Month: August 2024

Join Our Team!

The Space City Open and Women’s Interstellar Showdown pinball tournaments are organized by the Space City Pinball League of Houston, TX. The tournaments are designed to be fun for players of all ages and skill levels. This year the tournaments will take place on Friday, October 11 to Sunday, October 13. Without our volunteers and sponsors, we couldn’t put on these amazing sold-out tournaments! Organizing events like this have many expenses such as conference room rental, internet, and repair parts to name a few. We would like to recognize Jim Mueller for once again donating $300 to purchase flipper rebuild kits!

Please consider one or more of the following sponsorship opportunities to join us in this amazing collaboration. If you’d prefer to donate prizes or other giveaways we are always grateful for that support too! If interested please email spacecitypinball@gmail.com.

Sponsorship Opportunities Include:

1. Naming Next.MatchPlay Qualifying Sessions: $30 each. We will also announce the sponsorship over the microphone. (Sold Out)

  • EARLY session (Friday): “SCO 2024 EARLY GROUP sponsored by The James Hernandez Law Firm”
  • LATE session (Friday): “SCO 2024 LATE GROUP sponsored by The James Hernandez Law Firm”
  • EARLY session (Saturday):  “SCO 2024 EARLY GROUP sponsored by Bee2Bee Honey Collective”
  • LATE session (Saturday): “SCO 2024 LATE GROUP sponsored by Craig Hughes”
  • Women’s Interstellar Showdown Qualifying: “Interstellar Showdown sponsored by Pinball Rebel”

2. Naming Space City Open Finals: $200 (Sold)

  • The Matchplay session will be named: “SCO 2024 FINALS sponsored by Wormhole Pinball”
  • The finals will be streamed by Wormhole Pinball who will also include your logo and mention your sponsorship on the stream.

3. Finals Streaming by Wormhole Pinball

  • Logo featured on Space City Open Finals Stream (Saturday) $150 – Total of 4 spots
    • The James Hernandez Law Firm
    • Einstein’s Pub and Einstein’s Pub and Arcade and Joshua Mitchell
    • Jim Mueller
    • Craig Hughes
  • Logo featured on Women’s Interstellar Showdown Finals Stream (Sunday) $50 and Women’s Matchplay Finals named: “Interstellar Showdown sponsored by Top Rope Pinball” (Sold)

For tournament information, visit https://www.houstonarcadeexpo.com/

We appreciate your support!

Tournament Team

PhysXXX Returns as a Series

EinStein’s PhysXXX Syllabus – Fall Semester 2024
Q1: August 27-October 1
Q2: October 15-November 19

Instructor: Space City Pinball League 

Course Curriculum: The PhysXXX curriculum includes interactions of matter and energy, velocity, accelerations, force, and momentum. Space Cadets will test their skills to manipulate physical matter using electricity and mechanical engineering constructs.

Course Instructions: SCPL Cadets will assembly in small study groups of 3-4. Each group will attempt to outperform their group peers in a test of skill on one of the specialized electromechanical PhysXXX simulators available. 

SCPL Cadets will perform 3 rounds of 2 games each class session.
The series will be 6 weeks long with a minimum attendance of 4 weeks. 
Cadets desiring to audit for less than 4 weeks are welcome to attend.

SCPL Cadets best 4 overall weekly class session scores will be aggregated to determine final class rank. (No finals)

Material’s List: $1 for IFPA fees & coin-Dropbox

Prerequisite: age 21+, familiarity with concepts such as “fun” and “a good time”

Electronic Devices: Students should be able to access http://Next.Matchplay.events/ on a personal electronic device.

SCPL Cadet Handbook: http://www.spacecitypinball.com/

WOW 2024!

Join Space City Pinball for a tournament every night leading up to the Houston Arcade Expo! We challenge you to “Order the Combo” by attending Friday-Thursday (7 tournaments) to earn a special prize. Visit the SCPL calendar or IFPA calendar for details.