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2025 IFPA Kentucky State Pinball Championship

chuckwurt·video·5h 47m·analyzed·Jan 26, 2025
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TL;DR

2025 IFPA Kentucky State Championship tournament streaming live with 16 players competing in match play format.

Summary

Chuckwurt hosts the 2025 IFPA Kentucky State Pinball Championship at his venue in Independence, Kentucky, featuring 16 players competing in a best-of-seven match play format across 16 arcade games. The tournament is streamed on Twitch (sdtm_pinball) with commentary by Justin and Eric, covering game mechanics, tournament rules, player strategy, and competitive results in real-time.

Key Claims

  • Kentucky has lower tournament activity than states like Ohio, with Louisville being the primary tournament hub outside of Chuck's home events

    high confidence · Justin explained IFPA state seeding: Kentucky qualifies 16 players vs Ohio's 24, citing Kentucky's lower tournament activity

  • Chuckwurt runs approximately 200 tournaments per year at his house, representing roughly half of Kentucky's IFPA tournament volume

    high confidence · Justin stated 'you personally run at least 200 a year so that that gets us halfway there'

  • All state championships are streaming simultaneously, creating a 'NFL Red Zone' effect for pinball fans

    high confidence · Justin mentioned Ohio state championship streaming on neop_pinball and multiple other state championships happening at same time

  • Cheetah pinball at Chuck's venue received a complete restoration with new playfield, plastics, and cabinet from the ground up in the last year

    high confidence · Eric stated 'Jerry's amazing' for restoration work; Chuck confirmed 'Everything's new everything's new from the ground up Plastics and everything it literally didn't even have a cabinet'

  • Diamond Lady has a defective diode preventing the middle right drop target from registering, disabling the diamond hurry-up for all players

    high confidence · Chuck announced pre-tournament: 'the only thing goofy is going to be on diamond lady... one of the drop Targets on the right the the middle one on the right does not register it's got a bad diode'

Notable Quotes

  • “It's like NFL Red Zone people are jumping between state championships because they're all streaming at the same time”

    Justin@ 24:06 — Describes simultaneous multi-state championship streaming creating a sports-like fan experience

  • “Everything's new everything's new from the ground up Plastics and everything it literally didn't even have a cabinet”

    Chuckwurt@ 15:41 — Details complete restoration of Cheetah pinball machine by technician Jerry

  • “you personally run at least 200 a year so that that gets us halfway there”

    Justin@ 33:24 — Establishes Chuck Wurt's massive contribution to Kentucky's IFPA tournament infrastructure

  • “Kentucky is a much lower uh activity Louisville being pretty much the only spot that holds tournaments outside of the few that I run at my house”

    Chuckwurt@ 33:14 — Explains Kentucky's 16-player state championship cap vs Ohio's 24, attributing it to lower tournament activity

  • “there's no ball save on this bad boy so that's why it's it's kind of dicey”

    Justin@ 30:16 — Commentary on vintage/classic pinball game design lacking modern safety features, explaining quick ball drain scenarios

Entities

ChuckwurtpersonJustinpersonEricpersonChris JrpersonShawn DavispersonElizabeth GieskepersonWaynepersonJerrypersonJoshperson

Signals

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    event_signal: Multiple state championships streaming simultaneously on various platforms (Kentucky on sdtm_pinball, Ohio on neop_pinball), creating multi-venue broadcast experience

    high · Justin: 'I'd be curious since you're uh watching to know how many other streams are running right now I know neop pinball is doing the Ohio state championship'

  • ?

    operational_signal: Chuck Wurt operates approximately 200 IFPA-sanctioned tournaments annually, representing ~50% of Kentucky's tournament volume, with Louisville as only other significant hub

    high · Justin: 'you personally run at least 200 a year so that that gets us halfway there' and Chuck: 'Louisville being pretty much the only spot that holds tournaments outside of the few that I run at my house'

  • ?

    product_concern: Diamond Lady has a failed diode preventing middle right drop target registration, eliminating diamond hurry-up scoring opportunity for all competitors

    high · Chuck pre-tournament announcement: 'one of the drop Targets on the right the the middle one on the right does not register it's got a bad diode I didn't have the right ones'

  • ?

    design_innovation: Tournament machines feature no ball save mechanics, single tilt warning (on some), and bonus carryover between balls—design paradigms from solid-state era predating modern Stern safety features

    high · Justin: 'there's no ball save on this bad boy so that's why it's it's kind of dicey' and discussion of vintage EM/solid-state design philosophy vs modern machines

  • ?

    operational_signal: Tournament uses best-of-seven match play with alternating game selection (picker doesn't choose position), requiring manual result entry into Match Play software due to broadcast view limitations

Transcript

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1:56
all right everybody welcome welcome uh so Kentucky State pinball championships
2:06
welcome all right so uh just some few things I want to go over before we get started uh bathrooms we got one right by the front door we got one right above the kitchen so just go up the steps to the second floor right at the top of the steps uh anything you want in the fridge or Pantry whatever you need grab whatever you want we got another fridge down here got some Waters in a cooler over here thanks to uh who brought them Joe yeah thanks for bringing those uh Greg's got a bunch of jumbo upstairs thanks Greg for bringing that uh so yeah just let me know if you guys need anything uh let's see here oh I have extra pincinnati shirts upstairs if anybody wants to uh buy one let me know we got some of the uh not see which fathom ones and then the the punk rock ones so if you guys wanted any shirts let me know I also got some extra lanyards here in a little thing here if anybody wanted a lanyard feel free to take them uh game issues the the only thing goofy is going to be on diamond lady so one of the drop Targets on the right the the middle one on the right does not register it's got a bad diode I didn't have the right ones so basically you can never start the diamond hurry up so that big scoring opportunity it won't start for anybody so everybody's going to be playing the same game so you can still play multiball you can still do all the other stuff if you hit all the drop targets down the only way to bring them back up if you're still in your ball is to hit the stand-ups behind each drop Target bank if you hit all those down you'll get an award and then they all come back up so if you trying to work towards multi ball again that's what you need to do to get them back up and then you can relight your locks uh I did have Jerry tell me before there was one drop Target for the locks that that wasn't registering that's just a dirty switch issue so if it keeps happening I'll get in there and I'll clean it but uh but that should just be a minor issue and we'll get it fixed so if if you have all the drop targets down and your locks aren't lit it's probably because of that one drop Target so let me know don't keep playing you uh you want to get that multiball so I can get in there and make sure it registers and you can go about your business uh any other issues anyone noted on the games while they are practicing no awesome um okay so rules of the tournament we've C kind of go over we've gone over these online a little bit does anybody have any questions on how each rounds going to start how you're going to pick your games order all that kind of thing uh is everybody pretty pretty clear on that I won't blaber it because there's a lot to it a little bit but uh if you do have any questions like once you get going and it's not clear please let me know I have some printouts that people can read and that can help you I also have paper score sheets that please fill out when you start your matches the only other thing is after each one of your games of your match if you could please come over to the stream desk and tell us hey we just played game one here's who won uh we can keep match play up to date because I for whatever reason with this set up match play doesn't let you guys put in your end results so if you guys don't mind doing that as well uh each game if we have your match on stream don't worry about it we're obviously watching it so we can do it ourselves that way so don't worry about it there um the first matchup we're going to stream is Elizabeth and Sean so hopefully you guys are ready all right and then uh we'll just kind of we'll just kind of wing it from there we'll like rely on chat to tell us who they might want to see and then we might go there but if a match finishes early that we're streaming we might uh cut to your match uh Mido so please be patient there we're also going to do the motorial so if we are streaming your match just uh make sure you wait till the the motorial is done playing to start your your next game so outside of that we can go ahead and get started uh what we're going to do is is the first match we're going to get like we're going to like go down from seed one seed two uh all the matches in that order let them pick their games and get started if you do in your match if you're if your next game up or the next game you want to play is currently being played you can wait for it I do encourage you to pick another game that's not being played to keep things moving but I'm not too worried about time so if you really want to play that game in that moment and it's currently being played feel free to wait on it I'm not too concerned with that um any other questions on rules or issues or anything is the the stream is that on your thing or is that on Twitch or where is it it's on Twitch sdtm pinball so everything we do like at my house and you know pincinnati it's that same channel that we always use so I I posted to the Facebook group uh links to um match play and twitch so if people are trying to watch at home you can point them to that and they can um they can get those links that they want to to follow along and like I said we'll we'll keep match play updated as best we can so if people are just watching that they'll they'll get fairly real time updates as people are finishing so practice is over now thanks for the reminder so practice everyone gets a 30 second practice ball before they start a match but in between matches in between games please don't practice only do it in the moment when you're in a match because we don't want um you know people bothering like anybody else and just yeah just relax if you're not currently in a match and if you are in a match everybody gets 30 seconds of practice before each game so make sure you're taking advantage of that if you want it um anything else I just want to add on the practice you have to let your opponent know that you're practicing okay yeah just make sure it's completely clear that you guys are taking practice um I would just default to only putting a one player game on it you know because even if even if there was confusion on whether you're practicing or not it's not even a legal match right because you're only playing a one player game so just don't put two players on if you're practicing and should be pretty clear if people forget to tell each other that kind of thing so just be careful there a little bit everybody's cool here um so just um be mindful of that and make sure everybody knows you're you're taking practice balls things like that so all right if there's nothing else we will get the the first match going here so I believe it is Junior and Nathan right okay um all right so we got a sheet over here so if you guys wanna Junior if you want to put your names on there um and then you guys there spots to put the games you choose shut that off yeah it's all right um here's the group you can choose
Greg Knight
person
Kin Smithperson
Arcade Legacyvenue
2025 IFPA Kentucky State Championshipevent
Cheetahgame
Doctor Whogame
Bad Girlsgame
Diamond Ladygame
Hot Tipgame
Mandogame
Jungle Queengame
sdtm_pinballorganization
IFPAorganization

high · Justin explains: 'they'll alternate the person who picked the game does not get to pick the order the other player gets to pick the order' and Eric managing manual result updates

  • ?

    venue_signal: Cheetah at Arcade Legacy received complete restoration including new playfield, plastics, and cabinet by technician Jerry in the past year

    high · Chuck: 'Everything's new everything's new from the ground up Plastics and everything it literally didn't even have a cabinet'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Kentucky qualifies 16 players for state championship vs Ohio's 24, determined by IFPA point accumulation; qualification pool size correlates with state tournament activity levels

    high · Justin: 'in States like Kentucky if you're in the top 16 at the end of the year you get to play in the state championship... Ohio being one of the biggest states they get 24 participants'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Doctor Who requires players to master ramp looping for multiplier progression and select optimal doctor start (Dr 1, 6, or 7) based on video mode, multiball, or multiplier strategy

    high · Justin describes doctor selection strategy and notes: 'you have to learn the loop... you have to learn the loop um and I was never good at it and I just had to go to the arcade'

  • ?

    content_signal: Tournament broadcast uses custom Match Play integration with Twitch (sdtm_pinball), featuring live game selection tracking, motorola sponsor scrolls, and multi-camera setup

    medium · Justin and Eric discuss match play broadcast view limitations, manual result entry, and font/graphics management during stream

  • ?

    operational_signal: Tournament venue (Arcade Legacy) operates 16 machines in competitive condition, with one notable defect (Diamond Lady) accepted as known limitation for fair play

    high · Justin: 'there are only I believe 16 Arenas down here so only 16 games to choose from' and Chuck's pre-tournament machine condition briefing

