Quoted from gandamack:Three day pass for $150. Is that all? Friggin' boat show was only 20 bucks to get in the door. I was gonna go, but that price is dumb. It will cost more to repair your broken-into car window after parking in downtown Tacoma for an hour.
Pretty sure you don't get to drive the boats!
Yeah and the boat show has high dollar commercial companies which pay tens of thousands of dollars for their spaces to subsidize the costs to sell boats. The NWPAS show is run by volunteers, and everyone is donating their machines for the weekend. Also profits go to charity at the end.
Quoted from gandamack:Three day pass for $150. Is that all? Friggin' boat show was only 20 bucks to get in the door. I was gonna go, but that price is dumb. It will cost more to repair your broken-into car window after parking in downtown Tacoma for an hour.
You lost me at boat show... that's nothing like a pinball convention where you get to play 450 games all weekend, there are speakers, tournaments, vendors, homebrew games, new and rare games, and just stuff you don't see anywhere else. Most collectors bring a game and get in free, the show is highly incentivized for collectors and players to get in free by volunteering time and games to make it a big community run event and ticket sales to the general population fund the event. Those that just want to pay and be part of the public usually buy their weekend pass early when it's a cheaper rate.
FYI, the price is reflective of the cost it takes to put on the show, it's non-profit and we all do the work for free.
Definitely our largest number of games and a surprisingly large turnout for Friday, usually Friday is when we have time to work through repairs and get everything running well, but we hit the ground running! You can really tell how much the hobby has expanded over the past couple years and also how ready people were for an event like this after not doing many events for the past 2 years.
And it's really great how many rare, 2.0/revisited games, and brand new games ended up making it, along with so many classic WPC, 80s and EM games. Such a good mix of games!
Quoted from NWPinballshow:Definitely our largest number of games and a surprisingly large turnout for Friday, usually Friday is when we have time to work through repairs and get everything running well, but we hit the ground running! You can really tell how much the hobby has expanded over the past couple years and also how ready people were for an event like this after not doing many events for the past 2 years.
And it's really great how many rare, 2.0/revisited games, and brand new games ended up making it, along with so many classic WPC, 80s and EM games. Such a good mix of games!
Great show so far, and the turn out is incredible! Well done!
Usually Friday is pretty light but today was super busy! It's great to see everyone again and meet the first timers!
In less than an hour, we have a day packed with some great seminars, stop by the seminar area to see them in person! And if you can't make it to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show today, we will also be streaming them live!
Hear from:
FAST Pinball, LLC
Stern Pinball
Chicago Gaming Company
And pinball sound designer David D Thiel!
All seminars can be found here on YouTube as they happen live and will be archived later: http://youtube.com/geekgamertv/live
285813897_708220773606534_7282644054820980413_n (resized).jpgWe will also be live streaming tournament play on Twitch throughout today and tomorrow. Saturday afternoon's tournament streaming schedule at the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show:
(All times Pacific Daylight)
3:30pm LIVE - Women's Tourney Final Qualifying Rounds
4:30pm LIVE - Open Match Play Qualifying (Group D)
7:30pm LIVE - Women's Tournament Playoffs
Streaming at: https://www.twitch.tv/geekgamertv
Each evening at the show we have a drawing for an arcade or pinball game. This lucky Friday night winner won a Time Pilot '84 arcade game! Enter the drawings at the prize desk, who knows, you might win next! Tonight's drawing is for a Williams's Flash. Tomorrows drawings are for a Ms Pacman and a new Stern Mandalorian!
285335927_3281854288752816_6645299377864889650_n (resized).jpgAt the show today you should stop by the Another Castle Arcade Edition: Edmonds High Score Wall and compete for prizes! Compete on seven classic arcade games, up until 8:00 p.m., where the person with the highest score on each game wins a gift certificate to one of four local arcade bars: Another Castle Arcade, Add-A-Ball, Crave 80s, or Raygun Lounge!!!
