Week 3 of Spring League down at Main Street Amusements tonight! Come on down and join us. Games this week are Batman 66, Captain Fantastic, Creature from the Black Lagoon, F-14, and Twilight Zone. See you all there tonight!
A huge thank you to everyone who came out and played in our Path of Play Day tournaments at North End Pub yesterday! Special thanks go out to all the following people as well; Sam and Casey Taylor for allowing us to have games at North End Pub and for working the bar and kitchen all day to keep players from dehydrating or getting cramps from an empty stomach. Big thank you to Alex Harmon and Mark Uncapher for bringing their Fire Tablets to help with scorekeeping. Dan St. John for providing an emergency repair to get Fathom up and running for the tournament, a simple oversight by me as a terrible tech, but without his experienced eyes, we would have been down an awesome machine. Also, limitless gratitude to my friend Daane Blouw for the amazing restoration he did on the Fathom machine. That will be the last planned public appearance of that game as I’m going to lock it up in a vault so I hope you all truly appreciated getting to see it and play it. A huge huge huge thank you to Kate Broadbooks, Timm Parker, John Hawxby, Tom Vandenberg, Matt Peace, and Keith Alyea who all gave up a lot of time and helped enter scores throughout the day, and I’m sure almost everyone took a minute to help enter scores for another player at some point during the day. Tournaments can’t happen without this contribution from everyone so again thank you. Travis Martin who came up all the way from Southern Indiana and played in his first tournament ever. Mike Burgess who donated Fort Wayne Wizard’s World Swag and Double Danger Pinball who provided the amazing plaques for the TNA Launch Party.
At the conclusion of the tournament, we had raised $335 in cash from entry fees and donations. I emptied all the coin boxes last night and I will run that to the bank today to get a grand total for our donation to Path of Play. My goal was for us to raise $500 as a community yesterday and I think we are going to easily surpass that tally.
I hope that everyone who came had an enjoyable time and a positive experience. If there are ever any suggestions for changes or improvements please let me know. I will get results uploaded to the IFPA tomorrow so check out all those delicious WPPRs later this week. Again, thank you to all of you for coming out and playing pinball fora great cause!
TNA Launch Party Champion Alex Harmon, Runner-Up Jason Werdrick, Third Place Adam Peacock, and Fourth Place Dan St. John.
Classics Champion Jason Werdrick, Runner-Up Adam Peacock, Third Place Matt Peace, and Fourth Place (not pictured) Mark Uncapher.
Main Tournament B-Division Champion Chuck Jackson, Runner-Up Mark Uncapher, Third Place Travis Lancaster, and Fourth Place Phil Mowers.
Main Tournament A-Division Champion Alex Harmon, Runner-Up Tommy Skinner, Third Place Adam Peacock, and Fourth Place Bob Twitchell.
Just your friendly reminder that we have Week 2 of Spring League at Main Street Amusements tomorrow at 7:30PM! Games are below, it is outer space week…assuming Magnotron is a space creation of some sort.
Also, a reminder that this Sunday over at North End Pub (formerly Jerilee’s Pub) we are having a charity pinball tournament with several different events all running at once.
“Sunday, April 29th, North End Pub will host a mega event starting at 11 AM (ignore the noon on the flyer)! Included will be a Total Nuclear Annihilation Launch Party, the Main Tournament, and a Classics side tournament! On top of all of this, we will be raising money for Path of Play, an organization that uses the playing of games to help those with Autism learn social skills. If you would like to make a donation sooner please feel free to do so. TNA and Classics will just have one finals, the main tournament will have both A & B finals.
The entry fee for each tournament is $10, from this $5 goes to the prize pool and $5 is donated directly to Path of Play. TNA and the Main Tournament bank will all be on coin drop still, and all coin drop collected that day will be donated to Path of Play as well. The classics side tournament will be on free play but is a limited qualifying event of only 15 attempts per person across the 4 machines. Top 8 make the finals for TNA. Top 8 make the finals for Classics. Top 8 make the finals for the Main Tournament, unless we have more than 24 players in which case we will expand it to 12 players for the finals.”
TNA Launch Party runs from 11 AM – 4 PM top 8 make the finals, plaques for top 3, prize $ top 4.
Classics Side Tournament from 11 AM -5 PM top 8 make the finals, Mug Trophies top 2, # top 4.
Main Tournament from 11 AM – 6PM top 8 make the finals (will expand if more than 24 players total), will also have B division finals. Mug Trophies top 2 in A & B, $ top 4 in A.
The goal is for all tournaments to be completed by 9 PM. After that, we plan to watch WWE The Greatest Royal Rumble Network Special anyone is welcome to hang out and enjoy that as well. North End Pub has food and drinks available.
For more information about Path of Play check out their website and watch the video below!
Hey Everyone! Just a reminder that if you are looking for a casual pinball league that has food and drinks available and some decent machines to flip on look no further than North End Pub’s Pinball League which kicks off Season 3 tonight at 8PM. The cost to join is FREE!!! You play 4 games in a group of 4 people, scoring is 4-3-2-1. PinPortal is the website we use to run the league and enter scores.
