2020 Stern Pro Circuit Championship Game 13

Stern Pinball·video·26m 15s·analyzed·Aug 27, 2023

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TL;DR

2020 Stern Pro Circuit Championship Game 13 on The Mandalorian; Casmarczyk wins, Bevins eliminated.

Summary

This is a broadcast of Game 13 from the 2020 Stern Pro Circuit Championship finals, featuring a ladder elimination format where four players compete on The Mandalorian. Alexander Casmarczyk from Pittsburgh emerges as the winner of this match with 291 million points, advancing to the next round alongside Carl D'Angelo, while Lewis Bevins is eliminated. The commentary provides detailed gameplay analysis of multiball strategy, shot difficulty, and player skill on the machine.

Key Claims

The Mandalorian was released in 2021 by Stern Pinball, designed by Brian Eddy with software by Dwight Sullivan
high confidence · Formal game introduction by commentator Tim Sexton
Alexander Casmarczyk is ranked number five in the 2020 Stern Pro Circuit Championships
high confidence · Commentator introduction of player
The Stern Pro Circuit Championship uses a ladder finals format starting with four players, eliminating last place each game until two remain
high confidence · Tim Sexton explanation of tournament structure
Winner of the championship receives a championship belt, a new Stern Pinball Machine, and a five thousand dollar cash prize
high confidence · Tim Sexton description of championship prizes
The Ice Spider multiball on The Mandalorian is preferred over Pirates multiball because it features an unlimited Super Jackpot round after completing all multiballs
medium confidence · Commentator analysis during gameplay

Notable Quotes

“I like Mandalorian got safe shots and I usually will go for the multiball and I always feel pretty confident on the return of the shot”
Jason Wardrick @ mid-match commentary — Player strategy insight on The Mandalorian shot selection
“I had hit the right targets one time which swapped the multiballs from the really lucrative one that I could have probably come back on to the questionably valuable one that I got”
Lewis Bevins @ post-match interview — Analysis of critical gameplay mistake that eliminated him from the tournament
“this is definitely a tough field today I mean everybody deserves to be here everybody's worked hard in the 2019 season we're gonna see what happens I'm gonna do what needs to be done it's very tough for the players to react”
Player (identity unclear in transcription) @ mid-match — Commentary on competitive difficulty and player skill level
“not gonna burn it yet ha ha good little uh pinball pun there”
Tim Sexton (commentator) @ Lewis Bevins' multiball — Casual commentary; Lewis declined to use flamethrower multiplier on Pirates multiball

Entities

Alexander Casmarczykperson Jason Wardrickperson Carl D'Angeloperson Lewis Bevinsperson Tim Sextonperson The MandaloriangameStern Pinballcompany

Signals

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community_signal: Pittsburgh established as significant competitive pinball hub with multiple top players from the area competing in Pro Circuit
medium · Alexander Casmarczyk and Lewis Bevins both listed as from Pittsburgh, PA area in a field of four players
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competitive_signal: Ice Spider multiball identified as strategically preferred mode over Pirates multiball due to unlimited Super Jackpot round mechanics
medium · Commentator notes 'Ice Spider is probably the preferred multi-ball of the three you can get at the razor Quest shots because of that unlimited Super Jackpot round'
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design_philosophy: Left ramp shot on The Mandalorian identified as problematic through repeated commentary about difficulty and poor outcomes across all players
medium · Commentator repeatedly notes the left ramp 'has been killing all the players' and references its difficulty multiple times throughout the match

Topics

Tournament format and structureprimaryThe Mandalorian gameplay strategy and shot selectionprimaryMultiball modes and scoring optimizationprimaryPlayer skill assessment and performanceprimaryPlayfield ergonomics and ball routing difficultysecondaryProfessional pinball commentary and broadcast presentationsecondaryPittsburgh pinball communitysecondary

Sentiment

neutral(0.5)— Broadcast maintains professional, sports-commentary tone focused on objective gameplay analysis. No strong positive or negative sentiment; tone is analytical and informative.

