7/5 C Bar Tourney (PAPA Style)
A 3 game finals between Dropshot, Steve, Dr. Fred, and Mindy was played!
Game 1 – HS2 The Getaway
1st – Dropshot – 4pt
2nd- Steve – 2pt
3rd- Dr. Fred – 1pt
4th – Mindy – 0pt
Game 2 – Demolition Man
1st – Dropshot – 4pt
2nd – Dr. Fred – 2pt
3rd – Steve – 1pt
4th – Mindy – 0pt
Game 3 – Doctor Who –
1st – Dropshot – 4pt – Finals total -12pt
2nd – Dr. Fred – 2pt – Finals total – 5pt
3rd – Steve – 1pt – Finals total – 4pt
4th – Mindy – 0pt – Finals total – 0pt
Overall Results
1 Aaron Nelson
2 Fred Franken
3 Biggie Fauntleroy
4 Mindy Bert
5 Isaac Ruiz
5 Chris Rhodes
7 Kevin Kerr
7 Ben Applebaum
7 James Adamson
7 Jeff Krauss
7 Danny Backglass Belrose
7 Matt Fentress
13 Zoe Vrabel
14 Jake McGhee
15 Chris Coyle
16 Eric Hill
16 Kris Fast
16 Paul Kalk
19 Nathan Stellhorn
20 Jason Nagy
21 Autumm King
21 Bob Roseninga
21 Dennis Brenhaug
21 Emma Eichhorn
25 Pat Castaldo
26 Tony Holmes
26 Gwendolyn Hill
28 Noah Davis
29 Brian Giles
Are you ready for some team based drunken all day qualifying and 1 ball per player finals, again? Well it’s going down again!
Sorry, had to do it!
Pretty much the same format* only smaller teams (most likely 5 players per team) which means bigger prizes, more battles and even more hate filled rivalries! It’s going to be held on Saturday, July 9th starting at noon. Once again it will be held at C-bar. I want to encourage players to sign-up as early as possible either by telling me, emailing or posting on the site. I will not be collecting any cash ($20 entry) until the day of. However, if you tell me you are in, and then get drafted and are a no show there’s gonna be trouble. This time around it will be Dennis doing the punishment with 1 head butt to the chest. We’re talking a drunk Dennis too, so who knows, he may get carried away and start taking a few swings too! Either way, from those that played in the last one, you know it’s a blast. Let me know if anyone is interested in being a Captain of a team and partaking in the draft. The draft can either happen Friday night, or Saturday morning before the tourney (10:30ish).
Yeah, he's talking shit. What are you gonna do?
*The way it works, based on a 30 player 6 team format. Casual Flow all day will make up qualifying. For those that don’t know, that means 4 player match games, with scoring of 4,2,1, or 0 points based on how you did.. In this case with 6 teams it may be 3 player games though. Once qualifying is over everyone’s points will be added to make their team total. Teams total points will then determine their seed for the finals. Finals will be head to head first team to win 3 games.
6 v 3 and the winner will advance to play 2
4 v 5 and the winner will advance to play 1
During each finals match the top seed will have choice of machine or position for the first game. Winner of each game will then have choice of machine or position. Just like last time it is 1 ball per player and a player can’t play again until everyone on the team has played.
Down to rumble:
Eric Hill
Jake McGhee
Fred Franken
Noah Davis
Jeff Gagnon
Aaron Nelson
Mindy Bert
Pat Castaldo
Dennis Brenhaug*
J.D. Yeager*
Isaac Ruiz*
Pirate Mike Smith PDX
Chris Rhodes
Mike Mahaffey
Raymond Davidson
Jeff Spaziani
Jon Davis
Ben Applebaum*
Kris Fast*
Emma Eichhorn
Matt Fentress
Michael Hassenpflug
Zoe Vrabel
Jared Kramer
Danny Backglass Belrose
Paige Atkinson
Jeff Krauss
Nathan Stellhorn
*Potential Captain (just let me know if you would like to be)
Some pinball droogies awaiting the finals match at the GK milk bar.
Wait a sec? Eden didn't win?!?!?!?
