Matt Vince added a new event:
Monster Meet - Pinball Republic's 5th birthday!
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Monster Meet - Pinball Republic's 5th birthday!
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Monster Meet - Pinball Republic's 5th birthday!
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There will be trophies and prizes for each competition and CAKE!
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Gypsy Hill Brewery have kindly given me some beers to hand out tomorrow. (For those not driving anyway!)
Coming Saturday 
I'll be there Saturday 
Matt and crew. Congratulations on 5 years , that a fantastic achievement.
I was planning to come but I've come down with a cold, and don't want to spread it around. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Congratulations to Yuen Aw, the winner of tonight's PBR Pingolf competition!
Tomorrow's strikes tournament starts at 7pm and doors open at 6pm.
on Saturday doors open at 9:30am and registration for the Matchplay comp is at 10am.
Tomorrow's strikes tournament starts at 7pm and doors open at 6pm.
on Saturday doors open at 9:30am and registration for the Matchplay comp is at 10am.
So its Saturday night, and in the words of Tiger Woods, "We just decided to play some more golf".
After dging into the final eight on a tiebreaker against @BIGMAN, Josh Iles went on a total stomer to make himself champion of Saturday night's monsoer meet, with a demolition job on Deadpool ad Adams Family. Rounding out the awards, @robotgreg was 2nd @Tucks 3rd and @yellowreggae 4th.
@Diane B was top Lady, and Lucy Vince was top Junior
After dging into the final eight on a tiebreaker against @BIGMAN, Josh Iles went on a total stomer to make himself champion of Saturday night's monsoer meet, with a demolition job on Deadpool ad Adams Family. Rounding out the awards, @robotgreg was 2nd @Tucks 3rd and @yellowreggae 4th.
@Diane B was top Lady, and Lucy Vince was top Junior
Just home, what a great day. Huge thanks to all at Pinball Republic for putting on today. Happy birthday and here's to many more
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Here are the results of this mornings Matchplay competition. Congrats to Craig on his victory!
1,Craig Pullen,9560
2,David Tucker,27668
3,Kevin Donovan,19898
4,Dan Lewell,24802
5,Greg Mott,974
6,Matt Vince,8143
7,Nick Hamill,18253
8,David Fowler,61321
9,Tim Thornton,13046
10,Neil McRae,49444
11,Lucy Vince,9705
12,Andy Brock,83509
13,Josh Iles,66915
14,Owen Lloyd,82982
15,Tony Greenwood,87104
16,Helen Swaffield,62543
17,Gene Aw,84135
18,Peter Blakemore,2292
19,Martyn Iles,66917
20,Graham Swaffield,62544
21,Ethan Campbell,41838
22,Roy Smith,33453
23,Rayne Passmore,18246
24,Diane Bush,61320
25,Clive Bush,58197
26,Sarah Vince,8146
27,Gareth Arnold,51420
28,Chris Miller,52045
29,Rhian Best,86058
30,Andrew Campbell,61842
31,STUART BRUCE,84982
32,Sergio Olave
33,Daniel Vince,47292
34,Anton Stewart,75870
35,Katie Vince,15894
1,Craig Pullen,9560
2,David Tucker,27668
3,Kevin Donovan,19898
4,Dan Lewell,24802
5,Greg Mott,974
6,Matt Vince,8143
7,Nick Hamill,18253
8,David Fowler,61321
9,Tim Thornton,13046
10,Neil McRae,49444
11,Lucy Vince,9705
12,Andy Brock,83509
13,Josh Iles,66915
14,Owen Lloyd,82982
15,Tony Greenwood,87104
16,Helen Swaffield,62543
17,Gene Aw,84135
18,Peter Blakemore,2292
19,Martyn Iles,66917
20,Graham Swaffield,62544
21,Ethan Campbell,41838
22,Roy Smith,33453
23,Rayne Passmore,18246
24,Diane Bush,61320
25,Clive Bush,58197
26,Sarah Vince,8146
27,Gareth Arnold,51420
28,Chris Miller,52045
29,Rhian Best,86058
30,Andrew Campbell,61842
31,STUART BRUCE,84982
32,Sergio Olave
33,Daniel Vince,47292
34,Anton Stewart,75870
35,Katie Vince,15894
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Tomorrow is the Monster Meet! Doors Open at 10 am for 11 am start. This is a Best Game competition and all qualifying games are to be played before as soon as possible so we can all get back for the football!
Trophies for main comp, ladies and juniors. See you tomorrow!
Trophies for main comp, ladies and juniors. See you tomorrow!
Brilliant weekend, thanks for hosting it, good luck to the finalists today.
Just home from a fantastic weekend at PBR. Big thanks to Neil, Matt, Nick and the rest of the pbr team for a great weekend of pinball.
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Thanks to everyone at the club for another great event and Happy Birthday
After getting a hole in one on Nine Ball and Josh starting really badly I thought last night’s Pingolf may be my chance to beat him for once, how wrong I was!!!
