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The 2014 Texas Pinball Festival will be held March 28th-30th at the Embassy Suites Dallas – Frisco Hotel & Convention Center in Frisco, TX.

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Changing dates and locations is never an easy decision. Several scheduling conflicts (such as the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament being hosted in Dallas/Ft Worth the first weekend in April) and limited or unavailable March dates forced us to seek a new location for 2014.

We are very excited to be moving to the Embassy Suites. It is a beautiful hotel with more than 40,000 sq ft of available show space! In addition, the hotel is directly across the street from Stonebriar Mall offering an abundance of food options and free parking.

More information and special hotel room rates will be announced soon along with our 2014 TPF logo and website updates.

Jared Guynes
Marketing
Texas Pinball Festival
http://www.texaspinball.com/tpf/

The location is beautiful. Load in is far better than last year, the hotel is better arranged and less walking, there is a ton of parking and plenty of food. Its a drastic upgrade from the 2013 show in my opinion.

For those of you who do facebook, please RSVP and SHARE this event.

https://www.facebook.com/events/493624624057444/

How far will you drive to the Texas Pinball Festival? With 3 days of events and over 350 games on free play it's worth the trip from anywhere!

DISTANCE FROM:

Dallas: 27 Miles - 30 Minutes
Fort Worth: 50 Miles - 50 Minutes
Oklahoma City: 192 Miles - 2.75 Hours
Austin: 222 Miles - 3.3 Hours
Houston: 267 Miles - 4 Hours
Little Rock: 317 Miles - 5 Hours
New Orleans: 542 Miles - 7.5 Hours
Albuquerque: 632 Miles - 9 Hours

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Whoops!

We know people are coming from all over the nation, and thats one of the things that makes the TPF so awesome. Actually the only reason I wanted to mention those specific cities is because it matched the little graphic that I made, haha.

There are no longer toll booths. It's all digital. They bill you in the mail automatically.

It IS possible to drive there 100% off the tollway. It would take 2-3x as long.

Rooms are filling up in Frisco for the Texas Pinball Festival in March 2014! Book your room now while they are available!

We’ve worked out a great rate for our guests this year, just like we have every year. Rooms for guests of the 2014 Texas Pinball Festival start at $119.00 per night. Reservations can be made online, or over the phone at 972-712-7600 using the code TPF or requesting the Texas Pinball Festival block.

http://texaspinball.com/tpf/hotel/

Yes you can.

In the past this was true, but now they will send you a bill in the mail.

Yikes. Thats hardcore.

You guys grabbing those hotels?

The official flyer was just released. Thousands of flyers going to print later this afternoon. tpf_final_flyer_1.jpg

In the heat of the show you can imagine it's very difficult to be totally precise. Ed confirmed the Pinball News Quote of 360, but also said internally their company count was just over 380.

The other thing to bring up is that it depends on the day and time. One quick example I say is there was a CV coming into the show on Thursday... it got bought on the loading dock. Never even made it into the show. There was a MB that was bought by the end of the first night and left with the paid penalty before the main day of the show...

So anyways, there is no great way to know how many machines come to the place totally. But here is one thing I can say...

Everything is bigger in Texas. See you in Frisco 2014.

Ahem. 400 "Games". Not pins. Pins are awesome... and maybe there will be 400+ pins (and we will try!!!) but the sticker says 400 Games. So that includes any vids and arcades that show up too.

Suit?

It was not really a reply you do, but rather a general statement brought about by thoughts your post unlocked in my brain.

Thanks, it was a team effort.