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Deadpool Heads-Up Launch Party @ AYCE Gogi

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TL;DR

Deadpool heads-up tournament launch party coverage with 16 competitive players and custom challenge modes.

Summary

Coverage of a Deadpool Heads-Up tournament launch party at AYCE Gogi featuring 16 players in single-elimination competition with custom challenge objectives (Start a Quest, Ninja Multiball, Little Deadpool, Katana Time, Two-Minute Drill). The event showcases Deadpool machine gameplay, rule mechanics, and competitive heads-up pinball format, with commentary on tournament logistics, code mechanics, and player strategies.

Key Claims

  • The Deadpool machine has custom animations and graphics created by Kyle (the video producer/streamer)

    high confidence · Karl DeAngelo and Kyle discuss that Kyle created the Mini Deadpool graphics and animations that will be integrated into the game, similar to how they were done for Iron Maiden.

  • Virtual locks setting can be enabled on Deadpool to prevent ball lock advantage in tournament play

    high confidence · During the tournament setup, the hosts discuss changing the machine settings to 'virtual locks' set to 'never' to ensure no player has a locked ball advantage going into matches.

  • Rob Robert T. 'Bob' Smith is moving to Indiana after this tournament

    high confidence · Karl DeAngelo mentions that Rob is likely playing his last tournament in the current location because he's moving to Indiana, which explains his recent absence from league play.

  • The event had 70 attendees

    high confidence · Shane mentions that 70 people attended the launch party, which is described as 'insane' attendance.

  • Short plunging (using the upper switch in the shooter lane) lights Chimmy Chunga shots faster in Deadpool

    high confidence · Multiple times during tournament matches, hosts explain that players can short plunge to quickly light the Chimmy Chunga shots needed to progress in Start a Quest challenge.

  • Deadpool machine has double flipper press as a cancel function that players must avoid during certain animations

    high confidence · Hosts repeatedly warn players not to double-flipper press when animations are showing weapon collections or battle starts, as this cancels the action. The boom button should be used instead.

  • The Never Drains circuit event in Southern California is January 11-13 and will feature a new high-stakes division

    high confidence · David Oliver promotes the Never Drains event happening in Southern California with new high-stakes division format coming to the circuit.

  • The Texas Pinball Festival tournament format is using the card-based system (not the 'best game' system) which rewards consistency across five games

Notable Quotes

  • “Be a lot more fun if you drink.”

    Karl DeAngelo@ 4:29 — Light-hearted joke about hosting a tournament without drinking, sets casual, fun tone for the event

  • “You're launch party The King.”

    Karl DeAngelo (to Shane)@ 7:10 — Recognition of Shane's role as organizer of frequent launch parties; Shane mentions running them regularly with high attendance

  • “PinBallers are crybabies.”

    Karl DeAngelo@ 33:37 — Humorous jab at the pinball community's attention to rule precision and dispute resolution

  • “We've got a standing bet that no San Diego guys will take home any of the [prize].”

    Karl DeAngelo@ 34:29 — Reveals inter-regional competitive dynamic and personal stakes in tournament brackets

  • “So this is like the former Papa World Championship system. The most difficult tournament system to qualify, the most rewarding, the most challenging.”

    Karl DeAngelo@ 35:29 — Explains high-difficulty, prestige nature of card-based tournament format; shows connection to historical PAPA championship legacy

  • “I think George Gomez says the game likes it that way.”

    Karl DeAngelo@ 26:35 — Reference to designer George Gomez's apparent philosophy on Deadpool's difficulty/design challenge

  • “You threw me off there, man. Make sure you're not drinking.”

Entities

Karl DeAngelopersonShane BlackpersonKylepersonOscar H. RaypersonGeorge GomezpersonRaymond AshbypersonMatt PaulpersonRobert T. 'Bob' Smith

Signals

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    event_signal: Deadpool heads-up tournament launch party at AYCE Gogi with 16-player single elimination bracket, multiple custom challenge objectives, and 70 attendees

    high · Karl DeAngelo hosts tournament with bracket tracking, Shane confirms '70 people tonight. Insane. 70. Absolutely insane.' Multiple tournament matches shown with custom challenges: Start a Quest, Ninja Multiball, Little Deadpool, Katana Time, Two-Minute Drill.

  • ?

    design_innovation: Deadpool launch party features custom heads-up challenges designed specifically for tournament play, including objective-based modes and two-minute score attacks

    high · Kyle and Karl discuss custom Mini Deadpool graphics/animations. Tournament uses specific 'Start a Quest,' 'Ninja Multiball,' 'Little Deadpool,' 'Katana Time,' and 'Two-Minute Drill' challenges with detailed rule mechanics explained for each.

  • ?

    product_concern: Deadpool machines experienced game crashes during tournament play; hosts discussed virtual locks setting and potential ball lock advancement issues

    medium · During Robert T. 'Bob' Smith vs Mark Brown match: 'We have a crash on the left hand game. What happened? Well, the game crashed for some reason.' Hosts subsequently changed virtual locks setting to 'never' to prevent lock advantage.

  • ?

    code_update: Deadpool supports configurable tournament settings including virtual locks (set to 'never'), quick restart via start button hold, and competition mode for fair tournament play

    high · Karl and Kyle discuss and implement: 'set it to virtual locks so that everyone has so that no one has a ball locked in the katana already,' and 'coin up and hold the start button' for quick restart functionality.

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Transcript

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4:07
First up is going to be welcome guys. We are about to start the finals for the Deadpool launch party here at ACOGI. This is Carl D'Angelo. I'll be on the mic for just a little bit until my turn is up. We're going uh from top to bottom in this bracket of 16 players. This is a single elimination best of three for the goals on Deadpool Heads Up Challenge. Be a lot more fun if you drink. It would be, wouldn't it, if I was drinking? Yeah. Of course you're not. Where's my drink? I'm playing. Okay. Uh, what's that? Okay, I'll order for you for sure.
4:47
All right, let's take a look here. All right, so Raymond has choice of machine or objective. Correct. Correct. Ray, what's it going to be? Game or objective? Quest. Which game you want to play on? Okay, you guys go ahead and coin up. It's going to be start a quest. Start a quest. Okay, here is how you start a quest. If the video works,
5:12
first you shoot the right orb with a light chim chunkas. Why are you uncomfortable when you say chim chungas? And then you have exploit freeze when it does the arrows. Okay, we shoot so many arrows. It lights the quest at the scoop. Are you changing the five balls? Five balls? Yeah, they should be on five balls. Okay, man. Watch the mic shads
5:38
here. Okay, so and then they actually have to start the quest. And I need to be specific here. Let me uh get off the mic here for a second. I want to actually start the quest. Okay, and you start a battle. You've started a battle. We need to start a quest.

high confidence · Karl DeAngelo explains the card-based tournament format where players buy an entry, play five games in sequence, and their combined scores determine placement, contrasting with the 'pump end up' best-game system.

Karl DeAngelo@ 42:56 — Running joke about Karl's focus/sobriety while hosting; self-aware humor about attention to detail

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competitive_signal: San Diego players dominate early tournament brackets; inter-regional friendly betting dynamics between host and San Diego competitors mentioned

medium · Karl states: 'We've got a standing bet that no San Diego will take home any of the [prize]. If they do, [I'm] buying some pictures for them.' Multiple San Diego competitors (David Oliver, Derek Price, others) show strong performance.

  • ?

    venue_signal: AYCE Gogi hosting major pinball launch party with high community attendance and tournament infrastructure; venue appears to support competitive pinball and streaming production

    high · Shane confirms running frequent launch parties, mentions this event had 70 attendees. Venue supports streaming production (Kyle managing XSplit/OBS), tournament scoring display, and multiple machines available for bracket play.

  • ?

    event_signal: Never Drains Southern California circuit event announced for January 11-13 with new high-stakes division; Texas Pinball Festival promoted with card-based tournament format

    high · David Oliver promotes: 'Never Drains in Southern California January 11th to the 13th. It's gonna be huge. It's a Circuit event.' Karl discusses Texas Pinball Festival using card-based system with five-game sequences.

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Deadpool tournament challenges show varied difficulty; Start a Quest and Little Deadpool described as requiring specific mechanical precision; Katana Time requires multi-step sequences

    high · Hosts emphasize challenge mechanics: 'Start a quest' requires shooting right orbit, hitting Chimmy Chungas (4 required), hitting scoop, and selecting quest (not battle). 'Little Deadpool' requires releasing and hitting drop targets. Multiple player errors in early rounds show skill gap.

  • ?

    technology_signal: Event streaming using XSplit with some technical issues; Kyle experimenting with switching to OBS for CPU management and reliability

    medium · Kyle mentions: 'this is xsplit being dumb. I'm going to switch away from exploit. I think I'm going to try out OBS' and references CPU usage issues ('88%').

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Robert T. 'Bob' Smith announced as moving to Indiana, likely playing final tournament in current location before relocation

    high · Karl states: 'This is probably last tournament here as he's moving to Indiana. As what? Sorry, I can't hear you. He's moving to Indiana after this. Really? Yep. Wow. That's why we haven't seen him in league.'

  • ?

    content_signal: Full tournament coverage being streamed with detailed play-by-play commentary, rule explanations, and bracket tracking for community viewership

    high · Content shows complete tournament broadcast with Karl and Shane providing detailed commentary on each match, rules, strategy. Kyle managing technical production. References to viewers in chat ('SD pinball,' others asking questions about events).

