Ladies competition

[ailsaclunie]

The women’s competition will be happening again this year by the team of Diane , Clare , Traci , Vicki, Judith and myself . It will include trophies , prize money and IFPA points . We will put more information on this thread once we have our timing sorted ( ) but you will be able to enter on the day . This is a natural progression from the ladies social and my vision is that very soon we will not need these seperate tournaments as women become more confident and less intimated . There is now very good and very confident women playing and less women sitting alone iso it will not be long until we take over

 

[ailsaclunie]

Phil has guaranteed £1,000 in prize money

 

[Lecari]

The ladies tournament has just been submitted to the IFPA for approval - here's all the info:

The Bride of Pinbot ladies tournament returns to Pinfest, with £1,000 guaranteed in prize money!

No pre-registration needed - just turn up and pay on the day. Entry is £10 per card. This tournament is open to all women regardless of ability, and we foster a welcoming, inclusive environment - we encourage everyone to come along and have a go!

Qualifying is 10:00 - 14:00 on the Saturday in a card-based format. You will have a maximum of 3 attempts to play 5 games (out of a bank of 10).

The finals will be held from 15:00 - 17:00. It will be 8 players in Matchplay groups of 4, held as best of 3 games per round scored at 4-2-1-0. Top qualifier of each group choose games or position. The top 2 players from each group will then go through to the final - same format (best of 3, top seed choses game or position).

Looking forward to it

 

[ailsaclunie]

Hello , I am hoping that some of you could kindly donate some pinballs for the ladies comp and/ or social please ? They would only be used for the comp during the day on Saturday . Thank you

 

[Pudsey pinball]

Does it matter what games?

 

[ailsaclunie]

Does it matter what games?

No - not at all Dave . It’s good to get a mixture of different ages etc but so far , we only have 1 pledged

 

[Pudsey pinball]

How many you need?

 

[ailsaclunie]

We need about 10 Dave .

 

[ailsaclunie]

How many you need?

So far we have a Metallica from Steve Brum So all donations gratefully received

 

[Pudsey pinball]

I need to go through mine as need odd fix but could probably bring,lady luck,gorgar,jet spin and road kings(cpu repair pending) keep me in mind until I confirm with mr Dutton and mr hook on van and what’s being brought.

 

[Mike Parkins]

You can have Rick and Morty if you like - swearing on or off

 

[ailsaclunie]

Thank you Mike - that’s lovely of you xx

 

[ailsaclunie]

Hi - so far we have two pins - Metallica pro and Rick and Morty and a promise from Dave Sibson ( pudsey ) of a couple of others . Hopefully looking for about 10 if anyone can squeeze one into their cars , van or backs
Also looking for ideas for an Olympic style pinball comp for the ladies social for a bit of fun - so far got drink goggles, a space hopper , and snorkel and flippers - replicas is also going to reverse some flippers on one - . Some of my ideas are breaking health and safety rules( I have been warned by Diane ) so let me know if you have any good ideas please ?
Next year - this will be newbie comp .

 

[steve brum]

We have upside down glasses to borrow

 

[ailsaclunie]

We have upside down glasses to borrow

That would be brilliant Mr paget / thank you cx

 

[Judderman]

We have upside down glasses to borrow

They were quite fun with Stranger Things

 

[steve brum]

they are VERY fun with Banzai Run but we dont fancy moving that!

 

[ailsaclunie]

Ladies comp at pinfest

 

[Lecari]

Just a reminder of the format!

No pre-registration needed – just turn up and pay on the day. Entry is £10 per card. This tournament is open to all women regardless of ability, and we foster a welcoming, inclusive environment – we encourage everyone to come along and have a go!

Qualifying is 10:00 – 14:00 on the Saturday in a card-based format. You will have a maximum of 3 attempts to play 5 games (out of a bank of 9 / 10).

The finals will be held from 15:00 – 17:00. It will be 8 players in Matchplay groups of 4, held as best of 3 games per round scored at 4-2-1-0. Top qualifier of each group choose games or position. The top 2 players from each group will then go through to the final – same format (best of 3, top seed choses game or position).

 

[ailsaclunie]

Thank you everyone who donated pins for the ladies social and open tomorrow . It was really appreciated as some of them needed shark finned to get into that room - the ladies social was attended by 46 women who I think had a ball at the pinball Olympics - thank you to the staff who kept the pins going and to Steve brum for the drink and upside down googles . Also thanks to Traci , Diane , Claire , Vicki , Judith and Donna for working their socks off and dealing with me xxx

 

[ailsaclunie]

Winners of ladies comp yesterday - well done Alice , Chris , Kate and Maria . You all played amazingly
Thank you so much to UKPinfest and Retro Arcade Specialists for the prize monies of £1000 and to all the pinball donators . It was a great selection of pins and we had 41 women enjoying them and having fun. Thank you also to Claire,David and the brides of pinbot for all the setting up , registration ,and score keeping . Especially Claire for tournament directing Also for your patience with me doing score keeping ‘I did a thing’
Finally thank you to Peter and Helen and all the support staff for keeping the pins going throughout the day . You are just fantastic and to Wayne for the brilliant Pinfest trophies xxxx

 

[Lecari]

The results are up on the IFPA website:

International Flipper Pinball Association!

www.ifpapinball.com

Congratulations Alice, Chris, Kate and Maria!

Chris and Alice played phenomenally all day, being joint 1st in qualifying! So pleased for you both. We had 41 women take part this year, compared to 30 last year, which is just HUGE - so big thank you to everyone who took part, as well as to the Brides of Pinbot for making it all happen, Wayne for the brilliant light up trophies, and Phil and Dave for topping up the prize fund.

(And for those interested, here are the links to the Matchplay qualifying and finals!)

 

[ailsaclunie]

And thank you Claire for directing the tournament ( and a bit of David )