Skill Shot

The new movie about how Roger Sharpe saved pinball in 1976 became available this weekend on various sites

Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game stars Mike Faist as Roger Sharpe and is about how he helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball. The movie is now available on Youtube, Prime, and other sites for $6.99

Offical website: https://pinballfilm.com/
IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365876/

Rain City Belles & Chimes are holding their semi-annual clothing swap on March 26th at the Ice Box

This month’s Belles & Chimes tournament features 6 rounds of match play and is also a clothing swap and charity drive for Mary’s Place. Feel free to participate in the clothing swap and drive, even if you do not play in the tournament. More details on the calendar

The first NWPAS Satellite Series: Belltown Brawl is on March 20th at Shorty’s

The first NWPAS Satellite tournament is at Shorty’s and will have a Progressive Strike Knockout format. It will be your first chance to win a pass to this year’s NW Pinball & Arcade Show at the Tacoma Convention Center,  June 2nd – June 4th. The tournament begins at 8pm sharp! Go to our calendar or the NWPAS website for more details: https://www.nwpinballshow.com/

Tickets on sale now!
https://www.nwpinballshow.com/tickets

The Sunday tournament at time Warp has moved to a 2pm start time beginning March 19th

For a list of all the local tournaments happening on Sundays (or any day) visit our events calendar here.

Locals Ashley Weaver and Jasmijn de Jong are competing in this year’s tournament

The IFPA 2023 Women’s World Champion is happening this weekend in Schaumburg, IL and is being live streamed on Twitch. Check it out and give Ashley and Jasmijn a shout out if you see them on the stream! https://www.twitch.tv/hotnudge

You can also follow the action on Matchplay: https://next.matchplay.events/tournaments/97989

https://www.ifpapinball.com/

The Friday night tournament at Bremerton’s Ashley’s Pub is changing to a group match play format BEGINNING March 17th

Still no IFPA Points, but the tournament will now be a 5 game group match play, with the top 4 doing a double elimination final. Sign ups start @ 7, Tourney starts @ 730. $5 buy in, 21+

At Ashley’s an amateur is 4 or below according to the MNP pinball stats page: http://pinballstats.info/search/
Tip: if your name isn’t found here you’re a 1 🙂

Every third Saturday Another Castle Arcade Bremerton begins a monthly pingolf tournament on March 18th

9 holes to qualify for a PAPA style finals. Sign-ups are at 2:30pm with a start time of 3:00 pm. $5.00 – IFPA points.

One last unannounced day of the Kraken will feature a surprise Saturday pinball tournament.

The Kraken is opening their doors one last time on Saturday, March 11th and asked Paul to host one last pinball tournament. The doors will be opening at 5pm and sign ups will begin at 5:30. The tournament starts at 6. It’s a kill the keg/booze kinda situation as the bar tries to selll out the inventory they have left – they may be out (or run out) of your favorite drink, so you might need to get creative.