    • 6:03
    All right. So, the first challenge, start a quest. This will be Raymond Ashby. Ashby versus Matt Paul. What's that? Yes. That were they before they are. And they're also in tournament mode, right? They're in tournament.
    6:30
    Jimmy Changa battle. So on the left is Raymond, on the right is Matt. So it's the qu the quest is started at the scoop. It started at the scoop. And I told them both they have to actually start the quest. If they start a battle, they're that's a battle. And the display will say when they when they select the um Megalodon or T-Rex. Well, oh, we're getting a little cleaning here, huh? Yes. Nice. It's how we do things here. All right. So, on the other mic is Shane. Hello. Hello. You guys didn't know.
    7:06
    Shane is running all these wonderful launch parties all the time. Why, thank you. You're launch party king. We had 70 people tonight. Insane. 70. Absolutely insane. Yes. Good tip, SD pinball. Use the boom button to select, not the double flipper press. You don't want to accidentally um cancel out uh the double flipper with um when it shows you you have a weapon collected and then start your battle, among other things.
    7:43
    All right, we're going to count you down. Three, two, one, go. Okay. Wait, not I was giving you That was just an example. That was an example.
    8:07
    Matt's a little nervous apparently. I won't go that fast. I told you.
    8:14
    Yes, they can restart the game at any time if they want to coin up again. put up there what they chose so we know what they're we we we've said it on here already. I can't do it. Laura, are you actually uh Yes. All right. Three, two, one. Hang out, right? Go.
    8:36
    All right. Raymond looks like he was trying to short. So, we got to hit the right or your mic is uh very low. How about now? That's better. Raymond wants to short plunge that switch because it'll light the Exactly. You see what he just did? Yes.
    8:57
    He gets one. Chim Chunga. He gets two. Where's Matt? Matt has yet to uh do anything. Raymond gets three. How many Chimmy Chungas is it to uh He's going he's going to need one more to light the uh the quest, I believe.
    9:21
    It's four by default. I think there's four. He has lit it. Hit the scoop. He needs to hit the scoop and then start it.
    9:35
    How many days has Raymond been here playing this game in preparation for this? Actually, I don't think he's been playing as much. No. No. All right. And he needs to Oh, yep. You watch out. You don't want to cancel out that whip. All right, Raymond wins. He didn't hit the scoop, though. How did he start it? He hit the scoop. Oh, he did? I didn't see it. Oh, you're looking at the wrong person. Yes. All right. So, Matt gets second choice now.
    10:08
    This is best of three for the uh first first round and second round. For the round of eight, round of 16, round of eight. Then the semi-finals we go to best of five. Yeah. Your choice of game or goal. Not the B. Everything but battle. Battle is out.
    10:23
    Ninja. Ninja multiball has been selected. Skip the popcorn. Yes. Monday. All right. So Raymond got to choose machine. I'll take you. Yeah. I hope so. figure I want to redo because obviously
    10:45
    Yes. I think this will be hard because that ramp is not the easiest uh thing to hit. Yeah, it's for me.
    11:00
    Okay, video. Go away. Go away. Why isn't going away? Oh, this is explit being stupid again. Stop.
    11:13
    Thank you, Lord. All right, we have a crash on the lefth hand game. What happened? Well, the game crashed for some reason. Don't worry about it. It's cool. It's coming back up. So, how's everyone doing? Who's coming to Indis?
    11:44
    They're going to be big this year. As if last year wasn't big.
    11:53
    We'll have to watch that and see how that bug happened. I have no idea how that game reset. Did he res Did he restart up the game? Did he restart the game or he had Cuz he had had balls locked in there. That's why I think it uh maybe held the uh No. Okay, Freddy. Wait, that's a good point. Hold on. That's what I'm saying. I think that he was still on his ball and he had the instant info and then maybe Were you holding the uh flipper down and then it reset? Okay, so that's what happened. Hold on. Hold on.
    12:35
    I mean, we can. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it now. Further. Sorry. We're going to change the setting on the games to set it to virtual locks. What's that? There should be set to virtual locks so that uh everyone has so that no one has a ball locked in the katana already because we have seen that earlier today. Um that would be a huge advantage in this Not huge, but it's something. You know, it's a quicker ball.
    13:08
    We're hoping there's a virtual lock setting. Is there? Does anyone know? Oh, uh, there. Yeah. Turn that. Yeah. Turn that to never. Yeah.
    13:55
    All right. Ready to go. Raymond is up one zero to math. Okay, both ready? Three, two, one, go. [Applause]
    14:14
    Raymond lock. Oh, they're both Matt too. All right. Not to relight the lock. Carl, baseball pool. Did you not watch the video that I just showed? I didn't, but I figured uh if you say it, if anybody else just tuning in missed the video. Uh oh, Raymond just had a big mistake here. Unfortunately for him, he is uh lit Deadpool and actually locked the ball. He's going to want to drain those out.
    14:40
    It's kind of hard, I guess, to miss if you're playing on the fly. Really, for this challenge, you need to trap up control. Yep. Take it slow.
    14:50
    And there's something about this format that just gets your heart pumping, get you racing. Absolutely. Very exciting to watch.
    15:01
    This is a difficult objective, I think. This is Matt may have got no. All right. Uh Matt's got lock again. Lit. All right. So, as does Raymond.
    15:17
    Raymond punches. He's trying for the skill shot cuz it's um nice way to hit that ramp.
    15:36
    Okay, Matt's got uh two balls locked. All right, Raymond having trouble finding that ramp again. And it makes it round. There's two for Raymond. And Raymond only needs one letter. He needs the P. Matt needs the L there. And he's got it. He's got Matt's got lock lit.
    15:58
    Oh, Raymond shoots the lock, but does not have it lit. It's a tricky little shot.
    16:06
    All right, lock is lit for Raymond. All right, it's going to come down to this. Who's going to hit it first?
    16:16
    This is do or die for Matt. Ah. All right. That calm Dreamman deserves a bit, I bet.
    16:29
    Uh, not quite hard enough. Come on, Matt. Oh, and Matt's got it. Matt's got it. Nice, Matt. [Applause] All right, Raymond gets the last choice here. Great. Game or objective. Mini Deadpool. So, he chooses mini Deadpool. Mini Deadpool. This is the little Deadpool.
    17:06
    These are some fancy illustrations. I know. Hats off to you. Oh, thanks.
    17:12
    They'll soon be in the game or I don't know how soon but they'll be in the game just like on Iron Maiden. Yes. And I think it was during leak that you then realized that they use your animations. Yeah, I had I was notified in advance. I haven't told surprising. Uh this is XSplit being dumb. I'm going to switch away from exploit. I think I'm going to try out OBS
    17:44
    So, I'm having to manually do this for if you have to do it. Little Deadpool tutorial. Yeah, if you have to un uncheck it there. This I mean you started with these buttons, right?
    17:58
    When you knock it out because that's the start of the ball. Knocking the ball out. Knocking the ball out. Knocking the ball out. Knocking the ball out starts the multi. Locking the ball is not technically starting the multi.
    18:19
    Ready? Ready. Three, two, one, go. Yes, Carl did make all these graphics. Not from Stern.
    18:34
    And Raymond's got it. Raymond's got it. Nice job, Raymond. That was quick. Nice, Ray. So then I update these somehow.
    18:48
    Okay. Drag it over. No, you don't. I don't know how to Thank you. You're welcome.
    19:02
    So Raymond two, that one. Smith scores. Raymond moves on. Yep. Next up is Rob Smith and Mark Brown. Yes. Rob Smith, Mark Brown, you're up next. Rob Smith and Mark Brown. Rob Smith, you have
    19:20
    That challenge reminds me of the Tiefire challenge in Star Wars and how just how fast that goes.
    19:36
    2 minute drill. Okay. So, here's how this is going to work. I'm going to hit the start button. It's going to give us a countdown from 206 so that we can go 5 4 3 2 1 go. Okay. Okay. So, at 2 minutes, we'll see it up here. So, we have 6 seconds to say 5 4 3 2 1. Right. Exactly. It's a lot of pressure. It is. I know. I think you're good enough to run the uh to run it and uh play. Yeah, maybe I should have. Perhaps I should start practicing now. Well, this one you don't need to. Oh, that. Okay. Yeah, actually I do.
    20:14
    It's on five balls. If they if they coin up and hold the uh start button. Yeah, you have it on quick restart. Yeah, guys, if you put if you coin up and hold the start button, it'll restart. Coin up and hold the start button. It'll reset. Coin up and hold the start button. It'll reset. There you go.
    20:35
    Shane thinking. Actually, that's default. I I didn't do it. Yeah, it's default. Yeah, unless it's unless Unless it's with competition mode. Most people turn it off for tournaments. Oh, sorry. It's cool. All right. All right. You guys ready? Mark ready. All right. It's gonna be So you'll see it here.
    21:01
    Five, four, 3, two, one, go. All right. So, this is two minutes to get the highest score. Don't have to do anything. Don't have to do anything. Nope. When it ends, we just hit the stop button. That's it. Don't do anything else right now. Don't Don't You don't want to hold it. You want to hit that button on accident.
    21:24
    Accidents happen. All right. So, uh, obviously the live thing to go as far as for the question is what do you do here? Do you go for for the battle or do you go for the little Deadpool or do you try and stack the dude? I see Rob has started um saber-tooth. So, do you try and bring the little Deadpool into that?
    21:49
    You can stack saver, but you can. You can. Yes, you can. This is Rob Smith's probably last tournament here as he's moving to Indiana. As what? Sorry, I can't hear you. He's moving to Indiana after this. Really? Yep. Wow. That's why we haven't seen him in league. Indiana.
    22:09
    One minute. One minute. Uh Rob got a slight edge about a little over two million.
    22:19
    Mark's uh playing this mode well. Really, all he needs to do is complete the mode and he'll get some major points.
    22:29
    Oh, he didn't have the most. I was He was hitting Chimmy Chunga. Totally off there.
    22:41
    But he has a he got a team up there on that left orbit. If he shoots another one of those, it'll be a good point.
    22:51
    [Music] [Applause] Marcus pulled ahead. 10 seconds. 10 seconds [Applause] as the crowd gathers in. Hands up. Hands up.
    23:11
    It's going to be Rob Smith takes it. Oh, we've got bonus. Oh, let's see. Bonus. Yeah. I mean, look. He just got Oh my gosh. Wow. Look at that. So close. No, Mark's Mark's going to get it for the bonus. Wow. Cuz he started the
    23:28
    Wow. Wow. Wow. To me, Mark Brown. Mark Brown. San Diego. Yeah. Stop button gets rid of it. All right. Simple as that.
    23:41
    Wow. Still going. Rob, do you want to do game or objective? What? That is too much.
    23:57
    No. Start a battle. That's out. Start a battle is out. Ninja multiball. They choose Ninja Multiball Ninja. We saw that last time. We're not going to run the video this time. We'll run maybe every other or so. Okay. It's getting kind of loud in here. How's the sound everybody? Anybody watching besides SD Pinball?
    24:25
    Hands-free comeback. Yes, that was that was uh something else. All right, they're going to coin up a quick restart. We have a ninja multiball challenge. And yeah, I should have had text for all these challenges and I forgot about that.
    24:52
    SD pinball Kyle Smith. Good question. Who is wearing the SD pinball again? Reveal yourself. Okay. Ready? Ready. Three, two, one, go. All right. Says ninja multiball. Okay. Rob's got a ball, one lock, instant lock. Both of them. both of them. It's nice that these games are both playing pretty equal. Very equal. Okay, so Rob's got second lock lit and Oh, so close. Oh, Mark just Oh, started a battle and he picked a saber-tooth which is probably the not sabertooth juggernaut, which was not a good idea, I think. I don't know if he can actually light the locks during this mode. Mike Mike Wells
    25:41
    Thanks, Mike. Yeah, my Yeah, it's surprising I'm getting that CPU usage because this thing should be It's 88%. It's fine. Is Mark Brown still in the uh battle? No, he drained out. All right. Well, that lock shot. It's It's got to be just right.
    26:30
    The tables were fed fed up uh yes fairly difficult, right? That's why Mr. Gomez says the game likes it that way. I think they both played nice. Yeah, definitely. I think they're definitely equal. Yeah. Oh, nice little Lazarus there on Mark's side. Rob's got a P and the O. All right, we have a lock lift for number two for Mark.
    26:55
    Rob's having a hard time here, it seems like. All right, one more letter for uh for Rob. And this would be Rob's third lock. Yes.
    27:09
    See, now we're getting the Mark's in the ball five right now, is he? So, he's got to point up and start over. Yeah. So, this is All right. He's got the uh he's got the third ball lit for the lock. And let's see. He just hit that shot. He's done. Oh, can't help but root for Rob Smith here, guys.
    27:38
    Oh, and Rob's got it. Rob's got it. Good job, Rob.
    27:45
    All right, Mark, it's done. Mark. Mark, it's done. Rob got it. Rob got it. All right, we're 1-1. Mark, what's it going to be? But no battle is out. Anything but battle.
    28:03