284708968_3281837975421114_985254949802223036_n (resized).jpgI hope everyone is having a blast at the show this weekend, I know I sure am! We could really use at least a dozen more people for teardown on Sunday, even if you can only help pack up from 3-5pm to get the first set of trucks loaded and on their way that would be a huge help. It makes it so much easier if we have a full community of people helping the first couple hours, so stick around or stop if you can after the show ends. Thanks!
Quoted from NWPinballshow:Saturday raffle winner, proud owner of a new Williams Flash pinball game!
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Congrats, Grant!!! Now, how you gonna get it home?!
Teardown at 20:00 (8:00pm) +5 hours from show closing at 15:00 (3:00pm) when all the power was suddenly cut.
This was the backbox of my Whirlwind as prepared before the show. The game lasted the entire show with ZERO maintenance. I did not open up this machine once for the entire duration of the show.
This is the backbox of my Indiana Jones after the show closed. This game lasted the show but a few loose screws required some maintenance but the boards passed for the entire duration. No problems. No resets. Happy players!
Quoted from NWPinballshow:Saturday raffle winner, proud owner of a new Williams Flash pinball game!
Congratulations on winning and congratulations on graduating to "MEDIC".
Quoted from gandamack:Three day pass for $150. Is that all? Friggin' boat show was only 20 bucks to get in the door. I was gonna go, but that price is dumb. It will cost more to repair your broken-into car window after parking in downtown Tacoma for an hour.
You do realize that you can volunteer to get in for free right?
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There I am! I'm the one in the My Hero Academia shirt.
Quoted from wcbrandes:This looks like the best PNW show yet! Sorry I cant attend this year, but well done to all the organizers and volunteers !
Thanks! I volunteered on Thursday to helped moved and setup the games since 7:30AM. It's a lot of work but very fun to look at the pinball games you've never seen before.
For those interested in statistics.
I tried very hard to get my games played numbers before closing but it's impossible to get people off machines. Ultimately the power was cut and I missed three final counts. I was most excited to get the Safe Cracker count but that's just an impossibility. That game was played a lot. These are the numbers that I do have - in order of games placed on the show floor.
Twilight Zone: Friday=212, Saturday=244, Sunday=104, Total=560.
Lord of the Rings: Friday=135, Saturday=192, Sunday=83, Total=410.
Whirlwind: Friday=195, Saturday=229, Sunday=?, Total=?.
The Addams Family: Friday=169, Saturday=216, Sunday=?, Total=?.
Black Knight 2000: Friday=163, Saturday=215, Sunday=93, Total=471.
Indiana Jones: Friday=130, Saturday=209, Sunday=85, Total=424.
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Friday=138, Saturday=195, Sunday=100, Total=433.
Safe Cracker: Friday=172, Saturday=197, Sunday=?, Total=?.
I don't have accurate counts of tokens dispensed. I estimate I had about 100 tokens in both tubes and I'm left with around 30 tokens. This is about what I expected - a minimum of 60 and a maximum of 80 based on 2017 and 2018 numbers.
Comparison to 2019 (the last show).
Twilight Zone: 2019=515, 2022=560.
Lord of the Rings: 2019=437, 2022=410.
Black Knight 2000: 2019=543, 2022=471.
Indiana Jones: 2019=494, 2022=424.
Bram Stoker's Dracula: 2019=621, 2022=433.
When the games missing the final counts are set up and I can get the numbers from them I'll update this. I know numbers can be boring for most people but I find them fascinating to track both usage and popularity although this is hardly a scientific method to doing that.
Our first tournament at Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show was our Classic Pingolf event sponsored by Olaf's (which incidentally is my neighborhood bar and pinball spot).
161 players participated in the 10 holes challenge and tried to get into the top 28 finals. The cut off was at 39 strokes which did not leave much room for errors. (https://matchplay.events/live/nwpaspingolf)
The finalists faced off in a 5 strikes group knockout fair strike format, which went on for 8 rounds until we had our winner. Germain finished it off against Jeff and Craig with a strong game of Quicksilver, Dave Stewart took the 4ht place plaques. All top 28 finalists won money. A total of $5,600 cash payout for this event!
https://matchplay.events/live/zzz76433/standings
The results are already published in IFPA with the full standings:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=48328
golf (resized).jpgThe Northwest Women's Pinball Championship... what a competition! This was sponsored 8-bit Arcade and The Triple Knock.
