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Open Competition at Pinfest 2025
- Thread starter Wayne J
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Bit of an exaggeration.
The problem comes when players first sign up to Matchplay.
You are issued with a Matchplay number. You then have to 'claim' the player which matches your name from the IFPA database from the suggestion Matchplay gives you. All that has happened is that a couple of players have themselves picked the wrong name to claim, having never previously played a Matchplay comp (regardless of having played an IFPA comp).
Easily fixable themselves in MP. They then need to give me their IFPA number so I can get in touch with IFPA and have their result updated.
Simples.
Issues with wrong country attributed to them have happened prior to this Open at Pinfest, and need sorting between the player and IFPA themselves.
Which IFPA number though as they appear to have 2, possibly 3 if its the same Tom Fletcher who also played in the London League in 2017?
How many different Tom Fletchers who attended Pinfest 22, 23, 24 and 25 could there possibly be?
A lot of players don't know their IFPA number or are even aware.
For example we have someone who has come to nearly every Pinhaus and has had two IFPA pages for a decade without knowing. The original IFPA number was long before Matchplay existed and he didn't know the IFPA existed.
If people are signing up to a comp in person you have to ask if it's their first comp, then make a new player on Matchplay but it's hard to keep on top of when you're signing up lots of people.
When you submit to the IFPA it tries to match players up but often it's wrong, we've had to use common sense in knowing that particular player is not the USA player of the same name that hasn't played in four years. Also at the ladies, I knew Chris Jones was a new player and not the many others who have played around the world.
I don't think it's anyone's sole responsibility, the IFPA system could be better
it's such a mess with so many duplicates or two players having results on the same page. A lot of people don't care enough to get it fixed, or aren't even aware of it.
For example we have someone who has come to nearly every Pinhaus and has had two IFPA pages for a decade without knowing. The original IFPA number was long before Matchplay existed and he didn't know the IFPA existed.
If people are signing up to a comp in person you have to ask if it's their first comp, then make a new player on Matchplay but it's hard to keep on top of when you're signing up lots of people.
When you submit to the IFPA it tries to match players up but often it's wrong, we've had to use common sense in knowing that particular player is not the USA player of the same name that hasn't played in four years. Also at the ladies, I knew Chris Jones was a new player and not the many others who have played around the world.
I don't think it's anyone's sole responsibility, the IFPA system could be better
it's such a mess with so many duplicates or two players having results on the same page. A lot of people don't care enough to get it fixed, or aren't even aware of it.
I have to be honest here - I knew there was an "open" tournament before i left - however that fact i didnt know where it was (until someone said "downstairs") was a little disapointing.
Never did make it down there..... Not that it would have made a difference!
Never did make it down there..... Not that it would have made a difference!
Um, aaactually you're probably talking about our Northern League player Chris Jones who seemingly has someone from the USA incorrectly using her profile to register scores against (but this is our UK Chris's profile originally, since 2008)
Are they at least scoring her some decent points?
She was newish, I saw she'd played ladies recently. Have her results been submitted incorrectly?
Ah sorry - no, it looks like you got the right one. I was confused with the way IFPA show Women's results separately in the profile for some reason.
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Thank you for all the work you guys put into making this tournament happen! Can't wait to come back next year!
Cheers,
Mike C
Thank you for all the work you guys put into making this tournament happen! Can't wait to come back next year!
Cheers,
Mike C
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Thank you, Craig.Congratulations on the win Mike, very well played
Still in disbelief as I feel so far behind many of the players in terms of skills, including you!
But, as we say in Denmark "even a blind hen finds grain once in a while"
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Thank you, Craig.
Still in disbelief as I feel so far behind many of the players in terms of skills, including you!
But, as we say in Denmark "even a blind hen finds grain once in a while"
Well you're definitely on your way, maybe that hen just found his glasses
And congratulations on the 2k prize money, that will go towards about half of your UK Open entries
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Do you really like Pinball, if you haven't got atleast 100 entries.Well you're definitely on your way, maybe that hen just found his glasses
And congratulations on the 2k prize money, that will go towards about half of your UK Open entries
And congratulations on the 2k prize money, that will go towards about half of your UK Open entries
Question is, did Mike have more entries in the Open than you (and Josh) did on Pulp Fiction
Can confirm, I didn’t fly back to play in this comp. As I’ve now passed my citizenship test, I asked Josh to transfer my registration to Australia and I have an ‘Aus’ suffix. Hope it’s now clear for you guys to not add me to uk comps. Hope you’re all well and happy, life here is awesome.