    Which one do you want? Yeah, you can pick my sheet. All right, Rob gets challenged then. Start a quest. Rob is choosing start a quest. You should run the animation one more time on that. Anyways, start a quest. Okay, this is the uh they're going to shoot the right orbit once to light the chim changangas and then they're going to shoot four. What is it that Raymond did? He shorted. point. So, there's a second there's a there's two switches in the shooter lane. The upper switch, you can't see it here, right? Not that one. Yeah. So, it's not the one you can see in that screen, but it's above. If you go over that, if you roll just past it and come back, you'll it counts as an orbit shot. Okay. Go away, video. I think they're both ready. Go away, video. There we go. It went away on med. Okay. Excellent. Want to count it out or what? Yeah, go for it. Three, two, one, go.
    29:03
    So, they both did not do the short plunge. Yes, but uh Rob Rob is Yeah, he did. I mean, very quickly, too.
    29:15
    All right, that's two shots, I think, for Rob. Should have given them the warning, too, that they have to actually start the quest and not just light it. say, but no, I think it's too late. It says start a quest. That's not a life quest. I know. Fine print.
    29:36
    All right. I think Rob has it left. Just got to hit the scoop. Yeah, he's got to get the scoop and then start the start the quest. All right, so we got the scoop. Oh, he started a battle. Oh, he started a battle. Oh no. That's exactly what I was talking about. Oh my gosh. He's got to start over. Yeah.
    29:58
    Where did he go wrong there? He double flipped to cancel out the animation, but that started his battle.
    30:08
    My gosh. How's Mark doing over there? He had to start over, too, I think. Uh, he still hasn't. He's got his chim changing lit. Oh, he's got it. Okay, there we go. Nice one, Rob. Rob got it. Rob got it. All right. Good job, Rob.
    30:25
    All right, let me update the bracket here. Rob two, Mark one.
    30:39
    Next match. John and Ron. John and Ron. You guys are up. John and Ron. John, you've got you've got choice of game or objective. Uh Ron, what game you want to play on? What game do you want to play on? What game do you want to play on? No battle. Anything but battle.
    31:01
    Which one? Katana. Katanorama time. We haven't done this one yet. So, here's how you start. Katana time.
    31:13
    Shoot a ram. You shoot the other ram. You shoot the first ram. Second ram. Back to the first ram. What? Back to the second ramp. Light all three all six diamonds to start katana time.
    31:28
    Once all six diamonds are lit. I missed the last part. Go ahead. Coin up and reset. No, no, no. Coin up and just hold the start button. You just do a quick restart.
    31:46
    Why no battle? There's no battle because uh we found out that lighting the goal was starting a battle and it's it's lit. Okay, guys. Start. So, ready? Yeah, go for it. Three, two, one, go. So, all they'd have to do to finish the finish it is shoot the scoop and that's it.
    32:09
    Now, what we should have done is made that challenge finish a babble. But yes, but before I I It's all right. You messed up. It's okay, Carl. I did mess up. You can only do so much. Okay. So, we have John on the left and Ron on the right. John and Ron. Ron and John. Thanks for the host, Lord Sweet. Always appreciate it.
    32:34
    All right. And Ron is ahead with uh three diamonds so far. You've got to get three on both sides. Yes. You see, you have to do them in order, I believe, too. You have to do that. No. Kind of like a Terminator. Ron is very close here. Ron's got one more shot, it looks like. All right, that's it. All right, Ron's got it. Ron's got it. All right, Ron, you got it. All right, John. Is it going to be objective or game?
    33:08
    Okay, which Ron, you want to stay on this game? You want to stay on this game? Deadpool. Start Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. Okay. Starting Little Deadpool multiball. As a reminder, this is when the ball is released from you. You have to start the actual multiball, not just you actually have to release the multiball from the drop targets, not just All right. Yep. Hence start. Yes. But better to be safe than the cuz the pinballers are cryb babies. I didn't say it. [Applause] Are they ready? All right, ready, guys. Three, two, one, go. This one's generally quick. Did Ron sweep them? No, Ron. No, there's still one. John has it lit and ready to go. The captain just needs to get control there. All right. Oh, it didn't it didn't hold. It didn't hold.
    34:15
    Oh boy, this is going to be Oh man, John just hit it on the wrong side. Ron got it. Got it. Ron got it.
    34:22
    We got to get these San Diego guys out of here. They drove a long way. Why you want to Because we've got a standing bet that no San Die will take home any of the Is that what it is? Yes, it is. Oh, what's the bet? And if they do, they I I'm buying some uh pictures for them, which I'm going to do regardless. All right, our next match is David Oliver versus Derek Price. Two San Dieans. So there you're going to knock one out right now. Yep. Yep. Yep.
    34:53
    It's David Oliver and Derek Price. Yeah. All right. All right. While we ceue up this match, David Oliver, everyone come to Never Drains in Southern California January 11th to the 13th. It's gonna be huge. It's a Pro Circuit event. Starting Pro Circuit event as always. We've got the new high stakes division which is going to be crazy. Kids, bring your kids. Start a quest. David chose to start a quest. Oh, no. Just do a quick restart. Put coin up and hold the start button. And we are no, David. David, you don't have We are 100% card base this year. So this is like the former papa world championship system.
    35:35
    The most difficult tournament uh system to qualify. The most rewarding the most challenging come to indis. Yes.
    35:48
    Seems like after that that Las Vegas event that Stern did, I haven't really seen them do the heads up stuff. They did another one in Chicago. Oh, sure. It was a park. It was uh tied in with the uh top of circuit. Starting circuit. Which challenge was they? They're doing started quest. Started quest. You want to show the animation or they don't? You want to show this? No, we're good. They're they're ready. We You guys ready? Do you want to start? Start. Okay. Go for it. Three, two, one, go.
    36:22
    All right, David. Immediately lights. chat. I will get to you after this uh match is done with any questions that you've got about the indisk or the museum if I can answer those.
    36:39
    So, it's four shots. They need four chim changing shots to um to qualify the quest. Chim chunga sound good right now. Man, I'm hungry. Starving.
    36:57
    All right, David's going to let his battle drain out. Very good decision there to quickly do that.
    37:08
    How's Derek looking? David, I think, needs one more. Almost there. I believe Derek as well.
    37:17
    Looks like David's going for the right orbit shot of choice, but he's got the uh Yep, that's the lane I was going to say right now. The uh Wolverine lane, or is it the uh Okay, he's got the uh All right, that's it. Der got it. All right, Derek. Got it. Nice. Gamer want to choose game card. Cardbased tournaments work where you you buy an entry and you're going to play for our main tour main division. It's going to be five games. Two-minute drill. Derek, you want to stay on this game? It's gonna be a two-minute drill going up. Yeah. So, five games, you buy a card, you have to play those five games in sequence and all the addition of all those five games. Gonna be two-minute drill is what gives you the final point total, unlike the best game system, which is where you can play one game over and over and over and over again. Over and over. Exactly. The pump end up as it's called, but this is not. It's it's a much more rewarding format. It It rewards consistency. Are we ready? Ready. Ready. All right. Five, four, three, two, one, go. Yes, you are allowed to short plunge to light Chimmy Changer. We are not stopping anyone from doing that.
    38:35
    All right, looks like Dererick's going to do a battle and maybe stack it. Let's see. Well, I I think you can might be able to get through two battles in two minutes to be honest. Possible. Yeah. If you're Carl. No, come on. Or if you're Derek Price or if you're David Oliver.
    39:01
    All right, David has started a little Deadpool multiball. I don't believe he has anything stacked in with it. All right, Derek is going for little little Deadpool now. Lock the ball. All right, David now started. He's going to start a battle.
    39:30
    Dererick's going for the little little Deadpool multiball. All right.
    39:42
    All right. David's at 12 million. He's looking uh pretty good right now at this moment. But as we saw the last time this That's correct. Challenge was done. You can win after the timer's out because of the lanes. 30 seconds.
    39:58
    Oh, he just took a big jump. David took a big jump and uh there's a tilt there from Derek. All right, David's about to complete his uh his mode. If you can get that scoop, Deadpool wins.
    40:14
    10 seconds. 10 seconds. [Applause] Hands off. Hands off. and David press start arcade the channel landslide there
    40:38
    I don't think so all right so we have uh David with the first win here no battle for anyone just tuning in we are at uh Ace Goggi and Van Eyes for the our Deadpool launch party katanorama he chose katanorama katanorama David, you want to stay on that game? Stay there. You want to switch. We are currently working through the first uh set of matches. This is 16 finalists, single elimination, best of three until we get the semi-finals. Then it's best of five. Oh yeah. All right. Katanorama time. They need to get all six diamonds here. Ready? Are you ready? Three, two, one, go.
    41:23
    David quickly gets his first right ramp and his left ramp. And that counts. It doesn't have to go all the way around for it to count on that right ramp. It just needs to go through that lane before the ramp. Derek's uh a little All right, so Dererick's got the got one of each.
    41:44
    Oh, yeah. Okay, they both got two. Uh, David's not done with his second set. Okay. Sorry, I didn't see that. It's cool. It's better for you to watch the one. I watch the other. Yep. All right. David's completed his second set. That'll get his uh Derrick's got to get it here. One shot left. All right. Derrick's got one more on the left side. And he's David's got Oh, and he misses. Oh, and David drains. He's got one more. He tried to backhand it and didn't get it. Oh gosh.
    42:19
    the game. Can you All right, Derek. Oh, so close. Oh my gosh. Let's go. Oh, let's see it. And he's got it. All right, Derek. Derrick's got it. Dererick's got it. So close. Look at that. Wow. You got it. Wow.
    42:43
    All right. So, uh, David gets choice now. Yes. Is that one one? That's one one. Okay. Right. No, that's two. What am I doing? That's what I'm saying. You're throwing this off, man. Man, sure you're not drinking. No. So, Derek wins, right? Yeah, for sure. You threw me off there. I'm just making sure you're paying attention. Maybe I should run the uh Oh, you got a while to go. I'll do the uh I got two more rounds still, man. All right, Ryan Kirbinac and Victor. Oh, you're drinking water now. A big shot. Oh, yeah. Little Deadpool. Derek, uh, I mean, Victor, which game do you want? That one. Okay. What are we doing? Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. You're on that side. Go and coin up and hold the start button. It'll be start the game, right? How to start Little Deadpool multiball. This is the fastest challenge in the game. Shoot the drop target. You don't have to shoot all three. You just have to be able to hit the target behind the drop targets.
    43:50
    Hit that twice. That turns it one hit turns it to green. When it's green, it locks the balls behind the drop targets. All right, hold the start button, Victor. And then you shoot the drop targets to release the ball. Victor's ready. All right, they're both ready. You guys ready? Three, two, one, go. You fail. And then my friend Oh, I'm watching Victor, right?
    44:17
    Brian blocked a ninja multiball. Unfortunately, took some time there. All right, Brian's got all three drop targets down. He's got it ready for lock and he drains. Victor's trying the backhand. It was not successful. See
    44:39
    All right, Victor's got the ball locked. Just got just got the release and he's ready to go. It's coming down to the wire here. Let's see it. Brian still has to lock a ball. He hasn't locked it yet. All right. Hey, Victor got it. Victor got it. All right, Victor wins.
    44:59
    Boop, thanks for hosting. Can you actually hear me? Where are you? You're in this building. You're right back there. You can't hear me. I'm talking about you and I'm looking at you. Two minute drill. All right. Two-minute drill. Go ahead. Get ready. Two minute drill.
    45:16
    All right. What? Any other questions that I had? I I realized I didn't uh let's see. Is there a tournament during the October Pinball Museum event? I don't know. Unfortunately, I'm not part of the museum team, so I don't know. Pinball Madness. There is. Oh, there is. There is. Yeah. Yeah. It's using my software. Uh Jay Collins. Why you got to Why are you showing off, man? We used to here. Come on. You can make a lot of money off of we started charging. You've got a lot of PDI glass. Yeah. I wanted to get enough for the entire end of Spank. Yes, but it's not going to happen too much. All right, guys. Ready? Three. Uh, no, no, no, no. What? Got to do the countdown. Oh, okay. Five, three, two, one, go. Sorry, man. Jump the gun. Jump the gun. out of the gun.
    46:10