    • 8:35
    so you guys are going to pick your games first uh Nathan gets to pick his first game first then it goes to Junior and back and forth till all three of you got all three of your games picked so when go first out like if I just want to pick out of group three or more yeah yeah you don't need to you can bounce around just make sure when you have your three picked that you've only picked one from each group so Nathan gets to pick game first his first of his three and TI Breer tie Breakers so if you do happen to need a seventh game the top seed in the group so Junior in this case if they're tied after six games he gets to pick any game from the three groups that they haven't already played in that match but you don't have to announce it in front right no no they like when it gets down to seven then you choose
    9:33
    okay Nathan picks hot tip for his first game now Junior's selecting his hello hello everybody we'll go back to the game picks here in a second but um I'm Justin and uh Eric and I are pleased to be with you all day we are in the picking part the game picking part of round one of the Kentucky state ifpa state finals the state championship series here in Independence Kentucky in Northern Kentucky and really pleased to be with you uh we'll be with you all day watching these amazing players uh decide who is the best pinball player in Kentucky in 2025 who is our champion so I'm going to go back to the bracket uh but stay tuned as everybody picks their
    10:20
    [Music] games oh my gosh is it that loud um here's the bracket that we're looking at yeah it looks like everybody's just in picking mode now so not much to look at on the floor but uh you can see our lineup here and the way that this is going to work is that they are going to pick six games total each player will pick three games and that is one from each group they're going to pick one each player gets to pick one game from each group they pick all six of their games before they start their first game and it's head-to-head so it's just the two players playing each game um and what they'll do is they'll alternate the person who picked the game does not get to pick the order the other player gets to pick the order or position um and then they will play those six games if if they happen to you know get to four games and you've had the same winner for every game obviously they don't need to move on to the next game if they get to all six games then they will play a seventh game and that game will be chosen at the time by the higher seated player so that's the basic skinny um and hopefully now last time when I did state championship series in Ohio last year it took like 25 minutes for people to pick games because they were there were so many games to choose from at Arcade Legacy there are only I believe 16 Arenas down here so only 16 games to choose from so hopefully this will go relatively quickly um we can also take a look at our players right here and um you can see where everybody is seated so uh you can see Chris Jr is first seed here we go we'll get that ordered correct correctly um yeah you can see Chris Jr is first seed second seed is kin Smith third Greg Knight then Tim Ellis Josh ashbery Joe Embry Shawn Davis Gary O'Brian Matt pce Elizabeth geki Heath Ashley Chris DT and let me see if I can scroll you down here it may may not let me it won't let me uh Jeremy Ryan Justin Ryan Willie Allen Nathan Brandt and Tim Faircloth after that that is our seeding order Tim is not playing today I'll take that back was in the list but not playing today so that is our 16 players and you'll have to tell me if our transition is way too loud but if I go back to the bracket I can show you as they're picking their games who's playing who there you
    12:54
    go I believe that Eric told me our first match that we're going to watch on stream will be Shawn Davis and Elizabeth GE so they're making their picks and we will enter scores or sorry we will enter winners manually as we
    13:15
    go let me take a look at our cam as people are starting to they're getting ready there are practice balls available so each player is entitled to 30 seconds of practice you know try out a plunge a couple of flips uh you get one one uh chance to practice before each game for 30 seconds per player okay cheetah it is we're going to start with Shawn and Elizabeth on cheetah and let's take a look at a motorial for
    13:53
    cheetah can you outrun the cheetah of cheetah pinball please note this game is on updated code okay when you plunge the ball typically want to drop in the pops here so you can get these drop targets up top those drop targets will increase your Endo ball bonus multipliers right here up to 5x also going around the Playfield you will see this collect bonus Lane on the left this is very valuable in order to light that lane you have to hit the Five bank drop Targets in the middle down in order you have to do that twice once you do that the collect bonus Lane will light for one collect after you've collected it you need to hit down the Five bank two more times to relight that after you've lit the collect bonus Lane with the five Bank other awards are given to you as you complete it more times the next time it will max out your bonus the next time after that it will light the extra ball spinner Lane up top here which is worth points after that it will light the special Lane over here to the right which is worth points as well this Lane over to the right if you ever land in here will also spot you a Target in the middle drop Target Bank you can also spot those with the in Lanes right over here next the Grid in the top right if you hit down these drop targets up here it will and you make make a tic-tac-toe three in a row line you will get various Awards you can light the left spinner you can light the right spinner you can light the top extra ball turnaround spinner or you can light the special Lane over here finally the drop Targets on the right will advance your bonus and give you bonus X if you keep dropping them down so the key of the game is get your bonus and your bonus X all the way up and collect the collect bonus Lane for 500,000 points that's cheetah yeah bud that's cheetah and I get to sit next to Chuck word himself all right that familiar voice your cheetah is the prettiest cheetah I have ever seen you put a brand new Playfield on it this last year it's all new everything's new everything's new from the ground up Plastics and everything it literally didn't even have a cabinet wow wow really yeah Jerry's amazing Jerry is amazing you know one thing that's fun about that menorial is that you you were in the middle of putting the Plastics on yeah right it was half yeah so this was half there this people were confused on why there were open holes in the Playfield that's why all right so the uh the matchups we'll see if those work this is kind of a new thing I think match play did for us today and we'll see how this works here oh I need to start tering that'll probably help put my phone down oh here it is and you can see our sponsors scrolling at the at the bottom so we'll talk about our sponsors here in a little bit you can see those on the screen so Shawn Davis up first
    16:31
    yeah so I got pictures of the games that they chose so we can talk about those in a minute here fantastic uh let's see here Sean is Off to the Races as is our state championship here in Kentucky Independence Kentucky the heart of Kenton County is what the sign said on the way in I trust the sign so let's see here um don't want to miss those sweet cheetah sounds
    17:07
    folks might be wondering about our grass theme you're the blue State everybody that's watching Everybody hanging out you're an honorary member of the Bluegrass State today everybody bleeds blue today welcome to Kentucky that's right and you are now our official uh ifpa rep for Kentucky right yes yes um not not sure it be permanent but yeah I'm helping out this year and and definitely so we'll see what happens who was the previous rep uh Wayne oh Wayne yeah awesome so yeah not sure what
    17:43
    uh what we need to be doing here to to officially start the tournament yeah started but I'm just trying to see why the broadcast view isn't shown us anything I we can select games but obviously this thing does we can't tell this thing who's playing what game oh okay well I can tell every we might need yeah we might just need to uh keep some on the Fly results here but um yeah so we'll figure it out later if we uh but yeah so the games that Shawn and Elizabeth are have picked so the games that Shawn picked were hot tip cheetah and Mando okay Elizabeth picks Stars bad girls and Doctor Who okay and they'll be alternating correct so Shawn decided to go on his games first so that means he picks the game and then Elizabeth chooses position now no matter what happens on this game uh Elizabeth will pick the next game you alternate people's banks game by game by game so it doesn't matter if you win or lose the game uh if you didn't pick the game The Last Round you're going to pick the game the following round and she can pick from any of her three choices she doesn't have to pick the same bank that he picked yeah correct she can go anywhere she wants uh we're allowing people to wait on games if they need to today uh I've encouraged them to think about picking an open game if there is one but uh they don't have to so that's a a tough ball for big Center drain a lot of those like kind of little dinky shots through this the spinner they can be nasty coming back out of there yep yep yep we uh we might see some ones too if you come out of this horseshoe kind of real lazy too that can send it we saw that uh in previous tournaments for sure let me close this up so ball one done and a really short ball for Elizabeth um Sean got a little bit more done and you can can see some carryover from ball one to two there we've got drop Target already down and we've got the second drop Target award lit yes so the the bank in the middle does keep your progress Bank up top does not Bank up top does not but let's say you hit down that bank enough there you go like he just did the progress that so if he completes a bank that 2x will be lit on his on his next ball as well yeah so let's say he hits it again he'll actually get 2x bonus that'll light up down here and that will stay the rest of the ball while your base bonus sets your X holds and you have to drop it twice to get that first award right correct yeah like there all the lights were out at first he hit them down now the 2x is lit and we hits them again he'll actually get the 2x yep schnet what's up man thanks for the for the sub hell yeah there's a lot of pinball to watch today all the state championships are happening at the same time if you're if you're an NFL fan this is like NFL Red Zone it is just jump between every game 12 hours of uninterrupted pinball for two days You' got Women's Championship tomorrow yep all right we got our first result in here we got uh let's see here Josh beat Chris on Jungle Queen all right okay so we'll put that into match play that was a quick game and as you said these games are set up super hard this is a state championship um so they're going to go pretty quick best of seven sounds like it's going to take forever it does not it likely won't we may have long games on a couple Mando or Game of Thrones but uh you're going to see some short games too especially on the EMS guys you can follow schnet lead too and sub via your Prime Amazon Prime membership on Prime gaming um you can even uh that's how you get a free sub every month so there was a difficult feed he let it go cuz it was going to go anyway and very solid B too yep and you saw Shawn shoot he lit and then collected that collect bonus on the left which is just so valuable yep it can get really high up there especially if you've got your multiplier up and and once you collect that that bonus on the the left door but you got to make sure and go through all your drops again to be able to relight it another tough ball I mean she was she was nudging to try and keep it in play and just refused to our out Lane's cut off on the screen there but it's over there we just we just got proof of
    21:56
    it all right so Sean's starting ball three just wants to put as much distance as possible he obviously has no idea what's going to beat Elizabeth so he just wants to keep padding those stats so you can see here he lit he got to 3x bonus on his previous ball so he's got it ready but his base bonus is uh he's got to build that back up this was I mean an amazing period in Stern's history right and they were still kind of following em rules a little bit where bonus on a game like this meant everything the difference was unlike an em you could carry over from ball to ball carry over ball to ball so carryover stuff was uncommon On Em unless it was a single player wasn't really you couldn't really do that I don't know if any multiplayer games where it has carryover features but yeah uh carrying over bonus oh almost got oh man he was going for it that was a big deal when solid States hit the market was now it could remember stuff oh
    22:58
    yeah get it get it nice little uh grab there he was digging and kept it in play oh yeah uhoh uhoh great tip off the right yeah with that 3x bonus he's got in the tank he's just wanting to keep advancing bonus yep no and he kicks it over his own that jumped up his bonus a little bit more so he got an extra probably 10 15K from from that out lane
    23:23
    yep all right let's hope Elizabeth gets a little better shot at this one she had an immediate Center drain on her first ball and then a left out lane drain after some nudging on her second maybe she'll get a chance to actually play this one out a
    23:38
    bit yeah this game this game will let you nudge the the Tilt is not very tight you got to kind of give it hell to to lose there yep the other thing about these games that is similar to EMS that preceded them is that they have no ball save so you can just plain lose your ball see play hot tip you can plunge and just
    23:59
    plain and then prector you are exactly right your score approximately people are like he said it's like NFL Red Zone people are jumping between state championships because they're all streaming at the same time I'd be curious since you're uh watching to know how many other streams are running right now I know neop pinball is doing the Ohio state championship we've got some friends up there how many other state championships are streaming right now actually we should probably wait 2 hours when the west coast is on too and then then see shant game one on cheetah yep a score of 1.2 million Elizabeth 271,000 I see we left uh I forgot to change the font here from our our pinti I don't really know how to do that so I was like I'll try and do the colors that's all I got I dig it I like it well let me put something else up there while he is managing games oh my
    25:05
    gosh so that one's going to go to Shawn over Elizabeth that was just game one of this best of seven each round will be a best of seven so lots and lots of pinball to
    25:23
    watch well I'm getting our fonts a little Kier here in the blue grass State there we
    25:37
    go you are tuned in one of what I'm sure are many state championships right now but this happens to be the Kentucky State Championship Bad Bad Girls is next so thanks for tuning in here is Bad Girls menorial
    26:21
    what's craping and everybody let's learn some Doctor Who okay to start off you have a choice between one of seven doctors most players will choose one of Dr 1 Dr 6 or Dr 7 starting off with Dr one Dr one makes video mode easier to qualify you qualify video mode by hitting these Escape standups right here or by hitting the ball back into the pops dropping it into the scoop behind the standups to get progress towards video mode Once video mode is lit you hit it back into the pops area if it drops into that scoop you start video mode which is one flipper for short jump two flippers for long jump can be worth big points if you get through lots of video modes with a 4X Playfield multiplier Playfield multipliers are increased by the upper ramp you shoot the ball up to this dead end Lane and loop it around the ramp here each time you do it will advance your Playfield multipliers in the middle of the Playfield if you have doctor 6 it will make advancing your Playfield multipliers much easier players will also Loop this ramp 10 times to start the sonic boom mode which will light the W shot into the H shot into the O shot for a three shot combo worth up to 120 million points if you have 4X Playfield multiplier if you choose Dr 7 that makes getting to multiball easier you lock a ball in each saucer up top the time expander will raise revealing a bank of targets here to shoot at which each time you hit them will fill up this grid of Lights in front of them if you have Dr 7 you have to it takes less shots to complete that grid and raise the time expander once again to reveal three Windows once you shoot one of those three windows multiball will begin the three windows will reveal themselves again during multiball and each time you hit all three that is a jackpot worth an increasing amount of points that is also multiplied by your
    28:23
    play that was all of a sudden it technical difficulties there sorry you guys aren't going to be able to know what the last couple seconds the doctor who were like I'll fix that later that's all we'll call we'll call these players uh they're giving us a tutorial so they're taking their practice balls right now every player gets 30 seconds of practice before each match should they want it yep there's a lot of different uh doctors to choose from what's your doctor strategy my doctor strategy is play the whole game I try to get enough Loops to get my multipliers up then I either if I'm feeling froggy keep going Loops for booms but then I got those multipliers waiting for me to do multiball and get big colle from that and video mode big collect from those if you can get through a full set of waves on video mode with multipliers up it's it's a really good um really good points so yeah I I've learned that some results oh nice I've learned that uh you do have to learn to get that multiplayer up you do have to learn the loop whether you want to or not you have to learn the loop um and I was never good at it and I just had to go to the arcade and spend a lot of time practicing the loop cuz that's how you get points big points if you want to win tournament games on Doctor Who so so as Eric is collecting results we will watch
    29:42
    Elizabeth so she has already done her practice ball she is selecting it looks like Dr 6 to start with which uh helps you get that Playfield multiplier up which we were just talking about I also tend to start with Dr 6 until I want my multiball strategy because I failed at my other strategy and I go for is it seven or one I can't remember who the multi doctor is oh no Elizabeth oh no oh no that was way too fast huh she mean yep she got a bad bounce no ball save on this bad boy so that's why it's it's kind of dicey a lot of people like to go right for those Loops off the uh off the plunge here and get up here but if you if you Biff you're out it's it's tough yeah she had a little sling a and then out to the left out lane and no no saving
    30:37
    that I believe multiball Doc is Dr 7 he goes for he goes for his extra Escape letter he goes for Doctor one yes correct so anytime he hits that escape bank it's going to give him a letter and if he goes into a hole in the back like he just did it gives him two letters when it normally only gives you one and so he he's wanting to get video mode lit pretty clearly here yep wow mod he's making it look way easier video mode can be really lucrative in this game some video modes are throwaways this is not one of them so so if he goes in there naked meaning he has no multipliers he's going to get about he's going to get about 8 n million per video mode um completion but what what what's better about video mode is it's spotting you a doctor completion each time you complete a wave so you're getting all those Powers if you go through one wave you got all the doctors and now you're good for the rest of the game oh that's really nice yeah yeah if you can do it that's great I can get through the first video mode maybe the second but after that they get harder and harder yeah Elizabeth is off to a rough start but there's it's only it's only ball two there's more pinball to play and it could turn around at any
    31:46
    second with only 16 players in the competition you you get to hopefully you guys will get to see a little bit of everybody today and you should see all the games so you might be familiar with some of these games from from the nky pinball uh open from the nky open uh so a few games are different like I have a jackpot now uh that might have be the only one I SW in yeah there's a jackpot next to Doctor Who so that's probably my newest one what am I doing in this chair I want to go play jackpot yeah I'll be back we need to play better in Kentucky throughout oh yeah that's right I have to earn my way over that yeah yeah let's talk about how somebody ends up in a state championship yeah so uh every ifp sanction tournament you play in a state you will accumulate points within that state and in States like Kentucky if you're in the top 16 at the end of the year you get to play in the state championship some states that have a lot more activity a lot more tournaments they will allow 24 players to play in those state championships Ohio being one of the biggest states they get 24 participants instead of 16 yep yep yep I was wondering that same thing how is it the number of tournaments yeah it's like you got to run over 400 tournaments you got to have so many unique players so it's like it it's basically recognizing the fact that it's much harder to make the fins of this state so we're allowing 24 instead of 16 uh Kentucky is a much lower uh activity State Louisville being pretty much the only spot that holds tournaments outside of the few that I run at my house you know so there's a lot less activity in Kentucky that's why there's only 16 I mean you personally run at least 200 a year so that that gets us halfway there big Mo how did we not get a tilt on that uh so I had this game only set to one tilt warning for a reason and that being so you can give it hell and it's only going to give you one yep does does it have a timer on it like a like a modern Stern does uh it's got debound set like literally no matter how hard you move it on one I've never gotten two dangers that's why I dropped it down to only one danger I don't know what the deal is with it all right everybody gets one free
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    save but there is no uh ball save on this one so that's that's part of the trade-off it's certainly not an easy game he just gives you one tilt
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    warning thank you for the good lucks and I will pass them along to our players if you got anybody you're rooting for I will pass that along too and some of them actually watch The Stream in between games or check in on the stream so they might be checking in on chat as
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    well here comes that video mode he's going to be using his flippers to uh jump jump over he's going to short jump is one flipper both flippers will be a long jump like that angel couple of shorts a long and he easily makes it back into the Tardis he's going to pick up 8
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    million all right got some results in so if you were watching on Match play we could maybe put the uh match play up in up in chat here oh yeah and then can fall I didn't pin it though but I did put it in there oh is that it right here okay so let's just pin that it wouldn't let me pin I don't know why stupid internet come on internet um okay yep so for whatever reason twitch isn't letting us pin that we'll check in on the bracket here in a minute and the bracket should show wins and losses right uh correct yeah it won't it won't show at least from what I'm seeing it's not showing what game people have played uh but it will show you at least who's currently uh in the lead awesome he gets a lock on the right which means we're starting multiball and he's on and he already used his danger right he's still on that same ball or uh I think or ball one no that was ball two okay gotta so he's just he's living that was the world's fastest multiball yep but he can lock his balls back up in the eyeballs up there and restart it
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    4 and he's going to blow it ah you blew it that was it all right started them all and lost them
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    all oh the power in Lane getting the love oh got a loop he got two oh the little Ricochet yeah you pointed this out earlier but you'll see a lot of players who start with loops Sean kind of played everything else first and started worrying about his gotta yeah I I kind of like to build a little bit of a base before I start risking the biscuit for the big time points y but um yeah so he he's kind of playing the game how I typically like to start but there's still some players that like I have my upper Flipper on this game set in a way that it makes the side Loop a lot harder MH so players just aren't defaulting to Loops all day anymore they kind of have to think about it now CU it's not a gimy to to hit that yep I'm really glad you did that too cuz we've seen games in the past and on other ma where everybody's looping 30 times in a row they hit their they' done 150 or whatever and then some other players got 90 and this is like all right there's other parts to this game this game's better than that but Loops are cool but yeah there's other parts to the game all right this is Elizabeth's chance to so she went with catch up do two which is uh I believe yeah that shot that she just kind of rattled there on um it's the shot that feeds the upper flipper knives robotica thanks for that highlight and I agree hit that follow y'all so Elizabeth already has Dr 7 I have a light out here you can see the Seven's kind of flashing but that should be on right now cuz she she's got the do 7 power you can always look on the back box uh right here so you can tell what what doctors they've already completed or have and as you collect doctors and complete them you're holding on to those Powers those powers are stacking now the doctor you pick at the start of your ball you're able to switch that doctor after you lock balls so that doctor's not locked in yet now if you do other things during that ball to lock in that doctor you might have it but you don't necessarily have that doctor locked in already when you switch to another one game two is going to go to Shawn Davis okay Shawn Davis off to a hot start here yep so he can he can uh plunge away ballor who he gets one of these walkoff baby how about a walkway win for Shawn
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    Davis you know knives I need to look and see if I have ever beaten either of these guys in attorney I've certainly played them a lot yeah I've lost a whole bunch to both of them yeah did you know you can see your record against individuals in match play yes it's it's so fun well you can do it on ifp's website too it's awesome and also terrifying depressing sometimes like my Keith Ln record I think he's like 45 and0 against me or something yeah yeah my Jesse Baker record is like 160 and two I am not doing well against
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    Jesse my daughter is 15 and she will forever brag that she one time won one game against Carlos deor Shera she will forever talk about the time she beat it in a
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    tournament that looks like one big score but it's not all right let's see where we're going for game three we're following sha and Elizabeth here in round one but uh let me take a look well he needs to tell me where we're going and then we'll take a look at our brackets and motorial and all
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    [Music] that where are we going we're going next door no we're making
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    choices where are we going Eric thank you we're going to Mando everybody let's learn how to play some
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    Mandalorian this is the way let's learn some Mandalorian pinball all right start off the bat I recommend plunging all the way around here by holding the left flipper and then hitting the up down ramp and then it comes back to the left flipper and then you hit the right ramp and then you have the option of hitting the center left ramp or scoop to either light the next razor Crest mode encounter or start a mission to start Mission they are right here you can change the mission with this target right right here you can either for your first two missions just hit the scoop over and over and over again till they start and after that you got to hit the ramp to light the scoop to restart missions encounters easy peasy just hit the left ramp until it goes up into the helmet hit hit it around a bunch of times to complete your encounters Razer crust multiballs just hit up the center a bunch until you light the Razer Crest multiball you'll see here at start of the game two is lit to change which one's lit you hit these targets over here to change it to one or three after that you got Hunter modes over here hit these targets three times to light your in lane for Hunter mode switch that with the flippers once it starts you have to hit the opposite or Orit and then the then the other orbit lights then you hit that and you get Hunter mode completed and you get a bunch of bestar bestar is spent at The Foundry right here you hit here and then once you're in The Foundry you get a bunch of different Awards those Awards can be anything from relight encounters light heel whistling Birds to collect mission Shot edab ball multiball all kinds of stuff okay Playfield multipliers real quick these are right here you start one Playfield multiplier by hitting these targets to the right you light another Playfield multiplier by completing a hunter mode you like the third one by completing this scope mode you like the scope mode by hitting these three blue arrow shots over here to the right once you hit all three of those scope light the Left End Lane you hit the Left End Lane then hit one of those blue shots again you have completed scope and you will light the third Playfield multiplier over here other multiplier rules you have a flamethrower on your center button to start the game it's orange if you hold that button it will light all the major triangle shots on fire and make them all worth 2x other multiplier rules you can hit these Targets on either side of the right ramp to make the right ramp worth 2x use your imagination to combine Playfield multipliers with flamethrower and the right ramp multipliers to get massive points people like to do this in multiball other things to light heal these are this is the left and right right outlane saves that can be changed with your flippers you can do that by buying them in The Foundry or getting it from the mystery Awards up here at the child that's Mandalorian I have never heard you talk so fast oh baby wow was a lot to explain in two minutes you you got to get through what's crazy is Manda was when I started uh so we're joining a game in progress right here this is Justin Ryan and and Greg Knight they're on uh ball two I believe oh okay great and uh after this match we'll we'll resume with with Shan and Elizabeth so awesome I believe Greg is down 1 Z to uh Justin so Greg's trying to win this game and get it get it knotted up here but when I did the tutorial for Mando this was when I uh found out that you can edit videos so when we first started doing them I was like all right I got to do this perfectly in 2 minutes so I did so Game of Thrones is probably my my favorite one because I did it no editing under 2 minutes and got it done yeah that was pretty impressive I was sitting there editing this one and I was like do I hear edits in there yeah oh that's cool actually the the AI on the program I use is pretty good it it automatically uh filters out all the the uh the you know gaps in the sounds and things so just kind of seamlessly puts everything together it's a little choppy but it's it's not terrible all right and it looks like more are coming in so Greg's a little bit behind here starting ball three and he doesn't just need to get ahead adjust here he needs to put some distance so that Justin doesn't catch him so see what Greg's got he's no stranger to my games but he also doesn't like playing them Greg's taking a pinball stretch you got to stay limber folks you got to stay limber it's an athletic sport you know you guys have results coming in oh yeah
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    awesome goes for a center Shot misses it there a lot of people will start out go and just go Center so that they can light razor Crest and get their multiball um so I don't know if he had done a previous multiball or not I didn't look oh no and he tilts out trying to keep it on the right flipper unable to do so tilts out my goodness that is a loud machine you guys will have to let us know how we're doing on uh sound balancing hopefully you can hear us and the Machine I know that the transition sounds are a little loud my apologies uh uh for that but nothing I can do to fix it they are adorable
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    though he's given it a second to calm down and frankly I don't blame him um you do get a minute I think per ifpa rules between your player the other player's ball and your ball so you do get time to let it calm down take a breath take a stretch I I often encourage players especially those who are not super turn tournament experien to take a deep breath before you plunge that ball take one good deep breath and exhale before you plunge that ball it can make all the difference take that mental reset
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    yep for as for as fun and you know Carefree of a hobby as pinball can be when you're in tournament sometimes sometimes you get worked up sound is good thank you Shannon we're honored to have uh 26 viewers right now given that there are uh 75 pinball streams happening at the same time all the state championship series oh my gosh not going to do it this I don't know what his benus is but it's normally small if you have a quick ball wow Greg takes it look at that that's what Greg needed some some love from the pinball gods and he got it he he sure did he was disappointed in that third ball and uh he still managed to
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    win so our next match will be Shawn and Elizabeth same same game we just joined a little bit but let me show you what our matches look like right now o those are the pincinnati ones you probably don't care about that bracket yeah how about this one that's awesome that's the first time I heard that transition noise yeah it's a little loud but uh all right so yeah here's here's the scores we're looking at right now Nathan over Junior 2 to one Gary and Matt tied at one Tim up just one game Josh up by two over Chris to wit nothing reported from kin and Willie yet Shawn is up over Elizabeth I have a feeling kin and Willie and Joe Embry and Heath are not following my instructions no they're not reporting as they go so we might not know until they're done yeah well it'll be a big surprise uh and then you just saw uh Greg Knight actually catch up to Justin so that's one to one so let's get to our game Elizabeth leads us off
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    so not sure how Elizabeth's going to play it but I can maybe guess and say she's going to get multiball ready starter mode which is ready on the scoop and then combine M what was that okay they're just practicing oh okay okay well this I was wondering what she she was doing some goofy stuff oh yep only one player so that was cool though that was a fun little dig yeah that's the pinball equivalent of a card trick you know mhm
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    all right man well I don't know when you're ready but I'm ready I got beers over here is it beer o clock I I don't know man but it is for me it sure feels like
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    [Music] it beer o'clock came several times last night so I may wait to push to beer 30 all good man
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    [Music] all right he's going to start a mission deceive the magistrate and he also happens to know that the cut scene is uh 11 years long so he can take a
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    [Music] walk and then you got to wait for it to drain so that your practice ball is over you might notice if you're wondering is this the practice ball or is this the game usually on a practice ball you start one player that is
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    all so if you if you see two scores up then even if they're zeros it's probably not a practice game yeah so we we we talked about that in the P I think I may have been on stream talking about it so we're just telling people uh it's been unclear in the past whether someone's practicing or not but what I said was a a valid match hasn't started until the correct number of players are on it so just start a one player game so even if they were thinking they were starting their game or whatever the match doesn't count anyway so yep that's a great way to do it cuz it you're guaranteed you're not going to mess it up cuz it was never a valid game it's a little tougher on single player em but yep I don't I don't anticipate odds and evens being picked too many times today you don't think it's going to be top of the P I tell you what bad girls is the is the hot item right now every want every score I'm putting in is from Bad Girls really yeah and they're going quick I mean I don't blame you that game's amazing yeah it is Boom okay so again back to what I was saying before Oh baby yeah yeah he's out deal sorry bud yuck so as you can see my Mando doesn't let you do too
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    much this is Eric's basement you are in Chuck Worth's arcade who's Eric with a c I've never met him yeah I don't know who that is Eric with a K though I'm the much this is Eric with a K's basement the much cooler way to spell it but yeah yeah we uh like I said I run a few tournaments here every year and uh was lucky enough and people were willing enough to most these players are from Louisville so they all drove around hour and a half to get up here so appreciate everybody's willingness to travel a little bit so we can do this get everybody on stream and a little more fun that way so [Music] sure all right Elizabeth is due here let's see what she's got there was a fantastic interview with Ken Gunther this week on 700 W I'll see if I can find it and link it but it was about how state championship series works and why play Pinball and what it's like to to go to a state championship but my favorite part of the interview was your basement reminded me of it when they said the interviewer said do you have a pinball machine and he goes no I have 17 yeah yeah right and then talking with Ken afterwards at least with some of the collectors around here that's kind of like the average yeah yeah oh only 17 I see yeah but yeah that's always uh the thing I like telling people cuz like their eyes just light up like are you kidding me that's a that's a tough feed and it's normally fairly safe out of there if she was if you just do what she had been doing Y and that one time it just that's the nature of pinball it doesn't do exactly the same thing every time I think it kind of Hit the knuckle and killed some of the the momentum on it just so Shan with the unfortunate tilt Elizabeth with a little misread you know kind of similar unfortunate ball ones yep so nobody's nobody's dominating this one these guys got scores to put
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    one prospector that's the way to do it when the kids move out where' you get T and maybe you're not paying for college you can start in you
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    know my daughter will be so disappointed 25 when she goes to college and comes back to find her room full of pinball machines I'll leave a cot out in the
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    middle all right so this is the mode you saw him start in practice now he's actually going to play a deceive the
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    magistrate he uses his flamethrower so now his critical shots are going to be on fire and he's playing playing a multiball it's a great choice it's a great choice so Pirates multiball along with deceive the magistrate along with flamethrower big points can be big points all shots are 2x all lit shots are
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    2X and you can see those shots flickering the fire the orange fire color uh that expired so I think his flamethrower maybe is done
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    uh he's got some flamethrower shots he's still got some L there they are so flamethrower shots he's got two left they're on the right there he collects one of them how long does your flamethrower last if you're not hitting those shots uh until you hit them or oh they stay on yep they cool I thought they were now it's kind of tough sometimes to tell if you actually have another shot on there that you want to you know like right now you can tell that one has a green shot on it too cuz it it it you see the green every once in a while like within the Flames but so it's kind of tough to tell like cuz sometimes you know there's just nothing on the shot and all it is is flamethrower see yep yeah you hit it 2x but there's nothing there almost had the backand on that one boy get it boy oh you had I see what's kind of interesting is you have a grace period so like that Super Jackpot turned off and the ramp kind of went away but he could have hit it through that horseshoe real quick and it still would have given it to him still still gotten it yeah but he either didn't want to risk it or didn't know no probably didn't want to risk it cuz this game's nasty is that the horse shoe shot or is that the ramp shot so it's it's both so the ramp will come down and then it'll go loop-loop and come back to the flipper or it goes up and it does a horseshoe underneath yep yeah this is one of the games I've spent the least amount of time on you have a choice I don't know why I maybe cuz I don't I don't know the property or something I don't know it's
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    strange all right Sean makes a choice from The Foundry he picks himself up a smart bomb smart bombs super helpful when you're in a mission especially if there is a shot you just can't seem to make or is too dangerous to try [Music] for yeah so Sean I'm not sure he selected from The Foundry but I assume he got whist smart bom smart bomb yep so he from what I understand his strategy likes to be is he's going to play the mode normal and if he gets into trouble or drains he's going to use that whistling bird to get the rest of whatever mode shots he's got left now unfortunately he was in a mode that isn't super valuable unless you're able to combo shots and have a bunch of multipliers going but those whistling Birds to spot mode shots can be great on some of them where it just kind of Lights everything and yeah it's it be real good does it complete all mode shots all lit mode shots yeah depending on the mode and what you have going on he was in a mode where kind of only one shots ever lit so not a huge thing but he oh dang his Hunter turned off scope so he's in Hunter right now he needs the left orbit to get Hunter done get another multiplier rocket yeah I was going to say that scope will will drive his multiplier up right uh right but the scope's turned off since he turned on Hunter so that'll come back on once he's done Hunter but if he can hit this left orbit he'll be done with Hunter scope will be lit again and then he could get I mean he could be in real real good shape here if he can get that left orbit not too bad huh kid we haven't seen a ton of activity on the um encounters yet no they really people kind of save them for last because they're not enough points and if they get into jail then they just kind of grind them it's really kind of just there's there's really nothing there for you yeah not a lot of value unless you can get to the wizard mode and and people don't try and do that until they have to
