You guys have fun this weekend..i'll be at work but hope to see everyone at TPF!
(Topic ID: 161458)
Lafayette, LA
Quoted from ulmpharmd:You guys have fun this weekend..i'll be at work
It's looking like we should have about 15 to 20 players entering the pinball tournaments this weekend at Nevus's place.
Feel free to bring whatever drinks and snacks you want. Nevus says he is planning to smoke a brisket again I believe. 
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:the Red River Replay III pinball party and tournaments at Nevus's place are on Sat Feb 24th.
Oooops, yeah the 24th. Thanks, Mike.
Got our Pinburgh tickets!!!
4 Mafia members attending the year so our odds are even better. 
Wish we could be at the tourney but with a family funeral and a giant event downtown tonight there was just no way.
Hope everyone has a great time.
Thanks everyone for coming. A super fun day. One whole brisket devoured. Two IFPA tournaments RRR3 and The Agony of Defeat Pin Golf. Players from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming. Pinbot leaves to live with James and Asteroid Annie leaves LA to try out the Rocky Mountains.
Thanks to Josh for making great trophies and a Mike for being a great tournament director.
For the non Facebook folks, here are some more pics.
3AF9C4C7-93AF-4362-80E9-88D12D7CC662 (resized).jpeg
B2E21DCA-B1C7-460B-BB7D-3A1B7801EAE6 (resized).jpeg
28BBF571-3486-493C-BFF4-EAB94730A380 (resized).jpeg
Quoted from Arcade:At the National Championships in Vegas.
So far Preston has won his first two games in the best of 7.
Cool keep us posted go Louisiana (Texan)....
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Any updates how is Preston doing?
Looks like Preston is tied 3 to 3 in a game of Ironman against Karl Deangelo.
Quoted from Jodester:Looks like Preston is tied 3 to 3 in a game of Ironman against Karl Deangelo.
Correct Preston won his first two rounds and took round 3 to a game 7 on Iron Man where he lost by only 1 mil. Points.
Very close match.
Congrats to Karl on winning.
Good work Preston!
Here are the brackets with results.
http://challonge.com/2018ifpanationals
Creating a couple events in Lake Charles.
Friday, April 6th, the Hilliard family will host: Friday Night Special III; no side tourney.
Saturday, April 7th, PavBall and I will host: Welcome Back To Louisiana as a main tourney with a Classics side tourney. (This is not Romp V, we are waiting for TNA to arrive for Romp V, but thought we'd host a tourney to welcome one of our friends who has been living in Philly back to Louisiana).
I hope some of you can join us for the Friday/Saturday tourneys. 
Quoted from Nevus:Doh! Wife and I are in Carbondale, IL that weekend.
Sry we will miss those.
Alas, we will miss you!
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Sam’s club had the lithium batteries with a instant in store rebate so I had my wife pick some up for me and made today battery replacement day ended up changing them in 8 games.
We have had those in our modern Bally/Williams games for a couple of years now.
Great batteries.
So far, I'm the only Pinsider that has indicated that they are "going" to TigerLaw's Sat Apr 7th tournament listed in the Pinside Events section. 
I'll bring some snacks, and drinks in an ice chest.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:So far, I'm the only Pinsider that has indicated that they are "going" to TigerLaw's Sat Apr 7th tournament listed in the Pinside Events section.
I'll bring some snacks, and drinks in an ice chest.
I think it's understood that I will be going. I don't need the feds knowing my whereabouts all the time...
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:So far, I'm the only Pinsider that has indicated that they are "going" to TigerLaw's Sat Apr 7th tournament listed in the Pinside Events section.
I'll bring some snacks, and drinks in an ice chest.
Quoted from Jodester:I think it's understood that I will be going. I don't need the feds knowing my whereabouts all the time...
April 7th?
James and Theresa's 28th wedding anniversary.
Don't think I'll be making this tourney.
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:April 7th?
James and Theresa's 28th wedding anniversary.
Don't think I'll be making this tourney
What better way to celebrate a 28th anniversary than a pinball tourney!
Quoted from TigerLaw:What better way to celebrate a 28th anniversary than a pinball tourney!
James wants to make it to a 29th anniversary Tiger...
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Scored some points today with a crawfish boil who knows maybe I’ll be able to make the tourney? Never can tell
That would be awesome if you could make it down. When we do Romp V (still not scheduled as I’m awaiting info on TNA 174 soon) we plan to do a crawfish boil at the tourney.
I've got a burner/stand/pot/basket/fuel bottle set-up for boiling crawfish that I can bring on Sat morning Apr 7th.
I can help boil a couple sacks if I am not serving as td.
