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!

Seriously,  you have been training for this the last 8 weeks. You have played games every Tuesday night and left your sweat, tears, and blood on the glass (I hope none of that is true). Now your chance is here to show everyone what you are made of. Tonight you claim what is yours!

Okay, it isn’t that serious, but we do have our league finals tonight. Trophies for last season’s finalist will be awarded before we get started as well. Remember there is a $10 entry fee for this evening, and we will start as close to 7:30 as we can.

The bracket is live online and will be updated based on attendance at the start of the night.

Tomorrow night is the finals for our Summer League at Main Street Amusements! Anyone who played in at least 3 weeks of the league can participate in the tournament. There is a $10 entry fee, and all money is used for awards & trophies for the top finishers. The tournament is head-to-head, best of 3 matches and is double elimination. The tournament typically runs longer than our average league night so keep that in mind. The higher seeded player in each match gets the choice of game or position on game 1, then lower seed for game 2, and back to higher seed if game 3 is necessary. Below is the bracket if all 16 players show up, if not adjustments will be made.

Secondly, on Friday evening we will be hosting a charity tournament to help raise funds for Hurricane Harvey relief. The tournament format will be 3-strikes and will have a $10 entry fee with 100% going towards an animal based charity in the Houston area. That tournament will begin at 8PM. Also, Main Street Amusements has extended hours this Friday opening at 5PM to allow for more practice time for the Harvey charity tournament as well as for Main Street Mayhem which will take place all day Saturday and Sunday afternoon as well. Right now we have a full 48 players still confirmed for the Mayhem tournament, but if anyone is interested in serving as an alternate in case a player doesn’t show up please let me know.

Lastly, Main Street Mayhem starts at 10 AM on Saturday and goes through 10 PM, Sunday is again at 10 AM and we should be wrapped up by 4 PM or so. The arcade will be closed to the public on Saturday, but open for regular hours on Sunday night. The tournament will feature 48 players including several ranked in the top 100 in the world. It features 10 rounds of matchplay format competition and has thousands of dollars in prize money to be awarded. Hopefully, you are one of the lucky participants, and if you aren’t this year then maybe you can join us next year if we have the tournament again. See everyone Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this week!

The moment you have all been waiting for …. okay probably not, but Matt was able to just barely edge out Keith to finish in the top spot for the Summer Season finishing with 98 points, to Keith’s 97. A huge thank you to everyone who came out and participated this season! Full results of week 8 and final standings for Summer League are below.

The epic finale of Summer League will be next week when all 16 league members who played in at least three weeks this season are eligible to compete for the LPL Summer League Championship! The Finals Bracket is live and will be updated based on attendance next week. Reminder everyone is encouraged to come and play in the finals tournament. If we have all 16 players show up we can vote on splitting between an A & B division at the time. If it is less than that it really just makes more sense to leave it as one bracket most likely. A reminder that there is a $10 entry fee for the finals tournament and that money is used to purchase awards and as a prize pot for the top two finishers if we do one bracket, and A & B champions if we split into two. Also, plan to be there a little bit later if you want to win it as finals night usually runs longer than an average league night.

Again thank you to Dan and Main Street Amusements for providing us with such an amazing location to host our league, and thank you to all the players who come out and participate week in and week out! I’m always open to hearing suggestions for ways to improve league so if anyone has any ideas please let me know!

Yes, I know we are only just wrapping up the Summer Season, but with the chilly nights coming and pumpkin spice in the air it only made sense to get our Fall Season schedule ready (okay that and the IFPA 30 day rules).

We will kick off the Fall Season on October 3rd at 7:30 PM at Main Street Amusements! We will wrap league up on December 12th with our end of season tournament. In between, there will be 8 meetings of which only your best 6 counts toward your season standings. You must play in at least 3 weeks to be eligible for the end of season tournament.
Any questions, comments, or concerns please reach out to me lafayettepinballleague@gmail.com. Hope to have a huge turnout for the fall season!

As many of you know Houston, Texas was just devastated by Hurricane Harvey and as a result, the IFPA has waived the 30 day limit for charity tournaments this month. Since we are already having a huge tournament on September 16th-17th, I figured why not make it a full tournament weekend and add one more to the calendar.

On Friday, September 15th, at 8 PM we will have a 3-Strikes Tournament to benefit Hurricane Harvey Relief efforts. The entry fee will be $10 with 100% of the money going to benefit a charity cause (haven’t solidified which one but leaning towards an animal based charity like Houston SPCA ). So, for those of you participating in Main Street Mayhem II: More Mayhem! this offers a great chance to get in some practice before the tournament and help a great cause, and for those of you not playing in the tournament, it is a great chance to come down and help out and have a blast playing the awesome games at Main Street Amusements. It has been submitted to the IFPA and WPPR points will be awarded.

Anyone can come and participate in the Friday night charity event so please feel free to invite friends, family, and neighbors! We hope to see a lot of you there!

Main Street Mayhem II: More Mayhem! is a private event taking place September 16th & 17th at Main Street Amusements and is closed to the public. Main Street Amusements will be open for regular business hours (7 – 11 PM) on Friday, September 15th, and Sunday, September 17th, but closed to the public on Saturday, September 16th.

And it all comes down to this….the last night of the regular season and Matt and Keith enter deadlocked for 1st place but not without several others nipping at their heels in the standings. It is still anyone’s league to win! Tonight will determine the final standings which are used to seed the Finals Tournament next week.

The games for tonight were selected via the survey sent out last week and are Attack from Mars, Batman 66, Captain Fantastic, Firepower, and Tri-Zone…a nice mix of eras and gameplay style.

Finals next week will be a double elimination tournament, all matches are a best of 3 series, with the higher seed getting the first choice of game or position. The tournament does have a $10 entry fee with the money being used to purchase awards and the remainder split as winnings between the finishers. Typically this night runs a bit longer so please be there and ready to go right at 7:30. The post tournament party is held next door at DT Kirby’s to celebrate the season.

Hey everyone, here are the final standings for August Selfie League. As it turns out this will be the final month of Selfie League as we have seen a continued decline in participation. Main Street Amusements will likely be returning to their old Stern TOPS Tournament to award monthly prizes as they did for their first several years of business. 

Look for news regarding the September tournament from MSA in the near future. Finals for August Selfie League will be held after our regular league play next Tuesday, September 5th. Anyone who participated in qualifying by playing at least 3 out of the 5 games is eligible to participate in the finals. Thanks to everyone who gave it a shot over the last several months. 

R.I.P 2016-some of 2017

Hey, everyone! Complete the survey by selecting the 5 games you would most like to play for the final week of Summer League which is next Tuesday, September 5th. After that, we will use our final standings from the 8 weeks to seed a tournament bracket to be played out on September 12th, expect this night to run longer than an average league night. Also, remember you must have played in at least 3 of the 8 weeks to be eligible for the tournament. Hope everyone has enjoyed the season and thanks to all the new members who have come out and given us a try. If anyone has advice or ideas for improvement please feel free to send that to lafayettepinballleague@gmail.com.