# INDISC 2019 - Main Playoffs - First Round **Source:** IE Pinball **Type:** video **Published:** 2020-04-20 **Duration:** 155m 19s **Beat:** Pinball **URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-HjGvqFU58 --- ## Analysis Coverage of INDISC 2019 (likely "Indiana Pinball Disc" or similar regional tournament) main playoffs first round at It Never Drains arcade in Southern California. Commentators Ryan C. and Bowen provide detailed play-by-play analysis of competitive matches across multiple games including Iron Maiden, Monster Bash, and Pirates of the Caribbean, with emphasis on rule depth, player skill, and strategic decision-making in tournament play. ### Key Claims - [HIGH] Iron Maiden is one of the newest games in the INDISC 2019 qualifying set — _Ryan C., opening commentary about the tournament setup_ - [HIGH] Almost 240 players competed to qualify for the INDISC 2019 finals — _Ryan C., describing tournament scale_ - [HIGH] Top 24 seeds are playing for A division crown, with 16 other players in B division — _Ryan C., tournament structure explanation_ - [HIGH] Steve Ritchie was the top seed and picked Iron Maiden for the first game — _Ryan C., analyzing Ritchie's game selection_ - [HIGH] Three of four players in a particular match are from Seattle/Redmond area who play each other regularly — _Ryan C., noting local player connections_ - [HIGH] The ball save timer on Iron Maiden was shortened from standard settings — _Commentators discussing setup modifications_ - [HIGH] Score Bit integrated scoring system displays scores in real-time and syncs with tournament app — _Bowen and commentator praising Score Bit technology at the event_ - [HIGH] Pirates of the Caribbean has plundering rules enabled that allow players to steal gold from competitors — _Kyle and Bowen discussing plundering mechanics in Pirates matches_ ### Notable Quotes > "Iron Maiden is a brutal game... there's magnets involved and most of the important shots are dangerous" > — **Ryan C.**, ~0:05:00 > _Establishes game difficulty and strategic tension in tournament play_ > "Players who are strong on ramp combos and loop combos generally play a lot more on the fly than some other finalists" > — **Ryan C.**, ~0:06:00 > _Analysis of why Ritchie selected Iron Maiden and playstyle advantages_ > "Score Bit... they've got basically a little computer inside the machine that's interpreting the data and spitting out scores in real time" > — **Bowen**, ~0:35:00 > _Recognition of Score Bit technology innovation for tournament operations_ > "When you get into multi ball like that it doesn't display the score for a very long period of time... it needs to see the score to interpret what it is" > — **Commentator**, ~0:40:00 > _Technical limitation and real-world challenge of Score Bit integration_ > "This game has got that magic like that first time you played a game with the subway and the ball came out in a different spot" > — **Bowen**, ~1:05:00 > _Commentary on Pirates of the Caribbean design philosophy and player discovery_ > "Plundering adds a new level of strategy to competitive pinball" > — **Ryan C.**, ~1:15:00 > _Recognition of unique strategic layer introduced by plundering mechanic_ > "They let you play... nudge there are not hair triggers on these tilts. They make the game's hard other ways" > — **Bowen**, ~1:25:00 > _Tournament machine setup philosophy prioritizing skill and ball control_ > "I saw probably six or seven people in a row not break 40,000 on this game... I'm not sure what why exactly" > — **Commentator**, ~1:35:00 > _Observation of Pirates of the Caribbean difficulty spike or setup issue_ ### Entities | Name | Type | Context | |------|------|---------| | Ryan C. | person | Co-host of Head2Head Pinball Podcast, tournament commentator and analyst at INDISC 2019 | | Bowen Kerins | person | Pinball designer and expert analyst providing strategic commentary and rule explanation | | Steve Ritchie | person | Top seed at INDISC 2019, picked Iron Maiden as first game, known for ramp/loop play | | Kyle | person | Competitive pinball player participating in INDISC 2019, played Monster Bash and other games | | Jason Weirich | person | INDISC 2019 player, achieved strong early lead on Monster Bash with Frankenstein mode | | Dominic | person | INDISC 2019 player, achieved triple multiball stack and large lead on Pirates of the Caribbean | | Raymond | person | INDISC 2019 player, affected by plundering decisions, character choice impacted multiball access | | Todd | person | Seattle-area player in INDISC 2019, plays Iron Maiden, known to Todd vs Jermaine competitive history | | Jermaine | person | Seattle-area player in INDISC 2019, plays Iron Maiden, competitive history with other local players | | David Oliver | person | INDISC 2019 player competing on Iron Maiden, pursuing Bogey mode strategy | | Richie | person | INDISC 2019 player, relatively new to big tournaments, from Seattle area | | TJ Weaver | person | INDISC 2019 player on Monster Bash | | Nick | person | INDISC 2019 player, attempted Mosh Pit on Monster Bash, busted live catch attempts | | Marquez | person | INDISC 2019 player on Pirates of the Caribbean, affected by plundering strategy | | Fred | person | INDISC 2019 player on Pirates of the Caribbean, struggled with low scores and direct drains | | It Never Drains | venue | Southern California arcade venue hosting INDISC 2019 finals | | INDISC 2019 | event | Major regional pinball tournament with nearly 240 qualifying players, top 24 in A division | | Iron Maiden | game | Newest game in INDISC 2019 qualifying set, features Monger multiball, magnets, ramp/loop focus | | Monster Bash | game | Classic game featured in INDISC 2019, Frankenstein multiball, Transformers Limited Edition combo | | Pirates of the Caribbean | game | Game featured in INDISC 2019 with character selection, plundering mechanic, multiball stacking | | Score Bit | product | Real-time scoring system integrated into tournament machines, syncs with scoring app | ### Topics - **Primary:** Tournament play and competitive pinball strategy, Iron Maiden game mechanics and rule depth, Monster Bash multiball stacking and mode selection, Pirates of the Caribbean character selection and plundering strategy - **Secondary:** Machine setup and tournament difficulty balance, Score Bit scoring technology integration, Player skill expression and rule knowledge - **Mentioned:** Local player dynamics and geographic clustering ### Sentiment **Positive** (0.78) — Strong enthusiasm for competition, player skill, game design, and tournament execution. Commentators are engaged and appreciative of strategic depth and technological innovation (Score Bit). Minor frustrations with game difficulty/setup on Pirates (scoring drought) and some machine control challenges on Monster Bash. Overall tone is celebratory of high-level competitive pinball. ### Signals - **[competitive_signal]** Pirates of the Caribbean plundering mechanic adds strategic player-vs-player interaction layer beyond traditional match play (confidence: high) — Extended discussion of plundering strategy, character blocking, and cross-player gold theft as tournament mechanic - **[technology_signal]** Score Bit real-time scoring system with tournament app integration successfully deployed at INDISC 2019 (confidence: high) — Commentators praise Score Bit's real-time data interpretation and automatic score entry across machines - **[design_philosophy]** Tournament machines set up with relaxed tilt sensitivity but increased difficulty through other means (shortened ball saves, fresh rubbers, tight setup) (confidence: high) — Discussion of relaxed nudge/tilt combined with challenging machine setup requiring high skill execution - **[gameplay_signal]** Iron Maiden shows high variance between casual/local play and tournament rules due to specialized timer and multiball modifications (confidence: medium) — Ryan C. notes difference between local arcade rules and tournament setup; commentators explain rule nuances - **[community_signal]** Seattle-area pinball players competing against local rivals at regional tournament, reducing competitive edge psychological advantage (confidence: high) — Ryan C. notes three of four players in a match are from Seattle/Redmond playing weekly/league together - **[product_concern]** Pirates of the Caribbean showing unexpectedly high difficulty or setup issue causing multiple players to fail to reach 40,000 points (confidence: medium) — Commentator observed 6-7 players in qualifying unable to break 40,000; suggests setup or rule issue - **[event_signal]** INDISC 2019 achieved nearly 240 player qualifying field with dual division structure (A: 24 players, B: 16+) (confidence: high) — Ryan C. states exact participant numbers and division structure - **[design_innovation]** Pirates of the Caribbean features hidden pirate ship scoop and ball manipulation surprises that reward exploration and learning (confidence: high) — Bowen praises game design for ball surprises similar to subway mode; notes confusion for first-time players - **[competitive_signal]** Tournament director choice to disable certain plundering options on Pirates while keeping others, showing granular rule control (confidence: high) — Bowen notes tournament director disabled plundering of all locked balls but kept other plunder types --- ## Transcript [Music] Oh [Music] oh what a lot come whether oh it's credible save his form in life right here on ball three all right we are live at it never drains in Southern California for the finals here in the booth I mean heroin I'm Ryan winger how about karent's and thanks for good yeah so this give me exciting final we have the top twenty four six nine three twenty-four playing right now we're just getting ourselves coordinated figure out what we're doing we're watching pirates yeah this is a this is one of the games that the newest game I think the qualifying set it helps just about that new is Iron Maiden and there's so much going on on this game that's player's game knowledge is gonna matter a lot here compared to some of the other machines where there's simple a simple strategy there Windows or game that's been out for a long time and this will be one of the first times we get to see plundering and multiplayer interaction and real choice on who the who you select and we are not going to watch pirates not Pirates ami we are going to switch to Iron Man Oh Iron Maiden's Oh Iron Maiden without the ID did we not sound confident enough in our role and we are here with the the in desk pinball Festival in banning California this is one of the best tournaments in the world at this point to almost 240 players competed to make the to make it to this final we have the top 24 seeds playing for the a division crown and 16 other players also active right now playing for the B division in the first round so we're joining this in progress we're on player 4 which is Germain stepping up on ball 1 Ryan so you played this in qualifying how do you how do you step up to an iron man what's your first first approach well um for I guess maybe the first thing is that I often don't want to play iron man in a in a tournament like in a heads-up match or you know a four-player match like this because it's a it can be a brutal game you know there's magnets involved most of most of the important shots are dangerous and so I was just kind of thinking about so Ritchie was the top seed he was the one who picked this and I'm wondering what we can can infer about about that about his choice it it hoped it probably means he played a lot of it in the qualifying it's a players who are strong on ramp combos and loop combos I've noticed forty generally plays a little bit more on the fly than some other finalists he's very strong player and that pays off on a game like this where repeated looping shots or repeated ramp shots can get you to bogey or quickly to monger and you know she's already got the monger up and he's got two letters and longer just from ball one so his score is not not really indicative of his progress he has he's in a much better position than it appears so we missed ball one so probably he just spent all fall one going straight after monger yeah which is you hit the purple shots to raise the monitor and and then you hit monger so those pinkish reddish lights in the middle kind of and a half smiley face their spelling those out is gonna start multiball so he's one shot away and here we go and then the multiball you repeat the process of how he got to monger in the first place which is phrasal monger shooting a loop like that and then shoot the center shot six times every stop to the center is a quarter million and if you complete all six you have a super jackpot opportunity which is to shoot the center one time for three million he's probably also gonna try and now hit it directly in the center he's gonna try and graze the side of the monger like that because there's a there's a magnet in the center that will grab it yeah during that really short ball save with three balls flying it's good to just pick off a bunch of shots but then you want to envision making right here is outstanding super lit up the middle trapping up when necessary and taking a potshot when it's what's the right thing to do this is great play and oh great save there to keep the multiball alive he's got a few seconds here and take three million up the middle one more chance perhaps and now it's not there but that was still a pretty decent value in the multiball but he can't be too thrilled with how that came out at the end no it was right there yeah that's a bummer because he has 5 million he would have been up to 8 with that one shot as I mixed in the chat the three of the four players in this game are are from Seattle Washington of the Seattle area which remain from nearby Redmond and they play each other on the regular at weeklies and League now here they've got to play each other again but it also probably takes some of the edge off of having to compete especially for someone like like Richie who is relatively Green to big tournaments like this to go like oh yeah I played Todd I played Jermaine I know these guys I know I can beat them what it shows lifetime stats vs Jimmy 80 tournaments together Todd vs. Jermaine 42 and 42 and 52 with to tie solely so they're pretty evenly matched I guess we could say that's terrific David Oliver had a tough ball there it's got some good ramp progress so he's close to bogey I think David is yeah bogey on it on a game like this where the word set harder than a typical Iron Maiden bogey becomes more valuable all of those little things you think well that can't be worth that much there it becomes worth a lot more when your target score is in the 10 million range then then in the 20 million range and again bogey is the ramps it's hitting five ramps to start and then all your ramps are lit for increasing no I guess actually everything's literally yeah during bogey you took the ramps or the loops one thing I've seen a couple players to is to to start for bogey right at the begin of the game and then use both use bogey time to shoot their loops they're gonna have to shoot loops anyway to bring out the monger you might as well get a half million for your elephant for every loop and that's a good way to get your feet you know your feet wet in the game it's like the only kind of controllable return you know back to the flipper and Bree definitely agree with that so Todd that Todd takes the lead with 5.2 and some shrimp progress on mongers going one more shot to start monger multiball on ball three so the score you see there is gonna probably be at least seven seven million total just getting into that multiball and here's Jermaine Jermaine has monitor almost ready but he didn't have a strong start but that's that's what Iron Man does it it it makes a lot of decisions for you unfortunately like that was great play there but he took two warnings and there wasn't anything he could do but otherwise like she said he generally would prefer not to take mate not to take this game in in a single game for me that's where we're seeing like these are low scores you know it's and the game plays fair you know they didn't necessarily this is one of the games that they didn't have to make much more difficult than it are like they did shortened the timer on the on the multiball ball save so yeah uh got that third ball back but don't be anymore I said he really needs to play this carefully here and try and cradle ups of it still time here to get three millions take that quick shot oh well that's a huge shot there for Jimmy Mario if the grace period three million that puts him into the lead on this game beautiful and this is also good to hear that dick he's back and just trap up settle down you don't have a time limit just get you get your heart back to normal so uh okay we don't doesn't matter I was gonna ask what he should do next all right so so Richie what do we think Richie should do here or if she's already played longer multiball depending on his his strength with the ramp shots I would consider going for bogey here because he's unlikely to be able to make all the munger shots that that he needs the other thing he could try to do is go for the Iron Man Iron Man fast scoring by shooting the target the red targets on the left hand side and then shooting spinners and that turns out to be worth quite a bit more than then it appears to as a first impression so he's probably thinking about that right now just like what do i do do I go for the ramps I need