And It's Rainbow-Colored
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, JLW) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:Ball 1: NYC competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates courtesy of...
Highlights
- Brooklyn Pin Pride 2025 will be held on Sunday, June 15th at Scrapple Land with 80 players, making it the largest queer pinball tournament ever held
- The NYC Match Play Pinball League is being renamed to Scrapple League
- As of May 9th, 2025, there are 298 pinball machines in New York City at 79 public locations
- Dante Oliva won the first season of the NYC Match Play Pinball League at Scrapple Land on May 7th
- Ian Leone won Quit Talking and Start Chalking Royale 2 with 16.49 whoppers on May 3rd
- Brooklyn Pin Pride has now happened four consecutive years in June during pride month
- Pinberg Satellite tournament on May 18th has 40 players registered out of 60 capacity, with $1,000 to the winner if sold out
- SSPL finals will take place on Thursday, May 15th at Buttermilk at 8 o'clock
- Valentine's Day gay pinball tournament (previous year) had 56 players, the previous highest for Brooklyn Pin Pride events
- Brooklyn Pin Pride will donate $350 to the Ali Forney Center from registrations and will have Translates for Trans Rights Silent Auction benefiting Transgender Law Center
Notable quotes
“We officially like it. It's ball two.”
“If there's black smoke coming out of it, you keep playing. And then it's only when purple smoke starts coming out that you've won. You're the fucking Pope.”
“All of the lower right playoff action is happening within a quarter mile of each other in Williamsburg. It's right. The Kellogg Diner is at the apex of all of it.”
“I hope to show up.”
“That is to say that all of the action in Pinball NYC's upper division playoffs are happening within a pitching wedge of each other.”
Entities
- Brooklyn Pin Pride· event
- Scrapple League· event
- South Slope Pinball League· event
- Ali Forney Center· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Transgender Law Center· organization
- Alberto Santana· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Dante Oliva· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Ian Leone· person
- Jess Morin· person
- Jonah Shlaes· person
- Jose Garcia· person
- Kate Martin· person
- Matthew Carlson· person
- Michael Reisler· person
- Rob Wong· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Rulo's· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
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