MWM melting Rollergames like he's had one in his garage since '90.
Results –
1 Mike Mahaffey
2 Aaron Nelson
3 Eden Stamm
4 Jeff Gagnon
5 Jared Kramer
5 Noah Davis
7 Jake McGhee
7 Kris Fast
9 Julie Gray
9 Robert Gagno
9 Dennis Brenhaug
9 Ryan Gratzer
13 Chris Coyle
13 John Fujita
13 Mike Hassenpflug
13 Maka Honig
17 Eric Merchant
17 Meilani Allen
17 Drew Anderson
17 J.D. Yeager
17 Adam Chesbrough
17 Andrew Nunes
17 Elija St. Clair
17 Jason Nagy
25 Mindy Bert
25 John Kremmer
25 Philip George Hammil
25 Hayden Harker
25 Raymond Chau
25 Paul Kalk
25 Brian Chesbrough
25 Bobby Conover
33 Chad Darnell
33 Mark Ruibal
33 Jeff Weston
33 Jason Hill
33 Zoe Vrabel
33 Gavin Keable
33 Edmund Nash
33 Sagel Frazier
33 Jeff Spaziani
33 James Edes
33 Fred Franken
33 Chris Rhodes
33 Matt Fentress
33 Eric Hill
33 Dave Dimoff
33 Jay Pankratz
49 Emma Eichhorn
49 Brendon McCracken
49 Ashley Harris
49 Mathew Siltala
49 Kevin Kerr
49 Mike Smith PDX
49 Steve Cartoon
49 Keith Parkins
49 April Vo
49 Jarrod Smith
49 Louie Hamlett
49 Isaac Ruiz
49 Bonnie Bedford
49 Mickala Duprey
49 Rob Timberlake
49 Erich Demerath
65 Michael Farber
65 James Pace
65 Mark Mahoney
65 Brian Richardson
65 Brian Barbeau
65 Denise Johnson
65 Jason America
65 Maurizio Gagno
65 Brandon Bras
65 Kathy Gagno
65 Nathan Stellhorn
65 Bill Lascher
65 Miles Craig
65 Richard Stemson
65 Tim Kelly
65 John Harris
65 Ben Hoerth
65 John Stein
65 Harry Ford
65 Mary Petock
65 Mike Norman
65 Carlos Cash
65 Billy Brown
65 Abra Cadabra
97 Brian Hinz
97 Donald Warren
97 David Rebal
97 Brandon Smith
97 Sid Conner
97 Seth Longmire
97 Dottie Ledesma
97 Jeff Kraus
97 Pat Castaldo
Pre-registration is now closed. Thank you to all that have pre-registered. It’s not to late to be apart of Pinbrawl 2011. You can still sign up when Ground Kontrol opens Sunday morning at 10:00-10:45. The tournament will then start at 11:00. See you all there!
The tournament will be held on Sunday April 17th. Entry is once again $20 this year. The format is the same, head to head, best 2 of 3, double elimination.
We will be giving away a TBD pinball machine as the grand prize along with cash prizes for top finishers.
Last year's final between Opto and the eventual winner, Deathsave.
