San Francisco City Champ 9 qualifying coverage from Free Gold Watch with 70-75 players competing in 12 Swiss rounds.
Summary
Coverage of San Francisco City Champ 9 qualifying rounds at Free Gold Watch, a pinball arcade and print shop in the Haight-Ashbury. The broadcast features hosts Manu Smith (Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 proprietor) and Derek Lipkin, with 70-75 players competing across 12 qualifying rounds of Swiss-format match play to determine the top 24 finalists for Sunday playoffs. The event showcases the SF Pinball Department league (95+ members) and highlights player talent including former world champion Andre Massinkov.
Key Claims
San Francisco Pinball Department has 95+ members and is one of the largest leagues on the West Coast
high confidence · Derek Lipkin states they 'just recently increased the membership to 95' and discusses it being 'one of the largest leagues I think maybe even on the west coast'
Andre Massinkov is a former world champion competing in City Champ 9 and has won the title multiple times previously
high confidence · Derek Lipkin: 'we have former world champion Andre Massinkov in that league and here in the field today looking to repeat as a City Champion uh he's won it on a couple occasions'
City Champ 9 uses 3-2-1-0 Pinburg-style scoring in Swiss-format match play with top 24 finalists advancing to Sunday playoffs
high confidence · Derek Lipkin explains: 'it's a three two one zero scoring so that means that if you get first place on your game with your match play group getting that three points two one zero for the last place uh just like Pinburg'
Games are prepared by technicians on Tuesday before the Saturday tournament, with continued maintenance through Friday night including tight tilt settings and disabled extra balls
high confidence · Manu explains the preparation process: 'the guys come in on Tuesday the Tuesday before and fix all the games...fixing games from Tuesday all the way until the tournament and then the night before the tournament all the tilts go really hard all the extra balls get turned off'
Free Gold Watch operates as both a pinball arcade and a commercial print shop that does work for Stern Pinball
high confidence · Derek Lipkin: 'it's actually a print shop so Free Gold Watch uh in addition to being the home of several pinball as well as video games...there's a certain pinball company that rhymes with Stern that uses Free Gold Watch'
Approximately 50 pinball machines are available at Free Gold Watch with most included in the tournament
high confidence · Manu: 'we have about 50 machines here at Free Gold Watch they're pretty much all in the tournament okay maybe with just a a few exceptions'
Tournament directors are Gene X Wong and Jared Garvey
Notable Quotes
“this is Free Gold Watch kids this is this is no joke uh I think Orbital One is in the tournament believe it or not...I'm kidding it's not one of the games although I wish it was”
Manu Smith@ 34:08 — Humorous reflection on the venue's tight space constraints and the physical challenge of fitting tournament machines
“the personalities and the people and so that as long as that shows through I think that is what really makes a a great broadcast of course having the technical savvy to have all the all the bells and whistles is wonderful but uh I think at the end of the day we you you really want to connect with folks”
Derek Lipkin@ 44:11 — Philosophy on streaming quality prioritizing personality over technical perfection
“it's a special kind of event being in San Francisco uh being at a special place like Free Gold Watch I think it really motivates the players in a way that you know might not be exactly the same for other tournaments”
Derek Lipkin@ 3:04 — Establishes venue importance and its psychological effect on tournament play
“Swiss tiered pairings so as the rounds progress the pairings the match play groups that will be set up together will be done so in a way that is as fair as possible you'll be playing people in your sort of relative uh area”
Derek Lipkin@ 39:07 — Explains tournament structure and pairing methodology
“there you never you're never out of it you gotta play hard to the end it's fantastic”
Derek Lipkin@ 41:16 — Commentary on competitive format encouraging full participation throughout
event_signal: City Champ 9 qualifying rounds streaming live on Twitch from Free Gold Watch; 70-75 players competing in 12 Swiss-format rounds with top 24 advancing to Sunday playoffs
high · Direct broadcast from venue with real-time player updates, standings tracking, and multi-camera setup showing game play and venue walkthrough
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community_signal: San Francisco Pinball Department league has grown to 95+ members and is among the largest on West Coast; Derek Lipkin and team continue managing operations
high · Derek states 'we actually just recently increased the membership to 95' and describes it as 'one of the largest leagues I think maybe even on the west coast'
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venue_signal: Free Gold Watch operates as hybrid pinball arcade/print shop with ~50 machines, professional tournament infrastructure via Match Play Out Events, and integrated streaming capability
high · Extensive venue tour showing diverse game library, tight spacing, multi-row machine configuration, professional camera rigs, and chat integration
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operational_signal: Tournament games undergo multi-day preparation starting Tuesday before Saturday event; includes complete servicing, tight tilt calibration, disabled extra balls, and continuous maintenance through Friday night
high · Manu describes detailed process: 'guys come in on Tuesday...fix all the games...fixing games from Tuesday all the way until the tournament and then the night before the tournament all the tilts go really hard all the extra balls get turned off'
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competitive_signal: Field includes elite talent such as former world champion Andre Massinkov and strong local/traveling players; early rounds show multiple players tied at 6 points (6-win rate) including Johnny Monica, Carl, Leslie, Hillary, and Zach
Topics
Tournament Format & StructureprimaryVenue & Location OperationsprimaryCompetitive Pinball Players & RankingsprimaryGame Selection & Machine MaintenanceprimaryStreaming & Broadcast ProductionsecondarySan Francisco Pinball Community & LeaguesecondaryGameplay Strategy & AnalysissecondaryTournament Infrastructure & Scoring Systemssecondary
Sentiment
positive(0.85)— Hosts express genuine enthusiasm for the tournament, venue, and community. Warm interactions with players and chat participants. High energy and collaborative tone throughout broadcast. No significant negative commentary except light-hearted joking about technical audio issues and game difficulty.
Transcript
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[Music] thank you welcome everybody here to beautiful San Francisco California at the home of pinball in San Francisco that's free gold watch out in the heat Ashbury happy to have you here with us today for City champ nine our humble little tournament here in the city by the bay having a lovely time having a great time and seeing my friend Ollie over here Lonnie Smith on the boards and here we are hello folks great to have you with us thanks so much buddy I think I think I'm here too but I'm on a remote yeah absolutely yeah we got Mario Smith the proprietor of mystery pinball Peter 3000 I am your co-host for the festivities this weekend also a player in the tournament and an official in the tournament my name is Derek Lipkin uh you might also know me as fresh poetic on on the various social media platforms that I like to use I haven't been around pinball as much as I would like to but this is a fantastic return to form for tournament play for myself and I know many other great players here in the city and Beyond so happy to have you here with us today we're hoping to have a great broadcast this weekend with myself and the the yeah he's he's doing too much so he can't even give himself a lower fair that is Manu Smith uh the the proprietor of mystery pinball Theater 3000 hello Brian O'Neal good to see you in the chat wish I was there bringing beer in London instead London Ontario Canada no I assume it's the United Kingdom uh but it is wonderful to have you here digitally uh and uh hoping to bring some great pinball action to you all later today and also throughout the weekend we had two days of tournament here that we're gonna be playing uh hi there hey you're so tall there I you know it's I was always taught to have good posture you know just power poses look we're like two minutes and I'm already swearing the family friendly broadcast friends I guess I could take these off there you go Manu is uh let's let's just be clear Manu is the brains behind this operation I'm you know you're the beauty I arguably the pretty face uh but I am just so delighted to have the broadcast back here uh we always have such a great time here at City champ perhaps some extremely high level pinball play I think it's also a place where players really come from across the country across the world and want to play well here because it is a special kind of event being in San Francisco uh being at a special place like free gold watch I think it really motivates the players in a way that you know might not be exactly the same for other tournaments huh well this is kind of a unique very unique place yes yeah it is a print shop for those that don't know and so we're out on uh Waller Street at stanyan in San Francisco you can go look it up on Google Maps uh or your look at this backdrop isn't this fantastic you actually can see here uh it's actually a print shop so free gold watch uh in addition to being the home of several pinball as well as video games and they even have a I just saw that they added a lupon the third typing game sort of like yeah Matt because Matt Henry is insane he has to have all the toys it's great I mean he has the space for it so this is a special place uh so yeah so it is a print shop uh day to day so you can see all the paint here to the side here we've actually all got the screens for the shirt printing and the poster printing uh so if you are ever in in need of shirts or other materials for team building events you can always call on free gold watch I think they ship uh I can't I guess I can't mention who their clients are but there's a certain pinball company that rhymes with cargo that uses free go watch there you go yes and it is integral to the pinball Community here it's the home of the San Francisco pinball Department which is the I'd say one of the the largest leagues I think maybe even on the west coast larger than like Seattle leagues no I think Seattle leagues they get they get pretty large uh they have just such a Vibrant Community out in Seattle but I think we do well on our own we actually just recently increased the membership to 95. so we have still not in it are you even on the waitlist no no don't blame them I'm just not in it so yeah so I I'm actually one of the commissioners of That League along with uh Andreas who is the proprietor of match played out events which we're using today for running the tournament uh Mara Devereaux and Russ sweetzer who are are we all took the mantle from Paris schwarzenberger who was the the TV the uh Commissioner of sfpd for a good long time up until just a few years ago and I think we've been doing them proud continuing to run the league having a fun time it's definitely one of the most wonderful communities that I'm a member of and just uh so supportive and all that so we and we have that's not to say that the pinball play is not super high level we have former world champion Andre massinkov in that league and here in the field today looking to repeat as a city champ uh Champion uh City Champion I should say uh he's won it on a couple occasions I I believe our our defending Champion can't be here today that's Brian O'Neal yeah so right but Brian Carl is here he's gonna get revenge there we go yeah we have uh yeah Carl from Southern California um we have just a fantastic set of folks from all across California all across the country very excited to play with them today and we're actually currently in the middle of round one so I'm just reading I'm just catching up on Brian's chat I wish I was there drinking there you go uh so since I'm not there to defend my title that means I never lost it right sure hey that's you know right off into the sunset I think that means that you can't come back to reclaim it right I like that um but yeah but anyway we we have today is qualifying so we're going to have 12 rounds of match play that we're gonna be playing uh up until probably the you know sort of evening maybe get done around seven o'clock uh so we're gonna be showing off I think a at least one round uh or every round from here on out we're currently in the first round uh as soon as the second round is gonna get underway we're gonna get our rig up onto the next game to show you some of that uh we're gonna have maybe a rotating cast of characters coming in here as talent to help talk you through the games tell you about the rules uh talk you through what's going on with the players especially thinking about tournament strategies and whatnot uh we're gonna be giving you a digest of the standings so you can see what's going on with the tournament uh if you want to find it on your own it's on the match play dot live webpage you can find it under City champ 9 so you can follow along at home there but we'll also be sharing that information with you here and uh who is the tournament director the tournament director for this one I think uh it's shared between Gene X Wong and Jared Garvey oh okay so in that order GNX is handsome and Jared is witty there you go there you go I like that I'm so in tune to reading chat though yeah ridiculous it said that's that's perfect but that's what we will go back and forth but yeah we're gonna want to hear from you uh we want to want to hear for you throughout the day uh Monty's going to be available I think throughout the day just will be available just on headphones yeah whatever yeah let us know if it if if you guys have trouble hearing us or hearing anything let us know this is kind of we're going to set the the technical Pace today tomorrow is the kind of the bigger day right tomorrow's the um right there's gonna be the playoffs between the top 24 in the field after today so they're gonna be playing down to uh groups still gonna be match play but I think uh we're gonna have eight players are gonna get a buy so uh if you're in the top eight you get to relax until I think closer to 11 o'clock noon before you have to get playing and then uh yeah we'll be following those match play groups uh for each of their uh sessions so once we have that group set up we're actually gonna be following that group for the entirety of their rounds we can get all the action uh for for that all the way up until the end so the final group okay it's gonna be fantastic I'm just following instructions right now all right and yeah we got in the chat Brian Brian's following along at home he says I see Johnny Monica he showed up on time make sure to check him for new variants of monkey pox jeez Louise the the fight wow uh Brian from London that's monkey box is real protect yourself yes it's uh yeah it's uh honestly we got it we got a great group here I think we've uh fortunately we're we're at covet's still real but I think we've all made the risk assessment to come here today and play uh we had some folks messing up but others not and I think for the most part this is a nice Breezy space so hopefully it's a uh it's something we don't see super spreader information coming out after but I think uh thus far everybody seems to be very respectful I checked the CDC they say it's cool yeah they're cool with most things at this point yeah they're like you do whatever you want we're good yep yep um but yeah anyway what's that what do you think we should do like um well I think we're gonna wait for the next round or yeah well uh certainly to get some for the pinball play I think at least until then we can talk a little bit about the uh maybe a little bit more about the format if folks have questions happy to answer that but you know just talking about we have about 50 machines here at free gold watch they're pretty much all in the tournament okay [ __ ] maybe with just a a few exceptions certainly the non-pinball games not in the tournament but there's a wonderful super shot uh there's a Mario Kart uh GP DX so those are not gonna be nice the rounds to play the game that is there we go so they're just saying don't please please don't play tournament games during the rounds yeah got a few announcements coming in I actually have it on the board but I don't have these are the these are the things that you probably guys are going to be borrowed about so I don't have it pumped in right now all right yeah I think we're looking I'm looking at the results here I think we got everybody done okay so uh we're gonna get our next game started in just a moment I think we're gonna move I'm gonna jump off yes fantastic thing and then we'll move and stuff yes fantastic you guys will still hear me I'm still here yes yeah he's got he's got the mobile lavalier microphone gonna keep him not not too far off all right so we got the games coming in and we're going to take a look at what's available just to make sure we get some great action here and I think we're gonna move it over to let's see what's what's gonna be something in the area I think we're gonna go maybe to hello I'm sorry how about we go to Indiana Jones Indy Andy Jones so I think we can uh we're gonna take a break for a second while we get that uh set up for our competitors mono do you want me to uh come on over to help with that I'll make the announcement just to let them know just just to give us a moment so we're gonna we're gonna take a quick break to get that set up for you and then you could be checking out some great Indie action [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] pretty much set up [Music] sorry about the noise we're setting up on Indiana Jones [Music] and I will get you guys a view of that right now [Music] I will update those player scores uh the player names the player names are not correct yet so we're going to be updating those in just a minute So currently we are very early in the tournament [Applause] and since we don't have any commentators right now [Applause] I'm going to go ahead and show you the back glass thank you guys so much for coming to watch uh City champ 9 here at Regal watching San Francisco like I said we're just getting started hey hey vpp's what's up Indiana Jones so today we have everyone qualifying to get into the playoffs it's going to be top 24 from today we're gonna follow around a couple of people every once in a while we're gonna have uh a lamp or something like shining in the Playfield and this is because um unlike a screen that I have pretty much total control over everything I can turn off lights I can use PinStadiums we we can't use PinStadiums here we can't do anything that's going to um distract the players at all so it's just you know a camera and a play field we do the best we can how many players right now there are 70 75 players uh uh how many rounds qualifying I'm gonna make the cut 24 makes a cut guys also let me know if my so I'm wearing a lab uh unfortunately so I'm going to get a lot more noise on my microphone but I need to be mobile so just let me know if uh I don't know let me know if I sound like an idiot I don't know what that means about [ __ ] but thank you I would have said thank you if you told me I sound terrible surreal what's up buddy oh we got a high train going thank you guys so much oh we had a hype train going thank you guys so much I really appreciate it I spent the last week oh that's a double so uh player order this is Kyle and that's a that's a this is a pretty rough game here um see what do I know about this game well let's fix now there there were issues with the diverter the guys come in sorry if I missed it how many rounds qualifying uh uh good question I'm going to have to defer to the 12 rounds there will be 12 rounds in groups of four the game is fixed yeah it's a fixed game uh this is grin dump Greg Dunlap Greg just introduced himself to me I did a couple of Charity streams for his organization um pop Outreach projects hopefully also Matt Henry if you if you want I can I can commentate for you yep I mean I can I can uh set it up so you can chat if you want or if you want to walk around [Music] uh he chickened out everything goes how are you doing love stay champ 52 was a cut off uh 4.28 going to the finals yeah so they changed it up a little bit what's up Mr hard Luck [Applause] yeah Greg is an excellent player by the way uh my buddy my friend My Pal Carl D'Python Anghelo was here today also so if you want to see I'm I'm really hoping Carl makes it to the playoffs let's just put it that way things when they do these tournaments do they give free go watch a list of tables and everyone wants us to make sure they're all right uh yes means sorta what they do actually is the the guys come in on Tuesday the Tuesday before and fix all the games and the games that are absolutely unfixable at least by um you know by that following Saturday those don't go on the list and then so once but it's you know remember It's tricky because this is a public space where everyone's you know kids will come in on Wednesday maybe break a game so they're basically fixing games from Tuesday all the way until the tournament and then the night before the tournament all the tilts go really hard all the extra balls get turned off all the extra post rubbers disappear so there you go I'm sure Carl feels the same way I had a plan on bringing no one ever does audio well I'm not gonna say no one ever okay wow what that's uh it's been a long so Damian's not happy about that well too it's a pretty close game guys look at this I mean thank you for the follow uh hold on oh that was unfortunate all right so generally speaking people are going to be going my thought is people would be going for uh the multiball not necessarily the modes although loads give you tons of points and bonus in this game so if you can finish your females yeah but it's clear everyone's trying to go for the multiball to get the fast jackpots um personally and I'm not a great player so don't use my advice personally I would unbought one of all too really shoot for some modes and see if I can get some loads cleared because those will carry over in your bonus all right we're in in Monkey Ball right now and what he wants to do is maybe shoot another one inside the uh behind near the idol which is the center Shot to increase the jackpot which is on the right ramp so he's got three balls right now there's one another jackpot's double now the jackpot's triple so you can shoot the jackpot he'll get a triple jackpot oh sorry 2x the jackpot is 2x so yes that was correct it just didn't detect the ball down there yet here's a 3X boom that is a huge shot right there jackpot huge shot that's all he needed was like one of those 60 million and a double drain which is unfortunate uh there's still there's still in the path so this will be the path of Adventure extra balls are turned off so he's just going for points actually I was kind of gone so that was a really big really big jackpot path of Adventure stays lit for a certain amount of time your hurry up is running out it is a deceptive wow to do a save on this game is almost important you have to really be envy good ball really good ball here's so see how small the bonuses it's because no one's going to Lowe's so Matthew puts up a hundred and seven Greg's up it's it's really too late to go for loads now I think and that's done oh he got him this game is one of the floatiest games here also uh it's a wide oh there's a tilt yep yep it's too much that was too much it even moved the rig he even moved the rig that's why it's swinging right now that's unfortunate I need every time I say that's unfortunate I need you guys to take a drink so Damien's gonna wait until that tilt settles uh the till pops here are very tight and they also use the um every tilt Bob has an ear plug in them and the reason for that is so that the tilts settle a lot faster it doesn't avoid dangers but it does settle the total players another nice little multiball is the quick multiball from the captive ball way in the back um I've seen Andre put up some serious points just using that quick multiball it is a very quick multiball though all right there we go 27 curse word it's Damiana takes an L on that one Bob don't lie that's right we'll inski what's up Captain Zanzibar what's up nerd I love you everybody go follow Captain Zanzibar my buddy back there just walked by uh Michael from dri he's here he gave me some actually he gave me some help today there's Paul well too locked all right we're close Kyle has an opportunity to put up some points even with us even with a single jackpot a couple of singles will do it thank you for the following oh oh wow okay if you know me you know I'm terrible at names there's a oh that one's hurting that was close that was insane we just gotta make this shot now and he's got to flip like he's like he's on eggs they got it all right so Kyle has an opportunity to get a solid second if not at first player four going in bottom of the seventh bottom of the ninth I don't know baseball that one's coming back so far as jackpot is single he's shooting for the center hole that was not coming back and that one's not coming back unfortunately so he may have to climb the ladder to get but he's got a solid second place he's gonna have to climb the ladder and get back to that multiball lots of theirs now there are a lot of bears in here will there be a tournament tournament uh tales and Arabian Nights is oh that was okay well there's a there's a game there is tales and Arabian Nights is in the running so there is possible you will see some tails that are even though There You Go Kids [Music] uh thank you once again for joining us here day one San Francisco city champ nine my name is Manu I am the host of mystery pinball theater this is a special weekend event where I'm hosting this screen for Saturday and Sunday today is the qualifying rounds tomorrow will be the playoffs and the finals top 24 players top players in San Francisco and all around people flew in um stay tuned I think we're gonna find a place to put the rig and possibly see where the rest of our deal where the restaurant around us are going if you guys want to get a view of what's happening right now I gotta I got another camera for you oh I don't I I aim to please let's see if I can get this working oh unless the battery ran out on the camera there it is and I will uh I will commentate while we do the walk around we're also we're waiting for another another game to show up so as you can see how tight it is in here this is freaking watch kids this is this is no joke uh I think Orbiter one is orbitor one is in the tournament believe it or not thank you [ __ ] uh I think Orbitz or one is in the tournament so that would be scary wait no it's not it's not I'm kidding it's not one of the games although I wish it was here's our Stern row all the way from Iron Man uh we got Zeppelin we got my favorite Guardians Godzilla is in the in the game uh there's the Mario Kart you guys get a good look at free oh watch there's our row uh as you can see the rig is sitting right there Andre is currently playing something probably for hours and hours and hours so this is this is our lovely this is our lovely little spot here in San Francisco the B division shirt there's Michael orbital one would be great uh for an if needed playoff yeah oh boy the problem with orbital one is that really good players to play Forever it doesn't go there's El Rocco there's Carl there's ice cold beer Andre is currently playing uh there you go tears of Arabian night so you will probably see some t-o-t-a-n at some point during this weekend [Music] love that game too yeah although that lamp keeps getting in the way it just gets in the way I'm just kidding so here's our row all the way down fun people got Avengers in there we did we so full disclosure we had we have a Jurassic Park premium and we have a Avengers premium and they were running the movie lobby assets the assets from the actual movies well of course to do a tournament you don't want that on so we have the latest uh unaltered Stern code on those games now and if uh if you don't want to believe me you don't have to believe me but it's real smart there's Jared Jared is uh one of the uh one of the directors of the city champ tournament we got to have a Big Buck Hunter we've got to have a big buck and you also have to have a basketball game we have a basketball shooter here which is which is which probably makes the most money there's Eric wagons on her Erica's amazing player also Deadpool Le although if you have a Deadpool Pro you're fine Toy Story is going to be in there let's hope to [Applause] that's how people can hit that uh yes I can at a ramp uh I wonder if Lebowski is in I don't think Lebowski is a fan we have a bowling game and I think our Buddy's coming back hi Derek hey this is spiked no it's not white it could be it could be but I turned it off this is welcome to my office I'm gonna shoot it back over to commentary back to chat your office is fancy compared to the murder garage it is compared to the murder garage is terrific all right hey folks hi Derek hey great to be back with you round two is moving along quite swiftly I think we're gonna have a result in just a moment just making sure we got Avengers still outstanding Avengers Infinity Quest so that's ending I was actually in that group I believe Johnny Monica is still on his ball three Monster Bash I know Jared was doing quite well with the Monster Bash there not sure which ball and I know that on totan tales of the Arabian Nights Andre is having a great game right now I believe he may be on ball two so we're waiting to get results on those remaining games already starting to see some great separation where these great players are all fighting for those top spots and as you know the uh or maybe you don't know but the structure of the tournament today is a Swiss tiered pairings so as the rounds progress the pairings the match play groups that will be set up together will be done so in a way that is as Fair as possible you'll be playing people in your sort of relative uh area in order to ensure that you have the uh one the funnest time playing and and also our our sort of matched up against other similarly situated players so you get some separation on the rankings as we go along through the day is there a standings view or a mass play link there is so for now if you want to follow along at home it's matchplay.live oh sure yeah yeah if uh Molly was going to throw that up there so you can see it I believe uh matchplay.live slash standings slash City champ we'll we'll just validate that on our end we're going to be sharing the event on the screen as well just want to make sure that we give you the right information I want to make sure let's see we're gonna look at uh this one I believe we have a specialty link yeah actually if you go to match play dot events City champ I believe you should be able to see oh no actually it's not that must be a different one but we'll get you the right information folks make sure you can follow along at home and also get some information here to share with you so you can see the current standings there not reflective of a few games outstanding but you can see a bunch of players uh five players currently tied with six points up at the top Johnny took that game down on his ball three he was come up come from behind Victory on ball three on Avengers Infinity Quest Carl Leslie Hillary and Zach also winning their first two games you can see in sixth place there's a tie for folks who had won their first game or second game and they got second on the other one so lots of great pinball to go in these early rounds you'll see a lot of jocking for position as we get deeper into the tournament you'll see the sort of stratification of the players but there's always is you never you're never out of it you gotta play hard to the end it's a fantastic to share that with you back on here happy to have everybody here I see I see in the chat we got a lot of great people Olivia Elia Mudder fudder we got Captain Zanzibar the Eternal Grammy fantastic love having you with us VP fiends this is fantastic to have you all with us if you haven't already be sure to hit that uh that follow button here on on twitch.tv slash mpt3k make sure you get the notifications for every time mono goes live he's got amazing broadcasting just throughout the week he plays a lot of virtual pinball plays a lot of real pinball back here at free gold watch apparent I think occasionally has his own physical pinball in-house uh on loan from others so I do I have a Twilight Zone ah there you go so yeah you can look forward to Fantastic broadcast from him I think thanks to scorbit yes yes scorebit yeah okay yes Brian to answer your question change this year to uh they call it pinberg scoring and there you can see this uh URL it's going to get a little smaller as as we go along but it's going to be no it's not going to get smaller that's how it is it's the design that's great there it is I like it but yeah to answer Brian's question it's a three two one zero scoring so that means that if you get first place on your game with your match play group getting that three points two one zero for the last place uh just like pinberg the uh now defunct pinberg hopefully we'll I don't know if there's any way to ever bring that back uh I guess it doesn't really make sense if there's not the papa collection nearby to supply that event uh but uh we are going to at least keep their scoring mechanisms in there we go uh Perfect all right yeah can we get that in uh black text I think you're being a little a bit of a diva I'll do it for you but oh my God that Infamous dot e top level domain it's really it's just that the E is for exclusive there's only there's only a few URLs that leverage that I gotta tell you after years of streaming and this advice I give to any streamer don't sweat it so much right it it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to be absolutely just do it yep yep you gotta go with what works it's it's really especially I think in our modern day of uh twitch I think so much of the enjoyment of these broadcasts is is really the personalities and the people and so that as long as that shows through I think that is what really makes a a great broadcast of course having the technical Savvy to have all the all the bells and whistles is wonderful but uh I think at the end of the day we you you really want to connect with folks and uh I think we we're very excited to have a wonderful roster of people to contribute in that way yeah a lot of Experts of the game a lot of uh well-seasoned players hey Tri you're here oh there he is Michael's here Michael Michael helped out Michael's helping period yes absolutely yeah he's he is uh streaming you should go out go and follow his channel as well streams out of his place I think down south right um more closer to the uh Santa Cruz pinball scene or I guess Monterey um but also does all of the broadcasting I believe from Lin's arcade in Monterey fantastic location if you have a chance to go out there enjoy some pinball they have great tournaments uh great fair so one of Michael's cameras costs more than my entire rig I believe it he's he's got a fantastic setup whenever he does it he's very yeah he did cax he just yeah California extreme that's right that's the stream I think uh fellow uh fellow pinball networker so yes great how we doing with the rounds uh we're doing all right I think we're still waiting on a couple results here uh let's go to uh I'm just gonna go to my device here just to check on that I believe we were waiting on results for three games uh looks like we now have results on let's see Avengers Infinity Quest we had that that one I believe yep Toton Andre took first place on that uh tales of the Arabian nights totan as the shortening uh looks like we are moving on to round three so we're gonna figure out oh let's let's go and check on what we want to go to oh and maybe we want to show something in this back area we have a couple interesting options although I think if we know where do you know where Led Zeppelin is yeah it's right over here okay I think we could show that one off that that has a nice a nice crew yeah with Jim belzito as the anchor on that on that foursome so let's let's get the rig over to you there I'm gonna be on my way over to Jurassic Park premiums I'll be in the area uh playing with some fantastic players thanks again for being with us here today today's the qualifying day just so folks know we're showing off the 12 rounds of match play uh there's gonna be a bit of a break in the middle at lunchtime let folks get a bite to eat before descending into the pinball Madness again for the afternoon uh but yeah we'll be here all all day just having having a great time showing off some hopefully some great matches I think as we get toward the end of the day we're going to want to show some of those really important matches that are going to be uh determining those final spots in the top 24 so we'll try to get you some of those because I think there's going to be exciting to watch really really fun to watch I I know it'll be great play because anybody's even scratching the surface of the top 24. oh sure yeah so we're we're gonna be showing off all of that as we go along through the day there's automatic tie Breakers if we get to that point uh if we get to the end of the day uh and uh I don't think we're gonna need to be playing off any games but I think if you if the tie Breakers go deep enough it's very possible so we'll keep you posted on that uh let's see we did hey thanks for uh love lay 86. thank you for following I know Manu appreciates it he's right now getting into position with the rig and I'm gonna take my leave so I can go play my match so thanks for having us here you're going to be on Led Zeppelin the Premium Edition it's going to be on the broadcast in just a moment mono will be back with you after he's setting that up uh and we will talk with you soon so I'm gonna put this on the BRB button so that way you have some nice chill music to take you into the next round thanks folks foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin let's talk a little about Led Zeppelin very complicated game very simple Playfield very complicated game for multipliers in in my humble opinion one of the shots you need to start a mode is in the is the right is the left dead end scoop over there I don't think I have my whiteboard set up so I will have the Whiteboard set up tomorrow performance is that one competition settings is actually very brutal this is David Elrod David currently lives in Alaska I need he comes out for the for the big tournaments I've streamed to David a couple of times he's awesome we built so much fun so that's a huge now we've got this we've got this Led Zeppelin on a pretty tight tilt just for the public so David got away with murder right there that is poop for profit correct that is the problem oh my God David really with the dancing okay ladies and gentlemen the hardest working man in showing business David Elrod up in here oh he's making me so happy right now multiball here I don't have a lot to say about Led Zeppelin and even even Ray day tried to help me on stream once try to tell me exactly what to shoot I couldn't figure it out I figured out rush rush I could understand Ray day was really cool at helping me figure out rush for some reason I can't run it just doesn't I wrote a call I wrote a song called three one one sucks I hope poop doesn't find out you hate 311 I'm happy to be ignorant about a band that I don't know anything about [Applause] David putting up a tear 33. [Applause] a pretty decent ball right now on Led Zeppelin most of the information for these games oh that's gonna do it yeah please don't be surprised David that you just tilted because you had 12 dangers and the game just couldn't take it anymore walk of [ __ ] that was the Walk of Shame all the way to the back of the room I kid I love David he's great for 52 million right now in ball one yes man a man from Omaha is Omaha a place we've got Jim belsito here one of the top players on the on the freaking planet I wonder what Jim is going to do when I play this game well he's flipping through the records okay that's a good stretch let's flip through some records as far as I know the records mean nothing in this game uh you want to have something fun that correct me if I'm wrong uh friends in chat but as far as I know the records have nothing to do with the game Omaha was a place I was born there then left that's just the thing the song makes a big difference okay see this is how much I know about Led Zeppelin my buddy um beginners like Mary is supposed to be here but they are not here so I'm going to give them a lot of crap when I see them [Applause] okay big difference it's different shots for jackpots changes to blinkies thank you I'm happy to I'm happy to learn this is why I stream I'm happy to learn games that I don't know and you guys are always really helpful at teaching me sure I appreciate you uh shout out for some people who recently followed Olivier olivieria followed a lovely 86 and mcgen thank you all for the follows welcome to the mystery Trimble theater well that was unfortunate okay I'm gonna stop saying that was unfortunate that's pinball I'm just going to say that's pinball Mary why aren't you here Mary ran a tournament last night uh like a pre City champ tournament so I'm sure Mary is recovering right now [Applause] all right gotta love that Ball State what was that wasn't gonna be a Ball State there and that was definitely two warnings that was too dangerous that's done yeah yeah you you really can't push like I said kids this this game is already