# Day 4 of THE GETAWAY Battle Week! IFPA tournament tonight! - 1 / 2

**Source:** Dead Flip  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2014-11-21  
**Duration:** 120m 1s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlemGqPuZ-s

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## Analysis

Dead Flip streams Day 4 of their Getaway Battle Week IFPA tournament from their Chicago arcade location. The video captures tournament setup, rule announcements, match pairings, and live gameplay on multiple machines including Metallica, Batman, Dracula, Iron Man, Fish Tales, Road Show, and AC/DC (Premium). The stream emphasizes community participation with new tournament players, multiple games in rotation, and a double-elimination format with a classic tournament backup bracket.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Dead Flip is hosting the third Bob Camp tournament with another scheduled for December 10th — _Tournament organizer announces upcoming December tournament date during rule explanation segment_
- [HIGH] Tournament uses double-elimination format with classics tournament on Hot Shot as consolation bracket — _Tournament rules explicitly state 'double knockout, double elimination on our main tournament' with Hot Shot as one-ball backup_
- [HIGH] Powerball configuration has three gumballs instead of the standard two — _Joe (tournament organizer) explains 'three gumballs in the Powerball instead of two like some tournaments'_
- [HIGH] Tournament games are set to bar mode with mystery awards rather than standard tournament mode on most machines — _'lot of them are kind of bar mode with a lot of mystery awards and stuff like that, but that's just how we keep them kind of standard'_
- [HIGH] Dead Flip arcade has multiple donated machines for the tournament including Red and Ted's Road Show, Fish Tales, Batman Dark Knight, and others — _Tournament organizer thanks specific people for bringing machines: Brad Robert Smith for Road Show, Brad Stark for Fish Tales, Gavin Mike Miller for Batman Dark Knight_

### Notable Quotes

> "Most everyone here has played in one of our tournaments. Is anyone new the first time?"
> — **Tournament Organizer**, ~10:30
> _Indicates strong community participation history and audience familiarity with Dead Flip events_

> "If you get knocked out, that's okay. We're going to have a classics tournament on Hot Shot."
> — **Tournament Organizer**, ~11:45
> _Explains consolation format to encourage continued participation from eliminated players_

> "You're live on Twitch over on Deadflip, so be aware."
> — **Tournament Organizer**, ~13:15
> _Reminds participants of streaming broadcast and audience awareness_

> "The tilt is tight on a lot of our The Games. The ball stages are off on many The Games."
> — **Tournament Organizer**, ~9:50
> _Addresses machine condition issues and setups for tournament play_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Dead Flip | organization | Chicago-based pinball arcade and tournament organizer hosting IFPA events |
| Jack Danger | person | Tournament staff member helping manage tournament, mentioned assisting with iPads for score tracking |
| Brad Stark | person | Community member who provided Fish Tales machine for tournament |
| Brad Robert T. Smith | person | Community member who provided Red and Ted's Road Show machine for tournament |
| Gavin Mike Miller | person | Community member who provided Batman Dark Knight machine for tournament |
| Joe | person | Tournament organizer/staff explaining rules and tournament structure |
| The Getaway | game | Featured game of Battle Week tournament; being streamed live during matches |
| Metallica | game | Tournament machine used for matches |
| Batman Dark Knight | game | Tournament machine provided by Gavin Mike Miller |
| Dracula | game | Tournament machine used for matches |
| Iron Man | game | Tournament machine used for matches |
| Fish Tales | game | Tournament machine provided by Brad Stark |
| Red and Ted's Road Show | game | Tournament machine provided by Brad Robert T. Smith |
| AC/DC (Premium) | game | Stern machine used for tournament matches with tournament mode confirmed as working |
| Hot Shot | game | Vintage machine used for classics tournament consolation bracket (one ball, one game format) |
| Powerball | game | Tournament machine with special configuration: three gumballs, multiball enabled, no extra balls |
| IFPA | organization | International Flipper Pinball Association organizing tournament structure and rankings |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Tournament Organization and Rules, Community Participation and Demographics, Competitive Pinball Format
- **Secondary:** Machine Setup and Configuration, Live Streaming and Broadcasting

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.82) — Tournament organizers and participants show enthusiasm and camaraderie. Community is welcoming to new players. Some minor frustration with machine condition mentioned but handled professionally. Overall celebratory tone around event execution and gameplay.

