# City Champ 9: Playoffs & Finals **Source:** Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 **Type:** video **Published:** 2022-08-18 **Duration:** 478m 36s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNb-cqVr4ow --- ## Analysis Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 broadcasts live coverage of City Champ 9 playoffs and finals, featuring competitive pinball play across multiple machines including Fish Tales, Harlem Globetrotters, and Deadpool. Commentary covers gameplay analysis, machine mechanics, tournament rulings, and community dynamics among SFPD (San Francisco Pinball Design) members and regional players. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] City Champ 9 uses Pemberley scoring system for group stage play — _AJ states: 'we're going to be continuing on into the group stage here um if you if folks want to follow along at home we're going to be sharing the standings here as they're updated but we're also going to be able to uh you can go check that on matchplay.event'_ - [HIGH] Tournament has 24 finalists with 8 players receiving first-round byes — _AJ: 'we currently have 16 players playing of our 24 finalists there's eight folks who qualified for buys so they got to sleep in a little bit'_ - [HIGH] Harlem Globetrotters machine has sticky rubbers affecting flipper geometry — _AJ commentary: 'the rubbers were quite sticky so whenever it went down especially to those uh left side there's a double flipper on the left side you'll see that provided sort of odd geometry whenever whenever you would flip'_ - [HIGH] Tournament uses stratified system with three game tiers: EM, 80s/90s solid state DMD, and modern Pemberley-era games — _AJ: 'have an em we have a like you know sort of 80s maybe 70s or 80s era solid state 90s era solid state or i guess dmd at that point'_ - [HIGH] Parallel six-strike knockout tournament running with 24 players competing for placement — _AJ: 'it's a six strike fair strikes group knockout uh so first place gets zero strikes second and third place got a strike fourth place gets two strikes'_ - [HIGH] Luke rolled Harlem Globetrotters during playoff match — _AJ: 'so luke rolled it wow yeah so it was pretty insane'_ - [MEDIUM] Michael scored approximately 313,000 on Harlem Globetrotters during qualifying rounds — _AJ: 'michael was actually in my group when i played yesterday he put up a fantastic score i think he ended with about 313 000 which was well enough to take first place'_ - [HIGH] Tournament had a ruling dispute on Blue Chip (EM machine) regarding stand-up target light failure — _AJ: 'we had an issue on blue chip which one of the electro mechanical machines in the in the room back there we had an issue where uh on that game if you land the number five stand up right in the center of the stand-up bank uh in the front of the game that's supposed to light the right spinner for a thousand per spin uh issue was player had hit that and then the light did not illuminate'_ ### Notable Quotes > "you hit the lock shot from the left flipper and then you can hit the jackpot shot from the right flipper right it was the right move just couldn't execute" > — **AJ**, early in Fish Tales commentary > _Demonstrates strategy explanation and recognition of execution difficulty in competitive play_ > "it's so often the case i think i think we're gonna see a lot of pinball play today with folks who are you know clearly expert clearly knowledgeable on the rule set it's just going to be a matter of flipper skills uh differentiating the players" > — **AJ**, Fish Tales match analysis > _Commentary on competitive meta—rule knowledge versus execution skill as differentiator_ > "don't come in forth in case you were thinking about it" > — **AJ**, six-strike tournament discussion > _Humorous commentary on tournament penalty structure (fourth place = two strikes)_ > "we really strive to be fair here uh i was actually the only available judge on location we have two other judges but they're off-site right now" > — **AJ**, ruling explanation segment > _Behind-the-scenes tournament logistics and judging infrastructure challenges_ > "people say they see nice photographs and they say oh what a great camera and they forget the human that's actually doing all the work yeah gene is spectacular" > — **Roland / AJ**, Gene (photographer) discussion > _Community recognition of Gene's photography skills and contributions to tournament documentation_ > "the spinners are so juiced yes yes they did a nice job uh getting this all set up for for the tournament making those nice and juicy" > — **AJ / Roland**, Harlem Globetrotters setup commentary > _Technical setup observations affecting gameplay difficulty and player experience_ > "you're gonna get me in so much trouble just play" > — **AJ**, interstitial segment > _Light-hearted moment showing broadcast production chaos and behind-the-scenes dynamics_ > "we didn't want to uh you know corrupt the integrity of the of the game" > — **AJ**, ruling explanation > _Statement of tournament integrity values in adjudication_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | City Champ 9 | event | Pinball tournament finals and playoffs with 24 finalists competing across multiple machines | | Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 | organization | Streaming channel broadcasting City Champ 9 with hosts AJ and Manu Smith | | Manu Smith | person | Proprietor of Mystery Pinball Theater 3000, responsible for broadcast technical setup and streaming infrastructure | | Luke | person | Competitive pinball player, SFPD member of 4-6 seasons, competitive finalist in City Champ 9 | | Javier | person | First-time City Champ participant (newly off waitlist), strong player who won Fish Tales match | | Jean | person | Longtime SFPD member, tournament photographer, competitive player in City Champ 9 | | Michael | person | Competitive pinball player, scored approximately 313,000 on Harlem Globetrotters, non-SFPD member | | AJ | person | Primary commentator and tournament administrator for City Champ 9 broadcast, speaking on rules and gameplay analysis | | Roland | person | Secondary commentator providing color commentary and gameplay analysis during broadcast | | Gene | person | SFPD historian and photographer, renowned for capturing tournament moment photography | | Anna | person | Guest from Hot Nudge, traveling from Chicago, appearing on broadcast during Deadpool match | | Fish Tales | game | Game 1 of City Champ 9 group stage, trophy award machine (Pemberley-era modern game) | | Harlem Globetrotters | game | Game 2 of City Champ 9 group stage, 1980s-era solid state DMD with sticky rubbers affecting play | | Deadpool | game | Game 3 of City Champ 9 group stage, modern Pemberley-licensed title with Juggernaut battle mode | | Blue Chip | game | Electromechanical machine with stand-up target light failure requiring mid-tournament ruling | | Black Knight 2000 | game | Game featured in parallel six-strike knockout tournament | | SFPD | organization | San Francisco Pinball Design community, competitive pinball league with membership requirements | | Freego Watch | venue | Location hosting City Champ 9 finals with tournament venue infrastructure and multiple game banks | | Hot Nudge | organization | Organization associated with guest Anna appearing during broadcast | | El Rocco | person | Off-site judge providing phone consultation for Blue Chip ruling decision | | Matchplay.events | product | Tournament bracket and scoring platform used for City Champ 9 standings tracking | | Pemberley | game | Reference game representing modern scoring/design era used in tournament tier stratification | ### Topics - **Primary:** Tournament format and structure, Competitive gameplay and strategy, Machine setup and maintenance, Game rules and mechanics analysis - **Secondary:** Tournament rulings and adjudication, Community dynamics and player relationships, Broadcast production logistics, Flipper technique and execution ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.82) — Broadcast maintains enthusiastic, community-focused tone. Hosts celebrate competitive play, acknowledge challenges (machine setup issues, judging difficulties) with good humor and transparency. Respect for players and tournament integrity evident throughout. Minor frustrations with technical broadcast issues (OBS/camera problems) quickly resolved without dampening overall positive energy. ### Signals - **[event_signal]** City Champ 9 finals running with 24 finalists, 8 first-round byes, parallel six-strike knockout tournament with 24 additional players, estimated 5-6 hour event duration (confidence: high) — AJ: 'we currently have 16 players playing of our 24 finalists there's eight folks who qualified for buys' and 'it's a six strike fair strikes group knockout uh so first place gets zero strikes second and third place got a strike fourth place gets two strikes' and 'there's like 24 players in it' and 'i'm gonna go play some black knight 2000... we're gonna be here for a while probably like five or six hours' - **[gameplay_signal]** Harlem Globetrotters machine sticky rubbers significantly affect flipper control and geometry, requiring player adjustment period, impacts competitive fairness (confidence: high) — AJ: 'the rubbers were quite sticky so whenever it went down especially to those uh left side there's a double flipper on the left side you'll see that provided sort of odd geometry whenever whenever you would flip i think not quite what people were expecting' and 'i think that's that's exacerbated due to the rubber' - **[competitive_signal]** Rule knowledge abundant among competitive finalists; flipper execution skill emerging as primary differentiator in close matches (confidence: high) — AJ: 'i think i think we're gonna see a lot of pinball play today with folks who are you know clearly expert clearly knowledgeable on the rule set it's just going to be a matter of flipper skills uh differentiating the players' - **[gameplay_signal]** Harlem Globetrotters typical winning scores in 300,000-400,000+ range; Michael scored approximately 313,000 for first place during qualifying (confidence: medium) — AJ: 'most of the like big scores i saw yesterday were like over 300 400 000' and 'michael was actually in my group when i played yesterday he put up a fantastic score i think he ended with about 313 000 which was well enough to take first place' - **[event_signal]** Mid-tournament ruling required for Blue Chip EM machine stand-up target light failure; single on-site judge with off-site consultation; ruling designed to preserve game integrity (confidence: high) — AJ: 'we had an issue on blue chip... if you land the number five stand up right in the center of the stand-up bank... that's supposed to light the right spinner for a thousand per spin... the light did not illuminate... we allowed the player just to play on provisionally to see if the feature would actually work as expected and it did so it seemed it's just a bulb issue' - **[community_signal]** SFPD membership concentrated in San Francisco area; non-members participate (Michael from further south); traveling players from Chicago (Anna from Hot Nudge); NFP Tally referenced as traveling significant distance to participate (confidence: medium) — AJ: 'michael not a member uh i think he's a little too far south' and 'we've had a bunch of folks even uh nfp tally would come up uh for for sfpd which i i commend him for' and Anna: 'chicago' - **[content_signal]** Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 producing live tournament coverage with technical challenges (OBS studio mode issues, camera positioning) managed in real-time during broadcast (confidence: high) — AJ: 'obs is being a real jerk right now' and 'my studio mode is now oh gotcha gotcha all right well we got michael leading it off here on deadpool oh i know why i'll fix it later' - **[gameplay_signal]** Harlem Globetrotters spinner setup 'juiced' for tournament play; described as 'one of the most well maintained harlem globetrotters machines' with clean playfield and responsive spinners (confidence: high) — AJ: 'the spinners are so juiced yes yes they did a nice job uh getting this all set up for for the tournament making those nice and juicy' and 'it's a beautiful machine i mean one of the most well maintained harlem globetrotters machines i think i've ever seen' - **[competitive_signal]** Luke demonstrated strong Fish Tales performance (roll), then strong recovery on Harlem Globetrotters; Javier strong on Fish Tales (first place), weaker on Harlem (scissored on final ball); Michael performing consistently; Gene competitive across machines (confidence: high) — AJ describes Luke's Harlem play as 'clinic', notes 'luke did yeah the game is angry the game is very angry', multiple high-control saves. 'javier may maybe just had a bad one because he won the last one' and 'javier his last ball he got scissored' - **[event_signal]** Group stage uses Pemberley scoring system with three-game tiers (EM, 80s/90s solid state DMD, modern Pemberley-era); stratified bracket design with rotating player selection based on previous game performance (confidence: high) — AJ: 'we're going to be continuing on into the group stage here... we used the pember scoring last night um or yesterday for the for the first day i think that's going to be continuing on into the group stage here' and 'we have an em we have a like you know sort of 80s maybe 70s or 80s era solid state 90s era solid state or i guess dmd at that point' and 'the order is actually going to be determined each game based on performance in the last one' --- ## Transcript ladies and gentlemen the star of the show roland hey everyone uh we're back derek quit derek's coming back no derrick quit derek's out there you know what i can't i can't deal with this now i know i can't deal with you i'm out hey quick it's aj thanks so much for following folks if you haven't already hit that follow button mpt 3k mystery pinball theater 3000 fantastic channel here with the proprietor manu smith running the boards for us and helping us put on this fantastic display of pinball prowess performances that will here we go there we go all right so and luke is he's in need of uh a little pickup here right he's yeah sitting at 14. he can do some damage a jackpot here would go a long way he's gonna get some balls back tough one wow all right so he's got the trap now is he gonna he's not gonna go i i've seen backhands happen on this before but looks like oh and there's a good control here beautiful and the trust to let that roll to the edge all right who's going for hand on the lock shot just off there good control oh and it just there's so much junk in that shot i was seeing that happen a lot yesterday mf phil thanks for the follow a tough one there he he really i mean the control there was was fantastic it just uh just couldn't quite land the shot it is important to [Music] [Applause] to separate there you know you you hit the lock shot from the left flipper and then you can hit the jackpot shot from the right flipper right it was the right move just couldn't execute yeah that's it's so often the case i think i think we're gonna see a lot of pinball play today with folks who are you know clearly expert clearly knowledgeable on the rule set it's just going to be a matter of flipper skills uh differentiating the players i think and and it's just you could be the best in the world you can have an off day you know your geometry is off and you're just not seeing it well yeah that's what happened to me right yeah exactly exactly but yeah it's uh so i his control is benefiting him here he's able to continue this this ball he's gotta make some progress only one toward the monster fish right now so and he's not really not focusing on monster fish at all i i don't know if he's maybe avoiding that he's just not comfortable with the the cadence on those shots and the one thing that is nice and i do know about this particular machine i think it's it's true of a lot of fish tails oh and a tough one uh each of those shots is backhandable yeah so so it's actually very if you if you are going for that strategy it's actually pretty possible as long as you have it lit on either side of the ship to to stake five all right so we got javier coming up javier you good all right all right monty's with the third lock there but he's also going going multiball strategy here we'll see if he has better better fortune here now he really only needs a little bit at least to get the two points in this group the second place i think he could do that pretty much without a jackpot it is three two one scoring still right or three two one zero i believe so yes uh we can we can validate that but yeah he's definitely at least in second place now oh and now he's got uh rock the boat going here we go rock the boat is a it's a mode on the on the center there where you're just collecting 10 million for every every shot along the ramps there boom and yeah i think he's got it i think that's already locked in that was huge yeah so that i mean honestly a great i don't know if he necessarily intended that but a great use of the multiball you know especially if the jackpot is really not a reliable shot to just use that multiball to collect other things like you said the monster fish to go to rock the boat i think that was fantastic well done javier to take the win there all right fantastic work so yeah javier taken first jean second michael will be third and luke taking last and javier getting to put his initials up as the top boat rocker yeah he actually he did a nice job there are all three or all four of these players sfpd uh members or is javier the only one so javier actually is going to be joining us for the very first time beautiful this season yeah he's finally off the waitlist luke and jean longtime members at this uh gene certainly at this point and luke's already been in i think uh four or five seasons maybe six uh michael not a member uh i think he's a little too far south uh but always welcome of course uh we always love to have i think we've had a bunch of folks even uh nfp tally would come up uh for for sfpd which i i commend him for yeah quite quite the the journey yeah all right so we're gonna see what the next selection is i see the the group going i think they're going to be going over to harlem or deadpool all right so we're gonna we're gonna get the rig moved over for now we're gonna switch us over we'll we'll make sure and they're coming to find us and we're gonna get that in going in just a second oh fantastic there we go all right yeah i think they're going to deadpool great well well done we are we're in i forgot i could just talk to you yeah absolutely all right so great first match there so now yeah the the other games that we're gonna be seeing in this particular bank deadpool yep we're gonna be seeing harlem globetrotters and wizard wizard so that's the way it's set up for this tournament is actually to have that sort of stratified uh system yes uh derek where am i going uh let's uh you're gonna be following wherever gene's going and i believe fish tails now and then and then we're going to deadpool yeah they're going okay there's they're finishing up a game on deadpool oh got it okay okay so there's like um you know a more modern game there's a slightly less modern game and then and even slightly less moder yes exactly and then an older game yes yeah so we have an em we have a like you know sort of 80s maybe 70s or 80s era solid state 90s era solid state or i guess dmd at that point yeah and then a modern that's like the penberg style right exactly yeah and actually we used the pember scoring last night um or yesterday for the for the first day i think that's going to be continuing on into the group stage here um if you if folks want to follow along at home we're going to be sharing the standings here as they're updated but we're also going to be able to uh you can go check that on matchplay.event so you go to matchplay.events just search finals for citychamp nine that's the numeral nine uh not the roman numeral uh it'll be that and nt hits thanks so much for sharing that in the chat so use that link you can see the matches there get all the updates on status of those other groups we currently have 16 players playing of our 24 finalists there's eight folks who qualified for buys so they got to sleep in a little bit and uh so once we get this group all settled up we're going to be going into that next round of final 16. roman numeral 9 is also a good time oh fantastic not the letter u and the numeral two there's a lot of a lot of numeral and letter chat right now it's beyond me yeah uh all right so i think yeah we're just waiting so the the system today actually so just this just in the guys are telling me that they're playing harlem next not deadpool oh okay i wonder if they there we go i'm gonna set up on harlem perfect i just want to sneak this in real quick there we go because it's heavy manu our our our master of rig master of everything really right here he's instrumental to the success of this broadcast here we just get to be the the talent he's he's the heart and soul well you're the talent i'm just here uh but very excited to to bring you some harlem so harlow i got to play this a little bit yesterday so i'll be able to take it uh uh at least share a couple thoughts on it it's a beautiful machine i mean one of the most well maintained harlem globetrotters machines i think i've ever seen uh it's it was quite fair i'd say the one thing i did notice and i'd be interesting to see how this impacts the play the rubbers were quite sticky so whenever it went down especially to those uh left side there's a double flipper on the left side you'll see that provided sort of odd geometry whenever whenever you would flip i think not quite what people were expecting i think once you got used to it you were comfortable hitting that right side shot for the drop targets right but it was yeah it was not quite as natural it took a little adjustment because of the sort of texture they're a little grippy a little bit grippy yeah and i think that just would change the the feeling a little bit whenever folks were were on the game so you can see that there i mean you can just see how pristine i mean that is just such a clean play field it is beautiful and the spinners are so juiced yes yes they did a nice job uh getting this all set up for for the tournament making those nice and juicy let's uh let's test some technology right all right we're going to test it so the object of the game see i don't remember the obvious of the game but here are the harlem globetrotters yep i'll do it here the globetrotters are right here yep yeah absolutely um so yeah i don't have a way to clear it all good it's good to highlight the globetrotters but yeah but generally for this one your uh so your scoring opportunities are sort of a combination so up top you see the saucer there that's going to be created that's going to be collecting letters sequentially so often you'll see on uh globetrotters in the wild you'll see that strafing between the g-l-o-b-e right that's actually only going to be an order here so you'll get the g you'll get the l you get the o in that order the next time uh the next opportunity is the spinner so on the left side there you can see the spinner uh that you can actually increase the value of that um with the hits on the drop targets on the right side and the drop targets will also increase your multiplier uh for your bonus so and then you have those center uh spinners there which i think there they start both lit you can see the they're lit there uh and uh i i tended to see folks really just trying to put the ball back up i certainly had success getting the ball back into the glo be collecting 50 000 for that and there there's one that i i think that was maybe as a little product of that sort of odd feeling on the flippers yeah i think that's that one looked like maybe he was expecting a slightly different bounce off the tip there right you expect it to be a little bit more bouncy but yeah it gets a little it grips a little bit more than you'd expect yep all right javier stepping up 60 000 for michael on that first one michael was actually in my group when i played yesterday he put up a fantastic score i think he ended with about 313 000 which was well enough to take first place i ended up getting second all right so a nice start with the g there and now of course with these older games you gotta be careful with the with the double flippers with the scissor and with your tilt too especially on this game it's tight it's tight bonus matters so much absolutely so the one other feature that we've seen here from javier's play is he hit the uh stand-up target on the right side there you see in that little that little area and that actually opens up his gate on the right side so he's actually protected from a right side drain right oh and now it goes on the left side immediately yeah that's so that's the way it goes um player order display is not correct empty heads yes yeah that is just the the match place or representation of who's in the group the order is actually going to be determined each game based on performance in the last one so in in this case i think uh because he was the last place finisher um luke actually got first choice so he took last position uh and then up from there so then it was uh javier i think probably selected the game uh and then it went to or or maybe we have michael selecting the game but in any case yeah that's happening every single time folks are stepping up to the machine so now we got gene getting into oh and a tough one there yeah right flipper and then he hit the underside of the left flipper yeah um and again and again i think that's that's exacerbated due to the rubber right that's i i think that if we go back to able to go back to see that i think you'd notice how quickly it stops and how grippy that was all right so luke shaking his head i think i think he's looking to redeem himself here just get back into into competitive form yeah one game can turn things around here absolutely especially a game like this where it has the potential to eat up every single player so if you can just put up put up a good one feel good about that you have the opportunity to maybe equalize the the situation nice beautiful recovery there avoiding the center drain so yeah at the start that spinner is only going to be worth 10 per spin uh you can get that up to 100 with the first hit on the drop targets up to i think 200 and then i i think it jumps to a thousand on the third yeah so that beca can become certainly a a wealth of points for a player for sure takes it takes some doing though those drop targets you know they will spit out very quickly on on each hit most of the score is still pretty everyone's still pretty bunched up most of the like big scores i saw yesterday were like over 300 400 000 all these guys have the potential to get there and it looks like we got a note from andy these bonus drops also spot the globe letter so that's that's sort of huge so the the drop targets are really going to be a focus here player oh yeah player order in the game yeah incorrect uh that's gonna be just sort of at the whim of whatever's on match play and i think we're just gonna leave that be for now just to keep the names on the screen but thanks for the note folks i it's always nice to have viewers who are paying attention yeah they know what's up we know they're bright bright young individuals now tell us which one is curly joe i i think one thing that would be great is if we set up a tournament where you have to play this game and you have to endure all of the globetrotters antics while you play so like somebody throws a bucket of confetti on you you know that would be great they're just whistling at you the whole time their songs yep somebody just picks up the ball you know holds it behind their head speak for yourself i am old and dull yeah it'll be interesting to see if we see any tap passes you know we saw sort of a half tap pass by javier on an early one i i think this one i just imagine we're not going to see a ton of comfort with that especially like if you get a trap on the right side you're going to be probably more incentivized to send that back up to all right so he's got his first drop down spinner's at 100 there another one this is where you start going for bonus now you got the 2x bonus lit right and that and this bonus is being built by those spins right and they're so juiced he's already at 30 which will uh save for his next ball or it'll hold for his taxes oh got it yeah so yeah that's a good that's a good point that that is cumulative similar to like paragon coming some of those older games where you can actually lock in a certain value of your bonus and it looks like that huge drop shot hit he just shot before that uh didn't count for him uh but now he's at 3x and here he goes now he's got the thousand per spin got the 50 000 on the globe and and collected that off of the drop as andy mentioned so this is this is shaping up to be really a nice performance oh and a tough one weird flipper action there i think i think again yeah he was expecting a nicer drop and actually i a little surprising though that he would have changed chorus i he was doing so well with the you know basically playing it live on the fly yeah and i i yes oh oh i think i'm being called upon for some assistance so roland take over the one game where you don't want to get scissored i can think of a couple other ones yeah that's true whoa that was a serious save so these spinners are ridiculously juiced here oh anytime the ball goes over there it's super dangerous just bounces off that sling [Music] harlem globetrotter black glass goodness here thank you gene trying to catch up a little bit here nice gene is the historian of uh sfpd and city champ a lot of great a lot of great photos shared by gene from yesterday [Music] yeah he's he does with the camera what no one else can people say they see nice that's unfortunate right they see nice photographs and they say oh what a great camera and they forget the human that's actually doing all the work yeah gene is spectacular yeah he has a real knack for catching photos of folks like right as they're training uh it's like it's a superpower does he really yeah uh he did it it happened with me yesterday i've seen it happen i've seen and i've seen all those photos of like folks draining uh it's it's a real it's a real talent and those photos just tell a lot tell a great story too looks like we're waiting for luke player 4. [Music] there's another uh smaller tournament going on today too so uh let me go find out what's happening okay i'm actually playing that tournament okay i'm gonna have to step up step away in a bit okay roland they're just waiting for the announcements to finish this gives me a chance to quickly adjust this camera yeah maybe just play a ball uh play luke's ball i'm sure he'd love that you're gonna get me in so much trouble just play in fact i'm adjusting the camera like from behind the pinball machine because i don't even want to touch right moment don't flip don't flip don't flip don't do anything everyone's taller than me so i gotta make that a little taller how do i look rolling beautiful as always i love it love that smile all right they're finished with their announcements [Music] so we're gonna get back to this in just a minute as soon as those announcements are over uh so you're playing in this tournament right now what is this uh other tournament it's a six strike fair strikes group knockout uh so first place gets zero strikes second and third place got a strike fourth place gets two strikes oh wow um i think there's like 24 players in it it's mostly folks that uh that were here yesterday yeah and didn't make the cut of the top 24. okay um so yeah we're going to be here for a while probably like five or six hours playing some more pinball okay that is a serious uh strike uh penalty for coming in fourth yeah don't come in forth in case you were thinking about it don't do it but you know what it's still personally i think it's still more fair than the uh bi-monthly two strikes tournament that happens here at free go watch oh the um the free goals yeah yeah yeah i absolutely hate that two games and you're gone that one's tough too because there's like uh they bring a keg of beer usually and you know that the brew i don't drink beer i hate beer so give me another reason to be here all the great people all right so i'm gonna i gotta go play some black knight 2000. okay um thank you very much for having me on the stream on i hope to do it again soon yeah thank you my man um obi-wan kenobi that was beginners like mary actually running the side tournament for uh for the screen well not for the stream all right you guys are stuck with me again handling this um all right think about it for a little bit good shot [Music] that's those spinners are so juiced sometimes here at frigo watch we think the game is broken because it it queues up this the spin sound oh that was almost a slim he accused up the spin sound so even when the spinner stops spinning the sound continues and some people hit it really super hard this is a great play over here [Music] we actually do have sound on the rig also not a plot not a lot of places have sound coming from the rig so you can hear sounds from the game or if the player decides to drop an f-bomb and get me kick off twitch well then there you can do it wow beautiful oh what a nudge oh my god oh that is gorgeous right there he wants it down on the other flipper oh [Music] there we go 384 i forget who was player one [Music] yeah that was huge since the the order on the screen isn't it's all determined by the last game so [Music] but this is luke by the way i can see someone rolling this game today oh this is huge [Music] madison thank you michael is the player one thank you very much this is huge [Music] oh what a freaking drop catch this bonus is gonna be ridiculous [Music] my god is that a collect phone it's no that's a globetrotters this is he's gonna roll it so we're gonna have to there's another beautiful drop cat wow luke is putting a clinic up on this game there's your five oh what's up fiends yeah his patience look at this not even nudge not even a nudge so we are at eight hundred thousand [Music] and he's got the gate open so he's got a free he's got a kickback [Music] normally putting up super high scores here we go you can see his name on almost every game beautiful [Music] send it back up profit all right the trick here now at he's reminiscent of ellen in a 2018 pembert that was a roll that was a roll so the trick here is to get the highest score without rolling it not in the tournament obviously but when you're playing like for the general public you want your score to be like 9999 and luke still has uh another ball in the chamber oh obi-wan obi john i was hoping that was a different replay i'm just testing it right now so we'll see what we'll see what the replays look like but uh yeah see some patients here the game could get angry right now because luke did yeah the game is angry the game is very angry that was michael you have xavier stepping up i'm trying to catch that hot drop cap actually [Music] nice patience you kind of want to slow that ball down when it starts to get a little crazy like that [Music] oh crap so luke could really use these points right now he's going in with zero points dean is sitting pretty with two be nice to see gene get the first place but second place would be good [Music] more work [Music] i don't recall seeing luke shooting that really dangerous um side shot that much oh yeah sorry guys i just realized that he finished see where this goes this was that nasty um scissor move yeah that was unfortunate all right and we're gonna move with the team to another game to the next game let's see if we can refresh the standings right now this time all right i'm going to move with the team all right all right kids where we going next all right me i'm going to jump on deadpool oh room is here one of my favorite games ever ever ever ever ever ever ever all right a really sick display by luke for the last game i'll have you guys up and ready in a moment hey manu i'm back on hey hey hey folks are i i can give a little summary of the ruling i just had to make uh we had an issue on blue chip which one of the electro mechanical machines in the in the room back there we had an issue where uh on that game if you land the number five stand up right in the center of the stand-up bank uh in the front of the game that's supposed to light the right spinner for a thousand per spin uh issue was player had hit that and then the light did not illuminate and so we had to make a ruling decision on whether player was going to be allowed to play on so we could just monitor and validate or if we had to do something else we allowed the player just to play on provisionally to see if the feature would actually work as expected and it did so it seemed it's just a bulb issue but yeah it took a while just to get the the opinions of a bunch of people just make sure that we were gonna authorize the right action we didn't want to uh you know corrupt the integrity of the of the game thank you auntie hits it was it was tough we we really strive to be fair here uh i was actually the only available judge on location we have two other judges but they're off-site right now so we'll hopefully have more assistance that i can get live i had to call them to actually get some feedback and two of the other judges who would otherwise be available were actually in that match so they actually couldn't comment on that one of the judges was actually the person experiencing the issue so anyway happy to get that all sorted out [Music] the drama of running a pinball tournament absolutely absolutely thanks el rocco el rocco was the one one of the folks on the phone who was assisting with the uh the difficulties there and money just just to check are folks are folks seeing what i'm seeing because i'm i'm seeing just the the harlem background all right there we go i figured it might be different if it's studio mode well obs is being a real jerk right now you shouldn't have been you shouldn't have been able to see that at all i'll try that again oh good well now let's let's turn our attention over to deadpool here and now um so this is game number three i think that's uh that's right i didn't get to see the finish but it looks like we evened it up threes across the board it's okay sorry all good all good something is going on and i will not touch it now which just makes no sense uh my studio mode is now oh gotcha gotcha all right well we got michael leading it off here on deadpool oh i know why i'll fix it later all good i don't know exactly what so were you able to catch the end of that uh that that match on the on harlem what what what went down oh luke rolled it wow yeah so it was pretty insane um that's about it so luke really needed some points he certainly got them yep and it seems like javier may maybe just had a bad one because he won the last one yeah javier his last ball he got scissored oh gosh gosh that's always wrong all right oh and ping the net thanks thanks for chiming in there happy to have you great to have a nice group of people here watching with us we're gonna have lots of pinball action all day so make sure you steal yourself get get some nice breakfast or if you're elsewhere in a later time zone enjoy a lunch enjoy your dinner whatever whatever's good all right i'm gonna let this let this game roll and then we're gonna fix whatever all right [Music] who's player one oh yes on deadpool player one right now is michael and we're actually going to get that refreshed on our side so you can see the order corresponding or now we're not oh we're good all good well i'll we'll make sure to track it we have michael first we're gonna let this game run out and we're gonna fix the scores and all that other stuff there you go there you go so yeah mike michael was first luke is second so that one actually corresponds nicely and i'm guessing we're probably gonna see jean third and uh javier lass who's given the performances on the on the prior game all right so michael got a few things going there with that with that first ball he had the uh one of the locks there's a lock for luke and right now he's in he's in little deadpool that that's a feature keyed off of the you see the bobblehead deadpool that's right in the center of the playfield there that's a two-ball multiball and he's got that going while he's battling juggernaut and his goal during juggernaut is to hit those hit those uh drop targets on either side you see them flashing dead and pool a stride that's what gives you the opportunity to then land a hit at the lit red shots and it looks like he's going to be able to defeat juggernaut i think with maybe one more he's got it the health of juggernaut all the way down you can see it's sort of like a classic fighting game and now he's trying to log that final hit into the saucer there the scoop i should say and that'll be a nice pickup if you can if you can get that i think it'll be oh that's a that was a nice carom over there and there it is a nice 12 million pickup so well done deadpool defeating juggernaut and that's a tougher one to defeat so that's uh good for his progress towards sauron and he's had a little deadpool there so just under 40 and he's still got uh some some options here he's probably gonna get into his next battle you can see that lit at the scoop in the back oh sure and we got a guest here on the broadcast hello hello got the wide angle and a tough drain on the left side [Music] two players played so we had michael first so these these are a little off but we have michael first then we went to luke and i believe we're probably going to see gene come up just just given what happened on the prior game i think that's probably where he would have selected his position in the in the queue uh this is game two game three three three so we actually have a complete tie uh threes across the board crazy yeah so just completely reversed that first result and there he goes right gene taking the taking the reins here so curious what's your usual deadpool approach if you haven't uh well um my first thing is can i find that lock shot which is very it's tough give or take i don't know sometimes i can sometimes i can't yep um usually i just go through the battles start with wait a minute who who's this we have here who's this lovely lady hi i'm