set tight for public play I know you wouldn't have you wouldn't even know that Jim Drake Jim Jim kind of watched it Jim is a seasoned professional so you're not gonna get these outbursts when the ball drains like us normal people Jim's kind of just walk away and go all right what's next like Beau and Karen's always alludes to it's like once you're done you're done so just take a step back play the next ball sounds good I don't know Stern I kind of agree with you Stern for the virtual ball save and the only reason I agree with Sarah for the virtual real estate is sometimes a real ball save kicker will miss the ball and Stern code doesn't really allow for that so if you just make it virtual like it is you can save money on it on a coil just give me the ball back although there is a difference between this kicker coming from a left drain and a kicker coming from a shooter Lane so I will give you that [Applause] all right he is now in single ball mode David's still got a solid 52 I don't know the wholesale price of a coil a lot of fun when you have to order like what a thousand of them I don't know maybe it does maybe it doesn't matter Captain 12 thank you for the sub 24 months welcome my friend surreal once again thank you for this resub our dance and pinball players back David Elrod that was what we call a humble Captain 12. who gets who puts more bad talk rush or Led Zeppelin I think Led Zeppelin actually does get a lot of bad times the trick about Led Zeppelin though excellent game for tournaments Led Zeppelin by far yeah excellent game for tournaments brutal Steve Ritchie's Swan Song on Stern and you can you can you can feel the feel the race the Jim's got the spinner up and it ate the ball now if you look Jim has got four Loops to go try what you can that was a big nudge will he live will he live he lived Jim's very very clear that he has no more power moves left you guys can't see it but there's a oh that's gone there's a wicked Loop there's a wicked Loop in the game sort of like an Avengers Loop not really more like it's more like a u-turn all right ball three Rush is getting the stranger things treatment now people weren't crazy about it when it rolled out now it's yeah I happen to like Rush not for Rush I like rush because I can hit all the shots oh isn't that is [Applause] the background I feel like he could have nudged I can hit all the shots on the rush it's only when you when you're in the Working Man mode and you have to hit 976 000 10 minute shots that's what it that's when you feel like you are working what's up don't tell me that strobing shots give you 20 minutes don't Peter's up Peter and Jim are pretty much chasing after David right now [Applause] they're inspired no expense on his what the Hawk Eyes what up baby Hawkeye's in the house now you all need to behave we are here at frigo watch City champ nine some of the top players on the West Coast so Peter will get a solid third place David is doing quite well actually with six points what I have I need to ask I really need to ask David what does that mean does anyone know what that means that's that symbol he put up izoka JP thank you for the follow and sorry I butchered that probably no idea whatsoever what that means I need to ask David at some point so David wants to put some that's the shot that's the tricky shot the left dead end David needs to put some uh points between him and uh gym actually because he knows he should know that Jim is right behind him yeah Captain 12 we I was at the Don't Panic Flip's house over the past weekend and we basically played Rush with the sound off no offense to rush I'm just not a rush fan and actually we played pretty much all the games with their music attenuated so that we could pay attention to the game so it's no offense to rush I'm sure they're a beautiful band the middle spinner is up no clue what that spinner is for our kids can't help you [Applause] David's feeling good David's feeling good I think after this round there's gonna be a lunch time so we're gonna take a little break I'm Gonna Leave the stream up but uh I think the players are gonna go eat some food and that that was savable David come on here we go I'm sorry I don't mean to be critical of a friend of mine but dude oh what's this we got a replay good for him he gets to play this whole game over again we got Derek Derek is here hey folks how's it going Derek hey doing all right I got a second so I'm happy about that but let's get into this Led Zeppelin match so we are on oh ball three and three David is crushing it yes and and I don't know if David um did he explain his uh hand signal that no that's what we all in the chat yeah what is that so he gave me the the rundown it is a reference to Juno Alaska so if you think about the way the shape of Alaska and where Juno sits on that you know that's where he's he is um now it used to be San Francisco now up in Juneau he uh he indicates his location on the hand there so I I imagine people in Michigan might have a a similar method of indicating where they live by throwing up the hand but yeah that's that is what that's for so he's shouting out his his Juno Brethren and cistern all right well thank you for the explanation because no one knew what that meant and it seems like he's having a great game here he's uh ball three he's you know he's in the pole position right now yeah he's trying to put up as many points between him and Jim right now yeah understandably so we've we've seen Jim on on various styles of games whether it's uh EMS or uh solid state or or DMD games you know no lead is secure so it's been it's been really a uh uh it makes sense that David would really try to run up the score here there it is there's Juno no no you did not walk away like that David no you did somebody clip that please please clip that walk away he made me so happy there we go I I love seeing all the chat love having everybody here so so Jim and and this is a game I don't know as much about I was actually just talking uh with Corey uh one of the other players here she she was uh with me on Jurassic Park just talking about the later Sterns uh especially anything since 2020 being a bit of a mystery just because I haven't been as active yeah in playing some of those games so I I have sort of a very light knowledge of some of those we'll try to get some experts here if we show those off later on in either the stream today or uh uh tomorrow well I have to admit Eric that I have streamed this game oh yeah hey I've streamed this game B I've streamed this game with Raymond Davidson in chators and he tried to explain it to me so much and I I can't help you I I imagine you know yeah that the hearing Raymond explain it I'm sure yeah that it would probably be technically correct but just the complexity that they put into these games it's only it only grows and it's it's impressive you know it's truly they really make these players games I think the way that they structure all the scoring and and whatnot not that that wasn't true before but I think there's you know certain knowledge uh ceiling that you would have in you know say a 90s era DMD game uh that you could easily more easily reach uh not so with some of these later games but still just so fun to watch so fun to to see the best of the best play these and here we go back into a multiball the tour multiball here yeah David definitely was concerned about putting points up between looks like this starts as a two ball and we have our our standard ramp shots to score jackpots here wow we're gonna nail each other I mentioned before that this game is on tight till just for the public right right so it's super tight tilt now it's not very good about telling you how many dangers you have though oh in the you mean in terms of the animation that's not really yeah you know watching and I know Ollie was in this group uh I watched him tilt earlier and uh it was funny he did he shared that sentiment about Sensitivity I I did note that at least the very first move he made was pretty strong so I I wasn't entirely sure if that was accurate but I think looking looking at some of the concern sort of flipping of the other competitors here I think that that's validated gets a nice nice ball safe oh wow ball don't lie on that one it wanted out and so up to 100 So within Striking Distance now I I interested to know if anybody knows in the chat if there's a particular shot that might be you know valuable here for for Jim to go for seems like they let's see it's got a a nice move there that's gonna be two that's got to be two on this it looked like it might have been because I I think the the animation repeat yes exactly so yeah so he's going to be careful here oh he's gonna look yeah till warning's one no he's at one okay there you go okay Aaron flip off the top there that can be dangerous it's it's so often the case that a a sort of half-hearted flip off of a upper slipper can can result in the ball just be putting it into into danger into chaos give you that East-West motion that pinball players just tend to avoid this is the comeback right here let's see he's keeping it alive oh and a lot of a lot of nice very nuanced flipper Clipper play there to keep them all alive just just letting the the tips guide the ball at least keep it alive keep it in play oh tough one oh he looks like he had some center button action but not enough let's see where the where the bonus lands in I I don't know this game to be a particularly large bonus so yeah that's gonna lock it in for David Arrow taking the win here representing Juno Alaska yeah Jim taking second so David's still perfect through three rounds he's gonna move up to nine points and if uh if we want to look at our standings sure we can get a peek at who else maybe is joining him on the on the perfect rounds here we'll get I think his is not noted yet because they're still interested yeah they're still answering looks like Johnny and Luke doing well just just missed the the current perfect game there with the second place on each of their next one or might have been a first place for Luke I think he might have had a second earlier in the round looks like five five points is putting you right in that that bubble area we see a couple names there in the 21 slot foreign I don't know if you shout out all the follows Manu but I uh it's always nice to give people a little love I like to I like to hit him up every now and again I missed I missed that what did you say I oh I was just I was just talking about uh shouting out all the new followers oh thank you yes yeah I'll do my best to keep an eye on it so that way we give give it a little love thanks for the bits both finessed with cheered three bits happy to have them and Warren YT thanks for following it's great great to have you here today we gotta great event here you can see some some big names there and and also some some names we don't recognize as much at least not in the Bay Area Community but maybe well known in another neck of the woods there you can see David now top the stack with his perfect three rounds that bumps all the Five Point players down to 23rd so it looks like yeah that five six areas right about the bubble right now again we're gonna get some some separation as we go along and we are we're just so happy to have you here we're going to be going into our fourth round soon and we'll be making sure to to get some great action on you there we go hey folks also you know I was thinking about this as I was uh playing on my game if there's if there's a game anybody is interested in in seeing especially if it lines up with a particularly notable set of players I'd love to love to have your suggestions so we can integrate that into our our possible and there's round four so we're gonna take a look at what has been distributed let's take a look I want to make sure we we know the current lay of the land here round four p.m Lindstrom thanks for the follow all right looks like we got a couple good options here where should I go to let's see oh we got a we got quite a match on Guardians of the Galaxy let's move over there that's between Carl Jim Jeremy and David's as Carl D'Python Anghelo Jim belsito Jeremy Williams who is the creator of the awards that are being being given out today uh wonderful sort of combination of materials plastic and shiny plastic and wood and this wonderful framed item uh and then David Lee who's a great local player as well so we're gonna get on that game Guardians of the Galaxy should be quite the barn burner and where am I going I'm going to take a look at the list here we're going to be sticking in to Whirlwind and I got a great group with me of Shannon John and Wesley so excited to get playing with them it's not too far away right here Manu getting the rig into position my friend Roland giving me the stink eye from far off he's just having a great time happy to have him here from Phoenix Arizona representing the great state of Arizona oh yes and then my competitors are coining up oh we already got four credits so I'm gonna take my leave here folks I'm gonna get on over buddy playing over there I'm gonna hit that uh button to give you a little nice animation while mono gets back into position and we're gonna have a great time so thanks folks thanks for sticking around make sure to check out that MPT 3K merch at the link in the chat teespring.com store slash MPT 3K support Manu and uh hit that follow hit that subscribe have fun foreign [Music] all right let's see how much action we can see on Guardians of the Galaxy this thing sucks sorry that just went out on screen [Music] briefly four people ready to play Guardians of the Galaxy I'm gonna do a couple of things here first of all we're going to load the player data Carl is uh currently on quill interesting so quill is good to start if you want to get hadrons but finishing cool will give you 10 give you a hurry up shot at Star-Lord for 10 of your score which is pretty much zero right now all right I think we have player scores ready here we are all right sorry about the glare once again we're dealing with what we're dealing with here 20 23 million what is I'm curious to see what Pro players um strategy is for Guardians okay more cools quests very interesting Remy thank you for posting that link I will probably put that link on this Master's Master screen also so I guess the idea is number one to feel out the game and number two to see if you can get some hadrons because completing this will is safe this is a multiball um you cannot shoot Groot though so you can advance towards group multiple and you might come out with hadrons and then you have to have this dangerous shot here I play way too much Guardians of the Galaxy so I find that playing quill off the bat is a waste of a waste unless you're like Escher okay nope no uh no personal commentary manners just State the facts all right now we have to shoot the scoop to start another mode and that's the problem with quill if you don't come out with anything then you're in a bad spot to start a new mode and there you go so you kind of come off with nothing unless you're terrific um uh in case I I think it was mentioned but uh well finesse thank you for the bits and uh Warren YT thank you for the follow and pin p.m Lindstrom thank you for the follow-up so it looks like everyone's going quill okay uh We're not gonna be seeing any save xandars today but [Applause] Jeremy should be gunning for hadrons right now each shot is a hurry up each shot starts at about 2 million or more for a hurry up shot so whenever you make a cool shot it's a hurry up shot I seriously apologize about that microphone noise so our fourth player David is going in for a quill once again now here's the thing if you've been halfway finished quill you can at least get to immolation status but that is also kind of a long journey uh to halfway complete every mode so what I would do is I would take a couple of shots at the mode shot if I can't get a mode shot I'm gonna shoot through I'm going to clear the pallet and shoot Groot a couple of times they're they're both just as dangerous but at least boot gives you Advanced locks so you can um start moving them there you go what are we doing we're doing nowhere which is a which is a great choice right oh but that was wow oh so that's an unfamiliarity with this particular game to find where is the scoop where does the scoop kick out and unfortunately as far as I see they boosted the scoop power from the last time I played it so it shot right under the flipper Carlito so Carl is rightly so going after some fruit hits Carl is currently in pod Chase that's good you have lots of time plus you can get beautiful beautiful you can get uh you might get an upgrade wow that was an insane drop an unfortunate enough rain hi zipper how are you doing so we checked the audits or I checked the audits on this table the left drain has twice if not three times as many drains as the center and the right frame thus getting borged is what happens when you drain down the left side you are born let's see what Jim is trying to go for we do not have spinners this is not a Le or premium so Antiquities is all switch kits or nebula and broker the nice thing about hitting broker is that you can advance your orb multiball also and it it's very difficultly backhandable on this particular setup but Jim is the god and you always say yes that's orb two so this is a great mode for him to be in you need to drop the target one more time and shoot uh but as far as strategy I thought that was very well thought Jeremy Williams Jeremy's thinking about it no one has any progress on quill and as far as I'm concerned they lost ball wine they all lost ball one on 12. if I were Jeremy right now I would think about uh no probably not okay and the only reason I disagree with that is because you still you cannot work on your boot locks in this Quest at least oh no you can actually he can work on Groot locks now because he is no longer at a double a two ball multiball so he can work on Groot locks and finish this mode face toe what's a friend oh that was a uh that was unfortunate humble we're around the ball David is up so David is currently in nowhere with zero shots because of the scoop kick out to the Under The Flipper yeah a little half clip it's the worst when you're when you hit the ball on the underside of your flipper so there's an upgrade available at the scoop which means all shots for for nowhere will be lit not just the shots not just the character shots upgrades are different for every character mode that's a good nudge I think it's only one danger on this game I would shoot group a lot someone needs to get into Groot multiball because you can put something up I feel like yes I feel like glued up a little maybe you cannot backhand the Gamora shot I think this is on this is on Virtual so groot's mouth will not oh geez I was saying groot's mouth will not open in a tournament setting at least the way we set up the tournament setting uh it's for fair play of the other players you know you don't want to a ball coming out of groot's mouth when you're expected out of The Chew to Lane and vice versa Carl is in a good position right now he's ready with his multiball he's in pod Chase he's got to make one shot to group to start the multiball and he's 122 seconds left uh it would be nice if fruit was doubled but he's gonna go for the points there you go so I am Groot the balls will not come out of group's mouth it will go come out from the shooter Lane and his shooting Groot so that he can get the 2x Playfield possibly a 3X pay bill but it will not root will not lock balls in his mouth and that is a nice thing to have during normal play but for tournament play the balls all stay live jackpot it's hard to tell if he does have 2X plate build or if 2x Playfield as possible so he's got his super lit on Groot boom hit it super that'll be 12 million he's still in he's got his upgrade for Pache so he still could complete pod Chase he's halfway through the immolation on cloud Chase they are extra balls but he he may not play the extra Ball but he has gotten the extra mark all you can do is fund for a skill shot and good completion using those hadrons so he's out of group multiball he's also completed potchase now right now there's pretty big points on Gamora and nebula I'm not sure if he's going to go for it now so the Gamora uh and nebula rants are actually could be a couple of million each shot yaka Arrow is uh shots to the uh well it's done no we did I'll say wow so pop hits are good but you have to hit a switch and then hit a pop to redeem uh yaka Arrow also you can hit yondu at any time you can go for Groot again okay this will be give him a yaka Arrow boom shot beautiful yeah it's Groot beautiful place if I were if I agree with the plate the way you're playing it's beautiful tell Jeremy I miss hearing him on the tested podcast yes Jeremy as base town points out is a or was part of the tested podcast series Adam Savages attested there's a ball save Carl is as surprised as I am but if you hit the two spikes next to groot's face both spikes will light a right side ball safe oh wow that was scary food is currently doubled so those ramps are giving them good points uh people also forget about the combo system here on Guardians if you shoot a shot the shots on the other side of the table if they're valid we'll get lit for double double score so this Gamora will light um that nebula will light Gamora or double but it's a hurry up okay excellent ball Carl well played so he's having trouble with the far left shot yeah I have trouble with all the shots on this table foreign stepping up Jim I would very much like to see go into a multiball right now he's in Antiquities I think he would very much like to see him go into a multiball also I think we would agree if we were sitting at dinner and we were talking and like hey Jim what do you think about uh that was my buddy Derek Whitman playing whirlwind okay one more shot to orb will give him or multiball right there oh one more shot that while that ball save is lit do it baby oh now he's gotta now it's scary get that orb boom Nails it or multiball is ready it's gonna serve the ball up from uh pooper and he's got to hit the drop Target to get the maximum hurry up value for his jackpots so this there wow 2 million right off the bat this will definitely complete Antiquities since Antiquities based on switch hits Jim is trying to hit all the purple shots and if he has hadrons I would definitely use them although I don't he doesn't have anything it was a completion on Antiquities uh actually no he did not complete Integris wow that was unfortunate I spy Andre and Jonathan you are correct Pride Chase is a good multivo too because you have lots of time beautiful catch all right Jeremy my man please go for group promise me you're going to hit crude in the face as many times as you can I'm so used to seeing my personal ball saved anyway that should have been in her monologue and that sounded weird my personal balls made yes it brute as many times in the face as you can safely formed and then you're borged you really gotta nudge [Applause] Carl is looking at a first place if David can get lucky David's got one two more hits to group to start his multiball you go for good space we hit one of the spikes and it's really he's maintaining that Spike David seems to be a really on the Fly player boom there we go multiball started uh I would rail on Rocket right now see if you can get that Playfield there we go it's one rock so he is he's it's like he's trying to reel on rocket hey man here yes quick question do you have any dietary restrictions related to Pizza yeah I don't eat red meat no red meat there you go that that's his restriction we're talking about the volunteer pizza that's gonna be coming soon that's terrific this guy is super lit and there's a super for 12 million it's beautiful uh definitely go for Rocket more go for rocket go for rocket yes beautiful we're still not into a 2X yes we're in 2x right now and that edible for hitting the scoop David could put up some serious points here by the way during group multiball the object is to hit six jackpots and then hit Groot in the face for a super do it again for a super do it one more time for the double Super Jackpot then you will finish root that's 18 shots plus three uh so David I don't know if he knew this or not the code we have currently on this Guardians allows you to hey draw on your supers that is not in the latest guardian's code as you can tell our our font for the scores is the old before The Insider connected oh did they update that they did the font for Insider connected is more a standard font that looks like the game that was a really good run at a really good run at Carl bakara we'll take this one yeah so our version allows that page drawning the um right right right the orb super and the Groot super but the current code does not now got it got it okay good to know well fantastic work by Carl there no not surprising quality play and we had some great and so we're I'm keeping an eye on mine oh my goodness had had quite the Finish coming up here on uh dear I so I'm playing on Whirlwind right now I actually currently have the lead going into player four ball three 4.9 on mine and uh John ogurto just put up a 4.6 nearly got me and then I think that's it so I'm taking the win on this one all right I'm gonna just dab up my competitors real quick so I'm gonna I'm gonna just say congrats to my players here all right a well-oiled machine here at free gold watch City champ day one qualifying rounds are we at lunchtime one more round one more round and then lunch time beautiful I hope you guys are having fun watching day one qualifying rounds of the city champ in with us you don't have to watch the whole thing you can come back a little later and watch we'll be here current time here in San Francisco is 12 47 p.m because we get we get time later than everybody else I am Manu I am the host of mystery pinball theater the consummate host I don't even know what that means Obi John Kenobi I love that that that's a great screen name yeah hey what's up I feel like using the phrase screen name kind of dates me it's more it's more handle right I don't know that's it's still still flies still flies are you there there you are hey all right yes fantastic that was a great match uh that you all just saw on Guardians and Glenn and yeah uh Manu I know I know has been a a great Guardians player so so glad he was able to talk with you through that I I ended up taking my win so I was very excited about that oh you did yeah yeah yeah it was a tight can I can I just say um you you do know I was right next to you yeah oh that's right you do know that right and and the entire chat knows that now oh there you go yes you got the uh Whirlwind machine it was right next to the setup here you're lovely and you're vocal I I did shout at one point out of frustration I believe that was when goodness it was I think when the ball did the thing you didn't want it to do I you know what you hit the nail on the head there but it was it was good I was glad to come away with the win it was a great great group so yeah we'll uh should we take a look at standing sure sure yeah I'll go stand up and thank you it's uh yeah it's we'll see if anybody is still perfect through four rounds looks like David missing it by one so he got a second on this round so still an amazing performance thus far wow yeah right up there elrad making me proud on that Led Zeppelin game yeah that was fantastic Jared uh not dispelling any of the concerns about uh you know favoritism by being in the in the top three there and yeah lots of great play here looks like seven is now that you know relative kind of bubble area of course that's gonna we're gonna that'll increase over time but I think if we look at the sort of trajectory there if it's a seven eight you know that means you're getting at least second so I think we're gonna see you know maybe 25 26 be the cutoff uh in terms of points for it to be in that top 24. so we'll see how that how that shakes out it's uh still early in the tournament a lot of things can happen here but uh yeah that's that's generally what I think is going to be the the target Builder to make it into that second day good to see everybody here hey there we go I like the picture in picture that we've got going I know that's fantastic there's some Inception going on that is Russ sweetzer one of the commissioners of the San Francisco pinball Department yeah along with myself oh that is what Shannon sweet sir and this dude there's David so David I was I was explaining the Juno connection it was everybody was apparently asking but I wasn't on the broadcast so here let's let's just talk about that there's anything dirty why would I okay what's up Derek yeah yeah so so what is that like a local uh favorite yeah let's change it doing that or is that something that you innovate uh it's a little bit of an innovation but when people from Alaska describe what part of Alaska they're from the easiest thing to do is to make the shape with your hand like this um so when I tell people where I'm from Juno down here yep so I was thinking about I was actually I was telling you earlier I was watching some of the broadcast and I was like I got to do something interesting on stream and there you go I don't know any other Alaskan competitive pinball player so I wanted to make sure anybody watching especially back home was uh you know I'm thinking about you out there and um shout out to the crystal Saloon come on up if you want to play some pinball sometime up in Juno fantastic well then I I love that I I was I was speculating that probably Michigan is the older place so you know you would have a comparable uh indicator yes for for where you live Russ was showing me a New Hampshire one that was similar too oh very good okay yeah California you know I guess you could do kind of like an elbow thing if you break your arm right here a little bit I guess here yeah or at least you know I've always heard uh you know sometimes people are not so nice about the Central Valley and so you know comparing it to a body part so you could use that uh but no that's uh that's fantastic well thanks for having me thanks for having me what's up Juno yeah and and congratulations on being being up there right now let's keep it going I love it you know obviously I grew up in San Francisco and this is my house I've always called this my house so just being around all my friends again and competing well and seeing everybody's been really fun thank you appreciate it all right well that was David Elrod sharing us the uh the backstory on that uh that hand gesture I think it's going to catch on I like I like how simple it is how uh you know it's got a nice a nice Flair to it he's certainly got a a sense of how to be a Showman yeah he's dancing I love it yes I was and he's a performer he's he's actually a drummer and so yeah that's that I think that's right in his sweet spot is you know performing you know being being gregarious he's up on stage uh you know drummers always get a lot of love so good as long as you keep that relaxed attitude hey Eric let's keep that a relaxed attitude you know you don't let the competition get to you I think that's something I would love to get to yeah like in this world like no I I'm a performer too I used to teach dance and I just perform in front of thousands of people and it's not that's something you practice I know this is something you would have to practice like being comfortable in this environment right it's alien to me it's like so if I stepped up to a game to play a tournament I usually do very terribly right because I'm trying I'm it's like you know I I understand what you mean I think there's what I've noticed in my pinball experience you know really getting into it in early 2015 when I joined San Francisco pinball Department there's these almost like I call them plateaus like you you're naturally going to get better as you play more but you will sometimes hit these moments where yeah you're just gonna have to break through to that next level and I think that's actually one of them is like tournament play yeah there is that element of discomfort yeah that will and and worry about you know oh my God who am I playing with it you stop playing the game yes and you start fake faking yourself out like he was in a group with jimbocito yep but he whatever yeah so I I think that's uh yeah it's something that tournament Players I I know that on the uh we have a slack Channel or slack server for our uh pinball folks in the Bay Area and the game within the game is so often a topic of a conversation of how do you manage that how do you get that comfort and and yeah I think it just comes with playing like it being in these tournaments especially having gone to travel for some tournaments going to pinberg going to Expo out in uh in Chicago you know you finally doing that often enough I think you get the Reps and you finally sort of settle into your tournament mode style to the point where I think you can't I mean for myself I am you know I'm no longer in the top 1000 as I always like to tell people before you know kind of leaked away but uh I went to Expo and had some great rounds against Andre took him down one on one several times um so that was you know I think just took time to get to that point where you could feel comfortable in this setting so we're getting into round six right now let's take a look at what's available thank you let's just make sure we see I'm getting fed strawberries I'm like a god thank you to what Matt Wilmarth for providing all right so we got we got a couple interesting ones here uh no thank you I appreciate that he's turning down the strawberries man I I I just until I get off off camera here tell me where to go I I was gonna say you know we got some Heavy Hitters on Dr dude where is it right here he's right here yeah let's go back I think that would be fun I think uh yeah a lot of the top players in the tournament right now on that machine so I think we'll get set up there and see you see how they do always nice to to see some of that high level play show off some of our local favorites here Zach wallins being one of the one of the best players in our in our Community here in our league uh one former 10th Place finisher at pinberg uh back in 2018 I believe that was um so yeah that's it's very exciting to to be able to show them up I'm looking through some of the other ones and I think yeah that that's going to do us well so we're gonna have a fun house match or I'm sorry not fun house um doctor dude and uh if you're at home just make sure that you uh you do the Hippocratic Oath before you watch this game uh so I say your name do solemnly swear to be as cool as the doctor and take care of my hair so there you go doctor dude coming up next on the broadcast I gotta get over to my game uh and Manu will be back with you in just a moment let's just make sure I know I'm I'm always with you that's true that you are always here oh yes I'm going over to Avengers the old one all right so thanks folks I'm gonna I'm Gonna Leave You in manu's capable hands and enjoy the next match oh all right sir [Music] foreign [Music] all right let's get it going I think we got the game already started these guys are so fast ball one look at this I'm here I need to load the players let's get this going we are on Doctor dude another game that I am not so super familiar with but I will try and that's a bad ball one right there [Applause] all right someone streamed that blue chip hopefully we will stream Blue Chip hopefully we'll get we will get to Blue Chip let's see do I have a doctor dude back for us two you're seeing the beautiful back oh genius Dr Jude is uh the one thing I know about Dr do is you hit the one two three um and there's like a gazillion point shot on the left the left ramp I like that gazillion point so he shoots the one that's up there the two is in the mouth I think types of Gab and the three is that little left dead end magnet shot sorry about the lights but of course you know we have overhead lights the way to defeat lights is with more lights but [Applause] you cannot put in stadiums on all the games I remember Zach playing Black Knight sort of raised when it first came out putting up insane scores on it Zach I'm pretty sure knows how to play this game [Applause] all right [Music] shooting The Gift of Gab get you that little Pirates Pirates of the Caribbean Tortuga shot stirring one not the Jersey Jack one all right so ball one is a wash pretty much for all players [Applause] yes Tony's in the house ball two we've got a nine eight a nine and eight so we have uh it's a pretty strong players right now Johnny they're all going to go for that skill shot once the ball hits the top and get 100k way cool you get a you get a social rank in this game and you get a drain you should reskin Mr Doom Dr dude Mr dude doctor dude to like Instagram you know maybe tick tock just be The Tick-Tock oh my God can we have a tick tock pinball game please wow I didn't miss just in chat friends this Dr June machine is a prototype used in the factory for play testing this I think Matt Henry just handed me this that this particular doctor dude was a prototype from Bali that was used for play testing the game huge I did not know this about this particular doctor so it says HIPAA reflex too which is the mouth that the flashing light right now I think it's a hurry up so you have to get to number two oh that was number two work for that I thought that would have been a dead bounce but maybe I'm wrong that's why I'm not in the tournament so he's got to go back to number one now this is number one talk yeah this doctor dude is in really good shape and we just got the LED panel in the back redone uh the original prototype LED panel actually just died so I think that's the only part that's not Factory nice large approved you guys know me I approve of that job really good play once again I apologize about the light but uh wow everyone's everyone's managing to Danger out but not least they're about this foreign well that's not coming back so there you go while we are here I want just to mention tomorrow we will be streaming the quarterfinals and the finals of the city champ nine tournament uh the three and the two are part of getting multiple ready but not the one the one two three is a separate time thing that starts when you get those six small stand-ups below the pops thank you so much s Daniel S Daniels 3T really appreciate that all right oh wow that was what we call a house ball this is my Saturday game day is it too early for beer it is never too early for beer I'll be John Kenobi if you gotta ask we don't need to know all right ball three Johnny's up the third butter multi bowl is the red stand up to the right of the gazillion ramp this is where we all want to go we all want to go to multiball right now this doctor dude is particularly difficult cat hitting your stand-ups when that ball wants to go she wants to go it's cnyc for the follow look guys thank you for the biddies wow okay I apologize I did not see that I hope Derek my co-host today thank you exhaustively for those bits [Applause] so that will put Johnny in well third right now Zach can't pull anything off [Applause] 100 got it that's a heat that's that's that's big points on this game actually it's a skill shot that is actually worth that actually requires skill and does pay off pretty substantially three is hit Beautiful live catch [Applause] he hits the two and it's a gift again thank you Kirkland's is is the way on this game yeah oh all right so Derek managed to put up 1.2 with a bonus 1.3 uh skill shot not worth it Imo Oh short plunge oh okay assuming live cats with no validation is eating wow once again Daniel's coming in hot with some fun facts no one team has been going for the short punch Strat here they seem to be wanting to get the skill shot points but it's just those kind of tricks that separate the big scores from the normal scores he's having trouble finding the ball okay it's it's all right Tony's back in somewhat control here by the way this is our last round before lunch and we're going to take a short break and then we're gonna get back to gameplay so Tony is on his way to uh nothing happens terrible all right there's our there's our first place too much wrist down the middle Phoenix yes this is karma for Tony because of that other last bad ball beautiful Tony has got to put as much space between him and Zach as he can pull a wine Tony could really use a one in this one it's not that he's hurting but looks like we had either Flip or fade or just oh oh another one I don't know you guys think that's Paul's gonna go up that lift ramp anymore wow that's huge it's a million so three million on a ball three uh looks pretty good I know he wanted more but three million on ball three with Zach at 400 000 right now is looking pretty solid quite importantly looking good the gazillion jackpot is a response to Williams Electronics Comet pinball which had claimed all correctly to have the first ever million pinball shot sounds good they're a small change Matt by the way make sure you uh go check out Small Change rk.com that makes he's an incredible engineer and makes terrific arcades he makes actual small cabinets with actual not main parts but actual boards or he'll make something else you know you can you can do the whole fpga thing you can do whatever you want so uh buy rent for smallchange.com and thank you for uh thank him for his support because he fixed some stuff broke yesterday and he fixed it he pulled out a soldering iron and he fixed it it was amazing exact sizing up okay oh I feel like Zach is an amazing uh Under Pressure player oh it's not it's not making it up that ramp unless it's a perfect shot take a breath nice post pass okay actually right after jump the jet Lumber's at maximum and this is going to be freaking huge all right 10 hits till the jackpot at 1.3 nice post separation uh cradle separation he's going to keep one of those oh back to the turntable I forget what they call that shot that was a clean shot too so I feel like the flippers are starting to feel the heat oh man that ball really wants to leave the left it wants to leave left it really oh 3.4 he's almost got it ladies and gentlemen almost got it he's almost got it 3.5 he's done we're done Zach is