A truly epic battle between Cayle George and Daniele Celestino Acciari of Italy on Jackbot with play by play commentary by Bowen Kerins.  This video is best viewed full-screen at 720 or 1080p.  Thanks to Chase Nunes for the link.

On a related note, Daniele dominated at the IFPA World Championships to secure his second IFPA World Champion title and you’re likely to see a shakeup of the leader board as result!

Wizard of Oz made an appearance at E3 and Chase Nunes got the story from Jersey Jack.  Check it out!

Charlie Schmied has placed a pinball on location in Hell!

(aka, “Hades”, “the fiery pit”, “the pit of eternal damnation”, and “San Leandro”)

It’s in terrible condition, but Charlie has a devil-may-care attitude toward maintenance…

Is this thing on?

ACDC cover band Colonel Angus and Pinball Bay Area have teamed up for a night of music and pinball.  Free entry.  Novice Pinball tournament.  $5 entry + Quarters for games.  All $5 entries paid out to winners.  Raffle prizes for all entrants and plaques to winners.  Also enjoy playing the six pinballs, including Medieval Madness, Elvira Scared Stiff, Twilight Zone, Getaway, Theater of Magic and ACDC.

Format: Play one game of ACDC and one game of Getaway.  Your combined rank across the two games will determine if you play in the Finals.

Finals will be top 8 overall on ACDC.

Who is a Novice? A novice cannot have a World Pinball Player Ranking of 500 or better, and cannot have won a previous tournament at Vitus.

I won this at a small hole-in-the-wall arcade called Gametown USA, which was located on College Ave in Oakland.  They had around 10 vids and 4 or 5 pinball games.  I chickened out and didn’t play in the Finals.

See more.

Thunderstruck on June 6, with ACDC cover band Colonel Angus, will be the final Wednesday tournament.  After that we’re switching to Tuesdays, starting June 19.   As always, entry is $5, all money paid back to winners. Entry for this event is “novice only” meaning you must have a WPPR rank lower than 500 and not have won a previous Vitus tournament.

Check out ANM in a semi-final tie-breaker match with fellow Californian Jim Belsito and 13-year old wunderkind Josh Henderson

You will cringe.  Trust me.

It’s official: Zoe has been banned!  Sorry, that’s just how it is.  All may enter, but as the Danish guy learned, none may leave.

Congrats to Zoe for earning her Masters Degree at UC Berkeley, and good luck as she embarks on her next big step.  Portland giveth, and Portland taketh away. (Denmark, too, damn healthcare coverage for everybody…)

1 Hal : $36.00

2 Josh Warren : $27.00