It was a great event. Thanks again @bigphil
Some of the games were a little tired. And in need of flipper rebuilds. But I do not think that would have been an issue for the non pinhead attendees. As the days went on the pinball area was far busier than the videogame area. Literally every game was in continual use. Folk were not queuing, other than for Hobbit and Ghostbusters. But literally no game was standing unused for more than half a minute. You had to move swiftly to get on the machines.
I am not a stern evangelist. But it was really noticeable how much more reliable these games were than the older games.
Part of my rationale for buying my wpt was that it is easier to get sterns out of my house than wpc or classic bally williams titles. And I wanted a game for road trips like this. It did not miss a beat all weekend from what I could see. So my suggestion would be for folk to consider taking sterns to these events if they own a mixture of games.
Anyone who donates a game to something like this is doing us all a huge favour and introducing a whole load of folk to pinball machines they have not seen for 20 years