Command and Conquer – Conrad Chambers crushes competition
In a rare week where top players and Pinball Republic stalwarts Vince, Simpson and McRae were all absent, it was a golden opportunity for league participants to move up a few places and perhaps for a new winner to snatch weekly league honours.
The fast-improving Conrad Chambers was the man to take full advantage, with top scores of 1.1M on Nine Ball and 19M on Bride of Pinbot alongside an array of other great efforts (TNA 1.2M). He has been storming up the table this season - hearty congratulations to Conrad for his first (I believe) weekly league win!
Graham Swaffield, top scoring on Indy (431M) and Earthshaker (3M), with 94M on Addams as well - swooped into second spot while showing off some of his smooth pinball skills. Another timely reminder of what the Swaff is capable of on his day.
Third was Rayne Passmore who leapt far above his ‘normal’ midtable position – Passmore has the ability, as shown by his stellar third place behind Rich Mallett and David Tucker in the PBR weekender target matchplay comp, and on this evening he managed a consistently good set of games.
Skywalker Hamill placed 4th (Addams 96M) – he’s also back on form – and nice to see a welcome return to the upper places as well for Robin Kemp in 5th who took Consistency Champ honours this week. Ben Pike @Ben-P was 6th in another decent effort – he’s been playing better of late as well, could he keep this up and steal a playoff spot? It’s certainly possible… Last week’s champ Anton Stewart took 7th - but he’ll feel he could have done better. Similar for Yuen Aw (TNA 1.9M) who remains on a post PBR weekender slump in 8th – coming dead last on Bride of Pinbot did not help matters. The silver lining for him is that he beat John Boffin (joint 14th), who is thankfully less chatty this week. Not a bad performance from the Boff again though.
The Bushes (Clive 9th, Diane 12th) reverted closer back to the mean after their top 8 performances last week; The talented Fowler brothers had a night to forget with both in the bottom half, Dave with an inexplicable 20th place finish (although Anton believes the beers were to blame!) although James did have a strong top score of 891M on Demo Man. In other news, Claire Lickman (18th) improved a bit from the previous week, but in contrast it was a nightmare evening for David “Big Time” Bowery – who just two weeks after battling Matt Vince in a top 16 playoff tournament battle, found himself propping up the PBR league table this week.
Finally, as predicted in last week’s report, Charlie Lawn (19th) did have a much better week to jump a few places off the bottom – he put in a stunning 118M on Walking Dead in a Charlie Magic moment to take top score honours here.
Well played everyone, on to next week. Matt, Neil, Stan and Nick seem nailed on for playoff spots, with Anton, Conrad and Graham also making very strong claims. That’s already 7 spots looking tough to break into, however there’s still 4 weeks left and plenty of pinball left to go!
In a rare week where top players and Pinball Republic stalwarts Vince, Simpson and McRae were all absent, it was a golden opportunity for league participants to move up a few places and perhaps for a new winner to snatch weekly league honours.
The fast-improving Conrad Chambers was the man to take full advantage, with top scores of 1.1M on Nine Ball and 19M on Bride of Pinbot alongside an array of other great efforts (TNA 1.2M). He has been storming up the table this season - hearty congratulations to Conrad for his first (I believe) weekly league win!
Graham Swaffield, top scoring on Indy (431M) and Earthshaker (3M), with 94M on Addams as well - swooped into second spot while showing off some of his smooth pinball skills. Another timely reminder of what the Swaff is capable of on his day.
Third was Rayne Passmore who leapt far above his ‘normal’ midtable position – Passmore has the ability, as shown by his stellar third place behind Rich Mallett and David Tucker in the PBR weekender target matchplay comp, and on this evening he managed a consistently good set of games.
Skywalker Hamill placed 4th (Addams 96M) – he’s also back on form – and nice to see a welcome return to the upper places as well for Robin Kemp in 5th who took Consistency Champ honours this week. Ben Pike @Ben-P was 6th in another decent effort – he’s been playing better of late as well, could he keep this up and steal a playoff spot? It’s certainly possible… Last week’s champ Anton Stewart took 7th - but he’ll feel he could have done better. Similar for Yuen Aw (TNA 1.9M) who remains on a post PBR weekender slump in 8th – coming dead last on Bride of Pinbot did not help matters. The silver lining for him is that he beat John Boffin (joint 14th), who is thankfully less chatty this week. Not a bad performance from the Boff again though.
The Bushes (Clive 9th, Diane 12th) reverted closer back to the mean after their top 8 performances last week; The talented Fowler brothers had a night to forget with both in the bottom half, Dave with an inexplicable 20th place finish (although Anton believes the beers were to blame!) although James did have a strong top score of 891M on Demo Man. In other news, Claire Lickman (18th) improved a bit from the previous week, but in contrast it was a nightmare evening for David “Big Time” Bowery – who just two weeks after battling Matt Vince in a top 16 playoff tournament battle, found himself propping up the PBR league table this week.
Finally, as predicted in last week’s report, Charlie Lawn (19th) did have a much better week to jump a few places off the bottom – he put in a stunning 118M on Walking Dead in a Charlie Magic moment to take top score honours here.
Well played everyone, on to next week. Matt, Neil, Stan and Nick seem nailed on for playoff spots, with Anton, Conrad and Graham also making very strong claims. That’s already 7 spots looking tough to break into, however there’s still 4 weeks left and plenty of pinball left to go!
