Showdown at Slabtown 2010 Friday Wrap-up
Posted: July 31st, 2010 by ROM
Day 1 of qualifying at the Showdown comes to a close, and what do we have? We have this:
Basically:
Robert Gagno – 1st
Cayle George – 2nd
Danny Backglass – 3rd
Romulanx – 4th
and etc.
Open division machine scores:
Simpsons
Demolition Man
Whirlwind
Terminator 2
Frontier
Seawitch
And the Classics Division Leaderboard
Royal Flush
Aces and Kings
Aztec
Solar City
Nice turn-out tonight. It felt busy. We’re showing 40 entries so far. Even stronger than last year at this point. A lot of the weekly regulars have shown up (though not all! what up), as well as some fresh faces, plus there’s a solid contingent from Seattle, and from British Columbia. And more of them to arrive tomorrow. Action starts tomorrow at noon. And there’s, no doubt, gonna be a lot of shifts in the leaderboard.
Ricochet has set up some rad side-games. Get this! They have a Data East Star Trek machine with flippers that you activate using an NES Gun! There are sensors at the bottom of the playfield, and you shoot the gun at the left or right sensors, accordingly. Its really difficult! But I was definitely improving with each try. Whosoever has the high score by the end of the tournament wins half the coin box. 25 cents to play.
Plus, they set up Bad Cats Tommy Style – with the bottom foot of the playfield covered up in black tape, so you can’t see the flippers!
And – third side-game machine – Time Machine is set with reverse flippers. The right button triggers the left flipper, the left button triggers the right. Super challenging. Top score on any of these machine by the end of the tourney wins half the respective cashbox. They are really fun, unusual, and creative side-games to be running during the tournament. Fun ways to step away from the qualifying machines and just get wild!
Sorry, I did not take pictures of anything tonight. I’ll take and post some pics tomorrow. And I’ll also post another status report after the qualifying rounds ends, midnight tomorrow. Good luck tomorrow, everyone. Let’s see some sick scores!
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Alec Longstreth 31 Jul 10 at 7:47 am
Man, sounds SO FUN! Wish I was there. Have a great time tonight – good luck everybody!
ROM 31 Jul 10 at 10:00 am
I’m gonna spend some time on those mini-games today. The NES Gun was really fun to play. And it was getting a lot of action.
I hope we get more fresh faces showing up today.