Stream VOD from GeekGamer.TV available here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1494982663
Photo credit to 4 Ever the Flip
69 unique players participated in the 2 Matchplay qualifying rounds, a total of 101 entries between them. TOP 11 of each round moved onto the finals with top qualifier getting a BYE.
https://matchplay.events/live/8jjve/standings
https://matchplay.events/live/bbb76425/standings
The 20 first round finalist faced off in a 4 round of group matchplay to decide the top 6 players to get into the semi finals, joining the top 2 qualifiers.
https://matchplay.events/live/bbb76439/standings
Then the top 8 finalist faced off into Match Multiplay finals, with top 2 players of each group moving to the final 4.
After some intense competition on Fish Tales, Xmen, Godzilla and Cheetah our very own local Ren Logan pulled out a narrow win followed by Zoe Vrabel 2nd, Louise Wagensonner 3rd and Ashley Weaver 4th.
All top 22 finalist won money, a total of $2,750 was paid out for this event!
https://matchplay.events/live/bbb76443/standings
The results have been submitted to IFPA and are pending posting, here is the full standings:
1 Ren Logan
2 Zoe Vrabel
3 Louise Wagensonner
4 Ashley Weaver
5 Liberty Ruderman
5 Lucy Hoffman
7 Leslie J Martin
8 Sandy Magallanes
9 Vanessa Ish
11 Kate Giuggio
11 Danielle Wilcox
11 Alissa Newman
11 Sarah Bay
15 Jessica Barron
15 Jade Ang
15 Alyson Ruby Rae
18 Tracy Lindbergh
18 Amber Roy
18 Emily Beirne
20 Chelsea Rakonza
21 Brieana White
21 Michelle Loprieno
25 Ashleigh Kolla
25 Dawnda Durbin
25 Kristin Vick
25 Rachel Kahalekulu
25 Shawnna Kenney
31 Alexa Philbeck
31 Heather Loudon
31 Meghan Keffer
31 Sara Morrison
31 Sarah Hager
31 Tessi Brumley
31 Tomar Schell
39 Breanna Felix
39 Hannah Hatch
39 Jess Warren
39 Karrie Hill
39 Kim Martinez
39 Kristina Ralston
39 Natalie Haney
39 Shawna Teale
39 Steph Hanlon
39 Tis Lais
49 Amanda Kotchon
49 Carrie Wilson
49 Clare Green
49 Jasmijn de Jong
49 Jennifer Manka
49 Kaitlyn Durbin
49 Lexi Whittemore
49 Max Stewart
49 Megan Czahar
49 Micaela Wolf
55 Nik Sear
56 Jenny Vidovic
59 Allison Thrower
59 Astrid Morrison
59 Danielle Crowson
59 Kaite Martin
59 Kaitlyn Westfall
59 Kelli Goins
64 Bridgette Thimsen
64 Sharky Jacaway
64 Theresa Martin
66 Christine Gent
68 Debbie Smith
68 Jandy Stephens
68 Valerie Huffman
women (resized).jpgWe started Sunday morning with our Rookie and Amateur event, sponsored by Another Castle Arcade Edition: Edmonds and Another Castle Arcade Edition: Marysville
We had a full field with 60 players participating, 5 rounds of Matchplay qualifying rounds, with top 16 moving into the finals. Chris Wolf was the top qualifier moving into the finals.
https://matchplay.events/live/kwwvk/standings
The 16 finalists played one 4 player game with top 2 of that game moving into the next round. Zolaire took the win on the last game of Night Rider, finishing ahead of Natalie Haney, Chris Wolf and Tomar Schell, they all received plaques. All top 16 finalist won money, a total of $800 was paid out for this event!
