# Midwest Pinball Championship 2026 Finals **Source:** Fox Cities Pinball **Type:** video **Published:** 2026-05-11 **Duration:** 231m 36s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFejaA6GBdw --- ## Analysis Fox Cities Pinball covers the Midwest Pinball Championship 2026 Finals, a five-strike fair-strike knockout tournament format. Multiple players compete on T3 and Avengers machines, with detailed commentary on gameplay strategy, rule depth, multiball mechanics, and tournament dynamics. The event features live streaming with frequent discussion of shot selection, ramp combos, and competitive meta. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] T3 has RPG disabled at the tournament due to a ball getting stuck behind backbox targets during previous events. — _Commentator explains that RPG mode was disabled after a previous event where a ball got stuck, requiring disassembly to retrieve._ - [HIGH] Five-strike fair-strike format is not fun but ensures finals conclude quickly. — _Tournament organizers discuss tradeoffs of the format, noting it can extend or shorten depending on group outcomes._ - [MEDIUM] Stern drop targets on newer machines are unreliable and require stretching springs to function properly. — _Commentator mentions drop targets not working out-of-box on new Metallica, requiring spring adjustment to make them reliable._ - [HIGH] Ball saves were turned off or minimized to manage game length in the tournament. — _Organizers state 'turned off all saves. Very minimal' and discuss possibly doing same for new Stern machines next year._ - [MEDIUM] T3 ramp progression during multiball may differ between tournament and non-tournament modes regarding lane lighting. — _Commentators debate whether lane progress lights up during multiball in tournament vs. location settings, noting uncertainty._ ### Notable Quotes > "This is such a great game. I freaking love T3." > — **Matt McCarti**, early in T3 gameplay > _Expresses personal enthusiasm for the game and design quality._ > "If it's me, I'm avoiding like I don't start that mode by itself. Like I'll let balls die before I waste a mode start at the beginning if I can manage it." > — **Tournament commentator**, Avengers strategy discussion > _Reveals advanced competitive strategy: strategic mode selection and stacking for maximum value._ > "This is why I love pinball. When I'm up there and I'm playing that vibing." > — **Competitor**, after strong stack sequence on Avengers > _Captures the flow-state experience that defines competitive pinball appeal._ > "The B is one of the hardest shots in pinball, I find, to get that ball to go all the way up and hit it cleanly. That thing is a tight shot." > — **Commentator**, T3 gameplay > _Identifies specific shot difficulty on T3 as a notable design characteristic._ > "It's a Steve Ritchie game. You got to backhand the left orbit." > — **Commentator**, T3 analysis > _References designer signature style (Steve Ritchie) and specific mechanical requirement._ > "Those those uh stern drops are pretty unreliable, I feel like, in general. Like they can be pretty not they don't work that great always. You need to really dial them in." > — **Commentator discussing Stern machines**, Avengers commentary > _Identifies product reliability concern with Stern drop targets across machines._ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Matt McCarti | person | Tournament competitor playing T3 and Avengers in finals, demonstrates strong gameplay and commentary expertise. | | Andy Bagwell | person | Competitor and commentator, praised as excellent analyst. Playing Avengers in finals. Won MGC (likely MGC tournament) twice, pursuing three-peat. | | John Sharp | person | IFPA director, mentioned as receiving strikes from Dory in finals bracket. | | Steve Ritchie | person | Legendary pinball designer; T3 is identified as a Steve Ritchie game, noted for backhand left orbit mechanic signature. | | Dory | person | Tournament competitor, swept Harlem game (clean win), gave strikes to IFPA director John Sharp and others. | | Ricky | person | Tournament competitor from Chicago area, described as 'such a nice guy,' competed in T3 finals. | | Midwest Pinball Championship 2026 | event | Major tournament held at Fox Cities Pinball, finals format uses five-strike fair-strike knockout, multiple rounds. | | T3 | game | Primary game featured in early tournament rounds, designed by Steve Ritchie, praised by commentators, RPG mode disabled. | | Avengers | game | Stern Pinball machine used in finals rounds, features portal locks, multiball stacking, gem collection, and drop target skill shots. | | Harlem | game | Game played in tournament, mentioned in context of bracket results and drop target reliability issues. | | Fox Cities Pinball | venue | Host venue for Midwest Pinball Championship 2026, stream source, pinball arcade/tournament location. | | Rachel | person | Tournament staff/crew member, helped deliver water to competitors, assisted with game setup. | | Tom | person | Tournament organizer/staff, managing machines, mentioned regarding dinner plans, moving equipment (rig). | | Josh | person | Competitor, mentioned scoring 36K with one strike on Harlem, was 'second' place, described as cheating in joking manner. | | Nick Wayana | person | Competitor, known for strong jank game play, strategic picker in tournament games. | | Zach Sharpe | person | Competitor in finals, attempted Avengers skill shot strategies. | | Dan Lazar | person | Friend of tournament staff from Arizona, helping deliver water/hydration to venue. | | Metallica | game | Newer Stern machine referenced by commentator regarding drop target reliability issues. | | Globe Trotters | game | Tournament game mentioned in context of Andy Bagwell's victories, Spindler player scored 420 on ball three. | | Venom | game | Machine mentioned as being long player in tournament rotation, referenced during finals setup discussion. | | District 82 | venue | Location where Matt McCarti has played T3 regularly, mentioned for comparison to tournament machine. | | Midwest Gaming Classic | event | Larger event or location where Fox Cities Pinball stream is occurring, mentioned in broadcast attribution. | | Spindler | person | Competitor in Globe Trotters tournament, scored 420 on ball three, competed strongly against Andy Bagwell. | | Marty | person | Competitor in Avengers finals, attempting sneaky plunge strategies behind upper ramp. | ### Signals - **[competitive_signal]** Five-strike fair-strike knockout format identified as efficient but not ideal for gameplay experience; organizers balance speed vs. player satisfaction. (confidence: high) — Tournament organizers state format 'goes very quick' and can 'extend things or make things go much quicker,' with discussion of tradeoffs for managing finals timing. - **[product_concern]** Stern drop targets exhibiting widespread reliability issues across machines, requiring aftermarket adjustment (spring stretching) to function consistently. (confidence: high) — Commentator notes 'stern drops are pretty unreliable' and describes personal experience with new Metallica requiring spring stretches. Drop target failures observed during Avengers finals play. - **[gameplay_signal]** Avengers multiball stacking and mode sequencing revealed as advanced competitive strategy; players strategically defer modes to build larger point combos. (confidence: high) — Expert commentary explains avoiding mode starts early to enable portal lock and multiball stacking for 3x mode value shots, yielding 100+ million point modes. - **[design_philosophy]** Steve Ritchie design identified by signature backhand left orbit mechanic on T3, indicating consistent designer-specific gameplay patterns. (confidence: high) — Commentator states 'It's a Steve Ritchie game. You got to backhand the left orbit' and notes this pattern appears across Ritchie's games. - **[operational_signal]** Tournament organizers disabling/minimizing ball saves on machines to control game length, with plans to continue strategy on new Stern releases. (confidence: high) — Organizers confirm 'turned off all saves. Very minimal' and discuss repeating approach 'on new Sterns maybe that's what we have to do.' - **[gameplay_signal]** T3 tournament rule regarding lane lighting during multiball remains ambiguous; commentators uncertain whether tournament mode disables lane progression. (confidence: medium) — Commentators debate whether 'you can collect in outlanes during multiball' with conflicting recollections of location vs. tournament behavior, acknowledging uncertainty. - **[community_signal]** High-quality expert commentary valued by players; Andy Bagwell specifically praised as excellent analyst from whom others learn during tournament play. (confidence: high) — Commentator states 'That guy is such a good commentator. I love sitting next to him. I learn every time.' - **[venue_signal]** Tournament space constraints at Fox Cities Pinball requiring creative machine placement; tent size limitations forcing pin lineup adjustments. (confidence: high) — Organizers discuss 'tent size' limitations preventing optimal machine placement, with discussion of alternative layouts for future years. - **[gameplay_signal]** T3 center shot (B in ABC sequence) identified as one of hardest shots in pinball due to precision requirements and tight feed mechanics. (confidence: high) — Commentator rates 'That B is one of the hardest shots in pinball, I find, to get that ball to go all the way up and hit it cleanly. That thing is a tight shot.' - **[competitive_signal]** Andy Bagwell pursuing three-peat championship, having won MGC twice previously; representing highest competitive ambition in tournament. (confidence: high) — Competitor states 'Andy and I are the only ones who won MGC twice and we both want the 3P' in reference to three-peat championship goal. - **[product_concern]** Avengers Harlem variant experiencing drop target malfunction during tournament play; ball mushing into target without registering, blocking advancement. (confidence: high) — Competitor describes 'I saw the ball mush into the drop and then just leave. It knocked one drop down, but not that one. So, I'm never going to be able to find it a second time.' - **[content_signal]** Fox Cities Pinball conducting live stream broadcast of Midwest Championship finals with real-time commentary and multiple camera coverage. (confidence: high) — Stream attribution and frequent references to 'on stream,' 'Twitch,' and 'chat' throughout broadcast; multiple camera angles capturing gameplay and audience. --- ## Transcript right, good luck every All right, I got to see what I'm on. Good luck everybody watching. Hello Twitch. Matt McCarti here playing a game of T3. I actually really enjoy this game. This one doesn't shoot too bad. I'm used to the one at District 82. So we are playing in a fair strike tournament. First is zero. Oh yeah, you can see that up there. So yeah, you really want to finish first. Ricky doing his ramps. Ramps are good for a couple things. Progress you towards payback time. If you fill the one through five on the playfield, just keep hitting basically hit each ram five times, you'll get payback time, which is a million points a shot. And it also um helps you progress lighting your That's what I wanted. Left orbit. Orbit. Hey, we're in finals. We are five strike. Five fair strike knockout. Five strike fair strike. Indeed. It's not uh it is not a fun format, but it gets finals done. Yeah, it it goes uh very quick. they if they win, you know, if certain groups go a certain way, it can either extend things or make things go much quicker, you know, always seems to extend things. Yeah, but I think almost all of our games pretty played pretty good this year. Seems like Venom and AQ, no surprise there, being longer players. Yeah, like could we have done something to modify it? Probably not. Not much. Yeah, turned off all saves. Very min minimal. Well, next year I think on new that's like that's that's not the funnest. No, but next year on New Sterns maybe that's what we have to do. Breaking it down. This is such a great game. I freaking love T3. Do you go um command center all day or do you play multiball or whatever you got open to you? I never play multiball. What do you select as your skill shot? Um it depends. And on this one I should have did bonus. If it's on random, then it then it changes. But if it's on competition mode, I usually do bonus X RPG and then mystery because the second mystery is your 6x bonus X. Oh, but I already I already got that. So now I'll probably choose bonus X, my third ball. Okay, we'll see. Oh, you're in the But I'll probably take Yeah, I'll probably take RPG, my my second ball. Yeah, I never go for that middle multiball that he's going for. It's not very lucrative and it's kind of a jump shot, but yeah, I just go left orbit all day. I'll get to assault multiball. Yeah, I like going to assault, too. It's like I find it just collecting your inlanes and outlanes, right? It's all nice. And then that left your lights. Yeah. And on most copies you could actually that left orbit you can backhand it. Yep. I did today on this one. I had my hurry up. Nice. And I popped it right up there. It's a Steve Ritchie game. You got to backhand the left orbit. Yeah, I guess so. In all of his games, huh? Well, like I was saying, you know, you can go for payback time and in the same time you're lighting your your inlanes and outlanes, you know, just by hitting ramps and stuff. You know, I feel better paced this year. I don't feel as exhausted getting into finals. Maybe because I didn't play this year, but I don't feel as exhaustion by this point. How are you feeling? It's been a long day. I'm feeling pretty good. Pretty good. Yeah. I think I need to eat more, but I'm kind of just waiting for this to be done. I have some ribs from Docs that got delivered here for me. Would you like some? No, thank you. They're at the front front desk. Wasn't Tom supposed to buy us dinner? I guess, but I don't know if that's going to happen. Like, I need me not He can buy me dinner any other day only for the fact I'm tired and I want to be able to rest probably. Well, and kind of like last night, I kind of held off eating, waiting for him, and then I didn't see him at all and I never really ate. So, I I'll talk. I mean, he's around obviously. Yeah, Take a break, Rachel. I'm doing okay. All right, Steven got his super multiball. He had a good That was a good uh That was a good multiball for that multiball. All right. Thank you. A. All right. So, we got my boy, my other boy, Matt McCarti here. Nice. Uh, so catch the ball. Is he going to shoot the orbit? Nope. He's just going to keep collecting. I think that's smart. If you especially if you feel like you're ramping a ramp out, you're finding the ramps. Oh, nice catch. Come on. Oh, no. No danger. There we go. Payback. Ramp out. Stay in. Oh, son of a nutcracker. You got command center six lit is baby payback, but uh a couple little points there. Can you progress anything during T1 multim? I think so. I would