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The Ray Rae Show, Episode 10: To play pinball or not to play pinball.

Poor Man's Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·analyzed·Nov 20, 2023
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TL;DR

Rachel Risto discusses competitive burnout and refocusing on casual play after stepping back from tournaments.

Summary

Rachel Risto discusses her decision to step back from competitive pinball tournaments due to burnout, describing how she shifted from pursuing WPPR points to focusing on casual play and commentary work at the Foxdies stream. She reflects on recent tournament results including a tournament win at District 82 on Skateball and Doodle Bug, her experience at Pinball Expo 2023 as a non-competitor, and detailed gameplay analysis of various machines like Skateball, X's and O's, and Mustang.

Key Claims

  • Rachel attended Pinball Expo 2023 (her third time) as a non-competitor, choosing not to sign up for tournaments

    high confidence · Rachel Risto, directly stated: 'I decided to attend Pinball Expo 2023 as a muggle, you know, like a non-player... I didn't feel like shelling out whatever the amount was.'

  • Rachel won a tournament at District 82 with 100% efficiency, winning the finals on Doodle Bug with a score just over 27,000 points

    high confidence · Rachel Risto: 'I moved on to the three-strike tournament, and I played awesome... I only took one strike... I was able to go on and win the tournament, and I won on the tournament on Doodle Bug... just a little over 27.' Later: 'It was a hundred percent efficient. I was 100% efficient at that tournament.'

  • Rachel earned 23 WPPR points from the District 82 tournament win

    high confidence · Rachel Risto: 'I got some big fat WPPR for that. So I think 23?' Raymond: 'Yeah 23 WPPR, 23 WPPR'

  • Rachel's Women's World Championship ranking is currently 14th, and she is second in Wisconsin State for women

    high confidence · Rachel Risto: 'My women's standing open is sitting at 14th... I'm sitting, I think, second in open in Wisconsin State for women, so that I've read as a sealed deal for Wisconsin Women's State.'

  • Keith Elwin is a World Pinball Player Rankings player who has a signature move or technique named after him

    medium confidence · Rachel Risto: 'I had no idea that the Keith Elwin—Keith Elwin is a World Pinball Player Rankings—Pinball player ranked... So how cool is that? I'm like, Raymond, do you have a signature move named after you?'

  • Rachel experienced competitive burnout after returning from the UK Open and decided not to play the Super Series (except one tournament)

    high confidence · Rachel Risto: 'since coming back from playing the UK Open... I just didn't feel like I wanted to play pinball... And I decided not to play the Super Series except for one tournament.'

  • Launch parties used to be simpler format in the late '90s—just one game, highest four scores advancing to finals

Notable Quotes

  • “I found myself a little bit caught up in that. And when I do, then I don't play as well.”

    Rachel Risto @ early in episode — Core explanation for her decision to step back from competitive play due to performance anxiety

  • “I decided to attend Pinball Expo 2023 as a muggle, you know, like a non-player? Because literally all the pinball wizards and all the pinball witches were in this magical castle at Pinball Expo.”

    Rachel Risto @ mid-episode — Describes her unique approach to attending the industry's largest event without competing

  • “It's wonderful. I'm being completely selfish. It is so selfish for me to do it. It's really about being in the best seat in the house.”

    Rachel Risto @ mid-episode — Explains her motivation for doing Foxdies stream commentary as a learning tool disguised as volunteering

  • “I had no idea that the Keith Elwin—Keith Elwin is a World Pinball Player Rankings—Pinball player ranked... So how cool is that?”

    Rachel Risto @ early-mid episode — Reveals community knowledge gap about Keith Elwin's prominence and legacy

  • “I won on the tournament on Doodle Bug, which is not one of my favorite games... I couldn't believe it... just a little over 27.”

    Rachel Risto @ mid-episode — Highlights her tournament victory on an unexpected game choice

  • “Winning a tournament is winning a tournament is winning a tournament. It is amazing, and I'm super proud of my win... but there is this little voice in my head that says, oh, but—oh, but, oh, but”

    Rachel Risto @ later in episode — Captures the perfectionism and ambivalence of competitive pinball culture

  • “And it took me 17 months to get another win. So let me tell you, I'm super stoked.”

    Rachel Risto @ later in episode — Emphasizes the rarity and value of tournament wins in the competitive community

Entities

Rachel RistopersonRaymond DavidsonpersonKeith ElwinpersonCassidypersonZach SharpepersonJason ZollerpersonChuckwurtpersonPinball ExpoeventFoxdies Pinball

Signals

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Rachel describes experiencing competitive burnout after UK Open, leading her to withdraw from Super Series and refocus on casual play and learning-focused commentary work

    high · Rachel: 'I didn't feel like I wanted to play pinball, to do the thing, meaning to compete and to earn points... I decided not to play the Super Series except for one tournament'

  • ?

    tournament_result: Rachel won tournament at District 82 with 100% efficiency on Skateball and Doodle Bug, earning 23 WPPR points after 17-month drought of tournament victories

    high · Rachel: 'I was able to go on and win the tournament... It was a hundred percent efficient. I was 100% efficient at that tournament... it took me 17 months to get another win'

  • ?

    community_signal: Rachel was unaware that Keith Elwin has a signature move/technique named after him in the pinball community, suggesting varying levels of industry knowledge among players

    high · Rachel: 'I had no idea that the Keith Elwin—Keith Elwin is a World Pinball Player Rankings—Pinball player ranked... So how cool is that?'

