What is “amount of WPPRtunities” on a resume? I am not seeing that number on the “statistic” section of the profile?
I think this is represented by efficiency percentage on a profile, but it does not show the actual total i guess, but should be trivial to add to the statistics page, and i think it’s a cute word so it should be added for that reason alone
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This is correct.
With all of these nuances and permutations being discussed, it just makes my head spin. I get what everyone is trying to do, but it just wreaks of similarity to the Congress/IRS trying to get rid of tax loopholes and stick it to a certain group or industry, but in reality just the opposite occurs. Anything that deters the profit motive or playing more pinball is just not good in my opinion.
So if I need to hop on a plane from California to Green Bay every four to six months to play against the best competition available and get the best bang for my buck, then so be it. Wish it was closer, but that is life. Like others have said, hopefully this will encourage others to duplicate the Wisconsin and Delaware locations. Competition is good and healthy. Don’t mess with it too much.
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Captain’s Auction Warehouse getting in on the action with THREE events in one day.
If they stretch this to Friday-Sunday every weekend of the year, that’s 468 events per year!
Only 90 minutes from @BMU too! 
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Unfortunately, we don’t get huge crowds in SoCal. I guess people like going outside in the beautiful weather or something. Weirdos…
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Nope not possible in SoCal
****Runs to Looks at INDISC attendance
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3 full attendance full TGP events? i mean if these are three 10 players playing one ball FF it is not quite the same 
Efficiency is definitely tough; we do have a lot of small tourney around here just not many large one within driving distance.
I am more about finding good competition to play in than chasing pts/ranks anyway, i am realistic if I qualify for IFPA 18 someone else will get my spot- but i will definitely be trying to get into IFPA19 if it is on the west coast
Wasn’t there a WPPR palooza back in August with 3 tournaments in one day in SoCal? 
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INDISC is comprised mostly of you out of towners coming to enjoy our sunshine and Jim and Karl’s fine pinball offerings 
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Pinball at the Lab
Pins and Pirates WPPR Palooza
I appreciate that Immensely you have no idea
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was there? I only go to SoCal for INDISC
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Yes WPPR-Palooza was 3 events in 1 day but it was also Sunday so the last event (the one I ran) wasn’t as well attended as the previous ones haha (I didn’t mind and definitely understood).
WPPR-Palooza is coming back 8/6 on a Saturday this year and now that more people know about it hopefully we’ll get some regional players to show up! I heard El Rucko and some others from NorCal are planning on coming. We welcome anyone to come into town and take our WPPRs. (Just like when Tom and Neil came by LBBC a while back haha)
I believe there are also plans for another Pins and Pirates rally (multi-day event) sometime later this year but am not 100% sure on that.
And yes part of the reason SoCal doesn’t have great “WPPRtunities” is basically traffic and distance. Also many players are the “I play 1-2 times a week and can only do weekend pinball stuff 1-2x a month with good scheduling because of family/spouse/kids/etc”. Leagues take care of the “pinball itch” for vast majority of players from my observation.
I find some of this discussion sort of funny since a lot of this only effects the “Brand Name / Name Brand” players as @TeamCenterButton would say. Maybe he should break out his tier names and that can replace rank for some people if 5.8 isn’t cool with them. 
If someone is actually “overrated” then that just means you should beat them at a “neutral major” like INDISC, YEGPIN, etc right? Or maybe you aren’t as good as you think you are and you need to ‘git gud’ as the kids say.
Of course, I’m also the TD that has run GASP non-sanctioned events (like team tourney, split flipper) so take my opinions with grains of salt.
And if there are players who don’t like format X they should tell their TDs / not show up to events with those formats…from what I see in SoCal, there are “preferred venues” since turnout for certain venues is basically “always good regardless of format” which probably means those venues are doing the right things in terms of machine quality/maintenance, hours, etc?
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regarding the “All game choices during finals must be made by the players.” how much “choice” are we talking about?
Is it full freedom to chose any game from the bank or “restricted choice” like TPF (one from each era) or INDISC (cannot choose same game twice) good as well?
Trying to make that clear as i could assume additional restriction could be put together to really limit the “actual” choice.
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INDISC and TPF styles are both fine. I’m sure there’s a level to “restricted choice” that would warrant some follow up questions from us, but nothing we’ve seen in the real world yet.
It’s pretty much meant to not allow certified events to have random game choice for finals rounds, or TD forced choice for finals rounds.
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What about events like last month’s Cactus Jacks Silverball Showdown where players can choose among banks of TD-assembled games, but not individual games?
Captains had 3 events back in January the weekend before Indisc (somewhat hoping to get out-of-towners using this as a lead-in like at IFPA; there were also events the other days in between). This is a location with a large number of good-condition machines. The region has way more population than WI. We had 37, 37 and 32 participants. As noted, traffic and “other things to do” keeps the count down here.
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No problem . . . we would love for Pinburgh to come back and do exactly this
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