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Once a year, for one weekend, we build the largest arcade in the Pacific Northwest. Join us for one of the biggest and best shows in the country. What to expect?

-The venue is a large convention center with mega high ceilings, air conditioning and lots of space. It's attached to a brand new Marriot hotel, there is another Marriot hotel across the street and another nice hotel a block away. We have discounted rates at all these hotels.

-400+ games on freeplay the entire weekend. This is one of the highlights of our show, we bring our games for you to play and they aren't pulled from the floor early and the freeplay area doesn't have limited hours. Play all day right up until closing.

-There will be 13 regional satellite pinball tournaments leading up to the show where you hone your skills and win your way into the show in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Bremerton, Renton, Marysville and Edmonds.

-Show pinball tournaments include the Northwest Women's Championship, the massive Open Matchplay tournament, the Classics Pingolf, the Rookie/Amateur and the Kid's Tournament.

-Tech seminars, learn how to fix your games or improve your skills.

-Speakers and panels.

-Vendors

-Kid's Zone with games specifically designed for or aimed at kids.

-Merch, prizes and sway

-Homebrew games, rare games, new games... lots and lots of games!

Tickets on sale now with early bird discounts on weekend passes:

https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

Official Pinside event for the show, if you are attending, share that you are on the event page!

https://pinside.com/pinball/events/northwest-pinball-amp-arcade-show-2022

More info on the NWPAS pinball satellite series:

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Follow us on our new Instagram page!

https://www.instagram.com/nwpinballshow

At this year's Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show there is a new hotel attached to the venue on the 3rd floor! Don't miss out on booking a room at the new Marriot at the discounted show rate before the rooms all book up! This link goes right to the discounted booking:

https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?app=resvlink&id=1634944561179&key=GRP

Washington State's mask mandate is officially ending March 12th! We don't know yet what Covid measures will still be in place in June, but with the infection rates in Washington continuing to drop, we are optimistic that this year's Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show will be somewhat of a return to normal.

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Hey Seattle, this weekend come play free pinball and check out Seattle's new pinball clubhouse! A bunch of NWPAS folks are behind this and have games there:

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You definitely should bring your home brew, there will be a bunch this year! Fast Pinball has been helping facilitate and encourage more to come and we are hoping to make the Northwest show become the premiere event for homebrew pinball games each year!

Hotel rooms are going quick for the new Marriot hotel that's attached to the venue, book yours today! This link goes right to the discounted booking:
https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?app=resvlink&id=1634944561179&key=GRP&;

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This page links out to the 3 hotels with show discounted rates, all are within 2 blocks of the convention center:

https://www.nwpinballshow.com/accommodations

Play Funhouse 2.0 Rudy's Nightmare at this June's Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show!

The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show is non-profit and completely run by volunteers. Interested in helping? Interested in the planning?

The next meeting is:
Sunday April 3rd, 12-2pm at Round Table Pizza, 15730 First Avenue South, Burien, WA 98148

We will be in the party room, pizza and soda will be provided!

A few show updates and info:

-The first NWPAS satellite pinball tournament was held this week at Shorty's and sold out with 60 players! The next tournament is this Sunday at Another Castle in Edmonds. Through the tournaments you can win a weekend pass to the show, show tournament entries and other swag! All the satellite tournament details can be found at: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/satellite.html

-Tickets are on sale and with a discounted weekend pass rate if you buy early!: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

-The hotels blocks we get at a discounted rate are filling up, book your room today! Links with show discount codes: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/accommodations

Hey everyone! The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show can't happen without your help. We need lots and lots of you to send your games to the show and we need a bunch of people for set up and tear down. Volunteering your games and time is a great way to help us build this great event, it's an awesome way to get involved in the collecting community and meet new friends, and you can also earn free passes for the weekend and more!

Volunteer Your Time
The NW Pinball & Arcade Show is non-profit event fully run by volunteers. We need your help in everything from manning desks to loading and unloading trucks full of games.

Volunteer 4 or more hours = a single day wristband
Volunteer 8 or more hours = a weekend pass.

Volunteer Your Games
The show will transport your games if there are 3 or more, or if you have them at one of our staging areas.