five ramps to get bogey but I can still plow some points here he knows that he knows a todd has long run with you already so he's chasing at least eight to ten million here and not five and a half I'll say when he started for a ramp there one of my biggest complaints on Ironman is it's an info the fact that you can't find out your progress towards whiplash I wasn't roans I was trying to do that yesterday with drones for some reason it shows you when you hit them but you got to be able to look oh no busted live caps hair on the right with difficult rubbers that's been happening a lot I've had a lot of trouble making live catches on these games they're set up hard with fresh rubbers and those have effects on your your play that you don't really notice at first so Richie temporarily ahead of Todd but Todd has longer ready to go he'll he'll probably pass routine and then David Oliver is up here and he really has to think about where he's gonna go given the stories got to chase he's got it one shot to bring up Munger but those bogeys those ramps are really appealing since he's hit them a few times we're gonna be seeing this for the next 33 seconds I guess as he counts it off so we got some orbit what would be a good it's good let's see what would be a high-scoring bogey round like six million yeah we're good bugging around can can be worth six six to seven million that's if you're doing very strongly one thing that makes it difficult for him to play a good a good bogey right now is it he has almost all the longer letters yeah and on one hand that's good the monitor is gonna come up but the monitor is also going to block his ability to shoot the left ramp and looks like he's just gonna try to take monger directly up here with the loop they remove that Center post or it's still there but it doesn't come up on the back so you don't get to like rest of it as the monitor comes up it's gonna go oh dear oh and that's what that looked like a good save on the right and he pushed that too good too hard yeah the intuition is just get it out of the sling area there is a nice it hit the post he'd nosed it perfectly except wait you too hard I completely agree with you there that's that's you gotta brush that off deep deep he played well like there was nothing really bad in the play that ball I think this is like in playoffs you get anxious you get amped up and you hit the Machine harder than you think like it just happens so Todd might be thinking about trying to take that skill shot he only needs 700,000 you know get halfway there I think he's more likely to take the longer right now because he's got one shot for the multiball starts I and there are times when it flies out of those bumpers right down the side and you're like oh my god yeah no short plunge and one shot to the monger for multiple you got a little bit of guaranteed bonus in this game yeah oh that was nice Oh dangerous and awesome yeah there he is he's passed he's passed so Ritchie that guarantees Todd at least second place on this game which is very nice place to be you want to want if you go to a couple of points of the first game like oh dear that's that he got victim of the ball save time huh yeah they really shortened these this is not your walk out to your local arcade play this game I don't like that shot what what's he gonna do middle there so one of the things you may be trying to do two things you maybe try and take drones which are the the blue lights the other thing he might be doing which is a little a little rarer and deeper rules knowledge is if you hit all three of the spinners you like super super bumpers and super members are worth fifty to a hundred thousand per hits until they run out and they can they can last a long time so it was possible there to pick off extra points there Jermaine has one and he's gonna use this time to play out just Frank relaxed and joy get get comfortable so the next game so the next time he gets he has to play iron Iron Man he can look back at this to go man I played great on that ball and here we finally had to see somebody play bogey entered it at ten million so we can sort of see how he does here and most common is just to do ramps right because you always get the ball back safely and unless you're trying to like if you're old longer was up and be building greater jackpot value by hitting spinners and things like that if you're stacked with Iron Man scoring what you think you can stack you might want to hit spinners yes I agree with you definitely well he's making quite a few consecutive ramps here yeah shot there for war machine as the time was running out because we're machine would have given him another 20 seconds worth of bogies you know what well I guess we're moving on but I've always been confused about that with the with that of what do you call that award the shield award the worm she nor that's gonna give you random Awards okay so you late you light all the lanes up top and you have to complete the set right okay you have to light all six lanes so there's the top two and the inlanes and outlanes but you can cycle through them all yeah that means that as he's making bogey ramps as he was he's also cycling the lanes to give give those completions every completion is a bonus X and it lights the war machine shot for the random reward so if you're in bogey it adds 20 seconds in any mode that has a timer it will give you extended time okay if you're in a multiball it will give you an ADD of all and if not it runs through a cycle of awards that's 200 thousands bad increased pop bumper value bad light extra ball which is 3 million points light special which is 9 million points so if you go through those what random award you can actually get some some really high value stuff but it's it's far enough off that nobody really cares actually I should not know this in a special through that before it's more more often happens on Big Buck Hunter where the awards are the same and the the random awards are much easier to achieve you can get up just from a 3 bank we're going over to monster bash here and this is Jason Weirich starting the Frankenstein multiball and didn't quite get its sense of what the scores were but we got to score bit integration so you can see it right there all layers sweet score birth is amazing yeah if they so they were here last year score bit right but they've got a basically a little computer inside the machine that's you know interpreting the data and spitting out scores in real time oh it's so good really crazy good and it integrated with the scoring app that they used with the never drain scoring so the score keeper would come over when you're playing monster bash your score would already be entered that was just insanely good I could not believe that that was happening and then and worked for many of the classic games as well like ball tan and some of the games and classics and write like what's your score oh it's already here we are we're truly living in the future and so Jason has 20 Wow 26 million at the moment here and he's this is ball three and he's out in the lead so he's just gonna just keep making shots right he's just kind of try and Pat his lead yeah then that was nice there he's got this he's got the combo oh darn a double drain yeah this combo of shooting through the spinner and then and then shooting the right ramp from out the spinner that's a nice thing to have as you can rely on that to get the ball under control you can take a lot of points off of that did you guys play this in qualifying I did did you know I played it I played it once I shot into the scoop mishandled the feed Skoda's shot it into creature mishandled the feed and then bricked a shot what didn't play it again Bowen what were you doing went through the spinner how are you dealing with the return so yeah an honest game and actually in this format the format punishes you really badly for a bad game so you want to find like a simple thing that's worth points and to me that's moshpit multiball okay yeah so I shoot the spinner through and then I would try experimenting with different things on what to do like the easiest one is to tip to flip flip away and have it go up the right ramp which is what Jason is doing if you can do that you're really gold you can just go combo those goes back and forth that did not work for me so I tried with not flipping and having it bounce over to the right flipper that did not work and then my third choice is one of them I feel lucky to have in my arsenal because I'm um I've got timing on it for whatever reason it's a live catch on the left flipper than that what that was working well so it's spinner live catch bounce over meanwhile I'll see we've got this is Carl it's up to 23 chasing Jason's 32 he's in Frankenstein with mummy running oh that's nice I think he's starting mummy now actually I didn't really have mommy going but he's in chasing down the 30 two million that jason has this is it's going to be close he's gonna want to take the left loop here to start full moon oh he's running full moon so one more shot to the left loop or right loop should do it for him there'll be a four million shot that was a really nice bounce wish we could see the button I'd like to know if he had any weapons available he definitely didn't have any anything for full moon fever he would have used it right away he has now passed with that full completion of Wolfman he has passed Jason both of these very strong scores under the circumstances of how this is set I wanted to point out how that how his multiball ended which was he had two balls trapped on the left and he's trying to do a cradle separation and one of them just graze the slingshot let's think shy one though these was really active sling oh my goodness in this game so so much harder than it looks oh yeah they're so yeah he just needs a Creech to get all of his characters oh that was gutsy and what is it Weaver ball three here right yeah so the the insane thing to do here would be also to take the ramps he's in ball and chain right now he's involve him or he just finished just ended ball and chains yeah oh yeah in the volunteers didn't know it didn't get the instrument okay so so just creature what one one more to start some motor so more shots for creature to start mode and they shot into drak hell is nice oh that's lovely to 1.3 million round I've got a specialist with it this is great great play from crowd oh the final shot here like monster bash on the left we do how he seen anybody get Monster Mash I talked to two or three people who said they died with it let's go say that we don't want that we want to see this thing oh my god oh this scoop is right below that third oh my god no we don't know we don't know the sound hooked up but that moment has one of the greatest sound bites of any pinball machine you drain ball three on the now lame when Monster Bash is ready the game just lets up this huge blood-curdling scream no just had all this value there that was such a good ball Colin taking over call him from the calendar a home helps that I was just catching up on the chat here yeah the that's true with with score but so in monster bash when you're in multiball like that it doesn't display the score for a very long period of time it's like constantly there's modes running and you're constantly seeing these jackpot animations and so it can get a little bit behind it has it needs to see the score to interpret what it is so Carl score would have been the eighth place qualifying score at this game I like Holmen to do this yeah I love how finals do that they they bring out to the quality of people's play and here's what we're talking about looked like he was man so yeah Nick was trying for moshpit there and he had a busted live catch both times first time I managed to bounce over the right flipper so successful in that second time had managed to bounce over the right flipper but he fired away into the try and hit the spinner and hit the hit the Frankenstein instead it's hard there because you don't you're stocky the ball is on the tip of flipper you gotta aim for something as a bailout and I like having the creature and the left loop has bailouts in those situations then you gonna say all right I got the ball under control again or it's somewhere where I can relax for a second flying away into a tough target like that the Frankenstein just puts you in a world of hurt unfortunately for Nick really strong play and qualifying but he will pick up a zero there for a fourth place and we appreciate all the sponsors who have helped within this care including in stadium lights the captain's auction warehouse we are again here live at the Indus Finn Ball Festival and we are switching over to the Pirates of Penzance what do we got here oh man look at that that was a triple multiball we just missed the end of it this is a strong score here for Dominic for Dominic here this is what a fall - and he has a rather enormous lead right now but it's not safe because the triple multiball stack is something we're likely to see what have you played any any pirates or how does this these multi balls what what do you what do you determine going for them I like you know as a mildly recovery player I'm shooting those stand-ups and trying to get the chest month of all going first cuz I find that easier for my game than their amp left ramps much safer if you can hit it but if you miss it you're in trouble do you choose the guy who gives you easy multi balls on the chest so in in this situation maybe in qualifying I was actually trying to get my modes going so I was actually starting with chapters lit just had to get a decent score because if you don't get your multi balls you've score no points the character decision is an in one and it has this dramatic effect on everybody because player one picks character first and blocks out that character so I would get I'm guessing the player one picked the easy multiple easier multi balls character so Raymond has easier loops it means you can just combo this indefinitely that upper loop to get towards that multiple multiball yeah that's a nice thing to get that - making enough inner loops like that just get you whatever multiball movie multiball that is that's the movie with the the Johnny Depp I think thanks yeah we're really up on the theme here alright we got a mode and the modes are mainly the modes are pretty much character shoots so if you look on the play field you see three characters lit up - in green and one in red any flashing character will advance the mode there's that third one I don't quite see it up top it's up top on the shamone star oh up there yeah so if you're not familiar with this game of the left in well there's three inlanes on the left I guess and the middle one is the one that drains you and that's what happened - Raymond they're just straight out I'll say the pirate awards are actually kind of valuable in this game managing those six lanes it's so hard oh boy it is and you don't really have a sense of how valuable those awards are until you're like oh my God look how huge that quick looking dirty there I was only really one miss one minute to do is stand up and Wow so work through two balls and Dominic with a very large leads and as bob said there's rules knowledge is probably gonna turn out to be pretty important on this game and he's the one who picked this and it's showing okay and his character is the easier chest yeah that's that's always a nice thing to have but allows him to get to the multi well to the one you were talking about keep in a quicker way than the others so he's got his map lit he's got to go multigo already right now yeah so I would suspect he's gonna just do this looping because why not that's and that's that's cool right there except that that's not cool but there's this cool hole up back there that sends the ball up into the pirate ship and you don't quite know it's there until you shoot it it's a nice nice play filled future but often it dumps the ball it's one of those the design of this game it it's got that magic like that first time you played a game with the subway and the ball came out in a different spot and you're like that's amazing this games got a lot of that yeah and it really confuses people playing it for the first time if they don't know what to expect where the ball is coming there's something positive to say about those kinds of like ball manipulations I think it's probably a great experience for you know newer players to pinball yep on top of the the the spinning disc so quick update on the scores here Dominic is comfortable in the lead with 340 something thousand and then we got Marquez on 24 right now Raymond has 37 and Fred is in last with twelve thousand and then so plundering I heard Carl mentioned that plundering is on and it was asked him to share three times 30 gold so he's gonna take 30 gold from Dominic and that will light for him no this would not be the right choice pick the 55 buddy oh we be warned uh that's exactly what we're just talking about not not being aware of where the ball was gonna come from Wow what's interesting about the decision is he's robbing from a player who hasn't played this played their turn yet trying to try to keep keep them out because now Raymond steps up with zero gold instead of 23 goals maybe that was so crazy I like well choice but if he'd taken 30 gold instead he would have lit the multiball immediately but he had 25 gold yeah by adding 23 gold he still had to make some shots so I guess it's really a trade-off between does he think