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    yep she's going to give it a second so great ball from Shawn there really strong 158 on ball two really strong he get picked up what 44 million alone just on the multiball use those multipliers well use that flamethrower to great effect uh Elizabeth now has that flamethrower just waiting for her to cash in and again the the the play is usually start aote start multiball and or start your multiplier start multiball and uh then use that flamethrower to drive that multiplier up shot multiplier up too
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    Elizabeth gesi a programmer for Stern Pinball she's currently working on the new Dungeons and Dragons game oh that's exciting isn't it I haven't gotten to see one yet but the first game she worked on was Jaws uh I believe she has finished up the items she's working on Dungeons and Dragons and then she's moving on to a new game which we have no idea what it is but very cool that a local Kentucky player Enthusiast is working for the biggest manufacturer in the world and help making their games amazing yep and in case you're wondering friends no she doesn't tell us anything either she doesn't tell me until she's allowed to Y uh but yeah it's really exciting yep actually she I'm hoping she invites me over to play her D and D game she's got one at home that she's been using to test oh really yeah when when does when do they ship it's it it has started shipping yet but they do the limited editions first now so I believe sometime later this month the L will start and then I think they said Pros early February mid-February and then premiums by the end of February so pretty sweet pretty sweet indeed ah dang yeah she's kind of biffing everything Inon also just a tremendously nice human being oh yeah she's awesome so she got a little something going there but really unfortunate that multiball could have been a lot better um yeah just Elizabeth's having trouble getting going here yep we got one ball to play and every game's a ball three game so she could turn it around here but Sean's certainly out to a strong lead at 158 to her
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    35 I agree with you Darkstar Jaws is incredible I love the code I really like the layout I love the code uh you just have to read the entire manual before you start because it's it's a complicated one it's like Star Wars It's a complicated one yeah L there Elizabeth's contributions to that game were really great she did excellent work a lot of the mode rules some of the mini wizard mode stuff and and I believe the next game she works on while she's kind of helped here and there on a couple games but not from start to finish I believe this next game from what she's telling me she's going to get to be on it from start to finish we'll really have her kind of stamp on it nice boy to have a firefly Serenity is your first title that's exciting yeah sorry friends that's just wishful thinking for me that's that's not what she's working on I don't even know what that is you don't know you don't know Firefly the show from the yeah it was it's a cult favorite from like 2000 no man she's making Last of Us or maybe Fallout that's what she's working on right right right uh so Sean's back to the best garwell and this is only going to help him looks like he went with whistling Birds again and then the other one is lighting his encounters right away so if he can he's either going to try and light the mode via the right ramp that's yellow so if he hits that then he can start another mode here or it looks like he's going to encounters okay for
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    now so the encounters is you're in the helmet and you got to be up there for three waves of of targets to complete he completed the first wave you can see two's lit up there so if he gets through all three then he's done with that first encounter battle that was good and there's no time on the encounters right uh nope just as long as you stay up there you're
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    good so looks like he got the first encounter mode done all right so he has grinded away some points there not a terribly lucrative ball three I don't think I think he's still going to be under 200 million unless he had some multipliers going oh bonus was de oh look at that bonus not bad never mind he's definitely over 200 now we were saying this isn't a big bonus game but that was a big2 wow all right Elizabeth has some climbing out to do but she also hasn't cashed in on as much as he has so this may be her time to take advantage of some of the same things that Sean was able to take advantage of unfortunately she no longer has her flamethrower I think that started with her so she used that so if she wants to get it back she's got to get some bestar and get it from The Foundry so she's already played a multiball she's a little bit of jail here so I think she's just going to have to rip shots play some modes uh Play Safe and just kind of grind away at
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    it she is pondering her options it's super deep code so there's a lot of things you could
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    do and as we mentioned before you've got a whole minute to to plunge so you're she was well within time minute is longer than you think it is when you're standing at a pinball machine
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    sometimes you'll see players even take their phone out put the timer on and put it on the glass so that the camera can see the minute just to prove that they hav't taken longer than a
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    [Music] minute all right she gets the opportunity to start her Mission she's on mission three let's destroy the Imperial base so on this one you want to uh build up your points on the spinner and then collect your mode shots at the lit
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    shots this has got to be a favorite for you there a lot of spinner action on this yeah it's it's it's tough to hit that spinner clean to where the ball doesn't kind of Rattle and come back down and stop the spinner yeah this is a sweet m a good one for multiball oh come on hold on there you go all right so she doesn't have any multipliers going uh so she might want to maybe hit her Targets on the right here to get some get a multi multiplier looks like she's letting the so she started her Center her Center mode so this is a hurry up mode that if she can get through this she can start working towards her next multiball which is huge and this is the hurry up they added after people were just spamming the middle all day kind of slow down the multiball process yep so there's these modes in between the multiball modes you got to play so as you can you can see they're green now Ah that's brutal all right Sha Shawn takes three in a row three in a row so Elizabeth has one more chance to get a win in otherwise Shawn will take round one and it is single elimination so she will be out of the tournament at which point we will all go to her house and play Dungeons day yes come on so everybody gets a prize because we're going to go Dungeons and Dragons no we got plenty of great pinballs plenty of great players today 528 to 523 oh my gosh who got it oh really on hot didn't have that one Greg Knight was just showing us 528 to 523 was the final score he did not win that one let's take a look at our brackets well we're in between oh I
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    see so quick update on scores uh people are still reporting of course uh Justin Ryan just picked one up uh Joe and Heath have not yet reported to us so we got to go kick them in The Shins uh Shawn is now Up 3 to zero on Elizabeth uh we need reporting from kin and Willie Josh is Up 3 to one on Chrystal Wht Tim up 2 to Zer Matt 2 to1 and a showdown against Gary O'Brien and Junior with a rally he must have won a couple in a row uh cuz he is our number one seed and he is playing our number 16 seed and Nathan was leading the first couple of games so it looks like Junior had a rally and is coming back so he just needs one more Nathan would need two so let's go to our next minute torial we're going to watch bad
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    girls let's keep it weird with some bad girls pinball off the bat when you plunge you'll go up to the top Lanes or you can short plunge and have it drop short of the top Lanes come back down to the upper flipper and have an opportunity to shoot straight into the lock for multiball right off the plunge when you hit drop targets down that will increase your end ball bonus and collect pool balls once you collect all the drop targets the eight ball Target will light once you hit that down you will collect a rack you can collect up to three racks worth 50,000 a piece towards your end of ball bonus you can multiply your end of ball bonus by hitting the Vera Target over here to the right you can get up to 10x bonus for a Max end of ball collect of 1.5 million also if you hit the ver Target enough you will light special that's worth 500k at the ver Target you can hit the right orbit for increasing Awards up to 500,000 points also so while you're increasing those Awards these top Lanes will light blue for 100,000 points on the left and and 250,000 points on the right you can collect pool letters which are at the top Lanes up here and the in Lanes each time you collect pool you will increase the value of the eightball target up to 500,000 points to start multiball Hit the eightball Target and then shoot behind that into the saucer once you're in multiball the Spinners will light for 20,000 points outside of that the rest of the game is available to you you can collect racks you can advance your bonus multipliers and Advance the right orbit values also after you collect a rack the spot targets behind the drop targets will light the rerack mode these inserts in front of the targets will start flashing each time you hit a Target it will increase the value I've seen values over 3 million points for this rerack mode very valuable go after this mode safely in multiball finally the jackpot mode every 40 switches you hit in this game will light the pop bumpers they will start flashing once you hit one pop bumper you have to hit eight more pop bumpers where before you hit any other major switch on the play field or else they will turn off and you will lose the jackpot the jackpot is Progressive this grows very slowly and is not worth going for finally for real this time on your final ball if you have a Ply amount of points usually less than 200,000 points if you drain straight down the middle here you will receive a scratch award for 500,000 points that's bad girls one of the weirdest rules in pinball that which one you drain down the middle at the end and you are playing a bad game you can get 500,000 points yeah so I uh I got some modded codes so we don't have to deal with that anymore okay and the jackpot the pop uper jackpot I mentioned in there that's locked at 50,000 points so you don't get any random weird points from that so okay this game is officially amazing top to bottom it's perfect perfect no
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    notes all right so we'll watch our first official ball I imagine they got some practice in while we were watching a menorial and you got to hear these bad girl sounds they're ridiculous I know Elizabeth loves the the song b
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    b she knows this game very well she has played on this particular one many many times she goes for ball lock on the left that means she is ready to start her
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    multiball and it starts oh brutal though that is just that was insane like that was rude oh my God the worst multiball start ever they met there at the exact same time one goes out and then she sends the other one out there too so we have our first official match results in Josh ashberry beats Chris dwit four to one wow so first results in people so Josh is going to move on to the quarters and Chris is not nope that's it single is ready to go to Elizabeth's house and play Dungeons and Dragons play Dungeons and Dragons you're going to see people throwing matches left and right now that they know about that so Sean looking for the ever difficult sweep here especially against someone like Elizabeth yeah I mean that would be an absolute coup right like to sweep Elizabeth they're both amazing players that would be yeah and we were watching I was saying earlier we were watching Junior was was behind versus Nathan he was two games back versus Nathan has now caught up and now it's 3 to2 Junior's favor yeah yeah uh that seems to be a really great match going on yep I saw uh junior got off the Shide a little bit he picked Game of Thrones and they played it and he got a billion points and and Nathan got two million oh oh no I was like dude 2 million on Game of Thrones is this a out he was like no it's not a typ out all right Elizabeth takes a deep breath she knows she's playing for her life this is only ball two but every shot's going to matter
    70:15
    now good drop catch plug it right back in there all right the M the multiball gods can't do her dirty twice in a row they couldn't possibly not a bad strategy I mean the even though the multiball did not work out last time she goes right back to it she says I can I can do this oh look at that look at that another drain out both sides what a bummer that one hurts that one
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    hurts all right she's going to need a really good ball three to feel confident about moving on Shawn did not get a lot done on ball one but neither of them is really blowing this thing up there's a lot more points in this machine than either Shawn nor Elizabeth has
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    found oh my gosh that was intense you guys want to see that again I do Straight Out of the pop bumpers rifle down the middle look at that nut
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    really nice handling there and unfortunately he gets stuck in Sling town for a minute and fires to the right out lane yeah now I've said it right there are no more friends when you're up to the machine in attorney we can be friends after the game all right Elizabeth now Shawn has not been able to really get purchase on this one so Elizabeth leading at 519 but she's got to open it up a bit to feel confident this is there's a lot more than either of these players have have been getting which tells you how hard this machine is cuz they're both fantastic
    72:10
    players if you're just tuning in this is the end of the first round of the Kentucky state championships Elizabeth's going to drain at 1 and a half million just under one and a half million so it's by no means a sure thing but she does have a lead that could keep her alive moving into the next game all right Elizabeth putting uh putting some pressure on yep I was telling everybody that there's a lot more points in this game than they've been able to find it's been a really rough game for both of them now in my opinion like if you're playing really experienced bad girls players yes like one to two million is is is kind of not going to cut at most games especially in a four player group but um in a two-player game you know it might be enough but with these two players I would say you got to be over 2 million and uh to go for the go for the gold there uh-oh uh-oh that was it that was but that can happen that's bad girls once again sling town now he was he was close to getting a lot more points he had had he hit the right orbit again it would have given him 200k and then he had a lane up top lit that was worth 250k and sometimes if you go down that the pops will send it right back through it so he could have close that Gap very quickly but then one shot really yeah so one shot to the right orbit would have given him a chunk points and then it would have lit extra ball which would have been 500k at the right orbit so he wasn't far away from Catching her but Elizabeth with the with her back against the wall stays alive how about that you know what that one gets one of these where's my clutch play that gets one of these absolute clutch play so she was in Risk she was at risk of a four an out and she stays alive to fight another game uh so we'll see what we're going to yep and I'll move it here in a second
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    okay we are recording scores and I think you should be able to see them in match play you guys can keep me honest on
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    that but we are recording scores and that we just found out that uh Greg Knight's game Jason beat him by 5,000 on hot tip something like that it was very very close oh good you can't see squ well let's take a look at our bracket shall
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    we you can see our only uh players to finish the first round Josh wins over Chris dit and um otherwise we we are going to get an update here did Nathan survive for a tiebreaking match against Chris dit Jr or did Chris finish Nathan off on game what is that six uh Gary and and Matt waiting on a score for them I may have a score thank you very much boy how's that for up to the minute huh uh looks like that one went to Gary so Gary is at two and Matt is at three and Gary lives to fight another match so we'll put those scores in in just a second I need to find out what game we're headed to hot tip all right let me start that menorial and I'll put these scores in
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    give me a saw on Captain Nemo in the fourth let's play some hot tip pinball okay when you plunge you will plunge into a top saucer you will see different Awards up top if you hit the slings up top it will change that award once you land in the saucer you will collect that award and also Advance your bonus you can either collect various amounts of points or you can collect bonus if it's on the red or you can light the captive ball if it's on white if you light the captive ball the cap ball is now worth 30,000 points and you shoot it into the target into the back and that will get you 30,000 points also when the ball comes down to the pop bumper area you have the hot tip drop targets these are very important because the first time you hit all six down you will light the spinner for a thousand a spin the second time you hit them down you will light extra ball at the saucer on the left which also Awards 5,000 points and advances your bonus the third time down all the drop targets will be worth a th000 points and once you knock them down for a third time the fourth run through the drops they are worth 10,000 points a piece for the rest of the ball you can advance bonus also by the little Target here in the pop bumper your goal is to get spinner lit keep ripping through the spinner and going up top until you have double bonus and then max out your bonus with help from the captain ball and the Target in the pop bumper area you can have Max bonus of 200,000 points that's hot tip that's hot tip we just got a hot tip on hot tip and this is our game five of Elizabeth versus Shawn she could go out here if she loses on hot tip or she can get a little closer to tying it up and moving to that seventh rubber match I see requests uh on the chat to show the game between Nathan and Junior they are mid game on that one uh it's up to the boss man over here but I'll check in with him on that in the meantime enjoy some hot tip Shawn Davis to lead us
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    off we got some more final results in Tim Ellis is moving on sweeping Jeremy Ryan for Wow first round sweep uh we talked about Josh and Chris already both DTS are moving on no no sorry Josh Josh beat Chris sorry so junior is moving on junor moving winning four to two wow what a comeback he was off to a rough start down by two and then came back to win that so that's the answer on your one versus 16 seed one Christ tot Jr stays
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    in that's one of the tough things about single elimination is yeah you get seven games to play so if you drove here from the other side of the state you know you're not only playing a couple of games of pinball but you can be out first round and it hurts yep everybody gets money everybody everybody gets paid a little bit yeah and you get the joy of knowing you're one of the top 16 players in the
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    state oh yeah Greg KN made us jum a lot I gotta go up there and get some all right so Greg's down three to one so he's fighting for his life hey kayin he's got that bonus built up almost to Max all right kayin moving on beating Willie four to one congrats to kayin nice job
    78:59
    it's great to see Willie playing again he was uh out of town for a number of months so we didn't get to to play with him and it's great to see him back playing pinball yeah sea is great at these EMS you can see this is one where he's really he's trying to get that double bonus he keeps going up top to try and land in the saucer while double bonus is lit but every time he hits one of those rubbers it just it moves the the target a little bit it's almost just luck it's it's not entirely luck but it's almost luck
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    hold and right down the middle and hit the glass he was yeah he was trying to get the H in hot tip he was trying to find the other way to earn double bonus but he ended up getting double bonus I think I think he had it lit so I wish I wish kill myself down here oh no hidden hot tip lights The Spinners right correct and each time you complete hot tip the drop taret come back up and they're worth more up to 10,000 points if you get through them a few times awesome Elizabeth with a deep breath once again she is playing for her life on this game and she did really really well uh on Bad Girls last game competing against Shawn so hopefully has a little sense of momentum big spinner rip on the
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    left you can probably hear Game of Thrones looping in the background
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    best show ever best show ever right after Firefly dude I'm not letting that go I want a firefly too she's got her double bonus lit and maxed so she can now start uh looking to light that spinner and then just spinner rips all day which that does mean she has to complete hot tip misses the spinner shot there she is collecting 5,000 on the on the saucer every time but I think she's probably trying to get up top and then down to to
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    hotp little collect there but right past those drop targets the one thing she wanted see if she can pick up the T can she get it right right in that she does man great
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    shot picks up the tea clears hot and is lit on the spinner this is exactly what she wanted little baby spinner rip there goes for the captive ball that captive Ball's not a that's a tough shot I generally don't shoot at it unless I have
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    shot because not only do you have to hit this sort of over on the side you're putting yourself in Jeopardy and you know when you hit a captive Ball even if you hit it Square you're still taking all the momentum off your ball you're in a right outlane drain situation so she is weighing that very option at this moment she decides to basically shats pass and a huge spinner
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    rip that worked out well I don't know if that's what she was going for I think it was a save but it worked out well maybe maybe that's what she was going for I was wondering if we're were going to see a tap pass pretty difficult on these flippers little rip she's doing the right thing she's going to want to get it to the right flipper all day and shoot that spinner all day you can see she's opting out of the captive ball shot yes it's worth 20,000 points but it's also insanely dangerous she shots passes beautifully to the right for a trap very controlled move rip oh my gosh she is ripping the spinner all day sorry I got to verify some results here I'll be back right on see if she can trap up right nope she decides Tak it on the Fly for yet another R yeah thanks for the for the shout out on the graphics I really enjoy making
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    them if you happen to be a pinball streamer and you want all of them I think I've made 12 of them uh you are welcome to them just let me know shoot me a note and I will send them to
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    you all right once again controlled player she pauses once again rips it friends we are sneaking close to a roll here we are sneaking dangerously close to a roll on ball one of hot
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    one see if she shots us again or does she get crazy and try for that captive ball or she went for drop targets that time I don't think she's going to regret that decision oh man I thought that said eight up there it looks like it's six not eight my apologies well either way 600,000 on your first ball of hot tip pretty
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    strong yeah prospector thank you yeah you're exactly right I I read that three as an eight I was like boy she she got up there pretty fast but with those rips I'm not shocked and you could see how valuable bonus is on this game like that yes she had an amazing series of rips great score but the bonus really really pays off
    84:32
    save nice save Sean is going to trap right take a deep breath and fire up through that spinner hoping to land in the double bonus and he does picks up double bonus so now his bonus ladder is what matters most he's going to try and build that bonus up either via shots to the drop targets or via shots to the top saucer
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    unfortunately he will get neither tries to nudge to save it goes out right Junior congrats on your win Junior moves on we are watching a gripping game between Elizabeth gesi and Shawn
    85:14
    Davis congrats on a round one win yeah thank you it got a little dicey at first we were we were nervous for you uh yeah so hot tip um like Nathan just blew that game up ball one and yeah there was I mean there was coming back from it but I I had some really unlucky bounces up at saucer did you I got I got double bonus on the ball that had the least amount of bonus oh what a bummer what a bummer yeah two time zero is still zero yeah that's rough well you made it through I mean in the face of pressure right you were a couple games back you made it through did you get four in a row uh yeah no no I did not three and then one I beat he beat me on hot tip and then I beat him on Bad Girls then he beat me on Walking Dead okay and then you took the rest of them yeah wow oh Game of Thrones I I got all the way to hand of the King on that one yeah I heard you had a billion point game on Game of Thrones yeah I I love that game little quicker ball for Elizabeth on that one stops at 629 yeah Game of Thrones is one you if you know if you know the game billion is reachable I don't know if I've ever gotten there but really I don't know if I've ever got to a billion
    86:27
    Sean is stepping up to which ball are we on we're on ball three ball three yep we're just starting out ball three and Elizabeth had a monster first ball up over 600,000 so oh wow Sean's hoping to do the same ah mom says congrats oh that's my mom and my sister oh nice nice well thanks for jumping in chat friends and thanks for joining the stream there were a lot of folks who wanted to watch you play on the stream as our number one seed and just cuz it's fun to watch you play so we we'll be following you at some point today sure of it um yeah I sent um earlier today um my a bunch of my co-workers were asking if I could send the link to the stream oh yeah so I did um I don't know if any of them are watching or not though you got to text them or something let them know what is it twitch.tv/ stdm pinball right M yeah I sent it in the uh main uh work group chat awesome tell them to get get on and watch
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    yeah uh which strategy are they doing here on hot tip yeah you know what we're seeing a lot of is get get that double bonus locked in first then go more for the drop Target so it's just left spinner all day until you get your double bonus then lock in on those drop targets um so that you can light the spinner and then come back to the spinner so we're not seeing a whole lot of action on that captive ball uh what I usually do is I'll just go spinner all day until I got my double bonus and my captive ball L and then I'll just go captive ball all day you'll go captive ball yeah cuz I feel like those I feel like if you don't have those hot tip Letters by the time you have both of those then like it's just really dangerous to it's really dangerous and unnecessary to go for those letters so it's funny cuz I think of that captive ball is being the most dangerous shot on the game but you feel like you've got that one more under control yeah um usually it'll come pretty pretty safe to your right flipper then you can just dead bounce you just keep looping the shot the the thing I tend to to perish with is either a right outlane drain off the top of the sling or it hits the sling and then you're in slink down yeah sometimes it'll hit the top of the sling and then it's just like yes what a rip nice he gets one of these he earn that one
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    spin he earned that one for sure those rips on the Fly are worth it ton oh yeah um I was ripping it like crazy on Grand Prix yeah oh that's the most satisfying rip in pinball right there yeah there's something so kinetic about when you have an em that it you can feel it counting like the rip you know it's a lot more kinetic than on a modern game and I just love that you can actually feel the motor going I was up at uh Arcade Legacy last night and they had a Grand Prix up there but it was um I don't know if there's like an older model of the game um but like you could only hear the real there was nothing no other sound at all to it it's yeah it's not an older model it's uh it's actually one that needs fixing we we ordered a chime kit for it and I just haven't put it in yet but yeah it's nothing but rip it's nothing but the sounds of like satisfying it is and actually it's a great reminder I need to rebuild the chime on
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    that Ariana oh oh yeah you're getting shout outs all over the place man yeah um I don't know in Ariana actually oh well Ariana says hello either way yep uh so guys while we were chatting you might have noticed that Shawn had a hell of a ball and is now at 7:23 as we go into ball four so there's a chance we might see a roll on either this or the next ball from both of these players yeah which would be super cool but they are neck and neck on this particular horse
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    race there's that rip I mean that's a sign of a really skilled player that that that's one of those things where you hope the ball stops and you can trap it it didn't work and instead of just firing it away he took a really intentional shot and got exactly what he wanted out of it yep um I know um some players if something like that happens they like to uh shots on the fly yeah just fired over to the other flipper yeah yep if I'm feeling like it I'll do that but most of the time I don't I'm it's a right outlan dream yeah that's unfortunate get his dou bonus have you tried to tap pass on this I was wondering if it's doable no I I don't really tap pass no I don't need shots cuz if somebody's taken a big leftand uh spinner rip strategy that that tap pass can be super helpful but if you can shats all day do that yeah I shats on this one um and I should tell folks folks who may not be familiar with the terminology of shats pass also called an alley pass is when you actually fire it off the tip of the flipper into the other alley Where hopefully it stops and comes back down gently to your flipper and on this one it is at the very tip of the flipper like you have to be very precise yeah this is not one of those Roundy flippers of old he's got the the Williams pointy flippers on so you really got to get it right this era of game might have my favorite flippers ever I love these flippers aren't they great they're so awesome and they really pay off with those rips man and he just like feels so powerful
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    too it's almost like a new Stern flipper before new Sterns yeah that's right it's they're they're powerful they're pretty Snappy for the
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    era like the old um some of the old like rounder flippers or even like the the got Le flippers don't have that feel Williams flippers really do yeah on these EMS big in Lanes on hot tip easy to learn to shats on it well I got to put some practice in because I am not a good Shater yeah uh we have a really we have we have another uh really good prati flipper skill practice game here it's called Uh odds and evens mhm if and on that game you need to if you if you want to play in tournaments you need to learn how to tap pass that's a tap passer game for sure it's a it's a b so it does have the Roundy flippers yep and they're not nearly as as powerful they don't feel as powerful as the William flippers but that does make it easier to tap pass on them too yeah which I don't really know how to tap pass so it's It's the weird I'm more likely to try a tap than a shats like I'm that bad at shatting but it's it's the lightest little touch and it can be really tricky the way I learned to do it was almost with like a cup hand but again my my reliability is not great on it I if I feel like practicing it I just give it like a little quick cool smack mhm and sometimes it works I've learned um I've learned how to shots on new Sterns oh really yeah it's really it's a lot of times it like there's no point doing it um unless like it's a dig or whatever that's it oh my gosh Elizabeth look at look at this score is that 850 to 857 she needs 7,000 points 7,000 you can get you can get 10 right up top most important saucer plunge ever I was going to say oh she picks up 10 right there look at that good game all so there's a tap pass you guys want to see it again yeah so she fires it up through the spinner and walks away with a win watch see that tap pass on the replay pretty awesome pretty all right Elizabeth stays alive so she was in a similar situation where you were where she was facing imminent death she fights back two games and now three to two Sean and Elizabeth that does mean we're going to go on to a sixth game wow maybe we'll go on to a seventh neither of them did end up rolling it but boy they both had great scores on that one so let's take a look at our bracket see if any of our non-reporters have reported um all right well we did get a couple in yeah so uh between Tim and Jeremy Tim moved on between Heath and Joe Heath moved on and we'll face Justin Ryan in the corner finals it'll now be Tim Ellis and Josh Ashbury in the quarterfinals and uh we'll see who you're going to play I'm excited right we're going to see it in just a second here oh wow wow Gary O'Brien has had a killer comeback Matt was up three to one Gary's gotten two in a row oh wow so we're going to stars stars I love this game this
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    is all right everybody let's learn some Stern Stars at the start of the game you will have one random star completed for you as you can see here the pink Stars completed for us bam collect all four other stars to juice the right spinner for a thousand a spin Crush through the spinner here for a th000 a rip also after collecting all five stars you will light a red special light next to one of the star targets that will be changed by either advancing bonus by hitting the target targets or the rollovers or ripping the Spinners if you happen to hit that special it is worth 100,000 points it's huge you can collect as many of those as you want per ball also you can hit the center drop Targets on either side of of the Playfield to juice the left spinner for a th a rip straight through here big points you can also hit down all the drop targets once you hit down three of the drop targets you will get double bonus once you hit down all six drop targets you will get Triple bonus if you continue to hit down all six drop targets you will then get extra ball after that you will then Light special for a 100,000 points just like getting specials via the star targets you can advance your base bonus by hitting the rollovers in the middle and top of the Playfield or the lit inlane outlane rollovers that's Stern Stars oh really
    96:55
    we were just talking tap passes over here don't mind us so it looks like we are on the official game this one is a weird layout on the back box so you'll see player one is lower left and player two is just above to the right yep we were just talking about the the Zenon at recar as per the chat and you were saying that you can't dead dead bounce on the left but you can on the right mhm boy that's a hard thing to remember in the moment What's even worse is that uh that tiny little post um that's like not in the middle but it's like left it's like very down towards the drain left that you have to remember is there I guess they were practice falling shout out to this is sorry go ahead shout out to Daisy from the rec bar one of my co-workers Daisy what's up I've never seen Daisy spelled that way that's awesome Yep um I stand corrected this is one of those Sterns of the era like electronal that has all four sets of zeros up all the time even if you haven't started a four-player game so that's why I thought we had a two-player going so this is the real game I think I hope uh it should be the real deal should be the real
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    thing while you're on stream do you have any shoutouts that you want to throw people are shouting out to you um all my people from the wck bar my family pretty much everybody I know awesome everybody I know I hope I hope they're watching man yeah you said you put it on the work chat so I hope everybody from work's tuning in yeah I hope so um I don't know I don't know if it's busy or not right now it is a Saturday morning sometimes those are busy sometimes they're not so a quick up and down is not uncommon on this game this is the only solid state that you'll see set to five balls in this tournament because that is not uncommon for a quick up and down in fact house balls are fairly common there's no ball save and you'll fire up here and sometimes it'll just catch the bottom of that bumper and straight
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    down which is always a bum good thing there's a Center Post Yeah I love the Center Post it's kind of hard to see but there is right there and uh I have many times commented on how good I have seen Elizabeth how well I've seen her use that cuz she'll trap here and then give it a little nudge off that Center Post to get it to this flipper for her spinner shot it's a KK pass yep I've never never done one of those before um I don't have at the W bar we don't have any uh no Kirk games no no CK games uh I don't think we have any old STS oh we almost saw it there he almost picked it up he might have been able to get that one off the left flipper but it would have had to have been real real fast yeah it was rough I'm surprised it didn't tilt um yeah for sure all the games here are pretty sensitive for tilt yeah with exception apparently of Doctor Who which you get a one one warning because no matter how hard you push it you only get one Tilt at a time
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    Club yeah nice start nice comeback that may be that there great use of that Center post that may be the highest pressure you have to face all day maybe the others you'll just like you put put three games up right away yeah I hope another quick ball for Elizabeth stars is being a meanie oh yeah this is usually how my score is on this game yep after five balls everyone yeah every once in a while I'll blow this one up but it it usually my game looks a little more like
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    this at the nky open I happen to take on Deborah tomman on this one and um uncharacteristically won I almost never went against Deborah I played up against her on this for uh I don't remember uh like her last game mhm and she beat me on it this was uh two years ago yep when this game gets mean it can frustrate even the most experienced Stars players yeah it frustrates me for sure I'm not I'm not that experienced so people roll their eyes whenever this comes out in tournament like I love this game Eric loves this game most people do not love this game yeah I'm not really a big fan um I would I would love a meteor meteor I love I had a meteor and I I sold it recently and it's it breaks my heart a little bit we were going to buy one um then the dude jipped us out of it oh my goodness no oh wow off that Center Post and then right I mean we almost had a center Save times two and it just didn't quite work out I'm sorry you didn't get your your meteor yeah um yeah we got chipped out of it um then a month later um I bought a surf champ love that game yeah fantastic em I actually have one right now I'm working on for Arcade Legacy in my basement oh nice yeah it's it's Surfer it's the uh what the one the one player the one player
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    version Stars what are you doing Stars why you got to be like that this is rough um stars being a jerk I don't think we've seen a double bonus at all yet I mean we really haven't seen anybody spam the drop targets I mean they're trying yeah but every time they're hitting we're going to right out lane or some kind of weird Center drain um I almost want to say that you kind of just want to go spinner with I mean with these scores yeah yeah if if your drop Target strategy is not
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    working so that's a super super dicey shot those two stars on the left and right for the very reason that you're see lot of lateral movement go there you go all right so she picks up a double bonus she can go for triple this is when I would start shat sing and and going for the spinner on the right mhm yep oh oh actually I was practicing this game earlier and the shats from the right to the left doesn't go through the in lane at all it just comes to a stop on your left flipper so you can just keep ripping that spinner really great use to the Center Post once again that's how you do that's how you do it she says that's how you do it watch this save right here she just boom so that's one that almost the ball almost got eaten it almost went under the flipper cuz she flipped at it but fortunately was able to get it back on the flipper that's going to put her just above Sean's 47 at 51 so great comeback ball yeah but uh this is only Ball Four
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    yep yeah so you can build up your stars um you get one free star to start and you always hope it's one of the hard ones on the left or right um then you can go collect more stars and then rip that spinner for big points or you can light the spinner on the left for 400 to spin blow that one good uh it's a little tougher hit than the right one I say um plus you have to purposely hit the middle drop Target on both sides to get get both the lights lit it's just a really weird and uncomfortable shot it it is that is a super weird