anna anna anna from hot nudge this is anna anna a lot of people do sorry about that hi anna hi are you coming from southern california chicago chicago fantastic all right yeah my family was really good oh wonderful all right all right so he's already got [Music] yes and we actually saw luke take the same approach i actually found that very interesting you know selecting juggernaut which i think tends to be a tougher one right i guess it depends on if i have a lot of the drops down already right yes oh and it is sensitive he got a double danger there off of not like a terribly strong move out of a little deadpool there so nice we're focusing on his juggernaut red shots you can see that lit at the oh now he's got to go back to the drops because he ran out of time there so yeah that is a timed portion of the juggernaut when he uses he uses his booms there so the booms are they going to give him progress it looks like it doesn't give him progress toward the juggernaut because yeah it doesn't have any shots correct yeah and i wonder if he was using that thinking it would i know all right there we go there's one he's got i think two more shots total he's got one more to get his health to zero and then that's going to be the final collect shot yep right there and that'll be a 12 million if he can land it goes down though right oh and now he's in berserker rage that's a that's a spinner mode all right he's trying to get it on the fly it's not not giving any time there well yeah you get higher points i i think that's right i think that's also just his his style he does not land the final blow he misses out on that final collect but happens all the time yep it'll be interesting to see you know given given the way this is playing it seems to be pretty fair folks are seeming to be able to control the ball i'm expecting that you know if they're going to go from ninja multiball at that lot they're gonna they're gonna try to stack and that's they're gonna take their time with that i think rather than taking the ninja if they have it available i think they're gonna try to bring that in because i imagine the progress towards sauron is more valuable and you guys uh remember this is the limited edition so you can't go right into roller is it too loud right correct oh yeah you came in a little hot but okay i'll fix that all good all good but yeah that the exactly right manu that so uh on the he's making reference to the left side spinner uh there's a feature there for the roller uh the roller skating uh disco right yes and then so that first one is going to be a i think a frenzy oh is it loops okay i don't know actually i don't really remember the second time around though i think is the multi-volume well yeah i think i i think it used to be a lot more reliable as a place to start uh and now not so much at least on yeah i guess actually that's that's only available on the on the premium right because i don't think the pro has the does it have the spinner it has the spinner okay but i don't it doesn't go all the way around so i don't think it has the loops oh got it got it fantastic all right so money making a couple slight adjustments here keep this broadcast as wonderful as we want it to be javier with a big old grin getting excited he's always such a positive personality yeah i met him yesterday it was great meeting everyone yeah is this your first city champ fantastic i did the best at my first one yeah yeah it's getting worse but that's okay it's tough better than better to start low and then you know build up right like yeah you know it's like you know i my first pinbury i made it to a and that ruined me [Laughter] am i hot now no you're much better yeah i think it's where my lab was yeah all good yeah there you go are you also a part of the pinball network is that is that no no i'm not in that again tough tough drain there for javier let's go to take a breather take a lap oh god yeah but that can happen on this game yeah very fast and once you get those loops going i mean i didn't see what happened yeah yeah i think i think it was just a tough he got some east-west motion and just went right to that outlane east west yes yeah that's i always think of it you know pinball players love the north south east west is dangerous um and then are you playing in the constellation person oh yeah oh fantastic are you no no i'm i'm planted here okay this is this is my uh you know after missing out i missed out on the uh i was in i didn't do myself any favors with my score but i actually still beat two other people so there was a possibility i advanced but uh eric wagons put me to bed yeah he looks like he's a little frustrated there he's he kind of knows that it's a sensitive game but i think he's kind of lost track of his body there and yeah he's he's got got a couple things cooking so i think he'll he'll have options but it's gonna be gonna be tough especially with this crew anybody is liable to blow this game up at any point i know it really becomes a mind game on all three when you're you have said things set up and you're ready to go yeah you're like i know i could do it but i'm curious is there we talked about this with a couple folks yesterday is there any ritual or sort of mantra you have in in tight situations like this are you trying to calm yourself center yourself i try to just breathe but i i should maybe get a monster or something i should try something else yeah breathing it's not working it's it it's definitely i i know for myself yesterday it's nice to have those those things you can come back to because yeah i mean as much as it's just a game you want to win you want to do well you want to put your best game out there and so yeah it's it's frustrating when you feel like you you just didn't do that yeah i'm i really do sincerely feel that if you lose after putting up a good effort that's okay that's like you know maybe this thing's a little bit but if you lose because you really did not put up a great effort that's where it really stays just an odd bounce off of you know i think i think he was interested in the post pass but i don't think he gave it enough he kind of feathered it and so it almost kind of just popped it up just enough i don't even think he hit the post it just kind of came down and the physics of it take it away aida danger trying to ski past yeah that was interesting to me i think that's a a natural thing for players to do but especially on the games today the tilts are set so tight that those kind of things are gonna they're gonna cost you yeah the tilts are so tight well i kind of love it i wouldn't much much rather have it that way than um although we still had a couple of those as well now that was even just a strong flip i don't think he was really intending to give it much and there again exactly all right i'm gonna go make a judgement anna you're gonna have time to stick around there commentate all right thank you oh [Music] no he's not in a mode okay i saw the grimace at the start of this monkey ball yeah the no mode grenades so if i'm in if i'm ever in the ninja multiball with no mode i'm going to try and snick as much as possible yeah that's always a good thing to try uh such a hard but satisfying shot i have a 12 year old we had a deadpool in the house and he could call every snick wow he's 12. that's amazing yeah uh look he got us how much extra ball where that is good so you get to start all over again no it's coming back it should be yeah that's kind of better right yeah that's the lights on it's just taking this time you can only get the stick though from the left zipper yeah i've seen weird bounces but yeah there's some weirdos i'd say 99 of the time yes it's only the left i'm going to take a quick look at that luke issue okay great yeah i'd love to see that so he was attempting something possibly he's like doing tiny little bounces maybe to roll it back on the front of his flipper i think the players know that we can play back their best and worst moments now i've given away my secret it might real fuel exactly every time oh man this is a really tight yeah it's been it's uh endangering on flips you really just gotta play like an angel what rebecca and says she sings the song but i don't know that's awesome play like an angel that's a different song but i like that one too i'm old i went for the steve miller band sorry no that's good that's the one i know but she plays things when i don't i was gonna say he's gently flipping but just one nudge and you're reminded a few hot nudges here and there okay here we go [Music] oh he's got a couple of team-ups so mystique is the right oh he does well he doesn't have the best team up ever which is wolverine yeah that's true any team up is good yeah especially because uh kind of hard to yeah hit that one shot mystique with wolverine you can use this eviscerator pretty quick that's true it's okay yes do you need to go play i don't know people congregating so the problem with this is you don't know how your mode is yeah during your multiball because the lights are all the same colors but at least he did what he came to do he started a mode before his multiball it was good so the order is correct i think so this is luke player two yeah so the order is correct in the match right now oh great two dangers i definitely don't do anything else don't breathe don't use any harsh language well you never know i know it yes yeah okay oh yeah yeah [Music] one last boom all right i'm gonna put up deadpool back glass in case you do need to leave okay great you're all covered thank you [Music] also let's hear it for the deadpool back glass yeah that's pretty sweet can be challenges for everyone i can't stand chili chocolate really why isn't it a fried burrito i know curious how how did gene uh make his riches here um he well that was i think so even with the disappointment of not bringing in the mode he still did pretty well yeah fantastic yeah i i was pulled away on a stuck ball so nothing nothing uh exciting to report there nice snake [Music] that's going to be big actually even even to get if he can finish this uh yeah that'll be a nice pickup if you can get there maybe there's a nice random bounce in there oh it's tough but great ball great great finish you know given the way this game is playing that that feels solid [Music] and goes for the super skill that seemed like a popular option i didn't see anybody really going for the uh standard skill shot there oh awkward bounce out of the auto plunge that's scary [Music] up and i think he's about to call me over well those those pops [Music] so i actually feel like as a player i probably would have insisted upon a a judge coming over to get get that out because yeah you risk i mean he was already a double danger you risk having to move the game if you get an awkward kick out but it's gonna come out when as the judge comes over we gotta hold the flip wrap okay yeah all right well tough one there for javier but yeah gene getting the second three so with six points i think he's in a more comfortable seat there i mean not impossible to have a repeat of what we had between rounds one and two to have a tie at six a piece but at least that means he's guaranteed a tie breaker yeah that's right yeah yeah all right so we'll see so we're going to be going to wizard would it be um is a top two move on top two move on so does that mean he definitely moves on or not no because if there's so he scores six right now if the order is exactly reversed yeah yeah because we had that in the first one which i don't think we've ever seen in city champ history so that'll be maybe some history if we we could see it here but uh wizard is going to be our next one it's going to be actually in the uh manu you have to remind us the name of that room when he oh he's got his hands full he's moving the secret juju it is the secret juju gallery there you go there you go that's the secret and as i mentioned yesterday that is actually games electromechanical games provided by the pacific pinball museum out in alameda california just across the bay if you come to the bay area of course come to free gold watch enjoy all of the games here but then make your way across the bay to the pacific pinball museum one of the most fantastic collections of pinball that you'll ever see including games going all the way back to the wood rail era early 20th century so fantastic collection you get to play some of those yeah it's really cool uh i haven't been in many years but i it's like one of the first places i ever played yeah yeah it's great i mean it's uh and as i mentioned yesterday they had a lot of outreach they have a lot of educational programs that they put on for local kids so yeah it's really good pacific museum donate your money if you can't go it's a fantastic organization uh really really fun and so yeah that whole room there it has even the title cards uh above the games that have the description of the history and all that it's really fun yeah and i try and stream out of there once a month yes there you go thanks to david velanski and michael sheets yes yes now do you have a favorite em oh a favorite em i i i like i like a lot of ems money what do you what do you like my favorite em is prospector i was gonna say prospector it's a good one oh because of those spinners right yeah those are great now i'm a gold digger one question i have i'm sure this is valid i could easily validate this on the internet is that is it laura linardi or is it it is abbott and costello no laurel and hardy okay because they're very similar duos yeah i don't know the difference really so i mean there you go there you go but yeah but for me it's uh royal flush royal flesh or drop a card which is the two player version but that that play field i just think it's so wonderful what about this question for some reason now well do you have i guess what's the selection of vms like in you know your usual pinball hunt i mean we don't have that many yeah yeah so that's the problem i think i i wouldn't actually be surprised if folks in the bay tend to have more opinions is because we actually have a pretty plentiful supply yeah between ppm and here and actually there were a couple other locations that would have uh a couple yeah you can actually go to musee mechanique which is a wonderful uh fun little sort of like coin operated paradise yeah and they have a bunch of ems down at the uh fisherman's wharf okay yeah i've never been there it's good it's uh the pinball is fun you know it's great great to have a couple options there but just the insanity of some of these old coin operated games or not even games they're almost shows so you put a quarter in and then these little marionettes i love that stuff there's a lot of beheadings too yeah it's okay there was just a different standard back there everyone loved a good death i guess but yeah where's the best place to buy cheese in the city that's going to be cheese plus on poke street out by polk gulch okay cheese plus everyone here i did not know that i actually yeah the fairy building also has some great cheese options as well actually that i just happen to have that cheese place off the top of my head i'm sure there's many other great cheese monger locations in the city but that is a good one they have i actually have a great deli bar as well all right we are basically set fantastic sorry i'm saying sorry to people that i'm bumping into all right cheese is delicious 100 oh god i keep seeing people here and thinking that oh yeah you might get you might get your call here but also if i don't soon i'm gonna probably have to delay my flight oh gosh when are you supposed to go out at 4 45. oh got it yeah that's pretty i'd have to leave pretty soon i mean you got a little time i mean i guess if you're thinking you'd like to get at least an hour of course yeah and i have to like return a car oh got it okay yeah so there's a huge airport yes yes all right well we hopefully hopefully we'll uh we'll we'll get you you know up in the whoppers on your wizard actually i love the little flip-flops it's great flip-flop also yeah there you go that's fantastic yeah yes the uh uh the others so just to give folks an overview of this game the primary well i guess there's various ways you can go about it so the primary feature that you'll see are those four flags that flip-flop up at the top you'll see them as folks hit the rollovers those two rollers are at the top or the uh stand ups that are lit with the white lights along the bottom part of the playfield those will activate certain features so they'll basically qualify it whenever and uh and the difficulty with the video is just because it's so far flung in that room it's a little tough so folks bear with us if we have some some of the video go out but yeah i'm gonna go babysit it oh sure sure thank you and so the yeah the aim uh often is to get the right flags activated so you activate them with those hits or the rollovers and then you collect them by sending them into that right lane up top and the best way to get there is actually if you get into that top saucer it'll kick it down into that right lane uh to collect whatever you have activated there so there's double bonus there there's lit spinner right where's the lip spinner is that lit spinner i think is number two number two okay two or three folks we'll try to check it on the fly but i think um if folks know offhand feel free to drop that into the chat oh he did that on the fly i was not expecting that it actually that actually is a fairly reliable place so actually the feed there is a little unpredictable but yes on this particular one it's actually impressive how doable that is on a consistent basis interesting all right i think i'm up all right so he hits flag too thanks so much for hanging out emma hey sd pinhead and scotch shadow with c shadow with c thanks so much for the follow and you see manu there working hard to keep the stream as tip top as possible and you saw 18 000 there from from gene so couldn't really capitalize too much i think so number two was not the lid spinner number two was not a double bonus uh i think that may have been i may have missed it but i think that the the other ones are you can light the um 3000 shot and also too and that's that's stand up right in the center there and also to light the bumpers all right so michael going with the slightly more conservative approach on the on the kick out there going for the drop the dead bounce rather and these these flippers can be a little finicky this game also is it can be floaty in a weird way all right it's a nice spinner rip there goes up top misses the oh and a tough fumble there missing up top in the saucer is tough i mean the saucer itself is 3000 plus you get the opportunity to get it into that right area and for the right area it can be dangerous that kick out from the right feed can go right down the middle i'd say more often than not it's going nicely to the left so as long as you stay wily you're able to either do like gene backhand that the dead bounce as you saw from michael it can work i wouldn't necessarily recommend it i think there's certain points on that flipper where if it strikes it's gonna basically die and you're gonna need to do a panic flip in order to save that um but to each his own everybody's got their own style when they get into that and remember don't panic [Laughter] see what i did there i like that that they're on the pinball network right yes yeah there you go all right so we got luke jumping in here and again so we have a potential four-way tie situation based on the finish is here if we have a reversal of the order from the final finish so if gene were to get last javier first and uh the other what other players sort of in the in their respective opposite positions relative to the last game we could have a six six six six final which would then take us to a one game playoff between all four players as it is we could still have a tiebreaker just with a a different subset of players but gene is the only one guaranteed to at least make that tiebreaker all right javier now on his ball one and a tough one there center drain never feels good this one's got a bit of a wider gap i think than than most games so you got to be careful on that center and those flippers really don't help you a ton so you got to be aware of the fact that you're not going to get nice bounces often there's no center post on this so you're not able to leverage that so yeah we'll see we'll see how folks uh approach leaning in oh oh oh somebody should let him know i don't think it's progressed oh no no i'm sorry i had it wrong it's i'm looking at the wrong light so it has progressed to player two there i was i was thinking that the illumination of the score you know that's how it's done on uh on the got leads oh and it misses the flag hit there i think he had enough force but it's just a awkward angle there and if you have a game of wizard you gotta see this serious backlash actually it's it is of that era it is uh and margaret is that is that right yeah i think that's uh supposed to be anne martin the chat will take remy in the chat will be able to tell us all right so michael thanks for stepping up michael you may know him as dri also a a pinball streamer here in the larger bay area goes with that drop bounce again and a dead bounce again and again you know had to had to do some fancy flipping there just to keep it alive he's not really getting a lot of force off that left side and now with two flags active he's really three flags active now he really wants to get that back up top so his goal right now is to get a clean hit on that spinner he's gonna take his time here nails it and he wants to get right in that saucer or or if not just bump right into the the right side oh very nice save off of that and he gets all four so he is has potential here to have a huge ball that was incredible he actually got the last flag active by the rollover as it was going into into the saucer there but he is he's got double bonus active he's got a hundred on each spin collects a couple more he's he's got the special lit which is 5 000 i believe set to 5000 here oh misses on the 3000 there got another flag down michael if he can get another nice spinner hit and then up into the 3000 oh and it's a tough oh wow so that'll happen sometimes where basically you just don't get a nice feed out of the saucer but he actually got saved by that top pop in order to go right back in there and that is that's gonna be a great ball for michael matson there that's his ball too and he's got three more to go he's well on his way to to rolling so but but wait the lucinator steps up the lukinator raise an unauthorized rip-off of tommy beautiful i you know is it's not licensed you you don't think so i mean i guess i guess i could see that uh you know there's there's really no other indicia of the movie other than actually the car descending i think that's a scene in the movie right or that you can see the car in flames descending into the uh into the drain there i believe that's actually in the in the tommy world so i'd be interested to know if there was any uh licensing on this all right luke oh the tough bounce this one is just so dangerous if it gets into that left or right side you are just at the whim of the game it's very difficult i use you'll see players kind of try to shake it out i mean i think the the right pavlovian response for any pinball player is if it's going in that area just start moving the machine just try to just do what you can to keep it out of that area because you just do yourself no favors by allowing yourself to be sort of at the whim of the fates and a nice backhand there actually gets a lucky bounce into the 3000 there all right now there's not a great transfer option here uh you can do a uh a a tap pass but i don't think anybody was really testing that or thinking that's an option here an alley pass is also possible just a very basically a very late flip which will then send the ball into the opposite alley allow that to then uh allow that to actually get caught on this on the opposite flipper uh into a trap so you can set up your next shot shut me up i'm completely wrong authorized yeah that's i'm i'm glad i i said something mr tilt bubbles i mean i i can i can see why it was it sort of seems like it's uh not quite all the way there in a way that you know in the way that attack from mars even though it predated mars attacks you know it has that kind of flavor of you know potentially being just kind of a an homage of sorts but yeah i think this is this is official on a tough tough one there for gene x gene with the you know sort of a a defensive flip there just to keep it from going on the center drain but it just gave it just too much sent it over to the right out laying on a nice little rainbow after getting that first flag down he got the flag the fourth flag on the rollover into the 3000 and that activates your pop bumpers so it's 100 per hit which can be actually quite lucrative if you get into those pops and you get good action and you have them at 100 each that's actually not bad of course you're going to always favor the the value on the spinner the spinner is really if you can get that that's where you want to be all right so he's got the second flag active hits the three collects it oh and another tough drain bow to the to the right side just tough it has that momentum it's just very difficult to try to fish that out andrew anand i don't know if anybody knows the story of happy happy to have somebody just hop onto ipdb share that link see what's up what's going on with the wizard history all right so there's there's that uh sort of unpredictable feed there so you know we've been seeing pretty much every feed go cleanly to the left flipper and there's one where you see it just absolutely sort of die as it's coming out on that right side luke with the alley passing great great nudge there to keep it out of the left side there let's see if he goes for the alley pass again beautiful alley pass and he's just gonna rip that on the fly tough break there i think he's gonna be able to trap this up again oh yeah andrew or none you might be right maybe it's sort of a subset of uh licensed features got it so maybe they didn't get the film rights but they got the uh individual rights so there you go thanks fudge for the the history lesson folks all right no flags there but a nice 3000 pickup and a nice in lane there sometimes better be lucky than good and he gets the credit for the 3000 there even though it did not settle in the saucer it hit the switch long enough oh and a tough one see there there's one again where you just cannot rely on the on the force of the kick out there to give you a good dead bounce tough tough break there for luke but he's sitting with 38 apparently good for third and uh luke in order to give us our you know potential full tie break we need javier to really go crazy on this one and a beautiful save there on the right side keep that from going down the right right outline couldn't trust it there i think i think he if he held that up i think it would have stayed but he did not trust it gets a nice carom off the rock or the left flipper and he gets it back up there let's see if he can get it in three thousand nice and he's gonna collect two there so that's a that's gonna be the double bonus which double bonus right now is going to be a huge factor for javier saves that one all right he gets a nice carom there off the tip pass it's just a little early i think that's a second or third time we've seen that to actually send it up the in lane to give it enough for a just karem oh and a tough one there who's gonna get good value on the double bonus enough to actually put him in first place so we'll see what happens here we're moving over to gene x so gene x currently in last place and again for our potential four-way tie we're going to need a reversal of the last game the gene currently currently bringing up the rear javier ends with oh and a tough break there that's going to put him up to just over 40 000. all right now over to michael needs at least a few thousand can't quite make out what that thousands digit on javier score is but it's a little bit more than 90 so javier is player one correct yeah let's find out what that thousand scissors all right good control here michael nice three thousand pickup oh and a tough drain there i don't think he's gonna does he not exceed oh just barely and he's gonna put it up to 98 i think that's going to be enough to eclipse javier and now it's all down to luke so right now as it stands gene is going to sit on six oh no i'm sorry that's that's not true gene potential to go to seven so right now javier best he can do is two additional points you go to five michael javier is nine four four uh so michael beats him by four thousand and luke is gonna is gonna miss it by a thousand points yeah so luke's ending with four that gives gene a seven michael moves up to an eight javier with a five so michael and gene going to be moving on oh i'm sorry i've i and again wait i thought that was ball five i am apologies to our viewership i thought that was ball five that was baltimore i couldn't are you sure no no he's that was ball four yeah all right so this is still in play this is still in play still in it all right so javier thinking about his his approach here now on a game like this it's the game resets every single ball so so you're starting from the exact same place you're starting with every prior ball a tough break there he doesn't get the the nice drop into oh but then he ends up getting an extra 3 000 there that's a nice one all right good control and a beautiful shot on the left side he's gonna try to stay loose here there's the spinner so now's the critical time he needs to get something some semblance of control on the on the right side in order to get a good shot on that spinner there it is here it comes beautiful hit and that is gonna put him in good steed gives him several thousand on that one all right and i think he's just gonna focus spinner i don't think he's gonna worry himself too much with other flags the double bonus flag of course is always nice but better to just capitalize on what you have interesting he he hit the flag three but uh the flag did not go up but i don't think that's actually i think it's just a mechanical issue i think he will still get credit so he's got three flags now currently available to him you can see them lit on the right lane there a little early there and a good adjustment just a slightly later flip and he nails it and there is the double bonus so javier is in amazing position now he has he has everything working for him his momentum on this game has been fantastic he's up to 120 and he's going to attack on at least another 38 more with his double bonus he's maxed out his bonus so this is this is now all spinner all day the only thing he needs to do is focus on hitting that spinner all right get a couple spins there not not the full rip oh and a tough bounce but fantastic work by javier marin he was determined you see the look on his face absolutely determined to put up his best show possible he's going to go all the way up to roughly 165 000 points decidedly in first place at the moment going into ball five for gene x huang oh and nt hits is that are you indicating that this is the final group to decide the who makes it into our top 16. very exciting here gene with a good a good save there and a nice dead bounce left to right that was perfect and he knew that he had enough momentum on that one again a good save off of the the weak kick a nice in lane there a nice flip there gene is doing everything he can to keep this alive now let's see does he go alley pass he does doesn't get quite the right alley pass but actually he got got a flip off and there it is he's got the control up to 12 024 because of the double bonus not getting that and there it is on the fly gene x up to 48 he's got another 32 incoming on bonus at least he's gonna try to max that out a nice spinner rip there not for the oh for the lit value yes he's got the 100 on the spinners again a good flip to keep that out of the center drain because of the weak exit from the right side and a center drain there gene exo doing doing enough to keep himself in the conversation here i think that's actually gonna put him close to the score just under where michael was michael at 98 gene at 91. so gene maintaining at least some distance on luke it's gonna be on luke to own his destiny if he can if he can beat gene gets at least the point goes up to five if he can beat michael or javier whoever's in second after michael's ball here go up to six if he beats javier he'll go up to seven i'm sorry javier or michael whoever comes out of this i i i do think javier is in the driver's seat though with a bad score that was a fantastic performance excellent action i agree fgw andy oh and a tough tough one off that he had the right idea to save from the center drain but that's gonna have him end with 107. so currently javier with the top score at 165 107 good enough for at least under javier 91 so so right now as it stands luke if he takes a zero we will have javier with a six michael with a seven and gene with a seven so for the sake of javier he's written for luke and unfortunately not enough a tough break there for luke so michael taking home two points gene x doing what he needed to do to get the one point with seven points apiece michael and jean are gonna be moving on to our next round well done by javier to give it his all to bring him to the brink of advancing but just not enough and luke having a tough go on that last one incredible competitors but just not enough thanks so much to luke and javier for a great match and i think that's pretty much gonna wrap up our first round so we're gonna have our final six team and they're gonna be selecting banks again so we're gonna get those selections in just a bit we're gonna make standings right now i believe we should we i think it's gonna reflect basically everybody who's eliminated so we can we can take a look at that see if it's logged in quite yet looks like they have not refreshed it yet but yes i agreed obi john fgw andy happy to have you and if yeah if you're out in san francisco right now and you want to come it's a beautiful day so i don't regret you if you want to go to loras park golden gate park go catch the giants game it's a fantastic day but we're having fun here at free gold watch you can come stop by if you have a moment give a high five to our 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somebody uh oh yeah there's there's the the shame the pulling the brim down that's that's that's manu currently profusely apologizing across the shop to to luke for showing that on the broadcast that was that was pretty good manu your comedic timing could not be better thanks tater salad it's a gouda day to have a slice i feel bad that i press replay all good all good so you can see there the eliminations i could have pressed stop but i didn't because it was funny so i think i think that means we actually have one playoff i think we have a tiebreaker happening uh manu if you're out there and if they haven't started yet see if maybe we can get on that tiebreaker but if they've already started that's all good we can we can grab our our mobile camera what game uh we're not sure i'd say if you could find uh uh gene or all right well they're right here oh no it looks like they're ready joining us so all right so folks we'll be back in a moment because we're going to be eating so you'll play like four games all errands copseed gets to choose a bank um and then his first quarter in that game then it goes by subsequent games the loser of the previous game gets to choose first and they're swap rules the first person pick in the back gets to possibly swap a game if they want to you can't pick the same bank back to backgrounds so i think we can get started yeah people thinking if you have any questions oh sorry i'm trying to catch the audio yeah yeah no it was fantastic we could hear everything our uh group one the person who gets to pick first is carl he was the top seed uh for group two it's andre for group three it's darren and then group four is matthew peterson so carl gets to choose first i'm going to keep that mic open for a little bit just kind of making another announcement all right no and i think we're going to we're going to generally follow oh yeah you want to jump back in on anna's coming back in to join us so i think we're we're getting set to select our bank that we're gonna be following really exciting i'm guessing we're gonna stick with uh well the banks are gonna they may change based on the i think the top seeds are able to get one choice if they want to swap out a per era so like if you don't like that em you could swap for a different year oh okay so yeah so they have to set the basically set the bank selections first and then we'll know who we're going to be following how that went you're you're on whirlwind here yeah i got a strike ah but i had seven million which is not a bad whirlwind score for me yeah fantastic wait seven million got you a strike yep is it is it uh oh fair strikes so one zero one one two yes got it got it okay but i did just switch my flight to 6 15. oh there you go all right lock in here we go get excited i mean i doubt that now i'm going to make my other flight but it's fine all right oh thanks for the kind words mr tilbum says thank you so much for this amazing stream mlm california here oh that's that's our friend mike miller oh we're grateful to get to cheer at my tv and avoid chores today mr tell bubbles thanks for being here with us today happy to have you happy to have everybody here oh yeah can someone share the match play link you know we have a button that will do that money when he gets back uh i think i can share it yeah yeah you can do it from there yeah he's he is a man of many times wow actually i think oh no he's coming back i think we have the wrong match play link list oh in the link if uh nt hits can probably do it nt hits is always so helpful with sharing out that information uh but if anybody else happens to have that link also you can just go to matchplay.events if you search finals for city champ nine you can get the information there uh and that way you can jump on and follow along at home but we'll try to share that with you here as well my phone is being dumb oh no oh lordy oh you're checking on your status there i was trying to like um put in the match because no one did it yet oh got it i think sure it's here oh no it looks like that's it yeah somebody got it perfect there we go is that it is that right somebody validate that all right so we're going to i'm going to take a moment just to go make sure that we're staying close to them on picking which bank we're going to follow okay anna are you comfortable vamping with uh with manu okay i can play it by myself yeah she's a pro at this actually i'm not that good at vampirina all right last call round two is done we're gonna go into round three we got an ad in so uh damien has entered the fray we got an added all right so we're gonna go ahead and start round three i think this is for the and round three is up for city chance last call there is a one three gate or three person game on woz so if it's three players it's gonna be first player gets first place gets zero second place gets one probably zero one two oh okay god ghostbusters the game that ruined me last night oh are you heading over to your next one yeah all right kick booty you got this three player game on waz it's zero one two so that's going to be announcements there for the consolation tournament that's running here running by our our very own mary smith who's doing a wonderful job running that event and we are my sister did you know that there you go mary smith that's right yeah i didn't even think about the fact yeah surname matches up there you go mary is awesome vp fiends absolutely oh god don't start feed oh no is that is there some history here yeah because they like to troll me they team up on me oh i see i see vp fiends in concert with mary yeah i got you all right scamps the two of those scamps all right so we're actually gonna be going we're gonna be following our top seeded group so we're gonna have carl the okay finals banks should be published now there we go remember for order choice the first game is in seed order as it's listed there we go which is going to be great for us because it's also going to be able to show up on our bug on the splash screen you'll be able to see the game and so yeah so we're going to be following carl d'Python Anghelo jim belcido nick stein and gene x oh we got a setting it's showing the settings on your camera there uh for the uh dmd cam i'm a pro i gotta fix that quick um also we're gonna be updating the match level uh yeah just want to show insights oh the the uh oh it's a dmd cam the md cam is showing just the camera mic settings right now at least on my view oh i know why sorry guys of course i got this i will fix that is that just needs refreshing or anything i need to move the things oh god i gotta be uh the sensors right so so what manu is doing right now you can't see it's off off off camera but we have the receivers actually centrally located in the shop here at free gold watch sort of on a special pole that can be actuated to point because you need line of sight in order for these video transmitters and receivers to communicate with each other so manu has strategically placed them basically right in the middle of the long road in order to make sure that they always have the ability if they're all the way in the front all the way in the back we have the most the highest likelihood of having that line of sight actually work together to get the video going so come on it says no signal now let's see if let's see if we just get a a refresh here it might just hop up yep there we go beautiful champion all right and then yeah and then we will we will refresh on the on the bug there get all those in you see carl d'Python Anghelo pointing up and we're getting excited to show off some some great plays so this is i think going to be one of the premier groups here this is four players who are absolutely at the top of the game were some of the strongest players in our field yesterday so that's gonna be [Applause] extremely exciting to see how they play this one out pina me hinomi and small change arcade thanks so much for following 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the shop i know that uh