Incentives for self-transported games:
1-3 Machines = one weekend pass, five $1 prize draw tickets.
4-6 Machines = two weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
7-10 Machines = up to four weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, one $20 prize draw tickets.
11+ Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, two $20 prize draw tickets, one show t-shirt.

Incentives for games we transport:
3-5 Machines (3 minimum) = one weekend pass, five $1 prize draw tickets.
6-9 Machines = one weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
10-14 Machines = two weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, one $20 prize draw tickets.
15+ Machines = up to four weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, two $20 prize draw tickets, one show t-shirt.

Sign up to volunteer games, your time or both today!:
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/volunteers

And the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite pinball series is underway! The satellite tournament series has started and will include 13 tournaments throughout Washington and Oregon leading up to the show. The first satellite event at Shorty’s sold out with 60 players and the second event at Another Castle in Edmonds nearly sold out. The next satellite is at Olaf’s in Ballard on April 8th. At each tournament you can win weekend passes to the show, tournament entries, swag and the winner also gets a trophy plaque! Updated series dates and info:

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We finally have some news on our speaker line up to share:

-Butch Peel from Chicago Gaming will be talking about making the Cactus Canyon Remake
-Dwight Sullivan and Mike Vinikor from Stern Pinball will be doing a fun game with prizes for the audience!
-The FAST Pinball crew will be talking about Funhouse 2.0 and using their products to help create home-brew pinball games
-David Thiel, who designed the sound on games like Alien, Jersey Jack's Pirates of the Caribbean, AC/DC, Iron Man and The Hobbit will be talking about pinball sound design
-And a panel of local collectors will talk about how to get into pinball and arcade collecting

Tonight at The Triple Knock in Tacoma is the latest Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show satellite event, come down and play! Practice your tournament skills and try to win a weekend pass to the show or tournament entries.

$10 to play
7:30 PM start time
And there is a plague for first place as well as over $500 in prizes!

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Yes, there are definitely Junior Medic shifts available, there is more info and time slots you can grab on the volunteer portal:
https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com/

And please locals, volunteer your games through the volunteer portal too! To bring the show back we really need everyone to pitch in and help. Right now we are about 300 games shy of where we want to be at in less than 2 months, so we've got a lot of work to do to fill out the game list!

Repair parties are definitely coming. In fact, the first one is this Saturday:

Dok's Pre-NWPAS Repair Party at the Northwest Pinball Collective

Saturday, April 16th from 12-6pm
1120 N 97th St, Seattle, WA 98103
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mxzFDaxjhdKeewcy9

This is a free public event so drop in anytime. Bring a pinball or arcade machine, board, monitor, etc. that you need help with and learn how to diagnose and repair your machine issues. Don't have something to bring? Feel free to stop by and watch, learn and ask questions, check out the collective's space and games. But we do encourage you to bring games need work and we encourage you to bring those games (and as many others that you can) to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show in June if they are in good working order!

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Saturday April 30th James will be hosting a repair party in Milton, WA. James has a great collection of pinball games to play and help get ready for the show, including some rarer 80s titles. Bring your own pins and vids that you need help with or to work on. There are usually guys that can help with EM pinball repair at James' repair parties too!
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Jupiter Bar hosted the most recent NWPAS satellite pinball tournament... and what a place to play pinball! 52 players strong showed up yesterday for our NWPAS Satellite 2022: Jupitourney Special! Over $800 worth of prizes were won with a massive 25+ raffle prizes generously donated by Joey Nix!
Great job by our host Dwayne to keep the event running smoothly- Kevin Coffey was our strong winner yesterday, being strikeless until the last round, he got himself the winner plaque and a weekend pass for NWPAS. Jaran won the tie breaker for the other weekend pass after a monster ball on Paragon. Chris, Max, Matt, Michael, John and Amber all won tournament package entries

