chopchop Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Just woke to the announcement that Replax Foundation is winding up all operations. They are selling off all their assets including machines so that's the end of Pinburgh and PAPA sadly. It is for financial reasons due to no incoming funds with the cancellation of this years event. Sad day for those who have been over there in the last, and they were trying to receive the PAPA format next year. Thanks to all that volunteered over the years and ran the Foundation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhank Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Sad news indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peely Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Horrible news. Like many I had plans of making the trip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toads Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Oh wow Very sad for the community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetaste Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 That is awful, decades of work went into building that collection and organisation. The flood and now covid, god doesn’t want papa around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namastepat Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 This sucks, not because I was ever planning to go, simply because PAPA makes the best pinball tutorial videos around. I have watched so many PAPA videos to figure out if I should buy a game, or to learn how to play it a bit better. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 This sucks, not because I was ever planning to go, simply because PAPA makes the best pinball tutorial videos around. I have watched so many PAPA videos to figure out if I should buy a game, or to learn how to play it a bit better. No Exams today Pat Are you wagging it? Watching PAPA Vids again... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhank Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I wonder if tpf or chicago pinball expo will get bigger because of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinball god Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Not happy Jan, that's not what I ever wanted to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1.21 Gigawatts Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I wonder whether they could have done a partial machine sell off to keep things going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocyen Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Sad news. It was one of my pinball life goals to go over there and see the collection one day. Alas, it wasn't to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverBalljunky Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 (edited) Such a huge loss to the Pinball Community as a whole I wonder if they had of given everyone some notice of their financial situation, like that they would have to shut down their operations unless they get a certain amount of money I've got a feeling that the Pinball Community would have tried to help them stay afloat Or maybe they couldn't see any end in sight to the following years regarding the Covid laws & social distancing ? 😥 I'll be surprised if the IFPA points come back by this time next year! Matt H Edited December 14, 2020 by SilverBalljunky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMacauley Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 I'll be surprised if the IFPA points come back by this time next year! My guess is that no matter what happens in the rest of the world until the US is able to safely sanction IFPA comps it ain't happening anywhere. It is what it is and we'll all probably be back on zero points before it happens. Sucks about Pinburgh. Played in both PAPA and IFPA world championships but never managed to get to Pinburgh. It was on my bucket list. :cry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetaste Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Covid is just the last straw. Pinburgh was losing $500K pa, my guess is that’s why they previously sold the papa warehouse and now all the machines (which add up to $US1M). Sub optimal decisions by the board when you consider it was an event that sold out in minutes each year. If they priced it correctly to break even they would still be around. Slam Tilt podcast has the financial details. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhank Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 My guess is that no matter what happens in the rest of the world until the US is able to safely sanction IFPA comps it ain't happening anywhere. It is what it is and we'll all probably be back on zero points before it happens. Sucks about Pinburgh. Played in both PAPA and IFPA world championships but never managed to get to Pinburgh. It was on my bucket list. :cry Ive been told that the has to be covid free before ifpa comps start back up again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorsedge Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Ive been told that the has to be covid free before ifpa comps start back up again Don't worry, no ifpa doesn't mean we aren't having pinball comps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldhank Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Don't worry, no ifpa doesn't mean we aren't having pinball comps. Yeah just no ifpa points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie Chucker Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Is there any reason (apart from lack of volunteers) Australia couldn't run its own ranking system separate from IFPA? Did Sweden try anything like that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetaste Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Interesting idea. That would require a lot of work, and in the pinball comp scene it’s always the same old faces doing all the volunteer work. Plenty of people willing to eat the bread, but not many prepared to help bake it. The shortest path to something like you are suggesting is to use the IFPA site, it’s just not for global WPPRs. The people I know in SA don’t seem to be that bothered atm. We are having the occasional tournament and people enjoy the competition and the social aspect and WPPRs are a tertiary concern. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopchop Posted December 6, 2020 Author Share Posted December 6, 2020 Just in case you never went and wanted to see what was there: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulJuke Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 what a bummer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetaste Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Not just pinburgh gone but the whole PAPA collection so no chance of anything like it again. Appalling loss to the pinball world, shame the foundation board lost all that money year after year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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