https://matchplay.events/live/bbb76471/standings
Here are the final standings:
1 Zolaire Arcade
2 Natalie Haney
3 Chris Wolf
4 Tomar Schell
5 John Davenhall
5 Jordan West
7 Joe Slovacek
7 Sharky Jacaway
10 Kaitlyn Durbin
10 Anthony Sitaras
10 Ashleigh Kolla
10 Alexandre Davis
14 Ramsey Sierra
14 Phillip Saltzman
14 John Cambareri
14 Fabian Hartmann
17 Collin Whittemore 25 pts.
17 Alissa Newman 25 pts.
22 Mandy Woodard 23 pts.
22 Dwayne Collins 23 pts.
22 Scott Vermeys 23 pts.
22 Scott Kelly 23 pts.
22 Stuart McPherran 23 pts.
22 Leslie J Martin 23 pts.
22 Daniel Kexel 23 pts.
28 Emily Beirne 21 pts.
28 Cameron Staley 21 pts.
28 Alan Wiley 21 pts.
28 Andrew Hopper 21 pts.
28 Brooks Farr 21 pts.
34 Joe Madia 19 pts.
34 Chad Adams WA 19 pts.
34 Dean Shivers 19 pts.
34 Michael Jones 19 pts.
34 Alex Hawley 19 pts.
34 Jennifer Manka 19 pts.
34 Jessica Barron 19 pts.
39 Brendan Lumsdaine 17 pts.
39 Dylan Chernicoff 17 pts.
39 Lexi Whittemore 17 pts.
39 Kristin Vick 17 pts.
46 Max Stewart 15 pts.
46 John McConnell 15 pts.
46 Cameron Chernicoff 15 pts.
46 Amber Roy 15 pts.
46 Stephanie Cooley 15 pts.
46 Thomas Brown 15 pts.
46 Jared Bayliss 15 pts.
46 Jack Cooley 15 pts.
46 Brad SMelser 15 pts.
53 Jess Warren 13 pts.
53 Clare Green 13 pts.
53 Rachel Farr 13 pts.
53 Gocelyn Morgado 13 pts.
53 Mary Roesbery 13 pts.
53 Rob Files 13 pts.
57 Kelli Goins 11 pts.
59 Shawnna Kenney 9 pts.
59 Paul Kurfess 9 pts.
59 Cameron Lessing 9 pts.
rookie (resized).jpgAnd at the end, we had the main event of the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show tournament, The Open Matchplay which was sponsored by Shorty's and the B-Division by Waterland Arcade.
Stream VOD from GeekGamer.TV available here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1495432650
198 unique players participated in the 5 Matchplay qualifying rounds, a total of 300 entries between them. TOP 9 of each round moved onto the finals with top qualifier getting a BYE.
https://matchplay.events/live/nwpasrounda/standings
https://matchplay.events/live/kww7x/standings
https://matchplay.events/live/6669k/standings
https://matchplay.events/live/7jj1v/standings
https://matchplay.events/live/bbb76428/standings
The 40 first round finalist faced off in a 4 round of group matchplay to decide the top 11 players to get into the quarter finals, joining the top 5 qualifiers.
https://matchplay.events/live/wwwez/standings
Then the top 16 finalist faced off into Match Multiplay finals, with top 2 players of each group moving to the top 8 and the final 4.
The final four played on Barracora, Fish Tales, X-men and Godzilla. Tim McCool show up strong, put great games across the board to claim the win! Walking away with a trophy cup and $2,000! NOt far behind was James Daniels with a strong performance of his own taking 2nd overall, then Germain and Alex Singleterry took 3rd and 4th place.
All 45 finalist won money, a total of $11,000 was paid out for this event!
https://matchplay.events/live/aaa76465/standings
We also had our B-Eligible players (IPR 5 and below) that got knocked out in the first round of the playoff battling for cash and hardware.
