Valentine's Gay 2025

Name: Valentine's Gay 2025
Start: 2025-02-16T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-16T21:30:00-05:00
Location: Barcade - Brooklyn

Schedule

Sun Feb 16 2025 at 12:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Barcade - Brooklyn | New York, NY

Let's celebrate love of all kinds with a matchplay tournament for LGBTQIA+ pinball players and allies! We're excited to return to Barcade Brooklyn after raising more than $3,900 at PinPride and more than $18,000 to date!
Preregistration for up to 52 players will open at noon on Saturday, February 1 at https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/171940 with $10 entry fee to Jess (venmo @zeta6742 or paypal jessicaleewarren at hotmail, last four digits 1371). Open to all skill levels and new players welcome but all participants and spectators must be 21+.
Check in starting at 12 p.m., tournament starts at 1 p.m. Seven rounds of match play in 3- or 4-player groups, with 7/5/3/1 scoring and balanced pairings. Top 8 make PAPA-style finals. Plunge all extra balls. Semifinals and finals will be three games with 4/2/1/0 scoring where top seed has choice of game or player order; top 2 from each semifinal group advance to finals. IFPA sanctioned.
Payouts based on 56 players:
• 1st place: $70 + trophy
• 2nd place: $50 + trophy
• 3rd place: $30 + medal
• 4th place: $20 + medal
• 5th-8th place: $15
• $236 donated to Ali Forney Center (https://www.aliforneycenter.org/, additional donations welcome with your registration or at the event via cash, venmo, or paypal)
Tournament will also feature:
• Door prizes!
• Translites for Trans Rights silent auction to benefit Transgender Law Center (https://transgenderlawcenter.org/)
Tentative game list:
Bad Girls
Baywatch
Cactus Canyon Remake
Dialed In! (one day only!)
Eight Ball Deluxe
Embryon (just for the event!)
Godzilla Premium
Iron Maiden Pro
John Wick Premium
Johnny Mnemonic
Paragon
Star Trek TNG
Theatre of Magic
Total Nuclear Annihilation
Twilight Zone
White Water