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Date: February 25th & 26th, 2012 Report by Vicente Zaragozá and Carlos Kursh It's 7pm on Friday 24th February, 2012 and we are at the headquarters of the Asociación de Coleccionistas de Pinballs y Máquinas Recreativas (Arcade Machines and Pinball Collectors' Association). With an area of approximately 300m², there are around 100 pinball machines and arcade video games of various ages and styles inside. For the second consecutive year this is the location where the WPPR-ranked 5th Torneo de Pinballs Ciudad de Silla is going to be held this weekend.
After dinner, there was plenty of time for people to play and listen to music. Eventually though, it was time to close the building until the start of the first tournament day. At 9am on Saturday 25th February, we delivered the T-shirts, badges and score sheets to the venue, starting the main tournament one hour later.
At 2pm we stopped to enjoy a meal of Paella, ham, cuttlefish, beer, coke, whiskey ice cream...etc.
For the qualification round we played eight machines manufactured in or before the year 1990 (pre-1990), and eight made after 1990 (post-1990). The 1990 or earlier machines were: Lortium, Faeton, Dragoon (single- player), Radical!, Evil Fight, America 1492, Petaco 2 and Cyclone. The post-1990 machines were: The Party Zone, Frank Thomas' Big Hurt, Congo, World Cup Soccer, Jack•bot, No Good Gofers, Revenge from Mars and Gilligan's Island. The notable scores during qualification were:
There was coverage in the local press and on TV with Canalnou (Channel 9) filming a report for the TV news.
About 10am on Sunday 27th we started the pre-1990 and post-1990 play-offs using the following machines: Pre-1990: Diner, The Bally Game Show, Attack, 7-Up. Post-1990: Monster Bash, The Simpsons Pinball Party, Scared Stiff, Tales of the Arabian Nights. The best scores were:
The pre-1990 finalists were Euroflip, JDJulio, Rayo and Haz, while the post-1990 finalists were JDJulio, Handbilin, Euroflip and Handbilin Jr. On Sunday morning, at the same time as the play-offs, we ran three mini-tournaments. The winners of these were:
At around 2:30pm the finals of the 5th Torneo de Pinballs Ciudad de Silla began.
The pre-1990 final was played on Black Knight 2000.
The post-1990 final was played on The Addams Family.
The winners of the two finals were:
We look forward to welcoming you next year to the 6th Torneo de Pinballs Ciudad de Silla.
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