Please bring big guns. Love that game.

I will have to play it by ear for bringing a game or games as always, but I'm definitely coming.

Can't wait!!

Will it have legs or will it be on the cart still? Haha.

The rate should be 79 bucks. And don't call him Shirley.

Hotel booked. Still deciding on what game to bring, so I might check out the game lineup once it gets closer and bring something that won't be a duplicate. WCS or GOT Pro is what I'm thinking right now.

I just called and they were apprehensive about giving me the discount asking if I was part of the show or just attending. Told them I was bringing a game and they were fine with that and gave me the discount.

Please have it for league!!!

It's herb format. No limit on number of participants. I wouldn't worry about it.

Haha. I would stay tuned in case they switch the format, but if it's a circuit event again, no way they do something other than unlimited qualifying best game format like in the past.

Yeah this all the way. I love the crappy hotel. Makes me want to party more for some reason. And the long hallways are no joke. Hope you get a room towards the back of the hotel.

Here's my Billy Mitchell story:

Hanging out at an after party Billy Mitchell shows up. I was waiting to talk to him as he watched someone try and fix a popeye arcade that had a problem with an inverted screen. As Billy waited he turns to me and says, "this guy's saying the issue is just dip switches. What a dip shit". Hahahaha. What a jerk. I swiftly got a pic with him immediately afterwards.

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You should bring back that ice cold beer. I couldn't stop playing it.

I think they have new people too. I was on hold for a long time after I could hear a manager in the ear of the person helping me walk them through setting up a reservation.

I'll bring extra air mattresses just in case. Whomever gets a room might have some extra guests last minute. Haha

Whether you sell it or take it back home I'll give you a score to shoot for. Haha

Check Hotwire too. My buddy gambled and won. Got the ramada for like 45 a night.

Yeah man. I can definitely show you some easy things that might help rekindle your liking for it.

Yep. It's a PAPA circuit event and is pump and dump. There will be modern and classics divisions. 3 plays for 10 bucks.

That's how it's been in the past.

Pump and dump is also called HERB or best game qualifying.

Best Game Qualifying:

Best Game Qualifying, also known among some tournament directors as the “Herb” format, is one of the most common qualifying formats in competitive pinball. The tournament begins with a preselected number of games designated as the tournament bank. The players are encouraged to purchase tickets, where each ticket represents a single game that can be played on any of the tournament machines. A competitor may play each game one after the other or repeat the same game until he or she achieves the desired score.

At the end of the qualifying period, only a player’s highest score on each pinball machine is counted toward his or her qualifying ranking. For instance, if a player has played the same game twenty five times, only the highest single score of those twenty five games is recorded and the other twenty four are forgotten.

It is important to note that some tournaments may have more games available in the tournament bank than count toward a player’s qualifying ranking. In these instances, players are not forced to play all of the games if they do not wish to do so.

All scores between players are ranked in the same fashion as PAPA Qualifying: 100 points for the best overall score on a game, 90 points for the second highest score on a game, 85 points for the third highest score, and then decreasing by one point per position down to zero. Competitors are not forced to play every game in the qualifying bank, but if they realistically expect to qualify for the final rounds, they must at least play the maximum number of games counted toward their qualifying score.

Example: At the 2011 Northwest Pinball Championships, Cayle George qualified fourth overall. The games available in qualifying were:

Supersonic
Space Invaders
World Cup Soccer
The Shadow
Jackbot
World Poker Tour
Rolling Stones
Cayle played every game at least once. Any scores lower than those listed below did not count toward Cayle’s final qualifying ranking.

Cayle’s highest score on Supersonic was third overall, scoring him 85 qualifying points.
Cayle’s highest score on Space Invaders was 18th, scoring him 70 points (155 total through two games).
Cayle’s highest score on World Cup Soccer was 15th, earning him 73 points (228 through three games).
Cayle’s highest score on The Shadow was the 1st, earning him 100 points (328 through four games).
Cayle’s highest score on Jackbot was 5th, earning him 83 additional qualifying points (411 through five games).
Cayle’s highest score on World Poker Tour was 6th, earning him 82 qualifying points (493 through six games).
And finally, Cayle’s highest score on Rolling Stones was 22nd, earning him 66 additional qualifying points.
Cayle’s total score of 559 qualifying points was fourth best among all players.
In the above example, the Northwest Pinball Championships allowed 16 players into the final round with the cutoff at 509 points. It is important to note the total number of points needed to qualify will change from year to year depending on how players perform on the games and rank against one another. In this example, the highest possible qualifying score would be first place on all seven games, or 700 points, but the actual number one qualifier was Keith Elwin with 605.

I get my ass kicked every year but keep coming back for more!

Option 2. Even if you miss your turn you just get moved to the back of the queue. I'd recommend heading to the tourney area once you're third in line.

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Spectrum!!

Those are three words I've always enjoyed: Melvin, Thelma, and Provo.

Work is kicking my ass!! Come on LAX!

Can't wait for this. Haha

Continued prayers for Kelly man. Hang in there!

Dibs on the stern door. Haha

Who brought the frontier? Left flipper is not registering. Maybe a cab switch issue.

Haha. Come say hey. I'm at baby pacman by the corvette pin and the JJP games.

Now I'm by EK. Wearing a U.K. Jersey. Text me.

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Hopefully I can play tomorrow. Don't want to wait an hour to play it right now.

I do like it a lot. Angie (my wife) thinks the clown sounds like an old hillbilly woman. Haha. Love in an elevator multiball is pretty awesome though and Aerosmith is great pinball music.

Nice meeting you Chad! See ya next time!

Hey Jeff thanks for bringing GB prem. The lighting in the back of the playfield was awesome. Not sure if you had that when I saw it before, but looked awesome.

Awesome! I'm glad they showed my one respectable game on it. My other two tries were like 10 million or less. Haha. This also shows me getting a tilt warning with the ball in the shooter lane. Haha. Man that thing was brutal.

Andy and Andrew Rosa own it I'm pretty sure. Pinwow on here.

Haha. Yeah meant to send you a message. Pretty sure it's still standing too.

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Lost in a one game playoff (TWD) to make the final four in B. So close!!

Thanks! Yeah I was glad to make it that far. Hopefully I can improve on that next year. Also congrats to you for making the B finals. Even though you didn't make it past that first round, it was not easy to get to that point on Sunday. So many crazy good players in the tournament.

Yeah I was hoping that me you Jesse and Stu would have made the final four. That would've been hilarious.

Haha. I told multiple groups of 3 and 4 people that were taking turns playing one player games that they could play multiplayer games. Each time they first looked at me like I had six heads, then acted like playing a multiplayer game was way beyond their comprehension so they were going to stick with single player games.