A LOT just happened yesterday and we are still trying to recuperate from all of it. For now though, here is our best shot at offering a RECAP of the pinball tournament’s final round, our “virtual cash mob”, and our big new game reveal.

The Virtual Cash Mob was a great success. Thank you to all who purchased items or just tuned in, and thank you to Downtown Springfield Inc. for giving us the opportunity to do that. Our online store from that is now taken down, so if you missed out on those deals we are sorry. Maybe we will do it again sometime. And maybe some tie-dye shirts will make their way into our store eventually.

As for the great Downtown Pinball Tournament of 2020, PRAIRIE ARCHIVES is the winner after winning two out of three games in the game “Blackout” against Craft Beer Bar. Congratulations to Robb and Prairie Archives, who took home the glass trophy made by the SAA Collective. Thank you to all 30+ businesses that participated in this whole tournament, this whole thing turned out better and more fun than we ever could have imagined. You can bet we’ll be doing this again next year, maybe with some tweaks.

Robb got to pull back the curtain on a brand new pinball game in our arcade which turned out to be TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2020). This game has a built in high definition TV screen, a spinning magnetic pizza, six balls, and is some next-level material.

Yes, our pinball tournament is still going on… and now wrapping up ROUND 4 of the tournament we are now down to the final TWO competing businesses in all of downtown!!! Round 4 featured the non-pinball arcade Asteroids from 1979. Here is what the final scores for this round were:

PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = 28,200
THE PHARMACY = 7,850

OLD STATE CAPITOL = 18,830
CRAFT BEER BAR = 26,030

This means that PRAIRIE ARCHIVES and CRAFT BEER BAR are the ones to move on and go head to head in the final round!!! The final round has been scheduled to be a live video where the two competitors play the best two out of three games, right after our Virtual Cash Mob video at noon on Thursday, October 8th. However now Craft Beer Bar is letting us know this time will not work for them so… we might have to figure something out here. Stay tuned for more!

Things are really narrowing down to a few remaining businesses for our big Downtown Springfield Pinball Tournament! Yesterday marked the last day for ROUND 3, so here we are today bringing you a RECAP of those scores! Here are the final scores for ROUND 3:

CUSTOM CUP = 1,040,330
MAYOR JIMMY LANGADANG = 1,793,010
PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = 4,907,790 (WINNER)

THE PHARMACY = 2,287,110
ARLINGTON’S = 1,287,650

PUBLIC MARKET = 1,112,780
OLD STATE CAPITOL = 2,417,180

CRAFT BEER BAR = 2,865,440
REVERIE APPAREL = 798,340

Now for ROUND 4, we have FOUR remaining competitors including Prairie Archives, The Pharmacy, Old State Capitol, and Craft Beer Bar. This round features the game Asteroids (1979) which is not a pinball- the round goes from now (September 28th) until Saturday, October 3rd. Keep following our facebook page for daily updates on this round.

We have some big things planned for the final round, which will be broadcasted live right after our Virtual Cash Mob at noon on Thursday, October 8th.

These sure are exciting times downtown. We are now right in the middle of our big downtown Springfield pinball tournament and there continue to be many twists and turns! Saturday was the last day of Round 2. Right at the buzzer, Tyler Smith representing Public Market downtown came through with the highest score for the whole round on No Good Gofers with 18,644,600. News Channel 20 rushed in to interview him right away (pictured above). Here is a complete recap on all of the scores for round 2:

ROUND 2: NO GOOD GOFERS (SEPT 10-19TH)

CUSTOM CUP = 8,588,630
BUZZ BOMB = 6,560,210

SPRINGFIELD VINTAGE = 10,989,410
MAYOR LANGFELDER = 11,826,380

KRISTI MITCHELL PHOTOGRAPHY = _
PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = 13,705,500

DOWNTOWN SPRINGFIELD = _
THE PHARMACY = 11,870,540

GOOD HEART TATTOOS = 4,226,760
GALLINA’S PIZZA = _
ARLINGTON’S = 11,581,250

PUBLIC MARKET = 18,644,600
USPS = 16,877,700

THE SAA COLLECTIVE = 8,533,690
LONG NINE = _
OLD STATE CAPITOL = 14,544,100

HEAD WEST = _
CRAFT BEER BAR = 18,591,431

ANVIL & FORGE = 13,234,580
REVERIE APPAREL = 14,31,040
RESOURCE ONE = 7,343,370

Great job, all of the participating businesses. Things are getting more competitive and more intense as we get further into this tournament. Now we are going into the third round, which features the game “PIN•BOT” and goes until this upcoming Sunday, September 27th. There are nine competitors left including eight local businesses and one mayor. Here are the brackets for the current round:

CUSTOM CUP = _
MAYOR JIM LANGFELDER = _
PRAIRIE ARCHIVES = _

THE PHARMACY = _
ALRINGTON’S = _

PUBLIC MARKET = _
OLD STATE CAPITOL = _

CRAFT BEER BAR = _
REVERIE APPAREL = _

Good luck everybody! Continue following our facebook page for more updates.

Okay, time for an update on a couple of things.

Our big downtown Springfield pinball tournament has been going very strong and has been a lot of fun. You might be following us on facebook where we have been posting updates as new scores of businesses participating are coming in. We also have all current scores and listings posted on our pinball forum. Today we are letting you and participating businesses know that we are pushing back the deadline for round one scores until the end of the night on Tuesday, September 8th. The deadline was previously this Sunday, September 6th. There is a retailers meeting at our space on Tuesday so this will allow some more businesses one more chance at putting down scores. Good luck! After Tuesday night we will be posting a big update including some adjusted and final dates to later rounds, and an updated tournament bracket.

In addition to that news, our store is going to be closed on Monday for Labor Day!