# IFPA PINMASTERS 2026 QUALIFYING DAY 2 | FRONT 9 **Source:** Fox Cities Pinball **Type:** video **Published:** 2026-03-30 **Duration:** 319m 36s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTxpXYtcHo --- ## Analysis Coverage of IFPA PinMasters 2026 qualifying day 2 at Fox Cities Pinball, featuring competitive play on multiple machines (Deadpool, NBA Fast Break, Stranger Things) with detailed commentary on gameplay, rules, machine setup issues, and player performance. Commentary highlights the tight ball save settings on Deadpool creating difficult conditions, configuration differences from earlier events, and players' strategies across various game modes. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] Deadpool at this event has a very short ball save of approximately 4-5 seconds, making it extremely difficult to retain control after multiball ends — _Commentators repeatedly discuss and measure the ball save duration, noting it's unusually short and problematic for gameplay_ - [MEDIUM] A switch was removed from one machine (referenced as a tournament configuration change from earlier Nationals) — _Commentator states: 'Early on in Nationals, the switch was here. It is no longer here. So, you're not going to get the million. You're not going to get the recovery.'_ - [HIGH] Sabertooth mode on Deadpool is worth 150 million points (not 120 million as initially believed by some players) — _Extended discussion about confusion over Sabertooth value, with correction: 'It's 150. It's 150, not 120, bro.'_ - [MEDIUM] Stranger Things has no bonus multiplier, making it a different scoring dynamic than expected — _Commentator notes: 'this game always be tilting because there's no bonus'_ - [MEDIUM] Logan Joshua Henderson is ranked around top 100 IFPA and dominates Ontario Monthly tournaments — _Commentators discuss: 'He really only plays around this area... He dominates the Ontario Monthly'_ ### Notable Quotes > "It's like you think you're safe, but you're not. You got to grab control right away. And it's hard with the bouncy rubber." > — **Commentator discussing Deadpool multiball mechanics**, Early in Deadpool commentary > _Captures the core difficulty of Deadpool's short ball save and bouncy playfield_ > "That feed stinks. I mean that's what killed me. It hit right where it hit you." > — **Commentator (Tom) discussing difficult drain feed**, During Deadpool play > _Identifies a specific dangerous shot/feed that has been problematic for multiple players_ > "I mean I was able to complete my T-Rex and then shot the final shot out of multiball, but I was the only one to complete my mode in multiball and able to get back out. That's cuz that's what's killed everybody." > — **Commentator (appears to be competitor speaking)**, Mid-Deadpool discussion > _Indicates significant difference in execution related to ball save mechanics_ > "That right outlane has eaten all of us alive so far. It's three for three." > — **Commentator discussing NBA Fast Break**, NBA Fast Break commentary > _Documents recurring drain issue on NBA Fast Break machine_ > "Keith Elwin keeps steps up to the plate here." > — **Commentator**, Transitioning to Keith's play on Deadpool > _Notable player participation in qualifier_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Keith Elwin | person | Legendary pinball designer and player participating in IFPA PinMasters 2026 qualifying as a competitor | | Logan Joshua Henderson | person | Competitive pinball player in this qualifier, estimated top 100 IFPA ranking, dominates Ontario Monthly tournaments | | Neil Graph | person | Competitive pinball player in this qualifier round, group member with Keith Elwin and Logan Henderson | | IFPA PinMasters 2026 | event | Major pinball tournament qualifier event, day 2 competition at Fox Cities Pinball with multiple qualifying rounds | | Fox Cities Pinball | venue | Location hosting IFPA PinMasters 2026 qualifying tournament | | Deadpool | game | Stern Pinball machine used in PinMasters qualifier; features Juggernaut, T-Rex, Sabertooth, Katana, and Ninja Multiball modes with problematic 4-5 second ball save | | NBA Fast Break | game | Valley pinball machine used in PinMasters qualifier; features around-the-world and trivia-based gameplay with problematic right outlane | | Stranger Things | game | Pinball machine used in PinMasters qualifier; features Egyptian soda and other modes, no bonus multiplier | | Tom | person | Commentator and competitor in this IFPA PinMasters qualifying round | | Colin | person | Competitor in this IFPA PinMasters qualifying round | | Josh | person | Tournament official who prepared scoring sheets for the event; mentioned as creator of potentially inaccurate point value documentation | | Stern Pinball | company | Manufacturer of Deadpool machine used in this qualifier | | Valley Pinball Company | company | Manufacturer of NBA Fast Break machine used in this qualifier | ### Signals - **[competitive_signal]** Machine configuration discrepancies between earlier tournament stages and current qualifier, including removed switches and modified ball save settings, creating inconsistent player experience and potential fairness concerns (confidence: high) — Commentators note that 'Early on in Nationals, the switch was here. It is no longer here' and repeatedly discuss the extremely short ball save as unusual and problematic - **[product_concern]** Deadpool machine at this venue has a 4-5 second ball save that is significantly shorter than expected, making multiball extremely punishing and creating dominant strategy where completing modes within multiball becomes nearly impossible for most players (confidence: high) — Multiple competitors measure and discuss ball save duration; commentators repeatedly state this is unusually short and 'killing everybody'; only one player successfully completed a mode within multiball - **[gameplay_signal]** Tournament officials and players had confusion about Sabertooth mode value on Deadpool (150M vs 120M), suggesting either incomplete rule sheets or unclear rule communication, though the correct value was eventually established (confidence: medium) — Extended discussion where players dispute whether Sabertooth is 120M or 150M, with reference to potentially incorrect sheets provided by tournament staff; confusion traced to possible similarity with Stranger Things value - **[competitive_signal]** Quest Multiball appears to be the dominant strategy on Deadpool for this configuration, with players explicitly discussing and prioritizing quest-related modes over other options (confidence: medium) — Commentators state 'Quest Multiball is probably the way to go' and players consistently pursue quest lighting as primary objective - **[venue_signal]** NBA Fast Break has a problematic right outlane that has caused multiple consecutive drains in the same session, described as having eaten balls 'three for three' (confidence: high) — Multiple commentators reference right outlane drain issues consistently occurring; one states 'That right outlane has eaten all of us alive so far. It's three for three.' - **[gameplay_signal]** NBA Fast Break's difficulty and playfield feedback varies significantly from expectations; players struggle with shot accuracy and report the game 'feels right' despite unfamiliar feeding patterns (confidence: medium) — Players repeatedly note they keep missing shots they're aiming for; one mentions 'I keep hitting the bottom right where like Attack for Mars and all the other like ball launchers are' - **[tournament_operation]** Tournament scoring sheets may contain errors in point values for game modes, requiring potential verification and player awareness of official values versus provided documentation (confidence: medium) — Discussion about Sabertooth value discrepancy traced to potentially incorrect notation on tournament sheets prepared by Josh - **[content_signal]** Fox Cities Pinball is providing live commentary and video coverage of IFPA PinMasters qualifier rounds, with detailed machine-specific analysis and player interaction (confidence: high) — This video is official coverage of the qualifying tournament with professional commentary on gameplay mechanics - **[competitive_signal]** Player scoring patterns show significant variance with most performers getting low scores on first balls and recovering on subsequent balls, suggesting difficulty ramp-up or unfamiliarity with machine configuration (confidence: medium) — Multiple comments about 'pretty much nothing ball one and then just got it done on ball two' pattern across different players - **[operational_signal]** At least one machine (appears to be Atlanta/Atlantis reference) experienced technical issues requiring rebooting during the event to fix spot shot issues (confidence: medium) — Reference to machine leveling issues and rebooting needed: 'The game was leveled really badly... Andy just rebooted it' --- ## Transcript All right, everybody. We're going to we're going to get started here. We're going to be on hole number five. We're going to have Keith Owen, Logan Joshua Henderson, myself, and Neil Graph. How's it going everybody? Thought would be a really good group to follow. You'll see my misery. You'll see Logan, Alwen, and Neil do good things. Keith's wearing his Triple Drain shirt, which I love. Thanks, Keith. [laughter] Oh, okay. I'll be back in a bit. Andrew Hernandez and Brandon. Okay. Well, I'll sit here and hang out. Good luck. Good luck today. Starting on 42 number Frederick, Jason and John and I couldn't really figure out how to record sports, but I'd be happy to put sports in if I can figure know how to do it. I got you right now. Yesterday we were first. Today appears to be our last right. And we're off. I was kind of talking with uh the other guys, specifically Logan. They're saying uh they're thinking Quest Multiball is probably the way to go. But his Chimmy Chongas already little Deadpool is ready. Decides to take it. Starts a mode and he's going to take Juggernaut with it. It's a little Deadpool juggernaut. Also, I think just needs one more Chimmy [music] Chunga to light that quest. There it is. So, after this, got that ready. And okay, looks like he's out of Deadpool. Still in juggernaut though And there's a second one. So now needs one more lock. If you could bring a quest in there, that would be uh the ideal situation. All right, good progress for a small ball, though. That was some good progress. Yeah, I got my two locks. So, that's good, right? Yeah, that quest is lit too for you. Yeah. So, got to try to get quest started first. Oh, that one. Looks like he was going for a little Deadpool. Throw it in the battle scoop here. Nice back hand. Hey, he opts for the same strategy. Juggernaut and Lil Deadpool. Yeah. And you're not really playing for Little Deadpool here. We're no progressing, right? Yeah. So, he's got got his chimneys done. So come out of here with quest lead. That's fine. Yep. You don't really care. And honestly, you don't care about this mode either. Probably just go for ninja multiball walks like you did. Yep. I think we'll do the same thing. Yep. Oh, he's wearing a triple drain shirt. You see that? Yeah, I saw. He show He showed me. Just noticed that. He's big fan. I'm going to I'm going to send a picture to Joel so he has a meltdown. All right. So, he's just taking the multiball here. He's in Katana with it and Juggernaut is um basically done. Mr. Balls lit. That's good. Like what? 10 million right there. Yep. Final shot also lit for Juggernaut at the scoop. Oh, B. Oh, it rejected. Oh, the double grain tilt. Okay. All right. So, he's about almost a third of the way there. Huh? What's Oh, the hell. It's fine now. It was showing zero when I looked. Yeah, sorry about that. I think we I don't know if we had like a little slight internet problem there. My apologies. So, if you missed it, uh Keith Keith was in Ninja Multiball. He double drained down the center and he's he's at 47 million. But uh I think we should be good. Thanks for the hype train starting up. Thanks for the sub. Looks like he's trying to go for his ninja locks. Nice. All right. He's got he's got ball two locked. Nice. All right. My assumption is he's going to take a quest, but I don't know. Yeah, I think that's I think that's a good play is going for T-Rex. Now, the only down Oh, well, that's a downside. I think it was I think it's a good path to take. That was the path I was planning to take. Getting my quest and then starting ninja multiball. The only thing is because it's pin masters, uh, you're not going to have the ball save. So, you're going to have like a very short ball save, like a couple seconds. It's not really long. So, you got to kind of bear all that stuff in mind. This doesn't play like a normal Deadpool. This switch is taken out. If you look really close, you can see there's no little wire hanging out. So, you're not going to get if you drain there and you have the uh regeneration, you're not going to get the ball back. Uh, and it is a little tight, too. You're you're correct, Roland. You can you can you can do some subtle things and be okay, but if you make a if you make a big move, you're you're probably in trouble. At least a double danger. you know a lot of these holes if I get a four I I think I'm doing really good. If I do better than that, I know I'm doing really good. All right. So, Neil is in T-Rex. You want to hit one of the lit arrow shots. You can hit more. Um, it'll build up that hurry up value you see on the display. And then you want to bash little Deadpool to collect that hurry up. So there Neil got a 8.5 million hurry up collect. I think this is a good strategy if you can get a snick. The snick target is active. Although I don't know how well it like how easy it is kind of thing. All right. So fortunately exiting the multiball pretty quick and there's a double danger for just, you know, that move there. I'm going to let that sit for a second and then uh see if I can get my quest lit and then uh proceed to ninja multiol. So see what happens. This uh ninja multiball has very little ball save. So if you can get a control fast and start to grind it out, that is definitely the way to do it. And I believe my dad's set up. He just got a quest and then one more lock for the multiball. Oh, okay. Shoot the scoop here. See what he goes with. T-Rex or Megalodon? Oh, he's also just needs a left ramp for katanorama, too. We can look for that. That would be very useful in collecting a lot of points. But yeah, the ball save's already out. So, multiball is already over. That's just how quick that ball save is and multiball can go. Absolutely no ball save on that mall table. Oh, I know. It's like Yeah. Like you think you're safe, but you're not. No. You got to grab control right away. And it's hard with the bouncy rubber. Yep. Pete's got his T-Rex, although he's already used his ninja multiball on the last ball, right? So, oh, good save. We got a double danger, but he needed to do that. I was gone. Now the game's like super tight, so you got to be Yeah. You got to be super careful. Oh [laughter] god. Yo. Yeah. Starship Troopers. Uh, Starship Troopers is hard. What's up, Colin? What's up? We got a long day of torture. I mean, pin golf. It's okay, though. I know you didn't have the greatest hole, but you can recover. What hole did you play? Bad girls. Yeah, Bad Girls. Like, if you're not used to a Bad Girls, it can be tough. Yeah. Okay. T-Rex and then should be just be one lock away. Ankatanorama. Yeah, you're getting points from that. Should be shot right there. Boom. Now, let's see how long this ball save is. 1 second. 2 seconds. 3 seconds. 