Author: Elizabeth Dronet

Mega Matchplay Women’s Weekend

The Belles of Space City invite women from near and far to explore the world of pinball with the Houston crew. Join us May 23 & 24, 2025 as we venture to The LOWer Level Arcade on Friday evening and then travel to UpKick the following morning for some Mega Matchplay estimated to be worth 200%! RSVP on the Matchplay events so these private collectors can plan for your arrival Friday and Saturday.

Texas Pinball Festival!

Our Space Cadets explored the Texas Pinball Festival last weekend in Frisco. We enjoyed playing the newly released games, competing in the tournaments, and hanging out at the Wormhole booth. Congratulations to Jack Revnew for placing 2nd in the Texas Wizards Tournament!

State Championship

Congratulations to our SCPL members who qualified for the IFPA State Championships during the 2024 season!

Open Qualifiers: Fred Revnew, Jack Revnew, Jim Mueller, Jonathan Henson, Lee Balusek, Nicholas Gustafson, Phil Grimaldi, Travis Hanna and Wesley Johnson.

Women’s Qualifiers: Elizabeth Dronet, Erin Anthony, Evelyn Carroll, Gina Low, Jessica DeNardo, Jessica Murillo, Miette Dronet, Summer Ellington, and Tracy Abrahams.

We are especially proud of the following players:
Miette- Tennessee Women’s Champion
Jessica D- Texas Women’s Runner-Up
Summer- Louisiana Women’s Runner-Up
Jack – 3rd place in the Texas Open Championship

Holiday Toy Drive

Space City Pinball will once again be collecting unwrapped toys this holiday season. This year we will be supporting the Star of Hope. Bring a toy to a tournament listed below.

Star of Hope community supports some of Houston’s homeless men, women and children. They encourage positive life changes through programs in spiritual growth, education, employment, life management and substance abuse recovery.

Space City Open

The Space City Pinball League is proud to present premier tournaments before and during the 2024 Houston Arcade Expo! We are pleased to reveal our 2024 Space City Open poster designed by Houston illustrator, Rene Cruz! The poster will be available for purchase at the show in the Space City Pinball mega-booth. T-shirts for the SCO and Week of WPPRs can be ordered through Sliverball Swag. Be sure to check out the calendar on this website for all the upcoming tournament details. We kick off the Week of WPPRs on October 4th! Get ready for takeoff!

Women’s Fall League Nights

Women of all ages in the Houston area are invited to join the Belles of Space City during our fall league nights. We will play at the home of one of our members on her private collection.

The women’s league season will consist of six weeks of matchplay qualifying. Each week players will compete in groups of four on six different games. Players will be awarded points based on finishing position. Points will accumulate across the season to determine overall league standing. The best 4 weeks will be used, so players can safely drop two weeks. The top players will be eligible for a finals, which will use a group elimination format (aka PAPA style). $20 entry for season. Season: Wednesdays at 7pm, October 16-November 20. Finals December 4.

Join Our Team!

The Space City Open and Women’s Interstellar Showdown pinball tournaments are organized by the Space City Pinball League of Houston, TX. The tournaments are designed to be fun for players of all ages and skill levels. This year the tournaments will take place on Friday, October 11 to Sunday, October 13. Without our volunteers and sponsors, we couldn’t put on these amazing sold-out tournaments! Organizing events like this have many expenses such as conference room rental, internet, and repair parts to name a few. We would like to recognize Jim Mueller for once again donating $300 to purchase flipper rebuild kits!

Please consider one or more of the following sponsorship opportunities to join us in this amazing collaboration. If you’d prefer to donate prizes or other giveaways we are always grateful for that support too! If interested please email spacecitypinball@gmail.com.

Sponsorship Opportunities Include:

1. Naming Next.MatchPlay Qualifying Sessions: $30 each. We will also announce the sponsorship over the microphone. (Sold Out)

  • EARLY session (Friday): “SCO 2024 EARLY GROUP sponsored by The James Hernandez Law Firm”
  • LATE session (Friday): “SCO 2024 LATE GROUP sponsored by The James Hernandez Law Firm”
  • EARLY session (Saturday):  “SCO 2024 EARLY GROUP sponsored by Bee2Bee Honey Collective”
  • LATE session (Saturday): “SCO 2024 LATE GROUP sponsored by Craig Hughes”
  • Women’s Interstellar Showdown Qualifying: “Interstellar Showdown sponsored by Pinball Rebel”

2. Naming Space City Open Finals: $200 (Sold)

  • The Matchplay session will be named: “SCO 2024 FINALS sponsored by Wormhole Pinball”
  • The finals will be streamed by Wormhole Pinball who will also include your logo and mention your sponsorship on the stream.

3. Finals Streaming by Wormhole Pinball

  • Logo featured on Space City Open Finals Stream (Saturday) $150 – Total of 4 spots
    • The James Hernandez Law Firm
    • Einstein’s Pub and Einstein’s Pub and Arcade and Joshua Mitchell
    • Jim Mueller
    • Craig Hughes
  • Logo featured on Women’s Interstellar Showdown Finals Stream (Sunday) $50 and Women’s Matchplay Finals named: “Interstellar Showdown sponsored by Top Rope Pinball” (Sold)

For tournament information, visit https://www.houstonarcadeexpo.com/

We appreciate your support!

Tournament Team

PhysXXX Returns as a Series

EinStein’s PhysXXX Syllabus – Fall Semester 2024
Q1: August 27-October 1
Q2: October 15-November 19

Instructor: Space City Pinball League 

Course Curriculum: The PhysXXX curriculum includes interactions of matter and energy, velocity, accelerations, force, and momentum. Space Cadets will test their skills to manipulate physical matter using electricity and mechanical engineering constructs.

Course Instructions: SCPL Cadets will assembly in small study groups of 3-4. Each group will attempt to outperform their group peers in a test of skill on one of the specialized electromechanical PhysXXX simulators available. 

SCPL Cadets will perform 3 rounds of 2 games each class session.
The series will be 6 weeks long with a minimum attendance of 4 weeks. 
Cadets desiring to audit for less than 4 weeks are welcome to attend.

SCPL Cadets best 4 overall weekly class session scores will be aggregated to determine final class rank. (No finals)

Material’s List: $1 for IFPA fees & coin-Dropbox

Prerequisite: age 21+, familiarity with concepts such as “fun” and “a good time”

Electronic Devices: Students should be able to access http://Next.Matchplay.events/ on a personal electronic device.

SCPL Cadet Handbook: http://www.spacecitypinball.com/