# The Pinball Capital Grand Opening - Classics Matchplay Tournament

**Source:** Fox Cities Pinball  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2026-04-20  
**Duration:** 266m 14s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8atAncGFJO8

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## Analysis

Fox Cities Pinball streams live coverage of The Pinball Capital Grand Opening Classics Matchplay Tournament in Madison, featuring 59 players competing on vintage electromechanical and early solid-state pinball machines. The event showcases the newly opened venue's extensive classic machine collection while Tom Graff provides play-by-play commentary, tournament updates, and interviews with players. The broadcast demonstrates the tournament's technical integration with live match play result overlays and multiple game coverage.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] The Pinball Capital venue has opened in Madison with a large collection of classic pinball machines across multiple eras (EMs to 4-player solid states) — _Tom Graff and others discussing the venue during live tournament coverage; Francis mentioned as the owner/operator_
- [HIGH] Tonight's tournament is matchplay format with 59 players competing on all classic machines — _Multiple references during broadcast; commentator states '59 players tonight' and mentions 'all classics tonight'_
- [HIGH] David Slaymaker won a pinball machine signed by Roger Sharpe at the venue the previous night (yesterday) — _Tom Graff commentary: 'David Slaymaker won uh a pinball machine here last night signed by Roger Sharpe'_
- [HIGH] There will be a strike tournament format tomorrow (instead of matchplay) — _Commentator states: 'Tonight's going to be match play. Tomorrow's going to be a strike tournament'_
- [MEDIUM] The tournament is top-8 or top-24 cutoff to finals (exact cutoff mentioned as 'top 24' at one point) — _Reference to 'top 24 to a finals' during tournament discussion_

### Notable Quotes

> "Pinball is alive and well here in Chicago... Congratulations to Francis on the Pinball Capital. It is awesome."
> — **Tom Graff**, early in broadcast
> _Sets tone for venue opening and community enthusiasm_

> "I vowed never to play classics again, and Francis made me play... He twisted my arm. He's kind of a big guy. He is. He's intimidating."
> — **Ken Cooley (discussing being coerced into playing)**, late in broadcast
> _Humorous exchange about the intimidating nature of Francis (venue owner) and players' attitudes toward classic machine tournaments_

> "The object of this game is not to drain... It's a lot of grinding... It's old. It's an old game."
> — **Tom Graff**, discussing Stampede machine
> _Commentary on classic game design philosophy vs. modern expectations_

> "I literally could not drain... He protected left, protected right, protected mid."
> — **Ryan Spindler**, during match discussion
> _Describes dominant play by Michael (opponent) on classic machine with multiple ball saver mechanics_

> "You know, maybe he's distracted from having to have trip down, run a booth, all that."
> — **Tom Graff**, discussing Tom Mangels' participation while helping run the venue
> _Notes the dual responsibility of venue operators in running tournaments_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| The Pinball Capital | venue | Newly opened pinball arcade in Madison, Wisconsin hosting tournaments; features classic machines from multiple eras |
| Francis | person | Owner/operator of The Pinball Capital venue; described as large/intimidating figure who curated the machine collection |
| Tom Graff | person | Tournament streamer and commentator for Fox Cities Pinball; provides play-by-play commentary, manages broadcast; also competitive player in the event |
| Ryan Spindler | person | Competitive pinball player; participated in tournament and provided commentary about gameplay mechanics |
| David Slaymaker | person | Pinball player who won a machine signed by Roger Sharpe at the venue opening |
| Ken Cooley | person | Competitive pinball player; described as skilled veteran player; participated in tournament commentary |
| Michael | person | Tournament player who dominated on classic machines, rolling Outer Space and showing exceptional ball control skills |
| Tom Mangels | person | Competitive pinball player; mentioned as helping run booth/venue while competing in tournament |
| Roger Sharpe | person | Historical pinball figure; signed machine prize given away at venue opening; reference to his courtroom pinball case mentioned |
| Fox Cities Pinball | organization | Pinball streaming channel and tournament organizer; broadcasting this event live |
| Outer Space | game | Classic pinball machine featured in tournament; multiple players mentioned rolling it (achieving perfect score) |
| Wizard | game | Classic/solid-state pinball machine featured in tournament |
| Gorgar | game | Classic pinball machine featured in tournament; Ricky Bryant achieved a seven on it |
| Stampede | game | Classic pinball machine featured in tournament; described as featuring saucer and double bonus mechanics |
| Meteor | game | Classic pinball machine featured in tournament; tournament favorite with spinner mechanics |
| Grand Lizard | game | Pinball machine featured in tournament |
| King Kong | game | Pinball machine referenced during broadcast; Dory was playing it |
| Dracula | game | Pinball machine available during tournament |
| Four | game | Classic/early solid-state pinball machine featured in tournament; described as grinding gameplay with single player format |
| Jungle Lord | game | Classic pinball machine still running during tournament coverage |
| Winchester Mystery House | venue | Referenced as potential future streaming location; Tom Graff mentions planning Winchester stream after next code update |

### Signals

- **[venue_signal]** The Pinball Capital, a new pinball arcade venue in Madison, Wisconsin, has opened with a substantial collection of classic machines and is hosting tournaments. 59 players attended the opening night matchplay event, indicating strong community interest in the new location. (confidence: high) — Tournament coverage shows venue layout, machine variety, and attendance numbers; Francis described as owner who curated collection
- **[event_signal]** The Pinball Capital Grand Opening Classics Matchplay Tournament drew 59 players to compete on vintage and early solid-state machines. Format includes matchplay tonight, strike tournament tomorrow, and public hours Sunday. (confidence: high) — Live tournament coverage with bracket updates, player interviews, and detailed match commentary
- **[gameplay_signal]** Commentary reveals design and mechanic details of classic machines featured: Stampede uses saucers and double bonus; Outer Space features spinners and pops; Four has single-player grinding gameplay with small flippers; multiple games include ball saver mechanics with complex lighting requirements. (confidence: high) — Detailed play-by-play commentary explaining mechanics: 'You got the gate, you got the ball saver in the middle, and you got the ball return on the left' (Stampede); discussion of spinner behaviors on center playfield
- **[competitive_signal]** Classic machines tournament format shows variance in player skill across different machine types. Michael demonstrated dominant play with ball control and mechanics mastery. Outer Space showed potential for rolling/perfect scores in tournament play. (confidence: medium) — Michael's dominant performance rolling Outer Space and controlling multiple ball saver mechanics simultaneously; Tom Graff comments on classic machine randomness affecting skilled play
- **[content_signal]** Fox Cities Pinball implemented live match play result overlay integration into their stream, displaying tournament results in real-time as matches conclude. Tom Graff mentions working on this feature the previous week. (confidence: high) — Multiple on-stream references to match results appearing on overlay; discussion of technical implementation: 'I was working hard on that like all last week trying to get uh match match play results to show up on the stream'
- **[community_signal]** The opening event demonstrates strong community participation with 59 players, multiple known competitive players attending (Tom Graff, Ryan Spindler, Ken Cooley), and collaborative streaming efforts. Indicates healthy local pinball scene. (confidence: high) — Mix of competitive players, operators, and community members all participating; positive tone throughout; discussion of future regular tournaments at venue
- **[design_philosophy]** Tournament commentary reveals philosophical differences between classic machine design (randomness, grinding gameplay, mechanical complexity with multiple savers) and modern expectations. Players expect different strategies and have varying comfort levels. (confidence: medium) — Tom Graff: 'I kind of expect it with classics now. It's just like, yeah, whatever. It's classics. It's what it does'; Ken Cooley's reluctance about playing classics despite skill level
- **[operational_signal]** The Pinball Capital layout features multiple rooms with classic machines organized for tournament play. Some machines share space, requiring moves between rounds. Multiple camera coverage needed to fully capture all machines. (confidence: high) — References to moving between 'main room' and 'back room'; discussion of wall blocking sight lines; Tom contemplating need for additional camera; machines being moved or sharing space between rounds
- **[code_update]** Tom Graff mentions a bug he found in Winchester (pinball machine) and plans to wait for next code update before streaming that machine to avoid exposing the bug on stream. (confidence: medium) — Quote: 'I found a little bug in the game and I don't want to like expose it. [Plans to wait for] the next code update'
- **[collector_signal]** The venue offered a pinball machine signed by Roger Sharpe as a prize for the opening night, indicating focus on collectible/memorabilia value and appealing to collector mentality. (confidence: high) — David Slaymaker won machine 'signed by Roger Sharpe' night before tournament; commentator notes this was 'very cool' and recreation of the machine/skill shot from Roger Sharpe's courtroom case
- **[community_signal]** Broadcast reveals interconnected community of competitive players with history of playing together at other events (WANA tournaments, Kickback venue) and maintaining friendships despite varying play schedules. (confidence: medium) — References to Tom playing 'Used to play against Ken a lot back in the day. Good friends' and players mentioning previous tournaments like WANA (Wisconsin pinball tournaments from 2013)

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## Transcript

