Festi Flip III: The French Pinball Event. Oct. 25-26, 2014

The ancestor of pinball, bagatelle may have been introduced back in 1777
but "le flipper" is still alive and well in France!

Come see for yourself at the 3rd annual Festi Flip in St Etienne near Lyon,
the "biggest pinball event in Europe."

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http://www.festiflip.com/portal/index.php/en/
https://www.facebook.com/festiflip.officiel

Pinball News article for last year's event
http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/festiflip2013/index.html

With a terrific venue and an unbeatable admission price of €4 for each
day with games on free play, this is an event not to be missed.

What you can expect:

- Last year there were 251 pins, this year they're breaking the 300 mark
partly thanks to a new partnership with Avranches Automatique
- A showcase line-up of Gottlieb Black Hole pinball machines
- Some very rare games such as a plexiglass invisible pinball version of Canada Dry
- An added focus on bringing some nice EMs

- Jack Garnieri himself with a JJP stand and several WOZ pinball machines.
75th anniversary WOZ Edition perhaps!?
- Heighway Pinball bringing their Full Throttle game to show off the latest developments
- Jonathan Joosten from Pinball Magazine, as well as photographer and author Santiago Cuiffo

- 8 different tournaments, all free.
Including 2 official IFPA tournaments, kids tourneys, as well as foosball and darts contests.
- A one-man world record attempt for a 28-hour pinball marathon starting friday at 8:30am.
- An attempt to break the world record of most people playing pinball at once currently standing at 272.
- The first Festi'broc, a flea market where anyone can buy/sell/trade parts.
- A room dedicated to the Pinsound audio system with 20 pins fitted
with hi-fi headphones for a complete game play immersion experience.
- A demo by a French billiards champion
- And a very special saturday evening surprise program

Workshops:
- Virtual pinball simulation pincab building
- Electronics 101 and 102
- the ins and outs of EMs
- playfield restoration

Let these pictures from last year speak for themselves:
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