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UK tournament pinball thread (+ Large international comps)

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A thread to hype, support, discuss or report on upcoming or ongoing pinball tournaments primarily involving UK/UK based players.

We have a huge September coming up with the European Championships in Poland from Sept 20-22 and then the World famous UK open in Croydon from Sept 27-29. Both events will have many UK participants which will be brilliant.

I will try and post up some previews of each if I get time in the next week or two, but everyone is welcome to contribute to this thread wherever relevant to raise awareness around the great events going on in the UK tournament scene or just support those who are taking part.
 
UK Open game banks were released this week: https://playpinball.uk/game-banks/

Loads of recent releases included with John Wick, Elton John, Pulp Fiction, Funhouse remake and Labyrinth in the main, and Jaws in the Ladies/Junior.

Looking forward to playing Elton, Labyrinth and Funhouse remake for the first time - albeit probably not on a counting card unless I’m feeling brave or stupid!
 
Pockers out 3-1 :( But Gene through 3-1 to last 16 with a possible matchup against former World championship runner up Markus Virtanen next...

(This is the side event St Michel's Open)

Dan P played great in Main qualifying and will get another shot later this evening at the big time after the side event playoffs action.
 
MET game 3.... And a first ball Sparky - ends on 40M I am told with Crank it up lit!

Look out, there's another guy in East anglia that can play a bit 😄

Edit: and he is through to the last 16 without even needing the 4th game...
 
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To summarise - Good efforts by both Gene and Dan - Gene got to the last 16 of the side tournament, eventually losing 3-1 to Markus Virtanen. Dan breezed through the first round of the main event last 32, winning 3 of 4 games in style.
He then came up against the veteran Swede Anders Carlsson, who put on a strong display of skills to win the group, and the up and coming 14yr old local Finnish talent, Topi Ahonen who also played very well to progress, with Dan taking a commendable third.
 
Is this an appropriate place to ask (otherwise, I'll move it) if anyone knows of any card-based Junior tournaments? (rather than Matchplay or tournaments including both kids and adults)
 
I am pretty sure there aren't any Vee. Junior tournaments are really rare in the UK - all we have on the calendar is the uk open youth which is a flip frenzy format I believe as per last year.

The closest thing might be when Matt V used to run the London League which was Best game / score based - this was good fun and had trophies for juniors.
 
Pinball Office does have fantastic trophies for the top 3 juniors at their matchplay tournaments though. Although you play adults as well as kids.
 
Jackpot said:
I am pretty sure there aren't any Vee. Junior tournaments are really rare in the UK - all we have on the calendar is the uk open youth which is a flip frenzy format I believe as per last year.

The closest thing might be when Matt V used to run the London League which was Best game / score based - this was good fun and had trophies for juniors.
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There have been young peoples comps at Pinfest every year it's been running - 2 separate divisions this year, which Michael and James both entered :)
Some of the UK League regions have trophies for under 16s as well.
 
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There have been young peoples comps at Pinfest every year it's been running - 2 separate divisions this year, which Michael and James both entered :)
Some of the UK League regions have trophies for under 16s as well.
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I meant left on the calendar Wayne :) - also Vee was asking about Card based tournaments in particular.

We just had Pinfest and it is a long way away. The NBA juniors comps are really great fun and appreciated.

I'd forgotten about the juniors section in UK league - so thanks for pointing that out.
 
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Jackpot said:
I am pretty sure there aren't any Vee. Junior tournaments are really rare in the UK - all we have on the calendar is the uk open youth which is a flip frenzy format I believe as per last year.

The closest thing might be when Matt V used to run the London League which was Best game / score based - this was good fun and had trophies for juniors.
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Thanks, everyone :) I thought the UK Open was matchplay, not flip frenzy, but I don't know whether a rapid-fire format is worse or better (probably worse TBH).

Looks like I'm a bit stumped, for the moment, unless a mixed-age best game/score competition with junior prizes pops up! :)
 
Big Uk tournament weekend ahead with the Yorkshire Pudding Matchplay tomorrow followed by PBR classics on Sunday! Make your predictions here - who is going to win each event? Who will be a surprise package to watch out for that will exceed expectations?

Banter welcome... i pick Brocktastic up north (although Andy F will probably win) with Paul Garner to make the playoffs.

Down south I'll go with Martin Bedford to make the playoffs - he is pretty tough on the classics in any case
 
Up norf, my monies on Garner, when he plays, he can play. At least top 10, with me 9th 🤣

Down south, not sure who's going?
 
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Big Uk tournament weekend ahead with the Yorkshire Pudding Matchplay tomorrow followed by PBR classics on Sunday! Make your predictions here - who is going to win each event? Who will be a surprise package to watch out for that will exceed expectations?

Banter welcome... i pick Brocktastic up north (although Andy F will probably win) with Paul Garner to make the playoffs.

Down south I'll go with Martin Bedford to make the playoffs - he is pretty tough on the classics in any case
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Hello Yuen, if you were to notionally choose six numbers between 1 and 59, and an additional bonus number, which would you go for? Thanks!
 
Jackpot said:
Big Uk tournament weekend ahead with the Yorkshire Pudding Matchplay tomorrow followed by PBR classics on Sunday! Make your predictions here - who is going to win each event? Who will be a surprise package to watch out for that will exceed expectations?

Banter welcome... i pick Brocktastic up north (although Andy F will probably win) with Paul Garner to make the playoffs.

Down south I'll go with Martin Bedford to make the playoffs - he is pretty tough on the classics in any case
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Mystic Yuen, any predictions for Tilt next week? 😂
 
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Mystic Yuen, any predictions for Tilt next week? 😂
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After playing crap yesterday, I am going to pick myself for bounce back and rematch with Josh in the finals. Also watch out for "The Main Event" @cyberkryten who has been playing really well of late...

Tons of talented players in with a shout -obviously Kirk and Tilt's finest go without saying!

Should be another belter!
 
As quick recap -At the time of the above post Andy hadn't signed up :)

He was a deserved winner at Tilt, with great finals scores of 120M+ on a tough Addams, 600M+ on Foo and 25M+ on Turtles. Congrats @PUP!

I took 2nd after a tiebreak with Ulf on JP, and I did get that rematch with Josh in the end... albeit in the last 8 rather than the final. It was another great battle (so worth a mention I think), with Josh winning game 1 on JAWS fairly comfortably after my 230M was not enough to make him play ball 3. I chose Indy500 and scored 840M to force a game 3. He picked Mando and it was a interesting game - I put up 840M in my best ever game of Mando by far - Josh was on just 9M after 2 balls but started 6x with mode and MB stack- racking up the points but unfortunately draining on close to 500M.

So I think the predictions have been pretty good so far - @cyberkryten was also strong on the day as projected, only missing out on the playoffs by a tiebreak game.

I will accept bribes to predict/hype up individuals for future tournaments, it seems to work(!) :)

One other short mention for my son James, who had his best ever tournament performance to qualify for the playoffs in 9th and finish Joint 10th overall. Obviously I am delighted but I think it is worth highlighting because I think it shows with some skill and some good fortune a lot of people do have a chance to do well, you never know what could happen if the balls bounce your way - which keeps tournament pinball really interesting. (James was 34th out of 39 the previous week at PBR- Michael came 50th after coming 6th the previous week)

Thanks again to Kirk for another great Tilt comp- thoroughly enjoyed it and the best of luck for whatever comes next.
 
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