he can catch that 341 or is he playing defensive yeah and to me I'm trying to get into any multiball at all at that point to try and get some distance ahead of Raymond putt was player three and Fred is player four but like two keepers credit like this adds a new level of strategy to competitive pinball actually making these choices yeah in some regards I agree greatly in other regards I'm not happy with this choice because Raymond and Fred were both affected by a maccas decision and maka chose to hurt Raymond's in effect helping Fred and you have these like knock-on effects from player player to another player that I mean they don't they've defined then they're just the decision made by the game design but not the game kind of rules designer in this case that that's nice play there if you could turn off plundering entirely right that's also a decision by the tournament directors you weren't aren't able to punt thunderballs from other players they turn that off but other things were plunder of all right that's that's a great decision on the part of Keefer and he jacked the ball per letting the owner or the tournament organizer and make those decisions yes we're on you know some older games you just steal locks from players and steal their stiller jackpot value and all sorts of stuff and there wasn't Doubleday or anybody could do but ya take highest score so when you get into multiball here go go on get into more multi balls most likely right that's sort of how I've seen people play this they will stack yeah that's good a good idea and you can see them sort of aiming for the chest too yeah so Wow are they gonna how is room I'm gonna stack in and I'm multiball er what's that's a super that's a big super there whoa cut half the distance basically so far he doubled his score in the last ten seconds here's like every character in the game was left for this mode whatever vote he's running it's got what 11 characters to hit he's hit ten of them the only one left is that right side chip target up in the top corner oh here we go is gonna take that back take that 30 gold back right a Oh Oh oh that gives him a very nice total on his gold and how do we see let's see what oh yes oh so good right how does he do that consistently like he saves those kinds of outlanes on all sorts of games one of the things I love about the setup here oh that's amazing they let you play like you can nudge there are not hair triggers on these tilts they make the game's hard other ways yeah and additionally they've set this game up for per ball for ball tilts I said per game tilt like some of the other didn't over again Wow some that was a fantastic ball and it's so you see it's such a great ball turning the second second place only but that was Dominic's Dominic's ball wanna ball to built that lead and he needed it 330 340 to two hundred thousand for Raymond and guys you told me I'd get two hundred thousand on pirates away yes I'll take it get me out of here so step one for Fred is pass maca so is there an easy way to get fifteen thousand points under the circumstances no but before that it was it was what you said it was he really needed to get into a multiball there's no source of that many points even playing remote successful he would probably of go to five to seven thousands yeah that's disappointing we just needed 17,000 to pick a point yeah both those last two balls for Fred were Snakepit because he really only made one miss on each ball and the game punished him with a direct train that was uncontrollable I was watching this in qualifying yesterday and I saw probably six or seven people in a row not break 40,000 on this game it's just I'm not sure what why exactly but [Applause] so we're nearing the end of the first game of the first round here and yeah do we have scored no we have a we have the the screen that shows us the overall standings of the games are completed gap that's good idea and luly's wagons hunter has 6 points she has tied first place with Derrick Thompson they're gonna be playing a tiebreaking game on bow and arrow yes and Derrick has won the tiebreaker Wow what was crazy outstanding play did you get a chance to see Louise last night I did 300 on at the Blue Note 300 thousand that was so much higher than anyone had achieved the entire weekend Blue Note and and in the finals just dropping this enormous bomb I was so good that and then Derrick needed a specific set of set of things to happen in order to make it to a tiebreaker and he pulled it up pull it off Blue Note has taught me the most interesting thing with so many players including myself which is not a single person reads this school scorecard their real card no because I had so many conversations with people who they were like what you're supposed to hit the unlit targets I'm right here propagated through the entire room over the course of the weekend as more sports got better and it made my scores worse than that that you've helped knock me out of classics final but that that knowledge everybody shared that was about the only thing I knew about Blue Note coming in here because it had been used in the pin masters or oh here it is after one game we thought we did not see Adam McKinney win on Excalibur that the game was selected by Johnny Monica unfortunately took the last place on it but no one's out you don't get through in the first game on the first game its three-game set all three games are four two one zero score so Carl D'Python Anghelo was the chimp was the winner there his first game of monster - Dominic Kasich was the winner on Pirates of the Caribbean and we saw Germaine with the strong game on iron man win there everybody still have to play for there are several players who are relatively new to competition or new to success accomplishes like Corey done this is his first time in finals at a disk and he just he just crushed every like crushed all over the place yeah he won the B division last year okay here came second in classics one yeah yeah he's playing great very strong Nick Stein from San Francisco also another emerging player who's made the finals here I don't know his history or whether he played the final 24 before that he was also in the beat well he was in semifinals maybe of B last year or quarterfinals and actually he yeah he played in City champ this year I was looking at his resume recently he his second competitive tournament ever was six at City champ Wow he only has 15 or 20 tournaments on his on his resume and his yeah okay wow that's that's terrific yes this great scene amid often a player makes a final like this the first time there's like this just joy of the qualify that when you get to the point where you have to start competing you don't have the nerves that some other players might have like oh I really need to I need to win this or I need to play well or they're like and this is great I'm here don't get to play Sunday has that been the case for you guys yeah like the more success you experience the more pressure there is comes and goes I think is also just effective like what else is going on especially if you start losing losing advancing like oh is this the end is this the end there will be no more successes and start putting pressure on yourself so only if you see me wearing headphones I'm under I'm pressuring myself I'm trying to relieve that pressure by let's thing and dancing how about you like for me when I come to an event like this I have no expectations of really doing well I'm a decent player and I can hold my own and I know I can do well but when I make it into those finals I'm not expecting to come out I struggle in my like local scene where in like the bar League that I run a lot of the people just expect me to win and that can add a lot of pressure and you know I have trouble stepping after that game when people are coming up to me and they're like oh you're gonna crush me and this is no fun and yeah that's pressure yeah I get that frequently it's unfortunate because I think that sometimes the other person is not not saying it within with a negative intent but it but it has that like deflating feeling of well if I win it sucks and if I lose it sucks yeah and then we're not it's not really good like I got 2015 classics last night and some people who weren't they weren't trying to like make me angry but they're like you didn't make it in the classics final what happened just just shut up and it's all good but that also comes with this territory of being being known as a really good player so congratulations well yeah local scene yes here we'll see let's see how how long I don't know what people's respect for me is yet you know you got what you got respect that sure and uh I'm gonna get my beef to booth shirt made wear that on the Sundays yes Ian and I are here in the booth courtesy of being the bubble boys and were you 27 28 I was 25 and yes just five club oh yeah well by today yeah I'm not trying to I'm trying to make this my only round in the booth possible but I it's gonna be a tough day it's it's gonna be a tough competition throughout I'm very glad to have a bye because then I can't be now yeah I'll say yeah yesterday in the morning I was talking to Phil Byrne wrong about my ticket he's like I think I think you'll be good and I'm like I bet I'm pretty sure I'll be on the bubble at 5 o'clock and drained out by 10:00 oh my and I was basically exactly right 10 o'clock I fell below the bubble tried to cut some people to bleed back in but then a couple jumpers made that impossible oh and strong play by like Johnny getting in on two tickets just showed up at 6 o'clock or something and got in on two tickets that's that's very strong that's amazing we're gonna be looking at Iron Maiden here and did you get a chance to see the begin chants play some iron made in the qualifier dilating once and had less than 10 million so I have nothing to say this is a game I did well on I did a 255 I made him oh that's great so hey there you are get out you're in the house right there up on the scoreboard what would you do that game I started trying to get trooper lit just at the back so you know yeah focus on these job targets to get get that lock for the confidence once I had it going I'd you know I'm a recovery player I'd accidentally hit the spinner and move moved it to fear of the dark and so I managed a stack fear of the dark with my multiball and a 2x and that's where my fights came from I take the risk in qualifying I was taking nearest to hit them all the players it was the first first point on my card so I went for the super skill shot to try to get my 2x I didn't get it but eventually I got my targets going because that multiplier can really matter yeah so the two skill shots are available you can see a white target lit up in the center there that's the standard skill shot it's advantages not points so much as it is a ball saver so you get a small amount of points which feels good five second ball save in any letter yeah send any letter making the next mode easier start the other thing you can do is hold up the little flipper and have a around to the for that little clipper for the bar-shaped skill-shot alright so Jason is stepping up ball one and so yeah we're running a new code here 1.06 it made a few changes to how the game plays specifically much more I would say for a casual player much more points in flight of Icarus by boosting the base value no you can now you don't lose your lock progress when you lock yourself out in a mode yeah that was one thing I back in may talk to you first got the play this game talking with Keith about that like yeah we'll take care of that eventually and it's in the game now but definitely something that's that's nice to have it was like Jason we're seeing going here what I like maybe he was just doing some Eddy letters here possibly so the the white shots there's five of them those are each giving you letters in the word Eddie and he's now one away he now has them also that yellow lit yellow light right at the middle is with and if he goes up there he'll start the lit mode which is Icarus mmm-hmm which is a ramp mode and he's probably just gonna do that or take a shot at the drops on the way up there yeah I think he wanted to try to aim for the drops he cleared the bottom drop already so it's the two other jobs you said that you said you have to complete those that was lovely oh you have to be both that Bangka drops three times to delight the multiball some of the settings are harder than a typical iron baby oh what a nice drop catch that would that's actually love that on the premium le it's just that that kick out out of the hole you can do that drop catch and it's just like it's much easier to handle so we talked about trooper multiball being the drops there's another main multiball which is mummy which is the captive ball near that upper left flipper and Jason take a shot at it there as it came out I'll do it again probably here I think yep yep so now he's got he's got his lock lit for mommy and he's got his troopers so he's hot this is a great start and probably try to shoot the left ramp here now he's gonna go directly for trooper trying to start trooper while Icarus is still running perhaps maybe he's got 14 seconds left on trooper it's in the upper right on the display there I'm sorry Anna Icarus and here we go so that's that this is lovely this would get him up to 25 30 million as an expectation but there's there's plenty on the table he could he could kill 100 million here right right away really short bossing he's cradling there off the bat ball stays over and now he's got straight up the middle we'll be at a ball because he dropped the target to drop targets and request another 10 seconds it's been out of the icarus clock but this is where when you said you you were able to switch it to fear of the dark this is where that comes in like Icarus this is a fun mode but you're not going to get a lot out of it and this won't add a ball he's too late if he doesn't get that right yeah it's gone and it's gone you could hear how happy he was about that so now mummy lock that left ramp is probably his focus there we go a 2 million or does it Chris is still learning how interesting there is that Icarus roared you for making combos left ramp right ramp but if the sarcophagus lock is ready it overrides and it still gives you the combo time so even though a plunge another ball the right ramp right there was lit for 4 plus million and I haven't worth taking a shot at so we talked about the multiplier earlier you can see that he has two excellent right here and he can start it by going through the left in lane but every time you flip it switches to the other side so he's probably gonna try and avoid that for a little while until he gets something interesting running and then I started and I'll take this opportunity to do a public service announcement on my least favorite feature of this game which is the those lanes flash when you hit jackpots so that you cannot actually tell which one is lit during your multiball many times don't have things flashing on pinball machines what what do you could hug how do you know it's a pinball machine cast have lots of flashing lights blinking things so he's probably going after many letters oh he's going mommy just going on I don't mommy here so I agree with you though there's an opportunity here to bring in how it would be that name into mommy which is a great he's already so close to starting mommy that it's gonna happen particulars in sis is ball one you know and he has some time to set this up it doesn't have to happen right now and how low this could be a huge scoring play for him if he gets to hallowed at 2x he avoided to X there so it's interesting like what did we set up like okay he's still gonna have all that ready to go on ball two and I wonder if he's gonna try to start hallowed maybe he'll slip up and reconsider kind of let me know that yeah he's got the he'll have the skill shot available for the Eddy letter that way I think progress and there's a few ways to go about that well well it's just a very very strong ball start the game a 40,000,000 Bowl that that particularly with some of the low scores we saw in qualifying that's he's in a great spot right normal skill shot Eddy letter and ball save hey I think the ball save is what people want the most is that the only skill shot they conceived all safe some of the super skill shots the secret skill shots give you've also but it's not clear to me whether those are installed Baron I think in a competition install that we have here the only skill shots are the regular and the regular the normal super skill shot I did see one player plunge the Outland and did not get any before it had been a drain did you do that actually i think i think i short plunge I plunged and drained and then I beat the auto plunge into the left out way oh my eye yeah that that plunging left out Lane is a nice one it's a inspired by Congo but the super skill shot being made we pick back out lane and it's worth 20 million normal play so you can pick up 20 million for free a beatific oh we got it we got it Chris and a llama completion for crawl D'Python Anghelo very fast very fast to get to both of those balls already in the sarcophagus so that will just redirect shooting the little hello is dangerous I was just gonna say were you guys shooting the loops much never ever it's it's great if you can hit it six or eight times in a row but as soon as you miss mm-hmm you drain so a my maiden at home I consider Luke Jack 5 to be an easy way to