The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 3: Starting a league for fun!

“It was started in 2011, and it was started in the Vacaville Fairfield area by Damien Charleville and Brad Grant. And basically they were looking for a way to expand pinball in the area.”

“The goal was really to get people of all skill levels and kind of expand pinball, because there wasn't really a lot happening in the Sacramento area for pinball.”

“Starting a league is actually kind of easy in terms of being an IFPA-sanctioned league... you can just type in your search engine, ifpapinball, and that'll come up.”

“Our league is six weeks a season and then we have a playoffs at the end of that. But some leagues are monthlies where there's some game results every month. There's a lot of formats.”

“We try to keep it around four or five hours so I'm excited for that April 23rd in the Folsom area if anybody wants to play around the area all of the tournaments I do are public so they're on the IFPA calendar.”

“If you have 10 modern Stern machines and you live in the Northern California area, please call us because we want to come over and play those.”

“You have to have the mentality to do it and I would say the mentality needs to be calm... you really need to make sure that you are developing something that you want to do.”

“Our focus is bringing new people in, welcoming atmosphere, being inviting. It's very different than some of the San Francisco leagues where it's extremely competitive.”

“An average league night lasts about two hours. So you get fed, you get to meet cool new people, you get to make a new friend, and you get to play pinball.”

“There's not really any restrictions on having to have them in your home... Pinball is fun... it's a little more out of your control because you might not have the keys to expect balls or whatever, but it's better to play than not play.”