PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR PINBALL ASSOCIATION TO LAUNCH PAPA TV
GeekGamer.TV teams up with the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association to provide West Coast Coverage and Major Events!
April 22, 2013 – Seattle, WA – Geek Gamer Network (GeekGamer.TV) is proud to announce the Professional & Amateur Pinball Associations’s (PAPA) Kickstarter project to launch PAPA TV – The Online Network Dedicated to Pinball! The Kickstarter Project can be found here: http://ggtv.me/kickstarter
PAPA TV will broadcast live coverage of pinball tournaments with the professional quality of other sports, including multiple camera angles, live commentary, and interviews. With PAPA TV, we will create a highly visible and entertaining production, bringing pinball to a new and substantial audience worldwide.
Chase Nunes of GeekGamer.TV, the primary technician behind the proof-of-concept broadcasts, will continue to be involved with PAPA TV broadcasting and will focus on events on the West Coast. The PAPA crew will focus on broadcasting events in the East, and together this team of capable broadcasters will bring the highest level of visibility competitive pinball has ever experienced.
Coverage will consist of multiple camera angles, commentating, exclusive interviews and more. GeekGamer.TV streaming will be brought to you by UStream! As the world’s fastest-growing and largest live streaming platform with over 50 million unique monthly viewers and a network of produced and user-generated content, Ustream is fundamentally reshaping online media and the perfect partner to assist in showcasing this event to our audience.
PAPA and GeekGamer.TV knows pinball and loves pinball. We believe pinball is meant to be played competitively and enjoyed by everyone. The growth of our annual pinball tournaments has brought the PAPA facility nearly to its limits. By expanding to online coverage, we will be able to bring fascinating competitive pinball to an audience of unlimited size.
By backing this project, you will be supporting an effort that will last for many years. PAPA TV’s quality coverage of competitive pinball can lead to sponsorships for events as well as players, larger prize pools, and perhaps even syndicated programming on television.
This is a big move for pinball and GeekGamer.TV (of course) will be there!
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Contact Information:
Chase Nunes
GeekGamer.TV
(360) 474-7323
E-Mail: [email protected]
Twitter: @GeekGamerTV
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Web: https://geekgamer.tv
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About Professional Amateur Pinball Association
History
PAPA, the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association, was founded by Steve Epstein at his world-famous Broadway Arcade in New York City. Steve ran six world championships, with the last one being held in Las Vegas, before retiring and passing the reins to Kevin Martin.
In Steve’s own words:
The beginning of what was to become PAPA began in the late 1970’s when Roger Sharpe along with a third player Lionel Martinez started keeping track of our competition together. We logged over 10,000 sets of games over a four/five year period. From that data we developed the league scoring system used in the first PAPA league play around 1985/1986. This lead to the tournaments in the early 1990’s. I guess meeting Roger at the Arcade in 1975 and starting to play together on a daily basis not only led to a great and lasting friendship, but to the world of competitive pinball.
Our Goals
Since 1991, PAPA has run an extensive list of tournaments. Our goal is to create and promote the world’s greatest pinball tournaments, encouraging friendly competition and the spread of enthusiasm for pinball. Towards that end, we have created ourTournament Circuit, built up two world-class annual tournaments, and enhanced the Pinball Archive with its video collection.
In December 2012, the entire collection of pinball machines and other arcade games housed at the PAPA facility was donated to Replay Foundation, which will continue to operate the machines through PAPA for our tournaments.