Bowland SA Masters Pinball Challenge 2018!! - Port Pirie

Finals are well underway, with Greg Siegele already booking his place in the final after qualifying 2nd.

 

Rob MaCauley (qual 1st) and Rob McIntyre (Q 14th) now playing to see who will challenge Greg.

 

Rob McIntyre currently up 2-1 in best of five.

 

Now on Addams Family.

 

Cheers,

 

G

 

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Rob McIntyre wins 3-1.

 

Playoff for 3rd and 4th will be between Rob MaCauley and Scottie Taylor.

 

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Greg 1 - Rob 0 - Now on Stellar Wars.

 

Rob 2 - Scottie 0 - Now on Swords of Fury.

 

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New SA Masters Champion is Greg Siegele, who won the final 3- 0.

 

Rob MaCauley 3rd, winning against Scottie 3-0.

 

 

 

1. Greg Siegele

2. Rob McIntyre

3. Rob MaCauley

4. Scottie Taylor

5. Ted Woods

6. Vincent Rossi

7. Colin Tattoli

8. Stelios Michas

Disappointed i didn't send you pinheads home crying but i meet a lot of great people and had a blast. Thanks to rayzer,rocket,digger and anyone else who donated games. Also chris dobell for his game. Also gee,jo dite and any other volunteers, also the local lads and the bowl for the venue. Good weekend.

Bowland SA Masters Pinball Challenge 2018!! - Port Pirie

 

Thx for an awesome tournament, Ray, u run the best tourneys in the State! Thanks to Simon and Steve at Amusement Worx for the trophies, Steve at Bowland, A1 Pizza, Electrical Products, all the locals who brought their machines along, G for driving matchplay and the earlier satellite tournaments, and everyone who played, G & Ted for driving interstate for the event.

 

I did well with the prize money, thanks for yr entry fees, everyone, I’m donating it to the Pacha Mama Alliance, protecting the indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest against the oil companies.

Disappointed i didn't send you pinheads home crying but i meet a lot of great people and had a blast. Thanks to rayzer,rocket,digger and anyone else who donated games. Also chris dobell for his game. Also gee,jo dite and any other volunteers, also the local lads and the bowl for the venue. Good weekend.

 

Also thanks to you Chaz for bringing along your killer Stellar Wars! ... I know you have been at it meticulously for Many weeks getting it ready for the event, for me I rekon hands down it was the show stopper of the older games! .... I'd wager that if @yomiurirob realised it was your baby he may have avoided it as the fifth game in your quarter-final decider! ... I know you've rolled it "Over The Top" in the past ;)

 

 

Some great flipper skills there regardless mate! ... looking forward to Flippin' @ Feddy in April Already! :D

 

 

 

Anyway just a quick general note, I've got a Truckload of pics to go through to put some up here in the coming days, and more details on various aspects in the way of results as well, just pretty flat out at the mo. Watch this space!

 

Cheers!

Bowland SA Masters Pinball Challenge 2018!! - Port Pirie

 

What a top wk end! Amazing effort by Ray (and co.). Count me in every time you host a wk end of pinnies Ray - not only are the comps well run and the machines well cared for and varied, but the best part is the vibe you guys create.

 

Did everyone see this clip that made it on to ABCnews?!

 

Watching ABC News SA Saturday 6/10/2018 in iviewhttps://iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-news-sa/series/0/video/NU1806S240S00

 

Good interviews by Ted and Greg- and the camera caught me doing one of my backwards karate kicks!

 

 

George

 

Ps- I’ll post some of the photos I took with my SLR soon

Edited October 7, 2018 by Jack the Flipper

What a top wk end! Amazing effort by Ray (and co.). Count me in every time you host a wk end of pinnies Ray - not only are the comps well run and the machines well cared for and varied, but the best part is the vibe you guys create.

 

Did everyone see this clip that made it on to ABCnews?!

 

Watching ABC News SA Saturday 6/10/2018 in iviewhttps://iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-news-sa/series/0/video/NU1806S240S00

 

Good interviews by Ted and Greg- and the camera caught me doing one of my backwards karate kicks!

 

 

George

 

Ps- I’ll post some of the photos I took with my SLR soon

 

That was clearly a warm up kick....saving the real stuff for the tourney!

For the next tournament we are at together I'm going to bring in some safety cones to keep the hazardous work area clear :lol

 

- Chris

What a top wk end! Amazing effort by Ray (and co.). Count me in every time you host a wk end of pinnies Ray - not only are the comps well run and the machines well cared for and varied, but the best part is the vibe you guys create.

 

Did everyone see this clip that made it on to ABCnews?!

 

Watching ABC News SA Saturday 6/10/2018 in iviewhttps://iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-news-sa/series/0/video/NU1806S240S00

 

Good interviews by Ted and Greg- and the camera caught me doing one of my backwards karate kicks!

 

 

George

 

Ps- I’ll post some of the photos I took with my SLR soon

 

Bloody Awesome stuff ABC! ... Great job Greg and Ted! :023:

 

George, that is getting very close to a "Hello Sailor!" ;)

SA MASTERS WINNERS

 

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Edited October 11, 2018 by digger48

It was minced up and everything most relevant was left on the cutting room floor, but pinball made the local news last week....

 

 

11m35s

 

Awesome effort Ray. Nice to see you are wearing your Aussie Arcade T-shirt as well. :023:

Top placings for the Four Strikes Tournament were:

 

1st Robert Macauley (with no strikes)

2nd Greg Siegele

3rd Chris Dobell

 

Here are a few pics taken during the Group Knockout on Saturday Night...

 

 

 

 

Chris, Greg and Rob battling to stay in the running on Alien Star

 

 

 

Best Game Card finals on Sunday...

 

 

 

 

Colin plays Rob on Stellar Wars in a 5th game decider for a place in the semi-final round, won by Rob with just a small margin.

 

 

 

In the final game for the SA Masters, Greg defeats Rob on Lost World to take the main event first prize.

 

 

 

For a little something different we had a shot at putting ceramic balls into Whitewater (this became a very nasty Whitewater lol) and Seawitch, making for a slightly faster kind of feel. Everyone seemed to like the way ceramic went in Seawitch. The old Stern made it through the whole weekend with only a couple of minor issues, but a dropped plunger link pin put it out in only the last hour of the finals on Sunday. The two most played games for the Best Game Card qualifying were Seawitch and Stellar Wars, with more than 50 plays each over the six hours (there were 22 arenas to choose from for most of the qualifying period)

 

The Seawitch made it back to it's home by Monday night where the link was repaired... a couple of us could not resist spending an evening racking up some plays on the old girl, we made an amateur recording of a few games as we enjoyed a couple of wind down bevvies :D

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv2p1bOrPME

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7_jyZGq54k

Edited October 24, 2018 by razorsedge

Hi Ray. Have results been submitted to IFPA?

Yep they were put in some time ago. I got an email from Luke yesterday letting me know that the results for all Bowland events are now approved and in the hands of the IFPA... they should be up soon. Currently just the weekday events are appearing in IFPA results.

Results for the 2018 SA Masters and all other events at Bowland are now visible on the IFPA website.

 

Cheers!

Thanks for everything, Ray and everyone at Pirie, it was a huge success and a lot of fun!

 

Tip for next time: the convention in the pinball world is to call the big one the “main event”

Next years Bowland Pinball Challenge will be held over the weekend of 11th-13th of October 2019, following the Labor Day long weekend.