light a tomb award yes like because I just I know where the shots are right now the field but no way would I do that in the match play situation I'm only really gonna do it if I already have a multiball runnings and I happen to have the ball up in that direction then sure I'll take a shot at the loop and trigger the loop is a jackpot so hopefully if we get to see somebody play tripper we can talk about how the values get increased by completing jackpots it's really really well done yeah I saw Keith have it I don't know 250 million super in hopefully of all qualifying yeah he got all about he got everything and then he got the to explain also so it was gonna be a big value anyway but then everything was doubled and then it was doubled again when it passed the super what we saw your 250 million yen on the home and high scores and he did it in one shot and I remember at New York when Steve when Keith stepped up and he just he just shot Luke Luke Luke Luke jackpots going and all the sudden there was like at multiple sudden there was all of a sudden there was a in the final game he had eighty million in a thirty seconds at the beginning it was his later okay okay yeah yeah that's not intimidating at all checking out some of the other games you've got an Excalibur game running right now I've got Chris counter when I triple multiball on pirates there's got a Baywatch actions we've got Nick Stein stepping up to to the song I like picking run to the hills cuz a foreshadows the mode you're gonna get to yeah like yeah I'm gonna get over the hills a scan which I still never have but I did the same thing but I do with with numbers like minutes to midnight or no yeah I mean like I'm playing I'm playing on location on the game it has a really tight tilts so if you get this this loose tilt lots of extra balls stuff with some people are getting run to the hills on it's like all right it's so really really it's really hard to get to even under those circumstances but why I don't expect to see anything like that but we're talking about that New York tournaments Keith got number of the beast in qualifying on like a ridiculously hard game and it was one of the most incredible single performances I've seen so since we're playing a premium there is like a strategy where I think mummy is a lot more valuable because you've got that lock to get yourself into a single ball multiball play where you can play safe does it change scoring when you do that yeah so when you put it in the lock during so you hit a jackpot and then you lock the ball and then while it's locked you get two times switch hips towards qualifying the next jackpot okay and then if you hit the jackpot on the captive ball while the ball out and ejects the ball it's too excellent so like it really does but I like I like the fact that you've been play single ball you can play that moment multiball and single ball play for a while well that's oh that was actually a really great ball by Nick I mean we were chatting here but he had a couple of great nudges to save the ball from the out lane coming in play he made almost all of his shots and then you know missed one and and he's out and it's hard to be happy with your score after a ball like that but then you just look at your decisions and what you what you had control over when you got you're absolutely right it was it was an excellent ball so Jason terms of his play Jason is two shots away from mummy multiball on me captain say there were quite a while I wonder if he's thinking about the what we talked about earlier about starting Hallowed there's no simple white shot to do so he'll need to shoot the loops or the ramps to get the white lights then the underground yeah he's got two shots left to the captive ball to start mummy multiball and sometimes you can get to a two for one off that captive ball well in the way that it Newton's so it now is that you know you might not want to get one shot away because you could accidentally start it you use two different Eddy shots so we'll see here what he does if he tries to right ramp right loop this oh you know what mode is changed here he's on oh he's on a multiball now oh yeah this is bad so now at this point there's no you no reason to do that and he's well thank you so he shook his hand all right it's the far left spinner that changes the mode and he on his plunge he went through with just once of the spinor moved off of hallowed and in this game you can't stack the multiball modes with the regular multi balls so yeah now this is what he's realizing it's something I don't all right he's one away here bad luck they're just bad luck all around if he wasn't trying to go through that spinner on the left it just bounced the bumpers and then came through and kind of kind of messed up so he's gonna have to just next ball hit the Kiptyn captive ball start to accident I forget what he did at the very start I think he pumps around really hard he tried to do the strives to go shot tried to oh we tried for the super skill so I think to try and get 3x multiplier so 2x or possibly we get a free shot of the captain ball Oh from the upper flipper that's that could be it too it all takes the regular skill set again or at more free any letters to million points that time yeah Carl also walk double oh wow oh I was a lovely save yeah oh it almost just went right back in he didn't do enough but it was just exactly like he waited too long but somebody didn't I don't know I was wonderful beautiful and I think he's probably thinking about just bringing this ball of cats when he can with this balls does not happen and he has now done the same thing as Jason and moved to marinara said he can no longer snack okay now in default settings the ring oh oh oh oh default settings but I'm saying default settings the center ramp is lit for any letters for your second mode also but here it is not okay so after the first mode you can't use that Center anymore for yeah what normally happens is you get two modes and shuts off the easiest one then two modes and shuts off the next easiest one which is the orbits in this hard come hard settings both of those are after one so you get one mode to shoot the center shot only one mode to shoot orbits is everything else is is Ramson so we're in Mariner here he's got these three blue lights on the left and each time he shoots one they're gonna shift towards the center and now you can see wow so good now they've moved to the right side and he needs to shoot them over here and move them back towards the center for the center shot right sides tough the last two shots on right side have really hard and now the drop targets are in play as a qualifying shot here it's a little bit took me a while to understand that you have to complete the entire bank you can't just hit the drops once yeah there you go it happens what happens is if you had drops that was partially up before you can finish off a stack and so now he either completely drops again or shoot the inner loop which forget about that difficult a harder shot in the game probably oh and if you take too long you blow back yep blown you off Network moved over here that blows so but this is if he gets this he'll get a soul shard for the mode you just need to complete the two sides and if LUMO of course again so he's gonna need three shots here I like to do two right ramps and then and then the drops with the drops once but that's what we're seeing oh that's you know didn't get them all fatigued he still got time it could happen here that was not another boss you know that was a little bit he didn't know where he was there so if you if he had lit the purple whatever call that orb Lord he would have that would been an out of all just there but right mommy multiball so 50 switch hits I think likes the jackpot on the center and then the two ramps will be an animal yeah the the number of number hits required increases for each jackpot so the first jackpot is available after only 10 hits I think all right and then does 10 20 30 40 oh no it's double drain and done Wow disappointing that was brutal he did get it he got a ton of points out of that Mariner multiball which is usually not very valuable but swept right through the first half of that and almost completely the second half he's getting very good jackpots and then takes him in the lead at 55 million with Jason at 41 million Jason still has money to play and Marin are ready to go so the only time Mariner is really I think valuable is if you have a moment they feel multiplier is if you multiply the hurry up it multiplies the base value of the jackpot oh that's great and then didn't multiply those again yeah double-double that's a good combo and just an otter girl was saying I only use the left flipper to take shots at the captive ball that's definitely what let's see a lot of people do and you'll also see a lot of people just fold it up and get it to ricochet into the drops and take some of those like to go aiming for those inner two shots or I usually just have control that was so nice there by Colin who only took one warning for that mommy's ready to go one Eddie letter so Center to start if you're taking a course with this I think is the right call so maybe suit in the center out first here does does having dangers ever impact your to the choice for you guys here like he took one there but let's say takes two is that a reason to really put off starting multiball no I don't think so because I'm less likely to nudge a game during multiball didn't am during single trailer ball play he chose just start the multiball ignored the mode yeah you know I don't I don't like that decision so much because you have to make the ramps anyway the two ramps in in this mode the two ramps during Momo multiple will give you an out of all so there's left ramp that's gonna let you sit that's gonna lock it up now he just has this one ball and play double value right ramp give us a bunch points and add a ball and if you had started Icarus he'd already be six to ten million indecorous besides at this point and now there's another animal available right so now he's on like Phase two so all three of these will be an animal yeah it's a yeah the two orbits as well as the two ramps so even again with Icarus like you're gonna be making ramps anyway during this multiball and might as well some players end up blowing off the jackpot sometimes because you're too busy thinking about the the outer balls he's gonna he's probably gonna get this right right loop and right right ramp for animal here on a stage flip that was beautiful stage flipping to let that ball come down and he must handle the trap whoa just being able stage flip on the fly like that I got will I wouldn't have done that I wouldn't have thought to do that right now I want to learn how to do this so now he's an interest in single ball play and I don't play it Greyson single ball play yeah this is a dangerous game for him and there's other stuff to do like going for these are my rocks like like you're saying with with up that flipper and taking the drop targets the only needs one more completion the drops to light delight trooper oh wait first and going for loop tack pots nails okay he is a building as power jackpot which he just accidentally hit yeah we could talk about that for a second so the power jack up up here you can see the objectives he has yet to okay hold on we're gonna get to you a third one he's guys still got time get in there get in there get in there don't time it out so in these be centered things here you can see that one of those is pulsing that means he's completed that power mode and there's a there's a power jackpot available over here but it's not very big at the moment yeah and the multiplier comes in you get a multiplier every time you pull something and complete it every major shot adds a little bit of value to that you can also add the value add more value by a random order by one of the one of two measures I find on the premium the fact that this this over here is actually a captive ball that you can hit Dom need errection 'el yeah actually built kind of like a pop bumper and you can hit it from any side and you hit it by accident a lot more on the premium yeah I feel like you do have a little bit more control over when you cash in that jackpot on the pro I like having the greater variability in the direction over there like that having it being kept the ball means like it glances off there and it goes any which way and it's it's it's kind of more fun than having a stand up there to me but I agree with I agree with Lee he says well it does make it less controllable so Nick has a multiball mode lit and just locked for mummy so he's got aces hi this is a good valuable mode to get going on also all right talk about I don't score too well in Aces High so tell me how did it better so right right in the beginning of Aces High you can take any four shots he wants find your favorite four easiest shots and pick him off they're each gonna be worth that and the center shot is really valuable here because it gets multiplied by the bullseye effects oh so he got he got almost four million from that that one Center stuff he missed an opportunity there for the add a ball yeah he took a shot up the center and he in the grace period probably could have restarted by hitting the high rate Brian the previous coat like if you to code ago Aces High wasn't worth very many points with a rebalanced it okay there's the danger of loops we were talking I've been getting fast was back on he's ready on the outlet oh oh yes Oh Nick I was so beautiful oh great save by next time over there and getting the ball under control with no warning neighbor I mean like go back and watch his previous ball and this boss just took a clinic on out Lane nudges Wow and no like I would have waited 20 seconds after that move right he's just like whatever right into it let's go are we here for we here for pinball or what look at Ohio had a ball boom take it down give me some more I and we'll just see you make sure he concentrates to on the the jackpots sometimes there's except players get over overly concentrated on the Atta balls interesting to see you didn't like try to take save that [Applause] so he's got again we'll go back to these he's so he's got three modes running and the ones up here the ones in color are the ones that are going so spinners pops and targets are going and when he gets those numbers down to zero each one of those will light a jackpot that stacks on top of each other at the so this is the current value every time we get into that I kill those players I'll say that like I love watching on the fly combo making just play that ball pinball it may not be the best risk/reward tournament strategy but it's fun it absolutely isn't that that you're seeing you're seeing the differences between someone who's relatively new to competitive play and someone who's been been at it for a while with take your time relax get control do something and there's also a little bit of I want to say better alignment between goals for the other players that's some of them but some of what nick has been doing with Nick Nick's just showing incredible pure skill and in his shot making and his nudging and saving raw boy all right so he's gonna try to start 2 X here which he does and now he's in good good position this is gonna be worth a lot here for Jason cradle up don't ignore that jackpot left ramp is what you want first let that ball lock and the Oh Oh it didn't register because the ball was loading at the time huh so that counts I said well a Drupal jackpot at 11 million right there put something to lead it to X still running you can extend your to X time a little bit by hitting the X targets there around the play field the same ones that look to X in the first place it's not something you really go for him purpose double jack looks like still running the quadruped will happen because he had blocked the ball that was fun yeah what is it so when you don't flip with that upper flipper you want to try and probably laughs catch on lower right huh yeah I also have been pushing the ball off the wall on the little flipper like just nudge to the right as it as it's going through the little flipper to keep it a little further away from dead center just because it makes the catch is slightly easier and depending on how its how it's coming across I can nudge it up nudge it over or just bounce pass it over to the left instead so this is Mariner which we went through before he has the add a ball on the orb right now and he's there to get this so he needs a couple more shots on the left side you know the middle Camillo there's nine million on the right sides already active so again having the booth but I'm actually tempted to ignore Mariner at this point and use this multiball to work towards cyborg and cyborg is these these five things up here so he needs he would need ramps targets and four ways it's two ramps away from lighting in the ramps that power jackpots gonna start to build if he does that mariners hard yeah yeah he needs about ten more ramps total to to get cyborg its argit's and the targets in orbits are just gonna kind of happen at oh thanks oh that's nice yeah he gets this slip for a big value jackpot of 18 million as well as oh boy and now so at the end of this he's gonna have the opportunity for a soul shard also so why is this so short charred not lit now cuz he's still in the mode the motors running soul shard only activate is available when the mode is over so you get time this out he could