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2025 NKY Pinball Pregame Strikes Tournament

chuckwurt·video·4h 5m·analyzed·Jul 7, 2025
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TL;DR

NKY Open 2025 pregame strikes tournament livestream with gameplay and commentary.

Summary

This is a livestream of the 2025 NKY Open pregame strikes tournament, a nine-strike progressive format warm-up event held the night before the main NKY Open tournament. The video captures tournament gameplay, commentary by Eric Wartenberger and Justin Masterson, and discussion of various pinball machines including Jungle Queen, Pulp Fiction, Stars, Big Game, Bone Busters, and Cheetah. The stream showcases casual tournament play, game rules explanation, and community dynamics in the Northern Kentucky pinball scene.

Key Claims

  • The NKY Open pregame tournament uses a nine-strike progressive format where first place = 0 strikes, second = 1 strike, third = 2 strikes, fourth = 3 strikes, and when down to two players, second place = 2 strikes instead of 1.

    high confidence · Eric Wartenberger explains the tournament format at the beginning of the stream

  • The main NKY Open tournament is scheduled for Saturday starting at noon, probably running until midnight.

    high confidence · Eric Wartenberger states this during commentary

  • Arcade Legacy in Cincinnati had 70 people at their Thursday tournament and has been getting 60 people consistently.

    medium confidence · Conversation between commentators about venue attendance

  • Pulp Fiction was designed by Mark Richie to be a classic-style game, comparable in design philosophy to Whirlwind.

    medium confidence · Eric Wartenberger's commentary during Pulp Fiction gameplay

  • Bone Busters is a game that exists as an unlicensed alternative to Ghostbusters.

    high confidence · Eric Wartenberger's explanation: 'When you can't get the license for Ghostbusters, who you going to call? Bone Busters.'

  • The tournament uses Swiss pairing, where players are paired based on their finishing positions from previous rounds.

    high confidence · Eric Wartenberger explains the pairing system during commentary

  • Cheetah at this venue has been modified with an increased playfield angle, making the skill shot sweep of three drop targets easier and reducing the need for power plunging.

    medium confidence · Justin Masterson's comment about Cheetah playing differently than at Cincinnati

  • Pulp Fiction is considered 'one of the best modern games ever' and would be Eric's choice for a new purchase over Jaws.

    medium confidence · Eric Wartenberger's opinion during gameplay commentary

Notable Quotes

  • “When you can't get the license for Ghostbusters, who you going to call? Bone Busters.”

    Eric Wartenberger@ 48:21 — Humorous explanation of the game's origin as an unlicensed alternative, highlighting IP licensing constraints in pinball

  • “I think Pulp Fiction is one of the best modern games ever... Better than Jaws.”

    Eric Wartenberger@ 44:42 — Personal assessment of modern game quality and design merit

  • “The spinner shots, they don't really sing most of the time. It feels like you get the ball caught up on the side of the spinner.”

    Eric Wartenberger@ 45:13 — Specific mechanical/technical observation about Pulp Fiction's spinner design and playability

  • “It's probably just because I'm bad at pinball.”

    Justin Masterson@ 45:25 — Self-deprecating humor from competitive player

  • “I'm having my butt handed to me tonight. Two games in a row came in last.”

    Eric Wartenberger@ 42:24 — Commentary on tournament performance struggles

  • “Pulp Fiction was designed by Mark Richie to be a classic essentially.”

    Eric Wartenberger@ 45:37 — Attribution of design philosophy for a modern game

  • “That would be the worst strain ever, dude.”

    Eric Wartenberger — Reaction to unfavorable game outcome

Entities

Eric WartenbergerpersonJustin Mastersonperson[name withheld pending review]personSummerpersonGreg KnightpersonThomaspersonLaurapersonRoypersonAdampersonElizabethpersonMark Richieperson

Signals

  • ?

    event_signal: NKY Open tournament structure and logistics: pregame strikes format the night before main event; Swiss pairing system for round assignments; nine-strike elimination format; main event scheduled all-day Saturday from noon to midnight

    high · Eric Wartenberger's tournament setup explanation and ongoing commentary throughout the stream

  • ?

    venue_signal: Arcade Legacy in Cincinnati demonstrates strong tournament attendance with 70 people at Thursday event and consistent 60-person turnout; contrasts with challenges in other regions (host mentions wishing their venue could achieve similar numbers)

    high · Conversation between commentators discussing Cincinnati venue performance

  • ?

    community_signal: NKY pinball community appears active and organized with formal tournament structure, multiple competitive venues, stream infrastructure, and consistent participation in IFPA-adjacent events

    high · Tournament organization, streaming quality, player competency, discussion of state tournaments and regional events

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Pulp Fiction evaluated as high-quality modern game with classic design sensibilities; spinner mechanics noted as problematic (ball catching on side); comparison drawn to Whirlwind in terms of insert design

    medium · Eric Wartenberger's detailed commentary on Pulp Fiction mechanics and design philosophy

  • ?

    operational_signal: Cheetah playfield angle modified at this venue (increased from Cincinnati version), making skill shot easier and reducing difficulty of power plunging requirement; indicates active venue operator customization

Transcript

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0:17
be good. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] broke mine out last time. Only the second time.
1:49
[Applause] I'm Uh we're doing all the formal stuff tomorrow. All right, everybody. Welcome. Uh NKY Open is tomorrow obviously, but we're doing a little warm up pregame strikes tonight. So it'll be nine strikes progressive. If you're unfamiliar, that's uh you get zero strikes for first, one strike for second, two strikes for third, and three strikes for fourth. Once we're down two people, the loser will get two strikes instead of one. Uh nine strikes and you're out playing games. So, uh yeah. So, uh, if you guys notice any of the newer games, I'll get those out of the tournament tonight. But, uh, yeah, let me know if there's any older games. Turn off dirty hair. Is there something wrong with that? Okay. Uh, click dirty hairy back on. We'll see if there's an issue with that or not. But, uh, yeah, that's pretty much it. Anybody got any questions?
3:27
Yeah. Game 012. All right. Um, remember about the stream, it'll be kind of tight, but we're going to try and keep the stream moving and possibly moving in between rounds. So, just be cognizant of that. Other than that, should be pretty uh, everybody here is playing a lot of turns. So, again, welcome. Uh, bathroom by the front door. All the drinks in the fridge are for everybody. All the big coolers are for everybody. Those have alcoholic stuff in them. I'll have those outside tomorrow, but they're down here. We'll go ahead and get started.
4:08
@ 16:37

  • “Stars and obs are definitely my worst game.”

    Justin Masterson@ 18:04 — Self-assessment of player strengths/weaknesses

  • “It's all It's all luck.”

    Justin Masterson@ 45:32 — Philosophical observation about pinball vs. skill

  • “You're literally just doing the same thing the whole game. There's barely any differentiation strategy.”

    Justin Masterson@ 66:32 — Critical assessment of game design depth and strategic variety

    • Arcade Legacyvenue
    NKY Openevent
    Pulp Fictiongame
    Bone Bustersgame
    Starsgame
    Jungle Queengame
    Big Gamegame
    Cheetahgame
    Jawsgame
    Whirlwindgame
    Doctor Whogame
    Beatlesgame
    Diamond Ladygame
    [name withheld pending review]event

    medium · Justin Masterson's observation comparing Cheetah play to Cincinnati state tournament version

  • ?

    product_concern: Pulp Fiction spinner shots noted as unreliable with ball catching on spinner side rather than cleanly looping through; described as potentially affecting competitive fairness

    medium · Eric Wartenberger's specific comment: 'The spinner shots, they don't really sing most of the time. It feels like you get the ball caught up on the side of the spinner.'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Pulp Fiction intentionally designed as a 'classic' modern game by Mark Richie, employing classic-era scoring thresholds and insert design language similar to Whirlwind, rather than contemporary Stern design philosophy

    medium · Eric's statements about Mark Richie's design intent and Whirlwind inspiration

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Bone Busters exists as unlicensed Ghostbusters alternative, likely due to IP licensing unavailability for pinball manufacturers; suggests ongoing licensing constraints in the industry

    high · Eric's joke about calling Bone Busters when 'you can't get the license for Ghostbusters'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Bone Busters criticized for limited strategic variety; gameplay described as repetitive with 'barely any differentiation strategy' despite straightforward rules

    medium · Justin Masterson's assessment during gameplay commentary

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Swiss pairing format used for tournament progression; players matched based on results regardless of round number, allowing flexible scheduling and competitive balance across skill levels

    high · Eric Wartenberger's explanation of pairing system

  • ?

    content_signal: Stream quality indicates professional production with live commentary team alternating roles, camera positioning for multiple games, audio mixing challenges being addressed in real-time, game tutorial segments

    high · Entire stream structure and production quality

  • ?

    community_signal: Evidence of interconnected tournament network including NKY Open, Cincinnati Arcade Legacy events, state tournaments, and likely IFPA-affiliated competitions; players travel between venues and compete regularly

    high · References to Cincinnati state tournament, Arcade Legacy Thursday events, player references to traveling, mention of The Beast tournament in Buffalo