    All right. So, strategy here seems to be start a battle and start mini Deadpool at the same time. And they're both head neck and neck right here. Oh, but we have two different battles, two different challenges. All right. Victor's uh going for uh little Deadpool, right? But he started Mystique. Did he? And uh Brian started um juggernaut. Let me put my glasses back on cuz I lost track.
    46:47
    All right, Brian now has his uh juggernaut shots left after hitting the Deadpool targets enough.
    46:58
    Uses his boom button. One minute. One minute. Brian's got a solid lead right now. See what Victor's going to go for here.
    47:20
    5 million super skill shot is actually pretty valuable in this.
    47:29
    Victor's got to make a move here. 30 seconds. All right, Brian's clearly in the lead here. 24 million ghosting three ninjas. I don't know what that that's worth. I think Brian's safely got this one. Yeah. Hands off. All right,
    48:19
    Victor won. Did you? Yeah, he won. You You won. You won. You won. So, you get choice of game or goal.
    48:30
    It's the three locks on the uh three katana locks. Yeah, three locks there. Yeah, three locks. I can I can run the video if you want. You can run the video. You have to relock the light. Re uh relock the locks with the pool targets. Start a quest. Start a quest. That's the light the chimachen goes here. Start a quest. Look, they're watching the tutorial now. I'll pick I get to choose. You get to choose machine. Yeah. So Brian's picking the right machine and Victor's going to be stuck on the left machine. Take him out of his element. Victor was like, I only want to play on this machine. Hey, Victor had that choice. He could have chosen that machine.
    49:20
    All right, coin. Coin up and restart. Oh yeah, play. All right, elimination match. All right, guys. Comes down to this. Good luck. Three, two, one, go.
    49:49
    This is the challenge that kind of scared me. I I worried that um it's not the easiest. People weren't going to be able to finish it, but we haven't had a single game restart yet. Nope. All right. We Victor, what do you have yet to play, so anything can happen. Yep. I'm definitely restarting. Victor has one lock. Brian does has zero. All right. Oh,
    50:13
    so this this format's volatile. I mean, anything can happen. Of course. Of course. It's
    50:20
    How's Victor doing over there? He's got one zero still. He's got All right.
    50:29
    But I don't know why he's Victor's Vic Victor's not hitting his pool. Yeah, I don't think he knows what he's doing. No, even though we just showed the video that said you have to hit pool after every lock, he uh didn't pay attention to it. This is a ninja multiball challenge. You must spell pool to let your lock for each ball. So, this is a Brian Why is Brian playing a his little Deadpool? Not sure. This is madness. I mean, he's he just he lit pool, but it's not going to uh Oh, wait. Or is this quest? Oh, I'm thinking trying to see if you're paying attention. Apparently not. I got you. Good. All right. Sorry for that slap to the sternum there. No, it's fine. Yep. Who got it? Victor. Victor. All right, it's one more San Diego headed home.
    51:30
    Good job, guys. See, Shane's not paying attention. That's why I'm uh Well, I'm paying attention to San Diego going home. That's for sure. All right, next is Mark Schultz and Bill. Mark Schultz, Bill, you've got All right, Bill, you get to pick objective. Anything but battle, Mr. Snailman from Japan. Man, you jealous. That sounds fun. Little Deadpool. So, go ahead and coin up and hold the start button to reset the game. All right. Mark versus Bill. Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. Yes. Yeah. See, I do wish I had the uh text to show what the challenge is. Deadpool. I need to remember to do that on these.
    52:11
    So, Bill made the quest up here from Orange County. Yes. The famous Bill, creator of the Bill mods on Attack from Mars. The UFO pinball. Yes. UFO pinball. All right. Are we ready? Ready. Three, two, one, go. The little Deadpool is generally pretty fast. Quickest challenge.
    52:44
    All right, Mark has uh the lock lit if he can get the ball behind the drops. Bill as well. Okay, Bill's got the the ball locked behind the drops. Mark is still having trouble actually hitting the target behind there. Oh, Bill's got it. Bill's got it. All right. Nice, Bill. Mark. Uh, objective. Mark. Objective or game? Game or objective? Okay.
    53:14
    All right. Marcus, anything but battle. Sorry. Katanarama. Marcus selected Katanorama time. No. Uh, no. Bill. Bill chose Katanama. Mark chose Mark chose game. Yes. Okay.
    53:28
    See, you don't need me here. I always need you. Who's going to come when I go play? I'm a oneman show. Uh-huh. I got my tambourine here, too.
    53:40
    I'm sure someone will come on cuz I'm I'm in the next round. Yes, you are. So, you better find my replacement. There's plenty of people here. There are. Okay, they are ready. Katana, ready, guys? Three, two, one, go.
    53:59
    Mark instantly gets a right ramp. And Bill is super determined today. I like that.
    54:09
    All right, Mark's uh Mark's definitely on point here. Yeah, Mark's got three of the four.
    54:19
    There's four. Two more shots to go for Mark. One more shot to go. Boom. He is done. Wow, that was great. Nice, Mark. Nice. We are one to one. Uh game. So, it's going to be game or position. Game or objective. I'm sorry.
    54:38
    Mark is picking objective now. Two-minute drill. Two minute drill. All right. You're going to run it this time. I'm not touching it. Just you press that and then this pops up. No, you don't have to press anything. You just go here. You hit start and the time pops up. Okay, that's it.
    54:57
    Probably have uh kitty man come over here. Hey, Ray. Raymond.
    55:07
    All right. You're You want to start this challenge? Sure. Uh just hang out for a second. Okay. Five, four, three, two, one, go. All right, two minutes to get the biggest score.
    55:37
    Yes, some objectives. Well, well, not the actually I don't know what the boom button does on on like Katana. I don't think it does. It just uh game, right? I cannot answer your question, Dr. Cly. We'll switch. I'll put you here and I'll go there. I'll go there. You go here.
    55:54
    All right. Mark's making work on juggernaut here. All right. Uh Bill started uh little little Deadpool and Mark's working towards that right now. He can get that quick shot to have the high value, but he missed it. So that there's a countdown on Lil Deadpool. So the later you shoot the the release the ball, the lower the value is. And those drop targets look like they're bricking for him. Bill's got a danger.
    56:41
    Best thing here is Bill to get a battle started right away. Yes. And he got the super skill shot, which was great. That's a nice shot. Yeah. Got to start that battle there.
    56:55
    All right. He's got a battle. No. Got to hit that scoop. All right, Bill's got the battle started.
    57:19
    [Applause] Hands off. Hands off. And uh Mark Schulz took it. It's going to be 2-1. All right. Next up is Carl and Mark. Goodbye people.
    57:43
    All right, next up is going to be Carl versus Mark Pollock. And on the mic with me here now is Matt Pollock. Mark's better half. Uh, sometimes he's uh doing better so far. I got knocked out first. Raymond first. What's it gonna be? Okay, Carl chooses two-minute drill. Mark wants to pick which game. Mark's got a fresh haircut coming into today. Actually, he doesn't, but he combed it. Looking fresh. Looking fresh. Looking fresh. Wait till they're ready here. Let's see what uh each of them choose to go with. All right, guys. Are you ready?
    58:33
    Five. Four, three, two, one, go. It'll be interesting to see what they choose to do. Let's see. Carl's been running his mouth this whole time. Let's see what he chooses to do. He's got our ball locked. All right, so Mark's going straight for his mode and then I'm sure he's going to stack in little Deadpool. Let's see. Not yet. No,
    58:59
    Carl's doing a little dead pool. These drop catches. Beautiful live catch. Yeah, gorgeous. All right, so Carl's got the ball locked on that. They're both about the same right now. Uh, no. Mark's got 27 mil. He's got he's up by 25 million. Well, and he's about to start his multiball.
    59:24
    Oh man, going through all these holes. He can't hit it. Carl's got some work to do. Let's see. There it is. So, there's Mark's multiball. He's trying to go orbit right now to uh beat Saber-tooth and light that for a finish. I'm not sure where Mark got all of his points from. Yeah, I'm not sure what he did either. I wasn't watching. Oh, maybe super skill shots. Uh, it's not that. No, I don't think that would have done it all. 15. Wow, it's quite a deficit here. Let's see what Carl comes up with. He's got about a little over 30 seconds left. Mark's got the finish of the mode lit. That's for at least 20 million. Oh, and he timed out, but he won. Okay, he got it. All right. Yeah. 73. Wow. Huge.
    60:17
    About 20 are dead ones. About 15 seconds left. Hurry it up. A lot of time weighs good. Oh, he he brought it close.
    60:32
    20 million. I'd say drain Carl. Hands up. Super skill. There it is. All right. Well, that was quite the battle. I'm not sure.
    60:59
    Ninja multiball. That choose that game. All right, they're switching up games here. So, it's going to be Ninja Multiball. So, between some of the players, they've actually been saying that the Carl Carl, I don't need to press this, do I? Do I need to press ninja on this? Um, the players here today have been saying that the right machine is a little easier to hit the ninja multiball. It doesn't brick out when you go through that. All right, guys. Ready? Three, two, one, go. Oh, that's a great way to start super skill shot there. Gets the lock instantly. Now he's trying to spell pool on the right hand side to relight it. Oh, he hit it up there again. Not lit, though. Carl's got a Carl's gonna do here. Mark's got to be a little later. All right, he's got one more letter to light his second lock. There it is. Second lock's lit. He's going to go up there. Carl is still uh trying to find his first lock there. First lock. Uh see, like I said, it bricks out on that left hand machine a little more. So Mark did the right thing choosing the right hand machine. Uh he just got a brick though. Oh jeez. All right. Carl's got to try to go for the skill shot here and get it get his first lock going quick. Uh nope. It's one of those ones where a lot of players want to hit it on the fly because the momentum, but it rattles more. So if you can do a cradle and get a clean shot like right there from for Carl. How's How's Mark doing over there? He's still working on his second. Oh, there it is. So, there's his second one. Carl's still working on his first. He's got his Does he still need to Yeah. All right. So, Mark has to relight his third one. He's got two more letters left. One more letter L. All right. Carl's got his first lock. Carl's got his first lock. All right. Oh, Mark. Really close. Oh, missed the L. Carl's got one more letter to light his second lock. Oh, Carl's got the second lock lit. All right, let's see what he does here.
    63:16
    Rattles. Mark's still working on his L to light his third. Keeps missing it. Oh, man. All right, let's see what uh Carl's got the second lock lick. See what he does off the uh punch here.
    63:34
    this man. [Applause] Man, it's definitely not the easiest thing to do. Tough. It is. There it is. So, Mark lit his third lock. So, we just got to post pass. I found the right machine is a lot little harder post pass. Mark does it nicely. Gets it and Mark got it. There it is. Swuck Carl. Carl is done. One and done. It's a tough tournament to get this far and have it just be one and done.
    64:07
    All right, we've got husband and wife up next. Yes, husband and wife. Laura really killed it today. She qualified quick. I think she was first to qualify, actually.
    64:29
    That was uh So, this right here is the uh Deadpool uh launch party head-to-head battle uh in Los Angeles, California. While actually Van Eyes uh at Ace Goi. Yes, the great place. Thank you. It's the uh official Los Angeles launch party from the Stern Army. Beautiful. I don't know if anyone on stream has seen what the trophies are, but the presentation will be well worth it. Stay tuned. Absolutely. Uh, so Laura has choice of objective or game. Laura, all [Laughter] right. Little ninja. Little Yeah, little Deadpool. Uh, which game? The right. All right, you guys go ahead and coin up and start the games over. We'll get going. Okay, so they chose Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. It's a quick one. Yes,
    65:39
    Okay. And they're ready. Three, two, one, go. All right. And let's see how it goes. So Brent's on the right. And Laura went Laura got the skill shot, but it's uh doesn't help for the And Brent's got a ball locked as well. And he's getting angry here, beating the game. Trying to speed up those uh displays on screen to make the ball come out quicker. He's got a Oh, that was interesting. I get kind of caught on the side there. All right, there he goes. So, he's lit it when it's flashing green. Now, you can lock the ball up inside.
    66:18
    Let's see. Brent is uh Brent's got to get his uh All right. Brent's got All right. Okay. They both got the uh ball the ball locked behind the drop targets. It comes to who was going to hit it. And it didn't release. You don't get it. Wow. Oh, and he tilted. Oh no. She's laughing. And now she gets to take her time. And she got it. Laura got it. Laura got it. Laura got it. Laura got it. [Applause] And uh she's throwing it in his face, which is fantastic. Katanorama. Katanorama. So those are the uh ramps. Decide. All right. Katana are the Yes, they are the ramps, but you've got to hit them alternating. Yes, alternate.
    67:13