Brawlers (37 spots left):
Meilani Allen
Jason America
Drew Anderson
Brian Barbeau
Bonnie Bedford
Mindy Bert
Brandon Bras
Dennis Brenhaug
Billy Brown
Abra Cadabra
Steve Cartoon
Carlos Cash
Pat Castaldo
Raymond Chau
Adam Chesbrough
Brian Chesbrough
Sid Conner
Bobby Conover
Chris Coyle
Miles Craig
Chad Darnell
Erich Demerath
Dave Dimoff
Noah Davis
Mickala Duprey
James Edes
Emma Eichhorn
Michael Farber
Kris Fast
Matt Fentress
Harry Ford
Fred Franken
John Fujita
Maurizio Gagno
Kathy Gagno
Robert Gagno
Jeff Gagnon
Ryan Gratzer
Julie Gray
Louie Hamlett
Philip George Hammil
Hayden Harker
Ashley Harris
John Harris
Mike Hassenpflug
Eric Hill
Jason Hill
Brian Hinz
Ben Hoerth
Maka Honig
Paul Kalk
Gavin Keable
Kevin Kerr
Jared Kramer
Jeff Kraus
John Kremmer
Bill Lascher
Dottie Ledesma
Seth Longmire
Mike Mahaffey
Mark Mahoney
Jake McGhee
Eric Merchant
Jason Nagy
Edmund Nash
Aaron Nelson
Mike Norman
Andrew Nunes
James Pace
Jay Pankratz
Keith Parkins
Brian Richardson
David Rebal
Chris Rhodes
Mark Rubial
Isaac Ruiz
Matthew Siltala
Brandon Smith
Jarrod Smith
Pirate Mike Smith PDX
Jeff Spaziani
Eden Stamm
John Stein
Nathan Stellhorn
Richard Stemson
Rob Timberlake
April Vo
Zoe Vrabel
Donald Warren
Jeff Weston
J.D. Yeager
The tournament was awesome. Competition was way srsly tight. Pretty good CFF turnout and showing, and a good Portland turnout; solid Seattle and VRPA turnout; and some solid ballers came from other places (Neil Shatz and Bob Matthews and Keith Elwin from Caliornia, Bowen Kerins from Massachusetts). Gotta say – this tourney is really developing into Portland’s biggest and best one. The Ground Kontrol Pinbrawl is another big one… but it’s a different format. Thanks everyone for coming out and entering and trying really hard. And thanks to all the organizers and techs and scorekeepers for putting this together and keeping it running. I can’t wait for next year.
Eric Hill took most of these pictures. But I took a few, too. So I captioned them. Thus, hot pics:
Danny Backglass-Mandela gently macking on the Holy Mary Mother of God. (pic by ROM)
So you can keep track of the action from afar! (Note: Those are just the rankings for the qualifying round, not the final. See above for final results.)
Discuss stuff in the comments!
Anyway, don’t forget to try hard, every body! Good luck, and have fun.
Some notes:
-All the machines in the Classics bank are set to 5 ball.
-Some of the machines have very sensitive tilts and are set to “difficult” – so be careful.
And by “bygone” I mean “two weeks ago.” And by “memories” I mean “pictures.” And by “of” I mean “like, totally.” So, when you put it like that, “Pictures, like Totally Two Weeks Ago.”
Our local tournament organizers have been busy these past few months coming up with sweet tournament ideas. The most recent one was the C-Bar Charbroiled Schoolyard Rumble. You can read about it in that post. But the gist is: Once upon a time there were four team captains. And one Saturday night those team captains got together and drank a bunch of beer. And then they each drafted their teams from a pool of players. 7 players a team. And on Sunday we all got together and rumbled like asshole school children!
The format was designed just for this tournament. In the first round, each player played four person games against the other teams’ players. After a game was over, you got shacked up with three different players from the opposing teams. Plus you were awarded points based on how you placed (4,2,1,0). And so on for, uh, 7 games in total? At the end of those games, each teams’ points were totaled.
Then the 2nd round began. In this round Team 3 played Team 4. Regular games were played, except at the same time it wasn’t very regular because the players rotated after each ball. So, the pressure was on! When you stepped up to play you knew you could only contribute one ball at a time. This made for an interesting atmosphere, with teams huddling together to come up with their plans, and everyone playing spectator – standing back and focusing intently on whom ever was up at the plate.
Anyway, Eric Hill took some rad pictures throughout the day-long event. Here they are.
Ugh, it's fricking Rhodes...
Aaron 'Dropshot' Nelson glances back mid-game to make sure people are filling out the score thingies correctly. This guy is ACES at running tourneys, man.
Noah 'Mad Eyes' 'Opto' Davis (two nicknames!), wearing a headband.
Okay, listen up, people! Probably Dropshot's favorite thing to say.
Nearly the same picture, but this time with more beard.
Who ever said pinball wasn't a spectator sport? Oh... like everyone except these people. Okay...
Scoring and drinking. Usually, you know, it's like totally the other way around in this scene (drinking, and then SCOOOORING!!). but mmhmm, yeah...
