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Robert Harris and Paul McKinney, the Organizers of the 2024 Texas Pinball Festival - Episode 19
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Send us Fan Mail Episode 19 – Robert Harris and Paul McKinney, the Organizers of the 2024 Texas Pinball Festival, sat down virtually with Jamie just two weeks before the start of TPF. Robert and...
Highlights
- TPF 2024 will feature more games than ever before while remaining less crowded due to improved spacing and lobby utilization
- Last year (2023) TPF had 420+ machines arrive, with 80% arriving by Thursday night during a 12-hour shift
- Wizard Tournament sells out in 10-12 minutes; Classics Tournament sells out after about 1.5 months
- Last year's main crowding complaint was hour-long wait times for popular games like Pulp Fiction, Scooby-Doo, and Galactic Tank Force
- American Pinball will make a 'big announcement' at TPF 2024
- Elton John pinball machine is a charity game benefiting the National Video Game Museum
- This is the first year Robert Harris and Paul McKinney are serving as official co-organizers after Kim and Ed retired
- The Wizard/Classics tournament format has been in place for 8-10 years
Notable quotes
“I get real excited the minute I walk into the show on Wednesday afternoon. I mean, it's just like an adrenaline rush and it kind of goes through the whole show.”
“It takes us a day, day and a half to move everything in. It takes us about five, six hours to move everything out, except for those last couple of things.”
“last year we had 420 or so machines come through and 80% of them arrived on Thursday is by far the fullest show we had by Thursday night. And we got it all in about a 12 hour shift.”
“I shouldn't have to wait an hour to play Pulp Fiction or Scooby-Doo or Galactic Tank Force”
“Every shift will get you a $15 credit towards whatever you want. It can be money to spend at the food trucks, or it could be towards merchandise like a shirt or a challenge coin.”
“we have several of those that are kind of still set up at that that minimum but you know eight eight feet's pretty pretty good for getting by two people playing on a game but there's there's several aisles that I tried to get set up you know like near barrels of fun where it's you know I'm expecting a crowd there so you know we've got like 10 feet on one side 12 feet on the other”
“the wizards turn up being the one that pays out the most 160 players get to play in that and uh it sells out in like about 10 to 12 minutes every year”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP)· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) 2024· event
- National Video Game Museum· organization
- Wormhole Pinball· organization
- Blake Dumsnall· person
- Bubba Flint· person
- Jamie Burchill· person
- Kim Vanderveen· person
- Pam Heffern· person
- Paul McKinney· person
- Robert Harris· person
- Elton John (pinball machine)· product
- Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center, Frisco· venue
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