https://matchplay.live/nwpasjs

1,Kevin Coffey,77261
2,Jaran jones,70948
4,Vincent Sperrazza,47285
4,Chris Borgstadt,65871
4,Max Davidoff,48096
6,Matthew Roggenkamp,85306
7,Michael Rausch,49740
10,Robbie Finnigan,36802
10,Neal Joslyn,44634
10,John Davenhall,34571
10,Chris Chinn,29083
10,Neil Kubath,42483
15,Amber Roy,71533
15,John Robinson WA,21384
15,Rachel Kahalekulu,60630
15,Steven Ackley,2585
15,Paul White,17394
15,Alex Singleterry,24660
23,Joey Nix
23,David Chernicoff,42658
23,Olivia Bourgeois,87454
23,Alexandre Davis,39556
23,Jared Bayliss,73752
23,Colin Haney,78983
23,Michael Gray,17400
23,Vanessa Roraus
23,Elliott Johnson,70949
32,Lina Guerra
32,Dean Shivers,67622
32,Stacey Moritz,19758
32,Kristin Vick,79055
32,Jason Trojan,9595
32,Kelli Goins,47287
32,Dave Kane,63699
32,Lucas Drawdy,74234
32,Jenny Pickens,87457
41,Kareem Williams,86198
41,Daniel Trobare,60629
41,Ryan Loftus
41,Mary Roesbery
41,Alexander Corbin,89129
41,Rebekah Macneil,87262
41,Jonathan Vermillion,74887
41,Dwayne Collins,33062
41,Lupe Bryan,60135
49,Jordan West,83070
49,Christine Gent,50036
49,Altwin Hawksford,23901
49,Ryan Tamm,89127
49,Jenner Huber,77197
49,Katja Rodgers,71949
49,Tyler White,20371

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This Sunday we will be in Bremerton for the NWPAS Satellite 2022: Bremerton Battle!
Hosted by Another Castle Arcade: Bremerton!

See you at the Castle... 7:00 PM start

Want to buy a new Stern pinball game at the show? We will soon be offering up to 20 games for presale show rates that you can buy ahead of time, that will be for play in the Marco booth, and then you can take home at the end of the weekend. We will share the details as soon as they are available!

Another Castle Arcade: Bremerton was a great host yesterday! 42 players were fighting hard yesterday for our NWPAS Satellite 2022: Bremerton Battle! Over $600 worth of prizes were won with a dozen raffle prizes generously donated by Another Castle and NWPAS!

Andrew McCann put on an impressive performance and won the event straight out! He got himself the winner plaque and a weekend pass for NWPAS. Dave won the tie breaker for the other weekend pass on Elvira. Justin Hugeback, Todd MacCulloch, Craig Waibel and Landon Cross all won tournament package entries

THIS FRIDAY, we are off to NWPAS Satellite 2022: Armada Collision a Matchplay/Multiplay event worth 100% TGP, hosted by Admiral Pub West Seattle! See you there, 7:30 PM start.

https://matchplay.live/nwpasbbattle
1,Andrew McCann,51431
2,Dave Stewart,54
3,Justin Hugeback
4,Todd MacCulloch,442
5,Craig Waibel,9360
6,Landon Cross,83789
7,Michael Rausch,49740
9,Arthur Eckhardt,8264
9,Vincent Sperrazza,47285
9,Sarah Bay,82543
9,Jessica Barron,80559
13,Peter Schatzer,25955
13,Nathan Friend,47771
13,Sara Morrison,83788
13,Chris Wilkes
18,Kelli Goins,47287
18,Donovan Haga,83334
18,Joe Madia,89602
18,William Kerney,54441
18,Rachel Kahalekulu,60630
24,Daniel Trobare,60629
24,Conrad Rustad,74477
24,Lucas Drawdy,74234
24,Mike Sorrels,63237
24,Alex Singleterry,24660
24,Neal Joslyn,44634
24,Josh Votaw,65768
24,Ryan Handke,76946
33,Danielle Wilcox,51575
33,Brent Haydock,47284
33,Dean Shivers,67622
33,Sam Snyder,29143
33,Jordan Dutiel
33,Altwin Hawksford,23901
33,Michael Adcock,30396
33,Anthony Mccammant,45876
33,Mo Flaherty,90009
40,Matthew Mihelich,80480
40,Astrid Morrison,52478
40,joshua barnes,27230
40,Liana Ehlert
40,Harold Noble,48168

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In a little over 1 month we bring back the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show after a couple years of hiatus during the pandemic. It's been a lot of work restarting the show, but it's going to be great to have our yearly big non-profit arcade back and see everyone again!