Great to see him pick up his first win and really well played to @Tucks today, great last ball on Metallica
After getting a hole in one on Nine Ball and Josh starting really badly I thought last night’s Pingolf may be my chance to beat him for once, how wrong I was!!!
Great to see him pick up his first win and really well played to @Tucks today, great last ball on Metallica
Same from me, thanks so much to everyone at PBR, the UK is so lucky to have such an amazing venue with such a dedicated group of people who make it such an amazing place. Just wish I lived closer and could get there more! Thanks guys, loved it
Mnay thanks from me too to the PBR team for a fab weekend. Congrats to all the winners especially Josh, David and Kev for awesome consistent play all weekend.
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The 5th birthday monster meet – rapid tournament recaps
What a way to celebrate the 5th birthday of one of the happiest places in the UK, Pinball Republic – with 5 tournaments in the space of 4 days…
With 30-40 different people taking part each day, it was a chance for the pinball community to get together over cake and beer, with lots of banter and healthy competition thrown in to the mix.
Fitting for such an event, we saw 5 different winners across each of the tournaments which was great to see. Some quick recaps below for those interested or who missed the action:
Thursday - Tournament 1 – Pingolf was won by me – 150M on Guardians enough to take the final over Neil (60M) who again qualified impressively and got off to the early lead on ball 1. Brad came third with 49M. We were also treated to some quality play from the Silver Swede Evrenos who took a creditable 5th.
Final result: 1st – Yuen Aw, 2nd – Neil McRae, 3rd – Brad Attwood, 4th David Tucker
Friday – Tournament 2 – Fair strikes
Always exciting, the fair strikes format was 4 player group matchplay with the loser taking 2 strikes, 2nd and 3rd one strikes and the winner of the game escaping with zero strikes. 7 strikes in total would see a player eliminated from the competition.
Unexpectedly leading almost all the way was the recently much improved younger Aw brother – Gene Aw, who was finally taken out in 4th on Indy500 by the scorching hot Kevin Donovan and veteran Mike Parkins. A huge mention should be given to Tony Greenwood, who finished 5th in his best tournament ever and wowed those present with his Flash Gordon skills. The irrepressible Matt Vince took first with over 300M in the final on Whitewater, with Mike Parkins and Kevin joint 2nd.
Impressive play from Mr. Vince who was on 6 strikes for 4 straight games and won every single one to win the tournament.
Final result: 1st – Matt Vince, joint 2nd – Kevin Donovan + Mike Parkins, 4th – Gene Aw
Saturday – Tournament 3 – Group Matchplay
UK number 2 Craig Pullen was in town for the day, but with the depth of talent present at this comp he did not have it all his own way. David Tucker was the man leading the standings the whole way through, with a 2 point lead over Craig and one more result needed in the 13th game on Earthshaker. Unfortunately for Tucks, Anton Stewart and Josh spoiled the party dropping Dave to 3rd in that match - meaning Craig’s strong finish on Game of Thrones secured him first place. Honourable mention to Dan Lewell who had a great tournament to take fourth, and Kevin yet again amongst the trophies.
Final result: 1st – Craig Pullen, 2nd – David Tucker, 3rd – Kevin Donovan, 4th – Dan Lewell.
Saturday – Tournament 4 – Pingolf
Craig Pullen inevitably qualified in first in this comp – could he sweep the day’s events and go two for two? Josh Iles scraped into the top 8 playoffs after a tiebreak with David Fowler – and he went on to beat Craig in the QF match up – riding some top class play all the way to his first ever (and very well deserved) tournament win, the highlight being a huge Deadpool game in the final against Greg Mott on stream.
Final result: 1st – Josh Iles, 2nd – Greg Mott, 3rd – David Tucker, 4th – Tim Thornton.
Sunday – Tournament 5 – Best Game
After a 19 game slate of qualifying ended it was PBR regulars Vince at the top, McRae 2nd and myself 3rd with Gene Aw 4th – as we moved into the playoff matchups for the top 8, all of the top 4 seeds were upset in round one, as Tucker, Mott, Josh Iles and Kevin Donovan (yet again!) moved on.
In the semi finals, David knocked out Greg on Alien Poker and his speciality Game of Thrones, while Josh defeated Kevin on Alien Poker and Wizard. The final was very close and it was a rematch of the previous evening’s semifinal match, which Josh won. On Game 1 on Metallica, David Tucker put up a big ball 3 to set a 33M+ target with Josh getting to Crank it up and coming up agonisingly just a few million short on 29M. The next game was Wizard, and after 2 poor balls from both, ball 3 was much better. Tucker still needed over 20000 for the win and after a couple of great digs he calmly kept the ball alive for long enough to win.
Final result: 1st – David Tucker, 2nd – Josh Iles, 3rd – Greg Mott, 4th – Kevin Donovan
In the juniors, Lucy Vince was 1st, Effie Lewell 2nd and Phoebe Lewell 3rd.
In the ladies, Diane Bush was 1st with an excellent 11th overall, Lucy 2nd and Sarah Vince 3rd.
Well done everyone!
