Story
dated 12 May, 2003
And
so to the finals.
With
all three finals running simultaneously on different machines, it
wasn't possible to keep track of all the scores on all the games.
The veterans' competition was completed first on the Creature From
The Black Lagoon with Sampo Simonen from Finland coming out the winner.
The
women's final finished next with a win for Claudine Leonhardt on the
Cirqus Voltaire.
The
Dutch Masters continued into the last ball for each player on the
Whitewater. Kevin Martin looked comfortably ahead with 253M but was
beaten by 271M from Michel van den Elzen. Taco Wouters had a bad run
of the ball ending with 34M, about the same score Albert Nomden started
with on his last ball.
Little
did we suspect, but he had been building his game to get to just this
point. He started 5x playfield and then went straight into multiball.
He immediately scored three 90M jackpots as the balls were kicked
out onto the upper playfield and by the time the display had stopped
showing the jackpot animations and the scores reappeared, Albert had
won and applause broke out.
After a short break, the
prizes were awarded for all the competitions and the raffle prizes
drawn.
The results
in full:
Veterans'
results
|
Position
|
Player
|
Qualifying
Points
|
|
1
|
Sampo
Simonen
|
64
|
|
2
|
John
Leerentveld
|
49
|
|
3
|
Luc
Lemmens
|
57
|
|
4
|
Jeff
Josefosky
|
53
|
|
5
|
Jos
Dijkhuizen
|
48
|
|
6
|
Hans
Balk
|
46
|
|
7
|
Henk
Brakels
|
41
|
|
8
|
Guus
Arens
|
38
|
|
9
|
Daniel
Crompvoets
|
33
|
|
10
|
Wil
Angenent
|
33
|
|
11
|
Bert
Staal
|
32
|
|
12
|
Arie
Pijl
|
28
|
|
13
|
Bob
Beerda
|
27
|
|
14
|
Roland
Mayer
|
26
|
|
15
|
Joe
Crompvoets
|
25
|
Women's
results
|
Position
|
Player
|
Qualifying
Points
|
|
1
|
Claudine
Leonhardt
|
22
|
|
2
|
Wendy
Hoogervorst
|
25
|
|
3
|
Chantal
Crutz
|
36
|
|
4
|
Helena
Walter
|
23
|
|
5=
|
Penny
Broman
|
28
|
|
5=
|
Mila
Grootm
|
27
|
|
7=
|
Christina
Staines
|
28
|
|
7=
|
Matty
Mitford
|
23
|
|
9
|
Monique
Fisher
|
21
|
|
10
|
Simone
Boersma
|
20
|
|
11=
|
Annemarie
Piloo
|
18
|
|
11=
|
Lida
de Haan
|
18
|
|
13
|
Claudia
Bosch
|
17
|
|
14=
|
Conny
Hoffman
|
16
|
|
14=
|
Agnes
Altena
|
16
|
|
14=
|
Aeoni
Poelwijk
|
16
|
|
17
|
Astrid
Jansen
|
14
|
|
18=
|
Marijke
Kool
|
13
|
|
18=
|
Patricia
Pardoel
|
13
|
|
18=
|
Mieke
Kleman
|
13
|
|
21=
|
Tanja
Gaustad
|
12
|
|
21=
|
Joyce
Leers
|
12
|
|
21=
|
Amy
Ryan
|
12
|
|
24
|
Nicola
Klutky
|
11
|
|
25
|
Ina
van der Bunt
|
10
|
|
26=
|
Yolande
van der Klaauw
|
9
|
|
26=
|
Alexandra
Stek
|
9
|
|
28=
|
Hetty
Bijsterveld
|
7
|
|
28=
|
Henny
Potiek
|
7
|
|
28=
|
Anita
Uitregt
|
7
|
|
31
|
Corry
Potiek
|
5
|
|
32
|
Annette
Baan
|
4
|
Masters'
results
|
Position
|
Player
|
|
1
|
Albert
Nomden
|
|
2
|
Michel
van den Elzen
|
|
3
|
Kevin
Martin
|
|
4
|
Taco
Wouters
|
|
5=
|
Roy
Wils & Helen Verbeek
|
|
7=
|
Joska
Keunekamp &
Pierre Riessen
|
|
9
|
Derokt
Anders
|
|
10
|
Detlef
Ralph
|
|
11
|
Jochen
Ludwig
|
|
12=
|
Martin
Ayub, Pieter Berends,
Dirk Klaver & El Guapo
|
|
16=
|
Chris
Newson, Matthijs Hoetjes, Paul Jongma & Jeroen van Baast
|
|
20=
|
Martijn
van Aken,
Stefan Hoppe, Roger Jurrissen,
Andreas Harre & Roland Nitsche
|
|
25=
|
Antoine
van Wijk,
Hans Bijsterveld, Richard Baan,
Wilbert ber Kinderen &
Roger Wijnands
|
|
30=
|
Frank
Wolters, Ciske Vreuls,
Paul van der Helm,
Roger Jonsson & Norbert Broman
|
|
35=
|
Martijn
van Amsterdam,
Marnix van Maarle,
Edwin van de Berg,
Eko Elens, Michael Trepp &
Adriaan van Roeden
|
|
41=
|
Adi
Barp, Peter van Vliet,
Niklaus Gysi, Joep Mertens,
Alex Duin & Alexandru Cobzas
|
|
47=
|
Gerard
Ypelaar, Gerard Poelwijk,
Rémy Jurrissen &
