Concord Champ '25: Finals, Game 3/4 on The Addams Family by Bally. Streamed from The Flipper Room.

DRI374·video·36m 3s·analyzed·Nov 18, 2025

Analysis

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TL;DR

Concord Champ '25 Finals Game 3: Jack wins on Addams Family with strong multiball play.

Summary

This is a live-streamed competitive pinball match from the Concord Championship 2025 finals, Game 3 of 4, featuring three players competing on The Addams Family by Bally at The Flipper Room venue. The match showcases advanced gameplay mechanics including multiball, skill shots, and strategic shot sequencing, with commentary from knowledgeable spectators discussing playfield tactics and risk management. Jack emerges as the winner of this game, securing a strong position heading into the final game of the match.

Key Claims

Addams Family has three plunges to start a ball, and potentially three more when locking balls, totaling potentially 20+ million points
high confidence · Spectator commentary during match: 'you get three plunges to start your ball, right? And then potentially three when you lock, right? So that could be 20, 20 plus million when you add it all up.'
Going first in player order can be strategically advantageous because locking balls early gives you a known plunge opportunity on the next skill shot
high confidence · Spectator analysis: 'if he gets his locks lit, he knows he's going to get a plunge on the skill shot... if you go later, the other players could have already locked balls and it just kicks it out.'
The magnet on this particular Addams Family machine is disabled
high confidence · Spectator commentary: 'the magnet is disabled on this. So, you might see it flashing, but it's...' and later 'Brian is saying you have to cut the wire.'
Dead bouncing out of both the chair and swamp is possible on Addams Family during practice, but very risky and requires prior experience
medium confidence · Spectator experience-sharing: 'When I practice on it, you could dead bounce out of both the chair and the swamp... But the swamp that I—I don't have the guts for that.'
The 'mansion tour' mode on Addams Family is valuable and not particularly difficult to complete
medium confidence · Spectator observation: 'This mode is so valuable and it's not that difficult either... You can backhand it.'

Notable Quotes

“Addams Family seemed really playable for me. I didn't play it in competition this weekend, but I think we're going to have some high scores.”
Spectator/commentator (likely player or tournament participant) @ Early in content — Sets expectations for scoring and playability on this specific machine configuration
“Got Borged on a Lawlor game.”
Spectator commentator @ Mid-match — Reference to Pat Lawlor's design, suggesting a specific unwanted gameplay outcome; 'Borged' is likely terminology for a magnet effect or trap
“When it's going your way, it's going your way.”
Spectator commentator @ Late match, discussing Jack's momentum — Reflects on variance and luck in competitive pinball
“Jack is your winner. All right. We got a winner. We got a winner. But we still have one more game to play”
Tournament commentator/host @ Match conclusion — Confirms Jack's win in Game 3, establishes that Game 4 remains
“So Jack's got at least two. So he's at eight. If Andre came all the way back, he could he could get to five and it would be 8–5.”
Spectator/commentator @ Late match analysis — Indicates tournament scoring system and current standings heading into final game

Entities

The Addams Familygame BallycompanyThe Flipper RoomvenueConcord Championship 2025eventZachperson JackpersonAndrepersonPat Lawlorperson

Signals

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event_signal: Concord Championship 2025 finals being live-streamed with Game 3 of 4 on The Addams Family at The Flipper Room
high · Title and match commentary confirm finals match, game sequence, venue, and active streaming with live chat interaction
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gameplay_signal: Addams Family configuration shows high scoring potential with skillfully executed multiball sequences, strong shot efficiency, and strategic lock management yielding scores in the 90-180+ million range
high · Match scoreplay shows Jack reaching 182 million, multiple jackpots, and extended multiball sequences; commentator notes 'high scores' expected on this machine
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machine_intel: The Flipper Room's Addams Family has magnet disabled, requiring hardware modification (wire cut) rather than software setting
high · Spectator discussion: 'the magnet is disabled on this' and 'Brian is saying you have to cut the wire. Do you? Yeah... But you would kind of have like a connector that you, or you would put it in your own connector'
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operational_signal: The Flipper Room hosts premium competitive tournament with well-maintained machines and professional streaming setup, indicative of high-quality pinball venue operations
high · Hosting finals of Concord Championship 2025, professional match commentary, live streaming with chat engagement, spectators discussing machine configuration details
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competitive_signal: Match format is 4-game set with cumulative scoring; Jack has strong lead at 8+ points after Game 3, Andre and others chasing; WPPR points and prize money on the line

