# Concord Champ '25: Winner's Circle. Streamed from The Flipper Room. **Source:** DRI374 **Type:** video **Published:** 2025-11-18 **Duration:** 5m 14s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbroOjgQrU --- ## Analysis Stream coverage of Concord Champ '25 tournament awards ceremony at The Flipper Room venue. Jack Slovac won the championship, with Tim Hansen finishing fourth. The host conducts a brief post-tournament interview with the champion discussing his winning performances on King Kong and other games. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] Jack Slovac won the Concord Champ '25 tournament championship — _Direct announcement during awards ceremony: 'And our grand champion, first overall'_ - [HIGH] Tim Hansen finished in fourth place and won $300 — _Award announcement during ceremony_ - [HIGH] Jack Slovac lives in Sacramento, California — _Slovac directly states 'I live over in, you know, Sacramento' during interview_ - [HIGH] Jack Slovac plays frequently in Reno, Nevada despite being California-based — _Host and Slovac discuss his frequent Nevada play; 'I play there a lot'_ - [HIGH] The Flipper Room hosted the Concord Champ '25 tournament — _Opening remarks and throughout stream; 'at the flipper room'_ ### Notable Quotes > "Everything played great this weekend. Everybody had fun." > — **Host/venue representative**, Opening remarks > _Confirms positive tournament experience and game maintenance quality_ > "I kept 2x running the whole time... I wanted to keep that going." > — **Jack Slovac**, King Kong strategy discussion > _Reveals tournament strategy on King Kong—maintaining 2x multiplier was key to high scoring_ > "It's just beautiful... one jacket after another." > — **Host**, Adams game discussion > _Commentary on Slovac's consistent gameplay performance across multiple machines_ > "I'm going to run a double feature here hopefully with Mike if he lets me with the with Predator and the Winchester Mystery House." > — **Host/streamer**, Final remarks > _Plans for future tournament featuring Predator and Winchester Mystery House pinball machines at The Flipper Room_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Jack Slovac | person | Concord Champ '25 tournament champion; competitive pinball player from Sacramento, California who frequently plays in Reno, Nevada | | Tim Hansen | person | Concord Champ '25 fourth place finisher; won $300 prize and water bottle | | The Flipper Room | organization | Pinball arcade venue hosting Concord Champ '25 tournament; location appears to be in Concord, California area | | King Kong | game | Stern pinball machine featured prominently in tournament; Slovac achieved high score approaching 1 billion with pterodactyl island lock strategy | | Medusa | game | Pinball machine featured in tournament; host mentioned rooting for Slovac to achieve perfect round | | Adams | game | Pinball machine featured in tournament gameplay discussion | | Centigrade | game | Pinball machine featured in tournament; Slovac achieved first-player 110k score | | Predator | game | Pinball machine planned for future double-feature tournament at The Flipper Room | | Winchester Mystery House | game | Pinball machine planned for future double-feature tournament at The Flipper Room | ### Topics - **Primary:** Tournament results and awards, Competitive pinball strategy, The Flipper Room venue and operations - **Secondary:** King Kong gameplay and scoring, Future tournament planning ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.85) — Tournament winner and host express enthusiasm about event quality and gameplay. Awards ceremony conducted in celebratory tone with applause. Future tournaments planned positively. No negative sentiment detected. ### Signals - **[community_signal]** Stream content from tournament with live audience interaction and post-tournament interviews demonstrates venue's streaming/content strategy (confidence: high) — Formal stream production with awards ceremony, champion interview, and future event announcements - **[competitive_signal]** King Kong multiplier management strategy revealed as viable high-scoring approach—maintaining 2x multiplier throughout play (confidence: medium) — Slovac explicitly discusses maintaining 2x running and the discussion of pterodactyl island lock contributing significantly to near-1B score - **[event_signal]** Concord Champ '25 tournament successfully completed at The Flipper Room with positive community feedback (confidence: high) — Host opening: 'Everything played great this weekend. Everybody had fun.' Tournament awards announced and champion interviewed. --- ## Transcript Great weekend at the pinball if uh if a longo but it was a lot of fun. Huge thanks to everybody for making it out and enormous thanks to the flipper room. Everything played great this weekend. Everybody had fun. And yeah, we're going to have some awards for our top four finishers. Uh in fourth place, uh Tim Hansen, $300. [applause] Oh, and a water bottle. And a water bottle. Thank you. Thanks, guys. And our grand champion, first overall, I don't think people just let him win because it was his birthday weekend. Thanks, guys. [laughter] All right. Do you want to grab the pistol? Yeah. Just line up here. It's all about juggling. Okay, we're gonna see if we can get a few words from uh Jack and uh congratulations. Absolutely awesome games throughout, right? We were kind of rooting for you a little secretly on Medusa to see if you could do a perfect round, right? So, but uh talk us through that King Kong game, right? Walking up to 1 billion on the board. How how confident were you that you could just like, "All right, I can do this." I would say decently. Yeah. Um that uh pterodactyl with with the um island lock is is the probably my personal best on that one. Yeah, it is. Yeah, that was just like it was like that was more like in the island. Yeah, it was because we were just scratching our heads. Where do those points come from? Right. So, yeah. I kept 2x running the whole time. Yeah. you. Yeah. So, was that what your strategy? Because you were hitting those a lot like the 2x was almost pumping like all the time you were playing. I wanted to keep that going. You want to keep that going. That's awesome. Yeah. And centigrade like first player 110k. How did that feel? Were you like were you a bit shaky there or? Uh yeah. Um I felt a little better considering uh ball five was uh going into that ball was uh kind of a low score. Yeah, it more felt like a solid score that turned out end up. And after that we had Adams. You just blew that to smithereens. I mean going into ball three you were sort of a little bit under sack there and but you just managed to Yeah, I can I can play this game and just like one jacket after the another. It's just beautiful. Well, yeah, awesome to watch you here. I mean, I know you're very used to standing on a podium, but congrats again. And uh we love seeing you out there. We rooting things so hard for you even. But you you're not from California, are you? Uh I am. Yeah, you are. Okay. I live over in, you know, Sacramento. Oh, you are? Yeah. But somehow your name seems associated with Nevada a lot of times, but you play there. I play there a lot. You do? You do? Yeah. Yeah. Reno is really close. Often closer to Yeah, I know. Because you play states there, but you knocked me out of state here once. Yeah. So that you didn't quite know if you were California or Nevada. All right. Uh there you have it folks. Jack Slovac is your last name. Or is it Slovak? Slovac. It is Slovac. All right. Yeah, I got the pronunciation right. All right. Thank you. Thank you again, man. Yeah. Thank you. Have a good one. You too. You too. All right. Uh I'm going to shut down the stream here. Uh thank you so much for hanging out. Uh this has been a stellar weekend as always at the flipper room. Uh I hope to see you next time. There's Concord open next year hopefully. Uh, I'm going to run a double feature here hopefully with Mike if he lets me with the with Predator and the Winchester Mystery House. So, there's definitely more pinball on the channel from the flip room coming. So, have a good night, folks. Been a long one. _(Acquisition: youtube_auto_sub, Enrichment: v3)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: 508edc81-12fa-4dfd-8aab-c0b8bb4a0002*