Some new players have taken the helm of ToPL.
Chris CF – President. ToPL Member since 2013.
Chris CMB – Scorekeeper. ToPL Member since 2009. Chris is also a host.
Mike – Treasurer. ToPL Member since 2013. Mike is also a host.
Welcome to the next season of the Toronto Pinball League! Week 1 will be at Jim’s place on Monday June 2nd.
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Via QEW/403
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Exit the 403 at Brant Street North. Follow Brant Street for 10.8Km. Note that Brant Street becomes Cedar Springs Road once you are north of Hwy #5. Look for the intersection of Brittania Road. Note that Brittania Road east and west do not meet Cedar Springs at exactly the same point.
Take a left onto Brittania Road.
Follow Brittania Road for 1.3km until it ends at Milburough Line. Turn right.
Follow Milburough Line in a northerly direction for 0.7km when it turns left and becomes Eighth Concession Road E. Proceed westerly for 1.5km where Greenspring Road intersects from the right. Turn right.
Follow Greenspring Road in a northerly direction for 1km. It turns left and becomes Progreston Road. Proceed westerly for 0.2km to the stop sign. Turn right on to Progreston Road.
Follow Progreston Road in a northerly direction for 0.3km to where Ida Red appears as your first left.
Turn left.
Follow Ida Red Road 0.2km until it ends at Vanstraalen Street. Go straight ahead to my driveway.
General
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Doors open at 6:00pm. League play begins at 8:00pm SHARP. If you are going to be a bit late, call the host (number above) or Chris’ cell (416) 575-2694.
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The playoffs for the season are complete, and John (JRF) came out ahead. Andrew, Zeus and Myles rounded out the top four.
Thanks again to Nick for hosting us for the day, and to everyone who helped make this tournament a success.
Longtime ToPL member Adam Becker finished 12th in the world at the 11th Annual IFPA World Championships held in Denver Colorado the weekend on May 24, 2014.
Adam was the highest placing Canadian. This performance raises his world ranking to 27th on the IFPA World Pinball Ranking charts.
Congratulations, Adam!
Our next season will be starting Monday June 2, 2014.
Thanks as always to Adam’s wonderful wife Denise for keeping everyone well fed throughout the entire night.
Well, thus ends another season of the Toronto Pinball League. Pretty much everything was already decided last week, but in case you missed it, Adam has won both the High Score race and Season.
Here are the scores…
Playoffs will be taking place at NA’s. Doors open at 12:00 PM, Playoffs start at 12:30 PM Sharp.
TOPL finished first out of 24 pinball leagues including the no affiliation after the ten rounds of Pinburgh. With a record of 529-431 and a percentage of 0.551 just ahead of Dutch pinball and John being the best of TOPL
Well done to everyone!
Congratulations to John JRF for winning B Division at PAPA 16!
Here is a run down of TOPL action at PAPA 16 from Adam:
Randy, part time TOPL member also made the trip and tried his luck in the B division, but unfortunately didn’t make the cut. Jason, another part time TOPL player from Ottawa was also able to qualify in the B division but after fighting tough, in the quarter finals, went out in the semis.
The C Division saw the most participation from TOPL with, Les, Mike, Barry, Eddie, Simon, Stephane and David Smith all participating in the C Division. Eddie and Barry both qualified early in the Division, with Mike and Les squeaking in at the last second. A hard fought effort from Stephane, Simon and Dave who didn’t make the cut but still gave it their best.
Barry unfortunately ended up going out in the first round, Eddie falling in the second after winning a tie breaker in the quarter, Mike and Les making a valiant effort in the finals. Les made a costly mistake on Avatar of playing out of turn in the final but will still able to secure 2nd place with Mike following behind at 3rd.
In the A division Adam and Maurice gave it their best competing against the best players in the world, but neither were able to qualify.
In classics John was also able to impressively qualify in all 3 Classic tournaments taking top 8 in 2 and top 16 in the third.
We only had one member playing in the Seniors division and coming one position short Barry gave it his best shot, but time was not on his side as he had to spend some more time qualifying in C.
Congratulations to everyone who participated, winning or not, at this year’s PAPA, you did TOPL proud and I look forward to seeing you continue to represent the league is other competitive events.
Dan adds:
Handful of other topl people were also at PAPA in the C division … Stephane (25th), Simon (107th), Hillary and James (tied for 136 ..awww) and myself (80th) just for a fuller full results (although I might have also missed other entrants)