IT IS OFFICIAL, we are back! We have secured our location for the 2022 event, it will be happing from September 9th through 11th 2022.

We will be back as the same location as 2019, at Lynnwood Bown and Skate.

Details:

NW Pinball Championships 2022
September 9th to 11th (Qualifying Fri noon-midnight / Sat 10am-midnight, Finals Sunday)

More at http://www.nwpinballchamps.com/

We will have more announcement in the future as well as the banks line up!

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More info have been released as well as the facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1211968639548745/

After a long COVID break NW Pinball Championships is back, BETTER and BIGGER than ever!

This year we are running FIVE IFPA events, including THREE CERTIFIED IFPA events (+20% WPPRs boost).

We also continue to be part of the Stern Pro Circuit
https://sternpinball.com/stern-pro-circuit/

2022 updated changes:
New schedule for events, please refer to the website scheduling page for latest details.
MORE FINALIST in the High Stake division (if we reach 64 certified qualifiers).
NEW REVENGER group knockout tournament on Sunday if you did not make the Open finals or got knocked out in the 1st round.

Details:
NW Pinball Championships 2022
September 9th to 11th (Qualifying Fri noon-midnight / Sat 10am-midnight, Finals Saturday for Women's and Classic, Sunday for Open and High stake tournaments)

100% of the tournament tickets/cards money is paid back to the players as prizes, topped with generous contributions from our sponsors. Over $15,000 was paid out in prize last year (including trophies)!

We are continuing to receive great feedback about our new venue of the past 3 events and we are happy to announce we will be returning to the Lynnwood Bowl & Skate for 2019!

More at http://www.nwpinballchamps.com/

We take great pride in having an extremely dialed and enjoyable lineup and overall providing a world-class tournament experience.

The OPEN division qualifying will continue with the "card of 5 games" format this year. The bank will be expanded to 8 games this year.
The CLASSIC and WOMEN's tournament qualifier will be “Best game/Herb” format.
The WOMEN's tournament qualifier will use the same format as the OPEN division, with a "card of 4 games" out of a bank of 5.
The HIGH STAKE division will use the same format as the OPEN division, with a "card of 5 games" out of a bank of 5.
The SUNDAY REVENGE tournament will be a 4 player group Knockout tournament on the Classic bank.

We will be streaming the finals on Saturday and Sunday all day. We will also stream the qualifying on Friday and Saturday (depending on availability). All this thanks for our partnership with GeekGamer.TV

The Northwest Pinball Championships is open to players of all skill levels and ages. It is a multi-day qualifying tournament followed by a day of finals. During qualifying on Friday and Saturday players purchase cards for OPEN/HIGH STATIC (5 games per card) or individual tickets for CLASSICS/WOMEN's to play on the tournament machines. Players may purchase as many cards or tickets as they like but there will be lots of opportunities for free tickets (Volunteering, pre-tournaments...).

To help us cover our location rental cost a $20 registration fee which will includes 3 free tickets for the Classics division.

OPEN/AMATEUR division cards (5 games per card) will be 1 for $20, 3 cards for $50 and 5 cards for $75 (AMATEUR can purchase 3 cards for $40).
CLASSICS/AMATEUR division individual tickets (1 game per ticket) will be 1 ticket = $5, 3 tickets = $10, 7 tickets = $20 and 20 tickets = $50
WOMEN'S division cards (4 games per card) will be 1 for $15, 2 cards for $25 and 5 cards for $50 (AMATEUR can purchase 3 cards for $30).
HIGH STAKE division cards (4 games per card) will be 1 for $40 (AMATEUR can purchase ONCE their FIRST card for $20).

Combo #1 - 2 Open Cards, 5 Classics entries, and 1 High Stakes Card for $80 (a $25 discount)
Combo #2 - 1 Open Card, 1 Women's Card, 5 Classics entries, and 1 High Stakes Card for $70 (a $15 discount)

Each player's best score on each machine is tracked in a computer and those scores are ranked against all the other competitor's scores on that machine. Players then receive an aggregate of their machine rankings (on a card or through all their best individual tickets) to determine their overall qualifying position in their division.

