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Quoted from yancy:It's kinda poetic that the man who saved pinball would go on to father the man who killed pinball. Some real Kylo Ren shit.
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Quoted from Frax:stop accepting tournaments that have skill-restricted B-divisions that exclude players and then submit all their results as "A division on top, B division after that, then remaining qualifier attempts"?
Never liked that either.
Quoted from tayamo:In essence, he wants to grow the "sport" of pinball, not the hobby of pinball. There is actually quite a big distinction.
First, can we all agree that competitive pinball is a sport.
I'm wondering if IFPA came up with a made for TV tournament format,
Yes Josh doesn't need to worry aboot hobby pinball...everyone gluing shit all over any game they can get shows us that angle is just fine.
No, you are never going to get people to agree to that. There have been threads in here that golf isn't a sport with people frothing at the mouth from both sides.
No LED color bombing 
Can reek havoc on TV equipment
Quoted from tayamo:Our problem is reall that Pinball is not a great spectator sport, and our tournament structures don't lend themselves to great viewing.
See that's where I can't really agree with you. Poker is, Absofuckinglulty, the worst possible thing you could watch; Much worse than pinball. Now were I agree with you is what made it watchable, was a shit ton of monies involved; that was the whole point of it.
EDIT: And just think of the cultural impact poker had. All of a sdduen people where showing up to your local poker tables, acting like Hold'em was the only card game you can play for monies. Jesus we had to shut people out becasue they started coming over and playing with sunglasses on and trinkets over their cards....Dude we're playing with $20 stacks in someone's backyard at midnight....
...Anyway sorry I was having flashbacks. Just think if Pinball got big like that and then, instead of assholes with sunglasses and trinkets, people came over saying "I can't even see with all these LEDs. Why are their dolls all over this machine? Wow that POS cost $500?!?"
Man I may have to start backing this whole endeavor.
Quoted from Russell:Whysnow is a very high level player also #259 / 48,977.
He stands to benefit financially from the increased prize pools as well.
But still, he thinks it will hurt pinball in Wisconsin.
I wouldn;t say that 
Certain(t)ly wouldn't say that
Pinball in Wisconsin...never hear anything aboot it.
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Quoted from Whysnow:Make it a $200 entry fee for the top 16 to play in that event. If these are the players that earned the shot to play in the end of year event then that also assumes that they have won enough money throughout the year to cover their entry fee.
Not in Wisconson
EDIT: I do however appreciate the idea that the top 16 rated people in any state come walking in the door with fur coats eating strawberrys as big as hand fruits.
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Quoted from imharrow:I know, seriously people. Kick it old school with 3LW instead.
Ahhhh....
"Swift also does not believe that one can simply copyright the ethos of players and haters or “monopolize the idea that players will play and haters will hate.” It’s just a fact. A truth. A lifestyle, even."
God I hate her even more now.
Quoted from yancy:On a serious note, I plan on playing more IFPA (specifically Illinois) events this year, ...
I hope I can get out more too. When they mentioned these changes I set aside 1 dollar each week to save up for this.
Thank goodness for 10 cent returnables!
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Quoted from Eric_S:IFPA is charging a dollar for each tournament? When did that happen? It just got sprung on us with no notice.
It's quite of bullshit I agree. The real problem are in places like Wisconsin were it's illegal to.......
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