  • ?

    content_signal: Rachel describes commentary work on Foxdies stream as primary learning mechanism, providing access to game overview, replays, and deep rules analysis across 40 hours of Super Series coverage

    high · Rachel: 'It's wonderful. I'm being completely selfish... It is so selfish for me to do it. It's really about being in the best seat in the house... constant learning on all the games'

  • ?

    event_signal: Pinball Expo 2023 served as turning point for Rachel—attending as non-competitor at booth rather than tournament player helped reignite passion for hobby's non-competitive aspects

Transcript

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Hello friends, welcome to the Ray Ray Show, a pinball podcast that talks about competitive This Week in Pinball, my name is Rachel Risto along here with Raymond Davidson welcome to the show Raymond I thought we'd talk a little bit out the gate today about the decision not to play competitive pinball has it has it ever happened to you where you've just decided I don't want to play this tournament or I'm just not feeling like playing does it have happened to you uh it does it does not not very often but it has happened I wanted to explore that because I think that the average player or I like to consider myself maybe above average but the average player I think there's different reasons why you might skip or not play an event I think if you're physically not feeling well financially obviously you can't do it or mentally you're not into it but I think the biggest thing might be the dreaded burnout and I have met a couple of players in the last month or two that feel maybe a little bit like I do or maybe even worse where they're feeling like and competitive burnout. And I wonder if that's something that's in relation to people trying to secure their state or state spots or whatever towards the end of the year. For myself, I've been feeling, I don't know, since coming back from playing the UK Open, I had so much fun. I had a great time. But I just didn't feel like I wanted to play pinball to do the thing, meaning like to compete and to earn points and to think about points and think about a 7531 scoring. And if I go into round three, I need X, Y and Z. I don't want to think about any of that because I think I found myself a little bit caught up in that. And when I do, then I don't play as well. So I decided not to play the Super Series except for one tournament, which we'll get to that. And I've just been playing my Tilt and Tuesdays and then my Foxdies House League one Sunday night a month. This also kind of rolls into the fact that I went to Pinball Expo and this is my third time going to Expo. I've only been playing for like five years. So it's my third time I was at the pinball expo and I didn't compete at all. What? I didn't sign up. I know. I did. Now I saw you in passing Raymond. I saw you in passing because I decided to attend Pinball Expo 2023 as a muggle. You know like a daughter? Because literally all the pinball wizards and all the pinball witches were in this magical castle at Pinball Expo. It was this huge long room. Steven LeBron Michael hundred two three The And then three I just wasn't feeling it I didn't feel like shelling out whatever the amount of money was You know just play a couple classics games or whatever. I could have just done that I just didn't feel like shelling out the money for something that I wasn't like fully I didn't feel fully invested in doing it. So instead I wandered around the weekend. Well, not really Friday and Saturday I wandered around and spent time in the poor man's pinball booth and I have sold some records hung out with people from all different walks of the hobby from podcasting to other competitive players as they're walking around while they're waiting for the next match to come up and I'll run into them. I also had the opportunity to play a couple of the new games that were there and just really had a chance to explore the other things that I really love about the hobby and that really draw me into the hobby that drew me into the first place, if that makes sense. So with that said I'm feeling like back into it and it for good reason I Do not like I said I didn't play the super series But I think everybody if you you're listening to the podcast you probably know that I Enjoy doing the commentary for Fox that he's pinball stream right Raymond Yeah all the time all the time as much as I can do it and you know what do you know why I do it Raymond cuz it's fun Well, it's fun. It's absolutely fun. Yes. Tom does a great job. It's fantastic, but it's wonderful I'm 100% selfish. It is so selfish for me to do it. It's really about being in the best seat in the house. You get to see the game over the you know, you get to see the overview you can do replays. And most of all, it's all this learning. It's constant learning on all the 112 games that were there that weekend that I play on a fairly regular basis, whether it be from nudging skills, ball control to deeper game rules. And I'm going to tell you the number one thing I think I picked Various of ни ا organisation booươ of a one and again watching the Super Series and for probably 40 hours I commentated out even though it was a lot that was the one thing that's still kept coming through again and again that some players would have these massive huge games but it was all the ball control came generally from the dead flip so that was one of the big thoughts about that the second thing about the Super Series and this made a lot of people laugh but I had no idea that the Knapp Arcade, David Van Es, Keith Elwin, WPPRbedingt Pinballplayer rank The following is a story about a man who was a basketball worker who passed the ball. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, how would you know, right? I have no idea. So, how cool is that? I'm like, Raymond, do you have a signature move named after you? I don't think so. Not yet. I don't want it as long as it's not like Rachel slinged out Lane Town. Yeah, I was gonna say. Be careful what you wish for, right? Right. That's right. But, but I think that is so awesome. I think that's so awesome. I think that is so awesome. So if you didn't know that, you don't know who Neil Schatz is, I encourage you to do a YouTube and check him out. There's some great video videos out there for some pretty funny stuff too. The other thing is a couple other things from that. I did play the sixth event, which was the final event on Sunday, which is like a leftover tournament, which is a three strike knockout. Now, my strategy going into this Raymond, can you guess what my strategy is? Why I decided to choose that tournament to play? The As soon as you're eliminated you're you're free so you don't you're a winner either way

medium confidence · Raymond Davidson: 'They used to be kind of like your side tournament at Tiltin Tuesday, where it was literally just the launch game... that was the launch party: everyone played the game once, and then the top four played it again... The game was released in the late '90s.'