4 seconds. Yeah, it's gone. Four or five seconds. And balls are like in the pops, you know? You can't really get a ball save. Yeah. There you go. This has got one. Oh, that was a big Oh, that's such nice control by Logan. All right, he's can finish T-Rex off here. All right, multiball's over, but it's fine. Yep. Just hit that scoop. Collect that scoop. Okay. All right. That was a lot of progress. Now I think you just play out a battle and uh call it a day. and call it a day. Actually, he's got extra ball. That's 10 mil. Yeah. He's got to hit the scoop first, though. Yep. Little Deadpool. Oh, he hasn't played his little Deadpool. Okay. Nice. And what was that? That was like two second ball saved. Like just enough to get the ball around to a flipper. All right, that one's going to come back. Did he get a danger somehow or was that a replay? I think it was just a replay. Okay. Also, how did he get the fall save though? I don't know where that came from. Good question. Oh, this this will do. Yeah, that'll probably do it. If he can get the scoop, he's good. He'll take a two. All right. Bang. There. Yeah, it should. Yeah, he's got it. Look at his low Deadpool point zero. Who cares? Nice job, Logan. Logan uh walking off to the next T- box, which will be uh NBA Fast Break. So, we kind of got like the modern starting out. We got Deadpool, NBA Fast Break, and then Stranger Things. And then I think we go on a little bit of a classics run, then like three classics, uncanny X-Men, and then more classics. So, you get nervous watching you watching Neil? Yeah. No, not at all. I mean, maybe if he was like maybe if this was playoffs right now, I'd be a little more nervous, but not not during qualifying. Papa World Championships. Yeah. That that that's a little more nerve-wracking, you know. All right. So, just hitting some green shots. Hit a little Deadpool. Survive. Nice. Let's do it again. Yeah, well uh well executed there, Logan. Nice job. I was surprised my drops didn't kickback up after multiball. It was nice they stayed down. I knocked them down during multiball and they stayed down. Yeah. So, I had a free uh jug to start. I'm going to go see if Mike. Sure. So Neil missed the collect there, but uh ended up tilting. I'm going to let that sit while I walk over there. All right, nice job on the two. Appreciate you. Y Okay, get the nerves out. I wasn't watching the tilt there again. I single ball play. I didn't I wasn't watching. Oh yeah. I I tried to tip it over and honestly it wasn't it wasn't like a wasn't a crazy move, but it was kind of like that and it tilted. It's probably the tightest tilt in the room. Yeah. So, it's unfortunate you can't change your quest mode after you've already selected it. Otherwise, he's kind of in uh jail. Oh, no. He hasn't played multiple. Uh, no, he already has. Okay. So, that's his first lock, but he's got his he's got his quest. He's in Katana, so he's already played his mini Deadpool. So, yeah, this is a this is a mode out situation here. Yep. I would say I mean if it were me just T-Rex like you could my T-Rex with MO is probably worth like what 60 70 million. Yeah. Watch your booms. You don't have to shoot the dangerous shot. Use your boom together. That is true actually. Okay. Love the pieces of eight like treasure chest reference there at the top. Nice. All right, here we go. Halfway done with T-Rex. I'm not sure what his ending value will be since he's already halfway through, but 15 million. That's a big hurry up. Yep. Boom it. Yep. Collect that. Ready to go. Oh, yep. Final shot. There's it. Put 15 million there. So, he's going to have to relight his Oh, no. Sorry. This is a battle, not a quest. So, his quest should be lit. Just one more quick quest and battle. I'm sorry. I'm getting mixed up. Quest. Yeah. I don't know why quest is flashing. Uh, he did his chim chongas again. Oh, he already did. Yeah, I see. So, you can do your chim chongas before you beat the first one. I guess he got a mystery to advance it, but Yeah, I see some nobody. Keith Ellens keeps steps up to the plate here. Okay, got to do it in ball four now. Oh, that's a scary feed. Oh boy. Only takes one danger [music] at least. He's be able to settle down. T-Rex in single play with no goons just feels so bad. Looks like he has no for this. 12 mil. Bang. Okay, it's ready. Final shots already ready. Oh, this is danger here. He's fine. All right. Nice. Just play a battle now. You think? Yeah. He's got his Deadpool frenzy. Uh, you can go for that. I saw I have my uh my other quest lid. I wasn't sure if I should go for Megalodon or if I should just play like Sabertooth out. I don't know. See, I mean, saber's worth 40 mil, I guess, for this bonus. Yeah. I mean, if you finish it quick, I think it can be, but then you got to survive pop feeds and stuff, too, right? No, it's it's 150. It's 150, not 120, bro. L. Oh my god. I thought it was 122. Neil, you can let him know. I'm not talking. Wow. Okay, that is unfortunate. He is not done. I also thought it was 120 cuz Stranger Things is 120. Oh, I think that's why people people are getting confused. Oh [] Oh [] Maybe Josh wrote it down on our sheet. Ron, I think he did. Did he really? I think he might have. That's where I thought that's I got 120 from somewhere. Pull that one. Maybe we'll check the sheet, but Yeah, it wasn't Wasn't me. I didn't I didn't tell him that. All right, let's see what Neil does. He's doing saber-tooth. I mean, I guess. Yeah. Did he let it go just because like it was going down the middle? He thought he couldn't save it. I don't think so. I don't think so either. Like he like took his hands off the game and like Yeah, I think he literally thought he had it. I thought he was in the pots at the time. Yeah, he was. Yeah. Oh boy. What a shot. Oh boy. Could you imagine if like you get you're like on the cut line because of that? That would suck. Like I'll have to I'll look when I get up there if it's written wrong on the sheet and then it just gives me an excuse to yell at Josh, which is awesome. I don't think Josh is going to have any sympathy, unfortunately. But well, he's the one who wrote the sheets. That's true. All right, Neil, give us the status report. What happened there? Uh Keith didn't really know [laughter] and I told him he's like, "Oh, really?" And oh, well. Yep. Was it word and wrong on the sheet? That's what we thought. Maybe that time's going check for us. I didn't check the sheet actually. Man, this with that short ball save. I think that's what's making the difference right now is I mean I was able to complete my T-Rex and then shot the final shot out of multiball, but I was the only one to complete my mode in multiball and able to get back out. That's cuz that's what's killed everybody. They they get through multiball and the ball save lasts 5 seconds. Oh my god. And that's what gets a lot of people these like, you know, squirly plunges and slings. There's going to be a lot of balls like that today on Deadpool. Let's see what Keith opts to do. I would assume MXB skill shot be nice, but Oh man, he's That was That looked like a snip to me. Nice. RIP. Yeah. Did you look at the sheet? Yeah, it's 150. Okay, never mind. That was the nasty feed I got earlier that killed me. Oh my gosh. I don't know if this ending shot will do it. It probably won't. But bonus probably not. It could be around 10 million. That's my guess. But this time there's no nudge there. He thought about it. Oh, free. Nice. Okay. Wow. 7 million. Yikes. Yeah, that's fine. Well, now he's out of his battle and his quest. He's now he's got to do something. Katana Rama or just Deadpool Frenzy like he's opting to do. If it was L, I'd go for it. Yeah, why not? Hit the spinner. Oh, yeah. It's not that good. Spinner kind of sucks. Yeah, I think Katanorama is legitimately like I know he had a pretty good amount of weapons. So he's I don't think he's there though. He's No, he's probably not. But for all right, 2 million. Oh boy. Okay. He is flipping so gingerly right now. I would be too. Oh man. Taking taking booms where he can. He's close. I don't think I think he probably has it in bonus. He has enough weapons. I think so, but I'm not going to. Ninja stars. Oh, yeah. One shot. Oh my god. Three more. I don't know. Maybe he has an in bonus. The chat says, "Yeah, I think he had like 30 40 multiple." Oh, he did. Wow, that was close. He got it. No. Wow. Oh my god. No, this is ball four. Oh, no. He ended his ball four. Sorry. Oh, no. So, yeah, he can get on. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. He'll get a five. We'll just put a five. Yeah, I think I think [laughter] we can count that one. Oh my gosh. In the left out lane was disabled. Yeah, that would have given it to him. Of course it would have. 10,000 points or whatever it would have been. Imagine if the switch was Wow. Wow. Josh says nope. Play on. Play pinball. Yeah. Unless Owen tilts the game, he'll have a five. Oh boy. Heavy flip there. So if he starts in mode, extra ball's out there. He's got an extra ball. Thinking frenzy. Maybe that was a little I thought I don't know what he's doing. I'd just go for the scoop right now. 10 million in a battle. Mystique for sure. 10 million. Oh, cuz he's already played Saber 2. So, no, he's going for Frenzy. Frenzy. Unless he hasn't played his little death multiball. No, I'm pretty sure he has. Yeah. Yep. Oh, no. Multiball. All right. So, yeah. No. Why not? Panorama. All right. Go for the scoop. Nope. Scoop. Yep. All right. I thought he played it. Now they've got the ball save turned off for this. So this if you drain here, it's over, I'm pretty sure. So Well, that's the that's the one nice thing. Like at least, you know, for like the next few seconds, that ball's held although he hit it. Yeah. And there's there's not a lot of points in Little Deadpool unless you like get to the super. So he needs to focus Mystique and or here 00's trying to go for the ball. See if it can start. No, he's he's so far from ninja. Yeah, unfortunately. Okay, he might have pulled. Yeah, as well. Just got to grind this out. Oh, no. Yep. Not there. All right, Tom. Let's see it. I'm like, surely that's it, right? A can't hit a shot. Yeah, I was like, all right, like four more shots, Katamarama and it's over. And found the the right out. Oh, come on. It's so demoralizing. And there's no ball saved on the left out lane as uh as Keith found out, I think. Yeah. Oh, snick. Sn. It's huge. Snick start a mode. Use your booms. Yep. Oh, come on. Oh no. Double. See, your snake's running though. You wait too steep. That's the gross speed again. And it goes. Yep. It hits right here. If it hits here, I'm okay. It's going to go this way. If it hits here, I can save it. If it hits right here, it's going to go everywhere and probably All right, Keith takes this five. And your Snicks was time it down. Yeah. I mean I mean I wouldn't have waited either if I were you. I knew I had the double damage so I'm like I'm just going to load out. Yeah. Just use Wolverine and you had booms. Yep. You know what? That feed stinks. I mean that's what killed me. I It hit right where it hit you and Yep. Oh my gosh. So, six is across the board for everybody else for the grass. I'm sorry. Besides, uh, yeah, Keith got five. And we're going to Stranger Things. Strange way things All right. So, Logan told me it was Stranger Things. I listened to him. It's going to be a fast break. That's good. I need a I need a little break from the uh All right, go over and practice and then I'm going to brush up on my trivia. All right. Logan's going to lead us off, followed by Keith, myself, and Neil. Right. It's fun. Fun [music] playing with Keith. Logan's awesome, too. All right. Yeah. I think if uh if you find all the shots, you're you're in good shape on this one. That's why the score is so high. I mean, it's not like ridiculous, but it's not low either. All right. Survived the feed. Nope. So, uh, that was another thing. Early on in Nationals, the switch was here. It is no longer here. So, you're not going to get the million. You're not going to get the recovery. You're not going to get a switch hit. Uh, not that it matters. I mean, this game always be tilting because there's no bonus. I got to remind myself of that. Ski jump all the in lane feeds. Look like Keith. Uh, I don't know if he was going for in the paint there. goes for two-pointer. It's a rough game, man. It's all right. Yeah, that happens. Oh, yeah. Oh, when shooting threes like uh he's in the NBA himself. I keep hitting the bottom uh right where like Attack for Mars and all the other like ball launchers are. I'm like losing my mind. I I I know. I did the same thing when I went up to practice. It's just it it feels right. It's a valley. It's a Yep. That's what it should be. All right, keep some basically hit shots for threes. Very safe game if we hit shots. Obviously, I did not hit any shots and that happened. Oh, yeah. He's he's in the groove right now. He's skiing like that's what KA Alpine said. All right, it's trivia question time. I asked him how his trivia said. said he was rusty. Uh, no. Nope. Keep Charlie Ward. Charlie Ward. Charlie Ward is the answer. Oh. Ah, Keith. It's okay. Charlie Ward uh played for Florida State. He played football and basketball. All right. Good luck, sir. Ball one did not go well for me. Yeah. Uh I got a six second game which on Atlantis. No for on wild card. Yeah. Playing Atlanta. At this rate I'll take cuz my first game was terrible. Yeah, you got some Atlanta's not not too hard. Just shoot up the middle all day. Like your locks, play multiball. Spinner's also good. I got to drop catch more. I think I'm trying to live catch and it's just it's not going well. Man, that right outland has eaten all of us alive so far. It's three for three. Oh man, I'm going to try to find that shot when I step up here. Oh man, what a power in lane. Thank those lucky stars. All right, Tom. How much for you to scream [music] the trivia answer? Scream the trivia answer. You got to be able to hear it. It's pretty far away. You'll probably get the one. How many points is it if you get this question right? Oh, really? That's actually a one. Oh, jeez. See, I got Oh, boy. You got the Oh, okay. Well, that's an easy. Here he goes. Study up. Oh jeez. [laughter] Nigeria, German. I'm just going to memorize the answers. Yeah, that's all you all you have to do. probably don't repeat pretty much. It's not that many questions really. Imagine getting a hot dog. I wish we have Hawaiian food, which is probably an improvement from concession stands at NBA. Hawaiian food was good. It was good. I will probably have it again today. Oh wow, he survived a whole bunch of those scary right outlane area feeds. Okay, one away from around the world. See if he tries to go for it. Yep. And oh man. Okay. Nobody ever shoots in the paint from that uh from that left flipper. It is a tighter shot. Oh boy. Oh, what a pass. What a pass. He starts the m I think I've studied enough. I think uh yeah, I even need a little refresher. Usually once I see them, I'm kind of like, "Okay, y like this is a hard one." Like, which team had the most points during the 1994 95 season? It was the Orlando Magic. Good patience here. Just keeping that ball alive. Vlad deox from Yugoslavia. Hornets are from Charlotte. Sixman Anthony Mason. Neil might get a hole in one here. Okay. Now, okay. Just jinx them. Well, you just need two more letters for shoot. So, can I take your Egyptian soda right now? Yeah. See if you can look like Neil agrees. Or let's see. And see you soon. I need a 80 point trivia question or 62 or lose. [laughter] That'd be nice. Oh, no holes in one basketball. That's true. Raymond commentators curse. with these changes. I love when Bagwell does that. All right, what do we got? Okay, the hot dog mania. There's where I drained. [music] Nope. Is going for the S. He got it. Is he going to go in the paint? He is. Nice. Gets his first uh whatever you call that shot. You can see these uh like little light bulbs. will signify if the shots been made there or not in case you did not know. Shoots it up the middle for a little free throw action maybe. All right, trivia question. He just studied up. Oh no. Who won the six man? It was Anthony Mason. It was Anthony Ma Mason. Face it. I'm way away from [laughter] tried to do the assist. Didn't help. All right, he's got the outside jumpers all taken care of. All right. So, uh, so around the world's going pretty solid, I guess, right? Nice. All right, we uh just making shots. Looking good. 66. Need some need some hoops. Go for the Egyptian soda. Yeah, just just Egyptian slowdown. You'll be fine. Nope. Get the T. Get the T again. Go for the H. There it is. Ski over. No, Colin said to ski over. You weren't listening. What's up? Doing all right. Uh, I got a six on my second game, so better than my first one. I'll take sixes rather than eights, nines, 10, sevens. Logan's about to reach target. Yeah, he's getting close. He's having a He's having a good tournament. Good day. He's a good player. You know what his IFPA rank is? I don't. I want to say he's either in the top 100 or like right around there. He really only plays around this area. So, but he plays well. He dominates the Ontario Monthly. I know. I've seen him play there. He's beat me before. So, I know how good he is. Wh is too much. There we go. Nice job, Logan. All right, let's see what Keith can do here. First survive the feed out of the pops. Look pretty good. Nice. All right, Egyptian soda. So that's he's going to be exhausting all his uh thingamabbers saucers. Yeah, nice job, Logan. Solid. Solid play. And I think I'm off. Oh no. Uh Keith missed the shot. But uh All right. So I'm going to try to do what Logan did. [laughter] Yeah. Good luck. Yeah. No kidding. I agree with the hole in one with the mulligan. Yeah, the ball was live that time. Just Some of those air balls off that right ramp were terrifying, though. Just Sent it way off. Chad, uh, what was the answer to my question? Anybody? That's got to be one of the tougher questions. Like six man of the year. That means they're not even like a starter. Oh no. Yep. terrible display of shooting. It happens. I know. So, Mason was the answer to my question then. Mason. Yeah. Anthony Mason. Okay. I mean, that's guy was a thug in his time. I know, Tom. Yeah, I know. I would have been done 10 shots earlier, but you know. Do you see those air balls off the right ramp, though? I had like two air balls. I can't even see what happened to Neil. Oh, I missed it. Yeah. No, it just went right down the middle. Jeez. I'm glad that is loose cuz I mean, no. Oh, wow. Swish that swish. Did it just go right down the middle on you? Like from the spun from the plunge? Yeah, from the plunge went right down. That's what we saw yesterday. I mean, I should probably should have threw the game, but yeah, cuz I mean probably could have, but it's on the rubber feet. It's pretty hard to slide save or do anything like that. Power points. I was trying to start multiball and look up and PowerPoints is running and uh it's a lot better. Oh yeah. Yeah. I screwed up my hot dog mode. Screwed up my Egyptian soda. Oh boy. He's fine. shoot around, right? No, no, he just played it. He drank Oh, god. Okay. I think he got one ball save and then the other one came back and just died immediately. Oh my god. Oh, jukes him out. Oh, nice. Got the moves. The pass. Oh, what a save. Keith said, "I got quite the workout after my ball." And I Yeah, I did. All right, here we go. Start around the world. Couple shots here. Shoot the shoot the shoot in order. There's one. There's two. Almost three. Balls be flying. Three points away. Five points away now. Two points away. One more shot will do it. Yes, sir. all day. Mr. Keith Elwin to you guys. That was a three, right? Yeah. I saw you got the trivia wrong though. What was the question? It was uh who was sixth man of the year in 1994. I'm trying to think. What were the options? I've guessed like Chamberlain or something. Okay. No, I don't know. It was apparently the answer was Mason. Okay. We were not around in the '90s for those of you wondering. I had an easy one. Mine was just the Hornets. Like what city? Yes. You had the easiest one. I was like I was like I actually know that at least I studied Tom's list before I went up there and that was didn't help. Oh, nice danger. We It's the second danger I think we've seen all game. I got one of them. Nice. And go all the way right, Tom. All the way right. Beautiful. Oh, no. Don't do it to him. But even on a double, you can still like get some. That was unfortunate. All right. 