The Biggest Flippin Loser Pinball Tournament is back for 2018!
This year the format of the tournament will be the popular Critical Hit style group knockout, where players earn spell cards that can be used during the tournament to effect the tournament in various ways.

As always, The Biggest Flippin Loser is designed to provide you an incentive to shed those extra holiday pounds as the new year begins. This year, losing weight will earn you additional spell cards for use in the tournament.

We are still fine tuning the mechanics, but we currently plan on to distribute spell cards as follows:

-Each player will receive one spell card upon checking in
-Each player will receive one additional spell card for each three pounds lost by that player (up to five additional cards)
-Each player who has not lost three pounds will receive one additional spell card if they are at a "Normal" body mass index range (as established by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Guidelines).
-The player who loses the most weight will be guaranteed to receive a Globe of Invulnerability card as one of their cards. This card will not be capable of being stolen with an Invert card. (other randomly acquired Globe of Invulnerability cards will still be subject to Invert)
-Additional spell cards may be gained during the tournament by accomplishing certain in-game achievements during the tournament

Tournament Entry Fee is $20 payable on the day of the tournament.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR STARTING WEIGHT: Beginning January 1, 2018 you can submit your starting weight (which will be kept private) by e-mailing a photo of yourself on a scale displaying your weight. You may choose to send this to either Kyle Smith (krs10025@gmail.com) or Anne Bush (a.m.bush99@gmail.com). Please include "The Biggest Flippin’ Loser" in the Subject line of your email. Anne and I will keep separate lists of participant weights, so if a female who doesn’t want her weight to be known by a male or vice versa, fear not - it won’t be. We will also be bringing a scale to certain local tournaments and INDISC, so you can weigh in then should you choose. Your final weight will be taken when you show up to the tournament to determine how much weight you've lost, how many spell cards you've earned.

PHOTO WEIGH IN GUIDELINES:
• Please remove your shoes for the weigh in.
• Please wear the same clothes or a similar type of clothes that you plan to wear to the tournament. If you wear jeans and a heavy sweater for the weigh in photo but show up in shorts and a tank top for the tournament, the tournament director may add weight to your tournament day weigh in result to maintain fairness.
• Your photo should include your face so that we can verify that it is actually you on the scale. You may need to send multiple pictures so that we can see both you and the weight on the scale clearly. An example of good weigh in pictures are pinned in the Event post below. The example pics are selfie style, but feel free to have someone take your picture if you prefer.

LOSE WEIGHT FOR CHARITY: I will be donating $1 for every pound lost by each tournament participant to the Pinball Outreach Project, a 501(c)(3) charity that brings the joy of pinball to children’s hospitals along the West Coast.