Ruth and I volunteer every month at the Elgin PADS homeless shelter. We cook and serve a meal for about 30-40 people. We decided to organize this charity event last year and it was such a good success we are going to be doing it annually. We raised over $2000 last year in money and supplies for the Elgin PADS center. This will be a standard 4 round matchplay qualifier tourney with a top 16 single game elimination playoffs. In the playoffs high seed will get choice of game or order. Players cannot choose a game more than once in the playoffs, and cannot queue for a game. Tourney entry will be $5 and 100% of entry fees will go towards Elgin PADS. I will be sponsoring the IFPA fees for this event. Raffle tickets can be purchased for $5 each and you can buy as many as you want. Raffle tickets will be the only way to win all of the raffle prizes we'll be drawing for all night. You can also win more than once! We'll be raffling off various merchandise from pinball manufacturers including shirts, hats, translites, banners, playfields, and more! We are also happy to accept direct donations of cash or items from the Elgin PADS wishlist, available here:
https://www.padsofelgin.org/needs
Lastly if you are interested in donating some prizes to the raffle please let us know, the more stuff we can get the better in order to raise money to support a great place that supports our local community!