17 more points. That's all [music] you need. did I get no points there? Uh, not many. Might have got points or something, but yeah. Great saves, though. I had to. I had no choice. Yeah, we I mean you had double danger and uh All right, here we go. This is where Come on, Neil. Make your money right here. Oh no, I would have taken the grace period there on the tea. I think I threw up my shoulder. Oh no. What's your favorite dental procedure to perform? Uh probably crown crab. I had a crown when I was a child. My favorite experience. No, I'm sure. That's why I like it. It's all about the torture. And boom. Done. Nice. All right. Tom, he had a three. Uh, I believe so. Yep. All right. I got the fun part. Punching everybody's ball. That's what I figure was going to happen in this group. I'll take the three. It's fine. Threes are good. Yeah. Where'd you end up? Should have been a one though. Come on now. Yeah, I should have been a one. Where'd you end up yesterday? were uh score wise 41s. I was literally on the cut line. So, you're right. You should I'm on pace, but even a buy would be nice, you know. Start blowing up some would be nice, man. That's what I'm after right now. Yeah, you're on a roll. Trying to get a buy going. All right, shoot around. It's funny. So far, both games I had like pretty much nothing ball one and then just got it done on ball two. So, I'd like to do it on ball one. Great save. Colin, how is Atlanta? Uh, I got a five. I got target score on the last ball. I'll take that. That's good. No. Yeah, that's a grindy game. Yeah, it's kind of stinks actually. The game was leveled really badly, but So, what was the problem? It wasn't spotting your [music] block shots. Yeah. How did you fix it? Andy just rebooted it. Oh shoot. I probably should go tell Bob about that. Needs that last multiball going. Okay. Yeah, that's what he needs. I was going to say he's kind of right here. I was about to say that. I was like, "No, he's not in jail. He's got this going." Yep. There we go. All right. Uh what is it like? He needs 10 shots here. It's a lot, but Yeah, just go around the world twice and you'll be fine. Ball save though. I'm not a huge fan of this multiball just cuz I mean like one shot at a time. Yeah. It's launching balls down the middle constantly. Yeah. Come on, Tom. But if you have all three balls in play, you're getting three points per shot. You know, that's count only one point a point. Gross. Yeah. So now he's in jail. Jail was 63. You've officially hit jail. So I mean nice hell you don't know what you What do you do? Can you just shoot up the middle? I mean you can. Oh no. He's got hook shot hoops. Okay. Yep. Just whatever. Oh no. Ball four. Okay. One more. He's got the six locked up I believe. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think you just have to take whatever mode is lit, like whatever mode you can start. this game just feels like you're you've got so much ammo in the clip and you just like once you run out like you're cuz then you have the only way to get to reboot everything is to do all the modes and that's a lot of popuper hits. Oh yeah, that's a lot. You got to get all the combos. Got to get all these. Got to get most importantly all these. That's really hard to get. You can see Tom out of all out of all the pops of all our games, nobody hasn't even done. Next will be on Stranger Things. All the new games for you guys. NBA Fast Break new release. Yep. 20 years. All the moderns. Yep. Yeah. That's what you're good at. Take it. Keep it going. Yeah. Control. Oh no. Okay. Three points up the middle. Is that going to count? No. One point. Got to get into the basket. You only need power points. Power points. Good pop action. That was one point going in the hole. Just grind holes. All right. I think if you take that the right ramp and snowman, there is a ball save if you drain extremely quickly. Like if it goes right down the middle with hitting [music] like no pops, you do get the ball back. Yeah. Extreme like it's almost it's basically uncontrollable though. You can't Right. I hit it down the middle and I didn't get it. Exactly. One more time. Come on. All right. Middle. Oh no. You know, he's got it. That's fine. Yes. There we go. That was uh That was something. That was something. All right. So, Stranger Things is next. I think target score is 120. on this and I think my next match is ready. So, I'll be back soon. Somebody somebody get me a beer. Thanks. Hope everybody's having a good day watching some pinball. ball. It's finally Saturday. All right, I'm back. So, let's practice. Yeah, players. All right. Logan's going to lead us off. Hold one here. That'd be nice. I need one. Um I like I like what what Logan's doing there. popping it in. Yeah. How do you want to plunge in this game? You want to go for I think you want it on a flipper. No, I I mean skill shot points can get pretty big though. It can, but it's dangerous. So, like, yeah, you're getting points, but do you want to like sacrifice not being able to play the ball? So, now remember your dad set these games up, so Yeah. Well, he was one of the four, but the uh you know, there's no there's no other make it very hard. Yeah, I don't like you can plunge it down the middle and not hit anything and I think you'd be safe cuz there's no like switch in the in the shooter lane. As long as you don't hit anything. If you hit a slingshot, then you're dead. So just I guess it just depends on what you feel comfortable with. Oh. Is it just collecting? All right. That was much more difficult than it needed to be. Do you watch the This is uh this is a pro. So it doesn't have the projector in it. Dory, did you watch the new Stranger Things season? I did. It was good. I liked it. Anyways, thanks. I go to school with uh Derek in the show. Oh, do you really? Yeah. Oh, that's cool. So, you literally go to school with one of the characters. Yeah. Oh, that's I have him in two of my classes. [music] Did you get Did you get his autograph? Uh, no. Do Do you just Do you treat him like a celebrity or a normal kid? No, he's he fits in pretty well. Okay, that's cool. All right. So, we're Ray. People do call him that sometimes. And delightful. Yeah. He's kind of become quite the celebrity after that season. Yeah. Pretty uh pretty funny character and stuff. Pretty good multiball. 23 million. I take it. Had a mode going too, which is always good. I think my All right. Good luck. So, you know, having one of the better modes would be ideal if you can if you can do it. Also, building up your bonus and getting getting things done that way. Get a big multiplier going. Yeah, I agree. Follow the compass is definitely a garbage mode. Um, I like some of the upthe-middle ones like Get Me Out of Here. I like uh Monster Hunting's really good. Uh, but but then again, you're like at the mercy of the targets, but if you're in multiball, normally you'd be safe, but it's pin master, so you're probably not going to have ball save. Um, Quarter Hunt is probably the best one on the right side. Uh, if you get Where's Barb? Hopefully you guess which shot and after that you wish you were not alive. Um, yeah, find Barb right away. But I mean, it's hard to do. You have you have a 1 in7 chance of finding Barb right away. Uh but if you do, it's mega points at 40 million. Now I told Neil to take the button here, which he's not going to listen to me. He's going to save her for the multiball, but which I would normally do that, but with no ball save, I think just taking your demogorgon's probably the better strat. He said he wasn't going to hit it, so I don't know. Maybe he's going to do it in multiball. That would be smart, I guess. I'd like to have a word with the star programming department on that. [laughter] I don't know what was what happened. I I had my mystery ball and I tried very hard to light it cuz it's hard to light and you didn't get in a ball. No, it gave me ad time in my mode. Oh yeah, you might have to do it. Some Sometimes it's like that like you have to do it on the second one. Yeah. And with that left out disabled like these are these should come back. Okay. Yeah, he's got one. Nothing else is coming back though. Yeah, that one's gone. Demo demo mouth from right flipper cradle. Okay, I guess I'll try it in multi. No, I don't even I wouldn't even do it in multiball. Yeah, I like I would just start it and then literally end my ball and then just do it on I just want the bonus points honestly. I know. Like that's that's fair. It is it is worth a good amount of bonus. I mean, it is good points if you get it in a mouth, but then like it's just can be utter chaos. Forget what my bonus was, but like I should have like a decent base bonus built. He did. Yes. Well, he's not But he didn't have mode gun. Oh, okay. Maybe. Or maybe he did and he just just timed out. I don't know. I'm lost. Oh, wait. Did he He started monster hunting with the demogorgan down. That's not good. Oh, yeah. Wow. He can't even get the shot. I just realized that. I mean, it's like at one point you just buck. Yes. I'm in I'm in monster hunting during multiball. That's like That's the best stack [laughter] and then it's like rip. I got the demogorgan down. Yep. That's it. Marty McCarti. Nice free super jackpot. Yeah, I'll take that. I would like to doubled it, but nah. Yeah, I definitely want to double. I mean, I think with this eight with this 120 mil. Yeah, I think huge double danger feed. Yeah, that feed is so scary every time. Yep. Yeah, he's got 3x bonus, but again, he hasn't finished his demogorgan. He's played one mode that he did terrible at. I mean, at one point couldn't hit anything. Yeah. Boom. Nailed it. All right. There's a 10 million. There's that's good call, Colin. Yeah. Good call. So, maybe maybe it is worth if worth it if you're trapped up. Oh, boy. Good bail out. You see me create my in lane on my ball. No. I it ball is about right here and I moved it so hard this way that I created the in lane. You created the space. I created the in lane. And you didn't tilt. No, it was one danger. Oh, well then. Yeah, definitely. Okay, here we go. Boom. Hit the button. Yep. All right, now I got to beat the second one, which is hard. And the ball save is gone. Oh, nope. And he hits it right away. All righty. This is good because yeah, these jackpots should be worth 5 mil. 5 mil pop. Pay this man. Yeah. Hey, this man is 5 mil. 5 mil. Yeah, he could uh he could potentially get pretty close here if not finish. It's all about survival at this point. Really like to get that next uh I think mystery might be lit next or his bonus. It's all good. Switch the lane and mystery. Okay, here we go. Is it going to I throw it in the scoop? Just trying to get it separate over to hit the mystery. That was nice. That's fine. Back where we started. Nice. Yeah. You just you can't get it farther. It's those rubbers. Yeah. No takes the back hand. He He wants the light as speller protection, which won't work. Maybe if you shake the game hard enough, you activate that switch in the bottom of the cabinets. He might He might have it in bonus, especially if he gets his next bonus action. Probably. Yeah, cuz he's on what? 3x. He's at 3x right now. Okay. I mean, I would just farm the uh left orbit right now or that also works. He's trying to force the uh right ram. Yeah, that'll light a super jackpot. Or no, I think maybe just resets. You got to do another Gorgon or something. Raymond's saying the fiveway combo. Ah, yeah. That'll that'll get you some points and bonus. Yep. Can't find it. Okay, there's 4x accident, but it worked. Yeah, I was able to find the right ramp in practice, which means I won't find it during game play. No, he cannot find us right now. Later, late late. There it is. All right. And up the middle definitely do it. Be nice. Didn't count that one. Spell of protection which won't work. Oh no. Thanks IFPA. Oh, and he didn't. Yep. Said the spell of protection won't work. Spell of protection won't work. I said thanks ifa. He's got it. One. Hole in one for now. He gets a yellow. Nice. I think that's the first hole in one we might have seen on stream, honestly. Wow. So, Ray, can you I'm my uh rules knowledge of the fiveway combo needs some work. So, can you hit the left orbit all day just to get that? Like, can you shoot it five times in a row and just get the fiveway All right. Backhand. Mine didn't go, but it's it's there. Beautiful. Oh, nice save. Nice and bonus. Fudge dragon. RIP. Lay a fudge dragon in a urinal [laughter] So, he already used his first telekinesis multiball. He's going for a second. Oh, and upside down with Freddy. That's unfortunate. I'll be back when I use the bathroom and hopefully I'll be out. He opted for the skill shots. Goes through his first demoorgan. Just takes it. All right, in the first mode lit his locks. See him try to take three left ramps here. Try to get it quick enough while in this mode. That'd be that'd be nice for some extra points. likes the mystery. So that'll be ready for an addable ball in his multiball. And Balt's already out, so got to gain control quick. there. That'll be the outall and rip some ramps here. Okay, super is ready. We'll probably see him try to go for the left ramp though. Try to double it. Trying to ramp out. Yeah. 3x bonus though, so that'll be some change. Must feel good to be done. Charge the mode. And what lock is this? All too locked. I think Logan's one lock away from a multiball. Just needs to hit the left, stand up, and rip the left around. [] it. I'm just playing I'm just going to play loose. 10x bonus strategy. Uh there's no way I should have lost that ball. No. Nice. Okay, that's call two. At this point, I might as well have went for the uh drops. Drops. Yeah. I mean, it is if you drain like that 100 subs if I do 10 chats. I mean, it's probably worth it cuz not going to make any money at this tournament. [laughter] Like I mean, this is a very shhatsible game. Yeah. Does the shots have to be a full in lane or what's uh Uh, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, the second telekinesis is such a grind. That's what I was thinking about it. I It might be safer than skiing the ball. That's But the only The only problem is the momentum. It'll probably send it. It doesn't happen every time. It's fine. Trying to get back in the multiball here. Yeah. It's See, if people are willing to hit the standups multiple times, like why wouldn't you just hit the drops? True. I mean, you only have to hit it once and then you just go through the middle. He put the thumbs up on the advanced spinner reward. Yeah. I don't even know what you get from. What's that? I don't know what you would get. 500 points. No, it's it's not I mean it's just to like get under like to the other side. Set up another shot, right? Just grinding modes out here now. What ball are we on? Three. Free. Yeah. It's close for him. Yeah. Surely Extra ball would do it or a low shot. Yeah, the extra ball. He's trying late there. No heat. I might I might chat. I don't know. I won't. That'll do it. All right. Kids got a three. Nicely done. We're going to find out. Nice. Do I really have to play this game? Yeah. Or are we going to shhats our way to 100? Are you actually All right. Start the demoore again. He's one shot away from Tkanis multiball. There's step one. Let's get into tokenis now. Come on. Oh, come on. instead of doing everything except for tug multiple. There we go. It's got some nice out of ball grace period going on right now. Some single ball play. Crap. Super's lit. It's doubled. Ripped it. 12 million. Okay, he's back. Try to get rid of that demogorgan too after multiball. One shot away on his demogorgan. Got it. Honestly, just commit to commit to trap him. He's going to go mode which you'll get is upside down from the switch hits from the spinner. Come on. Shoot the targets. Yeah. There we go. Another one. Now it's not really worth it. All right. Already another bowl lock. He's got a mode ready on the left spinner. Oh, see what bonus he's got. Oh, he's got the byway combo 10 million bonus. 