{"id":37602,"date":"2025-09-01T16:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/uk-pinfest-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:57:29","slug":"uk-pinfest-3","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/uk-pinfest-3\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Pinfest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"An overview of the main hall\" class=\"wp-image-37363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/shows\/uk-pinfest-2025\/067-uk-pinfest-2025.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK\u2019s national pinball show returns for a eighth year in the familiar surroundings of the Mercure Daventry Court Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 130 machines are expected, with more details on special events announced nearer the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIP-only sessions are held on Friday and Saturday evenings, while the UKPinfest Open tournament is also expected to return along with The Pinball Classic tournament, Ladies Tournament, the NBA Challenge, youth and kids tournaments and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pre-show tickets along with VIP passes and hotel rooms will be available to purchase in the months ahead of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catch our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2025\/08\/30\/uk-pinfest-2025\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report from the 2025<\/a> show for a taste of what to expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-37602","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","hentry","event_location-mercure-daventry-court-hotel-sedgemoor-way-daventry-nn11-0sg-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/37602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=37602"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=37602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}