Tonight is week 1 of our Spring Season 2017! Starts at 7:30 down at Main Street Amusements! Games are listed in the picture below, and they also serve as the Selfie League games this month so take some pictures of those scores during practice time as well in case you do awesome.
Also congrats to Matt Peace for an awesome showing finishing as Runner-Up in the “B” Division down at the Louisville Arcade Expo this past weekend!
Tom Vandenberg came up with a huge game 5 on Captain Fantastic last night at the finals for February’s Selfie League and clinched victory. Tommy Skinner came in second, Keith Alyea third, and Dan St. John in 4th. Results have been submitted and approved by the IFPA.
The games for March’s Selfie League are Big Indian, Big Lebowski, Black Knight, Ghostbusters, and Tri-Zone! You can start playing those games tonight and get those scores submitted at anytime before the end of the month! GET REGISTERED!
Also remember that next week is the first week of league for Spring Season 2017! Guess what? The games for the first week of the season are also our Selfie League Games so get on down to MSA and practice this week, submit those scores for Selfie League, and then kick everyone’s ass next week!
Looking forward to having everyone back together again next week, and as always feel free to bring a friend to check out league!
REMINDER
The March Monthly Tournament which takes place on the 21st at 8PM is sponsored by Sun King Brewery. They have kindly donated an awesome prize package to be shared with participants on that night!
Our April Monthly Tournament which takes place on the 18th at 8PM is sponsored by none other than our own local Lafayette Brewing Company! A huge thank you to both of these awesome breweries for supporting competitive pinball in Indiana!
Okay Dan St. John with some late scores submitted last night moves into the finals.
Standings below
Matt Peace and Tommy Skinner cannot attend tonight so the finalists are Keith Alyea, Tom Vandenberg, Kyle Kandel, and Dan St. John. Don’t forget you are competing for WPPR Points as well as the coveted tokens prizes provided by MSA $20 to first, $10 to second, and $5 to third, 4th….well play better next time! Score sheet will be at the arcade and I will be working next door at DT Kirby’s if anyone needs anything. Good luck!
So here are the standings for February Selfie League as of right now! Tonight is the last night to make any score submissions and finals is tomorrow night at 7:30. Remember it’s 5 games scored 3,2,1,0 for finals. I can’t attend tomorrow night, but I will be working next door at DT Kirby’s if anything is needed, and will make sure there is a paper there to help with score keeping. As of right now finals will be Matt, Keith, Tom, and Kyle. I will update here and Facebook as soon as I hear anyone else can’t attend or scores change.
Also reminder that Spring Season starts next week on Tuesday, March 7th. Good luck to finalist tomorrow, and see everyone at Spring Opener next Tuesday night at 7:30 PM.
Well the GIF says it all! March 7th Lafayette Pinball League Spring Season starts at 7:30 PM at Main Street Amusements! We had a few new players join us for our monthly tournament this past Tuesday, thank you Terry, Andy, and Kyle for coming out, and we hope to have them with us again in less than two weeks for our new season. Please help out the newcomers whenever possible to make them feel welcomed, and in that time be sure to invite a few new friends to come and join us.
As always league remains free to join and you just have to play for the games we play each week. Below are some more pictures that you can feel free to use to help advertise and recruit some players to league.
Reminder that tomorrow night at 8:00 PM we will have our monthly 3-strikes knockout tournament at Main Street Amusements! $5 entry fee to play in the tournament and all money is paid back out to the top 4 finishers. Random opponents on random machines, play until there is only one person left. Oh and don’t forget the incredibly valuable and not quite explainable WPPR points that determine your world and state rankings! Come on down for a good time and try not to get knocked out!
Also in other awesome news The Big Lebowski is back up and operational so don’t be surprised if you are lucky enough to get paired up with someone on that machine tomorrow night and Batman ’66 has new code as well! MSA is always spoiling us! See you all there!
Reminder that Lafayette Pinball League is on a break until March 7th, but that doesn’t mean you can go down and participate in selfie league this month! The games are Game of Thrones, Funhouse, Batman ’66, Captain Fantastic, and Metallica. There have been some awesome scores posted already but get down to MSA and make them better! Also reminder that next Tuesday, February 21st we have our regular monthly three strikes tournament with $5 entry fee!
Also this past weekend Main Street Amusements hosted the IFPA Indiana Pinball State Championships and the local boys did good with Tommy and Tom taking 1st & 2nd respectively, Chuck Jackson from Chicago coming in 3rd, and Bob Skinner coming in 4th.. It is the first time the State Championship has returned to Lafayette since Phil Grimaldi moved away, and we hope to keep it here again next year. Also remember all of our IFPA events (league finals, monthly 3 strikes, and selfie league) all build up points for your state ranking which gets you invited to next year’s state championships so show up to everything that you can!
Recently I reached out to several brewing companies across the state of Indiana in an effort to gain sponsorships for our monthly pinball tournaments at MSA. As many of you know nothing goes together quite like pinball and beer. Sun King Brewery is the first to reply that they will support us in a partnered effort to grow competitive pinball in Indiana! They have agreed to donate a prize package for the March tournament that includes, 4 pint glass, a $15 gift card, and a Sun King sticker! Be sure to come to Main Street Amusements and enter the tournament on March 21st, at 8:00 PM, for your chance to win one of these great prizes.
Sun King Brewing Company is an Indianapolis-based craft brewery with a focus on continually creating traditional seasonal and unique specialty beer. Sun King rolled their first keg of beer out of the door in July 2009 and since that time has grown into one of Indiana’s largest and most award-winning breweries, with multiple medals at the Great American Beer Festival® and the World Beer Cup®.
Sun King Brewing Company is located at 135 N. College Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46202. There full beer list is available on their site. We are one of many different organizations that Sun King works with across the state, a full list of their partners is also available on their site! The next time you are at a bar or restaurant be sure to see if they have any Sun King available!
Again a huge thank you to Sun King Brewing Company! We look forward to a continued partnership in the future.
Yes, we just finished winter season, but I wanted everyone to have ample time to get your calendars ready for the next season. As always we will play Tuesday nights at Main Street Amusements with a 7:30 start time. This season will be 8 weeks long and finals will be on May 23rd. Below is the full schedule including the weeks we take off for our monthly tournaments. I got all of our information submitted to the IFPA today to get us officially registered. Again please do some recruiting and try to get a few new faces to come and check us out, feel free to copy and share the flyers I created below via any social media you think could help.
Last night we finished up the Lafayette Pinball League Winter 2017 season! This marks the 6th consecutive season we have played and scored using PinPortal, and probably the first time we have ever wrapped up a finals tournament before closing time at MSA. Entering the tournament it was really anyone’s to win as over the years our league has become very balanced across the board with our skill levels. Keith was entering at the #1 seed attempting to reclaim the title that he had won during the 2016 Winter Season. Matt was entering as the #2 seed looking to go back to back by following up his Fall season championship. Tom entered at the #3 seed looking to make the leap from a couple of runner-up finishes in recent season back to his previous championship form. Tommy entered at #4 looking to claim a second championship having previously won the Spring 2016 season. Rounding out the bracket we had Ron, Terry, and Dan St. John all looking to improve on recent top 4 finishes in previous season to lay claim to victory, while Craig, Dan Isaacson, Joe, and Chris all looked to shock some people and lay waste to their competition.
In round one Craig, Joe, and Chris were all able to advance over their respective opponents. In round two we saw a series of incredibly close games as all matches were decided 2-1, with the higher seeds claiming victory in each battle likely due to having the advantage of game choice. Keith over Craig, Tommy over Dan, Matt over Joe, and Tom over Chris.
Heading down to the consolation bracket Chris knocked out Ron 2-0, in the battle of the Dans, Isaacson claimed victory over St. John 2-0, and Terry took out the Craig 2-0. Following those victories Chris would face Joe and in the end defeat him 2-0, and Terry would again advance over Dan I. in a nail biter 2-1. At this point they would both be awaiting the semi-final losers from the top half of the bracket.
Tommy took down Keith 2-1, losing on Big Indian, but then claiming victory on Ghostbusters and Star Trek. Matt edged Tom on two consecutive games advancing to the finals for a faceoff with Tommy.
In consolation semi-finals Keith had another full match squeaking by Chris 2-1, while Terry continued his hot streak beating Tom 2-1. Terry had at this point made it from the lowest seed in the tournament down to the final 4. In the end though his run would come to a halt as Keith would advance past him with another 2-1 victory and then await the loser from the Matt & Tommy finals match.
In game one of the finals Matt chose Game of Thrones and headed into ball three with a commanding lead, but Tommy was able to complete Martell adding their add-a-ball power to his Lovejoy start and then start the multiball to surpass his score. From here Tommy choose The Walking Dead where he fortunately eked out a win even though both he and Matt had pretty terrible games. He would now await the results of the Keith & Matt matchup in the consolation finals.
Keith and Matt would come down to ball 5 on game three, Big Indian, to determine a winner. A skill full plunge followed by an immediate outlane drain gave Matt just enough bonus to edge out Keith 2-1 and return for a rematch against Tommy in the finals with the change to force two more rounds of play due to the double eliminations format of the tournament.
Matt and Tommy would now face off for the second time on the night, again with Matt having choice. They would head over to Theatre of Magic. Tommy managed to put together a two multi-ball ball 2 that would give him 800+ million and enough to keep him in the lead throughout the game and claim victory. From there he headed back to The Walking Dead where he had earlier defeated Matt….the result would be the same albeit with a slightly better game for Tommy this time around putting up approximately 42 million to Matt’s 6 million giving him the title for Winter Season 2017 of the Lafayette Pinball League.
As always a huge thank you to Dan St. John for not only opening MSA 5 years ago, but for always keeping the games in amazing condition, for allowing us to host league as well as tournaments at the location, and for always providing new and new to us games. Without all of his hard work we really couldn’t have this league. Please remember that and always continue to be respectful of the games and the location, and again to Dan thank you.
We will be taking the full month of February off from running any league play. Tonight, February 1st, is the finals for January selfie-league. Main Street Amusements will be holding the IFPA State Championship Series on February 11th. We will still have our monthly 3-strikes tournament on February 21st. Selfie league is still running this month and has just gone active today, the games are below.
Lastly, thanks to all the players who come out and compete and just have fun with league. I am hoping to get a few more to join us for Spring Season which starts on March 7th. Please feel free to invite family, friends, neighbors, and strangers to come and join the league. I plan to do some advertising here on our site, as well as through Facebook, and some local bars and maybe even over on campus. I’ve made a series of flyers feel free to copy and share them to any social media that you use as well. See you all at the events over the next month and back for league on March 7th.
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