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    shot yeah there's sort of like a skill shot on this game um if you land
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    good if you land in the like bumper area uh so if you your rollover up at the very top of the game will be lit at the start of every single ball and if you get up if you hit that you get 500 points and advanced bonus oh awesome yes there's that roll over here you're talking about right now Sean gets a great save off that post takes s takes a breather let it settle we were talking about how you get a minute between games or between balls rather when it's your turn to play but you can hold on The Flipper as well for I don't know if there are rules about how long you you can hold the flipper but you can trap up take a breath there's nothing wrong with that in competition yep fact I highly recommend it I've yeah I I'm sure there's probably some sort of rule about holding the ball on The Flipper for a certain amount of time oh tough right off still mhm um cuz on okay there's got to be a rule one game in particular that that would have to be a rule on is Le Zeppelin because what you could do is you could pick a song and then just hold the ball in The Flipper until the solo starts and then just Lo Center ramp and then after the Solo's done you just trap the ball again and then wait till the next wait till the next one that's a pretty cool rule right that during guitar solos you get Center wait is it big points on the center ramp uh no it's just your Center ramp's always lit during guitar solos yeah amazing I did not know that rule yeah I don't I don't have a lead Zeppelin around me so I don't play it very often um that was actually my first game oh really yeah first one you played or first one you bought first one we bought wow that's great 100 bucks 100 bucks we want an off a raffle oh okay I was going to say if somebody was letting a lead Zeppelin go for 100 bucks it must have been underwater yeah it was pretty good it was really good condition what a great save guys another one what in the world awesome saves yeah let it settle for a little bit of course wow
    106:25
    so that tilt Bob one of the reasons people do is take a breath another reason is because there's a tilt Bob in the machine that's shaking like this and you want that thing to calm down
    106:39
    yeah there it is right off the so that's a fairly predictable feed like it tends to go there everything tends to go tends to go there everything
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    does and you can see these are hungry hungry outlanes usually you can tell by the differential how how far down is the inlane post versus the top of the sling and this one is
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    unpleasant so hungry hungry outlane eats it up picks up some bonus with that double lit she ends at 79 and this is ball five so this is life or death is 7,000 points for Elizabeth gesi yeah second place um I wouldn't have picked team and um I love let Zepp in the band so that's why I chose that's why I chose it um it's like after playing it for a while and learning the rules it's I'm like that is an amazing game yeah like people hate on it too much I hated it I hated it when it came out it's a hard game to learn to be fair then they made some code improvements and I started to like a little more did you get the premium or the pro oh we got the pro okay um this an amazing game I never even beat it um um farest I got was nine songs in did you guys sell it yep Oh wow or no we didn't sell it we uh traded it for Guardians Shawn picks it up that's going to be a win for Shawn Davis and that's going to send Elizabeth gesi home today to play her Dungeons and Dragons wait she got Dungeons and dragon oh yeah she's making it yeah she's in the middle of making it so she gets to play
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    test okay that's the end of round one it'll be about 5 minutes while we get round two set up because that means now everybody gets to pick games and decide uh who's going first and all that sort of thing do you do you know what games you want to play oh I know I know for sure um it's going to be the same games I just picked um bad girls um Grand Prix and game of thrs you're going to go right back to your known your known entities yep that makes sense do you think that if you keep picking those that you'll get tired of them like do you think you'll do it just for variety or are you just going to keep going back to the ones you know best I'm just going to keep going back to the ones I know best cuz I know for sure I can blow up all all three of those games yeah y um I mean absolutely like that versus an unknown like stars where it can just be absolutely brutal if you know you can blow those up keep doing it I would pick those against me um odds and evens Stars honestly big game I do I do not know big game at all so I love big game it is such a cool game it's worth getting to know if you get some practice time it's worth getting to know you light up those cards you get that spinner lit it's like on a timer rip that spinner oh it feels so good pinball herard says get Elizabeth to commentate Absolut what a fantastic idea absolutely she is awesome at that too I've actually yet to find something she's not good at if you find something let me know seems to be good darn near everything y all right we're following Junior good luck go get him here in our quarterfinals get all the games they're going to play we'll collect their games and and start a motorial as soon as we know and I will absolutely recruit Elizabeth to him over here heck she can take my seat if Eric is over here so we're going to find out what our games are let's take a final look at the bracket from round
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    one um you can see our matchup now is going to be Chris dit Jr versus Gary Brian who had a fantastic comeback versus Matt pce uh down by three games at one point and uh managed to pull off a comeback you saw Tim Ellis shut out Jeremy Ryan here in the first round of 16 and uh so that moved him on to play against Josh Asbury who almost shut out Crystal W but not quite kayln Smith almost with a shut out we saw her win earlier against Willie Allen will now face the person you just watched Shawn Davis and of course Justin Ryan is going to play Heath Ashley in yeah let me talk to my bestie for the resty bestie for the resty you know the chat was just calling for you they were like let's get Elizabeth over here oh I'll stick around a little bit dude did you see those six saves on the we captured them they were like is there a left out lane or is that just a giant ball safe that was awesome yeah these nudges off the left out lane two back to back that was pretty cool Co I love Stars it's always some great moments hot tip is the same way I'm assuming this was your pick I did pick for whatever reason I I don't know why I chose Doctor Who too and I was reading about it before we're playing in between balls I was like when's I going to go to what should I do yeah what do I do yeah I don't I should have done like Game of Thrones my bread and butter but I haven't played pinball in a while I was uh I was playing tired really haven't played in a while we were all saying if if we had a Dungeons and Dragons at home test machine that's all I would do oh play it yeah uh not mine oh I just got the new they sent me a new play field that is arted and the dragon on it so my old one wow I it was actually probably the best thing for me cuz then I it forced me to write rules that were a little bit easier yeah yeah but the geometry is off and stuff but it's night and day between the real game and the one I had so yeah now I might actually play it for might play it a little bit we were Eric and I were saying that if you get out first round we're just going to go with you and just go play just play as you know what I'm going to be doing what when I get out of out of here I'm going to be working on the game is it still fun to play when you know you have to like work um it is but it isn't in my mind it's not as in I'm like I don't want to go out and play Pinball like for today I'm like I don't know if I feel like it like I'm just I'm so fed down right now it's been a tough week yeah and then you know I'm here and Sean's just one of my favorite people to play against people are like oh you have to play against Sean round one and I'm like awesome let's we always have the best one One V one you know he hits me I slap him he hits me harder that's exactly what was happening we we were all getting nervous for you after game three oh yeah you saw the whole thing oh you know so you saw my uh my my descent and kind of come back yeah I got I got I I started having more fun of like reminding myself on how hot tip reminding myself on how to like playing competitive pinball again cuz I haven't done it in since August really I haven't played a tournament since August you brought it back let me go to the hot tip minute tutorial and then we'll keep chat
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    give me a saw on Captain Nemo in the fourth let's play some hot tip pinball okay when you plunge you will plunge into a top saucer you will see different Awards up top if you hit the slings up top it will change that award once you land in the saucer you will collect that award and also Advance your bonus you can either collect various amounts of points or you can collect double bonus if it's on the red or you can light the captive ball if it's on white if you light the captive ball the captive ball is now worth 30,000 points and you shoot it into the target into the back and that will get you 30,000 points also when the ball comes down to the pop bumper area you have the hot tip drop targets these are very important because the first time you hit all six down you will light the spinner for a thousand a spin the second time you hit them down you will light extra ball at the saucer on the left which also Awards 5,000 points and advances your bonus the third time down all the drop targets will be worth a th000 points and once you knock them down for third time the fourth run through the drops they are worth 10,000 points a piece for the rest of the ball you can advance bonus also by the little Target here in the pop bumper your goal is to get spinner lit keep ripping through the spinner and going up top until you have double bonus and then max out your bonus with help from the captain ball and the Target in the pop bumper area you can have Max bonus of 200,000 points that's hot tip
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    all right friends that's how you play hot tip and we we were fortunate enough to get to see you play it yeah we had I had fun I usually it's all about knowing how to transfer the ball from the left flipper to the right flipper and knowing when you want to do that um I got a little bit poisoned I would say by um my my my good friend laser Los Carlos well he likes to shoot the captain ball and at least for today the captain ball is not your friend no so I shot it once and uh had a bad time but I I won though I won that game so we're all good we're we're still we're still best friends it's all good I'm going to let you spell your name correctly so I don't do it incorrectly sure oh poor Eric I'm beating him out of his own booth he doesn't look too mad about it every time I guess at somebody's name I'm wrong oh yeah especially mine I saw someone on pin I'd say Emily gki spelled my last name correctly and said got the first name completely whipped it Elizabeth she goes by Emily goes by Emily Emily Elizabeth that's okay I I hadn't seen that before I kind of chuckled at it yeah I get Jason a lot I guess there AR there aren't enough Justin in the world I get Jason Jason and Justin are actually the same name they're fairly same Justin was like a it's like a cop out Jason it was like H we'll compromise well Jason is if was your father's name Jay because then I would it would make sense no he was a Vincent there's no Vincent son there's only jayon know I don't understand I'm doing there I get it I have a good time oh gosh my my wit and my humor all the time you know since I work remote I feel like I um have to project my personality in in a vocal way right so I'm like everybody's got to know who I am just by listening to my voice that's right so working remote so you're do you ever get to see people during the week like face to face I we have this video call in software that is just on for the entirety of the day do yeah so I I I'm just always in their camera on I don't mind it we used to do that we used to do that then people got fatigued of that so yeah I we're hit hitting strong I mean I'm fully remote so I I I hope it doesn't go away they are I'm seeing more and more people go back to the office particularly since January started so I'm a little nervous about it but we'll see I mean it's it would be nice to have the absolute choice of like if you want to go in you can if you don't want to you don't have to yep um I went to stern last week and that was pretty fun except this getting out of Northern Kentucky during the snowstorm was uh tricky yeah that scary wow it was nuts I had a I had a flight on Monday um six on Monday and I rescheduled it because I was afraid of the snow for the following day Tuesday Morning y later on in the day Tuesday Morning's flight got cancelled so I went back on I'm like is there any there was no flights except for one spot on the flight that I originally had chartered were booked and so that's my spot that I left go back on left in an hour no yeah so I was like no I'm like literally coding and I'm like okay guys um I'm going to go catch a flight immediately fortunately you live kind of close to the airport you but everyone's cars are like under snow so I call like people I'm like where you at where you at and they're like we're shoveling our driveway as we speak and I'm like are you going to be done in like right now so they they fixed me out could you may get out it was pretty crazy it was nice though it was it was cool being in Chicago I a lot of people needed to talk to me which it was like a line at my desk people just waiting yeah cuz you know you work on one game and that kind of sticks around so I had to talk about some jaw stuff and then this game and then my following game that I will be working on which is which is some game I guess oh man I didn't think we were going to get it but I thought I'd tried oh no okay so we're actually starting this is our real yeah this is a real game they got their practi first B there about practicing it's like what if I'm going to have my one good ball and it's my practice one I know I I rarely practice before I play because of that problem yeah that's why you have to treat your practice really differently than your actual ball that's unfortunate right well so I will practice before the tournament even starts but the practice ball thing unless I have I have a feed I need to see yep where I've never touched these
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    flippers yeah this one's going to house ball you boy I got to keep my finger on the house ball graphic button do we have the whole state championship this week I I think so I think I know oh yes North Carolina is all of North America does so we have all all of our state championships and I think like 10 provinces in Canada yeah and then the oh that's a people who win each of these states and provinces will play together in the North American Championship okay so somebody from Kentuck is going to be there some one person does the house graphic have a picture of Greg knight's face nobody he's right there I could just turned around we could do it I hear his voice his voice carries like nobody else oh for sure for sure it's incredible oh that's drained too man we're just getting no luck here the drops are extremely dangerous I felt uh I think I drained on every single time I aimed for a drop I drained yeah of course you know you you got to drain some way the aiming well you actually picked up cuz we gave you a great save or a great shot graphic on it you picked up the T the one of the hardest shots you picked the te from the left flipper oh paused aimed and picked it up really and then I drained I don't know if you drained I think I drained off of that yeah but it was a really great shot wow I'm glad that someone had fun with that one I'm glad somebody enjoyed it that's an interesting plunge there uh it kind of rolled down the sling and just skipped over all of that business just flopped all right excellent shot to the left orbit it is later than you think it is because the the flippers are so shallow so both Sean and I were having a little bit trouble in the beginning finding the spinner I noticed you and Sean both were hitting that uh saucer with some regularity which is really late on we were aiming I actually was aiming for the saucer that's when I was hitting the spinner although sometimes I I just hit the saucer for whatever reason yeah was fine KO spectate said uh would love to see you two commentate some of the majors I would love that too a thanks I think we are the power Duo I love I love com was the first person I have ever commentated with it was so cool yeah I remember that and I remember being like who is she and why is she so good at this yeah who who I mean who knew I was going to be me who knew you were going to become you all right another dangerous shot to the drops from the right flipper into the T look at that just miss thebe put some you can put some movement on this game Sean did I I kind of didn't I was too afraid but yep oh a fortunately it's a five to account for all those house balls and difficult feeds and or you can just almost um uh flip the game there we go he's found that left orbit no problems very nice all right all right that speed right there can be a little oh he an alley right there he was telling me he could Chats on this I like to see him do he had no fear with that one at all really really easy but you know what I like making it look like a big deal yeah you know PA and aot I'm not sure if I can do it I was hoping to see more tap passing I tapped my very last ball we repl I already won I was like I want to just prove that I can um it's particularly tricky on this game because the buttons are very very shallow they are like basically in line with the with the metal yep so um you might just miss the flipper like for sure we were talking like odds and evens lot easier to tap pass on you get rounded flippers they're a little bit weaker and the buttons are way easier to get to and you have the Center Post thing that lets you practice it yeah that really find out where nice nice nuding nice nudin over
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    there oh yep I kind of was aiming for the pop sometimes too that is actually I think the crazy I think the pop might be the safest shot from a flipper when you need to have a a oh no I need this away no really into the pop yeah it's weird that is weird the drops are more dangerous it's like Beatles drops where the geometry leads to a center drain yep but the pop is off centered and you I found that it was a fine little like freak out oh no that might have been a it was a shats gone wrong it was either shats or a tap but that was a yeah that that's what it happens it happens I wish I had a shats gone wrong graphic but it doesn't shats gone wrong it doesn't happen enough ball gone Rogue oh oh all right oh getting some good music in here I yeah he's up but I'm I'm loving this I hope not cuz then we can get dmca find or something but oh true yeah I hope not Gary had that incredible I don't know if it was a save or just good luck but he had that incredible like Rattler in the left out lane that popped back into the need a little bit I saw that that was cool almost picked up uh saucer up there he's already got his double bonus but always nice to advance that I I saw I never thought I got a double bonus saucer but I like lit it somehow I think it's giving some little Grace or something we were I was confused on that earlier too because did you notice that yeah we were we were saying oh didn't hit the saucer and all of a sudden bonus is lit and I saw that dumble bonus was lit yeah okay I guess that yes that was the game so that's going to do it for game one and uh that one yeah I can't see the score very well it's music rocks I've been into music as always but especially lately at work we've been doing this thing called music League oh it's really fun every week we did that too I love it yeah okay yeah online every week is a different category super fun and then what was what was some of your favorite categories uh there was one that some some of them were made by our group if you can put in custom ones oh yeah they're all custom okay okay uh one was uh song that you would use to get back at at an X oh like a Revenge song you know a Revenge song all right yeah I would have to think about that uh one was uh song that you would play immediately after doing the deed that one was fun okay but it was specified after okay uh what were your favorites um I really enjoyed I enjoyed covers I had a I had a fun one for that um we we had some weird ones like because we did it twice so for chat it's music league is like it's a website and it's with it's paired with Spotify but every week is a different category you submit a song and then everyone votes on which songs are the best y um so one of ours was spoken word a song that features a guy talking like does rap count or it's literally like just talking spoken word yeah okay yeah that one didn't do very we we kind of struggled with that one but um another one was a song I'm G to go Prince let's let's go crazy okay dearly beloved we're gathered here that whole thing at the beginning of Let's Go Crazy I think that would probably count right okay um a song that tells story was another I kind of liked that's surprising do you remember what you picked yeah I tried to do Cats in the Cradle already chosen then I tried to do the rec of the edmans Fitzgerald already chos really yeah and then the third one I I had a a temporary I did um the devil Goes Down to Georgia yeah that was the one I was thinking of but I ended up changing it because I don't really love that song honestly and I changed it to um a boy who wouldn't H horn and it did really well nice obscure pick I love it you know that song by Allison Krauss and yeah so I I had Union station's first three records or whatever I was super in Dallas in I recently kind of found them after I was listening to the soundtrack of Bo brother without we out though yeah we though and yeah cuz she did I went down to the river to pray right and that's how everybody got introduced to her and he was the voice of George Clooney's voice ah okay so um yeah it's it's all all up on into there Grand PR Grand Prix oh okay okay oh fabulous great we get to see a couple different players so let's uh let's queue up and learn how to play Grand
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    Prix all right let's learn some Grand Prix pinball starting off on ball one you'll see the left arrow is lit that means at the end of your ball whatever your bonuses on the left ladder you will score that bonus balls 1 three and five will use the left ladder for your end of ball bonus balls two and four will use the right ladder bonus bonus is increased by either spinner the left or right spinner will increase its respective sides bonus ladder to a maximum of 50,000 points once you're at that maximum each spinner will light for a th000 a spin to collect your bonus mid ball you can hit the left saucer or the right saucer to collect that side's respective bonus double bonus is hugely important in this game to collect double bonus you want to hit the a drop Target and the B drop Target or the C and the d drop Target once you've done this you will achieve double bonus for the rest of the ball that counts for collects during the ball or when you drain out the out hole finally the top saucer is worth 5,000 points and whichever side is lit will advance that side's respective bonus so this game's all about ripping those spinners and collecting that double bonus that's Grand Prix sound nice
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    yeah oh my goodness we are always having a good time over here um yeah so Grand Prix also features those Williams pointy flippers and the Williams power and uh it can be a tough one to shats on but also it's more or less uh symmetrical so you don't often have to shats if I mean it one one side is going to be lit so I see why you'd want to get over there but generally I just shoot up top anyway and uh even if my spinner isn't lit I still get some points and then I get another another try so I don't I don't chats this one oh yeah wait I uh I say let's do it chatting I'll tap pass it there are that that is an option um I do find just shoot a spinner it doesn't matter if it's lit or not either there's no reason to try to get the ball on a different flipper cuz these Spinners will spin for days that's what I was saying is even if it even if spinner is not lit just shoot the spinner go back up top it will be 100K after you're through with get some points I will do anything to avoid chatting to be honest with you I will do just about anything I'll tap pass I will try a weird angle I I could have probably chat on stars and had a better outcome but well you had that trick on Stars you used back in the women's tourney a couple years ago where you would drop the flipper and then nudge it off the Center Post do you remember that I did that that's crazy did you did it on stream and it was awesome I didn't know I did that maybe I should have done that try it out on a practice game it's yeah that's the thing I don't think you want to do it on a real game you haven't played it nothing like those clicks and Clacks of an em love it love I love it it's great this game also does not let you uh drop catch very easily because if you miss it and you've got some speed you're going to lose it to these holes right here there's a hole right there and a hole right there so you can't count on that either this game really doesn't like um pinball this game really doesn't like pinball yeah this game well it kind of punishes you for doing things that it does like good habit y on other games it's kind of like impossible mode on Mandalorian where I'm like oh something that is a good habit is a little bit punished yeah is now punished yeah that's a bummer oh nice tip over into the left orbit hello hello hello oh a little early okay very late that's another thing it's like o these flippers aren't exactly the same so the Spinners are on different spots on the flipper so you kind of have to like all right this one's a little like that one wouldn't have hit the left right it was a little bit early yep just a little bit early whoa power spin how you like that both of his things are basic or both of his ERS are basically maxed now do you want to hit the button it's really fun no no it's way over there oh good job it's way over there oh what w goodness covered it up with the graphic but look we got shot of it that was nuts yeah yeah Power okay so he gets his big rip y i put on the graphic oh no and then you can use your imagination from there too slow on the button okay so he's got uh you th per SP another boy look look at that thing thousands on thousands it's really hard as a competitor to see like that and you're like I don't know I know can I do that too when you're watching your opponent just rack up those big spins you see another Power rip and you're like okay yeah so it's going to be like that there goes 40 more thousand nice drop catch drop catch that was a strangely time drop catch that it worked it's I that's the oh oh no it's the only type of drop catch that is safe on this game is if the ball is coming towards that that angle it's the same it's the same angle as the scoop out on Mandalorian you can drop catch that as well oh really yeah so it's it's you're not going to have the roll it's not going to roll back it's not going to roll back up the CU it doesn't have that it doesn't have the spin on on that way but it's I still think it's scary because it has it might have a forward spin so your drop catch is going to be uh it might lead to fire right back up just down in the center yeah all right let's see how he deals with this kick out a little Tippy right over I did see Eric working on this game before the tournament started trying to make sure that the left out um the left kick won't go down the center won't down the mid so basically you have to lift up the left flipper to make sure it's safe yep you want it to to just barely touch the tip right that's the exciting part is when it just barely gets there it's not a clean but even then like you saw there it was not it was not safe y as few things regularly are cuz that's not a it's not a incredibly difficult shot you can go for it but you may pay the price on eject so you don't see a lot of people shooting at it man these flat games I miss them me think ever uh Stern will have a Cornerstone that is flat I would love that catch yeah with the last one was Bond 60th yeah and that was kind of you know very unique with the success of Pulp Fiction I think it opened up the possibility that you can make an awesome flat game I think Pulp Fiction for me reinvigorated like the sort of how do you design to not have to put ramps in and still make a super fun game yep and pul which you prefer have you have you played 6f I have I'm not a huge fan I did not love 6f sorry Keith I did not love 6 it was it was okay it just felt sparse to me okay on Pulp Fiction I have so much I can do yeah I think it's more obvious on what you're supposed to do on Pulp Fiction for sure I even went and read the rules and I was like okay I know what to do oh okay yeah and and the rules are cool the rules are very cool it's just the play to me felt sparse they are they are very different games for sure I don't know if I have a preference on one or the other a dang it those darn pinball skills what do you guys think I wonder what our chat thinks if those who have played both Bon 60 is a little bit harder to play because you don't see it out very often but um if you've played both so when you do play it it feels a little bit more special yeah it is special I think and I love the real I think the real is super cool I think it's um I think it I I appreciate a lot of what that game was mhm um I think it's really cool hearing whenever someone talks about how when if they you know worked on it and um they they did some really cool tricks to get the game to feel more em like more classy what did they do uh a lot the scoring was definitely different y um all right safe there oh pH obviously the Reel was a big The Reel was a big one um I I can't remember if they did the old trick with the last digit not being a real real oh yeah where it's just a painted zero yeah but I think the whole sound package switching is really neat so you can pick which era you want to hear that's super cool very very neat those little touches man it it had like Innovative Concepts in it I just never never felt the play like I never got any kind of flow on that game okay yeah but I know other people love it I the I the left shot that doesn't do exactly what I want it to I feel like the it goes all the way around and sometimes it goes into the saucer he cashing in some free bumper bumper shotgun points there uh well this is a commanding lead if I'm reading the scores correctly a commanding I don't think I've ever rolled this game oh my gosh but what is this sorry I did not I did not reset our names over here this is ball five and we're we're watching this game then we're going to stay on hot tip and we're going to watch the showdown between junior and hot tip also known as Grand Prix but oh sorry Grand Prix he I think he moved over here for that purpose the Horseshoe on bond is the best doesn't feel like the one on Jaws repris that shot that's true I think that horseshoe was the Horseshoe was Keith's inspiration on the the pawn shot and Jaws um I yeah when you compare the two I do prefer the 60th horse for the for the real shot for no for the well yeah the real has a it like the ball goes in and comes out you know and there's that same shot on bond where it comes in out um and it probably it worked a little bit better on on 60th for sure oh ja is a good game though despite that
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    shot look at him just feeling comfortable on this game I think he just wants to roll it no if you drain now you're not going to roll it no yes you H you're barely going to shoot one more shot 10 I want to see a roll it's going to roll if he drains he gets
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    5,000 oh don't tilt there you go there's a roll oh that feels good that feels good oh he lost he only has 4,000 points rough game rough you know what would I was looking at cheetah I can't turn off the brain of like oh that's a cool feature on this old game Eric's basement helped me write a lot of roles I feel like but something that's lost is the visual bonus on the Playfield I think we can work that back then you know I was just thinking about that the other day I was working on an em and I was like I love especially as a commentator but I love being able to just see the bonus yeah and it lights up and that's fine exed feels know that you maxed out the bonus and instead of just 10,000 5 whatever it will be 10 million 20 million and that feels right maxed out at 10 100 million sure double 200 million but you can't go over I mean yeah there's so much you can do that like yes you can Max it out but also you have to work through on cheetah for instance you have to work through that set of drop targets it's hard to get to how many times before you Max it out so it's still pretty competitive be it's a whole game in itself just making you know that and plus with modern lights and you know the light effects and light CHS like having that strip it you can do a lot of cool things with it oh yeah you know with the with just like cycling a lots like a like a airplane strip yeah yeah yeah something when when did we get away from that I mean it solid a lot of solid States had them and then as soon as bonus became less of a thing so yeah yeah solid state was that last because DMD they were like well you know we got so much other stuff so many other ways to show information you don't have to you know depend on lights like that I really do I love that idea I would love to see that brought back yeah that' be cool I'm surprised that neither um Bon nor uh um pul fic did that even just like the way that space shuttle did it which you know you had this grid that yeah it was it wasn't you didn't just have 10 lights I mean they had an entire grid but you were able to use that GD for I cheetah similar to big game cuz they got those grids uh it's a little different space shuttles was actually functioning almost like a DMD so it could be used to to do other things okay and it would spell out like it spells out space shuttle in a track mode and that kind of thing um but it was a cool way to do bonus in a grid and you could use it for other things yeah I mean if you're in a Special Rule like you know you don't have to use those for it can be that you're collecting the value that's lit on something in a certain wizard mode style like you can multi-purpose I think that would be super cool oh no I have seen if it goes up with enough speed it will come back off it will just like kind of I don't know what happens it's almost like you're better luck if you are doing that thing with a lot of speed by the way we're just watching a practice ball here that's why he's got that time yeah we were all bummed when it went out well bum because that was a nice shot y I don't know if this would be a one I want to practice on just because it's like I don't know where to practice a shot without making it be my actual game you know cuz again you're saying you ruined if you actually like practice you want to do things that are it's definitely not what you would normally do yeah cuz you don't want a real game you don't want a real Ball but with every ball on this game it's like it's live you know there's no cute thing that you can be like all let's do some post passes yeah yeah yeah try something out y oh dangerous dead bounce but I mean really was fine but ballsy for sure nice right orbit so now I think we're watching The Real Thing Chris has been playing great I feel bad I moved out of Louisville as soon as he like really picked up steam and you know got got really good got good quick he really did and I'm like okay bye and bye run it away no he's been making tracks for sure yeah ah yes I like many others am half convinced that like our Championship Series 5 10 years from now is going to be all people under 25 you know I me eventually hopefully we just want to keep pinball alive sure for sure having having these youngans these young can I say that I don't know you're pretty young in your own self I think so I don't know I feel so aged multi brw multi braw oh yeah fun multi while that c i mean oh multi brawl multi um what's that game Champion Pub CH Pub best game if you want to show off some pinball to somebody and you're like check out this game over here because it's got like the center character and all the fun stuff yeah the jump rope the the multi ball is lame actually I don't like it but it's very in yourr face it's very loud like in a dark room you're going to just be like wow something's happening I can't see it because all the flashing light so it's certainly happening great call outs too the jump rope is so cool and I keep waiting for somebody else to revive that not going to happen that is the most expensive Mech is it really oh nice nice not t go out um yeah I mean there's someone I think someone at s was just talking to me about it of like yeah so that thing has like three mechs in it because the it has a magnet it has a post and then it has a motor yeah so oh yeah is like that's like half of your bomb what is it how how does it Vault the ball it's a upward kicker post but it that's what's pushing it yeah it's like a little kicker oh but there's a magnet to make sure the ball comes back properly and and settles yeah so I I I don't think we're all see it no but it's such a cool Mac such a cool the game itself is fun it's not my favorite but the yeah rules AR very accommodating for like interest furthered like interest but for games that you want to show off some all right let's see how Chris deals with this kick out here want to hold off the left flipper oh man that was exactly what wasn't supposed to happen I don't even know if the flipper would have saved that one I don't think so I think that one you want to hold up it though like you do not like that I don't even I don't know that clearance was pretty high that looked straight straight down the middle I don't know if there was straight the middle working the name of the channel in there man I want to talk about my future game I want you to talk about it so bad I was like uhoh straight down the middle is it a game based on this twitch Channel yeah awesome I cannot wait can I voice myself just twitch it's called Prime and it's based on Twitch the the app yeah yeah it's lots of purple man that's pretty meta if we're if we're making a pinball machine based on Twitch based on pinball it was so gross I hate that smash that like And subscribe button guys it's just there's a mode it's just smash smash that like And subscribe button uh nice try to keep it in but it ain't going to stick yeah there's a hype train yeah it's like Zeppelin's guitar solo where the whole game State changes and like you have to hit those Cent over and over again I just found out about the guitar solo thing just now cuz I never play Le Zepp you know Le Zeppelin so cool is an underrated game this is what I'm gathering so I hated it when it came out I was like there's nothing on it what am I shoys yeah Playfield not a lot going on software though the rules are really cool I really like I played it in uh San Francisco for like three hours I was waiting for a flight yeah I mean I love objective based things getting you know 70 Spinners and five ramps that's fun and then yeah the that found its way into Jaws that was awesome yeah well he already had that with Cyborg multiball on Iron Maiden oh right so really I think he was just biting his time to use use that again yeah I think that's could have I think he could have been safe with the dead bounce but he was a little bit nervous and when you're at the game you kind of have more of a sense of that you know the um momentum with the ball and you're like it's not going to make it you flip at it an under flip cyborg multiball doesn't allow you to pick your objectives though right no it's the same objectives okay okay I think we're going to get fired from commentating cuz we have a bad habit of talking about every other game while playing I know I used to be so much better at this now I have too much to talk about too much to talk about we only get to see each other like twice a year I I know we have Tak catch up on everybody's like guys just take it outside or something Take It Outside I tell me what's going on in this game but I have so much to talk we have so much we we need to talk about lead Zeppelin clearly obvious priorities man Chris is uh very he is definitely feeling safe yeah I mean Gary's having a hard time getting it going and we're on Ball Four to be under a 100,000 on Ball Four is rough in this game okay let's see how you deals deal deal okay totally fine not even a big deal that that that was good y that he's got that Max now which means his spinner is lit for their okay little baby spins but you know you're going to get this weird feed here okay take oh gets away with it when you first start playing Grand Prix you're really going for that Bonus Match you see with that speed like he Alli passed it it was a for a save he didn't he didn't do it purposefully but that was with speed it's almost kind of safe actually it's fine totally fine when it when it starts eing its way toward those channels I just get so nervous like that no you got it's all about adjusting this game is all about adjusting of like all right you're allowed to do it once y yeah and then we all have that do that again yeah yeah all right gets an a nice end Lane there very kind of the game to do that you ever just watch somebody get every end Lane ever yeah it's always my opponent yeah and then I touch one sling and I'm out oh sure yeah oh no oh little flier fumble that that I'm worried that Chris feels a little too confident like he wasn't fighting for that one and that's don't know he might have left the door open let's just see that felt like a a tough you think that was just a just a little accident yeah that the ball had that bounce where it was just out of R of your flipper you know yeah yep yep okay so he just needs a few spins there you go don't do that I like in the shake that was right you learned from the last one gave it a little shake to keep it in okay deal with the feed deal with feed he's going to get this back I on this particular game you kind of don't want to go in the sage because then you have to re your spinner before you get your points yep plus saucer is super dangerous well he made a run at it but Gary could not catch up and a good tilt because there wasn't anything El you were going to be able to do with that why not why not he um I mean this this is a game that if you know the game well you will get your bonus all the way laded up you know about the the inlane issue and then you just go for the spinner all day right the spinner really becomes the source for most of your points if you don't know this game well and I suspect maybe Gary hasn't played a lot of it you get caught on that inlane problem you struggle to get that bonus up you never even get the opportunity to play the spin you know that the in Lane is a problem but to be able to you know adjust the way you play yep what are those little envelopes doing there those are the prize envelopes do I get one yeah everybody who shows up gets one cool do you want this one this one looks heavier than the others no I want the lightest one you want I do get the lightest one right um You Might Lost first round you might but then what what what about all the people who lose they get the same amount yeah okay I didn't know if it had something to do with seating no Kentucky has to discover the Pinball Museum in Corbin Kentucky over 115 games on free play from Delta Queen to the upcoming D and D need some entucky representation true what the heck I have never been there I have never been there but have you heard of it I mean now you have I I have I have had friends that are like come to Corbin and I'm like that's a 5H hour drve I'm like I might live in Kent but that's a 5our drive all right we're going to remind you again how to play some Doctor Who