drain a ball yeah he's gonna he's gonna have that soul shot opportunity regardless of what happens but he's can't arrest this it's cashing points that didn't register I guess unfortunately cuz stage cuz something might try and lower this upper flippers if you can let go the flipper hat the button halfway if he can drop at flipper and get access to the shot there it is didn't quite work way to Colin had going like players who can like stage flip on-demand it's very end yes it's oh jeez jeez gift control here so now the center shot is lit for seven million hurry up small down flyby where every hits three traffic volume another 18 whenever that shots now also light it seemed million on the latter level or 15 oh wow that that was a and Jason Jason looks like he just won 50 cents and a lottery ticket he's he's very calm like nothing's going uh-huh as he played trooper uh yeah he has played trooper yes so that lock is just football one law that source lock for a second person about fifteen million points is sitting there now if you're greedy you double that right going to he had just one he only need one more X but it's the most difficult one uh or or or you shots the shots target to say can you describe that for the yeah so right so if you have shoot it through here and into that target it'll give you credit for one of the X's you don't have and he was missing this one which is the really difficult one so that would be an insane way to I mean will you ever drain attempting that is that a safe oh my god he is six ramps away from completing the ramp portion he'll probably get the orbits for free at some point he and also so his his jackpot which is on the captive ball is currently around seven million with two more orbits that will probably jump to fifteen or sixteen mm-hmm and with some more ramps maybe forty he's got to hit the ramps for any letters anyway so we're saying we're seeing Jason really think this over and decide what he's gonna go for this is a credit to both the game itself these decisions are there to an end a Jason four really thinking it through and say well what's what's my most efficient path to score right now and what kind of score oh I think I need its 189 is Grace taking the power jack five adding just you just kind of padding points always be cashing as Steven Bowden would say he also has the extra ball lit right now ha what is that worth 10 million less matter that's okay yeah that's on this stand up right here and that's for completing three of the power modes yeah that's right do you know if the left when you shoot the left ramp can you hold the left flipper up and pass over on this one anyone try it I'm not sure it was good before you said what we saying can you tip pass over on the left round Oh left ramp pass over the right flipper oco-2 left ramp all day yes yes I love that he is he's going up the center kicking the targets safe safe enough return that he's willing to trust it wait and they're doing this until he completes the drops but he's only got one lock he needs to do he's got like that six four more completion to the job first and there's oh so uh saw that right there and lit the 2x how did you get the power jackpot up to five million like that or no I'm not sure so yeah right maybe a mystery award so he I mean that could be a big score for him because two more orbits will double that and then he's got the 2x to double it again yeah yeah having it having a good value in the power jackpot with the opportunity to grow that but he still seems very interested and he handed me letters he's just all over the place mummy is now hearts having a second mommy I think his two hits per letter so he has the sarcophagus lock already he's on his his path sorts oh he's trying to camp out yes he's doing a little bit of everything right now this is like the Iron Maiden buffet I'm wrong it is still just one hit - he's one more yeah here we go yeah it is nice this is nice geez now ramp Matthews mommy to finish off the task for cyborg start that 2x get some ramp also about and do you save you 2x first I work no no not like this and one of the issues with if we do see cyborg is the reduced timer on all these multiball ball saves has a significant effect in cyborg because you can't you just can't get like you're it's the power jackpot Oh was that 40 million yeah and he was two ramps away that was an absolute ballistic the good ball he started up all feeling excellent and ends at 231 million for Jason Weirich he's got a big lead on everyone else and but it's not like they don't know what to do I tried to make him smile he's a smiler yeah and currently you're you're uh you're sporting live scoreboard is still preserved as what happens is slightly less than what anyway for the number of poor scores and say what should call be looking for here and well unfortunately the answer is oh okay so yeah he had quite a few things on the table well and needs to really realistically needs to be Carl right now hit the skill shot seven million having it to have a chance so continuing do you do short plunge or hit this go side where I am right now I'm gonna you know Kirkland's or take the super skill so I couldn't get to the light million or it's trooper now is the left ramp right now is that attuma war 415 million or is that a lock for mommy that is a to mo word for 15 million because the mummy allows yes yes that's right he got that for the loop jackpot yeah so that's what they're going for left ramp we'll put him over the top with Carl immediately that's first very nice decision-making and that's a nice observation I'm not sure why that fell so fast you didn't get copy yeah yeah that was big door at the top but he got his 15 million anyway now going for troopers 12 yet that was nice I'll get that I hope ed luck smart choice though yeah guess he'd already taken his first trooper so that was that was progress towards trooper too I'm not sure what else there would be the easily kept to 230 million but you've got to you've also got a pad pad space against Nick who is he's got trooper lock slit yeah there's there's there's plenty for for Nick to play for here I'd like to see him take some trooper locks and then start started for us Wow - great safely in the first few seconds of a ball usually players aren't ready to make safes like that so he had no problem with that you think he should just take a naked trooper here no no I want him to hiring two two walks start Ikaros and then go from there and then now you take your Chris point see what you got but his his the quality of his ramp shooting he's been so good that I wouldn't be surprised to see him and he's doing these two over at Chris this would be just saw him fly flip there go okay next so 40 million points is gonna be really meaningful for him and then he's got a long hill after that so I think he needs to get put up those 40 right now yeah I think he's gonna do it over alright but again very it's great to see the game built in a way that allows player to have these opportunities to go for I can do this or this or this or this so talk about how these jackpots work now every blue light is lit for jackpots and the left and ramp right left and right ramps are also lit for Icarus collect so that's why they're flashing in two different colors and when he when you make it oh he's got two X there on one of the inlay when you make any shots it shuts off and it adds the value of the jackpot to a growing a super great great out oh oh my god so easy control o natural o go back and watch that sequence later holy cow boys alright unfortunately he's not my he's not picking up the value on any of this but all these little Wow so after all that what we got ended up with was don't play feel this place yeah no jackpots but when you make a shot it adds its value the super after after certain number of shots the super lights up and then when you collect the super will realize all the jackpots anything that relights gets real it at a higher value so comes a double jack for triple jack etc up to a 5x jack so he's played two modes so now he needs to hit ramps only to lighten on his next mode this is a bad spot here no mummy letters no progress two locks [Applause] oh man offending therefore Nick boy so many great skill moves in that game I and no points yeah no points to show for it unfortunately sometimes sometimes it is better to fly away in those cases but you can't make that decision a lot of the time on this game when that when the Ball State was shut off that's that quickly but all four players really strong play here on I'm elated and we saw Jason Weirich win the game he goes to six points Carlin urban takes second he goes to three Karl goes to five so we have six five three zero in this group from the top two from each group advance to the next round I suspect we'll see a lot of Maidan today it is certainly so good great game these are only modern Stern's yeah it makes me jealous I guess got jealous did you don't have one yes that I don't have the ability to make try thank you good some good ideas in the game and in the works I work for a spooky pinball as head of rules and programming so working on Alice Cooper's nightmare castle which is here at the Museum in vol I I like it I like Iron Maiden too and I think for for competition players there's more variety more decisions to be made in coop in in this game I love so many ways to score I love the simplicity of the rules yet it is so deep and there's so many choices at every point and I think like a casual player every single objective in that game is doable like you can you can finish every mode it's an interesting game in that you I think I'm used to a lot of games where you just start the thing you just start a mode and then stuff happens or you start a multiball and stuff happens but maiden really rewards you for going deep on every single thing you can you know one mode can get you to where you need to be if you play it welcome Stan they leave the alignment of everything else in the stacking and he met the student to begin the game - like I'll switch modes to try and get to fear the dark or or hallowed instead of Icarus or whatever is or those are great places we've we've got some things here I mean group for Todd and German are through regardless of what happens on the final game and Group three Dominic is through although Fred does have a chance with zero points in the eight three three zero no snafu you know Fred can win and force a tiebreaker if Dominic takes seconds and NICUs Nick is out unfortunately the two players of six and five when Nick can still pass Colin and improve his position in the final standings it's Jason group two is Jason will appoint get him through no because they can end at seven seven seven zero okay if they continue to switch the positions between the first second or third places all right if Colin wins called sick second Jason takes third and it's the three way tie at seven and in fact if Jason can be eliminated at six if he loses outright and Carla Carla Colin took seven seven it happened to raymond last night in the semi-finals in classics he was ahead in this exact situation six five three zero Wow and he was eliminated seven seven six one all right it's gonna be interesting in that group with Johnny Monica Johnny won that one the second games when he moved out fuller moved back to four from zero five four four one thanks to our sponsors common pinball that's me hey thanks for scoring me in the booth here oh that's quart of it yeah yeah this is great score bit integration on these machines much value at this wait a minute and we did that I loved the score bit like on the stream it looks great knowing this color AMD you know we are at the 2019 in this main division sponsored by color DMV so and we're this is the what do you call this I don't know the first round this would be yeah usually this is just pull the first round once and that's our final quarterfinals then we're having a three hour break and they will be broadcasting the women's finals and that's right yeah something else yeah we'll have the women's finals starting at 12 12 noon and the the a and B finals will pause for that then the final eight players in a and B will play off and then at even after all of that they said another final with the this wild high stakes concept that in this premiere this year see what happens with that but I think like they offered the $100 packet which got you I think two mains two classics in a high stakes saved you $30 and so a bunch of players took that and probably would never have thought about paying $50 otherwise so there is there's some players over there qualifying still going yeah and following on that is still running even during the final so it's a like oh you're gonna act out hey guess what I don't think I had fifty bucks in my check I'm out I it's been a good I want to know how many times I play classics last night got nothing forward yeah I spent my 50 bucks trying to lead people ahead of me in a division I try to cut them geez and I feel bad about it now cuz it didn't work but I knocked them down yeah nice we're gonna go over to mousing around shortly for the third game and this is one of the games that in qualifying I ended up abandoning because oh yeah I play messing around a problem and then this was like oh god no no oh dear Lord how how well you guys understand the new ROM that's in here oh it's it's it's not too much different the thing we've mousing around is that in the original game there's the center is the center ramp and center ramp in the original rules is a hundred thousand of shot but it's it's unlimited so what players would do if they playing for score is bring down the little target gate that blocks it and then just shoot the two the little ramp as many times you can it's a wide thing it's right in front of you it's pretty unmissable and the can we pull it up you're playing safe which left safety and strategy you're gonna go for that center or center and ramp all day all right so that that loop hundred says like loop lights millionaire 100,000 per loop and you're like what a hundred thousand and it's right in front of me and it returns to my flipper easily yes please I will do that and I will do that and I will do that so over the last few years mousing around went from being a game that wasn't used in tournaments at all to again that was using tournaments with modifications and the two major montt the two modifications you'd sometimes see it see large posts even larger than the yellow posts you see on this game making that center center gap narrower so it was makeable but dangerous or disabling the thing altogether so that you just couldn't shoot the you could open it but you couldn't shoot the thing and kill it off and this guy Soren because we're taking games that that have sort of bad wraps as as competition games and making minor modifications to the rules that are attempts to make the game more palatable for competition and sometimes sometimes some of them are better than others but in this case what this one does is when you lower the the bank you can still shoot the center but only until you spilled cheese and after spelling cheese it will it will shut off it will close but now you say well okay that's not worked very much I open it up I get one hundred thousand six times and then it closes forget it I'm not gonna bother doing that so he's added value to that shot four consecutive shot to the center so if you can fully spell cheese by just stood in the center you can get like two two and a half million points from that that whole cheese and will also like the kickback did you say that that's right just completing one two three will like to kickback and shooting that ramp for the first time will like the the million lights which are the left ramp from the right ramp and like big deal like gap a million on this game is substantial because this game is playing like mother and the slings are really tight the left though the kickback is not on at the start of the game and the right outline is much more difficult than is typical on on now so now were you guys going plunging up top or were you taking the short punch i sometimes with short plunge until i short plunged into the right out lane and had 10,000 football won at that point I did not start plunge anymore and then I moved away to play other games that were less less evil but Jason Jason's definitely played a lot of mousing around in his competitive life and in just playing pinball in general like there that that that is not safe that is that has a small chance of just kicking off the side and down to the right at 1-over although he's already most of the way through to a spelling mousetrap which lights a multiball and this so this is even if nothing else happens on this ball it's a fantastic start here for Jason only one more letter left and you can get it go up by going through the left in lane yeah what's gonna probably happen here is he's either gonna shoot that loop and get as many points he kind of loop he's feeling confident about that shot or he's gonna also try to spell cheese cheese will raise the jackpot value so there's a letter and cheese to two more letters to go oh-hoh then oh that's kind of what I wanted further I went further the left and he thought it would get his right flipper out to tip it away that it was it was over to the left so that was saleable but strange kind of strange role he committed he had committed to moving it that way he put his body weight already on the right side of the machine so the the