Oh NO! Martians!
Posted by MHS on November 11th, 2011 | 14 comments
Bowen battles Mars in our Attack from Mars tutorial.
Pre-registration for Pinburgh, the world’s largest match-play pinball tournament is now open. Go sign up!
PAPA 14 Classics 1 Semifinals
Posted by MHS on November 8th, 2011 | 9 comments
As the first video in our PAPA 14 series, we offer Derek Fugate, Josh Sharpe, and Phil Birnbaum competing on the Bally classic “Gator” from 1968. Gator offers a unique play experience with zipper flippers and gates that release your ball back into the shooter lane.
At this point in the competition, All three competitors have made their way to the Classics 1 tournament semifinals. This is game one of group one, so there is no prior score heading into the match.
It’s more fun to compete!
Posted by MHS on October 31st, 2011 | 3 comments
In addition to running our own tournaments, PAPA sponsors other great events around the world with t-shirts, free PAPA certificates, volunteering, and a number of other ways.
Recently, on October 19-23, the Pinball Expo took place in Chicago. The winners received some PAPA certificates for PAPA 15 next August, and Todd MacCulloch received the fame of being the 2011 Expo Champion after working his way though a highly competitive field. Lyman Sheats took second place, and Pinburgh’s own tournament director, Bowen Kerins, took third. Zach Sharpe finished fourth to round out the final four.
Derek Fugate, a qualifier in two of our three classics tournaments at PAPA 14, won the Expo Classics tournament. Finishing 2nd through 4th were Cayle George, Josh Sharpe, and Joe Said respectively.
There were a number of other participants and winners in the various divisions, and PAPA both thanks and encourages all of them to keep flipping! If you ever get an opportunity, attend Expo and any other pinball show or tournament nearby.
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Posted by MHS on October 25th, 2011 | 5 comments
Pre-register for Pinburgh 2012 Here!
Pinburgh 2012 Pre-Registrations Are OPEN!
Posted by MHS on October 5th, 2011 | 6 comments
Pre-registration for Pinburgh 2012 is officially open to everyone! Come join us on March 30 – April 1 at PAPA World Headquarters for Pinburgh 2012: The World’s Largest Match-Play Pinball Tournament. We are expecting the largest match-play style competitive field ever, and judging from pre-registrations gathered over the past week when pre-registration was open only to last year’s participants, we are well on our way to eclipsing the previous mark.
The basic format will remain the same, but we will be listening to player feedback and updating a few items along the way to improve the overall experience; Stay tuned for the changes. One update guaranteed to excite players is the expansion of the prize pool, now guaranteed to be a minimum of $20,000. The prize pool will also grow in relation to the number of players in attendance.
Come join us for Pinburgh 2012! Pre-register online at www.PAPA.org/pinburgh2012.
Pinburgh 2011 Division “A” Finals: Game 2 – Taxi
Posted by MHS on October 5th, 2011 | 5 comments
To celebrate the opening of Pinburgh 2012′s pre-registration period, PAPA presents the deciding game of Pinburgh 2011. In this match, our four finalists do battle on Taxi for the Pinburgh cup. Keith Elwin won the first game on Avatar and enters this game with 4 points overall and a chance to clinch the title.
Love Never Dies
Posted by MHS on September 18th, 2011 | 15 comments
Bowen battles a finicky coffin lock AND the undead in this Dracula Tutorial. We cut him a little slack though and let him have a few extra balls. This was Bowen’s first game on the setup, and before we knew it, he had a few billion points on the DMD. Enjoy.
Photos from PAPA 14
Posted by MHS on September 12th, 2011 | 0 comments
E-mail us if you have some photos from PAPA 14 you would like to share!
Thanks to Daniel Spolar for adding to the collection of photographs.