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    oh what's crapping and everybody let's learn some Doctor Who okay to start off you have a choice between one of seven doctors most players will choose one of Dr one Dr 6 or Dr 7 starting off with Dr one Dr one makes video mode easier to qualify you qualify video mode by hitting these Escape standups right here or by hitting the ball back into the pops dropping it into the scoop behind the standups to get progress towards video mode Once video mode is lit you hit it back into the pops area if it drops into that scoop you start video mode which is one flipper for short jump two flippers for long jump can be worth big points if you get through lots of video modes with a 4X Playfield multiplier Playfield multipliers are increased by the upper ramp you shoot the ball up to this dead end Lane and loop it around the ramp here each time you do it will advance your Playfield multipliers in the middle of the Playfield if you have doctor six it will make advancing your Playfield multipliers much easier players will also Loop this ramp 10 times to start the sonic boom mode which will light the W shot into the H shot into the O shot for a three- shot combo worth up to 120 million points if you have 4X Playfield multiplier if you choose Dr 7 that makes getting to multiball easier you lock a ball in each saucer up top the time expander will raise revealing a bank of targets here to shoot at which each time you hit them will fill up this grid of Lights in front of them if you have Dr 7 you have to it takes less shots to complete that grid and raise the time expander once again to reveal three Windows once you shoot one of those three windows multiball will begin the three windows will reveal themselves again during multiball and each time you hit all three that is a jackpot worth an increasing amount of points that is also multiplied by your Playfield multipliers in the middle of the Playfield that's Doctor
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    Who all right Doctor Who now all right I had to read what each doctor did in my little oh yeah like I was like reading rule sets before this 1 14 and seven Man 1 14 and seven those are your doctors I'm really bad at uh the video mode so oh yeah we were talking earlier Eric and I a lot of points in that video mode that's what they say unless you do it bad and then unless like most things in pinball wow lots of um getting the ball back to the flipper very impressive yeah all right a little late on that side ramp but you know you just you learn and you just where is Corbin Kentucky somebody somebody fill me in on the geography cuz I want to go to this place and I have never I'll pull it up there you go so you saw in the tutorial video that Loop strategy makes a awfully big difference you get that Playfield multiplier up he goes right back up into the loops yeah that's nice y start picking up those millions
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    millions I also for whatever reason on this game I struggle to see the flippers as well I think it's cuz they've got like the lightning bolt and they're in the middle of a busy pattern yeah that happens to me on python Angelo games too cuz he would hide his flippers in the art yeah I'm trying to think of which games I I find the same I don't I don't actually love like um flipper stickers because of that yeah feel I lose I feel the same way python games are notorious for it like if you go over to uh pinbot there's like there's pictures of other flippers underneath the flipper like it is the least helpful thing ever I think um he's messing with us what's it called fish tals are a little bit like that cuz the art is the same as the thing under yeah yeah yeah that's really
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    hard says 1 hour south of Lexington on I75 very nice it's a drive for Kentucky players but would help have another area presented absolutely and thank you for calling it out on the stream I mean what what a treasure 115 games on free play Amazing yeah so this is Kentucky it's pretty oh it's okay yeah now due south of Lexington looks like there's a main row to get you there so 75 a long hour I'm surprised it's just an hour yeah maybe if you're at the tip of Lexington and aiming although that it's a beautiful drive like in the in the spring and summer beautiful drive gold I love driving Kentucky man already got into his first multi a bit harder to get into the second one but he's not focus on that he's going to hit some side I mean get get those Playfield multipliers up especially if you're going to go into multip gets a kind feed out of the pops there yep this going to let's see how this totally fine not even a big deal oh shits a bit early with speed that would have made it up there I think he's working on his video mode as well working towards his video mode I don't know I think he's really focused on the left this is the decision here oh to go for lock or go for Loop oh it was the decision I I thought he was going to go
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    for yeah that was just clearing the lock clearing the lock that Tri me up for a second there not all I mean that's a setting right not all doctor who have that turned on so it does freak you out yeah this is and he also gave word I don't know if it says this in the tutorial but this one has the ROM on it that does not count down your play field decks on uh while the ball is in the launcher oh you're not draining time on your Playfield de yeah apparently you that carries from ball to ball um but it's continuously going down including when the ball is in the launcher okay what what an interesting change to have to make like but it I totally makes sense fire does that fire will count down your your uh value while you're in the launcher and it's really frust really fire value so it it will and I don't know when but it will sometimes start your ball essentially like if if if the ball even rolls off the rocker switch a little bit really and then in in fire you have to put out fires quickly or they become less and less valuable oh I never really picked up on that I I never I just shoot the orbits I just shoot the Orit Orit but if you leave the ball in the in the plunger Lane it will it'll count it down to being kind of useless so Chris is also getting pretty comfortable with these side shots really awesome there Prett good dead bounce and honestly the feed if you if you half ramp that it's not that bad you end up in a sling but you don't end up yeah looks in chaos usually that left orbit shot or the left um stop shot the hang on shot mhm I was I was finding it to be quite tight but they're having a field day with it yeah all right here we go back they are better at that than I am I struggle with that shot yeah there you go oh hitting a little early wants to needs to a little bit later so one thing I've seen players do here is even from a trap it's it's difficult a lot of people will take it from the from the plunge which means if you go back around that orbit and then end up back under the Tardis you can get it off a plunge again oh yeah just kind of resets for a second and get off punch one of the doctors makes it a longer time on the lit hang on apparently I don't know how much value it is though on the on the Playfield multiplayer no the hang on oh you get longer to hit it the hang on is the stand up back yeah and um I think it builds so oh cool maybe you can get it up there you go see yeah so it starts out at like 250 I think I see oh no weird I thought that was going to be safe I honestly that was a double flip I think maybe a flam save might have helped or something or slap is this a 13 ball game no they learned their lesson with the 13 balls that's awesome uh apparently yeah they did exactly one game with 13 balls and it's no fun not good not a good decision it was a really cool novelty and it probably paid off but my God man it's a lot I don't even have that many pin balls like if you add them all up I yeah I have like 10 I would have to steal some of the cap balls from my old jawes or oh my gosh get them out of the boat they're still in there yeah if you go to the boss and say I want to make a game with 13 balls are you just getting laughed out of the room no I'm thinking one ball that's all I it actually yeah go for a for te ball game and just set set a new record why not you'd be like the world's most pinballs ever you can set balls to be how many like I think there's a Max on how many balls you can set a game to I think 10 I think you can set it to 10 ball all the STS oh I see yes sorry I was thinking of launching it once like a multiball but no okay a 14 ball yeah 14 ball game would go on forever yeah depending oh my goodness you should see my niece she's she goes through them her favorite thing about pinball is the launch so she's like drain faster you know yeah on JW she's like car car car which only shows on ball one so I have to continuously just restart the game and of course she's like no don't touch the buttons type you know like I have to like restart the game you know she keeps hitting the start button to try to get the game to start again but she's just adding players little kids love doing that at the arcade like the start button might be their favorite thing oh yeah just hitting that button spamming the start button but once she gets the car she she's just watching you know and her hand is over the center but the center button she's not pressing it she knows if she presses the car goes away oh okay and then it launches and then I'm like you want to see the dog and she's like yeah yeah so I really do I I better hit those drop targets now you know she's like where's the dog I one day I will put a flipper code in that thing and make it really easy to show all of her favorite videos it'll just be for her she'll be the only one it'll be her initials that is fun can you sneak code in there in the middle of the night so nobody notices all the time yeah yeah yeah that's fun I I have a few things I need to go back on and fix it is in my life goals to so Jeff tiis the podcaster Fantastic uh podcaster if you guys don't listen to pinball profile you should um he is on a pinball game now his voice oh yeah he's a great voice um I mean he's Thor or Zeus or something yeah yeah yeah yeah Jeff Parsons who used to run an amazing pinball podcast is on a pinball game okay how do I get this job I don't know how they did it but you can ask me all right that's it's in my life goals if you can make it happen you have a forever sure thanks yeah say jackpot jackpot no that was terrible jackpot what jackpot it's exciting jackpot okay there we I just want scre that's better that's better now I would love to I just need an excuse so if you if you can think of one if you can find a reason yeah forever get some get some jackpot callouts I love it yep well you can be the snarky voice I feel like a lot of ball machines there's like the straight man and then the snarky guy I want to be the snarky one you want to be the snarky one you're like play better you know yeah exactly like the Black Knight play better play better how fun would that funny just some some something when Parsons did it he was on Rick and Morty and he did an awesome job sounding like a newscaster which I think is what he is like he sounded like an announcer for sure yeah he nailed that yeah he nailed it that's a good role mhm I think he yeah I think he's in a mode as a like a announcer which works out perfectly oh man I would not want my voice on a pinball machine really no technically technically I have one are you in are you in one um I made it so that well Guido help me with it
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    okay of Thrones which is game I wish I played I don't know I played Doctor Who instead did did you notice by the way we just let that entire game go by and didn't say anything we're going to watch Game of Thrones though I'm I'm psyched to see we are the worst worst commentators ever here's what the bracket looks like so we've got three up Chris takes that one uh three up on Gary Tim is one up on Josh Shawn is one up on kayin and Justin Ryan two up on heat so that's where we're at now let's take let's learn how to play Game of Thrones this is one of my favorites to listen to CU Eric did it in one take tried to explain all the rules in two minutes let's
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    go start the Jou before I piss myself let's learn some game of THS premium starting off players typically choose barathan Tyrell or Martell to start the game to light mode hit any major shot three times to light mod to start up the center ramp you can start two modes at one time you can either complete the modes doing the flashing shots on the lower play field or you can hit the three standups on the upper play field then the loop-de-loop and it will comp complete all modes at once during single ball play If you hit the three standup Targets on the upper play field then shoot behind them you will collect castles once you collect enough castles you will start Castle multiball down here on the lower Playfield the battering ram if you hit this enough that will start Playfield multipliers for up to 5x Playfield multipliers other multiballs you can shoot lock targets over here to light locks on the center ramp lock three balls up the center ramp you will start Blackwater multiball which be combined with up to two modes other multiballs are wall multiball qualified by shooting the kickback right here shoot that enough and you'll qualify wall multiball on the right orbit winner has come multiball once you've qualified modes using shots they will ice over once you hit those enough they will start winner is coming hurry UPS on any major shot collect four of those hurry UPS to start winner has come multiball if you've completed four modes you will light hand of the king mini wizard mode up the center ramp for very valuable scoring now into strategy if you pick the barathan house you will have a yellow center button lit that you can hit to light your outlane saves once per ball also you can hit down the drop Target Bank over here as well as the kickback to work towards wall multiball and once you're in there it is worth 10x for Baratheon users tyell you will have a lit in lanane which will light shot multipliers all over the Playfield so always be rolling down a lit in Lane with Tyrell which you can switch with the flipper if you are Martell this is an orange button that you can use during multi balls once per ball where you will add a ball to play and restart your ball save in a multiball that's Game of
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    so all right now we're watching Game of Thrones shoulder shot see this is why I didn't want to play Sean on Game of Thrones I can do this too but I don't think I could do it today he is really really good double danger this is a tie tilt every year Eric finds a way to make this game a little bit harder I'm glad we finally have our Eric cam on this is our Eric cam looking
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    fine we should Eric's a good guy I think it's funny how there's so many different names that he goes by yeah Eric Chuck Chuck that gets real confusing when mid stream we call him Chuck yeah wart wart yeah family friend my uncle and him are yeah I didn't know it by pure coincidence yeah I think they grew up uh together maybe went to the same high school or something Kentuck is a small town you know exactly it's it would be more impressive for him not to know
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    someone yeah Sean's going for the hurry UPS interesting yeah the winner is coming hurry UPS here I assume that we're watching a an in progress Tournament game not a practice ball cuz he's been at it for a while look he's completed four modes he has did he play hand of the king apparently he played winnner as come well no that's a hurry up thing has he played has he played hand of the king oh I don't know that's a good question I thought I see is this ball three or ball two ball three oh man okay okay a good cool 1.2 all right just need another got a good shot of ever that character is million I was I was talking with someone I forget when I was like yeah I know some Game of Thrones knowledge he's a big fan of the show and he's like quizzing me on stuff and I'm like yeah uh if it's in the pin mhine I know it but otherwise he had he was like what is um the quote from the iron Fleet and I'm like I'm lucky I know what iron flate is I never seen the show it was something like something about dying and if you if you've died you never will wow wow wow me talking about things I don't know about now I thought there was a multi ball if you hit the winter is coming hurry up enough is there not a multi ball for that I maybe I might have made that
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    up wow okay that's how rare people go for it is we yeah I seriously now there's another thing I love the code on this game even though it's very exploitable but that's my favorite thing about Dwight code it's exploitable yeah Star Wars love it yeah yep yep all right one more stand up up here you can get a lot of points in Castle what's the max multiplier in Star Wars like 48 yeah it's crazy kayin Smith you're watching kayin Smith not Gary or Chris okay one more stand up right up the center yeah okay did not count it for some reason there's big moves double dangered nice dead pounce okay let it calm down excuse me is she's going to go back up to the top play field again or is it up the center I wonder if she's going to lock here I don't know how many we have locked we need one more um oh no early by the stand up I was wondering if you need four for hand of the king correct four locks four hand of the king you need four modes oh four modes yeah oh talking about voice over work you best voice over call out in multiball oh my goodness Super Jackpot Super Jackpot oh great I think oh I did hear about him in the booth and he was I I'm trying to remember but I think it was a a really fun time really like the yeah like usually the way they record is that they'll have the lead software guy and then the lead sound guy so like for our game D and D like it it was um Jerry Thompson okay and and Dwight and you know sometimes they give some direction other times it's like oh mispronounce this word we'll go back and and whatever but with that one like he was just going with it didn't he was just well he was giving multiple takes and oh cool you know cuz that's one of the things it's like if they're just kind of wanting to go through the lines it's kind of hard to you know egg them on for more things um but him he didn't need a lot of Direction and he was just yeah ripping those jackpots that's awesome Super Jackpot super I I know Christopher Walkin apparently does this when he's recording when he's making a movie is he'll just give you five takes in a row without being asked he'll just just keep doing it yeah yeah it's fine as long as each take is different you know cuz some it's like all right I got three lines they all sound the same there's now it's just extra work on our sound guy Jerry to cut it up and then send it to me and then I have to put in the game and that it takes like an hour to do one voice uh bucket oh really what's a voice bucket a voice bucket is a um like you can have multiple lines for the same instance so like a jackpot you know they can say jackpot or Nice Shot or amazing so that whole thing is a bucket it takes like an hour especially for D andd because there's a lot of um context and if they it's like well it's this character they're playing as this character they have beat this m they lost this other one so it'll be this line so that bucket is it just get compated but it's so it's so worth as a player it's so worth it to have that variety and to have that personalization so I don't think this is practice I think we're in I think we're in it I don't I guess they're not going to warm up yeah okay so he's chosen bran but he's going to pass for now going to try to get Lanner started which is why you pass for now it's the center ramp shot and you have to hit that like three times yep all right going to do it again going to do it one more nope that's just kidding great control though really comfortable on those feeds I mean we saw it with kin's last shot but that that ramp is not a gimme yeah it's oh what a bummer fli fumble right down
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    theid ER I all right I'll be back in a bit I got all right see you best oh he said it back yay
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    I forget who I said this to fix that I'm going to wait for his to be over I'm fix oh man working harder than anybody Eric oh some weird feeds weird reads a little bit weired on that never seen the show but played the pinball machine is a sentence I say about a lot of things or movies never listen to them but I've played Foo Fighters right all of my pop culture knowledge comes from pball
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    all right o okay trying to get the ball back under control here going to flip on the Fly aiming
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    for aiming aiming for safety that's what we're aiming for aiming for points once that last one not going to get it that one is definitely the hardest stand up you kind of have to hit it like further on the left the rubber is kind of guarding the right side of that stand up so even a direct hit might not catch it quite right you have to sneak it
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    in getting some more Center ramps now his lanister is going to be lit he can stack these he does so with barath you want to shoot the left spinner and that will light the castle shot or the dragon shot and then you do that and then you light the standups and then you collect on the drop targets I mean are they stand ups on the pro I think they're stand us on the pro okayo wild wild times wild shots Bran's the way I like to play it getting that maxed out 150 right off the bat just feels great but it's so much risk and I kind of was afraid to try so I didn't even I didn't choose this game Nails the left castle in the top 2x Playfield in the upper Playfield how about that how about it love to say it all right just it on up on in there no he wants to three exit he's putting it away boom charging for 22 M so I feel like for the longest time the Louisville folks were really good at Game of Thrones premium because of Zanzibar I feel like oh and then I don't I don't know if it's been around quite quite a lot in the past you know however many years but well I'm like I I always play this one really well and I was afraid of not of breaking the streak so I purposefully shied away from this game yeah and then sea didn't pick it right did did he not oh well I mean against you yeah he picked Manda yeah he picked Mand
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    though I I was surprised that I chose Dr Hill which is a weird sentence to say I love in that a big collect there 150 for completing his modes with the upper Playfield and having the 3x going up there really really fun oh okay so what I see a lot of new players doing that are starting to learn completing modes with the upper play field they don't realize the 2x 3x you know loopy up there and then they just complete him and they're like wait a minute like why wasn't that as big as before well more knowledgeable player did the multipliers first then did it so you got 150 instead of 50 from completing those two modes he's definitely shooting for it too y mode rule knowledge is is key in competitive play oh yeah which sometimes is why a holder games are kind of nice CU you know you're not going to be beaten on that yep o he's like he's he's got his hand hovering that's why I like the player can the way we got it so you can kind of see when are they deciding what like when are they hitting the button that kind of thing it is um I don't know why people had a problem with jaw's ball save versus this one because the code was the rule and the code were exactly the same but people complained on jaw's that I think a lot more people play Jaws yeah not know about it I don't think anyone really knows about the bran but you have to be really cognizant like really early CU if you have to have it lit by the time it hits the switch at the top and I do Jaws the same way I I'm just preemptive about it because I think the grace period is much shorter on Jaws I'm not sure how long it'll kind of stay active but there is a grace period yeah this one doesn't well well this one here it stays on for like 10 seconds so like if I'm going side to side I just start it you know and then if I happen to work my way out the out lanes it's still lit but Jaws is much shorter in that regard is it shorter yeah I it feels pretty long okay so maybe it is a a similar you know it depends on it it gets shorter and shorter with every time I was talking about grace period it it's a grace period on light so it can go across the switch and be almost in the trough and you can hit it it'll back yeah so then that reduces as well either like the grace period short or goes away or eventually it does get back to the original was graan style you have to H got hit before yep but everyone complained about it so another castle multiball castle can be really valuable uh I think Shawn had a 200 yeah 200 but he really didn't have any multipliers going so if Junior can uh going with yeah yeah he was stage flipping which is my favorite thing that's bummer yeah but yeah so he he was in Castle multiball for a quarter of the time and almost got what sea got on his now is it harder to get through Castle um on the second go do you know uh no it's the same it's the same yeah that's why I thought now you don't have as many balls to work with where it runs down that right in Lane to give you a free collect on the left but that's really the only way it's a little bit slower that right stand up is the hardest to hit for sure so I backhand that one but yeah going forehand is is is even the backhand cuz that rubber blocks your entry so it typically only has one rubber there but it gets shredded and they break all the time so I stacked up three of them so I don't have to replace them all the time I see that but it did make the shot hard oh nice tip over with the he's H some good good saves to get control again life ring is much more skillful I just agree I think this one's the more skilled um outlane save yeah cuz you're not getting that grace period ever so yeah it's consistent but but again whether the timer's longer on how long it stays lit when you hit ital right but I hardly I feel like I'd never list if it if it's a misread and it didn't actually go out the outlane I hardly ever find the out lane later on right yeah all right 3x again up there
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    no oh excuse me swing but he was on it ready y excellent read so these will stay on until you use them right which this is when you Center Dr That's the Law right gr Joy is the hardest mode to complete yeah the timers are very quick yeah it is uh each time you hit a shot it'll kind of bump up the timer again a little bit but yeah it goes quick oh it it goes yeah I almost find that this is not a good multiball mode because you have to be so good about shooting the shots yeah and I've I've gone way far away from the you know weight to you get to multiball stack your Ms the whole thing and just play naked Ms cuz they're plenty plenty valuable just just rip your shots and score Castle shot is definit I call it the castle shot what do you the dragon shot yeah so on the pro it's the dragon shot and here's the castle shot um but it's a you know a kickback either way so I think it just depends on which one you play okay all right hand of the king is lit no big deal and he's going to be a good hand of the king he did not play Martell which is yep so that has to hit every shot twice did he take barathan into this which would mean he has to hit every shot if he did that's not a big deal you can usually yeah so he's got that but that's not a huge deal having to hit all seven shots I think ooh flip your flippers
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    dude he's uh catching the here he's going to try to get there we go yeah I wouldn't want to shimmy this this
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    game Chris did a really really good job of getting the balls under control so you can get into this situation of figuring out how to get that ball unstuck
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    there we go got it easy I was going to say I'm like Chris got this just shoot the just shoot the right ramp and then you know it it'll come out I have a house roll that uh if you have okay he's going to he's going to have to use that one there it's fine so he's going to want to be um shoting these purple shots you can get some pretty good quick value out of this if you're able to use the combo system and then right up in Miss that's okay that's probably going to be a 70 million shot all right so that was a cool situation because it's where my rules differ a little bit from the ifpa I I agree with this ruling what is it so if you have a ball stuck during multiball but you have at least two balls live that you're controlling I don't make you stop and trap up with that ball stuck but if you get down to only one ball that your playing with and the other ball stuck then you got to stop I I thought that was actually the real way I think I played your tournaments first so I was like yeah that's how it works and then eventually it's somewhere they were like you have to trap your balls I was like I have five balls in play and you want me to trap up because one is stuck somewhere yeah so you're telling me on Apollo 13 I have 13 balls out there 12 live and one stuck and I got to trap up all the other balls call it's going to get unstuck like don't it I mean right there he hit the right ramp got unstuck amazing like wow so I like that R yeah I've yet to see a situation in my tournaments where it's been like okay I see why ifpa differs on this but I've have yet to see it yeah I I was about I was going to say I'm like I have a house R I stopped because I was like may this is so controversial maybe I won't talk about it going to accuse me of cheating yeah um it doesn't happen so often is the thing yeah so kind of Target that ball I say if you're making honest attempts at getting the ball unstuck while you're having two balls because two balls it's like okay it's a little if you have four balls in play and there's one stuck somewhere it's like who cares if you have two I'm like in my mind I'm like I'm going to try to get it unstuck whereever that is I had a ball stuck on an in lanane okay yeah in at some big tournament and on stream did you shat one up there to get it out of there no I kept playing of course it's going to come out but the guy in the booth was like I got to go get it I got to go stop her you know I'm like okay um yeah so but if it's if it's one in one that's truly like even if you have a rule of okay you can try and shoot it out you can be like oh whoops I kept hitting this Super Jackpot over and over again while I Wasing ball so I definitely get that point but until you get to that point I don't really see the the issue making this game look easy Chris Chris is great ball though work right now feeling good that's that's not his first game over a billion look at that bonus that's from the castles he uh that was yeah was ball three okay so he got over 250 in bonus because he was completing those modes getting castles with the upper play field and that really jumps up your bonus and if you can have a long ball like that and get your bonus xway up there you go easy pinball pin got a quarter of his score and bonus there man rules are so cool so cool this one I think it's interesting the whole hand of the king idea with the modes that you bring into it changing that mode fabulous hasn't been done in this way since I can't name another game yeah it's name me another game well and and ever since this game happened every single like coder I talk to or rules maker I'm like all right you all these modes like everything I'm doing beforehand has to affect what I'm doing in this mode now it's got to change the scoring it's got to do something but I like how like people like hey if I just want to beat the game I can do that real quick but your score might be terrible you know like there's just so many different things to do in this game it was so fun yeah I mean like Kobe AI I feel like did the first right and that it's the gold silver bronze like how much yeah it affects the points but this one affects the rules and that's where I think this game got it right yeah for sure so looks like I got to replace the batteries and the microphone so I'll go over there and get those ready and when some sand effects when yeah go ahead all right ready click
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    CL that's the those are their sounds so yeah um I mean it's the whole wet modes you bring in build out the MTI ball mode it is so hard to have that forward sight of what because you have to know modes are easy to complete therefore it should have a negative effect and having a negative effect is counterintuitive to um you know a player it's kind of scary as a rules designer do you want to penalize the player for doing something good cuz I think this is kind of in a way does that you completed Martell great your next your can of the king is going to be harder to complete now um I want to play with this idea I think I'm going to have to um I was just gushing over how I like Game of Thrones oh yeah the rules are cool they are cool I think it's interesting I can't name a lot of games that punishes a player for doing something good this one it does in a way because if you complete Martell yeah you beat it you bring it in hand of the king hand of the king is harder why because Martell is easy to complete you chose to do Martell over a harder mode or maybe just a different one that's less that that's just different less uh like I think Stark makes it easier you only have to shoot the shots once or something or amazing so it really I did not know that yeah right huh I have to read about time fantasy I don't know about that one um but I I'm really playing with this idea and I wanted to make it even more accessible of having a rule that punishes good players in a way that makes the game harder it's not it's not rules punishing I mean no it is rules punishing it's not score punishing so it might even be a higher scoring opportunity but it's going to be the game is scaling with you basically so that's really clever I yeah I'm I'm trying to I'm like talking through this idea out loud trying to like feel it out and figure out like where that line is because again punishing a player for doing something good doesn't sound fun yeah but I think it can be yeah I mean if you have the option of taking an easy way out or taking a harder way out take the harder way out you can win not sounds like you can win not only on points for that mode sure but for something else but it's like yeah it's like yes more valuable but later now you're going to have to do double amount of work yeah you have to do more I think that is the way a game can scale its difficulty to the player is by doing something like that that's really good you know because a lot of people I was in a a panel at one point and one of the questions for us was um are you thinking are as it was more towards the game designers are you thinking of ways to make the game more challenging as the game goes on because it's really okay Justin and Heath on big game um because I I think it's that it's the opposite the game gets easier as you go on because you're earning extra balls you're you're earning perks yep you know um but how you with this with this anti you know anti idea of you're doing so good do it again but in this you know sick way yeah yeah sure scoring's higher maybe but but we're also going to make it harder for you to get there GNA yeah so I think we'll just make games more um elastic mhm somebody just said we need rubber banding there you go make it more elastic all right no that's a great expression great idea yeah I'm still figuring it out well but I think Game of Thrones did a lot of cool things that is overlooked no one's talking about this yeah I didn't know about that rule and I've seen 100 games of it's so neat it's just kind of hidden and most people talk about the scoring exploits which are there but I don't know if you could look past it there's some really cool stuff that's going on in that that game all right hitting some drop targets I want to see someone picking their drops by like all right I got to see which Tic Tac Toe I need and all right wait and shoot what a save come on beautiful love that great clearing those drops so I'm liking this on ball one not really focusing trying to get into that spinner just building up that bonus because it carries yep it carries over ball one is the time that you want to really really load up on drops because it will pay off for the rest of the game we didn't play the tutorial on this cuz we're joining a mid game but what you'll see is these Bingo cards filling up as you hit your drop targets you'll also see on this game that these letters X Y and Z will rotate they it'll sort of time through each one when it's on x it will also have the spinner lit so you'll see a lot of people trap up right here or potentially either right here and just wait it out but it's really hard to aim CU these flippers are very Snappy even if you have it on the bottom flipper you can't really get a clean shot because the top flipper is going to be messing with it yeah I every time I play this game I go in way more confident than I should be I love this game and it beats me up every time and it's usually the upper flipper that gets me that's where I struggle I and J haha it says I andj oh they listen to best pinball commentary Duo thank you I will say getting to do this with Elizabeth is one of my favorite things I every time I'm like I'm going to get out early I'm just going to go home got stuff to do have laundry wow what a spinner rip the second you got out everybody was like get her to sit down big rip for big points this is that doubled his score right there almost he's going to go back to work spelling big game which you do by hitting various things and getting lucky down the in Lanes whoa Nails it and it's lit he's not even smiling he's like all right come on give me the ball back pinballs very soon when he keep playing yeah this is the time when he's got he's got a lot of his Bingo cards completed he's going to be able to collect that at the end the ball big bonus he's got his X up so now he's just going to live on that spinner almost got his Z complete with he is going to live on this Y where is that eight is it down right now no it's right next to the down one would that be sick did you see that backand it just totally bricked they caught right back in from that angle the drop Target says Nope drop targets are a tricky thing they are ooh that was cute it's kind of like a not full flip I drop targets are for me what Spinners are for Eric I want as many drop Targets on a game as possible all the time drop T cool sbad very neat got H the drops in order getting yeah yeah yeah that was a cool addition that was we were talking about EMS earlier but when salid States came along you could now do things like that right and games like um oh heck what's that bar orler joint uh barracora okay where it's really imperative that you hit them in order okay yeah it and SE witch and others that is it in order I mean cheetah isn't in order I think barracora barura you have to it will pop back up if you don't hit it in the correct order it doesn't even it's not even like C Wich where it just gives you less points yeah it or not cwitch um fathom but in barura it pops the target back up like nope rejected huh I haven't played bar in a while when I think of drops that do that i I normally think of well cheetah um I think um uh what's that alien poker alien poker and the laser Q both of those do that very interesting rules I love oh gosh here I am talking about games that aren't lit right now or on on stream right now we are the worst about that I'm just apologizing again we talk about other games while we're watching about how neat it is that both laser and Q and alien poker basically have the same rules but have compl I mean same layout but have completely different so neat y so I asked people Mike which do you prefer alien poker or laser Q I think that there's more laser there's more alien poers nice save the candy good dig I think more people are more used to alien poker so they like it more but I I do think I like the rules on laser Q better mhm mhm and the guy is special on the right out laser Q plays so fast I I love that game and it plays so fast you know you can stage so you never scissor Flipper on laser queue yeah if you're if you're good enough so not I like the games where it makes me feel like I'm really cool oh darn oh bummer what is a special on this is it like 500k or something what's a special worth Eric 100 100K that's lame why can't it be like 500 yeah for sure you know how much a special worth is on stars mm- like 500 it's the it's like the I win Target I mean a 500 a 500K on stars is so many points on a game that hates you so much what I think it's 1.5 yeah that is 1.5 actually actually no I'm 800 well let's just go get one and count we can see the glass off and just start hitting the buttons oh 50k okay what I don't know who sambuka said 50 it's 500 on this game or on Stars game he just said it's worth 100K oh special on stars is 100k okay there you go um well congrats to Justin on that one absolutely blew up big game I'll believe it I'll believe it when I see it absolutely blew it up here's the thing I feel like you can set the special differently on Stars I don't know totally because well I don't I I know you could set it to award points or extra ball I don't know if you can change what points maybe maybe uh so that was we just watched a couple balls on big game we're going to come back to that game because we love it very much we'll go with 100 and a big win for Justin Ryan there we saw a big win for Chris dit Jr uh sweeping to win the quarterfinals uh real quick I'm just going to look at the brackets it's something really good I'm going with 100 I'll never get tired of that that's pretty funny um so you can see our winners here and who's moving on Chris dit picks it up in a straight 40 win Tim Ellis picks it up in a four to1 over Josh Asbury Sean and close oh awesome you just saw Justin and Heath and now we're going to join kayin and Sean yeah probably uh M perhaps the last game here on hot trash that I actually like this game I love this game
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    too I don't know who put hot trash on it but I think it's hilarious yeah I think it was St all right so bonus kin is now two games to Shan's three so this is close but if indeed sea were to win this sea would move on big