    400 any of the Terminators 21 minus 4. All right, so they're both geared up. What? Okay, guys. Uh ready. Three, two, one, go. All right, so they're going ramps here.
    67:50
    All right. So, Laura's got still talking. Yeah, she's feeling good. Fantastic. Knows how to put friends buttons, I'm sure, after years of marriage. Absolutely.
    68:05
    So, they each have their right already completed. They're both going. No, that backhand, the left ramp is actually not the easiest thing to do. And a lot of people have been going for it and it hasn't been successful. Yeah. If it's a rolling one, I think it might be possible. Yeah. But from a cradle, definitely not. I'm not really sure what's going on here. They're both tied up right here. Yeah, they're both going to the left uh ramp right here. And they're both drained.
    68:36
    We haven't seen any uh recoin up, but it is always possible. We've got it set to five balls, but if you haven't reached the objective at that point, yeah, I'm not really sure that it seems like they're not even going for the ramps here. They're more just uh playing a casual game of Deadpool.
    68:56
    Makes you question if they know how to Yeah. I'm not really sure. Yeah.
    69:02
    This is This is more of a two-minute drill here. Brent's got at least one on each katana. All right, there's his second. All right, he's got second. There you go. All right. Uh no, it still counts if it kind of Oh, that's right. That's right. And he's going to have to This is ball five for Bryant, I believe. So, yeah, he might have to recoin, unless he gets it under control. Laura is not really Do you know if you can start Katana um in Little Deadpool? I have no idea to be honest with you. I think they might have removed that. Uh so you wouldn't want to do that. So now so Laura just started uh Megalodon which I pretty sure she's going to have to just let drain out here.
    69:45
    Yeah, cuz the katanas are not lit. No, I think you're going to have to let this drain. I'm not really sure. All right, there you go. Yeah, she knows it. All right. All right, so Brent's starting over. He was almost there. He only had two shots left, but now he's got one going for the left ramp.
    70:05
    I love that they're giving each other a hard time. It's fantastic. Good sportsmanship. We're literally talking smack back and forth. It's fantastic. All right. I'm not sure why Laura's not going for the left ramp. There she goes. I don't think he realized it, but Laura's All right. So Laura's got to go for the left ramp again here. All right, she's got it. It's gonna be one more on each side. Doesn't have to go all the way around. Probably try to get it control of the ball here. And let's see. Uh, nope. She's going little Deadpool again. She does not want to start that. Brent's got one. Still trying to go left ramp. Yeah, she got to be careful. She could lock a ball in uh Little Deadpool right now. Yeah. All right. Nice little tap pass there. Nope. Oh no. Does it turn off? Yeah. Yeah, it does. But I mean, this one she's going to have to either drain, tilt it. She's tilting it. She's choosing to tilt it. Get back to it. Is it going to release? There it goes. Or
    71:09
    All right. So, she's now on ball. She's also got to be careful that they tilted because she tilted because five or four that she's on. She's on ball four right now. Okay. So, she's she's looking good. Brent's having a hard time hitting the left ramp right now on his restart. There it goes. She's got two down. All right. Okay. So, Laura's just got to hit the left ramp and she's done a Oh, no. She started a multiball. Oh, man. Yeah, that was the last thing she wanted to do. Gives Bren a chance to catch up. Still can't hit that left ramp.
    71:44
    She's trying to tilt again. She's got one more. All right.
    71:50
    Laura's got the Laura's got Yep. Laura's got one more shot. She's got to hit that left ramp one time and then she's there. Just started another mode. Oh goodness. Let's go, Laura. Oh, this is ball five for Laura. So, if she doesn't get it here, she's going to have to coin up. Yeah. Got to get the ball under control here. Almost the back hand actually. Oh. Oh, she started a mode. And she's going to have to either time she's going to have to time this one out or she going to have to coin up again and start over. And start all over. Yeah. Depends on where Brent's at. That's a position where you'd want to look. All right. So, he's got Oh, only one more. He's now got left ramp only. And he's good. Yeah. I'm not sure yet. She's going to I don't think she could. Does it time out? Is there a time on this? Uh I think it's one of those things where if you do hold it, you got to have to coin up. She's going to have to coin up. You got to coin up. Start over. Or she's just gonna just hand it. All right. He got it. Brent got it. Brent got it. Brent got it. All right. Well, that was interesting. That was to say the least. Yeah. That was probably a better two-minute drill. Yeah, that was a two-minute drill. That was You can That was pretty much what you guys were doing. Yep. I know, huh? Uh, what do you want to do? Start a quest. All right. Which game you want to be on? All right. Go ahead and guys, get ready and we'll go. Keep it forever. Start a quest. Start a quest.
    73:19
    Do you guys know how to Do you guys know how to start a quest or do you need to see the uh animation? You know how to start? You know how to do it. Do you know what you're doing? Okay. All right. Brent needs some quarters. No.
    73:38
    All right. So, they're going to be uh playing start a quest. All right. And three, two, one, go. So, we'll try and get some Chim Chongas, which is the left or right orbit. It's the right orbit, and then the lit orange shots. Yes, you technically can short plunge, but neither of them did it. Yeah, that's what Raymond did to me, and it definitely got him there much quicker. It's all right, man. You just wanted to finish so you can sit here and comment with me. No worries. To be honest, I love talking. Yes, that I know.
    74:15
    It's a crazy day today. So, let's see. Uh, it was a lot of fun, though.
    74:24
    I'll watch Laura. Not really sure what's going on with her, though. They're both just missing the right orbit. Yeah, this is probably better just two-minute drill is what they should have done. All right, so Laura hit the the orbit. Now, she's got to go for Timmy Chongas here. All right, let's see. All right, Laura's doing all right. She's got it. Two left. Two more shots. Got the left. Oh, she got that. She got one more shot. How's uh Brent doing over there? Brent's still working on I think uh I think Laura just has to hit the scoop and she's got it right. It looks like it's lit with the Just hope it's the uh it's not the uh it's a quest and not a battle, right? Well, I think the bottom one triangle I think that that means quest. Okay. And she can just get a hold here. Control it. Trying to do and backhand that scoop. See what she's got going on here. How's Brent doing over there? Brent is starting little Deadpool right now. Um, which you can collect Chimmy Chongas when you are in that multiball. Oh, he's got just hit that scoop to get the started, I believe. Oh, so close. Missing that back hand. Oh, still trying to collect Jimmy Chongas. I wouldn't mind collecting it. All right. Oh, no. Did she get it? Yeah. Yeah, she's got it right. Oh, no. Battle. It's a battle. Brent got it. Got it. She started a battle. Yeah. Did Brent get it? Brent got it. Brent, you got it.
    76:14
    No. Oh, did you start a battle? I think was I'm not too sure. It might have been a
    76:25
    It's not blinking. I think he accidentally started a battle. Yeah, I think he started a battle as well. Yeah. Again, what we learned earlier is you can't flip to speed up the animations inside that scoop because you will accidentally start a battle before you get to choose. So, they both start a battle. Yeah.
    76:45
    Oh, he did, right? Okay. So, so Brent, you got it. You got it. I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, you did.
    76:53
    All right. So, Brent got that one. Okay. All right. Sorry, guys. cuz I wasn't uh was a little uh
    77:07
    Well, we called it, but he had drained so quickly afterwards. Yeah, man. You going to go back in the pilot seat? You want to take over?
    77:35
    We got Carl back on stream. How do you running everything? Thank you again, Carl, for all your hard work and streaming. Of course. Whose phone is this? Oh, we can have some fun. Shane's phone. All right, we are looking. We are doing Raymond versus Rob right now. And Raymond gets choice here. I have a feeling that he might end up choosing to do uh start a quest again.
    78:10
    Oh, you want that chain? What happened while I was at Laziest? Thank you for the I knew it. So Raymond just said that he's starting a quest. Okay, we're gonna run this real quick. Start starting a quest. So this is the quest. You know,
    78:30
    [Applause] do you know how many Chimmy Chongas you have to collect? Four. Four. I should not be chewing gum on the mic here. Well, luckily you're not on camera. Yeah, but it's going to come through in the audio here.
    78:57
    Go away. Okay. Ready. Three, two, one, go. This is start a quest. So Raymond's soft plunging to be able to get uh the Chiming Chonga lit right off the bat. Right. If he goes past the the the second switch at the top. I I never I didn't do my whiteboard here. Um yeah, on the plunger lane. And if you if you just graze that, but it's it takes extra time. I mean, if you miss it, you I mean, if you get it, great. Fantastic.
    79:35
    So, Rob's looking pretty uh pretty far in advance here. So, just lit it. Yep. He just needs to hit the scoop and not flip and accidentally choose a battle like he did before. Correct. In his first round. However, we did see that you can drain out of the battle and then the quest is still lit. That it. So, it's not I mean it hurts, but it's not the worst thing. But it's not it's not you're dead. Yeah, but he's having trouble finding that scoop right now. Strains out. Raymond is uh not finding his shots.
    80:10
    That's somewhat important inside pinball. So, I think the machine on the right does play a little better. I think it Yeah, it plays a little smooth. Definitely actually for uh ninja locks, it's a little smoother going through that orbit. Yeah, I didn't think so before or earlier. They seem to be playing praying, excuse me, talk playing pretty equally. All right, so we have a winner. Rob takes the first match starting Mango. All right, Raymond.
    80:43
    Little Deadpool. We are going for the quick challenge here. Little Deadpool multiball.
    80:55
    Shoot the drops. Hit the target behind the drops. Lock the ball behind the drops. Then release the ball again. Don't miss. Don't miss. Be quick about it.
    81:10
    Have your computer freeze while it shows the animation for some reason. Come on, let's go away. And ensures people know what they're doing. Come on. You're supposed to vanish already. Vanish.
    81:27
    XSplit is not doing its job. I think it's actually Deadpool messing around with us. Is that it? I think that's exactly Maybe that is it. I got to manually do this. Thanks a lot. Okay, ready? Three, two, one, go. So, you super skill the ball around to give the uh player a quicker chance to shoot the drops instead of having it bounce through the bumpers. Rob took his time there. Nicely done. Has it lit for his lock. Raymond's just missing the target. All right, there it is. So, Rob's coming around now to same as Raymond. Finish it. Rob is misses. Misses twice. Raymond gets it. Oh, like you said, do not miss. And Rob missed twice. All right. So, Rob won one. Your choice. Game or or challenge. Okay. Game. So, Raymond gets to pick challenge. Two minute drill. Two minute. We doing a two-minute drill. What was your strategy when you did the two-minute drill? Start the battle. Start Little Dead Bull. Agreed. I think that's what you need to do. Although I'm thinking there is the chance maybe because what is it? Three shots to uh Colossus.
    82:49
    I can't give you money back cuz Jane's not here. We got to power it off. Okay. Or we'll just do it though. I mean, uh, what was I going to say? Um, I think what I should have done is after getting little Tedill running, let him drain and so it plunges into the lanes and gets the saber-tooth lane. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, that would have got your score up a lot quicker. Yeah, if it doesn't plunge all the way around, which I don't think it does. Definitely on the two-minute drill, it's huge points if you can get your super skill shot right off the bat. Yeah.
    83:33
    So again, anyone just joining us, you're watching the Deadpool launch party finals at Acei. We have Raymond Ashby on the left and Rob Smith on the right. They are one to one. Winner of this match continues on. Loser is eliminated. Okay. And here we go with the timer. Five, four, three, two, one, go. So, this is two minutes. Whoever has the highest number of points after two minutes wins. So, Rob almost got a super skill there. Just didn't go up and around. Raymond gets an unlucky sling drain. Rob drains as well. We've only had one uh You won't get it for the two-minute drill, but we've had one reby uh so far when the challenge was not completed after five balls. All right, Raymond is trying to do exactly exactly what we were talking about. Starting Little Deadpool now that he is in Sabertooth.
    84:44
    I think Rob is trying to relight his battle at the moment. He had started it and then drained out of it. All right. So, watching Raymond, the ball does not stop in the in the lanes when it's uh drained, but you can always short plunge enough to have it go inside, right? You got to pay attention to it because you're getting points for every lane then. Whereas right now here, he's missing a lot of shots and he's not getting anything. Of course, the ball save's over now.