### Signals

- **[community_signal]** Tournament demonstrates strong local community participation with returning players and new first-time attendees; supportive double-elimination format encouraging continued play (confidence: high) — 'Most everyone here has played in one of our tournaments. Is anyone new the first time?' and consolation bracket design showing inclusive approach
- **[event_signal]** Dead Flip hosting third Bob Camp tournament with established tradition and scheduled future events (December 10th confirmed) (confidence: high) — Tournament organizer announces 'third Bob camp tournament' and confirms 'one more in December on Wednesday, whatever that is. December 10th'
- **[event_signal]** Dead Flip operating as significant Chicago pinball venue hosting IFPA-sanctioned tournament with multiple donated machines from community (confidence: high) — Multiple community members donated machines; tournament infrastructure with streaming, scoring tablets, and rules standardization suggests established venue operations

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## Transcript

 Yeah, remember, you can't answer that. I guarantee I'm going to tell all of you to call back. Yeah, it's fine. Do it. Whenever your card's lit, shoot it. Burn rubber in your mystery board. It's a very tight job. Also, when video mode's lit, that's the arrow just above it. All you're trying to do is build up your account, so they'll tell you to shift, and every time you shift, you get the new one. Other than that, your locks are up the ramp or this interview, they will put the thing that they just said. That's a lot of basically red and yellow and green. No, no, no, no. It's just walking balls. That's it. Yeah, kill it, dude. Nice job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Get it up. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Thank you. Are you kidding? Oh, Jesus Christ. . . . Oh man, that's a good one. Ah! You might feedback on the ball going in. Thank you. I'm going to start this thing up, folks. Come on, come on. All right. It was, I don't think they had a very good one. Well I guess it doesn't have to be different. I guess there is a difference. Yeah, I don't know. Ah, short. Oh! No, no, no. Thank you. Thank you. Come on. All right. Thank you. Oh, yeah, all right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you have the gear, give him money to then get entered. Now is the time to do it because we're out of time. Give him money so he can squeeze you. Or hit you. Hit you. Well, this is good. No, this is good. This is good. This is good with the building up to the kitchen table. Is that important to Jack? Yeah. I'm glad. I think your name was . Oh, yes. Oh. . . . . . Thank you. Thank you. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, my God. Wow, not good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thanks a lot, we're going to get the actual tournament kicked off, so stay tuned and when people battle on this, we'll get to see who gets the best grade. It's going to be fun. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good job. Good job. Three, four, seven, and ten. All right. All right. Anything new I've written here? Yeah. What's that? Getaway is the game that we're streaming. Yeah. The Internet. Yeah, check it out. Oh, I mean, he's seen this before, obviously. Yeah. That was you just now. Oh, it's twitch.tv forward slash dead underscore click. Yeah. All right. Clear all the balls, buddy. All right, folks. We're about to announce the rules and stuff like that to everybody, so stay tight. Yeah, right here, bud. Yeah, there's more than one lady here tonight. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, there's a solid female turnout at the tournament tonight. Hold on. Give me one more second. I've got to connect to the Wi-Fi. All right. Here we go. Here we go. I did the math today. And I'm in the top 20. There's 11. Thanks, bro. Welcome to the tournament of tournaments. This is the third Bob Camp tournament. We have another one on December. We moved it. What is it? December 11th or 10th or something. We moved it because of Ben's thing. Ben's thing is on Thursday. So ours is on Wednesday. Ours is on Wednesday. So we have one more in December on Wednesday, whatever that is. December 10th. There it is. And then Ben's thing is after us the day after at Bottom Lounge, which is like two blocks from here. I heard there's another thing coming up on Monday, next Monday. Next Monday? Check the calendar. Yeah. There's other stuff happening. That's another Ben thing. Another Ben thing? Oh, Stan's here. Stan made it. Where the hell did you come from? Good to see you, man. Yeah, thanks, brother. I'll be there because it's like a block from my house. I don't know what they have now, but last time I checked it was Rolling Stones. Rolling Stones. The new Simpsons. The new Simpsons. Okay, so there's rarely a ball stage. Most everyone here has played in one of our tournaments. Is anyone new the first time? Ooh. Awesome. Thanks for coming. The tilt is tight on a lot of our games. The ball stages are off on many games. We've got some practice games in. Joe, any weird rules people should know about that's different from regular tournaments? Why are those not in your typical tournament mode if it's Powerball configuration? Right, because we have one extra ball. I don't know if all the games just have the tournament mode or not. Yeah, so a lot of them are kind of bar mode in a lot of mystery awards and stuff like that, but that's just how we keep them kind of standard. The mystery award is evened out on, what did we do, Joe? Getaway. Getaway. And