So a fitting finale to an excellent few days of pinball. Congratulations should go to Tucks who really shone over the course of the 4 days, coming 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th to take home 3 trophies, but Kevin was also immense as well as Josh.
The real winner however was UK pinball – thanks to all the event organisers and everyone who came along or supported from afar/on watched on stream!
What a way to celebrate the 5th birthday of one of the happiest places in the UK, Pinball Republic – with 5 tournaments in the space of 4 days…
With 30-40 different people taking part each day, it was a chance for the pinball community to get together over cake and beer, with lots of banter and healthy competition thrown in to the mix.
Fitting for such an event, we saw 5 different winners across each of the tournaments which was great to see. Some quick recaps below for those interested or who missed the action:
Thursday - Tournament 1 – Pingolf was won by me – 150M on Guardians enough to take the final over Neil (60M) who again qualified impressively and got off to the early lead on ball 1. Brad came third with 49M. We were also treated to some quality play from the Silver Swede Evrenos who took a creditable 5th.
Final result: 1st – Yuen Aw, 2nd – Neil McRae, 3rd – Brad Attwood, 4th David Tucker
Friday – Tournament 2 – Fair strikes
Always exciting, the fair strikes format was 4 player group matchplay with the loser taking 2 strikes, 2nd and 3rd one strikes and the winner of the game escaping with zero strikes. 7 strikes in total would see a player eliminated from the competition.
Unexpectedly leading almost all the way was the recently much improved younger Aw brother – Gene Aw, who was finally taken out in 4th on Indy500 by the scorching hot Kevin Donovan and veteran Mike Parkins. A huge mention should be given to Tony Greenwood, who finished 5th in his best tournament ever and wowed those present with his Flash Gordon skills. The irrepressible Matt Vince took first with over 300M in the final on Whitewater, with Mike Parkins and Kevin joint 2nd.
Impressive play from Mr. Vince who was on 6 strikes for 4 straight games and won every single one to win the tournament.
Final result: 1st – Matt Vince, joint 2nd – Kevin Donovan + Mike Parkins, 4th – Gene Aw
Saturday – Tournament 3 – Group Matchplay
UK number 2 Craig Pullen was in town for the day, but with the depth of talent present at this comp he did not have it all his own way. David Tucker was the man leading the standings the whole way through, with a 2 point lead over Craig and one more result needed in the 13th game on Earthshaker. Unfortunately for Tucks, Anton Stewart and Josh spoiled the party dropping Dave to 3rd in that match - meaning Craig’s strong finish on Game of Thrones secured him first place. Honourable mention to Dan Lewell who had a great tournament to take fourth, and Kevin yet again amongst the trophies.
Final result: 1st – Craig Pullen, 2nd – David Tucker, 3rd – Kevin Donovan, 4th – Dan Lewell.
Saturday – Tournament 4 – Pingolf
Craig Pullen inevitably qualified in first in this comp – could he sweep the day’s events and go two for two? Josh Iles scraped into the top 8 playoffs after a tiebreak with David Fowler – and he went on to beat Craig in the QF match up – riding some top class play all the way to his first ever (and very well deserved) tournament win, the highlight being a huge Deadpool game in the final against Greg Mott on stream.
Final result: 1st – Josh Iles, 2nd – Greg Mott, 3rd – David Tucker, 4th – Tim Thornton.
Sunday – Tournament 5 – Best Game
After a 19 game slate of qualifying ended it was PBR regulars Vince at the top, McRae 2nd and myself 3rd with Gene Aw 4th – as we moved into the playoff matchups for the top 8, all of the top 4 seeds were upset in round one, as Tucker, Mott, Josh Iles and Kevin Donovan (yet again!) moved on.
In the semi finals, David knocked out Greg on Alien Poker and his speciality Game of Thrones, while Josh defeated Kevin on Alien Poker and Wizard. The final was very close and it was a rematch of the previous evening’s semifinal match, which Josh won. On Game 1 on Metallica, David Tucker put up a big ball 3 to set a 33M+ target with Josh getting to Crank it up and coming up agonisingly just a few million short on 29M. The next game was Wizard, and after 2 poor balls from both, ball 3 was much better. Tucker still needed over 20000 for the win and after a couple of great digs he calmly kept the ball alive for long enough to win.
Final result: 1st – David Tucker, 2nd – Josh Iles, 3rd – Greg Mott, 4th – Kevin Donovan
In the juniors, Lucy Vince was 1st, Effie Lewell 2nd and Phoebe Lewell 3rd.
In the ladies, Diane Bush was 1st with an excellent 11th overall, Lucy 2nd and Sarah Vince 3rd.
Well done everyone!
So a fitting finale to an excellent few days of pinball. Congratulations should go to Tucks who really shone over the course of the 4 days, coming 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th to take home 3 trophies, but Kevin was also immense as well as Josh.
The real winner however was UK pinball – thanks to all the event organisers and everyone who came along or supported from afar/on watched on stream!
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Please share any pics you have from this weekend! These are not Conrad quality (get well soon buddy!).