We're just spinning around the room. So, if I just made you sick, I'm sorry. Andy is very excited about the microphone, Ruth. Uh any chance any plans on streaming Winchester? Yes. Uh I'm actually going to probably wait for the next code update. Uh my phone I found a little bug in the game and I don't want to like expose it. Times in Chicago, Z Mac. It's true. I'm here. Oh, yeah. It's It's very mean to me. I had some good games on it, but now like I haven't crushed it. Andy's going all out with the people for playoffs, which is kind of cool. All classics tonight. I think all classics tomorrow, too. Tonight's going to be match play. Tomorrow's going to be a strike tournament. They're deciding whether to play one and three on some of the games. About 10 tickets left if you're interested. Sign them up. So, this is a ticketed only event tournament. I believe on Sunday they are open to the public from 11:00 to 11:00. Sounds like the top eight are going to get Pinball is alive and well here in Chicago. So, we are not streaming Evil Dead, but the rig is on it. So, it is yes. Congratulations to Francis on the Pinball Capital. It is awesome. Uh yeah, originally I wasn't I decided I'd play on it. So, I I am going to play on it. Ooh, we got a raid. Insanity Pinball is raiding with 15. Thank you, Insanity Pinball, for joining us and raiding us. Thank you so much. We're about to start the tournament, so you're you're in good very good timing. All right, matches are up. I got to go find a game. Oh, is my broadcast working? Is my broadcast on my There it is. All right, good deal. I got to find out what match I'm on, Ryan Spindler. Hey, you Tom. How is it going? Oh, laughing at our group as we were all going like, wait a minute, those things are spinning in the middle. It's like Yes, they are. I I played a practice game on it, so I thought it would be kind of fun. Oh, yeah, it's uh it's interesting. Let's just go interesting. Oh, I'm on four. I better go check in cuz I don't know if anybody knows me. If nobody anybody knows him. Yeah, this honestly casino name of the game is just don't die. I'd love to say there's more of a strat to it right now, but uh flipper strength is not high. Those spinner wheels are just ripping the ball hard. Whatever you do to keep the ball high. If you can find a way to hit the uh the three stand-ups up center, great, but boy, cuz normally straight up means straight death on the way back. But with those spinners, it's actually safe. There we go. Nice little saucer up top. You got the center post up from that inlane. And post is gone. Yeah, Tom yeah, he's Oh, yeah. And I'm up like that. All right. That's all right. No worries. All right, so as Ryan was pointing out, you got these like spinny dot jobbers in the middle. Uh A B C D You want the ball saver, which is uh those those outer switches. Which I got to I don't have the right by me. Yeah, I'll just move. That was easy enough. So uh David Slaymaker won uh a pinball machine here last night signed by Roger Sharpe. Very cool. So is this game like a casino? Like cuz the those spinners? I mean, not not much you can do right there. I mean, the ball's just spinning down the middle. Uh the only thing you can do is is hope you have that, which is the ball saver right there. And uh as just demonstrated, the uh the rollovers uh knock it back down, so interesting interesting game. So Beth currently in the lead. Oh, nice save. Ryan has not found the top out yet. Oh oh oh, wow. Those uh those spinning discs work very very well. Okay. Ryan's having a heck of a ball here. So he lit his uh ball return and then unfortunately drained this way. But that was a that was a heck of a ball by Ryan. I'm assuming the A B C D lights this, but I might be assuming too much. Did you catch what lights your ball save return? I believe that was A B C D. That's what I thought. Okay. Makes sense. Is there snow like double bonus or anything like that? No, no there is not. Yeah, it is it's just a lot of real sharp hits I found this game. Yep. I I I'm finding everything is just snaps. Just snap slaps. Just like that. Somebody's about to get DQ'd in the game. Yep. There he goes. He's got to pop up her lip, beautiful. He's got his post, nice. Little bit of control, why not? And the post is gone. And post is back. And now we're chugging. And he's just trying to roll it up a little bit on the other flipper. There it is. There it goes. Hope you don't throw it in the sling. Okay, gate open. Yeah, but now it's used, so that sucks a lot. now it's gone. That's all right. This is definitely an interesting game. 100%. I mean, with those spinning discs, you're literally in a casino. I think we're all getting a bit better feel for how it works. It's it's just a slight hesitation. It's not really changing the angle as it's coming down on or It looks like they're uh they're spinning opposite directions. They are. Okay. Yeah, they absolutely are. Left side going counterclockwise, right side going clockwise. Yep. He's having a hell of a ball three here. Ball three? Ball four? You showed him what to do. I did. Now he's got his ball return lit on the left side. It's coming back. Yep. Nice. Oh, and it stays lit. return stays lit. I guess you earned it, so I did not know that. Interesting. Wow, that's huge. psycho. Wow, he's drain. No, well I think it's going to kill you right now. drain. He said right outlane right now is the only danger. No. Commentator That would have I tried, man. I tried. Nice tap over. This game needed needed a little doodlebug. So you couldn't like trap up on them. Yep. There's like gates back up. So now he's got the right side gate open as well. So now he literally can't drain. As long as he doesn't hit those uh ball savers down. Just avoid those. Keep throwing it up top. First time I ever ever seen this game, I didn't realize the uh balls in play were down there. Yeah, it's all right. Yeah. Coming back. Yep. And it's Yeah, that throws me that that stays lit. It's a good thing. It is, it just throws me. Like, I don't know of any other game that does that, really. No. I wonder if it's a setting on the game. Man, there are a lot of ways to get the ball back. You got the gate, you got the ball saver in the middle, and you got the ball return on the left. Yep. It's all right, I'll play it and only get, you know, five points. That's fine. Yeah. That's fine. And what I really love about this right now is he didn't even touch his last ball. Like, the machine didn't even let him come close to playing. disc just threw it right down the middle. So, you go from that to this. Welcome to Classics. Classics. That's a good save. This ball doesn't know what it wants to do. Better keep an eye on the score and my roll. It doesn't want to drain. He's got headphones in and he's just jamming. This is insane. Yeah. He's probably probably gotten through another song. All right. Post back up. And the gate opened, too. back up. We got multiple safeties. And then it's house money, just keep throwing it up to the pops. Slaymaker's like, "Damn." It's okay, he had a good day yesterday. That's true. Winner of What was it? A break shot? Bank shot? He's the actual game that Well, not the actual, but the title that that Roger Sharp played in the courtroom. Which is pretty cool. And then he recreated the the skill shot. He did. Yesterday, which was really really awesome. Yes, on his fifth and final ball of the game, just when it absolutely mattered, just like he did in the courtroom, just the last shot. Yes. So, he's currently at 89, 000 points. We're going to find out if there is a hundreds. I'm going to go out on a limb and say there is not. Probably. Ooh, silver ball cult. Thanks for the bitties. I Honestly, I'm speechless right now. This is absolutely fantastic. Yep, there's the roll. the roll. And that And that was the putting an arrow through the lady's head on the back of And this is what I feel This is what's the worst thing always the being the person right after somebody that does that. And then the ball drains, you're like, "Oh." Oh, I'm I got to go play pinball. pinball, sir. Good dig up on that. And one two tip. Oh, land up here. Aaron, it's all yours. I got to go play. It's like Ryan's stepping up and he's It's like he's doing not so good. Those got spun down right right on the middle. Looks like it's enough to put him in the second for right now, though. Oh, no, he dropped it. Unfortunately, this is one I really don't know a whole lot about. Hey, he floated the outlane. Whoa, these two center spinners are just throwing the ball everywhere. I just got done with my game. I was on Outer Space and I ended up winning my group. I actually rolled it. First time I'd done that. Oh, she's got the gate up, it looks like. So, hopefully that spinners don't throw it into the outlanes. Nope, ball's down. Oh, no, she lost it. I can't tell how many of all that they're on. Right now, Ryan's currently in second. Not by a lot, but he's got a lot to to catch up to to if he wants to try to take first. Saucer able The spinner is able to save him there. Oh, a good save. Now, he's got his ball saver in the middle open. There's a There's up. Let's try to avoid the two rollovers that are underneath that in order to that would that is that will drop the ball saver. It's a thousand. Nope, didn't go. Oh, just rolled over it and went down. Yeah, Dave needs to listen to the back of his shirt there. Play better. Oh. Hit one of the middle three targets and then just had a little quick flip to the left outlane. Hit the pop bumper, trying to get pop bumper up into the saucer. Nope, couldn't get it, but he's got his ball saver up. Ooh. Oh, and we rolled right over it again and straight down the middle again. Now, ball five, it looks That looks like it's looks like there it's over. So, that should be Michael. Looks like he rolled it. Michael and then Ryan followed by Beth and David for that round. See how many other rounds are still going on. So, we have 59 players tonight. We're still 1 2 3 4 5 6 four four groups. Well, no, three. 1 2 So, I believe he's taking top 24 to a finals. There's Ryan. See if this headset works. Oh, it might. Hello, can you hear me? Yeah, I didn't think I could hear I couldn't hear you on that one earlier. There's Mr. Spindler. Hey Aaron, how's it going? Doing all right. Looks like you got second. I got second. Kicked out another ball into the into the trough. It has this as game over. Huh, okay. But it shows player one is lit. Huh. And ball kicked back in. Yeah, it's it's an old game. Yeah, all right. So, it looks like so Michael rolled it? Michael rolled it. And it was honestly four of his balls added up to maybe 10k, 15k. Oh, wow. All right. And he had one ball, I swear he could not drain. Dude was just on fire. Like he he protected left, protected right, protected mid. Damn. And any time any of them went down, he'd right back to protecting it again. So, Good for him. The the left outlane kicker when you light it, doesn't matter if you use it, it stays lit. Oh, from ball to ball? Yeah. Oh, wow. All right. No, for that ball. Oh, just for the ball. Okay. that ball. So, once you light it, it's like oh, it's it's you used it. It's like no, it's it's the whole game. The whole rest of that ball, I should say. Wow. I did not know that. Yeah, we learned. Mind you, to light it takes a lot. Really? What do you have to do? You have to hit ABCD. So, you can see kind of around the corners. Yep. On the stand-ups. Yep. It is not easy. Oh, wow. Okay. And then there's also on the right you have the gate to open. Yep. So, that's on your two inlanes on the far left and far right halfway up the machine. Yep. And then you've got your post up the center. Yep. But you can also race. So, you can and he did multiple times have all three engaged. So, it literally could not drain. Literally could not drain. That's Well, I guess he could, but not Not Not without having to hop on a flipper or something. Right. Yes, or flipping at a bad time. And he didn't, it was just perfect. All right. Well, it was great. It was good. I had a fun group on Outer Space. I had three Reynolds and Aaron Aaron Seiden and Trey. And I I rolled it. I took first. Attaboy. Nice. Got to love that. Yeah, Outer Space is another one you don't see very often. No. Nope. Kept it alive, hit the very target, send it through the spinner, get back up to the pops and to the little uh rollovers up top and just try to build up the bonus, keep it alive. Perfect. I think there's only a handful of games that are still going. Still got Jungle Lord and four. Oh, boy. My wife has to go play with Tom Graf. It happens. Yep. You know, maybe he's distracted from having to have trip down, run a booth, all that. Could be. It's always fun to play with Tom. Oh, yeah. And a great crowd tonight, 59 people. That's a good showing for uh kind of a a new launch location for for tournaments. That's a that's a good start. Although with the sheer volume of machines I I think this is just the starting point. I think it's going to get bigger and better from here. I think so, too. And you know, Francis has such a great collection of potentially all from all eras, but tonight we're playing on all classics. And it's just it's all good. Uh mixture of some of the old old school one and two player EMs to to the four player solid states. Uh-oh. Here comes the man of the hour. Now we're trying to fix one of the headsets here. I got nothing. No, I can hear you now. me? And now I can. Okay. I got nothing in my headset is off. Okay. Now I can hear him. I I can now. I used to not. Have any of the matches come in updated on the on the screen? Say that again? Did screen? No, it's only been on the the rig cam. Thanks for your patience, everyone. I think we're going to be getting close to the next round or some sort of raffle. Looks like there's Everybody needs to be patient. Looks like there's only one game going and it's my wife playing. She should hurry up. Yeah, that was so um the person in front of me had 124, 900 and I had 124, 600. No. Oh, pain. That's why I don't like those uh single player EMs. It's like I missed it by like two pop two pop bumpers. I've never played four. How How was it like? Uh it's a lot of grinding. Oh. Yeah, it's all right. Lot of grinding. It's old. It's an old game. Come on. I ended up rolling Outer Space, took first. You were rolling Outer Space? Yes. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that was that was a lot of fun. That's fun game. Still going on four. And then one second. All right, let's see what we got going yet. There we go. So, just my match, yeah. Yep. Sorry, everybody. Sorry I was holding up the tournament. Yeah, way to go, Tom. What kind of pairings is the we have it on? Random balanced. Sweet. I hate Swiss. You don't like Swiss, huh? No, random at It's fine. You love it. I'd rather play with new people instead of playing with the same people every single round. Or close to it. So, if we could knock that middle wall down, you would see there is more pins back there. But, we don't want to do that cuz nobody wants to die. All right. So, once four is finished, we'll uh we'll switch. Four. So, I ended up finishing third on that one. Yay. All right. So, we're going to go to the next round. I hope. Round two is up. We lost a couple of classics, but we soldier on. And the nature of classics tournaments Check your match play results. We're going to move We're going to move to the other side of the building. All right, everybody enjoy some Stampede. So, the object of this game is not to drain. Yeah. Uh There's a saucer in the middle there. You want to Uh sorry. Yeah, the thing's set up a little weird. Saucer. What did Andy do? There we go. He's got double bonus right now. And uh he's he's getting more bonus. It's looking really good. Uh I don't know what my connection's doing. I think part of the issue is it's really loud. All right, huge ball from uh Francis there. Francis got to try to uh do something here to come back. Lights feature hole is lit up as well as light extra lane. Nope, we got an update. So, uh Ricky Bryant with a seven on Gorgar. Aaron Malone and Ryan Spindler coming in third and fourth there. All right, uh check it. Test. You're testing. All right. Testing my patience. Can uh can The game does not want Ken to play. That that's what's going on right now. The game is like, "Screw you, Ken." Michael with another big game on Wizard, getting stuck in the three-player group, puts up a seven for first place. continuing his domination here on Stampede. Nice nudge. All right, Ronda getting the first on Dragon. Dory second, Tom Mangy third. And John coming in last. Oh, there was a restart. I I guess I didn't see. Uh looks like I came in uh Looks like I came in second on 2001. Oh, well. All right, Ken's got a spinner lit. The spinner did not look juicy. Ken can get it under control here. Nope. Ken had 30K on ball one and an extra ball. Francis played his extra ball. Oh. Yeah, I'm uh I I'm not involved in the tournament directing, so I'm not going to comment. Uh Andy is asking for keys, I think. All right, one ball. That's Ken says one ball. That's all it takes. And that is truth. Although in these EMs, sometimes it's hard to climb back up. But Francis did have a huge ball, but then remember Ken's Ken's still playing against Tom and True as well, so Used to play Used to play against Ken a lot back in the day. Good friends. Doesn't play as much anymore, but still got the skills. All right, so last ball for Francis. Thanks for the bidies. All right. Francis with 122 and some change, and Ken with 50K and some change. And then we'll Now we'll see Tom and True step up to the plate. Ooh, Ken. Ken and uh Chad saying you got screwed. It was It was an unfortunate event. Um he and I didn't notice that I got an extra ball apparently. Okay. play these a lot, so there is an indication in between the flippers. But uh yeah. I'm not very good at these. But look who I'm hanging with, Tom Grant. Neither am I. I I thought this was your wheelhouse. It's classics. Yeah. No, hell no. Lilly with the uh first over Logan. Oh boy, and Aaron Siden and Zach. Can I hear about that, Logan? It's classics. No, I mean I do okay at classics, but I'm not I mean I wouldn't say it's my go-to. Depends on the classic game, I guess. Yeah, good call. Big player on the Madison scene as well. Yeah. Very tough when he's in his element. In the zone. Good control there. I could not hit that shot right there. Took me four balls to start hitting shots on uh 2001. Good thing there's five. I gave Francis a good game after ball three. He's like, "No, no, you got more torture." It's just And then he said at the end, "I'm sorry, man." I guess it's all good, brother. Look at the company I'm keeping. Pinball people are the best. Nice long ball stays alive. Joe, thanks for the comment. Yeah, I I was working hard on that like all last week trying to get uh match match play results to show up on the stream and seems seems to be going well, so That is super cool. I've not seen that yet. Yeah, you'll see you'll see it come up you'll see it like pop up right here. Ooh. Right around here. Well, so whenever there's a like an update Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Figure that way people keep asking me for the match play link. No, it's just nice It's nice to see you It's nice to see after the fact cuz you know, nobody nobody goes looking up a tournament a couple months later if they're watching the the VOD, so Right. And if your person's not on the stream at this particular time, nice to see him pop up there, too. That's true. Unless you took last, then you probably don't want to see it. Yeah, right. Especially two in a row. That was a good ball won by Truey. A good save there near the end. Yeah, I got the double bonus there. That It seems to be the Yeah. way to go. Tom used to come up by us in Wisconsin back in the day. We were just talking about the Wana attorneys. Oh, yeah. Those are always fun. That's That's where I got my first like true tournament play, you know. Mhm, me too. Me too. 2013. godfather of Wisconsin pinball. Ooh. Uh-oh. What happened? I don't know if he took his hand off, but there's a couple machines here where I've I I tried to play it like a modern and you got to need a full push. Oh, yeah. You got to push those buttons in hard sometimes. Yeah, the tall skinny It's a good time like I'll usually go up and just start flipping, you know, and just kind of get a feel for it. Yeah, it's good call. I played with Tully Wednesday at the kickback. Oh, cool. Yeah. He was out there? He did. He came out. uh uh his uh uh Devon? Yeah, Devon. Devon came with him, yeah. They'll both be at MGC. Yeah, it's probably been a while since you've seen them. I saw him I saw I saw his Facebook post they were together, but Yeah, for a concert the other day. Yeah. Truey equalizes it out a little bit with a short ball. Is it ball two? This is ball three. This is now ball three. Yeah, Truey's ball two is a little more Are you Does your game go super fast? Yeah. Is it a two-one like this? Yeah, it was It's got those like one-inch flippers. Oh, yeah. So like you're just those. at the mercy of that. I was on Sunset first round, two double outlanes, both sides. I was on four. I saw that. I thought I had a good game at 60 last yesterday. I saw you at like 90 when I walked by. Yeah, I I ended with a 124, 000 and it was good enough for third. Wow. And I took I took uh third by 300 points. Wow. That's crazy. It's crazy. All right, ball four. Pinball, it's fantastic. And it's got double bonus like that. Could be huge for him. Let's see if it pays off. If he gets the touch it again, he says this Wow. I don't think he needs to. The bonus is still going up. Yeah. Seems like the uh this little side to side is uh adding bonus. It's got to be Like it's got to be maxed out, right? A lot of a lot of the games here I've never played, so Oh my god, so many here. And I'm old. We're old, but not this old. No good patience with that. Yeah, it's got to be a big ball here. Yeah, it'll be good bonus. Ticking that bonus up. It's all doubled. Passed Truey by a little bit, but 30, 000 in bonus. house ball here. New good shakes. Yeah, that was good save. Two. It's like he can get some action on this one. Yeah. That's dangerous. Yeah, ball loves the slings. Up after ball four, though. Anybody's game. All right, can Tom get another big one here? Light spinner and pop bumpers. I mean, that's not a bad award. Kind of dancing around there. How about that fav- fabulous Mexican restaurant later? Oh my god. I knew it was good because we were the only white people in there. That's how you know. It's always how you know. It was amazing. Uh it was so good. That salsa verde. Ooh, it has some bite to it. You You impressed me with your your Spanish. I just looked at Ryan like Thank you, yeah. "Maybe Ken needs to order for us." Can't have a conversation yet, but I can say a few things. All right, was that That was it, huh? That was it. Truey edges him. So Francis, Truey, Tom, and me. I'm going to move back to my uh thingamabobber so I can get to my stream deck. For sure. What is this? Tesla Model S. What the hell? You getting ads over there? Yeah. Getting ads on my own stream. Did they have a California burrito though? They did not. I don't think so anyways. Like any Mexican restaurant, the menu was huge. Oh my it was it was like I was looking through it for like 20 minutes. I'm like I ended up with the the shrimp fajita which was a it was a good choice. Yeah. Fajitas are always a good choice. Oh yeah, that was so good. All right, let me uh Well, it looks like Grand Prix is still going. Well, you know what I can do. It's right there. It's right there and it's it can't be going. That's player one. And it's Yeah, there's some shenanigans going on here. Maybe their game got moved. I don't know. Yeah, cuz there's no way they're on ball one player one. And it's a one player game. there's no way. No way. Not on the to zoom in kind of. Oh, it doesn't look bad. That looks good. Got Dory on the right there playing some King Kong. Yeah. Let's take a spin around here. Wee. Nice. And the way this room is laid out man, you can cover so much with that camera. It's the back room. And I'm missing missing the side room. Yeah, this is the main room there. knock down a wall here. You're really not missing much though. Just behind that wall by Dory there. True. Uh I'll just get another camera I guess. There you go. That's good thinking. Donnell on the left laughing with somebody over there. I they they're I might have to talk to the TDs. See what's going on here. Good idea. Some kind of shenanigans going on. What up pinball people? How many of you are out there? I don't know how he tells when you guys are