    • All right, we'll get started here. [Applause] What's up? What's up everybody?
    5:41
    All right. Not sure why I can't hear anything right now, but
    6:10
    Not sure why we're echoing here, but we'll figure that out later cuz I don't think people listening can hear it, but
    6:28
    we we got an echo and I don't know why that's happening. Um, hold on. Yeah. So, normally that's because this one should just be on output. So, go to monitor off. Okay. And then turn this one on. Okay. Now, we're good. Yeah, we should be good there. Okay. Uh, so let me get the
    6:50
    Hello everybody. I'm Eric Wartenberger here with Justin Masterson. All right. Glad to be off to the races with our NKY Open 2025 pregame strikes match. This is our Friday night match. Happy 4th of July. Oh, two in the States. Player one's a mystery. I know summer's new, but maybe that's why. Oh, that could be. Yeah. All right, let me see what I'm playing. Friends, we're going to be trading commentators all night because I am playing, but tomorrow I will be with you for the duration. So, looking forward to being with you all day. I won't be playing. I'll just be commentating. So, we'll walk you through all the rules and take you through all the players and uh we'll have an awesome day at pinball tomorrow. But we're going to have an awesome night of pinball tonight. Starting off with Jungle Queen. I just got to figure out what my first game is.
    7:54
    You can see Thomas right there. He's our player two. But I don't know who player one was because I wasn't looking. All right, let me go find out where I'm playing and work my way over there.
    8:18
    I'm on Pulp Fiction. Thank you, BFR. That's exactly what I need. Yeah, my my head blends today. Tomorrow I'll wear a red hat. Enjoy your game of Jungle Queen. I'll be back. [Music]
    9:04
    Excuse me. Laura was upstairs. I was in the bathroom. I was like, I will be first. Oh yeah.
    9:51
    That's set two. All right. That's That's better. Jungle Queen, will anyone light up the 100,000 light?
    10:09
    Man, I'm on stars and I just sat down. It's already back to me. That's crazy.
    10:52
    Yeah, always be ready when you're playing stars. Feel like stars is the most deadly.
    11:13
    Yeah, we're celebrating our nation's independence by playing a game that was once illegal.
    11:32
    It's only uh nine progressive strikes, so it should go fairly quick.
    11:44
    Cleveland's taking the weekend off. Fourth of July, big deal up there.
    11:52
    We've got Greg Knight up. Oh, he played excellent last night at Arcade Legacy. [Music]
    12:02
    Oh, yeah. Tomorrow all day starting at noon, probably go till midnight. All right, I'm up again.
    13:33
    All right, just got word that player one is summer. Supposedly a new player. [Music] Oh, there it is.
    13:52
    Thank you. Yeah, Pulp Fiction's kind of a classic. I mean, Beatles is in too in classic mode.
    14:04
    [Music] Hometown parade where they hand out cheese. Is that Wisconsin?
    14:15
    You don't have to run. Plunge the A. It's better than not hitting any of them, but what you want is that B, man. Left out lane. Hungry. [Music]
    14:54
    Look like I'm up. right, let's see if Greg can have more than two flips.
    16:16
    Starting to look somewhat unlikely that anyone's going to get the 100,000 light lift, but only takes one ball.
    16:29
    Oh, knuckled. That's like the You better get off your ass.
    16:37
    That's like the worst strain ever, dude. [Music] looks like Summer is going to end up with 49,000. Currently in second, but should be lucky to get third. I don't know. I mean,
    17:14
    double bonus. Sit down. Sit down. Uh, yeah. It's up. Oh, you dang it.
    17:31
    Oh, yeah. I uh on the stars I had my double bonus off the roof and so I just shot and I and I got so lucky cuz if I didn't have the uh cuz it it rolled out it I got shots to lane and then it did an out and over. But I would not have caught up to you if it wasn't lit. If it if that outling wasn't lit whenever I hit it. No way. Well, Stars, I'm happy with anything other than four. Yeah, like stars and obs are definitely my worst game. Good thing it's not juggle princess. We would have the whole game. I like I like odds and evens, but it's like it's feast or famine. Either going to end up with like 12,000 or 100,000 cuz it's all about getting those extra balls. It's also about getting that ball in the flipper. Yeah, it's all about like collecting all the odds or all the evens cuz if you never do that then there's no points to be had.
    18:41
    You also kind of got a hook that also is nice to you too because sometimes like a lot of times what I found is that a really early shot with the left flipper will usually get you in there because the left flipper is a lot a lot weaker than the right so it won't really li
    19:10
    All right. So, I don't know if we're going to get a rigged move. I don't know how close the round is to being over. Well, I'm guessing they're probably at least still going to be playing for
    19:30
    I don't know his button. Afraid to touch stuff. Is
    19:39
    that where we're at? Okay, that's where we're at. I don't know if this will show the matching
    20:00
    The top one is updated. The middle. Yeah. I mean, I guess we have like Oh, that is burning. No, it's this first the first round the people that watch.
    20:36
    All right. Cheetah Piction. Turn down that Rick sound a little bit. Yeah. since there is no game being played.
    21:05
    Sorry for the people who were listening to conversations. That's always fun on streams. Yeah.
    21:32
    So, did I hang in for a second? Yeah. I forgot last year. Last year I was playing I had gloves and I didn't even have glasses. I I cannot get the right one.
    21:51
    Next year I'll probably have bif focals cuz I'm old. Yeah, I've thought about getting the pin shades, but at the same time I'm like, do I really want do I need them? You mean like well I pretty much I pretty much just copy whatever Jason Zer and Echelov do and well I think Essher wears glasses right now but Zer doesn't and like they don't do any like pin shades or the gloves or anything so I just I try to do bare bones. Where's the hoodie? Oh, you actually I don't think I own a hoodie right now in my size. Wow. Got to get one of those Arcade Legacy hoodies. Arcade Legacy. They're very nice. Oh, no. I have a Pinch Madison. Um I haven't I haven't been up to Arcade Legacy since the state tournament. Oh, wow. Well, it's it's like Well, I live in the Louisville area, so it's it's a pretty pretty decent draft. Um, and it's on school nights, too. Yeah, they had 70 people last night for the Thursday tournament. Yeah, we've been getting 60 pretty consistently. Crazy. Yeah, I wish we could do that over in, but you know,
    23:20
    Yeah, Ste didn't did indeed make an appearance. He's abusing himself on Stars. Or no, wait, he's not stars. Doctor Who. Oh, that's abused, too.
    23:37
    I'm just no good at Doctor Who. Really? I've gotten a little better at hitting those ramps, but that's still, you know, very difficult. I can hit like two or three and then nothing. I just my what I do is I just do Dr. one two three or no 224
    24:00
    no 236 and then I just do the hoop combos all day and that's weird cuz on this one like the side ramp is so so difficult to loop
    24:14
    cuz he's got like something blocking the ramp. I don't know what it is.
    24:20
    I feel like he might have like the flipper like set up different like dropped or he probably has a different angle. Yeah, maybe we going full pixel.
    24:33
    See if I can figure out how to change these names. Oh, in in Aris Doctor Who. Um, I don't know if he still has it set up from the state tournament, but you could literally make the biggest move ever and only get one kill one, but it only has one kill one.
    24:58
    Looks like we have a four-player game, but player four is uh invisible like summer was. So, we have two invisible people. Oh, wait. Oh, all right. Maybe I guess we'll have to see. Um I was about to say maybe maybe player four doesn't exist or maybe they're not here. I'll pay for the J
    25:37
    with the um with the all game scam. Um it shows the p it shows the Cincinnati women's standing
    25:49
    the matchups. Oh, the matchups. Yeah, matchups. [Music]
    26:02
    Roll cameras and action. So pretty. Clean the [ __ ] car. [Music] Hold it right there. God. Yeah.
    26:22
    [Music] I think fast. I talk fast. And I need you guys to ask us if you want to get out. Yeah, those matchups. Yeah. First, cuz we couldn't have planned this better.
    27:11
    [Music] Expensive stuff cuz when I drink it, I want to taste it.
    27:21
    Looks like our mystery player is Justin Masterson. Say good night. Good night. So, their game just finished. Um Eric fixed the match up. You're about to [Music]
    28:02
    Maybe it's because Justin's in two places at once, sitting next to me and playing Piction. That is true.
    28:12
    I didn't know Eric was right. Oh, yeah. I go by Chuck Wart. Um, I go by uh JM.
    28:30
    We've just spent the last 10 minutes convincing people that we were you and Eric. All right, next round is up. Next round is up. Wait, I thought my name was Justin. I have to change my name again.
    28:46
    Oh, he said Neon's up. All right, let's see if our matchups are correct now. Oh, I'm on Pope Fiction against probably Adam. Wow. Oh, that's going to be a long game. I'm on big game versus Eric. Rough. All right, I'm player one, so I'm going to go play a ball.
    30:33
    Let's get down to Brad. [Music] [Applause] Quiet on the side. Hold it right there.
    31:13
    All right. Had to get some help from Los to get our uh category that we're trying to stream in here to the uh appropriately
    31:27
    adequate pinball one here. Let's see here. I don't know why our game sounds cutting out here and there after that
    31:51
    I'll try and fix that that game sound. I I hear cutting out if you guys hear it. So that's a damn [ __ ] Hopefully we'll get that fixed up for tomorrow. Jesus, how many pinball categories are there now?
    32:23
    Oh, there it is. All right, we got the right one now. Hello. Hey, don't mean to ditch you, but I already play big game. I was going to say, I'm assuming you're leaving. Yeah, that's why I came.
    32:38
    Be buler. Ber Okay, I'm going to stop doing that. That's not That's not fun. Hello everybody. Wait, can I see you? I'm moving the screen hopefully. Uh, it says it's cutting out on our end. Is it better now? [ __ ] shotguns. down. It's better.
    33:01
    It's sad that both Behead Girls and Bone Busters are possible games.
    33:11
    All right, let me know if this sounds good. I'm just chilling. Uh, we are watching Pulp [ __ ] Fiction. I hope we can swear in this uh on this channel. So, I know a rudimentary amount of information about how to play this game. Flipping is more important than not flipping. Um, I'm told. Hello. Hello. The evil's back. I'm here. The game audio is not cut in anymore. This is good. This is good. Good. Good. Yay. Yay. And yes, it's a Deborah. One of us. Anyway, uh I'm playing stars right now and I am hoping all of the players I'm playing against are rocking it so that I can just chill here with you guys for a little bit. Um Pulp Fiction. So, and anyone who really knows this game well, that's a bummer. We all know how good he is. So, that was uncool. Um anyone who knows this game, there's a skill shot. You hold in the left flipper, the ball goes all the way around. You get an extra 100k cool if you hit either of the orbits or any of the um what do you call it? Any of the like in lane drops. Wow, now the sound is cutting up for me. That's weird. Chad Hobs thought the same thing. It was immediately proven wrong. Oh, that I wasn't everywhere. What is that the question? Lauren, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Who's everywhere? Lauren's everywhere. Uh, I'm still here, but I got to go play my ball on stars. Wish me luck.
    35:39
    All right. So, where are we at here? Oh, everybody's got pictures. Why not? Jason and Chris have pictures. That's pretty awesome. All right. Chris has Mia lit. We're in the pop bumpers. We've got Vincent lit. Oh, them characters. We got one, too. Uh, if you go up top, I don't even know how like the like the little draw thing works on this particular rig. Oh, he's going for the locks that I was trying to go for earlier. I feel like he should have let that bounce over. Nice. Back to the left flipper. It's a good backhand. Let's see it again. Back hand. Back hand. There it is. Yes. Uh, it's good. It's very nice. Two more of those and we're going to see multiball. Why? Because that's how many it takes. Okay. Big kahuna is lit. Big points. Big points. The call out is pretty cool. Do it. Do it. Do it. Well, no, no, no. Forget that. Just go for the locks. Backing in the lock. Yes. Good. Lock number two.
    36:48
    He's got three characters left. That's pretty cool. No Quinton and no Sam Jackson yet, but you know, we'll get there. Just staying alive on this game. need help. All right, he's getting awards for the three characters he's got lit. Now they're solid. They're no longer blinking. Now they're just solid rectangles. Yes, that was beautiful. He did what I wanted to do. He lit and filled all three locks. Get down.
    37:23
    Briefcase. Boogie boogie. Who doesn't want that ball save? Um, all the fall saves have been reduced, although it looks decent here. It's still lit and wonderful. So, he should get that ball back. Shoot red. Shoot red. Okay, so it looks like he's going for the left drop inline drop target shots. There's the red that they were looking for him to hit. Oh man. Okay, I don't know if I start again. Last ball. Last ball. Let's call
    38:43
    All right, that was actually a better uh a better crappy ball on stars. And it sounds like it's actually a fiveball game. Okay, we are still on Mr. Dit doing all of the things back in single ball play going for his other multiball. There's a lot going on. If you're ever watching this game on streams and you just want to look at what the solid the the what do you call it the numerical alpha numeric display is telling you, it actually gives you a decent amount of information.
    39:14
    It's not necessarily going to really help you to like understand how to exploit the rules of this game, but it's definitely better than nothing. Looks like he's going for the center. Oh, but he's got the ball save unless he tilts it and he check out the big brain on bread. Check out the big brain on bread. Oh, Chris. Chris was locked in. Uh, BFR pinball. I did not know it was five balls, but now now I do. I already use Yeah, I also Wait, BFR, who are you? You know all the things. Okay, ball four for me.
    40:05
    [Music] Wait, [Music] is there vodka in there or is that actually just H2O? Is that H2O or is that vodka?
    40:33
    I had to ask the uh the the adoring crowd wants to know. A there may or may not be vodka in that camel pack that a couple of the players are sipping from. Okay, I have not had any love on Stars at all. There might as well be one ball on Stars.
    41:03
    Good. Just chill out. Just relax for a second. I would have I would have absolutely postp passed that because this game is brutal. I would have posted passed to the left flipper and then tried to backhand it. Excuse me. All right, Los. What's Los got? Hopefully Lois has got more than what I got on stars right now. Although I get to spend more time with you guys when I have no time on the ball. Scale shot. All right. So, very cool. I haven't even really had a chance to see. Oh, he gets the ball save. He gets the ball save. What? He gets the skill shot and then the ball save. Rude. I may or may not be up next. Sorry. I have to go. It's not me yet. That was incredible.
    41:59
    Oh, he could have had that bag, too. Could have had that back. Could have had it back. What's his uh It might be It might be me. All right, it's me. Uh, hi, Devil Rock. Mr. Masterson. I'll be right back. You getting ready to leave? All right, I'm on stars. Go get him. In the meantime, we'll watch Chris Dit play some Pulp Fiction. friends. I am having my butt handed to me tonight. Two games in a row came in last. So, I may just not have the mojo I need tonight. We'll see. I would say it's still early, but it's really not as you can be out in three games.
    42:48
    Looks like he was going for a mo shot, wasn't able to pick it up. That can be a really tricky shot. Super tight shot. Looks like he's going for it again. [Music] He's got a couple of briefcases locked, so he could go that way. Roll cameas. He gets the scene. I want to win. How about a twist contest? This is about getting up in the pop bumpers and staying up there as much as you can. So when it comes back down, you just fire it back up top.
    43:17
    And as with all things Pulp Fiction, the modes are worth a lot. So very worth getting up there.
    43:30
    There you go. A little pop. [Music] He's got a 2x bonus multiplier, but I don't know if he has 2x playfield. Yeah, no. Okay, how about that scene? [Music] Cash is in the hurry up at the end and he's going to finish the scene at 1.841.
    44:14
    Guess how many strikes I didn't get. How many strikes didn't you get? Didn't get three strikes. Oh, how many how many strikes did you get? Two. Two strikes. Two strikes. I just took two strikes myself, but I was in a three-player game. So, I was could not have done worse. So, good. You could have You could have been in a four-player group. That's true. And then I did that in the first round. Thank you for joining us because I am not interested when I talk about Pulp Fiction. I love this game. I think it is one of the best modern games ever. Um, better than Jaws. I love Jaws. What's wrong with you? I love Jaws. I think they are both fabulous games. But if I had the bucks for it to buy a new game tomorrow, I think I'd get those. I wouldn't. No. No. I think it's one of the best modern games, but I wouldn't I would drop my money on one of the stories at this point only because like literally this is how stupid specific and picky and prissy I am. The spinner shots, they don't really sing most of the time. It feels like you get the ball caught up on the side of the spinner. These are opto spinners. They burn for days. They don't burn for I what I'm saying is I hit the spinner and it feels like it just clunks off of it. a lot of the time. Maybe Oh, it's probably just because I'm bad at pinball. I don't think that's the case. It could be. It could be sometimes luck. It's all It's all luck. If Paul Fiction is a modern, why is it in the classics? That's a great question. It was designed by Mark Richie to be a classic essentially. It's pretty classic E. I think that like Beatles isn't very classicy. I mean, like this is more classic than Beatles. Yep. I mean, everything about it from the scoring thresholds to the layout. Oo, scoring thresholds. Where where'd you pick up that phrase? Well, you know what it what it takes to score what? No, I mean I know what it means. I just think that it's a beautiful way to say that. Oh, all right. I'll take that. I've never I don't hear other people say scoring thresholds. It's very JJP of you. Very JJ. We like our scoring thresholds to be low. Look at these amazing these little inserts, right? These are just straight out of whirlwind and I absolutely love them. Oh, that's what that's what does it for you? That's what does it for me. You know what does it for me? The cartoon depiction of Quentyn Sarendino and his bathrobe. And I know I'm not here to talk about what like turns the world for me, but it is pretty amazing. Oh, no. Did he actually pick up any bonus on that? Cuz that was a hard tilt at the end there. Yeah, he didn't tilt. No, I guess not. Also, he's got a massive score. I mean, it's kind of like Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, Chris Dit has a massive score. Yep. Christopher Dit Jr. What? How come the Dits had to play against each other in the second game? I had to play against Trent in stars on the second round. What's that about? What's going on? Did you have to play against Laura in the second round? No, I played against Roy, which is kind of the same thing from a relationship standpoint. A Do you have a phone that works so you can tell me what I'm on next for? Oh, sure. Is a round up already? Apparently. I hear Eric shouting. I don't even need a phone. I can do it right here. Oh, that's cool. He got bonus. We're doing Swiss pairing. So, however you finish is how you're doing. That's who you're playing. I am playing big game with apparently three other people who can't seem to win anything if if we're doing Swiss pairing. Wait, are you going to the Beast? I'm going to Big Game, baby. No, I mean like are you going to the Beast in like Buffalo, New York? Oh, no. I don't think so. You're like, I'm going to Big Game. I was going to go hiking in the Cat Skills, but my plans got cancelceled, so I probably won't be going to the Beast. Okay. But I am there for the people who are in Spirit. Yeah, that's so that's awesome. What are you playing next? I'm going to big game. You are going to something. Geese keeps on bone busters. Uh, I'm going on something. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. Something. I am going not to any of the games I've looked at so far. Am I out of the tournament now? Did they just take me out? I don't I hope not. Diamond Lady is what you're doing. I think they've removed me. Let's see where Eric took us. He took us over to Bone Busters. Gotly premier favorite. Let's run a mintorial so you too can learn how to play Bone Busters. Hi everybody.
