Hey everyone! We will see you at Main Street Amusements tonight at 7:30 for week 2 of our fall league! The common game tonight is Spider-Man Vault Edition.

Other than that each player gets to pick one game to play, the only rule is you can’t pick a game that you picked in a previous week. Also, to simplify things a bit from last week and have more clarity, if you are in a 3 player group, the person who picks game 1 (this will be the person highest seeded in your group) will get to also pick the 4th game. This will prevent us from having to do the math and just make things a bit easier overall. See everyone tonight!

Thanks to everyone who turned out for Week 1 of the 2017 Fall Season, I hope everyone had fun and enjoyed the new system that we are trying out. I know there will be a few speed bumps along the way but overall I think it still ran pretty smooth.

Here are the standings after last night. 

Also for the first time, we ran a stream of our common game from league night which was Avatar LE. It is available on YouTube if you would like to watch yourself play feel free to check it out.

As explained last night once you have picked a game for a league night you will not be able to select that game again during the 8 week season. I know it may be hard to remember what you picked in week 1 come week 8. I created a spreadsheet where we can mark the games we have chosen. This should allow you to comment on the game(s) you picked and I can mark it formally on the sheet. It isn’t fully necessary but figured it may come in handy later in the season.Next week we will play Spider-Man Vault Edition as the common game.

Week 1 of the Fall Season starts tonight at Main Street Amusements! 7:30 PM, see you all there! Feel free to bring some friends!

Just wanted to remind everyone that we will kick off our Fall Season for Lafayette Pinball League tomorrow night at 7:30 PM! Slight change to format for this season, but shouldn’t be anything we can’t figure out together. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow! 

Hey Everyone, just a quick reminder that we don’t have any league or tournament this Tuesday. It feels like we packed a month of competitive pinball into last week though so you should all be okay with your fix for another week. The fall season will kick off the following Tuesday, October 3rd, at 7:30PM. 

We are going to try something new this season to allow for more player freedom. Every week instead of assigning 5 games to be played we will only assign 1 game. Week 1 game will be Avatar LE. Every player in every group will play Avatar LE at some point that night. If you are in Group 1 it will be the first game you play that night. If you are in group 2 it will be the second, and so on and so forth. 

Other than that each individual will get to pick which game the group plays. The only rules are that you can’t pick a game that has already been played by your group that night, and you can’t pick the same game at any point during the season. So if I were to pick Attack from Mars for week 1, I can no longer choose that game for this season. Each individual should have picked 8 different games by the end of the season (that is if you have perfect attendance). Oh did I forget to mention our new perfect attendance awards? Last seasons Dan St. John, Matt Peace, Keith Alyea, and John Hawxby all had perfect attendance!

Hopefully that all makes sense, and if not, well I will be sure to clearly explain on Opening Night! The PinPortal app will tell us which player has the choice of game as well so no need to worry about that. Looking forward to a new season. Any other thoughts or suggestions on how to improve league please feel free to let me know. Thank you everyone, and see you in 8 days!

Chris claimed his first monthly title last night outlasting Kim Coghill in the final on Creature from the Black Lagoon. I came in 3rd with Mike Burgess rounding out the top 4 finishers.

We were also joined by Randy and AJ Marsh along with Joe Funcannon who all drove a few hours to participate and we greatly appreciate it. Be ready for next month’s tournament as we stick with the 3-strikes format, but change it to group play instead of head to head.

FULL RESULTS CLICK HERE!

A reminder that our monthly 3-Strikes tournament will take place tonight at MSA! 8PM start time, $5 registration fee, all prize money goes to top 4 finishers. This will conclude the busiest 7 days of pinball ever I think.

Main Street Amusements will open up at 7 PM like usual but will shut down following the conclusion of the tournament tonight.

Hope to see everyone there!

WOW! What a long, but great, weekend of pinball! A huge huge huge thank you to Dan at Main Street Amusements for providing us with an absolutely amazing location to host this tournament. Another big thank you from me to all of you who came out and played this past weekend. We had players from Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas! The tournament featured 4 players in the IFPA top 100, 12 total in the top 300, 2 brand new players to the IFPA, and a bit of everything in between. Overall I felt like the event ran very smooth from start to finish, and I greatly appreciate the respectful behavior demonstrated by all the players over the course of the weekend. Here is the Match Play link to the results from Saturday’s 7 rounds of qualifying.