Anyone making it to a final on Sunday will get cash prizes! All top 4 finalist will get trophy/plaques to take home!

There will also be several activities including charity drive, swag raffles and more...!

We will have more announcement in the future as well as the banks line up!

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Pre-registration open Saturday 18th of June at Noon PST, the event is capped at 128 players.

A form will be available on the website main page to submit your pre-registration intent, https://www.nwpinballchamps.com/.

You will be contacted to submit the $20 (+ Paypal fee) payment by email (credit card payment) to confirm your registration.

75% refund by July 1st, 50% by August 15th, no refunds post September 1st.

Reminder that the registration will open tomorrow at Noon PST, the form on the main page will be as shown below, you can submit up to four players per form:

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thanks, got it, i am getting the list together and should send emails out today

We now have just over 100 players registered in the first 24 hours, we are capping at 128 so there still some spots if you are interested but do not wait too long-

https://www.nwpinballchamps.com/

Main registration is now close, 128 players have paid and confirmed so we are currently sold out.

However, we have added a Women only registration for those that did not get in through the Main registration but still want to participate in the Women event (only).
Another form is available for this new registration on the website:
https://www.nwpinballchamps.com/

We are now confirming the sponsors and we will make an announcement soon, stay tuned!

Some fresh update, the sponsors recruiting period and promotional material creation are now complete.

Thanks a lot to jay to helping us again this year sorting all the pretty design stuff out!
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For those flying into town before the event, we have the major pre-event on Thursday night starting at 8PM at The Ice Box Arcade. That will one of Seattle special fully rated event with Matchplay qualifiers and Multi-matchplay finals-
https://www.facebook.com/events/3190752944517678

The Trophy and plaques are nearly all here so i will update the thread with pictures when i have them all.

Big shootout to our sponsors that are helping by adding to our budget or providing swags/donations for prize and raffle. This year we once again forecast that 100% of entry paid by players will be paid back as prizes.
Any players winning $600 or more overall during the weekend will be paid by check and is required to complete a W9 so we can issue a 1099-MISC to you and the IRS (Similar INDISC and IFPA events).

We are very proud to announce our "SPECIAL" and "Limited edition" sponsors for the 2022 edition of the Northwest Pinball Championships!

These are our most dedicated sponsors that support our event at the highest level. Very well know in the Seattle scene and PNW, they do a lot to support the pinball community at large!

-8-Bit Arcade, Renton WA

-The Ice Box Arcade, Seattle WA

We are also proud to announce our premium sponsors for the 2022 edition of the Northwest Pinball Championships!

Our premium partners are very important to the success of our event and we are working closely together to make this happen. They do a lot to support our pinball community and no stranger to proving their generosity with their support.

-Cointaker, https://cointaker.com/

-Comet pinball, https://cometpinball.com/

-Flip N Out pinball, https://flipnoutpinball.com/

-American pinball, https://american-pinball.com/

-Jersey Jack pinball, https://jerseyjackpinball.com/

-Stern Pro Circuit, https://sternpinball.com/stern-pro-circuit/overview/

-Admiral Pub, Seattle WA

-Another Castle Arcade Edition, Edmonds, WA

-Jupiter Bar, Seattle WA

-Olaf's Bar, Seattle WA

-Shorty's, Seattle WA

-Waterland Arcade, Des Moines WA

We are inching closer to the opening of the Northwest Pinball Championships 2022!

We will announce the bank of games in the upcoming days. Please keep in mind that change can happen at any time due to games availability or issues.