Transcript

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foreign of the stern pro circuit championships I'm your host Tim Sexton and I'm here to bring you up to speed with everything going on in this circuit final so far Stern pro circuit Championship is an exciting ladder finals format this means starting with four players we eliminate the last place player and bring in a new player until we're down to just the final two the winner of that game wins a championship belt a brand new Stern Pinball Machine and also a five thousand dollar cash prize let's take a look at our field my name is Alexander casmarczyk and I am from the Pittsburgh PA area my name is Jason wardrick I'm from Park Ridge Illinois my friends from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania I'm Carl D'Python Anghelo and I'm from Fontana California in each match the top seeded player has the opportunity to choose the game or choose their order on the game the game I chose today is Mandalorian pinballs I feel confident on Mandalorian it's a game I own and play a lot game in this match is the Mandalorian released in 2021 by Stern Pinball designed by Brian Eddy and software development by Dwight Sullivan Alexander casmarchek from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania joins us as rank number five in the third pro circuit championships he has selected the Mandalorian takes a plunge of the right flipper immediately up the middle to start working toward his razor crest multi-box Alexander's made three shots now his next shot will start the multiball takes a till morning though to save the ball sends it back around the right orbit a nice live catch on the right flipper tries to backhand the right ramp so it looks like he's going to try to bring in his missions he has his left ramp hit there which is one of the two shots he needs to light the scoop for the missions he needs either the scoop again or the right ramp makes a nice nudge without taking any dangers to stop the ball from going into the left out lane backhands the scoop back into the scoop again and starts the mission falls into the scoop again that one doesn't do anything for him but he now has a shot up the middle and he will start Ice Spider multiball here on ball one Alexander has not taken his flamethrower yet to get double scoring on his shots looks like he's just gonna take these jackpots for about 3 million each here at the beginning of the multiball foreign each now gets all balls trapped on the lower flippers shoots the right ramp and over under cradle separation gets the two balls trapped again on the right flipper from the left flipper he's trying to shoot something gets a trap of the leftover again backhand to the left to ramp that's a mission Shot and a jackpot at the same time now to the upper Playfield he's actually staging the right upper flipper so he's flipping it only halfway so only the upper flipper activates while he keeps the two balls trapped on the lower Playfield gets two million every time he hits that Target up top just needs a right orbit shot now he's looking to get the ball on the left flipper winds up hitting it there and his unlimited time Super Jackpot round now is available at the Right Scoop Alexander's down to two balls in play this ball is bouncing out of control between the slingshots takes a shot at the Super Jackpot but misses both balls out of control one goes down the middle and that Super Jackpot round will not last after the multiball ends which it has here so 54 million for his Ice Spider multiball and he is now still in his mission making Mission shots 5 million points there shot to the scoop here for the mission goes for it it can be tougher on that right flipper it bounces out of the scoop backhand more successful completes the mission for 7 million points so Alexander now after that first mission and multiball is over 100 million points now he's playing his first encounter level hits one target but the ball comes back down the Playfield now he's going for his Hunter Target so it looks like Alexander's interested in starting a second multiball on this ball however if he shoots the right ramp or sorry the left rip it'll divert it's going to divert up into that upper Playfield which will not give him an in lane for the hunter mode to start looks like he's just interested in playing this encounter first portion of that encounter level done he's up to level two on the encounter will he go back for it yep he's going to continue going through the encounters has to complete these targets and then get to level three and then he can really get some big points but has not gotten there yet but now trapped in the left flipper he'll take a shot at the right ramp uh that sends the ball out the left out lane I like Mandalorian got safe shots and I usually will go for the multiball and I always feel pretty confident on the return of the shot Jason it's likely to start out here with a short plunge to the right flipper get the ball up the middle to start making some progress on the multiball instead takes a full plunge all the way around the Playfield oh starts his Ambush mode goes up the middle so he will be in it for a while he needs to make a right scoop shot and a right ramp shot uh he's not happy about this so he's gonna take the shot here