    48:21
    When you can't get the license for Ghostbusters, who you going to call? Bone Busters. All right, let's learn some Bone Busters pinball here, people. All right, multiple options off the plunge. If you can plunge up this lane, go up these two switches, and come back down to the hole, that will immediately award you a lock right here. If you plunge around to the mini flipper here and open the flipper up with the added button on the side of the cabinet, it'll roll over here into this lock for another lock. You can get up to two locks on your initial plunge. Once you start play, working yourself around the playfield, you have multiple options. You can hit the ball up here along the left orbit to hit the captive ball, or you can hit the captive ball straight on from the left flipper. If you hit the captain ball, it will light both spinners for 20,000 a pop. This is worth big points. Okay, multiball. To light locks, you got to hit this left ramp. That could light one of three locks. One here, one down here, and then it could also lock the ball in the back. You only need to lock one ball for multiball to start multiball. You hit up the center ramp to jump over a little gap, hit this hole to start multiball. Multiball switchbased. Once you hit 100 switches, you get 1 million points. Once you hit 200 switches, you have double play field for the rest of that ball for any multiball you play. And if you hit 300 switches, you get three specials, which is around 1.5 million points. Car awards are the drop target bank on the right. To switch car is lit, you hit this target back here or go through the right in lane or the left in lane. It will change which car is lit here. Complete the drop bank to collect that car. The awards are extra ball, light jackpot special, and Lizz's surprise, which is 100,000 points. If you get the light jackpot car, that will light the opera jackpot at the captive ball right here. The opera jackpot's value is increased by these standup targets that point to the left and right side of the game. This builds up to a maximum of 3 million points. It builds slowly and is progressive and saves across games. Keep an eye on that opera jackpot value. Water tower bonus up the middle here that is increased by the pop bumper hits right here. So, hit the pop bumper a bunch, hit the center ramp to collect the water tower bonus. Upper flipper shot. You can go straight across the playfield here. Go around a loop-de-loop underneath the upper playfield and it comes down this lane for increasing awards up to special and extra ball which are worth 500k a
    50:43
    muted. I can't tell. So, you're going to have to tell me.
    50:57
    Oh, good. Not that you could have heard me otherwise. Okay, so you activate the other flipper in short plunge for the other skill shot for the other ball lock. No, we're unmuted now.
    51:40
    All All right. Can you guys hear me now? Oh, yeah. You can. Um,
    51:58
    I'm playing Cheetah right now. I hope I'm not up yet. Some bone busters incorporated. Let's see. Does she have a ball locked yet? Um, I think she does on the skill shot septic guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, who's part 98? What? Do I know you?
    52:40
    Okay, so she's got a ball locked on the on both the skill shots. Um, and then she also has one on the ramp. Um, she just needs to shoot her center ramp and she has a four ball multiball. Um, so the mo the way the multiball works in this game is that I don't know how to actually get the jackpots and stuff, but there are awards in the center of the playfield that you get based on switch hits during your multiball.
    53:07
    Um, all right. I'm going to go see if All set. Yeah, I'm ready. [Music] What are your words?
    56:26
    Not you. We all collective. the bridge. Oh, come on. Get up your lamp. had a pretty good game on here. Oh, chat's over there. Yeah, though. Uh I'm sad about that drop catch on ball, too. But other than that, this is very fun game. Ah, thanks.
    62:30
    I'm trying. I'm feeling pretty good on most of these games, which is surprising. Everybody tells me Eric's games are always like stupidly hard, but so far
    62:58
    Ah. Uh, that should be a time bonus. Yeah, in a bonus round. I guess I did I just didn't get a bonus round. I was wondering
    63:33
    That's going to be it. How's it going? Uh, you're muted. How about now?
    63:45
    Uh, hang on. Oh, how about There we go. Now talk. Uh, yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Awesome. Yeah, the golly. I'm like always nervous to hit star button. It's like, am I going to reset this game? See was Elizabeth playing her bonus ball there. Yeah, that was the bonus ball. Yeah. So, I saw somebody corrected me in chat. There's no jackpot at all in this game. It's just um the switch hits during multiball get you these three awards in the middle. Yeah, that he's like uh I think he said 20 or no not 20. Uh I didn't know the number. He's It gives you It starts off a million and then Yeah, I It's like these rewards you get for so many switches that you hit. Yeah, it's a million and then something else and then three specials. That's going to be it.
    64:52
    200. Oh yeah, 100 switches to explain. Oh yeah. So, uh,
    65:02
    see if somebody gets that. If not, I'll go put it in. Cool. Besides besides multiball, the other way you can play this game um is just hitting the captive ball and then just go for the spinners. Um, but Oh, yeah. I hear that that you can rip these pretty well up here. Yeah, but you also have to hit the captain ball each time you rip the spinners. I gota kind of stinks. Um, they can be worse than good points, though. Yeah, this is only like my second time playing this game, so yeah, I've I've never played it. Yeah. Okay, just Yeah, Eric was telling us like in the middle of a game ball, too. Okay, here's how you play halfway through your game. So, yeah. Um once you get that lock on the left ramp, um you can plunge up to that lane up there and then you just hold your flipper and it goes down to the left. Right. And then um you can also short plunge. Make sure you don't hold the flipper up at all. Mhm. And then it'll go to another saucer and then once you hit that center ramp, it'll be a four ball multiball instead of a three ball. Gotcha.
    66:14
    the rules. Uh the rules are kind of really straightforward. Yeah, it's I'm gonna I'm gonna see if we can move the raid to another game here. All right. Yeah, I This is This is one of the boring god leaves. Um this this one's so boring. Um cuz I mean, you're literally just doing the same thing the whole game. Um there's barely any differentiation strategy. Um
    66:42
    It's sort of like the um like the getting your multiball locks off the plunge sort of reminds you of Mario and Jetty um from anybody who's played that cuz you can literally start you can literally get all of your locks and start your multiball off plunge. Um but you really have to have that dialed in. Um
    67:20
    Chucky's moving in the background. What? I don't see him. Um, I think we're trying to move the rig to another game right now. Um,
    67:35
    guess we'll find out. Let me see what I got on um on Cheetah. That game did me dirty.
    67:51
    I got second. Sweet. I'll take second. I will absolutely take second. Um yeah, that Cheetah um if anybody here was at Cincinnati, Cheetah does not play the same at all. Um yeah, he he whacks the crap out of that game and I think he um he raised he raised the angle of the playfield a little bit too. So it's um getting the point the skill shot um sweeping the three drop targets up there is a lot easier now. Um, you don't have to power plunge and break your wrist.
    68:30
    Um, but yeah. So, how's your day been going? Oh, never mind. Action's up. Your dates don't matter anymore. Just kidding.
    68:47
    Rig's moving the big game. All right. Oh, I'm on big game. You guys are going to see me for a little bit. All right. I'm player one. I do. I was gonna tell you.
    71:12
    I didn't realize we were in the same game. We are. Hell yeah. Uh, is my is it? There we go. There you go. All right. Oh, yeah. Because I can see when I'm up. Yeah, exactly. And I'm up before you anyway. So, we're on big game. The spinner. Yeah, it's decent spinner. RIP. Yeah, bad. So, he uh changed the setting on this game. So, he has like custom code on this and it used to uh auto change the X, Y, and Z that when are lit. It's just it would just rotate on a timer. So, he turned that off. That's nice. Yeah, pros and cons to both, but enough people waiting. Yeah, exactly. It felt like I was waiting on the spinner bus.
    72:37
    I got a spinner up there. Ah, lit. Dead bounce. Okay. Hello. Hello. There we go. Anybody have any good balls yet? Not particularly. Flip it. I did. Choy.
    73:29
    Okay. Plunges the G. The G is usually safe. I feel like the B plunging the RIP. Plunging the B is usually bad news. B for bad news.
    73:46
    short ball. Not what he wanted. I feel like Junior's like low-key over it right now, but maybe it's just classics. It's the warm up. You know what I mean? Jason plunges the G, back up the G, back down the G.
    74:18
    unlit spinner. But I mean, it's points. 40 spins later, you know, right?
    74:25
    Yeah. I was I was going to say I guess. I was going to say I G for I guess. G for good news. Exactly.
    74:41
    Stream saved IPA 20. I wonder if Eric's ever had to Oh, nice. That was looking dicey. If he's ever had to issue a yellow card in any of his tournaments. I feel like probably not here or like Cincinnati. Either one. Any tournament that he's ever run. I guess um I feel like it's always been pretty chill. Yeah, especially here.
    75:24
    Ah, whatever. Decent bonus. Not quite a 2x. Michelle's got the whole world in front of her. Two letters or uh two numbers lit. Weird spin. Yeah.
    75:56
    Did you have that on uh queen there? cuz uh I shot it up in the scoop and it like shot it right down the center for me. The left one. Yeah. No, I got the No, I didn't get either of them. Oh, okay.
    76:57
    Man, jungle queens and jungle queen. O, look like I missed a short junior ball.
    77:10
    So, what do they Huh? Did he tilt through? It's fine.
    77:23
    Yeah, it's fine. He's in. It's not actually a tilt through unless it is a tilt through. Are we about to Is this baby's first yellow? Surely not.
    77:38
    Uhoh. Here we go. But you never know. Could be a rogue. These are Eric spinners, right? So like these spinners will spin. Let's say they like ripped a spinner and tilted. That spinner's probably still spinning, you know? But 99% It's fine. He's chilling. Uhoh. About to get a a junior post tilt interview.
    78:21
    Okay. Gets the G the G G for good time. Yep. That's right. I did Tilt and Anger. Um I mean it's big game. This and Stars are some of my least favorite turns and I just don't want to play them. Yeah, I've gone back and forth with big game. Liking it, not liking it. Liking it, not liking it. I don't know how I feel about it. I never like it. Um, dang. I feel like the rules are just not there. Yeah, but sometimes, you know, you just got to you just got to play it. Yeah. It's the part about pinball. There's no like avoiding games, especially at Eric's house. This big game is going to be here forever. Oh, yeah. That and Jungle Queen are going to That Jungle Queen. Yep. Stars. Hot trash. Hot trash. Hot trash. Grand Prix. Game of Thrones. Yeah. Well, Game of Thrones, he was trying to sell. Really? Yeah. He He put a price up on it at uh Cincinnati. Interesting.
    79:35
    All right, Michelle, let's see what you got. What's her point going to be? G. Uh I wanted the I so bad. Yeah. I like the eye cuz I'll like I can't hit that left spinner for crap. And so I'll just shoot that the one on the It's like right next to it. Oh, the other spinner. Yeah.
    80:00
    Plus, it's a it's a pretty easy backhand. Oh, yeah. And it's safe. It rips. Okay. A little baby spin. Nice, bro. Dude is playing Jungle Queen forever. Oh, fine. Put his hands up. Here we go.
    80:30
    So, I'm going to have seven strikes after this game, but it's whatever.
    80:48
    gets her. Does she have one of her? No, she hasn't gotten one of her cards yet. That was a pretty pretty darn good ball.
    81:12
    Jay's trying to short punish to get the G so she can light her.
    81:20
    I guess I'm going to call it seven. I'm going to call it. Yeah, I'm not not really too too big of a fan of this game. I I haven't had a very good job today at all. Um praying for Grand Prix or Hot next round. Those are two games that I actually want to play. I'm even fine with odds and evens. Um anything except stars, just some P fiction because I do not like I don't like pulp fiction at all. I feel like every shot is just weird and very random because of the because with those flippers um like the flip power is just completely random sometimes.
    82:53
    Guess we're going to see if we can get the rig on a different game now. See what games are. Jungle Queen Grand Prix.
    83:46
    Jungle Queen be nice. Yeah, I would like Jungle Queen. Um, I think they're pretty close to being done with um
    84:04
    I think Eric's about to move the rig. Yeah, he is. Guess we'll see where we're going to take it.
    84:18
    It's going to Boom busters. Bone busters. All right. Right back on BB. BBI BB.
    84:35
    Oh, they still go one. Whoa. I guess they maybe they had to restart the game or something happened or maybe a redraw happened.
    84:59
    See, so we've got block right now on the left out lane just a full plunge. Is he going to go for that multi board? He's going to go for
    85:16
    hits the ramp. All right, so he locks his ball. Um, now his mult ball is available to him. Is he going to do the short punch so he can get that lock? Looks like it looks like it's going to happen for another
    85:38
    it's it's a really early shot from a trap, but I feel like you kind of have to do it on the fly in this one with the center shot because it has to it has to not only hit the ramp, but it has to hit it like almost perfectly because it has to get in that hole all the way in the back.
    86:16
    All right, Junior. What did I miss? Um, well, we switched to Bone Busters. I don't know how, but we switched to them when they were still on ball one. They had a some kind of glitch, so they had to start over. And we get to watch Deborah on Bone Busters. Awesome. Has anybody locked right off the plunge yet? Um I think whoever um I think player one locked the ball cuz there there's a ball locked in the left out lane right now. Okay. And then uh Ken his ball locked one on the ramp. Okay. So this is stealable. Yeah.
    86:55
    The trick is getting that center shot and and you have to hit it perfectly. Yeah. Yeah. It's not an easy do. If like I feel like the strategy on this one instead of going for multiball would probably just go to spinners. Yeah. Um which you would have to hit the captive ball and then like you'd have to alternate between the captive ball and the spinners. I saw the ask to switch players. We will do. There we go. Thank you. Cuz those spinners, you probably get like 500,000 per RIP. Yeah, they can be worth a ton. And they also build up. You can see your like uh bonus collect up here. Yeah. Yeah. Can get you up to a special mode that can be worth a lot. Yeah. There are no wizard modes on the game though. No wizard mode. No wizarding.
    87:51
    This was pre-Wizard mode. We hadn't thought of that yet. Yeah, apparently. This game is really rare. I mean, you don't see it in tournaments much. You don't see it in on location much. It's another one of those weird gotly premier games that Eric just loves. I wish one I live one of the gots with the point of flippers. I wish Eric would get his Heatwave. Heatwave is I' I've never seen it, but it looks really fun. Yeah. Um where we had a heatwave at Cincinnati like four years ago or something. Oh I think it was we I know we had a Mario and we did have a Mario Andredy. Jackie Chan uh pinball. Yeah. Um I think I don't know if he was there. It was probably the year before I started going. Okay.
    88:45
    Much like many gotly premieres of the era, this one has a really fast plunge. And if you're not paying attention, you can drain on the plunge. Like on Monte Carlo and others of the age, it's really odd. What happened in the 19? What happened?
    89:02
    Oh, is it called Carhop? Yeah, it's car hop. Okay. I'm thinking of the wrong game then cuz I don't remember a car hop. Car hop. like the whole playfield is pink and it's sort of got the spinner from Jaws. Okay. On there. Okay. Um it's got like a spinner that you can hit with the side there's a side flipper on it. You hit the spinner with that. Um there's like a weird orbit thing that goes all the way around sort of like um like hoops. Oh, okay. Okay. Um I'm thinking of hard bodies. I think we had a hard bodies early on.
    89:41
    Is there one called Miami Heat or am I making Yeah, Miami or No, you're thinking of Hollywood Heat. Hollywood Heat. Yeah. Yeah, that might be it. That might be it. They had a Bad Girls at IFP19, but had the Bone Busters back glass. That's great. Did they just not have the right back glass for it? Like, yeah, we'll just do this. or were they subbing it out for the purposes of putting it on stream because it's, you know, something.
    90:14
    Yeah, I I agree. Bad girls does have a terrible background. It does. It does. It's It's terrible. It's sort of kitschy. Yeah, it's kind of a throwback. That's one thing I hate about Sharky Shootout, too. I think I think the back glass is terrible on that. Yeah. Okay, wraps up. Who is Sharky? Shootout has like featuring so and so. Um, Janette Lee. Is that who it is? Janette Lee. Okay. Cuz I remember thinking I don't I have no idea who that I guess she's probably pretty good at billiards probably. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know who she is, but she's in the game. Y uh she's basically Well, she's the last character you beat before the wizard mode on that. Okay. Have you been to the wizard mode? Yeah. Nice. I've been there a couple times. It's it's just a normal multiball. It's nothing special. Okay. I really enjoy playing Sharky Shootout. What? I've got one at home. Oh, nice. So, that's I I love the game. That's That's my favorite game. Is that right? Sharky Shoot Out. Yeah. Cool. Um second close second is definitely Rush. Oh, yeah. Rush is pretty fun. Oh, yeah. Those are very different games. Yeah, but they're they're designed by the same person. Oh, okay. Yeah. Borg Borg designed both of them. Did Borg do both of them? Yeah. I didn't know Borg did Sharky Shootout. That's cool. I know. Uh Raymond Davidson did the code on Rush. Yeah. If I remember right. He did a He did a darn good job, too. That code is perfect. Did Tim work on Rush, too? Tim Sexton team? Yeah. Um or am I making that up? I don't think so. For some reason, I thought he was on the rules team, but maybe not. I have no clue. Um she's great at billiards. All right, Janette Lee. I don't follow billiards, but uh I was assuming she was pretty good. Me neither, but I like I like the game. Yeah. Cool. Lauren said, "A guy in Australia is converting a Bad Girls into a They Live homebrew." Oh, that's got to be awesome. It's been I can't believe we've had to wait this long for They Live pinball machine. All right. Thank Thank you. Thank you, uh Fox's pinball for Yeah, Tim was lead on Rush with Raymond. Thank you. And always Fox City is wonderful to have you. Yeah, I watch a lot of Fox Cities pinball, so it's always an honor when they're on our street.