talking to him or not. It ain't on any of the screens I'm looking at. Most of the time though I'm like you just watching. Wish you guys could be here. Maybe at the next one. Come to Madison more often if you can. Great machines, great peeps but there's great pinball peeps everywhere. Pinball capital as you could see, very cool. Going to be a very special place I think for a long time to come to hang out, play pinball, compete. Maybe if I put my old man glasses on put the stream on my phone. I am good. Thank you for asking. I'm good. Tommy collecting drinks for people. Okay, so I guess they got moved to Wizard but they like literally just finished up so We're up. Trying to figure out how you read comments and stuff. Do you just put the stream on your phone? Yeah, I I was well, I can read it over here but They had uh they had two smaller tables here so I I kind of set up things a little different. Yeah. So Oh, round three's up. Never mind. Round three is up. Nobody cares. All right, what do we got? Uh that is putting the score in. All right, I'll uh Game not being I'll do Dracula. Ooh, maybe I'll do Meteor. Let's do Meteor. Number two on Grand Lizard. Get to play with Ryan Spinnler. Oh, yeah. All right, everybody. So, Meteor. You guys all know Meteor, right? It's a fun game. I hit those targets up top. Rip the spinner. Top targets also increase your spinner value but also once you knock them all down it increases the bonus multiplier. And then you want to hit the three banks of targets to increase the rockets for your bonus so And if this game gets over quickly, I'll probably move it to the game right next door, which is four. Testing. There we go. Cut out some of the mic so it doesn't do that. It's the processing on my my uh broadcaster. Still there. Okay. Well, there's one There's one uh There's one way to Oh, yeah, the I see. All right, no worries. Ah. Sorry. Ooh, now let's get a spinner rip. Well, let's get a spinner rip. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't That's That's it. Turn Turn those match play results off. There we go. That sounds oh, much better. Uh, a little too Got a little bit of redemption off the Gorgar, thankfully. Okay. Took yourself? Uh, yeah, just, you know, pooping the bed on games. Oh, no. Yeah, it's fine. I don't mind it. I kind of expect it with classics now. It's just like, yeah, whatever. It's classics. It's what it does. But it can be fun. Look at that. Dave Heggy with the seven on Wizard. I know that guy. I know that guy, too. He's a nice guy. Absolutely. That was the uh the original for me, at least, master that kicked my butt when I first got into competitive pinball. He was the grand old vet that uh showed me that I had no clue what I was doing. And he still does that, I think, when he chooses to compete. Yes. Tom Schmett just short. All right, let me see if I can move over to four player on there will let me. All right. Got Meteor always a uh tournament favorite. I I see so many tournament players loving to go to it. Not one I choose normally. Just it it gets repetitive off that spinner hit. But I'll tell you if if you get that dialed in, you you see people going after it over and over. I I get it. I get the love. I understand. Match result. I love the live updating on there. That is something nice. And there's Tom contemplating life. Do you ever wonder if you just could have some voice dubbing going where you could just pretend you'd have this conversation going in a completely different language? I'm watching this. I'm thinking this could be highly amusing. Are you thinking Japanese subtitles? I don't know. All right, he's heading to four, which is literally right next door. This game I honestly don't know at all. But it looks like a blast. That's a lot of rollover buttons. Another result in for Outer Space. Got Mr. Doug Fuller taking that down. Mr. Ken Cooley joining us in the booth. What up, Mr. Spindler? Good game on Grand Lizard. Thank you. Always a pleasure playing with you. You got Mr. Tom Grab joining behind you there. Oh, well, get out of the seat. Yep. Got to inspect my thought tail. I figure we get some four. I don't think I've actually seen this one. Oh. Almost perished himself. All right. Looking like he's just hitting the stand-ups. Go round the outside, round the outside. And that 5K right up the center. Ooh, that got loud. Testing, testing. Yep, I got you. Do you hear me or I got you. I hear you. me? Oh, yeah. too loud for you? That's extremely loud. How's that? That's normal. And see what Mr. Tom Mangels got his score he's I think he's actually rubbing it in right now. Katie with the uh the win on Extra Inning. I vowed never to play classics again, and Francis made me play. So. Yeah. You had no So, I'm going to say no say. Uh-huh. I had no say. He twisted my arm. He's kind of a big guy. He is. He's intimidating. Mhm. It's kind of a different game. Like, you got the you got the up post. And uh 5, 000 lit. I don't know what the heck's going on. I'm trying to figure it out on the fly here, honestly. It looks like the 5Ks get lit sporadically on the center, but the outside ones are lit all the time. I don't know. Or and based off of where his score is in one up top. Feels a little bit along the lines of a T'd Off scoring build-wise. Just you know. It looks like it almost looks like target pool a little bit. But without like the center part. I'm just talking about like the targets up top. Like Oh, got you. Yeah, I hear you there. Yep. So, Tom Tom definitely ended up winning that one. I'm going to play a game on that later. That is I am sure There's the results right there. Nice. Tom Mangels with the win. Rockford's finest. Yeah, he's all right. Well, I mean It is Rockford. Yeah. Hey, there's you guys. What up, guys? I'm totally blocking Ken. Dang it. It happens. Yes. Spin around here. So, do you have a laser mounted to that as well, or how does that work? A laser? Yeah, like a laser pointer at least, or No. Or just something to scare people? No. Oh, okay. 100, 000 lumen spotlight, something. It's a nice pinball league shirt, though. His is an awesome place. I agree. This is Hey, cool. Love it. Thanks for letting us hang out, Tom. Oh, yeah. No problem. Best chairs in the whole area. I had I had to go out with my lunch buddies. Or have you my lunch buddies. It was Let's do it again tomorrow. Oh my god, I I I will skip the tournament and go there. That was good. I mean, it's no taco burrito, but uh No, no, no. It was better. Absolutely was better. You got to get a leftovers bag to bring back for uh Eric here, and I think you have to. Just on your drive back, stop by his place, drop it off. Don't even say anything. There you go. Just show up on Just ding-dong ditch it. All right, we got two groups. Oh, it looks like somebody got moved I want to say they got moved to Dracula. Okay. I can't I can't get up. There's nobody on Dracula right now. No, no. I see him I I played uh They're It's right over there. Oh, that Dracula. Yeah. Not Bram Stoker's Dracula. No. No, no. Cuz that's a modern Yeah, that's right. Donnell moving just a few minutes ago from uh this area over to the uh break area. So, maybe they're done, and they just didn't get a denture. I I can't believe I'm I can't believe I'm close to the cut line right now. The way I've been playing. Yeah. But but then again, there's still two groups out there. Anyway. 16 out of, you know, Ken. Why do I see you at the bottom? I'm at the bottom. It's okay. I know. It happens sometimes. you don't play as much as you used to. Classics. I don't play as much as I used to and it is classics. It is classics. I make no excuses. I suck. Honestly, I think if you blindfolded me, I might do better. I think you know, you just plunge the ball sometimes when somebody leaves and the ball just bounces around for a while. I would do better. that great? Like if you if if you're playing like as players one and three and player two or four is beating you on the plunge off? Yep. Have had that happen. Yeah, this is a this is a phenomenal place, honestly. There we go. Hang Glider last one left now. Hang Glider. Some big hitters in that one, Trey. Yeah. Andy, don't know Ricky and Rhonda. But they're all But you got three of them sitting at 10 points going into this, so. Sounds like a bunch of cheating to me. He's getting feisty over there. Nah, it's fine. We got two more rounds of play. Just need a I need a miracle, that's all, right? You got this. Well, you either get to keep playing in playoffs or you get to hang out and play in booth stream or you get to play for fun. I mean, I'd be for I'd be strapped in here. Oh, boy. Forget Francis. Yeah. Oh, 29. I thought he Is that That is the cut. Okay, I see so many ties. Yeah, 16 A lot of people tied for 18th. 16 on it. We'll see how I don't know if it's automated tiebreakers or I've seen two sharps. Four. Clarification. It's all Francis. I got to replay that one. Uh-oh. So wait, what about add-a-balls? Well, you're add-a-balls. They're add-a-balls but not your extra balls. Oh, yeah. Of course. And if in doubt If in doubt. End the stream. Good fight, good night. All right, ROUND FOUR IS IN BOW. OH, ME AND GRAF TOGETHER AGAIN. It's just like old times. Great. I'm on Volley with Flying Chariots. Man, see, I got Oh, man. I get to play some Volley. I'll stream I'll stream Mars Trek. Oh, Mars Trek is so good. Good call. Love that game. So choice. If you have the means, highly recommend it. Yeah. You guys are on the stream. Dave Hegge just stepping away, looked like. I think uh Tom might just be following Tom Mangi around. David Slaymaker I see is player three. He won the pinball machine yesterday that was auctioned off. Roger Sharp uh recreating his shot or trying to yesterday after we watched the movie The Man Who Saved Pinball and then Francis auctioned it off and David Slaymaker walked away with a machine. Very cool of Francis to do. Maybe some controversy? Maybe Maybe Mr. Bagwell is doing his TD business. There he steps up. I can give you guys no meaningful commentary on the actual play of the machine as I do not know this stuff. Sorry about that. Nice nudge there. Get that inlane. Double spinners keeping it alive. Supersonic done already. Brian Victoria and Aaron. Nice shot back up top. Collects those lights. That means got to be good, right? There you go. Get in your hole. Oh. Smoking it. Oh, what a touch. Andy shows why he's one of the best in the world. Mr. Gray should be back momentarily. We're on a brutal machine with two outlanes on either side, no inlanes, some weird U-shaped contraption in the middle, flying chariots. Nice lucky roll for Tom there, good shot into the scoop. Nice in lane. What can he do with it? Ooh, little bit of spin on that ball. The ball did not want to go in its hole for Tom. Get it back up there. Mr. Ryan Spinnler coming back to the booth just in time, I'm sure. Absolutely. Oh, Mars Trek. Such a good game. I apologize everybody for not being able to tell them anything. Glad you're here. Oh, yep, absolutely. So, big bonus game. It is getting it off the letters. So, you're ideally getting all the Trek letters. Mars is is nice, but Trek is the bigger part. And you're getting TR off the upper, you're getting E and K off of the inlanes. All right. If you get to exactly 50K, those spinners will get lit for extra ball, which doesn't really matter, I guess, in this case. And then you got your Mars and I have Mars Trek going. I just sat down. Looks like they are uh They're moving right along. I'm all done with my old Did Andy play out of turn? I see Andy wait, and then Andy sad face. I don't know. Maybe he was sad on David's half there, cuz that was a house ball. Right off the knuckle. I had a chance to pick one of these up, and I should have did it. Oh, absolutely. Mars Trek is fantastic classic. working on EMs, so Fair enough. Don't think anyone played out of turn. No, it