Stephen Donaldson won the B-div first place with Mike Smith from Portland, Jeff Debock and Derek Jennings in 4th.
https://matchplay.events/live/aaa76470/standings
The results have been submitted to IFPA and are pending posting, here is the full standings:
1 Tim McCool
2 James Daniels
3 Germain Mariolle
4 Alex Singleterry
5 Xyren Silvers
7 Michael B Bailey
7 Maka Honig
7 Cayle George
9 Miles Grant
11 Tim Tournay
11 Zoe Vrabel
11 Ken Martin
13 Tim Uomoto
13 Nick Taseris
15 Daniel Rone
16 Josh Hornbaker
17 Jeff Debock
19 Derek Jennings
19 Sergey Posrednikov
19 Conrad Rustad
19 Mike Smith PDX
25 Stephen Donaldson
25 Ben Bisset
25 Vincent Sperrazza
25 Clinton Peterson
25 Sterling Emry
25 Corbin Sheffels
25 Lonnie Langford
32 Matt Galbraith
32 Sam Snyder
32 Jack Slovacek
32 Liberty Ruderman
32 Micaela Wolf
32 Algird Lisaius
32 David Johnston US
36 Chris Hebert
36 Andrew Nunes
40 Kaite Martin
40 Matthew Roggenkamp
40 Sean Lind
40 Joshua Simon
40 John Robinson WA
43 Peter Durbin
43 Shawna Teale
45 Tracy Lindbergh
49 Brandon Tibbetts
49 Dan Bitterlich
49 Darin Lange
49 Dave Stewart
49 Jared Bayliss
49 John Cambareri
49 Michael Rausch
54 Dana Valatka
54 Dwayne Smith
54 Jade Ang
64 Andrew McCann
64 Bryan Eastman
64 Cameron Chernicoff
64 Chris Borgstadt
64 Forrest Avery
64 Jon Salzman
64 Kevin Coffey
64 Louise Wagensonner
64 Mathew Peterson
64 Matt Anderson
64 Matt Lauro
64 Max Davidoff
64 Michael Tibbetts
64 Neal Joslyn
64 Robert Gagno
64 Tim Collins
64 Tom Walsh
83 Arthur Eckhardt
83 Ashley Weaver
83 Chris Mullen
83 Christopher Hart
83 David Chernicoff
83 Dean Shivers
83 Isaiah Petersen
83 Jaran jones
83 Jarrett Gaddy
83 Jasmijn de Jong
83 Jason Uritescu
83 Lexi Whittemore
83 Mack Rote
83 Matthew Harjo
83 Max Stewart
83 Nate Cantor
83 Patrick Carlson
83 Ramsey Sierra
83 Robbie Finnigan
83 Taylor Niemy
83 Todd MacCulloch
96 Brian Chesbrough
96 Brieana White
96 Cameron Staley
96 Lucas Silvers
96 Ren Logan
109 Amanda Kotchon
109 Andy Burton
109 Anthony Giles
109 Ashleigh Kolla
109 Clayton Stetz
109 Dan Danger
109 Daniel Trobare
109 Dawnda Durbin
109 Ditto Depew
109 Isaac Grams
109 Jeff Dillaman
109 John Davenhall
109 Joshua Francis
109 Kaitlyn Durbin
109 Karrie Hill
109 Larry Olson
109 Nik Sear
109 Richie Terry
109 Sam Atlas
109 Sarah Hager
109 Val Gaifoulline
109 Vanessa Ish
121 Kelli Goins
121 Michael Ulmen
128 Andrew Hopper
128 Dave Grant
128 Dwayne Collins
128 Emily Beirne
128 James Edes
128 James Smith
128 Jared Gamble
128 Jessica Barron
128 John Garnett
128 Lucy Hoffman
128 Marcus Schmick
128 Scott Weigum
135 Michael Eccleston
144 Alan Wiley
144 Alissa Newman
144 Altwin Hawksford
144 Anthony Mccammant
144 Anthony Sitaras
144 Brendan Niebruegge
144 Dave Ensminger
144 David Latimer
144 Heather Loudon
144 Jess Warren
144 Landon Cross
144 Mr Wolfy
144 Nigel Colbert
144 Phillip Saltzman
144 Richard Scott
144 Steph Hanlon
144 Stuart McPherran
153 John Stein
160 Amber Roy
160 Astrid Morrison
160 Craig Cainkar
160 Daniel Kexel
160 Daniel Mays
160 Mike Sorrels
160 Nate Carter
160 Neil Hodge
160 Nic Crowson
160 Nick Tinker
160 Sarah Bay
160 Timm Shere
160 Tis Lais
160 Trent Barton
173 Clare Green
173 Danielle Wilcox
173 Dylan Chernicoff
173 Joe Madia
173 Joe Slovacek
173 Justin Hugeback
173 Kevin Skerl
173 Kristina Ralston
173 Kyle Condell
173 Paul White
173 Quin Kennedy
179 Theresa Martin
184 Alexander Young
184 Bo Kellogg
184 Brandon Lorenz
184 Breanna Felix
184 Joseph Roberts
184 Joseph Salender