Topics

Competitive pinball tournament gameplayprimaryThe Addams Family machine mechanics and strategyprimarySkill shot execution and strategic shot sequencingprimaryMultiball modes and risk managementprimaryMachine configuration and hardware modifications (magnet disable)secondaryPlayer positioning and tournament standingssecondaryRisk vs. reward in high-pressure competitionsecondaryDead bouncing and advanced ball control techniquesmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Match commentary reflects engaged, knowledgeable spectators enjoying competitive play. Commentary is constructive and analytical rather than critical. Excitement builds through strong play moments, particularly Jack's dominant performance. Minor frustrations expressed at missed shots or unlucky bounces, but overall positive energy around the quality of gameplay and tournament experience.

Transcript

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[Music] Zach's trying to figure out the plan. All right, he finally found it. Go, man. Yeah, you can win this game by nailing the skill shot. Absolutely. a good day or a bad day depending on how John Youssi it. I think it was the first game I played when I got here for practice cuz yeah, you get three plunges to start your ball, right? And then potentially three when you lock, right? So that could be 20 20 plus million when you add it all up. Miss Adams seemed really playable for me. I didn't play it in competition this weekend, but I think we're going to have some uh high scores. Yeah, these guys are no amateurs playing at us, that's for sure. [Music] that was generous, too. You going to have enough to uh going to let that drain? Yeah, he's now he's on ball three. Player two, he's going to need a lot of credits. Feed the machine. [Music] That's finished. Lend a hand. [Music] Do you want me to hand it over to you or do you want to play? Andre is going to have to feed the machine to find the plunge. Maybe he gets a match. Oh yeah, he's got a what? What? One out of 10 chance. Or is he going to just put the money in? Oh, didn't even let it go through it. Welcome. [Music] Let's go. Have a nice swim. Don't you three plunges for 75 cents, right? Yeah. I mean, could be a full game on this one. So, [Music] Go. There. He finally figured it out. Yeah, there it is. [Music] motorcycle. Okay. Oh, good luck. Welcome. So, Zach chose to go first. [Music] You know, it could be. Is there an advantage to that? Or there might be. So, if he gets his locks lit, he knows he's going to get a plunge on the skill shot. Oh. Um, if you go later, the other other players could have already locked balls and it just kicks it out. Kicks it out of the swamp, right? All right, get your lock. Get your skill shots going. [Music] Now, if you're player two, you almost want him to get into multiball. So it's clean for you. That's the spirit thing. Lend a hand. [Music] Careful. Oh [ __ ] I want to see if he had control of that or he could have trapped that. This was Let's go. He went pretty quick on it, but I don't know. He [Music] Yeah, it's just that one thing, you know, you're kind of feeling it. Yeah, I'll I'll nail this shot on the fly. No problem. You know, and then all of a sudden you're plus one in the drain. Yep. [Music] There we go. It's government. That runs over. No. [Music] Over three. Oh, [Music] for four. Oh, there we go. As long as you don't drain, you can be over for whatever. Yeah. Doing ramp chair, ramp chair with with that kind of doing three, four shots in a chair for everyone. That's really risky. [Music] Oh, nice. 6 million at the Hey. Yeah, he's not nailing that chair. Look at that. Every shot has been in trouble. All right, he's going for the multiball, right? Good decision. Oh, come on thing. [Music] Let's go, Bing. Well played, Ping. You're really on the ball. [Music] Oh, that was [ __ ] It's good he didn't till because I get the bonus. [Music] Yep. Oh yeah. [Music] Go, man. Okay. Cover it. No. [Music] Okay, that paid actually paid off. [Music] Huge cussing it here now. Yeah, usually when you get in those pops, you you dread it, but no. I heard that slap saving in there before it actually happened there. That's how loud that was. Why, thank you, baby. See if he remembers the plunge. Short. Have a nice