  • Rachel's tournament win at District 82 took 17 months since her previous tournament victory

    high confidence · Rachel Risto: 'And it took me 17 months to get another win. So let me tell you, I'm super stoked.'

    • organization
    District 82venue
    Lumberjack Johnny Pinballvenue
    Tilt Forums Tuesdaysevent
    UK Openevent
    NYC Championshipsevent
    Super Seriesevent
    WPPRorganization
    Skateballgame
    Doodle Buggame
    X's and O'sgame
    Venomgame
    Attack from Marsgame
    James Bondgame
    Demolition Mangame
    Sinbadgame
    Mustanggame

    high · Rachel: 'I wandered around and spent time at the Poor Man's Pinball booth... had the opportunity to play a couple of the new games... really had a chance to explore the other things that I really love about the hobby'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Rachel demonstrates sophisticated understanding of game mechanics (Skateball bonus strategies, Doodle Bug flip timing, Mustang mode selection) and regularly seeks tactical advice

    high · Extended discussion of Skateball bonus advancement strategies, X's and O's skill shot requirements, and post-multiball Mustang strategy

  • ?

    venue_signal: Raymond provides historical context on launch party evolution from simple single-game format in late 1990s to modern multi-game formats, with WPPR calculation changes affecting value

    medium · Raymond: 'They used to be... everyone played the game once, and then the top four played it again... The game was released in the late '90s... a great value for the WPPR versus time ratio'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Rachel is currently 14th in Women's World Championship standings and 2nd in Wisconsin women's open, positioning herself well for state championship qualification

    high · Rachel: 'My women's standing open is sitting at 14th... I'm sitting, I think, second in open in Wisconsin State for women... I've read as a sealed deal for Wisconsin Women's State'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Rachel discusses perfectionism and 'but factor'—the tendency to second-guess wins and focus on what could have been done better, a common trait in competitive pinball players

    high · Rachel: 'there is this little voice in my head that says, oh, but—oh, but, oh, but... I think that's actually perfectly normal' for competitive players

  • ?

    tournament_format: Discussion of 100% efficiency scoring in tournaments—achieving this metric (games played divided by total available) demonstrates optimal participation

    medium · Rachel achieved 100% efficiency at District 82, meaning she competed in all available rounds from entry through finals