We just need to figure out who/where is going to buy the 2 sacks of crawfish Fri evening or Sat morning.
MLV
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:I've got a burner/stand/pot/basket/fuel bottle set-up for boiling crawfish that I can bring on Sat morning Apr 7th.
I can help boil a couple sacks if I am not serving as td.
We just need to figure out who/where is going to buy the 2 sacks of crawfish Fri evening or Sat morning.
MLV
Drool!
Quoted from Nevus:First time in a while. Totally packed up for the show on Sunday!
Woot!
C37 and???
Nip-it (sold and being delivered for pre-show exchange).
Leaving a vacancy in the Expedition...
Feel like I’m going to Willy Wonka’s store!
Went to 3 different discount stores looking for some Shasta for TPF weekend.
3 strikes, I'm out. 
Had to settle for Pepsi. 
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:Chris
Have you shown this to Henry?
https://www.ifpapinball.com/nacs/standings.php?l=LA
I did. He was pretty excited.
We will miss the April tourney, but definitely make the Romp/TNA palooza/IFPA tourney
Looks like Ark-La-Tex Pinball Club will have about 4 pinball machines set up together in our section in the free-play area.
I registered my '79 Gottlieb Pinball Pool machine and received an automated confirmation email from TPF.
From looking through the Games List on TPF website, here are the pinball machine entries that reference ArkLaTex Pinball Club:
1961 Gottlieb Big Casino
1977 Gottlieb Centigrade 37
1979 Gottlieb Pinball Pool
1988 Williams Swords of Fury
I also noticed the Moncla Mafia is bringing a 1979 Gottlieb Solar Ride, which I assume will be used in the tournament area.
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Looks like Ark-La-Tex Pinball Club will have about 4 pinball machines set up together in our section in the free-play area.
Are we nearby the Pinside booth this year? Marcus is bringing a bunch of machines for the Pinside booth.
Quoted from TigerLaw:Are we nearby the Pinside booth this year? Marcus is bringing a bunch of machines for the Pinside booth.
Quoted from Nevus:I’m not sure. I didn’t ask in advance.
Xerico , please see the above question and let us know if it is still possible please good sir. Thanks!!!!!
Quoted from Pinball-is-great:Looks like Ark-La-Tex Pinball Club will have about 4 pinball machines set up together in our section in the free-play area.
I registered my '79 Gottlieb Pinball Pool machine and received an automated confirmation email from TPF.
From looking through the Games List on TPF website, here are the pinball machine entries that reference ArkLaTex Pinball Club:
1961 Gottlieb Big Casino
1977 Gottlieb Centigrade 37
1979 Gottlieb Pinball Pool
1988 Williams Swords of Fury
I also noticed the Moncla Mafia is bringing a 1979 Gottlieb Solar Ride, which I assume will be used in the tournament area.
Correct.
Solar Ride is a tournament game.
Quoted from TigerLaw:xerico , please see the above question and let us know if it is still possible please good sir. Thanks!!!!!
Unfortunately, the show layout is finalized. Requests like this need to be submitted to the TPF Team by early February at the latest.
Marcus
Quoted from Xerico:Unfortunately, the show layout is finalized. Requests like this need to be submitted to the TPF Team by early February at the latest.
Alas, we will have to depend on luck to generate us some good proximity.
It’s fine. Kim has so much to do, I figured no reason to bother her about it. As long as our small clubs games are together, I’m happy.
You guys are killing me, I'm starting now to make my plans to go to TPF next year, no more covering for co workers. As soon as they set next years dates I'm putting in my request to be off.
Total bummer! I missed that you weren’t coming to TPF. We will drink beer and play pinball in you honor.
Quoted from PoBoyPinball:You guys are killing me, I'm starting now to make my plans to go to TPF next year, no more covering for co workers. As soon as they set next years dates I'm putting in my request to be off
Oh man, we are going to miss you! Any chance of a late season sudden flu outbreak?
Quoted from Nevus:Total bummer! I missed that you weren’t coming to TPF. We will drink beer and play pinball in you honor.
Nevus is on a roll lately. Another Pinside Gold post by Nevus. 
chi_g_konerko_grandslam1 (resized).jpg
Quoted from TigerLaw:What better way to celebrate a 28th anniversary than a pinball tourney!
Funny I told my wife you were having a pinball tourney in honor of our 28th wedding anniversary and we had to go.
Quoted from Jodester:James wants to make it to a 29th anniversary Tiger...
We actually may be doing something at the end of this month for our anniversary, so I may actually be able to go to the tourney and make it to my 29th.
Reply
Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.
Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!
Donate to PinsideGreat to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!