swim. [Music] No. Careful. Careful. All right. [Music] All right. When I practice on it, you could dead bounce out of both the chair and the swamp. Oh, really? But the swamp that I I don't have the guts for that. I know. The first thing I Well, one of the first things I try because it's so crucial. But yeah, in this situation, if you haven't tried it before, you're not gonna No, no, no, no. Yeah, I've had too many balls, you know, just the ball basically slide on the paper, you know, see done it so many times now. I don't trust any game doing that. [Music] Okay. See? Yeah. See if he does it again. Yeah. I mean, like, that's just like [ __ ] Like, I mean, Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. But it's just like I don't I don't I don't have the stomach for that. Is he going to do it again? No. Oh, almost flicked it up and Oh, beautiful. Yeah, but that's not the jackpot one. It's the other one. [Music] Okay, he's going to get the feed. No, wrong one. Let's go, old man. [Music] Okay, two feeds for it. There it is. Oh. [Music] He's still alive. Another jackpot. Ed Boon. There we go. Double jackpots. [Music] All right. Another uh where that came from. [Music] Not lit yet. All right, get transition back to single ball. Oh, he's not trusting that swamp kick out now. [Music] 90 mil. [Music] No, no, no. [Music] Careful. Uh-oh. [Music] Let's go, Bing. Well played, Bing. You're really on the ball. Oh. Oh, that's how you want to do it. That's what you would do on your own machine, right? It didn't go quite as well for Andre, but [Music] oh, straight down the middle. [Music] Good ball there. Yeah, A Zack first and a Jack second. Basically secures it for uh Jack. [Music] Lot of game to play though. All right, he's out of that. Another [Music] mansion. Look, darling, that's what we've been searching for. [Music] Man, on the fly. Perhaps it's in here. He starts hitting that on the fly. Three times. That's one. Feel the power. This mode is so valuable and it's not that difficult either. [Music] You can backhand it. [Music] Ah, okay. Oh, got got borged on a Lawler game. Yeah. [Music] Sound. [Music] Yeah. So, the magnet is disabled on this. So, you might see it flashing, but it's So, is is that a setting or is that Do you have to actually cut a wire for that? I don't know. Yeah. lock because the lights are still kind of like going back, you know, the power, right? Like if you would disable it in software, you would kind of assume that they turned off the lights for it, right? Yeah. [Music] Oh, now I missed the action here. Yeah. Let Can you bring that back? Did he just let it go? Let's see if he just lets it go. Yeah, that's the [ __ ] Let's go. That's the risk. Yep. Let's go things. Come on thing. Let's go, man. All right. On the fly. Okay, he's starting to hit that on the fly now. Oh, he almost got bored. Let's go. Well played, Ling. You're really on the ball. still alive. That's coming back. Careful. Oh. Double danger. Yes. Now he had some modes running in the background. So Ooh, he's lucky he didn't tilt that. Quite frankly, he nearly knocked himself out in the Yeah. in the post there. Yeah. That chair is just not Before that though, you had to hit three on three on the fly. Ed Boon. [ __ ] that ball and the horse you ride off rode in on. Yeah, Brian is saying you have to cut the wire. Do you? Yeah. [Music] Yeah. But you would kind of have like a connector that you or you would put it in your own connector, so to speak. Nope. Oh, dancing on the little metal pegs there. Nope. No. Oh. [Music] Yeah. The thing is he kind of needs to pull ahead there a little bit. All right, let's get this uh skill shot. Get you another 5 mil. Oh my god. This is like on the fly like man. They got a lot of courage. Come on everybody. [Music] Good decision. Good job, old man. A lot of train wrecks. Another skill shot. [Music] Let's go. Been there, done that. [Music] All right, Jack needs to put up 100 million here to secure the win. No time for that now. Now this will be Yeah, he'll put it back out there. Good decision. That one's not going to stay. Okay, he's got his locks lit. Let's go, old man. [Music] Take a lock when you can get it. That's lend a hand. Now it's going to kick it back out. Right. Yep. Oh, that's how you do it. [Music] Thank you very much. All right. Oh, he's close here. He just needs to get those. All right, two bolts. O managed to stay alive there. Oh, is that coming back? Oh, went all the way around. Yeah, that would have been restart. Restart. I like the restart anyway because it's going to give you a skill shot. Yeah. And then a nice clean feed. What is it? Is it worth as much or uh we're going to find out? [Music] Yeah, I think it's five. That was 5 + 20, right? 