    • 7:24
    Yes, absolutely Yes, I'm always a winner and so are you it was more than I thought all the other players after playing pinball Because you could really play Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Because there's a bunch of pre events there that the people that got there to Sunday had to be exhausted Exhausted so I thought that would work to my favor That's a swagger. Dans結果!
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    Some people had to catch a flight Sunday, you know? Right, right. Yeah, absolutely. So I played that fairly well. I tied in ninth, which was great. I tilted out though. That's not nuts. I guess if you're going to take your third strike, you're going to you got to go all out, right? And I was player four of all three of Metallica and I had just a three, I think, shoot my my ball into the green marker. That's okay. I was super excited because that felt good because I really hadn't been doing, you know, All right, let's get into this. So, we fast forward to November. Did you want to expand on your Metallica game or are we putting it in the past? Oh, well, we could expand on it, but it was sad. I was playing this assassin, I was playing Cassidy, and I thought for sure, because she's kind of like my good luck charm when we've got to knock out other players, she and I usually do it together. No, it was just dumb. It was just a dumb thing where I think I did a double slap save, it was coming down the middle and I tilted it. ¶¶ ô Palestineň ∠2 ¶¶ I thought that was great and points made it to my card and yay, so I picked up some points on the year. Nice. Yeah, very nice. So recently I played a Tilt and Tuesday at District 82 and as we've talked about in the past, there was a main event and a side tournament. The main event, top 16 move on to finals, yada yada. And then the side tournament, I don't know if we've really talked much about it, but I'm very excited to, very, very excited to, I'm so excited. I know for you it's a more commonplace for you to win tournaments. I thought about that. But I know that you'd be excited and proud of me because it is can be a struggle to do it. I mean, unless you're you know, unless you're the Ashers of the world. Even I winning a tournament, it feels like a rare occurrence these days. Like if you look at my card, there's you know, see description Basing F***d wall Ces Now, I like that game. I'm very excited to see that game. We also had 8th Ball Deluxe come to District 82. I like that era, maybe. I don't know if it's the same era, but I like the games. They're kind of similar in layout where left flipper does that, right flipper does this. Mm-hmm. So my score, so they take the top eight scores to, into a three-strike tournament as the finals. So I have the highest entry or the highest score at just shy of a million was like nine hundred ninety two thousand four hundred Wow way to go you should have yeah, you know more no finals just end of tournament there Yeah, that was great. I was like sweet cuz you know, you know as top seed or whatever It didn't really didn't matter because we went on to play a three strike tournament I was very very excited because I didn't play great on my tilt and Tuesday's the last three nights Random Люб riminal
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    17:42
    24,000. Oh That was actually a low score. It was like 27 just a little over 27. I figured it Was somewhere in the 20s. I just I wasn't quite sure The I couldn't believe that I thought for sure Chuck Chuck that plays quite fit there td2 to he's a regular He I cannot believe it and he only had like a sixteen thousand game Yeah, but I have been practicing that key and you just if you don't know about doodle bug that game and see you just flip Yeah, I don't think you don't do anything else. But when you just wait until the ball comes to you and then you flip And you pray. Yeah, just hit any any target is good sending it up top is good The Because yeah, you get a lot of people a lot of balls that just score actual like ten points So if you can avoid those balls, you'll naturally just get points And then they get the saucer and get the saucer and talk if you can't get a skill shot every ball on every ball I did so but yeah, so it was really I was really awesome and I'm proud of myself That felt good and that put a lot of wind in my sails and I got some big fat whoppers for that The So I think 23 Yeah 23 whoppers and it also helped what Raymond your efficiency. It was a hundred percent efficient. I
    19:01
    Was 100% efficient at that tournament 100% efficient from entry all the way through so that's kind of funny because we have I got a laugh So I've actually left go a lot about a lot about the efficiency stuff. I'm just playing and having fun 呀,omparsuly or doing inod磡רід sketch 지� wymEิ uit bac飲 simmer I can handle the game. I usually don't tilt. Unless it's Metallica I guess. Yeah, deadpass is great because oftentimes it'll perfectly die just enough so that you can lift up your other flipper while the ball's kind of in the crook area and it will just come to a nice trap. Yep, and there it is and now you can look at your shot and take a breath. There's some games that the deadpass is not as great on. Usually some of those ballet games like Dave The first tip I would give to people learning how to play pinball is to not let the ball go too far up the knuckle or too far where the joint is. You know, it's funny because a dead pass is kind of the opposite of what your brain wants to do which is the faster it's moving the more reliable it is to do nothing whereas your brain when it's moving fast you react, you want to react so you don't miss it, right? You don't want to miss the ball coming at you a million miles an hour. So yeah, so I feel really good. So I feel really really good about that I feel great about going in towards the last couple months of the year last month and a half year My women's standing open is sitting at 14th. So that's really good looking good for a Women's World Championship
    21:17
    I'm sitting I think second and open in Wisconsin State for women so that I've read a sealed deal for Wisconsin Women's State So I feel good about all those things. So yay, I think there's like two other little notes I have here I wanted to oh I got I've been playing a couple of launch Parties and I recently played a this past weekend I played at lumberjack Johnny's now in Appleton a lumber Jill launch party on Venom and we played a max match play and because there's an uneven number of players we played 12 rounds and it was fun and then they did top four to the finals it was a fun time but I'm just trying to figure out like if is that a common style for a launch party or what have you played I would say that launch parties, there isn't really one format. They can kind of be any format, but it's usually just some amount of either group match play or frenzy style for qualifying and then some sort of finals with either banks of games or you pick your games with like 4-2-1-0 finals. The main thing that makes it a launch Party is that the new game is in every round so someone's always playing the new game and in finals it's you know you have to pick it as one of your games you know that sort of thing just to showcase the whatever the launch game is. Okay yeah it was good and I like that I had a fun time at a big honking score on it before I before the tournament and then during the tournament I squeaked out a win on that in bonus. Yeah I'll actually give I'll give you a little history on launch Parties. They used to be kind of like your side tournament at Tiltin Tuesday where it was literally just the launch game and everyone would play a game and the highest score that usually the top four scores would then go and play a single game finals and that was it that was the launch party was everyone played the game once and then the top four played it again. Oh I like that. The game was released in the late 90s and was a great value for the WPPR vs. time ratio. A lot of people rose in the rankings due to these launch party tournaments. Interesting. But now with the WPPRs being based on how many games are played, if you had a format like that it would be worth 4 points. and East Coast and West Coast,