just putting up a few more points checking that score 3.7 3.8 wow good job Zach holy smokes back from 420 000 to put a 4 million couple of Victory laps here yeah all right I think it's fair to say that Zach has got first on this probably by it's actually reverse of the players Zach then Tony then Derek and then Johnny I think Zach's playing it out just because it's lunch time now and there's no one waiting for the next game but I I really I really think we should stop wow that's a beautiful little click pass and we drain all right good job so Zach takes it we're gonna wait a moment let those scores go in everybody look at the standings and then we're gonna take a little break here so we can have our lunch and pick it up where we left oh thank you guys so much for watching a lot of Blood Sweat and Tears goes into well not not many tears and no blood so sweat [Applause] ramp it up thank you for the follow welcome welcome one welcome all the city champ nine here here in San Francisco at free gold watch if you're ever in the San Francisco Bay area and you want to wait come play some pinball we got 57 tables at least 56 are working thank you bass tone face Stone has been here facetone and I have have spent I spent the whole afternoon they still I figured like base town was like yeah Manu I really gotta go you gotta let me leave no you can't leave you're my only friend you must play Pinball I'm gonna find out what my buddy Derek is doing and [Music] I want to get back up there yes and when you're back here we will play my friend we will play the pinball all right kids go take a bathroom break and we will be right back thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] that's right foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] folks hey everybody all right let's see there doctor dude and his excellent Ray did you do the Hippocratic Oath like I told you to good to see everybody here I'm actually still waiting on a result on the game I'm on but I want to come here be with you all uh give you an update on uh what's going on in the tournament here gonna get you the standings in a moment hey Manu uh he's he's got he what do you have a second can you hit the standings for us can you hit the standings yeah let's go look at the standings yeah let's stand and see the standings Let me refresh it thank you I need you know it's not like I have technology that I can actually control that button over there from here but I will do that tomorrow there you go thank you thank you mommy it has all the tips and tricks for how to run a stream here at free gold watch and we looks looks like it's Carl with sole possession of first at the moment with 13 points almost a perfect round through five that means he's uh got all first except for two seconds so three first two seconds to get the 13. so well done I think they're still waiting on a finish in a few of our games I I had an issue with mine where uh we had somebody Auto plunge on Avengers so getting a compensation ball that we increased it to four balls to accommodate that but we'll uh hopefully have the round in the books in just a moment looks like we have results for pretty much everything wow and Carl D'Python Anghelo Christopher Reeves would like to see the standings oh Obi John oh my goodness that's that's we don't have a Superman machine here so we can't make that joke look at this so Carl's out first well I'm not surprised yeah yeah he's been playing great Zach David David almost matching him just getting another second place there so that means he's got uh he's got three oh I guess it maybe maybe he has a third in there but oh I want to do something still still playing great couple notable uh folks Adam and Jonathan so Jonathan a local player Adam formerly a local player now out in New Mexico uh great to see them up there Alex is local as well uh you see Johnny Modica coming up from Southern California to represent Anna's in there uh we got Javier's local Louise just jumping around a bit yeah we got it we got a great Bevy of players here so it's exciting to see some great play here we're just seeing whatever the cut off there as I imagined it's uh it's right about that eight eight points right now so I'm still thinking 25 26 27 might be the cutoff for that top 24 position I'm gonna do something live so there we go the chat can watch and uh what's what's gonna happen now is that we're at the end of round five so we're actually going to be moving over to our break time to allow the folks to get a a little bit to eat get some energy back for the evening for the afternoon and evening uh because we've got seven straight rounds coming up during that portion uh looking forward to showing off a lot of those uh those key matches we'll be looking at the standings kind of making sure we highlight those to see how the progression goes as we see who's going to get that top spot uh because top qualifier actually does get a prize and the final spots in the top 24. so hoping to bring that to you in just a bit looking forward to it thanks so much for being here as I mentioned before this is the MPT 3K Channel mystery pinball Theater 3000 run by this Manu Smith there he is hey I like that that's professional I've done this a couple of times I I it shows fantastic so yes love to have that thank you oh yeah there you go do we know how many people are rocking with us right now do we have that what about 60 people oh great that's fantastic I I imagine we're gonna have quite the crew yeah when it comes to the finals yes these these especially City champ in the past I think that's been definitely the most trafficked uh broadcast yeah for even when I was when I was a nobody there was like a hundred and something people yeah and now I'm less of a nobody no you I'm excited a little higher than nobody the the power of your channel combined with the power of the event I think it's going to be a nice showing um Leslie I think just put up a huge game on Whirlwind player four had to come from behind I think uh they put up nine million I think Leslie is uh let me see what's happening maybe with uh my crew I my result was still pending oh let's see the suggestion looks like I finally got locked in at third so I'm very excited about that what game was that that was on Avengers the 2012 version not the Avengers the better one look I'm gonna be opinionated I love the original Stern Avengers Hot takes it's hard though yeah you got to hit those shots what four or five times not even Infinity Quest oh yeah the um the original one yeah you gotta hit those shots a lot yes it's got a layout not unlike some of the sort of mid 90s you know the attack from Mars the uh yeah you know that it has a bit of that flare in that you have these various shots that you're trying to build you know hit them a number of times in order to then qualify that mode or that sort of feature yeah um but yeah it's it's they it did feel daunting playing that game I think I happened to finish Captain America but that was it that was the only one that's even close on well I had some hints for that game if you need them oh very good thank you John for coming for the bits fantastic the the the low-key thing oh yes I've I saw that on pin tips yeah if you don't know out there pentips.net fantastic tip site for all pinball machines I think pretty much everything that you would see in a tournament it's run by again Andreas who created match played.events uh and is a great resource especially in tournament settings where you can just quickly check in what's the skill shot what's the mode start what's the multiball to get that where you need it to be yeah a lot of players just check it before a tournament I did just now yeah yeah it's it's really a nice resource and they really they even get specific to the kind of machine so if you're playing on a premium versus a pro right because that is that doesn't matter um cool yeah we're gonna take a look here I think once we have these standings all sort of wrapped up all hemmed up and I think I think mine is the only one that hasn't been approved yet so we'll we'll get that in a second but we're going to be taking the break uh for the lunch hour I think we're gonna keep the stream up but we're going to just uh probably go on our our uh attract mode so to speak and uh because we're very attractive there you go yeah I don't help at all let's just say a thing and I laugh and I sit here can you put a picture of me on that uh splash page just so you know people people know how to come for the goods yeah uh but yeah we're gonna get back together uh I believe it's gonna be around 2 20. it will be the start of the next round uh so you can take a break yourself go get go get a bite to eat get re-energize yourself with this next portion of the tournament um oh yeah so just to give you the latest uh so yeah Carl's still up there Leslie yeah now in six Titans tied with 10 points in sixth place with Eric wagensoner Andre masenkov and Jared Garvey uh so yeah she jumped up quite nicely inside the mix there yeah uh looks like let's see just kind of growing down yeah that seven eight is right there right below the cut right now looks like it's nine so I think it's as we see you know as the the cut off score you know changes over time yeah I think it's gonna nudge up and it's generally you know in my experience it's something close to sort of like how many rounds you play plus two or three points so or multiply by two plus two or three so that puts us at 24 if you multiply the 12 rounds and then it's going to be you know a couple points above that uh so yeah we'll see who has the goods to you know hit that cut and get into that second day of playing uh stick around got OB Jamie's like I love when you're on Match play looking at your group when the name of the game is listed it's a blue hyperlink with a pin temps link there you go this is the same dude yes I know it's a it's a rich experience that he's created that's kind of cool yeah yeah um so yeah we're going to take a little bit of Break um I'm gonna eat my lunch pretty quickly so if you guys just keep the stream open I'll walk you around the place again and uh we'll uh we'll take a look at some stuff I'll keep you entertained we'll keep you entertained fantastic all right well thanks much folks I'm gonna take my break and uh be with you in a little bit so thanks much [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] the reason you can use [Music] foreign [Music] thank you I hope everybody's having a great time so all the players kind of left to go keeping the stream alive just because uh just because [Music] remote cam searching why am I searching oh my battery ran out darn oh well I was gonna try and do this for you guys but fail I have to charge my battery back to the be right back scene see you guys in a little bit thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign that's good [Music] no no no no no no no no foreign [Music] they could change [Music] [Applause] [Music] can change [Music] [Applause] [Music] stick around and actually see something uh remember always turn your batteries before you start and I did not charge a battery today I have let's see if this is working now two one two there we go Hello friends I am here at frigo watch we're doing City champ uh I feel like let's see here's what I'm gonna do we're doing stuff we're doing stuff live because I love I love the open format I don't like to be a streamer that hides things and makes you you know trying to make you think that this I'm anything more than just a dude trying to figure out how to make this work um thank you everybody for the follows and stuff like thank you Captain auction the follow once again thank you for the bits I'll be not coming over if you guys are still here 's what I want to do I want to put my view here this is a little bit of inception right now let's do this take my be right back scene yeah I have to be right back soon that is the wrong team in turn how are you doing uh uh what am I looking for I'm looking for oh I know what I'm doing wrong change that again I want to go to the chatting scene and then put the remote scene in the chatting scene yeah 50 people watching you stare stare down ah if I had a nickel for how many times I had 50 people watching me stare you should see my stream normally game clubs oh that's Marty ah jeez great love you Marty Marty I told you you're going to be running that interview while I'm still working but I'll watch it in a VOD uh oh there we go and now I can switch to now I can switch to this there we go [Music] I know still love you how's tournament the tournament going great Christopher intern says can't complain having fun today I'm having a ball um over there you can see Jean eating a sandwich I should let Gene know that he's on camera eating a sandwich or it's more fun if I don't let Gene know who's on camera hi Gene Neil McRae [Music] Neil how are you buddy welcome to Free go watch we are in the tournament currently we're in the uh qualifying rounds gameplay Central thank you for the 100 bits we're at lunchtime everyone want to wait for lunchtime you guys want to see the standings here they are because I can do stuff like that boom amazing work here actually I should just keep the standings up keep the standing standing spring here of course Carl D'Python Anghelo one point ahead Zach uh Carl he knows a lot of games and did the right thing on Guardians don't don't start with coil on Guardians like ever I know it's a multiball but that's like saying you shame in Batman you just don't do it it's not true but I would not maybe not yeah Zach local player here really super strong player amazing game on uh Dr dudes I do have a replay that I need to try and use I'm scared to use it yeah exactly locks out everything else yeah so everyone was locked out Neil everyone started quill and everyone was locked out of everything so they're like ball one and ball two are kind of done Carl managed to get out of that lock start Pache start Groot profit so we're here for our top 24 players and as you can see you know we're drifting down to 19. Bezos in a friendly way Pro start Pro Strat is quill and then just drain the one oh wow Pro Strat is start quill and then drain just drain to the one ball so you can play coil stats oh and I thought I knew everything about I don't know everything about strategy though so that is I get yeah I'll get through quill faster if it's like a single ball but for me the quilt is after you've done a bunch of stuff and you've got a good score because you can at least get 10 of your score if you can shoot Star-Lord at the end at least if you double it it's 20. um the standings by the way kids uh I should throw that in I'm gonna throw the link to this in the chat so you guys can have it all the time it's also on the screen but it's not on the screen enough so I'm gonna help you guys out by um grabbing this give me a second because this OBS thing is new to me that's actually it's not actually good advice but being able to collect cool hurry up yeah so it I understood where you were coming from right I actually understood where you were coming from as far as uh using it um here I actually have it let's do this City champ there we go I'm gonna put this in my obs I mean in my screen deck that was my laptop battery going pretty good batteries here and there let's do a twitch chat standings and then the chat message will be this here check the current standings here and if I hit that there we go no Andreas is not here unfortunately Andreas is not here yeah I just auto power off yeah you saw that I love doing stuff live function I don't know if I can turn auto power off off it wants to protect itself but I'm not usually sitting on this screen anyway so it's not a big deal to tell Rocco back there that's how Rocco that's how Rocco oh rock is a friend of mine Flex I'm probably a bigger fan of el Rocco than El Rocco as of me so that's fair we are around so just so you know we are going to get started again in about 30 minutes um I'm gonna take you guys on a little walk see if I can pull this off [Music] oh I'm Gonna Keep the screen small I'm trying to charge the battery and carry the battery you guys could see a major fail come up right now which should be fun you're here for City champ but you're gonna get a tour of free gold watch so I'm not going to disturb Louise so I'm going to keep over here and show you there's the ping pong table there's Zach and Darren and David and there's a a wild El Rocco this is the print area normally there isn't a that game is not normally here but anyway so we're all this is where the magic happens oh yeah and then there's this but we won't talk about that this is where all the magic happens free gold watch is a t-shirt screening printing uh mainly that's the main that's the main stuff here at frigo watch um well we do actually happen to have a lot of pinball I don't even want to go back here because the floor is just gross oh my God that is not carpet that's tons and tons of paint incredible and also here's some these are these are my favorite these things up here you need to come to freeco watch if you're in San Francisco it is a very unique place I'm sorry I can't see chat right now let me see I can't see Chad over here is where our commentators are so we've got oh okay there was no chat auto power off with the last we can uh we can ask Eric how's things going how's things going Eric good okay there you go that was perfect he's eating this is this is the thing that makes the most money here this guy right here it really does all right my battery is about to die on this camera but I'll I got five minutes I'll take you guys down the row again come on auto power off auto power off no don't don't get back I gotta get back gotta get back oh no um it's it's gonna die oh and I'm dead say 20 minutes or [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] anyone [Music] all right we're gonna say we chat for a moment with Eric wagons on her he and I are going to talk about real questions [Music] oh Eric this is totally like a professional operation here you gotta put those on though yeah hello sir hello oh my goodness I know how are you I'm good totally professional the digs up in here you know what I mean yeah absolutely okay it's a good setup you can hear me hopefully um so I heard that we got a question about where the name pre-gold watch comes from yep that's your if you want to set your volume you could set Yours there if it's fine free goal watching on Liam McCray wants to know why it's called free go launch that's right so um as some people know but maybe not everyone uh this is not just an arcade it's actually a whole um print shop and think of screen printing for signage and for uh clothing they print t-shirts and hoodies and that kind of stuff and what they used to do a lot matter of fact they were even trying to start as a fashion brand for a while so that's why you'll see a lot of uh sort of pinball related t-shirts and such are in the free gold watch style which are great um these great sort of Ray tracing type things yeah Matt's really talented outline stuff Matt is great at that but what uh he used to do a lot and I actually haven't seen him do it much anymore is that he used to have a special tag in the back of t-shirts and such and so like this is one of our original League cities for like a thousand years ago oh here we go and every hoodie would come with a free a free gold watch which was the giant tag and you could cut it off and put it on your wrist or a lot of us just kind of kept it on on the T-shirt or the hoodies so that's that's where the name comes from and so I have a I have a ton of these at home too yeah I mean I just before they were selling there he is there's Matt Henry the free gold watch there he is that's right that's right we have an original yeah exactly come on sit from it yeah you want to add some to it yeah yeah okay yeah of our lovely place with Leanne uh yeah yeah my wife uh yeah we are the uh and uh I was just telling them the story about how uh all the t-shirts and hoodies used to have a free gold watch they they did and that is the the name of uh you know the place and the reason that it is uh are the brand is called for good watch is because you technically get this free gold watch with every shirt purchase um but the real story goes uh it all started with the hoodies and I'm not sure if that one particularly has it but the it started with because we would print the gold watches on the inside of all the zip hoodies oh so so it was like you know hey uh you know it's like you're in uh you know Harlem or something anybody and look over here you want to buy a watch you know that was that's how it started so I figured out how to put gold watches on the hoodie and I was like how do I get it onto the t-shirts like what how am I going to make this work for that history and you know funny timing because we just recently brought back a set of the long hang tags for recent running shirts that we just did oh really yeah oh so oh wow yeah we did okay get it before they go oh you you can hear us oh I didn't okay the voice of reason over here yeah chiming in exactly um so uh Eric how's the tournament going for yourself you know it's going pretty well um we had as always with these tournaments um we had in the first round or two just a bunch of uh malfunctions a lot of rulings like all kinds of things going on and anybody anybody anybody abusive to any of the judges so far not so far but we're keeping an eye on a few of the uh a few people a few troublemakers out there exactly okay okay it's a wonderful name it really is it really is okay um and uh yeah no everything's been going great good um and always with these tournaments like I never like I've spent a lot of time here this week right just you know doing doing software settings and clean the games and everything else no no practice on tournament games right now but if it you can play a sign on you can't play it but you can play anything without a sign Orbiter one is a red Orbiter one is ready to get played remember to one would love a quarter um yeah and so I've been here a time this week but I haven't actually played any of the games so I have no strategy I'm completely underprepared I don't know how the game for playing because I've just been like working on it the whole time right no that's understandable um what did you guys end up doing with that speaking of malfunctions and whatnot what happened with the uh the late one that it was Twilight Zone where some there was a somebody got the Powerball off their ball one or or on their ball played it drained but then there was a another ball in the shooter Lane what happened with that so uh what was the ruling that was a that was an interesting one we went back and forth on it we thought you know should we take the ball out and drain it um should we avoid the game should we I mean if there's did it go to player two or no it was sitting on the same player it was sitting on the street okay um and um we sort of talked about it back and forth one of the things that we always try to do when we're making rulings I tell all my judges all the officials just you know be calm there's no rush for the ruling right get a second opinion get a third opinion let's just make sure we get the right ruling rather than a fast ruling right that's good so we talked through it um there was no indication that the player was aware that the ball was in the shooter Lane okay none of the other players had witnessed it nobody said hey you got a ball stuck in the shooter lane or whatever like that right um the player didn't didn't actually realize that it was in there until the multiball was over the player was not playing the multiball in single ball mode I was wondering that okay okay so they drained two balls all at once so it wasn't necessarily we had no evidence that it was obvious to the player that uh the player was trying to take advantage of it and and knew about it um the way we do a lot of our rulings here is um we'll have one official go on scene to get the information and then that official brings it back to somebody else oh and describes it not by saying um you know Bob so usually it's usually Mario um so instead the the first official anonymizes it for the other rulers and so the other players the player yeah player one did this player two did this this happened to player three okay and this way I can rule on a game even that my wife is playing in and I have no idea that that she's involved in the game I have no idea um what player she is and if the ruling is going to hurt me or help me she might give you a little payback later for that right she'll know exactly that's how we try to anonymize it yeah okay but because there was no indication that the player was aware of it um we actually ruled it to play on so the player got it on play on so uh we did not we did not penalize them and we did not disqualify the rest of the ball interesting so they just they plunged and kept playing they plunged and kept playing and the reason for that is uh interesting I wouldn't have guessed that yeah the reason for that is that that there are plenty of situations where that can happen on on a game like Twilight Zone particularly you know the power multiball is quite lucrative a lot of times especially if you get those super jackpots especially if you can collect your bonus while the ball's still in play from the camera award um but we ruled a play on because you don't you don't necessarily want to make your ruling situational there and in a different situation it could have a pretty worthless uh multiball so yeah that's the ruling that we made and we're sticking by it I don't think that there's anything in um in the IPA rule set but I'm sure it'll be you know we'll be talking about that sort of thing a lot too with the other judges this week and we'll see on tilt forums how people react uh certain games seem to have sort of an advantageous uh characteristic to them depending on which uh you know which player gets to step up you know let's let's say like a cyclone for instance right you have a big jackpot certainly ready for somebody somebody might want to play you know go as player one and have an advantage and just go right after that jackpot right so games like that are removed right so which in this tournament sometimes I know in our league we play Cyclone all the time um but in this particular tournament I think Cyclones out right yes okay so Twilight Zone though I actually know the reason why it's out it could be because of that scoring function but there are other games like that as well yeah um a lot of those games do have customized ROMs that you can get where you can replace the original software um so but does Twilight Zone ever been considered a game that like we know we shouldn't just have we shouldn't have this game we shouldn't this in here because somebody gets a you know a little bit of a bonus as they catch you know they get that Powerball you know so so we actually made an adjustment to the game which a lot of people don't know about this adjustment but I would uh urge all tournament directors to look at this uh we actually took one of the pinballs there's there's normally three pinballs in the gumball machine we took one of the steel pinballs out of the gumball and we changed and there's a software setting in 8.2 dot something uh it's in the future setting where you can change the number of balls in the Gumball into software as well as you physically remove one from the machine you know drop it in the coin box okay and so now the gumball only has two balls in it it has one steel ball and it has the Powerball and this makes it considerably fairer because you only have to lock two Gumball locks to start it as opposed to trying to cycle all the way through to get that third one and then you drain and then somebody else gets your Powerball and all this kind of stuff interesting okay wow I didn't know that okay that's that's uh what we do for City champ we don't typically do that for some of our smaller tournaments or I know we don't do that exactly exactly because the stakes are lower those are more sort of social type events or social tournaments um what about doctor dude Dr dude I've always found kind of interesting because you know you're building up the dude meter right as it's referring to right and I think it's like uh what is it regular dude and party dude and cool you know you're going up but then the last one is super dude so if you step up and you're whatever player and you're you're on party dude and the next one is say super dude you have kind of an advantage there that you could actually maybe take a you know um you know have a little jump on the rest of your opponents if you get the super dude multiball going because you don't have to hit get all these extra hits in the uh gazillion or whatever the the mix master yeah right so well you still have to get those hits to light the multiball I mean like the jackpot you're gonna you're gonna get that but I think when you get the gazillion lit when you get in there to the mix master every single hit is worth millions right off the bat no no the value of the the value of the jackpot is worth a huge amount of millions that's right that's that's where you're getting the millions from not from the little hits inside the jacket you need to I forget how many it is 10 or 15 hits you have to get inside the mix master right and that scores the jackpot but if you're one shy of that you don't get many points but if you do but super Dudes Only lit on gazillion right so when somebody gets super dude well I think it's just like each level is plus one million I could be wrong but it's something like that so when you go from like regular dude to whatever the major dude or whatever the next one is yeah maybe yeah it jumps up but to compensate for that there is a software setting oh okay here we go and it's uh on that era of willingness machine it's called um contest mode and what contest mode does is it ensures that all players start with the same dude level it builds up individually for each player and we have that going here we have that we have that we're on contest mode okay wow I didn't even know that just for City Chapel set it back at the end oh that's great I had no idea that there was a there was a setting for uh for that so look at that everything ahead about uh you know these type of serious tournaments you know pretty far back when I mean yeah you know and with champion mode uh sorry contest mode um when a player collects the jackpot in contest mode I don't know about regular mode but certainly in contest mode it does not reset the jackpot to a low level for other players only for that play okay okay that makes again rebuilding it again right however there are other games like taxi was at um great tournament run by Javier last weekend at California extreme or two weekends ago and there was a taxi there and that taxi had a pretty high jackpot uh I wasn't the top seed but somebody deferred to me and so I went to go pick taxi because I knew most likely that that everybody else would pick fourth third second and that I would be player one and I would get the first crack at that jackpot so that's something to keep at smart that's smart yeah yeah so that's you know these little strategic things did it work did you get it I did not in fact nobody got it everybody had a lit and nobody and nobody actually got jackpot something that's how things go uh yeah but um there's uh for taxi there's actually a tournament ROM which will sort of no that's a ROM that means okay Somebody went in and uh third party came and made it and then you just aftermarket you add it does that have to be put in and taken out or can that be put in and sort of turned off and on within the game can you put it in and forget it and just turn it on when you need it or is it something that you need to just put in for this certain time just for this tournament and then take it out is that kind of how that works um that that question is specific to each of these sort of tournament ROMs these aftermarket ROMs uh for the taxi one I think you leave it in and I think that makes a permanent change to the game unless you replace the chip again unless you replace the ROM again later I could be wrong gotcha but a lot of them like um brought a pin bot um if you have that kit that changes brought a pin bot into brighter pinbot 2.0 there's actually in the software settings you can choose one mode or the other so oh gotcha gotcha it really depends on the on the particular ROM we have a question here from uh VP themes VP themes do we have a list of tables involved in this right well speaking of tables uh this table we're using here is actually a pool table the table in the back that we've been that was uh used it shouldn't have been used for pizza which was used for pizza is a ping pong table I'm trying to think of the other tables that we have here is that you have a kitchen table in your apartment I do uh yeah we do we do have a kitchen table but we do definitely have a list of uh uh tournaments it's not all tables it's not I don't know if it's a list oh yeah oh okay I think okay on the uh oh yeah it should be on there there's quite a few actually and I think you know we do have a lot of games here at frigo launch I think the count right now is I'm listing on the screen right now great you found it oh okay there we go there there are so many VP fans that we can't fit it on one screen but here's an example uh or or even um you know if anybody wants to see the whole list it's on fffkins.org and you can go to the city champ tab the Crooked City Cider theater of magic is that the game that we have here this is a different theater of magic oh yeah and then I like how Dr dude and his excellent Ray were given its proper respect and spelled all the way out because a lot of people do forget about his excellent Ray that's right it's very excellent right yeah that theater magic we actually tried to get a tournament ROM for that oh yeah um oh that would have been pretty short time away it hasn't been here very long it's been here very long right it's on the way and it's just shipping just now what does that do you know I I've played a lot of theater magic but I'm not aware of all the nuances so what is that uh how does it equalize theater it makes um it makes a few setting changes uh the first is one criticism that theater of magic gets because it's really I mean the Aesthetics of the game are beautiful it's a fun shooting game it's a fantastic game the criticism it gets is that sometimes the left orbit is too lucrative and so some players will just shoot that left orbit over and over again a few things happen when you shoot that that uh left orbit first of all you're getting theater letters which build into your bonus and then when you fully spell theater it lights a hurry up at the at the trunk the cube in the center right um for you know that could be 50 50 to 80 million points depending on how far into the game you are and that game scores unusually high right I mean that's right yeah that's right um and the second thing by hitting the left orbit is that if the ball doesn't go all the way around which it often doesn't uh if it uh for every Top Lane completion that you get you're getting bonus multipliers wow okay so that is completely the way to play that game without said ROM just ripping left side you definitely want to pay attention to your multiball too and you want to pay attention to the mode that you a lot of people don't know you can pick the mode before you plunge yes yep yeah but with the flipper so put it on the mode that you want a lot of players like to start with levitating a woman because that's the center ramp one so you pick levitating woman hit the trunk to start it and then shoot the center ramp several times until and you're both getting points for the levitating woman mode and you're also getting magic letters from the center ramp right which spells your lock so it's kind of double duty so that's a great you know tournament Strat in any in any case good one um is theater magic in theater magic is it we are using it so we are using it Sans tournament run yeah um so um the main criticism because this left Loop people go for these two x's the the tournament changes the uh bonus multipliers so instead of going from 1X to 2x to 4X to 6X to 8X it'll change it from 1X to 2x to 3x to 4X so it's building much slower okay let's get a lot more sets of those okay the Centers do you think that anybody's going to try to exploit this uh left orbit uh today so we we tried to make it harder by adjusting it so that it goes so instead of cut instead of coming down cleanly it goes um to a sling and that's preventing people from trying to exploit that oh no unfortunately often that particular adjustment on that game will wear off over time so we'll have to keep our eye on it um and we may very well not use it in tournament mode looking at the standings here uh we got some familiar uh some familiar characters here uh you know look at Carl D'Python Anghelo no big surprise there sitting around number one at 13 points we have uh our very own Zach wallins number two that's good good on Zach good job and then number three we have David Elrod flying in from Juneau Alaska yeah he's showing me some great videos of bears tearing up his garbage cans kind of scary a former uh Bay Area pal so we're great to see it's good to see David again and then we got uh we have our uh sapd uh League champ right Luke Baxter yeah look at that he's doing good um yeah so that's our that's the top four there and then uh let's see here we got uh tournament organizer and all around uh helping dude here Darren Inslee sitting here tied at seven good job Darren Whit tied with Andre and Leslie and Jared wow so uh what what note you'll note that a lot of people have 10 points uh my shop included yep and there's actually an automatic tiebreaker so it looks like it's segregated into seventh and 12th positions and even there's some 15s with that with uh 10 points yeah that tiebreaker is um based on the number of uh first place wins you get gotcha but it's not going to be used for anything important so if there's a tie for 24th which is who gets into the playoff Simone who doesn't right because it's high for eight which is who gets a buy-in who doesn't right or if there's a a tie for the number one spot which is who gets to pick the games and all that tomorrow so that will play into it play it out they will actually play those games out we won't use the automatic fibers I see okay that's good to know but for all other ties because in a format like this you tend to get a lot of ties because it's a bell curve everybody bunches up in the middle right all all the other ties will be uh broken automatically based on um based on that automatic tiebreaker so do you do you like the little break here in the afternoon or do you feel like you know since you were doing so good here you know you have your uh was it 11 10 points here uh you know you're you're on a nice roll do you wish you could just kind of continue on playing or do you need the little break for lunch or um what do you think that's a that's a good question I um I tend to so I'm a little bit not in tournament mode I'm more in like director mode and so I don't have any good strategies on the games I just haven't played them very well because I've just been adjusting the software settings I've played very little this week right um I haven't played them actually in a couple months since the weekend did yeah so like I'm I don't feel like I'm doing well in my mind isn't into it mentally into the game maybe that is a strategy maybe the strategy is to go in and just sort of you know yeah relax them out you know and play them and maybe didn't have to go in and you know think you have to practice practice and think that you know you got it set whereas you know you're just gonna step right up and you know just give it your go yeah uh you also got a couple other things on your mind maybe right now that uh your wife might have a baby literally any moment I do I do uh we're we're doing about 10 days uh so second child uh congratulations that's big apparently the second one comes early so we'll see how it is thank you yeah we're very uh very excited so yeah Louise is very heavily pregnant I'm not sure where she is you'll probably see her waddling around she can't she was trying to like volunteer to come in to like clean playfields and stuff and she just can't reach es and Beyond a trooper over here yeah and you know game testing and she's been she's done a lot so yeah but she loves it and she loves the scene so that's good so it is basically your daughter's first city champ as well I guess that's right okay that's good yeah yeah it is and uh so we'll see so um my mind is on other things but I always have my one secret Ace in the Hole to get back into tournament mode oh yeah and I'm gonna use that uh as soon as we're ready to start up our games I'm excited okay I'm excited to see that that's good I'm gonna have a can of Cherry Coke a can of Cherry Coke yes which thank you for putting that yeah we yeah we we've got we got those in the uh cooler now or the bin refrigerator bro we have these fancy bins that we're using to cool the soft drinks here at the free gold watch uh seems like the players are kind of stewing about a lot of people talking pointing at things um talking strats uh and just kind of you know do you feel any nervous tension with any of the players here do you think everybody's kind of cool and relaxed I don't know it's it's been very relaxed so far we've seen you know know nobody's gotten particularly stressed or anything yeah yeah and that's quite typical at this stage that might change a little later on when it gets close to the cut line sometimes things get a little edgy yep but I I mean it's a great group here like like we know almost all these people and just you know flying in from all over the country and like we see them at different circuit events that we go to they've hosted us so many times right right right so uh it's a it's a great family yeah um yeah a lot of players what do we get 76 total 76 that jumped in yeah we had two we had a few people uh two people uh not show up this morning or not show up on time oh really and we had two people we had two people on the waiting list who got in so and both got in okay that's