184 Juan Salinas
184 Katie Tinker
184 Zolaire Arcade
191 Brian Generaux
191 Bridgette Thimsen
191 Jeff Gebhardt
191 Mark Lindbergh
191 Stanlo Slasinski
194 Shawn Mandel
195 Jennifer Manka
195 Sky Telleen
197 Jamie Carter
197 Brent Haydock
main (resized).jpgLooks like NWPinballshow beat me to forwarding my post into this thread for each tournament
I think i can win on the wrap up post!
Wrapping up the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show tournaments by saying a big THANK YOU!
The tournament would not happen without the support from many MANY people, or without players choosing to come to the show and come participate!
We had 196 unique players in the OPEN Matchplay tournament this year, 163 in CLASSIC Pingolf, 69 in the Women's Championship and 60 in the Rookie event. For the first year post COVID, a 3 years cap, people came in force, from the area and from multiple states and provinces!
Due to generosity of our sponsor and growth in attendance our cash prizes paid over $20,000, as well as Trophies and plaques for all top 4 finishers. The winner of the OPEN Matchplay won $2,000-
We welcome any feedback and comments to make these tournaments better every year ([email protected]).
Of course, this could not have happened without all our INCREDIBLE volunteers, sponsors and partners. I am always worried to call out people by name as there has been SO MANY people helping out (you know who you are!).
All the people volunteering to help the tournaments, over 20 people from Thursday morning to Sunday evening, helping setting up, tearing down, dialing up, fixing, cleaning, registering, etc...
The people joining the TD team, Jasmijn, Al Gird and Lonnie were critical in keeping the tournaments going. Special thanks to Travis, Alex and Tis working extra hard on setting up and fixing the games.
Massive kudos to GeekGamer.TV, with our first experience trying to stream qualifying and finals for several divisions. All the set up, support and preparation cannot be underestimated.
We rely on generous local collector to loan us game for our events, this could not happen without them either, thank you!
BIGGEST THANKS to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show which none of this would be possible without their great support of the events.
And also our sponsors, which help making this event better and provide for better payout for all finalist. Shorty's for sponsoring the Open Matchplay as well as Waterland Arcade sponsoring the B-Division, 8-Bit Arcade and The Triple Knock sponsoring the Women's Championships, Olaf's the Classic Pingolf and Another Castle the Rookie event.
let's pack away the show until next year, if you want some more pinball competition look into the Northwest Pinball Championships 2022 (https://www.nwpinballchamps.com/) in September.
Quoted from nwpinball:We both had Elvira pinball tattoos, love Elvira Scared Stiff and met during show set up on Thursday
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That pic turned out well! I don't usually get pics like that!
Quoted from nwpinball:We both had Elvira pinball tattoos, love Elvira Scared Stiff and met during show set up on Thursday
The message on her top was absolutely hilarious but likely NSFW depending on your tolerance to choice of words.
Also thanks to everyone who helped with set up and tear down. Many hands make light and fast work.
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