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    fan of this game this is one of those that was also assault state right was hot tip also ass Sal state I say these things and I'm like yeah I'm right and I'm like I here's what I should do is I should go yes I don't know if it's true but then we both agree and nobody's going to look it up maybe I don't know absolutely look at everyone commenting on definitely 100K that does feel right that does feel right 1,000 a spin Williams first solid state solar thank you for that I did not know that solar that is no um solar in chat oh I was like solar right that is all right all right first okay I believe that that's some fun trivia I love pinball trivia and that is a new one love it yeah of course I can't beat anybody on pinball trivia anymore why cuz I work with people that know that on they actually were on all of them yeah they had like designers as their best man in their weddings it's like pretty hard oh boy what weird what weird okay we're good we're good everything's fine these rubbers are really fun they grab the ball and they they're sticky yeah they are so it feels like if it can just reach a flipper you're golden yep yeah I had somebody last time was turning the nky open asked me if these are proper rubbers or if these are silicon they are proper rubbers they just they're just sticky okay lits his spinner all right little weird speed on that oh yes yeah he's shoot that's got to feel good it had the best of spin on that ball it went towards the flipper rather than the Center okay weird feed on the Fly misses on the post a little bit early because it is so late we were talking about that mhm is he going to Aly pass yes he is he's going to be a little weird about it he's just going to be a little weird about it be a little weird about it yeah we saw Sean blowing this one up earlier and now at what Ball Four 397 in couny
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    although you had you had like a 600,000 Point ball on this on ball one do you remember that was amazing I was going to say I'm like Sean did play this well but you know who also yeah you played this really really well good your ball one was extraordinary he he left a lot of points on the table getting that getting the spinner lit just feels like such a win that you're like I better make the most of us for sure and and because it's so dangerous to play up in the drops you finally get that spinner L you feel like that's the only thing you want to do you know which is well worth it yeah you get like a 100 it's not as juicy as Grand Prix but it's still very very nice still pretty juicy I mean yeah you can you can get what are they a th000 a spin you can get 30,000 out of a good rip all the way up to I don't know 40 something I've seen it roll for yeah I mean he I saw Sean had a like he hit it while it was still spinning yeah yeah Eric has flippers as less d than is typically on hot tip oh yeah they're usually more droopy these feel they are weird they're weird they're flat they're I call them shallow they're shallow flippers yeah which is why shots like that are so late on The Flipper yep in there nice you can also see when on on some of these odms misre it didn't fire you guys it didn't fire that's rough let's see it let's see what happened shot always fir yeah it didn't fire yeah it always fires he's right oh that's so frustrating when that happens You' got a shot you're used to you know how to handle it and then something like that this game can pull some weird stuff it can hop flippers it can especially hop flippers actually it's screaming sometimes again the the Williams em just had these really strong powerful flippers and I think Eric put his on high tap power too so they're even more powerful all right with that sh again get a flipper hop he is 50K and bonus he's got this I mean she's got this sorry yeah kayin at 508 she's got just a little bit of a climb and it can get on bonus
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    alone but after I'm while okay we're having sounds like we're having some transmitter issues great job to kayn Smith tying it up with Shawn Davis at three and three awesome hardem glow ters let better good feeling this is a question that is interesting cuz now I'm thinking about what H what games have the best feeling lit Spinners I wouldn't say Harlem I don't think that's the top oh man they do feel good though I don't think that's the top one I mean for me it's Grand Prix all day I just when that thing lights and you fire at it I feel so good yeah but it's too easy to light I think I need a spinner that is harder to light so I feel extra you know with hot tip it's hard that makes sense you have to earn it yeah yeah so and also there's ones that once you hit it the value is gone mhm um so getting it completely maxed like a nine ball feels particularly special oh my gosh yes um yeah I I love meteor I'll Always Love meteor yep that spinner rip I had a meteor for years that spinner rip is just so satisfying and especially if you can rip the spinner and avoid the drop the one remaining drop and over and over again it just feels so good all right we're going to Bad Girls everybody let's take a look at bad girls and don't worry we're resetting those cameras for better receptivity so we'll get that fixed during bad
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    girls let's keep it weird with some bad girls pinball off the bat when you plunge you'll go up to the top Lanes or you can short plunge and have it drop short of the top Lanes come back down to the upper flipper and have an opportunity to shoot straight into the lock from multi ball right off the plunge when you hit drop targets down that will increase your end of ball bonus and collect pool balls once you collect all the drop targets the eightball target will light once you hit that down you will collect a rack you can collect up to three racks worth 50,000 a piece towards your end of ball bonus you can multiply your end of ball bonus by hitting the Vera Target over here to the right you can get up to 10x bonus for a Max end of ball collect of 1.5 million also if you hit the ver Target enough you will light special that's worth 500k at the Vera Target you can hit the right orbit for increasing Awards up to 500,000 points also while you're increasing those Awards these top Lanes will light blue for 100,000 points on the left and and 250,000 points on the right you can collect pool letters which are at the top Lanes up here and the in Lanes each time you collect pool you will increase the value of the eight ball Target up to 500,000 points to start multiball Hit the eightball Target and then shoot behind that into the saucer once you're in multiball the Spinners will light for 20,000 points outside of that the rest of the game is available to you you can collect racks you can advance your bonus multipliers and Advance the right orbit values also after you collect a rack these spot targets behind the drop targets will light the rck mode these inserts in front of the targets will start flashing each time you hit a Target it will increase the value I've seen values over three million points for this rck mode very valuable go after this mode safely in multiball finally the jackpot mode every 40 switches you hit in this game will light the pop bumpers they will start flashing once you hit one pop bumper you have to hit eight more pop bumpers where before you hit any other major switch on the play field or else they will turn off and you will lose the jackpot the jackpot is Progressive this grows very slowly and is not worth going for finally for real this time on your final ball if you have a Ply amount of points usually less than 200,000 points if you drain straight down the middle here you will receive a scratch award for 500,000 points that's bad girls a reason why it shouldn't just be lit inserts yeah we were talking about uh during the menorial we were talking about this space right here I have watched dozens of hours as a streaming commentator of this game and I just now noticing this is a pool table and those are pool balls on the pool table I don't know what took me this long I mean it doesn't read pool table I guess just doesn't pool table it's a trapezoid top kick out avoiding the pop makes you have to intentionally shoot drops instead of getting them for free on hot tip yeah that's true yep this Sean he is really good at nudging the game to force the pop to do his bidding I love when when I'm playing hot tip and I get like a ton of that pop action and inevitably like I'll get a couple of drops sets of drops down and I'm I'm feeling great and then immediately the last thing it does is kick it down the middle yeah well I don't know I feel like I don't have a lot of crains off the pop I have a lot of Center drains off the drops on that game oh off the drops again the drop Target the drop the pop bumper is off center slightly off center yeah slightly to the right right I just tend to I tend to get one last hit just right on the bottom of the pop have you heard of perspective I mean yeah it's just this black thing is a giant black thing I don't know pool tables are usually green yeah well plus like you've got the green felt and q's here true so it kind of throws you off I don't know also I'm just kind of
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    dumb super dumb it also is not fully is all eight this is a nine ball game or an eight ball game you know it's yeah are the stripes going to be lit later got Le had we'll have to look at it they had a weird habit of unting things to tell you you got them instead of lighting them yeah it's so true yeah that's very confusing even with the acrobatics she does not get what she wants out of that this game's weird there's a lot of body English in pinball see if Sean has a better better luck last time when he played against me was not playing nice okay so I bet okay player two is Stripes that's kind of cool y player one is solids solids and Stripes solid Stripes all right it is safe to not flip the upper Flipper on this game and Let It Drop to the left I saw him do it and I was like all right every time y yeah just do that every time really cute that you weirdo game set you right up for a shot on that eight great save what a save great save W to a power in Lane what are you going to do here love it so cool I'm a sucker for a power in Lan like real Speedy in Lane Nails it there you go nice shot good shot turning off lights by hitting them turning lights off instead of on by hitting them a superior way I don't know I think it's weird and confus I depends I'm I'm one of those I think it depends all right what the what it went back in there was crazy okay dang look at that Fantastic Finds the right orbit by flipping the bottom flipper away so he can get access to it that was awesome all right that's enough for the um multiball oh dude I didn't see a tilt warning I didn't see a tilt warning now yeah now there it is are there no warnings we just going straight to tilt this it might be an audible morning I don't know hate to see that though nud a little bit Ah too
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    reading oh there are no warnings all right well there you go no warnings in pinball there you go there's no warnings in pinball there's no warnings in pinball you know I think I won my game only because I got the skill shot lame that was a rough game we were watching you guys and you get to what one and a half it was so weird I felt like I was comfortable and then it just didn't I don't know something weird happened then in the ball drain yeah right I mean I saw you one point you started a multiball the two balls hit each other and both went out is that what I feel like I blinked and I'm like all right yeah it was just over whatever it was such a bummer it was weird sometimes pinball does weird stuff the women standing around a pool table on the bag glass is also a clue wow I knew it was pool themed I just didn't that was the it didn't read it doesn't read as pinball I mean pool it doesn't I'm too focused on the Awesome Audio that's true okay nice drop catch right back in upender So this kick out super F like gu hold up the left flipper yeah that's true on Gotti's uh what are they system ad or whatever where you just hold up that left flipper did not he that was a lucky got the ball back yeah she got lucky they they come out real fast on these I think okay let's see I I think the lesson has been learned here maybe I don't know I it's a I think the lesson learned was it works out fine so the rack is lit here oh as soon as the eight ball is collected dead bouns nope we're going to drop of course really nice so you want to hit the drop and then you want to go back into multiball yeah take that take that shot again absolutely and she had that shot dialed in before so I think I think we're going to see another multiball I agree with this actually the orbit carries from ball to ball so you know even though this is a second ball you can get some good points off that's your orbit value right there currently at 100,000 and that really good I forget what it maxes out at but it's a bunch 500 maybe I you get an extra ball off of it which is like freaking 5 million points I it's five million it's a bunch 500k 250 no lower are we bidding can we do that that's what I was going for bidding but lower yeah exactly we're down bidding budding it's like a it's it's like a countdown uh they did that with uh airplane tickets for a while where if if you're seek I was in an airport when this when it happened if your seat gets sold and they only have like you know three people in one seat they have you down bid who will take the least amount of money yeah yeah that makesense to give up their ticket dead bounce nice I just had never seen that before into it oh this is really interesting we got rack going on plus this mul oh very nexts that rerack can be worth a lot so it's counting down but it builds up with every hit so it's we're we're we're back that did it well we're we're back up to you know million whatever get that get that rra he's not I don't think he's super interested no the rack after a while not worth there is no grace period on that that is incredible yep hit zero you're done I mean it was before zero it felt like visually yeah might it it might have turned off that's okay get some more orbits all right we're back into this it gets another 200k up there so all a sudden these orbits are oh what a save yeah dead bounce I would play the great save graphic but then it gets in the way and this game is too fast that's yeah dangerous turn it oh try he saw he saw the spin on that he saw the momentum tried to get a nudge to give it a little more energy but it was almost saer to flip at it but who wants to just flip at it yeah I I think I drained on that just that that way a few
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    [Music] times which has six frames for some reason on strikes and SP interesting so kin I yeah so kin has two to Shan's three for some reason I thought kayin picked up a third game but maybe not maybe this is just I think it's three on three I thought it was two but that's not what it's showing on Match play well what do we
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    know love those Lazarus Ball come back from the dead here's a replay of that Lazarus yeah it's gone that was
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    crazy that feels good when that happens I wish the game could recognize Lazarus I know all right put that let me think of put that on your list just put an opto in there I want to see the replay of my face being like all right tur y oh my gosh that's fantastic all right oh my gosh for it I I got it you are the coolest B thank you for those subs and also it was wonderful to get to meet you in person at uh pincinnati this year all the way out from New Zealand awesome thank you for that all right let's talk a little bit more about recognizing
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    was of us all right you guys tell us which game you want to watch Junior and who is it um Tim Junior and Tim Ellis or Sean and um Sean and Justin you tell us what you guys want to see and we'll go there okay so what you would need all of the every let's talk about all of the things you need for a Lazarus sense yeah cuz it's not enough just having the outlanes and and ball game is still happening in a one ball yeah one one ball work otherwise well how would you in a one ball well in a one ball you could put optos no optos have to have receivers you you could put rollovers in okay but under the flippers uh-huh and if any switch is hit after that on the Playfield it was a Lazarus but you want something immediate like I want cuz Lazarus are only cool for a split second I I want the reactiveness of like you did it right now and the game reacts like immediately as soon as your Lazarus happens because you're right yeah it would be easy if if it's like an outlane Lazarus it comes back in the outlane was hit so you're listening for another switch if another switch has hit you know it's a Lazarus but that's way too that takes too long that the chat is is divided it's literally divided I mean you guys got a coin coin all right uh let's let's go see Justin and Shawn that that was the first nomination was Justin and shot and then we can we can always move yeah it's funny I kind of want to watch Tim and Junior just did I pick the wrong one more cuz I haven't seen Tim oh yeah yeah yeah but Justin hasn't been on it either but Chris has been playing really good and I I you know it's cool yeah this is our semis folks Chris dit Jr and Tim Ellis Shawn Davis versus Justin Ryan it is getting close so we'll uh we'll watch Shawn and Justin first because that's where I sent Eric and he's going to tell us what game and then um we will switch I imagine we'll switch over to Chris and Tim that's yeah fuel Fighters has a left out Lan Lazarus save but there's no way for the game to know if you did it correctly you it assumes you did it correctly and it it as soon as it kicks up it's like well I'll save you know yeah but you might have done it wrong and it would still play that just be cut off at the trough mhm um I think you do need some sensor of some sort in this end but what magnetic a magnetic sensor yeah it's been done magnetic rollover that is under the Playfield okay cool yeah that'd be cool yeah I think it's been done didn't Jersey Jack use magnetic sensors in uh Guns and Roses I'm really bad at mechanical knowledge I have think perhaps because it would just it would feel the ball go over it right okay and I'm sure you can make it worth it by doing some other stuff with it I mean if it's a magnet yeah could couldn't you what is it like a ball save where it like saves the ball physically I mean you could that too right you know yeah it can just be a giant old it could be on top of G but you wouldn't want something to interrupt I was going to say yeah if you have anything red or anything exactly it's going to feel annoying I think I think there are magnetic sensors in Guns and Roses was the first one that I remembered in but somebody in chat is saying there have been magnetic sensors under the playfields in place of rollover switches as far back as the atarian 1976 the atarian wow wow wow yeah they get a little flaky that's all right I mean you you wouldn't use it that often right it would it probably wouldn't happen that often so if it's a little flaky it may be
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    okay but yeah it sounds like you all have had issues with them optic sensor wouldn't work because you have to have a receiver somewhere un yeah there's nowhere to sneak a receiver unless un you're as far back as the knuckle of The Flipper right so that might be difficult yeah I don't know you have the point though put him aimed him out from the center like that and then had the receiver under like right behind the flipper yeah but then it wouldn't be finding the the right reading right you know you're going to be off you're going to be reading drains yeah yeah for Lazarus it being flaky wouldn't matter cuz it's more like a call out than it is a scoring issue I don't think we're ever going to be be able to convince somebody that this is worth it what what do you know oh yeah never mind I know a whole lot you know nothing more than I do um I I think you should hold on to that idea and Pitch it at the next team meeting Keith has been wanting to find a way to make tap passes um valuable at like points for tap passes yeah I think dtan would approve I think dton would be all in on his plan he's the tap passest person I know yeah yeah I I'm like I don't know if you want to figure it out like go for it but I don't know how you do it but I don't I don't well you could do it on like the P3 system right where it's tracking the ball oh sure yeah so however they did it I don't know how they did it g give him an ideas yeah come on P3 Elizabeth kki you know nothing John snow I love that those that pair because I know about Game of Thrones I was going to say what you you don't you've never SE right well the wild bling person red hair I'm going to let you hang on this one I have no idea I think her actor names like Ruby something married the guy who played Jon Snow Carrington really people yeah married real life I think yeah it's awesome and they were like a thing for like a little bit on the show or whatever yeah that's fun you know nothing John snow I think that line only became a thing because her her voice is like silky smooth not John I'm just from here on out since I've never seen the show when I say it I'm going to be quoting you quoting it great and I'm going to put elabe right underneath going to be like oh that Elizabeth person with her takes you know nothing joh oh my goodness you're such an idiot that's what she said say that John's no you idiot oh my goodness let's see where Shawn Davis is going to take us oh we were just talking about this just talking about this Game of Thrones now we we did watch this very recently so maybe we won't run the tutorial then hits a switch on a Playfield that's kind of just not enough that isn't do enough me it's the I'm like after the Lazarus although every Lazarus ends in you freaking out hitting the flipper so it won't be that late it's we had this problem on um jots with the gate from the out lane we don't have a good way of sensing if the ball actually went through the gate because the gate's not switch it's just a piece of metal so the only way that we know you saved it is because the trough didn't sense the ball for a is that how it f out it's a timer you're kidding me yeah and so I think if you hit another switch on the Playfield it will override the timer at least it should I I actually can't remember if I've wor that in but yeah it's just the drop was never and then it plays but it's it's on a delay I I hate it it's like I think it's lame because you saved it it comes back in you flip it and then it plays the video and it annoys me yeah that's a little rough you guys I just texted the three games they each picked oh okay oh cool thank you oh man I'll stay for this game I have a lot of work to do though D's probably watching this and is like what are you doing we need to finish D and D which is a lot of fun to be able to say out loud now it's very cool D and D I got really I'm really good about using our code names oh which uh D andd is cod name is Rope Rope yep what's the connection because everyone gets roped into this game uh no I think it's it's a it's it was just like an equipment item yeah that you can have in D and
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    D already uh you can you can start with it we just watch this game thank you though um
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    yeah I think originally it was going to be called the code name was going to be called it was a different equipment item like torch yeah and he was like no that's too that's too obvious yeah but I mean it's like I don't think if someone were to hear torch they would be like yeah that's DND obviously yeah I don't think I would think DN D but if DN D was on a short list and the other option was another rock band I would guess yeah it was probably the D and one cuz people always have these little short list of like I've heard rumors and there it's one of these five things so that might be enough I do think it would be really fun to be the person who gets to come up with the code names though yeah we we that sounds like fun um yeah sometimes you kind of get in on those conversations we use the same at work for our projects cuz they're secretive and um okay yeah you got some fun ones uh we have had some very fun ones and they they're always sort of very obliquely referencing or even tongue and cheek referencing you it's like even the trace it's like yep you'd have to work pretty hard to trace it back but when you know you know like um jaw's code name was Vertigo oh because of a Hitchcock Alfred hitchock scene from vertigo was a scene that was referenced in Jaws oh see that's like Jaws used it as a reference it was like a zoom in shot on the pier and that was the connection and nobody would ever guess that I don't think I hope not I don't know you'd have to be pretty deep Jaws
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    lore what's your next games code still on this one still on d d next one code name Cheddar I came up with that one did really you got to you got to codame that one I um it was I I overheard of a a problem it was going to be called cheese okay but they had to change it and I'm like well if you still want a cheese things you can just call it cheddar and they're like oh that's pretty good and then yeah so oh so I've already figured out what game it is okay excellent cheddar is obviously a cheese mhm cheese is on Doritos that's true Doritos has a hot and spicy addition okay fire is hot and spicy yeah it's Firefly thank you for finally making the Firefly pin I have been I can't believe you just worked that out yep impressive it's pretty obvious if you think about it very why should have kept it as cheese it would have been harder all right braan and Lannister A Fine stack we're going to see how many Spinners we can
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    shoot what oh he's not getting back no he got back it's um okay the game was smart enough not to waste his button cuz he wasted his button oh and it said the outlanes were already safe it because he lit it forcefully yeah and then he hit the button and yeah it did not that's awesome waste it o nice little save up top all right so we're we're looking at the the Chris method of I want maximum value absolutely build that multiplier up and then go play never mind seconds at it though yeah I got some still got the button yep need it yep Lord of Light save on the middle getting some spins on that too those count thank you barathan we have low value I would shoot I would go for the castle now oh can you get the castle shot off of the castle at the top I don't know H man he you could see what he was trying to do he just couldn't get it and every time he would switch strategies it was like take a couple shots at it try something else take a couple shots try something else he just couldn't get it going I am interested if he's actually just trying to get through Castle um or I don't even know can you work towards castle where you're in a mode these things it's just little tracks that I don't normally go for so it's hard to can you work towards Castle while in a mode I don't know either see I thought you were going to be close when you said firefight you you lost the threat and I was like oh he knows he knows we're doing a remake of fire oh yeah fire 1984 will fire 86 86 yeah that's another Barry orler game he's my very favorite designer and rip Barry very dangerous on that castle but does get progress on the the multiball all the multiballs in this game feel valuable which is a sign again I just love this game Everything feels right yep that's right all right going I didn't want to like this game because it's kind of ubiquitous it's in feels like every tournament and uh it can take forever and so I didn't want to like this game and I don't care about the theme and then I played it and I was like this game is amazing it's got everything that bounce yes oh he's going to do it he did it he finished out the mode 73 mil which um you know is kind of half value you can get it up at 150 plus whatever he doesn't know about the Buton oh no oh the button hit the button okay so cheddar is code for money money is code for currency mhm I think that's Queens are currency yeah forget that the original name was cheese these were used when you went to the fair for sidh shows and the most famous side show of course King Kong figured it out oh figured it out
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    you never know I think Fire Fly Fire Fly I think fire was more close I have a Williams fire at home and I love it very much and I don't care what anybody says I know people hate that game I like it it's just building up that value still themed perfectly dead bounce yes into uh-huh and then snipe Miss 2x lit 3x blinking but no he he missed the target he was aiming for okay backand up there he wants to absolutely go back up and finish it off there you go you get it yeah you got time added Okay Go Get It Go Get It there it is nice so now he's got upper play field he just got his max value right there very nice that is the one problem with the premium whatever and I'm like yeah you can work it that way I like to choose to play the game the way the game wasn't intended I suppose I'm stubborn like like that but yeah that is the uh secet way is the upper play field y I was surprised up until now we haven't seen as much play up there cuz you can also get your Castle multiball started up there in addition to these great 3x values and Castle can be worth a ton so good all right his winner is incoming winner incoming only has grey Joy lit going to pass because he wants to stack Lannister question mark uh he actually because of what Eric said of he actually liked to go after winter is coming they might just be doing that yep and there is a multiball if you complete four of those winter is comings evidently hurry up have I put secret flipper codes into any of games examples no but I have this really fun idea for a flipper code cuz the problem with flipper codes is that once you know them anyone can do it but I want to do a flipper code that you have to be so whoa yeah that makes sense okay that makes sense all righty then he pushed that game into Eric's living room going to kind of lift it up and slide it on over here still camera looks pretty good um I want to do a flipper coat I was in drum line in in um High School MH that's Co and we had this rudiment uh like drum pattern yeah and I want to make that a flipper code oh my gosh so you going to have to be able to do the the rudiment to be able to it that's brilliant yeah so instead of like you know both 20 on the right but you know five on the left it's that it's going to be on a timer once you start it and you have to complete the rudiment in time so you have to do it fast that's really that's really fun yeah it's going to be this
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    ready all right that's going to be it that you have to do that whole sequence and you have to do about at that speed I wish you guys could have heard that it was pretty cool can you do this can you sneak a flipper code I know it was it was not not your game but um or maybe I'll ask Ray can you get YYZ the morse code put onto Rush Oh Morse code how cool would that be is that a thing for Rush yeah so it's a song by Rush and the drum line spells YYZ in Morse code oh yeah you should ask Rush Rond about that next time I see him I'll throw it out there that's a I never thought about Morse code um flipper that's what your rudiments reminded me of a little bit like Mor it does it does feel like that yeah oh he gets his 3x so now darn didn't get it okay Nails oh and doesn't get the button quick enough oh no yeah unfortunately Sean has just got this game mapped out in away it's if you don't have that knowledge of where these points are it's hard to it's hard to catch them it sure is yeah I mean this is a this is one of those games a flipper code update every Sunday with D and D let me tell you chat the whole it changes every week it's a real thing and it's been a real thing since like the beginning and some times I would like write a mode the mode would be working pretty good next week I'm like never mind code's not working fix it so a lot of bugs were kind of hidden because of the weekly feature only to be unveiled like you know the week later a different shot you uncover it somehow yeah I'm like oh I didn't consider it you know this way um I had a lot of issues with in the beginning in late in late game the left or the left shot is a orbit and a ramp just by you know the flap goes up and down yeah yeah and um the code they're two separate shots but when you're shooting it it feels like it was one shot so there was like a little bit of disagreements I suppose on how to go about it and it took a few times to get it right but on one week it was like I'm like shooting the shot I'm like what the heck it's not counting it was left ramp that was lit not left orbit and that's when I realized we have I'm like we have a problem we got to rethink this they have to be the same shot one of those like y 2K moments where you're like oh God it's all through the code yeah it's literally everything yeah it was yeah that I I should have I I mean I should have just known that was going to be a problem that's a wild thing to run into but that's how bugs happen right these weird little there's like a lot of Randomness in that game too that can just like throw things off in ways um like like a um there was this like it was like um how much damage is done or something or how many Health you have or something like that and it was a random number between zero and 100 yeah think goodness one of our seeds showed that we were off by one and we accidentally included zero in on that and so it was including zero which was super problematic for that mode and luckily one of one of the seeds had zero out of this one through 100 we were expecting and it did zero and the game crashed and we're like what the heck what's going on there yesh so we are going to jackbot by the way if you're wondering what we're looking at this is our first jackpot game and we don't have a motorial so let's talk about the rules a bit well let me tell you this Lo this um launch is very sensitive and most people like to do this little short plunge real cute style this one tough to do you have to breathe on it and it will just right up on it there so this is one of a trilogy there was jackbot there was pinbot and there was bride of pinbot this was uh started I think it started as jackbot was no pinbot was python Angelo and then he did not do this one apparently he wasn't even a fan of jackpot I this is my favorite of the three oh yeah this I love this game uh it's hard to it's hard to compare bride to this but yeah yeah but do you know who did work on this one yes yes I do yeah your favorite fav favorite guy my second favorite pinball person uh now Barry Orso did this and I think he did an amazing job you'll see as we talk through the rules just what a cool game it is and what a multifaceted game is so do you do you want to explain your approach do you want me to just dive in absolutely so right off the bat you want to make sure you get your skill shot which is going to be on short yeah that's a skill punch whatever just get a ball to the flipper all of that stuff does not matter you you see how there's a moving lit shot on that visor is want to hit the lit one that will open the visor immediately otherwise you're going to have to be banging away lighting up all your lit whatevers and get that visor open yeah so that roving shot saves you about 20 more shots so that okay had had to flip it away at it that he already hit a unlit shot so he got locked out of his skill now shooting the lit shot from here on out is still good cuz it completes your whole row it does not it it gives you a bonus towards your Kino award it makes your Kino more valuable oh I see I thought it granted the whole r i maybe that's just in just the first phase is like that I maybe maybe you have something there but so Sean's getting good with this I didn't like the feed out of here he's amazing and can just get the game to do what he want so let's see which light he likes to Target goes for blue nice all right I like the backhand I like to go for green if I'm right there and you can wait as long as you want to take that shot right yeah but the um I think no yeah no you can yeah so he got one lock already the other lock is very much like Doctor Who it's just the other side and then uh much like dror who you've got to complete some Center shots actually no it just kicks out oh this one just starts yeah you you have to do the center shots in the beginning to I I prefer this way y multiball two ball multiball as soon as you hit a jackpot you are locked in but if you don't hit a jackpot and you drain down to one ball you can relight your multiball and and get back into it immediately yep um you can get super jackpots by hitting both saucers at the same time or within Grace of each other which doubles the value very nice and the saucers are kind of hard to see on this game but you've got one here oops you've got one here you got one here that is gonzo all right so he got like 150 out of that oh no twice in a row with the same problem that's fine just being able to play your first multiball on ball one opens up the rest of your game and you know like you got some points out of it now that wasn't like an amazing one didn't get any supers but I on this one I felt really uncomfortable playing I would have been happy with that yeah but that's just me so the game saucer here all right I wonder if that was a Miss towards the Sauer it's really late on this flipper for whatever reason was weird you'll see the game saucer over there light up especially if you hit this ramp you can light the game saucer that game saucer has a handful of different games for of them I think that you can play like Kino and poker oh thanks for the someone correcting me in chat I didn't realize this the Super Jackpot is in a double it's giving you the next three jackpots in sequence towards the mega visor awesome so it's like super legit yeah if you complete all the casino games you get to do my favorite part of this game which is Casino run so if you complete all four casino games then you get to do a mode where you literally get to wager basically as you're playing it's a it's a gambling game right that's the whole them keep going and so you have to choose do I keep going and risk the bomb exploding and me losing all my points or do I take the points and you get to make this wager over and over again and I think it's really cool oh it's the ball cheat on um I I don't know I assume not but maybe that's a scary feed oh right up over the top of it he did everything right okay we have we have another guess okay in the chat can I read this to you go for it cheddar cheese is a popular snack for dogs werewolves are dogs werewolves are Cryptids other Cryptids include The Adams Family the new table is themed around the show Wednesday Wednesday that would be a good one there you go see straight logic nailed it straight logic now how do you work fire into that right it's Wednesday themed but it's exact same Playfield as fire perfect code name yeah that those will just be her pigtails the two ramps we can make it work with the art she's for some reason upside down she's upside down or like wind blowing up mhm do like that show okay the thing about the Wednesday show is that it's not actually good but it's a lot of fun oh I love it I'm pretty sure it's actually not good is it not a good show I don't think it actually is I loved it because her character is not Grand PR Grand Prix going to Grand Prix yeah okay I mean I enjoyed watching it but I all so many points I'm like these characters are making the most ridiculous decisions and also Wednesday is kind of the wor just she's so mean everybody like Wednesday is morbin and stuff she's never she's not partic I don't know there's a difference between mean being mean and being Wednesday I don't know my favorite Wednesday is the the TV show from the ' 50s the the old black and white I think did The Adams Family the best because it's not that they were you know particularly downtrodden or like you know dark and whatever they were just completely different than everybody and everybody just had a hard time dealing with it y but it's only because they actually I don't know enjoyed each other's presence unlike every other sitcom at the time where I was like oh my dumb husband they were a really cohesive right Gomez and mortia were like all over each other love that yeah Gomez is so into mortia I love and I love that name me another sitcom that has a better couple like a more in love with each other couple than the Adam the movie with r Julia is still my favorite rition of The Adams Family yeah love R Julia and uh mortia was played by hold on I can do this ah
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    NOP it's going to kill me you guys tell me I think my guess is so accurate I don't want to type it out and get anyone in trouble that's good oh that's strong Angelica Houston thank you very much they were both incredible in that movie Christopher Lloyd was fun but they were they were the movie for me all right I think they're going right into it which makes sense for a game like this nice dead bounce I I wouldn't want to be in that saucer right now that was oh my good he now he now yeah you know he knows playing he knows he's playing with fire somebody else guessed uh cheddar equals Cheddar Bob equals 8 Mile pin I just watched 8 Mile a couple weeks ago and that is a fantastic
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    guess has there ever been a rap themed pin that you know about nothing comes to mind that could be our first rap pin
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    okay my guess is wrong so I'll save myself the embarrassment oh okay okay future Spa may be a Rap Theme pin nobody knows what it's about it might as well it might very well be that's so good future P 2.0 we're going to bring back wide bodies future Spa somebody's going to somebody's going to remake future Spa whoa what an love that a little late on the spinner a little late on that one as well that's tough I'm ready for the the mech mechron to come back in some time when the next when this game does come out that is cheddar themed and says I was right turns out I was right I was so right I nailed it so hard so when just the fact that you see so many spinner rips on this game it's tempting to think that an easy shot but as we were just demonstrated by Justin and Shawn it is not it is not an easy shot it's really late on The Flipper well Sean figuring out every which way to get the ball oh my gosh there you go there it is that a big rip very nice and blits for thousand on the end okay that's enough of that a journey pin let borgi know yeah borgi would would be a on that borgi would absolutely slay a journey pin it would be awesome yeah wheel wheel in the sky but it's just a ball keeps on turning bring back the Mist multiball oh that's brilliant that's brilliant yeah very very neat I still to this day think mist is the coolest trick a pinball machine can do yeah it's very cool it's so cool magnets are magic I I'm sure that it's uh not feasible to do anymore cuz it probably is crazy expensive or whatever but it is the coolest trick onus of fa for now and date it you better take a picture with you in a
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    newspaper I would be I would be really that would be really cool if you did nail the connection although the newspaper thing doesn't work for things that are in the future right cuz I could just get an old newspaper oh if I'm thinking about it right I don't know if I am man this is the hardest pinball machine in here Grand Prix sometimes is I mean depending on which one you're playing grand PR can be a pretty generous machine this particular Grand Prix is not this particular Grand Prix makes you work for it but the Spinners but the Spinners it's like a broken Grand Prix cuz every other game you you want to Max and then collect Max then collect look how close that was I'm telling you Alli pass to his speed totally safe I I love the smile on his face when he realized he just got away with and he's testing both saucer kickouts which is a coin there he goes yeah so we're tied now we literally really are kind of basically tied because both people got the same amount of spinners yep Elizabeth and raay day on code you think they would stick both of us on the same game oh my gosh it would be too good all the other you can't have one game that awesome yeah couldn't do it Raymond and I would just keep upping each other and the game would come out and no one would know how to play it except for us be way too many modes oops all modes oops all modes the pinball game just basically D and D there's so many modes you know how many modes there are in D and D H how many are there do you know yeah there's a lot a bunch right now