    85:13
    Do you think Saber 2's the best one to actually start or do you think actually Juggernaut just with the balls flying everywhere inside of little Deadpool to finish? Um, I honestly I honestly don't know. Uh, Raymond has finished his his punch card. He will have a uh quest lift, but the time will be out before then. Yeah, and Rob's got a long ways to go here. He didn't get to start his battle before he started Little Deadpool finishes. He's kind of locked in on his point scoring at the moment. 10 9 8 7 6 Five four three two one. All right, Raymond wins this match. Raymond moves on. That's two for him. Raymond won the last heads up uh tournament here, the Iron Maiden tournament. Oh, really? Yes, you did. All right, our next matchup is Ron Rosendez versus Derek Price. And Derek, you are the high seed [Music] quest. We are going to play a quest, which um you will take the right side. So, Ron's on the right, Derek's on the left. Here's how you start a quest. And I need to get rid of the time, don't I? Hi, Thomas. going to get a katana. What's that? My cat's going to get a katana. You are. That's right. That is he has won a katana. That is our trophies here. Top four players get katanas signed by George Gomez. Yeah. Really great prize. And they're real life katanas. They aren't small little trophyized katanas.
    86:57
    All right. Are we ready? Ready. Ready. All right. Three, two, one, go. Got on the left, Ron on the right. All right. And Dererick was trying to short punch there. Oh, no. Ron was trying to short plunge. Yeah, it did not work for him. See, and I think that's where it's it's a disadvantage to uh to do it because if you miss, if you don't get the short blend, you're in trouble. But that's pinball, though. That's risk and reward. But when speed is so important. True. It's this format. It is this format.
    87:39
    If you're playing three balls at your local uh arcade, you might want to short plunge it. Take the time to do that. Get your quest lit sooner. And Derek's one shot away from lighting his quest. Well, he was. I'm not sure where Ron's at. Ron has not lit the uh chim chang chim changangas yet. Okay. See if he short plunges here again. He does try it. Misses it. So he's going for the right orbit.
    88:14
    Derek just cannot find any shots right now. I think he should be going for the mystique lane or Wolverine lane. I don't know which one. Missing the right orbit. Just got actually one of those ninja multiball locks.
    88:30
    There it is. So there's his orbit. He's got three Chimmy Chongas left. All right, we have Quest Lit on Derek's side. And he shoots the scoop. He's not done yet. He needs Okay, that's it.
    88:52
    All right, Ron, your choice. The game or challenge? Ninja Multiball. That's a good one. All right. Ninja Multiball. So, Derek, you get choice of game. Ninja Multiball. Yeah. And he quickly chooses the right game quickly. Yeah. Again, with the players today, we we kind of found out that the right machine uh doesn't reject going around that loop up into the ramp as much. I was starting to get desperate. I was going to try and hit it off of the stick target, but and start two times playfield while it exactly.
    89:41
    All right, video's done. XSplit, go away. again. Deadpool just having fun with you, Carl. Man, he's gonna pop up here. Break the fourth wall in the stream. Okay, Ninja Multiball. Three, two, one, go.
    90:08
    So, in the first one, your lock is already lit. And to get and so actually right there Derek just got his first lock. Now to relight his next ninja multiball lock, he needs to spell pool on the right hand side. Right. And and Ron has also got a lock as well. So they are neck and neck and Ron has two letters in pool. One more for Derek needs the L. It is probably the hardest of the letters to hit.
    90:39
    Late shot. There he goes. So, he's got his second lock lit. Ron has sadly hit the ramp shot twice, but without the locks lit. Oh, that's painful. Okay, now he has the lock lit. All right, Derek's missed it. Oh, and just tilted actually right there.
    91:03
    All right, Ron's taking his time here. All right, there it is. Derek got his second lock. almost makes you feel like you want to go for the super skill shot. It almost seems easier to shoot it that way. It does. Absolutely. All right, so he's got L in pool. And there it is. So he's got a lot. Ron just made a second. Okay, so they're they're still pretty close. Derrick's slightly ahead cuz he has it lit. Couple of bricks. Ron needs one more letter. The second O Derek almost up and around. There it is. There it is. Derek gets it. Derek [Applause]
    91:57
    gets his boom uh button right there at the end. All right, our next match, Victor Weston versus Mark Meco. [Applause]
    92:13
    Mark, you are the higher seed. So, you get choice of game or challenge. Let's go with drill. Two-minute drill. So, which uh which game would you like, Victor? Victor chooses the right game, meaning the right hand side one, not necessarily the right game. Okay. Okay.
    92:42
    Two minute drill. Okay, they are both ready. You ready? All right. The timer on screen. Timer comes up. Four, three, two, one, go.
    92:56
    Oh wow, Victor getting his super skill shot right off the bat or his for five million right there. Mark right in the uh Moart and he's choosing juggernaut. He's going to go and he's So there it is. Victor just got the scoop. He's actually choosing the steep. All right. Uh Deadpool is uh little Deadpool is ready to go for Mark. Just needs to unlock that second ball and he's in the two ball multiball.
    93:27
    Nice. So, Victor right there actually hit it up in there and let the ball on the inside of the uh two bottom targets which then automatically locked it instead of having to knock them all down and locking it. He's just trying to unlock it. There it is. So, he's now in multiball.
    93:50
    All right, Mark's Mark made some good progress here. He's at 16 million now. So now Victor needs to be shooting his left ramp and right ramp. Uh get some points to battle through Mystique.
    94:09
    Mark uh he made his Deadpool shots again. He has everything lit again for Juggernaut. And he actually has the finished Juggernaut shot ready to go right now and hits it. That's huge. We're at 33 seconds left right now. Victor's having a hard time finding his shots. He does have his boom button ready, which I would use if he was aware of it right now. He's far behind with only 20 seconds left. Really needs to hit those to at least complete Mystique
    94:51
    seven. Six, five, four, three, two, one. Done. All right, that's a victory for Mark. One- one, right? Cuz Victor won the first battle.
    95:12
    Quest. All right. Start a quest. See, I'm having trouble remembering what everybody does. Isn't it fun? It is. It goes so fast. Yeah.
    95:28
    Back getting the time off. Take the time off. We have had a few instances where somebody has had quest lit but selected actually battle first which uh as Carl mentioned you can then uh drain out of that and have it lit again. All right, are we ready? Three, two, one, go. All right, hold up. Time out. We have the bug. We're We're gonna restart this because Mark just Mark just reset the game.
    96:15
    Yeah, there's a bug in this version that if you hold down the instant info too long, it resets the game. Don't hold it down for 10 seconds.
    96:28
    All right, we're restarting this challenge. All right, let's let's try this again. Three, two, one, go. All right, Mark. All right, so Victor already then has lit his Chimmy Chong. They both have. Yes.
    96:58
    Four shots for Chimmy Chunga. There it is. Victor's got three more.
    97:18
    We should have one left. No. All right. Mark just because he drained. So, right. Mark's trying to drain because he started juggernaut. All right. So, he's lit it now. Victor just needs to hit that scoop. There it is. Start it. He needs to start it. Oh no. Oh, he started the battle. He just did what we talked about. All right, so he drains. Uh, that's okay. It should be lit still. Yes, there it is. Flashing on the bottom of the scoop. Oh god. Misses the shot. Oh no. Mark still has not lit it yet, though. Got one Chimmy Chonga left.
    98:00
    Victor backhands it. Not going to make the same [Applause]
    98:21
    Start Little Deadpool. Okay. Which which game do you want? Start Little Deadpool. This one. Okay. So, we're doing start Little Deadpool. The quick challenge. Yeah. See, this was one. It was I like you said, it's hard to keep track.
    98:57
    I'm not happy with the software today. No, it's really chugging for some reason.
    99:04
    This video is the one that's giving problems. All I hear is pirates in the background. Okay, ready? Three, two, one, go.
    99:20
    All right, so Victor's got one hit. Mark's got two starts a battle. Two drops down. All right, Victor knocks the drops down. All right, we got it into green on Mark. We can lock behind the drop targets now. It's blocked. Get it. Oh, his came out. It's green. All right, there's Victor's lock. Mark just needs to shoot that drop target. All right, Mark wins. [Applause] Yeah, that's a fast one. It's a very fast one. I'll tell you, uh, I lost on it. It does not feel good to lose that that goal. All right. Next, we've got we have Mark versus Brent. This should be a good battle. You're rooting for Brent. Uh, I'm rooting for Mark. Brent. I'm joking. I am rooting for Mark. I'm joking. We're supposed to be impartial on the on the on the mic. Oh, we are. Um, Brent, you are the higher C.
    100:28
    Ninja Multiball. Which game? Ninja Multiball. All right. Nope. And Mark again picks the right hand machine. We are playing Ninja Multiball.
    100:51
    All right. Ready? Three, two, one, go. Wow, Mark almost gets the super skill. Britain got it right away.
    101:02
    It's two shots for Mark up there. That missed. Didn't go all the way around. There it is. Essentially as if he did the super skill as it went back into the shooter lane. So Mark's now trying to light pool. Both our friends has pool lit ready to go for his next block. And he drains the super skill time.
    101:39
    There is Mark just needs the Ellen pool now to relight his second lock. gets it. So, his second lock is lit now.
    101:51
    Bren had a nice shot there, but it just didn't have enough power to it.
    102:09
    Now, you can um light your locks when you're inside Little Deadpool multiball, but you cannot collect locks, right? So, Mark tilts there to relight it uh to get out of multiball as quick as possible. So, there's Mark's second lock. He's now shooting for the pool targets again.
    102:46
    All right. Brent makes his second lock. All right. And Brent's already got his third lock lit. Mark's still working on lighting his third lock. And Brent gets his third line. Gets it. Mark had trouble lighting it. Yeah. All right, Mark. Mark goes two-minute drill. Two-minute drill. Which switching games? Two-minute drill.
    103:36
    All right, we are thinking here this is a two-minute drill. Getting that super skill again. We and on different machines. On different machines. Yeah, really dialed in with that ball coming around.
    104:22
    Brent's working on his targets for little Deadpool at the moment. Probably Little Deadpool.
    104:30
    So, he has it lit green now. He's going to try to go mode start. Oh gosh. Don't drain because I think it resets your little Deadpool progress, right? I believe it does. Yes.
    104:43
    [Applause] Meanwhile, Mark is uh in his two ball in Sabertooth. in saber two. So Brent's just starting his mode right now. He's going to try to now lock it. He's also choosing saber two. Quick backhand on the fly and gets his lock. So now he just needs to unlock that ball.
    105:05
    All right. Mark's having a little trouble connecting with anything but little Deadpool and shots that he doesn't need. Unfortunately, not worth many points. Correct. All right, so Brenson is two ball multiball. He's at 13 million right now. He is actually ahead of Mark with 37 seconds to go. Mark drains out. Unfortunately, that puts him at square one.
    105:33
    He's got a He's got a light. There's no no quest lit, no battle lit. He's got to uh it's no dead or pool to do anything. So Brent just drained out of his multiball. He still has this. Oh, he actually got to add a ball from the mystery. So, he's actually still in his multiball. Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. All right, hands off. Brent moves on. That was a [Applause] It's a tough format. It really is. It's just It's brutal.
    106:17
    I mean, the the best way to think about it is you're in a way almost playing one ball. You've got one objective and you're going just for that as quick as possible. All right, our next match. This is a semifinals. So, top four. Top four semi-finals. So, we now are best of five. So, we're best of five now. Okay.
    106:44
    That is a smart move to make sure that you have quarters already in your pocket in case you do need to recoin. We have two San Dieans going. Yes, you could not stop it. You You failed to stop him. Mark failed. All right, while we wait here, reminder for everyone to come to Indis. What's that? Is it I who failed or you didn't even qualify? Doesn't matter. I don't need I would have it would be Adam. All right, come to Indis in January at the Museum of Pinball. It's going to be a great time. It's a great tournament. Uh this is the first year.
    107:32
    You have to make your choice before he does that. So in disk this this year Carl this is the first year you guys are doing a ticket instead of open qualifying. Yes card base instead of pump and dump. Yeah as they call it. I like that. Uh one of my first tournaments I ever went to was actually Which challenge did we pick? What do No. Okay. So, what are we playing right now? We didn't hear you. Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. All right. We're doing Little Deadpool. This is best of five for these two, which is one of each of the challenges.
