Gameworks easton will be holding a pinball tournament over valentine's day weekend. Qualifying friday and saturday with finals on sunday. The games at gameworks are in such sad condition that I don't even bother going in there even when I'm already at Easton but supposedly they will be completely shopped out before the tournament. Prizes are...

TOURNAMENT PRIZES:
1st Place = $800 + 4 4Hr Free Play Cards
2nd Place = $300 + 2 4Hr Free Play Cards
3rd Place = $150 + 2 4Hr Free Play Cards
4th Place = $50 + 2 4Hr Free Play Cards
5th Place thru 16 Place will get a 1Hr Free Play Card

if anyone wants more info just let me know. This is the 2nd one of these Gameworks has done (chicago one a few months ago) and I guess they were really impressed with the turnout for the first one so I'm hoping some people will come out and they'll take better care of their games in the future.

i've never played a table there that wasn't fucked in some way.

glad they'd make 'em nice fer th' tourney, but still. kinda totally fucking lame that they can't give a shit otherwise.

which pinball machines do they have there?

how much is the entry fee?

this is from memory so might be a bit off. The machines are utter crap (IMO), South Park, Sopranos, High Roller Casino and NASCAR. I want to say entry is $4 per game or 3 for $10. Each machine will have points for what place your score is ie. 1st place worth 100 points, 2nd place 90 3rd 85, 4th 84 5th 83 etc. (not sure of exact values). Top 16 with highest scores (from the 4 games combined) at end of qualifying make finals. Therefore if you get 1st place on 1 game and think 100 points is good enough to get you into finals you can stop there. Or you can play all 4 games and maybe get 50 points per game to have 200 points.

It sounds confusing but it's probably not as bad as it sounds once you see the scoreboard.

I would like to see a good turnout because I think any publicity pinball can get is good but I will say that entry fees seem a bit high to me and I know at least a couple of the best players in the world will be there so take that into account if you want to enter. I love pinball (going to a tournament in pittsburgh tomorrow) but I'll probably only drop $10-20 on the gameworks one because I don't enjoy throwing money away against people who are light years better than I am.

guess it would have been easier if I just looked up the link....all info can be found here.
http://www.gameworks.com/columbus/pinball/

thanks for all the info. sounds like fun!

it would be cool to watch a pinball master play.

god, those beautiful few months during the changing of the machines when silverball had twilight zone, T2, and addams family all at the same time.

and i had a sheet of gooney bird and no job. or home.

good times . . . good times.