40 million. What is that? Oh, 4 million short. You're 4 million short. Yeah. Yeah, skill shot. Good thing I didn't chance. [laughter] So, I think you missed your lane on the far right. Oh, did I? Yeah. I don't know if it was Mystery or Bonus X, though. I was just like hyperfocused on watching it drain. Oh. Oh, you can't do that, Logan. Sorry. Get the skill back. Actually, he's got it in bonus anyway. So, don't kill. All right, just punch. There you go. All right, back in the telekinesis multiball. Just finish the job. Hey, thanks for the 10 gifted planet. Whoa, what's going on? I didn't chat. [laughter] Planet's just happy I got it. Thanks, Planet. I feel better. All right. Can I get the super either? Bonus will be close though. Did you see every time I plun like the uh the practice, not the practice, but when I was plunging off the other players, the other players, it didn't validate the skill shot. Oh, it it literally drained and gave the ball back. So, you got the skill shot drained down the middle and you got the ball back. Think is it a three switch validation? I don't think so, cuz I know if you hit this one of the slings, it validates and you and you're dead. All right, come on, Logan. What do you think in Hera mode? Um, yeah, just anything. I don't know where his lack progress is. Uh, he just played his multiball. Okay. I think he just Okay, he's going demogorgon up in the middle. Oh, wow. What's his bonus? Not enough. Six. Yeah, he's still playing really well, though. Yeah. All right, you get the lead off on uh Eightball Deluxe. Great. Eight ball. Oh, careful. All right, just talking about some practice. Josh is in the booth recording scores as we speak. [laughter] Look at the dedication. Oh, I can't see him. Oops. [laughter] I'm glad I I can let everybody in my group feel better about their day. Can I do it during practice or does it have to be during game play? So, cuz sometimes on this game I actually like the shads minus. I got to give five subs if I dream doing it. All right, that's a deal. I didn't I wasn't looking. So, I don't know if the tap pass is possible or not. Neil's usually a good tapper, so I have to ask him. Can you tap pass on this? He just alley passed over to the other flipper. I think alley pass probably safer. Yeah, they're trying to goat me into practice for sure. No, they said I could do it during practice. Let's see. Nice. Oh, I'm lucky. Oh, keep did it. Okay, if Keith did it, I can do it. Right. I think the alley is just like super safe. I mean, there it didn't I guess a trap, but it doesn't a trap on a tap pass either. Especially on these hats. It's hard. I mean, Keith's pinball 101 video is like how I learned how to tap. Okay, nice. Oh boy. Um, it is early on the upper flipper from Aball and in general. Watch. He's going to shoot low. Yep. Well, that was a clean feed, but still everybody yesterday we were watching that. [laughter] I heard Joel did. Neil's going to town here. All right. A ball. This could be huge. Get the eight ball and then Oh, it doesn't work. No. I You know what? I don't know if I like using that upper flipper to just throw it up there. I especially on the for the eightball. I think for the side targets it's probably more fine. But yeah, and he seems safe just trapping it up down there. So nice and lane. Yeah, it's way earlier than that. A I would have bounced that over. Could have. That's the one tough thing like not playing. There it is. Now he needs to Oh wow, it's slow. Nice. That's the one thing about like not playing in nationals. Not not that, you know, a bunch of people got more practice than we did cuz they really didn't, but just getting a little feel for the games, you know. Yeah. I thought I thought he was going to try for it though. Thanks for the follows. Great control from me. Is he going to tap it? No. See, he went for the alley pass. No. I'm just so afraid to tilt. I mean, like, if he tilts, it's my, you know, loses 250k here. Your time will come, Nathan. I guarantee it. Even Neil hasn't played in the nationals before. Nice. There it is. There we go. Just Just took some time. All right. So, he needs what? Like two more of those. Uh one more cuz he'll have the bonus as well. Oh, that's true. And that is a fumble, unfortunately. All right. He's probably walking out with a two. Yeah. All he needs is he'll need to hit uh either a couple more drops and a inline or two inlines and it's over for him. So, see strategy. I'm curious to see maybe not as much strategy, but how he controls the ball. That's probably not for I think uh I think Adam Becker got a one on this. I saw Andy making rolling in the background. Yeah, something's going on. Keeps uh What happens if you play out of turn? Is that a 10? the DQ of 10 or your current like on this I mean on anything. Uh well on this like if so if Keith plunge player two and started playing it it's no fault. Yeah that that's fine. I more mean like if he played if somebody plays somebody else's ball. Yeah. It's a 10. Wow. That's like worse than even a normal out. True. It's tough. I mean the the first part of this is just like surviving those drops, right? Correct. Yeah. Build some base bonus. Yep. And then extend from there. Yeah. And then like you're going for the multiplier, so you're trying to survive that. And then you're trying to survive off the eightball. Unless you're a loops person, but then you're trying to survive every pop. Yep. Good save there by Neil. And uh important with the left lane strategy. It resets every ball. If I'm Neil, I'm just going for multiply. He needs literally one more multiplier and he's got it. He might have it right now actually. Yeah, he's got it. That's it. It's probably safe, but flip that around for fun. Hit the A ball for swag. Definitely don't want to tilt. Nice catch there. I'll give him the two. Yeah. IFPA curse. Oh, ref cur just ripped a 5x into the eightball. That was disgusting. Did he drain right now? There it is. All right, there we go. It's official. Nicely done, Neil. Tom with the four on Stranger Things. Let's go. Tom all of a sudden played pinball for a ball. So, you know, just got to do stuff. So, he's he's got all his balls down. So, now you definitely want the multiplication and 25,000s are good. This is where I feel like you can get kind of into jail where you need the eight ball to get more balls. As much as the multipliers are good, you want to be able to just get those ancillary like little points when you are going to inevitably whack into the side of there. Makes sense. And he gets it. Oh, I thought about it. Doesn't want to collect yet. The multipliers first. Oh. Oh, it almost bounced up. Dory rocks. All right. He's shaking his head. I know. Tough brick drain. So, Neil, what's your strategy? If you've got eight ball lit, targets up, what are you shooting? I think if you're on the right flipper, might as well just shoot the multiplier. Left flipper, shoot the eightball. I agree. That's going to be my uh strategy because yesterday we saw I saw somebody that was trying to go tap pass or in lane some do something to get it over to the other side and it was just like you spend so much time Yeah. worried about it. Oh wow. It got a little scary for the back hands. Oh, unlucky. Oh, nice. Wow. The ball wants out. Yep. Nice. Got the back. Wow. It's there. Yeah. I just think that that shot from the upper flipper is way too hard. Yeah. No, it's worth it. It'll just come back down to your flippers. Unless, you know, unless unless you get something like that where like the ball's going to drain if you don't flip it. Yeah. Like that was a good control there. Like you never seem like you were in danger not using the upper flipper, right? So I think it collects. He gets that six and he'd be close. Yep. He's looking good. There it is. He's got 100k 52. I don't think he's there yet. No, I mean he's he needs the a 50,000's good. That'll do. I think he's there. Think so. Feel better just collecting it. Yep. Don't I think he's there? Your math is correct. Oh, loud. Good math. All right. Not by much. Well done, Keith. Well done. All right. Oh, wow. Planet, thanks for the five gifted again. Yeah, getting rid of those bad balls on these practice games. I think uh I don't think the tap's the way to go. Just chats it over. All right, here we go. Okay, went for an orbit shot. Oh, no. Save it. Okay, that in lane. Rip these targets. It's already into 2x bonus multiplier. Two more targets on the right. 3x. Come on. Hit that two. Oh, right under it. Uh, eightball now. It definitely wants to hit that. Put this bonus after. Come on. Save this. Okay. Oh, man. Into the 5x. All right. Gain control. Hit the shot. Oh, it's tough. Like I was just kind of guessing at where I was and it's tough to find that shot. That eight-ball shot. That bounce. Nice. Oh, so now he's he still has to hit the eightball on the next hole. Nice save. Oh, there's the eightball. Kind of doesn't need it there, though. There's 2x 3x two more targets. One more target. Okay. All right. Logan stuck on the eightball, but be able to collect bonus after the eightball. I don't want to build up a multiplier. Yeah, the 2x is the is the one to watch out for. After that, you're usually safe for the most part. Bang. It's the 2x. Try to hit that last target. Going to get the three Nice control using that upper flipper. Little swirly. All right, Logan. I'm still stuck on the A-ball. Go for it. Got it. Okay, now I can collect bonus. Have that saucer, but you kind of want to multiply it first. for the clax. Gets it. Okay, he's real close to the score now. He needs Oh, yeah. probably 4x would do it. You got to get those donuts at the food truck. They're really good. Cinnamon sugar. All right. 3x. Do you know how much? Like if you can multiply it all the way, is he good? He's at 56,000 bonus times three. So it's about 150,000 in bonus. All right. Right now 4x would be okay. 4x would be close. Oh again. Collect bonus. Okay, I think he'll have it now with the 3x bonus multiplier and collective. There we go. All right, now papa graph. Yeah, he's still he's still struggling on the first rack. What age were you better than your dad at pinball? I think it was like it was after co kind of when I overtook him. All What's up? No, he got a three. No, I got a two. He got a three. So then he will play in the first round. Uh I'll play first. I won't play second. So yeah. Yep. I just don't need to get out of the booth cuz uh we're playing nineball. Yeah, that's single player, I guess, right? Is it actually? I believe it is. Oh, shoot. I don't want to be first. Yeah. Yuck. Maybe some good game film actually. How about that? I know. Spinner is good. Okay, man. This is tough right here. He's going into his last ball. All 600. Oh man that was a stressful I mean this game like it's very controllable but you got to be on your stuff down low. Oh yeah like quick shots and with the slashs you can save almost anything going down the middle you know. Yeah. I was unfortunate on that ball too where it just [] screamed down on me. I mean there's I gave it a good slab but not enough reaction time. Okay, here we go. The eightball. Easy eightball. Oh, wine backhand catch. Nice. Oh, okay. It's good. Good trap. 4x. Nice. And I take the eightball right here. Bang. Flight bonus would be huge right now. It's in 5x. Oh, no. He's not That's not going to do it. But at least he'll go up. He'll Yeah. Oh, he made the pay jump by 500 points. He'll take that. Yeah, he'll take that. Yep. Okay. He will. All right. 9. All right. So, we got Keith, Logan, Tom, and Neil moving to Nineball. How's it going for you so far? Don't uh you know, I think it's going well. I'll take a three on that last one and had a little bit of a blow up on Stranger Things, but it happens, you know. Yep. Could have should could have would have should have been like a four or a five, but that's okay. Yeah. Six isn't isn't going to kill you too much. No, as long as I can bat some threes along the way. How many uh what was your record looking like after the nine yesterday? Uh I had 27 yesterday. Nice. So right now we're up to I'm up to 40 once he updates this. It's what? 9 under par. Yeah, 9 under yesterday. Yeah, I'll take that. I didn't know there was a par yesterday to be fair. Yeah. Par is for everything. Yeah. Nine ball. Rip that spinner. Yep. It's not spinning too great, but if you get max value and get a spin, you'll probably get maybe 60k. All right, that one explaining the rules to Neil. Maybe probably it's probably like your dad's totally wrong. Now we have a great visual diagram. Let's see. And if anybody knows in chat, I'm always curious as to why they didn't put an insert right there. Sorry, Tom. Um cuz they've got three across everything. Oh, nice quick pass. I think they wanted to show the wizard's hand there. I mean, like that's that's the logical choice, but like they should have just moved the wizard over. They should have just moved the wizard over. Correct. Yeah. Oh boy. This is practice. This game's got some cool art. Oh, actually, yeah, this is practice, correct? He hasn't played. Yeah. Oh, wow. The shots is Did it go out? Yeah, the sh is on uh certain electronics a little bit harder cuz they always kind of have this sort of structure where and this is always high up. So, for the ball to get up and out. Sorry. It's all good. It's uh pretty challenging. Go ahead. to uh challenging to get a good up and down versus a lot of times it'll rattle out or this is okay but really don't want that um kind of basically a target fest unless you got some points on the spinner. Yeah, especially with no rubber on that post. It goes up and out a lot. Yeah. And I found actually that it makes it worse um the rubber a lot of times because it it creates the rubber when it's there. It creates the side to side. I think he keeps the spinner value, right? He does. Looks like it. And it looks like he also found the plunge. So that's good. Not that time. Oh no. I guess this probably doesn't spin, right? Now ones and twos, and unfortunate gets a ball six to light your multiball should the ball somehow fall in this way. Yeah. Good luck. Right. Good luck. I was given the advice that um I'll wait till he's Oh, nice spinner. Get it again. Oh, missed it. He just found that. Thanks, Planet, for the uh my my errant tap. I was told to shoot right here to get it in here. Okay. Like try to ricochet this way or you can go up and kind of this way. But again, I mean, it's all kind of Yeah. It's all locked, right? Uh if you're on ball six, it'll lock a ball. I guess you need to It's pretty hard to get all of them blocked, but it's possible. I know you get some kind of collect when you go in that hole. You do. Yeah, you get like 20,000 or something. Spot all numbers or something on there. Advanced loot target value, It's kind of a weird game. Agreed. It is a weird game. It's a weird layout. I don't know if there's a play field that is more open front to back. I mean, you can hit the back of the cabinet in a straight shot. Spinner's just floating there. Oh boy. Nice job there. See if he picks off that target in the top right. I think that'll advance the spinner value. Yep. It's also advanced to spinner. Oh boy. Uh all right. I think a four. Four for me. Those spinner rips early saved him. Honestly, that those spinner rips worth like 200k I think put together. Finding a plunge on this game so important. 7K for just hitting the target. He's got the plunge, too. Tap. No. Oh, boy. Don't. Here it is. Oh, and it's a practice ball, of course. Looks like Keith is trying to find the plunge here before he starts playing. Oh, he dribbled it off the post. This is not NBA fast break. Oh, almost crazy spinner on the way down. All right, Heath starting up his real game. How do you build up that drop target? Do you have to go through the horseshoe or something or uh the horseshoe value is advanced by this, I believe. Okay. And potentially that upper I'm not sure. I can't read that up there. But are you talking about the talking about this target? Yeah. So every every time you hit it around the horseshoe, it reaches those values there. I'm sure it's dangerous as heck. Oh, it killed me one of the balls. So yeah, the left to right felt a little safer, but not great. Okay, I think that's what killed Neil. The left to right around the horseshoe, it slam dunked you. See if he tries to pick off a spinner here. Just hit some more targets. Thinking about it. Unlucky. Yeah. On sterns I I find that the ski pass really doesn't work at all. Just weird. It's like 10,000 20,000 30 40 17. That's the max bonus value. Is it? Yeah. It's too bad because he went backwards through the spinner and then got that value back to zero. Bit of a frustration point there already on five here. Star Wars is falling apart behind the banner behind me. The game is in the game here. Can we get Star Wars back? Oh, but for 100 a spin. I wonder if he takes that drop right now at 30k. stuck on his two. That's such a hard ball to get. Two is a rough one. Hang on. The thing is ridiculous. All right. I'm definitely not shots. No. No shots. I agree. Nope. All right. That'll get him. What? Uh like a seven. I think that's an eight. Some people some people were saying yesterday that this game is it looked like and I thought this too and Keith mentioned it that it looked like he like it skipped the ball like it went from three to five. So we're going to take a look uh just to be on the safe side here. Yep. Yeah. So, when I was playing this yesterday, I heard some people saying that they saw it skip a ball. So, we'll go back and watch the VOD here. You want to grab like Josh or Let's see. Well, we can find out. All right. So, ball three. Let's uh come over here. So, so Keith's on ball three. He might have jumped to ball five. No. Oh, yeah. Yep. Okay. Yep. So, yeah, we just reviewed the footage. Keith drained his ball three and the game skips. Let me get Let me get his score. Believe he had around 21. Figure out exactly 214 690 is what Keith was at. So Keith is going to get a comp ball here because he missed out on one of his balls. He ended with 214 690. So he gets to play one more ball. Looks like Logan's going to be playing his game first here. See if he has the plunge. Nice return from this land points. Oh yeah, these alleyans are brutal. Oh my god, there's a post there, but you wouldn't know it. like a heart plunge from uh Logan there. Nice. Oh, nice. Oh, wow. What's that? So Keith's going to play his comp ball after me. I mean, it's the one good thing about being on stream, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay. He's got a seven lit. Nice save. See if he takes a spinner here. Got to find the balance of cashing out the spinner. Not too early, but not too late. No. And you don't want to like nick it either. Yep. Oh, that's spun a few times. A pretty good bonus, too, with two eggs. You can drop those all. Imagine knowing how to play this game. Yeah. I know. I just tried to raise the spinner and the spinner. Okay. He's got the super bonus. 