It’s been a while since last Bowen’s tutorial video was published, so it’s about a time to see a new one. This time Bowen plays new Stern game Transformers and oh my god how well he plays it!
PAPA 14 quarterfinals: Games of Group 1
A set of tournament videos about an interesting group of players, including two great European players Roy Wils and Daniele Acciari, playing in PAPA 14 quarter-finals. The set of three games in the match is Terminator 2, Spider-Man and Iron Man.
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Tournament news
Only a couple of weeks and I’ll be flying to Seattle to play in Northwest Pinball Championships and IFPA 9 World Pinball Championship. This is old news already since I’ve been talking about going to Seattle for almost like a half a year now, but there’s more:
There will also be two pre-IFPA tournaments held during the week before IFPA 9 in Seattle: Shorty’s Pre-IFPA Tournament on Tuesday and Full Tilt Ice Cream Pre-IFPA Tournament on Wednesday. So that is total of eight days of competitive pinball during my 11-day trip to Seattle. That’s madness!
Also first round group predictions for IFPA 9 have been published on IFPA website. I’ll start my tournament in the same group with World’s number 1 ranked player Keith Elwin. That’s cool!
Tournament information for this year’s European Pinball Championship was published two weeks ago on the tournament website. The tournament will be played in mid-September in Madrid, Spain and there are already more than 150 players registered to the competition. There are 10 Finnish players on the list. That’s awesome!
A nice set of pictures from Pinburgh 2012 was published on PAPA blog a while ago. I have published my own gallery too, but the quality of pictures is totally crappy. I was that overwhelmed about the location all weekend that I mostly forgot to take enough pictures. I’ll take better ones next time I visit the PAPA HQ. That’s a promise!
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PAPA 14 quarterfinals: Games of Group 3
Here are all the three videos of PAPA 14 quarterfinals group 3. The group played their match on Family Guy, Terminator 2 and Monster Bash.
PAPA 14 Quarterfinals Group 3 – Family Guy.
PAPA 14 Quarterfinals Group 3 – Terminator 2.
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Pinburgh 2012 qualifications: AC/DC
First tournament video of Pinburgh 2012: Stern’s brand new AC/DC Premium version. Four A-division players playing the game on round 10 trying to make it to top24 and to play-offs.
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PAPA 14 quarterfinals: Family Guy
Third game for group 2 in PAPA 14 quarterfinals: Family Guy.
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PAPA 14 quarterfinals: F-14 Tomcat
The latest two PAPA tournament videos were published while I was already on my way to Pinburgh, so again I’m posting old stuff. Anyway, here is a video of the second game of group 2 in PAPA 14 quarterfinals, played on a cool and brutally fast Williams System 11 game F-14 Tomcat.
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Ari Sovijärvi wins Sörkka Pinball Open 2012
The oldest annual Finnish pinball competition Sörkka Pinball Open was played this weekend at Antti’s new pinball room in Helsinki.
Almost 50 players, including some guests from Sweden and one from UK, participated in the competition. 16 best players advanced to the play-offs from qualifications and four best players met in the final. In the final Ari ‘APz’ Sovijärvi from Kouvola crushed his opponents with a killer ball one on Paragon to seal his first ever pinball tournament victory. Congratulations APz!
The best four in the competition were:
1. Ari Sovijärvi, Kouvola
2. Johan Holmberg, Karjaa
3. Jussi Rantala, Helsinki
4. Janne Toukkari, Tampere
Full tournament results as a google docs document can be seen here and the WPPR-points awarded can be seen here.
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Pinburgh 2012: PAPA HQ walk-through video
PAPA facility, which is the venue of Pinburgh 2012, is totally amazing place. Pictures really don’t do justice for the place, so here is a walk-through video of it in attempt to better describe the awesomeness of the location. Narration of the video is only in Finnish, sorry about that.
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Adam Becker wins Pinburgh 2012
This is already old news, but I’ve been just too tired to post anything returning back from my totally awesome trip to the US.
After a really high quality three-day competition it was Adam Becker from Canada who won the A-division on Pinburgh 2012. Adam played really well already in qualifications finishing 4th and continued his great playing in the playoffs. The top four players in the competition were:
1. Adam Becker
2. Trent Augenstein
3. Karl DeAngelo
4. Dave Stewart
Congratulations to Adam and also to other finalists!
Detailed results of the final rounds have already been published on the PAPA webpage.
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