22. [Music] He's at 182. Where was that guy? 140. Okay. Yeah. So, he needs So, he needs to get the ball back in the vault. Oh, yeah. That'll light it. And one shot there. Hey, go. Let's go to town. [Music] All right. He's in the lead now for sure. There we go. 148 on the meter. [Music] Did that come shooting out or did I I mean that came out with some speed on it. Which one? The the kick out for the the jackpot shot like like this right here. [Music] Oh, no. No, it was just like Okay, so the super is lit there now. It's just trying to get a separation here. Oh, that was close. [Music] I want to see one. [Music] though. He kind of wants it to come over. [Music] Oh, that adds to Jack. [Music] Oh no. Come on. That's good. Okay. Okay. We're set up. We got a trap. [Music] Oh, kind of just floated there in the air. Good job, old man. [Music] Don't chase it. Oh, there we go. One for the road. I mean, definitely chase it. [Music] Why not? And he tracked on a few millions on it there as well. Yeah. And another six for the road there. Hey, when it's going your way, it's going your way. Yeah, that's just how it rolls. [Music] Happen there. All right. [Music] I think you should tour the mansion. Yeah, let's just do that. Yeah, he doesn't have that many windows left, right? All right. Oh, that was a great ball. Great ball there. [Music] So, he's guaranteed at least seven first. Yeah. Let's go. Obviously, if he wins, it's over in terms of first place. Yeah. So, somebody needs to chase him down or or you're playing for second place. I mean, which is still a lot of money and whoppers. Yeah. Yeah. But we want to make it more exciting for game four, right? We still we still want to have things in play. Yeah. So, [Music] all right. All [Music] right, Jim, you need to find that lock shot. Lend the hand. Jack just laid out the road map here for him. So, it just executes. Yep. [Music] Yeah, thanks for the subs there, MT hits. I don't have a lot of those, so please add more. Oh no, what's happening here? We have a little skip. Yeah, that's the way to start the multiball. No need to start it at the chair. [Music] Oh, that one's gone quickly. [Music] Yay! We got Hot Nudge in the chat. Welcome to the stream. Thanks for the raid. The powerful [Music] All right. Got to restart though. Yeah. He didn't get a jackpot, did he? No. No. The game was very quiet, so All right. You still got a chance. Yeah. Oh, no. What? Yeah, it's been a long day. That was one of those that surprised him, I think. [Music] It's like he shot this shot a thousand times and it just surprised him that he missed it and he wasn't just he just wasn't wasn't ready. Yeah, I totally feel that. [Music] All right, it's up to Andre now to uh make it interesting going into game four. So Jack's got at least two. So he's at eight. If Andre came all the way back, he could he could get to five and it would be 85. Why thank you. Oh yeah. Bang shot. Why not? too hard. [Music] It's just like now you've done it. All right, let's see it though. Right. And then on the fly to start multiple time [Music] Where's the jackpot should be set up? Oh, miss. See what's going on. Where did the third ball go? Oh, there. Oh, there we go. One. Okay. Still three balls in play there. Good work. Almost. Oh, he got he got both. Oh, needs to get into the ball there. Oh sh that was solid. That's why it's so difficult to get that second one. Second and third one. Yeah. [Music] Sayans knock three times. But one is going to get more. He really needs a tour Toyota tour. I mean just half chair chair. [Music] Well done. [Music] All right. Yeah, there's going to be a bonus in there, but I don't know if that's going to be 140. No, no, no. Jack is your winner. Yeah. All right. We got a winner. We got a winner. But we still have have one more game to play and we got the prize ceremonies and stuff later. So, congratulations, Jack.