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01/04/2025

ICYMI, there is no CHAOS Pinball Tournament this afternoon!

The 2025 CHAOS Pinball Tournament series will return later this year as we have some work and travel conflicts coming up. Please Like and Love our social media pages so you don't miss our announcement when we've fired up again. Thanks to all who played in 2024, and we'll see ya down the line. Have a kick ass 2025 until then!

01/04/2025

December wrapped the 2024 CHAOS Pinball Tournament series! Congrats to newbie Mike O'Rourke, who nearly went without any strikes and took 1st place at the last CHAOS tournament of the year. We're so glad we could fix his Monster Trophy before the tourney was over. Leslie J. Martin served him his only strike and came in 2nd; oh deer, indeed! David Krueger isn't that tall nor does he have an eclectic fashion sense, but he did take 3rd Place. And graciously keeping the party rockin' all tournament-long was newcomer Bryce Taylor, even after he took the Last Place spot and his Fancy Coaster. These champions then donated their winnings back to Star Tropics, supporting the museum and its projects. What upstanding pinheads these mallrats are!

Special thanks to Star Tropics owner and operator, Jason Andersen, who invited PLC Events to host its CHAOS Pinball Tournament at Star Tropics shortly after it opened in February. We took it a step futher and asked if we could do the whole 2024 series there. We truly love his venue and his vision so much that we started volunteering our time there outside of CHAOS, too.

The 2025 CHAOS Pinball Tournament series will return later this year as we have some work and travel conflicts coming up. Please Like and Love our social media pages so you don't miss our announcement when we've fired up again. Thanks to all who played in 2024, and we'll see ya down the line. Have a kick ass 2025 until then!

12/07/2024

The CHAOS starts in less than an hour at Star Tropics in the Lloyd Center! Come join us on this rainy day for your pinball workout. This is the only tournament where use of Stern Insider is encouraged, and you can unlock special achievements now that Star Tropics is an official Stern location! Tourney starts at 100p (okay, probably more like 115p); $10 covers free play all day to this private event and a chance to be a winner like last month's CHAOS champions, Leslie J. Martin (1st), Anthony Rice (2nd and first timer!), David Krueger (3rd), and Amber Harlan (Last, and also a newcomer). See you soon, pinpals!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/bwKpxE7PjFoy7mG6/

12/04/2024

Can't get enough pinball during the end-of-the-year WPPR rush? How about playing in a tourney that's straight up all about the joy of pinball? The CHAOS Pinball Tournament is this weekend! Head over to the newly ordained Stern Pinball location that is Star Tropics in the Lloyd Center. Access new content on games and get your initials up on the Stern leaderboards. The tournament will be a 3-strike knockout on MatchPlay. $10 gets you an all day free play wristband and entry into the competition. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Last Place receive prizes!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/bwKpxE7PjFoy7mG6/

11/01/2024

TOMORROW! Join us at Star Tropics in the Lloyd Center for a 3KO MatchPlay tournament with lenient strikes. In 4-player groups, only 3rd and 4th will take strikes, and in 3-player groups, only 3rd will take a strike. $10 covers your admission into the museum, all day free play, and your tournament entry. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Last Place win cash - and maybe a Monster Trophy! Registration starts at 1230p; tournament begins at 100p. Mark your calendar!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/e9A7Wd95wNR7tRwX/

10/31/2024

Earlier this month, we crowned a brand new CHAOS king, Nick Elliott. This newbie along with other CHAOS padawan CJ Milholland (2nd) brought their thunder down onto Ben Pownall (3rd). Zach Singer brought up the rear in Last Place, while pinball pirate Mike Smith stomped everyone in the Star Tropics sound quiz with a perfect score, taking home that mint Venom banner. Congrats to all and thanks to everyone throwing down that afternoon! Special thanks to Ashlee Von Buttlar for her tournament set-up assist.

We liked the lenient strikes format for CHAOS so much that that's how we plan to finish out the year's last two CHAOS tournaments. The next CHAOS event is THIS SATURDAY, November 2nd, at Star Tropics at 100p. $10 entry for all day free play, tournament entry, and museum admission. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Last Place, and side tournament winners receive prizes. We hope to see you there!

10/05/2024

Along with 💰cash money💰 from registration, here are the CHAOS trophies and the big ass Venom banner prize for the Star Tropics sound quiz side tourney. You're welcome to bring in food and drink into Star Tropics as long as you are mindful of the museum and machines. 3KO MatchPlay registration opens in one hour - that's 1230p. $10, cash or card accepted. Hope to see you there, pinpals!

10/03/2024

Think you know your pinball call-outs? How about specific game sound effects? If you think you're pretty dialed in, then you've got a chance to win a brand new, big ass Venom banner! Every donation to the pinball museum qualifies an entry for the Star Tropics sound quiz side tournament. Pop on the headphones, grab a card, and name that game at any time during the main CHAOS in the Tropics pinball tourney. Registration opens at 1230p; tourney starts at 100p. Format is 3KO MatchPlay with 3rd and 4th places taking a strike. $10 covers your admission, tournament entry, and free play all day. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Last Place also get prizes. See you THIS SATURDAY!

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09/28/2024

Before we head to PRGE, we had to remind you slap happy folks that CHAOS in the Tropics is next Saturday, October 5th. Join us at Star Tropics in the Lloyd Center for a 3KO MatchPlay tournament with lenient strikes. In 4-player groups, only 3rd and 4th will take strikes, and in 3-player groups, only 3rd will take a strike. $10 covers your admission into the museum, all day free play, and your tournament entry. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Last Place win cash - and maybe a Monster Trophy! Registration starts at 1230p; tournament begins at 100p. Mark your calendar!

