@jeff_rivera SLC!
Portland was recently named the best pinball tournament city for cities with a population under 700,000 in the pacific northwest.
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seems contentious! Was named by Portland weekly? 
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Yes, Salt Lake City [well, actually Farmington, which is a bit north of town]. I won their Project Pinball fundraiser two years ago, for which I got a very-nice-but-modest âUtahâs Tilt Elevatedâ trophy. My wife and I were heading back towards California from a three week camping trip to Montana and happened to be in the area that day. I couldnât resist.
Hooray, Columbia MO shows up on that map!
For some reason the function I was using that converted âORâ into latitude/longitude coordinates put it right over Utah. So the Oregon data was showing up over Utah. I updated the figures.
This actually turned out pretty cool. Itâs a great demonstration of just how rapidly competitive pinball has grown in the US. Had to leave out other countries just for convenience of plottingâŚsorry!
Link to higher res version: https://gfycat.com/MiserableAjarBluewhale
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Would love to see someone do this sorta thing with pinball map data. I suspect the left coast would crush. I remember a few years ago when the bay area briefly passed Portland in total games (which I played a small part in). Never mind that our games are spread out over about 10x the area and that theyâre crushing us now, but we briefly had more pins on location than Portland.