    92:35
    I saw them for the first time at um RPC for the Nationals. Yeah, but I didn't I didn't say I didn't say anything. I was just sort of I was just sort of like Starruck. Yeah, right. I know that feeling. I love that you got to go to nationals. That makes me so happy. Yeah. Was it the coolest? It was pretty awesome. Um I met uh I met Bone Karens. Oh, awesome. And he's awesome. Yeah, he beat me. He taught me I mean via via recorded video from Papa. But he taught me some of my first rules knowledge I ever had was from Bowen Carrot. Oh, that was a bonus ball, I think. Yeah. So, this one's weird. At the end of ball three, if you've built up whatever it is that gives you those weird green lights at the end, you get a bonus ball. Oh. Oh, I thought it was a one in front of put a one to score. But bonus balls are playable. I don't know. You can't quite see it, but right after ball three, it does say on the back glass, play the bonus ball. So, so we do.
    93:39
    Yeah, but uh I re recently uh whenever whenever Dune came out, like that game is so awesome. I I messaged Bowen on Facebook. I was like, "Dude, keep making games cuz that cuz you guys are doing an awesome job over there." When Dune came out. Yeah. I haven't played it yet. Me neither. Is it? Oh, yeah. It's a really good game, though. It looks awesome. It It has a lot of cool stuff. Yeah. It It sort of reminds me of like like there's a there's definitely a huge difference between Labyrinth and Doom. Um, I feel like Labyrinth Labyrinth reminds me of like a like a like a 2000 Stern, but then like Dune reminds me of like a Jersey Jack game. Oh, okay. Okay. It reminds me of Reminds me of Godfather a lot in terms of like the way they play or the just the the layout features or the layout. Okay.
    94:39
    Yeah, I would love to I'd love to get to play when I haven't played yet. You can see Ken now is doing a pretty good job climbing toward that 1.9 score, but I can't see the other score. So, I'm not sure what uh what everybody else has, what Liz and Deborah have. Oh, no. So, he he hit it up the center, but he didn't have a log. Now, watch for the watch for the the extra bonus ball here. Let's see. Does he know about it? Uh, enter bonus round. Let's hope so. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, he's got 20 seconds to try and get it straight up the middle.
    95:18
    But if you drain both balls, I think you're done. Right. Or do you just get 20 seconds no matter what? I think it's 20 seconds no matter what. No matter what. Okay. Okay. Great. Oh, he tilted. Oh, okay. That's a bummer.
    95:41
    So, let's see our final order here because I couldn't see Deborah and Liz's scores because we have a glare there. Looks like 191. 514. 1.9 means Logan takes it. Then Ken is going to be in second. Yeah. So, zero strikes for Logan leaves him at five. Ken's going to get one for four. And then uh looks like Liz is gonna take two for seven. Deborah's gonna take three also for seven. Next round is up. Yep. Let's take a look at our matches. Oh my gosh, they got hot tip. Are you excited about hot tip? Some people do not look forward to hot tip. I'm playing Grand Prix again. You're going to hot tip. Yeah, player one. Let's see where Eric takes us. Good luck on hot tip.
    96:34
    I am going to be heading over to Grand Prix for the second time today, but playing with different players. Since we're playing Swiss pairings, you're always playing somebody who's doing about as well as you are. And I am at eight strikes. So, I'm playing people who are fighting for their lives. I have to take first place in order to move on to the next round. So, send all of your thoughts and prayers my way. In the meantime, let's see where Eric's going. We're going to Diamond Lady,
    97:05
    an absolute classic. Do you know where you're going? No, Deborah.
    97:13
    We were just watching your game of Bone Busters. How did I do? Uh, well, you didn't quite win it. Do I still have some strikes to get? I think you have a couple. Why? Why do they put us on stream? That was a bad game. That is the rule. As soon as you think you're doing well, you get put on stream. All right. No, I did not think I was doing well. That's not the rule. You are playing on Wait for it. Jungle Queen player three. I do like that game. I'm going to Grand Prix. Okay. Player three. Uh, player something. Are we twinsy? I am. We are twinsies. I've never randomly asked if someone was player spot position. Yeah, I love it when that works out. Well, now we can all just hang out here until we're player three, right? You don't Yeah, I just got to go tell them I'm coming. That's Can you tell the jungle queen people that I'm on my way? Sweet. Cool. Ah, everything shook. That was terrifying. Okay. Uh, Cincinnati is playing Jungle Queen and everything sounds really loud. I think something just Oh my god, that that that man's headphones just fell on the ground.
    98:25
    You're listening to Gorillas and watching Diamond Lady. Diamond Lady has three I think it's three possible options on the plunge. Uh I exploited the light the spinner option on my last ball playing this game recently and actually got mad points. I got up to about 800k just continually the spinner. All right, so he hit what I thought was the lock shot and it came straight through again. I can't quite see what's going on. I think Justin knows this game better than I do. He's keeping it alive. Nice. Nice stop.
    99:01
    Pretty strong. Uh, so both of the spinner shots, well, the left spinner is early. The right spinner, I never found it. And the left ramp, I just don't know. I just don't know. Also could not find it.
    99:21
    Do we have the players up correctly? I think we do. Okay, trying to realize the barrels of fun. Love using pseudo captive balls. So, Carlos, what are your what are your feelings on pseudo captive balls? Yeah, they're fine. What are your thoughts on this Diamond Lady game, though? Uh, the left spinner was findable early. It was early. The right spinner, I never found it. left ramp like I've seen I've seen this player hit it twice. Uh but I never found it. Yeah, I don't really ever go for the ramp. Yeah, same. So, have you ever done the light spinner strat and just keep hitting the left spinner? It's easy and it just comes back to flipper. Let it ski pass over to the right and just keep going. Left spinner forever. Yeah, that's good until someone collects like a 5 million point hurry up and now you're like, I guess I'll keep ripping spinners. So, like when you're playing against the players. the that like play Diamond Lady, which isn't many. I was going to say, how many people actually know about that? It's just like people this he's had this Diamond Lady for years at this point. So like Wharton Burger and uh Jesse Baker. Exactly. All right, I will be back. I have to get to play Jungle Queen. Okay, have fun.
    100:40
    Over looking at the top of Ken's head. What's up, Tom? Peer Outlaw. Hello.
    100:54
    How it goes. No ball save. It's a classics tournament. Although Pulp Fiction has a ball save and multiball.
    101:11
    Okay. Thank you. Thank you. It'd be nice to parlay it into tonight, but I historically do terrible at this tournament, so I just It's the warmup.
    101:26
    All right, rips a spinner. Oh, he's doing the spinner. He's doing the Deborah strat. Maybe not.
    101:56
    I am excited for tomorrow. Tomorrow's always a good time. Actually, this weekend's just it's going to be a fun weekend. It's already a fun weekend. [Music]
    102:14
    Just needs that one target. Surely he'll rip hit that target. Look at the target. Hit it. Oh, he tried right here, baby. Ah, went for a ricochet.
    102:38
    Imagine fun pinball. Uh oh. Uhoh. Yep. No compensation. We'll see. Yeah.
    102:53
    Is Fox Cities going? I heard Fox Cities isn't going. Is that Is that hot goss? Is that tea being spilled? I didn't get to see which one he picked. Did he pick the spinners one? All
    103:33
    it's missing the spinner, man. You got to hit it. You can't go spinners if you don't hit spinners. You know what I mean? Doesn't matter if they're lit, you're not hitting them.
    103:46
    Also, is is this stream finally in the right category? I've been like trying to make sure he's been in his category. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's in here.
    104:00
    Oh, you should have shimmy. Giving it the Cleveland shimmy. Ah, hell yeah. There were some issues, let's say. Oh, it sounds like a hot off.
    104:29
    Hell yeah. That's what I like to hear. I'll wait for the Tom talks portion.
    104:36
    Is that still a thing? Do you still talk? I'm sure it's fine. I just like thinking there's hot goss. I don't actually want there to be hot goss. Unfortunate.
    104:57
    He just needs this last drop. Oh, sling. Okay, so that that raised his center post. restarted the hurry up which is going counting down at the top the diamond bonus lot his lock so he's got options he's got things and or stuff am I
    105:18
    okay I started multiball it'll kick out so now he's got 1x playfield the blinking number in the card oh now he's got 2x the top the lit top lane increases the playfield X for multiball so he's got double scoring for the whole multiball. Just start ripping drops, baby.
    105:41
    No hot goss. Mhm. Okay, I think I'm up. I'll be back, guys. All right, y'all. You got me for the rest of the night. I just got killed.
    106:41
    We need to figure out that uh that game sound. That's not going well. So, we'll figure that out for tomorrow. Oh, Ken got killed by the center save. Woof.
    106:55
    I need to get I don't know where my drinks at. I need to go find that. I'll be back.
    108:38
    Okay. Looks like we're still having game sound issues, but it's coming in and out. After this game, I'm going to set the uh game sound to a different channel and hopefully that'll fix it. Are you out, too? I'm I'm not out. I had a great game on Pulp Fiction. Nice. Like 2 point something million. There you go. That'll win. That's pretty good. That'll win most, especially on mine cuz I only have one tilt warning and Oh gosh. Oh no. Oh, that's that's two that's two OC on this game. Now, Ken did the same thing. It it wasn't quite a fumble, but like it was coming down the middle and he lifted up the right flipper and it just hit the drop target and stayed there. If he just would have let the ball kind of go where it was going to go, he would have been fine. Oh, Fox City Pinball on the chat. Hi, thanks for joining. We're in Northern Kentucky here. Yeah, BFR. Uh, yeah, the games are supposed to be nice to me, but as you're probably seeing on some of these games we streamed, uh, they're not very kind to many people. So, or or they're really kind. It's either or. Yeah. And I had games where like, you know, on big game I, you know, played it well, but you know, I I ran against a 800,000 and a 1.2 million. Like, yeah, that's tough. All right. That's what I'm telling you. That's what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. Hey, he's moving the game, though. That was a lot of effort there. Yeah, Diamond Lady will let you give it some. Same with my stars. You can get away with stars and Diamond Lady a little bit. Yeah, Stars is my fave, dude. I was hit finding the spinner. First time in my life. There you go. Literally because I I've learned it's like an alley pass but early. Yeah. I'm trying to keep my eye on Pulp Fiction. Little pulpy over there. That's one of my favorite shots on the on this game. Let it come down here and then rip right through the spinner. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Right on the fly. That is It's like wide open over there. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Mhm. Okay. Okay, so we're looking at two, three more drop targets. Yep. Does it resetish if you hit a drop? He's going to hit this guy, this guy, and this guy. And then his locks will be lit. Well, no, it Oh, I don't know what was counting. Oh, his diamond lady jackpot was active and counting down, but we don't care about that. We We want We We want multiball. Yeah, but he's got to do the same thing. If he wanted to collect that, he would have had to hit the same targets down, right?
    111:09
    But this game it's scary just to shoot drought targets that are directly in front of you. Eh and and on my game, at least for me, I have the most trouble with this one. Oh, yeah. Oh, he got it. There you go. Lock slit now. Yeah, you kind of have to just like slide on by it. Both owners of this establishment are out of turn. Are you for real? Yep. All right. These games are being mean to you. Oops. Hopefully tomorrow uh have a little bit better luck.
    111:42
    You know, Eric, when I was looking up your address to come here, I happened upon our old conversations of remember when we were totally going to stream Jaws. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like twice we scheduled either I would cancel or you would cancel. It was. And then we just let it go. And now the game's at West Six. Yeah. Living its best life. That that might come back home though. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that when I swap it out, but Well, you got to play the new wizard mode. That is the actual wizard mode. I there that is the end of the movie. There isn't other movie to be played for a different wizard mode. And I got to play Jaws Multiball 3, right? Jaws Multiball 3. Yeah. But it's more valuable if you play like other, you know, wizardy modes going into it. So, you can choose to keep playing or go ahead and, you know, try your try your best. I like that. And then if you don't beat it your first go, you can get back into it by just filling in the chum line again cuz it's hard. Oh, I practiced it and I'm like, Rick, this is hard. And they're like, you can go back in. I'm like, all right, I'm okay with it. Yeah. Yeah, same. Like that. That's cool. Yeah, it's pretty hype. I mean, you know. Oh. Oh. Oh, someone tilted. I think I might be up. Yeah. Saw ball from Logan, though. Will it be enough to pass? I think the other player had 2.7. Okay. So, Ken's got to do a little bit of work here. He can't just fumble around and do nothing here. He's got to get about 100k. Surely he can fumble around and do nothing and be fine.
    113:15
    I mean, three left ramps. It's 500k. He should be there. Oh, he's close. Couple of pops. Oh, yeah. He's got it now. Yeah. What does the outline give you? Uh 50k only when it's lit or is it just they're right out lane? Yeah, it's always lit. Kind of a pointless insert. There you go. But yeah, now he's paying stats. He's good to go. Got a solid lead on on player four, so Ken's playing with house money here. Hell yeah. Classic Ken.
    113:49
    There you go. That's good. He's got 3x multiplier going. So, uh, all the minor stuff in the game will be multiplied. Like, you can't get 3x jackpots or anything like that, but spinners and pops and all that stuff will be multiplied. So, I played this in a practice game and at one point all the drops came back up. Like, I was in the top one that I always do and at some point all of the drops were up. Um, now if you if you complete these guys, so if you were hitting the standups behind, if you complete all those, they'll come back up. Um, so I don't know if that's maybe possible. Okay. So if he hits that A right now, the wall reset and the A is the center target. Yeah. So if he hits that this target right here, all the drop targets will come up. Oh, I see. Okay. Each one is a for a target, I guess. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So then they'll come back. Two red targets here. There's two red targets here. Yeah. That should reset the targets if you Interesting. So how do you get back to this state? Um, so if you wanted to start that hurry up state again, then you got to hit all the drop targets down. Oh, every single one of them. Jeez. Yep. So that's how you naturally get into that hurry up mode. And once you're in it once, you know, only the red ones are up, so it's easier to kind of keep it going, you know? Yeah. But when they're all up, it's tough. Interesting.
    115:09
    Yeah. This game maxes out at 500k bonus, so it's kind of lame. And the spinners, lit spinners on ADBs are usually the play, but this one isn't quite as much. Unless your multiplier is really high and you're in multiball. You know, if you got an eight or 10x multiplier, then then you want to go spinners. What if no one's doing like the thing? I feel like you could probably get away. Like if no one gets like a jackpot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um everyone's just bozoing around like Yeah. I mean there's games that one to two million will win it. So, people that grind out, you know, left ramps for jackpots for 500k or um like some people just like to pay out their stats where they'll plunge and get the 100k target which which lights up here. It drops these these targets right here and you can just hit that red one over and over. But great ball by Ken there. Yeah. Solid. It's basically King Kong. So, he almost got max bonus there. Um,
    116:09
    so it's basically like King Kong. Yeah, I did that recently on some games of Kong. That was fun. Uh, someone put the banana combos up on Tilt and I try to get as many of those as I could. That was fun. Yeah. Uhoh. Imagine he like Okay, Ken takes it down. I'm thinking that's the Oh. Oh, no. It was classic initials before. Next player. Yep. Yep. I should have known better. Yeah. So, these are called gots. Okay. Gotautly, as my friend Casey would say. There's there's no B. It's just got Uhoh. You guys got any of those gots?
    117:01
    Ah, yeah, he's over it. Yeah, Greg is the definition of being over it. All right, so waiting on this one to get put in. Oh, actually, no. We got Oh, we got a handful of games left. My My game of Bad Girls just went real fast then. Yeah, odds and evens went pretty fast, too. So, yeah, we can I'll take a look around. It's probably that everybody's really close, but I'll take a look around. Cool.
    117:32
    Appreciate everybody who's watching. This is the NKY Open pregame strikes. Uh, I was e even. Is even the center? I was going to ask before I walked away if you guys prefer odds or evens just in general.
    117:55
    I think generally speaking, I like evens. But I like the number 11, and that's an odd number, so I don't know.
    118:09
    But on uh on Eric's copy, once you hit the center saucer once, it brings up the center post and it kicks it right to the center post. So then you and it spots a number and then eventually it'll cycle all the way around to spot all the numbers and it's lit for 5,000 indefinitely. So, if you can get into a groove where you're like tapping and hitting it and then it just kicks right to the post and rolls to the flipper, pass, boom, back down to the middle, you just sit there and just literally play forever. Yep. Write everything down. Odds, evens. What up, roof cam? Yep. Zero is it? Technically, everyone has the same amount. So that I'd consider that even. Well, well, you get put in the sometimes zero.
    119:11