We will open up for the 6 games that will make the WOMEN and the HIGH STAKES bank:

Genesis - D. Gottlieb (1986)
Godzilla (PRO) - Stern Pinball, Inc. (2021)
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure - Williams (1993)
Paragon - Bally (1979)
Volley (EM) - D. Gottlieb (1976)
Whirlwind - Williams (1990)

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Today we reveal our Classic bank, made up of early solid state and Electro-Mechanical games from various manufacturers:

Big Game - Stern Electronics (1980)
Doodle Bug - Williams (1971)
Frontier - Bally (1980)
Mars Trek - Sonic (1977)
Quicksilver - Stern Electronics (1980)
Star Gazer - Stern Electronics (1980)

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Finally, today we reveal our Open bank for our Stern Circuit event. The bank is expanding with a total of 10 machines where your card needs 5 of them:

Alien Star - Gottlieb (1984)
Barracora - Williams (1981)
Dirty Harry - Williams (1995)
Family Guy - Stern Pinball (2007)
Fish Tales - Williams (1992)
High Speed - Williams (1986)
Jurassic Park (PRO) - Stern Pinball (2019)
Metallica (PRO) - Stern Pinball (2013)
Rush (PRO) - Stern Pinball (2022)
Star Wars (PRO) - Stern Pinball (2017)

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We have sent important information by email yesterday to all registered attendees. Please make sure to check your Junk folder (Gmail love to put our emails in there...).

Review our host location COVID policy closely as we are mandated to enforce it by contract.

Come and join us for our pre tournament at The Ice Box Arcade the night before our tournament on THURSDAY 8th.
We will be running a Matchplay style pre-tournament (get them IFPA points!).

Entry Fee $10 per player. Registration starts at 7:30pm, closes at 7:55pm, start at 8:00pm SHARP.
More details: http://tinyurl.com/nwpc2022

Each tournament will have a guaranteed minimum 8 free entry cards (6 for the Open, 1 for Women and 1 for High stake event) as well as $50 of cash prizes. Over all for the different tournaments, that is a total of over 64 cards (minimum guaranteed) for the series (>$1,400 of free entries awarded)! Over $2,000 with cash, raffle and swag prizes.

See you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3190752944517678

Today is the day, we open at Noon, come and fight for the cool trophies/plaques, LOADS of cash, WPPRs and more important than all, bragging right!

We still have many volunteers spots for scorekeeping, earn yourself free entries and help us make the event better bu signing up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12STGzc_TKV04vg-7lKo3T-KVR-FS8DyQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117241879826122834412&rtpof=true&sd=true

Also please participate in the Free/Fun NWPC Fantasy Pinball team here:
https://www.pinballstatistics.com/nwpc-fantasy-pinball

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Here are the top 4 standings of the multiple events, more info coming soon:

Women Division:
Finals bracket:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=1
|1|Nik Sear|
|2|Sunni Williams|
|3|Micaela Wolf|
|4|Ashley Weaver|

Classic Amateur:
Finals Bracket:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=3
1,Steve Ward
2,Eric Morales
3,Michael Bailey
4,Jonathan Duncan

Classic:
Finals Bracket:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=2
|1|Sean Irby|
|---|---|
|2|Colin Urban|
|3|Escher Lefkoff|
|4|Bob Matthews|

Open Amateur:
Finals Bracket:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=5
1,Brandon Tibbetts
2,Michael Tibbetts
3,Nik Sear
4,Jasmijn de Jong

Revenge Classic tournament:
Matchplay link:
https://matchplay.events/live/b267w/matches
1,Neal Joslyn,44634
2,Richie Terry,41582
3,Stephen Donaldson,20047
4,Ashley Weaver,49083

Open:
Finals Bracket:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=4
|1|Escher Lefkoff|
|---|---|
|2|Raymond Davidson|
|3|Colin Urban|
|4|Robert Gagno|

High Stake:
Finals brackets:
https://www.neverdrains.com/nwpc2022/playerIndex.php?bracketId=6&set=Finals
|1|Escher Lefkoff|
|---|---|
|2|Raymond Davidson|
|3|Germain Mariolle|
|4|Cayle George|

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THANK YOU! Once again our event would not happen without the support from many MANY people, or without players trusting our event and come participate!

We had 119 players in the OPEN tournament this year, that is growth of 10% since our last event in 2019 3 years ago.

