OK-- talked to the folks at alley bar yesterday, and we're shooting to have the tourney there, THIS SATURDAY 8/23 at 9pm sharp start time.
We want to keep this tournament quick, fun, and simple. Rules:
You play and record your score for your BALL ONE ONLY on each of the five machines. EBs do not count even if you collect on your first ball. One chance only! Luck may fuck you, but that's part of the fun. I expect some surprising results. The top 3 scores earn boints-- 3 boints for #1 score, 2 for #2, 1 for #3, and 1/2 for #4 to make it interesting. $2 buy-in. Prizes TBD, but will include cash and possibly some food courtesy of the bar. Anything can happen on one ball, so don't be afraid to come and enter, regardless of your experience level! Tell your friends!
Depending on time and participation, we may do another round (yay!) but everyone has to take a shot first (unless you're sober in which case you have to wear an eyepatch for the rest of the round.) Also depending on time we may ask people not to finish their games, and to just drain the balls so we can move on, but if we're not in a big rush there's no reason not to finish the game as normal. just make sure someone is recording your ball one score.
If we get some decent turn-out this should be really fun. If we go through quickly enough we could get in 2 or 3 rounds, and see who the true champs are time and again. Also, the more winners there are, the more fuzzy feelings get spread around, which will hopefully lead to more pinball being played in the future. Practice up this week!
I'll design a flier. We could REALLY USE SOME HELP taking flyers around to different pinball locations and seeing if the bartenders will let us post a tournament announcement. ROM and i only have bikes for transportation at the moment, but the glorius CFF network should be able to get some shit posted in all our favorite spots pretty quickly.
See you there!