and complete it by shooting the right ramp but no back into it this forces him to make another Right Scoop shot this could be the death of many players they don't want to spend the time building up this mode they don't have any multiball they could go into right now can't time it out because he did make that first ambush shot so now he's adding more time by shooting up the middle time can build up into a bigger payoff it's only 2.8 million right now Jason's not happy that he's in this feature tried to make a catch on the right filter but winds up bouncing the ball into the left scoop so he's up to 8.9 million now two shots and a combo can finish it for him he's going to go for it there needs the right ramp instead shoots the middle now he's back into Ambush up to 10 million now there he goes collects the Ambush value finally for 9.9 million very risky but he manages to get out of it now he still has a couple shots left to light his multiball he does not have the Ice Spider multiball lit either like Alexander had just gonna try the forehand to that scoop always a tough shot did not work for Jason that one worked for him though settles nicely in that scoop and he just has one shot up the middle to start his multiball has to go all the way up the ramp though takes a danger but a nice bounce over there gets him a trap no harm there he's into multiball Jason is going to use his flamethrower to light all his shots for double scoring Jason's already up to 75 million points he has plenty of jackpots and mode shots lit right now uh he's down to two balls in play though on this multiball and no ball save time remaining over a hundred million points now for Jason so ball has disappeared somewhere yeah he's looking for it so he's in Pirates multi-bot but only one ball in play the other ball is not coming three Jason is requesting a tournament director to come over free the stuck ball he winds up freeing it on his own by actually shooting up top around the ramp so it looked like it was stuck on that diverter we were probably didn't have a great angle of it on the camera but now the multiball ends Jason at 127 million points he's gonna shoot the scoop again to try to light some more missions it looks like he has a scope mode lit when he rolls over the left in Lane next will just be a really quick mode oh and a little half engagement of The Flipper there forces the ball into the right out lane not really intentional by Jason to make what we call a tap pass there that sent the ball a little too high over the slingshot into the right out lane Lewis Bevins is stepping up to the game looking excited to play a game of Mandalorian here starting with the soft plunge trying to beat the auto plunger trying to make a live catch but instead sent the ball up to right ramp takes a danger already but makes a great dig out of the right Outlet to get that ball from drink away from draining shoots up the middle softening up the razor Crest multi-bought is one hit away now has to go around the ramp takes a nice shot to the left ramp he tried a post catch there in the left flipper just flipping early enough to stop the ball winds up getting control of it even though it kind of sent the ball careening up the Playfield and he's thinking about something shot towards the Right Scoop okay he's gonna take the mission now and he's not getting these live catches he's flipping a little late and actually pushing the ball back up the Playfield but that was a great live catch has it there now shoots up the ramp into his Pirates multiball and he's not going to take his flamethrower he says that out loud not gonna burn it yet ha ha good little uh pinball pun there so Lewis not making many multiball shots any of these balls gonna come back or his multiball over it's looking very over for Louis Bevins 4.5 million in multiball that is a wasted opportunity on that pirates multiball no jackpots hit no progress made in his mission now he's in single ball play playing through this mission only has 15.9 million points now oh and he was not able to dig that ball out of the middle on that half ramp Lewis unfortunately did not make anything into that situation he had there with the multiball and the mode stacked leaving him at just 16 million which gives our next player Carl D'Python Anghelo a chance to strike back and put the pressure on Lewis Bevins Carl starts with a soft plunge to a perfect live catch on the right flipper and immediately up the middle to start working on his razor crest multiball interestingly enough only player one Alexander had the Ice Spider multiball what is his first multiple everyone else has the Pirates ulti Ball but by hitting the pub over there Carl has changed it to Ice Spider and Ice Spider is probably the preferred multiball of the three you can get at the razor Quest shots because of that unlimited Super Jackpot round that happens after you complete all your multiballs Carl's admission one now he brings in multiball one now he brings in the flamethrower Carl is going all in now here on ball one as player four every shot he hits now is doubled if it has the flamethrower orange color on it just out of two balls in his multiball the ball safe timer is very short here this Mandalorian game oh that ball goes down the middle so he's unable to make it to that