There needs to be a pinburgh sized tournament every quarter imo. Get your crew together and get it going on the west coast! Quarters 1,2, and 4 are still available.
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Quoted from KingHebes:I do host a monthly tournament in my area. Some other guys do too. We are healthily growing the boise pinball scene, but dont think we have the draw/venue to throw a big event that will pull a lot of out of staters. I will check out indisc, but its more comparable to papa. Other than that the nw pinball and arcade show looks like the biggest event in the west. Might check out nw pinball championship as well. These still only draw a few hundred players. Pinburghs multi day match play just seems awesome, and i'll bet it maxes the 1k player cap this year. If that's not a sign for demand, what is? The attendees have steadily grown each year with pinballs re-rise in popularity. Their pay structure is the best ive seen in a pinball tournament as well. Im thinking a bigger city hub could replicate the pinburgh style event in the west. Seattle or portland or san francisco. Anyone know the guy that opened next level in portland? Ive heard his collection is incredible. Perhaps hes our man?
Pinburgh is the largest tournament on the planet by approximately 5x. The next biggest tournament is intergalactic which is just run off of pinburgh and is almost zero fun.
So yeah, just build your scene, host bigger and bigger events and see where you can go with it. If you do a good job, word travels fast.
Quoted from KingHebes:Apparently there's a collection in portland. Over a hundred collector quality machines at this place called next level. But like any big pinball event/convention people can always bring in more.
Of course. Now go find them. Haha.
Just can’t snap your fingers and have another pinburgh. TONS of works makes a tournament of that scale happen. And it doesn’t happen over night. Takes years and years to build up to it.
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