there was there was a moment where he helped out money recently and it was fantastic so i already talked over our first player that was a quick ball one i'm not getting that oh okay so match play scores maybe at issue so we'll we'll see if we can fix that up but i'll keep everybody posted on the performances here nick stein just getting set here and that was a a rough first ball here for player one nick missing the skill shot there and now he's just into standard play and he starts with the a backhand to the raptor he's got that loaded up nice hit there wrapped a lot lock is lit so i think it's interesting this will be very interesting to me i i know a little bit enough of a sort of standard strategy for myself on how i usually play jurassic park which tends to be decent as long as i i hit my shots so he gets that first raptor lock in there ball is now captured this is actually a premium so the ball is actually going to sit in that raptor containment unit rcu that's our first chaos target there on the on the left side so as you know there's uh as you may know there's a multiple multiballs available so the chaos uh you'll see that the flashing uh yellow light that's now strafing across as you collect those in order that qualifies the chaos multiball tough outlane on the right side so a little progress there to get set up but the uh obviously not not exactly what he wanted there and now we have player three stepping out player three is going to be so yeah so just just to review so we were talking about chaos multiball you can follow you can see the the flashing c there so as that travels across from left to right on the game you can collect those to start a multiball there's the t-rex try ball or i'm sorry the raptor tribal so as as nick was demonstrating they're putting the ball into that raptor containment unit hitting that enough time to actually start that multiball it's up to three ball multiball there's also a multiball that's the first mode in the t-rex and you qualify that by hitting the captive ball uh the the newton ball right in the center that has the truck above it so as you hit that the truck will move around and every time you do that successfully you'll get a letter of t-rex once you spell t-rex you'll be able to collect it at the t-rex shot which is the left ramp you see that flashing there for the skill shot right now so a couple multiball options in this game and jim finally taking his position all right so belcido going to be sticking starting to get up here oh player one was genex thank you thank you appreciate that tom logic it's that first kill shot now there's a second skill shot if you can hit the right ramp and then there's even a third skill shot if you hit the right ramp that's going to feed the top flipper and you'll be able to hit the power shot so from that upper flipper on the right side there's actually two shots you can hit there's a a loop you can see that sort of in the top left corner that left most arrow and there's one below that and that actually hits a ramp that feeds up into that little hut you can kind of make that out on the left side but then feeds down to the left flipper through the habit trail all right he's got so now with that first uh dinosaur rescue mode he's got the he's got the rescues lit and he's already hit a few oh and he already he's already collected that golemous and that was quick that was a quick save there they still got a couple rescues here going for that oh and a tough bounce off of the ricochet from going for that c shot but that was fantastic and and rescues gotta i playing this yesterday i actually failed to start a multiball still scored roughly 75 million and it was all rescued so that those can be valuable i think it's a if you're not hitting multiball shots it's it's worthwhile to collect those rescues collective progress on all of those in order to move into the deeper parts of the island there as you collect those save those dinosaurs or i guess you return those dinosaurs to where they're supposed to be you'll make progress on inverted boots says insane talent that is absolutely right this is we're very excited to bring this crew it's a nice mix of bay area and uh southern california players carl of course a former california state champion would not be surprised to find out that jim was also a state champion at some point mcstein always a threat coming out of the sacramento area gene x are our home boys one of the and there's a tilt tough tough slap save it was given the way the tips were set on these games i was not surprised there that uh after one danger it's pretty much pretty much guaranteed you're going to a tilt on anything anything else stronger than a uh probably just a moderate move disco beats thank you so much for the follow thanks for checking us out folks just to remind you you're here mystery pinball theater 3000. we love your support thank everybody for the followers and the support i really appreciate it absolutely very excited to bring this to you all right ball two g x back up so not too much going on that ball one so we'll see it where gene goes with his strategies basically starting from square one here there's a skill shot gonna go for the right ramp nails it let's see if you get the third one uh hits hits up into the you can see that the red shot there on the left side that was gonna be the third one but he still gets good value off of those two hits there's the tower shot now all right so at the white flashing shot on the jurassic park that's where he's going to be able to start his his first and he would currently be going after us same as next time i just learned how to play this game this past weekend uh oh yeah when i was hanging out with george at don't panic clip oh fantastic out in fort collins okay so he has this and he he taught me it's it's one of those games i would love to just own yes there's a lot of game here yes absolutely i think i one of the hallmarks of a keith elwin game is just the the absolute depth of rule set and and i really do think especially for you know the players at this level i mean having that depth is is a godsend it just makes gives it so much life to be able to enjoy a game over and over again go deep as you can figure out alternate scoring methodologies that are going to give you the biggest value a nice pickup of the c there for gene now three he's got three to his t-rex oh in a tough tough east west there to the left out lane so he's got got a little progress there made a couple pickups moved his chaos a little bit still definitely wants some more and nick stein stepping up player two but nick as we saw earlier was focusing on that raptor tri-ball making sure he's quite comfortable before finding that a miss again on the skill shot just a little bit late there has karen tear them down after hitting that uh left post all right now he's back into the haddock information oh now he's in his [Music] he's got some rescues lit you can see that on the oh and a tough one again just unable to make much progress after a couple flips no progress on that on that dino rescue they've got some work to do in that ball three but as we know especially at this this point in the tournament we are down to our top 16 players those 16 players are liable to blow up a game at any moment so do never count them out especially on a game like this like we're talking about with the deep roll sets you can harness a lot of that value very quickly if you hit the right shots so we'll see what what goes on on the next one oh yeah hannah coming back to join us you're talking jpg there you go there you go yeah you know first time you say you know the l i word don't like jp but lately i've been liking it there you go big move by valsido there gets double danger still in it letting it settle all these games unless noted yes i think there are a couple games that do not have it and it is included on that sheet on the backlash to let folks know but it's otherwise so really nobody's really been breaking away here after after two balls for three of our players not really seeing the kind of uh breakout performance that we might expect of course with one ball still a lot that can happen that's correct yeah anything yes do you have a so usual approach on jp oh lord um okay um then i start a mode right right yeah we've seen nick backhanding the raptor we see carl going after it but it's really it's not being too fruitful right now i mean we're seeing a ton of outlane drains to the right off of ricochets from that shot so people are backhanding that and just not succeed maybe stop it like that it's it is it's tough to know i gotta say it's tough to know when to make an adjustment i think i think natural adjustment is you know shots like in terms of geometry like you know if you know you're late or you're too early that's an adjustment but in terms of strategic advancement that's tough sometimes because you kind of want to play the numbers right you know it's going to be successful right for your usual game so you got to if you're going to deviate you got to be sure that you feel confident about that and that you're going to be sort of in the right frame of mind exactly you don't want to try any strategy that you've never tried before fall free yep which i do all the time i am like oh this isn't working i'll try this which i never ever do and it never works yep all right so gnx now has qualified as t-rex and the first t-rex mode is a multi-bar you can increase the value of the race jackpot uh by hitting the lit t-rex shots before activating it so right now if you were to hit the uh either the the loop upper loop uh the right ramp or the power shot that would actually add value so you can see actually he's above 500 000 now it's counting down again and he's got his 2x going so this is actually a key moment if he can i think he's just going to go up and find it out my god oh right out lane it's tough that is really that's really disappointing for gene i know he's he's hurting after suffering that because he had an opportunity there to put at least you know colorable amount of points even as to your point even if it's not a huge amount right from the multiball i think it was gonna be something where he's gonna extend his time on the game and and i mean he's sitting in first but he can't be feeling too confident i mean that is that's i would be shocked if we see a 29 million first place in in this group even with a difficult game yeah these are great players so and then i mean you know pressure gets to us yeah yeah i think i think maybe we're seeing a little bit of that i mean this is definitely the first first time we're seeing nick no i'm sorry um first time flips for balsito and for d'Python Anghelo mick and gene have advanced from the prior round so they've been here all morning right right clearly though that did not warm them up enough for this one all right we'll see nick nick also seems like he's maybe testing a little bit of the uh the fluttering for the staging you know if he's gonna use that feature on the upper flipper i almost never how are you do you in other games other games yeah you feel more confident i mean i own an avenger all right so now we'll see what what his approach is here he's going to be combining basically raptor collects there's a 10 million with his rescues because he's in his galena uh paddock yeah happy to be corrected if i have that wrong [Music] okay so here you want to add balls by getting the chaos letters is that right i think that's only in the chaos multiball right oh you can okay there you go i you know it makes sense that i wouldn't know that well i don't know if i'm right there's and there's the staging so he was he was prepping himself to get there all right so he's up to 36 they're still still looking for mark he's not satisfied with 36 i know for sure okay so did that you can get them in any order so once you get all the chaos letters oh i see what you mean okay so i see he's got the the left ramp and he's got the the c shot yes i see this should be the easiest shot okay and not even off an intentional hit there nope all right so this is going to be a big one if he hits it right here he's got a couple seconds is that going to give it back to him there it is wow what a save oh my gosh so that's going to put him into a four ball now and he's got the smart missile starting here and i don't think he got the uh award he wanted but i don't really think he cares right now he is he is just so excited all right well he's got uh red red shots here you can see are his his jackpots oh you know i'm imagining i see also the light in the in the raptor holding area maybe that'll that could reactivate it i don't think he quite hit it there oh no he got it locked up in there unless unless that's a stuck ball but i i'm guessing that that's intentional we'll see he'll he would know he's a good player 37 on that one there you go and there that's coming out all right here we had a go on the on the random award there wow so nick stein now feeling way better up to 94 million he still has a rescue available to him on the on the right orbit on the on the oh shot there and he's going oh he goes up to try to get that uh yes yeah there we go another one you've got the upper loop there it is 74. wow he is he is feeling good maybe locking a ball in that raptor [Music] maybe maybe it's just uh to have the luxury of not having to worry about that was a fantastic multiball there for nick stein so he's he's definitely feeling good he had the 2x running for a lot of that yeah that was great very fun to watch well done i love it yeah he's at least going to be feeling like okay he's put something up there if he gets beat that's that's fair absolutely and we got we got some knicks dying emotes in the chat where does carl and jim were partying the night away in sf last night that's uh spreading rumors here okay um where is nickname local he's up uh closer to sacramento so local enough he comes to a lot of the bay area events but yeah cool is there anything out there well there's uh there's the capital corridor pinball league okay which um actually we're sitting right next to damian who's the proprietor of that league um i'm sure he would know better the the locations i believe there's a there's one large location i think there's an emporium or like a comparable sort of yeah okay that style place i'm not i'm not familiar with the other ones there's a skill shot for balsito there's the second one let's see if he gets first it's it it's always so satisfying if you can get it yeah i didn't like it for so long it was too complicated um but now i'm right right i i think i felt that way you know for a few of the the later sterns and even even the it starts off being just such a a nest a a woven sort of stream of many different scoring opportunities and there's no clear path the way that there is on like a attack on mars or something like that yeah all right he wants that c he wants that control [Music] room around oh no tough tough that's what you get for staying on all at night messed up there you go that's i i know i know he's disappointed with that you can tell it on his face he really has a tough bounce there he does edge out gene so he actually saves himself at least a point and now carl papa being the uh professional amateur pinball association i think now defuncts i think they're still around i just think they just don't have the collection they don't have to collect it i got one of those games oh you did very would you pick up i got a uh oh fantastic good choice i got lucky i like emailed right away there you go what do you want i'm like any of these all right [Music] all right thanks anna we'll see you again later big booty all right so we're back with carl here he gets the delinas [Music] another tower shot there up to 14. his goal right now is to get control avoid a quite a nasty drain on the out lane there you go now he's got his c and he activates his control room and picks up a rescue for his time [Music] it's good when you get those combos on that seat let's see the tough shot that was very very clear and intentional he knew exactly where he wanted to go there a nice dead bounce there tried to try to try to get it first with the right flipper but then uh ended up getting the bounce off the left all right he's he's trying to get control looking for blue arrows here center shot center shot with the and a great save there but with a single with the single danger he's he's he's basically at a double danger yep there it is that's the game there so i i don't think he eclipsed i don't think he eclipsed gene so i think carl might be taking the zero here i well we'll have to wait to see what the uh what the readout is wow and he just gets past gene with a 34. he does not eclipse jim so jim actually keeps his two points probably feeling quite fortunate to walk away with two points in that scenario all right where do you think we're gonna go i think we're we we know our next one right here i'll check it up on mine but i believe we'll be going over too let's see let's where's our group here royal flesh royal flesh royal flush okay i'm gonna be off i'm not gonna be able to hear you for a minute okay very good okay okay so i'm going to be vamping here on my own j shop thanks so much for hitting that follow button we appreciate the support here at mystery pinball theater 3000. folks if you're just joining in this is the finals for city champ nine we're here in sunny san francisco california at free gold watch on waller street at stanyon in the wonderful historied haight ashbury district and we are bringing you the finals here we're in our top 16 we've already had our our sort of eight eliminations from the top 24 so we're down to our final 16 playing in match play now is the time to talk trash about manus if they can't hear you i would never bp fiends son of a snake that guy he's wonderful never say a uh a hurtful thing no i i know you're kidding but it's fantastic to bring this to you we're so excited to have you here we are following our top group if you want to follow along go on to matchplay.events and search for finals for citychamp nine you'll find this page and you'll be able to find the matches the standings the stats follow along at home it's a very exciting time we're getting down to it we're gonna be excited to bring you all the rounds we're gonna be following different groups as we go along until the finals of course and we'll have that final group for you and we're hoping to get this all wrapped up right around six o'clock so we're gonna be here all day long enjoying the sights and sounds of the pinball here i've been joined by a rotating cast of characters here we had anna neal who was sitting with us from chicago we had roland doe over from phoenix come in earlier bay area friend who actually is out in phoenix now and uh we're happy to bring you some fun commentary here hope you all are having fun and yeah hopefully some some more great pinball right now we'll be going over to royal flush it's actually over in the electro mechanical room the secret juju gallery and as i mentioned earlier that's provided by the pacific pinball museum the machines in there they are the definitive collection of classic machines here on the west coast and and generally i think one of the most amazing collections uh they even have a full annex unit out in alameda this is in alameda california their main area uh but they have an annex where they actually have the ability to uh house all the additional machines sometimes they sell some of those uh you saw right there our friend from yesterday's broadcast the one and only johnny monica uh who may be joining us later on he's right now i think participating in our constellation tournament eric i know uh i can't hear you but i'm just letting you know that they're finishing up a game on i think it's blue chip okay got it and he just finished are you good okay great so they just finished up and i will move the rig over all right fantastic so manu getting the rig in place we got to be respectful of the other games ongoing of course so there's other folks in that little room limited space and uh we try to make it work here but freegle watch fantastic place to play pinball always happy to bring you the sights and sounds of this particular spot it's always such a great time so if you have any questions feel free to ask that in the chat happy to answer that for you if you have any thoughts if you're rooting for anybody love to hear the support for your favorite players you are gonna see some great play coming up on this broadcast i'm happy to be here i am happy to be here with you of course i had my own disappointment yesterday i was actually in the tiebreaker so there were eight people who were tied for the final five spots in the top 24 today and did my darndest uh but just had a rough go of it you can watch that on the vod on the mystery pinball theater 3000 channel over on youtube i believe it's probably already on on twitch as well uh but only stored there temporarily youtube is gonna be holding that on forever uh but yeah tough tough break for me even though i actually end up edging out two other competitors i happen to be the third one who got eliminated so that just provides me the opportunity to stay with you all day long today with all of our guests who come onto the broadcast here to help out with manu who's doing a wonderful job with all of the technical work that goes into the broadcast here it's uh it's been a a labor of love to say the least i think uh hats off to manu smith i think that's going to be said a number of times over the course of today uh but he really brings this broadcast to life really provides the support that this broadcast needs to be as professional as it is to be as smooth as it is i used to do this uh with zach wallins and other folks in the league and we we put out an okay product but i think having a professional like manu who works in this space who has an awareness of the technical underpinnings of a lot of how things work together and how to enable the best experience possible it's it's just so so wonderful to have that so cannot thank him enough for all he does here and we're looking forward to him getting all set up i believe he should be getting the rig in place it's a little difficult sometimes on the ems given that you have to zoom out the dmd cam you know that has to be zoomed out far enough so you can see all the scores are kind of spread out on the back glass um but happy to have that get all set up and there it is thank you very much manu for getting that all set up for us very excited and we are going to get into our game here are we still with the same one oh sorry okay ouch don't hurt mary she's a tournament director okay incapacity do you want to jump on for a little bit are you in the middle of the game okay very good okay so mary will join us i see you fiends i see you fiend there you go they oh yeah and thank you ace gogi hey skokie the legend oh my gosh what an exciting we've we've seen that ah got it got it there you go fantastic vp fiends you got you got your bestie is talking you up here all right well i'm very excited that we're here to bring royal flush here because this is actually my favorite em i talked about it a little bit earlier royal flush i'm gonna give you the rundown the way you play this game is by getting the rollovers or the drop targets or sorry not drop attackers with the stand up targets you can see the three rollovers at the top you can see the uh stand-up targets there's one at the top there there's uh the red one on the right side and the green one on the left side so those are going to increase the value they're valuable on their own but they're going to basically increase the value of certain of the lights so you'll see there's red and green and white lights throughout the game those will be activated when you hit those rollovers they also increase the value of all the cards on that center bank of drop and that's the other feature of the game as you hit those cards you'll create you'll complete hands and that's what's going to give you your bonus so it's actually not a big bonus game you the most bonus you can get is 15 000 very often people end their ball after we've been hitting a ton of cards with zero bonus um so the key here in my view get one of those rollovers maybe two if you can and make sure you start nailing those drops because those drops are a thousand a piece but as you get the rollovers that adds a thousand to each one so you could potentially if you got all three rollovers before you hit any drop targets you would have 4 000 per roll or per drop target which is going to be a fantastic score if you can knock down some of those so i love this game it is one of those games that you can i mean i think i already gave you everything you need to know about the game it makes it no easier to play it is it eats people up we're gonna see some real tough uh house balls here today because make sure not to drain down the chandelier there you go yes you can see the chandelier yes that's uh in that room nice little uh dissolve the little hologram there there you go so so this is a perfect situation carl's got for himself every drop target right now is worth three thousand which if he can just pick off maybe two or three more that's going to set him up he gets 3 000 for the white roll over there plus that's the other feature that i want to highlight on that right uh that right upper lane that opens the gate so that actually opens the gate on the right side so now he is prevented from getting a drain on the right side he'll go right back to the sugar lane he gets his third rollover so he's getting full value every single rollover now is worth 3 000 on those lit parts every single drop target is worth four thousand he's made one hand that's worth a thousand so again you're not getting a ton of value on the bonus right here so he really wants to focus in on getting those final ones amazingly here is another phenomenon the last thing i'll say look at look at how many he only has three cards left yeah only a thousand in both like and there may there may actually be one of those may actually be out one of the lights but that is not uncommon to see so many down and you just have the wrong combination so you're not making any of the hand yes it's very interesting because this is one of the few ams i've played that where the bonus is not not really where it's at yes yeah it's actually the only time that i think it's even sort of halfway important to start making golf five because ball five for every player is gonna be automatically double bonus so you can get up to 30 000 on if you were to knock down get the royal flush and all the other hands uh on the on that double bonus but it's uh yeah it's not until that point where really the value ramps up so it's a great time to make a ton of hands if you do that but uh otherwise i really think that the value is getting at least one rollover getting a bunch clipping off a bunch of those uh of those hands or i'm sorry of those cards to get the extra thousand value and you're hoping that sticks all right so there's a nice plunge by gene gave him the the white rollover which is a good one because that corresponds with your open gate on the right side that doesn't doesn't do too much there i think one thing that i found interesting he was trying to put the ball back up into the upper area to get another rollover i'm guessing yeah i personally i just think that's the wrong way i think you need to go for the value because this game will eat you up and so if you're in at least 2 000 per drop i think it's good value i don't think it's i those are points on the table that i think you need to pick up at least a few before you start thinking about getting your your second rollover folks might disagree with me on that but i i just think this this game will take it away so quickly how'd you finish on your on your match uh well let's see i was on whirlwind guys so uh i was not last there you go but i still got a strike and i think that was it for me i think that's six strikes oh got it so let me report [Music] all right of course we need to see some of that beautiful backlash action yes it's royal flush is a it's a great one there's also a two-player version called drop a card that's actually the first time i played this game uh it was at uh california extreme and there is exactly an amazing example of how this game can hurt you nick stein did not get a rollover flipped the ball a couple times and literally just bricked everything until it just went down to the outlane oh yeah all good and that is that is how it goes so often on this game so you have to be ready to just collect value when you have it available to you because this game is just so nasty that way um and yeah that first time i played that california stream i think i i i never really put up much on it i just found it so fascinating that a game that was you know sensibly so simple was just so difficult and so yeah that's it's my favorite i pick it every time when i'm in league if it's available um i use my i have a whole depth chart that i i stick to when i pick games in league because i i like doing well all right so jim with one roll over so he's getting 2 000 per drop and he's got his first hand the the pair [Music] a nice little tip pass there on the carrum off the top of the left sling gets another 2 000 there and now he's getting three thousand per and this is this is the the gravy train right here if he can just pick off a couple a couple more at 3 000 is gonna put him in good steed thinking about where else he wants to go i think he's oh interesting goes for an alley pass he misses it doesn't trust it there gets a nice pick up of the 3000 there i'm interested to see what he's going for here i i don't think he should be going for that red i i think that is a mistake if he's if he's going for that red to try to increase the value of those remaining drops i think that's a mistake i think he should have been more focusing on those queens and the and the jack and that last 10. you also noticed that there was a a carom that sort of glanced off of the the queens there and did not drop them down and that's that's actually not uncommon there is a a real you have to really nail those drops in order to get any action get it get it dropped down so a sort of a a soft hit on any of those is not going to do it look at that again actually a pretty good a pretty good plunge there to keep it up top and carl just falls victim to the royal flush uh goblin you know there's a little little guy in there just takes the ball takes it everywhere nowhere where you want to be it happens man it's it's it's wild but he's he carl has actually in these first couple couple of balls the first two balls here he's been hitting that left side left orbit shot pretty consistently so i'm assuming he feels confident about that enough to try to keep putting the ball up there getting the value on the on the rollovers i just it's just not how i play it but now at this point he's got two i think he's gotta gotta focus i gotta focus on his drops i think it's a i think it's a mistake right now i do not think and maybe he's thinking it's early on the game i want to just try to maximize value ball two yeah ball two but i i think right now if he were to nail the remainder of the drops he's getting 15 000 points which is not insignificant in this game especially the way it gets played sometimes maybe he's thinking just the 3 000 is the better value but he's getting 3000 for the drop and it's not a game that i feel like there there's a lot of you know quick i guess off the drops anyway you know you do put it into chaos a little bit but you can control it he's gonna have a tip pass there oh a nice little one two tip pass he's gonna all right that was a great match to keep it out of the left outlane area okay now he's out that was dropped yeah and amazingly this is exactly the scenario i was talking about carl has most of the drops down he has exactly the ones that he needs to actually make any of the hands he actually had none of the hands made even having that many cards down but there he makes the three the uh three queens three of kind and now he's getting full value out of out of his drop so he's at he's at four thousand he's gonna get eight thousand if you can get these last two a nice in lane there and there it is there's the completion so at this point all he's gonna be doing the only thing he should be doing is nailing that 3000 in the middle uh that's why they put it in the middle yep yep i guess the way he's shooting i guess he could go for the the the left orbit you know if he's feeling good about that left orbit shot but honestly the the especially from the left side usually if you can nail that 3000 you get a nice bump over to the the right lane up top gene not happy with that plunge understandably so because it is frustrating if you plunge and you do not get any action up top you want at least oh beautiful beautiful save there i don't think gene really contributed to that one i think he got he got blessed but that maybe that that's all he needed it all started with a lucky bounce it'll be interesting to see i we haven't seen a ton of dead bouncing here but this is actually a very dead bounceable game yes it's not looking it it sometimes will die you know in the way that we saw earlier on uh on harlem but it's it's it's not that that at least in my playing and i played a lot so this at least this particular machine the dead bounces do work all right there's a center queen so again he's got most of his drops down but not a ton of hands he's only got the the pair and that's it for gnx so puts up at 25 so after two carl clearly in the driver's seat nick stein back up i know nick knows this game so i know he's plotting his chorus here it'll be interesting to see though i think he's he's been the victim of a couple bad bounces thus far so i haven't got a ton of value out the gate he's got two so he's getting three thousand per so again i i think it's it's the right call and he's going to try to keep it out beautiful nudge beautiful nudge that was incredible to keep that out of there that right outline is so dangerous nails two queens there all right that's that's gonna be catchable there's a good dead bounce he heard me all right so let's see where he goes i i think actually you know i would i let's see if he what he goes to pick up i wonder if he's gonna go i would go for the queen here oh he's still trying to go up top it's just so interesting to see this sort of alternate i mean certainly not the strategy i would go for i feel like at this point there's 12 000 points on the table right there you got to take it i think you guys that there there's a six thousand point pick up by getting the best plus plus the three thousand there you still get 500 if you miss on the on the targets there that's a nice pickup of the jackets and two hands completed tough bounce there but i i think that was the right move to go after those he's making steady progress still got two balls to go so lots he can do let's see if he can land his skill shot so to speak not really a skill shot but skillful to get up into the into the lane that's where you want to be the tough bounce there the the lanes are set up you know there's rubbers on top of each of the dividers in the lane so it is very common that if you happen to strike one of those you just happen to then like bounce little by little across the tops of those so you kind of have to get it right right about in one or at least with it with sufficient force just kind of leave it without too much bouncing force because you will definitely bounce right across over into the return lane on the top left east west motion sends him to the drain over there we got a replay cued up here of genex okay that is super slow-mo so we're gonna come back to the game i'm gonna check why it's so slow all right again there you go if you hit the top it's just liable to bounce right over it's just they're perfectly spaced out that way and carl carpenter's best too they're kind the ball into one of the lanes without having to worry too much about the that bouncing can't quite get it back up there all right starting starting right to left ah there you go going back back the other way now so at this point he's getting 2 000 per hit interesting so he's i'm guessing what he was doing there is shooting into that top with the thought that maybe he can send it back into the upper lane or maybe even just get lucky and get that white stand up target to add another thousand now i still think in a situation like this i mean especially if the shots aren't working for you get a little value get a couple two thousands pick off some of those some of those cards oh and there there's a nice shot that actually almost acts like a right side orbit got it all the way over and just got a bad bounce so didn't get the benefit of going back into the lanes the way he shot that i think that was intentional maybe he knows something i don't about the geometry on this wouldn't be the first time that carl Python Anghelo knows more than me about pinball games big shout out to ie pinball carl is the one who runs uh pin Slash yes and very much into indus yep um so creator of the critical hit critical hit which i just discovered this weekend shameless hey and uh just an amazing really super talented awesome dude yep and he's rolled it so he's he's actually even though it says 09 that's 109. so he's he's definitely the the one to chase right now and gene x sitting on zero so he's he's feeling it he needs to make some progress here he's got to put points on the board to maintain any shot of progressing into the final eight nice little one two flip to keep that alive send it into the drop you're getting two thousand there again i think oh tough one that that one tough to imagine i mean maybe a big slap flip might give you enough of a adjustment on the ball to catch it on the tip but tough to say that he played that i mean wrong at all i think he had the right idea of closing the gap you know generally as a ball is careening from the left or the right you want to flip that flipper up reduces basically the space that is available to it from that angle to the center drain they had the right idea i think it just had exactly the kind of bounce and spin that was going to avoid his flipper but still find its way to the center drain again those top lanes it's tough that little saucer there just so folks know it's it's not really something to go for uh i was talking to another player about this yesterday and you know i he was talking about you know how it was difficult to hit i said yeah i don't even think you should be going for it it does award you basically it's a drop target it's the same it's a thousand on its own it contributes an additional thousand for every rollover or stand up that you happen to hit but it is just hitting it intentionally i i don't think i've ever done that i think it's only ever just kind of bounced its way in there so i i certainly do not recommend it all right we're bringing up jim valcido again and again he and he and gene x are pretty much neck and neck jim does have a couple points on the board he got that two in that wacky jurassic park earlier suffers again the same fate on the upper lanes so this is the one scenario he's got the ball trapped that's exactly when i would recommend going right back up to his lanes get you got to get some of the value you don't want to be picking those off for just a thousand yeah you've got to get at least 2 000 so that was exactly right at this point i could see you know i think there's it's justified if you feel good about your control of the game you want to get just 2 000 per i mean it's not insignificant especially thinking about you know at least picking up a point let's see what he goes for here now if he goes back to the top and gets a green or gets any of the greens in the drops correct correct oh tough bounce there he almost had the the white rollover so the one thing that i haven't seen players really going for and i i i think it's reasonable but it's not how i would play it is i i just i feel the right outline is so dangerous that i do prioritize backhands beforehand to the center of the bank in order to carry them over to the right into that upper lane that's going to give you the the the open opening the gate on the right side and so i haven't seen anybody seemingly going for that it's not it's a little random as to whether it's going to go but i i always feel at least a degree of confidence with that tough one for jim there after getting good he got a second rollover but then could not capitalize i don't think he got any drops after that point i'm gonna do a little shifting on that uh player cam sure sure all right and a nice little bounce there he was gonna suffer the same fate but then got the benefit of that brown rubber picks up a couple extra drops for his time and there's the third one so now he's got full value five drops left so he's got 20 000 points right there there's a four thousand i guess that's one way to hit it intentionally providence pinball with the chandelier mod oh a tough one there i think that oh and that's hard to avoid that if you have no momentum there maybe a good strong hit on the side on the right side just kind of bump that over but yeah that's that's that's a tough one of course he's not feeling too uncompetitive right now carl still clearly in the lead by 70 000 on the next closest nick stein now gene x do you next trying to trying to break out of the funk here trying to make something happen you know make sure you get some points on the board here to maintain a fighting chance of moving on in this tournament providence i i would love if that command worked but unfortunately not working and we got a guest joining us here ryan o'donnell ryan thanks for joining us thanks derek how you doing i'm doing well i'm just having a grand old time talking about my favorite game here i mean it's a good one it's truly the one i pick in league every single time carl pretty much put a tutorial for us oh yes exactly yes he got all the drops down he uh you know and he he's really got the left shot dialed in uh that that uh left orbit shot that goes up to the the lanes yeah so it's been uh it's been great gnx putting a little a little fight on that one so now he's got a slight advantage on belcido and and actually not too far off of nick stein there so you know gene's in the position where he's got to score got a score to maintain a shot having