Video 'Dennis' Mode shreds Judge Dredd
Dropshot doth the same.
And then over on the other side of the room: more pinball.
Mindy crushes skulls in the final, on Black Knight 2K
Opposing force Jay 'Kickback' America tells us all to cut the crap as he steps up to jah plate
A heavenly halo slams into Kevin's dome as he battles the Black Knight. But would it be enough?
Spectating during the finals
Dropshot, ball 3, player 2, comes from behind and wins the tournament for his team
Don't forget, mad cash for the winning team
Not to rub it in or anything... (Rhodes and Mindy)
The winning team! YAYYYY. Matt, Soundcard, Dropshot, Emma, Rhodes, Mindy, ROM
We are going old school on it. 4 teams, 4 captains, 8 rounds and someone will be picked last. In the NFL, they call this player Mr. Irrelevant because most of the time they do not even make the final roster. However, in our case, every single player makes the finals and has a great chance to win it all! Unfortunately, you won’t know who it was, or when anyone was picked…but chances are it was probably this kid.
If this is you, or your kid, don't blame me for using your picture. Blame yourself for not learning how to catch a ball.
Details:
The tournament will start at 12:00 (noon) Sunday Jan. 2nd. You must sign up by Jan 1st though. I don’t need your money but I do need your word that you won’t be a no show, or Rom gets to punch you in the gut! No one will be allowed to sign up day of and that is because there will be a live draft on Saturday. Let me reiterate, NO late sign ups, and a no show means ROM WILL PUNCH YOU! The entry price will be $20 that can be paid in advance, or the day of.
The 4 team Captains will be Jake, Noah, Fred and Aaron. The draft will take place Saturday afternoon. Who ever picks last in the 1st round will pick first in the 2nd round so we should have some very even competitive teams. The tournament will consist of 8 casual flow rounds where every single match-up will consist of 1 player from each team. After the qualifying rounds are over the team points will be added up to determine which team qualified in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
Here’s where it gets fun, so stick with me here, it all makes sense in the end. Every single player/team makes the finals. The format we are going to use is a ladder system. The 4th place team plays the 3rd place team in a best 3 of 5 series. Once we determine the two teams (3rd and 4th) a machine will be randomly chosen for the 1st match and a quarter will be flipped to decide order. At this point each team will need to discuss in private who they plan to have play ball 1. Both teams will submit who plays at the same time. After ball 1 is over the same thing goes down for ball 2 and finally again for ball 3. A player cannot play again until every single team member gets to play a ball, and if your team is player 2 and do not have to play ball 3 that given player would still need to play a ball on another game. For the second game the machine will be drawn randomly again and whoever wins the previous game can choose which team goes first. Same deal on a new player for each ball. First team to 3 wins moves on!
Same exact format for the next round vs. the 2nd place team. However play count is reset for each round unless a player doesn’t get to play a single ball in the previous round. They must play before anyone plays a second time. Feel free to ask question in the message board if this is confusing.
When people don't show up who say they will Rom get angry, and when Rom get angry,    Rom hit things!!!
Flip a coin to decide order on the first game, switch players every ball, winner       chooses play order for subsequent games, every player must play once before a player may play twice. All machines will be chosen randomly and first team to 3 wins moves on to the finals against the 1st place team.
Same exact format for the finals as the two previous rounds. First team to 3 wins claims all of the cash to be split evenly amongst themselves!
This event should be a lot of fun with a great chance for anyone to win some good cash! If 28 people are playing the winning team of 7 would each get $80. Not bad. To sign up you can either text, PM, or just post on the message board. You must let us know prior to Jan 1st at noon. You can sign-up, and then cancel prior to then as well You can wait to pay Sunday too. If you get drafted and do not show up Rom does get to punch you though, regardless of your excuse. No shows will mess everything up. I cannot stress that enough. Feel free to ask any questions in the message board where a list of participants will be list as well as right here. This tournament is in response to our failure to successfully come up with an adequate structure for a Seattle v Portland tournament other than it just being 4 on 4.
