06/08/2026
Come join us Wednesday June 10th at 6:30 pm for our next event in the Summer Slam Tournament Series, Pinbowling!
Pinbowling is a Pinball tournament format that follows the scoring rules of Bowling. Each Frame is a game on a specific machine, like the new Cactus Canyon machine. That machine will have a points goal, such as 1 Million points. If you score that many points on ball one, its a strike. If you reach that score on ball 2, that's a spare. Otherwise, your score is based on how close you got to the goal. The third ball is not played in this format.
In the above example with a goal of 1 million points, if you scored 740k, that's 74% of the goal, so the score is 7. If you scored 570k, that would be 57%, and a score of 5. As in Bowling, if you get a spare, your score on that frame is 10 + the result of your first ball on the next frame. A Strike is worth 10 points + the results of the next two balls. Bowling scoring is complicated, but the software does most of the work for us.
We'll play 8 frames in groups, so it's a great opportunity to grab some drinks and ice cream and socialize.
Costs:
Tournament Fee: $10. All of this goes to the cash prize pool. Please bring cash for the tournament fee (laws are weird)
Venue Entry Fee: $10. Star Chamber arcade has a flat $10 entry fee for tournament participants from the start of registration (6:00 pm) until the end of the tournament. All machines are set to free play, no quarters necessary.
Prizes:
The cash prize pool (from the tournament fee) will be split among the top three players as follows:
- First place: 60% of prize pool
- Second place: 30% of prize pool
- Third place: 10% of prize pool
Total prize pool is number of participants * $10
Registration and reduced entry fee begin at 6:00 pm and closes at 6:30, with the tournament starting shortly after.