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    there's um one two three four five six there's 12 modes but there each mode has a wizard mode that has from two to four stages in it wow and each stage is basically its own mode CU it's a whole new rule set cuz I'm awesome like that yeah totes totes tot goats yeah I I just think it's impressive that you can come up with enough things to do to make that many every time I have to write a new one I get very afraid but you know what I do I just open up the monster manual and I read and I'm like oh that's the mode oh you know it's like oh this one that we did Back Earth Earth Glide that sounds cool that yeah we can make that is there a gelatinous cube mode uh there's a gus Cube multiball okay darn couldn't get that read out there thank thank God but I didn't write any of the multiballs so I don't I don't know um my game had a little bit of a bug with multiball so all my multi balls were broken thank goodness I didn't have to work on them but every time I started I was like oh no my game's going to freak out because I had nine balls in my game instead of eight oh I didn't realize it until two days ago when it started becoming a huge issue I was going to write a cool freaking mode that's going to be super sick see wait you had nine balls in the game you were designing or in your physical game in the physical game in the phic game yeah and that the game does some really weird stuff it acts kind of weird yeah like one doesn't equal one anymore and I have been working like that for a long time but it didn't matter cuz I didn't do multiples how come I'm not playing Elizabeth tomorrow looking forward to rematch uh unfortunately I have a lot to do before Monday so I I was not able to do both oh Kentucky women's tournament yeah yeah that's happening down at w bar right I would love to go back I really I really need to make a a trip for Louisville I love Louisville so much fun great people great places great food all right they are not super fast updating the games uh the scores so that takes a second but toasting your own horn I hope not have you been toasting your own horn I feel like I'm pretty critical of everything that I've ever been a part of I that's the thing people are they know they're like don't read pin side you know they're pretty negative and I'm like there's no way they would be more negative than I really nothing that they said I haven't already thought of for have felt Prett pretty self critical like that oh yeah it's like you think you can hate on this game just you wait just come up on in here but that's how you improve is by constantly criticizing and then maybe that's why the greatest you know designers are all like Moody yeah you constantly criticizing where are we going the we're going to big game friends we're going to big game to watch our next big
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    game waiting for that score to update one second I'll be right
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    back big game's a cool one but yeah I do need I I I decided to go to indis next week um but I wish I kind of was like you know what I'm just going to go to Louisville I think that would be a a better better time though this has kind of reinvigorated this today has reinvigorated my live of tournaments so I'm kind of more down for it now but leading up to this one I was like I don't know pinball tournament sounds like such a you know it drags on and it can be a grind and pretty grueling but uh it was fun these State this format that this one is not such an endurance match that some of our match play games are like pincinnati match play can be forever long it could be 14 hours but this this one pretty manageable you know you're kind of in and out in the space of about 5 hours and like after a game you kind of want to play another you're like yeah let's go yeah isn't that nice to not finish a tournament completely exhausted and the Battle of Arcade Legacy Stewart prevailed over Jesse in the Ohio quarter finals that must have been quite a match so I I the only regret I have for today is that I can't do this and watch Neo pinball stream at the same time and I thought about putting Neo stream up here in front of me but then I realized I would be very distracted cuz Neo puts on a great stream and the Ohio finals are probably awesome phoe just messaged that she's well oh was that practice or was that the real deal that looked like the real deal so that was a really quick up and down for Justin Ryan after tying uh tying things up that's a disappointing first ball for sure they didn't show that one they had another match on okay I would have loved to have seen these two longtime Cincinnati players I mean they've been playing together forever and Stu really grew up in pinball in Jesse's arcades would have loved to have seen that match yeah both of both of their initials are littered all over yeah they are they're all over this area yep all right going for drops drity drops I always forget about being able to backhand those drops the top probably the safest yeah it is the safest way to get up there I I tend to take a lot of pot shots in this game and I shouldn't nice I take a lot of like I'll probably hit a drop kind of shots yeah I mean the more chaos in this game the better right yep yep I tend to create a lot of it Sean on the other hand is pretty controlled player pretty choiceful player so he's going to pick his shot I think he's going to wait for that X to light up and then shoot that spinner wow he's found it he's found it he got it done he knew what he wanted totally nailed it I like how the game waits for your animation and then kicks out the I try and pick times to play the animation when there's not something happening but sometimes it doesn't work what a read into a few spins anyway there you go there you go really nice really nice scary yeah ah he lost it to the lower flipper but that's okay I guess he wanted I mean he nailed it from the lower flipper before yeah you can get it from the lower flipper so he just did it Mecca says I love watching turny streams but prefer not but I don't prefer to play in them I think that's fairly common in fact I prefer streaming to playing in some tournaments as well I I've been really enjoying the the flip and out streams that they're just playing yeah um especially those guys plan cuz like things that I take for granted are so much more exciting on on their streams what makes it so exciting it takes they have to try a little harder to get certain uh objectives done oh I see so when they do it it's like awesome amazing you know and like for someone like Carl like for him and streaming he's just so good at pinball or he's doing something that's so impossible it's
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    painful dead bounce yep I love pre- calling dead bounces makes me feel like we're one no you were exactly right you're in Sea's head for sure I love how comfortable he is with moving the game and I should I didn't play the tutorial I probably should have but when you heard Elizabeth reference to drop targets that's the one of the two big strategies on this game is you hit these down this completes your cards down here those get worth a lot and they stay with you through the game so the more you get done on ball one the better then this spinner lights on a timer it lights at the same time as this x card and the second strategy is to do what Sean what are you who even are you Sean being able to shoot the spinner from Every Which Way that is crazy I'm lucky if I hit it once a game it's so hard to find it so Eric would appreciate this but I actually borrowed the sounds from Big Game spinner for that animation nice so if you if you see the spinner rip animation that's this game it's pretty cool yeah all right waiting for that spinner to light again and I'm just going to just going to shoot at it and be okay everything's fine everything's not fine okay we're everything's not fine I also have to give it to Eric's tournaments for having the best background music yeah I'm I'm really digging this we just got done with fish Iron Maiden before that now wolf peek is on mhm this is this is
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    strong all right going to yep nail it found it and nailed it K are you playing women's tomorrow are you playing women's tomorrow you are okay I was wondering who all was going to be down there well good luck all right just needs to find a b and an E and A GA for maximum saucer nice did boun supered saucer just going to it is so actually hard it is it's a hard shot I think it is easier from the upper flipper it's just a more direct shot but you have a more consistent feed from the upper Flipper the bottom one you don't you don't know where you're getting okay okay we tickle tickle tickle almost all the way around honestly got some spins out of it pretty good amount yeah got some spins uhoh making me Aly from the top Allie from the top fer yeah that's gone that is super gone that's when he might have actually been able to Lazarus ball up but nobody in their right mind would have like waited for it to back only if there was like a Xenon post down somewhere in there it it had some speed on it just happened to hit the bottom of the flipper I wonder I wonder but I certainly wouldn't have waited around to find out oh whoa that was oddly similar wow man he is fighting that this is me playing big game it's just I'm just all pot shot and those those saves were pretty pretty golden yeah okay all right traps up you can't I I I don't know if you can now but post fting is a thing put passing it off of the bottom flipper yeah you can I tend to Rattle him a lot but it's not it's not unsafe to Rattle him either just rattle between you can try yeah do a few times you feel for yeah you get a few few tries at it whoa this is scary okay all right found that in lane and that in Lane is really important so all right what we're going to do here post it slap it y ya ya y oh flipped it away yep going around Town cuz this is a game that will reward you for flipping randomly into it's true into the yep Stratosphere he he might end up with more bonus than Sean there you go big rip big rip wow lucky to have it lit as well watch it go man uh okay not going to find the eye but that's okay yeah it's G okay got some good um L got some good L there yeah he got some good drop Target uh work done and one giant rip on that spinner so look at us paying attention to the game in front of us we're so good oh my gosh we actually are commentating now so good at comment oh the be that's a nice change big
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    be okay okay those are all of this is good yep so oh that's not good yeah has some spin he still got some holes in those in those um cards so he I I think he was trying trying to kind of complete those I don't know if he's going to bother on ball three though because um he's already got most of them full and he can just live on the spinner he's not going to get that bonus of you know carrying over anymore so he might just choose to focus on the spinner I think he's always been wanting the spinner yeah I think everybody just wants the we all want the spinner that's how I flip it's It's oddly early on the top flipper cuz about speed it's so steep o little cute little dead bounce yeah whoa there he's got 2x bonus already lit how do you light 2x bonus oh it's late again uh where does 2x light I don't know but we want a left outline right I assumed it was a drop Target
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    thing dead bounce no okay we're good oh lights all I only needs the E which is his right in Lane oh no grab it grab it there just back up right on and dare late again are the hardest to get cuz they are the in lanes and you don't really want to be in the inlands in this game it it doesn't wait for it to be lit yep but does get the scoop he going to get some like 40K or whatever he may not know that it's on a timer I don't know if he knows that it's on I know or or he just didn't want to wait okay I've seen that candy cane be really dangerous really yeah just go straight down the middle but that looked like it was not a problem actually at all some drop Target love just a miscalculation there all right so Sean's going to run away with that one yep finished the Z card that's kind of nice still that was a good that was a good game that's a good score so you'll see what it does is it it gives you bonus for each line and when you complete a card you now have all of those lines right so that's a big win ah man I ought to I ought to head out of here oh no I need to run you got to go yeah this has been fun it has been super fun thank you for sitting down and doing this and I look forward to next time we get to do this hopefully we don't have to wait till pincinnati sick yeah all right see you all right see you later who uh-oh
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    ah I caught it but it's all water under the desk you know huge thanks to Elizabeth geky for sitting with us and commentating all day long and thank you guys for joining us uh we are in the semi-finals of the Kentucky State pinball Championship here in Independence Kentucky the heart of what what county are we in the heart of Kenton County Kenton County bro Kenton County
    260:17
    Kenton County and we're watching uh we're watching the conclusion of a game of big gain and that's going to be a win for Sean oh okay yep I love this game and I was telling these guys that that's the spinner rip sound is from big game because I love the spinner sound just love it uh okay so Sean takes big game correct yep so Shawn is up two to one on Justin let's look at the bracket and see what's going on in our other group I I don't think I've put much of their results in so I don't really know what's going on with them yep yep they're not putting stuff in well maybe I'll go casually ask them uh Chris dit Jr and Tim Ellis are currently on Grand Prix I'll go bug Junior and find out yeah like maybe grab a grab their sheet and I can get us updated and hey Justin uh go ahead and take it to their next game the rig if want to as well yeah all right so Sean's up two to one we don't really know on the other game yet but we're going to get updates on that quickly we're going to find out here where we're
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    going okay so Chris wit and Tim Ellis are tied two to two they started on cheetah
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    and our other group Sean and Justin are going to cheetah oh really okay so they're just going to wait for it yeah so we uh we'll get to see both of them yeah well cheetah right after big game is a whole lot of jungle all at once can we do jle next to each other I mean we're going to have to leave it up to them nobody has picked Jungle Queen today nobody has picked Pulp Fiction today nobody has picked odds and evens which is not a shot I did want to see some Pulp Fiction I hope somebody I don't think we will see it at this point but I'm pretty happy with cheetah so let's talk strategy did you already talk strategy on cheetah nope okay so um we'll do the quick version here because they're about to play but you've got your drop targets up here which will add bonus multiplier you can get it up to fourx no 5x up here can't you yep and you can do that via these as well y you also have this bag of or Bank of drop targets which will award different things but the first thing it Awards is this all important collect bonus light um and the higher the bonus the more you can collect and take that and then these will uh stay throughout the game so you can you can build those over time keep going for those Drops Keep building that bonus and I forget what you you could awarded up here so see how the lights are racing once you hit one it'll lock in that row of light whichever one is lit and then if you can get all three of the same color it'll give you an award so blue will light the left spinner orange will or yellow will light the right spinner for the rest of the game uh another one will light extra ball on the top horseshoe which is 100k um but you really if you're trying to go for those up drop Target Awards you're going to want to get blue which lights this spinner here for the rest of the game or yellow which lights this spinner for the rest of the game for 3,000 a rip so th those are cool like it's kind of difficult to go for it's hard to time and and get all three of those on the same color but if you can do it that award locks in for the rest of the game huge so if you're going to do it do it on ball one and and go for that left lane which already that left lane you can collect bonus on that left lane so that can become super valuable that left lane also every once in a while will get you a sweep up top sweep it you'll see sea uh methodically plunging here he knows just about where to plunge and he knows how to get a sweep up top on on the plunge and so you'll see him we saw it I think two out of three plunges last time he he was able to get that
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    sweep so they're just doing some practice so yeah updating you on Junior and Tim
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    Ellis somehow a three-player game got started they were not practicing we can't yeah they're going to have to start it over okay y so they accidentally started a three-player game we just found out so they're going to have to start over ifpa rules state that if the incorrect number of players have been started on a game the game is invalid so you have to restart with the correct number of players on the game that's awesome but anyway Junior and Tim Ellis are tied two to2 and they're playing Grand Prix right now yep and maybe we'll get to see them you said cheetah's next for them uh no there's well cheetah's no cheetah's already been played oh okay so they have they're playing Grand Prix and then if needed well it might be needed uh Game of Thrones is the remaining game
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    gotcha so Sean going after those Targets on the right which again give you bonus X and bonus so they're pretty powerful very popular Strat to go
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    there okay I always put the wrong letter between e and you and your name it's e r g e r and I always put a u I think it's cuz I'm not a sandwich bro there's a u earlier I'm not a sandwich
    265:55
    man thank you chat for letting us know that I had the old name in there said Elizabeth looks different on stream her beard comes in a lot a lot more Elizabeth got real ugly real quick
    266:18
    you definitely did all right Eric is awarding for those who already got out everybody gets a prize in this game everybody gets a little money for making top 16 because it's really it's something to be incredibly proud of making top 16 in the whole state and uh so Eric is handing out some of those yep got some more money paid out
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    speaking of which we should mention the sponsors including was it pincinnati or is it NY pinball cuz I know you kicked in some money too well we haven't made that public yet oh never mind I thought it'd be a nice surprise for the for the winner today but yes nky pinball is going to sponsor the event today but then obviously we have these great sponsors that the IPA supplied us that they communicated to us that without these sponsors none this mhm none of the tournaments today could be possible so it's it's great that all these people have stepped up I want to say there's at least 2025 spons yeah there's a ton so that's great yep yep and sponsors like this help make not only tournaments like this possible but help the ifpa do its great work and uh the ifpa has done such incredible work the hobby continues to grow uh um recently Josh sharp did a state State of the Union uh email for the ifpa and he was just celebrating that the hobby continues to grow comp competitive pinball continues to Skyrocket and my favorite chart I don't know if you saw Josh's email but my favorite chart was uh active players in the ifpa database has just been hockey sticking oh yeah it's not just players because of course you're going to add players over time without deleting but active players has just been hockey sticking so people are playing more competitive pinball than ever yep I know any anyone that asked me about pinball or is curious about it the fact that they hear that there are you know over 150,000 I think now or 125,000 people that have played in at least one tournament like that's crazy yep I remember chatting with Josh for the first time and he said what's your do you know your ifpa number I said 50251 and he's like wow that's pretty early and I was like that's early yeah but apparently now that's pretty early there's yeah I think I'm in the 30,000 range um Trent augenstein is like four uh but no um so unfortunate drain there from Shawn like this is this is getting interesting because if if Justin can win this game we're we're noted up at two so he's one to pet his score here he's in the driver's seat he's player two like this is uh this is interesting well ball three right that's he's got oh wait we're so already got it he's already got it so we now have a tie and we had a tie in the other uh Team too so this is very competitive competitive pinball I love to see that so he's going to plunge it off Justin ties it up two to two and I'm going to check in on what happened in our other match okay and we'll hot tip yeah are you guys good to move it
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    hello my beautiful wife Angie's back home she was down at the UK basketball game doing her best to rooe on the state today but we lost to a very good Alabama team
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    but Junior walks away with a win on Grand priest so now it is 3-2 Chris DT Jr is up and between Shawn Davis and Justin Ryan we are now tied so just as a reminder of where we've been friends let's take a look at our [Music] bracket so right here you got it Chris wit Jr at three over Tim Ellis's two Shawn Davis and Justin Ryan and look how many people they have had to battle through to get this is our top 16 in the entire state of Kentucky and so there's no no easy matches here and uh right now things look almost tied up top and definitely tied in the bottom so we have pretty darn good competitive
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    pinball Justin Ryan up on number one on hot tip or hot trash depending on whether or not you like this game I happen to love it
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    we are in Northern Kentucky uh at Chuck W's house and he has been kind enough not only to host this event and the nky open but he also now is our ifpa rep for Kentucky uh he puts a lot of time and love and effort into competitive pinball and as far as I know doesn't make any money on it so uh I just I love that he spends the kind of time he does yay for Eric that's what I say but I wouldn't say it while he was listening to
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    me all right so game five on hot tip here baby this is getting pretty exciting man I mean this could let's see if this puts the yeah I if we're tied here Chris could win on that side but they if Chris doesn't win over there then they will be tied for the rubber match I just kind of want to see both of them go to the game seven rubber match I love those so I'm going to leave the booth for a second so that I can make sure we all know what ball they're on I'm going to fix the Playfield cam so we can showare the ball and play but uh I'll be right back
    272:39
    okay and it sounds like Tim I can hear the Game of Thrones song in the background so I'm assuming that Tim and Chris are playing Game of Thrones but I don't know that to be
    272:53
    true how'd it go the worst Game of Thrones of all time oh really all right thank
    273:03
    you all right so that was a win on Game of Thrones for Chris ditt junr that puts him 3 to2 against Tim Ellis no that's all that's everybody that's
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    everything so that's going to be a win for junior looks like Junior's moving on to the finals and uh Tim Ellis played some amazing pinball today and got to the semi-finals but Chris is going to move on to the finals meanwhile Shawn and Justin battling out on hot tip to decide who's going to get a leg
    273:48
    up Junior is playing some great pinball and now you're going to get to see some of it because we're going to the finals
    273:57
    next big spinner rip on the left here on hot tip spinner was not lit but you got a few points out of it and more importantly get back up to that saucer where you can hopefully catch a double bonus back up to the saucer get it collect a few points drive that bonus up if nothing else now you'll notice the captive ball is lit and it is worth a ton is that 20,000 or something on the captive ball it's a lot 30,000 um yeah 30,000 on that back Target if you got it lit but it sure is dangerous yeah you got to get the captain ball to go all the way back so the captain ball has to go all the way up here and hit this target back here to get that 30k 30k but the the better part about Hing the captain ball is this up and back on this switch here which advances your bonus so if you got double bonus and you can rock that cap ball it's good money I didn't even think about that yeah rolls over it once rolls over it twice you get two bonus advances so if you think about it if the 30k is lit and you got double bonus that's essentially a 50,000 point shot yeah right that's nothing to sneeze at on hot tip oh no flipper fumble is just such a bummer Sean had disappointing one Justin right back behind him y nobody wants to win this game [Laughter] hey thanks for that uh gift of a sub oh nice nice thank you got lots of activity in the chat today lots of activity in our uh subs and follows really appreciate it thanks everybody thanks for supporting there's comp so much pinball to watch I'm not really even sure how people are managing it today I know I just need 12 TV screens 15 TV screens uh steuart stew beat prusa to move on up in Norther Ohio wow that's Stu is on a tear first Jesse Baker and Ste he I'll text him and he'll still complain about it somehow but I am very happy for Ste good job Ste way to repr out of here that was sling town right there oh hey Jason Hunley thank you for that uh for that gift subscription he said is there somebody is there something else I need to do to gift it to somebody specific don't ask me bro I'm not a I'm not a twitch nerd I don't really even know what a sub is I don't know how to gift a sub to somebody specifically yeah a good question um that's more of a uh laser Los question I think yeah he is a twitch wizard the Ohio stream is down anybody who think Neo pinball was doing that uh he's been around the block he knows what he's doing so hopefully they can get that back up
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    yep I'll have to look at that bracket to when we're done with this
    276:48
    match interesting so you saw want that double bonus yeah so he he went to 20 and then 30 because of that cap B and that's all he had to do yep he walks away all right after a goodp three to two so hot tip in the books [Music] 342 J Andrea 95 says we're watching all the streams this is by far the best one well thank you oh hell for that uh we'll take it so I don't know if I took a picture of their games that they picked um yeah so we've played hot tip we've played cheetah yep we've played big game yep we've played jackpot so there's one left um did we play Grand Prix uh these did these guys play Grand Prix and Sean so but anyway Game of Thrones is definitely still on the
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    table where you guys going oh Sean that was it like what did I miss then that was game six that was game six okay I missed one all right thank you okay great play today yeah yeah great run Justin all right so Sean's through oh they played Game of Thrones first that's what we missed oh that's we missed one okay so so Shawn that that actually clinched it for Shawn he's moving on we got that Shan got the final Shawn got oh we missed jackbot when I was putting in the results okay okay so yeah Shan Mo's
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    do so now we're going to see our very finals I was just looking in at the Ohio State pinball Championship bracket thank you for posting all right so we'll check in on yeah so so Tim lost a junior not sure what their final game was I'll get that that in and then we'll get Junior and Shawn Davis uh top seed and I'm not sure where Shawn was at but we have a two-time champion going against a notime champion but junior junior toly up the radar what did he get in pincinnati fourth yeah he was amazing like out of 140 people ji got like he was right up there like this is going to be great all right he's going to go get them set up in the meantime um as they are picking their games for finals I can't can't help but go peek a little bit at the other one I want to see if I can put it up on screen so you guys can see the Ohio finals we're here in Northern Kentucky we're right on the river right next to Ohio so we have a lot of shared friends who are also in the Ohio game so I may have to add a new scene to do that which I will
    279:39
    do so stay tuned we're about to move into our finals they're getting their games picked [Music] where did that go we don't want that one here's the bracket for the day and you can see how everybody has been uh has been battling it out throughout the day but it's going to be Chris dit Jr and Shawn Davis in the final and a bronze match between Tim Ellis and Justin Ryan I don't know if Tim knew about that it looked like Tim was getting ready to get out of here I
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    wonder it's cool you guys can hear music in the background I didn't realize the music here is like this is the best place to play tournaments if what you care about is background music because all of Eric's tracks are just fabulous so stay tuned for just a sec while I figure out how to get the other bracket up because I really want to know
    280:44
    I'm just going to set the URL for this and we'll get it up and cooking thank you again for posting
    280:56
    that all right let's try this one see if it works I'm sure as heck going to try uh all right let's take we're going to try for it is it weird to show another pinball match than the one we're watching probably uh oh shoot it's not letting me interact with it okay never mind I need to make that not uh terrible we'll go back to our [Music] bracket ah it just never gets old does it so for those who have been asking to watch uh Chris dit Jr all day you you are going to get what you asked for because he has hard fought his way into the finals against Shawn Davis a two-time Kentucky state champion and now taking on a relative newcomer to pinball but uh certainly it runs in the family uh junior is skyrocketing his play is fantastic his control is great and he is climbing quick
    282:28
    going all right this time I I hope I hope I've got it right let's see if I can look at
    282:37
    the see if I can look at the actual results here um all right so we've got the Ohio Championship is up on the screen now and you can see where Stu niswonger beat out Jesse Baker both cincinnatians so now Stu is going to take on Galvin Morgan and you can see where John Del zapo beat Rod Lawrence Dapo out of the Cleveland area and Gregory Kennedy and John Dapo are going to square off Gregory Kennedy last year's Ohio state champion uh so there ain't a bad player in this forsome I can't wait to see who wins uh and I think Neo pinball maybe they're maybe they're back up you guys could tell me I know they had some receptivity issues at the venue but glad to have you with us but of course wouldn't uh fault you for flipping around a little bit just to see what everybody else is doing just make sure you come back here uh we're going to start our finals here in just a little bit everybody's off picking their games right now so that's the Ohio one I'll go back to ours so that you don't have to get confused on which tournament you're actually watching this is the one you're
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    watching all right Eric is going through I guess they've got their games picked and Eric is going through just how the order is going to work and it looks I wonder if they're going to make the bronze match happen I hope so the bronze match between Justin and Tim we'll see there are cash prizes to be given away at a competition like this so it it can actually matter if you take you know third versus
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    fourth and if you got here if you got here to this top 16 at all you should be incredibly proud of your year of pinball the way you make it into one of these state championships is you play a whole lot of pinball tournaments and you uh you do well enough and you become one of the top 16 in your in your uh performance for the year you get into one of these and the fact that you're here at all is quite an accomplishment I myself have never made one but I hope to soon I'd like
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    to and if you are uh somebody who is looking for competitive pinball and you're not sure where to find it go to match play match play. events no info. match just put in matchplay pinball and uh the match play uh website will let you search near you for tournaments that are coming up and if they're open tournaments like let's say not in somebody's basement um a lot of times you can just show up and go you don't need to belong to anything it's not necessarily a league if you see open tournaments hot tip go play but they're starting on hot tip okay they're going to start on hot tip oh and on the ifp website thank you for that matchplay doevents and the ifba website let's uh remind ourselves how to play hot tip
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    give me a sawbo on Captain Nemo in the fourth let's play some hot tip pinball okay when you plunge you will plunge into a top saucer you will see different Awards up top if you hit the slings up top it will change that award once you land in the saucer you will collect that award and also Advance your bonus you can either collect various amounts of points or you can collect double bonus if it's on the red or you can light the captive ball if it's on white if you light the captive ball the captive ball is now worth 30,00 ,000 points and you shoot it into the target into the back and that will get you 30,000 points also when the ball comes down to the pop bumper area you have the hot tip drop targets these are very important because the first time you hit all six down you will light the spinner for a thousand a spin the second time you hit them down you will light extra ball at the saucer on the left which also Awards 5,000 points and advances your bonus the third time down all the drop targets will be worth 1,000 points and once you knock them down for a third time the fourth run through the drops they are worth 10,000 points a piece for the rest of the ball you can advance bonus also by the little Target here in the pop bumper your goal is to get spinner lit keep ripping through the spinner and going up top until you have double bonus and then max out your bonus with help from the captain ball and the Target in the pop bumper area you can have Max bonus of 200,000 points that's hot tip
    287:13
    Hell Yeah final two this format moves I was saying on the stream earlier with Elizabeth this format moves quicker than some others right we get to see because there's only two players we get to see faster games and we have moved into our final two so quickly we started around noon and it's only 4:40 we're already to our finals so it's been a rapid day but a super exciting day at pinball I I think I initially said 78 o'clock and yeah that's what I thought I thought it was going to be at least seven or eight yeah so Shawn with a I thought they may have been practicing I thought they were Shawn went for a shatz and totally biffed it yeah you'll have
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    that but yeah to be honest with these highlevel players on an em where they know they have five balls yeah they can take certain risks and still come back from it
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    yep and they've also played this machine several times today by now so by this point like there's no confusion on how games are playing what how things are going on y nice move so some of that for for people who don't play a lot of pinball there's a number of reasons you might interact with a table and a nudge or something like that and what he was doing was he was hitting the side just to slow the ball down just to take a little bit of energy off yep and sometimes that makes the difference between an inlane and an out lane yeah and sometimes like like like maybe whatever weird move you're pulling or whatever might not have changed things in the end but I think players in general want to say all right like I'm not just going to stand here and let things happen you know yeah yeah like in that case that may not have had any impact on the end result but you you learn to do it because it's part of the game and the times that it does matter it's because you practice all those other times right I do I will say for newer players don't worry about nudging it first it's something people get kind of obsessed with um it's not the most important skill in at first worry about stopping the ball and then saying all right with this next flip this is what I'm going to do yep yeah basic flipper skills the like focus on slowing the ball slowing the game down stopping the ball trapping the ball that's the stuff and if you want some good tutorials on that go to YouTube and type in Abe flips pinball a f l i PS pinball very good ab flips makes amazing pinball tutorials so specific so like this is exactly like like the physics behind his videos are crazy really really well done and I so Sean Sean big time gets double bonus off the plunge so while this game is tough on advancing bonus see that stinks so he he did what I consider the impossible getting double bonus on the plunge and then just biffed getting his bonus up yeah that was such a bummer there you go double bonus on the plunge again very nice it's more or less random I mean it's it's the ball's bouncing around you try and impact it but and I got a I got a dirty switch so like when those lights up top are supposed to be switching sometimes they don't so it even makes it even more lucky and random you know I've tried to influence it and I don't think I actually have any influence on it I'll tell you what just I don't care what's lit I can't get the ball on a plunge to go in that saucer up top yep rip rip the only time I can get it to go is when I already have double bonus and I fired up and I don't need it anymore right it's like then you get it every time wow guys watch watch this this was a dig and required a supernatural amount of patience look at that yeah wo
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    great shats pass he does not struggle with shats on this machine he told me he was going to do that and indeed he is I feel like he could have gotten a a a flipper on that one he he didn't flip the left one I wonder about a slap save might have done it there so but fantastic Ball by Junior there
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    yep the other thing that's odd about state competition is that It's oddly small and oddly quiet we're used to really big competitions with 100 plus people in them yep and there's only 16 compe here and so there is like a level of quiet and focus that I'm not used to I like
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    it see that's the type of move that I was wanting to see at a junior from his last ball to keep that ball going really fight for it um but again not sure what kind of bonus he had on the table but he was just like you know ball is great let's just kind of move on to the next one look at that another rip he's trying to get get that double bonus locked in you can see that that light's real slow to move sometimes to the next award sometimes two of them are lit so I got to get in there and clean that but ah it's just adds charm so yeah Sean's struggling with his alley passes he's he's not going lateen enough yeah and that's killed him on two balls now
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    yep going real real late on a shats pass is both essential and the reason why it's hard so scary I have set my flippers higher than normal like the flippers are sitting kind of flat right now yeah they should be sitting more like down here yeah and it makes alley passes harder it makes hitting the spinner harder but players like Junior and and sea have played my hot tip plenty of times that they should be dialed in like just right right there but Sean's just not quite finding it on his balls he makes those shotes Look So Easy like you're here accurately describing how hard it is meanwhile he's just and then right when we say thats it commentators curse man I'm convinced we have more power here than anybody in the universe all right so Sean's looking to claw back here we're already on ball four so he needs to get on his horse a little bit great save yep really
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    nice oh right off the tip there all right reset that's what he's doing yeah he's just a little early on all his outside
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    shots there you go another RI the first one's the hardest I can't I mean between this and Grand Prix I just had to stop hitting the spinner rip button because every game is Just 400 of those all right got the pass over there got a little out of control and had to flip away and to the left out lane you pay for those man you pay for those flip away shots yep they come back bite you in the back you know one one saved him earlier and the next one killed him so yep the the sloppy play will will get to you eventually yep got hot down and immediately out that we're going to count that as one of these this is the first one we've seen this animation there you go building that house plenty of bricks all right so let's see uh See a wild ass ball f from Shawn here to put Junior's feet to the fire I like to think that Shawn just turned us on in his ears and uh he can hear us Sean he wants to hear no pressure Sean you're going to have to nail this man I love you you have this you got this
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    man all right no he gets nothing nothing nothing that's all right we'll take another try at it hey beautiful just keep going back to one more one more ah he's taking the Trent augenstein Strat of Death By A Thousand Cuts just doesn't matter if the Spinner's lit just keep sending keep doing it just keep sending it there it is there's double bonus gets his double bonus secured now he's got to actually build some bonus good nudge so that again that's an experienced pinball player he knew that bounce wasn't going to hurt him it was the next one yep so he took the energy off to slow down the next bounce
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    there's his first alley pass that worked out for him he's got one drop Target left to let light spinner I'm not not he might go for the captive ball because he can get the up and back no he's going for the liit spinner yep seeing that killed him now had he hit the drop Target he may have been safe but he missed it and killed him yeah that's that's tough so first game goes to Junior I had my finger on the great shot button I had that much conf
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    so Junior gets to walk away on this one that always feels nice you just plunge and keep
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    going all right so first game goes to Chris dwit Jr and Eric is going to go find out where they're headed
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    next I'm crossing my fingers it's Pulp Fiction but I know it won't be I know for a fact it won't be I asked Chris earlier about his strategy in picking games and he said I have three games I know very very well and I'm just going to keep picking them so I think we're going to go to either Game of Thrones Grand Prix or whatever his third one was that I can't remember unless this was his pick maybe this was his it probably was like he had higher
