PLC Events

09/03/2025

Congrats to Dave Morell - who oddly looks much like Ben Pownall (3rd Place honorable mention and Dave Morell stand-in) - for taking 1st Place at Here's to 10 Years! He's a mysterious man of the night, vanishing quickly after the tournament was over and leaving behind his entire prize package, including his Monster Trophy and cashpot. There were four Last Placers, but kudos to Anthony "Spokanthony" Rice, who defeated them all and won the Last Place title. He earned back his entry fee, a Last Place Fancy Coaster, and hung out so long he was included in the official champion's picture.

We had two side tournaments, the first being a One-Handed Tilt I$ Right on Lady Luck with a set score of 369,420. Traveler Jonathan Zakel won all the fifty cent antes with a score of 348,###, managing to recoup his entry fee as well. Sean Goller (2nd Place honorable mention) won the other side tournament, I Spy Pinball PicTrivia, and ended up taking many prizes of his own.

Many thanks to give...
-all who attended! Thanks for partaking in this tough format.
-C Bar, who let us do this on the actual day of the anniversary;
-Ship Ahoy, for taking care of us after we transferred the tourney there to finish up;
-Death Flip, for donating swag to the prize pool; follow them on Instagram, @.flip;
-and last but not least, a huge, HUGE thank you to Kevin "Keeper" Howell, Matt Fentress, and Matt Peterson for all their help and advice, answering our questions and helping us stay as true as possible to the original Pinbrawl format as we could.

We saw so many players bringing their A-game that night! This tournament was an absolute blast, full of revenge games, close scores, and pinpals. It was exactly what we wanted, long wait times and all. Our next tournament will surely be shorter - stay tuned!

08/21/2025

Congrats to Nick Elliott (1st) for being the most chaotic - again! This baller has always won CHAOS in some capacity when he's played, and yet he has four trophies when he's only played in three tournaments. Chaotic math!

Nick battled it out for 1st with Mike Smith on a tiebreaker game of Turtles, which had a score limit of 6,666,660. Pirate lost, but he did end up winning a prize from the PicTrivia side tournament, as did Matt Peterson. However, it was David Krueger who was the most observant of us all and knew every single answer to our game of I Spy.

Leslie J. Martin came in Last Place, but left the Fancy Coaster at home, which was convenient. Always awesome to come in dead last at your own tournament.

There will be at least one more Tilt i$ Right tourney at Star Tropics this year, and if you haven't yet heard, there will be a small celebratory anniversary tourney at CBar at the end of this month. Thanks to all who came and played!

08/16/2025

TODAY AT 200P! There will also be a free side tournament that will be announced before Round 3. Multiple people can win! $8 covers your admission fee, tournament entry, and free play all day. Previously awarded wristbands and gift certificates cannot be used. 1st Place wins this customizable Monster Trophy and Star Tropics swag; Last Place wins a Fancy Coaster and their entry fee. See you in the (Star) Tropics soon!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e8U2NYAS/

08/14/2025

Head over to Star Tropics on Friday and get some early practice in for this Saturday's tournament! We don't normally encourage such discipline before our events, but we're changing up *everything* this year, aren't we? Here are the games' score limits for the tourney; you might see a little bit of a theme. Tournament format is five rounds of two matches each, with players alternating starting positions between the two games, for a total of ten guaranteed games.

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e8U2NYAS/

08/11/2025

Have you met our pal, Jason Andersen, the owner of the Star Tropics Pinball Museum? Come meet this witty goofball during our CHAOS pinball tournament this Saturday. He'd love to show you around the museum before we get flippy.

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e8U2NYAS/

08/07/2025

Did you know that Star Tropics lives in the old Spencers in the Lloyd Center? Check out this article from the Oregonian featuring the pinball arcade where our August 16th tournament will be taking place!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e8U2NYAS/

“We’re almost just squatting in this capitalist temple,” said Jason Leivian, owner of Floating World Comics.

08/05/2025

We’re hosting a CHAOS special edition tournament featuring Price I$ Right rules. During this flipper showdown, you’ll be paired up with a different opponent each round for two head-to-head matches on different machines that have set scores you can’t go over. All balls must be played…and tilting is allowed!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/16e8U2NYAS/

05/04/2025

May the fourth be with you all today.

Congrats to James "COW" Adamson for winning yesterday's CHAOS! This was a glorious redemption from his very close loss during our 2022 Birthday Week: Deluxe Edition tournament, and we are pleased as ice cream birthday cake to see it.

Congrats also to Nick Elliott, who doubled down on his share of trophies. Though he won his very first CHAOS tournament just last year, he came in Last Place for his second chaotic experience. Not one to let that stop his posi vibes, he won the One-Handed Firepower Side Tournament with a score of 136k (we think???).

Honorable mention to Pirate Mike, the most winningest CHAOS player to date, who came up short to COW by one point. Special thank you to Matt and Ben, who braved the unknown waters of TD'ing and made the best calls and rulings we've ever heard of and seen in a tournament.

My lovely friends, THANK YOU for coming out and celebrating my birthday week CHAOS kick-off yesterday! I started running non-sanctioned tourneys back in 2018, doing a rotating format nearly every week that first year. As PLC has grown and found its niche within the Portland pinball scene over the years, I've decided to cut back to quarterly/holiday/travel-oriented/sporadically planned tournaments. The party's not quite over, but Life has challenged me to its own wild version of chaos. So until the next CHAOS event, keep playing pinball for fun...and it's more fun with friends! ~ Leslie 💚🤘

05/03/2025

Come and get 'em! 💩

05/03/2025

We just realized that we never posted our write-up from our series kick-off in Adelaide this year! Oops...

Congrats to Jan Saurbrey (1st) on what he'd call the "inaugural" CHAOS tournament. "Call me 'Big Daddy Dion'" Vuurens came in 2nd, while Backflip twist master Tom Diamond came in 3rd. And in perfect step with the CHAOS spirit of playing pinball for fun, newcomer Laura Clark took Last Place and had her entry fee returned to her, a perfect way to end a day of pinball shenanigans - all for free!

It was incredible fun hanging with mates we met last year at the West Coast Pinball Festival in Perth and imprinting our CHAOS on new and old mates alike. Thanks to all who joined CHAOS in-person and virtually, and thank you to FLOP for streaming us on their Twitch stream. While it may not be an annual event, we definitely plan to return to kickass Adelaide and FLOP to do another CHAOS tourney. Until then!

04/28/2025

The next CHAOS Pinball Tournament is THIS SATURDAY, May 3rd, at CBar! Since this is PLC's first sanctioned CHAOS, we promise there won't be backflipping or any of the other physical challenges players might be familiar with or have heard about. Chaotic playstyles will not interfere with traditional pinball play, therefore this tournament will earn WPPR points. Check out the event page info for more information. The party kicks off at 200p at CBar. We hope to see you at our birthday week celebration!

04/11/2025

We are back! However, due to some technical difficulties, scheduling snafus, but mostly jet lag and allergies, tomorrow's CHAOS is canceled.

To make up for it, we are hosting our first sanctioned CHAOS on Saturday, May 3rd, as part of our birthday week celebrations. More information coming soon!