good he's right there oh there goes Louise and uh oh I wanted to ask you so you were on the list today and I was on the list I was signed up and decided uh to you know I there's a couple things going on over here so you know I I I work here I'm here constantly right so um and you know I was at the desk and uh I seen this uh lady I've never met before named Kat and she was looking looking longingly at uh Jared kind of wondering you know who didn't show up and uh are they coming and did you text them are you sure they're coming and Jared reaffirmed that yes we have texted them they are coming so I'm sorry that it doesn't look like you're gonna be able to get in and I thought you know what I'm just gonna go ahead and give up my spot my slot and I you know to cat and uh switch up switch a mat for a cat and just you know let her play and I feel like um you know uh it was okay I don't mind not competing today uh wow and I was glad that I was glad that she was really happy and excited to be able to get him she came from Southern California you know so that's kind of a big gamble I mean I think she's with somebody and I'm sure if they're in if they're playing or not but if not then that's I yeah I wouldn't find myself driving to uh you know six seven hours away to to maybe play in a tournament so you know I felt it was a good thing to do so that that was a really sweet thing to do and for those of you who don't know Matt that well this is exactly that kind of guy he is so it's really really a sweet thing to do appreciate that Eric appreciate that Eric uh we have some sort of announcement are they ready to kick things off go get things going our uh producers over here giving us some uh some stirring premises yeah we got we're set up on Harlem we're just waiting for the players so if you guys want to take a break we'll come back sounds great sounds good thank you everybody for having us and thanks for all right we'll uh we'll talk soon you guys all right hey good job Eric hey good luck out there thank you very much all right we are setting up on Harlem Globetrotters so uh we'll see in like two minutes [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back we're here in sunny San Francisco California here for City champ nine good to see you again my name is Derek Lipkin also known as fresh poetic I am playing in this tournament but I'm also helping with the broadcast here which is run by our master of broadcast Manu Smith part of the mystery science or I'm sorry mystery pinball theater 3000. I'm sorry I always I was you know that's my first time I ever messed it up but yeah Manu uh you're at Twitch TV uh Slash MPT 3K make sure you hit that follow button and uh and subscribe if you like um but yeah we're gonna be getting into our sixth round here for City champ nine as our humble little pinball tournament here we're gonna be playing on Harlem Globetrotters so excited to bring you that action uh it's gonna be a fantastic rest of the afternoon we're gonna be having uh seven more rounds because we've already have five in the books uh so seven more fourth coming and uh yeah we're gonna be trying to highlight you know a lot of the top level pinball players who are in the tournament making sure that we have those sort of consequential matches especially toward the end some highlighting some of those that are going to be determinative of who's going to make it what is a consequential match like if you're going to make it into the top 24. oh like if you're tied at right right those bubble matches are going to be really interesting very exciting I think so yeah so we're looking forward to that but as we go along I think we got a lot of pinball before then so we'll be uh just highlighting various players as as we go along and selecting those games if you have any games you'd like us to see uh let us know we might be able to accommodate that um but yeah having a pretty good pretty nice time and it's a beautiful day here in the city so it's been nice to walk around we just had our lunch break so it's nice to take a little stroll around the hate Ashbury Neighborhood yeah I'm sorry all good I'm here I'm here you got enough to worry about so how I gotta say you know just from from having run this several times before uh what what do you feel like is the the things you have gotten better at here at frequent watch with the broadcast and what things you're still hoping one day like pie in the sky if you could create that for the broadcast well pie and this guy would like free go watch this have its own 100 all of its own equipment yes um uh we're using my server but then again my server my my uh my PC my PC is built for as you know if you're on mystery pinball theater on Fridays that is a insane stream where people are competing against each other in the rift theater to be funnier and then scores are coming in from the chat and a movie is playing at the same time and Graphics are popping up on the screen and we're keeping stats and so uh this is kind of easy yeah yeah there you go I'm glad to hear that but yeah if we can get a little more stuff we're theater never heard of it never never heard of the idea oh hello oh rww hey good to see you guys follow that's Ryan who's in San Francisco pinball Department that's the league that operates out of free gold watch here in San Francisco oh okay yeah yeah wonderful to see him in there we've got uh several folks from frigo watch you'll see they're tagged in the uh in the chat there and we're going to be getting into our next round shortly looking forward to that why is it called free gold watch you know I think there's some lore around that we'll have to ask Matt Henry the proprietor along with his wife Leanne uh they're the owners of free gold watch I think they probably have some some apocryphal story they can share with us or the genuine article up to them what they want to put out there but yeah well we can get uh Matt maybe to come and talk a little bit about that I do think that there is a there's somebody who's asking about the name of free gold watch why is it free gold watch that came up I think once every hour yeah we've already had four stories I mean I'm not look I understand let me go watch is a weird name um yeah so yeah there we go round six is up let's see who we're gonna be having I'm gonna just uh see where I'm playing but also see what is going to be going on on our game here Harlem Globetrotters oh it's got a great group coming up Michael palero Johnny Monica Michael Matson also known as dri yep and Gene X are humble leader of the event here along with Jared Garvey one of our tournament directors so very exciting match you're going to see there on Harlem I'm going to be heading over to Blue Chip there they are nice one player game all right there we go all right folks well Mona you're in good hands with Manya so we'll uh I'll catch up with you again after my game's done and hopefully we'll have uh some more to talk about on on this game but good luck thank you very much all right take care folks y here I am once again what is this here I am once again ladies and gentlemen if you're here and I have a beautiful view of the rig in a reflection super familiar with so I did stream this you can get scissored no it's a real thing you can't get scissors like the ball can go through the flippers the left the two left flippers dangerous you do want to hit those bonuses so that stand-up targets on the right orbit are really good to hit that'll double your bonus I think triple your bonus 5x there's a 2X is a 3X build bonus with spinners multiple bonus thank you Toledo Toledo pinball thank you for the follow it's all about the X so you're going to see our our players here they're going to be trying to get those uh X's on the right orbit it's not an orbit until it is yes the ball does go down there that was Michael pretty good purse well that was oh no I'm sorry that was Johnny I know uh Michael had a pretty bad law this is my buddy dri Michael Matson hold it up yeah so good you can catch Michael on dri three seven four I think it is a fellow pinball Network um streamer excellent screams excellent quality finish finished prayer thank you Obi oh it almost lasts but there was no chance that was going to hit the top of that flipper 45. Mike is coming to London for UK open nice Neil are you going to be running back are you part of running that or my favorite Swedish Michael hey Brian Neil McRae is running the London UK open there is uh just let you guys know there is always a hot game of Whirlwind and uh Eight Ball deluxe right next to me so if you hear those sounds you know where they're coming from Phoenix Gene is a fabulous photographer uh one of the directors of City champ and all out fabulous guy and an unfortunate drainer right O'Neill I wish Neil and I were watching this together in the same location it's not like we're a few miles apart I know Brian you are in London I'm saying that because you said it on stream so I'm not giving you away because you already gave yourself another unfortunate drain Michael 15. Harley it's kind of like a one ball game though if you can blow up that one ball you can profit that's called spinterrupted and you gotta do spinner going and the ball caps it to stop it spinning Center up to [Applause] every time you hit one of the the Globetrotters in the advanced that directly from a wrong chat but a Globetrotter it will advance your left dead end shot at least got those spinach Juiced object of the Globetrotters is actually like trap like to yeah travel the world oh really good that's a really good choice not to flip so everyone's played their ball too we're at ball three Michael has a little bit work to do yeah that's a lot on the Fly oh that's going that's going no that was going [Applause] of course I'm Michael you got Johnny up Johnny's got a short front Loop I used to know all the names of the Harlem Globetrotters not anymore that's when I was a kid Michael would appreciate this win I think he's Hawking his weighers I think I think I want to buy that from him if he's selling it I only remember curly Meadowlark and geese yeah those are the ones that I remember curly metal lock and geese oh that was unfortunate all right drops on the right also increase the spinner value on the left so Michael is currently in first and he's just waiting to see if uh Gene can pull up 100 100 100K which is totally doable in this really tough by the way this this Harlem Globetrotters is gorgeous it is one of the nicest looking games here it's practically like off it's like it's like brand new it's ridiculously clean and nice which is why everybody wondered why Matt would put it here [Applause] go for it again Gene go for it again boom sunk it boom more holding those flippers up is always dangerous in this game I see a drop catch and Harlem Globetrotters I'm going up it's interrupted yeah good play good clip I didn't see that bouncing too safely oh oh bonus oh any bonus oh he gets them on bonus ladies and gentlemen wow Gene pulls out the win right on the bonus Brian calls the technical says that both Spinners are increasing the bonus that's not default well there you have it kids [Applause] Gene pulls a win right at the last moment did you say spin erupted yes that is a term we invented here at Frito Lodge actually that is when you hit a juice spinner it starts running crazy but then the ball touches it one more time less uh stealing away many many spins that is a spin corruption really good game by Gene hoes folks well I mean look it's a game that won the high score on this is what 974. it's the game that wins now [Applause] I get spinterrupted in TX sector all the time exactly no that is not James Harley that's actually Matt Henry's Harlem Matt Matt bought this and couldn't believe he got such a great issue Brian if you're familiar with um Jay's future Spa this game reminds me of Jay's Future Smile that's and I'm not kidding you that's how nice it is uh Dave Paisan hello David my mom told me stories of when she was a girl and the Harlem Globetrotters came to town in the early 60s I might be getting the story mixed up but I think she said they were waiting by the bus because they had some trouble at the hotel sounds sounds about right did you mean trouble with the hotel meaning they didn't want to let them in is that what we're talking about I think that's what you're saying no you cannot come in here you can use the service entrance uh tell Robert Crum to tune into the stream right now yeah Brian I'm not kidding exactly I'm not I'm not it's not like words coming out of my mouth that don't make any sense it's that clean thank you for the follow black cat pinball oh the hotel was mysteriously booked yes uh we don't have any rooms here there's no more rooms here there's a new sheriff in town all right let's go switch into standings even though we don't know what if all this if all the games are not done yet [Applause] I'm pretty sure where all the games are not done make sure to join us tomorrow friends for the playoffs and the finals we're taking the top 24 today oh I think the top eight gonna buy so they could come in a little late they could sleep a little late everyone else flippers and butts up [Applause] of course Carl isn't first well you know I mean Carla's one point ahead of everyone [Applause] but we have been taking some amazing play today I'm hyped for the Carl versus zap battle that that would be interesting would be very very that'd be a great game by coming up from last place on Dr Jude and putting up four over four million five million I think I mean the game was over at 3 million but he decided just to put up a couple more Carl has notoriously sucked that City champ in the past well yeah I mean those level of sucking I would take any day but I understand what you're saying uh Brian yes you can have an unfortunate tournament here and there but either way what he come in second that last time that was funny uh there were ample rule residents that offended split up at night Carla's not making his playoffs his background yeah very true I love how Matt's in the game but he's looking at Chad uh let's see what I can do for you kids maybe we can take a look at some other playing games playing I might be able to switch to remote Cam and show you some of these games in play now for a moment [Applause] foreign So currently we have a game going on Rick and Morty Wow Let's see if we'll see some of those scores if you want to play along make sure to check the uh the link or match play or city champ 9. if you didn't catch the link you can just search for City champ nine and I'm curious to see if there are any games going on in the Lucky's usual room it does look like there is oh yeah I will sit and talk to you guys for a little bit I do want to check the standings how are we doing so far no all right wow I wish I was streaming that game oh where are you now um but I just uh second place nice were you part of all that Ruckus can you hear me uh yes okay you want to boost yourself a little bit Yeah you can turn yourself up blah blah ABC one two three yeah yeah oh do you you sound like a laugh oh of course yeah I'm super careful yeah there we go all right yeah I was like let's see this seems different all right fantastic what's the score on Matt's ping pong game that is uh not in the tournament not not a tournament legal yeah um but yeah oh my gosh that was a uh it was nice I racked up a second place so that was nice on on Blue Chip uh old em yeah that uh can can often beguile me but that one I had a pretty good one is it is it old em redundant I guess that's true this is not really any new EMS although there should be that should be you know somebody should revive the art of the electric mechanic the last one we had was well Nelly big whatever well even that is that's a solid state right right it's it's styled as so you mean heart you want somebody to hardcore Go in all in yes do Chimes and there you go four wheels why not you know I I think you could find maybe some new kinds of Chimes maybe maybe they they could modernize it but with this sort of modern approach but without computers I think that would be an amazing thing if somebody could do it I I can't yeah I'm not gonna spend the time but that was a it was it was great that that machine's very fun it's wonderful if you do come here to free gold watch they have a room that is uh I forget they have a special name for the room look he's usual room oh there it is lucky Juju room all the games are actually from the collection at the Pacific Pinball Museum so they're all electromechanical games um that includes Royal flesh Blue Chip uh they use lizard yep sky jump sky jump uh what am I forgetting in the middle there there's one more I know snow Derby snow Derby yes and they and they they used to have prospector they used to have yeah what happened to prospector bow and arrow I gotta ask what happened to prospect that's one of my favorite yeah DMS it's really great it's a Spanish company that makes it Sonic yes Sonic yeah yeah they also make butterfly which is a favorite and they make uh Birdman oh yes yeah yeah and the favorite that was here at frigo watch for a very long time Marsh Trek yeah that that is a uh it's a great game very fun and was it was pretty unseen at other places I mean the fact that free will watch had one on location for so long was very special and I actually think that's actually uh it's a nice feature of this location for the players in this community to have EMS to be able to practice on yeah to take that into Classics tournaments that they play elsewhere uh into you know things like now you know rest in peace pinberg but those kind of tournaments where you have this set sort of uh variety oh another another fun one oh is that there that's ping pong gosh sorry guys so much excitement right behind us we're we're gonna have that excitement when it comes to uh the finals here tomorrow not that bird man another Birdman not that Birdman I think it's just a game called Birdman thanks svm 47 for joining the what do you call your followers and I don't call them any I don't call them late for dinner there you go I say welcome to the theater I like that oh yeah theater goers sure Rivers patriotic Wars or whatever vote you know vote early vote often there you go uh but yeah this is uh I think we're in the middle of our round here we're gonna get he calls me names all the time yes beans I do fiends I hope you noticed that Tom carty is not available at any point during this stream and if you if you know mystery paintball theater you know what I'm talking about let's see let's find out real flesh still ongoing theater of magic is still ongoing I knew that Harlem Globetrotters wasn't going to run for a long time but it's such a beautiful game it is um I don't know if you've ever so you've never seen uh do you know who uh Jay from scoreboard is yes yes right well at his home he has a um future Spa okay he and his son worked on and basically brought it back to like new in box it looks them it looks amazing it is I am not yeah I'm not understanding this it's amazing or overstating it's overstating us uh when Matt bought that Harlem Globetrotters I thought of that game yeah because this Harlem Globetrotters is that clean the white paint is super clean yeah Playfield is not uh uh Boeing in any way yeah it's just beautiful and we all asked Matt why did you put it here yeah I think does that have a Playfield protector on it at the very least it does help yeah so that'll that'll give it some life yeah and uh yeah but that it is you're absolutely right that is one of the the nicer classic machines they have here not not that other classic machines here are so rough but that one is in particularly nice condition yeah uh so so such a treat to have that I remember you know pinberg 2019 I believe that was um yeah because that was the last one before the pandemic we were out there and that was the game that really sealed the deal for um gosh this is how how much I bet oh Keith Helen uh he had an amazing game Andre was in the finals end up getting second that year at pinberg um but that game of Harlem Globetrotters was a Master Class by Keith elwin and really it was it was something to behold when you were actually in in the venue watching that game happen as it unfolded um really really special that's awesome man I wish I was here when Keith was here well actually you know now that I think of it I don't know I'd have to go into the archives I don't know that Keith has ever been to a San Francisco says Neil was here you son of a yeah oh he was he was in uh Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh okay I know that that's you son of that Guardians of the Galaxy game Neil was unbelievable as well Andre win that one and he just it was already set yeah I think it had 2019 short flippers uh Groot mouth was disabled so it's just knocking off the front of his face yeah that's what we were doing here yeah and it was just unbelievable to watch Andre operate especially you know given his style you know he's playing on the Fly and he it was like he couldn't miss lightning slippers no posts oh that was fire rings and shark tanks everything to keep the pro players on their toes but yeah that was a special a special finals I of course I wanted it for Andre I even got a little emotional at the end because I I really wanted it for him um but he he put up a quite the Valiant effort wow oh and I'm assuming that's it over to the finals there thank you Obi John all right so I think yeah we're gonna get into our seventh round shortly uh let's see if we uh I'll give you the latest here because I think we're looking at the end of the last one there I'm gonna hit a refresh he's gonna refresh that not too much change in the names up at the top people playing fantastic pinball here Carl still on top by a margin of two over Zack so we've seen uh it's a continued great play by Zach by Carl of course uh Nick inserting himself into the top there into the top three Andre back on top Andre had a had a zero earlier wow but it has bounced back pretty uh decisively I think Andre does that on purpose right right the little rope-a-dope yeah he he tries he's come on come on and finally I get on the on the screen here I'm in that top 20. nice all right so make it making steady progress there um but yeah it's it's been uh really wonderful the games are playing fantastic uh conditions are all great but much much respect to uh Darren Ensley as our Master of the games and David velanski our operators coming in to help with all that they've really done a nice job I think David immensely for allowing me access to the Pinball Museum in Alameda uh we're going to get back to streaming from there I was streaming like about once a month from there actually and David actually would come to my house pick me up take me all the way over there amazing yeah and uh and uh you know I do my um my charity streams now for the Pacific Pinball Museum on New Year's Day yes like a nine or a 10 hour stream and we raised a lot of money that's great in fact Brian O'Neill and a bunch of those guys uh donated a lot so uh yeah it's a super good super nice cause I love frigo watch to death the floors are disgusting here and I can actually roll around on the floor on the carpet right at the pinball you can see yeah it is for anybody who doesn't know that's over in Alameda just across the bay from San Francisco uh it's the Pacific Pinball Museum It's a Wonderful collection of machines throughout time all the way back to the wood rails yeah the early 20th century they even have the we call him back atel oh yes yes liverless pinball they have Humpty Dumpty there yes yeah first game that had flippers fantastic um and you can play a lot of them actually there's a couple that are off limits just because I think they're particularly precious or you know uh fragile but there's a bunch of wood rails that you can play and playing tournaments there especially with that variety has been really uh oh my God yeah one minute you could be playing you know uh uh uh Willy Wonka the next minute you could be playing Frank Thomas Big Hurt yeah you know frankly uh you know similar similar insane rule sets um but yeah the uh it's really especially if you make it out San Francisco to try to make some time to go out to uh support them it's a non-profit uh They Do It For the Love of the history of the game and they have a lot of educational initiatives where they'll put on exhibits and actually make those things available at you know science days for kids in the area um showing the sort of Science of pinball how the actual mechanisms work how physics sort of interplays with all that so it's really a great organization yeah yeah I've I've similarly had the pleasure of streaming from there and it's just it's just a really fun special place um so yeah yeah I I uh if if and when you know you're gonna do it I'd love to come come join you all right round seven perfect timing let's see where we're gonna go oh and I get to stay back here because I'm playing on Graham Stoker's Dracula but let's see so you tell me where I should go yes I will you know actually that might not be a bad choice um not not to favor myself although let's see you know I think let's go to yep uh gosh there's a lot a lot of great games here that people are going to be playing I'd say let's let's go to Walking Dead Walking Dead oh my God that's awesome yeah because you're you're already over there I think that's and yeah you might need some help just contending with the uh no I think I'm okay you got it okay I think I think Jared can help me get through there you go so yeah so Walking Dead premium you're gonna be seeing Eric wagons on her Johnny Monica eka Schneider and Jonathan soon and it's gonna be a fantastic match yeah you're gonna you're gonna be up Johnny you're gonna be on the broadcast right now over on The Walking Dead premium and that's a great a great set of players there um myself will be playing with Carl Darren and Matthew Peterson so looking forward to playing with them we're gonna we got a great set of players here today all having a great time yeah we're going to The Walking Dead for the broadcast it's a little bit more feasible in the area of the uh of the rig right now so manu's getting that set up making sure we got everything moving along here and we're gonna have a great time so I'm Gonna Leave You with Manu for commentating on the next one and uh hopefully if it's not over by the time my game is done I'll be able to come contribute a little bit to that conversation as well we have a bunch of experts on the game so maybe we can snag some of those folks to come talk about it as well once their games are up but uh thanks so much for being here with us again subscribe uh uh follow the channel make sure you're uh sending in those bits to support Manu here uh and just having fun watching some pinball on a Saturday afternoon thanks folks thank you foreign [Music] all right I have got the game set up they're gonna get started in just a minute Walking Dead is a rough game oh and I should have put the bent plastic up but that's okay Eric wagensteiner is starting a soft kid so no all right since we have somebody really chatting right now just give you guys a shot of that gorgeous back glass on The Walking Dead and by gorgeous I am totally joking because this thing creeps me out to no end oh there goes that well there wasn't much of a bonus though I guess we'll be all right losing it I like it the best of glasses yeah that's that is the best backlash of all the glasses for this game could we reskin The Walking Dead to like I don't know uh give me something to reskin The Walking Dead to that is 180 degrees different like no beans no we've already done that give me something else what's a different game okay yeah let's go with Jesus Christ Superstar that guy's up Becca gets in one danger but we're going to I think we're going to shoot prison talk about complex games I think this is Lyman it's the lineman game uh yeah Care Bears let's just take care of those Thomas the Train Luca San Diego you're definitely a diesel foreign oh my God Ryan I gotta use that for the back glass wow I can't even see these two ramp is great Mrs Payne's wouldn't stop playing it as well she left twg and Jake I guess it depends on you know the heart wants what the heart wants [Applause] all right oh they're on hole two uh Eric who knows a lot about this game stepping up Eric can probably give you a lesson on this game if you come to play Pinball with surgical gloves you're serious I guess there's only but so much ball save you can turn off in some of these games so what is your favorite strategy on this uh friends what are some what are some favorite strategies on The Walking Dead [Music] probably tilt though four hundred thousand dollars this one's going this one's going quick that goes back up pretty close game score points don't drain we are all hilarious you were all hilarious I love you get blood back going thank you Leo oh bloodbath is oh that's too dangerous yeah Danger's from flipping it's a little bit I had a friend who would shove the game forward every time they flipped and I quickly taught taught them not to do that by the way every game here has been given fresh rubbers the exact same rubbers the red ones and thank you all right ball three Eric I would love to see pull ahead uh so they get bloodbath going you have to knock down I think the drop targets three times three sets of three drop targets correct me in chat if I am alone I am known to be wrong on some of these things the tournament rubbers exactly it's uh two shots lights all shots for prison three sets with a different lights lit that's the trick so you got to get everything you got to get the medicine you got to get the weapons and we got to get the peanut butter you might as well have tried yeah you might as well try yeah all right Eric is within shooting different distance we do have earplugs in these so he needn't worry about letting it settle for too long so it's pretty much settled if you know me I would have put a tilt cam in every game if I could I would actually do that if you have spare cell phones and you want to donate them to mystery pinball theater send them to me that's what I use I use a I use phones can you believe me Grammy thank you for the follow Joe the dragon 35 welcome to the theater uh-oh we have a ball stuck behind the drop Target hey there you go that went the right way that was unfortunate oh that was the sickest we are being particularly rough that's okay fiends I appreciate you I could always use spare phones because I'm using them as cameras so we're looking at Eric in the lead with Johnny I think ekka has a good shot and Jonathan wow look at the score difference between Johnny and Jonathan has to plunge to beat Johnny Storm the day at California extreme a few years back I think she really wants to start that multiball it's gonna be one brutal game good got the ball safe oh she's she's getting dangerous on flips yeah that's not good friends if you find yourself getting dangers on flipping the ball that's terrible that's terrible all right Johnny you got this I mean Jonathan you got this this is a tight game son of gun wow never got a flipper on it but pulled into second place 500 bonus after the match screen is done we shall see uh yep second place so Eric who first John and Finn for second Echo gets a third and Johnny Monica with the fourth place points thank you for the following Matt robot welcome to the theater yeah the tilde is tight but really you shouldn't be adding nudge with a flip it's not going to make the ball go any uh you know what I'll keep it here for a little bit people enjoy seeing people kind of walking around pretty much we have more fun stuff for you tomorrow actually I want to try something while you guys are with me I always try something why don't you go play it man let's see if you can beat one of those scores we cannot play tournament games I'm afraid I could I could easily beat all those scores combined but alas we are not allowed to play it [ __ ] I'm sorry to disappoint you [Applause] I just replayed this guy drinking Don't Panic flip I think it will a sub for 32 months my buddy 32 months George how are you hope you're having a great day we're doing okay here at frigo watch let's take a look at the standings for your kids journey is going well Carl D'Python Anghelo is now two points in the lead behind right behind is Zach wallins and Nick Stein Nick is right over here next to me currently involved in a game of whirlwind we're on ball too I'm gonna see if I can get you guys in on that game let me see if I can get you guys in Tomorrowland without distracting the players can I do it I'm just checking to see if I could film some of this game thank you I'm gonna go up high geez that's how I am will that work [Music] so here's Nick yeah the world went affect with the wind blowing are you live on audio yeah and they can hear me more than they can hear you but they can hear you so these guys got a little bit of work to do to catch up to today who is player two is ball three are they playing extra balls they are not playing extra balls [Applause] could be kind of a grind yo do not power off my camera because all right kids I have to whoa whoa whoa whoa okay yep yeah okay [Applause] is all right I am going to let you guys take a quick bathroom break we'll be right back we're gonna find a new game to play um here at City champ nine San Francisco [Music] California be right back hello Manu F oh you're here I am I just I just just got done sorry well let's send all right let me set you up Derek how was your game it was okay I got third and it was a tough crash late the the fields leader Carl D'Python Anghelo he took the win Matthew uh took a second I edged out Darren Ensley our our Master games here on the on the third ball so got my one point that's that's my philosophy in pinball tournaments is don't get last because if you don't yes get something yeah you got to uh put the ball in place so to speak yeah but uh yeah we got we got a lot of games wrapped up I think let's take a look how close we are to our next round here we got yeah most games logged I think we're actually gonna be switching over to the next round momentarily because everything else has suggestions in so it looks like yeah we got uh Nick Stein on top right now although I don't think that reflects Carl's win yet so Carl will still have the two yeah Nick just blew up we're all in oh fantastic yeah look at that the 10 million well done yeah VP fiends I was I was in in Dire Straits I was happy to come away with one point that was that was a tough tough group it was uh 422 that was Carl to three something in 350 for Matthew ah there we go round eight what game were you playing uh Bram Stoker's Dracula all right next place we're going for the broadcast here all right let me know let's see um it's getting busy yes it is you know let's go do you think you can get to Avengers the the old Avengers that's a good direction to go okay good that's got a great variety of folks on there including Matthew Peterson who I just played uh wait event Infinity Quest or no the other one the one in the middle of the original yes yes 2012. all right and where am I going oh I'm staying back here with eight ball Deluxe playing another Derek Derek price from Southern California happy to happy to have him here with us it's going to be a fantastic round eight so as we are uh I think the the current screen you're looking at doesn't let me let's just validate uh yeah so Carl still in the lead with 19. Nick at 17. Leslie is now in third with Zach and Andre and David with 15 a piece Matthew who had just played great player he's got 14 he's tied for seventh with three other players uh all the way through if we look at our cutoff I'm actually right on the button Michael Oren Jamie uziel and myself Derek Lipkin are all right now at the cut so it's gonna be a fun one I I expect I might be involved in one of those uh final matches depending on how things go so we're going to send it out to Avengers in just a moment I see manu's got the rig hoisted in the air ready to set it down that's that's a bit of a tough area just given the variety of wires above the machines and some nice Christmas tree lighting that's strung across the hallway there and he's navigating it like a champ so he's going to get going in just a second and I'm gonna head off to my game so thanks so much folks for sticking with us here uh we're we're going to be going for a couple more rounds we're round eight uh we're going through 12. so stick around and uh kick comfy get excited for some exciting matches toward the end of this day and uh make sure to hit that follow button so that way you can get the notifications for tomorrow because we're going to be back here with our top 24 bonus what's that I say hulk one bonus oh yeah bonus to Hope yeah there you go sorry all right thanks folks see you soon thank you [Music] all right looks like we're coining up on Avengers and let's get a little Avengers load going here well that was a quick book all right so you got to give me a chance all right this one is a tough game this is the uh shoot all the shots many many many times um kind of game to make any progress player 3 doesn't know how to play this game Nick doesn't know how to play this game oh that's not good well Nick can just Nick can hit shots oh Nick is Chief wallet is Nick thank you just keep hitting the shots over and over again you'll do just fine now the trick about this game is you have to bring all the Avengers in so it quite literally is shoot each Avenger I think four times and then the fifth time starts them and you can you'll see they're collected in the middle of the Playfield um one easy well not easy but one multiball that's available is just bash on the Hulk targets over and over again and then shoot the scoop or the saucer um which is easier to hit through the Black Widow ramp and that'll start a Hulk multiball there's also kind of a secret way to start low-key multiball which I don't think any of the players are doing currently short plunge to get your skill shot what's interesting about the Loki lights down at the bottom is the left flipper controls the left Lo and the right flipper controls the right Ki similar to like Rolling Stones or any of those games where each flipper controls the in and outlanes but no one's doing it so as you can see Matthew had one of his Loki letters in it but once you light all four low-key letters you can you light a low-key multiball at I think the Hawkeye shot or at least you can lock balls and then start the multiball see if Nick goes for the full plunge or the shrimp okay the full Punch full plunge will get you some points 20 20 50 000. foreign [Applause] so Nick is probably going to put up huge scores because he's kind of defensive playing if sometimes you get Super Lucky right off all one everybody's kind of feeling the game out Jeremy Jeremy Williams [Laughter] Jeremy mugging it Gomez design you can see its similarity on the Black Widow ramp let's pretty similar to a certain other Marvel Superhero whose name rhymes with uh red fool or uh bread stool all right you want it up that was a good shot for him to get a Loki so he's got three of his Loki locks three of his Loki inlanes lit oh that would have done it but uh yeah you have to be on your toes on this game you have to be okay here we go you don't need to hit you don't need to clear the ramp for a black widow shot you just need to hit the spinner uh that will award you one of the shots and he really needs to move that lane because he can get that free Loki looking multiple locks ready okay there's a next opportunity right there oh yes the very known well-known Marvel Superhero Dreadful there's Russ rust is a amazing player by the way he's one of the local kind of directors of games and events and he and his wife are very very important to this community out here and I think Russ does know about getting those Loki locks which I actually won this game by playing a virtual version of this game which had a some extended scenes from the movie by some buddies of mine Ken Swift and Hawkeyes and I actually won a tournament I won a tournament on this game a tournament game at least by playing the v-pin so there you go targets right there he's got Thor kind of lit and he's trying to get it every time you shoot for a Thor Target you nail Hawkeye like every time oh he's already got his Loki locks ready so Matthew is shooting for one more Loki lot start looking Monkey Ball yeah it's not guaranteed profit but in situations like this oh there you go a situation like this it's a really good way to put your points up now it correct me if I'm wrong chat but he wants to hit those um Shield targets the two white targets clashing on the right if you bash your pills I think you get edible because that is your mystery yeah he's draining out pretty quick that one's going to come back yes he's back in the single ball player 8 million is a good score 12 million is a really good score stack Hulk yeah you could we could have stacked Hulk too it's just it's okay he's going after Hulk now let's get some Hulk hits you know what's going on for Iron Man or Black Widow black widow's ready yep black widow's ready oh that's a huge danger please no more dangers with a decent bonus all right she sent that ball too so Nick you do have a shot for those who don't know the game typically will warn you twice and if you keep nudging it will kill your flippers and remove any bonuses for that ball the game is trying to say please play nice all right got a little too long lips and he's gonna hit those shots um Nick used to stream a lot more he streams as sheep Walla and I've seen him tap past a lot so he's a very very talented player look at that beautiful live catch post pass like a freaking book like a freaking book and Nick has an opportunity now I don't know if he knows about the he's got one more Shield Target possibly Oh short plunges oh wow did you guys see that the cross hand holds short plunge yeah he knows about the um is lucky a bad guy or a good guy Loki is out for themselves there we go yep Shield is lit I think Nick was lying when he said he didn't know how to play this game either that or he he hits a pin tip really fast yeah awesome awareness seriously he is chaotic neutral thank you large was it especially if you kind of