HO, HO, HO!
Now that Halloween has passed, we can officially set our sights on Christmas again and with that comes the 3RD ANNUAL PINSIDE SECRET SANTA PROGRAM! The first year we had 61 participants, last year we ended up with 113 participants, this year...who knows where we'll end up! People seem to have a really good time with this and we haven't had any Grinches in the group as everyone has come through with gifts...so overall it has been a rousing success ("LesManley knocks on wood"). Because of that, let's give it a another go this year and see if we can put even more smiles on people's faces come Christmas morning. I'll keep the Secret Santa sign up open until Friday night, November 15th. At that point I have to close it down so I can send out Secret Santa information and people can start buying their gifts. Once the sign up period has ended, I will create a new thread for all the participants and link to it in this thread.
If you are totally unfamiliar with what this SS Program entails, here is a quick synopsis:
Everyone who chooses to participate sends me the information requested below and is put on the Secret Santa list. After registration is closed on Nov. 15th, I will randomly choose recipients for each Santa. Every Santa will receive the list of suggestions and address of their recipient. They then locate gift(s) and send to their recipient. Everyone who participates will send a gift(s), and receive a gift(s) to open whenever they choose to hopefully bring some additional cheer to them this holiday season.
If you want to check out the complete details and/or you just want to relive all the joy we had last year, here is the Secret Santa thread from 2018...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-2018-pinside-secret-santa-participants-thread
If you want to participate here is what I need from you via private message...
Your full name and mailing address
Your email address
Your shirt size
Suggestions: I suggest providing a list of ideas to help your Santa out, but ultimately your Santa will decide what to get you. Not required, but if you update your collection on Pinside, include a list of your current games in the PM to me and/or mention that you also like arcade games and/or pop culture for instance, that could also help give your Santa ideas and direction. Please don't come into this with huge expectations, or have hard feelings if it's not anything on your list, just enjoy what's received. This is as fun of an experience as you make it!
I think that's everything. I'll update usernames from PMs as they come in in this thread as well, so everyone knows I got their message and that they are included. Feel free to post in this thread that you are participating to encourage others to do so as well if you want. The more the merrier!
2019 Secret Santas:
1 2Kaulitz
2 acitti
3 action76
4 Aflacjack
5 alexmogil
6 amkoepfer
7 Arcade
8 Asylum
9 Atari_Daze
10 atrainn
11 balt
12 bbriese
13 BertoDRINK1
14 bicyclenut
15 biglaw
16 blondetall
17 BlueIrocGuy
18 bowz
19 Brypten
20 BubbaBeast
21 Captainhook
22 Charliew65
23 Cheberha
24 Chisox
25 chubtoad13
26 Coindork
27 Coz
28 Crumbalimb
29 Daditude
30 DanieB
31 davidlldennis
32 dc2010
33 Dee-Bow
34 Derick2k
35 dnapac
36 docquest
37 dondon4720
38 drbrain
39 EasternBloc
40 easye9901
41 Ericc123
42 FatPanda
43 Fezmid
44 fiberdude120
45 fnosm
46 fosaisu
47 fxdwg
48 gentrsa
49 Gexchange
50 gliebig
51 grantopia
52 Gritty
53 Heypresto86
54 HighVoltage
55 hogbog
56 homegameroom
57 HotPieceOfSass
58 Insane
59 ismiglif
60 Isochronic_Frost
61 j_m_
62 Jaeg
63 Jawa
64 jedi42
65 jellikit
66 jesperpark
67 Jgel
68 joefox22
69 joelw23
70 jp1985
71 JRBBRJ
72 Jvspin
73 KingPinGames
74 Lame33
75 Leeb18509
76 LesManley
77 Liftserv
78 LoganJK
79 luckycreature
80 Magicchiz
81 mario_1_up
82 Matesamo
83 matiou
84 merccat
85 mickey
86 modfather
87 MrMikeman
88 MrsPin
89 Mudflaps
90 Murphdom
91 MurphyPeoples
92 Muskie82
93 nascarrey
94 NeilMcRae
95 Nevus
96 newovad
97 newtoit
98 Nihonmasa
99 nogoodnames222
100 northvibe
101 notherndude
102 Outlanes
103 pacmanretro
104 Pball
105 Pdxmonkey
106 Pinballlew
107 pinballplusMN
108 pinmaniac
109 Pinmasher
110 Pinsterwmass
111 Pinzap
112 puck
113 pzy
114 RCA1
115 RobertWinter
116 rodcom
117 Sarversystems
118 shovelhed
119 Sijcolo
120 silen7ce
121 SKWilson
122 SkyKing2301
123 Soapman
124 sp005
125 Stosel
126 stpcore
127 TaylorVA
128 the96stang
129 tomdotcom
130 TonyScoots
131 TrixTrix
132 troxel
133 undrdog
134 V_piscopo
135 Waderade812
136 wdpvideo
137 Wharhed
138 Whysnow
139 Wolfmarsh
140 Wondermellon
141 Xerico
142 ZEN