![]() The top 'ballers in this league can move on to regional, national and even international pinball competitions. (Tilt provides drink holsters at every one of its 12 machines.) For some players, skilled though they may be, the newly formed league is akin to "beer league" softball: a good opportunity to have a few drinks with friends who share a common interest. That doesn't mean you won't see them with drinks in hand as they wait their turns. The league players at Tilt are more than enthusiasts. Turns out, though, that plenty of skill is involved, at least at the upper echelons of play. For many, pinball is a lightly diverting amusement to be enjoyed with friends and beers. Besides, he was concentrating much too hard to notice anything other than the complex mechanics of the game.Ä«arewicz and the three other members of his bracket were competing against one another, and against about a dozen other players, at the inaugural meeting of the Vermont chapter of the New England Pinball League, held last week at South Burlington's 2-month-old Tilt Classic Arcade and Ale House. His earbuds, blasting the heavy metal that helps him concentrate, were firmly embedded. ![]() The slugger heard neither this remark nor the barrage of AC/DC songs that blared from the speakers of the band's eponymous pinball machine. "I think we're all just competing for second place," said one member of Barewicz's bracket to another. Within seconds, boisterous music enveloped him and his many onlookers, and hundreds of blinking lights flashed in crazy sequence. Mat Barewicz leaned in for position and confidently walloped the very first ball down the alley along the right side of the playfield.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |