Quoted from Xerico:

Hi!
2015 TPF Tournament details are posted on the Texas IFPA Pinball Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/171969562990569/
Details include pictures of the actual games that will be used, tournament game lists, rule updates, strategy tips, etc.
Pre-Registration for the tournament is requested. So if you think that you might play, please pre-register. The link for pre-registration is http://pinballtourneys.com/TPF2015/ If you receive a "404 Error", please check back later as the site is undergoing some code changes today, 3/20/2015.
We also need tournament score keepers for Friday & Saturday.
If you would like to volunteer for score keeping duties, please send me your name, preferred email address and your T-Shirt Size. The volunteer blocks are 4 hours. If you volunteer for multiple 4 hour blocks, you get better swag.
Volunteers also get a private pinball party in their honor at in the late Summer, early Autumn.
So please, please volunteer if you can. We really appreciate the help!
Marcus

Quoted from Frax:

Well, take Crescendo off the TPF list. Barring some kind of EM miracle happening, and EM Santa Free Tech coming to fix my game.... it's not going. I went to get some parts, came back, screwed down the last stuff on the playfield, tried to get an active game set up (keeping in mind I've NEVER been able to properly start a game... I was able to start a game by activating the middle coin chute....and it always started the game right away for some reason) so I could test play it and adjust the flippers and pop bumper switches before delving into the many many scoring issues and lighting issues....and now the piece of sh-t won't do a damn thing. I've got no flippers, no pops, no scoring at all anymore, no ball kickout, it won't coin up or start a game in any way that I am familiar with. It doesn't work.
I'm so unbelievably pissed off I do not have the motivation to work on it any longer. It's caused me to lose 40+ hours of sleep already in the last week trying to get it ready to go, and now this.. I'm done. F--k this game. It looks beautiful lit up, I am EXTREMELY disappointed.