think that you'd be still collect or progress your in lane outlanes towards your command center. I can't imagine you wouldn't be it'd be like anything else, right? Collecting iron. Uh not freaking not that freaking game, but like um any other game where you collect in outlanes, I'm pretty sure. Okay, Ricky stepping up for his ball too. Again, it's a we got a brutal kind of thing. We're 0112 scoring. That was a great nudge in Ricky, but he's thrilled he made finals. Such a nice guy. He's a Chicago land person. It's okay. Oh, and Harley and Dory won Harlem. She gives a strike to the IFPA director himself, John Sharp. One to Matias and two to John. Good job, Dory. All right, Robbie stepping up for his ball, too. What's he going to select? Let's see. Me, I like to lock a ball. I select that because if you lock a ball and you get two balls, it's really not hard to hit that drop and stick one more ball in there. So, like here, while the ball save is on, cuz the ball is going to come to the right flip. Oh, didn't come that way. Uh, but what I would do if the ball save is still on is I would shoot then that drop to knock it down because getting that in that center. I feel like it's much more intuitive in the right flipper than the left, but you can do it with both. That terrifying red captive ball. Sweet. Now he's locked and loaded. Just in. Nice. So now let's see if you can make some sandwiches out of some crumbs. Right. Shoot the T1. Oh, progress anything during T1. Oh, yeah. He has some answer to that. And archang pool. Nice. Yeah. So, if you take last, you're already two strikes out of five. So, it's it can be quick. It can progress quickly. Jack. And I think what's hard about here uh is yeah, it looks like you can collect in outlings during multiball, but what's hard is like Oh, just whispered up there. Um, it's that middle center shot. You know, that's the jack. Oh, I got that back. There we go. There's a super jack. Nice. Zack one. TNA. Pez right behind him. Oh man, that was the ball. Knocked the one out. Other one out. Might give him a nice dig. Got 10 million for that multiball. wasn't huge, but you know, it is fun when you can actually ramp on on the game, too. Oh, sitting down. Took second, which always hurts. Yeah, this format. It's only one strike on two. That's true. Third place, you're kind of like, I dodged a bullet. That's fine. Yeah. I'm fine. Third place is fine. Oh, it says I took third, but I actually took second. Doesn't matter. It might It might actually be the uh Oh, the algorithm could be It could be Matt or But you both have one strike, so I guess I entered it. Yeah, let me just see. I haven't heard the harp twins. I wonder if they didn't play this year. The harp twins, you know. Yeah, they usually have a nice dick there, Robbie. Unless I missed them. I didn't hear them. If they were, they were quiet, which is good. Come on, shoot a shot. There we go. He's like, fine, give me the ball. Come on, guy. We got some guy wrapping behind us. It's all right. He's got one more ball, too. Yeah, I think uh next year, same spot. Yeah, for sure. Uh and it was just because of the tent size. That's why we had to shove it in here. We couldn't put it over there. We tried. I was so happy we No, I'm glad. Yeah, it's better over here. Yeah. I wish I had like um bright masking tape or something. I could tape all of our crap for next year and say this is for pinball. Yeah. Uh nothing's labeled. We have Yeah, we have gaffers tape in the hall. I could always grab it. Can y'all hear the rap music behind us digging it? Hopefully not. Tell me, dude. Break it down for me. He is breaking it down. Steven's plugging away here. Put another ball in the lock, it looks like. You know, there's so much to brick on this game. So much to brick. Oh, yeah. There we go. But man, when you find a smooth ramps combos ramps and ramping, you hired some heroes to get me out of here tonight. I just message them. I just messaged uh my friends Rachel Dan Lazar from Arizona and then her sister and brother-in-law from Ohio. And they're actually on their way to walk over here right now with your water. With your waters. Oh, just took a little bit, but we're going to get you there. And uh no, but there are crew to help block all the crap back later. Look at him just watch. He's just standing there watching. He's like, "Come back. Please come back." Extra balls. 10 million. Yep. There we go. Oh no. plunging it away. Now listen to the music. Here we go. Get it, Matt. Get it. Four of the five guns. Matt's breaking the rap down, man. Got my headphones ready. Yay. Assault, right? With a film crew. Multi pass. VIP 2 mil. He's got 50 mil now and he's in fully in his assault still. Did he just straighten out of it? Yep. Got one ball in play, it looks like. Pez over here staring us down with his Don't give anybody any ideas. He's stuck. He's like on stream. He's stuck. Let's go, Maddie boy. See, he has two balls on play. I apologize. He's still in his assault. No, you know. Oh, man. That was a little scary kickback there. Did you see my sign in high speed today? Yes. The kickback is broken for everyone. Play on. Yep. Uh, I went in that spot three times. I'm so sorry. It's the way it is. The first time I did not notice the note until I looked up after I drained. Sorry. Hot pink paper. I know. I just wasn't looking. That's all right. I do that all the time. It was round five and I knew I was safe. I didn't care. Not so bad then. Yeah, for sure. Weapons completed. So, he would like to a right ramp here, huh? Looks like that would be cool. Cool stuff. There we go. Payback. It's payback. Million a shot. Million. Catch the ball. Recovery. Million. Not a million. Oh no. Shooting that middle. So scary. Great. That was a good game. It's got to plunge his extra ball, I assume. Shoot again. I didn't hear what Matt said. I don't know. Going to select a skill shot here. I say bonus multiplier. Oh, play RPG cuz it just gets awarded the 5 mil probably. Oh, wow. Nice. End up close to 100 mil. pretty pretty good. Yeah, 100 mil is a nice game. Ricky said he's got two balls locked. I think play RPG. No, don't play RPG. Take your 5 million. Go. Okay, one more shot. Oh, not enough. All right, settle. Let that ball settle. Let it settle. There we go. Up the middle. Beautiful. And you just shoot that same shot five times. Then you got to shoot ABC. But yeah, I mean, he get red running too. That could be nice if he gets red running. Balls are not going to get out of the way there. That'll come back. Jackpot loses that one. Okay, that's a super. Already got the super. What? Huh? How? Who? Why not? Screw it. I swear you got one jackpot and the super was already lit. Okay, now he needs the ABC. That B is one of the hardest shots in pinball, I find, to get that ball to go all the way up and hit it cleanly. That thing is a tight shot. Nails the A though. I love that. Give him a B. Oh. Oh, he gets the B. Needs a C. Oh, backhand it. All right. Settle. That feed is gross out of that lock. It's like good chance of down the middle. Yep. He's not changing his lanes. I'm going to beat him with a stick later for that. I told you. I just told I just said I just said watch the lanes. The lanes, Rick. The Okay. Well, that one was already changed. All right. Just go for multiball. And then again. Okay. There's another progress. You got two left orbit awards now. Bounce over. Okay. That's all right. I like that. Take the back hand. Yeah. Well, who wants to play RPG? It's at 5 million. I was so sad that it was disabled. It's, you know, I I Josh was telling how it's how it should be disabled and I had it on an event a while back and like three rounds in the ball got stuck behind the targets up on the backbox and and he just like looked at me and I was like, "God damn it." I was like, "All right, RPG is disabled." Cuz that's annoying. You have to like get in there and take the whole thing apart to get to the Yeah, he's got one lock already, I think. Okay, good decision there to get rid of that ball. It was going to get away. It's done for. Oh, okay. Two. Oh, three. He's back. And the rules are way different in Multiball 2. It's the middle forever. It's the same exact damn rules. Oh, are you serious? It's the same rules. I'm joking. One of those come back. Two of those come back. No one. Oh, it was come back. Wow, it's a jackpot. That's not coming. Gets a lane. Gets another jackpot. Earlier, Nick, I swear he got one jackpot and his super was already lit. Like, but now it's it's lit now for real. I like the backhand more than the forehand on that shot. If I have a choice, it's a little more doable, I feel like. Watch out for that bottom one, Ricky. Okay, nice. Good reaction. He wants that super. Oh, it's not super not lit yet. Okay, now it's lit. Probably. Yeah, it's flashing. Must time out or something. I'm not sure. Hit the super. Still time. Shoot the super suit. Oh, he got Oh, still. How the hell did he have a super lit earlier? He had five of those. It did it at the last second the drop target came up and got reit. Interesting. Okay, so Oh, maybe it's just about getting two quick shots then. Maybe it's not about getting a bunch of hits. Maybe super for you. 5 million RPG again. I don't know what the Okay, there. He's got He's in firmly in second right now. Yeah, he's about to start payback time if he shoots. Whoa. Solid ball though. Very solid. Yeah, decent chance there to avoid a strike at least. Well, two strikes to avoid a strike. He's going to get one. 01 getting one. Avoid a strike. Oh yes, my grammar is technically correct, but I know what you meant. So yeah, you are right. But yes, one strike instead of two. It was solid though. Change your lanes. Yeah, Ricky, change your lanes. We're changing your lanes. We're going to talk about this later. I ain't got time for that. Andy's got his belt out. Yep. Get the hose. I told you haven't played TNA. Yep. Force you to play TNA and lock balls on soft lunges again. Every time you don't live catch, I strike your hand with a ruler again. All right. Ball save again. So, we got a battle for uh well, I mean, everybody actually could still catch 95, but that's a pretty big score. So, Oh, now he's got though he's he's going to actually have a soul if he gets through this cuz it's going to keep feeding his lanes. So if he doesn't miss this orbit. Oh, he missed it. He missed it. Come on, Ruby. Okay, perfect. Let it settle. I like it. Oh, rush a little bit there. Post pass work. Not really. I mean, close enough. No. Yes. No. Wait. Stop. No. Oh, kickback foot. The glare was there. I couldn't see it. Okay. Assault is lit. It's gone. Football is gone. All right, so Ricky is now safe. He's going to take one strike at most. This is the final game of the run. Steven is currently looking at two, but I think as long as you plunge into bonus X, you'll have enough there to not take last. But he took mystery instead, which is also sometimes bonus X. Yep, that's that's garbage. Yeah, 100, 000 points. This is He could actually lose this here, I think, if he d Oh my god, dude. If he loses right now, I think his bonus is going to be there. Oh. I mean, RPG would get him there, but he's not finding the shot. Oh, that's going to Okay. He says, "All right, exhale." Very hard to get more than like 10 to 15 million out of this multiball, though, so it really isn't any way to get 90, but I saw it's not on like tournament settings where the lanes will credit your orbits uh during multiball. I know that's a setting you can turn on to stop that, but it's on. So, you you're watching your lanes. Uh actually, maybe I'm wrong cuz he just finished it and it didn't it didn't increase it. So, yeah, it is off. Good. Good change. can only advance your left orbits in single ball play. Oh wow. Well, he's only taken a strike, so that's good. Rabia will take two there unfortunately. So tough break for him. Party McCarti keeps it going with no strikes and we'll have next round up very shortly for you. Dory with a clean sweep there on Harlem. Josh got 36K and he got one strike. That's crazy. It was second, too. I know. Makes me sick. I heard he cheats. SMH my head. Oh, Scoopington. So, I've played I've played I think when it's not on tournament mode, you can progress your lanes. It'll give you the the lights. It'll light the left orbits during multiball. So, but but in tournaments mode, it it turns that off. You have to do it in single ball play cuz I feel like I used to play like location T3s and I would always have assault lip just from playing multiball a bunch, you know? Yeah. Unless I'm wrong, chat, correct me if so. But what? You uh you have two spike two sterns in a row. Lucky you. Player four on Avengers. Oh, I'm about to put McCarti through the wall. Strike for you coming, buddy. I bet Tom's moving the rig there, probably. Long player. Where you at? Draw some jank. Ball pool. Some jank. Yep. Nick's dangerous on the jank, though. You got to You don't pick Jen against Nick Wayana. Uh, he'll pick Jen against you. Yeah. No, that this is true. Don't waste your pick on Jank cuz he's going to pick it anyway. So, Yep. Yep. Exactly. No, we'll take FunFest. I will take Oh god, what? Yeah. Or no, it was uh was time. What was that? Time Warp. Editarium. Majoretses and uh Pand. That was a That was your bank. That was my bank. Zmac was so upset at me. He was living cuz he got knocked out that round. That's great. I love it. I love it so much. Um especially cuz it's Zmac. Yeah. But yeah, I I don't know. Ah, called it. Oh, called it. No, I'm on. I'm just getting the little extras out of the way. I figured cuz that's the long player. So I figured you were going to do that because it's a long player. So or at least it has been. I have no doubt in my mind All right, we are ready for some Avengers. Let's see what everybody's plunge strategies look like. Zach going to try to super secret skill that back lane. Let's see what's he doing. Nope, he's just going to go. He's going for the Yep. I like it. He's a little bit high on that shot. Does get a set of drops down, but it's not for a grid. So, he doesn't have anything no awards yet for that. Dude, I love I love that Hulk. the graphic of the Hulk. It just falls and then it just like rotates. It's like that's that's the best we can manage guys is the All right, we're on to reality gem without Oh my god. Well, the reality is your mode's over. See, that's why like I if it's me, I'm avoiding like I don't start that mode by itself. Like I'll I'll let balls die before I waste a mode start at the beginning if I can manage it because you just you need to get at least a portal. Like it's four combos or it's one skill plunge or one set of drops when it's on the bonus X or at least get Thor ready for it. Like you want to stack something with that at the start. In reality, it's one of the bigger multiball payoff modes, I feel like. So, it's a bummer to lose that like that without being able to stack it with anything because you actually you can replay. So, you can't pick the mode again. This is a group of no strikes people. So, someone's going to not be perfect