09/07/2024

09/07/2024

Congrats to our August CHAOS champions, Matt Fentress (1st), Ben Pownall (2nd AND Star Tropics side tourney winner), Mike Smith (3rd), and Bill Lascher (Last Place). Matt seemingly earned a new nickname, bestowed upon him by his newest CHAOS Monster Trophy. Bill left with his Last Place money, but may be heartbroken that we forgot to give him his Fancy Coaster.

Let’s do it all again tomorrow, but with a new format! CHAOS in the Tropics is hosting its first doubles tournament at Star Tropics. The format will be head-to-head MatchPlay, five rounds, two games per round. Each game victory is worth 1 point, but a team gets an additional bonus point if they win both games. The team with the most points at the end of five rounds takes the cash pot and the Monster Trophies: Catastrophic CHAOS doubles editions.

Here are the playstyles and a brief description about them:
*Tommy-Style - flipping while masked, guided by your teammate's shoulder taps
*Split Flipper - alternating flippers every new ball (including extra balls)
*Two Pins, One Team - two machines played by a single player by both players simultaneously
*Relay Race - 30-second intervals per teammate per ball
*True CHAOS - one-handed with chopsticks

Witty team names highly encouraged! $10 covers one player's admission into Star Tropics, free play all day, and tournament registration fee. Registration begins at 1230p; tournament starts at 100p. Get some early practice for Dog Soccer Entertainment’s split flip tourney on Sunday and join us!

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/share/BzL8SrqVraZXeXpj/

08/03/2024

Play in groups or play alone, but who will be the one to kick the crap out of this tournament this afternoon? Constant CHAOS registration opens at 100p today at Star Tropics!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/sXj8cYNpQmEWBWcQ/

08/03/2024

TOMORROW! Join us at Star Tropics in the Lloyd Center for CHAOS in the Tropics, a wild and wacky tournament of playing pinball while performing a handstand. Okay, maybe not that wild and wacky, but it is definitely goofy. There will be some nice and tasty ice cold air conditioning to assist cooling down the fire flipping that will come out of your fingers. All ages welcome! 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Last Place prizes! $10 covers your tournament entry fee and all day free play. Registration opens at 100p, but you can register any time before qualifying ends at 400p - just leave enough time to complete at least three banks so that you are entered into finals. See you soon, pinpals!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/sXj8cYNpQmEWBWcQ/

08/01/2024

Have we mentioned how excited we are to be running this new format? Constant CHAOS is all about consistently playing well...chaotically. This is a play-as-you-please format, but you'll want to allow enough time to play three banks to qualify for finals. With the exception of Bank Two, players can play single-player games or in groups of up to four people, which we encourage - the more, the merrier CHAOS! You can play a bank as many times as you want, but your last entry card submitted for a bank REPLACES your previous submission for that bank. Because of the unlimited entries, the rankings will constantly be changing!

To qualify for finals, three banks must be submitted for scoring, but the point total across all four banks will be used to determine eligible finalists' ranking. Finals will start at 430p and be ladder format.

We hope you'll turnout for this event and give the field some chaotic competition!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/2knEdyHi2NBrcxAZ/

07/29/2024

Congrats to our first 2024 CHAOS champions! Both Ben Pownall (3rd) and Rachel Haukkala (1st) went into semi-finals with two strikes against Zach Singer's one, but Rachel maintained her chaotic thunder and took 1st Place. And to boot, she took another 1st the next day in the Bees B-div - TWOFER! Pirate Mike Smith took Last Place, earning back his entry fee, but he managed to blow away the TRON side tourney competition and score its fancy prize pack, sponsored by Star Tropics Pinball Museum. It was a great turnout for our series' return, with several new ballers joining us; we hope more curious cats come looking for CHAOS this year.

It was rad having the arcade all to ourselves. and we are eagerly looking forward to our next monthly, which is this Saturday, August 3rd. We're excited to bring back a tournament format we've hosted in the past; check out the competition details in the event info on Facebook or Instagram - we're changing things up all over the place! Join us as we take over the Tropics again and make it rain CHAOS!

07/28/2024

The next CHAOS in the Tropics tournament is next Saturday, August 3rd! For this season's fun run, we've decided that each monthly will be a different format. In July, we hosted the typical three-strike knock-out, aka 3KO. Here's the tentative competition format line-up for the coming months:

August - Constant CHAOS, a best card-type format where consistency is the goal
September - Catastrophic CHAOS, a doubles tournament featuring unique doubles playstyles
October - Ultimate CHAOS, an IFPA-sanctioned tournament worth WPPR points
November - MatchPlay: Fair Strike CHAOS, a grouping format where 0, 1, 1, and 2 strikes are distributed 1st through 4th respectively for each game
December - Bounty Hunter CHAOS, similar to pingolf, a particular goal is set for a machine and is available for play until its objective is captured
January - Doubles Trouble CHAOS, a doubles tournament featuring standard CHAOS playstyle combinations

Don't forget, all games will feature one or more chaotic playstyles! More info will be provided as each event nears. Pretty wild stuff! Which ones will you go to? We hope to see you next week!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/Gvi7qtzbYSstQJ1T/

07/13/2024

Wake up and choose CHAOS this weekend.

It's the first CHAOS pinball tournament of 2024 today, and we're excited to see you at Star Tropics in just a couple of hours. Who will win the first emo Monster Trophy, Fancy Coaster, and 3rd Place prizes of the year? And don't forget your extra dollars for the side tournament! Registration opens at 1230p and closes at 100p. Your $10 entry ($5 for your buy-in + $5 for all day free play) will secure your spot in today's tournament. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Last Place, and side tournament prizes.

And yes, we really will start at 100p today!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/share/ojdishdMa7HpEyow/