    Okay. So, the view you're getting, well, not really much of a view, but we're in Eric's basement. So, he has opened up his home for us. He opens it once a year for everybody. Runs this tournament. It's kind of like the Cincinnati halfway. He kind of tests games. Uh so at this point he's got Dirty Harry and Rocky and Bullwinkle and Bone Busters and Kong. So he's just seeing how they play, see if he needs to make any tweaks, make them harder, make them easier, yada yada.
    119:52
    You can see the stairwell behind him. It's a spiral staircase upstairs or spiral and turn around. I don't know what whatever you call it with a landing. Yeah. He's got his uh Pez collection right here.
    120:09
    His Santa has a face. He's got a Peter Pez kiss. Chickens. Chickens with hats. All right. Tren's up. Tren's player.
    120:27
    Imagine. How the [ __ ] do I do this? All right. This should definitely be the last game. This pulp's like kind of brutal. Jeez, it's tough. But then you can see people can get a hold of it a little bit. You got a 2.7 on player one. Yeah, we had multiple people try to save it out lane, get a ball save, and then immediately tilt, including myself. Yeah, I put it down to one because I couldn't get it to tilt from one move ever. Yeah. Now, if it gets this kind of like swinging deal going on where you don't settle it, it could eventually go to tilt, but it's rare. When's your uh next fish adventure? Next week we go to Columbus. Nice. So, we're gonna stay at your house. Hell yeah. Yeah, we're just going to come back. But like cuz it's just one show, but and then Louisville next month uh for a couple shows and then Virginia uh in September, I think. Nice. You going to bring some ski? Uh I probably should, but I don't know where to get any. RIP. If only you had a ski guy. Yeah. You go to Jungle Gyms, bro. Oh, they got it there. Yeah, they got it. Oh, okay then. Yeah,
    121:54
    they got everything at Jungle Gyms. Yeah. I haven't haven't done the ski at a concert. I need to do that. Yeah. Casual ski. Yeah.
    122:06
    Oh, come on. Get those targets, girl. Yeah, she's No need for a wallet.
    122:16
    He ordered ski online. Hell yeah. Yeah, I've ordered ski online before. It was It was pricey. Hell yeah. Roller coasters. He's about that ski life. Oh, she hit a target at least. 68,000 for that motor. Oh, she like 3 mil. She's fine. All is right in the world. She could have she could have made it completely unrealistic for anybody. But yeah, it's still pretty I mean, you never know. Oh, dang. Chris is on this again after we or after they nerfed uh clean the car like that. The wallet mode is I mean I mean it's dangerous. Watch mode isn't bad. Yeah, it it jumps quickly but it's just tough to get three or more hits on it. That's true. But yeah, the the the targets one is the best one now.
    123:12
    All right. What's he going for here? Seems like he already played uh briefcase cuz he's got a turn or maybe he's just not hitting all the drops down yet. Yeah. What's your most prized PEZ dispenser in this collection over here? Um I don't really like if you were to like flex at one PEZ. Yeah. I I think I have a couple up there that are kind of weird. Like I have some like variants of Mickey Mouse up there. Yeah. Where like the eyes are goofy or something where, you know, but it might be like a $10 PEZ instead of a $1 one, you know, to,000%. This one I I don't think I've ever seen. Oh god. Are they all glued to it? No. No. They're on They're on like um finishing nails, so you can pull it off. It just might take a little bit. I was going to show it. Yeah. My my my grandfather, RIP, he he made me those displays. He uh he realized that those finishing nails will fit in this little back part of the PEZ and you can just stick it right in there. Jeez, I thought I was going to [ __ ] break it. This one. Oh, it's like green. You can't really It looks kind of crazy. Yeah, it's getting It's disappearing because of all the green. Yeah, but he's like a little You What is this from? Like we'd have to have Pez comment on that guy. Yeah, he's like a little ghost and he has like a green hoodie on.
    124:37
    Yeah, it's a it's a official Bone Busters. Uh, Pez Pezbusters.
    124:44
    I see. Pez Johnson says spooky ghoul. There you go. He's probably got four. It's in his spooky ghoul box. Yeah. Yeah. And I uh like I was talking to Pez about this. I got into like variants for a while. So like um you know ones that have like different colored bodies or different colored feet and all that kind of stuff. So like I have like some generic truck ones up there where like there's 10 or 15 different variants that I have them in. But I have a bunch of them still in the package too cuz nice. Like when I first started I tried to get two of each. RI no collect.
    125:23
    But Chris is working his way here. Like Lo said, he's had to play this multiple times tonight. So getting uh Oh. Uhoh. That's gone. Yeah, he That's a shame. It's all right. That's a damn shame. So many balls end the moment you get the multiplier target lit or immediately after collecting it. Classic. Does your Bone Busters have a topper? No, there's no topper on that Bone Buster. Yeah. Classic Jesse weird random games with no topper. Yep.
    126:01
    But in a a a very unexpected move, Jesse got the venom topper. Yeah. I like it's kind of random. Y maybe he knew he really he really likes that game and uh so I think just because he's never going to sell it and Okay. Yeah. willing to invest a little bit. Great.
    126:28
    Still, I have to say matches you. Seems like the the game sounds working a little bit better now that I changed channels. So, yeah, it was like kind of intermittent. Yeah, it was cutting in and out. Yeah. problems. All right. So, what's the Okay, so Ner's got a pretty solid lead on four, but she's got climb to like 800 or something. Yeah. I mean, this multiball. Yep. If you're if you're hitting everything in this multiball, it's definitely better than pawn shop. Yeah.
    127:16
    I think I still have like three or four skis left and like three black cherries. All right, everyone everyone report their ski inventory. We It's like I feel like um back in high school where like we were like obviously couldn't buy alcohol so we would just like hoard at places like well I got like three beers or so and so's got like seven like come on man let me just have like one or two of yours. Yep. It it definitely feels like doomsday clock every time I drink one. Like is it worth it? Yeah it's always worth a couple beers. Yeah. Oh, I like the idea though. Yeah. Okay, that bonus collect's looking a little tempting. Yeah, she's got multiplier lit at the target. It's only what, 80? It'd be like 160k. But more importantly, she's got the multiplier lit at it, too. So, two skis, one black cherry. Uhoh. That's He said he also had one of the other cuz he got Oh, damn. He got the variety pack of Excel. Okay. So, he had like some of the other fl I was going to say colors, but some of the other flavors. What's What are some other bangers that I need to possibly try this year? I don't I've had R pep and it's okay. So, it's a Dr. Pepper equivalent. Yeah, it's fine. My daughter Abby loves Dr. Pepper, so I might have to just get some of those. I like Dr. Pepper and it it wasn't great. Uhoh, that's coming back here. All right, Trent's either going to have the longest ball ever or he's going to die immediately. It's just there's no in between for him. Classic Tren. Oh, yeah. Red cream. He said he has a red cream, but it was like weird color, so he's like afraid to drink it. I don't trust separated or something. It's like pink. Well, he gets the gets the floaties in it. Yep. That's how you know it's good. Yeah. Yep. All right. Celeste caught it there. Mhm. It was one or the other. Just I played trend enough to know.
    129:26
    Jungle Queen still going. They need to put their game in. Stupid Jungle Queen. [Applause]
    129:39
    Dang. Frank only has two strikes. Okay, Frank. What am I looking at? Discord. patiently awaiting its snacks.
    129:59
    Okay. What round was this? Some kind of round five. Progressive strikes. Nine strikes. Like, it's not going to be that many more rounds. I mean, it'll be some. Some people are already knocked out. Got a handful. Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine people. 10, 11 people with more on the way. So, I mean, we're already Yeah. Logan's Logan's here. He's got six strikes. Him and Ethan are playing stars.
    130:49
    I rather be a sparkler or a firecracker for a firecracker? I don't know. Probably sparkler. Nobody takes pictures of firecrackers. You know what I mean?
    131:05
    Sparklers have some staying power a little bit, you know. But I feel like firecrackers have a bad rap. Yeah. Did I say Jeez. Yo. Yo. Is my mic on? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Sweet. Oh, would you rather be a sparkler or a firecracker? You could pick. Um, I would probably be a sparkler. Yeah. Why is that? I don't know. I feel like they're just uh I don't know. Firecrackers is definitely a lot louder. Yeah. It's It's going out with a bang, right? Yeah. Live fast, Die Hard. Sparkler. Diamond Lady. I'm hoping for Grand Prix.
    132:03
    Oh, I was a cheetah. Want eight strikes right now. Uh-oh. Oh, Bat Girls. This is my game. Is it? Oh, I love this game so much. Do you? Um, yeah. Okay. This is probably the game that I want to like out of every game in the Yeah. Eight strikes and you get to play one game. Um, I used to be Did we just play Diamond Lady? Weren't we just Oh, no. Yeah, we were just watching Diamond Lady. Oh my god. All right, I'm going to go report. All right.
    133:05
    All right. So, we got Cheetah. All right, we get our game updated here. Oh, the headset's so nice.
    133:20
    Okay, here we go. Got the top group going here. So, congested. Nobody's in danger of losing right now.
    133:34
    you still alive? No, I got I got knocked out on Grand Prix. I needed a win, took second. Uh so last round you got knocked out. Yeah, same here, man. Same here. That's rough. This has been really nice, though. Thanks for Yeah, man. Yeah, this uh this Cheeto setup you've got is interesting. Um I found that like the power plunge to clear a set of top drops was really really doable. Yep. And then Oh, what's up? What's up, SGC? Um, the power plunge was really doable and I really like the changes that you have. Yeah, stop it from becoming a left orbit game. Yeah. Right. So, I can't remember who originally did it, but Yeah. And and stock too, like all these in lanes. Yeah. They'll spot the center targets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, the only thing that spots now is this guy. So, that helps. So, like multiple things, but Yeah. So, it's definitely you can't just go left orbit all day. Yeah, it was interesting. And uh in my group, it felt like it turned into a spinner game. It took me a little bit to realize that Can I draw? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That this top orbit, even if you don't have like a star combination, this top orbit is just 3,000 a spin. I like I turned around and um I turned back and our player two on ball one had like 400k just from hitting that top spinner over and over. Yeah. So, if you can find it, it's it's definitely doable. But what I like to try and do if I'm having an okay ball one, I'll try and complete these drops here when they're on the blue. It's tough, but you got to get all three blue and then it lights this spinner for the rest of the game. Now that's 3,000. The rest of the game. Okay. And that one's much easier to hit. Yeah. So it's not just the ball. That's why it's kind of worth the risk if you're on ball one doing okay. Right. Um you know, if you can get that lip for the rest of the game, I mean, it's right on the sweet spot of the flipper and this thing rips. So, um, but again, it it's really just mainly all three of these guys, advanced bonus, and bonus X. So, you want to go after those a lot and just kind of go from there. Yeah, it with the spinners being so lucrative, especially your spinners being so lucrative, I felt like almost disincentivized from shooting for the bonus X because I feel like a lot of the switches that I'm normally aiming for to on a cheetah to spot those center drops, those are also advancing bonus count. And when it's just like, you know, 10k, 20k versus a good rip is 100k. Yep. It it didn't seem right. Very worth going for. But I didn't realize that until like my ball three on the game. And and this guys, it's just hot out. It's just hot out. I just picked the shirt. Yeah. I mean, you got to do what you can this weekend. It's going to be hot. I mean, yeah. We got AC here, but it struggles with all these people in the house. There. Yeah.
    136:28
    Now, that was an excuse me swing, but yeah, if somebody can if somebody can dial that in, but you know, if you have one that kind of rattles and it comes back out this right side, it's always going straight down the middle. Yeah. So, it's just kind of Yeah. So, the game's the game's set up great now with this modded ROM that, you know, you it you got a lot of different decisions to make. Yeah. I might have to ask you to send this to Valencia so that we can get it at the Super Electric copy. Yeah. Um I should have a copy of this one, too. Sweet. Yeah, I might have to get like a ROM burning tool. Yeah, let me uh Yeah, those are great. It's like 60 bucks or whatever. That's not bad. Uh it's not bad. Let's see here. So, oh, you got them handy, right? My is my drop box here. So, ROMs. Boom. Cheetah. See? Cheetah. Diamond lady. What did you want? Girls, diamond lady. You want a diamond lady? Yep. Yep. So, they're all on there. Yeah. Just remind me. I'll send them to you. Yeah, totally. Thanks. All right. What we got? Justin's got a whole bunch of nothing going on right now, but let's see if he turns that into something. Yeah, he's he's been playing these well so far. So, yeah. Okay. Ball on flipper. It looked like it might have been a shot at that center spinner. I saw someone take a shot at the center spinner from that upper flipper and it went that ball path was from here all the way. It did like a nice hook into that candy cane. It was incredible. Yeah. I Do you have the clear for the drawing on here? Yeah. So, you can hit this guy. Oh, you got the stream deck. Very nice. I should observe my surroundings. Yeah. And then we got Oh, we got some cool stuff, too. Hold on. See, that's over here now. So here, this puts like animations on the screen for any various occasion. Very cool. Okay. Tough to make a move on that one. Yeah. So Justin's going to have a lot of work to do no matter what happens on this ball, but uh he's definitely shown it tonight, but kind of everybody's just not doing a whole bunch on this game. Yeah. So we might uh we'll probably definitely be seeing multiple games this round. Sweet. Always love more pinball. I feel like yeah, a lot of the winning scores on Cheetah I've seen today have been much higher than this. Yeah, I think my game I got either third or last with like maybe four or something. So, sounds like a tough group. Yeah, you were in it. Yeah, my in my big game I was telling people before played big game and I got 600 and got third. Jeez. Somebody had 800, somebody had 1.2. Like, yeah, I was. But all the other strikes I got were well warranted. I think I got like 150 on bad girls. Like it was ugly. The only good game I had surprisingly was on odds and evens. Really? I I rolled odds and evens, which never happens. Wow. Just saucer all day. Yep. Yep. Always. Yeah. I I figured out the shot after my tournament game. What's cool in odds and evens is, you know, you get that post put up. Yeah. Then you tap pass. But I purposely made the flipper on the left hand side much more sensitive than the than the right. So if you let's say you get the right first and you dial in that tap pass, if you try that same one with the left, it's not going to work. It's just going to dump it right into the right out lane. Yeah. So you got to remember which one is more sensitive than the other. All right. Yeah, I like that adjustment. All right, so Matt got to 330 pretty quick. You think that was a shot at the spinner or I I think he was I think he was trying to hit the the drops and it just hit it right on the side and just came right back down. Dang. Gizki stepping up. A lot of work to do. Yep. So Matt was disappointed, but on a game like this, he's got to he's put their feet to the fire at least a little bit. Yeah. Sitting there with a little bit of a lead. Oh, good save. I think she's going to go for that last star. She's already got two lined up. Yeah, she looks like which uh which feature does
    140:48
    I was going to say which feature does the yellow light, but uh so it's right here. It's the right spinner. So the right spinner it'll light. Same thing with the blue one. Yeah. I just I'm not confident in ripping that one clean a lot. So it just doesn't get as good of revs as the kind of funky shot. So I try for blue if I'm trying to write light either spinner for sure. And then the other awards is it it lights this guy for 100k and then it lights this lane for 100k. Okay. Those are the other two. Like one's red, the other one's orange. Yeah. Quick flip to the outline there for Frank. All right. So Matt's staring down a a squeaky win here if unless Justin can do something. All right, that's bonus X. Yeah, got to build it up though. So he's got potential for 200k in bonus if he can get up. You see that? Jump the flipper. Normally that's death, but with an upper flipper, you can survive it. Yeah.
    141:53
    More bonus advance here. Oh no, he went on the inside. So, no bonus advance, but maybe another multiplier here. No. Oh, dang. But he got the three bonus advances from that, but I don't think it's going to be enough. Enough. Took second. Yeah, enough squeeze it out. One less strike. Squeaked it out. All right, I'm going to check the other games. I'll get us on something new. All right, get to hang out with me and my guns, I guess. What do we got, chat? How How are you all? Have you you got any games you want to see?
    142:37
    It is a very nice looking cheetah. Odds and evens. You got to be kidding me. Wasn't that on stream like two rounds ago and watch people just like tap over a center post and hit the center saucer?
    142:59
    Okay. Instead, you get the juiciest Grand Prix spinners of all time. I Playing this Grand Prix has me starting to think that there is such a thing as a spinner that is too juicy.
    143:35
    Grand Prix, you can advance these uh these lane awards. I don't know what you call it. The spinner bonus value all the way in just one good rip. It's awesome.
    143:54
    You know, it's usually the kicky part of the slingshot that kills you, but not there.
    144:04
    Yeah. Dare I take you seriously, cobweb? It's all the uh stuff that's older than DMDs tonight. [Music] Three player groups here are 012 strikes in this format. So,
    144:21
    it is possible that this game only eliminates one player, but we'll see. We got Jeremy sitting a little under 300 in climbing. Deborah looks like player two just shy of 500k and Thomas at 70. Ball. Unfortunately, I cannot tell. Did anyone see it as the rig was getting wheeled over before it was all zoomed in?
    144:49
    Yeah, you had like 380 and he only had like the next guy I beat him by 60 to give him to the next guy down.
    145:02
    Usually with a score like this, you'd think it was ball five, but not on not on this Grand Prix. It's ball four since it's on the right. Deborah's doing what she needs to do though. So what? We're on ball four here. If anybody needs to know what ball we're on, it's on the playfield cam up at the top. Oh, there it is.
    145:23
    Quick out, but still got still got one ball in her pocket and she's got a solid lead.
    145:43
    Do you have the playlist going through the stream audio? Uh, no. We just got a speaker close enough to us. Ah, nice. It's been a great playlist tonight. Yeah, we uh we've cultivated it over multiple years. So, it's like over 24 hours, but my wife and I started it and then we just add to it over the years. Just a classic 20,000 song playlist. Yep. Yeah, there's a bunch on there. Fantastic.