wasn't Send it up high, there's a click Oh, oh, thanks. Thanks, El Rocco. That makes sense. Am I going to be pulled? Don't do it. All right, Dave's got the E, needs the K for the double bonus. He just collected his bonus. Oh. Oh, wow, that was a power drain on the right side. All right, we're on ball three. Ball three action. They're moving along pretty darn good, then. Ooh, we got an update. It's Sunset, Joel the dragon himself taking the win. Oh, and Andy off the top of the sling there. One of those not fire sling hits. Always hurts. So, Tom in a position of power here. This Tom guy's all right. Ooh, he's got the right name. Deep digging. Is that it is? I haven't heard the Mangy name much before, but okay. Oh, you mean the first name part? Okay. First name. First. All right, he's got a little bonus. Surely you can't be serious. Oh, that's gone. That was a lot of slapping the ball around. It was. Well, I got to find out the hard way that when it says tilt ends game, that indeed the tilt ends game. No, power play's being worked on. Save it. Come on. Oh my god. That's two in a row on David. That is a clip. Clip that. The game is just kicking him over and over right now. Well, he's killing it, man. Now they're first on Melody. Lilly won the classics at Pinball at the Zoo last year, and that's coming up in a few weeks. That is coming quick, isn't it? Holy hell. Losing track of time, man. Yeah, time Time goes fast. And it's early April, we got MGC coming around the corner, too. She's got the orbits ready. Just got the double bonus. Got the K there. E and the K will collect that. Another guy is Michael guy is killing it. Yes. Yeah, he destroyed the casino on his round one. He has not stopped since. All right, I got to go see if Ken's cheating real quick. I'll be right back. Uh David's destroying the hell out of Mars Trek right now. Here's that collect bonus shot. Oh, here early. Wait there for it. It's all right. Little extra bonus built, why not? Over. Little more bonus, up to max. So, he's sitting 200K on his bonus. If he can get a collect, even better, but just don't tilt. Here we go, clean shot. That's all right. That was a big ball. And oh. And there's that power sling out lane we all love so damn much. Oh. Get to go back at it one more time. Get the Mars, there we go. Oh, double bonus roll over, so good. Got to love that. Little extra E. Okay, Ken wasn't cheating, so that was good. Are you saying that because he didn't pass you? Oh, upper flipper death. Yeah. While Tom was gone, I made the comment I think he's following Tom Mangy around. Oh, he is. He's got a good name, so. David's hoping he can last for more than a 4 seconds on this one. This This game has been killing him. Yeah, when it's coming down that left side, sometimes drains. Hey, he got to touch it. I call that a win. Yep. This is This is his longest ball so far that I've seen. It has just been flat out rude. All right. Ken hits the M, gets some bonus. All right. It's got inlanes. I would take it. It's got what plans crave. Front Oh, it's okay. You won a pinball machine yesterday, it's fine. Indeed, indeed. Bree with a win. Nice. Yes. Sonnell with a solid second. Yeah. She's been crushing it today. She did well Wednesday, also. Caroline on the black jack. Double bonus roll there. All right, last ball for everybody. Yep. That's Those are some big gaps one through four. And those are catchable gaps, but man, every single one of those is going to take work. Don't see Andy. Probably doing TD things. I know, that's uh got to get the camera. See if we can get an Andy. Back to the left, I saw a bright pink shirt. No, that's a play. It's roving. Going to go uh tell that guy how to play. Yeah. What are you doing? You know that's not how you flip. Play better. Oh, must be a popular machine or person. Slay makers like, "Don't you be playing my new pinball machine." Tom N in the background on Pulp Fiction. So, that is a uh that is a sharpshooter they're playing there. And that is not Roger Sharp's wife with him on that back glass, either. The girl in the back is a stalker. All right. Andy has disappeared. Do we have to put the camera on the bathrooms? I think we just call out that we're going to put them on a timer. Yeah. You got 3 minutes to come to your game or you can't. Maybe Oh, there he is. There's the cam. There. There's There's the fauxhawk. All right. Where's the ho? Head shake to boot. Need to get some walking music. That can't be good. He had to do some TD stuff by the look of his face there. Sometimes you got to make the hard decisions. Oh, no. Okay. Spin around for hundreds of points. Uh might be one of those things that makes them focus, too. True. Oh, boy. I don't like that. Yeah. Neither did Andy. No. Anytime it's going Not going to recover off that now. Anytime it's going to the left of that slingshot post. Yeah. He saved it twice earlier over there. Yeah. Metal doesn't bounce off of wood very well. No. Well, see if Tom can chase in enough towards Dave to make him actually have to play his ball four or ball five, I should say. Ooh, nice save. That was a hard cross decision on that one. That was No patience on that one. But, for nothing. All right. Good old Illinois air freshener walking by. How would you rate that one on a scale of 1 to 420? Logan Joshua Henderson with the hang line. Peggy with the walk-off. See you. Yeah. And game over, man. All right. Just like that. Just like Boom shaka. Demo demo. Plenty of games still going. It is. Grand Prix right behind us. Oh, look at that. Tom Graf guy's above the cutline. Weird. Hmm. Yeah, barely. Barely. Is Is it above the cutline, Tom? people left. Is it above the cutline, Tom? For now. Is it above the cutline, Tom? I got my baloney 14 points right now, man. Look at this. It's what I get for tilting out on Valley. magic here. Hurts. Right, it is like magic. Look at those scores. Wow. 762, 795, and what? Nine? 926. Yeah, my word. I'm Oh, yeah. Grand Prix, those spinners are are juicy. That is true. First time through or left for pals. No, it's the same Grand Prix that they had us at Papa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is uh it is a very nice example of the game. Very nice. Yes. Very nice. And honestly, those scores, those may not be accurate. Someone may have very easily rolled it. Already? Yes. Absolutely. No indicator on there. is balanced, I can't do bubble groups, so I'm just going to have to throw it on a game. There you go. See if you can find one that's got two people that are in the green and Yeah, I don't I don't have that much time. All right. As soon as, you know, the rounds are up, everybody like scatters like Yeah. Cockroaches. Yeah, pretty much. Look at I had to yell at Andy like, "Stop! Stop, Andy!" I think everybody enjoys yelling at Andy. It's okay. Pulp Fiction, that's kind of like a I don't know what else to say. You could argue that Pulp Fiction could go into the classics bank, almost. Yeah, it would have to be set up really hard, though. Like I'm pulling outlane post, so So, if it's going to be in a class I would argue for that. Yeah. I'd be all right with it. Same thing with uh Total Nuclear. Take the spinners out. No, just Take the spinners out. I'm just kidding. Take out the inlane outlane divider. Just let it fall. Sure. It's fine. Remove the plunger. So, things like that. Is that Tom? That is Tom. Tom. I thought so. Yeah, yeah. Player three. So, he's at 82. Yeah. Yeah, looks like that's a walk-off from the way he's approaching it. Yeah. Oh, but if he if he rolls it No, they're Yep, they're putting in scores. Yep, just playing it out. All right. Did you see that Taxi that you just went past? Yeah. I had a dream right before I came down here. They re-released Taxi, and they took off the left leg. They put one leg right in the center, and they put a gas pedal where the left leg used to be. Interesting. Right? I think so. Double cups going. That's interesting. Gas pedal with the flippers. Put a clutch in there as well. You got to shift. Maybe you do that on Getaway when you got to go between gears. Shift gears. All right, we should be getting a new round. See, there I am, Ryan. I'm I'm Yep. Oh, yeah. See? So, maybe we're So, maybe we're streaming you. Oh, [] You're in the danger zone. it. All right, if it's me and Aaron Malone, we're going to definitely stream it. Or Or better yet, if it's Aaron and Lauren. If If you get hubby and wife together on a game, that's got to be Cuz one of them's going to send the other one out. It's fine. I'm I'm happy to just stay here and not make the playoffs. I'll I'll be fine with it. Yeah, me, too. Totally. Yeah. I'm like second to last. Yeah, yeah. I'm good with it. 50 second. Uh good with it. Got to put this voice to good use. I tied with this Bagwell guy, so you know what? If somebody else told me I was tied with Andy Bagwell, I'm going to call that good. On the downside, he's as terrible as I am right now. He's working, though. He's got an excuse. But, I guess you're broadcasting. Yeah, this isn't working. I get a comfy chair. Not the comfy chair. Look at Tom N up at the top. Yep. She be crushing it. Uh get ready to hold your eardrums. Andy's going to shout soon. See, oh, I thought he had the microphone. Not yet. Oh, he Oh, there's There was two of them, so somebody's got one. All right, let's go to the uh Let's go to the uh room cam here. Good shot. Joshua Henderson. Got True and Merry back there. Clean up an aisle nine. Does not look happy about it. Everybody joins them in between games. Tom getting a revenge game. You need a revenge game? Mhm. Where did Where did Art go? Art was here earlier. He was. I was hoping to see him long. He did have his son with him. Oh, that's true. There's Andy. Andy's hiding in the back. Oh, did we get new I see people moving, so must got a new We do. Yeah. Let me take a look at this. Sharpshooter on Oh, we got a stream dragon. Maw. True, I'm going to stream your group. Maw. Don't start. I'm going to stream your group. I'm on Hangout with Mr. Heggy. Oh, I love that guy. What up, everybody? True pounding away here. Again, I will be of no help on the strategic or what anything of what's going on cuz I don't know nothing. Ooh. Look at that action. Oh, house ball. I know that feeling. I had two out of three house balls on Sharpshooter and somehow got my only win. Ooh. Brutal. Rolling right along, Trey. He's been doing an awesome job yesterday and today of teching here. Staying very busy. There's a lot of old machines here. I think he's from around where I am, in the Madison area, but I have not crossed paths with him till now. I only peeked at the comments earlier, but I saw "Hey, somebody asking if anyone was watching in Chicago." If that's you, Hayne, care, what's up, bro? Long time no see. Hope you're at MGC if that's you. Uh oh, he didn't get the rod. Five dollar volley matches after. Somebody's wanted time to stream knows. But, he got to touch the ball. That's a good start. Trey shaking his head, showing, I'm sure, what uh most of them are feeling. True with the win. Boy whips my butt all the time, which isn't hard, but Trey going for the revenge game, as is tradition. Let's see what matches are still going. I don't know how to show it on Tom's rig. Looks like Super Soccer still going. Volley. It's got Hot Dogging, Black Jack. There's a lot of games going. Supersonic, 2001, See that guy right there? Superstar. Black Jack. We'll make our own place with Black Jack. I don't know how clean Tom's stream is. Scott walking away with the vent win on Vector. Over there, ball two, player three. Logan is the win leader. Oh. Aaron Malone from the Madison scene does frequent commentary when he can on the stream. Playing well tonight. I think he was He was up there, above the cut line. Aaron usually runs the Friday night tournaments at the Kickback in Madison. He's been experimenting with some different