I think the other one, I think ACDC probably set the tournament, but then ACDC's tournament. ACDC's fine. And the Powerball's in the class. Yeah, and the Powerball, there's three gumballs in the Powerball instead of two like some tournaments. So it's going to take three shots depending on where it is, you know the rules. But it's kind of bar mode. It's standard. Standard is what I do instead of tournament. Yeah, every three balls locked up to the gumball will give you a ceramic ball, which is double the points while you're playing with that ball. Oh, no, it's also like Powerball Mania. Yes. That's right. And it has a multiball, so it's going to be... No extra balls. If you ever get an extra ball, plunge it. We're also going to have a classics tournament. So if you get knocked out, we're going to play a double knockout, double elimination on our main tournament. If you get knocked out, that's okay. Oh, that's Bob. If you get knocked out, that's okay. We're going to have a classics tournament on Hot Shot. It's going to be a one ball. One game. One game. One game. It's included. It's included. But that game's been, I think it's a little bit iffy at times. You have to watch it. We'll watch it. Yeah, so it's one ball. No, one game. One game. It's been moving iffy. All right, so I want to thank Brad Smith for bringing Roadshow. Thank you. Brad, you're awesome. Thank you, brother. I'm glad to know Brad knew today. I want to thank Brad Zac Stark for having our fish tail here. Starkman, my man. Thank you to Gavin Miller for Batman Dark Knight. Also, also big. Thank you to Gavin who didn't show up, thank God. Right, yeah, no kidding. Thanks for the game. Thanks for not showing up. I think that's it. Do you have questions approached? Does anyone know of anybody that's five minutes away that's not going to make it? All right, here we go. Also, one last thing. One last thing. One last thing. One last thing. You guys are live on the internet back there, so if you're going to say anything super terrible, vocalize it. Vocalize it. Make sure you're on getaway when you say it. If you want to make fun of us or our haircuts or anything, Just go in front of Getaway. Something super racist? I don't know. Yeah, just go on Getaway. It's good. It's the internet. Nobody cares. What works. This will be true. You're live on Twitch over on Getaway, so be aware. Is everyone ready? Yeah. Yay. Yay. Here we go. Play it. Brett Zac Stark and Jack Danger. Yeah. Chew it. Zac Stark. Zac Stark. Chew it. I got to check. Zac Stark or Zac Stark? I got to start. Wait. I'll see it. Okay. Someone's going to order. Bob Twitchell. And I already... Shree-joo! Bob and Shree... I've got to get it right. Shree-joo. Shree-joo. Shree-joo. I want to make sure I try to do this because hopefully I'll be saying it right. You have to say it all romantically or it doesn't sound correct. Shree-joo. That is cool. Okay. You guys are playing on Metallica. Good luck. Flip. You guys, by the way, when you guys go up to a game, flip a coin or something to decide who goes first and who goes second. The winner gets to pick positions. So, like, you could rock, paper, scissors, flip a coin, whatever. And you get to decide if you want to go first or last. And if this is your first tournament, come to me. The winner of whatever match comes to me or whoever has the iPads, it might be me, it might be Jack, it might be Brad. Look for the hoodies. I'll try to keep mine on. And just let us know who won. Next is John Armstrong and Mark Sheridan. You at start match. Batman. Batman. Batman. Kelly Jost and Brad Zac Stark on Dracula. Oh, wrong game. Lindsay Maria Jones and Joseph Blasey on Iron Man. Oh. Richie Townsend and Dan Thompson on Getaway. Oh, man. This is great. Todd Kaufman, Chuck Jackson on Fishtails. Yeah. Yeah. Mick Campbell and Andy Alguire on Roadshow. New one. Victor Evans and Jack Danger on ACDC. If you do not hear your name, you've got to buy. You'll be in the next round. Lucky dog. It's random, my man. ACDC, huh? Yeah. I'll flip. You call it. Actually, that's a Chuck E. Cheese token. It's amazing. Yeah. What? You want me to? Wait, what's happening? All right. Here. Call it in the end. Tails it is. You want first or second? Second it is. All right. I shall start us off. I'm going to kill the mic, folks. Give us watching the stream. Here we go. Thank you. I won! That's a lot of fun going on there. This is so badass. Thank you I know you wouldn mind that That why I trusted you to do it because of the blitz And then like a couple of mils on it And I was like so close if I got 10 mil I would have been Oh I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. I lost. Oh, there we go. It's a double knockout, but no sweat. Did it win? Did it rebound? Yeah. That's fine. Well, I mean, I'm just going to take it. Well, never knows, right? Yeah. Yes. Oh, God. Yeah. Thank you. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Trying to grab some early bread. There you go. Oh, man. Look at that. It's got a little lean to the right. Darn. Thank you. Oh, man. That's really good. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, that might just about do it though. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. What's your preference of that? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I don't think so. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay, though. We've got one more go. We've got one more go. It's okay, though. That thing is like, I think it's a retro. Yeah, it's a retro. It's a retro. It's a retro. Yeah, I know, it's a 50-day, 50-day mail-in. I think people that know, that's a massive one, but they don't, but it's quite a lot. Like, 400,000 people, it's like, put the open-off type of thing, so that's a 50-day. Why do I like the 150? Sometimes I have to do it with the boss. Sometimes I like to come up and do it with the building. I'm like hitting it all the time. And then I'll try to do like far left, far right, or very creative or anything like that. And it's just cool though. It's not that fun. It's hard to find one though. Not really any fun. I remember you said you had like a specific thing. You wanted to do that all the time. Yeah, I did. I didn't know that. I was like, ah. I was like, who is this guy? Who is this guy? I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't Oh my God. Everyone, get on the floor. They have to get on the floor. That's the limit. It's the limit. We're gonna be moving. Right? I got the baseball. I got the basketball. I got the basketball. Yeah, I'm gonna be doing it. So, that makes the internet standin' out. I mean, it's fuckin' over. Now we're all fuckin' over. Almost fuckin' over. See, it's all over the place. You can put that thing in China. Multiball and about. Multiball and about is just playing it up. I don't think that's fine. And then I was going to get on my first ball. Enter down. I'll let it. It is down. Oh, wow. Take your choice. Let's go all this way. All right. This is a little bit easier. Just go straight. Thank you. I can't win. You know ACD, the only truck in the world that comes with a little slipper? Yeah, I think that's the one. Well, you don't kill. You can do anything. You can lay off anything to kill a few. The goal is to kill them anyway. You can't lay off anything for a few days. There you go. I think I had less than 30 seconds. What is the five second ball thing about here? I am super good at all of this. Thank you. I don't know if I can get here. Thank you. Why didn't you just go around? It was like a little thing at the top of that. Yeah, because it stopped. No, it's like you got it. It's the last three down the middle. Yeah. I bet it. I just didn't have a thing on me. Oh. I'm going to have to turn my head. It's like you became the best player. Yeah. I'm going to have to turn my head. I'm giving it to you. Woo hoo. All right. Do it. I'll do it. I'm giving it to you. I'm giving it to you. I'm giving it to you. Oh! Oh! Oh! Monster! I'm giving it to you. Give it to me. Yeah, I think it's the same as the other one. Yeah. Wait, what is the thing wrong with doing the 90's stuff? Some weird stuff everywhere. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. It hasn't been three minutes. Thank you. Thank you There it is look at that There you go I beat him last time, I had it just until the finals and that was it. That was it. Go ahead. Again. Go ahead. Again. Again. Go ahead. We'll be right back. Thank you. Yes, that was a nice one. I'm going to be there. I think it's five. That's what I get for... I need it. I won! I won! Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. That's the opposite of the right. That leads to the right and the bottom three. All the way up. Don't give me too much time to figure it out, Jeff. Almost impossible. There you go. No, no, no, no, no, no. No! Thank you. I'm not sure you are. I'm not sure you are. Yeah, you play ball. Oh, you fucking son of a... Did I miss? Yeah, you did. Oh, you did. Oh, you did. Oh, you did. I got a fucking handprint. I got a fucking handprint. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to be able to tell you how it is. So we just kept going. I was like, I'm just going to stop working and then again, I'm going to quit. So I just kept going. I didn't want to go through the order. So, I didn't know how I was going to play though. Yeah, so I really didn't know how to sing. So I was just going to stop. I really didn't want to be out there. Who is this? He's a guy from the church. Oh, a comrade. He's still in the church. What's up with that? He's still in the church. He's still in the church. He's still in the church. He's still in the church. What? What? I don't know. I don't know. He has to be alive. No, we have to be wise. We can't fight for our lives. We have to be... I'm a guest. We better put this to a halt. I don't, I wouldn't. Because it's a lot of people. A lot of people. I don't know. No, it's a little different. I don't know. I don't know. We're going to play ball. 2-0, 2-0, 2-0, 2-0. Internet, I get to play a getaway. You know, Brad Smith. I can't even get my phone in. I can't even get my phone in. Yeah, I was going to say, 1041, 1041, 1041, 1041, 1041, 1041, Whoa! That was weird. That was quick. The ball popped over the gate in the inlet. It went down this inlet, up this inlet, popped it, and went into the other one. We'll be right back. We got a camera on a light stand, a camera on top of the backbox, and then the BMP camera right there. Oh my god. oh my god oh my god you're kidding me Oh, she broke the disc. Don't bring the video mode, folks. Go, bro. There you go. Thank you. Oh Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm pretty soft. Thank you for calling me. I'm a person who's kind of a kind of a rich man. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. I'm a beer. Yeah. I don't feel like the place is so different from the place I was in. Thank you. No. Cool back there. Be cool! You can't jump, but for the 23rd step... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh yeah? We're all live folks What happened? Let me tell my family Hola Gracias Chava Hola That's enough Viva Mexico cabrones That's enough Why'd you get 50,000? Alright let's see

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