Super Jackpot rounds he has a chance for some points on that upper Playfield but ball came rocketing dab but not before Carl gets 200 million already that flamethrower and that Mission Point stacked up with those multiball shots he really made quick work despite not hitting all his jackpots look at that asset award 19.3 million into the scoop completes find the asset for another 20 million points 171 million points from five on the asset that was a great score puts Carl now at 267 million way ahead of all the other players this is a great ball one for Carl D'Python Anghelo try to go for the hunter targets there and those caused a drain for him but he he already had a great ball one there so Carl well in the lead and we're heading back to Alexander who started strong but finds himself now in third place with his razor Crest hurry up lit up the middle he's in the middle of his first encounter level two and he could get into a mission with some ramp shots oh but that right sling sends it right into a dead zone above the slingshot drains out the left out lane Alexander was not able to get anything done on that ball too so Jason comes in with a soft plunge that he gets a nice live catch on his right flipper with but a half ramp sensible down the middle again two quick balls here so far on ball two this is Louis's chance to get back in the game Lois is trying to psych himself up a little too short on the soft plunge trying to beat the Otto plunger having trouble with it now a bump Off the Wall sends the ball into the slingshots but he has control on the left flipper and he's going to go for his razor Crest hurry up half ramp there sets the ball into a slingshot oh this is definitely a tough field today I mean everybody deserves to be here everybody's worked hard in the 2019 season we're gonna see what happens I'm gonna do what needs to be done it's very tough for the players to react that ball returning down the ramp so let's see if players start avoiding that shot or start hitting it with a with the left flipper instead so going to be some adjustments later in this game Kyle goes for the super skill shot a bold play there he has to shoot the Right Scoop she hits with the backhand and shoot the right ramp and after that he could select what he wants he does not hit the right ramp so far now he gets it so he goes up the middle here he goes immediately into his next feature which is the hurry up round so he's now into these razor Crest hurry UPS collecting a million there another hurry up is running collecting 1.9 million for that hurry up and now he has his second razor Crest multiball lit four more shots to light that and if you can keep making those live catches every time on the left flipper oh that one went a little Beyond The Flipper there he just got some Flipper on it the left flipper to stop the ball from draining now one more to light razor Crest multiball hits the target it is now ready will Carl decide to go for it yeah he's gonna go for his missions now the missions are lit but that ball decided it wanted to go out the left Outlet however Carl will keep all that progress on his multiball for an Xbox so he'll just need one shot to get into the multi goal on ball three if he needs it Carl is currently in the lead Europe and now we have Alexander who's in second place looking to get some more points trying to get a buffer above Jason Vortex score and he goes immediately for that left ramp that's just been killing all the players so far now he goes into The Foundry Foundry is a mystery word we get to select uh what you trade your best car for Alexander has not used his flamethrower yet so it's not available to purchase but all of these features can be purchased giving him something outlayed ball safe that's a great one you can toggle that with the flippers to prevent any balls decide to go down the left out lane from draining and ending your ball in play now Alexander is going to use his flamethrower lights all his shots of the Playfield backhands left ramp into the upper Playfield for the encounter there he goes on to the level three of the encounter just needs that one more Target up the middle to complete that and get to the bonus level so Alexander's kind of making progress and making his way through all the features of the game with every shot here there's a shot around the left orbit brings him almost to Jason wardrick's score 136 million shoots into the hunter targets makes a great live catch on the left back hands into the scoop did not give him any points there he's still 10 000 below now he pulls ahead of Jason wardrick here on ball three now he's looking to chase down Carl the Angelus score of 288 million he's really interested in shooting that left scoop it looks like hits it there only for about seven million points and now back to the upper Playfield this could be big he will get to the bonus level here if he's able to make that middle shot he's not make it there live catch on the rifle for sending it back up the ramp Alexander is hitting the ramp very well right now there he goes into the bonus level shoot the roving targets here for a lot of points you can see his score go up to 157 million plus little bows 162 million and that ends that first encounter now Alexander's going up the middle he has his razor Crest hurry