know what to shoot for everyone looked at Pin tips everyone looked up so the Strat right is to short plunge get a low-key lock let the ball drain short plunge again get the second Loki lock and hit the Hawkeye ramp to get the third Loki lock and then hit the Black Widow ramp to get the fourth local off but and Jeremy hasn't started it yet so possible I'm right behind you hey yeah this is why I like this Avengers game a little more it's a little more straightforward I mean that's my only complaint about the infinity classes kind of a kind of a lot and this is coming from a person who understands how to play Jurassic Park right if I'm saying it's a lot oh that's a tough fumble there [Music] [Applause] Nick Stein currently a type of seconds although I think that's not reflecting his current points yeah the rest is in a little bit of a bind here but Russ doesn't know how to play this game he's having a bad game that's a sneaky Easy Shot to Hulk but it rolls back like that do we know what his status is on uh Hulk locks and whatnot uh uh I don't think he's done any Loki and I don't so he's hul so he's close to Halt and that's what it looks like he's going for um yeah having having played this earlier the The Hulk Strat seemed to be oh tough bounce there yeah it seemed fairly fruitful I ended up with a second with with just having the Hulk of all I think people are so the people know about who know about Loki are going after Loki but they're unfortunately I don't think anyone's done Hulk got it yeah the one thing that you know when I played uh Gabe was the one who walked away the winner he had a pretty solid score I think he was ended up over 45 million um and I think actually a lot of his value he ended up playing Hulk multiball but he actually had I think Captain America running and he completed that while he was in the multiball that ended up being way more valuable because I think his his total out of the Hulk multiball was something like three and a half million but he had clearly accumulated something in the in the neighborhood of like 40 maybe 30 30 million during just that session that ball so I I think there's something to be said maybe folks in the chat know what's the most valuable facet of the game but Gabe definitely had to go in on his so Matthew is sitting pretty with his 14 million but a little little trouble there that's always a little scary that they'll fumble try to get control he's got a flashing extra Ball but uh obviously we can't play it but yeah it'll it'll give points I think on this one it's set to 5 million so so not not anything worth uh skipping especially given the scores that this is this game is tending to put up oh and he's got the versus multiball here yeah this is huge and there's extra ball yep that'll be a nice little pickup that looks like it was right about 5 million there you go thanks over John oh baby also I I do like sheep while I mean being in the being in the chat and playing yeah getting advice in the chat I love it that is Elite that that is legal it's it's only when he's up at the game in uh in control of the game that he's not allowed to uh right solicit any coaching that's against the rules between balls that is totally legal yeah you could totally go to pin tips in between balls yep we are 21 million [Applause] I'll get some get some late multiball pickups there or maybe is it does the mode stay on even if you're out of the multiball for the for the verses Don't Panic flip I think you should pick yourself up on Avengers original I think you would like it a lot this is this is for important position jocking so with a win Matthew would actually go up to 17 which would right now put him probably in a third place tie just looking at the current standings we have Alex and Nick in third place right now with 17 points a piece Nick hoping to increase his total and there's the end of the ball there but Matthew but in good position to be in that top five with a positive finish here when I hand the rest of the game over to you bro I got you all right sheep well and now stepping up of course by the his government named Nick Stein and make it looking to make some progress here Nick already guaranteed at least one point having the defeated at least Russ oh and a tough tough drain off of the it seemed like the edge maybe the left edge of the Black Widow ramp so that'll be there that he'll move up to 18 points so that would be currently tied for second best as of now that'll put Matthew at 17 and Jeremy oh I guess I I I'm sorry Mickey might actually it could get as many as two points here depending on how Jeremy does here hey Janice good to see you thanks for following where's rocks rux is around I believe he's done with his game he's probably Milling about and that is it for Avengers here Jeremy not able to pass Nick so we're gonna finish of Matthew Nick Jeremy enough to get over on Russ And Russ so Russ taking the zero Matthew taking the three and we'll see how that shakes out here so Nick will move up to 19 still just two points behind Carl D'Python Anghelo 17 will put Matthew into a tie for I think we need those those results to validate first but that'll put him in a tie I believe for fourth nope third and uh I think a few other results pending so we'll see how that impacts the results here we got a couple games still ongoing fun house Led Zeppelin Metallica and that that's it for the moment so we'll see how those ones shake out thanks for being here with us mental fortitude thanks so much for the follow and we're very excited to have you here I'm almost done with my sandwich do your thing enjoy that you earned that our our faithful stream leader mono Smith taking taking a well-deserved lunch break Leslie is an absolute Force absolutely indeed Leslie has been playing some of the best pinball in the Bay Area overall I think in the in in the last year plus just absolutely been in the in the top three of many finishes playing well wherever she goes it's great to see she's a wonderful Ambassador for the Bay Area for for pinball we're happy to have her there we go we got the Refresh on the standings now you can see Nick moving into sole position of second place at the moment of course we still have a few results outstanding so we'll get those to you as they are available [Music] I'm So Pro uh absolutely and you can see I'm creeping up the standings myself I'm trying to give a little uh breathing room as we go into the back half now of the of the day here we're already in the back half but you know as we Soldier fourth it's been a uh pretty good tournament thus far I think everybody we haven't had a ton of rulings a couple of stuck balls a couple of malfunctions so that's that's been addressed by the the judges but nothing in terms of behavior issues nothing in terms of yeah I don't know how to behave that's that's why we were not awarded a ticket to this event the uh yeah we we fortunately have not seen too much uh requiring reprimand or otherwise uh having any issues interpersonal between players so that's been great to see it's it's nice I think every probably helps it's a very nice day here in San Francisco people can relax a little bit yeah it's a nice day to stay indoors and play Pinball yes yeah sorry boy that was very rude favorite ruling of the tournament so far I'll have to see I you know so I'll go into the judge's Channel we have a private Channel where we're talking about all the all things that are ongoing I've had a couple issues with the pieces not being sensitive enough not detecting totan had an issue with the magnet first for some time but that's been resolved stuck in the main the main Genie magnet exactly oh that one yeah not the the old oh the spinner now yeah yeah yeah yeah it's the uh when you hit the genie to start the multiball it grabs it pulls that into the sub Subterranean portion what was the pinball card game that they played down south called pinball card game now this is a game played with a standard 52 deck of cards obi-jan that doesn't sound not sound familiar to me yeah I don't know let's see looking through yeah everything else is pretty there's been one report of an issue of somebody uh receiving a I guess a different random award or it's supposed to be a set award on a game being on tournament mode but that's been resolved a critical hit yes critical hit is the game developed by Carly Python Anghelo our current leader oh is it yes yeah that's his his creation critical hit is a pinball card game yes yes a critical hit of course as as you as you'll know the reference to Rolling 20 on the 20-sided dice or on the die I should say uh but yeah he created a deck of cards that have special rules basically and he distributes them in a tournament and you're able to play those cards as you go through the tournament so you can maybe get a second bite at your ball three you could uh at a ball you can like make somebody have to play a different way or have them have to like forfeit a score um yeah there's all sorts of things in there that make it uh fun and funky experience so I would love to get my hands on that game yes yeah we should talk to Carl I I imagine he probably has some decks on him that he could uh share here but I have my own deck as well as if we ever want to play around with that or if you want to borrow it to try to come up with some some on MPT 3K implementations that's okay I will use my own deck is there a card where if you are holding this card and you get a match you can play one more ball to add to score that's that's the kind of thing we don't know he's asking if that's one of the cards that's definitely the right in line I would not be surprised to know that that is a function of one of the cards in the deck that's exciting yeah and they're very well made they're like nicely nice of course it's Carl yeah he's he's a quality guy he's a quality guy yeah he's uh I I think it was it must have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 2016 2017 that he first developed it I remember when that was when it was popping up in the tournaments in Southern California uh and I don't know that we've ever we've we had a few there was a venue here in San Francisco called the Myriad out on uh Market Street for a while there was one tournament where we did use an implementation of the of the deck I think Gene ran that uh and it was very fun you get to get to use all sorts of funny funny stuff it's like a sorcery card for magic yes and even the cards kind of look like magic the Gathering cards the way that they're styled yeah so really really great love to see creativity in the pinball Community like that Johnny Monica who's standing to the side here is actually the subject of one of the cards um which I think now haunts him to this day in terms of making reference to him being a vector for disease [Laughter] oh that's funny it's it's pretty good Andy you've probably never heard of it given that I don't think free gold watch has really seen any tournaments that utilize it but maybe that's something we should get on if you if there's interest it's very fun how many rounds do we got so this is eight so we got four to go four to go and uh yeah we're we're getting deep into the tournament here we're starting to see some separation where people are you know either gonna make or break their their tournament here I think we're on pace so if we're looking at 13 points right now I guess actually a little behind pace of where I thought the cutoff score was gonna be I was guessing it was going to be above double of the number of rounds but right now trending to be a little bit lower than that Tales was played uh but not streamed we had just mentioned there oh yeah might have been an issue with uh they're really looking forward to tales of the Arabian Night stream I think like yeah if that lines up well I mean that'll be right in the neighborhood there so you won't have to move the rig too far but yeah let's check on status here I think we used to have just a few matches outstanding we still have Led Zeppelin outstanding Darren will David and Cameron that's a good good group there and games that's it that'll that'll be the last one so once we have that result from Led Zeppelin I'm gonna refresh yeah yeah go for it we're gonna have our next round up and we're ready to go and if totan is in I'm not against putting that on the streams oh Obi John and my condolences that's that's tough to be on the waitlist be number one I I think there were a couple wait lists to admittees today because I know at least one person who was a few spots down the waitlist who's playing in the tournament today and that's that's killer so uh hoping that you have a a easy go of covid I I recently tested positive myself fortunately had next to no symptoms so just quarantined until I tested negative um but it was it's very disruptive to get that to say the least and uh hoping you don't develop any severe symptoms uh protect yourselves out there folks it's uh it's still out there still got to make sure that we're taking care of each other We're All in This Together all right looking here if there's any note on the suggestions here suggested results knowing that crew that's a pretty solid crew I could imagine them playing pretty deep into this round we'll see did you happen to be over there see if there was uh I I'm happy to go do a visual check on status of that game well you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna I'm gonna walk over with the camera and see if I can get a look oh sure yeah thank you yeah yeah David Lee is probably on ball one David Lee is is truly a fantastic player he's he in my mind holds the title of being just the the person who I see the least at sort of regular pinball events but then he comes to the special events and just mashes but I think he's a consistent player in the East Bay I know he's out there uh so it's very likely that he's playing with all the folks over there enjoying that uh and I'm just not seeing him in the tournaments except for City champ or occasionally if I make it out to California extreme I'm assuming he's making his way out there as well all right so [Music] um we got Manu taking us over to Led Zeppelin and we'll see if we can get a read on the scores oh Monty well done with the zoom there looks like we are on ball three yeah 89 million to uh oh wow so we got some big scores in there uh so Darren put up the 99 we got Will McKinney who I've played in uh prior City champ tournament nipping at his heels and there's a tilt for well and that is not going to be enough to pass Darren so Darren's going to hold on to that lead by just a few million David of course as as was supposed by folks here oh and thanks thanks obi-john for the bit appreciate that David with the 276 million at the moment in the lead only one player left Cameron who would have a shot at uh challenging that score but working from a severe deficit and there's another multiball for David I remember folks this is a Premium Edition of Led Zeppelin it has the retractable spinner in the center of the Playfield and David looking looking to really cement his first place here one thing that I was talking with some folks earlier today it's it's anything is possible in a pinball game so it's it's never you know they hear about things like the unwritten rules in baseball where you're not supposed to run up the score on your opponent I I think uh similar to how game Kepler the San Francisco Giants feels I I feel the same way with Pima you have to do everything you can to put plenty of points onto your total before you pass the game off to another player because anything is possible there's just no telling what a player can do even even a player that you might estimate is his novice or just not quite the the pro I I've seen it happen where there are comebacks that are just totally out of left field to use another baseball reference and uh so it's it's important to do everything you can put up the best game you can feel good about that so that way regardless of what happens on your opponent's ball you can know you you gave it your all and David certainly did with his game here finishing up over 300 million bonus I expect is not going to be too drastic the 2x is going to add another almost 3 million so just under 310 million points three 308 is his final Cameron stepping up and Cameron has some work to do now if if folks here are at all aware of of what might be and there's a there's a quick warning out the gate tough tough break there this game is is quite sensitive we've we've seen comments from players throughout the day that uh they this and also the game that we showed earlier The Avengers game is quite sensitive to even the slightest even even very hard flipping so you have to be careful with that are the games going to stay set up hard for Wednesday I believe not large wizard I believe they're going to be reverted to their usual settings I'd know that for free gold watch they like to have the games in a condition in a setup that's going to be a little more conducive to just the average person walking in the door and having a good time uh so some of the tournament settings are a bit more unforgiving would be falling to the Wayside there Andy fgw Andy just cheered 100 bits thank you so much Andy for your support of Manu and mpft 3K so happy to have your support so happy to have you as part of this community sorry that we can't have you here today but we are always delighted to be in your company thank you thank you thank you thank you and pinbally 20 with the follow thank you so much oh Cameron hits the center button just for good measure but that is not gonna do it so he will be taking the zero David taking the three and with that very slim margin Darren's gonna pick up another two points and a congratulations to David Lee getting his initials on the board and it's long initials he could put a full statement there let's see if he goes for anything beyond his surname and that's it that's all he needs to log his victory here so congrats to David we're going to be getting started with our ninth round of the day in just a moment we got four rounds left including this ninth round that's coming up solid game right there hey thank you Barty NZ NZ I should probably say given the hey folks given the connotation of the end and the Zed together New Zealand that's where my sister-in-law lives lovely place for pinball as well I think New Zealand and Australia each have their own pinball scenes and uh it's great to see that it's a it's wonderful when the international game gets to be played we get to see that on other broadcasts here on Twitch and elsewhere and uh wonderful to see those those players show their stuff same way we like to and it's at some point I think we'll uh look forward to whoever might be broadcasting World Championships at some point see all the representatives from around the world but yeah but for here we got we got our folks playing in City champ so excited I was trying to be sneaky you are the sneakiest there you go [Music] for the first place eighth place [Music] all right all right I think we want to go straight to stranger things that's going to be a barn burner of a match between Andre massenkop Carl D'Python Anghelo Jay Collins and Mark Pearson so we got Andre Carl Jay and Mark on Stranger Things Pro I think that's going to be an exciting match to see myself I'm going to be playing Hoops with Jeremy Williams who I played with earlier Leslie Ruckman who we've been singing the Praises of and Alex Lambert also in the top of the standings right now these Swiss pairings are tough for me right now I feel like I'm the the low person on these various four-person groups what I'm holding my own doing my best to represent for broadcasters everywhere so thanks much for your support Matthew P yes that's uh Matt oh I'm sorry I may have misspoke if I said Matthew it's Mark Pearson Mark Pearson is the fourth in that group Andre Carl Jay and Mark looking forward to showing that off mono getting everything in position at the moment we got folks coming up on my game I'm replaying right here on Hoops so as soon as I'm done I'll be able to jump right back on to the broadcast here take you through the arrest I'm guessing given the caliber of the players on that particular game they'll be playing for a good amount of time and I think we're going to see that more often as we get down the stretch here with the Swiss pairings you're going to see really the creme of the creme uh playing each other at those upper echelons and that means they're going to be playing knockdown Dragon fights to maintain position try to stay in that top eight to get that buy for tomorrow and uh yeah yeah we might be in for a couple long rounds ahead of us with some great play there we'll try to make sure we select some of those games to really highlight some of the drama going on there and look forward to putting that on for you so let me go take my position thanks so much folks keep sticking with us round nine of City champ nine thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] all right [Music] this gets easier tomorrow because there's less people I had to navigate through a sea of people [Music] we're getting set up they just restarted the game because I guess it was a somebody had already stranger things I guess I couldn't see anything stranger Andre's stepping up foreign oh I need to adjust that because some of the scores are cut don't worry guys I will let's do this because it looks nice oops so it looks like a multiball stacked with the upside down and Drake there's the edible Audrey already showing what kind of flavor is putting up your scores Andre up to 50 million faster than like me playing four times yeah really good Carl's thinking about his next point Andre asserting his uh this is my house you're welcome to visit but uh don't go in the fridge all right we got Jay up Andre needs Andre could really use a first place I had to leave just for a moment I'm back we are at lark somewhat of a serious game we've got Carl who's in the lead and Andre who could use a first place very much so Andre has already shown who knows where the jackpots are and so I love how he talks to himself he's not talking to anyone actually he'll do this all by himself but I love it [Music] let's see where he goes now he's going into a complete so it looks like total uh total isolation I think it's that okay wow that is well you gotta go you gotta go that's two and then it's done all right that was a good that was a big move let's get quite a big move foreign Carl is in pretty good shape right now but it would be nice to get not a fourth yeah it's something something that it's a kind of discipline that I really need to learn to uh to exhibit he took two shots at the ramp ricked it or I can orbit bricked it stopped take a breath chilled out and then hit it you can backhand that pretty easily so he's going to start his multiball yeah it is a risky forehand exactly and upside down that's beautiful and that upside down fits in it's really nice it looks really nice on screen too either that or it looks wow oh that was man against machine I would I would definitely clipped that that is too dangerous I think you'll live yep and it's uncomfortable we're gently flip now that pots are everywhere ball saver still intact first shot like a boss we're still on two dangers now foreign that means how many shots we need to start the mode if you can shoot the all the shots three times you can start what's called total annual total isolation and I always say total total Total Nuclear Annihilation because that is a the same designer for Attack on Mars designed stranger things probably loses the make room on the couch better than any other player a lot of color says it's the same thing it's similar it's similar one is Annihilation and the other one is isolation uh and uh there's a lot of on-the-fly flipping here uh-huh yeah the extra ball is also hit hit the alien in the face it's an it's an homage it's not a coffee it's no it's a homage there's a ball lock we're gonna take that ball two locks looking good can you stack the Demi whatever dorgan fight with the multiball it's a nice knot it's totally different no it looks like you can't so it's gone until you're done with the multiball that would be that would be fun to be shooting a shooting the big monster in the middle I don't watch Stranger Things guys I'm sorry I don't know what the monster in the middle means monster in the Middle where yeah second Demi Gorgon is a multiple right so you're not going to stack that with this multiball because the second one is a multiball that you have to defeat with two balls I'm pretty sure love to get a stranger things in the murder garage so I can uh so I can have some quality time of training things have some good scores Carl is but it seems like all the players are very familiar with this game right bust out Tammy Morgan let's see if he can get it with one shot so Jay just used his uh just just use his bomb his Martian bomb sorry guys instead of it being the start button it's a button now to get rid of the battle now notice he got five million Carl got 15 million for actually defeating it monster in the middle must be named welcome friends are there combos in this game because that would have been trying to combo shots and thank you Scott 's SRD Benoit for the follow as you can see the monster is trying to bust out of its full house which is there is a combo okay great so there are combos they just don't seem to be very apparent when you shoot uh I don't see the other shots flashing or showing they are getting counted hey Mark is up Mark also could use some good points the first multiball is pretty obtainable see how he does [Applause] is that coming back no so there's two ball play oh that wasn't intentional good shot wow Scott's I do not know whether these multiplayer applies to the monster surprise me I was going for the black before the Super the only risk of trapping a ball is that you have a flipper in a bad position oh I hate when that bricks it's going to come down and hit a swing so I feel like people who own this game here orbits always hit slings on the way out unless you do a nudge and even when you do a nudge it feels like it's going to hit a sling all right 73 plus 22 or is it the 73 with the 22 let's see what the bonus is we are at work is at 86. so Andre steps up again ball three he wants to put as many points between he and the other players it's possible that sounds obvious but you would never know unless you play as big bonus people uh has big bonus held over what was that can someone explain to me what Andre just did did I just miss a time there's another Danger my friend this is how we say goodbye in German uh there is no there is no award for adding or subtracting tilt so Andre's Living Dangerously right now he needs to put some points ahead of Carl that ball almost rolled back down the lane could save Andre is a very fast and loose player he's working with no dangers left he's going to time this mode out it looks like that's all his high scores he's reminding himself each pop is an Andre score so he's reminding himself you got this bro your GC here don't let a dude come in your house and eat your pudding it's that wacky kick out from that oh all right yep yep yep he knows he knows all right well Andre could come out with some pretty good points replay this is so proud 150. so Carl needs I feel like it's obtainium Andre was in a bad spot though to be first player on this game you really have to put up a lot of points yeah and Carl there's the live catch there's a backhand to the lock almost oh wow what a freaking unfortunate drain what a 20 million bonus still gets him [Music] drum roll drum roll put some still in first place wow oh so yeah so large wizard already knew that the 20 million was still in the pocket so you know you Pro players already know that stuff that I'm saying that it's obvious oh he's already got him all right Jay let's go nice trust trust trust physics right there it's coming back Manu I imagine this has been an exciting one this has been pretty tight I mean uh Carl drained out but manishu he already had 20 million bonus over oh that's right so he beat him on bonus it was a very unfortunate middle drain Andre put up 90 something on ball one wow Andre could really use the points so Jay is done do we know how many locks Jay had that now that wouldn't have started the multi golfer I didn't know yeah okay [Music] that's coming back getting a sling yep Market upset everyone and uh get a first place here is within Striking Distance 93 he already started his um initial multiball got it do we know if uh how's his bonus from previous balls anything that might might make an impact here I feel like no but uh once again I don't remember what his previous bonus is so bonus is hold over in this game uh well I think certain of the pieces that you collect like the number of uh demogorgons you defeat those those all contribute ball the ball to your finish that's a backhand right there oh you get a second shot bro we got it right here forehand boom ball one lock so it's gonna be a little bit of a tough road remember you got to hit the stand-up Targets on the both sides of the ramp to light that lock like a boss and uh can you stack oh no tough bounce there all right we'll see I I don't get the sense that he's gonna have a blockbuster bonus here he did get a couple nice pickups but not quite enough so well done Carl takes another win Andre Kate takes a second very close game all right [Music] um we're gonna let those scores come in let's let's see if I can get a live look on my end give give folks an update here let them percolate all right Carl's gonna move up to 24. Matthew Peterson right behind him Leslie already locked in at 20. all right Nick Stein with some room to grow as his results are not in quite yet yeah that that Deadpool game would have been equally worthy Deadpool being David Lee Eric wagons on her Jim belsito and Mick Stein and tales of the Arabian Nights Still Still outstanding there with Gabe Luke Ollie and Josh Avengers Infinity Quest also still outstanding looks like doctor dude might be wrapping up as we do as we speak all right lots of results coming in remember guys if you just want to see the results you can go to the uh the URL that I am posting right now yep one of the strongest performances we're seeing here today a full gain and a third of winning the third a bit uh in front of the next closest at the moment we'll see if Nick can pull out a winner and continue his Pursuit he's been just two points behind Carl for several rounds now wow so those scores have moved Leslie is just on a tear Leslie's been doing great she she just got second in our our game we were on hoops and uh anybody get a super she did she she did get a Super Slam but it was uh outshone by Jeremy Williams who did not get a Super Slam but just racked up the baskets to the point where I believe he put uh one million 600 000 on his score 162 baskets so that that's a big pickup for him that's a great game yeah it's really fun love seeing it out a great soundtrack too yeah still my favorite soundtrack is the premiere cocktail uh it's called it's like the dancing game yeah all right I'm blanking on the name too but that that's my absolute favorite is anyone in chat know what I'm talking about it's like you have to change partners oh God it's sort of the Miami themed one yeah somebody will share it on the chat rather than us looking down at the night moves yeah Night Moves arcade night moves you guys are awesome Lynn's got it yeah um yeah that would absolutely I've actually said that I've sent that uh a recording of that to a person who I know does like Lo-Fi remix and I was just like just consider this as you know maybe worthy of a remix in the future it's really remarkable it's funny though because then the multiball music in that game kind of yeah not as not as good that is good you kind of don't want to be in multiball you kind of just want to enjoy the main the Main Music I stream that ages ago ages ago yeah yeah it's a tough one too because it's a table right uh but yeah yeah it's uh I think in total there used to be three or four different cocktail games here yeah we had a bunch in the back yeah um yeah the bonus Countdown music and mousing around I guess I can't picture it get in my mind in my ears mind right now but I'm thinking of bad cats unfortunately bad girl yeah also great but yeah the uh really really fun it's it's great to share those little nuances with the pinball Community favorite music all that all right so three more rounds to go three more to go we're really getting into it uh right now the cutoff uh it looks like I'm right on the bubble yet again number 24. so 15 points right now is is 24. I think I own the tiebreaker that's why I'm above a couple of the other 15 point folks right now try to be playing them in the next few rounds but it's a uh yeah 15 so roughly on on track to actually not exceed 24. maybe 23 will be the cutoff I I was guessing 26 but we'll see just this Justin from Summer promo is there another tournament going on yes yes where is that I'm imagining and is it being screamed oh maybe maybe we got some competition I don't know I don't have any competition who's this Tech figure foreign we still have that doctor dude game on going we still have that Deadpool ongoing I believe yep Deadpool with the David Eric Jim Nick group it's my wife my family's coming back tonight I have to pick him up at the airport after this oh very good okay which is why I get to do these events because they go away to New York for a week there you go fortunately it lines up so yes we'll spend three days here setting up yeah yeah exactly I can imagine thank you thank you for everything you do for this it's special looks like the two we've got two other tournaments in my follows yes large wizard so glad to see both of those individuals in the field today all right Rob is back up on Dr dude over there I believe let's see he's player four I'm guessing they're on ball three at this point so we're probably getting close to a finish here the Deadpool scores when I was over there I actually had the help of the stuck ball and they were pretty high so two or three hundred thousands I think yeah a couple couple in that range in those Millions yeah it's a uh not surprising from that crew we love you Mana thank you yes this is more for you guys this is not for me this is more for you guys I mean I'm saying I'm I'm doing this because I know I want to to Showcase Frito watch especially City champ and especially the caliber players that are here um the list you see in front of you is an insane amount of people who are really talented at this so yes yes really really special all right yeah down to two and actually it looks like now they're on ball three uh doctor dude and still waiting on Deadpool now I know I really do exactly hey that's everybody sucked at one point you gotta you gotta work at it takes takes talent to be good right at the gate takes skill to be good in the long run that's a Derek Lipkin original aphorism not sure it really holds water but it sounded good all right game time television good to see you how you doing game time television who uh recently shared a special ROM for centaur which I was delighted to see with our Bay Area Community here it was a uh a labor of love I imagine I wonder if we could see that at a tournament at some point got some very interesting rule scoring and I'd love to try my headed at some point gotta put it on location or just have me over game time but good to see you thanks for being here folks if you haven't already hit that follow button hit that subscribe if you want to give a little support to our fearless leader Manu over here and make sure you're ready to come back tomorrow and put those notifications on because we're gonna have the top 24 playing off for the hardware we have top four honors and uh very excited to see who makes it to that stage I think we already have an idea of who's going to be really gunning for it with the excellent performances we've been seeing from our our top players today and looking forward to seeing them seeing them do their thing so as we get some more let's see that we're I'm guessing we're looking at Rob on his ball three on Dr dude if there's any games folks are interested in seeing let us know see if it lines up with the ability I know there was interest in totan we could maybe get on that if it's uh one of the games we want to highlight here yeah is everybody finishing up because I'm not gonna I was gonna grab the camera but they're all finished so Rob I'm guessing should be on ball three right here on Doctor dude I believe I mean they've been playing for a while now on Deadpool oh no we got results and the result is Nick taking the win on Deadpool Jim belzito coming in second Eric wagons on her third and David Lee in fourth that is that is remarkable a David Lee fourth place I guess it's gonna happen with a group like that but Nick continuing his pursuit of the top spot he's two points out on Carl sole possession in second place and he's really there is an incentive to play for the top spot there is a prize for the top qualifier so that it's like a little bounty so for today yes yes okay going into tomorrow yes that that top spot you get to buy of course if you're in the top eight but you'll also get that uh payout if you are in the top one right all right it looks like Rob's still going I it sounds it's a bit of a crowd forming around this doctor dude game I can't help it I gotta see oh sure sure let me see mana's gonna go check it out for us Rob I imagine is chasing someone out looks like he just finished up I think I think he might have just finished up Mania just just in case let's and he's saying something he looks like he's quite animated and mana's gonna give us a little a closer look into what's going on over there and let's see if you see Rob right there with his hands on his head I'm guessing that's an indication that he did not pull it out maybe he had something something cooking something close let's see what the result says here if we look at the doctor dude it looks like oh you know that must have been a replacement round 10 is up but it looks like uh a Rob got it I think he got oh I guess were there two people two teams playing on Doctor dude that was very interesting all right well that's that's why they took a bit longer usually that game is not as long in the tooth and uh makes sense that it was long in the tooth given the status as second game all right so I'm myself I'm heading over to Rack them up but let's see who we want to put on to the on to the stream here I think we might want to go to Twilight Zone Twilight Zone's got quite the lineup Carl all right Matthew Alex and Zach Carl Matthew Alex and Zach so all within our top eight jocking for position yeah I think that I think that'll be the right choice and it looks like we might be down a machine because we currently have one of the teams one of the one of the groups or rather uh unassigned so that must be what's happening with the uh situation we're gonna have a couple people getting assigned over to a Arena once they another one of the games is done but we're gonna be moving on over to Twilight Zone show off Carl Matthew Alex and Zach some top level performance there it's gonna be fantastic and I expect to see some really incredible performances at Twilight Zone tends to attract a certain kind of performance from high level players like that so I'm hoping to show off some some great stuff here for you thanks Queen pinch for the follow appreciate that and we're gonna get into it in just a second just to give you the latest on the standings I believe most of what you see there is still accurate I think there's uh no adjustments for everything going down to David in 23rd so that's all still accurate there a little jogging for position under that and yeah right right on the bubble arm right now oh Moss Kingpin thank you for the follow happy to have you here if you haven't already folks make sure you hit that follow button show your support MPT 3K Manu is here weekend and week out giving you wonderful content on the twitch.tv platform I guess I'm all good actually all right so I'm gonna uh make sure I'm all good here on player two after the first player and I'm gonna send this over to our waiting rare area so that way you're ready to get into Twilight Zone when we come back all right thanks folks foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] all right uh Twilight Zone we are set up [Music] okay let's get it going [Music] I always get there just before Carl flips just before Carl flips yeah Twilight Zone you would think the Twilight Zone would be a lot brighter but it's a very dark very dark table all right here you go let's give you guys something more interesting to look at like yes yeah so Carl looks like he's going for the he's got the Powerball already and he's loaded it into Powerball multiball Powerball Mania the object now is to hit the ball to the power using the right ramp which he's got one ball up there boom defeated that is a good jackpot right there uh what is that 50 million the more balls you can get up there the better you can keep hitting Powerball jackpots he's got another ball up there all right that one didn't go so well boom got it the nice thing is to try and get another ball up there really quick who's going for it wow oh that was unfortunate all right got it another Powerball Mania jackpot does that get higher is that a 50 another 15. now Andre is someone who really knows this game well so we might be here for a while playing Twilight Zone so that's it his lock is lit at the robots the robots can help you I'm wondering am I cutting off the DMD or do you guys see a score of oh thank you thank you Andy score made no sense to me where it's at 48 million but he had 130 million in Powerball Carl is immediately in the other multiball which is you have to shoot the piano to get the jackpot and then shoot the camera to relight that jackpot value I think decreases the fewer number of balls you have on the table and do not tilt on this game because there goes all that bonus so Carl gets one jackpot you have to shoot the camera now which is with one flashing shot on the table and typical people will lift the upper left foot there is an upper left flipper you didn't know weren't aware you don't have