Acme Pinball Garage

04/17/2026

Here is overall top 30 Grand Prix Standings after round 4 - with the 2 drops factored in!

04/15/2026

Colby Borum brings home another victory at the Acme Pinball Grand Prix!

Colby made it through qualifying with no strikes until the very last round. He evaded many strikes by very small percentage of points and likely a high percentage of luck. But the last round Charlie Herring was able to give him his first and only strike on Corvette.

The A finals started out with all the qualifying Kirchmeiers getting out right away, the first four eliminated were Cross, Skyla, Curtis, then Raddison. Not the best showing for the local team.

First timer Bobby Hitt had an impressive pinball debut, finishing 6th overall in a field of veteran players on fan favorite machine Twin Win. The upset of the night was Michael Y. L. Hew catching elimination on Super Soccer with a score of less than 10k.

Later in the final, Clark Barry McCoy came up short for 3rd place overall with a sub 2 mil score on the resident wood rail machine, Criss Cross,. He left the door open for a rematch between Charlie and Colby for 1st place on Legends of Valhalla. Charlie set a commendable score and Colby was looking like he was going to come up just short of the target. He played his 3rd ball in complete silence as the tension was felt by all spectators in the pin-shack. His ball was short, but after the bonus dust settled, he had bested Charlie by less than 200k - continuing his night of close calls. This gives Colby and Clark Both 2 wins, and with the drop system, they are technically tied for first in the overall standing for the race to the championship jacket.

Last night had a great turnout and we had 6 brand new players who had never competed in an IFPA event before! One of which, Duane Damon won our bottom bracket finals that Greg Gibson kindly officiated for us.

We also ran a B finals with the finals concluding with Jake Stacks just eeking out Sean Wedel for the win.

With 30 players, 100s of Chickfila nuggets, cookie cake, Dr Pepper Slushees, 5 new games in the lineup and so many new players, this was one of the best Acme Tournaments yet! Thanks for everyone coming out!

04/14/2026

Knockout Strikes Tournament TONIGHT for the Acme Pinball Grand Prix series!

04/01/2026

Last night's spilt flipper featured a Perlick takeover, with the family winning both A and B division finals.
Cross and Skyla managed to eek out a victory in the C finals.

03/11/2026

Last night's pinball tournament /birthday party was a great one.

Grandma Betty Kirchmeier made some cake balls to celebrate, which kept Cross Kirchmeier in good spirits despite missing out on finals during a 6 way tie breaker.

Kamber Kirchmeier went almost undefeated through Max match play, with her only defeat coming from Skyla the tiny assassin.

There were upsets throughout finals with Skyla getting out first round and local expert John Richardson having some bad feeds on Space Invaders placing him in 10th.

Clark Barry McCoy came in with high hopes of keeping his winning streak alive, and after the first few rounds of qualifying it looked unlikely he would even make it to the finals. He turned his look around by the end and found himself facing elimination on his past love Twin Win with a score under 8k. Lucky for him Daniel Martin came in at 3k which let Clark move on. But in an even more unfortunate turn, Kamber was only able to get 1.7k on Twin win.

The most punishing game of finals turned out to be Sea Hunt when it only allowed Raddison a couple flips, earning only 440 points.

After getting down to the top three of finals, we learned two things about Bike Race (which finally made its tournament debut). First thing was that after completing a game, it will not show you your score again, so you have to be ready with a camera in order to record how you do. The second thing we learned was that it and Clark do not get along as it took away the chance of Clark remaining undefeated.

The last game on Merlin's Arcade saw first time Acme participant Cody Jones just missing out on first place with out of town favorite Colby Borum taking home 1st place.

Despite the rain storm during finals, we had another great event and look forward to seeing everyone at our split flipper event on the 5th Tuesday of the month!

03/10/2026

Come get some TPF practice tomorrow! Rumor has it there will be a Merlin's Arcade and Ninja Eclipse in the wizards.
The other two machines of mine will be there as well, Corvette and King Kong!

03/09/2026

Current Championship point standings going into the 3rd round of the Acme Pinball Grand Prix this week.

Remember we will have 2 drop rounds so even if you miss a couple, you are still in the running for the championship!

02/11/2026

Cross went undefeated in flipper frenzy qualifying, but couldn't pull off the final victory against reigning champ from January, Clark Barry McCoy.
Jess and Kamber round out the top 4.

02/09/2026

Tuesday is round 2 of the pinball Grand Prix.
First Flipper Frenzy of the year!

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02/02/2026

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01/14/2026

Round 1 is in the books! Twin Win felt at home with Clark Barry McCoy and Garrett on the final table. Maybe it was Clark's #1 fan that helped him pull out the victory 🤷

1 Clark
2 Garrett
3 Savannah Archuleta
4 Kamber Kirchmeier