Thank you again to everyone for coming yesterday - I have been feeling quite overwhelmed by all the lovely comments from everyone who attended. I am so pleased that everyone enjoyed the day so much! We were hoping for a day that would be lots of fun as well as having a competition so it's amazing that we achieved that! And I am super chuffed that the souvenirs were such a success, I went all in with the Roadshow theme 
(oh, and the vote is in - Red and Ted ARE a couple 
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First of all - we have raised an amazing £160 for Autism Anglia! Thank you to those who donated money towards this even though they couldn't attend. I'm sure it will make a huge difference to the local community!
A big thank you to @Matt Vince for bringing Monster Bash - having an extra machine made such a big difference on the day - and to Ian @windoesnot for helping us to set up the machines so they were all 'Flip Frenzy ready' (although I'm sure many people didn't appreciate the tighter tilt bobs!). Thanks also to Lee (not on the forum), who made a vegan chilli and helped out on the day, and @MajesticPinball James who fixed Roadshow super quickly when it developed a fault, so it was up and running again within 5 minutes (who invited this 'Eddy'?!). And thank you to Yuen @Jackpot for the amazing write up, I am super chuffed that you did one!
Huge congratulations to Ian - a much deserved win, he played really well all day and I know he was absolutely overwhelmed by winning his very first tournament! 2nd place was Yuen, 3rd was Greg, and 4th was Tim (who gets an extra shout out for coming in costume!).
Some photos!
We've got more on a Google folder: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wGUSsVufNbsDqXVu8
The results!
I really appreciate everyone's patience with the playoffs for the final (especially @Matt Vince and @robotgreg, who I know would have preferred that we go by number of losses), and commiserations to Matt for not making it through to the final.
The confusion came as David set up the Matchplay event and I didn't realise he'd set up Matchplay's tiebreaker to be number of losses - I thought we'd agreed to go on number of wins with a playoff if there were ties in the top 6, and this is what I announced at the start of the day. I said throughout the day once I realised that Matchplay wasn't set up quite right, but obviously by that point the event had started and the settings couldn't be changed, so I know it caused confusion. I have spent the last 24hr wondering what I should do, but I think it's only fair that number of wins is stuck to as that's what had been announced in the morning and was why Matt had to do the play off match to decide who got the bye to the finals. Obviously, lesson learnt - in future I'll set up the Matchplay events myself so it's all correct and fair for everyone (and I would use the no of losses as a tiebreaker in future!).
I really hope this doesn't cause upset with people and doesn't ruin what seems to have otherwise a really great day (and sorry for ruining your amazing write up, @Jackpot!)
We're just calculating the number of meaningful games before we can submit to the IFPA (if anyone knows how to do this, please PM me - we have the Flip Frenzy % but it's the semi & final that are causing some confusion!)
(oh, and the vote is in - Red and Ted ARE a couple )First of all - we have raised an amazing £160 for Autism Anglia! Thank you to those who donated money towards this even though they couldn't attend. I'm sure it will make a huge difference to the local community!
A big thank you to @Matt Vince for bringing Monster Bash - having an extra machine made such a big difference on the day - and to Ian @windoesnot for helping us to set up the machines so they were all 'Flip Frenzy ready' (although I'm sure many people didn't appreciate the tighter tilt bobs!). Thanks also to Lee (not on the forum), who made a vegan chilli and helped out on the day, and @MajesticPinball James who fixed Roadshow super quickly when it developed a fault, so it was up and running again within 5 minutes (who invited this 'Eddy'?!). And thank you to Yuen @Jackpot for the amazing write up, I am super chuffed that you did one!
Huge congratulations to Ian - a much deserved win, he played really well all day and I know he was absolutely overwhelmed by winning his very first tournament! 2nd place was Yuen, 3rd was Greg, and 4th was Tim (who gets an extra shout out for coming in costume!).
Some photos!
We've got more on a Google folder: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wGUSsVufNbsDqXVu8
The results!
I really appreciate everyone's patience with the playoffs for the final (especially @Matt Vince and @robotgreg, who I know would have preferred that we go by number of losses), and commiserations to Matt for not making it through to the final.
The confusion came as David set up the Matchplay event and I didn't realise he'd set up Matchplay's tiebreaker to be number of losses - I thought we'd agreed to go on number of wins with a playoff if there were ties in the top 6, and this is what I announced at the start of the day. I said throughout the day once I realised that Matchplay wasn't set up quite right, but obviously by that point the event had started and the settings couldn't be changed, so I know it caused confusion. I have spent the last 24hr wondering what I should do, but I think it's only fair that number of wins is stuck to as that's what had been announced in the morning and was why Matt had to do the play off match to decide who got the bye to the finals. Obviously, lesson learnt - in future I'll set up the Matchplay events myself so it's all correct and fair for everyone (and I would use the no of losses as a tiebreaker in future!).
I really hope this doesn't cause upset with people and doesn't ruin what seems to have otherwise a really great day (and sorry for ruining your amazing write up, @Jackpot!)
| 1,Ian Walmsley,27402 |
| 2,Yuen Aw,77952 |
| 3,Greg Mott,974 |
| 4,Tim Thornton,13046 |
| 5,Matt Vince,8143 |
| 6,David Bowery,83505 |
| 7,Dan Lewell,24802 |
| 8,James Reed |
| 8,Lee Parkin |
| 8,Roy Smith,33453 |
| 11,Matt Peck |
| 11,Thomas Calvert,83517 |
| 13,Effie Lewell,57785 |
| 14,Dave Ashton |
| 15,Paul Woollard |
| 15,Gareth Shiells |
| 15,Lucy Vince,9705 |
| 18,Steven Dale |
| 18,Gene Aw,84135 |
| 18,Ben Leigh,64958 |
We're just calculating the number of meaningful games before we can submit to the IFPA (if anyone knows how to do this, please PM me - we have the Flip Frenzy % but it's the semi & final that are causing some confusion!)
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