to lift the flipper to make a shot but making the shot is easier with the Clipper lifted I would like to see people make that shot thank you Michael I'll add that yeah yeah all right Carl is still dominating this game he's got a huge points and bonus what are we going for for the super skill shot the extra ball yeah just full full plunge no problems now notice how Carl was letting the ball bounce and then he's doing a flip that is the proper way to handle the battle if you flip before it bounces you're gonna you might wing it the wrong direction I'm all blocked again that little dead pass right there if your machine does that you're probably going to do that 9 out of 10 times out of this slot machines have a little dead pass once again the Powerball is Carl once again gets the Powerball and we're going to be here for a little while shoot to the power if it's one here is nice and trapped any stage flipping up a little too hard on that stage flip oh probably a post pass I'm probably an idiot if I Know Carl that was an intentional post pass yeah they took they took some balls out that's an excellent excellent look at that power look at that bonus 220 million in bonus now if you haven't hit the two ramps your piano is just going to give you some odd value yeah I think there's a reason why they under loaded the gumball machine I think I remember Eric uh wagons on Earth mentioning tournament rules and Twilight Zone okay we have a stuck ball on the skill shot so we're gonna have to wait for a tournament director to come and I think Eric actually saw the stream and saw it happen so he's on his way over most bigger events have two balls in there the one in my garage has like seven balls in there because my kid keeps putting Gumball actual gumballs in the gumball machine I should never give him the keys to the game I told him don't mess with the pinball machine you're gonna break it [ __ ] thank you for the resub at tier one Moss Kingpin thank you for the follow Queen pinch thanks for the follow and Game Time television thank you for the following okay I appreciate it yikes Carl made it look very easy but I will tell you from first-hand experience this game is rough it's not too rough actually it's pretty fair I think Manu I'm back with you hey Derek how'd you do hey I got a second with uh David Lee so I'm happy about that he he took it on the last ball past my score which at that point was the leader but you know you expected David Lee to take your take your lead that way a ball one on this game it happened have a bill pretty much ran through Powerball Mania twice it's dangerous all right here we go shoot the piano boom jackpot shoot the camera re-light jackpot here it comes you could also shoot the left orbit I guess you call an orbit and the game or robots will help you by trapping the ball and then dropping it in front of the upper flipper thank you that will not be a jackpot because the camera wasn't shot it was a stage flip possibly you know you can stage flip on this one also yes there it comes all right the camera's lit all right the jackpot is lit it's all right the camera's shot beautiful yeah sometimes that's like a little Ricochet in there boom did you see the knot of his head he's like I'll take it all right back I had to do a stuck ball correction there all right and thanks to game time appreciate that and his kid putting gumballs in the machine is actual gumballs Zach is still in this multi bar and he's out I think this might be the maybe one of the times one of the few times today where we actually end up picking to broadcast the game that lasts the longest yeah this is really going to be it Carl for quite a while Carl and Zach or uh pretty seasoned veterans and Twilight so not to say the other players aren't but uh no no I I got you so he's he's got his Gumball twice now so I think he can actually yeah he's gonna go put that one in that's gonna move the gumball into position so now one more on the gumball track is going to kick him out the uh ceramic white ball so what's the reasoning behind just putting two balls in the gumball machine two balls meaning because it's less than what isn't a standard oh that wasn't that it's rough wow and that's now going to be uh potentially available to other players that Powerball is going to come right out in the shooter Lane probably not this one but the next one yeah yeah it's gonna be it's not gonna last until Zach for sure so if uh if if Carl could lock this ball then he'll get that Powerball I'm pretty sure it's possibly the second maybe the third but if you notice Carl looked to see if it was going to be next before he plunged you can see it in the trough does he go for fast lock I guess he would yes I would go for past lock 15 million and then a multiball yep oh let's see and does he get it will come out yeah see it will so it was the third down yep and that is now so that when it's out in a sort of non-gumball situation it's actually worth double so if he is going if he hits this multiball uh jackpot with the ceramic ball that's actually gonna be worth 30 million he just did it wow oh maybe I'm wrong maybe maybe on this one I know that in the other one in the standard multiball it can detect yeah yeah because it looks when it hits the the trough they check to see if it's a metal ball or not and he's just collecting normal fast lock Awards right now so it's not too important that it's a Powerball right now there are three places it knows where it is one is in the in the in the trough the regular shooter Lane trough I think there's only two places actually and then the other one is uh the piano it can sense and when it comes out of the gumball machine yeah so there's three places and that was everybody had a bit of a laugh there you know that would have been a situation you know not to speculate on what the ruling would have been but it looked like it was leaning out lane anyway so if he asked for that to be unstuck the judge would only have offered him the option to put it into the into the drain oh this is wow that's interesting yeah yeah because it was actually more than 50 of it was over the outline that was credible especially with the peanut gallery all right yeah this is fantastic and we got we got a lot of results still pending so we'll see how that affects the standings in just a bit so it'll be interesting to see if if Zach gets his next opportunity to use the Powerball as a oh there it is never mind comes out from the shooter Lane all right Carol now now in case anyone's unaware goal right now is to put that Gumball right back into the Powerball shot along the right orbit put that back into the gumball machine starts Powerball Mania Carl really really doing some great work here and a wonderful quick flip there a little one two to save the ball and start the Powerball payoff he's going to be in Powerball Mania now and your goal here in Powerball Mania is to put the ball into the Playfield the upper Playfield the Powerball Playfield up there and to Flip Flip Flip use those magnetic flippers to try to send it up into the into the opening at the top it looks like he's gonna get one shot here oh a nice one oh he's getting real good flips on it and there it is goes down that's a jackpot that'll be the end of the multiball for him and a reset of the position of the Powerball in the gumball machine and back to standard play and there's another multiball start this is going to be the standard multiple in case it wasn't discussed earlier you got your piano shot up top that's the one that is right to the right right there the one that Carl just hit so deftly oh interesting uh gee walrus I didn't think I had noticed the second instance of that happening now to relight you put the ball into the camera which is under the left upper flipper Carl has already done that and there's another jackpot Coral just one of the most calm and cool and collected players just knows how to very simply go about his game without too much fanfare just really has a good sense of the position of the ball there's another reset with the camera shot and that's going to be the helper the assist from the Powerball Lane all right now with the two here he's gonna put that into that Powerball shot again it's going to kick it down and his goal is to get it into that piano again interesting to let go I think he thought that was going to be a center drain so he used his cradled ball on the right to fend It Off all right so he's got the assist again and there it is another jackpot so now he's gonna get the assist on the right side to get the camera loaded again there's another qualification for the jackpot there's 80 million on that last one closing in on a billion here and he's got another jackpot lit gonna do a cradle separation and there's a drain there he might get a might get an opportunity here and nope that's gonna time out there so no shot at another jackpot but he's got to be happy with that getting Applause from the onlookers there now over a billion Carl D'Python Anghelo go with a strong ball too stepping up Matthew Peterson absolutely hisoka that is that is the appropriate reaction just an incredible performance there really efficiently scoring those jackpots Matthew working on his lock shot there so at the moment he's got two options you can see lit at the at the lane the left left ramp Lane there he's got the option to start the multiball straight away that means he's got at least one ball locked but he has the option to lock a second ball and there's a tough drainbow off them off the edge there of the flipper where it meets the in Lane finishes it with 32 he'll keep that lock situation so in a pinch he can start that multiball and one shot on his next ball or if he wants to lock another ball he also may have two balls locked already in which case either would start the multiball all right a yellow bumper reward here depending on the setup of the game you will see players and that is a that's just a brutal feed on the left side Alex really getting no opportunity to participate in that game one thing uh just to note I see a lot of players who if they can get a good read on the kick out from the Jack uh I'm sorry the slot machine the like that they'll actually just full plunge it in order to allow it to dead bounce over to the left set up that first shot instead of trying to go for the points on the skill shot which is a sort of gauge shot you're trying to shoot it and have it just go all the way as close to the close to the underground there and without actually going in but as shown by Zach there I think the a lot of great players will actually favor the control of the slot machine as long as you can you can trust it if you can't trust the kick out from the slot machine which this one seems fairly consistent even though Zach did get that really unfavorable kick out earlier I I certainly feel that when I when I play I I favor that uh kick out in order to get the control and get it going there's that first lock in the back so you'll see here again at the left ramp oh actually if this is his second multiball actually that will not not yes that's that's right so if he's already played multiple not going to have that option here so he's gonna need to re-light by hitting both the ramps yet again and thanks for the follow cracky pop we appreciate your support here thanks for rocking with us on this Saturday afternoon a good oh and that look that looked to me as though he didn't quite trust with with his danger already he maybe made that move thinking he was gonna get the Tilt didn't get the till actually was a nice move but was out of position to really save it sort of sort of died on the vine there he's got ball three and as we've discussed here anything is possible in pinball another light Gumball here for Carl now Carl may not be too incentivized to go for that if he's worried at all he's got the lock shot in the back could be worried about maybe setting somebody up for a Gumball Mania oh but he goes for it anyway it's good points and if he's feeling good about his shooting it's very possible he's able to put together another Gumball Mania oh yeah he's got it lit and I believe it's the next one to kick out so the next ball he'll get out of the right side is going to be that Powerball again took all the last rights yesterday okay help him ready for today oh he's at a is that in the East Bay and see Carl gets a nice bounce there that's what Zach was wishing he would get and Carl with just such control at the moment I think that's what motivated him to go for that Gumball Mania again at least I I expect he trusts himself right now there's a gumball and we'll see if he can put it up up and in lost the ball there not getting any good traction there gonna come back out and they'll have to try again all right with the drain he's gonna see if he can save this one for uh for a multiball or I'm sorry for a jackpot and there's trying to be very controlled and looks like it's lost power it's out of the multiball so not much doing there a 15-minute walk from Gestalt it's great fantastic why don't I know this one I guess I've not been in San Francisco for a little while now and also just haven't generally been out and about during covet but glad to hear those still great nightlife here Carl looks like he missed the camera there just by a skosh and so went into the pops so at this point Carl is really working on his multiball again got the one lock it's going to take the gumball and that's the game for Carl but a 1.1 million going into the bonus collect just a little bit extra on there so up to 1.14 fantastic performance from Carl D'Python Anghelo what did I miss not much right not not much he had already eclipsed the billion so he put up another a hundred thousand or so but uh or 100 million I should say but a uh nothing nothing much that was moving the needle in terms of his overall score of course as we've discussed it's important to put it up your best game because you never know with these players especially at this level they are capable of putting up great things on a single ball so he's not I know he's not resting on his laurels he wanted to put put it all out on the line to give himself the best yeah best chance possible Right There Matthew you can see the re the Reed on his face he's looking a bit frustrated gets a nice kick out there so at this point I'm expecting yep there's the background to start into the multiball how many balls were locked both I believe he had uh I believe that was just yeah he had three all right 40 yeah I think that's 40 you get for having all three yep there's and there's the three balls up last one right out the gate there all right he's got the helper this on the piano shot he's gonna try to put up at least a few of those that could really help his case for at least securing maybe one or two points here you got the helper the robots will help you and just off a little bit oh and a tough Center drain there does he get the restart he does get the restart oh got 10 seconds oh an interesting choice there to send it send it to the left from the upper flipper there he's got it foreign not sure I would have gone with that I I think you want to get it down to your flipper you can't you can't make that shot except for a very lucky bounce I just inhaled Coca-Cola oh gosh and there's a tough oh and a purple drain let me get back to my station Matthew just having a rough go there it ends with 45 million not not the game that he wanted now into Alex Alex with his second lock there nope excuse me is first so he is going to have the option to start the multiball at the left ramp oh and another tough Center drain it seems like that ball is just really traveling awkwardly for some of these players and not able to recover and that's gonna that's gonna leave Alex with a zero on this match saving a point for Matthew and Zach already guaranteed two points of course would love to bolster that but no shame and just taking those two points it's it's quite the road to hoe right now if he's gonna get that billion catch up to Carl but if there's anybody you can do it Zach wallins can Zach can do it smooth start there to light the camera hold Town Square will be the next one doesn't get a doesn't get everything on that one but there he goes nice recovery tries to get that this will be a second lock here for multiball number two another Miss there so I think he'll he'll try for that piano oh a tough one but he gets the save and he gets a nice nice favorable bounce off the top there into the pianos it collects a little extra for The Hitchhikers he's collected throughout the game gonna get two million for each additional one he collects I think he's gonna go for the camera there doesn't quite hit it and it doesn't seem like anything's going except the lock shot so there you go Andy there can you take a look and see how many more games are being played right oh yes absolutely well we see what our friend Zach wallins is up to and it looks like uh there's one game outstanding other than this one a Rick and Morty game which is uh and I believe that's the team that might be the group that's playing the makeup well maybe not may have been a different group in any case yeah make Rick and Morty and looking over in that direction I'm actually not seeing anybody on it right now maybe they're just uh in the process of logging their results Zach's still going here a nice in Lane there oh he's in the multiball while I was checking so he's got his his jackpot lit up to 2 30. and he's gonna get the help or assist Miss on the on the top there a good save nice slap save oh but a tough out lane there and that's gonna do it oh he's got the restart that's that's always a nice save and he's back into it so let's see if Zach can recover here put this one right into the right into the piano this is on the first Miss is on the second tough Center drain there looking for anything here to just get some oh and the Ricochet there he might get a little opportunity here oh off the left side of the entry there and Zach is just doing his darndest keeping the ball up top just unable to get that landed the way he needs to all right he's gonna get the help here oh and and tough he had that he had the ACT to save his ball coming off of the right lane and he gets a nice random bounce that's sometimes what you need he's better be lucky than good and he's gonna get the assist there to re-light the jackpot there we go jackpot is lit at the piano again almost gets a nice and there's another one another Ricochet into the into the jackpot there at the piano and we got Jared gonna join us here we got another another lit jackpot here for County yeah this game's not going to be in playoffs I was worried about this game playing too long and um when we saw the roster of who was going to be on this round we thought okay this is going to be a nice long one yeah this is going to be the uh the long pole in the tent no it is it is awesome to see like games like these but uh and we're actually ahead of schedule so wonderful or we were but we got lucky that Nick Stein put up his huge game like during the lunch break there you go there you go [ __ ] shouting you out James Garvey Devon crates how you doing oh and Devin Gray's rating with two viewers thanks for joining folks and Zach's still still just doing what he can do here all right he's you can see he's clearly uh traumatized from the last time he had a real bad kick out on the Powerball yeah the kickout's usually pretty good but it's not super consistent um oh yes Zach was was looking to to use the the drop catch to at least deaden the momentum I think he just could not trust it after getting burned last time even though we saw actually Carl and several others getting a good kick out but yeah all the players in that group will like they're basically well Carl's fighting for top seed and looking very good for it the others are trying to make sure they get a buy at least yes all right well that's gonna yeah continue Carl's uh leadership here Kyle's on a rampage after last City champ he didn't even make playoffs no way wow all right there we go all right so yeah looking that that so we're still waiting on uh I think it was Rick and Morty still going Rick and Morty I believe is still going yeah I heard Derek price was over okay there it is yeah I heard dark price had like 20 million plus on Rick and Morty oh got it all right so yeah so Carl is Carl could lock it up this round and very well even if he loses the next might still be top seed but yep yep all right oh and I think we have our perfect instance to go to tales of the Arabian Nights we got Nick Stein Jim belsito Zach wallins and Matthew Peterson so Monty's gonna get that set up over there we've been we've been getting some some requests for totan so okay yeah all right oh I'm on Hoops tough group they're all oh yeah that really though this is really a a star-studded event and thanks Providence pinball for the follow folks if you haven't already hit that follow button support Manu here with Mr pinball three three thousand and we're having a great time here all respect to Mr Garvey our our tournament director alongside Gen X Wong yeah I'm on hoop so I can probably join for a lot of this round anyway there you go play my hopefully balls that take a minute or two but hey as long as you're comfortable I'm gonna be heading over to Medieval Madness remake to face Adam Eric J so I'll leave you to it also a tough group also a tough group we'll see we'll see what I can do trying to stay in the uh top 24. I'm cool I'm in there now but need a couple good games to ensure it all right I feel good about us uh this round so let's let's get it foreign who's this cork guy uh game time television I am still with you and we're gonna move we're moving over the tales of the Arabian Nights totan as the uh as the uh the people call it the totans oh hi Jared yeah I'm playing right next to this so I can probably do commentary and Hop Off briefly to play my ball as well hopefully not briefly hopefully my balls are long but but yeah so Toten um pretty popular game but not a big tournament game but um I'm curious to see how people play this uh I suspect we'll see people playing the modes and just bashing the genie Target to go for their multiball but oh okay strategies yeah so there's a couple things you can do yeah like to really blow it up you want to play through the mode to get to the battle of the bikini wizard mode but this one's set up hard so it's probably we might say some different decisions and yeah and we might see a lot of plunging yeah so he's got the bottom snake list so he's trying to make sure he gets it and and after if you hit the shot uh or the plunge then the left ramp will be lit for like a super skill shot or something a little bit of extra points people must really enjoying this plunging oh you got it let's see if it goes for the rest this was a popular game requested okay interesting chat wanted to see a lot of this game yeah go towards mode oh yeah it didn't tilt but yeah out of control I had a center drain there yeah so all these guys fighting for buy position so only two rounds left okay and yeah these people are all top top eight right now but if they take a laugh they're in danger they're all probably relatively safe for the playoffs thank you and you can choose your mode with a left flipper so well Jim always likes to flip a lot before he plunges but well you can also see what what what mode people like by uh they should be able to pick it if they know this game which I assume most of the players in this game play play tons of pinball so probably know this game pretty well uh I'll take you off the hook and I'll show this for a little bit yeah I I don't like seeing my face we like the people that see the back glass yeah so Jim misses the skill shot let's see if he goes straight straight into a mode all right which one is this okay this is one where you literally just have to hit the left ramp and then that finishes the mode and then you have to hit it again to like finish the mode right so yeah most of the modes in this game are pretty quick like not a ton of shots so it it is even on a hard set of game feasible to make it to the wizard mode but I am up on my game so I'm going to hop out briefly okay go for it that's Jared Garvey one of the uh one of the uh I mean he runs a lot of stuff he helps out with the um the team League The Friendly Team league here in San Francisco and he's also one of the directors of City channel so uh also amazing amazing commentary I hope we can get hopefully we can get him on a little more he'll jump back on and off um and yeah that was pretty brief what are you guys playing over here oops I am on Hoops yeah I I had a house fall right so it looks like Jim finished one of his modes he's on the Cyclops mode which um lights are but go go for his multiball the Cyclops mode lights the captain balls and Grains out of that but um has his lock slit um so since this is a game well he didn't get any lap so this is not significant now this game does not have an auto plunger so if somebody takes your locks you will have to relock them to get ball to ball if you were to say lock two balls and then someone else was to start volleyball I would be spinning the lamp all day that was uh Providence pool balls that is a reasonable strategy especially on a hard setup uh tow tan so yeah that valve a skill shot let's see what let's see what Modi goes for camel race this one is kind of just like random like all the shots are lit menu Advanced places and then when you get the first you can finish it so it looks like he's just going straight for multiball igoring the mode which is pretty reasonable and yeah since all the shots are lit like those stand-up Banks you're very likely to hit them anyway when you're going to places last he's probably gonna go straight for those okay I'm really not used to these lower scoring games you know for me like 14 million was my high score on this for a long time yeah [Applause] all right so ball two locks he has to nail the genie and it has to catch on that magnet for it to actually start s his lightning lamp which is actually pretty nice to bring in the multiball if he decides to go for that instead of jackpots he might want to go for that instead of jackpots well and it's up the center so you might get a jackpot anyway but um but also if you get no jackpots you get a restart on this which is nice but yeah all right nails are jackpots at the genie shot at the center the orbits will re-light your jackpot that is a rough re-light right there yeah the orbits oh yeah pretty pretty quick multiball but he's still in lightning lamp but uh it looked like that timeout um he did just finish the mode so or finish the mode shot so so the left ramp will finish it now thank you for the Resa fliptronic how are you my friend all right the other likes games where you can get one billion with the first punch yep this is not worth a billion I don't want to play the game so yeah let's see if he plays Mojo now that goes for lamp spins the uh you usually want to make sure you play at least one multiball which he did pretty quickly you can back to D and go for another one but it gets harder oh yeah he is owning this yeah so and yeah so he had a I was just gonna say he had a wish lit at the right ramp like these collector jewel is basically a free furniture mode so that's weird so yeah another thing yeah like and lamp spins also go to bonus you can get huge bonuses on this game as well is another thing to keep in mind and every 15 lamp spins locks in that value and it holds over about a ball if you don't finish your 15 then it resets so you can see those blue lights in the center of the Playfield he's probably about halfway through so might want to consider going for a rip there but okay drains out solid ball yeah it always just it always was difficult for me to find a strategy at all on this game this one I feel like even even without a setup like steady Camp hard I I've always thought it played pretty hard for first air 10 but yeah Matthew Peterson obviously been playing great I think he last City champ which was three years ago at this point he got third place I believe out of uh he's in town from Portland right looks like he's going straight for his locks and in his Cyclops mode so yeah that's the captive balls which are also your bonus X as well which is kind of nice [Applause] foreign [Applause] this game reminds me of all Jersey Jacks scoring it's getting a little windy over near me [Applause] all right yeah so nails are jackpot the orbit yeah and going for going for the lamp in multiball is also pretty pretty reasonable strategy right but uh yeah let's see what he does looks like he's I think he's got yeah it looks like he's going for the re-light so uh rained out yeah I got it last last second great spirit jackpot there you're very nice so it looks like he I don't know exactly what Zach ended at but I think Matthew takes the lead with the two jackpots uh certainly after that big lightning lamp is it worth increasing the value of that hurry up over and over and over I do not usually you do not care about the hurry up and you're annoyed when the hurry up starts because it blocks you out of other things like I've never been excited to have that hurry up go okay so still a little bit behind Zach but probably having a bonus here and yeah let's start this next mode I don't know if you wanted this mode or didn't just didn't feel like changing it but um yeah this yeah this one's really random the other one I I had confused earlier with this one this one it's just like one of the shots to finish into the mode so you might get it on your first shot or you might have to hit a bunch of shots to finish it um or he had he also has that um wish lit at the Right Scoop would finish the modes all right but yeah solid balls from Zach and Matthew yeah it certainly take the lead with a bonus there the thing you want in pinball is solid balls yeah hey I can I get one every hour kids let me have it Nick with a long flowing hair Nick Nick who's the one that put up four billion on um Twilight it was only upper 2 billion but I believe Gene cut him off so he so he could have put a 4 billion in oh rough ball that was rough yeah so when Nick lied to me and an excellent tap passer three step faster yeah have we seen any of her from him on screen yet no we haven't got him on an em yet oh I believe it I believe it all right Jim's got uh what do you think Jim's doing right now I think he's going straight for multiball like multiball is definitely like the safest like you want to make sure you play one multiball I feel like on this game and with the yeah with the locks like the physical locks you want to make sure when they're lit you just cash in your locks and start your multiball and not not mess around with things all right I was trying to get that uh still shot right there so yeah so multiple lit at the genie shot now he could finish his mode as a left ramp but he's probably going great he's great for the multiple such a fun skill shot oh yeah so yeah so he's in danger of well the other two players played their multiball so maybe he'll get those locks back but yeah I think he may have to like relock the balls which is a little annoying but is that a standard setting or is it a tournament setting um so that's just um because this game doesn't have an auto plunger you need to physically lock the balls like if there's not balls in the lock then you can't get a multiball oh football yeah there's nothing you can do tell you who's not having a football Andre on Hoops but um yeah you're still with us but he hasn't gotten many super slams he's been playing a while he's got a lot of baskets got a lot of baskets and those will come back to haunt you in bonus just say it when Elvis leaves the building he's not kidding uh thank you for the follow and and Bill 82. welcome to the theater all right we got a mode going hit the flashing Golems wrong statue princess the princess is not in this County yeah yeah so yeah this is the random one with it like you hope you find the right one oh kind of outline there yeah but still in the lead so yeah Nick is Nick Nick has nothing going on so he'll probably go for multiple I would assume but I think it's currently he's currently in second that will change he's right behind Carl [Applause] and I am up all right well I will be back hopefully hopefully a little slower than last time yeah don't come back anytime soon [Applause] over there [Applause] now there is some incentive to be first even in the qualifying rounds and well Rick got a ball safe wow and I'm back oh I'm sorry to hear that bro yeah so it looks like Nick is going for the multiball yeah so these are these balls are kicking out because um Jim left him in the lock so so yeah Nick starts the multiball so Jim will have to relock now gets a quick jackpot let's see if he goes for the relight or just lamp spins drain drains one of the balls nice beautiful yeah he's missing yeah and out of it oh you know it's funny that flashing always pulls me into thinking it's a ball fade so this thing is another game that does that it flashes the center right between the flippers I haven't played a Mustang in foreign [Music] probably going lightning lamp um he can probably get 3x lightningly up here which could be potentially very valuable oh three expired 3x Fireball that's good yeah oh man that's three million okay yeah oh did that not register wait it's coming it's counting upwards it's coming it's coming up is that is that is that normal I I had not seen that before has anyone seen that was it like leftover switch hits that I am not sure I thought I didn't I have to say I've never taken a three 3x Fireball award from from the from the uh wish before but okay maybe able to count it downward but but yeah it was definitely counting upwards awarded what it said it was so it might have been counting upward to get to the 3x value does that make sense what from what it was from to what it needed to get to that's why I was counting up I don't know yeah I I have no idea I will ask Nick after this game if he knew he knew what was going on there I think if you're ready a routine yeah what if he thinks I'm right if you write a routine that'll count down you can go the other way too [Music] gym sitting pretty with 1.7 and hasn't gotten his multiball yet yeah so it needs to re-lock its balls now but um but he does get more skill shots from re-locking balls but I think he'd rather just be able to start a multiball right away but there we go it's a three two one more to wear to the gene yeah Genie will start his multiball [Applause] like a boss yeah so you're saying shoot the lamp during multi-wall also you can do that I'd probably go for jackpots above above the lamp but um but it's a reasonable strategy to shoot the lamp especially if you have lightning lamp going on a rough multiball no balls get served up again yeah you do get a restart if you get zero jackpots but uh but that's it that's it he's got the most jackpots out of anybody in this group so yeah um I think he passed Nick because it was about to be belcito Providence yeah yeah he's he's crushing the small thing called this is a great multiball in this game it's not not an easy one to play like this but we've seen Jim do that on many games million so he is pretty much got it what does this bonus hat I mean he passed neck there's still two players playing after oh I'm sorry you're right you're right Jim is second player but it'll certainly finish this ball in the lead unless he tilts very soon or he's in the lead right now yeah Ry you were worried about Twilight Zone be happy we don't have Cactus Canyon anymore yeah that was always a long player as well and I am up again hopefully I can have one decent ball in there for it see you in an hour Jim is I wish I had the patience all right starting a motel of Alibaba nope oh Jared are you are you kidding me I yeah I think I I put on one of my balls but uh that's how it goes sometimes yeah Hoops can be pretty nasty especially with those weird Premier got lead flippers yeah they go from like down to like all the way up vertically yeah so okay Jim's still still crushing it is that drains out needed more we needed more Jim's putting on a clinic the Arabian word he finished was with a decent lead so um the other players yeah certainly have some work to do to catch him that was a really good game tonight we're looking for O'Hara multiball apparently yeah the so the heroin was just shooting the left orbit over and over again I haven't seen anybody go for that on this and it's kind of tough if like depending on how you feel about the orbit and the feed on it and it's just a two ball multiball it's potentially worth a ton but it's it can also be worth nothing yeah so I certainly wouldn't go for it before the main multiple nice move big little ah so Zach is sitting pretty around seven million four x eight eight eight two eight three eight six all right I think Matthew's got a shot where is Zach right now Zach is 21 points I've got a windy day I'm gonna have to meet for a moment yeah so Matthew it's 4X might be enough to put him ahead of Zach right now depending on I forget how many lamps spins he already had but yeah so Matthew look at looking pretty good yeah five actually I I would imagine he has it I would trap open check but uh but he he or he might already know that he has it and knows yeah he's he's going for bonus X he he might be able to catch Jim just through bonus X which I'm curious if he knows exactly what he needs bonus ex-wise and he also has the Ruby lit at the uh and a wish at the Right Scoop which like the Ruby gives you better Awards um you can finish two modes with the Ruby but yeah he's getting he definitely has the active he doesn't tilt and we'll have him shortly anyway 8X and yeah I I don't know what his bonus is that how many lamps fans he has all right so he has 15 lamp spins and he's close to lock in he does he hasn't played a ton of modes which could also go to your bonus I would shoot the scoop if I was in but um I would also trap up and see if it says what your bonus is thank you for the follow olivioli only the old old but yeah um and I forget what your max bonus X is I think it's either like 11 or 12x so he's getting as close to it it's drilling as well that might be it they're not captive wow that's it yeah I don't think he's going to get more bonus X but I and not 100 sure there but I think 12 is your max Blinky thank you for the follow and welcome to the theater we are in the middle of a one of the final games of City champ qualifying rounds tomorrow we are playing the so usually it makes sense to go for lightning lamp but since he has 12x he might be better off letting lightning lamp time out and letting it go to bonus ones but um but he probably has Jim anyway at this point if he doesn't tilt I think yeah there's no more points yeah I am curious if he knows I'm curious to ask him after this game but I'm pretty sure 12 is the max he's hit the captain ball a couple more times yeah I think he's still going for it but uh I mean he's got it so it's working for him that's his recent shot yeah that's a safe place so yeah that will this this will be a big bonus but moon walk out and the ball bonus looks like come on just hit the flippers all right Paul all right I'm going to hop off hopefully I can not play like garbage in the last round and make the playoffs but we'll see thank you Jared so much thank you so much for streaming this you got him buddy well that was a huge game right there we are almost at our final game ladies and gentlemen once again thank you for joining us here at City champ for the qualifying day one I know there's a lot of tournaments going on right now and a lot of flights you guys can take and I appreciate that you are traveling MPT 3K Airways look at that DMD it's all kind of wonky what in the world is going on with a DMV or or cause it's exposure is low what happened thank you everybody no the the camera's fine you know this is an original Williams Toe Tan I'm wondering if that just had a bug in it got a bug in it um for you guys once again like I said we are here tomorrow for day two which is the top 24 players I'm going to steal an idea from one of the other tournaments and try and post the standings on uh the screen while you watch people can at least see a small part of the standings you don't have to go and refresh your browser but if you want your standings right now there they are it's always easy for you to click and thank you again for joining us we spend a lot of time here all right hello everyone you have all that very very well today I'm very proud of each and every one of you but one thing I want you to remember before you leave today announcements before you leave today uh check to see if you have to play a tiebreaker most of the games we're not going to play tiebreakers now there's going to be a ton of ties but if you're tied for 24th spots that's going to determine whether you get into the playoffs you're going to try it you're going to play a tiebreaker game if you're if you're tied for eighth position position number eight you will play a tiebreaker to decide whether or not you have a buy because the top eight get a buy and if you're tied for the number one spot guaranteed it's locked in okay cancel that all right so good luck everyone congrats girl all right folks getting ready for round 12. getting excited here and there's gonna be we're gonna definitely I think we'll have the opportunity I see the question about the bubble match I think we're definitely gonna have the opportunity to show off some of those bubble matches as they come up and we are gonna get into it let's look at what we want to show off here for the matches all right I think we might want to go to let's see I'm just looking to see where where might be interesting let's see where where we're going um let's go down oh wow we got two matches without any anything there I'd say Congo I think if Congo is available Congo we just got that fixed yeah I think that'll be a good one to show off because I think we got some potential there for people thank you let's see let's see so is it Congo or yeah yeah let's do Congo okay because I think that's gonna be about to play Congo please hold for the stream Congo please hold there we are and actually I have a little time because I'm unassigned at the moment we have