77,000. [music] Oh, you're right. So, he's Are we live or not? He's trying to decide what he wants to do. He has good bonus or he just needs Go for the upper. Go for the upper drops. Yep. 7,000 block. That'll do it with a super bonus. There you go. Now you're Now you're chilling. Logan will be taking a three here. As long as he doesn't tilt, he knows it. He's fine. Let's give it a Yep. Logan's got it. Nice three. Yep. Logan, play my game. We got Tom coming up next and then Keith is going to play his combo. Someone said, "Besides the target at the top, how do you fully light the spinner?" Uh, you have to I believe it's these drops and these drops. Sounds about right. Actually, it's that center drop that gave them a increase of value on the spinner. This one right here. Uh, this one right here. So, these two. Just those. Yeah. Okay. Oh, it jumped the flipper. Oh, no. That's tough. finds the target. Nice head bounce. Rip it there. Perfect. Not a super juicy spinner, but get you gets you there. You know, you do get a nice little grace period after your first rip where you can rip it again. It's true. Oh, I don't know. I don't know how often you see that. Okay. All right. Watch the ball counter here. He's watching all four. Oh, yeah. That's a All right. Come on. Last call. 130,000. Oh, nice use of the center post. Oh, that could be dangerous. Nice save. Okay. Back there points. He rips that. Oh no. and Keith's got his comp ball now. Yep. So I think it was 214 690. Yep. So he needs a little less than 200k. I put your six in there. I put your six on there. Create another six. [laughter] That's a good spin. That'll help. Uh, forgot what Gad 21469. Getting pretty close. What do you have before? or an eight. So, it's going to be Oh. Uh, so I think that's a six. Got a six, I think. All right. Some decent scores there. Keith takes a six. Logan with a three. Tom with another six. Uh Neil with four. We are moving on to Sea Witch. This game was playing pretty good yesterday. Uh I thought it was one of the easier ones to get in the bank. Just got to carefully maneuver the rig through our pinball. Yeah. See Tom trying to get the rig through here without bumping into anyone. Okay, moving on to Sea Witch. If you don't know how to play Sea Witch, it's uh pretty simple. Uh you'll see these X's on the three target banks. Basically, you want to hit them in order. One, two, three. Um, that'll increase your bonus multiplier. So, it just goes from the center bank to the left bank to top right bank. Uh, yeah, you just got to hit the one with the lit X. That increases your bonus multiplier. All the targets you drop give you more bonus. There's also these targets right here. And I think there's one back here uh that corresponds to these lights which increase the spinner value um I believe by 200 per just a ripoff of the Beatles. Yeah, pretty much. Tough part of this game a lot of the time is getting these targets back here. Uh, you can shoot for them from the right flipper, but sometimes it can be hard to get that top one. Got to hope for some nice pop look. Hole number one. Got it. All right. I like sea witch. Question is, will it like me? This game's landing good. Does it? It's got It's got rubbers on the on the lanes. Oh, it does. Don't full plunge and hold up the left flipper. It'll You'll kill you'll get down the middle. I mean, it might not, but it it short plunge then or uh I was short plunging to try to like get the sweep, but the bounce it takes isn't great to get the targets, but safer than the alternative. Okay. All right, it's good to know. This game is actually played as a fourplayer game. So you can't tilt through on a Stern Electronics game except for when you can. biggest f up in pinball was waffling in a $400 sea witch. Yeah, that's uh pretty unfortunate. Finding the tab, I found the tap left to right was much easier than the right to left. I'm trying to find the short one here. Just got it. Just warning Tom about that full plunge holding up the left flipper. Some copies of Sea Witch, if you full plunge all the way around and you hold up this flipper, you can take out one or two targets. This one, you'll get one, but it can feed down the center. So, your full punch worked that time. I was just going to say I like I got to try it. I'm sure I'll do it and screw it up. I tried it in practice and I I got it once and other time went straight down the middle. So, okay. See what uh nice thing about going last, you get to see what everybody else does. Yep. I think Logan will opt to short launch here. Not sure where they have the rubber over the upper flipper. I got this. Yeah, I think for some reason it's like a stuck ball spot. Uh, that makes sense. When I was playing, someone had a ball bounce off the river there and it didn't right away. Maybe it's a a rebound from those targets. Short plunging off two targets. Nice. Nice one. One target left in the center bank. Looks like he hit it there. Jesus Christ. Struggling with that last target. He's going to get it here though. He's got his spinner value built up all the way. Spinner doesn't spin great on this, but with max value, it's uh worth going. Yeah, that's an awesome save. And bonus multiplier does hold on this game, but I think it it goes down by like one or 2x every I've seen different settings like sometimes if you max it out it'll reset or it'll go down a certain amount. Guess we'll find out. Short punch. Yeah, everyone's been struggling to hit any targets off the short launch. It's just a a hard angle picks out there. Nice one. Nice. That works. That works, too. now it's time for the hard targets. See if he taps over. Maybe just back hands and shoots it up top. That could be trouble. Nope, it's got it. See witch has an awesome loop, but on most copies you can never actually loop it more than once. True. Nice. Awesome. Pop something out there. Now he's going to go back to the center bank. trip. Oh yeah, he's coming out there. He's in good position to get a two here. It's going to be around 400 365. Chad, I apologize for missing the drop target like eight times in a row. That was extremely embarrassing. I did the same thing yesterday on the same drop target. That is like the easiest. I'm like I mean I shot it from like eight different ways I felt like and I just could not. You know what? That's pinball. See if he gets this target down. He only has one more on the left. Oh, never mind. He just clicked that. Nicely done. That's how you knock the drops down. Wow. Big move. Bounce over. Let's see if we can get two for one here. Good nudges there to get it out. Nice. Beautiful. Tom looks at home right now. Look at this. Oh yeah, why not? L. So he's got the two easy targets in the top. And drills them. No problem. Smell a one. I smell it. Lucky there. The ppm on this is insane. Oh yeah. All right. Take that loop. Low key. How much is this loop worth? I think it's like 50k right now. 2x. I don't want it. Why hit the loop when you can do that? True. There's so many point sounds going on. I don't think so. It's very similar of all the keys. He's got a little more. I think he's going to end a little over 400. Why is the one yellow? cuz it's a hole in one. I don't know why. [laughter] Had to signify it as a hole in one. Well, thanks for the advice on the full plunge cuz I definitely would have did it. Yeah, get away from the game. You're not playing in this game. Yeah. What are you doing? Yes, Sewitch has some really cool artwork. Thanks, Elco. Thanks, everybody. That helps after getting a few sixes. Oh, yeah. Makes up for it. One one in pin masters is definitely uh a good feeling. See, that was a nice plunge cuz he uh was moving slow enough where he could hold it up and not get killed. You think the move here, not short plunging? What was that? You think like long like all the way around long plunge versus just a tap or uh I like the short plunge, but I was saying if you if you go full power and then hold up the flipper, it can go down the middle. But he did uh just enough to make it around. So when he held it up, it's in there of if you should use the upper flipper. Yeah, got four. It's got three, I believe. A couple switches. He just wants to rip some targets here. Build some bonus. Oh, a rare upper trap. [laughter] Okay. Didn't know that was possible. And then he throws it directly into a popover. Yeah, just Yeah, I think he's got it. He's got to have it. So, nice two teeth. Oh, Logan's still looking for his first bang. Nice. One more. It's a nice alley pass bill out there. Yeah, that was pretty. Oh, we've all had that drain on sea witch. Oh, yeah. Goes for the targets. That's the worst sew train. You're like, "Oh, I did exactly what I needed to hit two targets. Old guys are making the kids work for it. Finally victory for the old guys." Wait till uncanny X-Men. They'll be like, "This game's easy. So yeah, now he has the this target still up, which you can't really aim for from a flipper. That's too bad. Yeah, that's true. I'll be back next year. [laughter] This was actually my lowest score yesterday. I got a three. You wait. Say that again. Your lowest score was a three. Well, my best score. Oh, your best score. I got you. I thought you meant like I had a lot of fours and fives. Okay. Well, that's nothing better than a three. Okay. All right. I finished eight over. Yeah. Let's see if we can get the drops this time. Nice alley again there. Don't want to ali too cleanly. Nice. Great place to be. He's got the the easy top target left. You can pick that off from the left. Some sea switches you can backhand. This one, not really. Pass. Nails it. Almost flipped himself into the outland. Yeah. Nice. Awesome. Yeah. Thanks, Connor, for jumping in the booth, too. Appreciate it. No problem. Yeah. Spinner. Yeah, the spinners get good value now. There's the loop. I think he wants a spinner. Yeah, he does. People sleep on the spinner on Sea Witch. Be good. Got three. You got it like maxed out or or one away. It's pretty good. You knew he had it there. He didn't want it till that's a four for Logan. Nice job. See if everyone can get under five here. So in this situation or do you try to plunge up to here? No. Never. No. I go for it. You think so? I think we just send it up there and hope that doesn't happen. That's sucks. What's he at right now? doesn't play the next ball. He's getting a nine. Needs 180 to get get. He's got it. I looked up before that ball four there and where he's at there's not there there are a lot of strokes for this. You know, it's like, man, this is a pressure ball here. Draining here is a lot of strokes. He's got it, but I felt the pressure. Certainly. Oh, that's dangerous. That's nine. It's going to be a nine. See, X-Men we go. Yep. On to the uncanny X-Men. I think the target score here is 200 million. Let's see. 200 m. Not an easy one, that's for sure. The new code it's uh it's a little better. Once you finish a mode, you can get in the future and nail those shots. Some Nimrod. Yep. So for that hole, we got Tom with the one, Keith with two, Logan with four, Neil with nine. I don't know what's going on here. Someone holding a flipper vine. Doesn't look like it. Tom looks confused. It appears we have a right flipper problem here. Oh, flipper button is gone. So, that's supposed to be right here, but it is. should be a quick fix here. Just going to put the button back on. Hopefully that's all it is. All right. It looks like we got a slight intermission here. Good time for an ad break. Tom has about a million buttons here uh at the commentary booth. In case anyone was wondering, we're here at OD Pinball in near Chicago, Illinois for the 2026 Pin Masters. This is a pretty cool spot. It's my first time coming here. Uh, a lot of cool games. They actually have a prototype uh, King Kong Whitewood unpainted cabinet. It's pretty cool. Looks like we're booting the game back up. So, I think he's almost got it fixed. So, the order on this game is going to be Tom, Keith, Logan, and Neil. Oh, we have a tech alert. Switch test. Let's see if it's flipping. The start wasn't working, but it is working. Can't believe you broke the flipper button, Tom. I didn't mean to. I And then I couldn't start a game either. And finally, it started one game. We're going to We're going to run an ad while this is all going. I was saying it would be a good time for an ad, but you have so many buttons here. I don't know which one starts an ad. Three more holes to go. really was Yeah, I guess the button fell out and the switch was stuck. Yeah, it's like a double whammy and you couldn't start the game. Maybe that had to do with the the switch being stuck. It's all good. They say it was all good. Seems like we're ready. Glasses back. Rick music. I got my boss. It's the perk of uh having your tournament in Chicago. You can get uh Stern employees to fix the games for you. Shout out Tom for having such a great streaming setup here. I didn't even know he had music. He just hits types of buttons and and different things happen. Oh, [laughter] all right. Seems like we have some other issues with the game. it looks like we have some type of problem with the game. Uh, getting confused about what balls are in play. It's actually today's the finals for the local league that I play in. Missed it for this. I got to take a look and see how everyone's doing in that. Looks like he's trying to see if the trough switches are register and collect correctly. Uh, will they switch to another machine? So, in this format, everyone's playing all the same games, so they're not going to switch to another game unless it's the last resort, really. Um, they'll they'll try their best to fix it, even if it takes a while. Um, shouldn't be too long of a fix here, though. They could skip it. Yes. But yeah, as for swapping games out, uh if if worse came to worse, they would probably just take the game out entirely and cut the scores, but that's not going to happen here. I know they were having a lot of problems with wild card yesterday and they were thinking about doing that, just wiping the scores and doing a 17 hole course, but uh they ended up getting it fixed. Getting a little test game in here. Seems like everything's working okay. See multiball. He's got three balls. Rain all three. Three are coming back. Yep. Everything seems good here. Seems like we're good to go here. I think so. Did you see what happened when I was practicing? Yeah. [laughter] I was just like I turn around to Keith. I'm like, "Do you see that?" He's like, "Yep. Yeah. And then Kyle's like playing on his knees. I'm like, "You should join the tournament. Just play on your knees." You got one of the players working on the game now. Well, Logan is technically a tech. So, if you're wondering why Logan is pounding his fist on the playfield, he's uh trying to figure out if a switch is registering. Looked like the head was moving back. Watch the score there. Uh when he's hitting the playfield, the score is going up, which means there's a switch that's registering that shouldn't be. I'm fine if the head is wrong. So, [laughter] yeah, some free sentinel hits. All right. Even though I was aiming for the uh center ramp, I kept hitting the head. So, does Logan uh play here normally? Is he from around here? Yeah. Yeah, he's local. He's pretty He's very good. Yeah, he just he doesn't travel. What's up? Good tech and good player. Yeah. Yeah, he was checking at like Papa and stuff. So, Awesome. I think he rebuilt all the flippers I or most of them. That sounds like a tedious job. Yeah, I'm a bad tech myself. I just hope my games don't break. I'm like average. I'm fine. So, looks like we're just letting that switch slide. play on. Make sure she hit the flippers a lot to get those three points. Tom, how was your first day? First day I shot a 45, so nine nine over. It wasn't It wasn't terrible. I just like my last three games kind of went went to hell and it was it was Starship Troopers, Transformers, um Black Knight, and Demo Man. So, last four games. Black Knight was okay. I got a four, but I wanted like a two on it. Yeah. Where's uh not bad for Black Knight. The target like 60 or something. Uh Black Knight was only 30. Oh, 30. Yeah. The problem you going for multiball or you just mode? So I was on my I'm in ball two. I was I was in my mode. I was in my multiball and I had the power lid in the center and I hit it three times. It didn't register. So then Yeah, that's common black knife problem. Yeah. So of course, you know, they came over, test it. It was fine. Okay. Nothing nothing I can do about it now. All right. and get ready to Good luck. Thank you. Neil stepping up for a bit of practice. 200 mil on X-Men. It's not that bad. Um yeah, it's pin masters, so the target scores are high. Uh with the new X-Men code 200 mil, I'd say is a little easier to get than it used to be. finish a mode, get into the future, and then yeah, as uh as Pizza Jake says, you can do some Nimrod maxing. This game has some bad flipper hop on the left which makes it really tough to hit shots accurately. Got Tom up first. Did he practice yet? I think he did. Looks like it. All right, here we go. The Uncanny X-Men. Target score is 200 million. We got Tom, Key, Logan, Andy. Looks like Tom might want to preface Sentinel right at the beginning here. Yep, that's what he wants. Oh wow. Oh man. Bit of a panicked move and then a fumble. Yeah. What's uh what's your strategy? Um I'm shooting center amps in Sentinel facility. Shoot more center amps and then trying to get a good Nimrod after that. Probably probably have some head progress and then bring uh Multiball and fiery assault. Okay. Single ball modes. I also like Gosha. It's a good one. Feel like it's really all about just finishing modes on this new code. Which one's Gosh, the far left? The Magneto one. Magneto. The one with the red shots and the one green shot. Gotcha. I hit the green one, right? You do want to hit the green one. This game had the highest stroke average yesterday. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. So, looks like Keith is doing the strut I was just describing. I think he's just going to hit the center ramp as many times as he can here. Raymond's asking, "Is there a way to tell when the sentinel will start?" Good question. Good question. Yeah. I don't know. When the mouth's open and you hit it enough there might be something on the display that's all good. I hit it twice already. Surely the next time. Cannot back in that man. That's a bad pop. Yeah. Classic X-Men drain. Yeah. Not much you can do there. Well, I don't I was really surprised that I threw the game and I only got to double danger. It actually kind of freaked me out a little bit. That was nice. Doublean's not happy about that one. Uh, that tilted. Neil, give it a second. That's what I'm saying. Uh, Minnesota Retro Gamer, thanks for the raid coming in. Three viewers. Thanks. How's it going? You're watching the 2026 IFPA Pin Masters Pinball Championship at ORD Pinball in Chicago. It's a private club. Uh we had the North American Pinball Championship on Thursday and now all of us are going through this torture trying to get uh into the playoffs. Top 24 will make the playoffs which will start tonight around probably around 8:00 I guess. Uh might be some tie breakers or something too. Yeah. My crew finished at like 9 yesterday so could be a little later. Could be a little later. We got held up though with a uh flipper issue. Okay. Yeah. Morning session went all right. There was uh there was a problem with the flipper on wild card, but seemed like everybody got through it after that. Yep. Thanks to the text for fixing it. Mark was working on that. Neil wants fire mode here. See if he tries to stack it with Sentinel. Oh, he's ripping shots. Yeah, maybe just like screw it. I'm finishing this. Who schedules any gyms on a weekday? It's always on a Thursday because they always do pin masters right after. That's a three-day event. Josh Sharpe's manager. Well, he is the manager. I'll tell them you want to have a word with them. Starts mode. Let's see what he's doing. Fire assault. He's getting pretty close to multiball. Oh, wow. Power inlet. Oh man. Oh my. Yeah. The same drain as you. I think that right outline's going to be hungry though. Oh yeah. My results is so 2025. Keith actually did not work on this game. So, no penalty for him. Okay. I don't know if multiballs in play. I don't know cuz you're not going to have much. Uh, it's you just got to move the mouse away. What were you saying? Uh, just I don't know if multiball is a play cuz probably you're going to be in it for like 5 seconds anyway. You're right there. [laughter] He's probably playing out the modes and getting an Nimrod and yeah, I was told yesterday that you can't change the multiball ball saver time on this game. So, stop. Okay. Guess it just does not have enough. So, maybe that's a good thing then. So then then it's worth going for. So Keith, if he hits these three red shots, he's getting like 60 mil. It's like 15 mil a piece and then like a 15 or 20 mil finishing bonus. Oh, he still got credit. A little ball save though. Yeah, you do get a ball save, which is really nice. Scary the best. See that flipper hop can be brutal. Yeah, the double not from that. Oh, that'll do it. That's tough for Keith since that was the that was the shots he needed for high value. Yeah. Who who made the score for this game? I'd like to punch him in the face. Yeah. Did he do do rules on this? What's that? Did he do rules on this? Oh, you mean who say who set the score? Target. No, no, the target score. Yeah. All right, center ramp out. So, how this mode works is there's these sentinel heads and they just kind of go left to right. Um, but you can just shoot the center ramp over and over and it'll land on the center ramp eventually. Is there any reason for me to switch modes? cuz I failed in the middle. Um, I know if you if you fail like during the Nimrod phase, you can do it again but can't get it back or something like that, but you should probably just stick with fire assault. You were nailing that ramp, Tom. Everyone else was struggling with it. Yeah. Oh, man. They have a lot more points. [laughter] [music] Surrender. No. Eat's got the mode timed out there. Missed out on a lot of value. That's special. So, what does that actually get you? So, it'll advance your sentinel. Like, so if if he hit it, I think multiball would start. Okay. If you like haven't hit it, it'll progress you to like drop the mouth. That's why they call it the danger room. Oh my god. Oh, the danger room ball save is on. Yeah, Josh forgot to I guess get rid of the switch. Don't tell him. Let's see what he plays here. He wants fiery assault. Yeah, he's close to multiball. So, I would Yeah, one of the best multiball. There it is. There we go. Nice. See what the Ryan Policky is. Still on. Like you said, if they can't touch it as building. Yeah, I I have noticed this game. It seems to have like maybe slightly shorter ball savers than other turns. I will take all that ball save. Thank you. Oh, you got to you got to do the Zmac. I slap the Oh, that's works. What a Oh, that was weird. Just going to shimmy it over and do a little tip. Oh, come on. Maybe Stay alive. Who's the evil person that made this game? Back to the future. It's a good ride. This is a good future. These shots are not too bad. Except the right ramp there. 37 million. I'll take that. Is this next one going to be 37 million? I hope it is. I think if he gets all these, he just wins. Yeah. Okay. Please, Logan. Oh, man. Are these like hurry up shots? Do they lose? That's what I asked yesterday and I was told they're not. Oh my. Wow. But I kind of thought they Well, it does time out, I guess. But Yep. All right. Hit it. Nail it. Yeah. All right. That definitely wasn't as much. Maybe maybe the value is more if you hit a shot faster. I I have no idea. Way to go. He's got time. It's just really hard to get that shot. It's super difficult to get a clean feed on the left. See, he's got that little bounce there. Oh, he had two ax. That's why it was 37 million. Oh god. Oh, okay. Thank you. Wow, that was And there's no outline speed. Good bonus. Let's see. 57. Seems like Neil is going to opt to finish his fiery assault. I blame Noah for the high scores. Yeah. Do they do a medium score or is it average to get the pin master target? It's got to be maybe a higher average like not exactly like a 50% average but maybe a 70 or I don't know. I'd have to ask you what is going on. He wanted to let it drain because the ball save this post right here just kept knocking it back in. [laughter] There we go. He's in the future. Feet Nimrod. Three shots. See which one he goes for first. Going for the hard one first. Nice. Goes all the way around. Not a lot of balls here. Yeah, that's a pretty good amount. Oh, wow. Scary. Just one. He's got to get this here. You don't get many opportunities. Cradled up on the left. Nice. Can he be the first to defeat Nimrod? 10 seconds. Oh. Stupid uh stupid half rubbers. Yep. Half Tom stepping up. He's got some work to do. He's at 2 million. So Tom starts a naked multiball. He's disappointed about that. Would have liked to bring a mode in there. So I'm taking a danger and multiball. Too good. Uh this is two. Already out of multiball like 5 mil from that. Oh my, that was almost the end. So Tom's just going to center ramp out and that's it. So this game very evil without right outline ball save. This game has a brutal right out lane because you can't really save it like you could on other games. I mean, once it's uh once it's past that rubber on the right, it's not really coming back. That was fun. Let's see if he goes for the fast ball special. Yeah, that feed there to the left is just so tough. Oh my. So Keith starts multiball no mode. He didn't want that. Nope. Can't get Nimrod in in multiball without a mode. You can get MRA and multiol. No, I said you can't. [laughter] Nice separation. Oh, Pete's going to have words for Jack in the office. look at Dalton. [laughter] It's like I've never seen Keith. Welcome. That's what playing X-Men does to you. Welcome to Pin Masters, right? Imagine getting a ball save on the right. Yeah. Right outline. Wow. Oh, did you guys go away? I'm sorry. Little internet issue. I didn't touch anything. No, nobody touched anything. Are we not back? Short hiccup. We're back. Okay. Right now, I'm showing zero viewers. That's That's why I'm asking. We got that. Oh, yeah. That that does that. Thanks, Bear. Good. Still occasional hiccups. Yeah, we're, you know, they got like a Starling care. We're on the Wi-Fi. I I can't can't make people Chicago internet, guys. You didn't bring your own uh fiber object internet line. I right. I I guess I need to. What the [] else do? Okay. Logan and Nimrod. I believe the third time. He just really needs like two shots here and he's good. Oh, maybe just don't chill. Even the viewership went up by like 300. So maybe maybe we need to uh drop drop it every once in a while. There we go. Yeah, that should do it. Nice job. Got it. Takes a Is that a three or a four? Three. Nice job. Logan's playing great. Logan's like, I got these scrubs with me. Is everyone in this group top 100? I am not. I'm well with the pro rankings I'm like 13 something efficiency. Yeah, pro ranking screwed you over. Yeah, pin master is going to screw me over too. Yeah, [laughter] me too. It's fine. No, we are on Starling. 200 million target score. That was pretty hard. Oh yeah, you're you're not kidding. All about the Nimrod. Is this facility raid? Yeah, he's just going to center ramp out. Yeah, he's found it. He's not going to get value on every shot, but once the sentinel head is there, he'll get some value. This is what This is what it's there. Yep. There's not that many shots to beat this mode. It's like four or five. Time is currently 106, pro ranking 137. Okay, it's not bad. Indust uh definitely helped. See, that was a pretty good feed there, actually. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Skis are a little scary, though. Especially from that right to left. Yep. Yeah. There's just no real good way to get the ball over. I mean, you can post, but it's not a shot. Ball goes into all the pop bumpers. He's got to commit to this. He's trying to roll it. That was nice, but just kept rolling. Get your live catch. 0 seconds. Nail it. Oh, come on. No grace period. What's he got there? Oh, he's destroying. Oh, yeah. This next one's going to be 20 mil. 40 mil for this next one. Oh, hit it. Oh, all right. He's Yeah, he's doing the right thing by not panicking. Don't panic. He panics. He could have gotten 40 million. Yeah, I could have also drained. Play another mode. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good choice. Can you c fast on? Yeah, we're not going to try [music] today. All right, five gifted subs if you try to c fast. A damn. [laughter] Well, could have a good pad hand in Joker poker. You never know. No, you're good. I'll get the one. It did not work. Okay, I ain't trying it though. Yeah, it's it's not possible. It's too low and not in the right spot. Come on, Jack. Oh, that was a post save. He's got plenty of time in the mode. Starts multiball. This is good. This Gosha. Yeah. Looking for the green shots if you can. It's not easy to do. got his action button lit. I wonder if anybody during uh North American got the uh that's brutal. Got like save the city probably. I mean I know Noah got like one and a half billion. So, so yeah, I think so. Okay. So, what's what's he at right now? I think I think he has enough where this Nimrod could uh Oh, yeah. He definitely does. Just two shots here. One. Oh, there we go. See, that helps a lot. He gets a clean shot. One more. Yep. Take your time. You got it. Oh my. No. Bonus. Bon. Big bonus. No. It's close. Yep. He can get a four here. All right. Let's see a four. Tom, you got a next ball. Grip some shots. All right. That's a good choice. Hey, so when you were trying to let it drain and it just kept like stuck and I'm like, "Oh, shoot." Okay, back into the sentinel mode. Yep. Center ramp. It's a Nimrod. Nice catch. Rip it. And oh, this game is designed perfectly to where if you like half ramp, it's always hitting a sling or a pop bumper. Right. This will save him if he can nail all these shots here. That's the hard one right there. See, Tom's the only one who can hit that ramp. Oh, man. There's just a lot of flipper hop up on these two flippers, so it's hard to Oh, yeah. control it down there. Yeah, the right flipper has a little bit, too. Yeah. I've been saying that it's so hard just to get a a good shot off the left flipper. Oh yeah, it really is. The can't really trap from the feed. You get the flipper hop. Can't ski pass. Can't really coast pass. his face there. [laughter] Game set up super hard. Yeah, the games here are pretty difficult and the target squares are happening. It's a combination of both. Yeah. Center ramp, left ramp. No, that works, too. Get the ball back. Oh no. Throw it. [laughter] The most gentle rage still. Oh, that's me. Well, you get to plunge away Logan's ball anyway. All right. And Neil just needs 11.5 million points. Yeah, he just needs to start a mode and just rip some shots. Doesn't really even matter which mode. It's whatever one you can hit the most shots. Just ramp out. Yep. He's thinking about it. What do I need? Is he going to button it? Works. course went around the horseshoe instead of the ramp. And he gets a danger and it's gone cuz there's no ball save over there cuz there's no switch. This is pin masters we're talking about. This is pin masters. You don't get ball saves. No ball saves for you. You got pin mastered. No balls. Ah, should have hit my nim hard shot on ball three. Yep. Center amp starting mode. See what he's doing. Yeah, the award for shading is the ball goes into the outlet. Heat. Neil got a three, right? Or was it got a three? Oh, yeah. Logan Logan got a three. I got a nine, right? This is Yeah. Uh, wait. Yeah, it's a nine. Wow. Danger room. Imagine making it around the See if he can do a stern catch here or something. That was scary. He's on double danger, right? I think so. See what he's going to take. Yeah. The one where you have to hit the standups to hit the captive ball. That isn't a captive ball. Yeah. It's probably like I've been hitting targets anyway. So, push push. All right. What did Keith get here? He got an eight. I was trying to give Neil a pep talk. He's like, "Bro, I don't know what to do." Rip shots. Yeah. Start a motor shot pretty much. But which mode, man? Which mode? Bro, it's not. That was Logan. I'm like, "Oh, he's only like two shots away or a shot away from Save the City." Yep. 10 mil. Just start a mode. Like any mode. Yeah. But I don't think just starting a mode is going to get him there. I think he's going to have to finish it at least or get some points out of it. Yeah, that helps. Oh, it's only 250,000. I never go for the skill shot in this game. Okay, now he's 9 mil. Uhoh, it's not chilling. All right. I told him top right mode, but he's I'm I'm like, you either have an easy mode or that weird targets hard mode. I don't think this one's worth a lot of points. No, but you can finish it fast. Exactly. Just get to the future. Shots. Oh god. Yep. Yeah. Everybody's happy to be done with that. At least three of us are. Six. So Logan's the only one to get five or below. All right, we're going to uh Pat hand. Oh boy. Hell yeah. I it wouldn't have mattered what mode you picked. You made one shot and then immediately died. So rip. Oh, I just realized you could have uh you could have done the swirly skill shot and Yeah. I mean, but it doesn't always go around. It's fine. One extra stroke. Yeah. What was that? Oh, is that sea witch? How? Uh, the broom. Bring out the brooms. Sweep time. It's easy. Can't get too comfortable with bad hand. I mean, like seems so free until it isn't. It's But it's kind of mindless. You kind of just like you're just like keep it up top and if it's not up top, just go back up top. Got uh there guys holding a chair up to the ceiling. Oh. Oh, because of the the [clears throat] dangly the dangly lights. This place is not built for screaming rags. No, with umbrellas. All right. and good old Pat hand. Tom probably has the world's tallest streaming rig. Yeah, top five for sure. I think we have the umbrella adjustment uh locked in now. Yeah, he's got it. He's It's a process. This was like a 5minute umbrella adjustment yesterday on this game. Yeah. This that whole area definitely needs it. Oh boy. Come on, Tom. Don't fall over. Oh. [laughter] Oh, good old Padham. I mean, you get you can get what? 10k base bonus of all. Double it for 20. You're getting like tens and hundreds of points like for everything. Uh this Can we circle? Yeah, that uh there's one light lit at that top bank for 3,000. So, if you're going to swat it, try to swat it at one of those, you know. Uh otherwise, you just kind of you're hoping that like like you plunge, you kind of want it to like go over here so that way you can keep it back up top and just hope that it never comes back down and you just get 40,000 points just for being up there. That's like that's like ultimate goal. You just want to loop out and then you get all of these rollovers and it lights the top buttons for 1k a piece. Yep. So, but what what inevitably happens is every time you get the last roll over, you just drain immediately through and then what the second set is a double