WOW! What a week! Space City Pinball hosted 12 tournaments in 8 days with 265 unique players from Texas and beyond! We played pinball under the stars, sampled a menu of jello shots, and took to the stage for karaoke. Congratulations our champions:
Space City Open – Nick Mueller
Women’s Interstellar Showdown – Hope Love
Junior Space Cadet Best Game – Brandon Chapman
Go/NoGo Launch Readiness – Jonathon Morales
WOW Matchplay at EinStein’s Pub – Nick Mueller
10 on Wen Won’t Win at EinStein’s Richmond – Kevin Sturhan
3 Strike Tuesday at The Game Preserve North – Jonathan Henson
3 Strike Tuesday at The Game Preserve NASA – Erich Stinson
3X & Whiskey at Poison Girl – Mario Garza
EinStein’s Drainiacs 4X – Wesley Johnson
Star Wars Fall of the Empire Best Game – Wesley Johnson
WOW Kickoff at Eureka Heights – Jonathan Henson
It takes a premier team to pull off such a fun week, and we’d like to thank all those who contributed to our success. This year our members provided 18 games for the tournament room and 24 games for the Space City booth. We had 15 tournament directors, 4 techs, and 30 booth volunteers sharing the love of competitive pinball in Houston. This community rocks!
A huge thank you also goes out to Carpool Pinball for streaming and our amazing sponsors for the support and prizes: PinHouse, Marco, Titan, Pinball Life, Trust Guss Accident Attorney, Hot Dog Shop, Ellington Law, EinSteins Pub, Jim Muller, Joshua Mitchell and Matt Quantz.
2023 Arcade Expo
The Space City Pinball League is proud to host two amazing tournaments during the Houston Arcade Expo. We had over 150 players participate! A huge congratulations to our champions in the open and women’s tournament!
Space City Open: 1st Wesley Johnson, 2nd Preston Moncla, 3rd Mark Meserve, 4th Garrett Shahan
Well, another legendary Week of WPPRS culminating with the Space City Open and Women’s Interstellar Showdown is officially on the books! It can’t be understated how much a team effort it is putting together a week of tournaments like this. It’s so awesome to see our community come together, help each other out, and put on a kick ass show! PREMIERE!
Congrats to our Winners:
Space City Open
1. Colin MacAlpine 2. Jim Mueller 3. Tim Sexton 4. Mark Meserve
Belle’s Interstellar Showdown
1. Tracy Abrahams
2. Lee Ann Scardina
3. Elizabeth Dronet
4. Emily Hoffman
Thanks to everyone who donated games to the tournament and SCPL booth, those who helped fix and repair games, and to everyone who stuck around to help set up and tear down the games, tournament room and booth. Thanks to Wormhole Pinball and Jamie Burchell for providing excellent streaming coverage of the finals! Thanks to Jim Mueller for donating flipper rebuild kits! Thanks to Quasar’s Arcade for the $500 prize pool donation! Thanks to Kalieda Fest Wear and 8 Bit Arcade for the fantastic women’s prizes! And lastly, thanks to Keith Christensen and the Arcade Expo for trusting us to run the tournaments. Can’t wait for next year! – The Space City Pinball Team
2021 Arcade Expo
Space City Open Pinball Tournament
Wow, what a weekend!
Thanks to all the competitors for being so excellent all weekend. Being a tournament director isn’t easy, but having such a great group makes all the difference in the world. Thank you again to all the folks who brought games for the tournament room and Space City booth, as well as those who stepped up to assist with set up, tear down, and technical work. Tournaments like this are a community effort, and we are forever thankful. Thanks to Quasars Arcade and Pin Shades for donating money, shirts, and a set of PinShades to the B-division prize pool, and to the Back Box Pinball Podcast and Kalieda Festival Wear for donating prizes to the women’s tournament.
Congratulations to the winners!
Space City Open
A-division — 1. Colin MacAlpine 2. Robert Byers 3. Jim Mueller and 4. Lee
B-Division — 1. Jeff Mleynek 2. Tim Hood 3. Eric Heskett and 4. Stephen Thaxton
A Division Winners. Photo courtesy of pinballnews.com
Women’s Interstellar Showdown
1. Kelli Raisler 2. Maritza Chirichingno 3. Lisa Shore 4. Alana Johnson
Women’s Interstellar Showdown Winners
2019 Arcade Expo
Space City Open Pinball Tournament
Congratulations to Colin MacAlpine for taking the top prize at the Space City Open! Colin was on absolute fire all weekend, and finished strong for the win. Also congrats to Steve Bowden, Preston Moncla, and Zach Palmer for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, respectively. Be sure to check out the finals, which is archived on the space city pinball youtube channel.