North End Pub (formerly Jerilee’s Pub) is located at 2100 Elmwood Ave attached to Market Square Lanes. They have pinball, pizza, wings, and most importantly BEER! Grab a bunch of friends and head down for a night of cheap fun and entertainment! If you know you plan to attend and haven’t previously played in a pinball league there before shoot me an email tsskinne@gmail.com with your first and last name and I will get you registered in the system ahead of time so you are ready to go. Expect to spend about $2.00 in quarters playing pinball, and bring however much extra you want to spend on food and drinks.
I can’t recommend the Honey Hot wings enough! Hope to see a lot of you there tonight!
The league runs for 6 weeks and you earn official IFPA (international flipper pinball association) WPPR (world pinball player ranking) Points just by participating. The season will conclude with a tournament open to novice players seeded based on your points earned during the season and we award the best Mug Trophies around!
Just wanted to remind everyone that there is a great show in Kalamazoo, Michigan this weekend and it starts tomorrow! Pinball at the Zoo has a long-running history and is my favorite show of the year. It isn’t huge but it is incredibly welcoming to everyone and has a bit of everything going on. There are tournaments including daily ones and a larger one that runs the whole weekend. There will be new games including at least 2 Iron Maidens, JJP’s Pirates of the Caribbean, American Pinball’s Houdini, Spooky Pinball’s Alice Cooper Nightmare Castle and Total Nuclear Annihilation! There are some restored machines vying for the best in show awards. There is an auction. There are some vendors. Most importantly lots of pinball and arcade games on free play for the weekend. The show is only $15 dollars a day to get in, or you can bring a game and get in free for the weekend which I strongly recommend as sharing a game you love with others is what really helps make the hobby better in general. Plus Kalamazoo also has Belles Brewery you can go and check out and several locations with pinball in the area too. If you really want to make a weekend out of it you can head a bit further north to Grand Rapids to check out Pyramid Scheme which is another amazing pinball location. Anyway, I hope some of you can make it up to the show at some point over the weekend. If I can help in any way or if you have any questions please feel free to get ahold of me, if I don’t know the answer I will find the people that do. Have a great weekend and hopefully see you there.
Thank you to everyone who came out and played in the Main Street Amusements Monthly Tournament last night! I think the new format seems to be a hit over the last few months and we have seen people end up all over the place as far as standings go from month to month which is part of what we had hoped for with the change. Below are the standings from the 1 hour of qualifying. 
Players were then put into groups of 4 for finals based on the standings. Winners last night from the different divisions were Tommy, Mike, Tom, Keith, and Danielle who all got to take home a bit of prize money, and all participants will get your WPPR points from the IFPA. The final tournament results were just submitted to the IFPA this morning and are awaiting the approval process.
Thank you again for coming out and we hope to see everyone again next month and maybe even a few more faces as well!
Hey everyone just your friendly reminder that tomorrow at Main Street Amusements we will be having our monthly tournament! Anyone can play! There is a $5 entry fee with all money paid back to the players. The format has 1 hour of head-to-head qualifying on the classics machines, a win is 1 point, a bye is .5 points, and a loss is 0 points, automatic tie-breaking is used. After one hour we are placed into groups of 4 for finals. The high seed in each group gets to choose the games or order, all games are eligible to be chosen for finals. Each group of 4 has $20 in prize money so everyone plays the whole time and everyone has a chance to win money!
We are now officially a Stern Army location as well and Stern Pinball has been kind enough to send us some sweet prizes so we will have a translite to giveaway to the winner of A division, and some plastics and key chains for the other divisions.
Thanks to all who showed up last night for the start of our Spring Season! Full results are below.
The next league night is 4/24/2018 at 7:30 PM downtown at Main Street Amusements, the games that week are out of this world. Avatar, Big Bang Bar, Firepower, Magnotron, Star Trek.
Next week, 4/17/2018, is our Monthly Tournament! $5 entry fee and all money is paid back in prizes. Everyone has a chance to win money all the way down to the very end! We hope to see a lot of you there!
Okay so it was only a 1-week drought, but we are happy to have the Spring Season starting tonight down at Main Street Amusements! Get down to MSA by 7:30 tonight to join in the fun! Anyone of any age and skill level is welcome to play in the Lafayette Pinball League. Don’t be shy come on down, plenty of nice folks in the league happy to help you out as you start to learn the ropes. The cost to join as always remains FREE!!! You will need about $3-$5 for coin drop on the machines and that is it, wow talk about some cheap and fun entertainment!
Hope to see some new faces there! The games for tonight are below!
Just got the email that Launch Party events have to be scheduled May 4th-6th for Stern’s latest game Iron Maiden. That being the case we went with Sunday, May 6th at North End Pub, 2100 Elmwood Ave, Lafayette, IN 47904!
The tournament will start at 1PM and have a $5 entry fee. All entry fee money is awarded as prize pool to the top 4 finishers. There will also be a trophy for the winner! The qualifying will run from 1PM to 7PM and is unlimited, the cost is $1 per attempt (aka just the coin drop). Top 8 qualifiers will make the finals.
There will be 9 other machines there available for play as well while you wait in queue, food and drink specials, and lots of fun! We will also be running a month-long tournament on Indy 500 raising money for our friend Henry Duke’s charity Henry House! A great time to get in some extra plays on that game.
Hope a lot of you can make it out and any questions just let me know!
Lafayette Pinball League 