Skill Shot

A slew of new pinball machines have been announced recently!

With Stern being the largest pinball company it can probably be assumed that most people have already heard the news that Foo Fighters is going to be their next release. But there have been other pins announced in the past few weeks: The Godfather (by Jersey Jack), Pulp Fiction (Chicago Gaming), and Galatic Tank Force (American Pinball). Spooky Pinball’s new Scooby Doo machine was announced a while ago but are now just beginning to ship.

Pinball News has all the details on these games and more: https://www.pinballnews.com/site/category/games/

Watch the tournament live on Twitch today and root on this year’s local WA State Champion Lonnie Langford (LWL)

It’s been 3 years since the last IFPA North American Pinball Championship. On Thursday, March 9th the Championship will be held at District 82 Pinball Arcade in DePere WI. The Winners of their State and Provincial Championship will play for the Title of North American Champion. Along with Lonnie the Pacific NW is also represented by Robert Gagno, Colin Urban and Raymond Davidson.
Watch on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foxcitiespinball

March 10th update: Raymond won!

https://www.ifpapinball.com/

From March to May tournaments will be held where contestants can will win various prize packages to this years NW Pinball & Arcade Show.

We haven’t posted the tournament dates on the Skill Shot Calendar yet (soon!) but until we do you can check out the schedule on the NWPAS website: http://nwpas.wapinball.net/satellite.html

The 2023 Northwest Pinball & Arcade Show happens June 2nd – June 4th at the Tacoma Convention Center. Tickets on sale now.

Seattle Pinball Services has created a new Youtube channel to post some of the high lights of their hosted local tournaments.

With the recent posting of the Emerald City Cup finals it has come to our attention that Germain has created a new youtube channel. Saying that the videos are highlights is something of a misnomer since all of the videos are over 5 hours long! Besides the Emerald City Cup the channel also has videos from 2023’s Winter Open, this years State Championships and the first Ice-Burgh Challenge.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/@spspinball

The multi-day tournament weekend for female-identifying and non-binary pinball players is the first of its kind for seattle

Hosted by South Sound Women’s Pinball this event will happen in May. Our calendar listing isn’t up yet but you can go to Facebook if you can’t wait for the details: https://www.facebook.com/events/533759472234718

Eric Morales is hosting a Matchplay tourney on Wed March 8th at the Waterland Arcade in Des Moines.

Sign ups begin at 6:30 and the tournament starts at 7. $5 entry,  IFPA points, a  pot splash and all-ages. It’s uncertain if this will be an on going event. The tournament details can be found on the calendar.

Passable is part of the capitol hill art walk and the opening party usually has a few pinball machines on free-play.

This month’s show at Passable has a mad scientist theme and will be a good time to check out some cool art as well as a reason to play some of the pins on Capitol Hill. The Opening party is March 9th – More details on our calendar

The Time Warp’s new weekly tournament starts early, at 1:30 .

3-strikes, $5 and hosted by Matty PinPin. Across the street from NeuMos on Capitol Hill. They will also feature a pinball-based movie on their big screen. Our Calendar has the details.