HBA- Ms Pac Man Tournament1
HOPKINS BETTERMENT ASSOCIATION
Date: May 14, 1982
Ti Hopkins City Council
Re: Request for permission by the HBA to hold Ms Pac Man Tournament.
Commencing Friday, July 9, the Tournament would conclude on the
Raspberry Festival's Family Day, Saturday, July 17, 1982.
Auspices: The Ms Pac Man Tournament would be sponsored by the HBA as an
official Raspberry Festival event. The Festival Board has already
been approached and has given their unanimous approval to the
Tournament.
Proceeds: With the exception of the out -of- pocket expenses to run the Tournament,
all money received will go to the HBA for civic projects.
First priority will be given to the repair of the downtown Hopkins
Christmas decorations which have been in service for the past few
years. At the present time, repair is estimated at $2500.00.
Replacement is too costly to consider.
The second recipient of funds would be the Hopkins Berries Baseball
team. The HBA Board has voted to donate the next $1000.00 in proceeds
from the Tournament to them. (The team would also participate in
the operation of the Tournament.)
Additional proceeds, if any, from the Tournament would go to the HBA
for additional civic projects and promotions.
(Note should be made that the HBA will be the ONLY financial bene-
ficiary of the Tournament. The local distributors and Midway Manu-
facturing, manufacturer of the Pac Man machines, have agreed that
all money collected will go to HBA. The distributors and manufacturers
will donate machines and other services for the tournament including
advertising assistance and promotional benefits.
(The Hopkins Raspberry Festival board also agreed to waive the 15%
commission fee usually charged for sales by concessionaires during
the Festival.)
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Mdy 14, 1982
To: Hopkins City Council
Re: Ms. Pac Man Tournament
At present, details are not complete with regard to rules, prizes, location of
machines, hours of operation, etc., but what follows is a brief outline of current
thinking, which is subject to revision and refinement.
Promotion: We are in contact with Midway Manufacturing through Mr. Norman Pink,
vice president of Advance Carter, a local distributor of video games,
for a provisional permit to use the Pac Man logo in our Tournament.
We are also asking Midway for additional assistance through their
advertising and art departments to help promotoe and advertise the
Tournament and to possibly design our logo of a Pac Man chasing a
raspberry. The logo would then be used on our official Tournament
button, all registration and contest materials, in ads and on a
poster, and on promotional T- shirts.
Press Releases to all local metropolitan area media will be sent
with complete announcement of the contest as soon as details are
finalized.
Posters using the Pac Man /Raspberry logo developed for the contest
will be placed in Hopkins businesses along with contest entry blanks
in the form of pre addressed envelopes. It is hoped that a registration
period in advance of the actual contest will give us a better concept
of how much participation we may expect. There will be a special
benefit to pre tournament registrants in the form of an additional
five -play score card with $1.00 which will not be available to later
registrants. If the pre- registration period is far enough in advance
of the contest, we can delay the actual ordering of buttons, the
printing of contest rules, and the printing of score cards until we
have a more realistic concept of the participation expected thus
saving money that may be lost due to over ordering. Tentaive dates
for pre registration will be June 1 through 26, with a Hopkins PO
Box, Nelson's Bakery and Bursch's Cafe serving as locations accepting
the early registrations.
Divisions: Participants in the Tournament will compete against one another in
one of four age groupings: (1) 13 -18; (2) 19 -45; (3) 46 -64; (4) 65
and older
Participant All participants will pay a one -time fee of $5.00 to enter. During
Costs: the pre tournament registration, entrants will receive a packet of
information including official rules, location of machines and official
hours of the Tournament. They will also receive THREE (3) score cards
of five -plays each card and FIFTEEN (15) tokens which may be used in
any of the official Tournament machines.
Registrants during the Tournament dates of July 9 -17 will receive
the same official information, but will receive only TWO (2) score
cards and TEN (10) tokens.
All participants may purchase additional score cards throughout the
Tournament for $1.00 per score card which allows five plays. (Usual
video game cost is $.25 per play. The Tournament cost will be $.20
per play.)
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May 14, 1982
To: Hopkins City Council
Re: Ms Pac Man Tournament
Prizes:
Sincerely,
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Prizes would be awarded in each of the four age divisions to
individuals (1) with the highest single score of the week, (2)
with the highest total of five plays in one score card, and (3)
with the highest accumulated score by an individual player allowing
unlimited number of plays.
Prizes are being sought from local merchants and from the Pac Man
manufacturers and distributors.
Machines: We are anticipating 20 machines from local distributors. We will
be seeking the cooperation of 20 Hopkins merchants to have the machines
located in their places of business for the Tournament week. In
addition, we will be seeking the cooperation of businesses that
currently have Ms Pac Man machines on their premises to allow these
machines to supplement the 20 on temporary loan. Locations of
all machines and the hours they may be used for the Tournament will
be listed on the back of all score cards.
Validators: Volunteers acting as validators of scores will be assigned to each
machine and location during the official hours of the Tournament..
Only validated scores will be accepted for prizes or for the finals.
Headquarters: Bursch's Cafe and Nelson's Meats and Bakery will serve as the
two main headquarters locations during the Tournament. Participants
will return completed score cards to either of these two locations
and purchases of additional score cards for $1.00 each may be made
there as well.
We thank you for your time and consideration and look forward to your permission
for this Tournament.
Rick Nelso
Nelson Meats and Bakery
Co- chairman, Pac Man contest
Russ Bursch
Bursch's Cafe
Co- chairman, Pac Man contest