Pinball leagues starting soon
Two leagues in Austin starting this week:
Tuesday Jam at Pinballz Arcade on Tuesday the 5th, 8 PM
Bat City Spring League at Buffalo Billiards on Sunday the 3rd, 4PM
Both leagues cost $5 to enter, paid back to winners.
Tuesday Jam league is 3 weeks of regular play and 1 week of finals. Bat City League is 8 weeks of regular play and 1 week of finals.
Pinballz Arcade is on 183 near burnet rd. Buffalo Billiards is on 6th/brazos downtown
There are players of all skill levels, lets grow the ATX pinball scene!!
See https://www.facebook.com/groups/BatCityPinball/ for more local pinball events.
Posted Apr 1, 2016, 6:04 PM UTC · edited
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Some clarifications from the last thread:
In the Tuesday Jam league at Pinballz Arcade, we usually play 5 machines. For the first week, the machines are picked by players new to the league or the lowest ranked players according to ifpa. The following two weeks, picks are made by the lowest seeded players (lowest league points). In this league you compete vs every player for 'league points', for each player's score you beat, on each machine, you gain 1 point. Here's an example of scoring for this league: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g5NABCaWZSzQ3lt-URYG7Y1GdLMAtVeVRxbTic7XqlE
In the Bat City league at Buffalo Billiards, there is significantly less machines (10). I cant remember how the first week picks work, but the following weeks picks are determined by the players who win each group. Players move up and down these groups depending on how well they did within that group (players compete vs their group, not everyone). See FSPA Players Guide for more indepth info. Here's an example of scoring for this league: http://batcity.league.papa.org/meetResults/6/7
Finals:
Tuesday Jam with 16 players: Weeks 1-3 are qualification for finals. At the end of week 3, the top 8 players per the bracket have a shot at the A division. We will also be having B division finals for the remaining players which will also take place on week 4 at the same time as A division. Top three players in each division receive cash prizes. Everyone is eligible to win a division as long as you're present for finals!
Bat City: Division determination is finalized at the end of the third-to-last meet each season, which allows for two meets of direct competition for playoff qualification before the season ends. Ladder rankings for each player are averaged across all meets, excluding the rankings of the first two and last two meets of the regular season. (For example, given a regular season of 10 meets, divisions will be based on the results from meets 3 through 8 inclusive.) At the end of the third-to-last meet, all league players are listed in descending order of average ladder ranking, and this listing is divided into divisions as specified above. From 8.1 Playoff Divisions
Grouping:
For the Tuesday Jam league, teams are assigned by ifpa rank the first week and by seed the following weeks, mixing players of all skill levels. Here's an example for clarification. If there were 16 players, and they are ranked 1-16, 1 being the best, 16 being the worst.
For the Bat City league, "At the start of the season, players will be assigned into groups of 3 or 4 people, based on historical or estimated ability." Here's an example:
Who do I talk to at Pinballz to join?