Category: news & gossip

A special saturday tournament at the Hounds Tooth Public House is happening this Saturday March 25th

Not sure if this will be a regular event but a new Saturday tournament has been scheduled at the Hounds Tooth in Greenwood. Sign ups begin at 4:30, start time is 5:30, $5 buy-in, 3 strikes format, pot splash – view the full event poster on our calendar: Here

The second opportunity for local pinball players to win passes to this year’s NW Pinball & Arcade Show will be at the Triple Knock

NWPAS Satellite Series: Tacoma Showdown happens on Wednesday March 29th at the Triple Knock and will have a 3-strike format. The start time is at 7:30 (sharp) which is the normal time of their regular weeklies but slightly earlier than most Seattle tourneys, so plan accordingly if you are driving. Details on our calendar or on the NWPAS site: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/satellite.html
Tickets on sale now
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

This month’s monthly matchplay still happens on Tuesday night but qualifying for the tournament is on Sunday March 26

Using an IFPA endorsed Max Matchplay Qualifying format this month’s matchplay tournament at the 8-Bit starts on Sunday afternoon with the finals happening on Tuesday night. If you can’t make it to the Sunday qualifiers (or fail to qualify) you can still take part in a casual side tournament on Tuesday. Details on our calendar!

The Max Value Classic Challenge replaces the Ice-burgh tournament on the first Sunday in April

Germain is presenting a new tournament on April 2: Max Value Classic Challenge. This tournament will be played only on “classic” machines (aka pre-DMD) and should take less time than the Ice-Burgh format did. According to Germain: “…not many people want to play 14 hours in a day so i am going to alternate different formats on my 1st sunday of the month monthly tourney”.

Max Value Classic Challenge happens April 2nd at 2pm at the Ice Box; more details on our calendar: here

The new movie about how Roger Sharpe saved pinball in 1976 became available this weekend on various sites

Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game stars Mike Faist as Roger Sharpe and is about how he helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball. The movie is now available on Youtube, Prime, and other sites for $6.99

Offical website: https://pinballfilm.com/
IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365876/

Rain City Belles & Chimes are holding their semi-annual clothing swap on March 26th at the Ice Box

This month’s Belles & Chimes tournament features 6 rounds of match play and is also a clothing swap and charity drive for Mary’s Place. Feel free to participate in the clothing swap and drive, even if you do not play in the tournament. More details on the calendar

Another Castle Arcade Bremerton begins their monthly ifpa womxn only tournament this Saturday April 1st

Every first Saturday ACAB will host a monthly womxn-only tournament with a 3 Strike format, 4:30pm start time and a $5 buy-in. 5% of all sales during the tournament will be donated to Planned Parenthood!

On mobile devices our Calendar will sometimes have a “too many redirects” error” when choosing an event catagory

As far as we know this only happens when choosing one of the catagories from the drop down menu on the calendar page. The calendar seems to be working otherwise – sorry for the inconvenience!  Please let us know if you experience this error anywhere else on the site. Thanks.