or three people will be perfect after this round. See what he does here. Just going to take the drop when it's locked in that portal lock. He is. I like that. Classy. A classy move from Mccardi. That p that ball disappeared. He's back. Oh, he survives. Okay. Needs one more drop for his portal lock. Oh, he's a little high. Hi, Kenny. How's it going, man? Good. How about you? Oh. Oh, he didn't tilt, but he got the portal lock, too. I'm going good. Going fine. Um, I heard about your Globe Trotters playoff. Congratulations. It was a sketchy one. Yeah, Spindler made me really uh sweat that out at the end. So, yeah, I bet he does that. He got like 420 on his ball three. Like, it was like he was coming. So, wow. Yeah. He said Andy and I are the only ones who won MGC twice and we both want the 3P. True. We're going for the tall championship fight. So, yeah. All right. He missed the skill plunge there. Um, everybody's been going for that the drop target skill shot where you can lock in one of your your grids, but no one's got it thus far. It's It feels weird on the flipper. I wasn't able to find it earlier in qualifying, so we'll see if I can find it this time. You didn't play. You're just hanging out. No, my uh family's moving to Florida in July. My sister, my brother-in-law, my nephew. So, I really wanted to, but time with them is limited. So, pinball's not that important. Yeah. No, you can always play more pinball. You got your fans ready to go? I do. I have one hand fan and I have a special outfit for Denise tonight. Yeah. So, the Denise afterparty. Yep. Very excited. It's kind of tight, so I can't dance as much as I usually. Oh, he's in one of the rooms this time, right? Is it? Or he's over here mainstage for the afterparty. Yeah, he was able to survive that out lane. Oh, good nudge there to protect that. He is in mine gem. Thor multiball is lit. So, one captive all strike will start that stack. Will he get a chance to is the question. Yes, he will. Oh, he just missed the captive Dashing. There he starts it up. Tom bringing us the H2O. Hydration. Thor multiball is pretty weak scoring wise. It's more utility than anything else. And you want to just hit the blue arrows in this mode and spin the disc afterwards. All right, that's Thor ended. Back to single ball play. Oh, that was a super late grace on the ball. Yeah, it was. All right, back into Thor. I lied. So, good to know that that's like an 8second grace on that ball. So, I I knew it was there was some grace. Not that much. So, is it the portal spinner? The target behind it. So, you spin it like spin it like a little bit and then it lights the out of ball target behind it. Got Okay, now he's really actually out of Thor. So, no more. Well, there are there is other balls, the mystery target, but he's not got that. So, all right. Needs to spin the disc. Oh, actually, no. Final blows lit. He's Oh, okay. Good luck. That's not the right way to go. You're too big to fit through there. Seems like I turned off my stream. Fox Cities Pinball live at the Midwest Gaming Classic. Andy Bagwell stepping up to Avengers. That guy is such a good commentator. I love sitting next to him. I learn every time. I don't often play an Avengers that doesn't have that wire form. Guess this would be a pro then. Brutal left out lane. Andy obviously not feeling good about that. That's how I feel at most tournaments. Just I need to start playing more out of control and dumb. Like I was like everything perfect and then as soon as I had one inland outline situation, it was like immediate gone. Saw that. And I my drop target didn't go down on my skill shot. I hit the middle one and it just bricked. So that's a real bummer. There was one in the arcade hall that was doing that, too. Yeah, those those uh stern drops are pretty unreliable, I feel like, in general. Like they can be pretty not they don't work that great always. You need to really dial them in. When I got my Metallica, the new one, like the drops were like could not get them to go down. I had to stretch the springs out real far on the drop targets to get them to actually start working after that. They're perfect though. But it's just like the stock ones don't work that well. We almost dumped that in the out lane off the upper flipper. Oh my. Classic straight down the middle from the top to the bottom. So, while I was doing family time, I missed everything else. Is this semifinals? Is this finals? Finals. So, it's finals. Just a big strikes tournament. So, it's a second round of finals. So, okay. It's it's a five strike fair. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Five strike fair strike. Got it. Oh, Marty's going for the he was trying for the sneaky plunge. The one behind the uh the lower upper ramp. Just learned about that one not too long ago. Yeah. Free portal lock. So, very very hard to find that plunge. Yeah, it is. But if you've already got like your portal taken care of, it's on the drop targets. It's really worth kind of going for. He's got more portal lock. There it is. He's down now. Got two portal locks lit. So, he's going to have a three ball 3x playfield or 3x mode scoring if he starts this next mode. Oh my. That's probably going to No, it didn't tilt. Okay. All right then. Rachel pretty gracious. Yep. Rachel, I'm guessing she sets this. She set him up. Uh I don't think she set him specifically, but I'm not sure. So, all right. He's got his triple portal lock there ready to go with Iron Man multiball locks lit and with Thor lit. So, he's going to have a big big stack here. He's going to go for the Thor, I'm guessing, to stack so he keeps the multiball ball saver running a bit longer and protects it. So, he's going to have 3x mode value shots in this mode. Still good though. He's got all three still and then he starts his multiball stack. So, going to some You're going to see some big points coming out of this. Mhm. 54 already. That was a quick climb. If he he's maxed out in his strange letters, he's going to get 20 million shot almost. Oh, 12 or 13. So, still pretty nice. This is why I love pinball. When I'm up there and I'm playing that vibing. Yeah. So good. Definitely feels good to be in the flow state. Mhm. All right. He's going to be down that ball and down that ball. He is I think he's out of the mode. Is he out of the mode? I think so. All right. Pretty pretty damn solid there. 120 from that stack. Yep. 100 million for that mode. His collect is lit for the gem. Misses it just a little bit there. 11 more spins for Marvel Mystery to be Captain Marvel mystery lit in uh binary hurry up. He's trying to find that uh the gem collect shot there. Now mystery is active and so is binary. There's one shot to the binary and another shot for 10 million to that spinner. Nope, he missed it. Still got time to hit it if he wants. He does. He's trying to He's trying to go for the spinner there. He did assemble the Avengers. So, he does have uh soul gem now ready to go. And there he did turn the switch. So, he did actually get that binary award. So, we'll increase the value of his uh his um Marvel shots for the rest of the game. Party's putting the putting the pedal of the metal right now. 130 on ball two so far. 140 actually collects his combo jackpot. Oh, that was on another portal lock. Oh, he tried to trust that but it got away but still great ball. Excellent ball there from Mccardi. Can hop in for like 30 seconds or what? Yep, that's all you got time for. How's Harlem going? Uh, I took second which means I got a strike. Okay, Nick, my ball one. I plunged perfectly. hit the drop target. Rricked. I I saw your reaction. I'm so annoyed. I literally saw the ball mush into the drop and then just leave. It knocked one drop down, but not that one. So, I'm never going to be able to find it a second time. I uh I got last on pinball pulled by 4, 000. No. And uh whoever was player four put the game up on two leg or three legs. Um very slowly though. It was like a and then nothing. I was like tilt. Nope. But but it it wasn't like a it wasn't like a shove. It was just like I'm going to actually like pick up the game and tilt it. I mean he didn't actually pick up the game, but I flip tilted on Harlem. Uh, that was a hard I told you you got that's I I I was being very careful with my high bonus. All right, let's hit the drops again. Stupid pinball. Yeah. Andy wants that portal lock. See it has a Oh, but he got the secret Are we going to see the uh the clap? No way. Yeah, the software keeps saying I'm third even though I'm second. Stupid AI. There's the clap. He did it. What was your score on uh from Globe Troters? It was only 150, but first place had 650. Oh jeez. Okay. So, I was just kind of like, uh, yeah. Hawkeye challenge. Another portal. Oh, well, it'll be You wanted it. It'll be ready for him next time. You want Oh. Oh. Oh, Not going. Yeah, there are inserts cuz I can see it doesn't have a portal lock. It's not lit right now. So there are I didn't realize there was inserts on the pros like that for lighting. Yeah. So he will be in this in single ball with no ball saver and ball surge will get that out. So either knock it out or uh I don't know which one you want. Right. Like cuz I think it resets the drops too if you let it ball search. Right. Correct. So I don't think it goes back to what it was. So you're going to lose your drop progress. That's really thinking about it. It is. Huh. Oh my god. I almost said to see you. That thing literally was like on a rope to the out lane. It was gross looking. Yeah, I probably lean over and give that one a pop to knock that thing out before it gets loose. Yeah. did not count. Nope, did not get up there enough to count. Whoa. For a multiball is lit. So, he's got two multiballs lit in either shot right now. Extra ball. He's definitely focused on the Iron Man one. He's not paying attention to Thor. Yep. the hell's going on over there, Tom? Venom's punishing Josh. I don't know. Fall crawling under the tent. I don't even know. I saw a shadow over there. Bigfoot. I How? I can't believe he's not falling into the Thor at some point yet with all these flips. Yeah, the ball's gotten super close, too. Oh no. Oh, the big shove and still no danger or no tilt. Throw across. Andy will remember that. This is true. Andy will remember that. So, he's not currently in last and there's really no bonus in this game. You see there, even for a decent length of ball, like it's junk. It can be it can be big, but you have to have a long ball. So, Carter looking to pass at least 5 million there to avoid a double strike. That looks serious. Let's see how much distance Matt can put between me, him, and the rest of the field before the next uh before his ball drains. He did have a portal lock already as well, which is nice. And one iron man lock, but he's going to have to place that gem first before he can get the mode lit. Nice little shield bonus for his troubles. O, that almost got Oh my Oh no, you knew that was gone. You can see that thing coming up and over. Yeah. All right. I left me a window there because I got a portal lock that'll be lit. And I have Iron Man one multiball one. One one lock lit or one lock collected. It's a universe. I like that. Was that the the third log? It looked like it. Oh, too long. Okay. It's a million. That's not going to get in there yet. Pass player one. He needs a little bit more. I don't know where you go for it really. I guess just more locks, but Oh, he's got a He's got a note. Okay. Yeah, just take something here. That's got maybe power. I feel like power would get you Yeah. Get you a couple of shot, you know, one or two shots. Got the power. That'll spot him. A critical. It's pretty much pass. But wait. Leaning on that a little bit. Living on the edge. I don't think he's P. Is he passing now? 29. No, I think it's eight. I can't tell. Too small a font. Whoa. That was an interesting rech. He did like a whole loop around that and came back down. Yeah. Must have hit the edge of the top plastic there. Yeah. Okay. He is now firmly in third. So, he cannot take two strikes at least. and second and third does not matter. So his only real goal is is catching that. So or Mccardi. So strategy kind of changes in fair strikes. You don't need to worry about small points now. You need to you know you have to you're look for 100 million pretty 100 mil pretty much. I thought he had a bouquet of roses there for a second. I was like what? What? Bad music is playing. Hey, Francis. I don't know. Like, what your focus is right now, Nick, with this, right? I guess it's probably Avengers almost in this multiball. Like, you want to try to get them ready like and knocked out? Uh, I you know what? Yeah. I mean, he he only needs uh 14 more spins for Hulk. So, and that's it. Yeah. Honestly, I would do that cuz he's not going to get what he needs out of this mode. Multiball stack. No. All right. Spin. Yeah. There we go. And a final blow. He's going to have to survive two more shots though at least because he has to lock the ball and then or collect the gem and then place it somewhere before he can play uh soul gem. Oh, wait. Oh, we started Thor. I guess he must. Yeah, he Okay. All right. That that'll What does McCardi have? 150. Yeah, he's not going to get there with that. But no, however, he could get a fatty soul collect on his Avengers cuz he's already got what, two of them pulsing right now, I think. Uh yes. So he could continue to work on leveling them up. There was a nice big juicy spinner up there. No. Yeah. A combination of this. The ball almost flew over the flipper there with hard soul gem together. Well, we'll just gain some points from this. It's not going to be a whole lot, but it'll be some. And then hard soul gem. And uh I He might be close. Yeah. He's also got he's got double his his grid on the left. Yep. Has two awards ready for that drop, but I don't know what it's going to be. So, all right. All right. Still got to place the gem though. Yep. Tried to get that last minute Thor jackpot, but it didn't work. There's super ball saver. Hey, now would be a bad time for soul gem. Or does it pause that? Do you know? Uh, I do not know. That is a good question. He's also got Super Gauntlet running. I know it'll pause that if he starts uh soul gem. He already collected a portal lock. He's got another one, too. You know, he's kind of trapped in soul to play sold, you know. Yeah, but if he comes out of it safely, you know, you almost you almost want to make sure you don't uh Oh, I don't like that. Oh, yeah. Well, he's got ball s. Yeah, super ball s. Oh, fine. Fine. Oh my goodness. These Avengers are strong right now for payouts. Like, is that is he place it? That's it, right? Yeah, this could be big. Big big points. It's fine. Well, I mean, something counts. Is he going hard mode or normal mode? Do it. Oh, yeah. I got all fake. Here we go. Pump fake. Like the right orb is the toughest first shot. You got to make that clean. Oh, it's going to get sketch if you don't. He's down to 10 flips. Yep. All right, settle. Settle. Take a moment. Nice decision there. Way too early. Take an extra flip. Oh