock-work with just enough downtime to recharge for the next round.

http://papa.org/papa-tournaments/papa-tournament-circuit/2015-16-circuit/circuit-2015-16-standings/

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