started with that zero he's he's got to make a a play here to get at least a point if not two absolutely and so we're going we're going to final balls ball five nick stein going to kick it off for us in just a moment you can see the ice cold beer going crazy in the background next time so he just wants to put as much of a lead in between him and the players to come jim carl yep yeah i mean carl is already yeah yeah specifically uh jim and jean right yes yes i think i think in this point definitely it's no shame in playing a little defensively you know just to maintain some position i think having had that first gives him a little breathing room but he wants to you know he he he doesn't want to get passed up by uh by either gene or or like jim on this next one and that's great that's that's gonna be opening getting in there is gonna open up that right side the right side gate so he's he's actually fully protected and there it is so he's gonna want to get another joker uh so uh jared taught me that each drop target you get is you get an additional thousand for every joke exactly yes yes so you can you can max out the value of the drops and of the saucer at four thousand oh man i think do you have the nickname chaos bozo yeah and he hits this is razz in you when i was uh commenting for dri stream during uh oh nice very good all right so a nice little tip flip there i i probably just happy to keep it alive but it would have been nice to get an extra roll over there just get some extra value gonna have another tip there against the 3 000 and that's huge on ball five he's gonna get double bonus here all right let's see if he can if he can save that bummer oh really rough he he actually was in decent position to save that but it was just tough but an extra 6 000 which is it could be a difference maker here you know just given the way the scores are panned out so 78 just over 78 000 for nick stein got him solidly in the second position right now let's see if jim belcido can challenge him i am going to be up on the consolation tournament in the second so i'm gonna have to fit all the chat ado yeah yeah happy to have you even just for a short spell thanks for doing this derrick i was watching pretty much all day yesterday and uh you're doing a great job thank you thank you i i give all the credit to manu smith he's he is what what is the making this thing go and we're i'm happy to help even in a small way again with the just the tough bounces off the top of those lanes really disappointing when you do not get that on the on the plunge so now he's got to think about what he's going to do to put this back up here and he gets a nice nice flip up into the pop bumper that puts it into that that upper stand-up target so he's got the white so he's got his 3000 lit at the left orbit all right here we see oh my goodness what a rough rough carom off of the drop there and and that's it for him he's taking a zero for this round so nick's locked in too nick's locked in for at least a point gene has the opportunity to maybe steal a couple points here [Applause] all right so 120 right now for carl d'Python Anghelo all right all right so j carl owed us a house ball so we just took it that was yeah i mean that was a house ball of all house houseballs i mean really we haven't seen the carom off of that left post all all game at quite that strong okay i gotta go all right thanks ryan appreciate you stopping by good luck in your next match all right gene x here all right wants to get once again that roll over there he goes you got got at least one so that's 2 000 per all right let's see where he goes now he gets the 3 000 he gets actually a second 3 000 off the uh but no further support on the drop targets there all right so there's one gets a queen gets an ace all right it's 20 000 back on nick stein right now if he can somehow find a way to put up now this is an interesting question i you know yes oh there's there's a three and he's he's just getting such a a clean feed through he's never even given a chance to get back into the the lanes oh and a tough one there he ends 12 000 off he had it going that's rough that's rough but great game he gets a point so he's still in play but the standings now so carly Python Anghelo is going to move up to four points nick stein is going to move up to five points gene x is going to take one point and gilbert jim belicito is going to stick it too so nick and carl actually have the opportunity to put this on ice if they go 1-2 in the next round so what would you expect folks other than amazing pinball play here at free gold watch in san francisco so excited to have you we're gonna be moving over to our next game we had game time television for a minute and then he's gone right right he stopped by ryan o'donnell aka game time television so we're gonna be moving over to adam's family classic a classic and then after that we're gonna be dr dude so stream is gonna be set up in just a moment we have manu smith on the on the case and then we'll just look back at the at the chat here folks are less chatty today chandelier making things look fancy and spooky swizzle fish you are absolutely right it's so in that room also it's the secret juju gallery it's actually uh there's a light switch that controls the chandelier as you would expect just on the wall there but it's right at basically shoulder height on most people so if you're sitting in that room standing in that room waiting for your turn it's very often that somebody just kind of leans up against that and then you get a very spooky effect of the lights just going crazy so if you're ever in that room just be careful make sure make sure you're taking care of yourself uh i tuned in ball three and didn't see a single player collect any bonus yeah i think that's that's probably right i think we had maybe a couple i think there was one uh maybe three of a kind maybe a pair but yeah it was it was a very light on the bonuses for that game as you might expect because it's just that's the way it plays uh and and as i was talking about on ball five is really when you'll prioritize bonus given the double bonus opportunity and so we are waiting to get set up on adam's family so as it stands right now again uh we got nick and nick with five carl with four jim with two gene with one so to really have a shot in this in the final round uh to avoid basically the result being locked in gene and jim need to basically go one two either way in order to have a fighting chance in that next one we could have let's see if we have uh gene could move up to as many as four we could have jim move up to as many as five we could have uh and in which cases you could have a four five four five no i think that's wrong oh that's possible but we'll we'll see how it shakes out adam's family this one here at free gold watch it's it's a fair game it's it's tough i think as atoms can be and especially in a tournament setting it can be set up in such a way that it can be a little wacky but it's fair i think the the kick outs are actually quite reasonable they're not uh too variable they're usually gonna be dropping onto a flipper nicely i think the especially the kick out from the chair is a pretty solid dead bounce over to the right side so we'll see how the how the players if they've maybe they've had some time on this yesterday if they trust that if they live flip that we're gonna see right here we'll see how they go with the scoring we can i'll talk a little bit about the various scoring methods that are available here um of course the the main one being the multiball so the the way you access the multiball is to uh on that right side you'll see up there that circle there's a target right there you hit that enough times to spell greed that's gonna turn and then that shot in the back is going to light for a lock so you can put the ball there also into the swamp which is a shot on the far right side as you put balls in there you'll lock them you'll get new balls in the shooter lane or they might kick out of the swamp and you get three of those and you'll get into the multiball which then uh is a jackpot on the shot that you just saw nick hit there on the left side of the left upper ramp and a nice little tip in to the chair there now generally the game is chairs and stairs so you'll see that there's that chair shot that's a scoop right there and then there's the stairs which nick was just going for right there you can see right the center ramp of the game i guess technically the right ramp if you're going left and right but the uh the goal here generally and there's a nice dead bounce out of the swamp there is to hit this stairs which then re-qualifies your chair so you hit those stairs and that actually then will light up the chair to light your next mode if you collect all the modes you will tour the mansion you get 50 million points for that and then you get a special sort of lightning round of all the modes in in parallel thing flips that's actually an automatic flip that the game does so when that is qualified goes through over to the upper flipper on the left side that little short flipper and then drops it right in and we're gonna have a guest joining us for this one andy steinhauser young andy happy to have you hey good to see you we're talking adams and i know you love this game that's my game yeah yeah this is is this a frequent choice for you in league it is it is i feel like this is one of those games that if you can hit that mode shot with that chair consistently you can really get stuff going yes it's just chair dead bounce over pass it over pop the chair yep yep and thus far i think we're seeing we're seeing nick pretty much stick with that oh he's getting he's into the multiball the quick multiball so this is one of those modes that you can qualify off the stairs and and chair and nick already showed some of his staging prowess earlier he's doing it again here so staging of course the notion of feathering the flipper basically holding the flipper button in such a way that you activate the lower flipper to hold that ball but then are able to then use the upper flipper there's actually sort of like a half press that you can give and that will that will control the upper flipper independent of the lower one very advanced technique takes a lot of practice to get really good at it uh hopefully we'll see some some magic here with him hitting one of them all well i guess today and yesterday all weekend has just been ridiculous yeah i was watching i forget what game was yesterday he was literally just passing it back and forth oh yes so like just chatting it back and forth just making it look very easy and i like he's you know playing a little to the camera here he's talking about all right let's see he's so he's definitely the the first one i saw who was i mean that's so tricky what he just did right there yes oh and then a tilt that's actually okay it's a little rough given the uh value that the tilt can be oh yeah are we going to mic adjustment there we go there we go yeah actually you could probably blow it down even just a little bit more because i think i think it's still let me do that yeah there you go perfect and actually i'm gonna ease up on mine all right so 28 not not too shabby he's got some multiball progress exactly so what yeah so you're going stairs and chairs stairs and chairs all day man all day yeah if you got those shots if you feel comfortable hitting those shots why risk it i mean i'm both relatively safe obviously i prefer backhand i like to go backhand in there and never forehand the chair here yeah it's just it's a lot more forgiving you know if you break that hard left or right you can easily get that thing yep yep yeah i think i think for myself especially on this one i mean the kick outs are fair we've been seeing a lot of dead bouncing off of both of them off the swamp and off the chair um i think it's it's it's really a reliable play to go stairs and chairs i i to the point where i yeah i think generally i feel better about making it through the mansion than i do about even hitting a jackpot oh yeah in the multiball look multiples are going to happen you're playing this game you're going to have some flips you know that are not in control and you're going to you're going to lock things up you're going to you're going to light your locks and you're going to lock balls yep yep you know if i'm in control stairs and cheers yeah all right so we see our first cousin it here for carl that's his first collect or actually sorry third collect on the on this chair there he gets a nice million plus off of the upper shot now i think uh one thing that i've seen the players do which i do myself as well good to see that it's uh it's in vogue is when it's coming down to the the upper left flipper the small one uh they still take a shot at the swamp because i think that's pretty good value i mean you get five actually same as if you were getting the thing flips yeah five mil that takes that all day i think especially yeah the way that this game can go too i think sometimes five million could be a difference maker for sure yeah joe the dragon agree don't tilt on this game yeah especially with the some of the mode progress that uh that we saw with uh with nick i think he i gave up a little bit there i think uh yeah and his live tapping live tap pass the one thing is i i did feel really good about my myself i was able to you know i watched him do that live tap passing on on stearns modern stearns and i figured out how to do it myself and i was like it's tough if i'm throwing a dollar in the machine i'm not practicing that yeah yeah you gotta have enough trouble keeping the ball in play as it is that that was the the the benefit of like a california extreme of a pinbury you get the uh oh yeah totally yeah yeah yeah go in there and just mess around and stuff exactly all right let's go gene gene's stepping up here thus far it seems like folks oh actually money can you bump me down a little bit the the skill shot actually seems to be fairly reliable they they they know where it is on the plunger oh that's perfect thank you beautiful show big too i mean if you hit three of those things that's that's 10 million right right in league it's nice too i mean if you get extra balls right then uh we always allow this the the plunge for the extra balls i can win a game how many games i've won now i was just gonna say yeah you absolutely win a game that way so he collects a 2x bonus actually with the nice shot through the pops there and he gets his first uh let's start there cousinette so actually i guess you know the one thing i i realize is two of the mansions are and maybe this is a tournament mode setting they're already lit so like that actually was his first i thought it was maybe when carl had it i thought it was his third because i saw those two were already lit but it looks like the extra ball light extra ball and oh you know what they probably maybe disabled extra just have it it's just spotted for everybody right right because i know it does that with the three and the six million as well it's like whatever one you hit first you just got six and it licks three as well oh got it so it's just you get one of those and then you get your nine mil which is separate got it yeah eb auto spotted when eb is set to zero got it okay there you go thank you joe the dragon all right so he's he's got thing picking that up getting it locked up from multiball and now so one thing that's nice about this game is so he's he's got the ball in the shooter lane now he can go for the skill shot and he gets it that's going to lock another ball and it's great if you miss short it goes right in the swamp and that actually gets you another lock so now he's gonna get a third ball uh oh actually no he's gonna get the swamp kick out so sometimes you get that third ball uh actually out on the on the shooter lane again which makes for a nice you know you can set up another skill shot so was that that was ball one locked correct uh he's at two now oh he's got two yeah and a nice that's the thing it's now he's got the power gone so now i don't know if they haven't set the tournament can you still trap up and disable i think you should be able to yes and he's not this at this point you really just want to trap kill that power and start your multiball just get that out of the way yes oh he's risky that's so risky yeah he's he he has been forehanding that actually a bunch and i i can't imagine it i just can't imagine oh my gosh the stress of watching him try to try to play this live i'm having anxiety attack just watching yeah it just takes take a moment brother oh he's still going for it so he's not even like taking the opportunity to see if it'll turn off i mean i think you gotta at least try to see if it turns up okay he's gonna go he knows all right look at that i mean he's a good player this guy's confident man this guy's confident he's going for it magnet oh magnus disabled maybe okay okay i don't think it is actually i i do think i saw it affect the ball at one point maybe i'm wrong but anyway he's into the multiball now loses oh gosh so quickly out of that but he's going to have to restart the hurry up at the thing there we go he's hitting that shot 99 of the time yeah that was great man's a sniper modded rums also cut the power time yeah i don't think this is a modded rom but yeah good to know that that's out there and he's got his pops going that that was actually one thought i had was the multiball was going to be good for him if he could just get the ball in the pops and get like a lot you can get decent value out of there absolutely you just keep keep it moving around for sure all right so he gets gets two bites of the apple there and a nice pickup on the thing shot and so he's looking for same same uh jackpot shot as you would in the standard multiball that's uh on the the train shot uh up oh and a double drain we're off all right that's all right that's a solid ball well done yeah good start good start six four cousins and i i think i think nick would have actually had a similar bonus that he gave away because of the tilt there definitely yeah all right andy are you good to vamp for a little while i'm gonna i'm gonna make a little break for a second curious to see how jim plays this i'm here with you too buddy oh gotcha manu yeah really curious what everyone's strategy is on this this is one of those games pretty straightforward but it seems like everyone kind of has their own little everybody's doing a little something yeah just a little something different jim's an efficient guy you know i would not be surprised if he just went bears and chairs so you're saying some people strategies to race through the mansion as fast as you can race through it yeah because i mean you can stack modes in this game so you can have three or four going at the same time every one of them you're gonna get a mode bonus either way even if you don't play for the mode you're getting five per mode you know what i mean so just stack them up get to that tour and you know that's all she wrote you get a lot of uh little collateral damage points on the way is there anything else to do on this table really like i mean they're you can play um yeah i mean like like you can play mode so like i mean you obviously go for you know multis as well but it's it's like indie where it's kind of like there's two types of players there's people who maybe play for jackpots and people play for modes yep um with this mode shot like we were talking about earlier being relatively safe from the backhand right um i don't i don't know how anyone plays it for anything it's anything other than it's just me personally yeah it's a personal preference that's what i'm ordering too but then you'll see some people that will you know try to actually play the modes as well like you know you know you get the pops mode going you're like hitting that right loop and getting into that yeah right yeah but that's the thing it's just like it's so risky it's like why do that yeah if you can go chair dead pat you know bounce over pass it over bear ramp and just you know we were talking about that earlier obviously though in the his house i love it it's a ball too he's due for a good one here smart oh yes ladies and gentlemen if no switches no switches the game doesn't validate and the score is still flashing you are safe once that score goes solid the game is valid the play field is valid that still takes nerves to steal exactly it goes against every pinball instinct you have to let that ball go down does that go up by one every time goes up by one every time goes that up i'm gonna set the game to 99 balls [Laughter] he made that that forehand look easy right there all right so you're a tricky shot you want to shoot the left staircase to get the super is that it exactly exactly i'm sorry left staircase left staircase for the regular right um and then the uh that uh i'm drawing a blank on what that other one's called but the super's right there as well super's just a little bit earlier on the flipper boom nailed it double oh right that's the double i'm sorry i'm sorry so now he wants to shoot the um the uh what is that a little locker up there to the right yeah right you have to shoot that's it you're right yeah you have to shoot that shot down with the bookcase that's what it's called the bookcase over there that'll re-light it oh solid that's all you take a double arrow yeah for sure [Music] it feels good to hit that you know it feels good to hit that super it feels good to hit the super and fish tails to me totally this game yeah this oh man that's super on fishtails yeah so sweet it's so sweet we were talking about i was on the the the chat yesterday talking about how how awesome that map combo shot that map combo this one has a lot of very satisfying shots as well so we got jared in here how's it going everyone jared garvey nick just had a stellar ball made it look easy out there forehand in the uh the chair just okay i don't even try that i don't need that's what we're just talking about not surprised at all this one i almost used that that nine mil six mil three mil windows as kind of a guy from my backhand if you shoot it right up that line right there you'll hit that chair every time i'm curious to see how carl plays this you never see carl the side ramp is very nice on this one yeah sometimes i just go for that instead of the bear kick yeah so quick multiball what is it start at five for the vault and goes up a million each yeah like the kickouts actually pretty controllable from the right i was just holding my flipper up i would have postponed yeah that was i mean that's it's not a bad judgment yeah carl in from out of town yeah there certainly is an advantage to knowing these kickouts that's especially adam's family yeah all these atoms family i mean they make 20 000 of these things they all play they're all snowflakes they're snowflakes you know there's like you play this one like we all do so much and you go to a different one and it's just like it's like a completely new machine would you consider shooting the bookcase here to make sure you're locking a little three that's so tough i try to i just i was saying earlier i just try to ignore everything i like to go bears and chairs yeah like right there i want to pass it over to the left try to hit my my bare ramp you know kick it out catch it pop it you know just do that over and over again but i mean it's like these guys are so good yeah they're much better than me so they have the ability to like just snipe that thing yeah why not fake it tunnel hunts tempting too because if you get all of them it's like 20 minutes yeah i predict you'll ignore it besides just the chair for the mode right yeah that would have been devastating oh he didn't have a huge problem all right who do we got here oh we got gene gene had a great ball one a lot of stuff going here well dean probably needs to win this they have a chance right that's a little dangerous not using that flipper every once in a while it'll hit the hit the post and bounce it out but yeah halfway up that bear is just flirting with disaster right there doesn't seem can you can you backhand it on this or no you used to be able to yeah but i think it's not it used to be like it was weird playing weird for a while where it was almost easier from the backhand right it's one of those ones like you can do it live if you have if it kind of is coming down it kicks up off of a held up flipper you can pop it not not a wise decision not a great trap it's not gonna happen from a shot i haven't seen it happen from the traps yeah all right looks like he's going baltimore and it's nice if you're the first one to play baltic ball because then you get to punch the locks and more skills yeah he's not gonna miss another yeah so magnets are off on this game so you don't have to worry about timing them out that's what we were discussing we weren't sure if they were off yeah we're unplugged i saw gene just playing a wild pin i was like the power's on man take it easy yeah so he didn't hit any switches drop drops for another shot and there's uh there's earplugs in all the games so you don't have to wait too long right you played this one how tight is the tilt on this thing it's pretty tight but you get one good move right [Applause] [Music] like like we did other than that we didn't set it up that much harder like there's there's still a rubber on the post at the at the right out lane oh really yeah yeah we didn't we didn't go quite as nice all game setups this year as we have in the past and like they're they're you can't see from the overhead but there is a cliffy on that scoop so it's not like something adam's where you just have like the gaping chair they're so easy to make it yeah exactly superbands no everything's uh natural red clipper over all of them before this tournament yeah how luxurious a rubber on the right outland that's huge they're not used to that so yeah jim drains out quickly but get out the restart and if you hit your skill shot you're set up for a jackpot shot i can't imagine he would miss that either of those shows let's see i don't want to drive yeah he still hasn't hit anything it's true yeah you could drop it yeah smart heads up and i don't think you get much grace period here a little bit but yeah so probably yeah he went looks like he went straight for multiball he's probably going for the chair now do you play anything different when you you're in or anything yeah just go for more moves yeah that's a lot of people yeah there's some chairs it's a little early it's a little bit early from that left flipper oh yeah [Music] yeah i've certainly done that a couple of times where you take one early play long ball and then just a moment so yeah he probably lost at least a couple million because he had the mushroom i'm a moose at least five right yeah all right this is a notorious one ball game games are won and lost on this thing on the third ball for sure we've seen it a million times i'm assuming nick already plays his multiball since he doesn't have any greed letters it looks like so he's probably just grinding out yeah nick the cheers guy we've seen hit the jackpot oh really so far yeah knocked down a double he's certainly made the difference yeah how you doing oh good how are you doing all right a little concerned this group's running long we're putting us over schedule a bit but i don't have a fight but i prefer people not to have to like worry about ketchup right right but it's not surprising that this is the group that's running the longest yeah yeah i i i guess you know this even a game that can be set up tough like this they're still gonna put numbers up yeah hopefully hopefully dr dude is a little bit quicker you know i i feel like even amongst the like some of the better groups yesterday that it was eating people up yeah i didn't see many monster scores on takubu i feel like 10 million was like the i think the absolute limit so yeah so we'll we'll see how that goes yeah but let's focus on this here in his 12 million so yeah just uh nailing that vault over for increased million each time i think it matches at 10 but i'm not positive right and you can't make any um progress on on your on your mansion right while this is running yeah you certainly can't start new modes i'm not i think if you hit a ramp it'll be lit when you come out of it got it got it there's a nice little pickup of 5 million for the thing yeah thing you get from uh side ramps you see the the lights below it you see another one just i was curious yes i'm back here yeah i i was curious to get your take you know i was talking with andy about this earlier i noticed and this is something i do as well whenever the ball gets fed to the thing flipper when it when it's not on the thing flips it's uh they're all flipping i leave it up but it's it's it's a little dicey leaving it up goes kind of close to the center so it's usually pretty good but they're all trying to put it in the swamp okay yeah it's good points but that's dangerous but leaving it up was pretty dangerous it goes down to the center i saw gene not use it at all which is usually pretty safe but every once in a while it'll hit that and just point right out i i think and and just the threat of that feeling bad i think stops me from doing that all right so finis is that uh yeah finishing up window solid score yeah seen a couple in that range but in the playoffs but but often often that's the winning score from what i see yeah yeah but yeah certainly no guarantees with these other guys in the group it's it's been uh you know they they've seen their fair share of difficulties here yeah that sling's not very sensitive i wish we it could have made it a little more sensitive for you on that lower right a lot of people like dropping the ball like even when it's like touching that slingshot a little bit got it got it yeah i think the uh oh funny this is gonna be his fourth attempt now he's got two more to go on his greed you get one on the plunge oh there you go yeah so and there it is oh wow goes right for it and a hard hard flip there gives him the tilt there's also a bug where if you tilt you get an extra greed letter for your first for your first multiball oh really yeah okay well no help to him here he ends up with 74. he's currently in second let's see if yeah so gene sitting with only one point after the first two games he would really like to win this game right right yeah i think i think i think at least a second right i i think maybe a third is not going to be able to help him even if he were to win the next one well because like nick nick and carl are the ones in the lead now so jim's not giving him any help either that's right exactly i'm assuming this results at hand which jim could very easily win this game as well absolutely but yeah if we don't get the uh the gym gene first second then i think it's almost a foregone conclusion for our final one oh yeah yeah i think either way even yeah yeah if keane doesn't pass carl like i think he's he's cooked he he's definitely cooked yeah and we'll we'll worry about him when we get to him yeah yeah all right but starts his quick monthly ball so yeah this will certainly help and quick multiball that plays like standard multiplayer like no quick this is the one where you just shoot the vault over and over again okay got it and then there's the other one the thing multiple there's two multiples i forget the name that one's a hurry up at the thing ramp right and then you just shoot the wallet over over and over for the value all right let's see if we can get a couple of all millions here oh no one thing we've been noticing about gene not not allowing a lot of dead bounces he he seems like he could set himself up for a couple and he doesn't trap a lot either yeah all right oh he did oh yeah there you go okay so he's getting at least a point all right oh yeah his bonus wasn't super important there since he had already passed carl but obviously having a little bit happen it could help if kim has a good ball right right so so really he wants jim to get 78. that's that's an ideal snake yeah yeah they make up make up some ground on carl and our our yeah our other groups are all ready so they said this will be the the final one um did the other group finish i didn't see there was two groups going on but got it let's i can take a quick peek and see oh and then providence was saying big mistake by carl there should have slowed down and collected the lock on the easier half round yeah uh there's another group still playing royal flush got it got it we saw that earlier and that was a uh it was a master class from uh from carl on that one oh okay did a wonderful job yeah jim jim trying to find any kind of momentum here he's really he's really been not putting up uh uh great numbers on either of the prior two games so i think he's he would love to just so yeah that's what i was talking about jim left it up and it does come pretty close to the center yeah like slapstick there i'm i'm interested i mean gene was doing this as well before handing that shot the uh the chair shot and nick was showing that you actually can dead bounce out of the swamp as well that was that was a really yeah you you can also usually just leave it up and instead of still cradle but yeah you can i guess you can decide what flipper you want the phone yeah always nice to have options time for balsito the group time to valcedo the group here submariner about to surface let's see it we've seen it before i honestly i think even at citychamp we've seen a late run by jim belcedo i i remember in particular a a notable yeah it's easy to take a double danger on this notable comeback from him on fathom that ended up sealing his place in the finals potential value here with the tunnels [Music] do you do anything different for tunnel hunt or do you just keep going keep going you know i usually ignore it you get the one from the chair if you just do your next mode i mean a little situational i think you know just given that the scores can be low enough sometimes like if if you can get maybe like 15 off of the first two might be worth it but yeah i'm generally of the mind that i ignore it i think there's pretty much every everyone i ignore as i go through talking with andy earlier just about say i seance is pretty valuable to play especially with the magnus off a little a little bit easier oh is it okay so you can confirm that the magnets yeah they're definitely off gotta get we saw gene you know sort of hurrying his shots yeah and and we were we were sort of shocked given that uh oh no that might have sealed it i think i think he did not make enough there yep so jim just stick with two points gene moves up to three and nick is through nick is through with eight points at the moment and then it means carl goes up to goes up to five so i guess there's still a scenario for gene yeah he's it needs some help but yeah pretty much i mean i win at least i have yeah and for jim as well i think jim is is is fully out oh okay yeah because well we'll see when the scores get approved but yeah i did forget yeah because i i think now uh carl has at least six is that right no carl has five jim has two so he has one l for like a tiebreaker got it got it there you go all right we'll we'll see i thought we might see a full six six six six tie earlier in our first group i'm hoping not for that because we're behind schedule i'm rooting for not tie breakers on this game there you go and for it to go quickly oh man so yeah so the last one's going to be on dr dude we got manu getting that set up very excited to see this one now this one yeah as we were talking about earlier playing a little tough i think uh i think the reject from the ramp i saw at least a couple times you know if you don't make it up that ramp you get it nice little center drop yeah like and the flippers are not super strong which is good in some respects because it's not we're not going to see people just shoot do shoot nothing but shoot the left ramp over and over yeah there you go all right this is this this will be exciting and i think you know it it gives a shot i mean just given how variable this one could be i'm i'm expecting you know if jim can put up a big one you know maybe we'll we'll see some magic for him to get to to force that tiebreaker and gene you know gene needs to do some work too i think i think we we could actually theoretically uh i guess i guess at the end of the day it all hinges on carl getting third or better right if he gets one point then he's through uh gene's only two points behind him oh i see so if he won and got third then they would they would still go to typewrite okay but at least a guarantee is a tiebreaker for himself right like that he could do no worse than yeah yeah if he gets if he gets a one at least one point so we'll see i think they gotta sort out the order as well right so it's gonna be jim getting first selection of order and i wonder if he will be interesting to see how they they they go i mean you know of course the the usual move is to take the latest position but i've seen players you know sometimes they just want to mix it up maybe if they're in a tight spot they want to go first just kind of you know put that first mark out there but looks like nick stein is going to lead us off so he's going to be playing very relaxed yeah so dr dude main thing is to collect the three items for each of them get into multiball yeah um there's some other scoring opportunities but we'll talk about those and get there the three items are magnetic personality on the far left what is the heart of rock and roll that stand up just to the right of the left ramp and what is the gift of gab with that like saucer yeah on the right with yellow there so you need to collect three of those then you need to hit the ramp and hit one target and then the left software will start with the ball yep another thing you can do is there's targets in like the ramp the mix master or whatever or spot spot thing so yeah i think a lot of hits per bank right yeah something like that on ones that like the flippers are like super strong and you can just repeat that over you'll see people do nothing but to shoot that ramp over and over again to get back in the multiball absolutely yeah often league nights for sfpd that's often the way i'll go but yeah very tough to hit that ramp from a cradle um one option to do it to get a moving ball is to backhand the gift of gab so it's a little bit from the saucer got it got it but yeah nick quick ball for nick but he's already through but uh gene and jim needs nick to uh are rooting for him to have a good game and beat carl right but not not beat them yes yeah that that's true he has sort of a uh a free radical that can can help them out yeah gene going straight for the magnetic pressure he's making good progress is that magnet turned off or no maybe it is off i don't know it hasn't caught any of them right lately when i played it during setup a couple days ago it was definitely one but now uh he's already got two so he's got his magnetic personality and the heart of rock and roll he's looking for his gift to gather second yeah needs one more [Music] i thought he could have got a cradle there backhanded but i was thinking so too i i was actually surprised to see him all right so mcmaster online he needs to hit the ramp and get one target on there to light as multiball let's see if we can go from the cradle got it nice all right so now the far left saucer will start as multiball and where does it start looks like he's already a super dude right or yeah so it's uh you everybody starts that in tournament mode and it's per player like i think non-tournament mode it like goes through uh it carries player to player somebody can get the gazillions and then another person doesn't get it got it okay so it's major dude so he would have to one more time to get so your goal for the jackpot is 10 hits in that mix master the left ramp and i believe the base value in tournament mode will be 5 million for a jackpot [Music] but you can get sometimes multiballs go very quickly in this game for sure i'm also concerned he didn't do the hippocratic oath before he started playing so that that could be impacting his play right now you gotta say it before you flip it the uh the one thing that i i do try to do and essentially been fairly fairly reliable is actually if you soft plunge you can avoid because basically the ball will release when you hit okay switch so you can yeah try to get one on the flippers right right you can try you can actually have a chance at at fully getting it all the way down and he misses that so the other thing to note is that 2x after you play a multiball you'll have 2x scoring for the rest of the ball um another scoring opportunity is those white stand ups in the middle usually you don't go for him on purpose but he only has one left that'll let light like they call it the reflex it's like a one two three and that'll be worth a million nice pickup on the on the big score there do you know what lights that or there is always lit for if you drain at the outlet i don't think it's always lit i know it's not over yeah it's not right now so i am not sure on that one but yeah but that's that's a non-insignificant uh award no that's it and that's a that's actually a really solid ball based on scores i i've seen on this game all right so carl sorry can define his own fate here he can put up put up a good one we expect him to great player yeah so just making progress towards multiball yeah he's got that he's got the shots out yeah you'll see a lot of people go back and forth with the magnetic personality and get the gab and then work because those are the controllable ones that feed and then you have to right right either go for the ramp and hope to get some targets in there or survive a bunch of those uh stand up targets yeah he's just missed the standoff yeah looks like he's going rams get all the risk without any of the reward there all right it looks like you did get some progress there yeah and there we see that yeah all right so one more ramp and hit a target to bring it like this off got it his accuracy is unmatched i think he is really nailing it basically everything he's i think he's missed maybe two or three shots total and carl like absolutely destroyed qualifying he like probably could have not even played the last two rounds yeah first place that was amazing this guy may be good yeah pinball profile i i'd have to say so all right so it looks like he's going with my soft plunge