Thanks again to Luch for the pinball, pizza, and hospitality last night!  We had a good turnout this week with 31 players, and we put the new games Luch brought in through their paces.  Scores are also available on the new site, which we’re continuing to run in parallel for the rest of the season.  The intent is to switch over full time next season.

This week was also the first of our Mystery Score Challenges.  The player whose score ended in the digits closest to the mystery score (above or below) would win a TOPL T-Shirt.  The sealed envelope contained 5 numbers:13847:

Which means that Jeff T (RED) came within 303 points of the mystery score to win:

We still have more shirts to give away, so we’ll be doing another one soon-we’ll announce it at least a couple of weeks in advance on the website.

Continue reading Scores and Standings week 8 →

I’d hoped to start publishing on the new system this week, which is why the scores are a little late going up, but we’re still working out a few things on the new platform.  The scores are up on the PAPA site if you want to check them out there, but the data for Most Improved isn’t all there yet, so we’re still keeping both systems up in parallel.  If there’s anything you’d like to see on the new scoring site though, please let us know, or just leave a comment here. 

Thanks to Jim for hosting this week, and welcome to three new members-Che, Todd and Rob. 

High scores this week went to:

Continue reading Scores and standings-week 7 →

Another record turnout for a location this week, with 33 players crowding into my basement for pinball.  It’s great to see so many people out, and despite the numbers, things still moved pretty well, with only a couple of minor malfunctions in stuck balls and a light bulb coming falling into the trough on Spider-Man and wreaking havoc with the optos in there. 

Also, just a quick reminder to everyone to make sure you sign in when you get to the location for a league night.  The sign in sheet will usually be somewhere obvious, and if you don’t see it, ask Chris, Luch, or Adam.  Making sure to sign yourself in makes things much easier for us when putting groups together, and it means we can get going much faster.  The sheet is ordered by the point total from the last time you were out, so if you have a hard time finding your name, try to remember what your total was the previous week. 

Continue reading Scores and standings-week 5 →

We had a great turnout at Nick’s this week, with 34 people showing up to play, which is great to see.  Lots of regulars, lots of new regulars, and three more new members, who were a little awestruck at Nick’s collection of games (with good reason), so welcome to Richard, Harry, and Jeff!  Hope to see you guys out for the rest of the season.  And of course, thanks again to Nick for hosting all of us and keeping everyone fed (with an assist from samosa man Kev). 

This week’s high scores went to:

Continue reading Scores and standings week 4 →

Thanks to Andrew for hosting again this week, and for sharing his games with the league.  He has some great unique titles in his lineup, and it’s always great to change things up and add new games into the rotation.  Also, welcome to Reg, who made it out to his first TOPL night this week.  Hopefully you manage to make it out again despite the drive! 

Continue reading Scores and Standings-Week 3 →

Thanks to Kim for hosting another great TOPL week.  Many of the new people from last week made it out again this time around, so we had a solid 31 players for Kim’s large collection. 

High scores this week went to several people who weren’t Adam:

Congratulations to Mario and Glen for getting their first high scores! 

Here’s the full scores for the week, and the current standings.  Still lots of time left for things to change.

We’re taking next Monday off for Easter weekend, but we’re at Andrew’s the week after that.  Have a great long weekend, and see everyone in a couple of weeks!

Welcome to the start of another TOPL season!  First, a huge thanks to Luch for hosting this week, which is always one of the busiest weeks of the year.  We had a good number of regulars come out, as well as a couple of folks we hadn’, but what was unprecedented was the number of new players we had this week.  Usually, there are one or two new people in a week, and maybe a group of three or four, but this week we had eight new players out for their first TOPL week (although to be fair, Andrew made it to playoffs).  So welcome to Mike, Julian, Mario, Josh, Andrew, Jeff, Mandle, and Glen-it was great that you all made it out, and hopefully you had a good time.  Remember that your league fees cover you for the entire season, which runs from now until the playoffs in July (tentatively scheduled for July 19).  The only money you’re on the hook for week to week is the host fee ($10), so enjoy the season!

High scores this week went to:

Continue reading Scores and standings-Week 1 →

Thanks again to Adam and Denise for hosting everyone for the playoffs at their place this past weekend, and for keeping the food coming through the day.  It was a hard fought tournament with 20 rounds of match play, so everyone had a great day of pinball on a wide variety of really tough games.  The earlier start and time change didn’t seem to deter anyone, and we didn’t have any late arrivals who missed out on changing their clocks, so the 21 players who showed up were there for all 20 rounds.  At the end of qualifying, here’s how things stood:

Continue reading Playoff results-March 2015 →

Thanks to Nick for hosting everyone last night-it was a good league night, and despite the freezing cold, we still managed a decent turnout.  The season is almost in the books, with just one more week to solidify things before playoffs on March 8 at Adam’s. 

High scores this week went to:

Continue reading Scores and standings-week 14 →

Thanks to everyone who made it out this week!  It’s been a busy week for TOPL, with Adam taking over as president, and the announcement that we’ll be giving away a pinball machine to a league member at the end of 2015.  There’s still pinball to be played though, and despite the cold, we’re still playing week after week. 

High scores this week went to:

Continue reading Scores and Standings-week 13 →