Who’s your PAPA? Welcome PBDG executive producer, Kevin Martin

PAPA Professional and Amateur Pinball Association Kevin MartinI’m very excited and honored to announce that Kevin Martin and the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) joined Pinball Donut Girl as Executive Producer.

If you don’t already know, PAPA runs the annual World Championships of pinball. (2011 World Champion was local boy Andrei Massenkoff of San Francisco.) PAPA is located near Pittsburgh, PA and has over 450 pinball machines plus classic cabinet games in a giant warehouse arcade (30,000 square feet!).

Pinburgh 2012 Match Play Pinball Championships

Plan to attend the 2012 Match Play Championships. Registration is open now, and PAPA welcomes players of all skill levels, as well as spectators. The tournament provides the opportunity for terrific competitive play, and everyone is also welcome to browse the machines, play practice games, meet other players, and watch the competition.

I can’t thank Kevin and the folks at PAPA enough for their generous support of Pinball Donut Girl.  Please check out their great blog, which has a ton of cool tutorials, beautiful photography and other good stuff, follow PAPA on FB to keep up with news and events, and come out to the tournaments.

More PPE Photos

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PPE Tournament, photo by Jeff Bradley

jeri ellsworth photo shoot

Jeri Gets Ready for her Photoshoot

Jeri Ellsworth at Pacific Pinall Expo 2011

Jeri and Matt check out the games, photo by Jeff Bradley CC

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Tournament at PPE, photo by Jeff Bradley

EM games in Pacific Pinball Expo Tournament

Tournament Old School, photo by Jeff Bradley

Clear Pinball at Pacific Pinball Expo 2011

Quick time lapse of the visible pinball games. They are based on Gottlieb’s Surf Champ and both an EM and SS version of a Bally Freedom.

These great games are from Wade Krause and Michael Schiess, and you can visit them at the Pacific Pinball Museum.

Music by Clint Baker.