no. Looking bad. It's looking like maybe a zero point. Uh Oh, there we go. He gets it. Okay. Only has two flips though, so I can't miss. Okay, nice. Right. Oh, he's coming back. Careful with the extra flips. Watch the extra flips. Now he could have went out the outline there. A lot of extra flipping there at the end. Okay, now as Tom said earlier, if he gets one more spin, he's got triple portal block, so he's going to easily catch him if that if he gets that stack. Super gauntlet out. Oh, no. Good ball, though. Good ball. Very nice. All right. See what Andy can do here. He's got 65 million. Matt was at what? 150. Uh yeah, 150 something. Cannot tell. There's like a giant Andy move to the All right. And he sees he has a portal lock ready. That's his second one. No, it's his first. Sorry. Portal lock two. Oh, are you kidding me with this? He needs to spin it again. There. That did it. Almost died. All right. Yep. Right. You're playing soul gem. Oh boy. There we go. and push it. Andy clap the power. He's going for the power. Multiballs does he have close? Oh, he has his iron man multiball. Just needs one more. Yeah, that's probably what he's going to go for, I would think. This game of game of uh Venom that's being played right outside of the tent sounds very intense. Yeah, it seems like there's a lot of pushing our tent over it. Yep. Lots of loud noises, too. He's in victory laps A nice shot of Zach eating a piece of pizza or something on the square. M pizza sounds good. Oh, Andy got it. Is he there? Yeah, he did it. We We were We were distracted by the pizza eating and he he just He He Wow. Andy, look up. He's not looking up. No. You know what? I don't blame him. Oh, he'll look up. Yeah, but he won't be able to see cuz score. Oh, there he'll see. No, he he's not looking at a score. He doesn't want to know. It's like me with Matt already put in the uh Yeah. No, I saw that. It's like me with Metallica Pimple at the Zoo uh last week. I was not looking up at my score at all cuz I didn't want to see where I was and then I look up and I'm at like 1.6 billion and I started with like 300 million. Andy. Andy first pretty hiding got good hiding sliding back there. Oh yeah, end. That's crazy. So much animation scam backed up on that game at that start of multiball. Yeah, it was like 60 seconds for the ball saver even actually started to activate on that startup. I was like, don't drain these right now. I can't deal with this if all these have to be relaunched after the uh animations leave. It's so quiet without the music. Blueberry, I just think he didn't notice that Thor multiball was lit on that previous ball and his focus was on Iron Man. So, I think he was just locked in on that and didn't catch it. I mean, Iron Man's also a three ball, but you know, it's the harder one to start. So, you kind of want to make sure you I feel like it's better to stack Thor quickly because you're going to run into Thor on accident at some point otherwise. Yeah. Yellow card me for what? I'll yellow card you, Scribble. Banned from my tournaments for life. Wow. He never comes anyway. It's fine. Andy is putting his foot down. No. On Scribble's throat. Wow. I miss I miss playing with Scribble. He talks mad [] It's awesome. It's the best. I hate Andy tournaments. But you don't hate me, Scribble. Just my tournaments. You hate tournaments you can't ride your bicycle to that are like more than 3 minutes from your house. So, That's one of my favorite things is a bunch of like three or four or five people pinball have approached me over the years and been like, "You and Scribble really hate each other." And I was like, "No, no, we're actually good friends. You just wouldn't know from chat." I love the teleprompter chat thing. I can just stare right at it. I don't got to pay attention to the tournament. I did not notice it until a little bit ago and I was like, "Wow." Yeah. Tom's made some improvements. Yep. Cameras. Dart boards with cameras. Oo, fancy. That's cool. I didn't know you played darts. I didn't know you were cool. Or maybe it's auto darts. Okay. You like throw imaginary darts and it just hits like a like it's like a laser gun type thing. That could be kind. There's no actual dart. You just like the throwing motion of your hand makes the dart go through like go towards the board. I that sounds like one of those like super cheap like toys from the late 2000s cameras. True. Maybe it's watching your hand and it just like whatever your throw looks like it does that. I'm looking this up right down. Metal darts but it keeps score for you. Yeah. Okay. So, you mean like every dart board I've ever played on? Yes. They all keep score. Oh, no. That's Oh, that's totally different. Oh, well, look at that. It's got like a ring in front of it and stuff. See? Interesting. Huh. I just meant like I always had the plastic ones uh scribbled that like you hit and they scored points. Like I didn't have to calculate them. I'm aware the actual physical dart board does not automatically keep score for you. What are we waiting on? Uh, Venom. The supposed Venom. Venom. Oh, that's why Josh was sleeping on the floor. Yeah. Oh my god. Alien poker is so loud. This this game of Venom, I was telling Tom, must be pretty intense cuz there's lots of loud noises and they've been playing for a very long time. Your mother called. She's disappointed in you, Eddie. Truly a masterpiece of writing. You're bad. Why are you so bad? That one's actually pretty That's pretty on point with the movie Venom, I feel like. I thought that was a call out from Isn't that Hobbit? What is it? I I don't know. It's Lord of the Rings. I mean, but Oh, it's cuz he yelled at Gandalf. I like that Gandalf just posted up over there. He's just like keeping watch. Gandalf beat me. Yeah, he cast spells. Yeah. No. Yeah. He tried to on me last year. He got maxed. It didn't work. You know what? It it was it it was him who put the game up on three legs and and didn't tilt. He probably use his hands. He's probably just like game starts levitating. That's why I didn't tilt cuz he levitated it. There's no there's no physical movement. Yep. It all makes sense now. Anybody at MGC in chat right now? I'm guessing no because you're probably be enjoying the show if you were here. But appreciate 152 people hanging out and watching the tournament today. These are the finals. So it is a, as you see on the screen there in the top left, a five fair strike final. So once you're at five, you're done. Whoever's not got strikes at the end is your Midwest pinball champion. It's the title they give you. I'm unsure how the rest of the Midwest feels about that, but who cares? True. I found out the trophy is six foot tall, so that's going to go in my office at work, I guess, if I win it. That's definitely not going to go in my house. Why not? I have nowhere to put that. You see my little tiny trophy shelf in my basement. Where would I stick that thing in there? It's like this. It's like the size of a bread box. That's true. So, he said, "What is this?" Uh oh. Oh. Uh, clock chaos was yesterday. Oh, it's half a nick. My head is cut in half. You can lean over. I think this is more exciting than watching nobody play that pinball machine at least. So, I saw Clock Chaos was underway. It said it was in progress. Wait, seriously? I don't know. It just the match play said it was in progress. So, I don't know. Maybe they played it last night. it. Um, it's usually been last night in the past, but uh they changed the format up this year. Um, yeah, it was like I I don't know. I walked past and um uh what's his name who was running it um everyone was like ready on a game and he counted down and then everybody started playing kind of thing. I I played it like two years ago when they changed it to where it was like you only had like two hours and I I was too good. I ran out of time. I couldn't play. I was like, "Oh, this isn't very fun." Because you have to play like mediocre the whole time if you want to get all your games in. Yeah, that's that's what happened in the past. And and like Yeah, it it was just Oh. Oh, he's pointing. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. It was uh it was a lot of fun to to play Pinball the Zoo last week. Glad you all or hope you all enjoyed watching the stream. It was a good stream. If you didn't watch that stream on MC Pinball, it's it's uh the the VODs up of it. You should go watch it. Yeah, especially his semi-final match on Metallica. He got like point4 billion on ball like three. It was it was wild blackended. So Z, shut up. Zmac, get out of here. Where's the ban button? Ban him. Hi Zmack, where you at? Hi Zack. Oh, you're at that one thing. You're with the cool people. I saw you. Are you winning? We aren't the cool people. No, definitely not. I got top billing from Zmac. You got second billing. Yeah, you got an and added to it. Yeah, I only have one exclamation point. You get five. That is a lot of exclamation points. Oh my god, Tom has pizza. I'm so full. I know. Got to wait for now. Throw up. That's some weird looking sausage, Tom. That looks like sausage. That's That's cosplaying as pepperoni. It's literally cup. It's cup. Show. What does that mean? Look at it. Show Nick the pizza. Look at the Look at the sausage. Oh, it's literally pepperoni sausage. Like, it's cuped. How do you make cup sausage? What is that? Diced sausage links. Maybe they don't turn into cups though when you do that. I feel like I don't know, man. Literally looks like gray pepperoni. Oh, no. TNA. Oh yeah, baby. Oh, I'm on Oh, boy. Venom That looks Sorry. Looks a lot more impressive. Get away, Josh. Sorry. That carnage is too good. Shot it like twice and then the ball or carnage went all the way up. Miss Venom, the the flippers are going up so high. It's uh it feels like a '90s got almost subscribe to Tom. Yeah. We're going for six locks, right, Nick? We'll see. Uh my strategy is already kind of a little messed up cuz uh I hit Carnage like twice and he already went all the way up and so I have carnage multiball lit. So I'm like uh yeah, you don't want to accidentally trigger that without getting your first multiball going. I want to play. Do you want to go into the other mode so it increases the points or um I Yeah, I want to go into uh I I want to start it with uh mayhem, but um you know what? I think there's still a way. Ooh, nice. Nice nudge. Yeah, nice nudge. Just one danger. Oh, yeah. Let it rest. Oh. Nice. Nice up nudge. Oh, huge. Got the nudges from the outlines dialed in. managed to keep the ball alive there for a really long time. The ball wanted out. scream all day. Hey, I mean, he's such a troll. Oo, nice save. Uh, I mean, you got like I'm not a huge fan of that video mode. It's It's a little buggy. It feels jank. It doesn't feel It's a little weird. I mean, yeah, you got to hit targets all day to do that, right? Yeah. Yep. So, all right. All right. Show me how it's done, man. I'm going to try. Show me the strat. Good luck. All right, his carnage is lit. Let's see if he can get the stack. Aging Carl Weathers reporting to somewhere. reporting for duty. Peter Parker. My name is Eddie Brock. Our name is B. No, don't go there. Your assistant you That's it. Come on. Uh, Big Bird Jackpots, thanks for the resub. Appreciate it. All right. Looks like Andy took down uh TNA. Oh, you just missed it. You just missed the update. Missed all the good stuff. You missed your name and lights. Is that 11x bonus or something I saw in his um Ah, 300. Looking good. All three. Wow. He's at 300 and hasn't or he play Did he play a battle? I have no idea. Trying to figure out how he got 300 points without playing Mayhem yet. You play what is it? Agony. Don't ask me to explain that that area. All I know is the grit pin jamming just gifted 10 subs. Thank you so much. I'm going to start a little hype train at MGC, folks. Would that was that the plan here? I would I wouldn't mind that. Yeah, Tom wouldn't mind. Tom would mind another 800 gift subs like we had at OD. So, that was crazy. The most you've ever seen, I think, in hype train. I've never seen anything like that. Seen some good ones. 15 hype train, I think, I think it was or 16 or 17. It was huge. It was like 12. Oh, I thought it was bigger than that. I think it was higher than 12. Was it higher than 12? I feel like it was higher than 12. I think you said if it got to 15, you were going to like shave your head or Los's head. I would never shave my head. I mean parts of my head. I shave some parts of my head plenty, but my head. I'm not sure. Yeah, I'll shave Tom's head. He's cool with it. See, is he So, he's jailed into a battle right now. The goodest stream. So, he actually can't he can't get any more mayhem locks until he plays a battle. It is the goodest stream. H I'm glad everybody's liking the match updates flying in. Yeah. Oop. Okay. So, trying to get a skill shot there for another mini mode lock. Gets it. Although, it's only big points cuz he can't get any locks right now cuz he's uh maybe he can. I don't know. Tell Josh to tap him out. Whatever. He's on a He's in a mode. though. Sleeper. No, no. This is This isn't multiball. Sleeper won't. All All Sleeper does is add time in this mode in ways wasted. Yeah, I I've made that mistake where I was like, "Here comes the ad ball." And then I'm like, "Time added." And I'm like, "Screw you." Drained out of the mode and got wasted sleeper. So, yeah, you do not want to sleeper if it's not um mayhem or toxin. This my gripe with this game is like at this low level when you do tournament mode, right, your dam your damage is garbage. Yeah. So, him trying to kill this battle like it it's going to take him like so many shots to get out of it. It's almost better to just time it out and lose, but then you lose your grid. Let's see there. Yeah, he's going to lose his whole grid. He's going to lose his uh I think it's Eddie. Okay. You lose whatever characters orbs you have whenever you lose a battle like that. though. If they escape or if you drain, you lose that part of the grid. Not that it matters. He's on ball three. Oh my, that bonus. 