    23:59
    ilsстраrutTwo bond speaker sehean and The Tilt and Tuesday side tournament, that's only worth I think 80% TGP, something like that? Well, yeah, I mean the qualifyingifying was only one game and then the top 8 was a 3 strike but the 3 strike only had 8 people so, you know, that's average of, I mean how many rounds do you think you played in the 3 strike, like 6 or 7 or 8? No, 8 or 9. Yeah, so yeah, this is about about 10 games, 12 games, you know, 10 games. Yeah, about 10 games. And if the four player games, you know, count as doubles, that's like 20 games, but you need 25 to get 100%. So 80%. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. So so here's one other thought I had about the whole side tournament business. And I'll share this with you and with our lovely listeners as well. So I know that the side tournament winning, winning a tournament is winning a tournament is winning a tournament. It is amazing. And I'm super proud of 50 minutes tankd talvez si� digits mwango oh sh twitter.logikagonehsogeyngwe 36 nasty And so I'm still very proud of my win but there is this little voice in my head that says oh but, oh but, oh but do you know what I mean? Yeah I know I understand cause you always want to do better right? So you're looking at what the next how could I have done better why I was looking ahead but you gotta take the wins when they come. Heck yeah. Cause you did beat everybody else who was also trying to win so. Absolutely, and it took me 17 months to get another win. So let me tell you again. I'm super stoked And there's no shaving my pinball game But it's just a thought too because I'm sure there's other players out there that might think about that or have thoughts about that And I think that's actually perfectly normal Okay, so the very last order of business before I turn turn the 40 Raymond is I was playing Mustang and All I do on Mustang is it's I choose the mode that is The game is lit on the table when you step up whatever the car is. I'm going to drive that car and I work toward my gears multiball and I do that. What should I do after that? Should I pick a different car that the shots that I like? Well, when your first car, are you picking the multiball one? Yes. Okay, so the drag race one. Yes, correct. Yeah, so after you do that and you've done your gears multiball, yeah, just play modes. The shots and then because there were good points and uh... eventually uh... this thing called upgrade scoring will light and that mode can be can be worth a good amount as well uh... and then always pay attention if you have double scoring lid on the left to hit that before you hit anything else okay I didn't know that was there on the playfield I should know that that's helpful for the next time I go and preplay it because I'm standing there like I finished my Gears multivolume like okay أijdますارself بدلا �rasеپ میںی
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    I'm always thinking now everybody knows everybody's gonna guess like all Rachel's got some kind of secret plan maybe maybe something I don't know that's it that's all my cool stuff I've been up to but I have a lot of fun and I feel like okay so after that win I feel you know back into it and I feel like okay I'm doing just fine I also want to mention like the tilt Tuesdays we're only got 30 points I don't feel like a Kasey Connor� Their Tehran, Harman Khanan, Kuaimann Kuvaimann, Ayah Rajizz, Duock Bosa, Sivjj Poon calculator,进 Gogreich puts nessa Uniquement Ex Cordplay By The end of the week was the week before the UK Open and the week after that was New York City. I enjoyed my weekend off in between because New York City was the same weekend as Super Series. So we basically had the same schedule, same Regimen. I know, I know. New York City Championships was the same weekend as Super Series. 5ctrlhsumi7a The WonderfulSubway, and walkaround, and we'll go on this thing called the Highline, which is like an abandoned railroad elevated rail that they turned into like a park that you walk along. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So that was really cool. And let's see here. So I don't think any of those made my card. But, you know, I played in the Classics and Main Division, and the Classics, I qualified with a buy. and then the first round I almost escaped so I chose Sinbad as my game one which I love that game but it can be very very mean have you ever played a Sinbad no I haven't I don't think I've ever seen one oh it is it is very mean it's got four flippers at the bottom so double scissor opportunity and no yeah yeah no no I don't like that okay and uh there's If you plunge incorrectly it can just roll down this sidelane and go down the outlane and if you plunge correctly sometimes it just goes straight down the middle and if you hit dropped targets the wrong way, they will go right down the middle as well. But you like this game. I picked it because I figured it's going to be tough to everybody and all I've got to do is just hit because it very specific You have to hit the targets in order You have to hit the one target then the two targets then the three targets to get 2x 3x 4x bonus And if you hit them out of order or you don get them all down you don get the bonus multiplier And so I was like, okay, I can hit these targets and I'll put up enough points. It'll be great. Fantastic. Unfortunately, it did destroy everybody, but it destroyed me the most and I got a last place. Oh no. I'm going to start my classics finals so then I took out my rage on TX sector and had 10 times higher score than anyone else for first. Rage Rayman. So I put out a I I basically I I do this Sometimes and if you ever see me you know get a last and then like just immediately say a game out loud like just confidently pick the next game you got to watch out because a lot of times it means you know I'm I need to make up for lost points. So that's what I like to tell myself. I think that's fantastic because it's like it's a firm decision in your head. You're like the game ends, player four finishes, you're like, Bolly. Yeah. Yeah. And everybody's like, holy crap. Serious business. That would freak me out, Raymond. But yeah, so I'm going to do that. I'm going to use that. I'm going to use that for women's state when I play Cassidy this year, or whomever I play, I'm just gonna be like, are혼 Neden. currentlytheroughplay the+. extractedamazing 시청 continuing whatsisils przedstawtqe4 prosperousbadoxgamesins.s.sm8 Media14 Пер� jsem matière disasterscakes más service계 1978.6ab weitähx,I,асть exception рес cz
