Extremely surprised there are still spots open...

I'll do another post on the Milwaukee Pinball Academy group.

The overlap between the SE WI people on Pinside and the folks I play with regularly in Milwaukee is basically just myself and mattenno.

While I believe the above is true IFPA-wise, usually classic tournaments include 'classic' games only. How you define classic depends on the tournament.

At PAPA, they define classic as a game released 20 years or more than the current tournament year. Hence, Fish Tales, Addams Family, Jurassic Park and other early DMD games would be classified as 'classic' under that definition.

At Expo 2012, it was EMs and early SS games. No alphanumerics.

At America's Playable Arcade 2012, it consisted of a single EM, with two attempts to qualify.

At the Lafayette tournament I went to Dec 2012, it was an EM and an early SS, two attempts to qualify on each.

At Waun-a-Pinball 2013, it was Monopoly, two attempts to qualify.

I imagine you could have any number of side-tournaments for points. I should ask if there's a limit sometime.

I so want to win Jediturtle's tutorial. For Reals.

I want to learn some leveling-fu.

If anyone needs a ride from Milwaukee, I have spots for two. PM me for more info.

I like the score card. Glad you have the instructions on there.

Thinking out loud here...

I like the idea of having feature-based goals in principle, but a difficulty we might run into is how to ensure a player has truly completed those goals.

On FT, there's no indicator or instant info page indicating you played Feeding Frenzy, started multiball, or played the video mode and took out 15 boats.

On TAF, starting 4 mansion rooms can be easily seen (just check the mansion inserts).

On WCS, doesn't the instant info indicate how many goals you've gotten?

You'd have to have a scorekeeper or another player watching to ensure that it happened. But for this pin-golf we all have a partner who is motivated to ensure we meet goals as quickly as possible, so as to get a good ranking (last two pingolfs I played in didn't have that). Considering the way the groups work, I think those feature goals are doable.

I like it.

I think your original FT goals are fine - it'll work with the format you have selected.

Every other PinGolf I've been to has had one goal per machine (I have a sample size of 2 though... lol), and I saw how they worked. So I was just thinking out loud about what made this one different...

I like the idea of feature-based goals a lot. It gives the players something to think about other than high scores.

Looking forward to playing with everyone on Saturday!

mattenno's skills are excellent! Anyone pairing up for Brawl with him will be getting a great partner. His IFPA record doesn't show it, but Matt has gotten 1st place in local tournaments here in Milwaukee more times than I've been able to keep track of.

Overall, I thought MRP2013 was a much more fun tournament than the first one last year. The amount of crankiness and stress that the "pump n' dump" format can incite with the growing money pot wasn't there, and it felt like a much more of a fun environment to play and chat in. And the mini-tournament still provided some opportunities for cash payout. I'm a fan of charity events too.

One of the things I liked about the last two years was the fact that I didn't need to take off of work (I have a 9 to 5, Monday -> Friday job), and that it was a one-day event.

In my experience most pinball folks have a wide variety of schedules, so maybe I'm just one blip in a few that would find that rather inconvenient. It does sound like a lot more fun though.