Congrats to our repeat champion Trent Augenstein! Fred Richardson who got into the tournament late from the waitlist ended up in 2nd. Sunshine Bon visiting all the way from Atlanta came in 3rd, and the young gun from Chicago, Zachary Parks nearly upset the world coming in 4th.

In B division Art Dodd, who narrowly missed out on playing in A division losing a 4 player tie-breaker on Saturday, got his revenge by claiming the B victory. He was followed up by Lafayette Pinball League’s own Keith Alyea (who was going to skip the tournament to BBQ some chicken), with former IFPA Indiana SCS Champion Brad Smith coming in 3rd, and Northwest Indiana Pinball League’s Steven Schulz coming in 4th.

From Left to Right: Keith Alyea B Runner-Up, Art Dodd B champion, Trent Augenstein A Champion, Fred Richardson A Runner-Up. Not pictured Kurt John C Champion, and Dan Isaacson C Runner-Up. (My fault as I forgot to order their plaques on time, they will be shipped to them very soon though). 

The C division title was claimed by Mr. Kurt John out of Indianapolis, trailed closely by another Lafayette native Dan Isaacson for a runner-up finish. Nate Luke out of Indy, moved up 10 spots from his 45th seeded position at the start to come in 3rd, and rounding out C was Chris Compton who swung by Indiana for some pinball on his way back to Atlanta after spending some time out west.

The final results can be seen on the Google Sheet below. The sheet scrolls top to bottom and each division is separated by a bold black line. Yellow highlighted players are those who advanced into winners bracket for round two. Green highlighted players are those who advanced to winners brackets for finals. The multicolored highlights all the way to the far right show final placements within each division.

As much fun as we all had on Saturday and Sunday, we also largely contributed to some good on Friday night. Main Street Amusements hosted a Hurricane Harvey Relief 3-Strikes Tournament. Surprisingly, to me at least, the vast majority of Mayhem participants showed up to play with 40 people total participating, and even cooler we had some people just make donations both in person and online. We were able to collect $547 to be donated to the Houston SPCA to help out with animals in the Houston area. EVEN BETTER Main Street Amusements matched and upped what we collected and will be donating $600 to the cause as well.

Again thank you to Dan and Main Street Amusements for hosting us all weekend, and thank you to everyone who came from far and wide to play this weekend. I truly hope you all enjoyed your visit to our town! If we have it again next year you are all invited back, well not Trent, but everyone else!

-Tommy

Main Street Amusements is hosting a charity pinball tournament tonight at 8PM. There is a $10 entry fee to play. All entry fees collected will be going to the Houston SPCA to help animals impacted by Hurricane Harvey. They were chosen because of their positive track record as a charitable organization and transparency levels.  The format is 3-Strikes. You will be paired with a random player on a random machine, the loser gets a strike, get 3 strikes and you are eliminated, the last person without 3 strikes is the winner!

Absolutely anyone can play, and we would love to have a ton of people so that we can make a nice donation. Main Street Amusements has offered to match whatever we can collect in donations tonight so even if you don’t want to play but would like to come and leave a donation we will gladly accept that as well. The arcade opens at 5 PM tonight so come in and get in some practice for the tournament, and have a good time while helping with a great cause.

Click the picture to read Hurricane Harvey Animal Survival stories, and have some Kleenex ready.

Matt delivered himself a birthday present last night as he cruised to victory finishing both the regular season and the finals tournament in 1st place! Congrats to Matt on an amazing season, and to everyone else as well who came out and played this summer. Thank you all for another good season, and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. It was awesome to have so many new faces this year, and we hope you will all be back for next season which starts October 3rd. Full results are below and you can view the completed bracket here to see round by round scores! 

Don’t forget to come down to Main Street Amusements this Friday for our Hurricane Harvey Charity 3-Strikes tournament!

And start spreading the word about Fall League which kicks off in under a month!