bonus. Yeah. Bonus is double bonus max is 20k. That's really Yeah, that's half your score right there. So, and all of these give you advance bonus, but you never really get them rolling down here. No, you I if I was on the right, I was trying to send it up this way and like hug the wall and try to get as many as I can, but you only need 10 total. So, it's like it's not like you need to sit there and grind those. Yeah, you got you got to hit them direct though. Yeah, for sure. Maybe zoom out. The score is still zoomed. Uh, this is the EM, so we're playing it single player. Yep. So, Logan, this is practice, but he only has one more uh roll over to get in center. Is that middle one done? Uh, I believe so. I think it's just the one on the right. I put the uh the game on there. Yeah. Tom was like, "You asked me [music] for one more thing." [laughter] Oh, you did it. Oh, cool. Nice. All right, let's let's see. Uh, big old fly. Hell yeah. Fourth commentator. See you. You definitely want to try to plunge so the ball goes left so that way you get a flip with that upper flipper. See, he's getting like two two of those buttons. So, he's at what? 4K bonus. Nice. Wow. Got to go for buttons. Yeah, it's the button button out. Now, what does he do? Just keep keep doing that. Keep doing the buttons. just button out. Hope the ball never comes to the lower half of the playfield ever. He doesn't have all his center buttons, though. No, I don't know which one he's missing. So, I think it might be that middle one, but you're just not you. They just happen. You just kind of take these tens of points and be happy with it. Hope you don't get a pop down the middle cuz as soon as you start getting deliberate with stuff like that, it just goes south very quickly. So, You got to play this game real nonchalant. My middle name. Oh yeah, Tom Shalant. [laughter] He's almost halfway there. Yeah, that's a really good start. I thought there was a food truck. Oh, there is food. Huh? What? Getting a view of the top of his head here. That's fine. That's how you know he's locked in. He's not nonchalant enough. True [] god. Yeah, that's what I was saying. When it comes to that upper flipper, you hardly get those bonus rollovers, but he didn't get any there, but there he's going to be. Okay, so this is where you want to be. Uh, his buttons up top are worth a,000 a piece now. So he could if he just gets a couple loops, he could very easily get the score here. But yep, that's every time you light him up, you drain the money round. This could be a nice three here. Oh yeah, that helps a lot. He just got so many rollovers there. Yeah, he's got it. He's got it. Don't all three. Nice. He knows. Is it possible to do it in one ball? Oh, yeah. 100%. Yeah. You just got to have a good ball. You really need a light roll over, right? Nothing draining. Yeah. Logan's uh having a field day on this. Oh, yeah. Three from Logan. Hell yeah. How Yeah, this game's it's like weirdly fun. Something about an upper loop. What does pat hand mean? Um, pat in the hand. Something with cards. I don't know. Some sort of cardo. Yeah. It's like like the back of your hand. You're doing this. Oh, that's it. Mhm. Yeah. It's sign language. I don't really know. Pat, don't draw what the art's trying to convey on this game. You don't draw any card. Okay. So, you're just you're just holding on. You got five cards and you're like, "Oh, man. I'm good. I got a royal flush. I mean, I don't have anything, you know." Yeah, but I'm not going to take any cards. [laughter] I'm so confident and I I I know you have nothing. I know I have nothing. So, let's just all go all in. Uh, it's a good choice to flip away. Yeah, but now he's just like stuck in pop hell. The snowball one, right? He got his first ball. He flipped it into the out straight to the out lane. First flip. Nice. Oh, yeah. I was like, "This game sucks." Yeah. Especially coming off of a a six, a nine, and then a six. He's just like trying to keep it together. Oh, that that works. Yeah, that doesn't bonus. That's what I was saying. It seems free until it isn't. Yeah. Seems like those uh upper targets are death. Oh, he hit one right there. Got 3k out of it. Oh, they're they're usually dead. Like if you if you hit them straight on with no kind of side to side angle, it'll just come right back down. All the jokers there. That gets you extra ball. Yeah. So, he's on his last ball here. 13,000. He can just max out his bonus. [clears throat] Good. Yeah, with the residual points. Feels like I should have stayed in college. So, how do you double the bonus? Nice. Okay, he's got it. Um, two sets of these middle rollovers. Sure. So, it's not likely, but it's usually just the result of a really good ball. Okay. So, that was four, right? Four. That was five. Five. Yeah, it's five. Yep. Which was Keith's up next. I want to see a one here. I would love that for Keith. I would also like a one. Yeah. So, let's do it together. Kept it together. Old man squad. I like that. No. Oh, wow. Practice. Yep. All right, keep starting it up for real here. Hopefully he can uh make a comeback after that eight in the last game. It's not a great plunge, but picks up two rollovers. One more center roll over and he lights those uh rollovers 15s. Yeah, that's big. Okay, got it. This could be huge if you just some nice rollover action. And he's got his pop lit for 100. Is that from all the rollovers? I think so. And I'm assuming the other one will light from the other side. Wow. Still at 8,000 points. There we go. That helps. Yeah. 5k from that. Yep. He's cruising now. I mean, if he can get this next set of rollovers. He only needs one. I mean, you chew for it. 10k. Yeah. Right there. Boom. Oh, he almost got the one. Awesome. He got it though. He got the whole bonus. Yeah. Big. Look at that. So now you just don't bozo and Yeah. Literally play for like 3 seconds, right? Like Tom stepping up to practice. Yeah. He's like, "Well, he still has three balls over here. Might as well use a couple of those. right, this is for real, I think. Yep, looks like it. Come on, Tom. What you want there? You got 3k bonus. It's nice bonus. Uhoh. Tom's fighting the glare. Tommy needs his own umbrella. He gets his first set of top lane or buttons. flipping around. Nice. Yeah, he's got max bonus. Max double. Oh my. If there was ever an opportunity for one, this is it. This is the Yeah, that's how you do it. Literally 10 more of these buttons. Nine more of these buttons. There you go. Already have 13 right here. Oh no. And okay, easy clean up just like this game here. So plunge well pick up some good bonus and that's it. Hopefully you don't instabo. Still only has Okay, there's Oh, he didn't get that. Oh, he went for the target. Uh, he's got it. He's got it. Yep. Unless he just like magically tilts. Still not there. So many of the things on this playing field, they're just worth like 10 points. Yeah. Nice to two. Yep. Another win for the old man. Yep. Old man old game. And what are we going to here? Joker poker. Yep. I feel like this Joker poker played pretty nice. Oh, yeah. It felt good. Yeah. It's just like a little floaty. The only problem with it, which is fine, but the I thought the dead bounces were a little weird. I'm always scared to dead bounce on Joker poker for some reason. Yeah. Or like I don't know. I feel like I lose the ball by the flippers so much in this game and just doing some stupid stuff, right? All right. So, he's doing practice. This is uh players one and three. So, they'll just do two players uh at a time. Nice. You got the 10. And um so each ball, one set of targets uh will multiply the bonus by five for that ball and it rotates with each ball, which is kind of cool. So you need what? 225. How many sets of queens is that? Uh so it's a lot. A lot. Yeah, it's actually I think it's you have 5k per queen after the first bank and then 5k for the completion. So you need like 14 queen banks. It's doable. You'll also be getting other points and bonus. Yeah, I saw yesterday people were getting these two queens and then bouncing up here and then getting the third. Oh wow. Eric Stone was doing that like consistently. Wow. I saw you shoot one queen and immediately get an outlane. Yeah, I got like 160k on my first ball and then go to five. Sure. this is just practice. So, they're just kind of feeling stuff out, checking where the shots are, finding the plunge, maybe check the tilt, check the bounces, just kind of get a feel for how the game's playing. Like, what would you check in practice in this game? Um, uh, I don't know. Probably al pass it, check the till. Like there isn't that much you need to check. Like it's maybe just like find the shot like it's just ribbon twice. Find the 10 maybe. I don't know. I was just kind of playing for a little bit. Shot of 10 in practice. Yeah. Hello. No one here on the mic. Hello. Welcome. Uh, the second round was so tough for me. I blame it entirely on me being exhausted. Yeah. Day three. It's going to be a lot. What was your uh final 97 97? It's not going to do it. Brutal. All right. Keith's starting us off. No, I have a I guess I don't have a full day tomorrow to do whatever, but I don't know what to do. True. Yep. Play some pinball. Do some commentary. Go see the bean. For all I know, maybe 97 will be good enough. True. Last year the cut was 82. Oh god. But was it where the games at least a little easier than this gets his queen 82 for the past two years. Wow. Okay. Uh yeah, this is something I don't think I'm in though. It's interesting to see at tournaments like how consistent the cut line stays. Yeah, nice. Okay, got the 10. So, now he has a 5x bonus. See, like I would have drained there. I I absolutely would have. H you go for the You go the jack and then you shoot. Jack's worth 10k here. It's huge. Or ricochet off of the king. Oh, waiting for that. Crazy. Boom. Oh, yeah. This He's got one ace left. One jack left. One ace left. It was probably best to go for the K's instead of the Yeah, I I wouldn't have had the confidence to do that. That was like one one stroke territory there. Yeah. That bank of kings is 20k when you get the 5x. Pretty nutty. You know if extra ball gets you anything in this? I did not think so. I don't think so. All I hear is X Files noises. No, it's all you need to hear. All you need to hear games audio in that game is great. Definitely you need to hear. All right, sitting at 80,000. Already guaranteed himself a nine. All right. So now the jacks will uh multiply the bonus if he can complete the get the second jack. True. It's uh absolutely true. There we go. So now he's got it locked in. He does not seem like a queens all day guy. No, I I consider myself that on this game. Not a queens all day guy. No. Yeah. I I find myself going for jacks way more often. Yeah. I kind of shop around. I don't know. I'm too I'm too into the idea of getting all the cars down. Just feels good. That the end of all bonus. Yeah. Ah, like there you got to go for the ace when you got one left, right? All right, Tom. This is an easy two for you. Uh-oh. He's on player two. He didn't hit a switch. Oh, rip. This one tell him, um, rip rip. He's Yeah. So Tom was trying to bunch out player two, but he didn't hit a switch. And now he's player two. Don't have a good ball here, Tom. Oh no. It's like the better ball he has here, the worst ball he's going to have. Exactly. Okay. Someone's got to tell him. I'm not going to tell him. Yell yell from here. Tom. He's on player two. Oh, he's making nice saves, too. Look at him. Oh my gosh. Yo, free rip. At least he's smiling about it. This is where the house ball comes in. Yo, here we go. How many flips? Okay. Yeah. Total dentist mode. Classic dentists. Those aces. Yeah, they're tempting. They need that that last jack first. Come on, Tom. Hit the jack. Oh, he wants it. But will he get another shot at it? Goes for the ski. Nice. All right, he's got it. Okay, now he's got to just clean up his king bank and he's one target. Nice. Oh, at least he got it. Definitely had a better ball. The other ball. This is where you almost want to lift up that post-it note just to see how many points you would have got. No, [laughter] you can't. You can't do that. Just a peek. It's better. You're better off not knowing. Yeah, true. But the thought is there. Checking out where you're going after this. I wanted to play Radical at Logan, but it's like 45 minutes from here. Yeah. Should have rented a car. Nice. All right, so now he needs the queens for the multiplier. He's got two down, but he already has the 10 down. One more queen will do it. He's making consistent progress on the aces. What the hell? Flips away and gets the queen. He's going for that king, right? Oh yeah, for sure. He just needs two more aces. Oh my goodness. You get anything special if you get them all? The fatty bonus the pleasure of knowing that you did it basically. Yeah, it's a nice setup on the upper flipper. Yeah, just needs the edge ones. Yeah, those are I don't think that'll be enough. Nope. Almost. It's 225. So, it's right there. Yeah, those last two aces would have done it. It's hard to tell what player is up on this game. Yeah, sometimes. For sure. Do you play extra balls? Uh, no. cuz like it wasn't it wasn't flashing I think after he he didn't hit a switch right all right oh short ball brutal so it looks like Logan and Keith are definitely locked into the finals for sure. I mean, they could get 10. Yeah, they were already sitting pretty going into this. I think I think they'll both I wouldn't be surprised if they all got in considering they were already sitting pretty. Everyone in the group. I thought so. Oh, nice. Wow. So, what? Uh, yeah, I mean, he's got it. 4,000 points. All right. Easy clean up. You want to give him a whatever it was. Four. Yep. Own to four. Nice. Yep. Nails it. Queens all day. Looks like it. Yeah, that's that's the risk. Yep. Oh, he's got to do the plunge the the plunge of shame where you got to plunge the three other balls. Have you uh tried the food truck? Have either of you tried the food truck yet? I haven't. No. I ate before this. I tried it today. It's pretty good. Get something later. The donuts are really good. I don't know if you like donuts, but I like anything. Yeah, they are delicious. You can get cinnamon sugar on them. Really adds a nice touch. Top three donuts. Ooh, I like uh jelly filled powder or glazed. Either one. I guess I could count those as two different ones. These is just classic. You can't go wrong with that. Yeah, I like a a nice warm glazed donut. Hell yeah. But if I see like a raspberry fil or or like a jelly filled one, I'm definitely getting that. Rush out the donut machine. Oh yeah, he said no. I don't got any claws. Oh my god. Oh no. You hate to see it. All right, so Tom finishes with 156. So at seven. Yep. At seven. RIP. Yeah, but the more the more results I see, the more I know I'm not getting in. So, yeah, Keith's definitely locked it. Is there buys in this? Yeah. Top eight. Top 24 make it with top eight buys. Yep. Do a round tonight. He's probably locked into a buy. It's nice to be locked into a buy here. You get to go to bed. True. Remember last time it was like 11:00 or like almost 12 even when uh the the round on Saturday and I finished? Yeah. And then you got to be back early morning. Yeah. All right. So, this is practice. Logan's just getting a feel for it. Didn't get to see that save. His giant head in the way, but it's fine. 53 is pretty incredible for Logan. 53. He can get a 10 here and still be out of g. Yeah, he's uh he's got to be one of the top qualifiers. I think he was the second place qualifier after the Mag. Yeah, Playoffs are pining golf format. Match play pinolf format. Yeah. You just more ping golf. It's like papa style pingolf kind of. Yep. Almost got the last. So you play ping golf on three different games as a four player group. And then after the three games, the two players with the lowest stroke count, you move on. Somehow I moved on last year after taking a 10 in the first round. Wow. I believe they're the same target scores. Yep. All the same. All right. So, now that they're done, I wonder what the next group we're going to see is. True. I'd love to see some ZMAC action. Well, he's in the afternoon group, so may maybe we'll they'll show him after. I um I had a fun I had a fun yesterday was a lot of fun for me. I got to um visit Stern with one of my friends. Nice. I got to play Pokémon before it even released. That was that was very cool. Hell yeah. Fun game. I think um people people are comparing it to Junkyard going after the release, but I think it's more comparable to like a mix between Attack from Mars and NBA Fast Break. NBA Fast Break. All right. The left ramp, right ramp flow on fast break is very similar. Short ball. Very um combo focused game. Sweet. It seems like he's got some good blow compared to like Junkyard where a lot of the time you brick in, people will brick out of your shots. Yeah. So, not a great ball one for Lo. It's fine. He's got no stress here. Yeah. If he does, he shouldn't because he's always stressed. That's just how he operates, you know. Like Zmac. Yeah. Looks like everyone's starting to show up for the 3 p.m. session. Yep. It's getting there. What time is it? 2:30. Yeah. Yeah, FC Vers it's um it feels well on Junkyard the wrecking ball was the big gimmick the game was built around. Pokemon feels like it has a bit more to it than that. Yeah, Neil going for his aces. Doesn't get the 10. Queens all day from Neil. Oh, I think he's just trying to take what he can get without forcing anything. Oh. Oh, he did tell me he was a queens all day guy. Nice bounce. Wow. As he does two things. Yeah. I knew I should have been all queens. All right. 