63 million. A choice bonus there, sir. Yeah, like 60 million bonus. It was on two dangers, I think. So, I wasn't going to How did you get to 300 million without playing mayhem? Uh, I have no idea. You were like still locking balls and I walked up and I'm like, where did his points go? Did you play Carnage? I guess I I played Carnage, but I didn't play it with Peter. I I played it with Eddie. Got I I don't know. There were a lot of bad decisions that were made. I feel like Well, I think this is a good decision to pass to take take the multiball here. He's got plus one X Playfield. That's what you want. Yep. And with 2x Playfill, if he brings the Carnage stack into this, he will probably jump past Nick pretty quickly. Probably is. You got to get Carnage first. That's going to start the multiball up. Yep. Carnage is going to be important here because he's on uh he's on Peter. That was a big hit he did there. The two one more hit's going to have it probably if he hits it clean. Yeah, not enough. He's got to be focusing everything at that captain there. He is aiming at it. It looks like Yeah, there it is. Now, if he gets this shot when this startup happens, you need to spider sense then cuz the ball stays active and you'll be protected. He needs that middle ramp, though. Balls can get out in a hurry on this game. You got to be ready to He's got to get that stack quick. Oh, there it is. Spider time. Oh, does he not know to use it? Dude, that's a big miss if he's not using it now. That's the whole playfield lit up pretty much for massive points. Okay, now he's using it. Good. Good call. Although, actually, no. Okay, the ball save was still It turned off while he was spider sensing and I was like twice. There it is. Oh my goodness. Yeah, huge points. Was that like 150 million worth? Yeah. And the super is now lit and he's got it. And he's got doppelganger, I think. He already cleared it probably. So he is blown right past Nick. So wow. Just with one button press. That's pretty much he had to make a shot afterwards at least. But yeah, sure. Spider sense will award every shot on the playfield if you collect it. So once per ball you can put a white arrow on a target. I would I would put some money on Nick only taking one strike here at least. I don't think we're missing three people. He was really excited about a mayhem double jackpot. What? What was that? What was that celebration? I don't know. Well, that's toxic. I think maybe he saw that he passed Nick. Well, get back on. Get Sleeper. Use Sleeper. Jesus. He almost missed the selection. What did he get? He just had a double jackpot at the end. There wasn't even any He just We have a window in our tent. Scared the [] out of me. Yeah. I was like, how can he be there? And also at the game. Ow. Classic. Did you also burn your hand with a soldering gun? No, I burned your hand. Winninging or was it Wilcing? Somebody did. They burnt their hand with Yeah, it was Wilcening. Yeah. Andrew was doing the soldering class thing. So I' I've noticed toxin's pretty low value unless you hit that captive. If you hit that captive and you prime like the final shot, it's huge. Massive points. So, somebody's hand looks like a guy from uh Indiana Jones where Yeah. He just like burnt a little he burnt a little hole in it. So, no. No, you're not supposed to touch that end. All right. Now, if he gets through this uh and gets the super, he will. There's There's higher value now on those shots. He was like he was ready for the uh the last maybe, but it didn't come up. So, but still good ball there. Great ball. He's like all excited. What were you so excited about on that last double jackpot? You were like, "Got it." And it was like, "Oh, the point." That's what I thought. Nice. Yeah. He looked at the scores. I was so confused. Got it. Nice. He So, he looked up and noticed the score had passed. That's what he was reacting for. So, I like never look up. So, my brain could not fathom what he still two other players. True. This is true. But half a billion's nothing to sneeze at on Venom. So, you know, you feel pretty good about that. I feel like Yeah. Yeah. Looks like the other two players haven't been doing much yet as far as this game goes. So, it's it's a feeling like a pretty safe, you know, for the for Alex there. I feel like you never know though. One danger. Okay, we're playing some Venom. I like it. He needs that center ramp to get the blue to let the game back into place. sides slid it to the right pretty far. Nice. Except that's polite. Very. Yeah, you can't touch TNA with your fingertips. Ricky still Ricky's still going. I think he took a strike, he said. So, you just had to take not Oh, he got he got first. Nice. He was holding up one. I I took him to mean one strike, not uh not first place. Okay, four locked. I No, I think you skip. You skip there. Skip it. Well, you're trying not to take last, I guess. So, that's fair, actually. Sorry. You're Yeah. If your first goal is not to take last, get distance between you and the player four. You're right. Did not hit a switch yet and still hasn't. But that will start up the multiball. A natural Your taxes are due, Eddie. I need more call outs added to this game. Doubleganger is lit. He needs that inner horseshoe. Just needs to tickle the opto. Usually a ball will fly in there at some point. Tickle, tickle, tickle. Not yet. Got too many. Still not. There it is. We're actually hurry pretty low there. So, it's going to not add a lot to doppelganger if he gets the doppelganger. But that's a tall order to get doppelganger. I feel like at this point what lights doppelganger in Oh, is it infected? Just number of infected you hit. Yeah. Okay. Oh, no. Oh, nice. Wow. Ultimately worth nothing, but that was cool looking. Super lit, but he's not going to It's going to time out, I think, on the grace eventually. Still time to shoot it. Oh, what? It's still lit. Why is it still lit? I think it's lit for like 10 seconds. Oh, it's like a timeout thing. Oh, that's Oh, just barely moved it. Can't move that wind. Is that Josh sleeping behind the tent? Yeah, probably. It is. It's his little cubby hole back there. Josh. Yeah, he'll bite you if you enter that. So, you got your arm in there. All right, Danny. Let's see. She's got locks lit still. Whoa. It's okay. Ball save is active. Whoa, that was cool. All right, so Nickel will take a strike. Uh, John will take a strike. Danny will take two strikes. And Alex is safe. Danny is out with that. So, you here tomorrow, Tom? Are you going back today or what's your plan? No, I'm here tomorrow. Tomorrow. You tend to stay till the end or you just hang out for a couple hours and go home or I have to stay to the end and help clean up. Oh, well, not clean up, but like kind of get the broom out. No, not that kind of clean up. Break down. breakdown. Nice. Help with the electrical stuff. How far are you from home here? Like an hour. It's about two little less than two. Thank you. No strike candy. I am clean so far. I just managed to give Dory one there on on TNA. So yeah, Dory's been playing great. Fantastic. Yeah, she left me two balls in a lock on TNA, though. It was very kind of her. So it looks like we got two people out now. Yep. Next round you're going to probably see a big exit cuz you got decent number with four. I don't want to be one of those people. That's true. Are you on the You're on the cut line. I got two strikes. High speed with Tom and Dory and Rivia. Oh, great. It looks like a good match. Go get the paper, Tom. Oh, yeah. No. What' you draw? I'm going to put I'm going to put on uh play at that tiebreaker against Black Knight. Just play like you did on that tiebreaker against me at St. Louis. Tom go to some high drama round. I'm guessing going to find some match that's uh do or die. People getting eliminated now on the cut line. Somebody yelling no as he goes to Black Knight. That definitely sounds like some people on the cut line. I do. Oh, what a pretty machine this Black Knight Pro is. What a fun game a pro is as well. We haven't played it all this weekend together. Yeah, there's some hot some some high drama. Only one person's getting eliminated, though. So, two people are going to go to four, but only one person's getting knocked out. Oh my god. Keep your hands on the flippers, Phelps. War can get huge if you can collect the first set pretty quickly. It's nice to start it in multiball if you can, but um otherwise it doesn't get massive, but it can definitely be good points. You collect all three of those white arrows and then the center target will light again for a final hurry up collect. It's like the value of all three of them. So, it can be pretty good points if you get through it quickly. That's going to be gone though. And it's tilt. Fly away. Yeah, Trey is blocking out the rap music with more rap music. Now I don't know what he's listening to. Just kidding. So, excuse me. He's got his lock lit. Nails it. So, shake it. Try to slow it down when it's coming down there. It's not a bad spot to be. Whoa. I have not played this so I getting away with murder on the sterns today. Andy's walking away from high speed with his hand up. He's got to remember you have the Magna save, but it's on the lock down bar and he's not going to be able to use it there. Mike's up. Mike's been playing really well. put up a good 650 on uh Harlem earlier with me. looks like uh he can light his mode if he goes up the ramp, but he then he's got to hit the uh under the shield. Yeah, that one just kind of floated on him. Kind of sucked cuz he had the war hurry up going too. mouth. Heat. Hello everyone. I'm sorry for like, you know, nobody in the booth, but you know, we're playing pinballs here at the Midwest Gaming Classic. Welcome to it. I am Rachel Risto. This is my tournament. Um, the pinball Midwest uh gaming Midwest Pinball Championship. Uh we it is two qualifiers and uh five rounds each and then match play and then we have a five strike fair strike knockout and we are in round four of that. So, if you're joining us, welcome. We've got Trey Whoop got Trey Vance got that super skill shot. Uh, and he's playing um they're playing Black Knight Sword of Rage. Hey girl. Hey Gio Hammer. Hey friends. Yeah, this is the only open that I run. Uh, otherwise I just do women's pinball. Uh, it's a crazy ass freaking venue here. I don't know if you can hear music in the back, but we've got, you know, there's a stage, there's wrestling, pro wrestling, there's chess tournaments, there's just all sorts of cool action going on here. So, I hope that you get here. Uh, nice use of the Magnus save. I can't ever remember that. So, Trey, you're definitely still the better pinball player than I am. I got Pez out here drinking his diet root beer. I think he's high on the diet root beer. He's staring me down outside the booth. Nice little tip over to the left flipper. What I really came on this stream to talk about is this year we actually have a top female player trophy and uh we had two women that qualified into finals and Ripley just dumped out. So Dory is our winner. God, are you still playing that high speed? Are you done? I was done before it started with the broken kickback. I feel like the music just is increasing. Trey is rolling though. Look at his game, man. Rolling with He's like black knight sort of rage. No problem. That's a my skill set. Oh, it's Alex who's rolling. He's at a Oh, he's Alex. Sorry. He was looking at the wrong player. Still, Trey's making things and make a run for it. He's trying to ensure he doesn't take two steps. Nobody wants that here. Nice. All right. Resets his uh jackpots Nice tracing. Uh, good flow here. Yeah, hellhand's not my favorite. Nice shot. Nice. That was a good decision. Hit the power there. Light the rest of those shots for more points. Okay, nice. All right, extra ball for some points. It's at 133 million plus the extra ball, I think. Unless it already gave it to him. No, I already gave it to him. He's going for the mode. Nice. relights his uh oh, he he really he relit his uh left out lane save there, but uh really good effort to try catch up to Alex Phelps, but unfortunately uh just fell short. Trying to keep it alive here off the slingshot post. Gets it on a flipper. He's going for the log here. He's going to need two more of those. He's going to have to hit the side target first, but probably wants to get his mode going as well. 3 million. All right, so Alex is out. Alex, Charles, and Mike's got a lot of work to do. Lich lords are lit. It looks like it's one. See if he can get into a mode and then stack it with the multiball would be huge. All right, looks like we're going multiball. All right, he's hitting that uh left spinner into the saucer. Prime is uh at a ball, which he does now have. Heat. I think he's in the single ball player. No, never mind. Was it in the shield? Oh, left saucer. Interesting. like this. A gift for you. Can't quite seem to hit that center. Uh went for the center and drained and he is done. He's going to take third but only a strike. So, he's still playing. And that should, I believe, be the last one of the round there. Andy still strikeless. Looking good. We got We got some people exiting. Looks like uh Looks like I'm in trouble. All right, it's going to get uh less and less I get started. It's probably going to be good. walked away. You got to put it down there. I'll meet you there. Jesus, that was dumb. Good job. Not you, Tom. That a boy. Uh hello there. We got the wrong group, but uh I think that we didn't realize that we're still looking at standing. Sorry about that. So, we are on main. Um, let's see if I can look at his. Man, he's got the most ginormous screen. You know, if I could find out on here where to link it, I would, but I can't. So, I won't. And so, here I am. But, we know this. Everybody should here watching the stream should know who this who this player is, right? Any guesses out there who this player is? I mean, Great first ball, Tom. What a killer. Is that a He's got 100 million on his first ball. Sweet. I'm doing the laser load. I do that sometimes in real life while playing, too. I did I don't know how to um adjust the group, but I did pull it back up cuz you're on most of your game, unfortunately, was on the standings. Oh, no. But it's okay. Everyone Are you serious? Are you serious? Yes. But here's the thing. I was just so committed. You had you you did you did the right thing. You forgot about the stream and you just went and played. Do you want to change the player group, though? No. Okay, sure. I'll just write it on with my finger, but I don't have my phone, so I have no idea who's playing, so you know. Great first ball. Thank you. Was it assault? I got assault. I got payback twice. Yeah, nice job. Thanks. We are in a a murder match kind of group. Yep. Got to win it. 54 months and he's in my group. Oh, no way. Hey, Pez. That's great. Good timing. 