formats. That wasn't a good play, though. Bob looks like he might have played some of these games in his youth. Good grip on that spinner, right back to the saucer. Chopping wood. Power in lane. Back back to the saucer. Another rip on that spinner. Pick up the spades. Oh, oh, I thought he was going to get the hearts, too. It's the win over the dealer on that one. Oh. Good ball. Not going to be enough, I don't think. I don't know anything about these games. It's a pretty big bonus. Go Bob go. Still with the win on Solar City next. Congrats Bill. Oh, it is going to be enough. Look at that bonus. Still ripping up. Good ball. 240 Oh, a bit of dead bounce there. Nice live catch. Woo! A lot of patience. Almost too much patience. I think he's got to step down. Mr. Ryan Spindler coming back to the booth. All right, winning hand. There it is. Nice. Get that for 5x. Player one Bob was in dead last. But on this ball, he got one of those wins and uh helped him out a lot. All right. That was That was right tech. It's all right. It seemed like he was going for the inlane pass. Nice live catch. but he uh advances hand by a point. So, he is now at 17. Oh. Yeah. So, now he's trying to get it back up top to try and hit those up lanes to move your hand. Cuz hitting those uh stand-ups to advance your cards by one are just dangerous. A bit of speed for an old game. It is. All right, there it is. Hit that spinner. Pick up that heart. Oh, no. Oh, not what he was aiming for, but that's all right. It's all right. Bonus is basically maxed out, so Nice nudge. There's a good rip. That club. There's one. There's two. Oh. All right, he's back up to 20. Oh. You'll definitely have Bob with the bonus. Ooh. Well, he wants one of the upper lanes. He's at 21 and then hits saucer. Boom. Nice. Wow. He knows it. Now it's saucer all day if you can get it. Good flipper skills there. And just don't accidentally hit anything else. Get it. There it is. Player wins. Nice. One more of those Oh. Oh, it's not going to be enough. Not going to be enough. Might get No, third. I was just going to say one more of those should get him up to second. How'd you do? Took second on Hang Glider. Mr. Dave Hegge put me in that place. I uh That is a hard man to beat at pinball. Yes, he is. How about yourself, sir? Uh I had two out of three house balls on Sharpshooter and somehow I won. I had no idea. There you go. Is it $5 free ball? Free ball. Really? Two out of three house balls. I got a like 15, 000 on my uh first ball. Going back to Hegge, uh when I first started getting into competitive pinball, came down to Chicago for a tournament um and I watched one of the most epic games of the Rolling Stones with Hegge versus Lyman Sheets. It was insane. They were time for the room cat? Oh, we got Oh, yeah. So, I put up uh on Stampede, I put up uh 82, 000. Okay. Wasn't enough. Apparently it wasn't cuz you got second. It's fine. It's all right. So, you're going to be on the cut line or you're ahead of it? I don't know. You You won't be below it. Well, I'm sitting at Oh. Uh I don't know. might be. Uh-oh. You might be below the cut line. I might. Uh-oh. I might have needed that win. Holy hell. I would not have called that. It is top 16, not top 24, correct? Top 24. Oh, you're okay then. Sure? You're fine. Sure about that? I don't know. We're going to find out, I guess. Yep. Yep, I missed it by a I'm not going to do any math right now. Ooh, Andy missed it. Just missed it. Oh. That sucks. Yeah, he started his evening a little sluggish. Well, it's hard when you're T D'ing and doing all that crap. Yeah. I can only imagine. I don't know how you guys do it. Elementary, my dear kid. I I remember Tom Grab in the basement. Don't talk to me when I'm playing MY BALL. THAT'S TOM GRAB. WELL, the worst part is it's not even that they talk to you. It's that people shout your name out in the middle of while you're playing. Right. Tom, I need you to get a stuck ball. I'm I'm playing right now. What do you freaking want me to do? You You get active bellows of your name screamed across the room. Yes. Oh, good times. So, here's your next feature. You get those eight players who are still on and you get them highlighted in the standings to we got an update. Update. Brian Weisberg See, where was he at? What did that do? Oh, I moved down. Yeah, he was already in third. Oh, no, it put him in third, I guess. You're still 17. Yeah, but is there going to be a tiebreaker or situation? That's the question. Mm. How many are below you guys that are going to possibly move up above? They're all below. That could possibly move above. Uh one Yeah, there's uh somebody who has 18 right there. Katie Yep, you got one at 18. But everything else must be lower than that. Yep. 13, 12, 4 So Yeah, so Katie's the only person that could jump. So, you're safe. You're safe. Sorry, buddy. You're stuck playing. I'm safe, but I'm not because if she if she gets a first or a second, then I'm in a tiebreaker situation. You're not in a tiebreaker. You'll be above the tiebreaker. The tiebreaker will be the point below Oh, I thought I had 22 points. See, I I didn't bring my eyes today. And yet without your eyes, you beat us. Yes, you did. So, you know. Use the force, Tom. All right. It's fine. Hell yeah. So, I don't know we I don't know if we're going to do like $5 volley while playoffs is going on Uh that's going to be your call, sir. I don't think that's I mean Cities Pinball stream. though? Do people want to watch a $5 volley match though? That's a good one to throw out there. I mean, would people rather watch playoffs or would they rather watch a $5 volley? Yeah. $5 volley during tiebreaker Uh no. No, we'd show the tiebreaker. If there is a There's lots of choices to be made. Lots of choices. Infinite amount of choices. Endless I don't know. I don't know what to do. If only there was a way to ask the people watching what they wanted. They don't want anything. One person wants $5 volley. That's it. So, 100% of the people voting So, I guess no $5 I don't think I've ever participated. Is it simple as it sounds? Everybody throws in five bucks? one ball five bucks and you try to get the high score. All right. If nobody or everybody plays and then the people that don't have the highest score get the option of throwing in an extra 20 bucks for another chance. Wow. And then it's winner take all. High rollers. Yes. I think Ryan still owes me some money. Oh, and Katie did jump. So, we're going to have a tiebreaker. Well, there was going to be a tiebreaker, I think, either way, wasn't there? I thought there was more than one at 22. Not if Not if she took last or something. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right, then. Cuz she was at 18. All right. And Lauren right on the cutline. Yep, so Lauren's on tiebreaker with uh Lauren's right there with Okay, you're right. You sir are correct. With With Katie, then. Probably with Katie and whoever else. Oh, Lauren and Lauren and Joseph the dragon. Lauren, Malone, and the dragon in the tiebreaker. Oh, boy. Yeah, that'll be interesting. Oh, Katie jumped all the way up to 10th. Yeah. Holy hell. Big seven. All right, so I guess we got to figure out where the tiebreaker game is. All right, so they already actually started the tiebreaker. So, I have no control here. No control. Jungle Queen, is that even an option here? Uh so, they're playing a a tiebreaker on Melody. Best I can do. Let's try to zoom over there. There's Joe, he's playing. Everybody's happy. They're playing pinball. And I'll give it I'll give everybody an update. Hold on. All right, Joe is excited. He has made it. So, All right. Why am I in a loop here? All right. FINALS TIME. TOP 24. GO TO YOUR overview tab on your phone. Once you refresh, you'll see the playoff link. Top eight you have a bye. It is random order to draw. And highest seed goes in every game. I've already flipped the order. Now go check your order. Make sure you're playing in the right order. I don't want to disqualify you for playing out of turn, but I will. Top two advance. Top eight can play Monday. All right. Shoot. Playoff kickoff. All right. Uh Let's start. Oh, turn space. Space. Josh. All right. I think you got four more rounds to play. Yeah, there's a huge rubber on that center post. Crap. We were having some issues with the game and then All right. So, we'll go to the next round, which will be top 16. Uh let me put the chat. Yeah, sorry. I can't can't really find anybody that'll actually commentate, so Next round is up. Oh, [] Tom, what a dragon. We got to We got to stream dragon. We already did, Andy. We already did. I like that. George is pretty good over there. All right. Um next round's up. We're set in the top 24. Good luck. Time is up. Wrong time. Punishment. So, I'm trying to figure this game out if it's just like you want to go around the board and like get holes in one? All right. He's on ball three. He's got no flippers cuz he tilted. All right. There's a hole in one. It's not worth heck of a lot. So, I think you just want to spam 5, 000s. I think that's the key. I'm not 100% sure, but when I played it earlier, that seemed to be the strat. You just you just basically get the uh the post up in the middle. All right. I didn't get to see what Tom's score was. Sorry. I was interrupted, so um But, basically uh you have these up posts here. And that'll raise this. And then it's just like trying to hit the 5, 000s and survive. And then this will bring the post down. That's pretty much the game. So, I I assume going up top's not like a terrible strategy cuz it's safe, but I think the real points are on those 5, 000 when lit. Keep the center post raised whenever and I'll just Can't fit all that in there. Too much information. Yeah. It's it's ripping 5, 000 shots. No, you're fine. Yeah, True's True's playing this like I was trying to earlier. I This is This definitely the way to go. It's Yeah, try to survive the 5, 000s while the post is up. And when the post is down, you hit the rollover for the up post. Planet, how's it going? All right. So, True's at 89 300. And now Tom was a lot less than that. I just I'm not sure what he had. Oh, that was tilt. Tilt the the ball got stuck at like five rollover. Yeah, just see it up off the center post. Yeah, absolutely. Yep. I feel you. Okay. Yeah, so we're we're Did she just walk off? 13 870. All right. We're going to assume she passed Tom, I guess. So, All right. We got some We got some stuff lit. All right. So, uh Tom and and Alice out. That was me sneezing, sorry. Um I could be wrong. I'm going to take a little walk around. So, not sure what's going on with Dragon if they're done. I think they're done. Uh Oh, they are done. Scores are right in front of me. So, Ryan and Mary are are finished there. Ours truck was just finishing up. So, let's try to show the scores for two. And then, uh OXO is still going on and hopefully they're done soon. Well, they never entered their scores for the four game. Maybe Dave uh There they are. Okay, Logan took first, James took second. There they are. And the way uh the way I have this set up, you'll see a a final standings. Um there's only one game per round. So, if there are multiple games, it would show all the overall points for the uh the group. So, really we're just waiting on the OXO game. And I I saw Lily was on ball three when I walked over there, so they're they're almost done. A lot of people just hanging around playing games. Okay, semi-finals are up. Uh round of eight, you get cash no matter what this round. See Francis for money after you get eliminated. And if you get eliminated, top two advance to the final. Good luck and all. Looks like the old one from District 82. I don't know if it is though. Hot dogging. Hey Ken. What up, Tom? How's it going? Uh so good, man. So good. Playing pinball with pinball peeps. Good times. Won a 1-month membership to the Pinball