We need your help to make it happen. We still need a lot more people to volunteer their games to go to the show. Without the games, it just won't be the same, so we are asking the collector community to step up and help. If you volunteer 3 or more games the volunteer transportation crew will come pick up your games, if you can self transport, even better. And for self-transport you will receive a weekend pass per game up until 5. This year the incentives for bringing games have all been increased!

Incentives for self-transported games:
1-3 Machines = one weekend pass per game, five $1 prize draw tickets.
4-6 Machines = one weekend pass per game to a max of 5, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
7-10 Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, one $20 prize draw tickets.
11+ Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, two $20 prize draw tickets.

Incentives for games that the show transports:
3-5 Machines (3 minimum) = one weekend pass, five $1 prize draw tickets.
6-8 Machines = two weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets.
9-11 Machines = three weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, one $20 prize draw tickets.
12+ Machines = up to five weekend passes, ten $1 prize draw tickets, two $20 prize draw tickets.

And the $20 prize draw you can earn tickets for will be for a brand new Stern Godzilla Premium pinball machine! Volunteer games today:
https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com

Early bird pricing on 3-day weekend passes ends this Sunday, May 1st! Buy your tickets today: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

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Behind the scenes at one of the past NW Pinball & Arcade Shows....

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Sunday May 1st, is the last day to buy 3-day passes to the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show at discounted prices!

Tickets: https://nwpinballshow.com/tickets

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Taking a postering a flyering break at our sponsor the Triple Knock today. Such a great pinball line up! Don't miss the upcoming satellite tournament here and this is a fun hang out spot during the show.

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The Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show is happy to have a ton of new Stern games at next month's show! These will be located in the Marco booth during the show:

2 Avenger Infinity Quest Pro
2 Avenger Infinity Quest Premium
3 Rush Pro
3 Rush Prem
2 Deadpool Pro
2 Deadpool Premium
2 Godzilla Pro
3 Godzilla Premium (1 at prize desk for the Sunday prize drawing)
2 Mandalorian Pro

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If you are volunteering for 4 hours you earn a 1-day pass, 8 hours you earn a weekend pass. If you have any questions about volunteer passes, email Sarunya at [email protected], she tracks all the volunteers and volunteer rewards. And thanks for helping out!

I can reach out to Stern and Marco to see about getting this set up! I plan to change my Bride 2.0 location to the show if I can get it on the wireless there.

Update in insider connected at the show:

Stern isn't currently doing show specific badges but the 21 booth games at the show will be registered and connected so players get verified achievements throughout the weekend.

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Interesting, what I posted above was pretty much a direct quote from Stern, maybe not currently doing them mean they decided to stop. If someone wants to pursue it with Stern to see if they can make it happen, that would be awesome.

We will miss you Barry! One of these days I'll make it to Texas and share a beer with you. (dan)

I thought I was so prepared this year and started prepping all my games last month. But I've been giving my Creature a dry run at the Northwest Pinball Collective and have to do sound board repairs and realized tonight I really have to replace the right ramp. I weighed buying it from Starship Fantasy at the show and installing it during Thursday set up vs. ahead of time and went ahead and bought it from Marco tonight with a cap kit for the sound board. We definitely need as many pins as you can bring!

Well, before we've even formally announced how to buy a new Stern from the Marco booth at the show, y'all figured it out and a bunch of you reached out to Jordan and bought them. There are still a few left, Jordan at Next Level is handling the sales and working with Marco and Stern to supply all the games. It looks like there are a few AIQs, Rushes and a Mando pro left if anyone wants to get one at the show. But I'd expect them all to be sold soon.

Please join us for the next Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show volunteer meeting! This will be a casual meeting over pizza to discuss all the final details and the last chance to get together before the big show. There are a bunch of new people involved and opportunities for anyone that wants to get more involved. The show is 100% volunteer run and non-profit!

Where we still need help:

We need more people to volunteer their games! Also we still need volunteers for medic, junior medic, setup and teardown, so please sign up! It takes a community to put on the show.

Volunteer games and time at: https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com/

And the meeting details:

When: Sunday, May 15
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Where: The Pizza Coop

13317 NE 175th St, #x
Woodinville, WA 98072
Tel: 425-415-8415

Thank you!

