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Summer 2018-Scores for week 4

Thanks to Nick for hosting this week, and for giving everyone a first chance to try Iron Maiden!  Scores are up on the PAPA site

We also did three mystery score giveaways for some shirts.  To win, you had to have a score that ended in the 5 digits closest to the mystery score.  Congrats to John Clegg (8,347,660 for 47811), Stephane (9,715,368 for 15543) and Eddie Setareh (157,980,350 for 78912)-see Newman next week for your prizes. 

Speaking of next week, we’re playing at Tilt next Monday.  Hope to see everyone there!

Summer 2018 – Scores for Week 2

Thanks to Kim for hosting this week on a gorgeous spring day!  The scores are up on the PAPA site.

Welcome to newcomers Kyle, Eddie, and Danny!  We hope you guys had a fun night, and look forward to seeing you throughout the season!

***Change of plans for next Monday: due to a scheduling conflict, we’ll be playing at Luch’s next Monday (May 14th) and at Tilt on June 4th.

ToPL Format changes for the upcoming season!…

After a lot of evaluation and planning, we’re pleased to finally announce updates to the format for the upcoming ToPL season beginning on April 30th!

Responding to feedback from our members, the goal is to make our season, playoffs, and tournament more relevant for our members.  Many expressed that our playoffs were both ‘too much of a grind’, and had no connection to the actual season of play.  We also heard that members preferred their fees to stay with the league rather than fund what is actually an independent tournament.
Here are the highlights of how next season’s playoffs and tournaments are going to work:
ToPL Playoffs
• The new ToPL Season will remain 14 weeks, however, we will now have a true season playoffs on Week 14 (Monday evening) open to all paid ToPL Season members.
• Divisional Seedings:  Players will be automatically seeded into their playoff division (A or B) based on the season standings on Week 14, with half going to each division.
• Playoffs consist of four, single game rounds, with the 4-player groupings being rebalanced after each round.
• In groupings, season rankings determine choice of order of play – highest rank earns 1st choice, and so forth.
Playoff Finals
• After 4 rounds, the top 4 players from each division go into single elimination finals.
• Player 1 plays Player 4, and Player 2 plays Player 3 – the winners and losers of these matches will play each other, respectively, to determine the final top four outcome.
ToPL Seasonal Open Tournaments
• Future Seasonal Open Tournaments organized by ToPL will be financially self sufficient, and will incorporate a variety of tournament formats to keep play fun, fresh, and interesting.
See the updated ToPL Rules for full details.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
Don’t miss the opening night of the new season, this coming Monday (April 30th) at Jim’s!
David

Season 1 2018 – Playoffs Tournament…

Thanks to Luch for hosting yesterday, and thanks to everyone who came out to participate in a great tournament!
The final results after the ‘Best-of-Three’ Bracket Finals finished up are:
1    Jack Tadman
2    Chris Draper
3    Steven Machado
4    Josh Zilberberg
5    Mike Luciani
6    Stephane Raymond
7    Ken Lapointe
8    Dave Smith
9    Mike Cuzzupe
10    Brian Trenholm
11    Ryan Matheson
12    David Newman
13    Chris Bardon
14    Matt Faulkner
15    Ian Harrower
16    Simon Brown
17    Charles Blaquière
18    John Clegg
19    Barry Brdar
20    Dave Glen
21    Les Kowal
22    Jacob Machado
23    Julian Capocci
24    Adam Hollander
25    Mike Faria
26    Mike Capocci
27    Jason Gillard
28    Andrew Lounsbury
29    Chris Frolic

Congrats to Jack for winning the tournament, and the rest of the top eight finalists!

We look forward to our next ToPL Season starting next Monday (April 30th) at Jim’s!  See you there!

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Season 1 2018-Scores for week 14

Despite icy conditions of what is hopefully winter’s last roar, we had a great final week at Andy McNab’s with 18 players to close out the season!  Welcome to Mike Faria who posted a decent score on his first night out to ToPL!

This was a very interesting season and a close race throughout the whole season.  The final scores are up on the PAPA site

Big congratulations to Mike Capocci for winning the season!  Congratulations to Andy McNab for winning the Pinball Wizard trophy for highest handicapped point total!  Congratulations to Adam Hollander for winning the Most Improved Award!  Your trophies will be available early next season!

The ToPL Spring Playoffs Tournament is this coming Sunday (April 22nd) at Mike Luciani’s house.  We have a new format for this open tournament:  11 rounds of 4-player match play and a best of 3 bracket final for the top four players in each division.  Doors open at noon and play starts at 1:00 pm.

Our new season starts on April 30th at Jim’s!

Thanks for a great season everyone!

David Newman

Season 1 2018-Scores for week 13

The season is almost finished, and the results for this week are up in the usual place, and Mike Capocci is still leading the season, although AndyMcNab could still take the season if everything lines up for him next week.  Adam Hollander is also still leading the most improved race, but there’s still room for those rankings to change with the last week of the season. 

Next week we’re at Andy’s place to finish out the season, and then at Luch’s on Sunday the 22nd for the playoff tournament.  Just a reminder that this season we’re not starting until 1 pm (doors open at noon), and that we’re playing 4 player groups, so hopefully things will wrap up more quickly than previous tournaments.  Have a great week everyone!

Season 1 2018-scores for week 12

Thanks to Walt and the crew at Bluffs for hosting us this week!  Scores are up on the PAPA site, and Mike continues to lead the season.  Luch has taken the handicap lead though, while Adam Hollander has a very slight lead in most improved.  Only two more weeks to go…

Next week we’re at my place in Mississauga-have a great week everyone!

Season 1 2018-scores for week 11

Thanks to Adam for hosting this week!  We had a couple of guests from the Netherlands this week, with Robin and Martign visiting as part of their North American tour following the Texas Pinball Festival.  Not quite the record for the furthest someone has come for a TOPL night (that still belongs, I believe, to Patrick from Sweden), but it was still great to welcome visiting pinheads, and a good location to check out. 

Scores are up in the usual place, and despite “not being a competitive player”, Mike is continuing to lead the season, while Newman is holding on to a slim lead in the Most Improved race. 

We’re back out at Bluffs next Monday-have a great long weekend everyone!