style he's getting annoyed with himself he's the one that's got a plate to catch so right all right there it is so perfect perfect it gets it set up there and has got a free shot and now you get the second three shot okay he didn't i thought maybe he had to stand up there but oh looks like oh maybe because of the uh the timeout it knew that the the ball was not on the uh plunger switch and so it actually ended up oh wow and the ricochet set it back up oh he's not getting lucky with targets there yeah only three hits so far all right so let's see he's gonna get control here he's gonna tip pass that over see if he can get control of that ball again uses the other ball to save that one going going down the middle very nice yeah he's getting he's getting shots off but just not quite the right geometry right now he's not getting it in in there there you go oh that's a tough one maybe we can get maybe get out there there's no grace period on those seats regretting shooting that right now all right but now he's got 2x as well so he's looking to at least you know continue his progress here and just given how accurate he was i think he's just gonna go right back to what worked before looks like we have a tie break in the other group oh exciting are you able to see who who all is involved looks like it'll be darren and michael matson with leslie making it through already at that time all right very good and and he eclipses gene oh no yes with the bonus there so 2.9 great start there for carl even himself quite competitive here now jim absolutely needs to lock in [Music] he needs to be the first one to collect that jackpot put himself in a good good spot here pinball profile yeah 15 million on ball one that's regardless of how the game's set up that is a fantastic score for any doctor dude hello jeff thielis how are you jeff is such a such a nice guy it was great to have him here last uh i think that was last year maybe it was two years ago now and it is tour throughout the us that was a fun tournament we had here i know yeah i guess you're right we that's uh man time flies yeah so jim like everyone else was working towards the small people yep [Music] yes the world tour it was great it was a really fun tournament we had here at this looks like a very fun game it is it can be grindy if it's too easy this one's not easy though yes yes i did this was one of the ones that i really you know early days of my pinball training played a lot of uh virtual pinball or rather the um arcade and and this was one of the tables i bought to uh to practice so i have a special place in my heart for dr dave i would imagine on pinball arcade it would probably be nothing but rambo yeah yeah you could do that pretty reliably and you got really good action on the spinner okay hey flip stream how you doing bud all right from the d82 to west coast hi everyone hello lotr breath all right let's see he's going with the soft plunge as well gonna get that free hit can you avoid a switch can you avoid the switch he does but now he's on the clock is that the case do we know i think so carl just hit a switch that we didn't realize i don't think it was a switch well let's see yep see it just timed out because he definitely did not hit anything so he started his reflex so let's see if he goes for it or no i think he just lit it okay yes yes so usually if you're in multiball you ignore it because the jackpot is so much more valuable can you get up oh and he cut he he actually went for it right there i just think he just needs the value all right ignores it oh but it can't yeah so like i as i was saying earlier i would have like tried backhanding we kept the gap there to get a ball right actually yeah it would have helped him toward his reflex and he would have uh had a better shot of getting it up there all right so he's got 2x now 1.8 yes yes providence i think if uh there there would be a tie best hope is a tie break oh and brock 101 just subscribed for four months in a row shouts to you brock mpt3k appreciates your support so glad to have you here on this sunday afternoon as we're watching some high-level pinball play jim belcido playing for his tournament life here and and and doing so well he's he's got his magnetic personality now he's gonna start picking off oh he goes for his he likes his million though and that's gonna be at the ramp shot and that's 2f though that's a big pick up there yeah that's really very nice and so he's with uh very helpful especially if nobody gets the jackpot instead huge so he's up to 4.6 until he lights that off of the drops on the right side is that right i actually had looked like that that's the mountain it's not something i ever actively go for yeah i certainly pay attention to it once it's actually left i mean yeah that's a interesting idea there if you're ever in the 2x scoring even if not lay down as a special now this special award any points here i do not know okay it's a nice nice save there on the right side very lucky in lane takes a little break with the hands off the flippers there oh he gets the credit there you go hey that's and they found the harder rock mostly he's got his mitch master back online so he's about to be a super dude yeah and the super dude what does it it likes gazillions yes and then what's that like is it like a million every mix master it's uh [Music] so let's see if we can get it up that ramp jump shot good trust there to let it roll all the way to the edge yeah i think he might need a moving ball now he's trying to keep it alive he's trying to keep it alive get that to the right flipper with a chance oh tough but at least he's he's get he's set up right he keeps that progress and does if you play two multi balls in one ball is it all the multiball stuff multiplied i don't know actually i i think maybe yeah yeah i'm not sure i usually don't do that yeah yeah i think it would stand to reason yeah that the 2x is just sort of permanent for that ball thereafter so i think you can get some pretty big value there but he already did really well getting that 2 million off the single million doubled up so now we go back to nick and nick all right yeah jim and jean hoping nick plays well i'm hoping it's not for timing reasons thank you for the follow dr scoop yeah one into his house tough tough bounce there so jim very mad at nick right now i know not helping yeah he needs he needs [ __ ] yeah uh this end of ball for for nick stein you can see he hits the magnetic personality just whips it out perfectly a tough break there he was smiling though yeah it's easy to smile when you're already through when you yeah starts it up and there's the oh wow he must have gone as high as you can go on that without actually completing [Music] all right can't quite find either of those this is again off to the left this is tough this is really tough his gene his scenario is he needs he he needs to make up two spots right right so jim playing well is good for game but absolutely but but dean also has to play well yeah yep and carl's got he's going in a headed game with the ball in hand [Music] another nice trust there yeah so finishes get the gab he just needs the heart of rock and tough one there quick balls all around so far that's good for jim though yep yep but he needs he needs nick to get in here yeah he doesn't just need to win this fight he needs some help i i'm i'm wondering if he's you know after he walks away from the machine he might see a little exchange of puns it's always brutal when you're like rooting rooting for somebody to play well whenever when it doesn't matter to them you're just like come on man there's no wagering i know and then and there's really no good way of i guess controlling for that right like you couldn't i guess you could take them four player games right like like theoretically you could if somebody is like mathematically through you could just remove them but not not really uh play two-player games is the solution but i i i like i prefer a four-player game yeah i only have yourself to blame for not playing better earlier true that's true fair fair enough a measly 10 points for that one i like that all right so now further opportunity to really cement the lead here okay so he's going with the soft plunge once again so yeah so the the way that it works when you get the gazillion shot lit you put it up the ramp into the mix master every hit on one of the targets in the mix master of which there are nine you know three each on each of those banks is going to give you 500 000 so potentially big pickup here and you just get that for one mix master thing exactly exactly so it's kind of the random but he like he actually qualifies his reflex again though oh let's see let's see if he can a nice tip pass there to keep the control uh he's just he's not gonna be able to make it i think he's going to have to do the backhand oh he gets a little momentum there in there let's see three and a half million yeah a fantastic shot and now those don't count that's separate scoring from jackpot though now he needs 10 additions exactly all right so so jim is is looking pretty good and it's kind of unless gene is going to put up a big one and past jim it's it might be he's looking pretty good for winning but not not pretty good for advancing right very nicely done 2.8 oh okay i thought it was base five but [Music] excellent cradle separation absolutely good flipper play all around wow and that that's a great play money if you hit the replay on that we saved that for later it i i just am always impressed with the ways in which these great players are able to leverage the existing flipper stills they have that was a basically a post pass designed to bat the ball the other ball to the the right flipper i was that was amazing a nice nudge there still trying it off of a uh off of a cradle and not not much luck there so yeah 2xl that he's out of multiball he's maybe consider going for the reflex here [Music] yes and now two is lit at the gift of gab shot [Music] and you have time to try it usually twice but you don't get too much beyond that if you make your job yep and now magnetic personality will be for two two oh two and a half right right oh it goes up yeah and it could i guess it goes up each time you start to reflect the baseball yep absolutely [Music] what is the reflex shot or mode or whichever so it's qualified jared was showing us in the center you see those flashing white shots hit all those to qualify it and they started at the one in the shot that jim just hit there the the left orbit shot and then it's the one two so he's actually doing it without it being lit right now one two and then three being the magnetic personality so yeah making good progress towards another multiball just makes the uh rocket roll again looked like he was going for those that right side maybe yeah those are targets again the the drops what a joy to behold my goodness mr tilt bubbles i i agree we've we've seen jim lcdo do this on many occasions here at free world watch fantastic player [Music] he's got the mix master online yet again and now he's now he's really just trying to ruin your scheduling yeah getting tired he's freaking me out i want to start playing again all right let's see trying to get back up there he's still mostly trying from the uh from the cradle but even with a little momentum you're still not getting it up there let's see all right so he's going replay so what will this be will this be 3 million if he gets it does it increase 250 or so i think that's right yes yeah because it'll be 1.5 to be the base uh tough one there up to 20 million so great ball um fortunately for timing i think there's a good chance we don't have to have let it play he won't need to play as well right right all right just just to show off this great play just watch it was a post pass designed to just tap that over a fantastic move what a guy all right back to play yeah so even after that now jim really needs nick to have a good ball he needs to uh have carl for dick oh are we gonna see some tap passing from nick i think he's tested his tab he is so good at that i i learned from him i i can tap hats on the turn right now oh and there that will eliminate jim belceville so it's up to gene now this is it gene gene has to climb the mountain yeah that's it if if he if he climbs the mountain here you know yeah because he needs to make up two spots on fire yeah so he has to pass jim to have a chance otherwise no no tie breakers it'll be over there it'll be over and we'll walk and i'll be a little bit happier there you go it's good to make the tournament director happy well dean is also a coach tournament director so maybe so i think he did that for timing reasons but that wasn't unfortunate oh man that was rough yeah so that'll be it hopefully carl doesn't play out his fault with me yeah well i think i think at the very least you probably just start doing the administrative tasks right of getting everything set up and i think it i think as tournament director you're able to just tell people i'm turning off the game yeah i think i am going to hop off to prepare for next round all right i'm pretty settled here thank you jared thanks much to jared our our one of our tds here along with gene who's just very sadly eliminated that had a tough tough house ball there that's how it goes sometimes [Music] but congrats to nick stein and carl d'Python Anghelo for moving on to our round of eight the elite eight here at free gold watch in san francisco california if you're just joining us this is the city champ nine competition you're watching the remnants of this game four carl d'Python Anghelo who was our top qualifier and he was trying to do a little fancy stuff there a little tap half all right switch back to my usual seat just to mess up the title cards here zach wallin's going to join us here i think he's uh busy with tournament administration for now happy to have you here how's it going i'm doing all right yeah having having a nice time just enjoying some high-level pinball players yeah the best of the best it's it's really impressive to see some some of the flipper skills some of the decision making the quick twitch skills yeah it's great we we've come to expect that at city champ absolutely so we're getting getting into the round of eight what up ed where am i going i have no idea what's that oh um we are going we actually yeah we don't know yet because we it's a new round so we gotta wait for what the bank is and who's gonna be in it and all that we'll stand by yes yes so we're we're just gonna talk to the people for a little while if you if folks have any questions of course you're always welcome to share here now zach you have finished second in this tournament is that right yeah i finished second in this tournament yes um it was it was a bad loss because we were the scoring was uh seven five three one right right and if the scoring would have been uh you know anything other than that i would have won because i won i won two out of three games and still lost that's wacky it was pretty wacky oh yeah i'm sorry that was pretty upset i i remember i do remember the final game being on uh ac dc yeah that was a tough one yeah so yeah two two seconds in the first beat two firsts and uh last yeah yeah well you you don't sound at all upset about that no i'm not bitter [Laughter] oh that's right that's right yes i think that was that was part of like a a little run that he had uh that year i think he had a couple tournament yeah notable ones anyway yeah yeah fantastic are you getting a hello from obi john kenobi oh hey how's it going providence giving you a shout out oh nice yeah um yeah qualifying was went great today today when today started off rough and then i thought i was in good shape and then uh had to play blue chip first for the last game and just put up like the worst score i knew i was the first player a single-player game and i knew it wasn't going to stand out yeah i i had like three and a half house balls pretty much and uh that's tough i was warming up on it last night and i was putting up scores and i knew the score that i got today was just not gonna do anything so yeah where did it end up in the it was was it to end up last or did you get at least the point off oh no i got last night i would have gotten a point i would have most likely been the tiebreaker because i was tied for first going into that last round that's killer yeah it sucked oh yeah yeah it's pinball pinball man it's a it'll break your heart yeah it really it sure will uh but yeah looking forward to seeing our final light so i think we so we know at least two of them from who we saw here let's see if we can get a little bit more info i don't think it's been fully refreshed yet we can see oh yeah so oh so we got some finishes gabe and matthew finishing in ninth jim michael and zach tying for 11th well done thank you gene jeremy and josh finishing in the tie for 14. so that leaves Karl DeAngelo nick stein andre massenkov jeremy williams darren ensley leslie ruckman no jeremy's jeremy's out oh jeremy oh did i have it wrong okay yeah oh got it uh andre oh right yes jared went through jared oh right very good oh yes sorry i was looking at the wrong good and then walter and who made it through of i guess mark made it through of walter yep all right very good what's darren ensley and michael matson playing on i think oh a darren one darren one deadpool happy for darren there yeah yeah top eight that's great so now they're gonna be battling for the final four spots so we're gonna be following one of the two groups that are resulting here uh we're gonna follow them the same way we've done in the past couple rounds just follow them all the way through yeah um excited to see i think uh we might have some interesting matchups to highlight here depending on how the groups shake out i think we'll have carl i think carl and nick will probably stick together maybe with andre and jared in the next one yeah yeah um darren and michael played on deadpool i don't know if that was said or not yes yeah yeah actually i think you just mentioned that yeah did i yeah yeah yeah very good yeah uh do you know what the final was like how how what scores were like i have no idea okay i was just watching this uh dr dude game yeah yeah it was really that was a masterclass by by jim to just be all for naught yeah yeah yeah another another way in which boom ball will hurt you you can you can have you know an amazing moment that just counts basically for another right so i see i see the tournament director sorting things out so again there's going to be the option i think it's still true that uh top seeds are going to have the option to just would basically trade between the oh the banks the banks or they can't no i i don't think they can they can pick bank but i don't think they can't do the switch anymore i don't think so okay i could be wrong maybe maybe that was a one-time use i just know that folks were leveraging that earlier right you could switch out an em for a different event all right we're gonna go over to adam's family oh great following i think andre's bank okay fantastic all right all right i'm excited it feels like they're on they're all good yeah we go back to adams back on adams you saw that earlier saw a pretty pretty lively match on that i think uh that was a eventually a win for was that carl who took that one let's let's double check my notes here i would maybe i don't know it's whatever but we just we just watched this bank right uh actually let's see it's gonna get switched up a little bit so it got mixed up a bit so we're going to adam's harlem jurassic park oh okay cool yeah there we go and so we got andre darren walter and mark all right gonna be facing off to the other group carl leslie nick and jared nice so still still hope of the tournament director one of the one half of the tournament directorship taking the win here and andre of course you got a lot of a lot of great names in the hunt andre of course former world champion Karl DeAngelo former state champion yep leslie has just been burning up the charts in terms of recently in the bay area really fantastic play and i think she's been traveling a bit too yeah going out to district 82 nick stein of course always a threat [Music] he is a threat he threatened me earlier he he threatens you with friendship that's that's his his move uh the consolation tournament making someone sent a cup announcements somebody already only has one strike in that tournament that's pretty impressive i think there's several rounds in all right thank you manu for getting everything in place keep keeping this [ __ ] moving along so i'm very excited that we get to see my favorite royal flush again wait did you just swear keeping this what keeping this ship hey you're trying to get me lose my t-o-s t-o-s the t-o-s no i would never i would never they they call me in when you want to make sure you never have a toss fire issue all right so zach great to have you here for this bank again the the you know i always like to get people's thoughts on what's what's their approach you know whether like you're walking up to an atoms where are you thinking what what are you what are you concerned about um first thing i'm gonna do is um just try to get um modes going you know just start cranking through those yep uh i'm not necessarily looking to hit green targets right away correct i mean first thing for sure is skill shot absolutely try to do that in uh as few attempts as possible yeah um yeah this one seemed pretty reliable i think actually most of the players hit it yeah on on everything yeah it's the plunger is pretty good it used to be really weird it was like a really crappy you know inconsistent plunge but yeah this is pretty pretty this is a like a complete rebuild oh that machine this this got blessed into the matt henry sent it away to the i think modern monterey guys oh and they completely read it yeah i don't think it was the monterey guys there's some guys that were down in south bay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's it's amazing it's like nuts like yeah amazing i think i think he said it was here for such a long time it deserved a makeover yeah yeah yeah well it looks fantastic it's been playing great and very favorable kickouts so you can dead bounce actually off both sides which i think not every player was willing to risk it right i did we did see nick stein in particular he was very comfortable with the kick outs nice all right mark's up first yeah mark mark is a great player from arizona oh fantastic yeah and kicks it off with a train shot a nice nice little save there now the the one thing that we have been uh we have been seeing is the you know people trying to forehand that chair shot yeah and it's it's dicey yeah i know it is yeah i think uh given given the amount of control that seems possible i i would guess you know i guess everybody's play style is a little different i mean for myself i would just try to get control and just try to give it it seems like you can usually get it over too that was impressive right there beautiful does he get a star for that i think so he was going for the chair he shot through the pops and then hit the side ramp at speed that was pretty pretty epic yeah but yeah there's there's that uh control you can get right out the gate gets another stairs yeah there's there's a nice forehand there still got mamushka going so he's going to get a little value off of each of those hits and yeah he's not he's not going to go for anything flashy he's all reliable right now up to 17. interesting what what was he oh he's going for the the shot in the back there i'm assuming yeah there we go oh quick multiball right fantastic so now this is uh vault millions right this is where he's going from yeah all right let's see that kick out from the swa oh tough break there he's already built up a nice space here this is a good start though no that's that's a good that's a good that's a good ball one yeah yeah i i do think though you know i i guess i could see on the fly going for the uh for the chair shot i i just think if you got it on a cradle on the right it is it is postpassable yeah so why not try to get it over on your left and just back it in because it has just been proven or at least from what i've seen today and certainly what i've played on this machine in the past that is a pretty reliable shot he may have just have not played this or isn't comfortable with the post pass yet because yeah the last thing you want is i think to just sort of pop into the center and fall down the middle yeah and walter so missed the school shot i think he had an opportunity to maybe just let it fall and try again but he actually flipped it away so now he's he's in the game here uh somebody asked about the power the power is disabled so it's not an issue here no magnet tough tough bounce off of the uh the seam there between the flipper and the lane so walter ending just under 1.5 eff and oak thanks for the follow appreciate that and mark prison currently first in at fantastic yeah it's awesome to see darren darren here in the uh the semis here yeah do we know whether it's this might be his deepest run for city champion i think i think so yeah and he he qualified great third oh tough i mean a little bit of a move but it looked like mostly just a strong flip yeah it didn't look yeah it didn't look deserved too dangerous in the tilt wow mr tilt bubbles asked do people just quick drain multiball to avoid the power or do most folks play it i got a bad i mean if the magnet's on i imagine if you're in multiball you still you still go for it you know i'm sure yeah yeah i i guess i could see a philosophy if you are super locked in you know you think you're gonna get your 50 million on your tour of the mansion you just kind of like keep a singular focus but i just can't imagine you pass up a multiball if you're in it yeah i mean you can if you trap up after 15 seconds of magnets right even in multiball right yeah trans meta yes yeah i think they've disabled the magnets so there's no no impact of that i think in the tournament setting that's done because you know it just reduces the time you know they know that the top level players are always going to just wait out the the magnet there so tough bounce there for andre hey transmeta how are you i scared the dog yelling when darren tilted i yeah i think i think darren's going to have a a cheering section on the online here yeah he wanted the extra greed letter with that tilt there you go yeah feels bad when you're behind and that happens not as bad when you get a commanding lead here yeah a little at least a little buffer oh but brian o'neill's in the house so everyone misbehave there you go all right so walter got the control backhand working nicely didn't didn't go for the cradle there or at least just maybe mistimed it [Music] nice million plus again yeah interesting to see i mean i i always thought it was pretty exceptional i always like to flip that when it comes down onto the thing flips um knowing that it's probably not a great call but i i feel like especially in league you know five million can be the difference sometimes so it might be worth it a little rainbow there so walter finishing up a little extra from his modes at 12.4 all right darren darren looking to recover here he could get his greed ready to go with the skill shot right there you go yep he knew it and he's gonna get that ball back down at the plunger yeah he can just do a couple skill shots here yeah we saw this before if he gets it into the skill shot again that's going to be taken by the thing i think he's going to get that back down in the plunger again yeah one more i don't think anybody else would lock the ball so there you go he's going to get hopefully get another couple million on the skill shot very nicely done all right so he's gonna go million shot nice gets it on the rebound on the fly oh i mean all right there it is we got some clapping happen here all right so we're looking for the ramp the train shot will also give you a jackpot but really the ramp shot that's the 2x so 20 million he's looking for that yep can do some damage here all right he's got it he's got it up there let's see if he can boom nails it there it is a beautiful shot now what's where's the re-qualifying he needs to shoot the the piano or the ball there it is all right so we're looking for another senator the piano i heard that wrong game we're on game same game all right we're looking we're looking for a center shot to get that helper get the thing the thing helper to set up his shot oh that's tough but a nice pick up there with the with the jackpot the double jackpot master of machines right here that's right nt hits tom lot bryan over here that's my burg bro you know i was thinking about the term berg bro yesterday just you know reminiscing about pinball tournaments burg bro of course being a reference to being sort of like your buddy at pinburn and uh i was thinking we don't really have one for city champ maybe i was thinking maybe you're champ chum sure champ gems that's fun to say um so andre immediately took a double danger so he's not gonna be able to do his usual anything yeah all right so mark looking to put some distance at this point are you thinking he's he's just going back to modes yeah yeah seems to be the most reliable option there a nice pickup with thing and he gets the extra for his star on his beautiful three-way combo always a nice little benefit there that's actually a uh basically a 15 million shot right there uh plunge 14 million there's the well yeah i i don't know about shooting the thing thing flipper oh yeah this situation yeah that's the swamp yeah it seems it just depends if sometimes some some of them will um you know you can get it'll hit the the guide in between the two inlanes and go out but i think this one doesn't really do that yeah we haven't seen that yet gets a 10 million for that pickup and gets to go this is great because magnets are disabled so yeah i use easy money you could just ramp out here i would post transfer and shoot the ramp or backhand the ram that looked like maybe he was holding it thinking that the magnet actually is on yeah this is just whoa sure yeah i'm not sure if he was shooting for that other ramp ramp shot yes i think so annoying right he's he's doing great right now oh no it's uh really i think he had that if he left the right flipper down but we'll never know until we look back yeah you want to hit the replay uh we'll we could take one more look at that that was a little while ago yeah we don't we don't need to we don't have to i could do it i want to see who's stepping up yeah we got walter coming up so walter needs to do some work here yeah he's got two he's got two letters away from finishing greed um that that might be the play i don't know you can it just depends on how confident you are shooting the chair yeah i think in a comparable situation for myself i think i i would still go modes i mean it's just the the control that you could have from from the chair and the and the stairs yeah i think it's there yeah all right let's see nice puts it up there he's gonna go for his million plus shot got it now does he flip hey nails it yeah sure every little bit counts right now yeah 10 million away i don't know what's his bonus he's oh almost gets a nice uh nice flip a nice sling into the uh oh that's i'm backhanding greed here at this point like one shot away and then you're getting skill shots yeah a little tricky there with the with that upper left flipper kind of put it into kind of put it into chaos here got to be careful now damn wow all right all right so now we can collect some skill shots and uh it appears that uh brian has adopted wicked now that he lives in new Robert Englunds that didn't take very long he didn't have that affectation already yeah this one this one is uh you've seen a couple tight tilts here but this this one actually i think is even hard flipping will give you uh yeah all right he's in the multiball he's relieved look at that face yeah all right so we know the goal put it put it up there up upper flipper try to get a good shot off onto the onto the left ramp it's something to get lucky i've seen i've seen wacky caroms off of the targets on the right off the post on the right that you know end up putting the ball all the way up the ramp it's it's possible all right here's this wow and that was a golden opportunity maybe he was worried about the other losing the other ball it seemed like it was mostly out of sight so he had it kind of hemmed up in the uh uh rough one race period all right all right that's something what are you getting he increased the value a little bit so he's getting more than 10. yeah 14. wowzers although i think that eliminates the opportunity for thing multiball right uh because that's basically like the uh yeah yeah so theoretically could have left that yeah 7.8 on that one all right so he's uh and he's got some some bonus value i think coming to him given a few of the loads he's been through although actually he's actually is that right he only he's not actually played any modes um right because the two the two on the right side that are solid those are those are just default because of the tournaments right yeah i don't think so wow i i just couldn't believe it that he hasn't been in the chair once and he's still doing this much he did double danger mr tilt bubbles that's a buzzer yes wicked is better than hella again a couple claps from the crowd here so i think he's going to end up somewhere south of 100 but with a with a good showing yep 89 without pressure's on darren and andre to to match or exceed yeah darren also has no doors completed [Applause] [Music] oh i guess it was one because yeah if darren darren actually has less than even he had yeah oh what a what a rough bounce now he can only hope for a single point if andre can't exceed 52.2 million andre's gonna be a little a little lighter on his nudging this this ball i expect so all right that's going down into the swamp all right let's see how he handles his kick out scary scary flip there missed on the forehand to the chair gets it on that one all right but it was out of control for a minute now he's got this nice oh does not allow it to uh dead bounce over and now recovers gets this quick multiball [Music] i i was i was very surprised but you know andre does he he plays a little differently yeah oh yeah it and it works for him there you go like i said he's got his own way of playing this game yeah now he's only gonna be able to get five or i guess it's gonna it's like uh increases a million right so theoretically you know gets a little progress he could be seeing some fairly nice size values there you go there's a million plus he is playing loose yeah it's a typical andre let's see it ah another another zeppelin gets collection points though on everything about his jackpot yeah yeah he's basically getting every other feature right now other other than maybe uh you know the cross shot from the small flipper yeah up to 37 oh gosh oh wow no danger hit the replay button because that was fantastic nice tip nice tip to keep it alive that was crazy unbelievable dangerous wow that was pretty nifty do you get anything for that oh he's gonna get credit for the thing value no i oh i guess he gets the ball off wow i just don't think i've ever seen the perfect you know soft hit into the saucer in the back there all done all right so now within striking distance of darren to get that at least a point that should be the super skill shot to shoot it back up there that would be i mean i think you should get 100 million points for that that is unbelievable all right here we go vault or chair and knowing andre i mean of course he'd love to get a point but i he's going for gold i think he's yeah he might have it in bonus he probably does have it but oh you mean you mean at least getting the point yeah oh yeah yeah now he does for sure yep that's a nice nice pickup right there basically 10 million on the on the plunge so he's going to be hitting the million plus shot and letting that go down to flipper and let's see he's going to hit it all right gets control now he's gonna forehand it i think he is no yeah there it is all right so working working with one point going for two maybe for three wow that could have been disastrous [Music] and just like that grace period maybe no he is that was his first post pass all right he gets right back into it with the pink multiball so he's gonna get one one free shot here yeah i'm gonna go ahead and guess if he hits it andre is allowed one post pass per game there we go five million plus oh just off the left side oh gosh he's still uh you're still doing good here yeah i think with bonus actually at this point you might have walter just not getting it in there we go i think he that looked like he was actually intentionally going maybe for the 2x uh tough tough break there on the bounce let's see though it's going to be close i think maybe not maybe not enough for 89. uh 76. so he's content with his single point yeah and just just to show you folks one more time this was this was really quite the nudge it's uh not not that one that i think that it's coming up at this part where he keeps it alive andre really just such a great player knows the nuances of the games look at this just knows exactly how to move it to keep it in line not enough to get more than a single point here but you know he's not done a lot a lot of pinball to go in this round so we're gonna be moving over to our next match here and i think we're going over to harlem globetrotters oh nice all right harlem i imagine somewhat painful for andre given his defeat at the hands of keith elwin at the 2019 yeah yeah that was a that was really the game where i think ellen you know really really shown in in a way that andre just had two games earlier on guardians of the galaxy yeah that was yeah that was insane really one of the the just you know like like a boxing match each each one throwing their best yeah uh and i i still remember andre the the game between those two was pinbot and andre tilted i think on his second ball right and it was just such a questionable till you know just it was a tilt but it was not a move that you felt like was gonna merit it and uh i remember just that that was such a momentum shift you know coming off of that amazing first game so i'm i'm sure he's ready to to redeem himself here with a good harlem performance yeah yeah this harlem is amazing it really is yeah we talked about it earlier how i mean the condition yeah of this one i mean it's a shock that it's on location wow consolation tournament yeah got some good players in there all right manu is getting it all set up on the game so for harlem i i guess you know it seems pretty clear you know drop drop targets yeah spinner spinner bonus spinners are you ever shooting for opening the gate like intentionally if if i already have um some progress on the other things i might go for that but especially on this one it plays so fast like yeah you don't want to shoot anything over there that's going to get the ball back right going left to right um yeah i wasn't i wasn't on this one tournament play but i don't know the spinners are so juicy that like i feel like even just playing center spinners and drops is is pretty huge yeah you can build up your super bonus really fast yeah walter just dropping a bunch of coins on the apron there like more than necessary oh maybe there's an issue with the uh there you go all right thank you thank you manu for getting us in position and also updating the scores there so you can see mark currently in the lead three to walters two to andre's one to baron zero top shelf bar down shouting out for pearson let us know who you're rooting for in the chat i know they they love to have your support now modifications on this one you can see that on the uh backlash there that piece of paper there has a couple notes on the performance of the game one of them being that the order of the letters you collect is sequential so typically you'll see it strafing like this and maybe if you play it on location you've played it that way where whenever it lands into that saucer up top it'll just award you what letter it happens to be on this one is actually just going to go in order you'll also get credit for those as you hit the drop targets all right so and in collecting globe will give you 50 000 which is not insignificant on this one it's uh that's that's been a winning score in some matches yeah in qualifying this is the one game i took a zero on and i think i had uh about 30 000 points all right well mark looking to outdo you yeah it can do it and then you can also play it for a few minutes yeah yeah so so generally just give folks the overview so the uh yeah we have the globe up top so we talked about that the drop targets on the right side that will uh build your bonus multiplier and it also grants you the letters up top and they will increase the value of the spinner on the left side the spinners in the middle actually are for bonus accumulation so as you as you spin those you're going to build that bonus you can lock in a bonus a minimum bonus i believe it's 20 000 as the first cut yeah is it is there another level after that 20 30 and 40. got it got it so if you can do that on ball one you're gonna lock in a pretty nice chunk of change on the bonus collect for every single ball similar to uh you know if you think about rats and bats on bram stoker's dracula i believe paragon has the same function where you're gonna be uh locking in those values i think 20 30 50 on that yeah so if you can if you can make it happen on on ball one fantastic on ball two you're still good oh super ball uh super bonus is disabled i think oh okay got it okay oh there you're right so no super bonus on this one okay got it yeah normally also it's it's it's set up so that both of the bonus spinners are lit usually it's one or the other and the pops i think move it left and right got it oh was that a tilt i thought i didn't see it till but brian says wow tilt or maybe he's just noting the was there a uh warning sound no andre tilted got it okay there you go i guess he didn't have much to lose at that point now i imagine that was just intended to go to the drop zone i think so yeah and when you guys play this do you just imagine that upper left flipper just imagine it's not even a flipper because that's somebody told me to do that just imagine that's not even a flipper and don't even worry about it yeah it just depends depends on