First off I'd like to say a huge thanks to Glen and his Wife Kim for opening up their home to us for an amazing and fun night of Pinball.

Also would like to say thanks to everyone who made the long drive to make it down to Glen's it ended up being a really fun night and I hope everyone enjoyed it and made it home safe.

I have to say I was very disappointed with the turnout from the local membership as Glen and I were the only representation for Toronto, in our home town no less!  But represent well we did!

Now on to the results...

Qualifying was played on 5 machines, Johnny Mnemonic(sp?), Twilight Zone, Getaway, Medieval Madness and Monster Bash.  At the end of qualifying we had a tie between Rat and Sparky, to determine who would end up being top qualifier we had a 1 ball playoff on TOTAN in which Sparky bested Rat and was named Top Qualifier of the tournament.



After protesting the entire night about not wanting to play because she would receive the toilet if she did Mary Ellen had a stunning performance throughout the single elimination coming in second place overall besting Twilight Zone, and Rat.

Sparky and Vengeance happened to meet during the single elimination as well and in the end Sparky bested Vengeance to move on to face Necro, could this be a sign of thing to come later during the Montreal vs Toronto grudge match??!!

In the end Glen beat out Brigitte, Sparky and Medvet using his home team advantage and being crowned winner of the Montreal/Ottawa Toronto Invasion!



Glen enjoyed the spoils of victory!



These are the scores from the single elimination:





Then came time for the Grudge match, Toronto vs Montreal, Sparky vs Vengeance.  Would their earlier match up ring true again and would Sparky be crowned champ or would Vengeance be able to overcome the earlier loss and defeat Sparky?!?!

Well as they say a picture is worth 1000 words  





Yes in a sound 3 straight Adam was able to best Sparky on Twilight Zone, Shadow and Monster Bash.  A valiant effort on Sparky's behalf but it was not meant to be.  

In the end the Ottawa/Montreal team was left to soak and heal the wounds suffered from the evening's results



I hope everyone had a good time and I look forward to the next meeting, I plan to make the trip assuming my schedule permits it if the next meeting ends up being in Ottawa or Montreal.  

Until then thanks everyone for coming and again thanks to Glen and Kim for opening up their home for us, here are some other random pictures from the night.

Man, I just have to get out there one of these days!! Looks like Great Fun, Congrats to the Winner and every one who showed!!

Keep up the Good work!!

Dave

Quoted from pins only

Man, I just have to get out there one of these days!!

Good idea, you could stop and pick me up along the way too.

Honestly, I consider it a fluke that I did so well, considering that other than TZ and Getaway, I had either never played, or merely played a couple of games on these pins. But... with a little practice, I think a few of us Mtl-Ottawa peeps could give the TOPL a helluva run for it's money!!!

and BTW... they didn't have any pantaloons in the jacuzzi...

at some point something smelled funny, but noone knows what it was   ... we dont know where RAT right hand was (not that we cared)




and Sparky "F the catapult. I'm going for the castle!"  

I'd love to see that happen, I thought PAPA would have been a great location for a 5 v 5 side tourney of some kind as I know for sure 5 TOPL people are going, it's just too bad that Montreal/Ottawa isn't having as strong a showing.  

Quoted from Sparky

Honestly, I consider it a fluke that I did so well, considering that other than TZ and Getaway, I had either never played, or merely played a couple of games on these pins. But... with a little practice, I think a few of us Mtl-Ottawa peeps could give the TOPL a helluva run for it's money!!!

Quoted from Splitskull

and BTW... they didn't have any pantaloons in the jacuzzi...

at some point something smelled funny, but noone knows what it was   ... we dont know where RAT right hand was (not that we cared)




and Sparky "F the catapult. I'm going for the castle!"  

Yeah... what I found out later was that the jacuzzi had been off the whole time and Duane was constantly pulling Richard's finger... so THAT's where the bubbles cames from...

Hey.... don't knock my MM strategy... I ended up with 8 times both you and Richard's scores!!! Screw it... just aim the center. Never mind all that other garbage... just shoot between the trolls!!!

Quoted from Sparky

just shoot between the trolls!!!

Actually you want to ricochet off the trolls into the Merlin or the ball lock . Troll bombs are essential to finishing the game.