FLIP-OUT '92
GRAND TOURNEY RESULTS
1ST PLACE-MIKE GIMBEL
2ND PLACE-ANDY LEIBOWITZ
3RD PLACE-JIM McDONNELL
4TH PLACE-ERIN McDONNELL
TRIATHLON (BOWLING, SHOOTING, BASEBALL COMBINED)
1ST PLACE-TANYA PLOTKIN
2ND PLACE-LARRY LEIPOW
3RD PLACE-SANDAHL PARRISH
CLOSEST TO THE SCORE "1992"
1ST PLACE-JON CORNELL
2ND PLACE-MONTE KAPLAN
3RD PALCE-PATTY SMITH
SINGLE FLIPPER DOUBLES
1ST PLACE-MIKE & SHERRY GIMBEL
2ND PLACE-LARRY & LANIE LEIPOW
3RD PLACE-JIM McDONNELL & CAROLYN PARRISH
HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
1ST PLACE-PEGGY LANDMAN
2ND PLACE-ALYSON LEFF
3RD PLACE-STEVE LEFF
YOU JUST GET ONE BALL
1ST PLACE-KEN KEENAN
2ND PLACE-LARRY LEIPOW
3RD PLACE-DEBBIE CARULLO
BOWLING TOURNAMENT
1ST PLACE-JIM SMITH
A REVIEW BY JIM McDONNELL
LOCAL TOURNAMENT HAS "HOME" FEEL
by Jim McDonnell
A pinball history making event occurred on February 15,1992 in
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. This was the first tournament organized by Doug
Landman and his wife Peggy who invited fifty plus guests ranging from infants to adults.
Everyone there ate, drank and played pinball from early afternoon till
late evening.
Doug, who has created the newly compiled Pinball Literature
Reference Guide and is known for making homemade backglasses for machines
missing them, invented many events in which pinball players of various
abilities could play and compete.
Some of the events included: Closest score to 1992, High score,
Low score with one ball, Partners playing flippers, a triathalon type
event where a player competes on a SHOOTING GALLERY, a PITCH AND BAT, and
a SHUFFLE BOWLER then combines all the scores. Games in the competitions
ranged from electromechanicals such as BANK-A-BALL, DERBY DAY, TOUCHDOWN,
and CAPTAIN FANTASTIC to the newer electronic games such as CATACOMB,
BLACK KNIGHT and SEA WITCH. There was even a United PLAYTIME bingo.
I brought and set up in the living room, a Japanese pachinko machine
called ARRANGE A BALL which was modified to operate on and pay out with
quarters. To play this machine the player inserts a quarter which releases
some ball bearings. These are shot into numbered slots that light up
corresponding numbers on a bingo-type card. Lining up four in a row
horizontally or vertically pays out coins with a maximum payout of sixteen
coins per play. This machine received much play by the children at the party
who seemed fascinated at the possibility of winning money. Unfortunately, my
lecture on the evils of gambling went unheeded.
Doug and Peggy's oldest son was frantically putting quarters in
this machine. At one point I thought I might make him an offer on his
baseball card collection to help him feed his gambling habit. When I
suggested this to my wife, she smacked me in the head.
My oldest daughter, Erin age 7, who had been playing pinball since
she could stand on a milk crate, got the high score on DERBY DAY which
qualified her to enter a competition with myself and other adults. However
we were outplayed in an elimination round. My daughter's excuse, as well
as mine, was we are better at the electromechanicals than the "neat" stuff.
The only contest I won hands down, wasn't pinball related. One
of the others guests informed me that I broke the record for eating more
Swedish meatballs than anyone else in a six hour period.
One of the highlights of the day was the trophy awards ceremony.
Surprisingly the majority of the prizes went to non-pinball playing people.
The event was a lot of fun and hopefully will lay the groundwork for a
repeat performance next year or maybe sooner-The Summer Games!
Reprint Courtesy of the PinGame Journal (Issue Number 10, Page 34)