how the ball's coming at it and on this one it's this thing's so fast yeah it's better to not to not flip at that thing i think are there any shots that you that you can't hit with the lower two flippers i think you can it's definitely better to shoot at the um the drops from the lower flipper that's for sure nice and darren is already putting together a nice performance here almost at 100 000. this thing plays so fast a clean shot up to the saucer uh behind the drops will often just go right past oh yeah luke has skipped it a couple yeah yeah it feels real bad when you need those those collect points and then you get denied the shot that you make but well good if you've made it through the drops you're probably in in good shape yep yep well darren basically doubled his score there up to 219 i believe he ended the ball with something just south of uh 100 000 so amazing work for for darren on ball one there looking to reverse the performance of the first game yeah he needs it just gonna check in on our other group see if there's anything that we can report from their group i think they're still working on their first game which is jurassic park all right not much more for mark there ending his ball two at 14 250. walter with a good good quick flip there just to keep it up in the play field give himself a chance gets a nice drop target now one one thing we did notice and i played this as my last game during qualifying the rubbers are a bit sticky and i think that was changing sort of some of the geometry it was it and and the way it was catching the flipper too would sometimes kind of catch you off guard ready for that kind of grippiness and it also you could dead bounce but it didn't feel as as much of a sure thing yeah i got i got burnt really bad trying to let it bounce on the left flipper and just died [Music] bonus up to 10. that'll go up to 15 16 17 18 19 20. i was responsible for uh getting those flippers prepped for tournament well done all right andre puts up 71. ah very nice recovery there missing the saucer but then getting it on the rebound off of the off the top yeah nice wave there and he's really he's doing a good job with those uh drop targets oh damn so fast he's a good this is a good good place for him to be going into ball three pressure's on everybody else [ __ ] asked question for darren would he rather win city champ or drink an abacus that's that's something that i think yep question for darren all right and i think we're probably not oh the old dfb you know i that may have been a pre-commentator's curse because i was about to comment on the fact that i don't think we're gonna see a scissor i i really and i really meant it when i when i was thinking it because i you know these are good players you know to be patient yeah and i honestly that's that's probably the one way that a good player is going to scissor that way like i mean just sort of the missed timing yeah i mean that's it's a small window there ball's moving so fast you could flip it and uh and i told you he was going to do it yeah rough so let's see let's just the way he got this immortalized oh it wasn't you know yeah yeah that was that was in there i i think i i see the way he was thinking too i mean on a lot of games yeah he kind of did the one sure yeah yeah getting chastised by some of the patrons here we learn you learn from other people's mistakes yeah there you go hey good use of the in lane there and a nice ski pass there to get the ball over and tried to do it again but it was a match not quite enough force on it oh wow andre is is hanging on here ooh interesting there a lot of just off the tip oh all right but he's gonna he's gonna take home two points darren gets a walk up well done good job darren uh that puts that puts mark at three andre at three darren at three and walter that must be a three yeah all three three three total reversal wow and so we had this earlier actually we we had you know because of this there is a possibility of a full six six six six final tie yeah which uh as as we heard from jared he would not like given the delay that would cause to the uh given that the other group doesn't even have a result yet i think that's already out of bed oh no they do actually uh on jurassic park nick stein took first with a uh he gets three points Karl DeAngelo with two leslie got the one jared took a zero so now that that group is on royal flush then they'll be moving to adams and then harlem from harlem we're going over to jurassic park all right welcome to jurassic park hopefully hopefully it behaves it's been having some issues with the t-rex mouth not registering oh really not registering yeah so not not just not catching yeah not registering so um i watched darren was playing it in the last round and he had a t-rex mode ready to go and it ate the ball but it didn't start the t-rex mode [Music] now what was was there uh i guess that's just a normal sort of loss of loss of feature is there's no no no compensation unfortunately but he probably would have won the game had he started that t-rex mode he just needed a small amount of millions to uh yeah too man but he made it through so it's not good water and the bridge yep but yeah hopefully that doesn't happen here because it sucks to get um robbed of points yeah yeah fortunately you know we saw this earlier we did not see that particular issue um games seem to be playing as expected for the most part i'm good double match somewhere in the house yeah you see guardians right next to me there is a microphone on the rig that's why you guys hear so as all right mana getting set folks let me take this moment to remind you you're watching this on mystery pinball theater 3000 that's run by our friend manu smith running all the tech for this broadcast making the magic happen hit that hit that follow button hit that subscribe if you want to send some support his way throw some bits his way he's doing the work to make this as pretty as it is we love to see it we really appreciate his support so show him your support jurassic glare yep yeah we got that uh what that's actually a window that's causing that right yeah yeah and there's a skill shot for today i have one you give me one away doesn't go for the uh the second skill shot just just wants to start i think i i imagine he's just starting on his channel but thank you though yeah he's good nice what's that see all right so so i imagine you have thoughts on on this one oh yeah what's your approach uh make chaos progress for starters um and you know get that that first paddock going you want to get that completed so that you can bring your control room mode into whatever multiball you're going after got it um tough one there and jacob has just subscribed to three months in a row thank you jacob and luke luke eric korea thank you for the follow appreciate the support we got announcements for the consolation tournament whatever you do don't f up your t-rex multiball andre getting serious taking the mask off [Music] may the force be with you all right so this will be interesting uh we saw this from nick stein earlier he focused on the t-rex or i'm sorry the raptor tri-ball okay i was right at the gate yeah backhanded to get that get that sort of started up and then wants to lock the ball into the raptor containment unit yeah it's uh it's sort of um it's one of those things where you can leave the other players at an advantage if you lock a ball in there because all they have to do is bash on that gate sure once there's a ball in there so i don't know it just depends on uh on strategy played a little bit rough yeah a couple little strong moves there oh big big strong move there yeah and i'm i'm glad he fixed it he did that for you for sure yeah i know that was sweet in tournament mode t-rex multiball isn't the first mode that i i guess that means this isn't in tournament mode because it was pretty much always multiball the first mode when i was watching folks play when i played it myself i should have uh captured that replay you might be like you might hit it right now i will let it let it slide it was it was you can catch it on youtube after yeah somebody clipped that throw that in the chat please thank you dr curly tech you may be right actually about the the impact on the neighboring machines because i think some of those are technically still in for the consolation tournament i think they may be in nearly their final round though so it might not be as much of an issue as soon as that one wraps up i think almost every time we move to a new machine we're going to be turning off the machines a stride of that one so that way if players can just focus in on their performance there mono getting getting some street cred for his puns wait did i do a pun unintentional puns apparently we'll let it slide oh see i'm as i'm as good as platronic now all right here comes walter oh almost almost the uh full skill shot yeah we we saw it maybe twice we saw a lot of a lot of attempts i think only only twice did anybody actually complete that and no one got the third yeah i i like to do the c super skill shot there's actually there's actually four you guys know that right yeah i just i i like i generally try to make chaos progress as fast as possible so it's sort of two for one in that is chaos generally the most valuable multiball like not necessarily but not anymore it used to be here yeah but you know it's it's a big multiball and you can stack things with it so got it um you know bringing a control room mode into chaos is usually huge because finishing those control room modes fast um really is giant yeah it's just good to be in multiple and that's sort of like i don't know arguably the longest lasting and relatively easy to make progress to get got it all right let's see he seems to be pondering where he wants to go he goes for the first paddock [Music] good clean shot there nice little recovery from the bounce after it crept up the in lane and now he's got 2x going is that right uh he has 2x going yeah but not much scoring happening this yeah that 2x is is major yeah especially on like a t-rex mode anything but i feel like those t-rex modes are underrated yeah very quick way to get a lot of points if you need them especially uh chase you know i was about to say yeah that's that's the one that i've i've felt you know this this is a game that i i think i still haven't quite cracked the code for myself but whenever i've done particularly well i think the chase has gone really well did that not register maybe it may have had it wrong i thought i thought that was already lit that wasn't paying attention oh a double danger on that big flip there i know rescuing is important yeah so the idea here is rescue everyone at a certain point that's going to give you the tough tough tilt there rescues then lead to the ability to i guess like tranq the dyno and then capture yeah so um the early the early ones uh you just need to hit i think one one rescue lights the two yellow stand-ups behind the truck got it and you just need to hit one of those and that qualifies like the finishing shot which is like a roving shot right and then as you make progress it requires more rescues and and also the helipad yeah the helipad ends up being the final shot got it got it playing on dinosaur shells yes thank you auntie hits is it tilt set to step freeze you know it is it is a bit sensitive although you know given what we've seen actually you know mark put a pretty strong slap on that so i was not actually surprised that uh that he got the double danger given the circumstance but yes i think it is uh it's tight yeah that ramp would be a nice pickup right now get the a and the rescue beautiful nice combo well done so now this oh shot this one beguiles me oh he's got the optic the option right here yeah this is that's the right choice oh darn pretty close you do have a bit of a grace period on that oh and there's a double digit now that one maybe is a little maybe carry over from that last one although i imagine this one has the uh the earplug in it yeah so he's he's again going to be playing carefully i see so we got he's got the yellow yellow shots right there helicopter dispatched so those are the set trap targets got it and now he's got the capture basically got it very good another rescue yeah you know i playing this yesterday i ended up getting a second with about 75 million yeah perfect paddock well done he's also got a super spinner lit which is another sneaky way to get some points um and full value on the spinner right now oh but he's got his uh t-rex multiball going i just take this right now yeah there it is it's low value but he can make progress um good score for perfect paddock i guess is that usually a round number if it's a perfect paddock [Music] it's like a certain amount per rescue and then uh award for completing all of them [Music] and jody lisa thanks for the follow jody lisa is frankie there yes he is you just texted me hi frankie i love you all right beautiful skill shot there start off for andre you can't get the second yes obi john these stern games did get the newest update although i think was there was there any i guess correction for some of the issues that the new update was causing i don't know what the solution was um or if we're just riding with it but there's a problem where if you install the latest code for uh stern insider and didn't you don't have the kit installed the games are resetting in random spots in the game hasn't been an issue thus far at least that i'm aware of for for the tournament today all right now this is where andre shines i think even even with a low value on the uh t-rex he's really he's he's poised to really have a nice multiball session so he went for the secret multiball now we have to get the red shots instead of the blue shots we have to hit him in order so it's like the level two oh you know i think i remember something about this yeah if you so you can drain and just hit the c shot at the beginning of the multiball you start the second mode it's just um if you it's it's a sequence of shots that give you a bigger jackpot yeah so 1.4 now there you go he's working on two dangers so he's got to be careful so he would really like to hit that there it is beautiful hit good value smart [Music] oh he hit it what did he have 10 million oh clear paddock wow nice that's nice oh hey that's the first one out of order so he locks in all right now does he get to do this again like if he if he starts you'll see got it so interesting that's an interesting way you can really pump up the value of the the multiball here and there's a super [Music] yeah this is this is a huge t-rex multiball for the value that he started with not much at all yeah as i expected i i just know that that's a uh that's an awkward oh we got he got another we got another smart missile complete chaos holy mackerel uh this is big yeah he's gonna come out of this ready for chaos uh yeah all on two dangers yeah the man is incredible turning uh turning a pretty weak t-rex value multiball into a game-winning potentially scoring i don't think that command is working but i think we can share you the link it should still be the same link from yesterday right or there differently 15 million oh there you go auntie hits thanks he's got pteranodon going or wherever um this is big wow and he's had 2x running for a while now another super 27 million all right is that it is he at the multiball now yeah he should collect his uh durant on i don't know if he knows it's running there's a lot going on there where would you collect that uh the right ramp right ramp got it so you start on the right ramp and then it's uh switch hits that build the value got it got it and then you collect it again on the right but it can time out but the value will stay and you can like you can get it going again is there anything that indicate that on the play field i don't see like the you know it's not flashing or anything there is on that like bad little right ramp uh led where the extra ball is got it got it all right this is huge so he's gonna start his control room mode and then hopefully bring chaos into that and that's that's like uh he's still on two days the best case scenario and the chaos start would be at the amber target correct that's correct so he's not getting that stack going but that's all right that's a huge ball yeah huge especially given the way this has been playing and we're gonna get what do we got here take a little look back at the i believe this was the recovery on the first miss of the yeah his smart missile so you can see it was already starting to cue up the miss animation and then he nailed it that was beautiful removing the mask up yeah i mean it you gotta you gotta sometimes change it up if you wanna get get in the right frame of mind i imagine you know i'm curious to hear your thoughts and there's a there's a danger on a hard flick there curious zack you're in walter's position you just watch someone take a lot of time playing a big ball yeah is there anything you do to kind of keep your head level like you know keep keeping contact play your game any any i mean ritual no no i'm just trying to hit the shots i need to hit cover him i would well i would try not to do that [Laughter] absolutely it's pinball yeah you know everybody's got their uh methods of dealing with the stress of it but yeah i'm not the i'm actually not the best at uh handling it do you even do you i mean this is a stupid question but do you consciously look at the other player's score and you just walk up and play oh i'm yeah i always look at every all the other scores [Laughter] paying close attention yeah well you want to know what what you're up against and what you have to do right right because they can influence where you put your effort sure right yeah you know yeah yeah if it's i mean it sounded like a dumb question but i wanted to be like are you like worried about the other playing school or you just go okay that's what i need to hit well i mean it depends on the standings of the round and uh what ball it is it just it changes changes the dynamic of how i mean i i start carrying more you know into into ball two and uh and ball three i'm definitely thinking about what i need to do for sure mark got his t-rex ready wow oh that's a few a few t-rex is getting getting destroyed here and that's yeah so he's not gonna be able to get back to the t-rex yeah but you know the next t-rex modes are worth potentially more than the multiball unless your name is andre masenko so now on to ball three darren currently sitting in second position seems like a day since darren played yeah yeah i'm i'm imagining let's see his current status he's got he's on the o so i think he could he could probably prioritize get into chaos yeah i would shoot the skill shot and then go for the o yeah i imagine that's the sort of highest return right now not knowing whether there's anything else i guess he has his control room ready yeah maybe if he thinks he he could get that going before he brings that in oh it's ball three yeah i i may short plunge here and go for the control room oh to uh and you know try to hit the o as one of the control room shots and just look that way did he play his did he no he hasn't qualified his um his t-rex multiple yet he's got one more one more truck hit it looks like he's blank in there in the back uh oh he knows his map there you go beautiful okay so this is going to be two more hits to start chaos multiball right you gotta get the s and then he's gotta hit it at the amber target easier said than done yeah that that s can be tricky it's a little late on the flipper yeah let me start some mode here i think she tries oh a great nudge there to keep it in play all right s s shot or bust s shot and then control room start and then chaos game game winner all right there's one this is like a reflex one two three yeah look at that freebie this is huge this could be huge you can kind of see it on his face i think he just realized right there that he's he's in prime position to maybe put some together here he's got his truck in the right position too you can see keith alvin in the animation there no pressure oh that's too big of a move no i think he's gonna keep it he's gonna keep it holy crap he's gonna keep it oh you gotta you gotta be careful here you gotta be careful here oh wow all right i shoot spinner here and hope it bounces into the into the pops oh really i think he's gonna i think he's gonna postpass i think virus attack's fine if uh if he gets chaos going all right here we go oh he's going for the spinner oh and he's not making it oh he accidentally hits the ball down with the upper flipper recovers there off the tip all right come on it's the triceratops wow he is playing with a lot of gusto right now on two dangers he's getting a lot of saves right on the edge of the flipper a double flip right there works out for him he's gonna go up ramp just shoot it there oh he's got the missile here million and the multiball start and he gets oh there's a tower shot it sets it up again oh oh okay here we go here we go can he get it no no action nothing no action can't nudge it oh double danger let's see it let's see it i think his uh he's got a rescue so you can just relax his control room mode timed out it's all right all right so we've got another paddock here another nice transfer and there it is there it is nice work an amazing sequence of events to get to the chaos multiball and darren is now going to try to rack up as much as he can here and he's got to be careful he's still got the too dangerous but at least he's got some life here man those pots are weak yeah not getting too much out of there we got 2x running too this could be a no more ball save two all right let's see it he's gonna i i imagine he kind of looks like he wants to get control but maybe maybe it's just going to be too difficult has a little ricochet there extra ball that's huge 2x that's going to be uh 30 million yeah where's he going for the atta ball in the past he is it's tough i'm sure yeah maybe get back up there commentator's curse i like that wow that was a a steely uh almost like a like a drop catch on the upper flipper to deaden the momentum there electronic we were just talking about you i had a good pun good old job from mutterfetter everybody is excited right now up to 211 and still still some some life in him not not done yet it's not important speaking of puns if you're to be in the sacramento area on september 9th i'm going to be participating in the capital puns pun tournament at luna's cafe at 8 p.m is that a tough yes indeed it's friday september 9th sacramento california oh wow and that is it for darren he takes the lead with an incredible ball three yeah that's a nice ball another 14 million puts them up just under 250 247.7 no it's andre's andre's still ahead but uh oh andre still hasn't yeah oh wow i did not realize he was that high up okay well at least putting himself in good position for another two points andre making sure he still has the gc just checking on his stats huh i think he's done that more than once here he kind of scrolled through and said you got this you got this you know i i at pinburg i uh i think i think it was it was very cute but i i felt like it could be used as a big timing thing i was playing with um i'm forgetting who it was oh rough one there but a player who had a custom animation on an older game there's no fear right um and he before he stepped up he did his animation just and it's like set his name on there i thought that was that was pretty great i'm forgetting who it is great players lovely guy uh jack danger no no no no no before his time oh okay yeah yeah no jax decks got the modern ones uh no fear i think actually there is the dead flip animation on ghostbusters so that's that's the only dmd animation that i think jack danger owns all the other ones are his like you know black and white sort of fuzzy video that you can activate with a special we got a 247 for darren 260 271 for andre 32 for 32 and counting for walter right now and more to come from mark who is sitting on 5.3 [Music] providence yeah exactly exactly like that kind of thing gosh i'm forgetting he's a lovely guy and i think he was a kid at the time of the williams sort of 90s era something like that but yeah it was great great player too we were both sort of on the tail end of not qualifying for the uh the second day in a division but we had a lot of fun it was not just no fear if anybody can think of who has a special animation and no fear all right so walter in third potential for a point but probably doesn't feel too great about it yeah i forgot what progress mark has here we'll see market is sitting at 5.3 million all right so he's got a paddock ready to complete and he hasn't oh he he started i think he started his uh t-rex multiball sequence in japan so he's locked out of that yeah so he's got he's got some work to do and he got the had it cleared yeah this is control room i would just control room system boot something there you go and uh just grind away some points more goth though thanks for the follow appreciate you being here with us oh interesting oh i'm not thinking what am i thinking of store power which phone where you hit the spinner first um system boot maybe [Applause] i was thinking of the one where you hit the spinner first to like lock in the volume restore power is the spinner that you said no why were huh interesting yeah so province is saying oh he's on system but he's on different ones oh i see yes yes that's just below where walter was so walter holds on to his point yeah that was clearly t-rex champion [Laughter] one of the bigger t-rex multi-balls i've ever seen and he puts up leo it's just a move great great play there by andre massenkop takes the win so he's he's guaranteed himself at least a tie break so we got a six darren with five and then walter with four four i don't know who put that there but it is a stern falling down matthew so that's that's two in a row matthew has uh not scored on so he's got he's got work to do he's got a win to even have a shot here uh it is a star i guess actually that's not true it is a possibility for him to get a five which could result in the tie harlow or something like that but i'm sure he's thinking about it especially on your phone right i couldn't see the i think my favorite royal flush oh my god i gotta go in that room again sorry brother no i mean i love the secret juju blah blah gallery all right folks folks who have been with the broadcast who saw the earlier broadcast of the match on royal flesh will know remember that i uh i'm a particular fan of that game love playing it love watching people play it it's uh it's very exciting yep man ems in high level [Music] play is a stressful situation uh yes yeah it's not not fun it's my my least my least favorite it's uh and is that just because it's the randomness yeah well i guess depends on the game some games are less but yeah i i was knocked out um on a very unfortunate em game yeah today yes that's right and i think that's probably why you know on the on the converse i really love them because it gives me a fighting chance or at the minimum like playing them first would be nice you know just to get it out of the way but like having to you know decide who's going to move advance based on some coin flip is uh that can feel a little trashy yes i i i got you on that i hope someone is blasting wizard in my ear so i can't hear royal flush wait you roll flush doesn't i guess there's not a lot of noise on royal flash other than the unless unless i'm forgetting something yeah i'm not sure uh ems are not coin flips zach you get pinball profile on your case um what the game is doodlebug i like it you know it depends on the game like i got three houseballs on um what was that game what's over in the left side uh uh blue champ right i don't know how much more coin toss you get with getting three house balls in a row all right so the update on the uh on the other group so they're through two games they're uh through royal flush so carl has four points nick has four points jared has three leslie won so they're currently on adams we can hear some of their noise uh we'll see if maybe we can get a visual check from manu on the way back on what's the status of that game they're going to be playing harlem after that one um you know certain if the game if the games are right you know it's it's less less coin flippy but you know there's always that element i think in uh in ems talking to mr pinball profile yeah yeah yeah that was i remember that win for you at expo that was very very exciting and i i just remember also your apple watch nearly calling oh yeah because your heart rate had gone through no no no i thought i thought i fell oh really the shock oh gosh that's so funny that's so funny yes royal flash is great absolutely although you know the one time i got absolutely sort of demolished by a royal flush experience it wasn't royal flush or even a drop card it was royal flush deluxe which was the uh solid state version of royal flushing came out later same play field but just sort of updated with some right some new features and uh yeah josh lehan at pinberg really put on the hurt put an amazing score up and i i think i barely hit maybe one one card the entire game so i'm excited to watch these folks get into it yeah ball one for andre a shot to say pinball was a plunge there you go all right so this this one's playing pretty much uh as you might expect nothing nothing too notable i think about its uh performance you got a lot of a lot of you know people trying to plunge into the top lanes and the issue being that if you if you catch any of those rubbers atop the lane separators you're gonna have very often a just a bounce right across it's gonna have a perfect little trip all the way to the left down into the return lane on the left all right well three thousand four has trouble there i don't know how to spell chandelier i think i think you got it ice cold beer that's how actually we we do all of the tie breaks here nice plunge by walter there so this was a conversation i was having earlier forgetting i'm getting who was sitting with me at the time but just talking about strategy on this game because of the uh i guess it was probably money i was talking with um about you know of course you want to get at least one of the rollovers get get the value of your cards up to 2000. sure of course you you know it's great to get another one you know get them up to three right but i do feel like it's sometimes you know earlier in the game you kind of have to take those points that are available to you i i don't like the idea of prioritizing putting the ball back up into the lanes just given how random this game can be like i i like to get you know a couple couple good two thousands in there sure i'm curious if you if you feel maybe how like carl felt where he was constantly trying to put it right back even if he had two he was still trying to put it back up to try to get the third one yeah i i usually shoot for drops you know i'll i'll go for the the lanes on the plunge yep um and then you know shooting for the the further right drops often i'll get it back up bounce around the top right right another tough miss on the on the plunge oh wow there you go that's that's royal flush for you [Music] oh did we lose the also manu it came back just in case you're checking it out if there's anything you want to do while you're out there you might not be able to hear us but working again this room is always a little tricky with the broadcast you know everything's working off wireless and so many as i was mentioning earlier has strategically placed all of the transmitters and receivers on the gear to try to get in there and so but it has to be line of sight and that's a sort of narrow opening relative to what we're trying to broadcast so sometimes a little finicky so bear with us if we can't see one of the cameras that room is uh that room is tricky there's nothing there's nothing wrong with the stuff it's just not it's trying to go through walls yeah and it's dark in there tough one for darren there he had had one of the rollovers so yeah the center one which is the that's a yeah that's a tricky one the other thing i didn't see folks doing and i haven't seen folks doing quite yet is uh you know i generally favor going about like the two right side queens as a trying to get to carom over into the gate opening yeah to me i feel like that is actually worthwhile to go for yeah it's it's i find that to be kind of reliable yeah yeah and i was surprised to not see anybody you know even sort of make it make a move that way that's just one of those things that you'd have to play this one a lot and know that for that one there it is beautiful tricky there good recovery oh wow that was a very patient flip he kind of waited to the perfect moment all right i like i like his style he's he's kind of going the way i would go you know start picking off those uh those shots getting 2 000 a pop i do like getting the three queens it's nice to get a little 3 000 on the bonus gotta be careful here up to 34 though after ball two that's actually not a not a bad start yes providence on the second your statement there thanks for the great setup tomato doing amazing work here left side is evil yes but the right side it also does no favors i mean if you get that gate open great but especially if you get a bad feed off of the right side or if it generally if it just goes in there at all you're you're stuck it's going to be tough all right so there's one away all right now he's got three thousand oh that's rough morgoth oh this is happening at free gold watch in san francisco california coming to you live from the haight ashbury district on a beautiful sunday afternoon oh my god [ __ ] thank you wow thank you for the gifted subs appreciate you oh very exciting i will make you fries and there's there's 100 bits from brian o'neill what a guy thank you botanical gardens for the follow as well all right back back to the game andre on ball three here thank you for that hype terrain let's go that's my favorite when you go to shoot a drop and you hit the one that you've already hit yes it it seems to happen pretty consistently oh just off the tip well done andre keeping that alive neil thank you for the 500. and again andre sort of suffering from nice get the 6 000 off that um he's got basically everything and he still has only completed one hand wow that's good becca thank you for the 100 lanes botanical gardens thank you for the follow wow we got we got a lot of activity you guys are waking me up thank you for supporting mpt 3k not that the pinball is not exciting but if you've been up for 48 hours yeah yeah so thank you all love you all right darren stepping up ooh almost that's oh yeah we saw that exact thing if it rolls yeah it's you're done you gotta give it a a bump a bump off while it's on there so yeah at least rough one all good all good it's been a lot of pinball it's been a long a few days four days i should have given fliptronic at least one redemption of what you say he knows what i'm talking about bounces out from the top lanes and this is a on this em if you hit nothing you get nothing there's no uh return to the shooter lane like on modern games and and walter not happy with that he basically got nothing on that one i think he got maybe one pop hit and the outlaying value of 500. yes sir we're not playing wizard oh this is a rough flash [Laughter] no but i isn't that a wizard a lovely yeah it is you keep it up there it's beautiful yeah that is gorgeous that is beautiful there you go yeah this is okay too all right so so remember folks we're gonna have double bonus on ball five so that's where really making hands is going to become a little bit more valuable i think that the strategy doesn't change too much but depending on where you are relative to your competitors you might start favoring some of those uh getting some of those hands there's a nice three of a kind for andre oh and that's tough you really gotta keep it out of that area entirely yeah all right darren getting up here he's got the green roll over so getting 2 000 that's not good it's real tough real tough what's what's with the abacus jokes and daryn's in a situation where let's see we we have you know walter threatening to take a three that would put him to seven darren that would be bad for darren because he he would then get priced out unless he passed andre right let's see here what walter puts up there's a lot that can happen in one ball especially like i mentioned that double bonus can really come in handy can really change the course of the game you complete the drops and it changes this game completely absolutely all right so 47 got a slight edge on andre there that's that's really nothing in this game at least could be nothing we'll see oh nice nice gets the favorable bounce before it goes on down wow wow look at how he just got the ball just trapped right there that is that is a thank you for that hype train you guys are awesome and he gets the the gate beautiful work with the gate this is this is what we're talking about he could turn it around right here don't go cursing don't go cursing the players now nice hey it's working for him it's working for him all right he's getting wow a nice recovery there and there it is yeah wow that's great 15 on the assuming no tilt 15 000 coming to him so that's going to put him at least at 46. now 49 and now uh all that's left is either to wail on the center shot you can see right in the center there that's right up for three thousand yeah let's play yeah otherwise you know the other thought might be at this point i might put it back up if i want to try to get the white rollover just for then using the white uh roll over 3000 on the on the left side yeah you can shoot up that left orbit yeah but but generally i think you can control it like if you get comfortable with how it carrums off of the 3000 i think yeah i think it's all day and and pinball profile is is noting yeah we have a possibility of a 666 finish adam sedge thanks so much for following folks if you're here and you haven't already followed just hit hit that follow button turn on the notifications you want to know when we playing pinball on this channel manu weekend and week out is doing great work so come on support mystery pinball theater 3000 pinball junkie thanks for the follow all right this is ball five this is it so right now andre is guaranteed at least a tie break regardless of the outcome on the other players darren needs to do some work here he wants to get at least one point right now he's trailing by uh at least 30 000 no nothing nothing nothing that's that's tough all right so this is it for darren he needs to he needs to put up at least 45 000 total to maintain the possibility mrs omni and that's trouble that's trouble that's it same thing that's it that's it that's it so darren sticking at five andre moving to seven at least actually yeah moving to seven confirmed right now because walter is currently going to be moving to six and mark currently we're moving to sick wait do i have that right yes it could be a it could be a six six tie between mark and walter unless walter can pull it out here i know there's a lot of a lot of a lot of hurt in the chat right now for darren a lot of people wanted it for him and that was it was a great tournament for him he's gonna finish in the top eight i want to give a quick shout out also the david velansky yeah for all the hard work and he's one of the techs just hanging out right now yes yeah absolutely and then nothing doing on walters last one there so there we go we're gonna have a six six tie between walter and mark and they're gonna join andre the winner of that's gonna join andre in the finals what a match wow that's that is really something all right get excited folks we're going to be following them to wherever the tiebreak match is going and just to give you an update in case you haven't checked on your own let's go see how other folks are doing here i think we have a result now on do we have a result on adams yet i guess i guess i assumed we would but you know i realize i'm not hearing it or i'm not hearing uh oh yes we do have a result on adams nick stein took it so he's at seven carl's at six jared at four and leslie at one so possibly leslie has been eliminated possibility for jared if he can pull out a victory and depending on where carl is he could either be in a tie he could still beat jared even if jared wins if he gets second and nick if he gets at least a point moves on so it's gonna be a tight match between those three i'm gonna figure out where we're gonna go next yeah thank you all right all right so yeah a lot of possibilities right now i guess i guess yeah the other crew actually i hear the harlem yeah so we'll we'll try to keep you posted on that we're hearing the sights and sounds of that sounds i guess in in the background here nice run high five to our friend here the master of machines darren ensley congratulations on a great run grabbing himself a lagunitas ipa now just going to enjoy a wonderful sunday afternoon so we got andre in the finals for sure we're waiting to see mark and walter face off mark usually does well at least amazing player a sacaba i'm assuming that's an alternate beverage oh abacus that's backwards abacus back let's see that playoff yeah i think we're just waiting on them to define what the what the tiebreaker match is going to be on and then you know we'll we'll see if there's maybe a further tiebreaker match all right we're gonna head over to eight ball deluxe eight ball deluxe here we come oh boy all right i played i played this game with with two of these guys earlier hell yeah is it walter walters asking us are we ready we're getting excited quit talking and start chalking we're talking start joking we'll we'll we'll talk respectfully yeah we we have the players actually right in our backyard here actually our front yard uh we're gonna be just off to the side so we're gonna have to be a little bit more respectful with our tone and make sure that we're not interfering with their play make sure that they're not distracted by us commentating keep the chatter to a minimum maybe just between balls this game a lot can happen here yeah it's um it's a real mixed bag of what it likes to hand out so yeah saying goodbye to game time television taking his leave after finishing i think in the top three of the consolation tournament i don't know where he finished overall so a couple of