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The 2nd Annual Indiana Matchplay State Championship will be held in Lafayette, IN on Sunday, December 15th, 2019 at North End Pub. There are 40 spots available and ticket sales open up November 6th, the reservation is free but there will be a $20 entry fee at the door. Free Entry for current Indiana State Champion Andy “The Real Dill” Dill!

In the first round, all players will be grouped by seed (IFPA Ranking) into 10 groups of 4 players. Each group of 4 players will compete on 4 different machines, with the highest-seeded player given choice of playing order on the first machine, in the following games player order is chosen by reverse finishing position. At the end of the 4-game round, 2 players will advance out of each group into the second round, which will function similarly to the first, players will be seeded by points earned in the first round with ties being broken by original seeding. Any ties between players to advance from 1st to second round will be played on a randomly selected machine.

At the start of the third round, the remaining 10 players will be placed in a ladder-style bracket seeded based on their accumulative points from the first two rounds, tiebreakers will be broken by IFPA rank if needed. The bottom 4 players will compete in a single game, with the lowest scoring player being removed from the contest and replaced by the next highest seed. When only 2 players remain, they will compete in the best two-games-out-of-three series to determine the Indiana State Matchplay Pinball Champion.

There will be a $20 cash entry fee for the tournament. Tickets can be reserved starting November 6th, 2019. 75% of the entry fee is going into the cash prize pool for the top 4 finishers ($300, $150, $100, $50), 20% ($50 rd 1, $50 rd 2, $50 rd 3, $10 to last place) of the entry fee will be awarded in random drawings at the conclusion of each round, and 5% ($40) will cover the IFPA fee.

The Championship Belt will be awarded to the winner of the tournament. The title DOES NOT become the permanent property of the winner. The purpose and goal for the title is that it serves as a legitimate traveling title within the state of Indiana. It must be defended within the state every month. If the winner is unable to perform their champion’s duty it is asked that they gracefully forfeit the title. Their name will still be engraved upon the belt as the inaugural champion. More rules and stipulations to the Indiana State Matchplay Championship can be read here.

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Don’t forget tonight is our first-ever Too Sweet Tuesday in Market Square Lanes! The tournament will run right from 7:00-8:30. With the format we are using you will play a lot of games in that short amount of time just head to head. The winner is the person with the best win/loss ration at the end. No extra finals or anything like that just come play some pinball and have some fun. Because it is on the bowling alley side it is open to all ages. I hope to see some of you there tonight.

Here are the final standings for October’s Selfie Tournament. The finals will be next Monday at 6PM. I know John Dozier can’t attend so that bumps us down on the list a bit. I will also not be playing and just there to run things so it looks like Brett through Danielle are in if they so choose.

The November Selfie Tournament is up and running. Bobby Orr’s Power Play, to celebrate the start of the hockey season, Dolly Parton, because she’s an Angel on Earth, and The Flintstones because it’s the Flintstones and they’re from the town of Bedrock. Qualifying will run from now until the end of the month, play as much as you want

Lastly, starting on Tuesdays next week from 7:00-8:30 PM TOO SWEET TUESDAYS! A speed tournament in Market Square Lanes no entry fee just quarters for the machines. Come on out an bring some friends!

It’s that last Wednesday of the month so you know what that means! All pinball machines in North End Pub and Market Square Lanes will be on FREE PLAY ALL NIGHT LONG!  Great night and basically last chance to get high scores for the October Selfie Tournament!  If you play Godzilla, Bram Stroker’s Dracula, or America’s Most Haunted snap a picture of your score and submit it on matchplay.events, post to our facebook page, or feel free to email it or facebook message it to me as well tsskinne@gmail.com or Tommy Skinner on Facebook. The top 8 players from the month get invited to play in the finals next Monday at 6 PM!

Also, AEW is on TNT at 8PM and we will get our inaugural Tag Team Champions crowned! November’s Selfie Tournament will kick off on Friday with Dolly Parton (in the bar), Power Play & Flintstones (both in the old arcade of Market Square Lanes area) so get some practice in on those great games tonight!

So last night we finished up our fall league and the third season of Hoosier Open Pinball Super-League at North End Pub! Our location finished the season with 20 players who participated in at least half of the weeks making us the second biggest location in the league this season! We get to send 5 players to Main Street Amusements this Saturday to compete in the HOPS League Championships, Tommy Skinner, Keith Alyea, Casey Taylor, Rick Dunkin, and Tom Vandenberg will be representing NEP with Brandon Edging as our substitute in case of emergency absence. Good luck to everyone this weekend and thank you to everyone who came out and played this season.

