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11/15/2011
November tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated.
The Finals approach. Here are our top ten
| Cayle George |
| Maka Honig |
| Raymond Davidson |
| Jarrett Gaddy |
| Steven Ackley |
| Steve Cartoon |
| Bobby Conover |
| Julie Gray |
| Mitch Anderson |
| Robert Gagno |
10/12/2011
October tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. Cayle George is back in the Number 1 spot followed by Maka Honig, Jarret Gaddy and Raymond Davidson.
9/17/2011
September tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. It is a tight race at the top Robert Gagno in the lead followed by Maka Honig, Cayle George and Raymond Davidson.
8/24/2011
August tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. Jarret Gaddy is back in the Number 1 spot, followed by Cayle George, Robert Gagno and Maka Honig.
7/19/2011
July tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. Cayle is back in the Number 1 spot, followed by Steve Ackley, Jarret and Raymond.
5/11/2011
May tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated.Jarret is back in the Number 1 spot, followed by Raymond, Cayle and Steve Ackley. After the next tournament your worst score will be removed to compute rankings.
4/11/2011
April tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. Cayle George is now in the Number 1 spot, followed by Steve Ackley, Jarret Gaddy, and Mitch Anderson.
3/15/2011
March 12 brings us to Bellevue Washington and The Bravern. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBbJwWANRU. Thank you to Tom Abrams and The Bravern for hosting The Seattle Pinball League. Jerry Thompson and Mountain Coin for bringing in the brand new Rolling Stones. Setting up 14 pinball machines, running a tournament for 45, breaking down the games and out the door by 7PM doesn't happen easily or without the effort and help of many people. Rod Olsen heads the team and thanks to Chris Walsh for the use of his truck. Too many people to mention brought machines and helped. Thank you for the big effort on my birthday.
Onto the tourney. A really nice line up of DMD pinball machines and 45 people for the VRPA formatted tournament. The cutoff for the first round was a score of 24 for a tie break entry into the top 16. Rod didn't make it, Adam did.
Cathy Cartoon and Mary Pacha dominate group J and make it into the semis for
the first time. Games were played and we go from 16 to the final 4 of George Lally,
Kayla Ellingon, Maka Honig and Cayle George.
Cayle wins on game 1 of Funhouse. Kayla played very well and killed on White Water to win game 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3MtMjcS_hg. Spit Second is the last game played and basically sets up a anyone can win the tournament game 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTGE3IG4QuQ. Goerge Wins!!!! Cayle second, Maka third, and Kayla 4th. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvhPFqMDy8.
Great games all around. I was lucky to celebrate my birthday with my best
friends and family doing what I love to do.
aloha,
ANU
3/14/2011
March tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated. Steve Ackley has pulled into spot #1 with great back to back tournaments. Followed closely by Jarret, Mitch and Cayle.
3/2/2011
It's been a while since the last Seattle Pinball League write up. Here's what I've got. The Liberty House hosted our 2010 league championship in January. Jeff Gagnon and Kevin were gracious hosts as the league finals proceeded into the evening. A weighted "strike" tourney was in play for the top 12 finishers in the 2010 SPL season. The lowest qualifying person #12 having to lose at least 3 times and the highest ranking person having to lose 18 times. Jamie Beth plays Diner. Mitch plays flight 2000. Deathsave likes whiskey. Can we have a meeting of the safety committee? Many games were played. Robert Gagno wins the 2010 league. Raymond Davidson battled down the stretch but, couldn't overcome Robert's game lead.
Next up USA vs. Canada in the first annual border bash. League rankings determined the 12 person teams representing Canada/VRPA and USA/SPL. Lou hosted the battle at his pinball shangri-la in Redmond WA. Lou has an amazing collection of pins as well as an awesome home. Many thanks to Lou and family for hosting this first ever event. The tourney format was strategic and fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRPMe6WC2Ec
Teams alternate picking players to play head to head. The challenged player picks the pin. Many surprises popped up as the bash proceeded. Team Canada captain Eden Stamm was the first player to get 3 losses and the boot from the tourney. Steve Cartoon, the 12th ranked player for team USA, recorded victories against many of the top Canadian players while only losing twice. The tourney comes down to Steve beating Dale on Attack From Mars to set up the final match of Maka vs. Robert on The Addams Family. Maka played flawlessly to as player one to set up a huge 400 million something to Robert's 20 million something as Robert played the final ball. Bounce Bounce Bounce ball down the middle....... USA!!!! USA!!!! USA!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeQUSvh3964
Team USA still had 4 players alive at the end. Raymond Davidson, Jeff Gagnon, and Steve Cartoon. The tourney trophy is on display in the Trophy Room as Shorty's in Seattle. Canada hosts the bash next year. This was a very fun event and another incentive to participate and pay attention to your league standings.
National anthems were sung and murdered respectively.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyxJD-hKG8
Next up.... The first Seattle Pinball League tourney for 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4P2653cUtw
February 5th had the league meeting at the Seattle Pinball Museum Project in the international district of Seattle. Chinese drums and dragons celebrate the coming year of the Rabbit as the tourney starts. 40 participants and most of the local pinball heavy hitters on hand for the VRPA format tournament.
Group A: Cayle George, Robert Gagno, Maka Honig, Todd MacCulloch............ this is pretty intimidating group of players but, not so for Todd as he scores 1st place in 4 of the 5 games.... Todd advances. Mitch and Sean also scored 31 to advance...... 25 points were needed to make the top 12 and the semi finals.
Linda Nasfell grates her competition in the semis group A..... winning Eight ball Deluxe an Black Jack over Mitch, Todd and Aaron. 1st time SPLer Mike Norman advance out of group B setting up a tie-breaker for Steve Ackley, Jarrett Gaddy, and Sean Burris. Jarrett gets 3rd in the tie-breaker on Flash Gordon which isn't good, needing a first or second place finish to advance.
Your final 4 of Linda, Steve, Mike, and Sean play 8 ball, Countdown, and Mata Hari. Steve wins on 8 ball but, Sean finishes strong dominating and winning on Countdown and Mata Hari. So Congratulations to Sean Burris for his first Seattle Pinball League victory. Steve Ackley with the silver, Mike Norman with the bronze and Linda winning her entrance fee back, all played well.
The competition level seems to be much higher than years in the past. Keep Flipping. Keep Playing, Have Fun.
aloha,
ANU
2/6/2011
February tournament results have been posted and league standings have been updated.
12/12/2010
League standings have been submitted to the IFPA for World Pinball Player Rankings.
Get the results here
11/24/2010
League rankings have been updated again. It turns out that saving to only 2 decimals wasn't accurate enough. Bobby had a ranking that was .0011 higher than Raymond. This could only be seen if you went to three decimals. From now on Rankings will be to 4 decimals just in case. Here is the true final 12:
| Robert Gagno |
| Jeff Gagnon |
| Bobby Conover |
| Raymond Davidson |
| Maka Honig |
| Julie Gray |
| James Edes |
| Jamie Beth Julius |
| Mitch Anderson |
| Andrew Nunes |
| Rodney Olsen |
| Brian Chesbrough |
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