notes on this eight ball deluxe so the uh saucer collects the unmultiplied bonus right uh the abcd lanes are uh what does that say drop two drop targets or drop two targets on the um yeah drop targets on the the balls c and d lanes are not linked deluxe will reset the drop targets extra balls score 25k and special score 50k so a little different from the standard scoring and mechanisms in the game shooting left orbit all day is an option yeah there you go i gotta say this i i guess i've not played a ton of other eight balls in my day this one in particular uh especially if you qualify the two lanes up top to make it 25. yeah it's almost always going to fly in the other lane yeah if you put it back up there it's it's got a mind of its own and it does not want you scoring 25 at a time or at least if i do i feel a huge sense of relief yeah every once in a while he'll get it bouncing off the pop yeah a couple times that'll be real nice if they can get that all right manu getting everything set up here redirecting the transmitters so that way they're facing the receivers which ironically are very far away from where we are right here it's just a function of how the setup is with the wireless cameras and such so we got eight ball deluxe coming up here it was playing i got to play this yesterday it was playing pretty fair like it's uh you know it's it's got a uh some wacky stuff to it just like any eight ball but i i did feel like it was it was giving a fair shake to everyone it um it handed out a handful of house balls to these two guys actually oh really yeah so i'm pretty sure they're both excited to play it yeah and there you can actually see a glimpse of the in the background there you'll see the printing press screen printer that they use here at free gold watch for printing the posters and the t-shirts and it's a uh it's a fun little facet of the of the space here seeing all of the all the work that happens on a day-to-day basis interspersed with all of the arcade fun we got a couple folks next to us playing some beetles the plague johnny monica there it is if you need bowls with old paint uh yeah we have them here [Music] yeah i think i think there's actually not only has the discount free gold watch cotton shirt available there's a there's another one that's i think it says bargain bin free gold watch shirt something something along those lines all right we're into play here walter kicking us off and so generally uh 8-ball deluxe and just like i talked about that that one's always always finding a way to go into the wrong the wrong spot tough one there so first of all you want to focus on the on the drops right on on the right side drops like yeah yeah you want to build your bonus um you could also shoot the left orbit and start working that up especially with the extra ball and the special being worth oh right because the left orbit will also score its own points independent of that one i was identifying the lanes right right wow nice yeah you want you generally want those drops down but often like this game gets so squirrely that you're gonna get them when the ball is out of control uh yep shooting the left orbit is safe ish you know you're still gonna get the feet out of the pops but good bench depends on where where you're at here ball one drops you're good he's almost got a completion there well done mark puts it up to 114 000. yeah the one thing i i do know or at least for myself is is kind of you know go move to off those drops if you can get those kind of locked in for a good bonus value then on subsequent balls go for the inline drops yeah just to get that up usually if you if you can do that you're gonna have a pretty good game that's dead oh rough right off the tip there so it does he does exceed mark just by a skosh there but i think even just on bonus alone market would exceed him right now so let's see where he goes just doesn't never wants to go on the one you need fortunate um yeah but the uh the red rubbers on these flippers uh make it a little bit more difficult to trap and now he's got his uh his scoop ready uh nice shot there just a little bit off the mark gonna have an open shot there a little early another red they're they're standard red bouncy rubber got pretty good value off that uh little his time up in the pop uppers there the thousand per pop there yeah he's in he's in good shape he could use something bonus x would be uh what i'd be looking at now shooting that eight i guess yeah there you go well done nice pickup yeah all right there we go this is solid yeah this this might might put it out of uh out of reach great ball it's it's catchable but it's it's gonna be tough all right i think uh walter what so so where where is he going first um i guess bonus x maybe i think that's probably i might have to no am i gonna go over there you go didn't want to wait around [Music] oh good catch it's trouble nice quick flip uh there's definitely a huge bag of uh red puffer rubbers in the house oh tough one there good game walter put up a valiant fight but mark will be moving on to our final four amazing work all right we're gonna check our standings here and we have finals we have our final four it'll be carl d'Python Anghelo nick stein andre massenkov and mark pearson nice going to the finals very exciting yeah that's a good that's a good group amazing we're going to get get up on that in just a moment we're going to figure out what's going to be our uh trajectory here our final bank of games that we're gonna play yeah and uh yeah it's gonna it's gonna be good hey absolutely great play by walter over the course of this weekend all right we get and we got our our supporters here we got people supporting carl we got people supporting pearson we got people supporting sheep walla no no one shouted out andre but i'm sure that's just implicit andre andre is there's a good chance here sounds like we're going to jurassic park fantastic for the final here we go this is mark's house let's go this is it [Music] hey mary [Music] [Applause] get a nice announcement from mary smith here setting the stage so one thing that's great here is that free gold watch we have oh yeah there's our friend yeah jonathan the plague it's nice to be young in spry so we got a a couple screens here that uh folks can turn around and watch i think we're gonna have all eyes on those as uh we broadcast the finals here four games to go to crown the new city champion and thank you ab pinball we really appreciate it thank you for following everybody else be like a b pinball hit that follow button if you haven't already turn on those notifications so you know when we're playing make sure to send a little support this way support mono smith and the mpt 3k enterprise the mp3k uh army there you go the play nice run ah nice run it was it was a great run [Music] we're gonna we're gonna see so i think we're gonna see the exact same bank and maybe maybe i don't know how the uh substitution works is there gonna be any discretion for the players that they want to substitute like an em for em right now yeah i'm not sure i should know but i don't well good yeah buy free gold white shirts absolutely el rocco you're getting shouted out all right so i think you know it's it's just gonna be a matter of seeing seeing how people people play because we've we've seen these games now several times over today yeah we're we're sort of familiar with i think uh at least you know haven't seen mark play it haven't seen andre play it i believe we had uh nick stein earlier we saw him play it i'm gonna do one other thing and carl so yeah this is gonna be i think a bit of a uh you know just seeing like uh the accumulation of everything we've already seen yeah all coming together finals bracket not updating i think that might be let's see might just be taking some time or if they haven't published it yet all right here we go oh oh you mean uh actually yeah mano uh if if you could refresh our yep there you go fantastic thank you so much sir nick stein kicking this off see what the uh nick stein opening moves so it's nick mark andre and carl right believe so yes right i'm assuming all right just trying to get the control here gets the backhand on the raptor tri-ball containment unit good save there oh there's a little like shunt of a flip there tries to sort of bounce it on live a little tip pass can't quite nail it he's had a couple there looks like he's going raptor all day yeah is that what you said earlier he was doing before yes exactly exactly all right let's see here if you get four handed the backhand has not been going there forehand's not going he's sticking with it there it is man that was he really stuck with that and finally made it stick i've seen mark playing jurassic many times watching through my tears nice he's a good player man all right but they're all good at this point i mean they're all good to start too this is really best of the best here all right looks like he's got his raptor close so he's going to start his paddock now got it bring that in we're not tough tough all right well assuming somebody doesn't dislodge it right he'll be able to pick up right where he left off yeah but now you know now the other players can make that choice you know it's they don't have to go through all that whole process of lighting that bringing down the the gate and locking the ball up there they can just can just bash on that and get into the multiball so i'm guessing somebody's going to take advantage of that it is dangerous you know that ball's going kind of out of control right all right mark going second here misses on the skill shot really wanted that one no this is a premium you know correct where do i bet on carl i i'm sure there's some websites where you can make it happen i don't think we we have any official betting not sure what the lines would have been all right you guys first paddock here with galemimus oh that's that's too much yeah knowing what we've seen before that was definitely going to be too much i think i i'm going to predict that andre takes advantage of that raptor raptor you know he was you know the last game we watched he was starting at yeah and then they kind of abandoned it but yeah maybe maybe with the ease of the fact that it's already in there he might just be able to knock it knock on that a bunch sure did andre wardrobe change i don't think so that's how he gets in the zone here we go gets their first skill shot all right skill shots out let's see where he goes that was a one hit on the oh oh oh there's two and yeah yeah that was probably didn't didn't give away too much there 1.2 probably could have given it maybe one more try he's all right he's got his uh control room lit and one shot away from his 2x multiball start decent decent progress yeah yeah don't watch stream and drive oh goodness i i'm assuming neil mcrae is just just enjoying the sounds of our our voices here all right carl going over to his attic here carl's gonna get a 3 billion pteranodon collect oh that's no good yeah that's uh all right i think it was because it was like a it was a nice sort of well-defined move as opposed to being like a little too wishy-washy and we thank you for your business neil mcrae all right here we go horrible deflection great save yeah he's keeping it alive hasn't been too accurate yet we got a gallimimus in the containment unit and now onto the control room yeah does he does he dash on raptor or just playing let's see [Music] it was right to system boot nick might just get to continue where he was at left off yeah it seems like nobody's really bothering it i mean he happened to right there just sort of on the deflection miss on the center tough one there up to 47 and put a little bit more on there for the bonus [Music] so nick uh we're assuming he's just gonna pick up where he left off given that no one disturbed his uh captain ball there probably do a skill shot and then yeah nick's got some nick's got some good hair oh interesting was that intentional or did that just not make it up into the reverse all right here we go goes paddock first eight percent i think that means that he's two shots away yeah this next shot should should qualify it interesting [Music] side ramp maybe for uh more value yep nope oh rejection even right there he has pretty oh gosh the fumble all right well loses out on that multiball but still wrapped her in play if uh if nobody else decides to go for it yeah i mean it's close for him but there's a good chance it might not last right right now let's see how it goes got a skill shot not on the second it's all saved backhand to the yellow stand up another rescue there there's a spinner all right so he's got his t-rex going and he's just going to go for it just just a little late on that one missing to the left got a good value on it right now if you can just put that in can you backhand that the left ramp yeah if you get it rolling but it's hard from the trap yep all right into t-rex multiball so we'll see if he can uh match that massing top performance he's not he's not shooting for the c he's got 2x running though so it's gonna be uh all good good shots there we go 2.2 wow this is dangerous that was one of those moves that it kind of felt like it might just keep shaking oh and a tough drain there you could tell he was a little disappointed with that yeah it's all right he's got his uh control room already here it's a unix system you know i think he did yeah everybody's getting real fancied up yeah yeah i guess i've never been in a finals so i i don't i've never had to worry about the wardrobe change all right nice hit there struggling you know similar to carl struggling with the accuracy here i mean really all the players haven't haven't been as as crisp as uh as i i'm sure they would like to be yeah this game you know from from uh copy to copy the shots really change and if you're not used to where the shots are it's too tricky yeah all right there we go nice little sound on the shot finding the groove here all right that's okay there's a bigger completed nice patience there to shimmy that in oh that that closes it out yeah last shot let's see if he tries to ski pass nope just goes boom there it is beautiful 40 million points wow still running so why not do it there you go up to 174. oh he's got a smart missile already too if you can shoot the ramp it's one extra 25 million million or whatever else they're offering there i think a board it's an option too and that that just allows you to save that for another attempt yeah or if you want if you want to uh do the super spinner did you get one or the other oh i got you depending on which way the truck is facing it'll move what's lit um got it got it i mean the awards uh at the amber target are usually uh better than the spinner but you know if you have two x running and full spinner value and the spinner's juice yeah it's one shot into a lot of points there you go all right 187 for mark there now going in the ball two for andre massenkop trying to get himself in the zone ready to play ready to win and again i haven't seen anybody uh sniffing around the the raptor all right here's here's where he shines this drill that's remarkable that's insane wow all right here we go and he gets the first one in order and he's building it up he's got a smart missile shot maybe get lucky i thought that would have hit it didn't have it he's still got the the order here everything uh he still hit both of the jackpots in order so at the right ramp now looking to capitalize ah that one takes that order but it locks it in at 8.25 million per jackpot well done open that's down to one that's still good value yeah fantastic picks up a nice little million amber i know we wanted that one gonna send that all right all right puts him in position i think still behind mark but with a little little life all right let's go carl d'Python Anghelo our top qualifier during the first day here there is let's see number three i can't get it it's a tough shot oops oh that was an odd rejection there i think he's happy about it because he doesn't seem too happy about accidentally shooting it right there there you go he'll tell you let's see does it go center shot yep inside ramp and then and then start yeah and then he's gonna ski pass over now he's probably gonna go yep right there now the side ramp [Music] let's see if we can get it not a not a great outcome there and so as we mentioned he's not going to have access to that feed t-rex multiball now tough break all right third third attempt for nick to take his uh his raptor to the finish line here yeah and i think he's only like we said it's only got a couple now is he what what does he have that he could bring in i don't think you care at this point okay ball three yeah he's already in actually i guess he's already on a paddock right he's got the rescues lit i think i wouldn't even go for the skill shots here just do that yeah yeah use your ball safe there it is and then just shoot shoot your ramp and and i do like the the the approach he's strategically while he had the ball there just kind of let him go focusing on the balls that he had that he could use to collect what he needed tough one there now he's gonna separate oh that's trouble had the rescue though a nice tip pass separation went for it but actually got thwarted by the upper flipper being held up good recovery got the rescue oh he's hanging out by a thread just trying to keep them alive uh all right he's gonna trap up doesn't get a ton out of that just the one danger there very nice but i i gotta imagine if he gives it another move yeah that's tilt yeah i don't think it's gonna give him the the second tilt for free up to you damn yeah gonna give him a zero this round unfortunately yeah there it is all right mark sit at 187 so with the lead here of course once it wants to increase that looks like it's not feeding occasionally the uh the return for the skill shot there that was a little a little awkward same thing had happened to uh who was that earlier uh well done so this is uh which multiball yeah oh this is chaos very good yeah he's gonna complete his paddock yeah he's this is gonna be tough to be got 2x running now he's potential but arizona is going wild yeah they're really they're really excited all right he's all ahead of fall safe need some pop that was great save good control oh rejection at the at the ramp there rescue keeps him alive [Music] so many more versatile with a seat lamp he's got to be busting out about 13. all right so he's out of there up to 305. that's a that's a good place to be yeah not safe necessarily [Music] yeah at least at least can feel comfortable that you put up a good fight if if for any reason this turns into a one point of performance one more shot to light i think delight is uh next t-rex hello [Music] fantastic if you have to go potty stop and go right away flush and wash and be on way that's uh daniel tiger knows what's nice thanks your t-rex chase all right this one can be lucrative we talked about this one before [Music] yeah he's got his 2x ready too i don't know if he's gonna shoot that intentionally but i mean you two xp shots and it's significant and that's uh on the far right target right there i see a little left below the helicopter got together all right let's see it mark has been putting up a fantastic performance here fighting for that three points he does not want to be in any sort of tie break going forward he wants to win out right showing it here oh it almost clipped that 2x there [Music] nice plan yeah he's got to be happy about that just to give folks a little forecast of where we'll be going are we all done no no not yet but i just wanted to uh all right to review we're going to go to the royal flush adams and then dr dude it is it is three two one zero correct everything mark does is intentional i mean it seemed like it he actually his accuracy really improved in that last ball he was really hitting a ton all right so andre let's see you've got a control room he's got a 2x lit only only you know nominal amount above uh where carl is right now definitely needs to grow that number yes [Music] clean shot there miss on the fly there we go the rare cradle from andrew now he's going so the progression in chase we didn't talk about this before but it's oh gosh it's it's gonna be ramp lit ramp you see the yellow shots there and then the truck yep and that's just back and forth so there's truck i was going to go for lit lit yellow shot there we go 18 million there oh and a tough bounce there where did that leave him 53 seconds all right so at least made it that uh carl's got to do a little bit to to catch him he's guaranteed at least a point 168 there we go all right so curl is in jail a little bit here he's got two letters for chaos uh 2x is lit three layers oh oh two letters to complete it yeah not necessarily the right timing but maybe how efficient he can be at getting chaos going another rescue there now he's got the ass beautiful hit all right curl accuracy 2x is done wow abort interesting tactic i'm not sure why he would do that that's interesting is that i guess is he's still thinking there's something more valuable you can get out of that uh that's tough yeah no no i mean you can get you can start raptor with it okay oh so i i think i understand then why you might because you can just yeah but that's another 25 million that you can just add to that right right at that at this this point of the game i i don't know yeah yeah and and looking at the numbers you know that would have put him within striking distance of andre with a good multiball at that point so yeah that's you know you take the wrists and uh you know sometimes you get the reward sometimes the risk comes to fruition but we're gonna get it on to our next game here we're gonna be moving back into the em room back to my favorite royal flush gonna see nice plane work all right that's pinball indeed so yeah we got carl taking a a one in that yeah thanks [ __ ] mix time with the zero oh yeah thank you what a nice comment oh yeah the big team effort for this whole event big props too i'm gonna i'll add to that list gene for being a co co-director on the tournament yeah uh darren darren master of machines eric wagensteiner yeah td we had yeah tons tons of great judges here it's uh it's been great and serif cyrus thanks so much for the six months in a row subscribed oh is that is that [ __ ] were you were you gifting that one let's get manu that parasol oh is that a i don't know what the parasol is oh yeah secret fridge tracy lindy thank you for the follow ronald vg12 thank you for the follow hey let's let's get it i think we got some activity here let's get that support up for mystery pinball theater 3000. thank you everybody there it is oh 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electric battle arcade that's a you got arizona loved damn i need to go to arizona there you go i love arizona i i think that's uh you know uh electric bat you should you should have a sponsored stream bring manu out and uh you you'll have a great time oh very good thanks for the love of course yeah thank you all right we got tournament director coming in here jared garvey all right jared talking through my favorite howdy everyone all right here we go yeah so royal flush people want to make sure they get some jokers and then once you have a couple you go for the drop targets yes oh yeah go ahead i said ideally you want the center joker because yeah you like that 3 000 lane and you're going up getting three thousands and hopefully getting some more jokers yeah it's been it's been interesting to see what people favor you know like i was talking about carl earlier and we'll see if he repeats that here you know he was going back up to there even with two already laid was not going for drop targets which i found very two years ago yeah yeah i feel like even with one like if you know depending on the circumstances you might want to just pick up a couple but two i mean you're getting three thousand per yeah i guess we didn't actually say the rules so the drop targets give you a thousand each plus a thousand for each joke that you've collected so that's why you really want to collect some jokers before you wail away on those drop targets yes got the you got you can open the gate on that right side you see that right lane uh where also if you get the white uh joker there then you also get 3 000 for running over that that switch and so yeah it's a uh it's it's a tricky game and that's gonna happen we're gonna see that a lot there's a lot of plunging to try to get in those top lanes and if you hit one of those top rubbers you're going to have a bad time it's going to jump right across yeah not much you could do on that one tough and and yeah like ball five will be double bonus and you see the values for collecting various hands at the center center of it and then the other thing is if you completely clear the drop target bank there's like a 3 000 stand up yes behind that that you can just whale away on juicy all right carl does a good job getting that first oh yeah that was this game's tough like a lot of times you like want to try to control it and you know if you try to do too much you see a lot of drainage like that where it's like dribbling off and then once you realize what's happening it's too late the pain the pain also thanks a lot large wizard for calling us a bunch of jokers in the booth here yeah carl last round had like a hundred and five thousand on this yeah even more i think actually he he he did very well like into 125 i think at the end um but yeah fantastic that was me that had the hundred oh you did oh you did oh that's right fantastic i knew it happened yeah well well done yeah it was uh a quick one from next time there [Music] thanks for the kind words pinball profile yeah so nobody really did anything on ball one it's actually wide open which you always have a couple balls like that on royal flush like you're happy if your good ball is ball five right with the double bonus but yeah you can grind out points on any ball because like yeah once you get all those drop targets down you have that there's 3 000 targets yes yeah you know i oh there we go and there's a nice well he already had it but that was a nice backhand to the carom into the the lane up top yeah but just not getting great value from those drop targets with it with no no joker exactly yeah that was a really nice save right there just couldn't couldn't quite keep it up ball don't lie as they say you got a question here confirm or deny that you buy red flipper rubbers in batches of 500. i it was it was somewhere around 100 that i ordered for this tournament i believe there you go oh yeah more relevant for our compatriots in the san francisco pinball department are the settings gonna be reverted in time for the first night of the league coming up this wednesday yeah they're um so darren gene and eric are changing a lot of the settings right now and they're putting flipper rubbers back and got it the tilt's a little bit looser so there you go so fear not fellow members of sfpd games should be playing well though yeah yeah it'd be great they're in wonderful condition been having a really fun time playing everything here this weekend all right andre oh that's a that's a tricky one it's a favorable bouncer yeah so with with the white joker down from the right flipper i'm i'm probably going for that 3 000 lane hoping to get more jokers yeah but we're getting the player order correct again the player order's incorrect oh right right yeah the one that's on on the screen right there yes yeah carl top seed crushed qualifying um got to pick this bank he um it's pinbar style like selection where you can't choose the same bank twice but the uh did that kill no wow good move but um the top the whoever was picking the bank could swap a game from like the same era so carl actually got to pick this bank and swap a couple games three times because he he deferred the one round and leslie ended up picking this bank as well oh wow so so he's very familiar with these games yeah there you go i believe he swapped in from last round he swapped dr dude in instead of harlem is what we played last round correct yeah and he i think he he had a good one on there um or at least a decent one that was the one he was going pretty well but i think he didn't need to play his third ball because right already advanced yes yes that was the one that um jim had really crushed yeah all right so up to 18 18 000 there and now over to nick stein and we got that we got the chiron fix there for you got the correct order we should call it the the the the not well lit juju room like the under exposed usu room oh that's trouble oh yeah first couple balls but um yeah i can come together quick if you have a big bowl of royal flush and and well he's certainly not happy no one's really running away with this so far i mean they you know i always hold that hope that double bonus round that double bonus ball five is just gonna gonna be see me making every single hand i've done it before it's it's quite the satisfying feeling to score a 30 000 bonus on this game all right back to mark here got a lot which drop targets do you shoot for first if you uh i have a chance to like aim like it aren't just honestly so i usually if i'm if i don't have my gate open yet it's uh between the middle and right queen that's like generally where i go because i usually will get the caramen to the side there otherwise i do like to just kind of get the three queens like i think the queens are a really good value for for the drop targets yeah yeah like if like if you're going to do anything that's just a nice extra pickup i mean 3 000 can be consequential and it's and it sort of takes you know less effort as a nice in lane wow very good very good and he's he keeps hitting that same spot not getting any more drops there this game you have to be so careful with using the absolute edge of your flipper just to just keep it in play a lot of a lot of juggling oh nice save there but yo might just go straight down the middle nothing he could do after that yeah very unfortunate let's see that one more time yeah that was yeah andre insert pain yeah it was it was a great a great save for a moment there you can see right here yeah oh yeah that was devastating just hung there and looks like carl did get the joker on his plunge and a couple couple drops so far yeah so yeah the other thing he does that is a little different i noted this earlier was he he basically uses the right side as a right orbit to try to get it back up to the side yeah you can it's tougher to get it up from the right side yeah you have to like usually get lucky from the pop or something but there is that white joker you can get from that stand up up there right there's now's two yeah so we'll see it we'll see if he goes i'll be interested to see if he does like last time where he he was trying to put it back up even though you know right now he's getting three oh yeah andre currently in the lead but not not by a ton over carl's yeah no and none of these are monster scores like like they're like you can easily put up like well especially ball five double bonus but like just a normal ball you can get like 40 50 if you're having a good ball yeah hope carl was able to switch his flight home yeah me too so he has a flight his flight is at nine out of oakland so i think he's probably he's gonna be cutting it close to if there's like no tie breakers or anything but uh but i think he could make it tough tough dream similar to what we saw for andre there and also thanks noiseboy1 for the follow appreciate the support if you haven't already follow noiseboy one's example hit that follow button turn on notifications if you want hit the subscribe send a little support this way financial support to mystery pinball theater three thousand mana smith puts up a wonderful broadcast that we get to enjoy here in san francisco back to mark here yeah mark definitely does not have a plunge down because it's a another uh no no joker plunge which is very unfortunate all right still has only made the one hand even though he's only got three left you've got two left and still yeah yeah that's up that's trouble oh that's very unfortunate yeah because those two would have been a lot more in bonus yeah it would have been that's it's crazy how that can work fourteen thousand more in bone and stuff yeah if you could have gotten those two down maybe yeah that's it is amazing you can get all of them except for two and still only collect that thousand all right let's see so that put them up to twenty three progress didn't have any joker so it didn't get great value yeah from the drop targets themselves either all right andre's looking for nice and that's a nice little bump there he did just to keep it up there get a joker let's get two thousand per drop target now there it is yeah i feel like it's always nice when you get one from one of their stand ups around the play field i usually don't shoot for them i'd rather just try to get it up top and get it in one lane absolutely yeah i was actually just thinking that about that uh particularly that green one i feel like that that's the one that you're most often just going to kind of randomly hit especially given the amount of east-west motion you get in this game overall good yeah but as you can show andre just getting way better value for a lot of these drop targets than mark had on his goal and same number well now moore after august down so yeah this is a really solid ball here oh my goodness are we gonna see a completion he's yeah so that'll a nice in lane there and he got it okay and now we can see that 3 000 target lit up is what he's going for over and over again now but he's got one out but still is still a great ball and takes a commanding lead yeah that's exactly the kind of ball i was talking about that was beautiful thanks for the follow appreciate the support yeah and this is city champ nine andre won the first three but has not won it since then that's been in the final group a bunch of times since then but there you go yeah we had we had our you know previous champion in the chat you might might still be out there brian you wave to the waves of the people good save there from carl so he's getting uh 2 000 per drop right now that's tricky that's tricky yeah there's balls sometimes yeah you know what's going to happen then there's just nothing you can do yeah so hopefully nick can put something together here but he hasn't hasn't had much play time on this so far yeah just over 9 000 let's go nick i mean go baby he's over 9 000. all right going to try to get that one looks like it has a shot there we go all right so now like you said can probably favor going for that 3000 if he feels like he's got a beat on that okay this survives that yeah that was a nice slap save nice beautiful background five balls correct yeah we're on ball this is ball four you can see in the top left there yeah so a little points together and yeah certainly him and mark are right side by side and yeah this is the double bonus ball so andre with a decent size lead but this is not certainly catchable if anybody like maxes out their bonus [Music] wow just bad luck on that he's been missing it all game and and he should have had it right there i just got a unlucky bounce ball five is the only one i would consider going for the drops with without any jokers yeah but but i would still consider going off top of the joker depending on what the scores are yes yeah absolutely yeah i i think it's uh it also it sort of depends on how how comfortable it has been hitting them i mean it's been not they're not quite ballet targets but there's been times where i've seen the the stand-ups kind of act finicky okay you've uh you've had rejections on this game yeah okay i haven't seen any today or had any when i was playing it yeah it's usually like if you hit it at the wrong angle like if you don't if you don't get it uh quite right and that's that's tough again he had the rejection up top where he did not get the lane and so he's gonna finish with 32 which is got him in third position right now pending results from nick yeah and mark won the first game so he's going to be in decent shape regardless of that certainly not out of it well you're never out of it after two games with this format right but you can put yourself in a decent size hole yep good start there with the red oh yeah all right yeah two jokers off the bat and yeah so good value from just hitting them in addition to any bonus on this double bonus ball wow a nice save there at the in lane i haven't seen anybody really go for any any uh dead flips yeah it's tough on this game because like sometimes you can get those like those drains where it just bounces and like shallow and just goes down the center and you can't do anything yeah but derek's been dead flipping on this all day he's just talking said nothing more on this stream than i mean how many times i mean i play this game enough i play this game enough i know i know its tendencies although i guess with the rubbers being a little different it actually does act a little different but i i did get to play it yesterday and uh still felt pretty comfortable on it yeah carl patches is plunged no jokers and they're just straight to the outline so nick even though he didn't last can jump to at least second without doing a ton yeah so this is this is a big opportunity right here and yeah nick took last on the first game so he really needs to get some points out of this so 12 to catch mark 19 to catch carl 77 to catch andre which is still doable unlikely hard but yeah like if you max out your bonus that's that's 30 000 there plus whatever points you get from your drop targets along the way all right there's i think if you can get the queens that's gonna help that's it still technically possible for nick to win but he might need like a six six tie breaker for all but yeah yeah oh rough one but andre's gonna be moving up to five points that's gonna send mark to four and carl's always still gonna be at four i think that's right yeah so carl with a actually carl with a second place is gonna go to three andre goes to five mark goes to four nick says it's zero so we're going over to adam's family all right and this one was uh we saw andre earlier on this had a pretty good one i think we saw i think we saw carl on this as well or was it yeah carl we didn't watch him last round because we followed the other group but i played with him last round he had like 80 million and nick had a really good game nick had like they're getting 150 it yeah this is it's getting down to it so we and everybody played this last round right you were following my group and then carl's group also played this yes yes so i guess we're in a situation where we do have a potential locking in the win right if we if we have an andre win here i think uh it hasn't updated here but we have andre with five if he goes to eight i think he's probably not catchable because closest anybody could get is no i guess actually mark if you get a second that actually would put him in within striking distance so at least at least an andre win would guarantee him a tie break for the championship carl wants to stay in the hunt probably a second would would keep him in in uh yeah second would actually put him in a uh decent spot to still catch catch andre i mean yeah he certainly wants to win but yeah like needs at least a second to depending on how andre does because carl at three somebody's saying gonna be super hard to catch andre there yes ma'am mark can win even if andre gets the three yeah that's uh it's that is true right because he he could move to a six to andre's nick could still technically win this right yeah i mean it's there's a lot of ways this is you could flush out i'm excited all right we got all set up manu's got us good to go [Music] yeah so we've we've streamed this a bunch already and i think most people know you know how to play this game more of them than any other game yeah that in the world that's what actually yeah um i think at the beginning of the round zach and i were just like yep we i think at this point it's just wait and see how they decide to play it you know like it's uh these these are all players who know exactly what they want to do so we'll see we'll see how they go about it i think i think it'll be interesting to see if they make any adjustments you know just just owing to what we've seen in the past what what sort of situations they're in nail's a skill shot everyone should be familiar with the skill shot by this point yeah and let's see what people are doing with that okay he's letting it go which is you're usually fine but i have lost the ball or two on this particular one i'm doing that on that separator right and yeah but like holding the flipper up comes very close to the middle so that's pretty dicey we saw a couple people going for the swamp i know carl was doing that let's see if uh things dialed in and yeah yeah it's been pretty good and the swamp kick out is nice you can either leave the flipper up or oh that was a little if you leave the flipper up it usually just comes to a cradle on the right which is what oh he's doing you know nick was also uh earlier playing this and demonstrating that he was he was getting the dead bounce off from the swamp over to the left side yeah that's what andre tried to do but it didn't settle that well he kind of had to flip it away but and yeah i don't know how the game you stream was but okay that was good the the the swamp kickoff or the chair kickout was like got a little dicey during our game which hopefully hopefully it plays nice here yeah also thank you albany pinhead appreciate the follow [Music] so yeah just the frenzy most people don't do anything different during this and just continue to try to light modes and start more modes wow that was a great move there [Music] six million and his next mode is multiball and lights his uh and it's nice to he's player one so he will get skill shots and lock the balls but like obviously one oh no i guess it holds does it hold him between games i didn't know that all right there's another all right let's see if the thing dialed in and that gives him the lock very nice all right here we go and there's a beautiful beautiful dead bounce over to the left wow yeah so the chair or the vault will start the multiball now most people almost always go for the chair a bit of a loser shot he's really feeling it he is he is amped up he is excited he knows that this is his tournament to to win he wants to be the city