What’s the procedure for securing tournament entries for those of us bringing games and qualifying for the free VIP pass?

I get what you're trying to do, but these are all 1 full degree too high IMHO. There are a lot of ways to make a particular game harder to reduce ball times without distorting the entire essence of the game. In my opinion (and I've heard this echoed elsewhere), you should never user *every* means at your disposal to increase game difficulty, but rather a select one or two depending on the particular game.

For example, open the outlanes or remove a rubber on an outlane post for a long-playing game, but don't tighten the tilt to zero tolerance AND remove the post. Also, subtle nudging is a key skill in pinball, so having the tilts so tight that the simple act of starting Showtime multiball on TaF will sometimes tilt your game is not fun or fair.

In my opinion, over steeping the game and tightening the tilts to completely remove nudging is distorting the game to favour a few select skills over others (extreme ball control and shot making over predicting ball trajectories and subtle nudging). This reduces the overall depth of the competition and makes it more frustrating and less fun than it could be.

Anyway, it's your tournament and I'll come regardless because it's otherwise completely friggin' awesome, but since we're offering constructive feedback...

Hey, sometimes you just want to lose fast and get on with the drinking!

Booked my room! Leaving my 2x6 at home.

Yes, yes I did. ...and it seriously reduced my drinking time!

I'm just trying to give everyone *else* a chance.

...always a good idea to bring Lady Luck to the ball.

Sweet! You must have been in *early*.

That's a great idea. I'll setup some custom messages on our location games to promote YegPin.

Might as well just admit to yourself from the start that you're in for that anyway. With luck, because you already spent the $$$, you'll qualify on your first try.

Just to confirm, for anyone signed up to bring one or more games to YegPin, there is no further action required to secure their VIP pass at this time? Yes, I'm a little paranoid...

Where do you see this? I only see the 3 games for classics, with the tournament page indicating there will be 7 games in total.

When will the rest of the tournament games be announced?

Ok now I see 4 in classics. So 3 more yet to unveil I guess.

On a sad note we are 5 weeks away from Yegpin, a weekend that was possibly the hottest of the year the last couple years with +30 temps, and it’s going to be -18c here this weekend.

There’s still time!

Any good streams of the show?

Awesome event guys!!

Thanks a million for all your hard work and that of the volunteers. Thing runs like clockwork at this point, at least from an outsider's view.

My Highlights:

- Visiting with the motley collection of pinball fanatics from across Western Canada. This show is like a family reunion of regional pinheads.

- Playing all the new games that Tommy/Nitro hauled across BC to the event for us to play. First time on POTCJJP, Houdini, and Iron Freakin' Maiden. My god that Maiden game was awesome! Volume was cranked and every so often you would hear it from across the hall it and you would smile and feel joy.

- Having my TNA in the tournament bank and being played by some very high calibre players, including current IFPA #1 (and WCPC winner) Raymond Davidson.

- And of course, last but not least, seeing my name up in the rafters.

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pingod beat him in the classics.

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