52,000. Not terrible, but you know. Oh, yeah. Hot tip is another good comparison. I hadn't considered that. I'll say the most um the most difficult aspect of the game I could easily see is actually catching Pokemon because uh the shots you need to hit for that involve lots of targets. Oh my god. Nice. Flip it. Y that's fine. It's fine. Uhoh. Be bad. Good match. So, he's going for his aces. He's got a lot of things to go for here. Yeah, he's kind of just shopping around a little bit. It seems like I mean, he's like all but one on all of the banks. Most of the banks. Get some aces. Yep. Even the aces. Oh my god. This This is the worst feeling when you're like, I just need to hit literally any of these targets, please. So many points on the table. Oh my god. Nope. Come on. Hit it. Got to go kings here. It's always that anything really. At least at least it's not the far left ace. Okay. Cleans up queens. Picks off the ace. See if we can pick off the king. That would have been nutty. Also would have Oh, that's a classic Joker poker grin. I find um I find where I'd rain by far the most on Joker poker is coming off of the right side where it says 500 special when lit. I've gotten house balls for that area. Oh yeah. Without even um without even while trying to nudge I I just kill that area consistently. So, he's at 112 after two balls. It's pretty solid. All right, let's see if Neil continues his queens all day strat or if he uh opts to shop around a little more. Yeah, this is a big game for Neil here. Yeah, that was weird. No. Oh my god. Didn't pay for it. Uh-oh. Okay. Takes off the jacks. Stays alive. Save. Uh-oh. Oh my god. Game show game showing him way more mercy than it did me. That's for sure. A great ball though. Even if it didn't get him there, the survival skills there were crazy. True. Neil really wants like a five at most here. Oh yeah. All right. So, now he needs queens for his bonus multiplier. He's already close on aces, too. Yeah. gets queens and aces. That puts him in a really good spot. Uhoh. Okay. Ace. One more ace. It's the middle ace. I think it's 5K for that. He's there if he hits the ace, right? Going to rip queens though. Yeah. Um, actually, it's the joker. Oo, true. Four aces in a joker. Yeah, he's chilling. He's got it. Just don't do some crazy move. Yeah, he knows. He's like, I'm over it. Let's get out of here. So that's a three for Logan. Yeah, nice nice round for Logan. That's got to be one of the top qualifying scores. 56. Yeah. I don't know. We're not in yet really. So that puts him 16 under bar. Meanwhile, Neil's trying to stay alive here. Gets his queens. could help. True. I mean it's like one target for the Did he not even flip there? Uh I think he I don't know. His head was in the way. Oh man, I don't think that's that last ace would have would have been it. Yeah. Uh by Neil though fine though. I mean this could be an easy cleanup, right? 15k like a weird spot to be in. Like what are you shooting? Probably. There's nothing that just gives you that many points immediately. Bonus. Well, you can get the uh 5k plunge. Yo, yeah, true. And just get up and down, up and down. Boom. Done. Yeah, he's got a plunge of shame and make sure it hits a target. It hits something. Plunge of shame. The double graph. plunge of shame. Uh 15 under is with his uh scores on the back n there. Uhoh. Nice strap catch. Just hit the jack. Wow. Another 5K. Oh, he's got Okay, good. He's got it. That's a four from Neil. Nice. That's going to do it. Yep. For sure. So, we have Keith with 65, Logan with 56, Tom with 91, Neil with 81. All right. So Logan and Keith definitely through uh probably with buys. Definitely buy for Logan. Tom's probably out and Neil is probably just right on the cut line. I'm playing in 15 minutes, so I'm going to step out and get some practice. Sounds good. Yeah, everybody sit tight. We got a whole other set of pin golf for you. nine holes, which will be the final the final run through for the final group. And then uh I'm pretty sure they'll start finals right after. So, we'll be live all night. They'll do any tiebreers and then they'll do first round and then any tiebreers in that. So, Should be some good matches ahead of us. Yeah. Still here. I'm Noah Crael. I'm Mike and with me is Carlos Gillis, the man to go himself. Hell yeah. It'll be interesting to see what match we see next. Yeah, I'm curious who they'll follow, what the group will be and all that. So, um, Carlos, what was the most difficult game for you during qualifying? Um, X-Men was tough for me. Yeah, I found I normally, you know, if you if any of you know me, um I'm a big fan of that game. Yeah. But I found that the longer that we were playing it, it felt like it was it was starting to lean a little that the flippers were starting to feel a little off. Yeah. It's like no slight against the game. It's probably just how this one is set up. Sure. I'm sure there's still some groups playing actually now that I think about it. So maybe we'll get to hop in on uh another another group. Uh every round is nine holes. I think you can actually um minimize this window. Uh the upper right like the whole window itself. Yeah, that one. No, no, no. That one. Yeah. There you go. Every round of playoffs is a full 18. Oh, no. Three games. Ky picks. I don't know if I pretty sure there's an arrow restrictions, so I'm pretty sure it'll be old, mid, new. Um, and uh, yeah, there'll be four player groups and the two players with the lowest stroke counts after. Looks like we're seeing the end of another group. So, we're going to see some Genesis for sure. Genesis was Genesis was being mean all weekend where everyone seems like this is game is going to be no exception. Sure. Uh because this copy of Genesis is on five ball the ramps the arms and legs lights of the ramps will change when you hit bumpers or slingshots making the game a bit more difficult even even though it's already plenty difficult. Now, uh, Andy was telling us last night that he he's a member here at OD and so he plays these games a decent amount. He says he just shoots the very target all day. That's his strategy. So that's what I expect to see from him. So that's a fair strategy, especially if you can go through it in to very target give you a letter at everything. Even just the very target just by itself. He said it's a pretty consistent feed. It's not too dangerous uh out of the backwards out of the feed. You might have to smack it. But uh I also heard Luke saying he did targets all day. More than a lot of other more than a lot of tables in this area. This one is all about being able to survive off the bunker. I hope I hope we get All right. I'm curious if uh Josh will take a similar approach or if he'll just play it normal. I've seen people just like play like normal sea witch. Not see which sorry we were just talking about which Genesis. I mean I I tried playing it normally and the game said no you can't play me normally. I'm going to I'm going to stare at you just creepingly until you figure out what I want you to do. And I wasn't able to figure it out. Oh, couldn't [music] translate. So, he's got some some decent progress on brain. Two letters of body, one letter left of brain. So, you want to spell one of the words and then uh start multiballing. Yeah. Oh, what was that? Yeah, we all saw it. We all saw it. Josh, we all saw it. Next time. All right. Come on, Andy. Rip some berry. Nice. There's a bear target. Yep. Gives him one letter because it's not very lit. Another letter. Oh, wait. No, that didn't go all the way through. Nope. You still get decent points even if it doesn't go all the way up. You're getting 30 points. Uh we're just following the other another group. Yeah, they're just finishing up. So otherwise uh you get no pinball for a while. So through till till the other one starts. Finally gave him a letter. Man, if you were spelling Brian on this game, maybe it would be a bit easier. True. Yeah. Very target is flashing. So if he hits it now, we'll give him a letter and everything. Times out pretty quickly though. So, in order to be able to survive the init ramp That was having a lot of dreams like that out of that area, too. Yeah. Which is why he prefers to not put the ball in the pops by just shooting the very target. Imagine shooting the very target. I mean, I'm tempted to just shoot the targets. That you got nothing for that because it was not left. Sorry, Josh. Will he survive? Yes, he will. He's not going to survive that. Who shot off? There was nothing that he could have done to save them. I saw them all straight down the middle. Yeah, sometimes you just got to let it rain. Yeah. Of course. Now you pick up the end lane when you punch and fall. Exactly. And you're like, "Oh, surely that'll happen to me." Yes. The trick is it's all psychological. Yeah. That's sketchy. There we go. gets a few bumpers. He's still at one ax so he's closest to brain and the bumper food gives him that letter. Nice left is doesn't make it. Got to recover. Uhoh. It's hard. Oh no. He's gonna throw this game through the wall if he doesn't get this. Now I do. Nice try, Andy. Surely he's got a B. Oh gosh, that was that was a post. Now hit it. No. Ah, nice try. Yeah, I was trying to force it there. Yep. Oh my god. Now the recovery. Let's go. All right. Right here. He's got it. Yep. [screaming] Yep. Target. Gives him a letter. Oh, and Yep. Recovery. Good. Save. Good slap. Save. Oh, not quite hitting the merry target hard enough. Uh, wow. This is the trouble with Genesis. If you miss a shot, you are in that slingshot bumper area and need to survive. Yep. You uh crossed over a million. You're basically you're basically dealing with four slingshots instead of two. If you played Star Wars: Fall of the Empire, you probably know how this um how this layup can kind of lead to disaster. Prepare for it. Ramp. Nice. Nice ramp shot. Get the third letter of legs. One shot. More shot completed. Another capture. Uhoh. Hit a ruling. And he will have his capture lit next stop. Weakest flipper ever. That's what I hear. It's fine. That just means the targets are easier, right? Just use the left one. Yeah, just use the left. Imagine using the left. Are the bumpers going to treat trash well this time? Well, we gave him a free body ladder. Yeah, big [] So, they weren't too nice coming off towards the screw. Is that right? Known with no Norma in sight. Nope. Oh yeah. All right. So, we can assume that he's going to be going for left rim here, but given how much trouble the game was giving him for trying to shoot the left rim nicely to the left. Ah, that's all right, Andy. Let's go. He's going to use this multiball to probably Oh, never mind. Never mind. But he's only one letter away from lighting arms and hopefully getting another multi wall. Uh-oh. Unfortunately, it's out that left ramp. Yeah, that wasn't lit. So, we didn't get any letters. This is what I mean. The slingshots on this game could be evil. We haven't killed them yet. Great save. I I would have paid. I don't even know that one to do. Build your arms, Andy. Say very target. Very target. We'll give him an orange letter if he nails it all the way back. So if he's afraid of hitting the left ramp due to it being a dangerous shot to recover from spot. Yep. Oh, what's he doing? He's just shooting that that target. I feel like he wants the ball on the right, but like it's kind of just like please just bounce over there. Now there there are some kicker targets like the one on blue fighters that are beneficial or on Stargate where you get increasing point award from it. These kicker targets are not that kind of ticker target. These are designed to punish. Now the right ramp is flashing. Does that mean that it's only available on that side? Yeah. And if you complete another word, the capture on the other side will bite too. Okay. Gotcha. This could be big. Oh, yes. Y'all just needs a little bit of points. Yep. What is it? Two and a half or what is it? Two. Okay. Yeah, he'll he surely Yeah. Boom. He's there. Yeah, he got it. But he doesn't look up, so he doesn't know. Now he looked. And now he looked again and he's done. Good effort. And the game has bought him just in time. Yes, the feature under glass is just corugated corugated hardware store. I figure uh got was running low on supplies at the time. He really needed something to show off and they figured, hey, you know what? You know what? People like hardware supplies. And uh that's that's how they decided to do that. And no, hippie back here lying. I don't know what game you played. spoilers. Yes. They actually put a multi-million dollar robot in every game. It's part of the reason why they went bankrupt just 10 years later. It's a very target. It does not spot him anything. He did not nail it hard enough. Oh, back hand of the left ramp. No, no backhand. Not quite. That's a very target. That did not count. It has to be all the way back. Even if the spot letter is flashing. That's a quick way to do it. Just tilt everybody out. Plunge of shame where you tilt every ball. Oh yeah. The exciting part of the evening where everybody starts swearing is about to Y swear count. The drama. Oh yeah. I get to go meet you Carlos. Oh no. I'll try my head though. Yeah. Dang. Okay. 1.2. What happens? I mean, that's that's Genesis for you. Genesis specifically. Adam and uh Adam Becker and Zack Shack. All right. I'm going to start walking around. Pleasure getting in here with you guys. Take care, Carlos. See you. Looks like I will be in the booth waiting for the next match to start. yeah, this era of god leaves is really interesting and we've seen quite a few being used in this tournament. We've seen um bad girls being used as a as a game. We've seen Genesis. While this wasn't being used in pinball, we saw tag team pinball being used during um the championships, which is a game that doesn't really get used that often. Very fun game, I have to say, especially for era. The next group will be starting at around 3 p.m. kicked in The uh center drop targets are another way of getting letters. And the way that they behave is a little different from the uh the very target behavior. The drop targets will only spot you a letter if progress on each body part is the same. So like if you have one letter in each of the parts, then the drop targets will spot you a letter in everything. Otherwise, they will only spot you one letter. That combined with the fact that they're way deadlier to hit, they can cause range if you just if you just look at them funny means it's kind of a tough it's it's not really advised to shoot. Looks like we've started another round between Zack and someone. hits the one target. Is he? And he recovers. Is he going to hit the two? No, he's going to hit the buff ramp. Die. Personally, I'm the kind of player who would have committed to just shooting for the drop targets at that point, even if it meant killing my ball. But we all have different play styles. five balls has changed. Only look for letters. What the hell is that? Yep. Great tip. You going to be able to recover it after that. It's a very target is back in danger. Yep. Yeah, sure thing. Uh, what we got here? We got Dalton in the booth ready to commentate for the next few matches. We probably So, what's going on on Genesis? Um, so we have a game between Zach and Adam, right? Yep. This is Adam. Yeah. Um, we've had it's not been going well. Neither of them have turned in a million. Oh my goodness. I I was fortunate to get a two on this game. You were lucky. I I got a 10. This is like Oh my goodness. I don't think I'm even getting to finals. I My score was a 97 and protection is 82 is going to be the cut off. There's a right ramp. Hey, right ramp multiplier. Pokey ball. Honestly, with the unreliably hard to hit ramps on this, I actually just did one, two, three targets. That is that airball into the glass fan. Oh, shoot. There's nothing. You got another fan. Number two fan. Uh-oh. My mom is not going to be happy. Oh, there we go. Legs complete. and he's lucky enough to have that being the shadow and another multiball. Okay, multi gun. The Genesis gods have spoken and deemed him unworthy of multiball. Well, you know why it's called quick multiball, right? Cuz it's over with quick. Well, at this point, I mean, he's already got he does have the 3x play field cuz he's got uh two body parts complete. Yep. He has arms left and body left. All right. 3x. Okay. Spot letter. Why not? That'll help. Uh we saw a game earlier where um Andy and Josh were playing for the very target. 4x. All right. Which which ramp was flashing? Oh, I guess it was that one. That one. It was that one. 8x. Oh, well, he finally gets to play a multiball. Wow. The game actually letting him play a ball. Yeah. At this point, if you're a multiball with 8x, why not bury target? Yeah, we're outlings. Outl Yeah. 50,000 times 8. Yeah, that'll work. It's basically a super jackpot for 200,000 left. One very target and he's there or one body part he's there or a whole bunch of pops. He's there quickly rising almost. He's going to have it. And there it is. And he's done. Great job. And a five. Outside of the very target, the bumpers are your best way of getting quick points during Oh, yes. All right, Zach. He's on ball five just under a million. I always wondered how the idea for this game came to be. I did an article about it and I kind of traced its origins to a film called Metropolis which was very uh very early silent film. Surprisingly good for um for being so early on in the film's history. But as far as I know, this game has nothing to do with it besides being about making a robot. All right. Well, ball flipper literally just under a million. Okay, I believe he's trying to go for a left ramp here. He has not made any progress on our so you really forunately the game didn't bring him. 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