Enjoy! And don’t forget to pre-register for the PAPA 15 World Pinball Championships held at PAPA Headquarters August 9-12, 2012.

Zach Sharpe and Keith Johnson had each won one game prior to this video during the best of three final. The dramatic and deciding game three, shown below, took place on Tron.

From their website:
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The artist — recent winner of the $5,000 emerging artist award from the Council of the Arts in Ottawa — was asked by a gallery to create works for an exhibition on the bicentennial of War of 1812, with a theme on the health-care side of battle. Tsui was skeptical, but research taught him that battlefield surgery “was a really messy procedure,” he tells me during an interview in his Centretown home. “Since a musket (ball) isn’t aerodynamic, when it enters your body it doesn’t come clean out, like a modern bullet, it just kind of rattles around in your torso.”

Others might imagine that ball rattling around their innards and think “ouch.” What Tsui thought was, “it’s kind of like a pinball machine.” His art project on historic military health-care was born.

*Text and flyer image courtesy of the IFPA.

The IFPA is proud to announce it will be teaming up with GameWorks once again for the 8th Chicago Pinball Tournament of Champions the weekend of May 4th-6th at the Schaumburg location (Streets of Woodfield). We would normally be announcing a $2000 prize pool, but this edition of the tournament is the 2nd tournament included on the 2012 PAPA Circuit. With that comes an increase of the prize pool to $3500!!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Fri 5/4: 6-11pm –> OPEN QUALIFYING
Sat 5/5: noon to 11pm –> OPEN QUALIFYING
Sun 5/6: 10am-12pm –> LAST CHANCE OPEN QUALIFYING
Sun 5/6: 1pm – 5pm –> TOURNAMENT FINALS AND AWARDS

OPEN QUALIFYING:
Players will qualify on the (4) four pinball machines that are chosen for this tournament. Players do not have to play all four if they feel their point total will get them into the top (16) sixteen players on Sunday. Points will distributed 100/90/85/84/83/etc. depending on finishing position for each game.

TOURNAMENT GAMES (subject to change):
AC/DC Pro, Tron, Ironman, Transformers

COST OF PLAY:
Players will purchase game tickets to play in the tournament at the tournament location. Each ticket will let you play (1) one game of your choice.
1 Ticket = $4.00
3 Tickets = $10.00 (value price)
** Tickets are Non-Transferable, and may not be used outside of Tournament **
Ticket sales will stop approximately 45 minutes before the end of Open Tournament Play on Sunday to ensure all players holding tickets will have time to use them in the tournament.

PRIZES:
1st place – $1000
2nd place – $600
3rd place – $400
4th place – $300
5th through 8th place – $150each
9th through12th place – $100each
13th through 16th place – $50 each

TOURNAMENT FINALS:
Finals will consist of a head-to-head best 2 out of 3 single elimination tournament. Players seeded 5th through 8th will receive a bye through the first round, while players seeded 1st through 4th will receive a bye through the first two rounds. Players seeded 9th through 16th will play in the first round, with those winners advancing to play against those players seeded 5th through 8th. Higher seed gets choice of game or position for the first game. Loser of each subsequent game gets choose of game or position. You cannot play the same game twice in the same match.