" Steven Bowden wins the Brooklyn Pinball Championship and Francesco La Rocca is the Brooklyn Champion ! "
The tournament was great and all loved it and nobody went home with empty hands!
I had a great turn out with 32 players (split randomly in 8 groups of 4 players) (13 new players!!!) plus 2 late entry for total of 34. Free pizza! At the Satellite Lounge in Williamsburg we had 8 machines (24 - South Park - Monster Bash - Batman The Dark Knight - Indiana Jones 4 - High Speed II - Big Buck Hunter - Playboy from Bally) all well taken care of by Al Cihak! We started at 2:45. We had coverage from TV, newspapers, magazines and internet. Steven Bowden came out triumphant with Koi Morris 2nd, Frank Romero 3rd and Peace Nick Mann 4th. I finished 5th and was the highest Brooklyn resident! We played 7 games in the first round with pts given 5/3/2/1 and the winner of each group went into Group A; second place winners went to B and the other 16 players went to C (there were 2 tie break games in 2 groups for 2nd place so 1 extra game, chosen at random, was played). B Group played 2 more games; each player added their points from both games where coming in first on a game out of the 8 scores earned 10 pts; coming in 2nd out of the 8 scores earned 7 pts; and so on down to 1 pt for 8th place. Winner of B group was Joe Said! C group was played in the same style but 20 pts for first place, 15 for 2nd and so on to 1 point for 16th place (2 tie break games were played to decide 2nd/3rd place and 5th/6th place). Winner of C group was Simon Olenick! The 8 qualified for A were split randomly in 2 groups and played 3 machines with same scoring as the first round: 5/3/2/1. The 2 winners and the second of each group went to final round (each player picking one machine plus 1 chosen at random) while the other 4 played 2 extra games and I came out the winner. Thank you all for making this happen. See you November 28 2010 !
> This is final score :
Final Results:
> 1) Steven Bowden (Somerset NJ)-Trophy and cash prize -currently 23rd ranked on WPPR
> 2) Koi Morris (Plainsboro NJ) -Trophy and cash prize -138th
> 3) Frank Romero (Rockland County NY) -Trophy and cash prize -814th
> 4) Peace NickMann (Carbondale PA)-Trophy and cash prize - 972nd
> 5) La Rocca Francesco (Brooklyn NY)- 5th place medal group A -Brooklyn Champ-1465th
> 6) Steve Marsh (Manhattan NY)-6th place medal group A-507th
> 7) Will Crakes (Brooklyn NY)-7th place medal group A- 1st time in tourney
> 8) Andy Kutruff (Brooklyn NY)-8th place medal group A-3884th
> 9) Joe Said ( Brooklyn NY) -Trophy and cash prize for winner B group -1st time in tourney
> 10) Sean Garcia (Brooklyn NY) -Trophy for 2nd place B group - 1474th
> 11) Chris Bucci (Manhattan NY) - Trophy for 3rd place B group - 1484th
> 12) Moses Gates (Brooklyn NY) - Trophy for 4th place B group - 2799th
> 13 ) Jeff Grays (Carbondale PA) - 5th place medal group B -1st time in tourney
> 14 ) Bil Saunders ( Brooklyn NY) - 6th place medal group B -1st time in tourney
> 15) Sam Thompson (Brooklyn NY) - 7th place medal group B -1242nd
> 16) Howard Levine ( Upstate NY) -8th place medal group B -924th
> 17) Simon Olenick ( Manhattan NY ) - Trophy for winner group C -2215th
> 18) Jonathan Ehrlich ( Manhattan NY ) - Trophy for 2nd place group C -1066th
> 19) Harris Pankin ( Brooklyn NY ) - 3rd place medal for C group - 7745th
> 20) Steve Mlinarz ( Upstate NY ) - 4th place medal for C group - 7092nd
> 21) Eddie Cramer (Brooklyn NY) - partecipant medal C group -1st time in tourney
> 22) Penni Epstein ( Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group -Brooklyn woman champ- 1368th
> 23) Kenneth Chino (Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group - 1st time in tourney
> 24) Drew Anderson (Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group -1318th
> 25) Robert Sovatsky (Manhattan NY)- partecipant medal C group - 834th
> 26) Charlie Bucks (Allentown PA ) - partecipant medal C group- 445th
> 27) Keith Staskiewicz ( Manhattan NY) -partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 28) Amy Gerstein (Manhattan NY) -partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 29) David Sanchez (Brooklyn NY)-partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 30) Rock Nitro (Brooklyn NY) -partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 31) Chris Barry (Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 32) Travis Batty (Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group-3054th
> 33) Jeff Zorrilla (Brooklyn NY)- partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
> 34) Carlen Altman (Manhattan NY) -partecipant medal C group-1st time in tourney
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