up lit there's only a couple shots for this first hurry up but it starts now starts at 1.9 million it's counting down uses his ball save he purchase at The Foundry and do a short plunge but this valuable time on the hurry up is ticking down down to 1.4 million decides to shoot the right Ram there he goes that's his first hurry up shot up the middle second hurry up shot for 2.9 Million ending the hurry up round and now with his green arrows lit he can work his way toward his next razor Crest multiball looks like he's going for three more freezer quests two more for razor Crest multiball Great live catch decides to start the mission now he is also in his Hunter mode she needs to complete by shooting the orbits that will give him a lot of best car not so many points though and he already went to the bad dream maybe he doesn't care about it too much wines have started jet pack multiball so he is back into the stack of his mission with his multiball with the hunter music playing so he's still in that hunch around down to two balls in play oh sorry three balls of play one was stuck over the upper Playfield but it's back up top now oh that Playfield is really tough in that steep position as a Super Jackpot lit at the Right Scoop does not hit us there a little early uh this will time out only 12 and a half million I might want to go for it it's probably the biggest award lit on the Playfield for him right now now it decides to hit the scoop instead there he goes for the end of his jetpack multiball with the Super Jackpot still in this Hunter mode he needs to shoot a right orbit to complete that for some best scar and that will help light his razor Crest features if he does hit it now the hunter mode times out not able to complete it but he starts his next mission this is consistent scoring by shooting these yellow arrows around the Playfield shooting for the right ramp there he hits it 28 million points shot there great shot for Alexander now she's left ramp for seven million points this puts up just under Carl D'Python Anghelo's score nudges the ball into the slingshot around the left orbit that probably puts him in the lead yes 291 million drains out the right Ally but not before Alexander comes from third place into first place on his ball three which great and very Speedy play on the Mandalorian here that Jason Warrior chick goes with a short plunge to start his ball three here he has his hurry up around just two shots away he'll go for that it looks like take some bumps off the orbit guide double danger he's gonna wait a little bit make sure this game doesn't tilt on his next move will he go for the scoop he decides to go for the scoop just start that mission now missions are worth more points than the hurry up around however they require making more difficult shots like this right ramp or Right Scoop hurry up round has started for Jason now oh did not expect the ball to bounce off the bottom of that slingshot post there goes down the middle and now it comes down to Jason werntrick and Lewis Bevins one of these two players will be eliminated in this game with Alexander and Carl D'Python Anghelo being safe and moving on to the next game Lewis has a lot of work to do here if he wants to get to a multiball or a mission starts by making a great nudge out of the right outline again hitting a slingshot though another shot up the middle another slingshot he's not getting enough off of the left wall when it comes around that time he did get a trap there but he wasn't able to hold it oh a half ramp he makes a bailout flip there which is great for him 5 million for this hurry up there that completes the hurry up round so now Lewis has to get all the way through these razor Crest shots to get to his next multiball and if he's hitting these slingshots as much as he is he's going to have some trouble oh that big slingshot on the left is so sensitive sending the ball out of control every time Lewis is fighting getting the ball back under control back up the middle a danger there but keeps it away from the slingshot for a little while so cannot make moves that big but he's finally into the jetpack multiball Louis has he used his uh flamethrower yet I'm not sure I can't see the button here no his flamethrower is available he has not used it he's in the multiball he has jackpots lit is he saving it for the Super Jackpot he now has three balls trapped that ball will come down from the upper Playfield this Ball's gonna cream into the other two balls uh loses a ball down the middle there now what's he gonna do for this position sends the ball out the out lane Lewis did not make much of that mode he's gonna take the Super Bowl jackpot here with no jet pack multiplier two warnings gone Lewis is really running out of opportunities and that ball goes down the middle unable to make the save it's like our steely-eyed competitor is heading back to the Steel City let's check in with Lewis Bevins see how he feels about his tournament performance I had hit the right targets one time which swapped the multiballs from the really lucrative one that I could have probably come back on to the questionably valuable one that I got stick around for more matches from the stern Pro Circa Championship let's see if any of these players can make it all the way to the finals