Trent Augenstein
|
|
51
|
Barry
de Wit, Max Joré,
Joris Dekker & Edwin Nijs
|
|
55=
|
Michel
van de Sar,
Bram Lemmens, Gregor Bremer
& Damoy Beals
|
Players
who didn't qualify for Sunday's rounds
|
Position
|
Players
|
Points
|
|
59=
|
Roberto
Bos,
Andre van der Niet,
Mike Parkins,
Laurens de Jong,
Karl Broström &
Claudine Leonhardt
|
20
|
|
65=
|
Robert
Pultrum,
Stefan Andersson,
Robert Sutter,
Lida de Haan,
Bojan Peric &
Jelle Vriens
|
19
|
|
71=
|
Max
Lemmens,
Penny Broman,
Jeff Josefosky,
Jos Dijkhuizen &
Mark van der Gugten
|
18
|
|
76=
|
Luc
Lemmens &
Menno van Zaanen
|
17
|
|
78=
|
Erwin
Berends,
Rudy Gilgen,
David Houwers &
Turgut Hefti
|
16
|
|
82
|
Ralph
Beckers
|
15
|
|
83=
|
Albert
Medaillon,
Frank van Woesik,
Chris Augustinus,
Bob Beerda,
Andy de Ruiter,
Roland Mayer,
David Bueno &
Jean-Paul de Win
|
14
|
|
91=
|
Richard
Wade,
Jim Jansen &
Vincent Slaat
|
13
|
|
91=
|
Michael
Pusch,
Robin van Mourik,
Bas Vis,
Rens Swarte &
Richard van der Craats
|
12
|
|
99=
|
Jordy
Sassen,
Justin Beishuizen,
Fons van Elderen,
Henk Brakels,
Henk Fauser,
Jonathan Joosten & Jasmijn de Jong
|
11
|
|
106=
|
Egbert
van Vulpen,
Norbert Poland,
Martijn van Mourik,
Martin van den Berg,
Jeroen Peeren,
Marcel Roozendaal,
Quint van Kessel &
Neven Maricic
|
9
|
|
114=
|
Conny
Hofman,
Mark Rotman,
Joost de Vries,
Wim-Henk Koelewijn & Ben Zaad
|
7
|
|
119=
|
Ramon
Ulken &
Tom Thobe
|
6
|
|
121
|
Anne
Hortensius
|
5
|
|
122=
|
Mark
van Duinen,
Mila Groot,
Annemarie Piloo & Alexandra Stek
|
4
|
|
126=
|
Nicole
Klutky,
Enrico Douwens,
Carlo Vijn,
Ina van de Bunt,
Tanje Gaustad &
Hagen Krentz
|
2
|
If you weren't interested
in the competition then play continued in the recreational hall all
day. By Sunday most of the faulty machines had been fixed and as it
was also Mother's Day in The Netherlands there were fewer people and
vacant games were easily found.
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Another improvement
this year was the number of parts suppliers. Both days saw at
least six different stalls with a good variety of parts, spares,
novelties, manuals, books and posters.
As you can see opposite,
it wasn't just fuses, bulbs and spinner decals on offer but
some major hardware and complete assemblies together with bulk
lots of targets and switches.
Personally I thought
that some of the prices were rather high for what are still
fairly common parts. I baulked at paying 7 Euros just for a
clear bumper cap. There were some reasonable deals around too
but generally I'd rather buy my disposables elsewhere.
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In conclusion,
this year's show was an improvement over last year's in most areas.
The competition largely kept to the schedule and finished on time.
Problems were kept to a minimum and the new competition format for
the Masters works well. Back in the recreational room, lighting was
much improved and there was a better selection of spares.
Panoramic
picture from Alexandru Cobzas
The suggestions
for improvements are now mainly selfish and concern communication.
It's great that so many of the announcements are in English that you
really miss them when they are not. Between competition rounds it
wasn't always announced in English when the next round would start
and the games in the recreational hall where access was controlled
by the NFV staff wasn't explained. Selfish complaints I grant you
but then everything else went well.
So congratulations
to the show's organisers for another great event and let's look forward
to the 2004 show.
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