center post is removed I guess this little white white fake center post there just a hole where there was or a you know no but in until well guess one of the things I was sitting you know talking about so you plunge up here if you go through the lit lane that raises your jackpot right now you buy five four thousand which you can see actually right here then it'll go up further but will will lose sight of it after about two million but this play makes you think it's a minute in the era of cyclone and other games where they had a shared jackpot across players but this is not a shared jackpot game every player has their own jackpot value that starts at 1 million it can be increased in two ways one is to what you said to make a skill shot and the other is to spell cheese spelling cheese and cashing in cheesy bonus advance the jackpots so you're gonna see Carl try to do as much as he can which is the full combo of cheese and then one more shot to that same shot oh man a little so that's a seven-way combo there to finish off cheese is this carry to the next ball if he doesn't cash it in right now I don't know he's going for this ran up right here right Oh we'll find out on ball two Andy that's what you got to do you can get that going then you can get one milk two million two and a half million three million jackpots instead of 1 million jackpots and that is where the biggest scores on Mouse come from the way this one is set up I think any player would be happy with with 5 million and so going into that multiball with only a million a million half from the jackpot is not that big a deal and probably ok concurrent missed about two shots and is two letters away from this trap just because the ball bounces around when you miss oh now I was finding sometimes you could just hold up the left flipper off of a right ramp shot and get it to a cradle-to-cradle on all right well right left and just hold the left flipper up oh and get it great all that was working for me as a free letter from the in Lane this one thing is one fun thing about these inlanes is that nice nice get there for Colin like you shoot that left loop around and you think ok it's gonna go to this in Lane if you shoot the left loop running with spot letters lid on the right it moves yeah so the spot letter is lit here but the switch is a little bit above where the ball comes out from that ramp and and every switch head moves it scraps ready there's there's lock one for Colin you just locked it here and now I don't need to lock it here yep this is a new skill shot the right side is the one that's easiest to hit he gets it so he's jackpot moved up and immediately drains but that's ok he's he's fine he's got guys progress he's finished mouths Chaplin ball one eyes he's actually gonna make it more difficult for other players to earn points because by locking one ball this was the other players get less skill shots they lock one up and it'll kick out the other one instead of giving you another plunge so it'll be harder for everybody else to get to 3 million jacks nick is eliminated but he played so well he is 0 it's not okay so and he we haven't seen anybody go for the center yet although he just accidentally picked up the 1 and the 2 is does that progress carry yes so he's gonna maybe he'll we'll see him go center ramp here he just needs one shot yeah I think like I'm pretty sure the notes on tell farms it's probably adjustable but I think they do care but like general buds I was hearing was people weren't gonna shoot it on purpose but yeah he might he might super three on purpose if one and two were already done and might as well this I don't think has any cheese letters so he can get the full Street combo going oh yeah bad cat that'd be a good game for soar into Honolulu I'll make it don't make bad cuts a good game that cats needs to be what it is definitely are similar vintage those two games another complete so now here's where here's where Nick made it harder because there's a law on the left flock Jason will have to either shoot the left ramp or post transfer here to get the right lock where she's the left ramp to transfer it over right picks it up and now it's gonna kick out of the lock on the left instead of giving him a new plunge and so if you're not ready for this sometimes players can lose the ball right there if their god the game doesn't really announce it very well like oh you have plunge them nope you're dead so now he needs to go over it up here yep the other option here is to complete cheese and he doesn't have any cheese letters and his jackpot is at the lowest value but if you're like if you're thinking okay I need this and you go for though I we've also learned the cheese letters do not carry over if you had most of cheese ready on ball one post pass there yeah he picks it up it might have been better there to shoot the right target in the lane and then have it come back to the right flipper from there now there's a 2x scoring opportunity on this scan yes it's not common to see players aiming shooting for it is to start multi-well with two consecutive ramps will light the target on the right for 2x scoring the lasts 15 seconds now so why wouldn't somebody do it right before a multiball like that because it's gonna run out okay before you can get the jackpot you're gonna get your time will run out what you would want to do is tap one ball and then double up before whether these leaves look to kickback how did you do that or is it or is that a different life no I think so you get one two three I didn't even get one two three maybe he's starting multiball likes to kickback some now he's got the jackpot some belly Williams game like that doesn't eat what what happens now he like he put both balls back in both balls went back in they don't hold they kickback out but he does have the jackpot lit now on the the right ramp and it'll be ready for the next ten seconds so he's got eight seconds seven to get it up the right ramp oh yeah he knows okay he's Jason these are real seconds I didn't realize it was you had that kind of a grace period there it was counting down on the yeah one curious thing about this game sometimes is that you you you can be incentivized not to take that deck clock because any time you claim a jackpot it'll reset the tower to you back down to 1 million but if you had to say it 5 million you can get them all to get into a multiball where you can get unlimited 5 Millions or you can take your 1 5 million on the grace period and then knock down the whole tower I think in maybe since there's no way that he was just ignoring that he in this case kind of like Adams family where if you take the jackpot in the grace period that ends you can't score it again yeah I write if you got a jackpot during a thing multi-plane thing was lit yeah I get what the well is over now because you can't get your can't get your restart so this is open now yeah come on get it once and then he wrecked it twice and gave up on my hitting it he lifts the ramps for the million now yeah so he's gone he's gonna concentrate probably exclusively on left and right ramps coming back down oh no oh so he was actually he lit that last cheese so that he could get both at the same time right yeah he hadn't completed millions so it would have a little give him points for the cheese and a million letter we don't have the camera set up to show the million letter progress but it'll it I believe it will stay lit and he'll hardly be able to continue making million letters on ball three he also picked up almost a million points in bonus and the bonus on this game is suspiciously high what adds to bonus I don't know just kind of gives you a like hey you got bonus Oh so cheesy bonus to carry over him did and so he did pick up a completion there and the letter for the next one so it raised he's now up to two million on his jackpot value on the first kill shot one for completing cheese and there's a trap letter whether he wanted it or not he got it and that was deliberate I'm taking the last letter and mouse to like like the locks and locks it clear now so locking it up will give him another chance at a skill bad shot there he's got it though probably trap up and take a few seconds before together there we go nice and so getting the skill shot in here is gonna get add five hundred thousand ago jackpot if this is ball three do you do that or do you take the short plunge maybe I don't trust the short ones in this game an overactive after it murdered me how do you how do you feel about just the return from the top lanes in the pops I don't like it but it's less likely maybe less likely to be okay and the value of getting that skill shot is so high so that I want it as soon as you hit the switch it's gonna kick these balls out what alright okay yeah kick it back his lid so just kickback this comes on for you when you start well people in this game let's that's at least something no no oh boy and Street Front Street Grande Oh mr. topling loose in there and again huh well would that get him at this bonus X I'm gonna sex that streak run though an up street run and so this streak is based on what's which hits or something cuz Oh to break the streak well yeah because he got a hundred thousand both times for the street run there have to go read the post yeah this is the part where we're like okay okay I don't really get now we'll see how much this is worth alright good but thou now the gate comes up again yeah so he's done with his he's done streaking he's got two and a half million back to mousetrap and the the ramps are lit the ramps were lit now for those million letters so given his success at shooting the right ramp I'm gonna expect him to right ramp out a bunch more here and try to complete million because oh my goodness that's that was haha ho-ho all sorts of stuff over there one and then the end and the O to complete mousetrap oh my goodness Wow and oh yeah he's got over three mil so said five millions are really good target on this game those are both great scores and if it holds up the way it is Jason and Karl will be through to the next round they need up they need but Colin needs to come all the way through to win this game he could have a chance to force a tiebreaker with Karl if Karl finishes last but it's not looking that way that was very nice great start oh it didn't go in the lock gets the honor of really locking now relocking extra skill shot more skill shots this one is the hardest one yeah it seems to go on the right all the time so the game we're like locked clearing by your opponents actually helps you in some ways mmm doesn't seem like anyone really has that skill shot down no now I found you could get you get it to the right with us with a great amount of force but otherwise is pretty teams and we're lucky yeah you can get the middle one by bouncing the bouncing it off the right wall and hitting that a little hard as it hit that's it men were knurl live cattle and I was beautiful out of a lot just stuck it to the right flipper there's that kickback oh my god now he needs that left lot who does that nobody suspects why not why not just fire away oh I think I think by firing away he crossed himself there the other balls in play they collided with each other when I went down he's got six seconds left on the jackpot he's nice not looking good here that could happen it's gone oh dear that was a man that he was firing for it and the kick out from the left came in and collided with this shot yeah it's it just it feels like the right thing to do but it's usually not probably should have hung on to it a little bit hang on to the hang on the bullet the let the fast pick out come and handle it get yourself back under some some control you don't have to have full control but you have to avoid that specific thing I'm coming to balls collide that's how double drains happen that's how that's how that one ended he's yeah man he's like right back to mousetrap again three letters to go that's always scared it bounced spat like the over the shoulder bounce bathroom it's easy and he's got 3x multiplier so he'll get a lot of walnuts at the end of this ball he's probably at about two and a half or so on bonus right now those are intentional trap shots mousetrap shot that's amazing also yeah continued great decision-making about when abouts over two cats his right when did when to shoot for both Colin and Carl just lit mousetrap within ten seconds after and there's a skill-shot boom right he's up to what I don't know two and a half million at least on that value yep it'll be a two and a half now and multiball starts he can get another one here he pushes it off the right wall when it comes around to the top yeah three million Jack's now as multiball begins and this this it's an unlimited number of three million Jack's available so even one jackpot right now would be great and I wonder if he's gonna play a little more a little more controlled overall here he needs just I mean start with one this is fine yeah this is where you want to be that that was I didn't like that decision I put a trout he could have waited for that ball to cover stop still is playing a lot looser than necessary right now and again it cost him I think he's going to want to take this jackpot throw try to oh wow those lovely now they're to just hang on thanks percent and that's gone it's gone still seen any jackpots for any players [Applause] Suzy's shooting miss trap again oh yeah at this point your jackpot is so high you're probably gonna deliberately start to leave with targets there he is yeah definitely t he's not a dad clock please and so completing cheese doesn't it before it raises the jackpots next jackpot value is 4 million there is no three and a half yeah in Colin is it just said this in the check Colin is a top player in the world so with easy for us to sit here and say like oh you should have done this and he should have done that I mean he knows he knows what he's doing but there's also a high pressure situation here absolutely I'm not I don't mean to disparage colony way because his skills and decision-making like you have to be such an incredible player to even be willing to make those kinds of choices to play on the fly like this it's it's amazing and it's scary because what he's gonna make some other changes like my philosophy on some of those decisions is what would keep l1 do he's always like bring the balls to trap get two balls and one flipper separate make shots with one ball do what's uh what's simple so that you don't get into a danger zone all right third time's the charm here oh yeah this is awesome he could get the four million jackpot here with with a simple skill shot for the easy one and like he scored no Jack must be just round out a number of points he's right in there yeah and by not scoring jackpots he has opportunity to make a huge jackpots now four million Jack even one jackpot now we'll send him through the roof and oh that was rash yes and so there's there's like like yeah he had a trap here but because he had to come straight on the trap he also couldn't necessarily keep track of that other ball and now the jackpot is maxed at five million get one of these jackpot side right so it doesn't be left unsatisfied comes like a moment we shoot mousetrap letters Oh there's two letters it's got a kickback got the kickback on again for starting multiball so that's the real benefits starting multi long this game lights your kickback boom extra ball it's it's interesting we haven't seen people be punished really for the mouse going after mousetrap letters you know like those are dangerous a lot of them returning safely from those but people been able to light them and you survived uh-huh it's cool about that shot of what he did there is he's shooting for the right ramp well he's got the double play field now since we're only ten seconds geez and so you wouldn't change strategy here all right you're not gonna do anything different - except uh maybe go for the completion of cheese over the hole this would be is still on is it double we're on no no double but Colin has taken the lead through just this amazing grind of that excellent play mult locks for lit again this is the fourth time maybe the fifth oh yeah this is he's played three months well yeah he's gone through the sequence three times this ball this is this is absolutely incredible and and Colin Colin is under pressure here now you might think about the sharp plunge because Mac you've maxed out the skill shots yeah sorry them act out the jackpot and you've maxed out the multiplier so there isn't as much purpose in doing that oh he did what he did what you so instead of a post transfer there that was safety in the - oh God okay a shot that he's made a bunch of times now he's like come on that's good jack come on come on Colin and you can't really short plunge here because you need the balls to kick out yeah that's right I you want to have that flipper free that's right this is the right choice even when you yeah oh oh very nice grace and this is this is good this is good there he could have gone for a live catch but he's got up now this is what you want you want the control play if you get one ball to the right flipper if possible and then use that to make perfect now don't do that Oh I'd come voted it oh my god guys take the trap okay that's fine you're good you're good still that's good tick Jack now yes that's it five five million jackpot yeah baby got another one you have to wait till the ball kicks out of the top and then the traps open it resets