    146:12
    I want to see a nice rip here. Come on. Oh, just missed it. Nice post. Come on. He needs that A.
    146:22
    15,000 point pop. Come on. Oh, he just missed it. Not that he would have had a ton of extra benefits from the double, but not quite. Yeah,
    146:35
    that's tough. Only being at 140 going into ball five. That's that that was the story of my Grand Prix game tonight. The only good ball I had was on ball five. What'd you put up? Uh I think on the final ball maybe put up like 200k and squeaked out a second somehow. Okay. But like so overall I had like 280 or something cuz like through three or four balls, you know, I was only at like 100k. It was terrible.
    147:03
    Quick out for Jeremy. It looks like he's locked to second or worse. Yeah. Yeah. So Deborah already passed her first test of the, you know, player one was closest to her. So Okay. But she needs a win to stay in the tournament, right? So she wants to pad this as much as possible. It'd be pretty tough for someone to get almost 500k on their last ball, but definitely don't want to assume it. There's double bonus. Yep. So she's got 30 in the tank right now. And that's 40 more. Yep. Oh, that little baby rip still got a extra bonus. So, it's a lot of good points. Yeah. So, 690. Yep. Yep. So,
    147:51
    550 quickly. It's going to be tough. Thomas, while we're young, what what song do you think he put on? What song do? I don't know anything about Thomas. Do you know anything about his music taste? I don't. I don't. So, anybody's guess is as good as mine. Yeah. The only uh Oh, unfortunate there. So, let's see. Thomas is out. Jeremy's one strike from elimination and Deborah lives on. Yeah. All right, let's see what what other games we still got available here. Yeah. Anything still in progress?
    148:45
    All right. So, Hot Tip is most likely or Diamond Lady might be games that we could go to. I'll check on them. Yeah, the Diamond Lady game is probably good.
    149:47
    Hello. Hey, Deborah. How's it going? Good. Nice win there on Grand Prix. I kind of definitely needed it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I was in a win and stay alive situation on Grand Prix last round and I took second unfortunately. But that's okay. It was Thank you. Fist bump for you. A fist bump for all of us in if not now in the future for the next time. We need that first place to s to sustain. I cannot keep up with where Eric is going to be going next. Little bit of hot tip action here. Hot trash.
    150:25
    Oh, and we get to keep our extra balls in hot trash. Spinner's lit. Get to play them. Oh, classic light spinner. No spinner. I feel like he could have gotten to like hard and Okay, so to Eric's uh I like I really appreciate this about his game setup. The modern sterns are like, "You touched me. I'm tilting." Yes. But the EM are like the ones you need to nudge, you can nudge. I don't know. Are you doing anything up there? Yeah. Uh, so yes, that's been beneficial. Yeah. I like that generally on the moderns like the ball save is pretty reasonable like and you don't get to slide the games. I I think that's fine. And you don't get to galvvin the games. I'm going to start I'm going to start using Galvin as my example. He's like you I'm like you can't move that game. He's like you can't nudge it but you can like slide it. I'm like oh yeah good point. Yeah, cuz I'm going to just going to do and he's doing it on rubber feet, too. Just I did that to I did that to Pulp Fiction. I just took a single danger like sliding the game two inches of the wall. That's beautiful. Good old Cleveland nudge. Cleveland nudge. Cleveland nudge. Yeah. You haven't heard that before? No. I'm sorry. No. No. Sorry. I'm trying to like I always try to focus on the player, but I'm losing it here. I'm just Yeah. Okay. What do we got? Player three. Greg Knight. Come on, Greg. Greg. Come on, Greg. See, but he didn't he didn't tilt, right? Did not tilt. So, he's sitting at 559. This is ball five, though, so that locks him into no better than second. Yeah, no better than second, which could keep him alive. He's sitting at seven points. And here we have suspenderless suspenders, man. Uh I don't suspenders guy. I don't recognize Roy like without his suspenders, but he said he can't wear them in the summertime because he's wearing shorts. And if if he wears suspenders in the summertime with shorts, he looks like he's wearing leader hosen. That that makes sense. That's kind of fun though. But like why wouldn't you want to look like you're wearing leader hosen, right? That's my question. Oh, this is the most evil thing that this game can do is force you to have to flip and then you're flipping into the center of the pot bumper and it just goes straight down, which is straight death afterward. Yeah, it's like saw 2, three, four, five, and six where like no matter what I do to myself, I'm going to die. That's what hot trash there's no fair There's no fairness in there. You're just dying in increasingly more complicated ways. Exactly. Did you hit the pop bumper once or 20 times? Did you die either way? If you hit the top of the pop bumper, you might be okay. If you hit the bottom of the pop bumper, sorry. And there's like like the the permutations where you hit the pop bumper and the ball went But you still died. Yeah. And you had hope there for a minute, right? But it was never in your hands. It was never It was never for you. Yeah. So Chad stays alive here, Greg stays alive, and our Nameless Player and Roy, unfortunately, are eliminated from the tournament. You know what I've actually never seen on any of the chat streams I've I've hung out on is a button where you could play the Stay Stay. Oh, yeah. That could be good. Why do we not have that? I like that for for like a good save or something too. Like an amazing or like a double save like staying alive. That's the button. Yeah, we had the sound of music button in Austria. I saw that. Yeah, I was watching the stream. That was I didn't really understand the context for it. What was that one for? I Well, that was the problem. Like I just started hitting it randomly apppropo of nothing, right? Because like when are the hills alive with the sound of music when you're playing pinball? I Right. I remember I remember when you guys were like someone was asking Eric Stone if he was married and Yeah. And Jim played the Sound of Music sound bite and was like to her or like like did you date her? Did she look like that? Was she Julie Andrews? Are you married Julie Andrew? It was ridiculous. Well, he was talking about like the one that got away and it it was like, "Oh, did she look like that?" He just like pulled up a woman. It was very, very odd moment. Is it this one? It's JDL. Nothing makes sense. I saw that. I wanted to say I was like, "You're right. It's JDL. Nothing makes sense." Which I respect because in pinball comment with pinball streams, you want two things. Generally, you want two things. You want what's the first thing? Game knowledge. Yes, rules knowledge. I love it. I love a rules knowledge. What's what and and that and that follows along with you following like what's happening on the screen in the moment and actually interacting with the player. Yes. And and there's there's a third thing, but I'm going to ignore that for the second. What's the second thing that you want? Knowledge of the players. No, [ __ ] that. Okay. Do I get to swear in this stream? This is my second time asking. Is it family friendly here? I would be family friendly until given permission. I feel like that's a permission out of forgiveness thing. In that case, gosh darn that. Gosh darn that. So, what's your second thing? Color. Color. You want color. And with with some excitement. With JDL, Pinball, and Jim and Dina, it's so easy to get color. They're actually very, very dry until someone just sort of nudges them over the edge and then they get super interesting and hilarious and it's one of my favorite things about that stream. Yeah. So, yes, nonsensical absolutely fits. It's very apt. What is what is your secret third thing that you saved for later? Hanging out with a chat. Make sure you interact with the chat because like why? Like if I'm here and I'm typing something. I just said something really cool. I typed it on chat or I I paid bits. I paid bitty bits because there's like a hype train going on and someone goes, "Ah, blah blah blah. Pin Wendy just gave us bitties. Thank you, Pin Wendy." Like what? Like that's just like an easy dopamine. Like that's kind of fun. Yeah. Speaking of Chad, thanks for hanging out with us on this holiday. It's fine. We appreciate you being here. It's fine. That might be about profanity. H I know. And I'm I'm happy about that because Cody Cody allows me my my vices. Yeah. All the uh all the kids are brimmly out looking at fireworks. Hopefully. Oh my god. Did Cody just give Is that just Is that I think it's just an emote. Oh my god. Cody, don't make me think you gave bitties. Don't make you don't make me think you gave bitties when you didn't get bitties. But that is some like Oh yeah. Okay. Okay, can someone get bitties just so I can hype up the bitties? Like cheap bitties, like one bitty. That'd be pretty hype. We got a follow from Pinball Ready four minutes ago. Thanks for following us, Pinball Ready. Follows are pretty cool. I didn't put a lot of thought into my greeting. We'll be here all day tomorrow uh streaming the NKY Open featuring all these great games you saw this evening and the moderns. And the Oh, that's Oh, there's no moderns tonight. Yeah. Nothing newer. Miss them. Nothing DMD or newer. I'm enjoying my holiday weekend of doing nothing. Which part of it is not going to fire real? So, what does the BFR stand for? Uh, it is their initials. Initials. What What do they
    157:41
    I don't I don't want to dox our chatter. Oh, I didn't I didn't even think about the potential for doxing. I hope nobody don't dox don't dox BFR you all because that would be really weird and not right. I just doxed Cody earlier but I usually we all know Cody. I constantly dock as it turns out. Yeah. Speaking of doxing, uh my name is Ethan. I'm a player from Cleveland. Let's introduce ourselves. This is Ethan. What do you call it? The E the Cleveland Nudge Nudge. Ethan just taught me about the Cleveland Nudge. And of course we bring it to the barn every time we go to the barn. Yeah. Like when you were like Galvin's like slide save. I know. Yeah. The slides that don't danger you but the nudges that do. Yeah. Exactly. We have to watch out for that. And I'm uh Deborah Tolman. Hello. And we are on Straight Down the Middle Odds and Evens. No, this is a Straight Down the Middle podcast though. Oh, is that true? Uh that is I think that's the name of the Twitch channel. Yeah. SDTM. STDM. STDM. Straight the down. Straight the dance dance dance revolution. Straight the dance dance. Just straight the dance dance. All right, we got I'm on Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. What's up? What do we got? You have to play, don't you? You're still alive in this tournament. No, it's that I'm on odds and evens and I'm also the first player and it's also a three player group. What the hell? Go blow it up. Saucer all day. Saucer all day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that center saucer. Um, oh, isn't there like a button we can hit for like the pin tips? Uh, maybe, but I can just draw. So, here's this saucer. Um, if you flip into that saucer, it brings up your post, it'll give you 500 values to the right flipper and bounce over. Yeah, you can like tap back and forth. Um, and then once you hit this saucer enough times, it'll light for 5,000 to hit. Oh. And then you It doesn't put your post down. these two rollovers here. Put your post down. So, literally just like feed out. Bounce. Tap tap tap. Draw draw us the triangle of magic. You want this triangle. Yippee. Okay. All right. See, now that I have all the hot trash tips, I can go do the thing. Yeah. It's not I don't do it. It's all me. I believe it's not pinball. Go blow it up. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Nice seen y'all.
    160:13
    Goodbye to the the odds and evens ban. Let me see if I can figure out how to switch the the player details.
    160:27
    Thanks, cobweb. Odds and evens is a single player game. Obviously, players will be playing it one at a time. Five ball game. You can get out of balls probably via getting all the odds and evens. Jay knows how to work the stream. Thanks, Jay. You're welcome.
    160:49
    Odds and evens. Incredible. You're in this game and you're helping us out. Thank you.
    160:57
    Classic. All right, let's see how Deborah does. Um, I've seen some low scores on odds and evens today. I've seen some high scores. We'll see what's going on. Uh, all these players are at eight strikes. So, only the winner of this game will stay alive. Everyone else will be eliminated. Deborra getting a feel for the flippers.
    161:29
    Perhaps we'll see a plunge. What's up, Tracy? Thanks for hanging out. Flower, Water, Salt Magic, thanks for the prime sub. Really appreciate that.
    161:45
    That's such a small window on the monitor for the like various Twitch notifications. The chat chat is much larger.
    161:54
    Quick outline there on ball one for Deborah. Let's see how this ball two goes. Nice rollovers. Looks like the one light is working. It's a little flickery. Oh jeez.
    162:09
    Having a tough time getting control on this. Some hundreds. 500 saucer for her trouble. I think that one kind of behaves the same way as the saucer down in the center, but it's the even saucer. There's one. Okay, now she gets to find it. Let's see some taps. Get it moving a little bit. I really liked going from right to left on this one. Get it a little ways up the left uh the left flipper and then taking a shot at the center. And these flippers are they're kind of a little weak. Um which made it tough to shoot the orbits or the gates on the right, but it made that center shot very attainable. So, we'll see her warm up and get a feel for this. The uh the interesting thing about this saucer is if you get it going, I think your numbers just like keep your progress all game. And so, your saucer will definitely stay lit from ball to ball if you can get it. There we go. That's about the spot where I like to take the shot, but looks like she's getting a feel for it, too.
    163:29
    And you can kind of just do this forever. This game is on a tilt ends game, but the tilt was fairly loose. You can you can make a move on it. I don't know about sliding it, but this is also not necessarily a game you need to slide. There it is. So, next saucer should award the nine, which will then convert it from 500 to 5,000 points of saucer, which is where you want to be. So, she hit that down post roll over. Needed probably a bigger up nudge there to keep it out of the outline, but that's okay. She I think has three more balls to work with.
    164:11
    Two more balls to work with, perhaps. Let's see. Anybody can been keeping count. I have been doing a lot of talking and not a lot of counting. So, there we go. I think that upper gate for the candy cane will add a ball if she gets in there, but I couldn't tell you for sure. Just uh just a little guess. Huge. That there is definitely out of the sewer. She's alive and just needs to keep doing that. I bet you could tap tap back from uh right to left. Take the shot at the special. Just give yourself some breathing room. But if she can find that saucer and just do all that saucer stuff, you don't you don't need another ball. You can just do it all here. And that's what Eric was talking about, I think, with the flippers being adjusted differently for different sensitivities of taps. You're seeing it here where uh what's working from right to left is not working from left to right, which I think speaks to how like meticulous as a player Deborah is. And we're seeing it here with her process of figuring this out. Okay, 23. That looks like the game. So 23 680 the score to beat. I'm going to do a little bit of doodling.
    165:41
    I'm gonna erase that and do a little bit of doodling. Two, three, six, eight, zero.
    165:58
    Please enjoy my immaculate penmanship. I spend a lot of times a lot of time during my day job making memes in Microsoft Paint.
    166:09
    It's got a very versatile clipping tool. So Jason stepping up scored a beat 23680. To be fair, that is five lit saucers. So it is it may seem like a lot of points or it may not seem like a lot of points, especially when he's getting those uh those nice feeds there.
    166:29
    And just let that settle. Trying the tap. Hit that down post. All right, you can just kind of let that settle. Beautiful. I think the way Jason's playing it, he looks familiar with this game. He looks like he's used to these feeds. Nice little tip there. And back into the saucer. After this next one, he should get it lit for the 5000s.
    167:00
    Just kidding. I don't know how this game works. Nice even score there. Get some rollover buttons. Little pop action.
    167:19
    Tough sling out lane there, but great progress. Well, hello Deborah. Welcome back. I just want to say veheminently that I tried to do the right strat. It was so meticulous. It was too meticulous. I should have just flipped like crazy. I was like, "Oh man, 23 680 better than a lot of scores I've seen on this this evening." But just Trent got like third on this with 48. So after I walked away with 23, I was like, "Eh, that's it."
    168:14
    23. Yeah. She's like, "Tell me how much you sell. What do What do I need?" Oh, tricky. He probably could have saved that, too. He could have saved that literally like an upward nudge anywhere when it's in contact down here. Probably would have sent it high enough so that it hits this gate instead of and that's what I was trying to do too. I was like, you know what I need to do? Nudge right now. Oh, if I erase that, that's going to erase the score to beat. This is a sacrifice I'm willing to make. 23 680. I remember it fondly. I'll draw it again. Oh, he's back in. He's back in. Oh, he's hitting it clean. Boom.
    168:54
    Oh, the switch hits are switching which number it gives you. Is he still the ball? Ah, ball in hand. Let's see.
    169:06
    Okay. So, he's still in it. He's so in it. He's so very in it. He's hardly out of it. Yeah. Ooh, nice little nice little save there. I didn't see if he gave it like I didn't see what kind of nudging action that was, but Oh, no. No. No. 22. Wow. An outlane drain would have uh still wouldn't have gotten him there. He needed a couple more switch hits. That's not what I expected you to say. I expected you to be like an outlane drain would have got it for him. Not quite. Not quite. You know this game very well. Well, there's a big thousand right there. It's It's mostly just reading. It's mostly just reading comprehension. To be fair, to be fair, I've not noticed many things right in front of my face since sitting in this chair. I was going to say, but it's because I played this game earlier. That's the only reason. Like what you just said was Deborah like just read the thing in front of your face. Not Not at all. Not at all. Oh, see RLM, thanks for the follow. And also, I really really would love to see Jay move forward. Like I'm down to go just like sleep now. So, and I would have been down to have like Jason like beat me, but of course there's that part of me that's like, "No, you want to stay alive. I want to live."
    170:22