We have volunteers from all over the country. Lots of times when people fly in for the show, they will volunteer for set up so they can meet a bunch of people and get to play some of the games during set up. You don't need to attend a meeting to volunteer. So yes, bring it!

Exciting! I was talking with Aaron about it yesterday. The FAST booth is going to be on fire this year!

Go up to the top floor and either to the registration desk or walk into the hall to the main desk in the middle and say your are a volunteer for set up. Someone should tell you a little about what's going on and where help is needed. Alot of it is rolling games from the trucks as they are unloaded into the main hall, then helping place them, unwrap them and set them up. It's fun to see the arcade get built! Sarunya is the volunteer coordinator and she should be onsite, Lou will be in charge of the floor layout. If you sign up through the volunteer portal, Sarunya will probably send you more proper instructions, but it can be a bit chaotic during set up.

Of course, a lot of it is just rolling games around, plugging them in, and it's a great way to learn how to set up a game. We often work in teams setting up pinball games with an experienced person and lesser experienced person.

Updated speaker list with times... this will have more changes, but it's close to what the final line up will be:

Friday:
3:30-4:30pm - Collecting 101 Panel with local pinball & arcade collectors

5-6pm - Legends of Vahalla with American Pinball

6-7pm - GeekGamer TV pinball event

Saturday:
12:30-1:30pm - Funhouse 2.0 and Beyond with FAST Pinball

2-3pm - Audio for Interactive Pinball 2.0 with David Thiel (sound designer for Alien, Jersey Jack's Pirates of the Caribbean, AC/DC, Iron Man and The Hobbit)

3:30-4:30pm Cactus Canyon Remake with Butch Peel from Chicago Gaming

5-6pm - Look Out, Frisbees! Pinball Trivia for prizes with Mike Vinikour & Dwight Sullivan of Stern Pinball

8-9pm GeekGamer TV pinball event

Hey everyone, I wanted to give an update on the upcoming Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show, happening June 3-5 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center!

First off, I hope all of you can make it! A bunch of us haven't seen each other for years because of the pandemic and it will be really great to hang out with old friends and collectors again. We are well on our way to having 400 games at the show, I think we are up to about 330 right now. The deadline for the show transporting your games is this Friday, May 13th. We picked Friday the 13th because it's a cool date, but also to give us time to plan all the truck routes and pick ups.

If you volunteer 3+ games the show will pick them up. If you self-transport, you can basically decide up until show week what you are bringing, but still please sign them up on the volunteer page so we know what's coming and we can compensate you. You get 1 free weekend pass for every game you bring yourself up to 5 passes. Volunteer page:
https://www.volunteer.nwpinballshow.com/

The final volunteer meeting for the show is this Sunday, May 15th from 12-2pm at The Pizza Coop, 13317 NE 175th St, #X, Woodinville, WA 98072

Most of the show discounted hotel rates are ending today, if you haven't booked a room and want one, get in there:
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/accommodations

Online ticket sales end May 20th, secure your tickets ahead of time at:
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

Show news update with all the rad stuff happening this year!

-More than 400 pinball and arcade games from the 1940s to today’s modern games, all on freeplay!
-A bunch of great speakers Friday and Saturday, check out the Show Attractions page on the website for the seminar times!
-One of the largest collections of Japanese arcade games ever seen in the Pacific Northwest.
-One of the largest collections of Zaccaria arcade games ever seen in public!
-A high score arcade contest on classic games in cabaret cabinets brought to us by Another Castle Arcade Edition.
-One of the largest collections of homebrew/homemade one-of-a-kind pinball machines.
-Hercules, the largest pinball machine ever made!
-The Kid’s Zone, featuring a curated collection of unique pinball and arcade games designed with younger players in mind.
-Comics4Kids giving out free comics to all kids that attend!
-Prize drawings throughout the day, every day, for a large collection of pinball, arcade and game related merchandise, plus tools, parts, t-shirts and artwork!
-Prize drawings every day for your own full-sized pinball or arcade game. Games include an Evel Knievel pinball game , aTime Pilot ‘84 arcade game, a Ms. Pacman arcade game, and... A BRAND NEW STERN GODZILLA PREMIUM PINBALL GAME!!!!!!
-Lots of vendors selling arcade and pinball related parts and merch, artwork and games.
-2022 is the year of the 2.0 kits that revamp older pinball games with modern hardware, programming, color displays and more. Come play Funhouse 2.0, Bride of Pinbot 2.0, Tales of the Arabian Nights 2.0 and… well, let’s just say if things work out like we hope, we might be debuting another 2.0 game or two that no one has seen yet.
-Pinball tournaments! There will be a big Open Matchplay tournament, a Women’s Tournament, a Classics Pingolf tournament, a Rookie Tournament and a Kid’s tournament. All the details are here.
-Stern Insider Connected high score contest - get top scores on the new Stern games in the Marco booth and in prizes!
-More cool stuff to come!!!