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    So if Zach wins Game 3, I'm guaranteed a tiebreaker even if I get last. And so because I didn't have great games to choose from, I just said, Zach, pick whatever you want. And he came through. He won Meteor, which meant even though I got last, I was in a tiebreaker. And so my insurance policy paid off, but the tiebreaker I chose Harlem. The I did okay, but the guy I was playing against just had this amazing ball three that just would just He just tore it up and I was pretty dejected after that So I walked up played my ball three hit like one target sling out lane. I'm just like what can you do? You know? Nothing, nothing, there's nothing you can do. It's a good strategy though going into it. Yeah, so Ninth place, you know, I feel pretty good about that I'm always disappointed when I don't get out of the first round, but I always feel a little better when I You know, I'm really close to advancing because nothing's worse than like the triple goose Egg in finals. But even if you do get the triple goose egg, then you can tell yourself, well, whatever, write it off. Doesn't matter. Yeah. Or even you can just say, I made it this far. You know, it's better. It's better than last year when I played the same event and I came in, you know, didn't be a close to finals where the case may be to rights perspective. Yep. And so, you know, classics, finals and then main finals. Hungary
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    b I do okay but everyone does okay and this was a kind of a combination of both those things I had 364 million which not good. Oh wow. Not after I've seen you put how much how many points did you put on that the UK opened that you won by the way? Yeah like 10 billion or something. Yeah a bazillion. A bazillion points so yeah. Oh ouch that's a bad game. Yeah so I already was like well okay whatever. The Second thing I was used to seeing on attack from ours, which is everyone else does really good Also happened because third place was three point four billion
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    Second place second place was ten point two billion Oh my goodness and first place was ten point four billion and then you have your three your three city. Yeah The next time you're thinking of picking it, you should send me a message and I will send you a bunch of no emojis and gifs saying no, no, no… It's weird because I can play Attack for Mars and when people pick it against me I'm usually okay, but for some reason, me picking it… Don't pick it. Maybe it's because you have to be player one on it and maybe on that game, for some A.G.R.I.S.S.A.N.N.G.T.R.A.P.E.L.A.Y.A.R.I.E.N.G.S.E.N.G.R.A.P.E.R.O.N.E.N.G. Just spooks me more than any other game. Interesting. But yeah, not good. So then I kind of rage picked Demolition Man because that was my highest scoring game in qualifying. I put up like four billion or six, some absurd amount of billions on it. Do you use the triggers? No, usually not. You use the flippers. Yeah. You use the buttons. I used to use the triggers, but I kind of have switched off of them now. Okay. I got 800 million and so now I'm live, you know, I just need to do good in the last game and I picked James Bond which is the other game that I put up a ludicrous score in qualifying I actually put up like three four billion and counting and then the game Reset, I guess because I was in some wizard mode and I had too much stuff going on but luckily Someone was recording me as I was in the wizard mode and so they got to use my my score and Oh, that's great. Yeah, so so I picked James Bond and I kind of struggled bus it a little bit But then I finally kind of get enough thrown together and I put up like 400 mil, which is pretty good on James Bond But I know like it's not unbeatable with all the multipliers and stuff now
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    But luckily luckily it holds on for first and so I advance And so at least I made it to the semis. I'm already ahead of myself from classic So I'm already kind of like, all right, kind of mission accomplished. Right? Yeah. And then, uh, unfortunately I didn't get to drive the bus anymore, but I got to play demolition man again and I was having kind of a okay game, but then I just fell apart on ball three where I just needed like one shot and I just, I didn't do it sort of thing. Actually, no. So I needed one shot to get second place and then I needed like a couple more shots to get first. All right, Rachel it was so stressful. I as this on stream to I I Plunge and I missed I missed the one shot with ever flipper it comes down It's bouncing around it goes down the out lane and and everyone's like everyone's like oh my god He did he didn't do it and then magical ball save like Yeah, cuz the light was not on nobody it was so yeah, so I was lucky I didn't tilt it because I was like, I'm gonna grab it. Freakin' out. Oh god I screw that up. Yes. Yes. And so luckily I got the ball saved and then I made my shot and then, and then died. But I got second. So that's fine. I would've liked to win it but second was okay. And then we got to play James Bond again so I was like stoked. I was like alright let's go. And James Bond just, it just killed me. All three balls. I was like, something was just about ready to go. Boom. Power out lane. You know. The Outlane or Soon as you miss a shot outlane. Yes Yeah But I managed to get third with 51 million because someone had an even worse game than I did Because I at least I I was able to start like a mode every ball But then like hit like two shots and die whereas the other person just really didn't do anything so at least I got third and Yes, you know that's why I would start modes is like, you know, give yourself the out give yourself that chance of Transcript beautifully translated Absolutely, like they did on X's and O's. Yep. So, I got only three points going into game three, so I'm not dead, but I'm, I really am not feeling great. And then Jason Zoller picks Fireball, which was kind of a joke because I didn't think anyone was going to pick it all finals. Like it's this, you know, Fireball, the little, it's two inch flipper. It's like Fireball Classic and Displicated II, but with two inch flippers. Yes, I have played Fireball. I do not like that game. Yeah, it did not like me. I got a total of 8,000 points for my five balls. Sorry, Raymond. Oh my god. I'm so sorry. That's awful. Yeah. Whereas Skillshare gives you, I think, 3,000 or 4,000. So, not a good game. Not a good game. And I think I got one flip. Falsery. Maybe two flips. It was all on stream and every ball I would literally just plunge. I would just plunge and just watch the ball drain. Was that Backhand Pinball that streamed it? Yes, Backhand Pinball. You go check out Raymond Bozo on Fireball and Backhand Pinball. Yeah, so