uh no no Arena set for my match so I'm gonna be hanging out with you all for just a little while oh maybe just got assigned one Harlem Globetrotters all right where we started it up all right so we're gonna let Manu get into position for Congo I'm gonna get into position for Harlem Globetrotters in just a bit against Michael Matson Damian Charlie and David Elrod that's gonna be a tough match my hope is that I can I think if I can get two points if I can get a second place I think that'll put me in good Steed we'll see what happens anything can happen here at City champ nine here in San Francisco thanks again folks this has been really fun to uh be here with you to show off some great pinball today we're uh we got a lot of hopes and dreams on the line in this last round so we'll see what happens how it shakes out we'll try to show you some extra content of uh those bubble matches and we'll see that Manu is getting everything set in just a moment all right so thanks folks remember hit that follow button subscribe if you want to support and we'll see you in just a bit [Music] foreign [Music] uh let's see do we have stuff on Congo yes we have already started get those jackpots get those diamonds collect those diamonds I forget to call out but what meat but what does it mean one of Tim Curry's the best terrible rolls ever we got Derek and we got Rob Hill hail the gang's all here let's let me give you guys something pretty to look at also no it's not my face although I could do that okay is there an issue right now I feel like there might be an issue movie sucks pinball good yeah the movie really did suck I think we ripped it on the rip theater on Fridays I think we I think I remember riffing uh this game a lot of butter if you're still there I think we ripped to Congo recall this is another one of those games where you can shoot the skill shot over and over again I do remember I think I do remember riffing this unfortunately all right it's a good first ball we almost had his map in there so you shoot the ramp three times you spell map and then you collect your map award at the scoop on the right the lower right there's a scoop uh another thing I love about this table the game is way better than the movie there's a zinge uh inlanes and outlanes by the flippers yeah and then there's a super skill shot that you plunge it punch the ball into the left out lane and there's a couple of them too there's a there's like a combo if you can punch the ball into the left out lane the ball might get kicked into the diamond mystery scoop to give you an additional ridiculous bonus I love his shirt discount if we go watch cotton shirt [Laughter] I absolutely love that shirt I don't remember seeing it sold here you go and watch but you guys you guys what I really think Matt should start a uh that's a place where you can order these t-shirts online I'm gonna give a shot too so these players now there's the super skill shot right there that and another's end let's find a moment to capture a replay and see if we can play the replay back well that's not a good moment something is wrong on this game all right well we need the players to notify a judge a tournament director and it's quite possible that there is something wrong because they were working on this game quite a bit before oh not a fault okay if anything should be working it's this one because boy they really worked hard on us today shoot the ball you amoeba that's from Flintstones I'm not calling I'm not calling Derek an amoeba I'm just saying quoting The Flintstones there's an M there's an A and if you can lock in that shot here it diverts to a map oh that would have been a sweet sweet combo you can still get it but it's a hurry up but you can still collect them out there we go it's his map award always seek the map Awards and always take the mystery Awards the scoop right above the mid play field where the diamonds two diamonds are classy nice look yeah that map combo shot just feels so good when you can nail it oh it's so great lock rejected again so are we getting rejected locks from the is it from the upper flipper you're talking about from the upper left flipper all right here it comes and boom snap hit happened on both wow so we are so maybe it's virtual because they are getting um they are showing the animation in the DMD that the ball was locked yes you always want to take this mystery award diamond hunt multiple okay it's a two ball multiball it's very short if you're not great like me but use the chance to collect a few diamonds all the diamonds stay lit and you can go through and click 50 diamonds one of the goals in this game is to collect I forget friends in chat you can tell me how many diamonds you need to collect to get to the big payoff but collecting diamonds right now would be a good thing hippo this game has the best call outs though it's so stupid how do you turn a turd of a movie into a great pinball machine I I hate giving wow that was a great super jungle jackpot 27. I hate giving the stream uh and already it's a ghost tribe multiball I hate giving the stream uh homework but can can someone please look up who's the designer of this game I have completely forgotten who this is let's not go there Manu oh okay never mind [ __ ] uh message received message received friends and chat message received the butterflyer knows me we will forget I even asked anyway back to pinball ah Remy Jeremy thank you for pasting that from freaking pinside but I missed it what did you ask man nothing game time television game time television I seem to ask the wrong questions every time [Music] it had something to do with the designer of this game all the pin dragon thank you for the tier one I love you to death holy here Rob is funny Rob I met in uh in a local pinball place not even a Primo place it's called brainwash it's no longer there it was a cafe that actually that was a laundromat that had pinballs and uh I met Rob over there and I've been buds with them ever since this was a long time ago this was a long time Dad fumble all right I bought two 141 million for Kyle and our friends here who are playing right now are for so I think most of these cats are outside of the outside of the uh 24 somebody needs a win here to uh this game has a really hot light up at the top which always gives me trouble for streaming gray gorilla gray gorilla not Gary gorilla oh great sorry gorilla diversion to the map yes better choice mystery we're down at the lower Playfield kids gray attack gray attack you just move the gorilla and hit all the Congo Target c-o-n-g needs the final o and you'll be surprised at how hard it is to hit that there we go wasn't that worth the extra expense to make that play feel down there should make a Congo reefing all right sir I'm back in it we got a multiball here now by Kyle he's out in the lead currently he's ball two oh fantastic so we had a lot of action to go now you want to hit those uh just hit that ramp well either ramp will give you 25 I think it's 25 million 30. and actually at the uh at the right side that's a it's 3x oh wow is that right there oh maybe I'm wrong maybe maybe it's just maybe that was just the hippo collect yeah got it got it well that was a fantastic multiball there precursor to Tron wow really 17 thank you for the follow welcome to the theater we're finishing up here on day one of City champ in the final round [Music] thank you for the bits Andy Derek I am drinking Coca-Cola because caffeine right now yeah I just had an Arizona Iced Tea for that very same reason my uh my stamina is shortening Amy we're in Amy mode the object here is to hit the inner loop to get all the diamonds from Amy and I think he has done that and that'll re-light his locks yep yep so locks seem to be holding it everywhere and thanks mutter futter for a hundred bits oh all right look at that I love the support for MPT 3K scam train and I love how carefully you said that this time Derek because holy smokes I have I'm no not affiliated with Mystery Science Theater in any way weird it's it's the rule where you know two people come up with the same cool idea at the same time right you know I if you ever do get in trouble with them I'm actually close friends with the solar brothers who made these Sports uh sort of successor to MP or I guess that's uh MST mst3k yeah they they made cheap seats the solar Brothers sort of the same concept but for old Sports footage and they now have a new one on uh the UFC Fight Pass so if you ever have any issues they're friends with the uh with the MST crew you know Derek the MST 3K twitch Channel came to my channel one night for Rift theater no way yeah that's fantastic yeah I love it it's crazy to see Ms mst3k in chat oh my gosh what a rush yeah Kyle is quietly putting up a big game here yeah and you need to on this one because you can get people running away from you 636 I think a billion is a like a decent score how many diamonds does he have hard to tell tough one right there but great ball great ball too all right once again it's windy on this side of the Atlantic foreign I absolutely love that shirt though I need that shirt now it is great I think it's is it in one of the discount bins it really is I think I think it might be it literally is a discount all right good good outline save there it's a nice little nuanced Nudge by Roland keep that in play and now he's gonna go for his map shot misses it to the right 57 thank you Joe the dragon 57 diamonds that was for Kyle great hippo collect there hippos he's gonna get another shot oh and now he's got his lock all right so you know oh and a tough one okay we're not moving that Playfield it's like rolling rolling it's gonna have some work to do at least he's got the light the the lock lid on the next one looks like uh Derek is in a similar position he's got some lit locks available to him [Music] you guys can still see the Playfield it's been dragged halfway across the floor maybe they're just I think Derek's just waiting for you to come adjust the camera no I don't think there was an announcement about the uh earplugs in all the games but correct yeah yeah it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer I guess yeah yeah especially at this level I think I think they're playing for potentially spots in the in the top 24 here so not not going to be a lot of Taking Chances by the way I forgot to thank you guys for the hype train I was loving it having having trouble with that I think I saw that earlier too I was watching actually uh from afar while I was playing my game just ensuring that the locks were actually locking right I was I heard a report that there was an issue Jared asked me to monitor it seemed like they were working fine but uh seems like folks are just having a tough time hitting that shot here thanks again for the hype train yeah just maybe just a little bit tricky George thank you for the 100 bits again love the support MPT 3K make me prize that's just between me and George uh it's got uh Rob's always going for that super skill shot it's you know I I also do I I find it to just be one of the satisfying shot to hit but I think in the context of this game it's actually not it's yeah it's it's not an insignificant sum and a nice hit off of the feed from the from the kick out that's number one good thing you got that map award when he did relights all of his diamonds so he can start collecting those getting his locks again it is interesting to see the various sort of styles and how people make decisions on the Fly you know I I'm much more of a a dead bouncer yeah and so I you'll you'll you'll see me actually I I just suffered this a couple times on Harlem kind of drain yeah well Harlem yeah the drain a little unnecessarily at least to the outside viewer because I'm I'm thinking that I'm going to get some Ricochet action and when it doesn't happen of course it looks like I just did not act that I froze but you see other people who yeah favor the drop catch favorite the live catch yeah all right playing hoops and trying to get a dead flip is a pipe dream yeah although you know I've had good success that was one actually I did take a zero on Hoops earlier but I I what I I did hurt myself by thinking I was going to get a lot of uh drops and I even thought I was gonna get a center hit and uh that did not work out nicely for me it was a really good Diamond multiball I think I'm not sure if it was really good but we're in Gray attack right now hit the Congo targets he's good you can get that c in that end to O you're in good shape there it is and and very calm the way he did it you know a lot of people like to just wail on that oh no yeah that's it's like the power in the Twilight Zone you got it right right Rob having a great ball right now got a lot going for him getting a lot a lot of nice speeds into the in Lane got his lock lit he wanted that map award and he gets it off the sling I'm sure he's really all right jungle jackpot gotta put it back in the map oh and he's got the super score running now too so let's see him continue to pump that up not gonna get much off the jungle jackpot but I don't think he's too concerned about that he's not even thinking about it maybe here maybe there oh that was a nice 3x hippo but and the ball and that's going to put him somewhere in the neighborhood of 400. maybe a bit bit over with the 2x here and we're gonna have somebody joining us Johnny Monica Johnny joining the broadcast here well yeah of course because you know when when you suck at playing might as well talk on the podcast right right those that cannot as well do that and see people that actually are playing good and and have a chance of making it through how's it going Johnny hey not bad how about you good good I I heard a ghost voice I was like wait where's he at he's over there we got we got the the technology to enable this I know I love it I'm gonna hand it over to you guys though [Laughter] yeah okay we're not Union it's okay all right so we got uh Kyle working on so Kyle with the lead right now who started with about 700 million and he's uh working on maybe working toward his multiball number two 700 is not bad oh we got one danger okay yeah up to 750. so this is the survival group right so this is the one that they basically they're trying to fight for their lives they're right on the cusp yeah I think the winner here is gonna feel pretty comfortable second place might be in a tie break situation um third place and fourth uh I think are going home okay playing in the consolation tournament I should say right well that's what I'm going to be doing tomorrow yeah yeah absolutely where's my B division shirt I Gotta Wear that anyways all right so so we got Kyle right here doing jungle jackpot that's kind of nice let's see if you can hit it real quick yeah do you uh I'm curious is uh do you go for Jungle jackpot I mean absolutely yeah absolutely look at the first color me first of all 40 million right well 30 million right right you delete it a little bit oh right about the ghost tribe that's right so yes that is a value yeah absolutely you want to do it and uh and now it's just a question to try to get into the scoop over and over and over oh I want to try to almost like a little bounce back into the Scoop from when the ball is in there but all right let's see you mean from the kick out yeah right before he kicks it out maybe you can kind of push it with that ball oh God you know what I mean I can like do it like a Ricochet just like keep that one sort of going but look at that I mean I mean that was 130 million yeah it was huge yeah so that was not bad I mean and considering he's got a pretty nice lead right now I mean um he's got to feel pretty good about this you guys are beautiful you're gonna be on camera okay three two one hello hey all right oh and we got some love for Johnny in the chat from Providence oh my God Is It Love or hate I don't know it's it's love one of the nicest dudes in pinball oh he's just saying that because he wants us to read the thing on the text that's why he went he wants us there's a spotlight no I'm kidding thanks so when where is the consolation tournament I believe that's happening at free gold watch in the front parlor uh front portion of the house if you want to find out more and I believe it's actually technically open to anybody who wants to participate yep go to sfpins.org you'll see the city champ link there and I believe it should have more information about the consolation tournament and the uh the other details of the tournament tomorrow for the 24 who make it through yep all right come on down anybody who wants to come and play I think he's how close was he did the till cost him no not really no not really I mean he he had to make a play for it unfortunately he tilted earlier so I think he he knew he was in a dangerous situation there I mean he had to do something try to save it because he's he's now um Dire Straits but yeah it was a uh a tough one there to I'm sure he's going to be kicking himself on on all right so now we got we got Derek so first of all you know start off with your super skill shot see if you can get those those outlings for 24 to 25 25 yeah and and we were talking about that earlier so is that that's something you would usually go for as well absolutely yeah because what happens is that you can get that outline and dalale can kick it to the scoop and that gives you more points too not to mention he's got the mystery lit too exactly and it's it's absolutely a go-to not to mention if you don't hit any switch you could just drain it make sure you don't hit any switch right and shoot for it again unfortunately in this case you got the the cheapies skills right right so that's gonna be number two yeah and of course I'm not biased towards Derek because you know we're rooming together so I'm not gonna go for him at all but you know sometimes those uh travel rooming together relationships say they can end acrimoniously as it did for me and Andre masenkov I know at uh Expo which you knocked me out of Expo that year oh well I got lucky I guess I don't know that you got all lucky I don't know so one of the two that was fun all right so he just started what multiple did he start he started uh adult the diamond multiball no no I think he's in the oh because I think he got the did he get the jungle why does he have two balls what's going on huh oh he's he looks like he's actually confused as well yeah he's gonna trap up and probably get a is he is he gonna get what yeah why does he have two balls I don't I don't think he's on a multiple he's like the lock is lit I think this is a malfunction large wizard said balls suck out yep oh so he's gonna be getting getting a ruling here great great job on his part to stop playing that was nice trap up that's because he knows he's on camera he's like oh crap I can't get away with it damn it unintentional multiball due to outlane ball safe got it well that happened so quickly that it was it I I hardly even noticed it until he was in it and then I was trying to discern which one it was wait was it it wasn't multiple due to outlane ball safe so the what happened did the ball get kicked out and then it kicked the other ball it must have I mean it must have drained or it was a Lazarus and then he kicked the other ball I mean that's the only way I can see it maybe it was a Lazarus from the right that came back up and at the sit well no because from the right you don't get a ball seat though so yeah interesting all right let's see the kick out oh it looks like kick out failed Ben Lazarus oh kickoff wow so yeah how did that how did he get a Lazarus from the left out lane that's crazy I could see it from the right but I don't I can't see it on the left yeah well all right officials will sort that out and it's on Twitch so we'll be able to go back in the passes yeah yeah absolutely this is going to be on the mystery science God I did it again sorry sorry mystery pinball Theater 3000 broadcast uh on on the YouTube channel so all the vods is going to be on YouTube available to to watch mine is much more responsible all these plugs oh my gosh oh my it's so commercialized now pinball we do we do have the rewind available it's just that the the controls are far from where we're sitting right now so I think we'll get that set up for tomorrow because that we'll have that and the telestrator so that way we can Mark our uh you know like on a football podcast okay but yeah so we're just waiting on the did I miss a highlight yes you did oh yes you did you were on on your 30 minute break because your union so that's what's going on it's that's fine that's all right and it looks like I think they may be calling over Matt Henry to help Matt Henry the proprietor now the thing is what's gonna happen when he's gonna open up this uh this machine right and he's gonna drop one by is that gonna lose the ball or it's a good question is it smart enough that it knows I I think it should be smart enough if it if it's not and it ends the ball they will be awarding a compensation ball which is gonna really suck for him because he's got progress he's got the locks lit exactly so I mean for him to have to start all over that's gonna that's gonna be pretty bad but all right hey Johnny how many people did you get sick on this one that's people on the west coast though people on the East Coast Providence they love you I thought it was awesome man y'all I was I was a yank-pin and somebody asked me to sign the the plague oh yeah yeah oh can you sign it please hold and and they did it with a mask of course they asked you know so anyways all right this is the part that it can throw you off when you're playing and you have to stop like this and you have to be holding the balls and you're like oh my gosh you're just throwing I wonder if it's throwing off his Juju a little bit right do you have any ritual maybe you go to like internal or external that you try to like keep your momentum uh I mean there's not much you can do because I mean right now you're just holding it right I guess once everything is done you kind of like mentally go back and say okay remember nothing happened we were just pausing for a second and let's just remember what is it that you got to do right by shot but the problem is that the the memory muscle might be a little tweaked it is it is an adjustment you know I think I think that Cadence that uh pattern that uh Rhythm that you get into when you're you're certainly in a flow state right when that's broken it can be very difficult to to Really re-enter that um I know Derek is is a great player so I I imagine he's he's got his own methods of you know keeping calm keeping Focus so we're gonna see here so the door is open still got power to the flippers I'm kind of surprised that they're not just letting them drain one ball instead of just opening it I wonder if maybe they're thinking they need to remove the ball okay we'll see but is that gonna throw the machine off when he's a multiball it would I think yeah unless it has sort of an extra ball in there um so we'll see here we'll find out but right now it looks like they're gonna remove one ball and I don't think they're gonna drop it in the trough let's see I think they're just gonna take it out let's see yeah because otherwise you're right we would not be seeing that yeah so they're just taking it out and now they're probably gonna observe to see what happens once he drains the ball so when he drains the ball it should be drained if it kicks him under the ball then they're they're going to tell him to stop playing I guess right right right all right we'll find out if this was a Lazarus outlane save and skill and it should track both maybe not on WPC so oh so yeah we're gonna find out soon enough so we'll see when he drains this ball yep if it's gonna count as bonus and game time we'll see you there yep looking forward to seeing you there so let's see hopefully he's not throwing them off come on Derek just keep her cool yeah you know what you gotta do so at this point you have what you have uh oh oh and that so the power that that one actually interestingly even though we saw that on the DMD the interlock disabled uh did not kill the flippers before this time it did wow I wonder if maybe there's a switch or something that's not functioning properly at this point I actually feel like oh this could be bad this could be bad because if it can and I don't see the the balls the the ball safe right on flashing so that means I'm thinking the moment they close the door is going to count as bonus well I guess yeah unless the two ball thing is gonna say okay I'm smart enough I know that you lost one ball the other ball should be right right should be still in place I think the question here I guess one thing they could do because they have the ball taken out of play and oh I guess yeah you're right that one's in the trough now so they would have to I guess if that switch is activated yeah there's that risk I was thinking about it wrap one ball out so let's see what's gonna happen once they close the door right it it should did not count the bonus let's see if it's smart enough let's find out all right hate to see it yeah I agree I agree Andy it's uh it's tough it's tough when this kind of stuff happens I mean that's pinball as we love to say yep but it's a it's a shame if it's gonna it's gonna interrupt the flow here for for Derek who is really you know on his way to a multiball look at that he had the he had the video mode on he had the oh let's see what is he doing he oh he's promising him a ring if uh if yeah if he loses the ball he's like I'll propose to you oh no wait he's already married oh sorry no proposal this is this is gonna be awkward no hopefully she's not watching everything so I don't know all right so I kicked it out didn't it yeah it looks like okay good it's always smart enough so now we know it was funny enough so he could have just greened the ball and we could be playing right now right what the heck but it's okay the officials here want to do everything in their power to make sure this is as Fair as a competition as possible that means taking every painstaking moment yes to make sure it's all good that's right is there still a ball in hand I believe so I didn't see because we didn't see the glass come down again so I don't think that Eric uh who is the official helping there actually placed the ball back into the game no I think it just kicked it out so all right there's number three so there's number three but now we have one that's locking oh this is the multiball so now I should kick out the three balls let's find out let's find out should be three balls maybe one yeah that's it it's gonna be a two ball multiball yep yep I wonder what one thing they could have done now he should trap up now if he can get this flippers to stay energized that he could uh put the third ball back I don't know no the problem is that I don't think they can do it now because uh yeah the other player is going to have an advantage right uh I think that's right yeah so so we'll see I I there may be some post-game sort of reconciliation that happens here yeah but okay I mean hey at least he has a multiball so I mean okay I mean it sucks that it's a two Ball multiball but it's all right so now I'm in uh trap up and basically try to hit that oh come on don't be tilting oh wow that's all you're gonna get that was so now you're playing with uh with two picks like you know all right so so now I'm curious to hear your thoughts are you going ever right right ramp yeah once I exhaust the left oh okay you can't oh absolutely I feel like there's a bunch there though right like that's I will keep doing the left as much as I can because the left is way safer and right that's what I mean yeah it's uh even with the right available I think yeah most most players but it does always feed it back over so you just got to be Adept with your flipper player yeah and that's okay there's I mean there's there's not I you gotta figure out a way to pass it but I mean it's not too bad okay now I would kind of shoot for what's there see you wanted to go for one more jackpot that was an interesting choice there although I I I mean oh I don't think the extra jackpot helps him a ton there uh so is it like 40 something million for a jackpot it was actually the volcano one I think it's it's it's a little more but well I guess I'm thinking that you know he potentially puts it into chaos by putting it into the pups there I could imagine maybe if you did a a post pass over to get the left ramp again maybe for one last one before it times out but I I didn't see the post presses the pulse pass easy on this one it's not bad yeah I mean I think we've seen a couple folks do it it's not too out of control if you if you get it I think it does take a little like you have to give a half breath before you actually flip it so now he's drained but he's still got the game going here exactly and that's because there's two balls in place so it's looking for the third ball so oh yeah but but this should be a drain I mean his game should be over at this point interesting so yeah I played a two ball multiball and I mean it's like you can't be playing you know with a three bomb multiball where one ball is like well yeah we'll see how the officials handle it I I tend to agree because yeah I'm gonna bet it's gonna be yeah it's gonna be game over for Derek it should be game over ball in hand needs to go back in so yeah I think it is going to go back in I guess the one possibility even despite what you what I think is a reasonable position that he got to play you know he sort of took the risk right of playing that yeah you played on a two ball or if not you see you can test it and you say you know what I got a two ball I want to get a three ball and then right then maybe you can figure out but I think the moment that you start playing with two balls it's it's tough I I guess the one thing is if if that was influenced At All by advice from the judges then that would be I think it could be seen as inequitable for Derek then to have to like kind of suffer that especially if the next person gets to play sort of the full game with all the balls and all that so like I could see a compensation ball situation for Derek that's like a free multiball well is it yeah like like uh Joe the dragon is saying it's right it's like multiple with insurance right right and let me tell you I mean I room with Derek so I wanted to win but at the same time you know I wonder if it's yeah it's a fair thing here so not if lazaruses are fine if not if the game kicks out a ball anyways should go back in and play on could have trapped the last ball and it would have still been in multiball I don't know I'm gonna I'm curious to know what uh what the room yeah I think this is gonna be this is this is cool this is drama the drama that we need in the last game when these guys have everything on the line look at the nervous face of he's like what is it gonna happen What's it gonna do yeah it's gonna be I mean really I I don't think we've had a moment quite like this the whole day so this is exciting that we are capturing this I know it's too bad that I uh I captured a different replay uh which was this here which uh wasn't that exciting I like it though it's you know Rob Rob is uh and you know Rob is gonna have quite the time because now he's been waiting to play his ball for all right I'm sorry he's ball three right for quite some time now right I capture the power drain age yes and the face yeah actually the face of this appointment is classic that's that's tough man that face of disappointment yeah all right so we got some activity here Eric and let's see what's the verdict so it looks like we're still still got the The Flipper up so we're trying to avoid uh the game kicking the ball out I'm I'm guessing that what is going to happen is Eric is going to take the ball out and put it into the truck right and at that point he should count the bonus there he goes he's gonna put in the trough here we go why is he yep in the shop bye-bye all right let's see so the theory your theory is that there's the underbell and the ball bonus that's it that's the end of the ball now the well it's not an advantage for player four it's just that player four is going to have now a three ball multiball right but I mean that's sure he he didn't get a three ball multi it was a two ball I was still multiball though he did well yeah I guess the trade-off there is like hey he could have actually just allowed that to drain collect bonus and then get the compensation ball right because of the I wouldn't have done it I would have played it exactly right that's that's what I mean is that he because he sort of ventured the risk there yeah I think I think I agree that would be the right outcome there so I think he's probably locked in I'm not expecting anything else to happen after uh after Rob's ball right here so that means that at this point the best there it is looking at is a second place which we'll put them at 19 19 points is that I think that's it just miss depending here let's see you think it's gonna be a 20. let's see so right now oh gosh we got so 20 is actually yeah there's a multi-way tie at 20 uh for yeah 20 is going to be the minimum 20 is a minimum yeah oh boy all right so basically Derek is out right now Rob has a chance but he's gonna have to pass Kyle one two three four five six seven players tied at 20 right now okay we got the opportunity what about 24 though because you get the top 24 right right right well I I I'm I at 20 points and in 20th position and that spans the 24th spot got it okay so there's gonna be a big coverage [Music] what's going on oh we're calling for Darren I thought they were calling for me okay all right so let's see so Rob has some catching up to do he needs to pass Kyle it's got the video mode now with video mode lit that's a tough shot to get the uh because that's at the saucer right yeah but he also has the mystery mode so I mean is that did he already play his uh diamond multiball yeah oh and just like that it's over that's really killer right there just like that it's over he he and he really got kind of like a a chunky bounce off the side there yep so that's it so Kyle goes through Kyle's the big winner we're gonna have Eric actually the official here he's gonna go on and to talk about it with you Johnny with me yeah yeah me why me I don't know stuff I don't know anything I'm a color commentator I know all right so tell us what's what what is it hold on before you say anything okay this is what we were talking about before we were saying okay so you got a Lazarus yeah okay because he got a Lazarus Lazarus you gotta you got a Lazarus from the out Lane right okay so that okay we can go back in later and see it okay so you have two balls in play at that point you have two balls in play you can only play with one ball he could have drained one ball right and maybe the machine was smart enough to figure that there was just it was fine it wasn't it wasn't gonna give them bonus is that correct or no okay so so first of all when you say a Lazarus which lane did it go down it went off the kickback Lane the kickback Lane it didn't register it but then it came back up but we didn't see the replay so it came back physically physically right that's what that's what the internet is telling us and of course we trust the internet so you know internet's never run but you still so so this is this is different than what I was hearing okay uh from the players don't believe us we're Charlotte that's fine that's fine so so the internet is saying that it went out the left out lane while the kickback was on and at lazarused into play yeah and then it kicked out the other ball from the uh that's what they say but we didn't see the replay so don't trust us yeah yeah yeah we're fake news so don't worry about it so go ahead um I Heard a different um story uh people uh told me that he was playing the ball and then all of a sudden the ball kicked into the shooter Lane and how just this this is what we didn't know so so on Congo you have two trops there's a standard trough for the you know that holds all the balls but then there's also a separate trough for the volcano okay so um uh I wasn't aware about the left out lane thing we'll we'll review that and clip it but and and that may have changed my ruling that probably would have changed my room okay but but I thought that there was a I was told that there was a a mystery ball that was served to the plunger Lane oh okay uh and it was unexplained as to why they thought it might have been a malfunction with some other part of the game or something yeah got it and so when there's two balls in play the at that point if you're in single ball play you can't continue that so it's right the obligation on the player to trap us right and he did as he did right but at that point our question well what was going to happen when he was doing when he's going to drain the ball is it going to count the bonus is it gonna be smart enough to figure out that exactly I have two balls in play let's just keep playing yeah so uh the player uh suggested that we let a ball drain and then if it goes to a bonus that he that we adjust the um settings of the machine to convert it from a three ball game to a four ball that's right so he doesn't lose progress because that's what we're talking about like oh my gosh it's gonna lose progress and all this stuff like we did with Iron Man the the concern is the problem that doesn't work on this Arrow fan works on uh games um which game Let's Tell Matthew let's do do that your mic's on so um that trick doesn't work in this era of game it only works on games uh with the either the Sam system or the spike system got it so it doesn't work on White Star Games Simpsons or older got it um if you tried to change this game from a ball game to a four ball game while the ball is in play it will reset the game and we'll lose all the scores okay so then we also need because it was a worry that that had uh lost count to the end of the game Jonathan soon that um we had left to try was to take one of the balls so we physically took one again one of the balls out of the game we're gonna set up this is a great way to fix a problem where there's a historical ball that's been stuck there for a long time and you know let's say it's been there for a month and then finally it gets dislodged um that will fix the problem and then you can put that game you can put that ball into the game after the game's over right cycle the power and then everything will be back to normal right the only problem though is that by doing that when he got the multiball he had one less ball so that's why he had a two ball multiple instead of a three ball multiball that's right and then when you drain down to uh so when he drained down to two balls it thought that he was still in he thought that he was out of the multiball right so he still had two multiballs so then he had a ball in yeah and then um no he thought he wasn't single ball play he was a single ball player with two balls on the plate yeah so obviously the player can't continue that right no because basically it was it was like a free multiball exactly the player tried to trap up and in the process of trying to trap up he drained the ball and so at that point you've always got a situation where there where if there's one ball less than multiball that's a minor malfunction play on and he had attempted he had he had played his multiball and he attempted to trap up but he had drained out of it all together right he then we then had a ball in the in the cup holder and he petitioned to have the ball inserted and that he would continue play but as far as I was concerned no he was yeah his turn was over at that point yeah because once you once you have to play the multiball with two balls I mean you're playing them that's right with two balls that's it yeah and so so I decided to end his turn yep and had player four stand by in case something weird happened when I closed the door yeah and we were talking about it and we were saying the same thing I mean at that point yeah I mean at that point I had to yeah what would have changed my thinking is had I known that it had tripped the kickback switch that would have explained to me that something else was happening we gotta find out on the replay so we don't know because we didn't see it we just went up for what we saw here but I didn't have that information at the time so that's obviously Derek's gonna be quite disappointed in that situation but um anyway that also thinking behind my ruling on the situation so so that was good hey so far I gotta say you've been doing pretty good ruling so good job thanks man and thanks for all of this by the way I mean you know such a pleasure I mean it's just a yeah because you know me I go to tournaments all over the country like you guys do I come down to your tournaments like yeah and like so I know everybody here so it's kind of like yeah you're all coming you're all coming over to my party this month I know that's what I'm saying and it is a party yeah yeah you know and even when bad things happen it's okay just have fun with that meeting by the way where's my clock for when when I came here late and I missed myself there's got to be a clock here we got to make a clock don't show up late okay remember that so tomorrow if somebody shows up late that's gonna be your name on the clock that is that is by the way what is the rule for tomorrow if somebody show if somebody doesn't show up are you taking any anybody below that seating or no uh people should come to vulture because we will be accepting vultures I like it that's right I actually have to go because I'm in a tiebreaker so good luck thank you yeah and I'm really interested in people's comments so if people have any different thoughts or other thoughts please put them in the chat I will be reviewing this thing Ad nauseam over the next couple days as tournament directors do so please do put your opinions in the chat even good opinions I know you guys love to put negative opinions give good opinions too there and thank you very much for uh everything well good job good job Eric all right well I guess we gotta wait for the we're good yeah we'll go to be right back for a moment okay so much commercials thank you very much Larson appreciate it everybody keep speaking to him because it's going to be a plan later