100 million a bomb. What? They should call him the Tminator. Tomminator. Dominator. I'll be back. Okay, so Zach is rolling here. Let's put another a ball in the lock. Maybe two. Not pacing. Pacing. I can't talk anymore, Tom. And I'm sober. Um, playing uh not playing paying enough attention. Goodness gravy, man. It feels something so good about just ramping out. Oh, boom. Sorry, guy. No ball save on that, but got some uh little work done. I think he's from the Quad Cities, I think. I think he I think he plays in uh actually in Minnesota, right? Sure. Close to it, I guess. I don't know. Yeah. Bill Dog, you're right. This is him. This is who we're talking about. That's Pez Johnson right there. You can follow him on Pez Johnson on Twitch. He streams em. Matt Carter with the win on Globe Trot. Oh, Matt took two strikes. No, this is not the game that was in Pez's basement. It was old Chicago. Well, maybe he's got this game in his basement. I don't know. Cruel. Normal. Oh, it doesn't make me feel better if he has this is his game. No, this is this is Patrick Vanig's game. Oh, okay. Yeah. Which I think No wonder why it shoots so amazing, right? And it's going to go to Peter Goen's house, I think, after. Okay. Maybe I can put out my initials and Peter will be like, "What? What?" Just three balls like that. You doing okay on your gum supply? Yeah, I took a piece. Thank you. No problem. It's time. Are you hydrating? Did you finish two bottles of water? I ended up giving a bottle to Andy and Ken. Ken took off after 30 seconds of giving it to him. Nice. I thought he was staying around. I don't that might be Andy's got to hydrate. Try him. Yeah, he streams modern games, too. Yes, cuz he streams Looney Tunes, right? Um Yeah, he he won uh Looney Tunes from uh I think a Project Pinball, he was telling me. Yeah, he's really funny. Jesus, he's been creeping on us outside the booth today. We did that a couple times at staring. He knows this. just being weird. It It awarded them the lock, but the ball is stuck behind the drop target. Will the ball start shovel? Uh, it should. Apparently, not down this drain, though. There we go. He He literally pointed at it and it moved like magic. Like a wizard. I hate that when you hit that cap ball. Least favorite shot in the game. I like these Richie flow monsters. Mhm. Ramping and ramping and ramping. It feels so good. Oh, we're going to start jam. They're jamming. Started sound check. Testing one. Two. Civil. Testing two. Testing. That's our family thing. You know, my my mom's made a name. Testing. Yep. That's how Amy fits in. Yep. All right, that should give him 5 million for the RPG. A fake 10. Why does it do that? Why does it give you half of what you could possibly score? Uh, yeah, I guess so. It's always 5 million from what I've seen. Same thing. I don't think we're going to get out of here till like 8:00. I know. Which means I'm not going to get out of here till 9:00, maybe 8:30. I got people. Got the peeps. I got people. They're going to come back around at 6:30 and see where we're at. Okay. And I told them they're probably going to be like, "Screw those guys." No, they're they are committed. Oh my god, it's offline. All right, I'm running over there. And three of the four of them seem pretty sober yet. No, not you. Not you, Matt. No, not at all. No. Matt, Alex, and I were met Tom at 7:30 this morning and to haul his streaming gear. Went to the garage, got it. Matt got his stuff at the garage. It's been a pretty early morning for us and we're still going here. Tournament actually starts at 9:00 a.m. MGC does not even open until 10:00. So, and the show is winding down a little bit. Closes at 8:00. We've never had a problem close getting it done before uh 7:30. So, we're going to cross our fingers that um we make it happen. And we only ran uh 15 minutes late. Just the tie breakers take longer. Or maybe next year we just have to space it out differently or elim reduce the amount of time for our qual or for qualifying practice. I don't know what was that, Tom. Destroy the T-Rex for good. Final battle. Let's go. Yo, so he collected all the things. to play final battle. So, it's like a mini wizard. So, we collected super jackpot RPG escape. Can't read all of them. RPG. What else? I don't know. Uh, I would like to make mention that I believe that uh Tom is robbing all of the power out of the flippers and uh but play players two, three, and four are suffering from it. Then then they cool off and then he steps back up on it. Yeah, I think that's he's he you got to be in a twin this round, right? Yeah. Well, for sure. Yeah. And I and like this is the only copy of Terminator 3 that I ever play. Well, it's not. This one's actually from private collection. Oh, well. Okay. So, this is one or the one from D82. This is one of two that I play. Yeah. And that's like once a year. Yeah. I love this game a lot. I like it, but I I never get to I never play it. Uh, I actually played at chosen for women's state this year and I had a house ball, my first ball, but I came back and won the game, but it's the worst, you know, just the worst. I've never done that before. I feeling so confident about it and that just And then we got the chatter from the uh Joker poker next door. It's just going going down. Oh, I got Hang on. eat an old PEZ. I I only have new PEZ. I got PEZ to give away to people. So, if you happen to be at MGC and you happen to be seeing me around, I've given out a few. I ordered some from Amazon before I came here. Had them shipped to my sisters and I didn't have to drive them across country. Travis is not in this tournament now. Oh, you know, just Tom getting through the weapons. Nothing. Nothing to see here. Tom doesn't want to go home. That's the thing. Tom, five strike tournament. We're all It's this is a win or go home type of situation. top 16 though. I ain't ain't too mad about it. I'm feeling fine. Actually, I wasn't even sure I was going to play in the tournament. Rachel was just like, "Hey, for bringing in the game, I reserve an extra space in case we fill up for my gra game bringingers." And I'm like, "Oh, okay. I'll I could pay $25. I can get in. Only top eight is going to get paid." So, There's a chance. I mean, Tom can do this. I can do it, right? There's a result on TNA. Holy cow. Yeah. Oh, in Yeah. We won't get a copyright strike on this one, I'm sure. 105 final battle. That was his score at the end of ball one. I'm about to tap him. I can't tap him, but I'm about to. That was the game that was right next to uh Terminator 3. Is Stern doing uh karaoke in the background? No. Uh this is uh many different acts. You know what they do have is uh they had amateur wrestling. Well, not amateur like amateur pro wrestling, semi-pro wrestling, whatever. They had wrestling in the um vendor area in the back corner and I guess they had like two shows and then they took that uh wrestling mat out, the wrestling ring. They took that out and they put in a halfpipe. So now they're doing like BMX halfpiping. Yeah, th this show is this show is fantastic. Oh, that's all right. I mean, he kind of knew. Um, no. This game or this uh this show is fantastic because you know it grew from the roots of having like retro gaming and then pinball got involved and then card games got involved and this is the 25th anniversary of the show and it it's a it's a lot of fun. It's worth driving a, 000 miles. Uh Tom, that was another good ball. Thank you. Um I I I'm going to unsub now. I was hoping somebody would stop me. I mean, I could, but I have no jurisdiction over this. No, I know. I can't find the ramps. I don't think Josh stops anybody anymore. I You know, it's it's tough to do it. It I always get that weird weird feeling in my gut where I'm going to be like, "Somebody's going to come back." Yeah. It What do we do with that ruling? And it's like, well, those two people both win. And I think in a in a go a 011 tournament. I just want to pack up. You're just going to end the stream like that? Just be like, I said I would stream till 6:00, No, I just know it gets crazy once the afterparty starts. Oh, yeah. I mean, I I want a shot at taking down some Fox Cities Pinball stern insider connected grand champs that I see out there. And I didn't put any up. I thought I thought I saw one on Falling the Empire. Oh, was it? Was it still up there? Well, I don't know if it was today, but it was there yesterday. Cuz I had a really killer game and then I looked and I'm like, [] cities, man. I think I only put up like half a half a bill. So, it's definitely achievable. Yeah, it it was something like that. Alien Poker sound card works again. Tom's got to be the first one here and the last one to leave. All right, so Zach gets a better ball, too. Yep. We should shoot here and here. Shoot here and here. Yeah, I've never gotten to the final battle before, so that was Oh, nice. Cool. It's kind of spectacular when you have to do it in order to avoid getting eliminated or something like that. Yeah, I had done uh Alien Invasion on Simpsons for the first time back in August at D82. Yeah. Oh, at D82. Wow. Eric uh Eric took that game out, but he he just recently brought it back. Oh, nice. Okay. Wow. I saw no warnings. Now you can move it. Well, this changes everything. Yeah. Look, Tom could have kept on. Wait, that I still don't see a danger on that. He moved it and put it back. Yeah, it's those things. All right, I'll be back. Play good. No, I don't think you got a J. Did I really didn't? I don't think so. Dang. Can we get this game out of here? Can you take that one, too? I'll be right there. I just realized I had to do something. Uh, Tom Graph, I know. No line, no waiting. I'm coming. Uh, did you guys see that at all? I did not, but they did. Yeah, it uh it went up the ramp. Oh, it killed it. That's all right. It went up the ramp and I don't know. It just jumped and it jumped everything. And it's like uh I I didn't know that was possible. I felt really good about hitting that ramp and it's just like I Yeah, imagine ramps working. Oh, good. I mean, good game, Joe. Good game, Tom. Thank you. Yeah, good game. I'm a little upset, you know, but you know, you're still probably going to get like 28 million for this. Andy Bagwell steps in shoot anything. The fir the funny thing was the first ball I think I talked to Josh while he was playing a couple balls. Yeah, cuz Joker Poker was having a good time and they were having a talk fest next to us. I know. I literally said, "Oh, you're back. Now the loud music is playing. Yeah, if it sounds like we're shouting. Yeah, even jump the kickback. That was a good time. Good time. Too bad I can't like go over there and just turn them down. Yeah. Hey, can you guys keep it down? We're trying to have a contest here. We don't care. It's all good. Good game, Zach. I played Zach like four or five rounds. like the Xware and like we just were like in the same same category for the entire day. Ah, thanks Kiwi Frenzy. Appreciate it. Thanks for the sub. 48 months of the reset. Both relaxed. I I've had like two weird pinball events on this game is that that first lock that I got went behind the drop target but didn't go in the scoop. Yeah, I saw that. And the drop target you literally pointed at it and it went down. Well, cuz I was just like, wait, should I wait for a ball search? Cuz I'm like I don't want to drain on the ball search. But at the same time, I was like, you kind of have no choice. Yeah, I I'll give it one because I'm pretty sure somebody's going to tell me to give it one. Yep. Yeah. This is the show with the wrestling, too. Yeah. So, they have that in the vendor hall. Yeah. They had that and then they set up a halfpipe and they were doing BMX halfpiping back there the last time I went back there. BMX, not like uh skateboarding or No. Well, they might have been doing skateboarding, but I only saw the biking and I'm like interesting. I've been stuck here all day. I went to go get Wild Bill's root beer. Oh, yeah. How was that? Oh, it's delicious. Good stuff. I'm glad I remembered to bring my uh your mug. my mug from I think four years ago. I don't even know if I still have my mug. Yeah, I remember I lo I forgot to bring it last time and I was like, "Oh, I didn't even think about your soul was crushed." It was cuz I was like, "Well, I'm not paying another 60 $80 for it." Nice. Oh, nice. He's coming. shouldn't have tapped. So, I'm starting to think Uh, yeah. I don't know the song. How long have we been playing this game? A little bit. All right. 33 minutes. It's not terrible. All right, go do it. I'm going to give you the option of saying the thing you're not supposed to say to me on ball three. What's that? Everybody in chat knows. Okay. It's the one thing that's my Achilles heel. It's when I go up there and somebody says, "Oh, you got this. I'm I'm done. But I will allow it this time." There he goes. Ball three magic coming up. Right. Put the emotes in chat if you're a a Pez Johnson fan. I can't hear myself think anymore anymore. Oh no. All right. Well, at least he made it. Uh, less painful for everybody, I guess. As you can see, top eight get paid. So, we're getting we're getting close to that. I got to survive another round, I think. Hell, I got to win the tournament. What am I talking about? Just kidding. All right, what do we got here? Wait, no results. I'm going to get ready to move the rig. I'm going to That's good stuff. Oh, you know I did not have this. I I mean that's exactly what it is. Green chili 100%. Brooklyn, you you were not honestly incorrect about No. So I Terminator 3 stands for three pinball moments. I I All right, sounds good. Uh, but it was inches away from that scoop. It was I thought it was in actually. I thought I thought it had gone in and then it starts rolling back and I'm like, gosh dang it. All right, five strike tournament. One person is not going to Well, no. If Andy loses, he gets two strikes. He goes to four. So, this is a good place to be in there. I don't want to say that I kind of give up on the ball, but That's just a little distracting. Oh well. See, look at that. Look at that. Josh, get the heck out of here. I want that game back. Have uh have Josh show off his cube skills. Connor was here for the cubing event. I think playing against Connor was the first time I played against him was good. Uh-huh. Didn't get on a scoop, did it? Still counted the jackpot, though. What's the other game that they're playing? I didn't even see this is out. Oh, tight 15th. Tight 15th because I came in last. Bummer. Uh oh, the we're down to top nine. Black Knight's sort of rage and alien poker is being uh played. I can now hear alien poker now that the music is ceased. The sweet sounds of alien poker meta night man. Oh, thank you for re subscribing for 12 months. I would say it was always appreciated and never necessary, but you know that this is Tom's stream, not my stream. Um, what's with the three kickbacks? Uh, okay. He got to use my kickback that I got jumped on the ramp. It owed it owed a player a kickback or three. Josh. Yep. I'm in the booth now cuz I'm out. But that's all right. I got terminated on T3. But really, it was a win or go home situation and Tom just put up a score that was nearly uncatchable. So, at least especially for me who has really no idea about playing this game. I never get to play it. So, Tries to go for the mystery or I'm sorry. He tries to go for lock. So, will he go lock? Will he go ramp? He will try to go around. Ah, didn't get in the scoop now, did it, Josh? Josh survived. There you go. Way to recover. Yeah. Make sure you uh realize the condition between find out how many how many times out of 100 does the ramp jump. Got to be sloppier than that. Dave got to be sloppier. He takes the TX challenge. TX shoot anything and gets the 2 and 12 mil and the weapon which is probably more important. Right into the lock. I'm not bitter about the lock. I mean, I'm a little bitter about the lock. Okay, I'm a lot better. I should check out my other games, too. I I brought a pre-war game, which Burrs is really nice enough to kind of Burrs and his crew are nice enough to watch over for me. Two more to go for red. I don't think it's worth going for, but you know, if you're going to get I mean, you were going to get that shot anyway, right? Oh, that didn't go in the lock. Mhm. That didn't. Good job. Ball two. Did I show Tom my T3 mod? No, you've got my T3 mod. I hope it works out. Yeah. Locks out of everything else. Free burn. I will tell Burrs that you said hi. But Burrs, Jesse, and Cliff are the ones running the pre-war part, and they were like, "Hey, can we put this in?" I'm like, "Yes, that was my entire intention. Please." So, I got the pre-war game here. I got jumping jack, which people have commentated on my uh artistic skills for the back glass because I left the uh handdrawn artwork that I had for the showdown. Hit the super react bot before uh getting out of uh Oh, that was nice. It fell into the back there. 