Comp was at the Coast Hotel in Budgewoi - a great venue, recently renovated and heaps of room, heaps of machines on free play and a great fun time had all and always nice to meet some fellow pin heads.
Comp entry - $6 (included comp entry, lunch, 3 vouchers at the bar for beer, wine or soft drink).
1st prize was a AC/DC cd boxset
2nd prize was Series 7 Family Guy dvd set
Comp machine was the Rolling Stones LE - set on 3 ball with the lane post savers and centre post between the flippers turned off.
Another 5 games supplied and set on free play - Dr Who, Family Guy, Austin Powers, Ripley's Believe it or not, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Round 1 - paired up with another competitor for 2 games - with both games for each player tallied together, with the last place person of all the players eliminated.
Round 2 - paired up with another competitor for 1 game - with the winner between the two proceeding to the next round
Round 3 - remaining players played against each other with the highest and second highest winning.
7 guys turned up (which it was hoped for more) but sure more people will turn up for the next two (some special news - read on maybe even some interstate guys may not want to miss this one). 2 guys were locals, 4 guys from AA and myself representing AP. The 2 guys Steve from Mark (dedrok from AA) and Mark (Budgewoi local) were awesome players right from the start and were pegged to be in the finals very early in the piece. Some how I scrapped through the first round and had a flukey game against Daniel (figgi77 from AA who had a few outstanding games in the first round) in the second round allowing me to proceed into the third round. Then in round three Steve got 33 mil, Mark got 27 mil and I got 18 million.
Now for the news - this will be a repeated event roughly once a month (4-6 weeks) but to aid in getting improved numbers will also be a
NEW pinball launch event
/ comp using the launch machine in the comp. The comp will be placed in the same location - Coast Hotel, Budgewoi, and kids / wives are welcome as the the event is in a kid friendly area.
Therefore in about a months time comp
No:2 will have the AC/DC Premium as the launch machine within a week of arriving in Aus.
Even better news is that in about 2 months time
comp N0:3 will have the WOZ LE as the lauch machine within a week of arriving in Aus. This is big as doubt many of these will go into the wild and will be a rare occasion to test on as we had about a hour before the comp having some games on the comp machine. Even better is that this WOZ LE will then be sited in Newcastle
.
So I encourage you to watch this thread and join us for some exciting comps, meet some people and then GAME on (for fun).
I missed getting photos of the winners so will borrow images off figgi77 once he has posted on AA.