itself and he's gonna what the heck load down the salad Oh back in the weights no wait this is so good to watch it plays incredible oh he's got his second lock trap wait no wait you don't have it you do get nigeria's thank you guys it's not the first jackpot I'm second if he has it here if you and it's team like still haven't won still that's a press event yeah she doubles a score with one jackpot over 10 million now this is now one of the top 10 scores I believe in the qualifying cheese now right yeah so you're gonna cheese up re-raise that jackpot every cheese is a decent amount of points and giving his success at shooting mousetrap letters why not right now I guess ultimately had it this is close to what he would have had he scored jackpots earlier at lower values right he had 2 million jackpot not 3 million jackpot yeah if he had scored like every jackpot along the way probably would have had about the same as the one so like that glorious the glory is the multiple 5 million jackpot and route that then there's the super floor oh wow the fantastic ball that's that's kind of the best ball machine from any player there's that bonus 2 million in bonus wow we're a long long play long switch bonus Wow are all the other games done I mean I'm not sure we still have a game of Ironman Oakland but that's in B and yeah I think I think that's it like we're just what we are watching the game I mean this is last year so taxi was in the final spanked Oh in trouble son okay taxi kept taking around well yeah Robert Gallo had a ball one that outlasted almost the entire set of all four player games wait you wanna talk about a player who will take his time and do one thing at a time over and over and over all right so Jason and Karl are kind of chasing each other here that's right if Karl if Karl beats Jason here Jason's clear won the Karl beat stay soon Karl cannot be eliminated no matter what happens here if Jason bleeds Carl Jason moves to the next round regardless we have to set up four seven seven seven if Karl takes the second here you're absolutely right we could be seeing a fourth game between these three players Nick didn't didn't I mean he's still in it but he's not in and once you want you kind of you know that you're out that's it then you've got another game to play one of two things either half with either you go Hulk or or you go Bruce Banner and Nick's got the hoodie the Hulk out with but he's gotta get one more ball in another chance I like to you know I like to give this stream a show try the really really crisp crazy risky strategy yeah like I'd New York tabman ones haven't walked up and he's like I'm gonna loop jackpot on made him yeah just give us a good show that's right and so like Nick could try to have sent a ramp this thing and just like one year when your papa was eliminated going into Game three in a group and we Game three was demo man so like I want player one gun and gun grips we're gonna we're gonna gun grip this whole game I'm being criticized for my pronunciation of Roberts last name what is the official pronunciation I believe it's working Ed Robertson I thought it rhymed with I don't know I talked to Robert and Robert's mother about pronunciation of Cagney oh yeah Danielle can you it's like a Gallo is one way to say it okay it's not a cat it's not Gagen oh it's definitely not that okay what I said going yo but it's not so it's gag its can yell you know I'm you don't know well it's what I think they've they've they both acknowledged they're like you know it's whatever you want so it's okay let's let's not worry about it too much I've heard it all right Jason is a danger I can appreciate that he's raised the jackpot again I mean he's in you know he's on solid shape here got the jackpot up to three mil and closed trans I wasn't working very well on this game so I think the left ramp to the trap with the way he's flipping the left flipper suggests to me that he's going to post transfer yeah their minds he's warming up his left flipper shot yeah on the fly I would love to see okay I really think you can just hold up that left the way the balls rattling as it comes out of that thing you may be able just bring it to cradle right there and I'll have to shoot on the fly well it doesn't matter okay so now with multiball start at a 3 million base jackpot and remember you can collect multiple jackpots here so he needs three jackpots to catch Colin and of course every one of those put some distance ahead of Carl and if you were to pass Colin he'd be guaranteed to go through I guess that feel me Karl Jason is home to go through if he beats if he beats Karl oh right calendars and he's player wants all you can do is pad though if Jason beats Carl Jason will either win the group or tie the group with with Colin and no it wasn't there didn't get both locks with logic but doesn't light that was brilliant right there he took a second warning he already had a warning and still made that move it was necessary just pushed the right amount there that was was there some sort of a greater carrier thing he was going for there cuz he seemed to rush that because there's no grace there's no point can you grace period lock that second ball no I agree with you I'm not really sure what what happened there but I I don't recall so he's got to go back around he's got to go get mousetrap again yeah Jack jackpots up to four mill now is shot Singh letters a viable strategy oh boy I wouldn't do it because they're not that hard they're just everywhere and yeah it's it's dangerous to shoot trap letters but dangerous to shoot everything in this game so I don't know bone if you don't want a football spoiler do not look at the chat I got spoiled to buy a temporary score cuz the game started at ten oh my another one I warned you that is not a 1 7 million here for Jason nice job the background game yeah somebody asked if that was a monsters in the background it's actually a beetles the person what and black playing behind Jason at the beagles there's nothing else you can see really well there's a safe cracker and a cheetah as well those cool to see beetles in the in the classics I played a little differently but yeah it was a sea themed beetles it was like they were in a submarine underwater perhaps but it wasn't yellow it was really more of a 3/7 version a Bluegreen submarine if you will all right so where are we here with Carl run lock second lock parodying Carl's jackpot is at 2.5 million so he's gonna need another skill shot perhaps to get the three and this multiball start shot here I don't expect him to miss this at all he's have dialed in on that shot so where he's at here hopefully I didn't get the right he didn't get the easiest skill here if you can get this skill shot plunge didn't happen but he still got two and a half oh you're they say Wow bad luck the way those balls came out but it wants the jackpot very badly right now so one jackpot might be enough to carry him past Bravo Jason overall and that's the question of what are you gonna shoot for I feel that he's making the right choice by trying to that way that was a great transfer he's taking advantage of the sensitive slingshot lift this ball just enough in his lingual so that the sling carries it over again that is it that's under percent attentional freaking great that is so good and so intentional he's got three exponents so at this point it's likely that if he gets one jackpot he will push past push past Aysen you will know everyone this is something that is very very useful in competition when this things are tight it's so good but interesting to see him do that fast lock like Colin did because then you're gonna handle this BS oh he does it though just get that ball out of the way or to a trap Oh wonderful decision jackpot shot three million right here that is he ugh sorry two and a half million almost three million big sigh of relief where's that taking him score wise he's got six point one and that was it it was a he didn't shake I can't tilt I would almost want to know here like what is my bone what is my bonus does innocent info is there instant in folks there is instant info does it have components easy he's going cheese let her finish she's here it'll be over she's will take him past Jason and that's not going but it's coming back around oh wait but it's going to go and that was me know what what's great about that is Carl didn't he didn't wait like he didn't like getting his own head about okay I got to make these four shots I just gotta spell cheese he has a non bonus now at the pass it's a pass Jason which assures me nick could win if Nick passes him it's true yeah but just say my brain Karl vs. Jason Carl Carl Carl has now caught up to Jason at least yeah so he cannot no matter what happens Carl can't be eliminated here cannot be a limit so ground we are we are actually looking at seven seven seven zero if it if it holds up the scores hold up the way they are right now now do we know why okay so the center bank is down no and he's not shooting it because he's also thinking about finishing cheese I darn so that'll lock it in for Carl he has passed Jason or jerk I wonderful clutch clutch ball four suffered survival really because the way would work Collins at make it it would have eliminated him not to pass Jason here so curls ball is irrelevant except for Knicks position but Colin's ball follows ball is is padding and making it more difficult for the seven that was the way this is not irrelevant as the column needs to win this game all needs to get to seven oh yes doesn't get the seven if there's he's got trouble yeah right right here so he's got a pad to defend against neck yeah Nick but Nick has to run the table and it has to go all the way through for calling to be interrupted but the 7/7 set was is not necessarily going to happen if Nick passes Jason Jason will be eliminated at 6:00 maybe 77061 instead and it would be tragic but boy you eliminated on 7 million on Mouse and around after going to first place second place the other two games I'd be pretty messed up dude do you guys if you have zero points going into Game three do you go last still or do you pick a different position uh I pick whatever position is still relevant to me because I don't want I don't want to I don't want to interfere well so I was in the situation yesterday in classics where I had zero points going the last game and I went first because then I wouldn't be deciding I wouldn't be going last with a you know the ability to knock somebody out or get somebody through that bonus one of those holds from one ball in others that's 800,000 bonus yeah that's crazy how that fungus gets so big he didn't play that long I must carry uh-huh I don't almost scary ball the ball I honestly don't know how the bonuses is scored at all on this field just shows you at the end of your turn like here's your bonus all right did chat wants a one ball playoff on Blackwater do that Lumpkin about whitewater to take the mobile rig over to the other side and some black water going so Nick Mike Mike might be complete might consider going for the number three target first and get his kickback let's this guy the outlanes yeah this the NYX NYX score in this round that was not not a very good indicator all of his skill in this warehouse gosh so many great nudges and saves like that right there that was dead that was probably dead and instead it's like Nana from and he somehow knows the threshold like he doesn't get dangers and he knows when it's dangerous like a lot of people won't even make a shake there because they're like this is no big deal it's just on the top of a swing and then they're in they then they're in the left out Lane before they before they even notice that it's you get the centered Lane skill-shot next jackpot is at one and a half only will home t-ball reset his one-two-three progress oh no it will continue his progress so you can finish one two three and all of that tells right I've catch you a little tip over the other side beautiful beautiful play there and he's gonna take what he can get the right thing to do here is be gonna kick it over I'll hang out wait for the ball to come back to you that's a fine that's fine completing one two three will relight the condyle it'll tip there oh and even saving that and and even letting that go that's the right choice too because getting yourself unplugged and then screwed up could have could have tossed that over toss that over put this one up in the lane let it bounce over boy this is great that's nice now he's got full control make a shot go for the jack immediately good try I still like they're getting it under control so you don't have to worry about dealing with if you miss the first shot at the jackpot but I can totally see you so good here from Nick Stein Wow it's back into this situation that was an easier tip over shoots hit some jackpots there it is one and a half million Jeff watts or taking it right now baby so we went from a game where no one had collected the jackpots to a game where everyone is collected a jackpot in just two ball a tie out game where we're like maybe three million will win this game to maybe seven million we lasts just tipped one ball up ball control bring it in control huh oh no what play by Nick though I was amazing great play throughout and we will be seeing more from these debrief from the three players Jason Carl and Colin they have tied with the dreaded 7 7 7 0 and that is probably the best played 0 in the history of yeah that was an incredible 0 so what wilt we're gonna see a lot more from Nick Stein I'll bet tests out saying he would you say he got six place at City champ yeah last year last in his second tournament effort oh my gosh and I wasn't so that was last year this year I think he just missed the cut but he was here today and and cash all 24 finalists in a and all 16 finalists and B are getting getting cash prizes it's pretty great and a kiss we go to extra innings here in group group 2 maybe we can take a look at the scoreboard well so we're here at n disk in banning California at the Museum of pinball I'm bowing Karen's I'm in herre and I'm Ryan winger and we've been watching a fantastic round with Karl DeAngelo and Colin urban and Jason Weirich who are all tied at with seven point seats over in the other groups in Group one Adam McKinney and Chris Compton have advanced to the next round they played their final game on Iron Maiden Dom Kasich and Makaha I give advance so Raymond Davidson has been eliminated Wow on see which and boy it was amazing to see ray come through and qualify at the last at the end of last night after playing in classics one in classes to finals he obviously an amazing player but I was watching him carefully because I was on the bubble and I knew he was gonna get ahead of me and he needed he was on his final game and he needed about nine or ten million on iron yeah we talked about that before his game he was like I need four and rely on Baywatch or 10 million Iron Man which one should I take like risk it on Iron Man crazy always gonna win Iron Man they went ball three he hadn't done nothing on ball three started monger got monger down missed the monger super like three times and then was out with five million and then he started going bogey oh my buggy his way in we have the results from the kids division and fourth place is Ashlyn Bell Sedo third place Weston Gilmore second place Whalen Gilmore I'm imagining they're related and the Gilmore Girls know Bob Gilmore boys congratulations to Jaden live No we got first place in the kids division what was that $10,000 yes $10,000 and a trip to Disneyland maybe so yeah and then your four we had Todd thanks to the German Jermaine Muriel began strong strong run by Jermaine there to first in the seconds in Group four with Richard Terrier just hi boy he's playing he played great this weekend Richie Terry and David Oliver very strong player also they were eliminated with three and one so it's the best two players in each group moving on and that and that means that we have a tiebreaker in group two there's our three different players at seven points so lay one final game the loser of this game is eliminated with two out of the three players will advance and Jason is gonna be the one who picks yes and the game has been selected it is rich deep sea wheedled oh and we can move over there right now I think they're doing practice because see we doles was brought over as a additional game they every anybody gets thirty seconds at one time on it because it was no chance to play at a qualifying and it was it brought over because the top seed chose it yeah the number one seed gets the throw one of the games out so and bring in one of the games from any other Bank this is a practice ball here everybody gets 30 seconds of practice because because it's a new game so Asher tossed out Carly Davis tossed out Harley Davidson was a a game that some of the other top players had shown lots of expertise and big scores on especially Keith and layman I had no idea how to play that game so I stay away from but they were making these big value loops and that's just good at sea which it's interesting is I feel like there were games Escher was better at classics but this might be the one we felt like he has the strongest advantage I'm playing more of it it's a little I'm a little surprised by that choice and we we played him being classics one on this game right and if my poor play was the only reason he made a true oh man I know he enjoys it for sure play better next time I worked out