Capital. Oh, no kidding. Yeah, I gave it to a local. Oh, that was nice of you. Yeah. It'll be a bonus-heavy game. You want to get the multiplier on the inline drops. Okay. And then just shoot a bunch of targets and stuff. And stuff. And that drain. Oh, that's my favorite part. In the middle right there, there's also the uh Ooh. Oh. Three inlanes. The collect. Oh, okay. in there and it'll kick it out. All right. This is a good ball. Yeah, definitely. Heard Logan's moving to Colorado from here, so Thriving pinball scene out there. Oh, yeah. Uh-oh. Little sweat in the eyes. Ooh, nice ball. Ooh, it's happening. Mhm. Got the 3x target. Four, no. Thought I got the four. That's dangerous. Woo. Ooh, nice shots. Oh. He is not happy about that. No. Ken, do you ever go skiing little hot dogging yourself? Back when I was a youth. Yeah. Yeah, not in a long, long time. Probably 35 years. I think you know, one one track and I would rip up a knee or something. Uh-huh. There's a lot of things I don't do anymore for that reason. Nice backhand on that 3x. Is that the four? Uh that was 3x. 3x. Uh nice one. It's for four. Oh, he's got the lit spinner and the collect lit. Is all my friends still in the chatter or did he call it a night? No, he's still in there. What up, Lord Byron? Oh. Well, not bad. He's got a lot of bonus he's taking. Oh, yeah. So everybody made Excuse me, everybody that made top eight will take home some cash. Ken, what's your name? Ken Ken Kulick. Ken Kulick. Kenny to my friends. Call me Kenny. Uh-oh. They killed Kenny, you bastard. Oh. Unfortunate. Just the look on his face, that hurt. Logan Logan looks like he wants a lot of points here. All right. Oh. Somebody bumping into him? What's going on? Uh I think he's going to do a little tappy tap. I think you're right. Oh. Oh, he sent it. Changed it up on us. No. Oh-ho. Oh-ho, yeah. It was a little too much. Yeah. Just a wee bit. Just a tad. Let that settle for a second. Good try, man. Yeah, no bonus. Logan's standing behind the booth. waiting that baby is dead stopped. Yeah, where is Dave? I don't know if he's over there or not. He's got 3x. Doesn't have a lot of bonus built up though, but All right, gets back in the shooter lane. For that spinner. Patience. Ooh, that was interesting. Uh-huh. Building up that bonus. Ooh, little tap. Tap and tap. Nice dead bounce. There it is. Yeah, I got the 5X. Now at 30, 000 bonus times five. It's looking pretty good. Good comeback here. Fighting a bit. Might play uh might go saucer all day here. See if he goes Yeah, he's going right for the saucer. Yep. Then he might go for the spinner again, but Nice. Pitch that 3°. I don't know. Is he going to special? Hell of a ball. It's pretty sweet. That's some good downhill skiing right there. That was it, man. Lindsey Vonn style. Not at this last Olympics. Oh, yeah. That would have been my play if I had been up there. Quick run. Out. Oh, no. Oh, nice nudge there. What's up, Tom? What's going on? How's it going? Good, Andy. Good. We're just enjoying some downhill skiing. some nudging, some open, but not enough. Let's get off. Nice to share the booth with you, sir. Yeah, good to hang with you. You're all week You're all weekend or Yeah. Yeah, for sure. You play the tournament tonight, too? Uh if that's what you want to call it. I didn't make playoffs, either, so. Uh Mr. Fremont stepping up here. Ball three, top two advance, I see. So Logan is it Is it four Oh, no, he's got Oh, Logan's in trouble. Yeah, he's got 75 right now. That's not great, so. Yeah, he ended up tilting out his last ball trying to shimmy it out of the outlane. Oh, is he player one? He's player three. Oh, okay. Oh, it's okay, last ball. I was like, it can't be his last ball yet, but now it is. I got it. His previous ball. His previous Thank you, yes. Yes, that's what I was stuck on. I was hung up on that specific They're both correct. All right, Logan is a If anybody can do it, it's this guy. Uh master of the clutch, so he's usually pretty good ball three dude. He fights He fights death off pretty uh savagely. Oh, no. Commentary curse. Oh, yeah. I'm here for two seconds and I curse We curse the [] out of it. I think we got an emote for that. have a commentator curse now? Sweet. I'll find it. That's awesome. The emote. I was just singing your praises about your clutch ball three-ness, and then you did that, unfortunately. That happens. So, is that true and Dave going on? Yep. Yeah, and this five digits on hot dog is no way to go through life, son. So It's not commentary curse. It's just cursed. It's cursed. Curse it, curse it, cursed. Uh we got money for those people going out this round. Top eight get paid tonight. They are actively playing $5 volley, last I heard. I should go check on that and see if there's still time for me to burn $5. Right, I should, too. Did you not do it yet? They haven't called it. Tom, they're they're saying Tom's money is ready for volley. Yeah, it's not my money. Oh, it's different Tom. Oh, it's Tom Mangy, probably. I'm going to go get my five bucks in. Yeah, I got to see what's what's going on. All right, do we see anybody playing uh Solar Fire? No. All right, so Brian and Mary move on. So, we're going to a final four, I believe, right? Yep. Sunset. Don't ask me how to play it. I have no idea. Just keep the ball between the flippers and don't drain in the outlane or down the middle. And then hit stuff. Yeah, that sounds about right. Okay, we are on Sunset for the final game. It's like we're down to one local with Mr. Heggy. So you How do you play Sunset? You survive. There's another one like it that's over here right right in front of you, Tom. Very similar to it, but it's got a center target. The Yeah, I played that I played that one and Like once it goes over there, like you're pretty much screwed on sides. I think if you're ready to get a good nudge on the big fat rubber in the middle, you can get it loose from there, but not to mention you might want the 100 light. Like if it goes going to go through the right lane. Okay. This is not going to be a massive scoring game, so No. And especially cuz all the plunges feed not to the center, so nice save there. It's like you want to What's that called? Uh Well, on Rick and Morty it's called ball fondler for the the center the center shot, so there it is. Perfect. Right on time. Special for five balls lighted on on lighted side. I don't know what the heck. Five, there's only three balls in there. Pokémon. There's only three balls in the channel. How would you get five balls in there? Nice. We get a trap the rare trap. It's always like a pleasing thing. I like that. Send it up top. That that center I see that center channel is 50 every time it goes through there, which is probably nice. Get that 100. I like that. Coming back. We're on ball four. True stepping up here. Looking for that lane. Doesn't get it. Almost gets the 50 through the side, but doesn't get that either. But he does have even 10 for those pops, so that's not bad. See you later. He's got 1016 though. That's a solid score, I think so far. That could be a winning score. He's still got a ball to go, too, to add on a little bit to it. Uh-oh. Oh, survives down there. Ooh, good save. It takes the 100. I don't hate it. Take it. Unless she's going to have to do a lot more than that on ball five if she wants to run the player one score down at least, so All right, True trying to get as much distance as he can here. He's got former world champion Dave Heggy stepping up after him, so Yes. Oh, oh, I like this. Oh, he tilted it, but it was a good it was the good nudge to get it out, but Oh, don't tilt through. That would be that would be deadly. Looks like we're safe, so I was going to say Yep. What What's the score he had? 1 1056 That is 1058. Eight. All right. Mary's going to need a heck of a ball here if she wants to to get ahead of that score. Especially with the average ball time so far. Well, that's going to be that, so but still 100 points on the way out could could save her a position potentially. Tom, is there any way to get chat on my monitor over here? No. Damn it. No take tips for you. Look at your phone. You can You can fancy leave is giving you the sad bag well face. The hell is Z Mac? Ban him. I'll get my phone out. Just trying to engage with my people. I know I wasn't I wasn't prepared for the two small desks. Dude, Tom's got this crazy thing now on his phone where he can change the match play on his phone on the fly for the for the stream he built. He built it himself. It's so nice. It's the coolest [] Not only that, but I can actually change some of the OBS scenes, too. Let's see some Let's see some more sad wells in chat. Maybe a couple of sad hotties in chat as well, some sadies. Finals games were indeed random draw. This is an all classics tournament. All right, I'm up on volley. Okay, Tom's going for that big volley and Dave with an 11 point ball one. Not exactly keeping pace so far. All right, Brian Weisman stepping up wearing a Summer Pinball Thing shirt. That is from the barn in Ohio. State full of degenerates that I love. Oh, he gets he gets 250 pass throughs up there. That seems to be the Oh, he didn't make the nudge though at all there. I think he would he had some chances there to probably pop that ball out, but I did not try to It's kind of too late to nudge it. Dave looking to erase that 11 point ball one, but that's not the start not getting a top lane and no side lane either. Unless Nope. He's got to survive down here now. I don't think it's in Oh, there's there's multiple balls in there. I didn't I didn't see the ones that are like right in the in the bottom center. But he's on the wrong side. They're not They're on the wrong I don't even know what Does anybody know what it does? If you get five on the lighted channel. As if you would ever survive long enough on this game to hit all of those balls. Okay. Uh-oh. Okay. Oh, I that's not a bad idea. 100 point target. I'd like to do nothing there. Good save. Can trap this, but he opts to throw it away and kind of punished for a little bit there. Dave somehow ended up with 360. I didn't even notice he scored That must score like maybe What does it score? 