4 seconds gets one and a half million. One more for payback time. That would be the left ramp. Get it. Oh, nice shot. There it is. It's payback time. Million points a shot. Keep shooting them. Oh, and gets a lock on top of it. That's nice. I didn't know that was possible. Come on, slings. Be nice. 10 seconds to go. I wouldn't have backhanded that. Oh, I think he was going for the lock. He did hit the target, but then came back out Nice man. Steps up. There's a splattering of applause for the band. All right. Sets it up. Goes for lock right away. This lock is this feed from the lock is actually very favorable despite what happened to me a couple of times, but a lot of people will say only backhanded, which it goes into the same area. So, okay. See, wasn't trying to curse Andy, but All right. Locks are full. So it virtually locks his drop target likes the lock. So that's a that's a good feed that he's going to light them up here. Back hand to the lock shot. Nice nudge over super jackpot. That was also at the lock shot, by the way. Another lock shot. He gets the achievement for getting the super jackpot. Oh, that lock shot didn't all go all the way through. How's your game, Tom? Terrible. Oh, no. I'm out. Oh, that's No, Tom got alien pokered. That's fine. Didn't deal enough jokers. That one played rough because it's missing the gate at the top. You know, was weird? Like people were going through the in lane and like it was lighting all the kings, which I never seen before. That's weird. Or at least like three of them. Oh, multiple shot. Well, the the district 82 one like that rightmost king would like double count if you like switched it quickly. So that does it. But I've never seen the lane. I never seen the in lane do it either. Journey switch maybe Bagwell is feeling the beaker. Yeah. Cookie clicker. Yeah. Tom. Yeah. I have I had my moment on T3. Yeah. I decided to exit. It was a solid moment. Not not to say that you got help from, you know, little pinball moments, but No. Hurry up, Andy. I want to go home. That's it. Tom's over. Yeah. Pack up the stuff. Stream's over, guys. Thanks for watching. Get a letter in a couple of days. Click the link. Click the link and follow along in match play to find out who wins. I do that at my bowling alley tournament is that if I get knocked out early, I'm like, "Well, tournament's canceled. Good luck getting your money back. I might decide to roll it in the next uh tournament. TD 2 TD preferences, right? That's right. That'll teach you. S and it calls the bonus X. Yep. Some mystery. There is a max to the bonus multiplier, isn't there? I thought 10. 10. Yeah. Hurry up. Boom. Now's at full value. And then get another command center. Video mode. No, cuz he didn't get the hunter. No, it's fine. I mean, he's getting enough points in the game any Yeah. I mean, it's no 200 million true tap out after ball two, but I mean, it's only ball one. And I believe Tom ended with like 105 after ball one. Pass. Oh, then yeah, he'll probably Yeah. Yeah. Power surge. That's what I'm saying. Mhm. Man, it's forever in the pops. That's the second power surge in that one trip to the pops. Who Who set up this game? I mean, I'm surprised he's not headbanging to all this. Not yet. Anyways, I hope the clip of you guys dancing came out well. I just hit the button. Oh, the ABC. I forgot he's got to do that. All right. Left ramp for payback time. Blitz or Blitz? Yeah. What? It was like a whole game ago. Was a blur. He just keeps on adding time. I'm just going to kick Andy in the back. I'll be right back. All right. Tom's afraid of the score because Andy right now is on par to overtake his uh his score from last game. Yeah. Get the bag. Get him a body bag. Yeah, there's the extra ball. He's got one more that he's got to do. Oh, nice. Yeah, there's the assault. He's got all those weapons. He gets them all collected. Now he's got to shoot the TX. What? I I don't know what the band said. Shoot the left orbit. He did. I saw him do it. This is the point in the game that I've never been at. I mean, I hardly get into like the multiball. Yeah, RPG usually gets set off for tournaments. Terrific ball, Andy. 21 million going out the door. Josh Sharpe steps up finally for ball number two. Yeah. So, the replay was at 120 million. Luckily, Andy got that. Feedback, guys. Come on. Nobody needs that. All right, again going for lock shots. Sends it right back up the lock. So now into the multiball. Oh, let the man have a ball. Let the man have a ball. played against uh Josh on Rick and Morty a couple of rounds ago and he says this is the first time I played Rick and Morty and I'm like what I mean he didn't get like the big big points on it but he got enough on that game. Thank you. H bit me so hard. To separate the cradle, but was able to hold on. Dory with no strikes. Black Knight. She got awarded the top female player of the tournament because she's the last female to survive and she's still playing. Outstanding job. That took that seemed like it took a little bit of time to get that super jackpot. All right. Yeah, there's Josh talking to the game. We can finally hear him. Oh, he's also in payback time. Interesting. Is he going to be able to send something up the B ramp? I mean, he does need it, but 2 seconds on payback time. Oh, and he drains at the same time that it ends. Got 10 shots out of it. Not bad. Now you've got more food. I'm hungry. I I know. But that looks delicious. He's got ice cream this time. It is ice cream. Had a smoothie last time. Ben and Jerry's. Oh, is it really? Oh, wow. I figure I should drown my sorrows in food. Oh, man. Oh, going for the lock shot gets rejected. Andy can't give me one thing. Matt steps up to the game like a poker dealer, slapping the hands and showing that both hands are empty. goes for the ball lock on the plunge. Okay, lock is lit. Oh my gosh. Uh, somebody type up. Shoot the target. Shoot the target again. I've heard you need to shoot it three times and then you need to shoot that shot again. That's what I've heard. Me, I've hit the target and other things have happened. Let it go, Dave. No, not until I get back to Colorado. And even then, this game and I are not friends. Was this your game? It's not your game. No, no, no, no. But you have one. No, no, no. Like I say, we don't have one nearby. Oh, okay. So, the only ones that I've really played is District 82 and then this is a private collection. Uh Okay. District 82 is like the only play that place that I've actually played it. So, Sorry. Oh, nice. Did you break your back, Nick? Okay. Yep. Hits the brick shot and gets paid for it. But that's all right. That's all right. At least he took a shot at something. He wants the uh he wants the rocket propel grenade. Ah, took the bonus. Naka ball. Why not? What's he going to do? He does. He wants the 5 million. Kaboom. All are collected. The final battle is lit. Hey Tom, I've heard you've done the final battle before. How was it? Very fun. Oh, okay. Andy says he's going to light them up now. We'll see. CNK has a a Terminator 3 and that's why CNK likes to see Terminator 3 in terms all he wants. He's getting double the T3 today. Well, and I really hope it doesn't get picked next round. Mhm. Finisher. Good job. I did that. You did. You did do that actually. You You did that. I remember hitting a lot of super jackpots or what I thought was a lot of super jack. There's a jackpot. There is another jackpot. This is the classic Steve Ritchie everything is lit type of mode for, you know, getting to the end of the game. So everything has to be lit. Yeah. But you really just want to shoot it up the middle. Yeah. Million million. That was good. That guy's got four balls in play. Now he's got two. Just Just like that. Was there an animal? Uh, it sure felt like it. I think there was. Nice backhand. I didn't even think that kickback was lit. Apparently, it was lit. Good thing I wasn't playing Andy on this. Yeah. Yeah, cuz he got you on ball, too. That's [] Well, I would have had him on both. No, I wouldn't. Would you though? I just said I wouldn't have T3 baby game. Uh, I will say it's not. I'm still waiting for somebody to have a pinball moment. Yes. That that that was a a T3 moment. Technically, I beat Josh on this. Yes. Yeah. Andy made it look that way. Tom made it look that way, too. Also having some familiarity. I'm sure Marti would have made it look that way. He loves T3. Yeah. I mean, there there are certain games that when you know, you just know how to play them. And if you can make that finite adjustment on a location that maybe you're not familiar with or somebody's whatever, you know, I think that's one of the things that I always struggle with is that I'm very familiar with a particular location's game and I could be like, "Okay, I know that I can hit this shot." Josh is Josh might get eliminated here. Okay. It's getting sketch. Oh boy. Just just loop out. Just take the left. Did he choose a bonus multiplier? Uh, that's a good question. I don't That's That spots a weapon. Probably does it right there. Yeah, got a million for a complete. Yep, it's past Josh. So, he's he's still playing. I don't like this mode. And that's the reason why. Yeah. And he actually played it like twice and he just like got into it and then he almost got all the shots but wasn't able to do that. Thanks, Josh. Are you taking off, Josh? All right. You're going to be around for a while. Final four. Uh, you you get money. You get money. Congratulations. Now, I want to give you a PEZ dispenser, Josh. I better go stop him. Hang on, guys. Stop playing. Make me. Do I have to give you a tutorial on this like I had to Josh? Okay. Never flipped it like that. Besides that's what it said. Now I've owned one for two three or four years. So Oh, that's right. Yeah. Which is bad for Rick and Morty cuz mine shoots really good. I don't know what the hell this treat's like. So, what about the reality where Hitler cured and now man, it's kind of morty in here. All right, Josh is on my list. He refused a Pez dispenser. Can you believe it? Don't No, don't don't hold that against him. Uh, I think it's less people. I I I think they got the AC cranked. It's uh well, no, it's very comfortable in in like the vendor room and in the main room. It's like it's very comfortable. I I don't know. That's That's Rick and Morty. I got touched with that. Yeah. Whatever. All right. This could be a lot quicker than T3. I can tell you that much. Yeah. Rick and Morty, which I think we were all having a really good time playing. Really good show. Yeah, that's that's perfect plunge right there. Oh boy. Jeez. Let the man play. Story of my life. I finished ninth. Oh yeah. That means I didn't get any money. Yeah, you just just fell out of it. Story of my life. Well, they're playing off for whatever. At least I have my stream. Yeah. God. Hey, I I gave you a sub. I know. I appreciate that. I pushed the $6 around. All right. He's got a lock lit, but he's got an outlane. Did you give Josh a PEZ? I asked him. He's He refused. He refused. And I said I said, "Take one for your kid." He's like, "He definitely doesn't kid." I'm like, "Yeah, that's fine." Josh doesn't deserve a business. Yes, he does. Everybody does. But I'm not hurt when people say no thank you. Cuz sometimes I have to say no thank you to certain things. Where' Dory go? Um, she got the top female player, so she's she's she's out. She's done. She doesn't want to play top four. She doesn't want a trophy. Yeah, we we don't have to worry about this. Top uh the fourth person they didn't have a trophy for, so they get one of the uh the milk cartons of their choice. Yeah, it's pretty sweet. Imagine being the uh the fish, Morty. There's gas money for Tom. A thanks Pat. 100 bitties. Does anybody found Dory? Does anybody want to tell uh Ray what the uh what the answer to what if we would have hit the right orbit? I don't know. Alls I know is Andy crushed all my dreams this morning. I think I think that right orbit would have given him the last weapon or whatever cuz If you have a small children in there or small children in your room, you might want to turn your TV down. What? Maybe just for Oh, wow. Oh, what? Do we get to count that? I That's what I'm wondering. I mean, I we all saw it, Dory. No, she said, "I'm so sorry." I think she said I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure she said that. We'll see how it goes. I mean, unless somebody else wants to challenge her on it. I mean, almost seems like she drill Yeah. Yeah, she's all right with that. It's like she dribbled it back into play. All right. Amazing Lazarus. It was just like I I applaud her for it. Yeah. Dribbled it off for the apron. Yeah, there might there might have been a little bit of shoving on there, but yeah, it wasn't a death save as it were. Like an intendable move, I guess. Well, there was definitely no death indeed. All right. Do you lock a ball? Yes. Yeah, because he's already got one locked. So now you could stack the multiball with me. I I guess what I was really upset about. Or do you go for the portal thing so you can have mega seeds? He doesn't he doesn't want to. No, he's going to get shifty. Well, because you could you could portal right now. You could portal right now and go get the mega seeds or so. I was more upset that our game decided that Pickle Rick was going to be the first mode. Oh, and so you can't stack that with um the multiball. Oh, I didn't know because it starts on the garage or the right orbit. Oh, that's right. So, look at me. I'm picking up. Well, we are getting Swifty in here. Uh, imagine getting shifty. Well, the game got shifty with Andy's balls. He's out of multiball already. Trying to go right orbit. I think he's on the wrong side of the swifty mode for the bonus. Yeah. Right, Jordan. I think I wasn't too kind to you, though. Yeah. No. I like what you got. Good job. He gets the bonus. Yay. Nice to know you're taking this seriously. Yep. Very seriously juggling the balls. Ball has been fondled. I didn't realize that until recently that the ball fondling animation from that episode plays in order. None of us can die until Yeah. It's like Godzilla's uh ball uh the ball save animation with baby Godzilla. Apparently, it's that movie played in order for every time that you get a ball save. It just keeps on showing clips for it. The ball fondling does the same thing. I'm I I'm not familiar at all with Rick and Morty, but good