Good morning all,
After many years of maintaining the UKPL website, Nick Hill has decided to step down from his unpaid labour of love.
When I first rekindled my love of pinball, nearly 10 years ago, the UKPL website was the first place I discovered that there were people who actually owned machines in their house, rather than them just being an arcade machine found by the seaside. It provided links as to who to contact to be able to join the league, details of other competitions away from the league, links to people who could repair machines or places I could buy spare parts. As my interest grew, it was a place I could look up the latest league results and standings as well as seeing the history of who the players who were dominating the high score tables - the people I set my targets as being as good as. Once I became first Regional Coordinator for the Midlands, then overall Coordinator I started looking through the vast swathes of data available regarding machine highscores, average scores and spent way too much time over analysing all of this data in an effort to try and pick the perfect machine to use in competitions as well as setting myself targets as to what a decent score was.
None of this would have been available if it wasn't for the tireless effort and hard work put in by Nick, and for that I thank him not only personally, but in my role as UKPL Coordinator, as do the other Regional Coordinators and everyone associated with running the UKPL.
Unfortunately the website was setup many years ago, and as things have progressed various bits have been added on in an ad hoc manner meaning that no one but Nick would really understand the complexities required to update the site with new results data.
As such we need a new UKPL Website creating and maintaining. What I know about creating a website could be written on the back of a stamp (with a marker pen), so we are looking for a volunteer to create a website fit to show off the UKPL in the 21st century. Ideally the same person would then continue to maintain the website and update as results come in, but if the option for each Regional Coordinator to be able to input the results after each league meeting, so much the better.
If anyone is interested in taking on this task, please drop me a pm and I'll discuss it with the rest of the Coordinators as to who would be the best fit. (Nick will be able to hand over all of the data files for all of the scores over the history of the UKPL so we do not have to start from scratch)
Once again, I'd just like to express my gratitude to Nick for all the work he has done over the years in promoting the UKPL through maintaining the website.
After many years of maintaining the UKPL website, Nick Hill has decided to step down from his unpaid labour of love.
When I first rekindled my love of pinball, nearly 10 years ago, the UKPL website was the first place I discovered that there were people who actually owned machines in their house, rather than them just being an arcade machine found by the seaside. It provided links as to who to contact to be able to join the league, details of other competitions away from the league, links to people who could repair machines or places I could buy spare parts. As my interest grew, it was a place I could look up the latest league results and standings as well as seeing the history of who the players who were dominating the high score tables - the people I set my targets as being as good as. Once I became first Regional Coordinator for the Midlands, then overall Coordinator I started looking through the vast swathes of data available regarding machine highscores, average scores and spent way too much time over analysing all of this data in an effort to try and pick the perfect machine to use in competitions as well as setting myself targets as to what a decent score was.
None of this would have been available if it wasn't for the tireless effort and hard work put in by Nick, and for that I thank him not only personally, but in my role as UKPL Coordinator, as do the other Regional Coordinators and everyone associated with running the UKPL.
Unfortunately the website was setup many years ago, and as things have progressed various bits have been added on in an ad hoc manner meaning that no one but Nick would really understand the complexities required to update the site with new results data.
As such we need a new UKPL Website creating and maintaining. What I know about creating a website could be written on the back of a stamp (with a marker pen), so we are looking for a volunteer to create a website fit to show off the UKPL in the 21st century. Ideally the same person would then continue to maintain the website and update as results come in, but if the option for each Regional Coordinator to be able to input the results after each league meeting, so much the better.
If anyone is interested in taking on this task, please drop me a pm and I'll discuss it with the rest of the Coordinators as to who would be the best fit. (Nick will be able to hand over all of the data files for all of the scores over the history of the UKPL so we do not have to start from scratch)
Once again, I'd just like to express my gratitude to Nick for all the work he has done over the years in promoting the UKPL through maintaining the website.
The UK League website was also one of the first places I found out about the UK pinball community as well.
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