Month: March 2014

Pinball March Madness 2014 – Round of 16

Ah, it’s the Sweet Sixteen. We have some fantastic match ups here, including a Star Trek vs. Star Trek showdown. Remember, to enter your votes, you’ll email us at pinballpodcast (at) gmail.com or PM Jeff on Pinside (jar155), KLOV (jar155), or through RGP (Jeff Rivera). Here are the pairings.

  • Theatre of Magic vs. Lord of the Rings
  • Cirqus Voltaire vs. White Water
  • Attack From Mars vs. Scared Stiff
  • Spider-Man (Stern) vs. The Addams Family
  • Monster Bash vs. Tron
  • Indiana Jones (WMS) vs. Tales of the Arabian Nights
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation vs. Star Trek (Stern)
  • Wizard of Oz vs. AC/DC

Pinball March Madness 2014 – Round of 32

The Round of 64 has come to a close and it’s time to enter the second round of voting. Voting will be handled the same way as the last round. You can either email us (pinballpodcast [at] gmail.com), send a PM through forums (jar155 on Pinside and KLOV), or contact Jeff through RGP (Jeff Rivera).

Three of our match ups in the first round came down to a single vote difference with Taxi, Doctor Who, and Revenge From Mars all getting by with no room to spare. Here are the Round of 32 match ups. Voting is now open!

  • Theatre of Magic vs. The Shadow
  • Judge Dredd vs. Lord of the Rings
  • No Good Gofers vs. Cirqus Voltaire
  • Bride of Pinbot vs. White Water
  • Attack From Mars vs. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
  • High Speed 2: The Getaway vs. Scared Stiff
  • Jurassic Park vs. Spider-Man (Stern)
  • Road Show vs. The Addams Family
  • Monster Bash vs. Congo
  • Tron vs. Funhouse
  • Doctor Who vs. Indiana Jones (WMS)
  • Taxi vs. Tales of the Arabian Nights
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation vs. Revenge From Mars
  • The Simpsons Pinball Party vs. Star Trek (Stern)
  • Wizard of Oz vs. Creature From the Black Lagoon
  • Iron Man vs. AC/DC

Pinball March Madness 2014 – Round of 64 Voting

Round 1 voting is now open and we’re taking votes. Below are the match ups for the first round. You can log your votes by emailing us at pinballpodcast [at] gmail.com, sending a private message via Pinside (username jar155), KLOV (username jar155), or through RGP (username Jeff Rivera). You don’t have to have a bracket submitted to vote! Feel free to get friends and family to join in on the voting as well. The more votes we get, the more fun we have. In situations where a game is listed that has multiple varieties (Pro, Premium, LE), base your vote on your favorite version of that game.

Voting this round is open throughout today and tomorrow. The next round will open up on Wednesday. Here are the match ups to vote on:

  • Theatre of Magic vs. Black Rose
  • The Shadow vs. Guns N Roses
  • Judge Dredd vs. Centaur
  • Lord of the Rings vs. Firepower
  • No Good Gofers vs. Elvira and the Party Monsters
  • Cirqus Voltaire vs. Batman Forever
  • Bride of Pinbot vs. Tommy
  • White Water vs. Party Zone
  • Attack From Mars vs. Flash Gordon
  • Bram Stoker’s Draclua vs. Stargate
  • High Speed 2: The Getaway vs. Black Knight
  • Scared Stiff vs. Pinball Magic
  • Jurassic Park vs. Cyclone
  • Spider-Man (Stern) vs. Star Wars (Data East)
  • Road Show vs. Terminator 2
  • The Addams Family vs. Tales From the Crypt
  • Monster Bash vs. Ripley’s Believe it or Not
  • Congo vs. Diner
  • Tron vs. Fathom
  • Funhouse vs. Swords of Fury
  • Cactus Canyon vs. Doctor Who
  • Indiana Jones (WMS) vs. Xenon
  • Fish Tales vs. Taxi
  • Tales of the Arabian Nights vs. Sorcerer
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation vs. Corvette
  • Revenge From Mars vs. Pinbot
  • The Simpsons Pinball Party vs. Haunted House
  • Star Trek (Stern) vs. Safe Cracker
  • Wizard of Oz vs. Batman: The Dark Knight
  • Creature From the Black Lagoon vs. Maverick (true champ)
  • Iron Man vs. High Speed
  • AC/DC vs. Avatar

Good luck to everybody who submitted brackets. Participation is really high this year, so we’re looking forward to see how it all shakes out.

Pinball March Madness 2014

It’s time for Pinball March Madness once more! Last year we gave out some nice prizes for winners in our bracket contest and everybody had a lot of fun with it. Below is the download link for your official 2014 Pinball March Madness bracket. You can edit this using Excel (or OpenOffice which is free), or you can print it from your web browser and fill it out by hand.

CONTEST!

If you want to participate in the contest, you’ll need to either print and fill out your bracket and scan or take a CLEAR photo of it and email it in, or you can edit the file and save a copy of it and send it back. All submissions should be emailed to pinballpodcast [at] gmail.com. You have until Sunday night at 11:59pm PST to get your entries in. Fill your brackets out with your picks to win.

We’ll award the winning bracket with a nice prize, which will be announced later.

VOTING!

Voting will start on next Monday and we’ll start with the round of 64. After voting ends on that round, the next round will begin immediately after. A new round will begin every 3rd day. Votes must be submitted either by email (pinballpodcast [at] gmail.com) or via private message through the Pinside.com or KLOV forums. Send your votes to Jeff (jar155 on Pinside and jar155 on KLOV) and we’ll tally up the totals. Last year we had online polls, but found them to be unreliable, so this should provide more accurate results.

Download link for the bracket: https://thepinballpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/Madness/PinballMarchMadness2014.xls

Good luck, and have fun.

Note: Our 2012 and 2013 winners (Twilight Zone and Medieval Madness) have been excluded from voting. They’re now a part of the winner’s circle, resting from previous battles.

The Pinball Podcast Episode 29 – Technically Problematic: Somewhere Between February Frenzy and April Absurdity

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