it clearly said you've had enough. Yeah, right. I mean, such a bummer too because I didn't need that many points. I only needed like 20,000 and I just could not play the game. The game it just I'm like whatever so it didn't want me to play so I was able to just you know watch the rest of the finals or start heading home which was good because I had a flight that night and now I wasn't gonna miss it like no guaranteed so that felt you know that's kind of like a weight off my shoulders a little bit but I would have liked to be in the finals because then you know I could pay to change my flight or whatnot right absolutely yeah so that was it came down to the wire on The Finals, it was like a crazy tiebreaker scenario thing that happened where someone had to do this and someone had to do that and then this happened, that happened. It was pretty fun, so I recommend going to watch that. Yes, absolutely. I did watch a little bit of that on Sunday when I got home after the Super Series. I did watch a little bit of that. I think I tuned in. Nice. I'm like, where's Raymond? I'm like, oh, I don't think he's playing anymore. Well, that's a bummer. That's what I was thinking. Oh, he must have just missed me, yeah. The Time I got home to tune in so yeah mark over there backhand pinball. What a great guy Yeah, I was New York and then I got to do all the fun again with the Stern pro circuit and Expo and the pro circuit I Got paired up against Lewis Bevins round one Because I had you before you talk about the tournament itself. Yeah, you describe the Stern pro circuit The SternProCircuit is I think 20 events that are worth the most amount of whopper points throughout the year and basically they add up all your whoppers from these 20 events and seed you in the finals and I had the most of anybody because I'm a whopper degenerate who goes to lots of SternProCircuit events. You were the number one seed is what you're telling me. 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I'm hitting the shots, I get the jackpot. And I managed to get enough bond women to start like the playfield multiplier and at the point starting to pile in pile in. Yeah, and I shoot the doors and I shoot the ramp for the super jackpot where you have A premium so you actually have to drag the little ball on top of the tank and drop it onto the tank to get the super jackpot Okay and so I had to time it so I had to sit there with a ball trapped and watch the little bond on a wand and Try to time it and I knew that if I made the shot I Win and it was so stressful. I I waited I waited I took the shot it registered and I was just like boom And he congratulated me and he's like that was a pretty awesome way to get beaten, you know someone blowing up jetpack or whatever for all those points.
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    I couldn't believe I did either. I was it was kind of a Hail Mary. I'm like, well, you know get jetpack step 1 step 2 question mark step 3 win The end. Ooh, I like step two. I identify with step two. That's awesome. So that was fun. But then I had to play one of my nemesis, Jared August, who whenever we get paired head-to-head, he is always beating me. It like this thing I can quite they always good games too They always close and this was no different I picked or he picked Iron Maiden and He put up a good score and I was coming back on ball three and I I had this plan I I did the math I had a power jackpot Ready to go I had double scoring ready to go I needed three more orbits to multiply my power jackpot and I realized if I did this ATemetery jetzt durchst consolidate Chunni, Klyce her spear 만� sudampenniert-deinogly Khalar, Ken
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    It's for now, or is that live broadcast session? The Probably could have saved it But I think I was just so flustered by missing the giant orb That I just kind of fumbled it and and died and I was just like I can't believe that just happened Because I did all the hard work. I just needed the easy part
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    What I think is this is this is the difference between you and I and why this is and I love myself and it's okay I will never be a top 100 player. This is the difference right here Raymond. It's because you calculated I have a lot more tournament experience because at Expo on Iron Maiden I lost to Escher by a small margin except in that case I was The game you realize you had the power jackpot value ready to go you just needed one more thing and you would have beat him and I was like I did not notice that I was focused on starting my multi ball or starting my mode so that experience of getting burned by it kind of you know made me aware more aware playing Jared of like okay power jackpot check where are we at interesting that's that's fascinating and I think that's what that again what makes you such a AS DOMING Anyway, didusch O Yeah, so I lost Iron Maiden, then I picked Avengers and I just needed, you know, tiny bit, like, I don't know, we both had kind of decent games. I did the hard soul gem thing, which was worth a lot of points. And I, I did this and that and the other thing, but I just, I knew I needed, like one more thing, and just died on the way to that one more thing. And fell short by A little bit. I think, uh, yeah, I can't remember. Oh, I guess I'm trying to think cause I was player one. So I think he actually might've just barely passed me. That's right. Yeah. So I had to sit there and watch in agony as I was ahead. I wasn't ahead by very much though. That's the thing. I was only ahead by like 10 or 20 million, which is not that much on Avengers. But at the same time, you can totally see someone not So tune in tonight at 6 EscapeTime for the cleaning screen on the show. What's up hole guys and I'm here I got a gentleman Rob Slag D carry the hood to the한다 team. Nothing great you old or no agreement no really. Shop it turned a 904 Mohu see him here. For the whole co- tragedies and a're up to date. as well as a commentary clip of screenfreezeチャンネル As I recall,ika bw troi to-k Souvaqueko Enteritex Card experiences emotionalNE., a pretty confident company having generate nadino from comedyDon will notulous astonishingly Best two out of three. It was actually best three out of five in the winners and then best two out of three in the losers. And I qualified pretty high in that. So I had the maximum number of buys. So lots of sleep and rest for you. Yep, yep. Lots of sleep and rest. And let's see here. That's the whole point of Raymond trying to get a buy. Oh, for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, because I didn't have to be there till you know, noon on Saturday or instead of great. Yeah. So I'm trying to remember who I played first. This bracket. If you've never been to Expo, they have literally this giant bracket on the wall with hundreds of names and, you know, lines drawn to where they go and things. It's pretty cool. It's the most amazing bracket you will ever see. It is really something cool. It is. Yeah, it is pretty incredible. Ah, here we go. So I played this fellow, Aaron Rich, and he was very good. The I felt kind of bad because he was blowing up games like he was ahead of me almost every game But every game I would just come back I'd have this crazy comeback on Iron Maiden I did like a seven-way Icarus combo to just blast through like 150 million points out of nowhere