    Quick ball one there. And it looks like Jay may have adjusted the backbox cam. Give us the ball ball in play count. She's like, "You know what I can do? I can make this a better stream for all of us." Wow. Jay already has that 5,000 saucer lit. This might be cool. Look. Oh, how did she do it? The the rollovers will give you numbers as well up top. Those buttons. Oh, I thought all of the lights had to be out before you could like light it. So, you only had to get one set of them. I believe it's completing the odds is what lights this saucer. I had all the evens, but I had one odd not. So, you had this saucer lit, which is the even got this. And I don't want to be like I don't want to accidentally say something stupid where she doesn't have it because of commentators curse, but like she's got it. Like, that's so many points. It should be pretty free. So many. Wow. Great discipline there. That was like a I should not nudge this right now situation. Nice little feed there. Oh, it's so clean. It's so close. Oh, it's so done. It's so done. She's got like four balls left. She's got It's just done. It's just done. That's my score. She's 50 points shy. That's 630. Oh, okay. I thought it was like a I had 80. Yeah, you're right. I didn't remember it fondly enough. Uh, well, the dream was nice while it lasted. Well done. Well fought, but I'm excited for Jay. But yeah, Jay's got you. So, it's all about the I will never forget that it's all about the odds. Tracy from Outer Specy. I don't know who this dead person is, but if you insist on shortening my name, feel free to just make it a single D. Oh, I do. I do get to take my nap now. Wait, can you make the animation again? Make it on fire. secret. Oh, that's pretty fun. I like that. Jay is love loving this Jay play action here. Oh, yeah. Oh, what? I love this geometry. Those saucer beads are very nice. They're very very nice. Yes. The when it comes in from up top over there, over there. Yeah. like and I I have had a couple games on this where it was just so pretty and it was so consistent. Yeah. Yeah. You had a couple of them during your game earlier. Yeah. I was like, "Oh, oh, that's nice. I'll take I'll take that. It's all good." Tracy from Outer Spacey, I love you.
    172:53
    Look at her. Look at her. Look at her doing the thing. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Crushing it. Get in there.
    173:00
    She's like, "You know what? I can do more points." Yeah. Eric's grabbing the rag. He's done.
    173:08
    He's like, "How about you just let me take this out?" I am Davis. Welcome. Thanks for hanging out. Feel free to hit us with a follow. What's KSR? I don't know what KSR is. Tell us what KSR is. Little hot tip back. Full plunge and swap. Good games. Good games. I'm really really digging Eric's shirt tonight. It's a less than Jake. Less than Jake. What is Less than Jake? Is that a band? Uhhuh. Yeah. And now you know. Now I know. I'll have to go listen. Kentucky Sports Radio brought you here. What? For our Derby themed game. What? That's cool. Yes. That's super cool. Oh, was this Did Eric do that radio interview or a podcast like last week? I think he did. I think I saw that. Oh, that's cool. Is piml a sport? Actually, in in in Austria, it literally officially federally is a sport. Federally like as in like nationally federally. What does that mean? It means in Austria. It Well, it means that if you are Are there scholarships? Like if you're an entertain if you're in entertainment, then you get taxed and you get charged. And if you're a sport, like a darts or a pool, you don't get charged or taxed. Oh, interesting. For like to have those things in your est, right? And they they like there's there's like this in between ground, but they've gotten multiple people to recognize that it's actually a sport and therefore they can have pinball machines without being taxed like within an inch of their their lives. That's very cool. Jay coming in to rescue us with this uh player view. Jay, nice win. You did so well. You've got the 5,000 and you taught me that odds lit is what does it what? Well, he was he was saying that like if you light all the odds then it's already lit. Okay. Cuz I thought it had to be all of the numbers. He's like, "No, it's just all the odds." I see. So, yeah, you absolutely killed it. Did you want to be on the stream? She's like, "No, I got to plan. I got to plan my attack. Keep cooking." Anyway, uh it's a sport. That's all I'm saying. That's really cool. Yeah, for sure. Some monster scores on this hot tip. Ken with 729. Matt right now with 393 in counting. Very nice. And Matt's got his double bonus already. And look at like the perfect focus on this face. He's locked in. He does this when he's talking about like how to fix pinball machines, too. Yes. It's pretty fantastic. Like I wish that had been a lit That's That spinner's not even lit yet, is it? No. He hit it so hard. He needs five more targets still, but he's got that spinner shot locked. So, this saucer feed feeds nice generally. That was a nice little tip there. A hot tip as you will. You So, you're saying that was a nice little trash there. A hot trash, if you will. I said what I said. You heard. I just have to go with what the game actually says the title is. That's true. That's all. Oh, hold on. 414 there. All right. I'll put on a timer. And it is ball five. We can see it on the playfield cam. Uh, is the captive ball viable? It killed me earlier. I That's all I'll say about that. I I No, I deeply disagree that you should try for the captive ball. I deeply agree that you should go for the spinner and just keep hitting it up top for saucers. It's an Eric game, so why would you not shoot the spinner, right? Yeah, because it's juiced. Oh, nice. That was a great great save. Uh, can someone set a timer for uh 2 minutes for me so that time nice stay alive. They gave me they gave me a stream deck and I'm going to figure out how to use it. I do that too. They haven't I haven't like given myself that dispensation yet tonight and I won't and that's probably safer. Oh, look at that tip over. It's a great and terrible power. Okay. So, like I watched him play earlier and it looked like he was like half asleep with the wheel like a zer or something just like am I playing and and just now and he was doing the same thing where he was doing actually really perfect correct moves. Tip over tip passes catch it. That was actually a really really great volley. Absolutely. It was good about it. Little advanced bonus. Let's see ball on flipper for Frank. Y'all may not know this about Frank, but he is a smoked paprika uh fanatic. Really? Yes. He has taught me things about cooking no one else has. Smoked paprika is elite as far as spices go. Yeah. Have you ever just Oh, no. Eric. No. Eric. Frank. No. Eric. Eric. It's all Eric's fault, though. So, I said what I said. You said what you said. We can blame Eric. All right. So, we have uh final standings in this game. Ken won, uh Matt in second, Frank in third, and Justin in fourth. So, all of these players are still alive. Just uh a little more advanced in their strike count except for Ken.
    178:27
    So accurate accurate what you just said. I try to be specific. They're all alive and their strike count except for obviously Mr. Ken Gunther Ken who won the game. And now you can see what their strike count is. I wasn't going to do math on camera. Look at that. Whoa. Fuzzy cord. There are some places that will just sell smoked paprika. I know Pens has it. That's what's in my spice cabinet. It's good stuff. Fuzzy cord. Um there is this um it's like a a rectangular like container. You'll kind of see it separate from the other spices and it's got like some like flowery like markings on it. It's trying to look all I think I know which one you're talking about. Um that is that is the one to get more than any other one. And I think it even says like Hungarian like smoke cap pretty which I didn't realize until just recently going to Hungary and being like nearestish to like Austria, Germany, like like the whole geography of the region. It makes sense why you would want Hungarian smoked paprika. Um, so dump a bunch of that into your next like mac and cheese experience or like literally anything but mac and cheese. No, not literally anything because I did a little stupid. I went a little crazy. Like I would put too much paprika in eggs. I would put too much. I didn't think there was too much, but I found the too much moment and it was and I I Yeah, don't do it. Um I don't know. I think that's fine. But no, I think I think that it's fine. Okay, Cody. Okay, I'm doxing Cody again. It's fine. Who's Cody? I don't know. Oh, I don't know that guy. All right, I learned how to do the the player order. I'm dangerous now. All I All I can say is I don't have to do anything and things get updated.
    180:07
    Oh, hey, this is like I don't know if you can hear in the background the song that's playing. This is one of Eric's favorite things to play when he's vibing at the barn like at the Tilt Pinball Summer thing or the Amazing Race. When is the Tilt Pinball summer thing? This summer. Last week in August. Last week in August. All right. You do not have to be pre-signed up. Oo, you do not have to be fancy and go to Eventbrite and fight the the fight the timers, the Googles. None of that. No bots, no timers, no Event Brights. Just show up and like you can play in the tournament or not. It's just a party. Just hang out. I'm excited. Join his party. My uh my first event at the barn was Jack's mega in the fall, the Farm Harvest Festival. That actually makes me really happy cuz Jack approached us and he was like, "Can I do a thing?" It was awesome. I loved it. Like like a Whopper farm. And I was like, uh, as long as you keep it cool and make people happy. Yeah, do it. He did. He crushed it. It was a great event. It was It was like I think I maybe even like a full third of the participants hadn't come to anything else. Yeah, they were just available for that time slot and came and and it was it was nice. Yeah. So, good weather then. Yeah. I don't know if we're going to the got the ability to do it again this year, but if you liked it even Yeah, just tell them. We like having events at the barn. It's just It's a pinball support thing. Totally. Yeah, we're cheese heads like that. We're Wisconsin like that. Yeah, I'm excited for the summer thing. It'll be sweet. Did you get your Cincinnati ticket? Yes. Well, okay. So, are you hanging out in weight list? I'm a tournament director. Oh, so you're chilling. You're in there. I'm chilling. I'm chilling. Sometimes you're just chilling. I'm r I'm very rarely chilling, but for this one tournament Yeah. Which I feel weird coming here and not tournament directing. Yeah. Because if Eric Eric Wartenberger's in the house and he's running a tournament, I'm like, "Yes, I'm helping." So, it takes a minute for me to just step back and be like, "Actually, I'm not helping. I'm just hanging out." That's awesome. It looks like summer big thing might not be possible because seasonal showdown is the same day. Uh, no. What's the seasonal show? It's probably Kid Force's end of season like large strikes tournament. Tell Kid Forest to have it on the same location on a different day. Yeah. Laser low sucks for seasonal showdown. Carlos in this room in chat. Is it really National Smoked Paprika Day? We might have to. No. No. No. No. There's no way. No. We might have to give some uh some sampling at the barn. See if we can get it sponsored or something. A laser. Do you think Trent gives two S's about a kid forest in no in no universe? Uh I wonder if we can move it. You guys are get it moved. Well, I want all the things to hap. Like it used to be like you had like three things in an entire year and you would have to get on like the IRC chats. Yeah. And like get with people who were in the know and and meet up and now there's like 20 things every weekend. Yeah. John D. Kane, thanks for the follow. We appreciate you tuning in. Carlos just came over and gave us a look. He's like, "Yeah." All right. Geese stepping up to some bad girls. Deborah, you know what you're doing in this game? I do. I do. Tell me about it. I'm being I'm a girl, right? If you if you say so. It's up to you. I don't even know what that Yes, I am a girl right now. I could change my mind later, but I am a girl and I'm bad and that's what I'm doing. All right, that's the joke. Step up and flip. Step up and flip. Um, this game is all about the hitting the eightball over and over and over and over. If you hit the eightball multiple times, two times I believe, you get a multiball. That eightball is back in this lane. Yes. And then what do you do? You hit all the balls after that and try to start. Isn't it a hurry up? Drops your rerrack. Hurry up. Yeah, the rerrack. So, if you hit that enough times, I mean, like if you don't know anything else about this game, if you like if you want the quick and dirty bad girls rules, go up for the eightball. There she is. There she is. Elizabeth also being bad. Bad and yet that that Okay, maybe a little bad. No, no, no. That backhand should have worked. Every time that backhand works. I'm very disappointed. The backhand for the eightball. Yeah, I got to try that. Okay. So, wait. On this specific title, previous tournaments, it's worked. Okay. All right. Trent's coming to gather me. Um, everybody, it's been lovely. Enjoy your bad girls. Enjoy your good girls, your bad boys, your good boys, and I will see you later. Have a great night. Thanks for hanging everybody. Yeah, this has been fun.
    184:45
    Matt stepping up, taking a shot at that eightball. He's hanging out in Pops Land. Shhats here perhaps.
    185:12
    Los is up. I see I'm talking to Deborah and Trent over here. So, this might be a second. Carlos, you're up.
    185:24
    We'll see if anyone wants to put him on a clock. C clock discourse. Anyone? Who's up for some clock discourse? All
    185:36
    right, he's getting yelled at. He's on his way. He'll be there in a sec.
    185:44
    Lot of breath. Thanks for the bits. Thanks for the cheer. Thanks for hanging out. Eric is the man.
    185:55
    Carlos stepping up to bad girls. I'm going to see what he's doing.
    186:02
    Plunger skill shot lights lock. That's if you short short plunge. There's a little close with the barn kitties
    186:11
    revel. There's a little switch here where if you short plunge and don't make it through this oneway gate here, it'll light the lock. It'll drop this target and you can just take an upper flipper shot right there. So, that's what he's trying to do.
    186:30
    A lot of ski passing available on these Fatty Gotautle flippers. There's that backhand that Matt tried. Didn't work out. And unfortunately, quick post and out. Kittens are named Tater and Tot. Come to the summer thing and see those kittens perhaps if they're not hiding from everyone. I don't know how socialized they are.
    186:59
    Little bit of chaos here, but he's staying alive. Nice forehand at the eightball. Side shot. Backhand.
    187:11
    Looks like it's quick. Very target. That very target according to Eric's minatorial increases your bonus X.
    187:27
    He's got rerrack available, but I wouldn't shoot for this without the safety of multiball. It seems like it's going to be counting down a little too fast.
    187:42
    Unfortunate. Does anyone in chat know if your multi progress carries over from ball to ball? Cuz I know it does not on Diamond Lady, but I don't know much about Bad Girls. I've watched it on a bunch of tournament streams, but I I really couldn't tell you. Gizki stepping back up just 50k. No, she wants more than that.
    188:09
    Working on those drops probably going for the eightball here. No backhand again.
    188:31
    up to 2x bonus with that very target hit and into multiball. Excellent. Now, we'll probably sear well on these drop targets and then get to work on the rereck bonus.
    188:52
    because this is a system 80, there's probably some fatty playfield multiplier at work here, too. It might be that 2x from the very target hit when on the left. What about shooting up the right past the upper flipper and then shoot the eightball when it comes back down? That can work. Repeated shots definitely build that value. But that that can work, but there is a gate here. So if you or it feeds all the way up here back up to the top of the pops, so if you hit it a little too clean, you're just going all the way through and putting yourself in danger.
    189:35
    Re-Rex still counting down. That's a lot of points. Just needs the C and the K here. That's it. Humongous points there. Over 2 million. Now I bet she'll go back to working on multiball. That was an awesome rank. Well, can't be unhappy about that. That was awesome.
    189:58
    This game seems like a game where you kind of do a lot of work for nothing and then just all at once all your points come through. That was really cool to see.
    190:10
    Matt stepping up. I bet he's going to try to do the exact same thing. There isn't a whole lot of variation to strategy on this game, I don't think.
    190:27
    These rubbers are tough, but these fatty gotly lanes, those ski passes are nice. No playfield multiplier on bad girls. Thank you, BFR.
    190:38
    I don't know. I feel like a lot of the system advs, they just or the system 80s in general, they love the playfield multiplier. Multi multiplier on Genesis. I know that's not an ADB, but uh Diamond Lady, you get up to that 15x in multiball. There's multiball for Matt. Speaking of multiball, so you can get that skill plunge here, spot a pool ball or just take it. Start working on drops. Work on that rrack. Maybe take some shots at the very target. But if there's no playfield multiplier, we're catching up. We're catching up. Nice little ski there from that multiball feed. That's being prepared.
    191:29
    Nice shot of the very target. I don't know if he was going for that or maybe to uh increase these lane awards that you see on these triangles here. It looks like 50 100 maybe 200 there. That seems like solid points. But that very target worked as a pass for sure.
    191:58
    Feel like all these system advs have great soundtracks too. Bad girls sound pallet, sound font, all that is really, really nice. Makes it really fun to play.
    192:19
    433. One ball to play. It needs big Rack to to win this game. Now, Elizabeth and Carlos both are in a situation here with six six strikes where if either of them takes last on this game, they are eliminated from the tournament. So, obviously, they're trying to win, but they're also very much trying to not get last.
    192:48
    I turned away to look at chat and I missed it. Quick one from Carlos. Unfortunately, he's going to need a big ball three.
    192:57
    Ken stepping up. Fresh look at multiball. sling out. Thanks, chat. It's like I watched it myself. Foolishly, I did not.
    193:20
    Nice little spinner rip there for not that much value, but it was cool. Made good sounds.
    193:28
    Rough flip to the outline. I have a guest it was a dog that came over and sniffed me and then quickly walked away. I feel slighted. Gizki stepping back up in a comfortable lead, but she definitely wants to pad that a little bit. Any of these players can knock out that rereck bonus. They've all been playing great today.
    193:52
    Let's go plunge. It's a tight plunder spring. That's a tough skill shot to find.
    194:06
    She needs five more drops to start that rereck hurry up. But she's probably just trying to get back into multiball here. Nice drop catch there. That was clean.
    194:33
    Eight ball forehand. Eight ball forehand. Targets back up. Chat, does anyone know what determines the initial reckup value? I could not tell you.
    194:49
    Nice bit of flipper work there. And I'm going to go pick up the headset that just fell. One second.
    195:16
    So, boots, I can tell you, you collect the rerrack, uh, as Elizabeth is probably going to be trying to do shortly. You collect the rerrack by hitting all these pool ball drop targets down. Uh that starts the rerrack mode and then the standups, these yellow standups behind the drop targets. Each one of those corresponds to a rerrack letter here. And if you hit all of those, turn them solid, that gives you your that scores your rrack bonus at whatever the value is at. So you can see it counting down there. Uh, and all those rerrack letters flashing.
    195:59
    Dang. Tough outline there, but over four, five, that's a pretty pretty solid score. Looks like the initial rank hurry up is dependent on whether you are in multiball or not.
    196:29
