Wait, what’s this? You won the raffle machine at Michigan Pinball Expo and never received it? Or am I misunderstanding?
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Iron Man HD isn’t silly, it’s AMAZING
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People are sharing 2016, so here were mine (roughly).
- Make PCS (check)
- Seed A at pinburgh. (Fail)
- attend as many new events as I could (check. TPF, CJ, CAX, PAPA, Buffalo)
And my petty personal rivalry objective for last year. Keep my head-to-head against @PinballProfile on IFPA site in the green. (Check)
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Have not received as of yet. Was told be one of the last ones. Never dreamed it would take this long. So yes you fully understood.
I really had to think about this for awhile. Here’s a list of my pinball-related goals for the year.
- Make A Division in both Cleveland PInball League and Kidforce Pinball League
- Fix up my Lost World. I’m basically just procrastinating this, 10 or so wires from the transformer connector were cut and rectified for some reason? Ugh.
- Attend at least 3 annual tournaments. I’m aiming for PAPA, maybe Sanctum, and there’s the Ohio and Cleveland ones.
- Related to PAPA, since it’s my first time I’m going to start with C, and see how that goes or if I need to bump up. Qualifying is my only goal there, heh.
- Crash another area’s tournament last minute. I’ve got a buddy with that “let’s do it!” mindset for everything and I know one day soon I’ll just be in the car headed for Toronto or Pittsburgh to make a last minute entry.
- Hopefully crack top 1000 this year.
- Become more aware of when I need to slow down my game. I start to get too pumped up on certain games and make too many on-the-fly or moving shots that end up missing.
- Lastly, put upward nudges fully into my consciousness. I’m tilting frequently on tight machines because I’m doing downwards nudging. It’s good for loose games, which I play a decent amount of, but not a great habit on unfamiliar machines.
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Win IFPA. Retire from competitive play. Make a few decent cover versions of pinball music.
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Well, guess I know my goal now!
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Great thread!
Goals for 2016.
- Get to as many tourneys as possible including PAPA (check)
- Win one big tourney (got lucky with 2, Buffalo Pinball Summer Open Classics, and my original league LOPL)
- get to know more in the pinball community (voila…Pinball Profile does just that)
- make provincial championships (check)
- Top 20 in Canada (check)
- Top 300 in IFPA (check…barely)
- make A’s in Pinburgh (check, got off to a good start with 12-0 round one…then downhill from there)
Goals for 2017:
- at least 2 new tourney entries (Ohio and Michigan @ Clay’s looking good)
- make A’s in Pinburgh
- try A’s at PAPA (what am I thinking?)
- Top 10 in Canada (longshot)
- Top 200 in IFPA (need help)
- at least one weekly Pinball Profile interview (they aren’t really podcasts, more interviews)
- get past Round one of provincial championships
- beat @gammagoat head to head. In pinball or physically.
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I already get one out of the way this year - hit A division in a PAPA Circuit event (INDISC). But it also seeded another goal too. Anyway:
- Attend at least 3 new major tournaments (Pinburgh is already one of those).
- Shoot for B in Pinburgh, then make a solid showing there. Stretch: A, and hope for the best.
(read: really shooting for A, but will be fine with B). - Crack the top 1000 in IFPA rank (stretch: top 500). The above will certainly help in that regard.
- Familiarize myself more with classic SS and EM games, having been a child of the DMD age myself. There aren’t a whole lot of them on location nearby, but the situation is very slowly improving.
- Train myself to play calmer under pressure. It’s one thing if it’s a local monthly tournament, but another thing altogether knowing there’s a vaster audience watching at a larger tournament. I fell victim to playing out some “fancier” moves that wound up stupidly costing me balls.
(read: really shooting for A, but will be fine with B).
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- Go one full tournament without choosing “position”
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My pinball goals are mostly related to OaaH (Operating as a Hobby; a term coined just now):
- Achieve same or higher revenue in year 2 as in year 1.
- Add four new machines
- Help people in the local community organize 6+ tournaments
- Organize an event to bring in new blood: parent&kid split flipper; how-to-play-pinball workshop; …
Personal goals:
- Place top-3 in three tournaments
- Take a machine from non-working in storage to a playable state in my home gameroom
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2016 was a great year and 2017 started well (as tradition on New Years,a big score happens in the first game of the year). My goals are the following:
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Fix a Delta Queen in my place, or actually get someone to help fix it.
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Write/produce a series on pinball tutorials, strategy, and competition.
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If I have the time off, go to 3 majors outside of Pittsburgh.
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Qualify in A division in a major.
Win a notable local tournament (tricky to do in Pittsburgh).
PPL Season 28 champion, I guess I went big on that one?
Make the Pittsburgh Pinball League A Finals.
…and win them, too!
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Beat every frequent Pittsburgh player in a tournament once.
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Make the top 250 in IFPA ranking.
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Make the Pennsylvania State Championships. Also, go to Vegas.
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Don’t fudge away a Classics ticket at PAPA over a scissor drain.
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- Qualify for C division finals at PAPA
- Reassemble my Farfalla, which I left unfinished 5+ years and one home ago
- Finish top 8 at Pinball at the Zoo (PAPA circuit?)
- Qualify for B or C division finals at Pinburgh (depending on how day 1 goes)
- Win B division of Chicago Pinball League (tough, considering the roster)
- Score 1 billion on The Walking Dead
- Find a nice BSD
- Stop being a baby about the queue at Expo and compete
why not just win it?
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It was a fluke that I finished top 4 last year. Near-ideal game lineup, didn’t have to play vs. Trent, almost every bounce went my way, avoided Mustang 'til the finals, etc. Winning would be great, but not really a reasonable goal for me.
::hi fives to this thread::
In the interest of keeping myself accountable:
- Launch the Philly Pinball League
- Personally grow the number of games on location
- Organize at least 2 more tournaments in the city
- Make some new friends in the scene
- Find a good deal on a solid state
- Make B finals at Pinburgh
- Win literally any tournament
- Level up my nudging skills
- Train myself to relax more while playing
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2016
The big one - get into top 1000 
Make provincials
Beat Flitton in a tournament 
Beat Becker in a tournament (now 1-57)
Grow Bluffs Pinball into a mostly sustainable operation
Raise $5000 with #pinballforchange to build a classroom in Rural Ecuador✅
Improve pinburgh showing
2017
Keep growing Bluffs
Improve Pinburgh showing
Beat Flitton in a tournament
Be more consistent, less red hot or ice cold
Play and learn more games
Get #pinballforchange to $10000 so the classroom can be built this summer.
Beat Zeus in the overall Bluffs standings
2016 was a great pinball year for me, hoping for even more in 2017!
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Played a little bit a few years back then took some time off for the baby. Now my daughter is a little bigger and fortunately mom is very understanding. So hoping to get out to a lot of tournaments this year. The Mrs. even proposed the idea that we take mini trips to incorporate pinball tournaments with a side of family vacation.
So the goals this year are:
-break top 1000
-get out to a bigger event and do well
-learn to calm the nerves a bit during tournaments
-get over the EM repair fears and get one or two
-get some more ugly duckling solid state projects and turn them into fun players for the basement
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Would love to see you at more events Phil. Was a pleasure playing with you back in 2014 in state College. Good luck getting more into pinball!
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