Last week's monthly Babes in Pinland night was a NWPAS satellite tournament! It had a fantastic turnout, and thanks to some generous donations from our pinball community we were able to offer cash prizes and some fabulous raffle prizes, in addition to weekend and tournament passes for the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show!

Taking home the plaque and a weekend pass was Danielle Wilcox, in first place! Second was Emily Beirne, third Ashley Weaver, fourth Jasmijn de Jong, and tying for fifth place was our top rookie of the evening Aimee Nedds! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make this event a success! We hope to see you all next month!

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THIS THURSDAY at The Ice Box Arcade in Freelard we are running our next NWPAS Satellite event, NWPAS Satellite 2022: Icy Face-off!

8:00pm start! Come win a Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show weekend entry pass or tournaments entries package, as well as other cool swag and raffle items to players. Over $500 of prizes to be won minimum.

This will be our last matchplay event with full IFPA points of the satellite series, the top 8 makes the finals.

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Shorty's, Seattle's original barcade, is celebrating 25 years! Shorty's was the very first sponsor of the Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show when we began in 2008 and has been the sponsor of the main pinball tournament ever since. Stop by Shorty's for a Coney Island dog, a beer, some pinball and help celebrate their 25 year anniversary!

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We are finally able to confirm Chicago Gaming will be at the show with a booth and a bunch of Cactus Canyon remakes!

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Yeah! I'll be the guy in the Pacman suit occasionally at the show if you want to say hi. --Dan

No word of one yet, but there are a bunch of people planning surprise appearances for games, lotsa rumors and whispers. We hope to debut some cool stuff! If you've followed the homebrew Fight Club thread, that game will be here and it looks awesome.

2022 is the year of the 2.0 kits! They revamp older pinball games with modern hardware, programming, color displays and more. At this years show come play:

-Funhouse 2.0
-Bride of Pinbot 2.0
-Tales of the Arabian Nights 2.0
-Cactus Canyon 2.0

And… ? Well, let’s just say if things work out like we hope, there might be more!

If you are self-transporting games for the 2022 NWPAS:

-ALL self-transported games must be at the venue no later than 10pm on Thursday.

The NWPAS will NOT be able to accept any self-transported games  that arrive on Friday. The 2022 show has the best problem, an over-capacity number of games have been volunteered for the show! Thursday night at set up we will be finalizing the floor layout and electrical, we won't be in the position to receive new games on Friday morning before the show opens to the public at noon. If you are bringing your own games, please bring them before 10pm on Thursday. 

Thanks!

Revision! We can accept a small amount of games Friday morning, although we prefer them Thursday. If you've already submitted them on the gamelist and can only bring them Friday, we want to honor the way things have been with past shows and be flexible for people volunteering their games. Just let me know what/when the games are and we can plan for them. Thanks everyone!

Sadly, Larry at Starship Fantasy came down with Covid and won't make the show. We wish Larry all the best in recovering!

That gives us 70 extra feet of wall space... and it looks like we will fill it with more freeplay games, our game total will be the highest it's every been.

Here they are! The 2022 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show Tournament Machines!

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And there was 13... we have officially wrapped up the 2022 NWPAS Satellite series with our 13th event last night!

