Sean Grant wins Brooklyn Pinball Championship!

Play started at 1:30 pm and finished after 11 pm in a PAPA style (100 pts for first place,90,85, 84 etc) qualification with the top 16 advancing (Sean Grant finished 1st thank to 4 high scores followed by Nick McCarthy and Steven Bowden).

Then in the next round 4 groups of 4 played and the top 2 from each group made up the A Group for the subsequent (semi-final) round. The other 8 players made up the B Group and these players along with the players that didn’t qualify played 2 games in their next round. The top 4 players from the A Group went on to the Final Round to determine the tournament winner.

Machines used included: 24 -Simpson the Pinball Party – Monster Bash-Batman The Dark Knight-Indiana Jones 4-The Sopranos-Big Buck Hunter.

Sean Grant “The Storm” won the tournament over Jonathan Ehrlich(the Pinferno organizer), Harris Pankin and Chris Bucci all of these players reside in Manhattan. Nick McCarthy took 5th place and the title of New Brooklyn Champion , then Micheal Field from NJ took 6th place, Koi Morris(who helped run the tourney ) 7th, and Francesco La Rocca (Organizer ) took 8th place giving up his title of Brooklyn Champion.

Joe Said won the B group over Frank Romero and Mike Pantino beat Peace Nick Mann in a tie breaker game for the victory in the C group. Penni Epstein winning 15th place kept her title as Brooklyn Woman Champion.

Next Brooklyn Pinball Championship will be play Saturday February 5 2011 single elimination format (or double) since will follow the Monthly Master of the NPL on same day and location.