[FSPA] MOM’s Fall 2022 Playoff results

[CJ Brown]

Love the colorful write up as always Rob! : )

On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:21 PM Rob Wintler-Cox via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> MOM's playoffs were held Wednesday, and a time was had by all... and for
> some subset of that all, it was a good time. First place in each division
> was awarded the not quite so coveted Extremely Tiny Pinball Machine trophy,
> this season commemorating the classic Bally game Centaur and built by
> Rob. Hopefully Kevin will once again build them next season. ^_^;
>
> A Division
> #1 Alex Jeffrey - 13 pts (hth)
> #2 Joe Kosack - 13 pts
> #3 Rick Elgendy - 10 pts
> #4 Adam Ruben - 4 pts
> What did we learn from A Division finals? Pick Game of Thrones at your
> peril. Joe picked it in the first round and took a zero with under 10
> million points; when Rick picked it for the final round, he took a 1 and
> Joe got 4 points with 1.3bills. Joe followed that up with a loss on Iron
> Maiden to Alex, but then got tired of losing and sank 4 pointers for the
> rest of the night. Adam started with a strong 2nd place on GoT and then got
> punched and his lunch money stolen on Avengers: Infinity Quest twice. Rick
> made some strong head-to-head inroads but stumbled when Joe destroyed
> Centaur. Rick did give Alex his only loss of the night on Supersonic, and
> going into the final round it was almost a three-way tie... but Alex had a
> strong final ball shooting 12x shots like the El Jefe that he is, and when
> the dust settled he and Joe were tied and that IM game clinched it.
>
> B Division
> #1 Eric Steinberg - 17 pts
> #2 Steve Jonke - 12 pts
> #3 Rob Wintler-Cox - 6 pts
> #4 Audrey Bonsignore - 5 pts
> And speaking of lunch money getting stolen...  Eric and Steve spent the
> night running roughshod over Rob and Audrey. Eric started the winning with
> 4 points on Centaur and couldn't stop, only taking 2nd after it no longer
> mattered. Steve had a rough start on Centaur, then won all of his other
> games except the h-t-h against Eric. Rob finally figured out how to play
> pinball for one game against Audrey on Game of Thrones, and promptly forgot
> everything he had learned after that. Going into the final round on Attack
> from Mars Eric was assured of victory, but Steve still had something to
> prove and totally annihilated everyone else.
>
> C Division
> #1 Roy DeJarnette - 11 pts
> #2 Zach Jones - 10 pts (hth)
> #3 Jami Dennis - 10 pts
> #4 Rob Thomas - 9 pts
> As they say in darts, nice grouping. This was a very competitive division,
> with everybody getting at least one 4 point game. Then the curse of the
> game pick struck: Roy won the first round on Avengers, Rob won his next
> game on Supersonic, and then after that everybody lost on the games they
> picked. After trading blows for the entire night, it was literally
> anybody's game on the final game of AFM, but Roy ruled Mars with an iron
> fist, scoring more than all the other players combined.
>
> Congratulations to the finalists and thanks to all for playing the Fall
> season!
>
> But that's not all... Spring season is nigh! The current plan is for Week
> 0 to be the Wednesday after MLK Day. And the plan is to start 2023 with a
> shocking twist! So be there! Aloha.
>
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