📣 PPC Schedule change! No meetup this week! 📣
Friends! Sorry to be the bearer of bum news, but we got word today that Barcade is hosting a (well-deserved) staff party tomorrow night, so no meetup this week!
If you know folks who are planning to join but aren't on the mailing list, please give em a heads up for me!
In the interest of keeping the schedule intact, we're just gonna adapt and make this a 7 week season instead of an 8-weeker. So no meetup tomorrow, but everything else stays the same — the only change we'll make is counting everyone's top 5 scores (instead of 6) for the season.
Also for your FYI, last week's head count was THIRTY people. Good lord. Them's pre-Covid numbers my friends, and we are only halfway through this thing!
Shouts to all the new folks that came out, it was rad meeting you all, and I hope we'll see ya next time!
No links or plugs in this one, but I wanna get the hype train rolling early for the most golden of PPC traditions, coming your way September 19:
THE SEASON FINALS COMMUNITY PRIZE TABLE
Ok, so Finals is obviously going to be a competition where we crown a season champ, immortalize their name on the PPC cup, and hail their greatness until a new challenger emerges.
BUT, we are also gonna make a ridiculous scene and stack two of those huge tables with boardwalk-level prizes that everyone will have a chance to win all night.
You're gonna have your Door Prizes on table 1:
Notch a score on any game during finals that ends in double zeroes, and step right up. In past seasons you might walk away with something like:
a comically large box of Sour Patch Kids
a 7" from indie darlings Remember Sports
the novelization of Karate Kid Part II
a Misfits air freshener
a bedazzled cigarette holder
...and on table 2, you've got your big boys, the Primo Prizes.
These are the high-ticket items, and if you want one you're gonna need to grind for it! We'll print a list of objectives for each game, somewhere along the lines of:
make a 5-million point skill shot on Addams Family
shoot Rudy's mouth on Funhouse
complete two quick draws on Cactus Canyon
...and completing an objective from that list has sent past winners home with such luxuries as:
A plush JJ Superpretzel from 1982
a remote controlled speed boat
season 6 of Seinfeld on DVD
records and artwork by incredible local artists
a Hennessy bottle holder shaped like a revolutionary war cannon
...aka allllll the top shelf shit.
AND THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN
It's always fun to fill the tables up with Five Below treasures and selections from Philadelphia's finest junk shops, but it's the best when we fill it with YOUR stuff. Do you make awesome shit? Have weird and amazing stuff that's been hanging out in your basement for years? Amassed an untenable collection of ephemera nobody else appreciates?
Buddy, we want it, and we wanna put your name right next to it on the prize table.
Take a look at some of the stuff folks have brought in the past:
original screenprints
zines
homemade pickles
handmade ceramics
a delicious pie
a custom PPC sticker pack
plants
skate decks
their band's records
custom designed tshirts
bootleg punk DVDs
and on and on and onnnnn
So much rad stuff, and absolutely no surprise with such a rad crew. Gimme a shout if you're interested in bringing something to the party, which is a little over a month away from now!
OKAY THAT'S IT FOR THE PITCH AND THIS GIANT EMAIL!
Sorry again about this week, but we'll be back in action next Monday (8/29). See ya soon!
💛💛
Jon