We won’t have another HOPS season until Spring, but we will be bringing Team League back for the 3rd year in the coming month so stay tuned and get those squads ready, someone needs to take down the defending Champion Region Rats!

Also, again I wanted to thank everyone who came out and played in our Monthly Tournament on Sunday. We raised the entry fee to $5 and donated all the coins from the pinball machines and all the cash from our bill changer to the cause and we were able to raise $350 that day just from the tournament and combined with efforts from the month in Market Square Lanes together we will be donating over $600 plus several boxes of supplies to Power of the Purse.

Lastly, starting next Tuesday we will have 90-minute tournaments in Market Square Lanes just focused on those machines and open to all ages! Please come out and play. No cost to enter and will take roughly $5-$8 in quarters to participate. Will be a fast and fun format.

And it all comes down to this! The standings are super close headed into our last night of Fall League! As of right now, we have 4 delegates for the finals which take place Nov. 2nd at Main Street Amusements in Lafayette, IN. If a few more of our players who have already done 2 weeks can play tonight we could get bumped up to have a 5th delegate for the finals where they will get to compete for the coveted HOPS Champion Trophy!

League play will be at 8:30 like usual. New machines Dolly Parton, The Flintstones, and Power Play have all been added into the website and can be chosen this week.

Also, remember Sunday we are doing our 4-Strikes tournament as a charity event raising money for Power of the Purse. Power of the Purse is a fundraising campaign that spans almost the entirety of October, which is National Domestic Violence Awareness month. YWCA’s Domestic Violence Intervention & Prevention Program provides life-saving services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in six Indiana counties (Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Tippecanoe, Warren, and White). Services include emergency shelter, legal advocacy, case management, support groups, financial assistance and more. There will be a $5 entry fee for the tournament, and the machines will still be on coin drop as well. 100% of all the coin drop and entry fee will be getting donated that day so lets have a big turnout!

You know what day it is! Get down to North End Pub for FREE PINBALL ALL NIGHT LONG! This is a great time to get in some practice before our last night of league play tomorrow, and also to put up as many attempts as you want for the October Selfie Tournament. Those games are America’s Most Haunted, Dracula, and Godzilla! 8 days left this month to put up those scores.

As October starts to wind down let’s get our pinball calendars marked up for November! Every week in November we will have Too Sweet Tuesdays with a tournament in Market Square Lanes from 7-8:30 PM, open to all ages and skill levels, no entry fee, just quarters for the machines which should be $5-$8 for the night total. Then each Thursday at 8:30 PM we will have events going as well.

• November 7th – League Finals Tournament – Who will come and take the belt from Keith!
• November 14th- The Grudge: Part II – Brett is our reigning champion, who will be here to exact their grudge and claim his crown!
• November 21st – Split Flipper challenge – Grab a partner and throw your hat into the ring. We are going to run a full tournament playing all games in the split flipper format. Half the cost, and twice the fun! Custom Trophies for the winning team!
• November 24th – Our Monthly 4-Strike Tournament + Followed by WWE Survivor Series!

STARTS NOVEMBER 5th!

Two weeks from today we are kicking off Too Sweet Tuesdays! What is that you ask? Well, it is quite simple, its a Flipper Frenzy pinball tournament running from 7:00-8:30 PM on Tuesday nights at Market Square Lanes! Why not in the North End Pub where we always have our tournaments? Well, let me answer that question for you. We have expanded to having 10+ machines in Market Square Lanes now and most importantly by hosting it on that side of the business, we can make our Tuesday night events open to all ages! So any of you who have some kids you want to get out of the house and playing/ doing something where they have to interact with other humans this is a great opportunity! Also, it gives us a chance to show pinball to some people in a new environment as well. The games on that side of the building are Bobby Orr’s Power Play, World Cup Soccer, Monopoly, Indianapolis 500, Flintstones, Star Wars, Baywatch, Dale Jr. Nascar, Judge Dredd, and WWF Royal Rumble. There will be no entry fee required just the coin drop. The format will keep us moving and playing for the whole 90 minutes and you know exactly how much time you will be committing to the event unlike many of our other formats. I’d estimate it will cost $5-$8 in coin drop for the tournament as all games will be set to $.25 or $.50 cents, and we should be able to get everyone 10-15 games in a night. The winner will be the person with the best win/loss difference and we will have prizes for 1st and last place! After the tournament feel free to stick around and get in some practice or to head to the bar to try out our amazing lineup in there as well.