    108:32
    They've all got katanas. They don't care about anything. showing the tutorial one more time. Raymond is making a good point that I should be showing these before every match and we meant to at this point. Someone could be coming in right now that hasn't seen this. Absolutely. And if you are just joining us right now, we are in Van Eyes, California uh at Ace Goi uh for the Deadpool Heads Up Launch Party. And I am Carl D'Angelo. I am Matt Pollock. We both got knocked out of the heads up first round. Yes, we did.
    109:20
    And this is the video that's not stopping on its own. All right. Are we ready? Are you ready? All right. Three, two, one, go. All right. So Raymond's on the left, Dererick's on the right. He's got one drop target down. Derek Raymond can't get out of the slings. He just got murdered in this thing. And now he's got it lit for his lock. Owen drains out of it, which I believe we said that resets it. I believe so.
    109:59
    Little Deadpool. All right. Raven needs one more hit to lock the ball. Dererick had to start over. So much for the fast challenge. I feel like nerves might be setting in. Derek's having trouble. There it is. So, he lights it. All right, Raymond locked the ball. Oh, Dererick's Raymond. Raymond takes it. All right, Raymond won.
    110:52
    Which machine, Raven? They are switching machines. So, Katana time, you need to shoot both of the ramps. You don't actually have to make it all the way around that ramp. You just have to make that lane. Correct. But you do have you can't get two on the right. You have to alterate. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Now, if you have the two bottom lit, you don't have to alternate. You just need the first set done, then the second set. Okay.
    111:19
    Okay. Are we ready? Three, two, one, go. So, Raymond's now on the right. gets his almost super skill shot, but that lights one of his diamonds that he needs. Gets his second diamond on the left.
    111:41
    Derek is working on his second diamond. All right, so Raymond's got three diamonds now. Now he's trying to go the left ramp to get his second level completed. Derek having trouble finding that right lane, that right ramp lane. There it is. It's just hand. There it is. There's his second level done. Oh, and gets his third. Now he just needs his final left ramp to start Katanorama and finish the goal. All right, Derek has his third shot now.
    112:15
    Raymond trying to get control right now just to have a clean shot. Drains
    112:23
    just checks his opponent. Cannot find that shot. I always wonder if you can backhand that set. Oh, he makes it all the way around the ramp though this time. Raymond still trying to get control. Two shots for Derek. Raymond still working on his one left ramp. Bricks it almost starting a mode that would slow things down. Oh, gets a cradle but rushed it just a Derrick's got one shot left on the right. Raymond just started it. That was a close one. Nice match.
    113:01
    All right. Two to zero. All right. We are doing a quest. Going to start a quest. How to light and start a quest tutorial. Shoot the right orbit to light chim chongas. Those collect chim chongas are the lit orange arrows to light a quest. Four of them will light quest. And then you collect it at the And there's one more on the Wolverine uh shot that goes up the middle. You just can't see it on the video. Okay. So, there's five. Yeah, there's there are actually six different shots, I think. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six. Okay. Yes. Okay. Are we ready? All right. Three, two, one, go. Raymond's going for the short ones again. be on this. Yep. But he they both missed and Dererick makes makes the shot to light the Chimmy Chong. All right, there's Raymond. He's got his Chimmy Chongas lit now. Derek's down one. Needs three more. Mode, but I believe No, you can still collect. You can still collect them. Yes, you can still collect them during you just can't start it.
    114:29
    All right, this is do or die for Derek now. It is. Derek's at two.
    114:43
    This is when the nerves really start kicking in. Yes, it does. So Raymond's got one more chimmy challenger. Same as Derek. But again, Raymond is still in his mode. So he will have to drain out of it to or timeout to light his actual quest. Correct. So Dererick's trying for that Wolverine lane, what I was talking about. And he hits it, which lights the uh lights the quest. You just need to shoot it in there and then select it. All right. Starts it. Derek wins that match.
    115:21
    Okay, this is best of five since it's semi-finals. So, we have two challenges remaining from the list.
    115:35
    Yes, Ninja and two-minute drill are left. All right, Raymond has chosen the right machine on the right. Two-minute drill. I feel like Raymond picked the right machine just in case if Derek did pick Ninja Multiball. Yeah. Okay, we are playing a two-minute drill. Two minutes. Highest score wins. Are you both ready? Okay.
    116:14
    All right. Here we go. In five, four, 3, 2, 1, go. [Music] All right, both missed their super skill.
    116:29
    All right, Derek starts his first mode. He's shooting saber-tooth. Now he's going to go for a little Deadpool, my guess. One more shot to light to lock it. He's got it locked. You just need to hit the drop targets to unlock it. And oh, so close. Raymond still having trouble hitting the scoop on his ball too. All right, Derek finally releases the second ball. The value is going to be pretty low for that now. It took him a while cuz there's a countdown. So now he just needs to focus on saber-tooth shots. I would say the lanes up top would be good. the lanes or I mean the center shot's not bad if you do have issues shooting the orbits for Sabertooth, right? Raymond's just having a really hard time getting that scoop right now. All right, Dererick's back in the upper lanes. He's actually It looks like he might have He does. So, he does actually have Colossus, which is double finished. We've got 48 seconds left. Raymond, he's got a long ways to go. just lit his little dead pool. Um he does have uh double scoring though, so if he can make some quick shots here, he might be able to catch up pretty quickly. Where's his double scoring? Uh Colossus. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The team up. The team up. Yeah, he brought in Colossus. Okay.
    117:55
    Derek is still in Little Deadpool multiball and despite the fact that he's finished um finished his uh battle. Raymond's already up at 21. Uh really needs to get some orbits or center shots. Derrick's going to get an out ball here. 7 6 5 4 3 two one hands off. All right. And this looks like Derek takes his match. So, we're going to our final. So, we have Ninja Multiball for the final. Oh my gosh. Hold up. Hold up. We're not done yet. Oh, that bonus wasn't quite it. Look at that. Wow. Raymond takes it. Incredible. Wow. I wish I need I need Yeah, we did. I thought that was over. Jeez,
    118:49
    how did that happen? Three to one. Okay, then that was exciting. Match.
    119:03
    Move on to our next. So, who will Raymond face? We've got Mark Mleco Schultz and Brent Stoddard. And Mark, you are the high seed.
    119:22
    Scribble three. It looked like it was uh bonus. Yeah, double. Oh, that's a good question. SD pinball. I don't know if Colossus is actually double Colossus is double scoring in the mode. I don't know if that applies to bonus as well. Two-minute drill. All right, we're starting with two-minute drill here. And Brent, you're getting more quarters. Which game do you want? This one. You good right now? All right, so we're doing a twominut drill. Look at all those bits from Laziness.
    119:53
    A lot of salt right there. A lot of salt. All right, we have a two-minute drill for the first challenge of Mark and Brent. Ready? All right. Oh, I have to stop the timer before I get started. Five, four, three, two, one, go.
    120:23
    All right, Mark got his super skill shot right away. Nice. Brent actually hit it but didn't.
    120:40
    Mark's got his little blue Deadpool lit, ready to block. He's going to start his battle. What's he going to pick? What's he going to pick? All right. So, Brent's got his little Deadpool open now. He's got it lit. He does not want to hit back in there until he starts a mode. Oh, and he does. So, he's going to end up lighting Little Deadpool, which now takes his mode away. All right. Well, Mark's in the juggernaut and in uh in Little Deadpool multiball. If you're looking at the chat, we're seeing uh that may have been a bug that caused that score that caused Raymond's score to jump. They've clipped it. I will uh we'll have to review it, but there's nothing we can we have to what whatever the game gives is what what it is. We can't we can't change the scores. So, unfortunately for um for Derek, it's still a loss. Yeah,
    121:35
    scores lie as the game show or however you want to say that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of games in in pinball that uh bonuses will say something and then it won't be or vice versa.
    121:53
    So Brent finally getting to his mode start. He's going to pick Sabertooth. He's at 10 million with only 17 seconds left. 15
    122:06
    [Applause] 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 two one All right, hands off. All right,
    122:26
    that match goes to Mark. So that's one zero. One zero. Fresh set. So, it's Brent's choice. Your choice, Brent.
    122:49
    Katana time. Let's see how to light katana time. How to start it. How to start it. How to start it cuz it instantly starts. You can't light it, right? shoot the ramps or just the lane. That right one again does not have to go all the way to the ramp. Just that ramp shot and then once they're lit, it automatically starts and it's done each level. Doesn't have to be alternating. All right, ready? All right, three, two, one, go.
    123:29
    All right, Brent gets one on the left ramp right away. Gets his second one. Goes all the way up and around, which is nice cuz it feeds the right flipper to potentially hit the left ramp again. All right, Brent's on three diamonds. Marco Berkeley was in a mode and uh I've seen a lot of people uh try and backhand that left ramp from a cradle uh on the left flipper. I don't know if that's actually possible. I haven't seen anyone successfully do it exactly.
    124:02
    All right, Mark's at the three shots going on four. He's got four. Yeah, he's got five now. He's got one left on the left ramp. Frank can't seem to find that left ramp right now.
    124:20
    All right, Mark. Can't get out of trying. misses that ramp with the left orbit. There it is. So Brent's now on his third level. All right, one dead even right now. Mark gets it. Oh, wow. That was so close. Someone clip it. I could not catch it. I don't know. All right. All right. Uh chat room, please. Someone clip that. We got to watch that. We do have to watch that. I don't Yeah, that's that's a photo finish. All right. Give us some time.
    124:55
    All right, someone in the chat, please, please, please clip that. We are relying on you. Yeah, we we that was too close to call. I was watching Brent on the right. Uh ball coming right down the katana and he hits it. They both left. All right, Darkly Curley says left player first. We are waiting for the clip. Someone's got to be Someone's clipping it, please. Photo finish. All right, we're checking out the clip here.
    125:32
    This is referee review right now if it will play. Okay, we're going to have to step through this frame at a time, huh? My gosh, look at the animations. They are They're so close. Okay, it looks like it's a Mark. Yeah, Mark did get it slightly before. I mean, yeah, just name right up after. Wow, that is so close.
    126:14
    All right, I got to get rid of the time there. That's funny. I left that there. Oh, you left it up there. Yeah, left it up there the whole time. That was That was too much. All right, so that's um 20 20 mark. All right, Bren. That was good.
    126:39
    Prince thinking what he wants to do. Poor pick machine. This is do or die for him at this point.
    126:54
    They've already done the two-minute drill and katanorama. Correct. So, we have uh start a quest, start a quest, ninja multiball, or little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. Little Deadpool. I'll be honest, that's an interesting choice. That's a very quick start, quick finish mode. And Mark, you're choosing that game. All right.
    127:36
    So, again, you don't actually have to drop all three. Um, you could drop the top one and get it up in there and lock it that way.
    127:52
    All right, are we ready? Three, two, one, go. All right, Mark has dropped targets down already. Two of them. Brent's ball saved, but he's stuck in the sling. And he then collected his ninja lock, which is going to slow him down. All right, Mark takes a nice shove there to try and stop him from center draining and successfully does it. Oh, and he just drained. So, all that work on those drop targets are gone for Brent. So, he has to start back over. Mark needs one more shot to uh block the ball in Little Deadpool. And he's locked it. One more drop target. On gets back into the shooter lane. All right, so he just lit it and Mark gets bricked on the target. All right, so Brent blocked it and Mark wins.
    128:46
    These are exciting matches. These are Okay, we are now moving to the uh bronze match. This is for third and fourth place. Yeah, we're going to do the bronze match first.
    129:12
    Yeah. You are in the high seat. All right, we're deciding our matches here. Thank you guys for the bits. Please just dead flip. You're awesome. You rock.
    129:46