champ again let's see it all right he's got yeah so double double jackpot at the side ramp a single jackpot at the train wreck you almost i feel like the side ramp's easier you're usually annoyed if you get the single jackpot by accident yes oh and he just had it kind of resting up there yeah he had another ball out of control down low i think it was tough to pay attention to the upper flipper yeah yeah all right let's see if you can use that using everybody's probably getting the kick out right now yeah oh and it just does not go all right let's see andre andre knows how to get this back into control and his own and his type of control yeah not how what i think of beautiful shots at this there it is winner all right so vault will re-light now and there it is just yeah very nicely done this is and big jackpot he raised the value a lot i think from hitting the bookcase gonna have another shot at the yeah is he gonna get that before even the other one kicks out yep yeah yeah very nicely done holy mackerel he is locked again this is this is pretty awesome this is incredible andre and going first too just yeah yeah this is like punching the hammer down yeah wow and he's got it again there it is so good he is just unbelievable andre massenkop is putting on a clinic here that's a third double jackpot and he's still working oh guess it yeah just misses the relay there yeah this is this is the score that's been winning most games on it because this adam's family is not easy yes yeah it's gonna take a lot all right there he is out of the multiball but holy mackerel is that something all right let's see if he gets uh oh he has another multiball lit at the chair from the pops he ended up oh yes i see that so i forget if that's the hurry up one or the other one but either one's good let's go by again and he sets up did he get a million plus from the seven ramp there uh i didn't see actually oh yeah he leaves it alone leaves it alone wow this is fun to watch andy you said it holy mackerel and we're gonna see a replay here just the excitement the absolute intensity he's really he's he's in it boom with the capital b that's for sure and yeah that it gave gave me chills gave it gave me visions of his uh pimburg performance again that was that was really something he's just come out swinging yeah so it looks like letting it go with the thing clippers seems to be relatively safe we'll see if somebody gets screwed by that but it's it's a little it's scary but yeah like holding it up is not safe on this one either it comes very close to the center [Music] all right yeah and andre number two seed overall like uh from qualifying carl crushed it but andre was next what's up ray day hope you had a great tournament bud all i want to know is when's the do or die podcast coming back i had the subscription ready i've been it's not updating i need to know yeah that kick out there came a little closer to the center you didn't see carl carl bike caught it instead of going for the dead bounce which yeah there we go so we'll keep an eye on that if it's getting dicey but okay another room in the house six million so let's see what he does with the guy here yeah he's live catching it it is coming very close to the center and yeah usually there's there's an ear plug on it it's very easy to take too dangerous but usually you can survive it with like a decent size move with two dangers yep thanks for the follow you came at the right time this is a great a great match game three of the finals of city champ all right yeah it looks like carl wants to light his locks to make sure he cashes it in now and you get the skill shots and yeah ah just not getting that right not quite clean enough it didn't register let's see if we backhanded it yeah it goes for it so now yeah the thing ramp or the bottle block a ball sets it up on the right oh that's trouble yeah he does those pops did switch him to one of the multiball modes which is kind of nice as well oh geez the reject from the side but he still gets the shot he wanted and he puts it right in there yeah so andre cleared out the lock so he should be able to skillshot this get another and get another lock nail the skill shot and i think i'll take it rock this ball and i'll get another one with multiball lip now at the chair or the vault now it's just a matter of executing does he have does he have that mass and cough touch oh it looks like he went for the short punch on purpose there to try to make sure he gets control and is able to start the multiple let's see if he post passes or yeah yeah andre little oh yeah that's rough but the nice thing is if you do that now you're two you leave two balls locked it makes it the other players now don't get the skill shots right and if they start multiball and clear it out and now and if the locks are empty again you have to re-lock balls which on atoms is relatively easy and you get skill shot points as well there you go he was definitely trying to start multiball there yeah i think so but that was that was definitely just a miss uh on his part yeah this is the skill shot he could have let that go probably and and drained it if he didn't hit a switch going down but we've seen a couple players actually who uh maybe it's just you know just don't don't like going about that i guess there's always the risk that it hits enough switches right on the way down that well there's only one switch on this if it hits anything okay you're live on adam's it's not it's not like some of the newer games where it's like three switches got it okay so if you hit one sling you're you're active oh just like danced around the top there carl does not miss that's like saying chuck norris missed multiball all right here we go next time nick is nick is really up against it here he he needs to have a great game here to have any shot yeah he needs a great game and he needs some help because he can only get this six so if andre if andre even comes in if nick wins this and andre comes in second he would be locked out of running so so he basically yeah he he needs like an all six tie breaker to have a chance of winning but but obviously let's see it he's just going to play as best he can and yeah even if you don't win it you obviously want to place as well as possible yeah we got prizes on the line yes thousand bucks to the winner 750 500 250 i think [Music] all right so he switched he earlier he was dead bouncing then that that time he left the flipper up maybe he just wanted to go on the right flipper or maybe he thought the kickout got a little dickier than he was used to that that one was a little scary i think it still would have settled if he held it up but i'm not positive on that but [Music] yeah you got 10 million in bonus so that's a pretty good value 11 million now yeah nicely done [Music] that's so killer all right hold on hold on to the bonus so no till little puppy walking through the back there going to the backyard of regal watch here massin cough back up so yeah let's see what he's oh yeah yeah it has a quick multiball lift so just punching that and the locks are full so he's going to probably have to deal with it kick out here i believe yeah there you go [Music] and we're looking at vault millions right that's that's where the scoring is yeah it goes up a million each time so you can do that and which is what he's doing yeah depending on if you have it like later in like a pretty long ball sometimes sometimes people will choose to just go for like side ramps and the million buses instead of that but but usually if you start it started early it's just going for the walk [Music] and yeah this is the uh yeah the hurry up multiball so oh one morning we haven't seen a ton of one morning moves on this game but uh got it 6.8 [Music] wow he's doing what he needs to do to win yeah so not not the highest value but you're always happy to cash in the multiball so yeah and obviously what was it like six point something million still still pretty good yeah yeah i think especially knowing who you're up against you you don't want to leave anything on the table as much as this might be a dominant score in most other contexts never a good idea to rest on your laurels andre is the gilbert gottfried of pinball oh and he i don't think he was going for that on purpose but he got his uh advanced bonus x there with the shot from right in lane through it which like he has a bunch of it's not going to be like huge huge points but he has a bunch of bear kick ramps and uh matching room so it might be a little bit [Music] yeah it looks like his uh that left mini ramp is lit for a thing will be another 5 million i think whenever he hits it i think pretty dialed in yeah yeah it looks like and yeah andre just going for it from the right flipper i do do you go far from the right floor for the chair on this or uh post pass yeah i almost always put it on the left yeah i've been burnt too many times with a strong forward forward flip into into the chair i feel like and and just given that there is enough control you can exert on on that looks like you might be going for tunnel hunt so like all the scoops are like five then 10 and 15. he got the vault which and going for the chair which you go for anyway for it so so that's 10 million we'll see if he goes for the swamp or just he probably just he's very close to tour the mansion so he's probably just going to ignore that wants to make sure he gets yeah well now he's going to get the [ __ ] the seance points anyway yeah so oh well this will be a decent size bonus yeah so that 2x is worth 7 million in bonus or so yeah so that was the one lock because andre cleared one with a quick multiball with the feed from the scoop there got it he'll pick up his 5 million for thing as well [Applause] goes to pick up his million plus yeah yeah right on the multiball there we go and yeah let's see if we can see another multiple like andre that was one of the more impressive multiples i've ever seen [Applause] missing left and right oh good save there the vault's a tough shot i always have trouble with it yeah is this one backhandable i've never i usually don't try it yeah i'm not sure from a cradle made definitely i mean most already for the balls like rolling out but i i don't know if you can do it from a cradle and there's again actually i think we saw carl do that uh earlier an amazing basically uses a post pass that time with two flip balls on the flipper to keep another ball out of the area if he tries to stage this he does but goes a little early and he's gonna get a shot here let's see if he oh yeah grace period oh that one that one was close to bouncing out there that was scary 20 for that all right back into the mansion here and now he's got a quick oh yeah that's that's the dicey cherry that was very unfortunate that's rough is he gonna still have that available the quick multiball i guess he will because uh andre had that that was not the hurry up one right the one yeah yeah so so he can should be able to plunge that on ball three got it all right here we go mark looking to get in the gear here yeah let's see what he does with that flipper letting it go oh tough two in a row yeah the on the flag backhand from rolling ball to the chair is really early and tough to do yeah i might all i might even just like you know ski pass let that carry him over and then just put it back all right there you go yeah i don't know if the ski pass makes it all cleanly over to a cradle and like this game's tight so you can't like give it a good bump that's about five misses six misses mark is just he's kind of smiling kind of laughing at himself i yeah absolutely and i think on this one we don't put the uh like the absurdly large we didn't put any um post around the chair which i think we may have in the past but it does have a cliffy in there so so you do have to hit it pretty cleanly got it i know there's a tilt there i can tilt um yeah i didn't see where he was at on multiball progress but there is a bug on adam's family where like that'll give you an extra greed letter towards multiball tilting for your first multiball yep that's the full salmon hey yes so the tilt isn't the worst thing if you don't have anything like mode points right all right we got one two greed here and he'll get along the plunge here it it doesn't like instantly but your first switch it'll give it to you so if he plunges this skill shot it'll give him a lock yeah oh very good got it got it got it i think he's trying to figure out if he can tap pass on this i would love to see a little uh yeah yeah you heard the greed complete there and then [Music] 18 thanks so much for the kind words happy to have you with us what's up base town yeah that's sling not very sensitive uh so it's less dangerous than many adams to let it go like that but i got it so yeah this will lock another one and we'll get another skill shot and multiball will be lit at the chair or the ball oh almost had that and yeah let's go good patient play here from nick stein jared you really should get some sleep i slept a little bit this fast week but not not a lot a nice use of the tip there and quickly that was yeah that was not a clean first pass but nailed it on the fly [Music] there we go i want to see it i'm pulling for nick i don't think he's going to have pass on this would be my prediction but we shall find out and and again we see how close that was coming i mean the feed out of the chair is getting getting really really close to the center there a little half flip to try to keep it keep it out of the rolling too quickly into the center drain there yeah so three or three on the right is not ideal idea ideally you want trapped up on the uh the left with multiple walls but sometimes you can uh well stop move point now saying sometimes if you have one on the left you can shoot the vault and then to stage it and try to go for the jackpot at the returning stage but let's see what he really uses with that let's go all right it has been pretty safe so far almost carried into the single jackpot which he probably doesn't want right exactly all right now he's set up he's got it he wants it can he nail it a little early [Music] oh wow that was getting so close yeah that chair kickout is not great scary stuff here ah single yeah wait probably disappointed with that quickly get it into the uh to re-qualify because you got the ball up there back him you got that you got the animation he could do it he doesn't want to go i i think nick's very much keeping control of the balls if he has one rather than flipping one away if he doesn't need to yeah he tried to post fast onto that before that kickout but didn't get it quite in time [ __ ] the the magnets are disabled yeah that was a nice lower of the other flipper to make that slap safe there to make sure he didn't lose the multiball all right here we go we're waiting oh wow very nice there was a tough pass underneath can we uh clip your clip that clip that replay manu that was just so slick the way he goes about it is is fantastic all right we want to we want to see it we're pulling for him want to see some good play here and he is he is doing a wonderful job just keeping this going yeah just the one single jackpot but this is pretty impressive just uh yeah just so much i mean i'm on the edge of my seat just the way that he's controlling the flippers oh yeah let's see if we could get that times got time carl get one got it happy to get that one what a relief yeah so let's see if he goes for just chairs now or the second multiball the second multiball is a decent amount harder uh harder to get to because well you don't get spotted greed letters and then i believe if you got a jackpot you have to like lock all your balls in the vault oh really oh geez but i believe it's a triple jackpot instead of a double for your second multiball so there isn't some increased value there can we see that replay oh did you catch it or no no all good all good all good i'm still here though oh yeah absolutely all right we love everyone we want to see now there we go there's a clip yeah yes thank you for the clip minty hits just the the love of the tapas two shots to the to the chair i believe for tour of the mansion right right and it doesn't have to relight it should light instantly after this and yeah oh so theoretically he could just you know catch it yeah he just needs to go straight back in the chair yeah [Music] and there it is 50 million and and if you haven't seen it before you go through a lot of the modes again so like it's not high value once uh early like you get the uh the frenzy ones so a lot of people i'm i'm actually not sure if i've ever watched andre play toy the mansion before i'm sure he's gotten tons of them but but like okay okay move point but yeah a lot of people will try to like time out the the early ones but it's huge just getting that 50 million from yeah well dad incredible work andre carl with some work to do if he's going to catch andre i'll let that one oh yeah that's right sling's really dead he probably should have made sure that was a little bit more sensitive all right quick multiball he's right into it [Music] so andre in pole position on this game right now wanted to make it tough for his competitors yeah so yeah this is the same one oh yeah look that looks like a pretty clean shot but it like rejected a little bit from the vault there on this top oh yeah so probably back to grinding out mansion room but yeah it's going to be tough to catch andre without because andre in addition to touring the mansion had a huge multiball as well so so just touring the mansion isn't going to do it [Music] so yeah let's [Music] would have been nice to get that with the extra 10 million there but but obviously take still having your ball above brushing that wow power outlet from a brick chair shot oh geez well that'll do that that's a wrap on his score up to 122. yeah if that were to hold and carl was second and andres first we'd andre wouldn't quite lock it lock it up right right right just still guarantee himself a tiebreaker but we'll there's still players left to play of course of course hey marty aren't you supposed to be streaming right now no please don't wait for me i'm busy as you can see all right mark looking for an opportunity here to strike it's got the multiball ready [Music] oh yeah very nice save there but yeah like still out of control and you never feel good when it's in the pops yeah oh jeez oh that was brutal that one stings so mark will be staying at four points and andre will be at worst seven yep so let's see what nick does if he if he passes carl but doesn't pass andre that could potentially be it correct i think so yeah at game club central thank you for the 100 bits and real robo loco thank you for the follow yeah so so just to review you're saying a finish oh carl still has a chance if he wins and andre comes in last year we'll be going to dr dude for our last game yep so andre will go to eight carl will go to five so three point separation there um wowsers yeah and yeah so those are the only two people that can win it mark and nick both unfortunately cannot win it yep tough tough breaks there and it's uh it seems fitting though that the the top two are the ones with the the final ability here to actually hoist the trophy the first place finish very nice trophies from jeremy williams made yeah the custom city champ hoodie for the winner that's always a special prize i think that's actually probably even even more than any uh other pinball hardware that i've seen people have like getting that hoodie get to wear it to other big pinball events oh my gosh it's it's a it's pretty special so that's on the line here and we're gonna have them they're just over the bend here uh at dr dude we saw dr dude earlier it was uh you know had its peculiarities not a lot of ability to flip the ramp from a cradle position on the right side so we'll see if that will still be it hasn't been played for a while so let's see if the flippers start off strong a little bit but um but we shall see we have manu setting everything up on this this our final match of the day of the weekend well actually potentially not yeah that could be a tiebreaker regular and for the finals we'll play out of tie breaker for any tied game got it got it oh so even even for other positions it's not for 250 bucks for each position there you go so we got we got at least one if not more coming your way here on mpt 3k carl probably hoping well obviously wants to win but uh probably worried about his flight right now bro i know he's kind of he's he's getting close you literally taught me so much today all right kids all right here we go we got scores we got playfield we got players yeah so andre and carl could both win well carl would only get a tiebreaker and would have to win another game um he's a wily player mark mark playing for second place which obviously first second to any of the other ones absolutely nick could get a tiebreaker for fourth place if he wins and mark comes in left so still a lot to play for there you go mr tilt bubbles huh oh yeah yeah these are the glasses that i intimidate my kids with when i look over them yep it's yep it's a good look i like it well thank you mr tilt bubbles for subscribing to the channel thank you much and 69 bits from mutterfucker thank you as we get into our [Music] final sort of regular session match normally i would ask the players see that overhead lamp that's not bothering them at all yeah it's a different angle for the camera it's bothering us they don't see it at all and i'd rather let them have the light players are top priority certainly of course yeah yeah yeah sorry chat but i will buy that parasol that neil mcrae suggested yeah yeah might be a nice resource all right let's get into it andre is cool out the gate yeah so andre just needs to not come in last but not a great start for that that's yeah yeah and and this is a game that'll that'll do stuff like that all right carl looking to make his first move here he's way cool just yeah a nice recovery there into the gift of gab yeah so we it's been a while since this has been on stream but yeah the main thing was you're going to see people going for the multiball there's those three things that magnetic personality on the left there the carl just hit the heart of rock and roll which is that stand up just to red stand up just to the right of the ramp and the gift of gab that saucer at the right there so a tough break there especially after having recovered so nicely i think he was probably frustrated to not catch that that uh let's see if we see some tap passing on this game i will be impressed i feel like these flippers are really not accustomed to something like that oh yeah football's all around so it's a two-ball game well well we'll see maybe mark can have a good ball one yeah then uh jim belcido put up 16 to 20 million yeah some something big yeah it was over 20 i think i didn't know what his final score was and that was two balls he didn't even play his third ball yeah so it's definitely doable i think i think the main problem for our competitors as far as i didn't see any of them do the hip a crowd of both so that's that's already going to set you back but you're not going to play well on dr dude yeah i think chad is discussing what his degree is is it is he a medical doctor a hundred bits thank you broken ass for a hundred bits oh both you are awesome see what i did though yeah so quick balls all around but yeah um mark i think did he take the lead there we'll see what the bonus is is he not going to collect did that drain not register do we have yeah i think we have gene and eric on it so i will stay here yeah and to clarify i think yeah if this is it's not kicking out into the up there we go there we go just took a little minute no need to even speculate all right andre on to ball two testing out the feel of that flipper there because there was still shot the hundred thousand there is just time times plunge going i assume going straight towards multiball all right finishes get the gap not quite clean enough to register the magnetic personality there oh it didn't quite make it far enough for that saucer a nice nudge there just to keep it out of that right area doesn't want it any harder okay finishes off it's hard to rock and roll and he has one white target for stand up for his reflex right in terms of not getting last like a million points could be huge here for andre there it is all right so now he needs to hit the ramp and get at least one target there to light his multiball let's see it so let's see how strong these flippers are oh nice slapstick there you know you haven't seen anybody who posts pass but then maybe uses some of the momentum off the post pass for the for the flip up to the mix master i feel like that might be one way you could kind of manufacture some some momentum there nails it yeah so now he will have multiple lit at that left saucer nailed it straight into it and in multiball you just want to hit that ramp over and over again let's see it i think andre feeling it he's feeling like a major dude yeah is there an advantage to shooting the bumpers instead of short plunging feels crazy uh well you get your skill shot points for the hard punch there for that stand up yeah i mean i i usually you know i like to look my way cool i mean he did this the oh quick quality ball there and yeah but no restart or anything on dr dude but he does have 2x playfield now and he looked like he was going for that reflex so yeah oh and then yep got it qualified let's see it yeah so ideally he wants to get that with 2x playfield yep yep so yeah he has that one now he needs the gift of gab for the two and the magnetic personality on the left will give him two million since he's in 2x playfield nailed it very well very nicely done and yeah that two million points is a ton on this game when you're when your goal is to just not get last this is really something we're gonna see see how how far can he push this ball to has another reflex lit so yeah he's going there yeah and he'll collect his special just to benefit the people after him and want to play this game yeah so good strategy when like he doesn't need to win this game he just needs to not take left and you can backhand this backhand yeah so this will be 2.5 million if he's able to hit this i believe i don't know i thought it went up if he got more than one but something raises it because we saw some above yeah but it looks like he's just going reflex over and over again with his 2x playfield which yeah honestly great already up to 8.5 yeah even with these like great players in here i think it's probably unlikely this ends up last but but we shall see it wouldn't be that it wouldn't be absurd if it was but and he's already he's already won away there it is mixmaster is back online yeah right back into it yeah yeah andre andre's feeling it i think he's he's feeling confident [Music] gazillion and as we as we saw before gazillion that's a one-time shot up into the mix master everything will it be a million he switches since he's in 2x oh i think you're right oh he wants it he wants it he wants to seal the deal right here there it is how many is he gonna get no it looks like or is it going i couldn't tell it was but either way this is a great ball this is probably a city camp stretching ball it's it's hard to imagine i mean like you had great players all around in this final but this is just a fantastic and we've seen great players play this game and and come up much shorter than this so this is going to be it's certainly going to be a tough road to hoe agent snake we are in san francisco california at three gold watch on the heat ashbury district and homer trach thanks for the follow agent snake thanks for the follow attaball thanks for the follow lots of folks joining the mystery pinball theater 3000 fan club here yeah so to answer a question from the chat in competition mode dude state will be per player so so you need you need to play your second multiball you'll have super dude and gazillions there we go [Music] and he's got another reflex ready [Music] he's got time oh just barely a good save there oh he had some more time there dang that that reject was very close nice little 1-2 flip to keep it alive [Music] and all this at two yeah bird bookie is it's amazing what he's done and he still has a whole additional ball to play and i gotta imagine the competitors are feeling the pressure right now very nice ball nicely going andre it's gonna be it's gonna be really something here and just uh just to show that that was andre with his arms in the air feeling the strength feeling the power still feeling the power of the excellent ray just pumping them up yeah it's got to be deflating to watch andre do that in here [Music] starting this game you're like i think i have a chance and then you're just like ah this is gonna be rough i mean even just for the the the waiting i mean that's a long ball on a game where you're otherwise expecting to get up there with a certain you know frequency and and you know it can mess with your rhythm it's getting a little cold in the in the shop as the wind starts to pick up from outside like it's it's a tough it's a tough situation yeah making some work on this magnetic personality and he's really that skill shot is just staying out of out of reach yeah both on the plunge and on his on his hits [Music] andy absolutely right sf mtd thanks for the follow how do you progress through dude levels mr tilt bubbles ass you you'll go up a level each multiball you start so [Music] so and a tap test nicely done can you hit the replay on that and another ver awesome to watch there it is yeah so you so in this competition mode at spot c3 and then your first multiple you go to what is it major dude and then super dude will be your second one i got an extra tilt warning that's that's valuable in a tournament so he needs that stand up the uh harder rock and roll is the only one he needs here yeah i think i imagine he just focuses on uh well it looks like he was actually going for it intentionally there but i i'm assuming he'll probably just put it in the mix master just grind that it looks like he's going forward it's hard to get enough hits um with it with these flippers it's not easy to just loop this ramp over and over again there it is one more oh yeah he's actually been controlling it off of this backhand pretty well there it is yeah so needs a hit in the mix master yeah let's see that's not going to do it you need a guy all right so that's going to start the excellent ray activate the excellent way i should say and there it is multiball major dude so now he's got to get back into the mix master here and the soft blend so again just to review this soft plunge is in order to not uh as soon as a switch is hit on the play field it's going to release that ball up on the left side so in an effort to try to get a free hit and oh that's a bad feed there the worst possible outcome for that but still a 2x play field so let's see what he does here yeah one hit to his reflex [Music] that's why people don't short blend it's you know we've seen a lot of short plunging and haven't seen actually that happened quite quite today or or the day before so yes that's always a risk but i think it's a risk worth taking to get the control oh here we go about the reflex value you can complete the stand-ups again after reflex is qualified to raise the values that's why we saw that increased value yeah no one's going to do that on purpose yeah [Music] ooh awkward awkward magnetic flip out of the magnetic personality top one so we'll take a look at that uh replay just to show you some of that special tap pass flavor what a guy that's a great one nick stein part of part of an elite crew that does the modern game tap passing really a takes a very gentle approach a desperation try to keep it alive quick one two [Music] yeah it's it's i i think the immensity of what andre has put forth and i think it's getting to the other players a little bit seeing some of that frustration andre thinking about ways you can bolster this is ball three so um yeah if andre doesn't take last he will win city champ all right another another reflex for him he wants it he's been so good on this magnetic shot on the fly of course yeah you you generally have enough time to try it twice right oh you got three shots and he had the increased value wow [Music] and he's ready wow oh no yeah another multiple lit well with with the left right and he'll he'll just be a plane dude now yeah uh uh yeah so that you can see the thermometer there that's all the way at the bottom it doesn't do anything until you make it the super dude right i don't think there's any difference for the other levels right yeah yeah it's just it's just a matter of labeling yeah yeah and then super dude you do get the gazillion i'm getting a lot of action in there save that for the uh and a beautiful transfer guys that have enough yeah i don't think he's going to worry about that during multiple but we'll see now that he's out probably going for that i think you should just for good measure just start pumping up that value it doesn't fan bad that was a little bit of a fumble that recovers from it they're great and he gets it wow unbelievable let's see he gets another shot he might get a third shot even cool he did great yeah so carl doesn't even just need to chase down the score he needs the other players to beat the scorer as well i think but carl also trying to ensure he gets second place on this game because uh or or gets second place overall right almost [Music] so yeah needs that red standoff three times or spot a spot as a bunch from the ramp [Music] i feel like he should maybe consider going for the reflex targets to try to put some pressure on mark to make sure he takes at least seconds but carl probably going for the win but he's competitor plays hard to the end let's see if you get something good from the mysteries hey there you go got one back yeah no one all right there we go all right you know i'm a moving ball here so if he hits this cleanly it should make it around that doesn't make it cleanly all right that one so have his multiball with that far left yeah carl going for the short fund [Music] and yeah so 10 switches in that mix max master jackpot and yeah doesn't make it around oh that was a lot of action yeah one more one hit to go that's killer he just needs this right here [Music] jackpot doubled oh because he got the uh drops on the right side oh wow this could be this could be big oh he tries to postpass very tough from a cradle i think you're right about you know maybe maybe yeah i would back backhand get the gab and try to get a moving ball get some metal on there oh no the pain oh that is tough finishing with just under 2.5 and he he does end up putting a little bit of that pressure there yeah mark's got some work to do if he wants to get um well we'll see what nick does mark could depending on where next ball is get a tiebreaker with carl or or carl outright yeah if nick passes him and then he passes nick but but right i mean the the chats got it right we do have our new our returning congratulations to andre madisonville he was you know i saw the old time yeah i saw the old sweatshirt it was getting a little tattered so i think he just needed a wardrobe refresh you know just like he did right before the this beginning of this round that was a fantastic performance by all the players but andre with a really special exclamation point at the end there [Music] taking basically almost a a perfect round right i mean he's going to end with 11. um so yeah or oh yeah that's right oh yeah if these other players aren't done playing but there's a very good chance of it yeah that's true yeah really really impressive play yes oh so the mystery award gave him a pretty nice award okay gazillion super dude electric bat thanks for thanks for the kind words we appreciate it here this was this was fun and it's still ongoing it's not even over yet yeah we might see more tap happen yeah that's that's what we want to see ah tough break there i think he yeah he did pass carl so um [Music] so we'll see that gives mark the chance to win outright without or pass carl outright without having to pass andre got it yes [Music] so and we're gonna have i mean it looks like we'll have a i guess unless mark were to win well i guess it depends on on where nick goes but assuming he doesn't catch andre i think there's a tiebreaker that we're gonna have to play you don't necessarily think great i'm just thinking if if if mark were to be carl by one spot there's a potential tie breaker i think it's the most likely yeah break scenario yeah but yeah mark has some work to do yeah i guess i'm thinking if nick wins yeah then that that would give me opportunity to match mark if mark were then to not beat carl yeah what's up [Music] which is at this point still a possibility all righty it's a big score nick will be fourth place but we've played amazing all weekend absolutely yeah and played hard especially given that uh i think nick didn't get the buy right so he had to he had to play oh yeah he played jim belcito in a tie breaker for the buy and yeah so he's been playing all day yeah oh so that'll be it i believe no tie breakers which carl is probably happy he can probably catch his flight now yep yep he's all good to go so that andre is going to take it with 11 points carl uh is gonna end up with the or i'm sorry that another two points for nick so he gets three carl's one so he goes to six and mark stays at four folks yeah that's it thanks everyone for joining us yeah we're doing trophy presents yes yeah we got we got to do that so we got a uh a camera we're going to be using for showing that off so we're going to take you over there in just a minute jared congrats on that great great event well yeah it went better than i was expecting and thanks everyone for playing thanks for all the volunteers thanks for doing the stream you mana yeah yeah no this is really fun we're excited to have the uh the award ceremony we'll take you over there in just a minute folks thanks so much stick around for a little while but yeah that was a really great final and we're excited to bring you the trophy presentation thanks for the bits neil mcrae there we go and we're going to take that over there right now all right folks hey round of applause for yourself for sticking around this is fantastic city champ nine we're gonna have a lot of thank yous to all the folks we'll do that at the end but first we want to get to our prizes for our folks who are our top four finalists so in fourth place a fantastic player coming in from northern california representing selected the ninja turtles let's give it up for nick stein mick stein our fourth place finisher in the city champ nine competition all right representing the great state of arizona coming in third place with some great play today it was fantastic to have him on the broadcast let's give it up for mark pearson [Music] congratulations which one did you pick deadpool very good selection and our runner-up a fantastic player our top overall qualifier who played amazingly this entire weekend all the way up until the end let's give it up for carl d'Python Anghelo with the iron maiden selection congrats carl so that only leaves one more so this is someone who has three city champ under his belt those first three city champs and hasn't won since then he's been thwarted but he is so excited to reclaim the title to represent san francisco which he does so well in so many ways we are very excited to grant the top prize to andre massinkov congratulations andre you also received the stern pro circuit chip which i i'm assuming is relevant for more than just being a chimp maybe you get to put it in a big pinball machine later but congratulations to andre andre would you like to say anything to the adoring fans who are watching at home i just want to say to everyone who played this a great tournament a lot of people played great these finalists were just scary as heck and yeah i want to say something to you guys for making city champ tougher and tougher i think city champs always been great but it got harder and harder as the years went on um you know and everyone watching yeah i mean come to free gold watch and play player tournaments it's a very special place come and have fun um i'm just uh proud and pleased i grew up across up the hill from here i learned to play pinball across the street from here so i got some major history here and it's my first city champ in eight years it's been way too long even though understandably it's really hard to get here so anyway keep flipping everyone [Applause] yeah we're gonna get a photo but while we're doing that why getting set up let's just give thanks to everybody that i can think of so first and foremost of course tournament directors jared garvey and gene x [Music] let's give it up for our master of machines darren ensley and dave velanski with the assist to darren with all the work there let's give it up for manu smith for running the broadcast here today a fantastic enough thank you to eric for leading our judges eric wagon center doing a wonderful job there let's give it up for pat representing free goal watch here thinking and helping us out with all the logistics here there's our champions you can see them getting there their photo here the final four finishers a perfect backdrop there fantastic work fellas and whoever forgetting the other judges as well i think everybody else is pissed out but the other judges thank you so much and uh jeaner jared any any last words for the broadcast i think they if that's all good folks get excited for city champ 10 next year 2023 let's make it happen if you haven't if you were watching online come check it out we want to have you here to play it's a fantastic tournament thanks a lot everybody good night thank you guys so much for coming and watching and just being supportive of the channel and and everything that i do i want to thank derek for let's see can i make this happen yeah we're in it thank derek for being uh awesome and running the commentary and just being uh he's the beauty i'm the brains no i mean really i i give all the glory to you the i mean without manu this thing will stop does not work the way that we want it to work it's really special so really everybody hit the follow button turn on the notifications subscribe if you can support this man send all the bits he's a gem thank you all right i'm going to go home and rest bye 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