on them for uh doing that. Yeah. Solid theming. Oh, nuts. trying the setup on this game also feels like it's fast but yet floaty. Yeah. If you're hearing this, this means you slipped into a new reality. And sometimes I think you need to have like Spooky will always talk about having a game at 6.8° pitch, no more, no less for so that everything can work correctly, ramps and other stuff like that. But I believe nerd cursing can arrange that. Not for sure that one's going to be lost. Oh yeah. Yuck. Okay. All right. All right, 25 seconds in the mode. You don't want the aliens to get mad. Come on. Line up that middle shot. Oh, not that middle. Going to get in here. There's some stuff on the floor. Oh, disqualified. Well, Earth is destroyed. Didn't get swifty. So is your adventure card. Not swifty enough. I like your damn. And then after starting any of the modes, you now have to hit both ramps, which yeah, you aim for the left ramp and can't get it there. Aim for the right ramp, maybe. All right, Dory's got her shifty lid. Or did she play that? Uh, the purple shot up the middle is the mode, right? She can hit the pin. She can light locks. Both locks are full. Okay, here's the mode. Total. Ah, that's surprising. This is a good one to uh have a multiball. Yeah, Great save. Pin maybe. How about a pin? We got a pin. We got a multiball. Okay, multiball is lit. This would be great. Running out of time, though. You're good. I don't think this one's timed. Well, the timer at the top is ticking down for something. No, that's how many kills you need. Oh, seriously? Oh, wow. Failures are your own, old man. Ask me again if I'm familiar with any of this. It's okay. I'll just go toead bug right now. Yeah, fast and floating out like every Rick and Morty I've played. All right, he's got slight lead over uh Dory. I think he's going to want to do a mode. No, he wants multiball. He's not. No. Nope. No, it's not going to happen. Nope. Uh-uh. No. Nope. Seen it before. Yep. Okay, it's happened to me. Yeah, same. So, it affects all players. All players equally then I feel better. Mike, Matt have to win. Okay. And Mike's in a good spot right now cuz he's got he's got his mode multiball. There it is. All right. He's going to get Shifty with the multiball. Okay. See how many times they say hooray. One. All right. If you're in the green, you're doing good. Your planet will not explode. That is ideal. People don't want to piss off the alien heads. It's true. You must swifty out. And he's not going to. But he's in the lead over Andy, which means Andy is at least going to take one strike. Okay. Kaboom. 300 600 900 1200. Oh, we should have put up the the Fox City strike for that for the I don't have it set up anymore. I got I got to I'll redo it. No, you don't have to do You don't have to do nothing. It was It was awesome. I loved it. It just doesn't work anymore. Eliminate. It was better when you eliminated people and then it was like, you know, it got all black and white. Oh, what was that? Get this game out of here. This is not a good spot to be in cuz you got to hit the ramp. Oh, that's actually a garage. Okay, start hitting them uh the the seats. You want the seeds? Mega seeds or whatever they're called. Whatever helps you poo. Yeah. Ball one locked. That's why I always say go up that right ramp. Right ramp. No, lock two. Multiple. Just multiple. I just I'm greedy. I like to stack things. Everybody should stack things. They should. You're not wrong. But he's in a spot where probably multiball is the right answer. I don't know. No, I I say go for the mode. Well, I mean, he's two shots away from it rather than a multiball and that left ramp. I don't He's got He's got mega seeds available. So, if he hits me seeds as he's hitting these jackpots. True. You're so smart, Dave. Well, no. It's just sometimes you you just kind of find your way into a thing and you just say Oh no, that's a double drain. N I don't think that's going to pass Mike. Got three mega seeds. So that's that's all she's going to get. It's not that CD cuz uh Who are you? It builds off your modes. Yeah. So, are you okay with me standing here? Yeah. All right. Dory does not want to take last. Currently in the final spot. [***] together on that skill shot. Skill shot definitely helps. All right. Ball locked. Time to go. No mysteries awarded at the scoop right now. I don't know what it would be or how good there's a danger. Trumbles are agitating. There's chips in this thing. They can tell you're doing that. Mhm. Add mega seat. No. Collect one mega seat. That's a good bonus. Oh, a good reaction, but it just bounced the wrong way. Yeah, but uh will it be enough? I don't think so. No. Need more multiplier on that? Andy just knock everybody out. Oh, wait. No, Andy. Andy wasn't him first, right? So, it's just Mike and Andy now. 241. Hey, you too. Thank you. All right. I'm pretty sure it is just Mike and Andy. Am I right there? Uh She passed by 10, 000 point by 7, 000 points. She did. Yeah, she Well, she she didn't get last. No, she got last. She's got two. Oh, she passed Andy. Never mind. I was looking at the other two players. So, Andy's at four, which means But Dory's out. Yeah. And so is Matt. No way. Dory's got three. She would go to four, right? cuz she got third. Mike Mike's at four. He took first. Matt took a strike. Dory took a strike. So Dory's still in. So we got three players left. It is the ice cream talking, he says. There. There's your updated scores. So Matt's out three-way. It's um not bad. Wait, the shadow. Oh, the shadow is the new game. So, we're going to move over to shadow, which is Tom. Just needs to make a U-turn. Beep beep. I hope he's not exhausted from that trip. I'll have to ask him. Yeah, quick maths. Pink ninja man. Thanks for the gift sub from uh Benjamin. Well, that's nice. I was told it's the shadow. Tom gets uh What did I do? Tom needs to catch his breath from making that big old move. The big Uturn there, a three-point turn on. So tired. All right, so we figured out there are actually players left. Okay, they all have four strikes. Okay, so it really kind of comes down to this. It does. Win or go home or go home. You You have to win this match. This is the last one. Oh. No, I thought you were the last. All right, Andy's checking his place. Yes, he is. Second player. Ping. Chris, thanks for the resub. Appreciate it. Oh, it's going to get loud in here again. Hurry up, Andy. Yep. Andy looks pissed. He is not happy to be playing shadow, but I think he's going to do okay. Don't know if he's going to win, Well, he went for the 10 million point shot and gets it. He's trying to find the shot. Look. Almost found the tilt bob. Well, yeah, we know it's there. Did he just fall over? Sure sounded like it. Sounded like he took a game out on the way out. There he is. It's He's standing. He's standing. It's fine. This shadow does play kind of mean. I did find when I went in the battlefield, uh it was pretty nice. Like it was kind of slow and like Yeah. You could just It let you play. Yeah. Like I just I'm like, "Oh, I'm just going to finish this off right now." Oh, by the way, you're you're welcome on that. So why uh as we Oh, cuz you fixed it. as we were setting it up, for some reason it was like stuttering when it would go left. Oh, yeah. And and you as you were trying to move the paddle left, but again, because it was a little floaty, you could at least move over issue. I don't know. I Because the mini playfield can be lifted itself, right? So, you pull the game out to the service position and then you take a uh This for the game, my brought. Thanks. Nice. Um, there's one screw that holds the mini playfield down. That's on the left. It's right here actually. Right on in between that rubber. It's one screw. It's actually kind of a post that you can uh normally you can screw it down like a thumb screw. But I took that out and I lifted it and then I put it in test and it was like gliding back and forth like like there was no problem. So I don't know if like a wire got in the way there or something. Yeah, I I have a shadow and and uh I had when I initially got it, it had major issues with it's in the battlefield scoop. It'll probably hold in a flipper. It's going to ball search up there. It's going to it it should shoot it up. There it comes. Yep. It's in play. Play it. Oh, it's it gave her the battlefield, which is good. That's fine. Yeah. That that's huge actually. Yeah. Oh, if she would have broke through. Mhm. Still still gets the Mongol. Not not for the value she wanted, but still got it. Y two locks. Is looking good. Oh, just commentator's curse. Oh, just kidding. Do you take vengeance or do you take points? got a vengeance. It depends on how good the flippers are. And Andy seemed to be struggling with it. He needs He needs that. He's going to take I was struggling a little bit to hit the right ramp when I played. Yes. So like to me it's like well that that takes vengeance out of play. Well, he missed it so Yeah. So it don't matter I guess. Throw it into the lock. In the lock. All one locked. I said I got most of my points from the battlefield and the uh and the mode I played. Okay. And the mode I played wasn't allowed either. Uh 10 million. Light the lock or 10 million. Well, he's got one lock to go. So if he Yeah, if he does light lock, then Got it. Yeah. Almost. There it is. How's your lock mechanism? Does your magnet work well? Yeah. The one back home has a little divot so it doesn't roll off the magnet and has to cross that opto to throw it in. You have to kind of like nudge it off of there or else it just drops it. I need to rebuild the uh like fill in the uh divot. Gotcha. I just haven't because it's on location. It's kind of hard to work on it like that cuz there's other problems. Jackpot. Oh, wants that one. Last minute jackpot. Oh, guess that one. No. I guess not. In a mode. Yeah. Kind kind of sitting lit. It It's like also like the hardest shot. Yeah. It's not the easy. Yeah. Mo most shadows. And And you can't like hold up the flipper to have it go in there. And no, I I struggled. I was I kept trying to shoot it. I couldn't find it. All right, so Mike is in the lead. He's looking good. What's Dory going to do? Is she going to take 20 million or the vengeance or not? Any of that and just go up top to the battlefield? I don't know. We're going to find out. She's also I say she's also uh two shots away from multiball or her con, which would only be one shot, but sets it up for vengeance. Yeah, it's just not going up there. Oh, going up the tough ramp. Yeah, put that no problem. Oh, slow it down. Yeah. No, that's not stupid. Mike Tori says number one in her book. I don't like you. Shadow. All right. Andy's gonna wait. I agree with that. The middle. He's thinking about what he's going to do. Do your modes get bonus xed or just regular stuff gets bonus xed? I don't know. Cuz I know that's where modes get paid out. like she lost out on mode points for, you know, if she would have gotten mode and Yeah, she didn't play long enough. Yeah. All right. He wants the ramp. Bonus X or 15 mil? Surely this point. I don't know. 15 mil bonuses. He might just want the Oh, no. He's going 15 mil. No, he's not. He's not even even coming close to that. He has uh changed his strategy to the box. He threw us all the way on. Oh my gosh. Couple loops out. Yep. Three-way combo. Oh, that's the 30 30 mil shot coming up. Take it. Oh, he went battlefield. Interesting. Now he's going to mode. And who knows? What is the mode? That is the question. Farley. That's a shot. Except for the loot. Yeah, he's going. And he is on a double and that's gone. And he's not happy. No, that means Mike is the winner. No. No, he's not. I take it back because because Andy didn't tilt that that mode. He got the extra. I would be doing the 15 million here. Yeah. It's okay. He's got a 2x. Oh, did he get he Oh, he's got vengeance. 143 I think did it already. There's one vengeance shot. Tried to go for the battlefield. It looked like there's two vengeance shots. He's got to he's got to move the uh Okay, he's been the battlefield. This could uh this could do it right here. That should have been the final game. Rachel, old Chicago. Yeah, we got to get out of this vent. He's got it right. He's got it. Yeah. It just takes Andy was at 159. It takes a concession. 139 I think it was at cuz again we were like saying that 15 mil was so close to it. All right. Yeah. There you go. Congrats to Mike. Way to go. You're Midwest Pinball champion. Is there a good uh camera angle that we could put on? There you go. There is no light without shadow. Everybody wants to be like Mike. Heck, I want to be like Mike. I want to be like the people who finished top eight. But now I can get qualified for Wisconsin, guys. I'll have Wisconsin points. Wow. That That's a heck of a heck of an angle. Maybe he should have told me what that angle is before actually. I mean, would we rather have uplose camera on Tom's chest or foot camera? I don't know. Yeah. Mid torso. Mid torso uh action. That's pretty good. Oo, somebody go. Let's go get some ramen. Actually, the the tent next to it is like the popcorn guy. I've got a whole bunch of popcorn. All right, they're spilling the keys. They're giving the keys back to There's Eric Thorne. Uh Rachel has uh the money envelopes. She also handed me a card. I got a nice thank you card. Yeah. Way to go. Dory gets two trophies. Outstanding. Outstanding finish. Yeah. Lovely. That's a big trophy. Andy Bagwell gets a trophy half of his size. The other trophy in the back, by the way, six feet tall, a little less than uh Andy. Man, Rachel was so happy about giving out a trophy this big. Look at that. Way to go, Mike. I love the attack from our shirt, too. Is it taller than the mic? I didn't quite see. Yeah. Over the head. Thank you everybody. Thank you for streaming. Rachel. Oh, yeah. There's Dory's uh top women finisher trophy. She got awarded that a couple of rounds ago for surviving, but she had no strikes at that point, too. So, she just Yeah, thanks to Tom for uh streaming in Fox City Spinball. I had a good time. Actually, I got a card. I'd show you my card, but I can't switch camera. But, uh, I got a nice thank you card that the players were encouraged to sign. So, oh, I got I got actually a personalized card now. I looked at it. So, all right. I'm going to I'm going to scooch over here. Sign off. So, Tom Tom's done, guys. He's I was going to hit another button, but I'll let you hit a button. All right. Yeah, I got I want to get stuff cleaned out of here before it gets too dark and I can't see. Y So, I appreciate everybody for tuning in. Uh our next big one is going to be the Whopper Chopper at Lumberjack Johnny's. We're going to be giving away a pinball machine. There's going to be a lot of uh European players there because it's the weekend before the IFPA tournament. Um, so and a lot of people sign up for that, too. So, we'll see you then. _(Acquisition: youtube_auto_sub, Enrichment: v5)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-06-06 | Item ID: 0e36e89c-38df-45d5-a435-30223077dc13*