37 Women participated in the CARD qualifying tournament this year, a near 70% INCREASE since 2019. CLASSIC continue to be very popular with 121 players.
HIGH STAKES also saw an increase of over 50% since 2019, making this our 3rd certified event of the competition.
The Revenger Sunday Classic tournament did not have any issue selling out with 40 players going for prizes, WPPRs and a cool trophy!

Special thanks for all our local people from the greater Seattle area but also people from Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, California, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, Illinois, Alberta...!

This year we had over 650 card entries were played in the OPEN tournament, the Classic games were around 350 games played per machine in average, with the Women around 120 games and High stake bank around 160 games per machine combined.

That is a mind boggling 6,900 games of pinball played during qualifying, an increase of over 10% from 2019, more than 4.4 games per minutes!

Due to generosity of our sponsor and growth in attendance our cash prizes paid over $25,000 this year, a substantial increase from last year! We brought in over $3,000 after expenses as the tournament opened. That is on top of the trophies, plaques, rent, moving expenses, etc...

Top 4 prizes in OPEN were $2,800 for 1st, $1,600 for 2nd, $1,100 for 3rd and $850 for 4th.
Classics top 4 prizes were $1,800 for 1st, $1,400 for 2nd, $1,000 for 3rd and $750 for 4th.
The Women paid out $700 for 1st, $450 for 2nd, $300 for 3rd and $200 for 4th.
High stakes paid out $2,700 for 1st, $1,700 for 2nd, $1,100 for 3rd and $500 for 4th.

We welcome any feedback and comments to make this event better every year ([email protected]). We will also be sending anonymous survey to those who would like to provide feedback. We strive to do our best with our limited resource and volunteers dedicating them precious free time to others, with that said we hope everyone has fun!

Of course, this could not have happened without all our INCREDIBLE volunteers, sponsors and partners. I am always worried to call out people by name as there has been SO MANY people helping the core NWPC organizing team (you know who you are!). Our incredible pinball moving team, Danger Dan and Eric Morales, Richie, Matt, Michael R., Ashley, Stephen and Garrett with set up on Thursday, Ashley and Michael R. even coming back on Monday to help us load back in. Michelle and the Tibbetts family for running the registration desk and much more all week. Alexa and Max coming to our rescue on the desk as well which is key for a well run event. Misa helping out at the desk and score keeping. Karl for his tournament software and support during the whole weekend, ALL the scorekeeper volunteer, including last minute people helping out, even volunteer adding more shifts to help filling the gap in scorekeeper, you rock!

Massive kudos to GeekGamer.TV, returning for our 3rd year and always bringing professional level quality! Getting even better than the previous years and with high quality coverage!

We really on generous local collector to loan us game for our events, this could not happen without them either, thank you!

BIGGEST THANKS to Lynnwood Bowl and Skate to accommodate us against this year. There was no short of compliments from the players on the location and the staff! It is hard thinking of running our event anywhere else now. They were very flexible with our extended schedule to add another final event and letting us come back on Monday to clear up the space.
The core crew of the NWPC team did amazing this year, top kudos to Eden Stamm which is the pillar of having the event and special kudos to Ashley, Lonnie and Dave helping Ray, Cayle and I with TDing.

And also our sponsors, which make this event possible in the first place by supporting our event and pinball at large. Our local sponsors, 8-bit Arcade as our special sponsor this year again with supporting trophy and plaques and The Ice Box arcade also a special sponsor this year showing awesome support. Amazing support from our Premium sponsors as well, including first time sponsor location like Waterland Arcade and Admiral Pub, as well returning partners, Jupiter Bar, Shorty's, Olaf's and Another Castle Arcade. Special thanks to our Event sponsor, Flip n Out Pinball, Cointaker, Comet Pinball and American Pinball. We also receive support from Stern Pinball, Spooky Pinball, Jersey Jack Pinball, Pinball Life.

The banner is coming back in storage, we will see you next year!
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