Hi
I'm very pleased to announce that David Dutton has very kindly offered to host the finals of the UKCS and UK Pinball League. These will be held on the weekend of 18, 19 Feb at David's house which is situated between Huddersfield and Rochdale.
This is a change from the original plan to host this event at the Arcade Club in Bury but keeps the event in the north which was our main objective having held the UKCS finals in the Midlands and South in previous years.
David has a fantastic selection of games, ideal for the two national finals and we're very grateful to him for offering to host the finals.
Without a main UK show this year, we decided to hold the UKCS and league finals over the same weekend, with the hope of making it more worthwhile for attendees than just one comp but what it does mean is that there will be no time this year to run a separate comp like the UKCS Hangover we have run in previous years. The UKCS finals will be on the Saturday and UK League Finals on the Sunday.
I'll be in contact with the qualifiers for the league finals in due course to confirm attendance and provide more info, and of course UKCS finalists which we won't know until the end of the year.
Format of UKCS finals will be same as in previous years; format for the league finals will be different from the past as we need to include head to head play to qualify for WPPR points. There will be still be A and B divisions finals which will both run on the same format of 4 groups of 4 playing 4 players games (ie 16 players in each division) with top 2 advancing to next round and then repeat including the final unless we don't have enough players in which case there will be some adjustment to this format.
David advises that there is not much accommodation in the immediate vicinity. I've done a quick search and found two Travellodges within less than 10 miles - Huddersfield £74 for a double room (no twins) or Oldham Chadderton £68 for a twin (so have booked the latter).
Cheers
Greg
I'm very pleased to announce that David Dutton has very kindly offered to host the finals of the UKCS and UK Pinball League. These will be held on the weekend of 18, 19 Feb at David's house which is situated between Huddersfield and Rochdale.
This is a change from the original plan to host this event at the Arcade Club in Bury but keeps the event in the north which was our main objective having held the UKCS finals in the Midlands and South in previous years.
David has a fantastic selection of games, ideal for the two national finals and we're very grateful to him for offering to host the finals.
Without a main UK show this year, we decided to hold the UKCS and league finals over the same weekend, with the hope of making it more worthwhile for attendees than just one comp but what it does mean is that there will be no time this year to run a separate comp like the UKCS Hangover we have run in previous years. The UKCS finals will be on the Saturday and UK League Finals on the Sunday.
I'll be in contact with the qualifiers for the league finals in due course to confirm attendance and provide more info, and of course UKCS finalists which we won't know until the end of the year.
Format of UKCS finals will be same as in previous years; format for the league finals will be different from the past as we need to include head to head play to qualify for WPPR points. There will be still be A and B divisions finals which will both run on the same format of 4 groups of 4 playing 4 players games (ie 16 players in each division) with top 2 advancing to next round and then repeat including the final unless we don't have enough players in which case there will be some adjustment to this format.
David advises that there is not much accommodation in the immediate vicinity. I've done a quick search and found two Travellodges within less than 10 miles - Huddersfield £74 for a double room (no twins) or Oldham Chadderton £68 for a twin (so have booked the latter).
Cheers
Greg