Huge thanks to my assistant TD’s, Marc Gammons, Elizabeth Dronet, David Pollock, and Matt Quantz. Also huge thanks to the game donors who provided just an amazing collection of well playing machines. This was the biggest tournament in Houston Arcade Expo history, with 123 players total! – Phil Grimaldi, Tournament Director
B Division Finalists: Dennis Moncla, Chad Lower, Tom George, Tim Tennison
Wow! What an amazing event. Participation in our inaugural women’s tournament exceeded expectations with 45 women battling it out. We would like to thank all the Space City League members who contributed games for our mega-booth as well as Titan Pinball who loaned us a game so we could include more players. Titan, Eight Bit Dreams and Speedy’s also contributed prizes. We would especially like to thank Jennings Orthodontics for sponsoring the event. Congratulations to our champions!
Interplanetary Champions 1st Ashley Ludwig, 2nd Miette Dronet, 3rd Kelli Raisler, 4th Elizabeth Dronet
-Elizabeth Dronet and Raleigh Palis, Tournament Directors
The Space City Open was truly a community effort. Thank you to everyone who brought games and those who lended their technical expertise to keep the games running. You can’t have a tournament without games, and you all stepped up and provided. Finally, big thanks to Keith Christensen, Erich Stinson and the rest of the Houston Arcade & Pinball Expo crew for your infrastructural support throughout the weekend!
1st Preston Moncla 2nd Phil Grimaldi 3rd Allen Robertson
B Division 1st Jack Revnew 2nd Eric Fisher 3rd Chris Doyle 4th Frankie Griffin
Women’s Champions 1st Jessica Shepherd 2nd Lisa Shore 3rd Miette D. 4th Kelly Moncla
BEST OF SHOW WINNERS unrestored Aracde: Bear Hunt rifle game, John Costa restored Aracde: Tron, Karl Kuhlenschmidt original pinball: Star Trek, Marc Ordat custom pinball: Attack from Mars, Tim Maleck Show overall: Tron display, Karl Kuhlenschmidt [/column] [column] Console Winners Xbox 360 Winner: Josh Richards Runner Up: Dillon Schindler Sega: Winner: Shelley Nunnelle Runner Up: Michael Martinez NES/Mario Bros. Winner: Al Tag Runner up: Andrew Hassell Atari 2600 Winner: Michael Wicks Runner up: Magtt Buchholz
Chris Newsom’s pinball wins: Modern pinball 80’s solid state pinball EM Pinball Wizard tourney (POTC) Show Champion Other pinball winners: Christine Fisher Ladies Night Flippers pinball Chris Newsom / Pete Christian Draw a Partner Tim Maleck / Eric Fisher Future Wizard Kevin Plavich
Arcade Winners Modern Arcade Marco Castillo Aracde Classic Matt Buchholz EM Aracde Chris Newsom Kids Arcade Chris Luera Arcade doubles Chris Newsom / Pete Christian Partners Arcade Callan Hendricks / Marco Castillo Pitch & Bat Chris Newsom Show Champion Matt Buchholz Wizard Arcade Dwight Weaver (Star Castle)
2005 Expo 6/17 & 6/18
PINBALL Jon Christian Won with a score of 174,706,380 Marc Davis had a score of 132,821,100
2004 Expo 6/4 & 6/5/04
Accepting for Jon Christian is his brother Pete!, Jon won with 10,827,585,900 on Attack From Mars!Dwayne Richard hits 2,337,494 on star wars set at hard, Congrats!
2003 Expo 4/5/03
Jon Christian Won the Pinball TourneyMatt Buchholz Won the Video Tourney
2002 Expo 5/25/02
Paul Grego
Tournament Results! TRON (in playing order) Amos Fitzgerald – 19,618 – 25,062 Paul Gregory (winner) – 20,333 – 35,891 Brett Huber – 22,976 – 18,972 Karl Kuhlenschmidt – 32,797 – 32,161 Callan Hendrix – 30,187 – 22,381 Craig Hassell – 18,889 – 27,318 Robert Williams – 15,099 – 21,509
Revenge From Mars (in playing order) Darryl Pierre – 2,995,710 – 6,812,040 Paul Gregory (winner) – 26,166,070 – 167,904,210 Cindy Arceneaux – 10,009,780 – 16,467.760 James Corley – 17,081,240 – 20,498,430 Brett Huber – 21,988,970 – 25,180,680 Craig Hassell – 32,991,120 – 8,795,970 Brett Huber – 19,336,290 – 24,999,000 Robb Dethloff – 10,393,298 – 137,479,380 David Ashlock – 143,232,232 – 128,000,000 Tom English – 37,130,090 Dave Miller – 20,119,060 – 32,243,140 Wild Bill – 77,193,840 – 131,092,170 Bernd & Yoli – ??? – ???
