[FSPA] Happy 30th Birthday, FSPA!
Stephen Jonke
sjonke at gmail.com
Sat May 31 22:41:45 EDT 2025
Justin Bath joined later, but I don’t remember when exactly. But he’s told
the story of me running into him at Beltway Plaza Mall many times. I think
it was TZ he was playing there? He remembers the details better than
me. lol.
Steve
On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM Sergio Johnson via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:
> Wow. It doesn't seem like that long ago that we started but there it is.
> Early days of the internet, usenet was king if you were into that sort of
> thing. Some of the folks local to the area on rec.games.pinball would talk
> about the local pinball scene and what we thought of the arcades and
> condition of the games. Sometimes casual meetups would happen. Summer of
> '94 I saw that Dave Stewart was coming down to teach at U of M. I knew that
> he had been instrumental in getting the Pittsburgh leagues going and
> thought Howie's would be a great place to start a local league. I emailed
> him to see if he had interest and of course he was. I pulled in Steve Jonke
> whom I also knew from RGP and it started from there. Here's the original
> post copied from rec.games.pinball (archive) that called for folks
> interested in starting the league. (Yeah this was officially Dusty's
> account that I used lol.) As I recall, this post netted Keith "Keefer"
> Johnson and that was it. Not a particularly auspicious start, but you only
> need 4 players, right? I recall Justin being an early player as well soon
> after the four of us started getting together, but I don't see him listed
> in the first published league stats there, so I may be mistaken on that;
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.pinball/c/2j8UoEDH_mA/m/wsreEGvqmTUJ
>
> DC/MD/VA League forming
>
> Dusty Hull
>
> Oct 30, 1994, 9:58:45 PM
>
> Dave Stewart, Steve Jonke and I are trying to get a league going in the
> MD/DC/VA area. If interested either e-mail or we'll be at Howie's on
> Tuesday the 1st around 7:30. (I'll be the one with the Fireball t-shirt
> beating up on the new Maverick they just got in). Hope to hear from
> you/see you there...
> Sergio
>
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> Baltimore, MD's internet access * No wagering.
>
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> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM Joe Schober via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
>
>> As May comes to a close, and Summer leagues are starting, I just wanted
>> to take a moment to say...
>>
>> *🎂 HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, FSPA! 🎂*
>>
>> The first official FSPA season played week #1 exactly 30 years ago today,
>> on May 30, 1995. (There was some FSPA play prior to that, but I guess it
>> wasn't worthy of being considered an "official" season while the format was
>> developed -- I dunno, that was before my time here!) I'm guessing few
>> people then would've bet that the FSPA would still be flipping 30 years
>> later, never mind imagining the growth and popularity of leagues,
>> tournaments, locations, manufacturers, and games that we all enjoy today.
>>
>> Hope everyone has a great Summer season!
>>
>> --Joe
>>
>>
>> From: Keith Johnson <keefer at sma.com>
>> Subject: FSPA: results: 05/30/95
>> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> OK, here we go, just in time for week 2. ;)
>>
>> Player and machine results are lifetime. Overall standings, obviously,
>> are for the current season, now 1 week long.
>>
>> keith
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>>
>> FSPA UPDATE -- STATS AS OF PLAY DATE 05/30/95
>> *********************************************
>>
>>
>> RESULTS
>> *******
>>
>>
>> Flintstones Group Player Score Grp Scr Overall
>> =========== ----- ------- -------------- ------- -------
>> 1 Keith 667,493,000 4 9
>> Jay 416,405,000 2 6
>> Chris 149,983,000 0 0
>> 2 Sergio 680,039,000 3 10
>> Lee V 600,480,000 2 8
>> Steve K 419,500,000 1 7
>> 3 Steve J 1,483,879,000 4 12
>> Jessica 295,962,000 2 3
>> Bernie 269,877,000 0 2
>> 4 George 1,149,295,000 4 11
>> Adlai 386,371,000 2 5
>> Brad 369,537,000 1 4
>> Dave 230,979,000 1 1
>>
>> Maverick Group Player Score Grp Scr Overall
>> ======== ----- ------- -------------- ------- -------
>> 1 Keith 721,577,000 3 6
>> Jay 562,920,000 2 2
>> Chris 274,428,000 1 0
>> 2 Steve K 980,811,000 3 10
>> Sergio 972,828,000 2 9
>> Lee V 654,764,000 1 4
>> 3 Steve J 1,490,516,000 4 12
>> Bernie 891,882,000 2 8
>> Jessica 453,561,000 0 1
>> 4 Adlai 1,441,623,000 3 11
>> George 822,101,000 2 7
>> Dave 674,098,000 2 5
>> Brad 567,940,000 1 3
>>
>> Stargate Group Player Score Grp Scr Overall
>> ======== ----- ------- -------------- ------- -------
>> 1 Keith 3,337,410,000 4 12
>> Chris 232,038,000 2 4
>> Jay 201,956,000 0 2
>> 2 Sergio 495,843,000 4 9
>> Lee V 182,254,000 2 1
>> Steve K 114,730,000 0 0
>> 3 Steve J 907,947,000 4 11
>> Jessica 456,246,000 2 8
>> Bernie 349,851,000 0 7
>> 4 George 734,381,000 4 10
>> Dave 344,767,000 2 6
>> Brad 302,764,000 1 5
>> Adlai 217,888,000 1 3
>>
>> STTNG Group Player Score Grp Scr Overall
>> ===== ----- ------- -------------- ------- -------
>> 1 Keith 3,018,237,000 4 12
>> Chris 398,211,000 2 7
>> Jay 373,985,000 0 6
>> 2 Sergio 517,906,000 4 9
>> Steve K 263,824,000 2 3
>> Lee V 185,304,000 0 0
>> 3 Jessica 354,386,000 3 5
>> Bernie 209,429,000 2 2
>> Steve J 199,117,000 1 1
>> 4 George 1,050,587,000 3 11
>> Dave 755,139,000 2 10
>> Adlai 512,348,000 2 8
>> Brad 310,893,000 1 4
>>
>>
>> Player Group Overall Normal
>> ------- ----- ------- -------
>> Keith 15 39 0.81250
>> George 13 39 0.81250
>> Sergio 13 37 0.77083
>> Steve J 13 36 0.75000
>> Adlai 8 27 0.56250
>> Dave 7 22 0.45833
>> Jessica 7 17 0.35417
>> Steve K 6 20 0.41667
>> Lee V 5 13 0.27083
>> Chris 5 11 0.22917
>> Bernie 4 19 0.39583
>> Jay 4 16 0.33333
>> Brad 4 16 0.33333
>>
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