Thad's Pinball Wizard Challenge benefiting the Madison Co Animal Shelter

The 4th Thad's Pinball Wizard Challenge: a Tournament to benefit the Madison County Animal Shelter

📅Sunday Sept 7

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Thad Seeberger was a lifelong gamer and expert technician who became friends with our owner Paul Yates over discussing complex game fixes, PCBs (printed circuit boards), and vector monitors. He was a true Pinball Wizard! Thad ran a pinball and video game route in VA and MD, co-founded Alltek Systems' product line of pinball PCBs over 20 years ago, and provided help to anyone and everyone who had a game they needed help with to fix. When he passed suddenly in 2021, we at Decades wanted to keep his legacy alive through a tournament that honored his dedication to the industry & spread his cheerful passion for gaming.

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Everywhere Thad went, he brought his beloved dog Luna, a deaf black & white border collie. Our beneficiary is the Madison County Animal Shelter, to assist them in their mission of reuniting lost pets with their owners and finding adoptive homes for stray dogs and cats in the Madison County community where Thad lived.

In addition to raising $, we will also be collecting cat and dog food, litter, towels, and blankets to donate to the Madison County Animal Shelter, so bring in what you can! Here is their wishlist: https://a.co/6ciGTRW

This year Alltek Systems has generously offered to MATCH all donations up to $1000! If you haven’t participated before, this is the year.

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🟣 $25 Entry Fee, $15 of which goes directly to the Madison County Animal Shelter (the remaining $10 covers tournament costs)
🟣 First 45 attendees receive a T-shirt! Pre-register to reserve yours
🟣 12:30-2pm Practice time during Decades Arcade public hours, 2pm is deadline to sign-up, 2:15-2:30pm Announcements, 2:30pm sharp Tournament begins
🟣 Match Play Fair Strike Qualifying - 7 strikes & you're out until we are down to 8 players (assuming we have 24+ players). Assigned groups of 3 or 4 players each. Winner gets 0 strikes; middle places get 1 strike; last place gets 2 strikes. Top 8 will do an Amazing Race Finals on pre-1999 games. Finalists will solo-play 7 different games in a cascade/race fashion where the player with the lowest score on each is eliminated until we crown a winner! IFPA-sanctioned event. Standard IFPA rules & procedures apply. Games with chimes are 5-ball & games with speakers are 3-ball. You can play 1 extra ball on games 1990 & older. On single-player games, Tilt ends game.
🟣 Raffles between rounds!

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🥇 FIRST PLACE
- PCB Trophy handmade by Dan Purdy
- Alltek Ultimate MPU Board ($200 value) https://allteksystems.com/products/ultimate-mpu-universal-bally-stern-replacement-board or $100 CASH
- $48 to Decades Arcade
- $25 to Random Row Brewing Co.
- Pass to Roanoke Pinball Museum
- $25 to Hello Goodbye Records
- Day Pass to Richmond Pinball Collective

🥈 SECOND PLACE
- Alltek Ultimate Solenoid DMPU Board ($150 value) https://allteksystems.com/products/ultimate-solenoid-driver-board or $75 CASH
- $36 to Decades Arcade
- $25 to Random Row Brewing Co.
- Pass to Roanoke Pinball Museum
- $25 to Hello Goodbye Records
- Day Pass to Richmond Pinball Collective

🥉 THIRD PLACE
- Alltek Ultimate LED/Lamp Driver Board ($120 value) https://allteksystems.com/products/ultimate-led-lamp-driver-board OR $60 CASH
- $24 to Decades Arcade
- $25 to Random Row Brewing Co.
- Pass to Roanoke Pinball Museum
- $25 to Hello Goodbye Records
- Day Pass to Richmond Pinball Collective

🏅 FOURTH PLACE
- $12 to Decades
- $25 to Random Row Brewing Co.
- Pass to Roanoke Pinball Museum
- $25 to Hello Goodbye Records
- Day Pass to Richmond Pinball Collective

RAFFLES:
Between each round we will award a prize to a randomly-selected player. So yes you can and most likely will win something even if you don't play well in the competition! Prizes will include:
- Black Sabbath's Master of Reality vinyl record
- Decades Arcade Black Sweatshirt
- Decades Arcade Orange T Shirt
- Hello Goodbye Records Shirt
- Richmond Pinball Collective Shirt
- Decades Arcade new stickers (Sunset and Pixel designs)
- Video Game art from the Decades collection

You may also like the following events from Decades Arcade:

• This Thursday, 14th August, 12:30 pm, Public Hours at Decades Arcade in Charlottesville

Also check out other Sports events in Charlottesville, Contests in Charlottesville.