Sign-up by Jan1st. 12:00 (noon)Â Tourney Jan 2nd. 12:00 (noon), entry is $20
Those in:
Jake McGhee (captain)
Noah Davis (captain)
Fred Franken (captain)
Aaron Nelson (captain)
Draft Pool:
Chris Coyle
Isaac Ruiz
Mike Smith
Mindy Bert
Dennis Brenhaug
Eric Hill
Mike Hassenpflug
J.D. Yeager
Pat Castaldo
Kris Fast
Emma Eichhorn
Ryan Gratzer
Josh Brake
Chris Rhodes
Paul Kalk
Denise Johnson
Matt Fentress
Jon Davis
Kevin Kerr
Jason America
Steve Lampros
Jeff Spaziani
Zoe Vrabel
Where: C-Bar
2880 SE Gladstone St. Portland, OR 97202
Phone: (503) 230.8808
Why: Rom willed it.
What: It can’t be explained but here is how it works…
Please sign up as soon as you arrive, entry is $10. Once 7:00 comes around and registration closes it will take another 15 minutes so to set everything up. This doesn’t really need to be known but I will explain how it we are doing it. When you sign up you will randomly write your name on any of the 44 spots on a piece of paper, once everyone has signed up the paper will be unfolded and reveal what number you are 1-44. So let’s say we have 28 players though, well we will go through and write in player 1, 2, 3, 4 and then nobody got number 5. We will then go to the first number over 28, so 29 becomes 5. then 6, 7, nobody got 8, the next number over 29 will be 8. Get it? No? It doesn’t matter, it will all be taken care of for you.
So we are going to be using either a 28 player matrix, 36 player matrix, 40 player matrix or 44 player matrix. Everyone must sign up prior to 7:00pm or let me know you are on your way. Once we start filling in the matrix it will be very tough to start adding late players. Like Cascadia people will be playing 4 players games with different players each time for a total of 4 matches. If there are more than 28 but less than 36 there is a good chance you might be playing with someone more than once, sorry. Scoring will be 4, 2, 1, 0. If in any case there is a bye in your group (only 3 players) the scoring will be 4, 2, 1. Top 6 will move on. We think there are most likely going to be ties for qualified positions, all of which are very crucial, as you will see later. So there will be a 1 game playoff for any tied qualifying score on a random machine.
Finals
We are going to have head to head best 2 of 3 in the first round, pitting 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5. Top seed will get to pick two machines. The two winners will then join 1 and 2 in the finals where it will be three 4 player games set up the way described below.
Now that we have the top 4 figured out they are going to play a 3 game series with scores (4, 2, 1, 0) being the same as before. This is where rank is important, before any game is played the 3rd highest player (either 3rd,4th, or 5th seed depending on who advances) gets to choose a machine, then 2nd highest player (2nd seed) gets to choose a machine and finally the 1st seed gets to choose a machine. Now that the 3 machines have been chosen the top seed can choose machine (of the 3 picked) or position, followed by 2, then 3, 4 or 5. After the first game has been played the winner of that game gets to choose machine (of the 2 left) or position followed by who got second, third and then 4th. Same goes for the 3rd game, where I would assume whoever wins game 2 would choose position since there is only 1 machine to choose from. After the 3 matches whoever has the most points wins! I hope this all makes sense.
Payouts
Based on 28 people:
1 $120
2 $70
3 $50
4 $20
5 $10
6 $10
Based on 36 people:
1 $160
2 $80
3 $60
4 $40
5 $10
6 $10
A side note, mostly for Steve. If a ramp isn’t registering I don’t care. Especially for this format. We need all the machines in, and the game will be playing the same for everyone.
Other than that, this is gonna be sweet! Be sure to try and show up early. I think there is going to be $1 PBR special for all pinball players. Also, for those that it matters C-Bar is all ages until 10:00pm so feel free to bring the little ones.
TOURNAMENTS! Visit Flip City for all your information about upcoming Portland pinball tournaments. There are weekly tournaments held each Tuesday (rotating locations). Plus bigger tournaments held a few times a year.
Also, go to Rose City Pinball for monthly tourneys. Rose City Pinball, run by CFF members, operates machines throughout town and is awesome.