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    Yeah, so I felt a little bad The game was a little bad, but it was also like, I needed to do it and I got it done. So, but so I was riding high on that. But then I had to play Zach Parks, who was the fellow I played at New York City Championships, who I, you know, he helped me out on that Meteor game. So he's a really good player. He actually ended up winning the classics tournament. Rachel, I don't think I've ever done this in my pinball career until this moment. But I actually conceded a game mid game when I still had a ball to play. And I think you'll understand when I tell you the situation. Zach Parks was playing Jurassic Park Pro and had $3.8 billion and counting. The game was a bit of a challenge because it was a long game, and I was like, why do I even want to try to catch that? Because if I fall short, you know, and even if I do catch it, I think he still had another ball to play. Like it was, I just was like, you know what, you've won. Like, you won. The Good for you. Yeah, would you rather because one of two things would have happened either one you would have stepped up for that final ball and he would have just Immediately died. Yeah Either that would have happened or two you would have played for 10-15 minutes. He still would have won the game, right? Yeah, exactly. Right. So the options So oh, yeah, that was kind of where that was I don't have any excuse I just kind of failed and and they were both low scores but his mind was slower than his so I kind of was rattled a little bit after that I was oh two and then I might have won a game but then he won another one so then we I got knocked down to losers he was he was just on fire so that's kind of how that is you know it's This week is basically the reverse of what happened to me last round, right? Where I was now Aaron. And how did that feel? Yeah, I just, you just gotta take it, take the lumps. Take it, yeah. And were you also saying to yourself, you're like, this guy can play pinball. Does that ever occur to you? Yeah, oh yeah, I know, he's a great player. Yeah, I mean, but you know that, you know most of the people you're playing, and you The game is a game of the game somebody has it just blows. Oh, yeah, it was it was pretty mind-blowing. Yeah, that's why I'm not surprised. He won the classics tournament Yeah, so then I I went to the losers and I played Donovan and we were I won the first game and then he picked Deadpool and I
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    Just needed like I had 40 million to catch him and I failed. And so what was me advancing now means I have to play a third game. And so I pick Avengers and I do pretty well. Donovan does pretty well. But then Ball... No, we both do pretty medium, I should say. We both... It was like 100 something million each. Okay. The same thing as pro circuit finals. I'm ahead by like 20 million. He comes up He shoots around you know gets gets close gets close gets close starts multiball, and I'm like oh, that's it. I'm done Comes out of the multiball still short. Oh, oh my god. I can't believe that I I couldn't either It was crazy and so still sure he comes out of the multiball hits a couple more things drains the bonus counts up Laughed Aww encore bailado porận vaccinosshine absolutely Yo G cient Can I ask you something? because you're such a great player, obviously. I say that all the time but everybody knows that too. But when you're playing other people, I don't know if this happens to you. If you play people that you don't know or that you know generally that are in the hobby and you come across them and other people win, have you ever had anybody say something like, I can't believe I won Rayman, does that happen? any other nicknames for penetrating dögel in nich Reform TIME now the like it was if I'm not doing cute do you think three out of five I believe aggregate Knapp Arcade, David Van Es, Keith Elwin, WPPRympt dot com scolded binder التسائ læluding weet elite looked advantaged does I am shockedandapalledandalsoproudofyou for not playing in classics. Is there a reason why you chose the main over classics as a choice of tournaments to play there? Yeah, classics just... I wasn't excited about any of the games. They were all 2 inch flipper or like 3 inch flipper but they were all like old EMs that like I just didn't really get excited about. I just... You weren't in love with any of the games in the bank? I didn't like any of the games and I realized, you know, I kept kind of putting it off because I was undecisive. I was like, do I want to commit to class? I don't know. And eventually I was remembering like, oh, and then the finals are super early on Sunday. And if I, I could just go to Six Flags on Sunday, ride some roller coasters, you know, that could be fun. For Fright Fest or whatever. And then also, you know, once it became Saturday and I'm like, okay, well, I got to make And I've already kinda, you know, I'm just kinda, I'm all right, you know, I think that's great. I think you made a great decision. And then I got to go to Six Flags on Sunday. So yay, yay, yay. I don't like roller coasters at all. But I would love to ride the Double Carrizo The only thing I want to write there. All right. Well, I think that's a really great wrap up for our recent pinball adventures. I did have one other little thing that I wanted to share with you that I've been trying to work on my tap pass. And then we've talked about before I have a really hard time with it. But I decided on Paragon because you tap tap passing can be very important on that game. But I decided to try something new. And I just decided to shaft. Alley Pass the ball from the left flipper to the top of the right flippers oh wow long long alley pass it's a long alley pass but I figured okay if I want to get the ball to the right flipper do can I just not tap it over can I do something else and sure enough I told the other guys I was playing that round with I said to them like I think I can do it sure enough I caught my ball alley pass it over there to the top of the upper because there's a few flippers on the right hand side so the top flipper The Top of it no problem and it was able to then shoot target drop target on the left. So that was really cool So nice. Yeah, but you don't give me a little inspiration about that So when we talked a little bit before about that just find any way to do it Find some way to get the ball to the right side of the flipper to the correct flipper And so I'm like I've been really trying to use the alley pass more I've talked about that in hotdog and that I've been using that and other games. So again just trying to open up my game more That's it. That's everything I have way to go. All right All right. Thanks. And I think that we have, I don't have a lot else planned on with the year. I think you're going to be heading down for Free Play Florida. And I think that's it. All right. Happy flipping. Happy flipping. osotorekommen imagines sce »Pirates'' English Subtitles by jakie Mr.