[FSPA] Buying tickets for Pinburgh - Urgent

[Stephanie Traub]

Yeah.  That was me 2 years ago. LOOK AT ME NOW!!

If we want to complain about anything about pinburgh, we should be
complaining about the new division restrictions.

 If I'm Justin Bath, who is restricted to A based on my top 100 ranking, I
can just show up, and if I play shitty the first day,  I still
automatically will eventually "finish" in rank number over someone ilike
nice ol' Stephanie Traub (who is only restricted to D with her 600's
ranking) even if Stephanie had a better first day (unless i play amazing
and get into A on my own, which will now be harder because the top 100 will
get into A just by showing up, taking up a ton of spots in that division).
THAT is some BS.  I realize it's to prevent sandbagging, but I'm not going
to Pinburgh for the money, i'm going for the glory, dammit.



On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 1:05 PM Joe Schober via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

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>
> > On Feb 24, 2019, at 11:36 AM, Dave Hubbard via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > 4) I don't think "player newness" is a consideration for Pinburgh at
> all.  This is a premier, destination tournament.  Anyone considering travel
> to Pittsburgh or paying $130 to compete is already leaps and bounds ahead
> of a new player used to $5 local weeklies or a $20 weekend tournament.
>
> I disagree. We see increasing numbers of people who stumble into
> competitive pinball through one of those $5 weeklies, or through a league
> like FSPA, and get totally hooked. Then they hear at league night that
> there’s this amazing Pinburgh tournament coming up, it’s an entire league
> season compressed into a weekend, so much fun, you gotta try it! So this
> excited player is sitting there at 11:59:59 with the rest of us, finger
> poised on Refresh. This is exactly the sort of player that I hope gets a
> Pinburgh ticket so they get further drawn into the community... that’s how
> the next generation of players is established.
>
> --Joe
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