We finished VERY STRONG with 62 players at our NWPAS Satellite 2022: Memorial Day Masters hosted graciously by 8-bit Arcade! Over $1,000 worth of prizes were won with lots of raffle prizes generously provided by the location and the show. Maka continued his impressive run in the satellite claiming his 2nd victory and plaque! Ashley represented the home team by failing just short of the first place to Maka in a final tie breaker. Sarah Hager, Algird Lisaius, David Chernicoff and Richie Terry all tied for 4th place. Sarah Hager and Neil Kubath won the show weekend pass and Ashley Weaver, Richie Terry, Michael Rausch, Tim McCool, David Chernicoff, Matt Anderson, Conrad Rustad and Mike Wolf won the tournament entry package.

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With the Satellite series now behind us, the main event is nearly upon us!

The tournament machines have been announced and have been updated on the main page of the tournament website: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/

Make sure to check the schedule and different tournament rules before the show to decide when and what event you want to play in. We anticipate most rounds to be sold out so make sure to show up early when sign up opens for each round. This is a very popular tournament series and the Northwest has a very large and active tournament community, as well as many of the IFPA's top players.

It's about to go down!!!!

6 of the new Cactus Canyon games have landed!

Homebrew Highlights: Brian Cox's "Any Machine" featuring Flash Gordon 2.0, KISS 2.0 and Star Trek 2.0

If you've been to past shows, you may be familiar with Brian's work with homebrew games like Jupiter Crush, Retro Spa and Tattoo Mystique. This weekend he's bringing a custom platform that can run up to 12 different games with some hardware and software swapping. The games featured will be 3 classic Bally games revamped: Flash Gordon 2.0, KISS 2.0 and Star Trek 2.0. Brian plans to swap out to a new playfield and game code every hour, so that visitors maximize their opportunity to play all three! Look for this game on the floor near the FAST Pinball booth, along with lots of other great custom homebrew games! How cool is this?!?

(More info on the BAM cabinet here: http://space-eight.com/pinball.html)

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Homebrew Highlights: Mike Becker's "Fight Club"

It's been great following the Pinside thread for this game's development and it's come a long way with many very cool innovations and details. I have to admit, I'm a huge fan of the movie, so seeing this come together has been awesome for me. Come see it and play it in person! Video of the game in action:

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Over the next 48 hours we will transform this space at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center into the largest arcade ever seen in the Pacific Northwest, with over 450 pinball and arcade games from the 1940s to the most current games! All the latest pinball games, tons of vintage 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s games, possibly the most homebrew pinball games of any show, and a few surprises that we're sure will get talked about here and in other threads once the show starts.

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A local Japanese arcade game collector filled two trucks of Japanese fighting, dance and rhythm games, one of the largest collections of these types of games at a pinball and arcade convention.

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Loadout is in progress on the Kitsap Peninsula for the Northwest Pinball and Arcade Show!

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Introducing... Tipsy!

Tipsy is a prototype Irish Pub themed ball roller game, produced by DR Game Systems. A prototype will be at FAST Pinball’s game booth where you can pre-order one from the first production batch.

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26 fairly rare Zaccaria and other vintage arcade games all packed and heading to the show! Zaccaria was an Italian company of pinball and arcade machines that existed in Bologna from 1974 until 1990. They both created their own games and officially licensed man classic arcade games (Frogger, Pacman, Scramble, Crazy Kong, Zaxxon) but created all new cabinet artwork and sometimes new names for the games. Their artwork is stunning. There will be quite a few Zaccaria pinball games at the show as well!

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31 pins coming down from the Machine Shop on Whidbey Island today to the show. They are all loaded, on the ferry and on their way to Tacoma!

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We are getting close... arial shot from about 7pm! More games still rolling in and getting set up. We open at noon tomorrow.

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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!

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

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We 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!

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At 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!!!

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FAST Pinball seminar on building your own pinball game!

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I 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!

The women's pinball tournament just wrapped up and these winners fought hard and rose to the top!

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Saturday raffle winner, proud owner of a new Williams Flash pinball game!

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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

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The 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

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We 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.

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And 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
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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

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Sean, the winner of a Ms. Pac-Man at the show on Sunday!

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This is the way!

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Great stats and thoughts Rob! If I were to guess, attendance was down about 10% this year over 2019, I haven't seen the hard numbers yet. So likely less plays is a combination of a few less people than the last couple shows + more games than we've ever had before. I didn't track the stats on my pins, but Victor usually does, so that should be another data point when he gets around it it.