Hello everyone! I know this thread (and the other PinFest one) are mainly about the show and games, but we have just made some announcements about the Tournaments at the event, so I am cross-posting here and encouraging you to check out this other thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinfest-tournament-2019-a-stern-pro-circuit-event#post-4838521

Pinball machines are what makes this event possible and we are hoping to have about 20 available for the tournament. If you are interested in bringing a machine, please go to this Survey and let us know: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1y8-oEW8aIbLgU37rqtgGJ31cQ4MoQa8gCQKk7-bXhdg/edit This year we are offering $80 in tournament credit or $60 in Cash for machines that are part of the event. Please check out this page for more information: http://www.pinfesttournament.com/bring-a-machine

Our thought process is that we know our resources are limited so we wanted to focus on an improved Main Event.

We still have a Friday-only event ("The Gauntlet"). We also know there was a lot of wasted time between rounds of the MatchPlay, and there are a TON of cool things to do at the show, so we wanted to design a Friday event when people can take their shot at something competitive and not have to wait 1.5 hours between playing games.

We took the lessons learned from PinFest and applied them to York and plan to keep running the MatchPlay Event at York. Zac and Jason Z did so well on TOTAN last year that we now have an IFPA-approved rule in place on how to deal with runaway games where multiple people save the princess multiple times.

There's an old archaic by-law in the IFPA rules that puts a limit on the number of times Dragon can be used in Pro Circuit events on a rolling five-year basis so as not to dilute the awesomeness that is Dragon. The PinFest tournament looks forward to having Dragon in the line-up again in the year 2023.