Winner's Circle Roundup

Wow, what a weekend at the Texas Pinball Festival! A huge shoutout to Richard, Howard, and Gerald from Visionality – you guys are the real MVPs for keeping our AV and Twitch streams running smoothly. The replays will be up on our YouTube channels soon, and we’ll be sure to cross-post to Marco’s channel too. And a massive thank you to PlayerOne Amusements for sponsoring our stream!

The seminars were a huge hit! The lead coordinator, Imoto and assistant, Pam did a incredible job for the pinball communiy. Imoto, Craig, and Roper crushed it again with the Stern/Fun/Marco booth, and Aaron from FASTpinball, thanks for bringing those awesome homebrew games to the floor. The booths were looking incredible this year, with some seriously cool lighting and theming from the Game Preserve to JJP – the competition for most creative booth is heating up!

The swap meet was a frenzy! We are already planning to move it to a 7 am start next year to accommodate everyone. Thanks to Russell and Shawn for the early wake-up call, the donuts, the coffee, and for helping Ken Head score another amazing find!
The food trucks were a great alternative to hotel food stations, and the new picnic area were a big hit! It was great to see everyone enjoying the food trucks and soaking up the pinball atmosphere.

The big shout out for the awards! Over $3K in well-deserved machine awards given out, and $7K in collector incentives. A huge thank you to our incredible judging team – Keith Holbrook, Scott Martin, Bill Morrison, Rich Wiski, and Michael Lube – for their tireless efforts and dedication. You guys are the best!
Thanks to so many people that helped keep the machines running and setup running smooth. We appreciate the backdoor check in with a key team of folks Greig Riddle and his team, plus the tech support team lead by Kevin Moore & Jessica Richardson from Pinball-ERS, had less than 2% of the machines were down at any given time. Pat Danis, Mike Menchu, David and Loretta Corbin, Billy Burgess, Frank Haley, Sandra Hegeman, and Rob Anthony from Lock When Lit also deserve huge thanks for keeping the games running smoothly.