Here are the standings for all participants in the 2010 JPA PinGolf Tournament. I look forward to doing it again next League season which starts in early September. Many thanks to all who played.

1st Jim Fordham
2nd Sanjay Shah
3rd Kevin Smigel
4th Ed Zeltmann
5th Paul Drabik
6th (TIE) Steven Bowden
6th (TIE) Frank Romero
8th Koi Morris 
9th Mike Field
10th Joe Oesterling

                          

Pin-Maine-ia 2009 was amazing! Get ready for Pin-Maine-ia IV at the end of June 2010!

Maine’s premier pinball tournament, once thought to have been called off, is a thing that is happening June 25-27, 2010. Last year, the tournament hosted more than 66 players along with a number of other spectators. This year will be slightly scaled back, but the competition will be just as fun and furious. Click here for more information and to register for this fantastic event.

Last year, I helped to administer the scoring for the event. This gave me a little taste of the experience of running a pinball tournament, and helped me to concentrate more while playing.

I hope to see you there.

                          

After reigning for 1 1/2 years (3 league seasons) as the champion of the Jersey Pinball Association, I will have to give up my title to another great player, Jim Fordham. He was victorious in the League Final, 22-17, to win the league championship. He has set a goal for himself to qualify for next year’s IFPA World Championships. With his excellent finishes in Pinferno 3 and the Allentown Open, he is well on his way. I’m going to have to step up my game if I want to claim the New Jersey State Championship at July’s New Jersey Pinball Open. Congratulations to you, Jim. You are wearing the target now. Wear it with pride because we are all gunning for you.

As a side note, Jim is also starting new pinball website and forum. I will not post the link here yet because his site is still in beta. However, once it is officially live, you will know about it here.

                          

Spring 2010 JPA season ends on May 26, 2010

                          

Click here for the complete standings [PDF]

Thanks to the recent sponsorship of the tournament by Jim F. and more entries, the PinGolf Prize Pool is now at $125.00 as of today. It looks like Whitewater is becoming the easiest game of the five to get a hole-in-one as Paul D. scores an “ace” in his entry. Updated standings can be found at the Jersey Pinball Association PinGolf web page.

Click here to go to the JPA PinGolf page

                          

Spring 2010 JPA season started on March 10, 2010

Click here for the complete standings [PDF]

The entries have started to come in for the Jersey Pinball Association’s Spring 2010 PinGolf Tournament. Plus two people have confirmed a sponsorship so the prize pool will increase again soon. We also saw the first hole-in-one which was achieved by Sanjay S. on Whitewater. Initially, players felt the target scores were to high to reach. Soon they found that, if they obtained and use their extra balls properly, the scores are in fact reachable. I will make an effort to post information on the JPA PinGolf Tournament on rec.games.pinball as well as on the 8 on the Break Facebook page and Twitter. Hopefully, this will foster more participation in this tournament.

Click here to go to the JPA PinGolf page

                          

The Jersey Pinball Association is beginning a new season of competitive pinball play this Wednesday, March 10. Among the games available are: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Whitewater, Demolition Man, Monster Bash, Fish Tales, FunHouse, The Addams Family, Star Wars: Episode One, and Attack from Mars. Along with traditional league play, there will be another side tournament in the style of “Pinball Golf” where you have up to ten balls to reach a target score. Each entry builds up a cash jackpot which I will award at the end of the season. PinGolf replaces the Gauntlet from last year. I hope that many players, from inside and outside of the JPA League, will try to qualify for the PinGolf Final so that there will be a huge jackpot prize pool.

Read more about it here.

                          

Gauntlet Tournament by FunWithBonus
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Presenting… the official Jersey Pinball Association Gauntlet Tournament T-shirt. The tournament sponsors will each receive one of these shirts at the beginning of the Spring 2010 league season. I would like to take time to congratulate the winners of the JPA Gauntlet tournaments: Andrew Drabik – winner of the Spring 2009 tournament, and Jim Fordham – winner of the Fall 2009 tournament. I also would like to thank those players who sponsored the tournament: Koi Morris, Jim Fordham and Ed Zeltmann. Next season there will most likely be a PinGolf style tournament in addition to traditional league play. I’m looking forward to next season’s competition. For those of you who are interested, the Jersey Pinball Association meets on Wednesdays for 10 weeks in the Spring and in the Fall. The next season will begin in early March, and new players are always welcome.

                          

The International Flipper Pinball Association, in cooperation with STERN Pinball and the AMOA Show, held a Par 3 PinGolf Challenge event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Competitors had to achieve a target score on two pinball games, NBA and CSI, while using the least number of balls as they could.

Players tried each game once, and then selected which of the two games would serve as their third game. The player with the lowest combined score won the tournament.

                          

The Amusement & Music Operators Association and the American Amusement Manufacturers Association Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even though I don’t come CLOSE to owning an arcade, redemption games still give me an awful taste in my mouth.