100 points for that ball channel. I see. So that's nice. Okay, he gets 50 there. Oh, is he going to survive this? Oh, he gets 100 target solid. Oh. Making pace. He's He's on pace right now. He's averaging 200 a ball. Yeah. Yeah, we're It's all classics, so I mean it's going to be pretty fast no matter what, but this is Francis is over here hawking the $20 volley. Man, I'm getting that 20. I'm getting that 20 right now, Tom. I'm feeling it. I was close, Andy. I was close. I needed one more target. All right. Going into ball four here. They're both close to Mary's score. Getting closer to True's. What's the current volley score to be? Tom Tom Mangy has uh 27, 000 something. Or Yeah, 27, 000 something. And now uh now the chances for $20 for anybody to try to do it again. Okay, that's not terrible. I'd rather drain on the 100. Uh I think Andy just burned a 20. All right, so Dave's ending at 866. That is good enough for 869, excuse me. That's good enough for third. Oh, wait. Wait, he's got a chance. He's got a chance. captain might get in there. He need He needs 15 points. Yeah. Just don't center drain. JUST OH, HE'S GOT IT. HE'S GOT IT ON THE FINAL SHOT. HELL YEAH. OH, WOW. Nice job. And the $5 volley pot just crossed over $200 as I set $20 on fire. What? I had to Francis question. He's over there on the couch. Francis is handling the gifts. How'd your volley experience go? Uh 13, 000. That's So it's like 12 on my ball my first one and my $20 ball was like 2, 000 points, so it was a joke. I tried to I tried to bang back it off the came back in and tilted immediately. Hey, one ball. You know, if the game ends So player two, Brian, won on the final flip. He hit the captive and it went outlane and gave him the points to pass. He was like 15 points behind, so He is our winner for tonight, so Tom's going to roll over here and I think get some maybe the volley still maybe going on it looks like a little bit, so we might get a a bit of $5 volley action. You can see the happy faces of $5 volley over here. So, Congrats to True and Mary, too. A power couple of pinball. Oh, nice. I didn't realize. That's pretty awesome. people. Yeah. Good insight. Got to love a pinball power couple. It's pretty rare, I feel like. So, Right. Me, too. I saw Nick and his wife were like both top four at Was that Texas they were at, I think? Nice. I mean not Texas. I can't remember what it was that was a big one recently they were both in the top four. So, That's super cool. I saw you destroying your wife yesterday. I think you had like 10 billion and she had like 800, 000. I'm She was playing Monster Bash at that point. She's like just plunge this out. I saw you end it with 16, man. That was What a game. 16 billion on Bond. So, That's just nuts. we might have already ended volley. So, did Is volley over? No. Oh. Three people just threw $20 on your You have a You have the high score? Do you have the high score? No. Still Tom. Tom was at 27. We got some big Yeah, it was like 28. So, we got some big money volley coming your way for this at the front finish here. We have some $20 attempts. So, If I was Tom, I wouldn't even be able to watch. So, I got to make sure that that Francis knows the the extra rule, too. That if if you If a $20 beats you, you you yourself get one You can buy one more 20 as the loser. Okay. One time to try. Yeah, that sounds fair. your score taken with a 20, you can try a 20 if you want. fair. Go let him know. Yeah. One ball, that's all. That's it. Just Eric. That's the motto. Andy's showing something at me. Going to go do something. Mary finishing in the top four. Going to take her turn at a $20 volley. Maybe using some of those top four winnings. Eric from Madison. Nice. Sorry you couldn't be here, bro. Next time for sure you got to come down here. So much good pinball. And this is Mary, right? This is Mary. She's at 24. Yeah. She dropped the hammer after taking second place in the finals. She was playing with house money. Oh, damn. That's one drop. Any Any lit drop She She had one green on the right still that would've been lit for 5K. So, Now I want to light a 20 on fire. Get over there and do it, man. It's live live life. All right. Hell yeah. I'm the devil. Hell yeah, brother. Oh, yeah. That's $5 volley. Okay, David David taking his carny plunge there. And it feels good. The carny says, "Yeah, now you're going to be fine. You're going to get that top lane next time, bro. Definitely going to get the center. Winner every time." Let's see if the carny bites him. No, he gets it. Which also lights the thousand pop. Gets thousand action. You got to stay out of that middle. Or stay out of the sides. You want to stay You want to stay out of the side of the side area. Okay, I like that. It's no sling. Good good bump there. Good bump there. Ideally, you want to Oh, yeah. If no problem, Dave. Oh, he's getting the the thousand pops. He's already halfway there. If he gets another lane, he could be he could be huge. He needs literally two more drops and I think he's got it. OH, NO. HE WAS FEELING IT. He was feeling it. This must be Tom's 20 ball. The big 2-0. Cuz I believe he played a $5 one earlier. Tom no stranger to the horrors of $5 volley. Opts for the direct plunge and gets a green. Is he baiting the carny plunge or is he actually going to try to do that again? Cuz the full plunge sends it into center or blue pretty much every time. Tom trusting himself though. Oh, I don't like it. I don't like it. Okay, it's good. It's good. Take the green. We maybe get two. Maybe get two. No, bounce it out of there. Good bounce. That's what you want to do. You don't want to go in those side channels. Oh my god. Bounce it. Oh my god. Live. Oh, no. Bounce it out, Tom. Yes. Oh, no. The ball just died off the drop. How did it do that? It was so good. It was That ball was gross. It live ball at the drop and just died and just So, it's [] 28, 000. All right. 50 bucks for the third attempt. You want to We should do Oh, here's Oh. Get the red X. Where's the red X, Tom? Where's the red with the red X? What's up? Okay. Okay, I'll let him know. Thanks. Thanks, man. Ah, they'll get the good service dog back there. You're eliminated. Oh, the chat's got the X's. I like it. So, I love that her dog's just kind of hanging out to give support. This This volley's plunge is really nice though, I feel like. It pretty much gets into a top lane it feels like just about every time. I still haven't seen somebody miss the top lanes. This is uh This is getting pretty exciting. Is it $300 now it's up to or something? to It's got to be. Is that That was your $20 ball, right? Yeah. Dude, when you got that second lane, I was like, "It's all know. I was like, "Let's go." You were at 15K with no drops down. I was like, "This is done." And then you smoked the green with full strength and it just literally ate all the momentum off the ball. It was like, "Nope. Not your day." It must have hit the bottom of the drop above it as it broke the first target and then just like sent you out. No, it's okay. That's your practice plunge. You're good. Practice plunge, yeah. You're good. Now it's time. Here we go. I like that. You always want the middle cuz you get those thousand pops. Oh, no. Oh, lives. Okay. Oh, live. Live. Okay, it's good. It's good. And then Oh, no. It's not good. It's not good, but it just try You tried. Nobody can break Tom. Look at him Look at him in the background. Tom Mengay knows. He's not even looking over here. Ice in the veins. Ice water in the veins. want to watch. He's He's going to go play Guns 'N Roses. Yeah, for 72 minutes. Get the dog in. Here we go. $20 ball from Kenny. He needs the fan. Where's the fan, Kenny? Kenny the fan man going to come in here for his $20 volley ball. I talked him into it like a horrible friend. Here we go. Yellow lane looking good. Oh, it swished. Okay, it's okay. Got green. You want to stay You did great, Tom, nudging out of those side lanes, too. That's what you want to do. Yep. Okay, I like that. Send it up top. Oh, no. No. Not those drops, Kenny. Not You didn't even get the other one cuz he's knocking them down still. Oh, wait. Wait. Get up. Knock it out. That works. Yep. Send it back. Or take a green. Take a green. Nope, he's going up top. Trying it again. Nailing the [] out of that pop. If only that pop was a thousand pop, he'd be in money right now. Oh, no. This could be the end. No, it's not the end. He's still alive and he's somehow at 19K. He's at 24. HE NEEDS ONE MORE DROP. OH, NO. OKAY, let it bounce. No, don't see ball hit ball, Kenny. Kenny, you need the greens. Kenny, the green. Oh, he's already there. He's got it. Wait, he's already How did he jump up so high? Was something going on there or did he catch a Maybe he got the 5, 000 as it was going by on the greens? Cuz he hasn't knocked all the greens down at this point. So, No, they're all down now. Yeah. Kenny with 52K on the out lane. His $20 ball. How the hell? I yeah, can we get a replay on that? I feel every drop I mean I know the drops were 5K, but we'll see. I think we're going to have to watch re-rewatch the uh stream here. Is Tom going to buy back for 20 one more time? Does Tom know that he gets one $20 chance? No. No, he's he's he gets to do it again. Best $20 I ever spent. 25. Your score went up really big. Yeah, I was going to say I did when I looked up I did not expect it to be that high. I was hoping I was somewhere near 27. Yeah, we got to we got to check the replay cuz it felt like the score jumped a bit. So I'm like we were trying to figure it out but maybe you were just hitting the drop targets at a good timing. You got to watch over here. I'll come watch. Yeah. Yeah, he shouldn't be getting points. Yeah, that's that's not right. I think that score is invalid. Sure. Except we do it from here. Yeah, the yellows are giving him five every time. Yeah, he he I I That's not a legit score. Dang it. Bummer. He's like yeah, he's like hitting the yellow targets and getting Maybe that light's burned out. It does say when lit. No, cuz it's lit right there. Well, I think I think Ken should be able to replay it, right? You should be able to replay. It's an invalid game. He should be able to replay it. Oh, okay. Right, if it's been that way the whole time Then we give everybody's money back? No way. If it's been that way the whole time I'm collecting. Taking Andy to Sizzler. Dang it. The Well, now now Alex just went. So again Well, he actually had IT LIT. UH ALEX Alex actually had it lit. So I think I think Alex did that legit. I don't I don't know cuz I was watching back Ken's. So I didn't get to see. It felt good for a whole minute there thinking I was a a good pinball player. You're like I'm the best Yeah, that's what I was I'm like yeah, paying for the hotel. Prison warden Ken. Cannibalistic prison warden, baby. Yeah, that's right. So what's he at? 7, 000. Yeah, he's No, see it's not registering there. All right, clip back the other guy's game then. I mean I can go back and watch Alex's game. I don't care. I do. I mean I'm kind of curious. He said it was lit so but yeah, definitely take a look. I mean I Well, when he drained I thought it was a Right, right. Yeah. Classics. All right, yeah, he's got he's got uh This looks like it's going to be a legit score cuz he's got targets up. He's got both yellow and green lit. Good. Good for him. All right, there's perms. Oh, yeah, yeah, watch box in the back got those two but only got one credit for one then hit another green. Hit another yellow. Yeah, this is Alex did it legit. All right. Oh, and he got he had a good save, too. Video don't lie. Go to the replay when you can. to go next door to the bar and get drunk. Oh, come on. There ain't no bar next door. I'm just kidding. All right, everybody. I am going to head out. So we'll see you tomorrow. Good night. Thanks for uh thanks for coming in and I guess don't forget to subscribe. Do that stuff. But uh we'll see you tomorrow. Uh Andy, what's what time? So tournament starts at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. So it's going to be uh a classics uh knockout. So everybody have a good night. Oh, wait, it's a Lilly I don't know what's going on anymore. See, this this like never-ending volley right now. All right, well we'll watch Lilly's. Lilly going for the 20 here. Needing like 50k though, man. That score jumped. Alex had a huge huge ball, Tom said. Oh, no. Straight up death down the middle off that drop targets. Thanks for coming. Yeah, I I I can't imagine there's more people playing. So Francis goofed up on the rules a bit. So normally you know you're supposed to do all the fives and then the 20s. He was letting people buy 20s right after their fives. Okay. So we're not going to do like a a last clutch 20 because people were already doing fives and 20s and it was kind of a mess. All right, Alex won. I I Tom Tom, I got to say I like your idea though. I think that we should go 50 and then 100 and just see how crazy people in Chicago get at some point. Like if it was still 27, 000 I you know, Could you imagine if it got if it got up to like $1, 200 in the pot and you like you like 250 for another ball? You're like That's why I did another 20. I'm like it's it's it's doable. 20's the right amount and it was still 28k. I was that's the same reason I was like I'll give that a shot, you know. That's not much work at all. So Oh, well, right. Do not start a game after 11:30. All right. Well, I'm going to sign off here. Yep, thanks guys. We'll see you tomorrow at 4:00 p.

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