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We opened our doors to the public on Saturday, 24th August 2024.

Over 60 machines were up and running, with several more to come in the weeks ahead.

All are welcome, whether member or guest (no booking required) – See you soon!

Rebirth

Posted 5 months ago by Mike Parkins

 

 

We’re (almost) back baby!

New Venue Update

We signed the lease this week and paid the deposit.

We are aiming to be in the new location as early as possible, hopefully mid-August. We have restarted membership payments – The starting membership fee will be £45 per month. Joining details are at: https://www.pinballrepublic.com/join-us

We expect to be able to reduce this in time but in order to get up and running we will need the fee to be at this level. Within 6 months we will review and share the finances with you and hopefully be able to reduce the amount.

The variable of which we are uncertain is guest attendance figures. We have been conservative in our estimates but with the new location we are expecting increased revenue.

It will always be cheaper to be a member than a guest and we will have more and more for our members as we find our feet in the new location.

The location of the new club is:
Unit 60, Lower Mall

Centrale Shopping Centre
Croydon CR0 1TY
Our opening hours are expected to be:
Saturday 10:00-17:00
Sunday 10:00-16:00
Thursday 18:00-23:00

We will extend this and open on other days for events etc.
Guest admission is likely to be £15 for 3 hours – £25 for a whole day at weekends but we will confirm this before we open.

Thank you all for your continued support – we couldn’t have done it without you.
We are awaiting final dates for entry and we will need your help with moving in, as soon as dates are finalised we will share with you.
PBR Team.

 

UK Open

Posted 1 year ago by Mike Parkins
The UK Open 2023; an ECS qualifying and Stern Pro Circuit Event will run from Friday 29th September 2023 to 1st October 2023 at the Hilton Hotel,  Croydon, London UK. Pinball Republic will be supplying most of the machines for the event, therefore we are unable to open the club from Thursday 28th to Sunday 1st October. Normal opening from Thursday 5th October.

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On Sunday night, Pinball Republic suffered flooding from a burst water pipe in the upper floor of our building. We are still evaluating the damage to the area, though fortunately most of the machines are unaffected (a few had water ingress to the cabinet). It will take several days to dry out the facility and plumbing/electrics will need attention. We hope to open again in early January and will post updates on here and on our Facebook page. 

Presented by The Pinball Republic Team over the weekend of 30th September 2022

The UK Pinball Open Weekender

Guaranteed first place prize of £5000 and more prizes for top players in every tournament!

See www.playpinball.uk for rules and more details. The UK Pinball Open is IFPA Certified.

2 Classics Tournaments – UK Ladies Pinball Championship

16 and Under Pinball Championship – The People’s Championship (IFPA Certified!)

At the Hilton Hotel in Croydon, South London – a short drive/train journey from Gatwick Airport.

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PARTY AND TOURNAMENTS TO CELEBRATE NEW NAME

The Pinball Republic London launch weekend

We hope everyone enjoyed our launch weekend – Check out the reports, photos and videos below:

 

Tournament reports by Sunday’s champion Yuen Aw are on Pinballinfo.com, starting HERE 

 

One of our members, Conrad, has some amazing photos of the weekend HERE and HERE 

 

See the Youtube stream from Michael “DRI374” Mattsson below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KvFILvfTlE

WELCOME TO PINBALL REPUBLIC LONDON

We are now Pinball Republic London and we are launching with a bang on 14th and 15th May 2022 with THREE tournaments:

  • Saturday at 10:30: Matchplay… Top 24 qualify for finals – Start 12 rounds of qualifying from 10:30 AM
  • Saturday at 19:00: Matchplay Strikes – Best of 1 Matches (4 player matches – 3rd/4th place get strikes – 3 player groups ONLY 3rd place gets a strike)
  • Sunday from 10:30: Best Game Blind – Pick your games and top 16 qualify for finals. Games must be complete by 15:45 – finals start 16:00

We will have Fourpure as a sponsor and everyone will get a free beer. There will be pizza for dinner between the tournament on the Saturday and trophies for top players… Best kids, best women and the most laughable score!

NO REGISTRATION!

Just turn up – we will have Matchplay pre-registration closer to the time.

Also to help with the pizza and beer please let us know if you plan to come so we have rough numbers.

FEES:

PBR Members – Saturday £10 Sunday £10

Non-Members – Saturday £20 Sunday £15