    All right, we are doing what? Ninja Ninja Multiball. And Dererick is Brent chose the the objective. Derek chose the right game. There's one lock lit when they start the game. Then to light additional locks, you have to spell fool. Can you light multiple ninja locks? No. You have to collect each lock before you light the next. One at a time. Stop this thing here. All right. Are we ready? Three, two, one, go.
    130:26
    All right. Both of them missed their super skill shots. All right. So, there's Derek's first lock.
    130:35
    Brent trying to post pass to get it over to get uh he's got Oh, and that looked like a solid shot for Brent, but it it rejected
    130:47
    I wish I had played the game a little more beforehand and gotten better at the stick target, the little ricochet. Oh, yeah. To not have to go all the way around. Yeah, there's I bet there's a nice spot on the flipper that you can consistently hit it through easier with it if you can if you can find that spot. Yeah. Yeah. This is for three and four. All right. Brent has another shot and then rejects. Derek almost got it up and around for a second one. All right. There's Brent's first block. He's now going to need the O and the L in pool since he already has two of the letters.
    131:27
    And unfortunately, he lights he starts his little Deadpool multiball. I don't know if he's going to try and drain out here or if he's going to tilt out or he's got to wait for the ball save to die out. There's going to super skill shot this hopefully for his second lock. Oh, almost. It went up and just ricocheted out. All right, there it is. So, there's Derek's second lock. All right. Well, Brenson Brent tilts out finally. All right. So, Derek's got O and O uh to light his third lock. He's got one more O left. Dererick's on the right hand side. Brent's second lock on the super skill shot right there. Two letters. All right. So, Derek has now just lit his third lock. Oh, I'm sorry. Brent has a lock. It must have been stacked.
    132:24
    Yeah, I think you might be able to. Yeah. All right. All right. Is that ninja first? That is [Applause]
    132:39
    Yes. Okay, friends. Next challenge. You can pick game or or challenge.
    132:52
    Katana time. Same game. All right. Katanorama. So this is then do or die for Brent. This is do or die for Brent. Yes. Dererick has won the first two. And this is the third and fourth place match. They each got a katana though, so I'm sure they're happy. This is just for pride and for a payout. A little extra payout. Yeah. Yep. Okay. Are we ready?
    133:29
    Brent being a good sport there. All right, three, two, one, go. All right, Brent instantly uh gets his left or his right shot and shoots it again. Derek's got his bottom level completed. level one got his second. So, three diamonds completed.
    134:04
    Bren's having trouble. He's trying He's trying to backhand something
    134:12
    and drains. Derek settles down, gets a nice cradle shot to get level two completed. So, he's got two more left. He's got one more left on the right to start Tanorama. He's way ahead of Bren. And gets it. And that's it. That was it. All right.
    134:39
    And that settles the bronze match. Derek finishes third place. and Brent finishing in fourth. We're way off. Are we crazy? We might be. Boy, oh boy. I It's been a lot of pinball today. I am sorry. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Thank you, lazy. What are we playing? We are starting a quest. We got Raymond. Wow. We're horrible.
    135:15
    commentators that don't know what they're talking about. Isn't that great? That's the break was just up and I can make excuses. Ready? Quest three, two, one, go. So this is the shoot the right orbit light chimmy chong chongas and then shoot four of the orange arrow shots. All right. So Derek just lit his Chimmy Chongas as did Brent. And Derek gets his first Chimmy Chonga. As does Brent. They're neck and neck at the moment. Derek stuck up in the pops for a little bit there. Brent's got a second. All right, there's Derek's second. Oh, almost made that inter. There's his third. Derek's got one more Chimmy Chonga to go.
    136:16
    There's three for tip flip. Brent starts a He's going to start a battle here, though. Derek drains. All right, Brent needs to get one shot to light it. Oh, he's going to tilt out, though.
    136:34
    There it is up the center. So Derek's got his west lit. So does Brent has it lit. Bren just needs to scoop. Dererick's hoping that it doesn't stay up in those pops. Brent's got a ball safe around. All right. Gets control. Oh, and misses. Goes hits.
    136:55
    All right. Here's Derek lining it up. There it is. Just needs to select it. And there it is. All right. Derek win. Now Derek Win three.
    137:12
    And now we go to the final match. Final match. Raymond versus Mark. Well, I believe Raymond was replaced with a oversized cat. Oh boy. Yeah. Let's uh We have Kittyman. Oh no. Oh, he takes off.
    137:31
    I tried tried to switch in time. I hope any children weren't watching at that time. Uh, that could have been terrifying for them.
    137:40
    Little Deadpool is our starting match. Let's see how to play how to start Little Deadpool, shall we? I would like to. I bet you didn't know how to do this yet, right? I I obviously with the way my commenting has gone, no, I did not. I don't know who's winning what or when or how. So, we're going to hit the little Deadpool target until the ball is locked behind the targets. That will then flash it orange. And once you hit the three, any of the three, that will release the multiball and you've officially started your little dead pool. So, in theory, four shots. That's all you need. Four shots. Four shots. Yeah. All right. Ready? Ready? Three, two, one, go. All right, Raymond gets one drop target right around two drop targets down.
    138:35
    There it is. So, he's going to try to hit it up to Mark's got Mark got a double hit there. That was fascinating. And Mark gets it. Mark actually got it. It hit the target and then must have rebounded off of a drop target that was stuck up and then hit the target. Hit the target again again. Yeah. Yeah. So, you can do it in actually quicker than four. All right, Raymond.
    139:04
    Two minute drill. While we wait for them to point up, I want to remind everyone quickly go to Indisk. Indisk, guys. It's an amazing tournament. Everyone in the chat, you're coming to Indis. Lords Creek SD pinball. Laziest. Laziest. Don't be so lazy. Come out. I haven't seen you in so long. Emoto dead flip jack get out here. But the biggest thing is also besides the amazing tournaments you guys are doing this year, there's 500 plus pinball machines that are available to play. An insane number, right? It's amazing. It's incredible. Scribble, when you win the tournament, you won't worry about that plane flight cost. That's true. It gets covered inside of you winning. Okay, here we go. Ready? 5 4 3 2 1 go.
    140:01
    So, it was interesting. Raymond tried to short for lunge there uh for the two-minute drill and now he's drained and on ball too, which means maybe he's going for a quest instead of a battle. Oh, are they worth that much more? I honestly can't tell you,
    140:21
    but Mark is uh using his strategies used every time. Juggernaut combined with Little Deadpool. Nice. Doing everything else but working on Little Deadpool. Oh, there he finally goes. And he starts his saber-tooth battle. Now he's working on his little Deadpool targets.
    140:51
    Raymond's just trying to lock his ball still. There it is. So, now he's going to hit the targets and then finally get into some scoring.
    141:02
    Mark's uh doing pretty good on his uh juggernaut here. He's hit a lot of shots, but now he's out of multiball. All right, so Raymond's now just officially really getting into it. Uh, starting his little Deadpool with Saber-tooth running. He's going to need some Orbits or Wolverine center shots. All right, Mark's kind of in jail here in single ball. He's got to hit these Deadpool targets in order to get the juggernaut shots, which he just did.
    141:32
    And he uses he's got a 2x playfield right now because he hit the snick target. I think that's what's called up. So, he's got 30 seconds, I think, of double scoring. And he's got the battle complete right now at the scoop. This is big points if he hits that. Big points. Raymond's still got at least two more hits. Oh, and he misses. He got He got gets it. All right.
    142:02
    So, Mark's score should be pretty big here. 81 after that cuz he was double playfield when he got there. Double playfield.
    142:21
    the same one, right? Correct. Have to be unique. We've got Ninja Katanorama.
    142:33
    Yes, Dr. Curly Tech. The high stakes tournament is a $50. No, that one's not $50 card tournament that we're running at Indisk. It's a an experiment we're doing. You guys did uh We'll see how it goes. And quest so far, right? Two-minute drill. Okay. Yeah. So, you can do start a quest, Katanorama, or ninja multigall. [Music]
    143:15
    and how do we do that? We get rid of the time. That's what we do. Deadpool time though. It is Deadpool time. It is heads up battle over here in uh Van Eyes, California at Ace Gogeek. Uh great Korean barbecue spot. And what are there like 19 pinball machines here? Uh let's see. There's only 16 in this room and three in front. Yeah, in this today we have 18 in this room. 18. We had 69 total entrance inside today's tournament. 70. 70. We did reach 70. 70. We had 70 players. Incredible. Okay, we are playing katanorama time. We are two zero. Mark is up two wins to zero. Raymond's on the line. Are we ready? Three, two, one, go.
    144:07
    Well, this is big for uh Raymond because, as you said, he won the last Heads Up tournament.
    144:18
    And he's already thrilled because he's getting a katana. He is. As is Mark, as is Brent, as is uh Derek. Derek. Yes.
    144:31
    signed by George Gomez, the man who created the machine. We'll have to get him on camera after after a Yeah, the katanas are great. They aren't trophy size. They are realsized life katanas. All right, Raymond is ahead here. It looks like Marcus, you have to hit a diamond. Raymond's got only two more left. One left and one right. center drains right there, giving Mark a little bit more time to try and catch up. All right, Mark got two shots. Raymond's got one left.
    145:09
    Doesn't look like it'll be a photo finish, but you never know. Raymond's Well, we're down. Mark only needs one shot now. That left ramp. And he gets it. Both. Raymond's with the lead, but Mark coming back strong. All right. And that's it. That was it. Three and0. Congratulations, Mark Schultz from San Diego. Raymond now putting back on his cat head. He should have played with it. I think that would have given him the edge. Maybe that would have done it. All right. So stay tuned, guys. We're We're going to do the trophy presentation. You guys are going to see these katanas.
    145:50
    See if I can get a camera turned around here and uh get a better view.
    146:08
    one more time quickly. Uh if you can show the indis Carl, if I can what? Show the indis promo. Sure. Uh everybody else, we've got a tournament uh January 11th to the 13th at the Museum of Pinball. Uh it's part of the Stern Pro Circuit. Uh we've got a high stakes league, a card-based qualifying uh or ticket base similar to that of what Papa was. Uh a kids division, a women's division, and two different days of classics. And all of this again is happening in Banning, California, where the Museum of Pinball hosts this tournament. And there are over 500 plus pinball machines on free play that you can play in between the tournament uh area. Uh really really great tournament, really great time. You can even come out and camp uh on the uh grounds of the Museum of Pinball. So great little tournament.
    147:13
    So they're starting to receive their katanas. Shane right there handing him out. Uh owner of Ace Goi and hosting this pinball tournament with the help of Carl D'Angelo streaming and his software Carl running the tournament. Yeah, we use mine here that's been DMT, right? Tournament or what is it? Drains drains tournament manager. DTM DTM. There's Raymond's katana. Show it. Show it to the camera. Signed by George Gomez.
    147:55
    Raymond. Kitty man. Kitty man. [Music] And there's Shane setting the uh Stern Army banner up for the photo. So you guys can't see anything.
    148:25
    Shane is the launch party king. I would absolutely agree. He has not missed one since
    148:36
    Aerosmith maybe. I think pirates may be missed. We may have a launch party for pirates. For pirates. Yeah, that just came in from Jersey Jack. That's a great great machine. Yeah. Incredible lineup here. Absolutely. Alien. I mean, where Yeah. Where can you go play Alien? Not many places.
    148:57
    Yeah. If anyone wants to see how the qualifying uh results went, they are on neverdrains.compool.
    149:07
    And then the uh Chilange bracket is chillange.com/deadpace ace. A YC E. Thank you everybody that watched. Thank you for the bits. Thank you for the help with the clips. Yes, that photo finish was something else.
    149:40
    All right. Here, Raymond. We're going to show a closeup of one of the katanas. Yeah. Signed by George Gomez. There it is. There's There's the signature. George Gomez on his katana. All right, I think that's it. Thank you everyone for tuning in. Uh, IE Pinball streaming on Twitch. Thank you everyone for watching. We'll see you again next time, whenever that is. Next time should be pinball at the Lake, right? Yes, that should be. Yeah. End of this month, uh, IE Pinball will be streaming Pinball at the Lake uh out in Lake or Riverside, California. Right. At Lake Alice. At Lake Alice. We are sold out and have a wait list. It's a great great problem to have. Pinball's growing. All right. Thank you everybody. Catch you later. Help you guys.