{"id":33392,"date":"2024-08-17T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=33392"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T12:52:08","slug":"uk-pinfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2024\/08\/17\/uk-pinfest\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PINFEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The major pinball show in the UK is back, as UK Pinfest returns to the Mercure Daventry Court Hotel for another weekend of games, tournaments, social events and talks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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UK Pinfest began in 2018<\/a> and all seven shows have been held at this same venue. The Mercure Daventry Court first became the home of the annual UK pinball show in 2010 when five UK Pinball Party events were held there, but after a two year hiatus without a national pinball show, Phillip Murphy stepped up to stage the first UK Pinfest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show has traditionally been held on the last weekend in August which includes a bank (public) holiday on the following Monday. This year, however, just for this 2024 show we are back in Daventry a week earlier. Future shows are expected to return to the bank holiday weekend dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at the venue on Friday morning. The show didn’t officially open until 7pm on Friday evening, but many of the machines were set up on Thursday. This 360 time-lapse video from Daniel Fligg shows the machines arriving and the transformation of the empty Danetree Suite into this year’s UK Pinfest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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