Jared Eric clackintucker Alexander Kyle Smith me Jonathan soon Derek we have a big we have a big joke [Music] all right we have a big match coming up we have a couple of tie Breakers it's all happening on Indiana Jones and it's going to get started very shortly stick around foreign [Music] thank you [Music] he's very excited to show this to you [Music] yeah all right it happens every tournament and I don't want to downplay how important this tournament is to a lot of these players so don't get me wrong [Applause] sometimes would be the end-all be-alls hey Scooter good to be seen by you or or actually I'm not seeing by you right now I remember that I might want to I might want to straighten that play field out in case I Get Low very was it ADHD about that is that a thing there's a trick I learned from Carl D'Python Anghelo go to focus go to auto and go back to manual Pro tip for Carl that way you don't have to manually focus those overhead lights in here they are very bright it's very difficult to keep 27 batteries charged all day I'll tell you that much so as far as my match play scores show these are the names but these are incorrect I think so let me just double check it with the tournament directors all right they kind of made a offshoot tournament for this uh part so I'm going to turn these off for now by the way the current standings are right here we are finishing up pretty much on schedule maybe a little running a little late so there apparently is like a huge like time between so many players and we're back and playing Indiana Jones to breakbreak those ties [Music] a very edited foreign once again we're going for jackpots clearly just jackpot boy I really wish I could turn off that light but I can't that was a snake's Monkey Bar I uh I got that incorrect the more balls you have on the table when you shoot them into the center the higher your jackpots it's still worth it to keep I think it's like five million each now nope at that speed do you think you could pull up in time thank you for the follow Cassidy Kane Kane looks like we've been streaming for eight hours I can't be real that that's seven hours longer than Mr scoot allows pinball players to stream how many in the tiebreaker I think they're eight in the title to be honest I I think they're eight and a half yeah exactly exactly [ __ ] all right I'm hoping to get those um the player rankings and names and stuff uh for you kids uh when there's these little tie Breakers they should really uh let them know no you cannot just top nine all right yeah wait uh one of two one or two one below that I made two separate ones it's kind of a weird format but I thought I'll show them okay wait there was a forgive me kids I'm trying to find out how to do this oh yeah good luck [Applause] Derek putting up [Music] I'm trying too much uh we'll forgive them and there's moon goes a dynamite all right this is Gene we're on player three thank you and the dope and a dope ass trophy although it's centered and on my end I hope you guys are enjoying day one we got a whole day tomorrow with all the top players there's Zach so how many from each game make it um 24. and once again here are the standings and uh I will try to have change the layout a little bit tomorrow and show you guys the standings on screen so you don't have to go searching for them but Gina's gotten into the multiball now he's going to shoot the middle twice that ball is coming back to increase that jackpot all right there's a ball stuck I think yes it was pretty fair for it to be there because that wasn't a I think it was pretty fair to be there you'd have to skillfully not get the ball to hit that spot on the table and he's going for the 25 Million jackpot now there's no way to backhand him I said Gene got slick and wanted to backhanded there's your jackpot the nudge oh and that bonus is huge in uh Indiana Jones that is something you do not want to tilt out of thank you yeah you want to try and keep that bonus all right all right got Jonathan up once again all these kids are fighting for a spot and wow a narrow Escape followed by us this is how we say goodbye in Germany people don't lie well two rolling up Jamie is up Jamie's got a nice lead on the 187 going for modes going for modes 's got really good ball control right now his arms are so wide because this is considered one of Williams super pins the wide body tables sort of like TNG or um Twilight Zone his arms are so wide it looks like he's trying to give the stream a hug oh yeah I need a hug wow that was a really nice live path looks like somebody's getting a free game after this is fortunate because those orbs orbits are the ramp is rewarding the city syrup series is not sponsored in part by City Walk yeah City Walk and load Lodo next to Whole Foods it's quite killer yes he's still going for modes and and that is a a pretty decent strap if you can hit shots and you can get through the modes you can get you can get some good cheddar Jamie is putting on a show quick multiball no dog fight award okay that's a quick multiball and I mean when I say baby I mean in the most respectful way possible Tony it is really hard to get a narrow escape on this table because the out lane is really far away really solid ball so 19 on the bonus and Derek Lipkin my screaming brother rolls up for his fate maybe respectfully yes his fate is in the hands of pinball he's going for that Mill shot let it settled yep give it a breather baby get it right in there I'm done get her done done all right do that two more times and I will give you a cookie that was a powerful drain the left the left flipper traps to backhand modes equals big scores easier but it is possible to backhand that mode shot it's a little tricky on this one though I think it's because they have it so floaty holy smokes my friend I'm so glad you're not dead it's really early yeah yeah it's really early okay uh we've got asps we've got about four bowls of flavor we've got three balls of play this will get you a couple of million if you could keep hitting that center Shot geez even the Nano didn't make the ball go in the hole there's a narrow Escape well one game I'm surprised we didn't scream today was Godzilla but uh all right 157 so Gene is chasing uh Jamie currently nothing needs to step up and put some digits up about one last so I'm glad he didn't rage till because once away this time yeah you learned you learn quick all right you've got that idle halfway down and Jonathan just is not getting a break today it's not getting a break we never got a chance to get control of the ball right there that's fine I think Madrid but like I said one good multiball can do it [Applause] over there it's got some eternal life really the grace period that light was solidly out good nudge oh it's early on this flipper right there it's more early on each flipper than you think oh that pitched it right out dang it solidly solidly out sometimes you have that half-assed out this one was a solid out foreign [Applause] [Music] all right here's a quick Monkey Ball oh Wendy needs to hit it one more time [Applause] and where's that going oh did you guys see how floaty the game is right pitched ball is extremely slow and loves to do horizontal movements and you got this oh boom got it all right now this could be fast watch how fast the ball is here ball saver is gone ballsaver is gone so you only get a ball saver for as long as it takes to maybe drain the first ball ET you want to collect Idols by hitting that flashing stand up once again and again and again and again I'm not sure where he was going on that but they made us a strategy I'm not aware of wait where's the ball okay maybe you wanted to put a ball away all right so he collected Incas Idol of Incas nice good pass look at that look at that ball it just it you can't even trap look at it just wants the table's not level that was pretty insane most wpcs give you the few seconds yes the grace period race period after shot goes out super jets can get it up there it could be a couple couple million Gene really wants that ball three lock right now drop catch [Music] there you go baby boom got it oh good recovery oh it's just uh did not want to go it just did not want to go all right Gina's looking at possible second place come on Jonathan let's all send a pinball love to Jonathan he's been getting some [Music] pretty bad brakes oh he's trying to he's trying to backhand the modes kind of backhand the mode shot that was definitely a dead flip Jonathan's got the surgical gloves but uh the game the game did a surgery on that's your first round Jamie Gets a win on that June 2nd Derek third and Jonathan pulls into the last I'm gonna get uh Tony back on okay there you go you like one all right let's join I mean this is cool because uh it's like two Oh no you're good I'm good stay on that one just move to that scene oh almost to the seat all right cool we got it there we go there we go all right I I think I'll give you some company because you know you're all by yourself and stuff so yeah I appreciate it I might go over there and join you yeah and I mean this is cool because this is a game that everybody's like uh this is what's going to put them in and the scores to beat is what 22 million and 37 million uh by the way look look at their look at their nervous faces come and join come and join yes when we get a party if you're a seasoned veteran at this so the nervous faces I understand them oh man yeah and right now you're thinking what should I do should I go for mode should I go for multiple I don't know because those targets for the multiball they're so hard yeah no you might not have yet oh sorry oh good all good there we go yeah yeah it was uh just to uh you probably saw it on my face a lot yeah that was really tough I I was really you know I wanted a couple of those back unfortunately I'm gonna be the score that everybody's gonna be gunning at yeah I mean absolutely yeah I'm thinking and I'm thinking you know what those kind of scores um I wouldn't even worry too much about the multiples I would just get a couple of notes yeah absolutely and I think that was my mistake actually I should have on that ball three probably gone mode yeah just to add some points uh on the table yeah yeah the problem with this game in particular I mean it's just so unforgiving if you miss like or at least that's my experience like I just I bricked a lot and so you just it's tough to recover you get a lot of East-West motion um so yeah that was that was really you know just tough tough to swallow there but if the machine is going to give you a lover now so in this case it's giving Jerry plenty of love because they're saying hi you've been taking care of me I only hit my target I'm not gonna drain I'm gonna let you live okay yeah and look at that he's got two exponents which is significant especially when you uh when you go on modes right right uh and he's got his ball three ready to go but it's okay that was actually a good ball yeah yeah he got set up for for some nice stuff yeah well it was a good Ball but he still has to bring the targets back down so unfortunately the target's reset that's what killed me on my ball too I was like an insta drain when I backhanded that and it went right to the left out lane and there's no they actually turned it off there's usually a save on that yeah uh but they turned that off on the tournament mode so tough tough tough so my My Hope Is that I can uh you know move on but it's it's up to the fates it's not looking too good it's up to the hand of fate that you didn't shoot when it was lit that would have gone 10 million I know that's true that's true I think I think I did uh uh yeah it's it's tough you know you make those judgment calls as to what strategy you're gonna put into play yeah and it's much easier to do it when you're sitting on the chair than when you're actually in front of the games what I got to do there hands of feet that was what that's gonna be 10 million a.m and he's gonna start the mode right so you're looking not too good right now my friend yeah I know it's tough look at this it's gonna be he already has what 20 minutes I need that tilt to get real sensitive suddenly yeah let's see let's see what he's going to be able to do here so any shot really might just pass you at this point I think I I think I I got killed on um almost every single one of my drain I think every one of my drains was left out lane yeah yeah it wasn't a lot I don't think you even had like a narrow Escape or anything like that right uh correct yeah I don't I think I got it once I got it one time but yeah it was um oh boy he almost tilted it yeah but I think that'll preserve yeah the win over me yeah and he doesn't understand he he tilted that and that that could have caused him heavy because look at that he's already he's almost got he's already through you yeah well he's through you but he still has to be one more person I understand that you have to beat three people right right yeah exactly all right so let's see Mr Eric here you have to root for Eric I mean poor guy I mean he's been doing all this stuff along with you of course you know but I'm like oh he's a nice guy look at him all right let's see what he's gonna do he's gonna go also for uh for the locks yep still has the what does he have okay no okay they're down so definitely go for the middle chair and narrow Escape no narrow Escape oh it's not gonna happen tilt it that that I would have tried to tilt it because he didn't have a lot of bonus so I'm like yeah right yeah all right now we got wait so it's not an order this is what this is Alex right yeah I think the the scorecard there is not quite calibrated to the selection here because that was based on seed in terms of which position people wanted so Jared actually elected uh to take first position got it um and then the other folks uh distributed them themselves and that was kind of uh smart by the way because uh by going first um he's able to kick the the ball up there right the pops are instead of uh getting them I think that's why he selected that yeah so that's good I mean well it's good and bad it's good and bad because honestly I still would have gone last because I want to know what what point I have to be and at that point I would have decided if I would have gone for multiball or modes yeah so I don't know I still would have picked last yeah I mean just knowing that is as big but he's he obviously worked out for him here well Jared yeah well Jerry's got multiballs so yeah yeah so let's see okay so in multiple here you what you want to do is you wanna get that right ramp is lit for jackpot once you hit the jackpot three times the Super Jackpot is going to be lit yep yep that's going to be the captain do you think we're gonna see anybody putting it into the the captive ball so you can 2x the jackpot of course if you put one into the center Shot honestly you know what if that Center shot if the target is down I will put it in there yeah it's I would because you know what you take away a buff from the play field so you're nice and relaxed and you got this out a little bit yep so unfortunately now did it happen for Jared is he gonna have any is there any uh yeah it looks like there's a little grace period here for the jackpot and I would try to take it if I could but oh and then well it's okay so he's gonna get a lot of balls to try for that absolutely seven seconds absolutely all right come on come on it's still lit still lit a few if you hurry he's gonna be like 40 mil this is just too many to manage I don't think whatever I don't care maybe oh maybe he gets the uh yeah I think he's going for the middle yeah he's going for the middle shot he's not going for that well the ramp is gone anyway so right now yeah you just you definitely want to just keep yeah in the middle so I think that's a million at a time reason of the bar and there's a kick on that was cool that was kind of like almost like a full shot yeah you could shut it right out yeah he's had so many rejections I've seen it I've seen it go in and out of that area yeah nice another 8 million time to Milk The Cow baby come on and yeah that's right beautiful look at that this is really yep fantastic work by Jared another jug of milk do some more look at that that's beautiful and I love this this Ricochet off this uh I don't know if you do you call it a Ricochet what do you call it yeah yeah like it's like a Newton ball situation yeah oh I lost one that's okay but I think it'll still we'll see I think I think he'll get that same effect yeah Latifah's gonna kick it over to the next uh flipper and yeah it wasn't as clean as before but yeah it's all right down to two it's still great Newton's Cradle action I like that Newton's Cradle action we always got we gotta give a shout out to the internet right of course the internet actually they they come and help us out absolutely absolutely oh narrow Escape you almost never see that here he comes yeah he has really got that locked in yeah he's looking pretty good so at this point I think to guarantee him a place he just has to beat what is it 200 million from uh Gene yeah which he's gonna get a lot of that a lot of this in bonus yes so he's gonna have a nice little chunk of change well he's still at 52 million right right but I uh value yeah that one's gonna be big all right it's gonna do the path this is gonna go maybe another 5 million or so oh a little more interestingly I didn't see I sometimes saw the path just not granting uh points there uh on the rollover I think the top right rollover I I saw people hitting it and it was not good yeah okay I should have brought that up it's a mouth major foul function not not quite major but they'll be like ah whatever play on be quiet stop bothering us we got busier things and more yeah it'd registered there though I think I think the lower one all right let's see let's see it's back up there let's see if he goes It goes on the on the right side let's see no he's not gonna go to the right side because he's got the left side all lit up you know I gotta give him uh props for for being very courageous and actually shooting that ramp when he's got that lock lit uh up the middle he's he's going for Rams oh my God yeah I think he's you know at this point he's probably trying to go you know safe plays okay so let's see so top right let's just see if that'll uh register oh my gosh his bonus is gonna be huge do not tilt dude okay went there yeah registered it all right yeah no tilts for sure no tilt and he's still going for it he's going for the pack he's an adventurous guy exactly Let It Go that's right let it go let's see this bonus well done yeah he's gonna have yeah [Music] he's through that's it yep he's done he can just punch his third ball if he wants yeah yeah all right Kyle's got some work to do here so 38 million so at this point he wants to put as much distance as possible from player three and four again he has he only needs to be one more person at this point right right he's got me he's got Jonathan so he's got to beat uh one of his his two compatriots here in the game that's it oh that's a tilt there you go see you later all right doesn't add too much there well but he's still past you though oh yeah yeah no he he's he's he's he's got at least some decent decent distance okay I mean Eric's always a dangerous player Alex always a dangerous player I think you gotta assume that they're gonna be putting up you know a fight here at the end there where everybody is dangerous I mean heck that's where you guys are here and and and I'm commentating all right all right so he's got the Cradle he's probably gonna go for that backhand yep oh toughness all right tries to do it on the Fly oh I'm capable so this is this is leaving the door open for me yep yep you might have a chance I mean we'll see a light chance I don't know though it's gonna be tough I I I'm not holding out too much hope I think these these players are you know they got they got a lot going for them all right so ball save is done yeah that left out lane was the one that was killing him and his the one that was killing me all right let's see that's a good move there very very nice nuanced nudge oh and there it is again again I think you should go for modes at this point I I think he's kind of stuff I think Eric I'm gonna be surprised if I see Eric go for anything other than that I think he's got the thing is that's not a Surefire shot that's that's not just Eric I'm thinking Alex if Kyle stays around like 40 50 yeah and Eric sees around 30 40. I will go for modes yep no I think you're absolutely right even at that point I mean if you feel good with the ramps you could just ramp out on me I don't know yeah that's kind of risky but I mean the mode I mean it's a backhand into that scoop I mean it's it's not I mean it's funny maybe I guess it's you know just a function of me not not flipping it well but it's uh it is tough I gotta say that the backhand was not a sure thing I I don't even think I I really got a backhand forehand was nearly impossible really yeah or at least like I I didn't find a way to feel comfortable with that so we'll see we'll see okay I do think that Eric is a very patient player so I'm expecting he you know he's gonna line up a nice backhand and he's gonna have a good shot at it and if he gets that I think he's he's pretty golden let's see yeah you know what let me just uh put some more points he's getting practice in for tomorrow he is and he's making it harder for the other guys because he's saying you know what let me go ahead and put the the balls locked in there oh my gosh he's walking away so he locked the balls and he's gonna walk away isn't he there he is all right Amino that is okay if the ramp out doesn't work you'll be Ram pouting but see now he's saying ah now you guys got to work on it now you're not you're not gonna get any like multipliers up there so if you lock a ball he's gonna kick it out from the from the right right from the elephant yeah okay and there's Kyle doing that uh so Speedo that breath of it that exhale and he's saying okay game time baby I need to put some points here he wants it yep he's past you already right now so yeah yes he's he's got two hours qualified so let's see what happens well he's he's pending doesn't mean what happens exactly so now he's saying let me put some kush in here let me put some some points all right okay you gotta mode that's good yeah that's okay I took 36 balls in play this is oh man he's gonna feel good about this he's like yes see if he can get it up the middle at this point just scrounge any points you can man put it at the middle if maybe a couple of ramps yeah there's no focused don't Focus too much on holding the balls because sometimes well let's see here he probably could but all right is that is that you as a emoticon that's me is an emote that's exactly me right that's fantastic yes all right we're all right so he's yeah he's he's gonna be collecting a pretty good amount in the bonus two here because he's got a couple of shots in yep that's gonna get is he gonna qualify okay just for the four I thought he might have got it in time for the six because he is draining right around that time and again here it really the only score that he's chasing him at this point is around what 200 million right right right uh it's gonna be Gene scores so yeah I think his priority right now is just put cushion points yeah it's gonna be a little high so I think he's gonna feel good if he can get it to the hundred I think he's gonna feel good about that if he if he goes down you know that's that's going to be a respectable respectable loss because it means that Eric and Alex put up a good show in their final final play yep and I don't think ergonomics have uh or Eric Alex uh I don't think they have progress towards the multiple Duty Eric I believe has one lock Alex and none okay okay safe that's good why are you going for ramps what are you doing come on I'm guessing that was a misfire I think he wanted yeah 10 million plus the mode he's gonna be and steal the stones it's a lot of Center shooting yep steal the stones is gonna be all this big because all right ramp how much is that right Ram how much is it worth nice good second ball lock the first one oh no first ball okay yeah at this point go for modes man I mean uh yeah yeah no he's he's playing well he is there you go it's got control can you pulse pass you can you can it's it's uh I think it takes a little you had to let it go down the flipper a little bit uh it's not gonna do it from uh full rest okay but it's uh it is possible okay at least good previously having played on this one in League it's it's definitely possible there okay so yeah he's uh looks like he's just trying to get some control here he is and I think his lock is lit so at this point just yeah I'm gonna shoot her up the middle anytime that middle shot is is open I'll go for it especially if you can get a trap on the on the right side yeah because it does seem I mean for all my missing it it does seem like pretty reliable shot everybody seemed to have a pretty good time with that yep so I say get it in there get it there you go oh tough rejection but it's okay I mean it's it's not a bad feed when when you kind of half in there nope all right let's see I think he's gonna go for it one more time on the flight no he went for mode he's got that mode shot really yeah that's good look video mode so this one he has to go left and right he's a little tough he's not he doesn't know the modes he told me he's like oh I don't know how to play this thing but all right just follow it don't worry try to survive it get some points there you go now it's gonna get faster wait wait for it it's still slow there you go now it's gonna get fast boom see you Jared all right all right so he got that one that's another 18 million that he's gonna add to his bonus too right right right so he's looking at like maybe a 150 right now maybe even more I'm thinking at this point he's uh he's getting a contender for Gene yeah and there's an arrow Escape it's it's great when you get the narrow Escape without really having to do much there another mode yeah he's this is nuts really doing it right now wow and that was a that went I I feel like that crossed the plane of the flippers and somehow just had the traction to stay up and it's paid wow and he is he's doing he's doing everything he needs to do right now right now he's doing it look at that that's another 10 million I say keep doing it keep going absolutely another two million there and I don't even know how close he is to the to the captive ball multiball too but at this point just keep hitting around I think he's got at least two hits left to that yeah that's right it's a crazy now you can tell that he's more relaxed because he's like you know what yeah I got this he's got the dead bounces going I got this just do not tilt yeah that's that oh my God tilting would be absolute suicide at this point look at that another mode this is amazing this is insane hit the captain ball honestly and he's just he is he is he's doing all the right things and he's getting the brakes when he needs them I mean a lot of bounces is just we are going his way and he's really capitalizing on it I'm thinking he's gonna have the the higher score among the two games right now because he probably has well over what 150 in bonus I it's got to be yeah yeah Joe the dragon saying lock a ball I think I think I think that's right Joe I mean at this point you know if he wanted to pump up the score a bit more yep I mean if that if that middle shot is open I mean well no it's not open though because it's blinking okay yeah yeah he got it yeah he got it open okay good that's ball two all right but now I would I think I will keep focusing on the mode though he's got six sick bonus yeah yeah I mean uh Grunwald I feel like that's okay that's okay that's okay let's see this bonus eternal life journal life there you go holy mackerel he gets back just in time what I don't think any of us were thinking that wow that was funny that was cool all right and I think he's going for modes again I think yeah he's going for modes again oh I like it that's awesome but he's got the multiball ready I think he's got the shots down well it's blinking I think when it's blinking that means that he's got uh it's here now that it's solid it's open oh I got you I got it yeah thinking that means that the target I see but now he definitely has to go for it he's got an opening at least yeah like he could sneak it in through that that right side just go for it just hit it I I mean I think he's not going for it he wants to go for the votes oh my God just go for the moon shots okay that's one oh and he's got the multiball ready for the captain ball let's see if you remember I told him about this if the green light is blinking you better hit and there he gets the regular alert yeah it's fantastic wow Kyle Smith and he's shaking his head and he's saying yeah I know whatever I'm getting lucky he's like a little bit better to be lucky than good yeah all right he'll get those back reset he said and now you can tell he's more relaxed his shoulders are a little bit less tense yeah and he's still getting mode progress there you go so the molds are are you sure the molds are still in he just finished the mode there uh or I mean it ran timed out but it's uh yeah I got one of the questions I had I didn't know that you can bring in the mode with them yes you can you can okay I think except for uh like Well of Souls right any multiball modes right right exactly okay and of course no video mode but I mean he's uh you got a shot at a 2X he's got a 2X uh jackpot right here one second do it super million jets that's okay all right so he's looking there he goes one more time no one more chance let's see right here he got it right here beautiful shot that's huge so that's gonna be what 80. that's gonna be let's see 64. all right 64. there you go he has cemented himself as moving on here I think absolutely he's got first I'm sure if he doesn't tilt he's gonna be in uh he's gonna have the highest score of the two groups right right he probably could just drain now and just rest on it rest on his his progress yes yeah he could because he already passed at least three people yep so there's another multiball so he is dialed in right now yeah just uh be careful not to tilt that's the only yeah even then even tilting though I mean at this point he's fine because he's got 226 million so he already passed Gene um right right he's through he's through he should be through yeah yeah I think the next step is to pass Jared and the next one will be um somebody did somebody get in the first group 300 million uh yes that was uh Jamie Jamie got the internet yeah and I think he actually even even with it yeah exactly yeah he's got like five bonus uh five mode collects that he's got in the bonus at this point he's one is going to be huge I don't know there's another one wow is he going for the wizard mode is that what he's doing just showboating there you go that's the one that I was telling me there you go shoot the people behind the bar I had to tell Jamie after he played his is hey uh you you gotta it's not a tapping one it's a holding you know turning the weapon it's uh it's not a tapping one because he was getting shot at so many times because he wasn't moving but now do you have to shoot the gun or no uh no no I think it's just automatically I could be wrong but I I so it's kind of like Terminator right exactly that's what I was telling Jamie is the exact same approach yeah he knew it that was a good choice let's see this bonus yeah he's got it very easily let's see high score 23 25 look at it look at look at that look at this stuff just 188 million miles Smith good job incredible work San Diego hits I gotta say next time I think you're gonna have a city champ I think we're gonna do like a party buses so many of us yeah we'll do a party bus and just to travel up here in that all right Mr Eric ooh trying to get too fancy okay and he's going for modes yep all right so at this point he's got a really beat player four but he doesn't know what play Four is going to do and other than that I mean you're looking at what 200 million ah so if you're looking at 200 million I don't know if I will go for just modes or if I would try to get a multiball right because yeah in group one it's 22 million 37 oh this is gonna hurt them now was he making progress there he was making progress he's going towards it so he he's got some points 45 minutes so he passed the first two in the first group yep yeah which was 22 and 35 you had 30 something right 37 yeah yeah so he passed you so now it's all on Alex here and yeah this is the advantage of being fourth place is it true that if Eric had just pulled the trigger he would have completed that mode because he pulled the trigger on the game and it shoots the guy and it gives you the mode I think so yeah how many points would that be 2 million 20 million something like if he's gonna lose by 2 million then he's gonna kick himself oh God so we'll find out Chad would know the minimum score for pulling the trigger on that uh oh it doesn't matter wow and it doesn't matter Alex oh my God he did come close that I I had a chance if Eric had a bad ball wow so I'm out but great job but Eric is in yep oh man how do you feel about that that's all right Eric over here so you can talk with you directly and say how do you feel about giving me uh you know honestly I I feel pretty good about my performance today having basically not flipped any pinball for two months so you know until I didn't even do any practice this morning so I feel like that's uh you know that's that's the way the game goes sometimes and I'll be happy to be full-time on the broadcast tomorrow with my with my companion here as Matt Henry was telling me you know the greats after they retire that's when they go into the announcing game so I think I I could take that uh take heart in the fact that I'm one of the greats definitely one of the greats I mean and your voice oh my gosh you got this broadcasting voice so he's like oh professional you know what do you think about my voice I'll go back to the union technical uh technical assistance job go over there this is darn it no we're kidding oh Rocco thank you thank you much for the for the nice comments good we'll we'll give you crop but sometimes get over here and get in the main tea though people can see you and stuff you know there he is um there's the man behind but that's day one in the book so we got our top 24 yeah you know Eric Eric just getting in by the the skin of his teeth and uh so we're gonna be starting up tomorrow I believe that uh we're gonna be getting underway with the uh the bottom 16 so the top eight get a buy yep uh bottom 16 of that group are gonna be gonna put it off are gonna be fighting it off I think we're gonna see them start let's take a take a look at the schedule here yep make sure everybody knows when to tune in tomorrow of course you'll always know when to tune in if you hit that follow button turn on the notifications for this channel for mystery pinball Theater 3000 but we are going to get started tomorrow I'm thinking 10 is the is 10 the cutoff for the it says players must check in with the tournament director no later than 10 30 a.m players with a buy can sleep in but must be checked in by 11 30 a.m check-in needs to be in person call or text message will not suffice so we're gonna have doors open here at free gold watch at 10. first round we'll begin at 11. yep and we'll have quarterfinals 12 45 semi's at 2 30 and the finals right around 4 15 with the awards ceremony at 6 p.m so please we got a full day of exciting pinball drama coming up and we're gonna have like a halftime show and all that kind of stuff yeah we'll see we're we're seeing if we can get the gold rush girls from the 49ers so there you go okay cool but we're uh we're gonna have a great time here we're also going to have if you're if you're in San Francisco you want to come down to the consolation attorney that is open to public so you can try to get some Whoppers there we'll be playing there that's right Whoppers it's all about Whoppers these highly leveled championship and circuit event and also thank you thank you fgw Andy for those hundred bits we really appreciate your support thanks to everybody who supported the broadcast today Manu Smith supported the broadcast by being the heart and soul of the broadcast so thank you so much to Mario all right are we done for today this guy right here yeah we're all done yeah I'm just letting people know the schedule for tomorrow so they know when to tune in of course I told them make sure to hit the follow turn on those notifications so that way you know exactly when we go live uh and then I think that's gonna be it so we're gonna have probably a rotating cast of characters coming through uh as we have more people knock out of the tournament or folks who are already knocked out who want to participate if you want to come back you're welcome to Johnny to help help with the commentary here can you believe it guys they're actually inviting me back I don't know man right I wouldn't but oh well you're officially invited back all right anyway folks all right I think we're gonna wrap this up here and uh if we might do a little cleanup here but thanks so much uh again thanks to everybody who tuned in thanks to Jared Garvey and Jean X Wong who are running this thing just like a well-oiled machine again it's awesome I mean we had a great time I mean and even for those that didn't qualify I mean it's still great yeah and by the way I mean this is the middle of August right yep and it's like 69 degrees outside I mean it's it's nice it's nice so if you want to escape 90 degree Carl Weathers come over here yeah there you go there you go uh well yeah well thank you so much Manu do you have a uh last word do you have any last words or you do a particular sign off or do you want me to throw it to like your exit video uh usually we say don't eat the bacon if it falls in the floor no we don't have anything I have nothing rule don't eat the bacon it falls on the floor that's my second rule I like bacon I know doesn't everybody no yeah if it falls our three gold watch definitely don't touch it that is taking up way too much well it depends if it falls in the paint or not you know you see all the paint all right all right well well thanks folks yeah thank you Johnny and thank you yeah yeah all right everything so absolutely all right take care bye guys Mecca love you have you checked your see you tomorrow [Music] Fly Me to the Moon and let me whatever see you tomorrow guys [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]
high confidence · Derek Lipkin identifies them: 'the tournament director for this one I think uh it's shared between Gene X Wong and Jared Garvey'
Top 8 finalists receive a bye until approximately 11 AM noon on Sunday before playoff play
high confidence · Derek Lipkin: 'if you're in the top eight you get to relax until I think closer to 11 o'clock noon before you have to get playing'
Indianapolis Jones has a tight tilt setup with earplug-equipped tilt bobs designed to make tilts settle faster
high confidence · Manu describes: 'The tilt pops here are very tight and they also use the um every tilt bob has an earplug in them and the reason for that is so that the tilts settle a lot faster'
Derek Lipkin is a commissioner of the San Francisco Pinball Department league alongside Andreas (Match Play Out Events), Mara Devereaux, and Russ Sweetzer, succeeding Paris Schwarzenberger
high confidence · Derek states: 'I'm actually one of the commissioners of that league along with uh Andreas who is the proprietor of Match Play Out Events...Mara Devereaux and Russ Sweetzer who are are we all took the mantle from Paris Schwarzenberger'
high · Tournament standings show tight competition in early rounds; Andre wins Tales of Arabian Nights in head-to-head play; Johnny Monica comes from behind on ball three to win Avengers Infinity Quest
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content_signal: Mystery Pinball Theater 3000 emphasizing personality-driven commentary over technical perfection; rotating guest commentators including Michael (content creator from Monterey area); emphasis on audience engagement via Twitch chat
high · Derek's statement about prioritizing personalities over technical bells and whistles; multiple on-air guest commentators; active chat integration throughout broadcast
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industry_signal: City Champ 9 adopts Pinburg-style 3-2-1-0 scoring in Swiss-format match play; represents movement toward standardized competitive structure across regions
medium · Derek explains scoring system as homage to defunct Pinburgh event: 'we are going to at least keep their scoring mechanisms' using 3-2-1-0 point allocation
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gameplay_signal: Indiana Jones game selected for qualifying round exhibits wide playfield, floaty ball action, tight tilt detection, mode play strategy vs. multiball strategy balance, and quick multiball opportunities via captive ball
medium · Manu provides detailed gameplay analysis: 'It's one of the floatiest games...tilt pops here are very tight...multiball from the captive ball way in the back...modes give you tons of points and bonus'
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licensing_signal: Stern Avengers Premium and Jurassic Park Premium machines had movie lobby assets disabled in favor of latest unaltered Stern code for tournament play standardization
high · Manu: 'we have a Jurassic Park Premium and we have a Avengers Premium and they were running the movie lobby assets the assets from the actual movies well of course to do a tournament you don't want that on so we have the latest uh unaltered Stern code on those games now'
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venue_signal: Free Gold Watch operates integrated business model combining pinball arcade with commercial t-shirt and poster printing; serves corporate clients including Stern Pinball
high · Derek describes visible print shop infrastructure on-air: 'it's actually a print shop so Free Gold Watch uh in addition to being the home of several pinball...we've actually got the screens for the shirt printing and the poster printing'