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    seed no lower seed picks the first one so I'm predicting Game of Thrones Grand or whatever his third one was see that way I can't be wrong where we going don't tease me with Pulp Fiction don't tease me hey Justin PR Grand Prix it is you guys sick of this one yet I'm not here's a real quick tutorial on Grand Prix chill Max
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    all right let's learn some Grand Prix pinballs starting off on ball one you'll see the left arrow is lit that means at the end of your ball whatever your bonus is on the left ladder you will score that bonus balls 1 three and five will use the left ladder for your end ball bonus balls two and four will use the right ladder bonus bonus is increased by either spinner the left or right spinner will increase its respective sides bonus ladder to a maximum of 50,000 points once you're at that maximum each spinner will light for a th000 spin to collect your bonus mid ball you can hit the left saucer or the right saucer to collect that side's respective bonus double bonus is hugely important in this game to collect double bonus you want to hit the a drop Target and the B drop Target or the C and the d drop Target once you've done this you will achieve double bonus for the rest of the ball that counts for collects during the ball or when you drain out the out hole finally the top saucer is worth 5,000 points and and whichever side is lit will advance that side's respective bonus so this game's all about ripping those spinners and collecting that double bonus that's Grand
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    Prix that sounds oddly familiar doesn't it get that double bonus build that bonus up on uh and and rip Spinners that's a lot like the game we just played so I know this was Chris's pick right I believe so yeah yeah yeah he he really really likes this game he's good at this game he said this one and Game of Thrones and one other one he really trusts uh bad girls I'm pretty sure bad girls cuz I've put in scores for him on Bad Girls all day and they've all been great man yeah that sounds
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    right rip who that's a good one I love those on the Fly rips you just get a little bit of extra juice out of them you just know where it needs to be on the flipper and just boom yep and if you can get one straight off a hot in Lane my God you can go get a beer and come back we spin it that was good patience on that dead bounce it was looking like it was going to hit the lane guy another one he could have fought for yep um now this one's a I don't know like this one and hot tip are pretty sensitive but yeah I've been surprised by some of Junior's just kind of passing on the attempt to save yeah especially when he didn't have a bunch of bonus built up or anything it's not like it's going to end game just make a run out and maybe that's something kind of in the back of his mind that like hey these past couple tournaments I've been getting killed on Tilton when I shouldn't that kind of thing and maybe he's just like I got points just keep them and see what happens and I certainly can't say it hasn't been working so yep right oh yep that was a 50/50 gamble gone
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    wrong one thing I pointed out earlier is you can kind of Judge how tough an outlane gamble is going to be by the differential exactly the height difference between this thing in this thing that's something for some of our our novice viewers and things if you have a sling that's above the inlane divider it's just it's just going to kill you every single time and you see a lot of games where those are even with each other and those are those are much easier to save yep it just doesn't funnel that outlane quite as much somebody smarter than me uh and that was you told me one time you why would you stay in the Gamble right if you know if you know the house has got the advantage why would you stay in the G just act like this if the ball enters this area you're dead yeah so if you can somehow if you can see it's going towards the sling and you can nudge it and get get the sling into the ball to keep it over this way that's that's where you got to live that's the play right you you hit the bottom of the ball with the sling on the way by and push just assume once it passes the sling you're dead y you might not be but just assume that and that's kind of where nudging starts
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    there it's not nearly as easy as these guys make it look beautiful Drop catch only thing that could have made that better was a true rip yeah right afterward yeah that feel good so those drop catches are another great way for newer players to learn how to slow the ball down you can see when he does that it doesn't stop play he's not trapped if and if they're timed right they put the ball right on The Sweet Spot Of The Flipper to send it right up a ramp to another flipper feed or through a spinner in this case yep and it can be astronomical yeah when you're when you're shooting at something like a spinner rip that that are on the orbits here that's always going to be south of wherever you drop catched it right correct so it's nice cuz you can drop catch and let it slowly roll down take that and and when you're learning Drop Like and that's what I tell people too and I think AE flips gets into this in his videos don't be afraid to to when you're learning these moves have it drain you like don't worry about these moves killing you cuz the only way you're going to actually tilt tilted shoot he gave it he did the right thing by trying to keep it in there he didn't want the ball to leak out and he tilted trying to keep it in yep um what a yeah when you're learning all these moves don't be afraid to like look silly on stream or whatever everybody does it the top level players in the World everybody's going to look silly you're not going to get better unless you just do it yep it has to be like breathing that's right and and if you go to an arcade this is something I learned from Pete lman he said if you're in an arcade and you had a bad game of b ball one and two use your third ball just doing this why not right like you're not going to get the game you want out of it anyway just use your third ball practicing this man Grand Prix is killing everybody like sea isn't even 100K yet and and we've seen 5 6 seven eight like like the the game's been rolled multiple times today this is brutal y this is really mean so yeah so Sean's on tilt a little bit he just needs to keep his composure and keep things competitive here yeah I mean he tends to be a very composed player yep he just got to shake off that tilt have a short memory and get right back up there oh oh got it he got it oh sometimes SP gets stuck and it and and then the game kind of freezes oh
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    interesting oh no and then that can happen too like like you're finally getting something going yep but but anyway with his double bonus he's right back in this I don't know if that's 28 29 but yeah I mean those Sean saved his tournament right there with that ball yep those pop bumpers are dangerous but those targets are so worth it to get your double
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    bonus oh great RI and then right back through it for a th r that was a fantastic shot
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    yep shouldn't his frame shouldn't his spinner be lit uh well he's collecting bonus now so bringing it back down no it was he was getting a th pop so that light turns off the moment he collects that bonus on that saucer so he's got to get it all the way back up to light the spinner at a th000 yeah that's why the saucer is not necessarily a good choice yeah if you're not on double bonus like yeah it's great getting 50k or whatever but um but yeah if double bonus isn't lit it stinks getting in those side saucers yeah when you're playing it at this level you're going to have people just spin a ripping all day because that's where most of their points are going to come from cuz they can do it nice post trap there that's another trick for stopping the ball as you kind of hit it against the post familiar with post passes it's almost like a dead post pass you just like you're just killing the ball's momentum by slamming it into that post and it's staying right where it's at tell you what Junior head a decent amount of pressure put onto him going into this ball and and and that's a hell of a hell of a ball five yeah to to put Sean on his heels a little bit I'm giving him a clutch play he needed to do it that was absolutely clutch he did
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    like oh again with that that was a brutal he he he got a lip out on the the right saucer what are you going to do and then yeah that's unfortunate he fought to save it he couldn't save it I mean that that was just tough so Grand Prix Junior's got five
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    66 and then 2 98 or something like that and that puts Junior up two to nothing on Shawn but again Sean two-time Kentucky state champion uh he can definitely come back from this and it's his pick next I think he's going Mando question mark Shawn is a really versatile player so he's just as likely to pick an em as he is to pick a brand new Stern machine yeah he's going Mando all right friends here's mando
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    this is a way let's learn some Mandalorian pinball all right start off the bat I recommend plunging all the way around here by holding the left flipper and then hitting the up down ramp and then it comes back to the left flipper and then you hit the right ramp and then you have the option of hitting the center left ramp or scoop to either light the next razor Crest mode encounter or start a mission to start Mission they are right here you can change the mission with this target right here you can either for your first two missions just hit the scoop over and over and over again till they start and after that you got to hit the ramp to light the scoop to re start Mission encounters easy peasy just hit the left ramp until it goes up into the helmet hit hit it around a bunch of times to complete your encounters rer crust multiballs just hit up the center a bunch until you light the Razer Crest multiball you'll see here at start of the game two is lit to change which one's lit you hit these targets over here to change it to one or three after that you got Hunter modes over here hit these targets three times to light your in lane for Hunter mode switch that with the flippers once it starts you have to hit the opposite orbit and then the and then the other orbit lights then you hit that and you get Hunter mode completed and you get a bunch of bestar bestar spent at The Foundry right here you hit the here here and then once you're in The Foundry you get a bunch of different Awards those Awards can be anything from relight encounters light heel whistling Birds to collect mission Shot add a ball multiball all kinds of stuff okay Playfield multipliers real quick these are right here you start one Playfield multiplier by hitting these targets to the right you light another Playfield multiplier by completing a hunter mode you light the third one by completing this scope mode you light the scope mode by hitting these three blue arrow shots over here to the right once you hit all three of those scope light the Left End Lane you hit the Left End Lane then hit one of those blue shots again you have completed scope and you will light the Third playi multiplier over here other multiplier rules you have a flamethrower on your center button to start the game it's orange if you hold that button it will light all the major triangle shots on fire and make them all worth 2x other multiplier rules you can hit these Targets on either side of the right ramp to make the right ramp worth 2x use your imagination to combine Playfield multipliers with flamethrower and the right ramp multipliers to get massive points people like to do this in multiball other things to light heal these are this is the left and right outlane saves that can be changed with your flippers you can do that by buying them in The Foundry or getting it from the mystery Awards up here at the child that's Mandalorian man that's a that is a mouthful but that is Mandalorian and this is Shawn Davis he just started his ball he got tired of waiting for us he just started his ball can you blame him but this was his pick yes so he knows Sean knows this game backwards and forwards it's another game though that if it just decides to you're not going to play this game this but he's got multiball ready he just started a mode so if he just gets a SA safe feet out of here he's already double danger if he can get and he's he's doing great he's he's letting the the game do its thing so he can let the Tilt poop [Music] settle boom hey he lights his shots on fire just in time to start that multiball so like what he should be going for here during during ball save hopefully is is getting his his multipliers going by hitting these targets over here it seems like he's just trying trying to build some points he's not really going for them at all but that would really help him this is the time to do it yeah well like with his ball save on cuz the multiball ball save starts long this is a an unusual game in that your multiplier shots are not the same shot every time your multiplier shot changes depending on which X you're going for uh no it no uh these these multipliers over here are just Playfield everything's multiplied oh what are the other multipliers cuz so so the these targets here like if you were to hit these it makes this individual shot worth 2x but but if you're hitting these over to the right then it multiplies everything that's why it's huge at the start of a multi ball up but I mean even without those look at that he he got the 118 like I I I I don't even know what he did there I don't know hit all his shots I mean but to get from 2x to 3x don't you hit something other than that correct you have to you have to start and complete Hunter modes you have to complete the scope modes um that adds to them so if you just hit these targets anytime you want you just hit these targets and one of them will light so now you're at 2X and then you have the other opportunities to add the other triangles it's called the fire triangle like everybody wants the fire triangle because then you're at 5x or whatever it is when you have all three of them going and um but the fact that he went naked into a mode in multiball and and came out at at 112 or whatever it was that's crazy yeah he did something right at home watching like now imagine if that was a 2X right like one might almost say it would be 240
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    mhm zuka says on Eric's machine the main thing to practice is your skill shot yeah you don't get to do a lot
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    else play better play better yeah that's Frank that's Frank Frank knows Mando and he gets all salty because my Mando's too hard
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    Frank young yeah yeah what up Frank Frank you should have came by and hung out today in person yeah it's a good day to do it man bring us some uh bring us some good German beer some good German food yes please although I have to say Greg Knight's jumbalaya is killing it oh yeah I mean he made he made enough to feed like if I had en Kai open with 60 people here and we had 16 that's awesome the Bounty is mine little bit of flipping around there at the end and oh yeah Frank my home's always open to you brother hey player one you're
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    up all right let's go into ball two commanding lead from Shawn Davis with
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    123 and as you said he knows this game well so he probably already has a mind exactly what he'd like to do
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    chot TB I agree with you all of barics machines are like [Music]
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    that I miss uh uh Doodle Bug yep that was that was my I'm sad that I sold it but I had to I know my my good friend Casey rice restored it and then uh I took it to a show the Expo in Chicago and somebody made me an offer I couldn't refuse yeah you got to and uh just had to do it you got to but my second game big game is still here I love that oo live catch that was pretty you guys want to see physics not apply that's that's live catch porn right there for all us neres out there look at that stick that was awesome yeah Doodlebug was my go-to when I was playing somebody I knew I could not beat because Doodle Bug is random if I'm going to lose I'm going to make sure we're both miserable we're both unhappy great backhand not many people go for that backhand uh left ramp on mine because it's really tough it's super Steep and Sean's just making it look easy yep silverball Social Club says great commentary in stream thank you very much oh yeah I'm really glad to have you uh Dan Donell down there in Louisville nice he could have played today but he was a big baby and couldn't make it oh did he make top 16 well uh a person backed out and I asked him and he's like no I can't make it a I'm glad you could tune in apparently you weren't too busy so cuz you came to join us which I love Sean doing what he needs to do he had 122 after ball one he's over 200 on the second ball just kind of laying it on you know well he's up over 230 now um 223 so you know Junior's gota put something together here but you're Qui we're quickly seeing why sea picked this
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    game oh Josh says I played and now you're here too man you are all in today I love it I love [Music] it and congrats on making the top 16 that's incredible would you have qualified to play yes I was qualified 15th I wanted to make sure everybody had fun and had a good time I I I I wasn't trying to play in it all I'm really uh glad you chose to host this is been awesome plus if it came down to me and Sean and I beat him on my own games he'd cry about it I'm just teasing no like everybody was really cool about it um I I I think everyone would have been fine with me playing but I I just wanted to make sure everybody had a good time it has absolutely happened it's been a super smooth tournament all day everybody's had a really good time and getting to stream it is super fun so thanks for the invite there we go all right right ramp oh nice oh yeah comboed it he's got time he's got time he can still start a mode or something yep there you go baby super skill shot that's why we do it that's fun that lights multiball mhm SP multi fantastic oh are you going to play in the Kentucky Women's Championship phoei heading to Louisville tomorrow oh yeah she is Kaylin Smith is going to be phe is my favorite phoe is my favorite to win that I got my money on her don't let me down Phoebe it's all riding on you Jesse Morton I think is going to be no Jesse Morton played in the Ohio one oh she did no Jay did Jay is playing in Ohio I think both of them did oh really I think maybe well remember Ken's interview he was talking about Jay yeah he only mentioned Jay I think Jesse might have gotten overlooked I'll take a look okay or she might have gotten qualified late because somebody couldn't make it oh that might be it yeah okay who's streaming tomorrow good question I know it's being played at w bar well yeah Chris is running no no stream at w bar they don't have any streamers unfortunately in Louisville I wish it could be everywhere and stream it tomorrow but um I just question your Devotion to
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    pinballing it's tough I I I I want to do this stuff all the time but then I also got to like not do stuff sometimes yeah if you want to stay married anyway and employed ah great great that that was a very consistent three ball run on a very hard Mando yep that's that's good that was a great game from sea it's going to make it real tough on Junior here yep cuz he's essentially going to have to do what Shawn did on three balls and one ball right right this is a lot to make
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    up but every game's ball three game this one's no exception and so to answer your question women's is tomorrow uh all the yep open tournaments or not open but the wow brutal um I guess you call them opens um were for today or are today plus a bunch up in Canada so we we should have all of our North American open Champions decided by the end of today okay
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    so sean gets one back here on Mando two to one Shan says I will not go quietly into that good night yes and lives to fight well he he had a couple so what he was at like two 280 or something 285 something like that okay all right we'll get him on the next game now but well now we're going to one Junior yeah we're going to one of Juniors I'm guessing Game of Thrones I'm guessing Game of Thrones because I can't remember what his other favorite is he might have been a hot tip guy
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    too big thanks to everybody who makes this happen our sponsors are uh right in the lower left of the cam there of the player Cam and these are all folks who have sponsored uh the ifp have helped to contribute to make this happen as well as some of them like pinball monk are also sponsors of pincinnati so good friends of the stream in
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    general the guy Independence Day is making that speech that's awesome that's awesome rooting for Tracy tomorrow all right yeah don't I don't know Phoebe I got my money on
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    up so we uh this is our first time seeing this today uh so I'm surprised actually that it that it got picked I wonder if if Junior's thirdd pick uh was hot tip and it already got picked so he didn't use it because this is the first time I'm seeing this today I'll help we don't have a tutorial but we can uh Eric will explain it to you so this is Rocky and Bullwinkle and it's a very multiball heavy game in that the multiball is just very valuable and in order to light the to start multiball you have to hit these standups oh and they spell bomb and they all have a different color and you can see this wheel up here every color you hit is going to give you a different color on the wheel you can see Sean was already close to lighting multiball cuz he only had one light that wasn't lit yet um so if you're hitting bombs it's going to light see how this wheel is not lit up all the way like there's just flashing bulbs and there's other ones that are out whatever if you fill that up then you can hit the right ramp and start multiball okay so once you're in multiball the right ramp is jackpot to relight jackpot you're over here to increase the jackpot value you hit the left ramp you lied Eric what I don't know what he joh mean for he said you lied oh about being able to hit the he said yeah but okay so the game also has modes on this left ramp like some of them are like start multiball super pops like other things so you can hit the right ramp and one of those is flashing it'll light it up and then if you hit in between here and go into this vuk back here it'll give you whatever Mode's lit on the left ramp you can get other value from completing the right drop Target Bank if you complete it it'll start the nail mode and then if you just hit a drop Target after that point you get some value you can uh you have a kickback over here that's lit right away if you go through a lit in Lane it'll increase the value of that Kickback when you hit it oh wow um but and then what what you're seeing on the DMD up there it's showing whatever lit Lane you go through that's the award you're going to get if you move the lit Lane to that um but other than that it's a very multi-ball valuable game yeah I most just play multiball on this one yep that sounded like you were doing it uh motorial and at the end I was waiting for you to go and that's Rocky that's Rocky and
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    Bullwinkle yeah I appreciate what you called out sambuka is that this is one time when actually hitting those spot Targets on either side of a ramp is valuable yeah exactly like give me give me more of those games for someone that's been playing as long as I have like if I could just get something for hitting in between every shot right but game it's perfect it's working you towards multiball so everyone that's watching just keep your eye on this wheel like when you you can see there's two greens lit up like all the other ones are flashing like I need to do a better job of getting better LEDs in there so it's not as weird looking but when those are all lit up multiball is going to be ready on the right ramp and true to dat E's form if both these guys have terrible balls one and two multiball is going to be lit on on ball three so keep an eye out for that too but that only happens if they haven't already started multiball right it's not score based correct yeah yeah it's just it doesn't matter what you have going on if you haven't started multiball yet by ball three it's going to be lit y on the that's nice that's nice there's some mystery awards that you can you can select between one or the other um so we'll see that probably during this game like right here so you got to know like do I want mystery score do I want a light hattick like you got to understand those modes are or those selections are to decide which one's
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    ready what do you go for on the plunge um it almost always goes to the far left lane so I just put it in the middle because you can switch it so I put it in the middle so then that way I'm one one push away from wherever the ball's going but it almost always goes in the left so he hit Light Select which means he's going to get a select award if he hits this center Shot into this hole [Applause] nice but another thing is if you combo the ramps it's going to give you the the lights on this wheel yep and he knows that and and it's going to give you like so he's he's getting good value just from oh no the one the one miss he had on that set of Combos and it bounces to an outlane rattles out yeah when Sean and I were practicing comboing ramps will spot you these bomb targets and your wheel to work towards multiball and giving you points for the comb seems like the way to go um so yeah Shan was liking that move I have not seen Shawn play this today in the tournament so I'd be interested to see what he's doing I think he's going to combo ramps uh but he uh he was kind of finding his own way practicing this and I'll be interested to see what he does
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    ridiculous the uh discussion came up in chat what other cartoon should be pinball machines and I love this vote for cowboy bbop and Ghost in the Shell I would not have imagined either of those and that's great I I'm aware of those shows I'm not nerdy enough to know anything about them but there's a ghost in the Shell custom game that someone made oh really uh yeah so like uh if you go ever go to the Chicago pinball Expo someone's brought ghost in the sh to that multiple times well that's cool same problem as the right Lan but we saw he's going the Combos and he just did it a while longer and combo and ramp all day it's a clean feed right you can just keep doing it left right left right left right but both of them had a rattler didn't quite make it and went to the right out lane so everybody has been practicing this cuz they've realized that it's going to the left lane almost every time so that's what they got going on um again if he hits straight up the middle he can select his award yeah select his award great save [Music] uh-oh so he has all his Blues completed that's why his blue bomb target has no light on it now okay so once he completes yellow and then green then they'll all light up over here but all the blue lights up top are lit so that was a miss that turned out to be great whoa what was that it let's watch that again Eric that was
    327:45
    weird it oh it fed that's pinball like somehow that vuk on the left shot the ball straight into the outline that was weird it went over the plastic and went down there that's that's terrible luck right there so that doesn't count as a malfunction absolutely not that's just bad luck wow now we're going to keep an eye on it get it back he won't he won't get it back nope wow so the pinball guy gods have you know J got screwed and then and then uh sea didn't get a ball safe so yeah yeah so yeah they're trying to even things out yeah vuk to dead is right I'm going to put in a vote for Aon flux the so super pops can be pretty lucrative if you get that award um I need to make these pops a little bit more lively but um yeah those those can jack up your score quite a bit can you make your your V ball three nobody's got multiball so that's why he was ready for multiball right away when on previous balls he was he was well away from getting multiball so now the he already made a jackpot so he wants to hit this hattick shot back here and then it'll relight the jackpot it's just one shot to relight now what the cool thing about this multiball is you can see the it should say on the screen usually what the what the multiv ball value or the jackpot value is is but it's not showing it right now for whatever reason but if you complete all your lights up here during multiball and then collect a jackpot it's worth a 100 million oh wow so that's that's wild do they reset after each jackpot uh the the jackpot values stay where they're at and you can increase the jackpot values by hitting left ramp but did the lights reset after after each jackpot or they only reset once you no no no like like yeah right like you you would have to collect col the lights and then get the 100 million I think before they would reset okay so he's got a lot of lights to collect but so he's just taking his normal jackpots here and then also very important you have unlimited addab balls at these hatrick targets right here so if you can hit these hattick targets it'll add a ball to play unlimited add ball there's only three balls in the game though so if you have three balls out there and you hit those nothing happens but if if you're down to two then you want to make sure that as one's draining to risk your multiball being over you want to complete those to add a ball back into play wow I mean if you're down to two you just use one to go after those get back up to three that's exactly what Sean's going to do that's exactly what Sean's going to do yep so so on the whole that multiball got him to one so Junior put put Sean against the wall here but he can quickly catch up just like junior did on his ball with this multi ball it's already
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    lit so I wonder if he's going to post pass nope okay oh the left ramp gave him multi ball too weird so we're still learning this game
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    people and as you said there's only three balls in the game so he's going to wait till yeah so all they're all out
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    so so he lost one he's he's going after hats like he's going to go after hats right now like crazy once once it makes
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    matter I want to turn off autofocus on your camera is that a thing I can do it keep sort of rotating in and out um yeah we can do that but it's it's a new camera so I'm still learning it but oh we were pins and needles for a second there I'm sure he was too so Sean's in trouble here he's in a little bit of jail but like he can If he if he if he works the the center Shot oh brutal okay oh that a going to do it no three to one Chris wit Jr up on Shawn Davis two-time former Kentucky state champion Shawn Davis against relative new chrisy wi J 49 really compared to most of the people in this room today he is a relative newcomer to the world he's by far the youngest competitor here but don't you worry about it Shawn Davis is a beast and may just put on a clinic here this next one is his
    332:45
    fish oh it is I've been hearing fish all day oh there you go well I wouldn't even close all right looks like we're going to cheetah now we played a uh we did a a tutorial on cheetah a little bit earlier um but we will happily revisit some of the
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    basics cheetah was Shawn Davis's choice and uh not a bad one at that we saw him play this really well in a couple of games earlier so we're returning to an old familiar favorite for Sean he's going to start out by trying to plunge these right here and if he can sweep those on the way by then the next time he drops them he will get 2x bonus then 3x 4X and all the way up to 5x if you can keep getting up there he's also going to go for these drop targets right here as you complete these you are not only building bonus but you are also collecting these Awards the first of which is to light this and boy is that valuable so if you can get your bonus up then collect your bonus on the left there you can get all kinds of points um you'll also see over here that you can drive your bonus X up over here as well and this horseshoe can be quite valuable when lit these three targets and sets of stars are trying what you're trying to do is line them up to get an award if you get all three colors which is hard to do but all three colors the same then you will get uh one of three Awards the one that most people go for he said is the blue one which lights this spinner right here making that shot even more valuable so that's what we're watching um and I think they're taking a quick breather and then they will get down to business here on cheetah maybe I'll check in on Ohio real quick while we've got a sec because says I really want to know what's going on in
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    me there's so I um all right so the Ohio State pinball championships can I see an update it looks like Gregory Kennedy is three up on John Del Zappo currently in a shut out against John delao wow I mean these are two amazing players uh and Galvin Morgan one up on Stu nicew Walker so they are in their semi-finals and already three games in Gregory Kennedy has a shutout cook and that is just wild all right we're back now here at the Kentucky Championship we've just come back across the river to Kentucky
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    which is hard to do these days what with the 471 Bridge shut down but we made it all right there's our plunge you want to hear these sweet sweet cheetah sounds Sean does not get the sweep on the plunge I've seen him do it a bunch he was not able to do it that time been pretty consistent at that yeah sometimes you can pick it up on the orbit you catch one on the initial plunge and when it comes back and get the other two yep
    336:09
    is it ifp regulation that all types of national and Regional championships take place on the same weekend um yeah I believe they made that a stipulation that they just said a day everyone going how to do it uh there's been some talk about you know like when to do women's compared to open and um you know there's been some talk about you know maybe going back and forth where women is Saturday then open is Sunday that like those kinds of things but same day for each type of tournament for sure yep yeah and one of the reasons they do that is so that people don't try and play more than one
    336:51
    tournament okay well Sean was fighting it and you know made the most of a fairly short ball there mhm yeah he came out of 226 not bad for not sure if I've seen Junior play this on stream yet today so I'm interested to see what he's got here yeah so all of our state championships are happening uh in the US as well they're all happening today as well as all the Canada championships and that will decide who's going to the North American Series Championships and that will decide who gets to go to
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    Worlds I have never been to the North America Championship have you been it's amazing I I I won Kentucky back in 2023 and got to go to Nationals in Wisconsin and it was it was such a great time was that uh yeah it was at District 882 so uh like that was such a great time cuz they they combined the ifpa pin Masters tournament that was a great save there yep so Junior has oh he's already up to 3x so he's already at four but he's at 400,000 right now so this is that was a great ball getting those bonus X's he was trying really hard to get this save here and you saw like there was no way it was going left until it did you know I mean it was like fine and then it just all right so that's good on Sean to get get his 2x going yep he's got he's got 3x right now do he oh now he's got it lit but he's got it complete them to get the war so like you can you know what they're currently at by looking at these guys here so Junior's currently at 3x and then you can see 4X is lit cuz that's the next one he's going to get yeah and those bonus X holds and the and the progress on your left side drop targets holds yeah like they're so all he needs is drop Target five to light bonus collect here
    339:00
    yeah there he goes so now see how he's got this bonus great nudge there so he can go left orbit and collect his bonus within the ball so right now he's looking at three times 50k so he can get 150k if he hits this shot right
    339:26
    the and he will keep his bonus X so he can just keep driving that back up and do yeah so he really just wants to boost his bonus so now he's at 100K bonus so it's the max but if he keeps hitting those right side drops he's going to continue to increase his bonus X oh wow just like on the first rip like that was fantastic collect and that was at a 4X so he was 400,000 on that one nailed
    339:56
    it I mean Shawn is fighting right now but junior is playing some really good pinball great tip ever no doubt every time he thinks he's got it he's got to give it one more tip more yeah so we got a shout out from Sweden thank you for that oh Sweden in the house hell yeah yeah and to uh shout out to the Inc and Moss Channel which is hosting the Swedish championship series nice yeah hope everything's going well over there how many I wonder how many great [ __ ] ball yeah nice job nice job I wonder how many um championships they have it's just one for all of Sweden or are there different states let's let Sweden tell us yeah tell me Sweden so North America is all one kind of deal so even the the tournaments going on up in Canada right now they're all in one one pile with the rest of us yep Jasper sorry I didn't realize that you were in Sweden as well well Sweden's been with us all day thank you Sweden in the house in the
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    house all right he's going to take a pause take a breath consider his
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    options so Sean's tournament life at stake right now he needs to really his life he's got a catch Junior and some oo and some Danes as well man I guess we're big in in Scandinavia yeah I mean look at us we're
    341:32
    awesome thank you guys for joining us oh Josh says if Junior wins he'll hang the plaque up at w bar that's pretty pretty sweet that's really awesome yeah that is really awesome build some bonus up there Bar's own 2x so he needs two drop Targets on the right there to get more bonus X rocking which he definitely needs but he's got he's got plenty of things he can go for he can work on the center bank which he
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    did uhoh yeah damn that was just sailing that wanted the outl Junior Junior takes it wow that's going to be it Junior with a walkway win for state championship against a two-time Kentucky state champion huge congratulations to Christ tot Jr our brand new Kentucky state
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    wow I think that's it I think we're going to award some some plaques money and uh and a huge congrats to Christa wit Jr and to his very proud papa uh who is also here in the room with us how old is Junior I don't know I have to ask him younger than me I can tell you that yep all right we're we're going to uh share our Victory here so Stand By and Eric is going to present our award thank you again everybody for tuning in to be with us this and I will pass along your congrats I'm going to get Junior over here in a minute to talk with us but we're going to go take a look at LCD only so that we can watch him present wherever that scene is wait for
    343:28
    it there you go there's our winner Christ Jr dad you got me I got you going right
    343:53
    everybody all right everybody thanks so much for coming out to Kentucky today first up our former two-time state champion second place this year on the 2025 Kentucky state championships Sean Davis good job dude all right and we got a new first time winner of Kentucky he comes down or he comes up from Louisville Mr quis Dr
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    Jr great job Junior nice work man nice job thanks everybody for coming uh have fun watching whatever the hell you're watching today on the other streams but thanks for coming thank you
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    I'm GNA see if I can get Junior over here to come talk with me and then we will bid you all farewell so that you can watch your many other amazing pinball streams today but first I have the pleasure of sitting with our Kentucky state champion Chris dit Jr who played an amazing day of pinball huge congrats to you you're getting congrats all over the chat thank you uh it must have been such a thrill to clinch that Victory on cheetah yo I'm just really glad I get to I get to go to New York I are you so super excited oops I turned my camera off I meant to do that one are you super excited oh yeah I mean amazing so now you get to go on to Nationals Y and compete for a shot at Worlds how cool is that it's pretty crazy what was going through your head as you entered these final few games um I was thinking um I don't even know um cuz you seem calm composed I didn't know you're freaking out inside yeah I've been pretty calm all day um like I haven't really had a game where I feel like it w like it was truly my fault that I lost the game like I feel like I feel like I lost games because the other player just played so much better than me okay yeah yeah yeah so you were playing solid all day you were playing the games you wanted to play yeah um I had to play hot tip and Grand Prix all day which are two games that I absolutely love yeah yeah yeah I remember you were sitting with me saying there were three games it was Game of Thrones hot tip Grand Prix no it was game is it was uh Game of Thrones bad girls and bad girls and Grand Prix thank you and yeah so when we got to see you show off on those yeah that was pretty sweet um now that you are the Kentucky state champion you're moving on to New York winter nationals do you know I have no clue I don't remember either I'll have to look it up I wasn't planning on making them you did plan on going well bad news I think you did yeah and uh and I assume Chris dit senior is awful proud of you in this moment yeah he's also um he's also not really excited to drive me to New York hey man I'll go with you we'll find a way to commentate from there well congrats on a really successful run today you looked great playing all day and really showed us uh pois and confidence how old are you uh 16 pois and confidence beyond your years congrats yep thanks friends our new Kentucky state champion Chris dit Jr and and uh we'll see you guys in New York at Nationals where you'll see him take home perhaps another trophy that's it for us today thanks for joining straight down the middle here in Northern Kentucky I'm Justin Masterson and uh you know live life like uh it's ball three we'll see you guys we ball five we ball five