testing buzz hilt there so I saw let's go through a little bit of the rules here just this fantastic design one of the most unique designs that I could think of in in solid state has 11 drop targets and three banks and there's an X in front of the drop target banks the drop target lived for X will advance my bonus multiplier and there's a maximum of 7 X bonus every drop target you make get adds a thousand of the bonus so make an e drop targets is nice but you want to make this complete them in sequence of center bank left bank right banks and that's completion so one thing you can do for example is get two out of three down on the left bank then when the X moves over there just hit the one remaining target to finish it off the same with the upper right bank so it's it's common to see players throw the ball up into the up for rights get some get some targets down get it bouncing around Bombur points and the green lights in the back they are also important the four green lights they're labeled John Paul George Ringo they add 200 each to the spinner value and they can make the spinner value were thousands of spin and that with the with the way this spinner is that could be worth 50 to 60 or more thousand the shot and if you can make that shot and keep repeating it around the loop you get a loop out a loop Onis for every loop you get the spinners and you really start getting this huge each point action and you though maxing the bonus right maxing the bonus is that the first goal there's a loop that's got to be worth about 20 points there and that this was live that was there was low on for generally two approaches to pungent short plunge and try to sweep the bank from the right flipper or what Jason did which is hard plunge and hold up your left flipper to get into the bank or maybe try to shoot up the third choice is the super short plunge and see like what happens the path of my what's happened to both players is is the reason why I don't like their decision and sure you can Deacon drain on anything in this game but all right he's going short put like what Colin is the Colin's gonna do is get the ball to that flipper and then just the ball just says look I'm and we yeah I like the sweet attempt but you do you like getting it on the lower flipper I just like getting the ball to not go 100 miles an hour you can get the balking a very fast then when it goes through the outlay and then there's some decision to make if you got there so fast you don't even know what to do with toast too late now would you change your approach in this situation where you're just trying not to lose probably not because I I don't know what else there is to do another guy might perhaps I might be not see which I might put a higher priority on spinner points because it's gonna push me probably a little easier towards the 300 400 thousand range I think that that's I think that 400,000 should be enough to advance here so he wants to go for this upper bench drop target Bank probably that's where then his next X is meanwhile by hitting other things he's already builds himself up to 27 times 27 times 3 he's got almost hundred thousand and bonus coming they cleaned up some things in the design with beetles of this game you saw him shoot the orbit and then it just rattled in here and was kind of unable to repeat that shot yeah nice and also there's a greater ability to shoot that loop from the lower low right flipper videos that Riptide equivalent shot you could just do that all day all right I know on the one hand I like that it's clean but on the other hand I like that the I like that the loop is a little rare yeah like that you make that loop and you're like yeah I made it where are beetles you make the loop like three times they're only like I only made three and I think it one other thing I find really satisfying on this game is just the metal guide rails on the inlanes that like when the ball comes to your flipper from an in Lane coming at full speed and it just keeps you on your toes in a way that you other games few other games do that was a solid strong very strong ball that bonus coming that's big all of that bonus sixty particularly 8000 and get enough the multiplier but you don't get to keep your bonus and yeah I agree with you I think well with this for these three who the well yes you're not to say anything about that now he did this but it's get the ball to a point where you have it so he just cleared these now he's going over here possibly but how do you do that you don't really want Ali to us probably you don't you don't want to do that you can pop it up into the in Lane and then just backhand this oh the role of rolling bad you can do a rolling I guess most see witches I don't know if he knew done this one yeah rolling that so the way I was handling this was rolling back and I popped a little bit if I hit it if I managed to close up the inland it's gonna just roll over completely and if it doesn't if it's short I can back in in the same way those backhanded kings a right target and is that the rolling backhand maybe just more possible when you have these curved metal ball guides like we're talking you know what modern Stern's Metallica you want to hit that scoop you want to hit this mode start on guardians you can do this on a lot of games help you know a surprising number of games let you do this and it's generally not and it's not in most players decisions fishtails locks another great one uh-huh like you can back in the the catapult on medieval madness with that kind of that kind of Club you see that was nice that was nice micro Carl at 3x times 14 so far so they know as a red he's good he's got some padding in here pepper right get another multiplier get in there that was definitely a shot towards the upper right that's nice there we go the bounce out of there harder though the next game is a cruel mistress he's got John and Paul completed up there so spinner is 600 that's probably enough to just be worth going for by itself and you can pack hands into it you can sometimes back in that all no points that's there that was worth zero oh yeah sure looks good so the scores let's see Jason is sitting out about 49,000 Carl's got 268 at the moment and colin has 683 completed the top bank got to his 4x and he's got 4 X 20 and then the other thing that happens when you finish all three drop target banks on the same ball you like the loops for 2x loop value and then usually at that point it's an indication that it's time to drain that you've done all you could and it's time to go Colin though yeah Colin sit pretty here it's I mean he you can tell what it takes to get 7,000 on one ball because he did it already that's what Jason has to do jason has to put 700,000 on ball 3 or colonists colin is advancing and this is where packing bonus matters just as much because you got he's got 4x multiplier already any any drop target will increase the value the bonus it's got a center Bank now he's going oh that's a nice shot there Colin with the familiarity on see which from the Portland Oregon area they have just a ton of classic games on location up there and end up with players who have great experience on old Stern's like like nobody's business like what everybody know how to play these games yeah you see which on location like put more than one I think in arcades in that town Neal you're right if you're just tuning in it's the this is a three-way tie breaker so the top two will advance out of this out of this game and last place will go home with a story a sad story about getting seven and missing out I keep Ella and I gave Raymond that story in one of his first grant files at Cal Cal extreme he went seven seven seven zero and then had a thief left three free player game of Twilight where we all kicked ass and Raymond was a woman in both anyway Colin right now is just killing this he's got max multiplier I was nice that was very nice he's almost got max bonus he's a 36 times 7 uh-huh you're gonna see a really nice Mel town at the end of this ball oh here comes watch this bonus 105 good [Music] almost 300,000 a bonus there for Colin the to the top qualifying score yesterday was 2 million I think or maybe was a day before so 1.3 on two balls in the finals is oh yeah that is yeah that's an epic game I don't I don't recall Colin was playing it in classics either either the last two days but he clearly knows exactly what's up with this game it was actually Nick Stein who had the two million Wow get out of there so Jason here needs to beat 387 thousands for the tiebreaker to continue and realistically he needs quite a bit more than that to still need to pass and out pay so that was that was lovely that top target on that Bank is quite quite nice for that I was wondering if you might not flip I don't think I've ever not flipped on that in my life I don't know I don't know did you do that on purpose well yeah I mean I I think if you're putting the ball out of control a loop shot there isn't gonna get you what you need you know proved true needs to survive you also get some pretty good value for completing banks that aren't the lip Bank like right now that Center bank as a flashing Hawaiian it to me he may have been trying to complete that Bank know that flashing red is that anything we care about so that's gonna score the loop value if you completes that that Bank and how do we know what the loop value is it's all the purple lights around the back makes purple light as well certain amount o incredible saves his torment life right here on ball three Jason were equipped just absolutely epic save he has here's the ball back under control oh oh my god let's sweetmeat instant replay on that one eventually wow this is he has been clutch I mean yet yesterday he had a like 70,000 on his last ball of bow and arrow to force a tiebreaker last player last ball made it happen so nice and then won the tiger II this is why I just don't want I don't watch my opponents play playing game is all it happened to just like I still going he's not dead we caught my cancer oh that was so so clutch nice job back there and he's got the double loop value but now like the bonus X will also give the loop value up top so completing that Bank of targets in the upper right and worth a lot right now and he's at 20,000 times 6 to get 120 180 Falco is 210,000 in bonus coming so he has now passed Carly Python Anghelo and he's got another 200,000 the can why is the score still going I'm still counting down the payout though his loop value he's gonna pick up that loop value with either of those target banks yep that's right so to good Toula target banks and you can take the lead one of these the from the left flipper at this point I shoot the spinner because it's a thousand of spin and the loop from the right flipper I'm gonna take whichever target bank I feel as easiest oh but this is this is so plush what a safe that was oh my goodness yeah the spinner value is really valuable when I play see which I still tend to stick to my drop targets because that's how I've been playing up to this point and moving to a new shot is I find risky there's a loop count down so it's gonna pay if it Batum loop just there 550 plus the max bonus available here which the max bonus on this game is two hundred and seventy three thousand points so he's got that sitting in the can on top of what he has here so we'll see him over 800,000 already and now it's not safe pressures up he's still gonna go but Carl's gonna have to double his score yeah thanks for the clip the Ricky Ruru of that save and sorry for destroying your eardrums that was I was epic and it's so nice it's even more epic when it comes on like the very last ball mark mark they're not too tough to try to to nudge too much to take particular of danger because he's gonna go now to about nine hundred and thirty thousand here as the bonus melts down maximum see which meltdown all the way down sent it to 930 40,000 points up what a ball all okay girl but we saw there the Dino he shot a perfect loop and then it rattled off of here and when I'm out late yeah I don't know what this dangerous let's say there it's weird just like camp not shooting stuff oh so feral the outstandings people responsible for making this event what it is and what it has become he is his former life is at risk here and he's gonna need to play this ball Oh bang bad luck train that'll be you elimination for 'crawl D'Python Anghelo he played a superb round all the way through won the first game got a sixty plus million on sixty plus million and Iron Maiden and lost I got eight million on the mouse turn around and lost that's five hundred thousands on see which and lost not fair [Music] w x-men book he says that was better than your Addams Family shake at that probably was yeah cuz cuz he wanted I did not I don't remember that part like I was a great save yeah and then I lost somebody put that at Bowen shake out in the chat and people can deny a judge you for themselves yeah but also like that shows you the difference and the capabilities of the camera oh hey oh sorry the capabilities of the camera work and of the reduction quality like back then I was one of the first tournaments ever to have top-down cameras and it was just like one camera on one game and nobody could see anything but just that top-down no commentary no no snow no recording even other than Steven Bowden's handheld the handheld camera from afar so the scores of that game Colin had one point four million Carl had five hundred forty thousand and Jason had nine hundred and forty thousand but where that ends the first round and we're moving on so Chris Compton and had a mckinney advance Jason Weirich call an urban advance dominic and Frederick no sorry maka advance and then Todd how do you say that talk the face oh yeah I I'm sorry I'm gonna I don't actually know it well enough to anybody's in German so in a minute so the path those players are gonna advance and then we're gonna they're gonna be joined by the one through eight seeds which includes a new bow it yeah I'm intimidated by what I've seen hopefully I will not draw mr. Orrick or mr. Danson or mr. urban but in the end you can never play you never play your opponent's really you play their scores exclusively so stuff happens you don't have a lot of control over these formats and all you can do is say well I needed make points I can and then hope it works out are you gonna have game choice I don't know I don't think so wouldwould Syria is number five seats oh no where's number four okay - fits with me - fifth or sixth an anti break okay and someone else will have control but they might pass control to me knowing I'm them then they'll know what I'll pick I'm gonna pick up an Iron Maiden I'll pick warlock I'll pick Baywatch I'll pick up with monster - I'll pick you what wizard maybe wizard is tougher because like wizard is a grinder game where there's this major goal to pull Romania and if you don't make it a pull me near you tank and if you do make it a full win it's worth the time so you're just sitting there waiting for waiting for the thing to happen we're getting the pronunciation that's what most of the chat is today just figuring out how to say last names brief inch or it's raffiq we got some disagreement and bowing you probably if you don't get game choice you'll just choose fourths depends on the game but usually I'll pick pick to play lost again anything anything you wouldn't take forth on some reason I might take first on pirates no it's because you have the first choice of character selection okay and then you can take and then what what character am I supposed to take everybody I asked this we can told me a different person so I use your multiball guy or somebody told me the easier chest multiball is one there's also like the easier dead man's tail guy but the settings also say that dead men sale is more difficult so I don't know if that balances out it's easier so now it's not easier it is easier and then there's the like have a mode mode start late all the time that you know maybe that's a good one but the mode the mode points are not as strong as the multiball points yeah and if you're playing for multi balls you're gonna like you're gonna light motes anyway during the multiball just by bouncing around and then going in there so it's not as useful somebody suggested the there's a wonder gives you an atom ball when you're on the ship yeah that's a lotta good choice because it secretly also has your points during that multiball which you can find on the status report but not in the character selection screen all right well they do see people select that a lot I just I don't think it's a good choice there's the character that can't be plundered you know I'm gonna save your gold yeah all right mom and tell and it's harder to talk with you about this and watch this amazing first round and that's that's just the beginning of the day well we're gonna see we got one more round they take a break for the women's final then it'll be a resumption of the the final semifinals and finals of a and B well thank you Bowen it wasn't under having you in the booths and good luck I'd say right it's brought a comment shout outs I was just getting warm in here I had to take my jacket off all right hacker Apple may be one of the most frequent orderers of plummet boats I don't know what you're doing over there hacker but you got a lot of good _(Acquisition: youtube_auto_sub, Enrichment: v3)_ --- *Exported from Journalist Tool on 2026-04-13 | Item ID: fc86a04d-a0d5-4dff-a349-0e956982ddbc*