great turn out last night! Thanks to all that showed up for monthly tourney. Great to see familiar faces and SO many new faces!

Stopped out to make a few adjustments.

Also since nobody has been able to touch the leaderboard on TAF besides Tim E. and KOI, I reset it so some of the regulars can get on the board.

We are thinking of doing a TOPs tourney on STpro at some point soon. thoughts?

Results from last night reported to IFPA. Should be up in a few days.

Results are now up on IFPA

http://www.ifpapinball.com/view_tournament.php?t=1358#results

Stopped out over lunch to fix a few small issues.

Looks like nobody has gotten GC on TAF since I reset high scores.

Now we just need Ben to let us put an AMH out there!

Let me know if you are interested in this Ben. Maybe we can work something out?

almost as funny as you having only 4 games in your collection... hahaha

I was beginning to think Jones was eaten by the WOZ haters monster.

ouch. He better get to work before he hosts league

Like seeing kids playing on location!

Reminder > This Wednesday is the 3rd monthly event.

Maybe we can beat last months crowd? I am working on the annual trophy and still trying to get the bar to cough up a little cash to offset the costs.

I am hoping to get some of the local breweries to kick in a few prizes for upcoming months. If anyone has any connections, more prizes are always welcome.

When will you be in town? Maybe I can swing over or if the home game room is back together you can stop by afterwards if time allows. Any guy that owns a Hollywood heat must be alright...

heading over to practice a little tonight and have a few monday beers. stop on over

everything playing well. I left some free credits on a few games.

a few small tweaks in the monthly format > sign in by 6:25, playoff order based on seeding and not selected (feedback from those in attendance to make this change), clarification of final order when losing the first playoff (based on finishing position if no time for losers playoff), and added that annual tropy is in the works.

Hope to see yall on Wed!

"Pooley’s Monthly Pinball Tournament
Held the second Wednesday of every month.
Start time: 6:30pm but come early and warm up. (Must be signed in by 6:25)
Cost: Just the cost to play the games, no entry fee
Prizes: IFPA points for all, Prizes for each month (either random draw or based on finishing position), and End of year prize for most accumulated points during the year (working on an annual trophy now).
Qualifying Format: Play in random 4 packs (so you meet new people and can learn from watching others) 1 time through all available games. This will likely take 60-90 minutes. All scores are recorded and ranked from top to bottom on each game. Combined ranking points on all 4 games used to seed players for playoff.

Playoffs on 1 game to be chosen by top player in each 4 pack. Order of play based on seeding order > go in direct order (qualify 1st and you play first). Four packs are based on direct order of qualifying position >>> 1-4 play together, 5-8 play together, 9-12 play together, 13-16 play together, etc...

First playoff game is all 4 people in the 4-pack with top 2 continuing on. Second game (on the same machine) is top 2 playing off for final positions. If time allows the bottom 2 may compete in a second game for final position (i.e. 3rd or 4th, 7th or 8th, etc). If no time, then bottom 2 of each 4-pack finish based on placement of 1st playoff game.
This playoff structure means you are only able to reshuffle final placement based on the qualifying 4 pack you are in. For example if you are 3rd place in qualifying you will playoff in the 1-4 grouping and you can finish in 1st to 4th place.

This format rewards consistent play on all available games, and requires effort to be placed on qualifying as well as playoffs. This also provides the opportunity for similar skill based competition during playoffs.
For additional details, visit www.madisonpinball.com

Dates:
Apr 9
May 14
June 11
July 9
Aug 13
Sept 10
Oct 8
Nov 12
Dec 10
"

additional note: depending on total number in attendance on any given month, qualifying round may be limited to top X (16?) number. We may also turn off EBs on TAF and Stpro to help keep ball times slightly shorter?

I would like to keep total time down to 3-3.5 hours in total since this a weekday thing. I have been told to expect our biggest crowd yet (a good thing) which means we may need to make some changes on the fly to overall format.

Everyone will always get to play in qualifying, but playoffs may get cut back on any given night based on total attendnace. Thansk for your understanding.

Yes, EBs being on/off is just a matter of # of people that show up. More than 24 peoepl and we should probably turn off TAF and ST EBs. <24 and we can likely leave them on.

TAF is the longest gametime so they likely need to be turned off no matter what (based on past 2 months). I agree that ST probably does not matter as much as game times are shorter and EBs are tougher to get on this one.

baby steps, but just getting up to 6 would be a huge improvement for our area.

I woudl love to get to 10 total and think it is feasible if peoepl keep supporting by buying beer and food. At this point it is really a matter of convincing the location that this makes them money and that more pins = more people on a regular basis. I personally think 10 pins would make it a destination and peopel may come play more often/ for longer >> = more food sales and beer sales.

Thanks to all those that came out last night!

Amazed that we had 30 people in attendance and happy to see that the few small tweaks helped to keep things running smoothly. Sorry about funhouse issue (don't worry Mark, nothing big) for those impacted but glad we got it back up and running pretty quick.

edit> after reading Mike POV, he is right. Better to make other adjustments to speed up games rather than limit # that can play

thanks again for coming out and being a fun crew.

June results have been sent to IFPA. Still amazed to have had 30 people show up!!!

Glad we are getting into the swing of things after a few months and getting the bugs worked out.

Yeah, Pooley's is very easy on/off from the interstate on eastside of Madison. Would really enjoy seeing some of you Fox Cites crew down here for a Wed evening event or just to hang.

We also have the big charity event at Pooleys (in the gym) each year, Mad Rollin Pinball. We are still taking names on the wait-list for now and I am still expecting a few more team slots to open up. www.madisonpinball.com for details

GeneO and I are heading over around 6pm for a few beers and a few games if anyone is interested in joining us...

Next monthly event is tomorrow.

Hope to see a few more new faces to join in on the fun with the regulars.

July results have been submitted to IFPA. Thanks again for all those that attended. 3 new faces and 20 people is pretty amazing for a nice July evening.

FunHouse is potentially down for the count. If not an easy fix then it may be a good opportunity/ timing to swap it out?

Curious what others think/ would like to see in its place for a bit?

Potential options are: LOTR, Getaway, Congo, Nascar, or Elvis

that would be awesome! when does it arrive?

I think we would need to put LOTR on 2 ball for tourney night, LOL. May also need to only allow You and Tim 1 hand to play it...