    Brutal post pest flip out lane. Tough sequence there. Looks like one rereck and single ball play. three start in multiball. So, sounds like you really want to be going for that when you're in multiball. Not just for safety reasons, but for points as well. Thanks, BFR.
    197:00
    Carlos here probably working on getting back to multiball. Looked like a forehand shot at that eighth target and he's not trusting that upper flipper, which may be wise given what it's done to other players in this group.
    197:22
    forehand. Well, early I think that max value orbit might have been a special, but it'll be good points. 1.3 and a Come on. Really? Are you kidding me?
    197:57
    Ken needs 30k here to not get last. And that should do it. extra ball for the first time and then special for max right orbit. I suspect that both of those features are set to points in this game for uh for Eric settings. Is that a Preston high score on this that just scrolled by?
    198:30
    All right, so Elizabeth takes that win, Carlos took second, Ken in third, and Matt in fourth. So Elizabeth, Carlos both staying alive. Very clutch. I wonder if I can figure out how to bring up the standings. Interact. That doesn't do it.
    199:01
    That's definitely not what I want. Next round is up, so we're going to be seeing something.
    199:10
    I'm going to check uh how many players we got left because I haven't been looking at this. Just two groups left. Seven players. So, we might be going to Jungle Queen. Dog cam. Dog cam. This is Jungle Queen. All right, we are officially a nonfamilyfriendly stream.
    199:32
    There is a standings button on the stream deck. That's crazy. That is our seven players. Six players left. Let me get this switched over. Did you figure it out? Yeah. Y and we are going to jungle queen that fell. Um and we got our jungle queen group. with gas, man.
    200:06
    Well, I wish I heard what he said. These headsets are solid at uh preventing outside sound. This is actually the jungle batch. Making a batch of smoked paprika in the jungle.
    200:33
    All of these players are in danger. Oh yeah, queen batch. We're uh making a batch of smoked paprika in queen. I'm not going to complete that thought because that's going to upset some New Yorkers.
    200:51
    Tough center drain for Carlos there. This feels like a drop targets game. It feels like uh you want to plunge the B lane because the B lane isn't anywhere else on the playfield and then get your A and C and that'll probably light your lane. So, I'm just speculating. I watched the minatorial like 10 hours ago. You want that B plunge? Definitely not nothing on the plunge and rough house. A 10point ball it appears. Ken stepping up. Shoot monkeys. Are the monkeys the drops? I could see I could see some monkeys there.
    201:42
    Nope. He knew. He knew that was that was gone. So, all these players need to finish better than the third to stay alive except for Gizki who's just trying to avoid a last but also you would like to win.
    202:21
    People keep walking in frame and they're not geese. What's going on?
    202:37
    It wouldn't have fit on the back glass. That's why you had to abbreviate it. There's no room. I guess you could extend onto Jackpot, get like some poster board to support it. See if you can get like a Hershey sponsorship or something. Or Worther's Originals. What if it's like a safe cracker, but when you win the game, it spits out hard candy instead of a token?
    203:05
    Imagine, imagine a Wonka pinball machine that actually gave you candy. Imagine all the operators that would never maintain that and it would just be a sticky mess forever. As soon as I spoke it aloud, I was unhappy with the idea.
    203:29
    You get some nice dog cams, some nice screen door, recycle bins. How many layers of stream can we get? I see myself. I see there. And then we're there. And that's about it. And it looks like Gizki got lost, but she's here now. Only three layers of stream. Whiteboard clear. Let's see what she gets. 10,000 in the lead right now for Carlos.
    204:03
    And this is the ball one. Stop counting. It's fine. It's fine. It's a labyrinthine basement. Be plunge. No plunge. But she survives,
    204:28
    but not for long. 7K 7480 7430. One of those. Close enough. Close back up. Wants that B lane. That's no lanes alive. Shoot some monkeys.
    205:05
    Sergeant Crumbles. Very true. Queen butterscotch. Aptly named. Oh, what a tease.
    205:39
    Ken stepping up. See if he gets that B plunge again. Not quite.
    205:53
    500 points for that roll over. There's not really a good way to get back up top other than the plunge, too. That was tough. Nice way to make an in lane there.
    206:19
    O tough read there. Just not over far enough.
    206:30
    Now chat, do you know if you get anything for completing a bank of drop targets? Does that light the outer rollover for 5,000?
    206:44
    Oh, nice plunge. Super Zack Pot says yes. Thank you for confirming my speculation. Two drops for 500 points.
    207:00
    Some would say poor ppm. I say efficient. That was cool. That was not cool. That was really cool though. The little flick up to the upper flipper. Dang.
    207:16
    Ball three stepping up. I think this one's on five ball. Feels like all the EM in here are on five ball, which makes sense. Even Stars is on five ball. EM and Spirit.
    207:29
    I love the game audio. Don't kill me. Don't kill me. Great soundtrack on Jungle Queen. Just low slooping. Don't kill me.
    207:57
    What's going on, Jay? How you doing? If you're just tuning in or chilling in the booth, man. Oh, yeah. I love doing this. If you're just tuning in or uh haven't tuned in since I last introduced myself, my name's Ethan. This is Jay joining me. Oh, we don't have our names up. No. Okay. Maybe tomorrow. Yeah. No sleeves in the booth. No sleeves in the booth. I walked in everyone. Happy fourth. Sorry you couldn't be here. This is the place to be. Rough for Carlos. Still sitting in the lead at 45, but I know he wants more than that. And this is a five ball. Okay, he's starting ball three. Some folks have been getting eaten alive by the jungle queen butterscotch. What's the butterscotch? Uh that's Where's my mouse? Oh, it's over there. That's Butterscotch. It's just It's abbreviated. Oh, okay. Yeah, chat was uh very helpful in helping me interpret that. Beyonce,
    209:08
    I got the sleeveless in Seattle skill shot. Well, I mean, I got the B uh proto skill shot if you want. That's what you want. Got that line, you know, dialed in. I'm feeling good about that. We'll see where it's at tomorrow.
    209:24
    Yeah, I haven't touched Jungle Queen. I got to Skyab works. What? What is that? Oh, Skyab. Skyab pinball machine. Yeah. Awesome. Nice nudge to create that in lane there. Been working on it. Oh yeah. Sorry. No, that's okay. That's Oh, we got two drops left. It's so exciting when you get your game working. Oh, is uh Oh. Oh, no. Great ball there though from Chad up to like 39 and then change with two to go. Huge improvement. Yeah. Now we got a game. All right. I can't do it anymore. No. Oh, I mean, if they were actually sleeveless, like if you want to rip it off. Just kidding. I'm not going to rip. Having roll it up is not comfy. Yeah. All right. Last year's uh NKY warm-up strikes winner, Elizabeth Gizki. We'll see about back to back. She's been she's been playing great. No surprise there. Oh, she got it on her first two balls. Yeah. Well, at least you got something. You know, the worst is uh not getting anything on the plunge, you know. Yeah. Been seeing a lot. But you can shhat. So, and you can moonwalk. You can try. You can try to shhats. You can succeed at chat thing. And yet for all the shrug emotes. What's up, Cobweb? BFR, Tracy, Big Cat, SGC. SGC is still here.
    211:04
    Close hands. No nudge there. I thought he would have nudged that to try to get the be there. It's uh he's over it. Chuck Wart's house. Nudging is you want to It's like you get like two. I don't know. The EM seems pretty generous. Yeah, they're not they're not as crazy as though. Uh SGC, this is 0123. All
    211:38
    Ball four. Chad on the plunge. Had a nice ball three. Let's see if he can run it back. So, Bill from Memphis, you want to plunge the B lane because the B lane is only available up top on the playfield. The A and C lane you have at the left and right in lanes. So, you can get those in other ways, but really it's uh pretty much impossible to get that B lane if you don't hit it off the plunge. Yeah, you just Pop's got to do it for you really. Or you can team up, try and like you said, up nudge with the pops, but it's pretty tough. That's the only way to get back up there. Quick one from Chad, but still got some points out of it. Looks like 46 maybe. What's up, Bill? It's been a while.
    212:25
    We'll see Ken put something together. You got to put in KY on your calendar next year. Yeah, come hang. Oh, tough tip. Bill, he'd still be playing. Yeah, be up there. Yes, he'd be Bill if you show up your top 15 for sure. Not for sure. That's a mega commentator's curse. All right. I I think the statute of limitations for commentators curse is about 25 seconds. Okay. It's like Yeah. Not a year. Okay. Got tickets for Cincinnati. Awesome. Cool. I'll be there. This will be my first Cincinnati and I'm I'm super excited. Very cool. It's funny. I lived in Cincinnati for four years, but I did not get into pinball until after moving to Cleveland. Oh, well, yeah, that makes sense, too, though. Yeah. Thriving scene up north. Yeah, it's great. Oh, we love that. Pop pop pop action. Got the B.
    213:27
    That's your bud. Huge double bonus at That's what ABC does. Okay, so sitting on 16k bonus. Drop catch. Gizki will have a commanding lead after this ball
    213:44
    going into ball five, but we still got ball four running. And we're still playing queen [ __ ] Queen butterscotch. Queen [ __ ] I'm not scared to say it. I didn't get any kind of formal tutorial before I sat down about etiquette, so yeah, we'll take it. Plus with a big exhale. That was loud.
    214:11
    Well, mind you, you played uh a long night last night at Arcade Legacy. Yeah. Yeah. You guys had 70 players for your weekly. Yeah. What is the format of that? That's crazy. Uh well, monthly it changes. So, by monthly it'll be seven rounds of match play and then top depending on however. So, this time it was top 16. Uh and then the other month strikes and like every every form of strikes. So group knockout, what we're doing tonight, uh which is what progressive. Yeah. Um so yeah, and I think it was just a lot of things aligned. Some of you some of you killers were here early trying to get your reps in, trying to steal a local's money. And uh Carlos worked hard for it. did the thing. I guess the prizing is probably pretty good on uh 70 player local. The what? The prizing probably pretty good. And Burger Time. Yeah, Burger Time. The arcade game. Whopper time. Well, no, actually Burger Time is down for all of you folks. That's unfortunate. I love that game. Yeah. Oo, in lane switch there. Do we have a replay here? I love this sequence.
    215:36
    Yeah, that was clean. But no, the Whopper value. Yes.
    215:43
    Big Cat, what did you uh what did you take home whopper wise for sixth place? Is Ken a shot, sir?
    215:55
    I think he might be a ripper. So, looks like Ken passed Carlos, but not Chad. So, Ken and Carlos are out. Oh, official. Yeah, both of them needed better than third. All right, at seven strikes. Wonder if Eric's going to just try and move this thing along. Yeah, Kishki locks with her win. So, she stays at six. Chatted advances to eight. Um, ABC on ball five doesn't give you anything, I don't think, because you just start with your double bonus light anyway. Well, that's a bummer. Yeah, on the other hand, free. Yeah, I guess you can Is there any kind of like progress of No, like you start with all your drops up. Yeah, nothing carries. So, you just do just do a drop target, guess so. Nice game from Gizki. Well fought by that whole group after some early house balls, too. Yeah, I don't you just can't be intimidated when you get when your first two are your house balls. It's like you're going to have a game left. They're they're going to happen. It's going to happen. You'll get to flip. Forget about it. Yeah, totally.
    217:13
    So, let me see if that other group is still going. Just two two games left and they were on Bone Busters. That group is done. You put your scores in. Yeah, it's in.
    217:26
    Yeah, I see it. They're good. Next round should be up shortly. Let's see where we're at. Yeah, just three players left. This is it. Big game. All right. Well, I don't think I should sit through this one. Well, we'll find you another teammate. Thanks for hanging. Of course you'll be here tomorrow. I will be here tomorrow. Did you come with a crew? Uh Logan and I came down together. Okay. Yeah. My parents live in like suburban Cincinnati, so I just get to crash at the house I grew up in. Is wonderful. What about What about your mom? Is she a good cook? Well, my parents are out of town this weekend. They are You got to fend for yourself. Yeah. My uh my brother's at home. He still lives at home, so we get to hang out a little bit. I don't I don't see I don't see him all the time. So, uh but yeah, very convenient. It's like Yeah. 40 minutes away. It's not not too too bad. That's a big game. Big game. All right. Well, folks, tune in tomorrow noon. Tournament starts at noon. That's probably on the schedule. Yeah, the stream's going to start. We know. We know to get here early. We'll see. Yeah. Oh, let me do the uh the thing. Yeah, I click the interact button. I click the change button. I click the big game button, which is on here somewhere. Found it. There it is. This is the big game.
    218:48
    Stewart, Chad, and Gizki possibly for all the marbles. Uh scores on this one are 012.
    219:04
    So if Gizki wins this game, she wins the tournament. That'll be it. Um, you'll notice if you're familiar with big game code that the cards are not rotating with time. Uh, that's part of the updated code. I don't know a ton about big game, honestly, other than like when the spinner is lit, rip the spinner and you're probably doing good if you're shooting up here. And we'll see what happens. This flipper combination creates this flipper layout creates some wild moments.
    219:47
    Yeah, Gizki is guaranteed another game cuz two points will put her at eight. Still alive. Two strikes put her at eight. Still alive. Chad walking up.
    220:11
    Hi. Anyone remember that early King Kong call out where you'd get the Kong letter and it would say I and it's not in the game anymore. I'm really sad about it. They re-recorded that voice line.
    220:32
    Let's see this transfer. Just taking a shot. Okay. Some drop action. That's alive.
    220:42
    What do we got? What are you shooting at? This is a cool little switch to that drop bank.
    220:56
    Yeah, I want to see the the eye code on King Kong BFR. Some Sterns could use some uh some re-recording of voice lines. I agree. I would love some AIQ updates for those voice lines. They're uh you can only go binary so many times before you get a little tired of it.
    221:23
    Tough drain for Chad, but solid ball one there at 150. This big game play was a little tough. Pressure's on for the big game.
    221:46
    I've had to play a lot of Aerosmith recently in local in a local league. We've got this Monday series going on in Cleveland and the bar it's at has an Aerosmith and I just I would love like a font patch and like an animation patch. It just it hurts to look at. But we got some big game going on. Gizki, let's see a good transfer here. I want to see what she shoots at. Some drops. Maybe that right right little hook shot something at the spinner perhaps. Big choice here.
    222:46
    Oh, you shoot the bottom of the pop and uh it kills you. Big surprise.
    222:55
    Hello. Who are you? Could you please introduce yourself? Hello. Hello, Carlos. Hi. Hi, Carlos. Good old big game. Good old big game, but like new old big game. Yeah, but it's like a little bit older big game than the new big game. Really? Is there are there multiple different code revisions that are hanging out? The original code the code that he put on uh allows for the cards to rotate on a timer. So the Y that's lit right now, it would every few seconds it would rotate around. That's the original code, right? That's that's the new code. That's the new code. Yeah, original code. But it's just like pops and slings change it. Okay. Um, so he just this time changed it cuz it's a setting on the new code to like revert it back. So he revert it back to non-timed cards or whatever. Interesting. Do you have a preference? Uh, I prefer not to play big game ever. That's the preference.
    223:59
    I feel like it's in every Cincinnati area tournament ever. Um, it's just Eric always has this and he just brings it to Cincinnati every year. Sure. It's not an Eric tournament without Big Game. Big Game or uh any of the system 80s? Yeah. They kind of rotate. Okay. So, Stew's got decent bonus 2x. No, there's not Calbert. It's called the power switch.
    224:30
    He's got the spinner lit. This could be nice. That was weird. Yeah, the most fun version of big game is when you get together with your friends and just argue about who would have had a better ball without playing. There you go.
    224:43
    I used to play a lot of Magic the Gathering and the uh the fun strat when we were all tired was draft and then argue about whose deck was going to be better instead of playing the games. Interesting.
    224:59
    I think pinball needs more of that. More talking, less playing. Clock discourse go. Less talking and more talking. There you go. Stuart putting together a nice ball here. Yeah, if he he's not too far from 3x either. Spinner lit. How do you get that 3x? Just more uh something with the cards. Okay. Just bonus drops basically. Gotcha. Just getting those numbers in the lines. Like a certain number of lines or something. Okay. Something with the lines, but essentially it's just drops. Cool. Oh jeez. Yeah, I think I played big game at past times like once. I think today was my second ever game at big game. Nice. Oo, good save. Ah, was a good save. Yeah, it's a good ball though. Was a ball too. Yeah, ball too there. Nice. Nice lead. Yeah, Dappa has been very kind to us and has not put it in a pastimes mega. It's been in a couple of the Sunday classics, though. O yeah,
    226:09
    I'm going to try to lobby for uh Starlight and Bone Busters. Starlight. Feel like everyone in Cleveland is obsessed with Starlight now. Yeah, it's like you guys just found out it existed and are all over it. Yep. Well, past time's got one this year. Um, Logan's kind of like building one. Yeah, which is a whole ordeal. Um, it might be in Sweeper. Yeah, that's what I hear. But, uh, there's a lot of working on games that's going to happen then. Oh, god. Even with the games that are supposed to be working well. Sounds great. Yeah, that's what my Monday is. I'm going to the Kennedy's house and working out the Gremlins. Interesting. Sounds like I wait till Friday to start qualifying type of situation. Uh it'll be fine. Everything will be ready.
    227:03
    All these kids on summer break. Okay, so he just got 3x. So he got enough and bonus carries through the whole game. The bonus X does everything. All bonus. All bonus everything. Okay, so this is going to be humongous. Yeah, it'll be pretty big. And even if he gets a house ball, it'll still be a nice bonus for him. What did that be lane give him there for big uh it lights the inner spinner. There's a second spinner to the right of the the left one. This one? Yeah. So, it lights that one. Okay. It also lights that top lane for points. Nice. It's like 5,000 something. Yeah. Not huge, but not nothing.
    227:49
    So, what are you what are you shooting for in this position? Are you just trying to rip the spinner now that it's lit? Cuz the feed looks kind of sketchy. Terrible. You kind of just have to not think too hard on big game. You kind of just send it. See, like he's going for that backhand on that spinner. That spinner is super juiced. It's an Eric spinner, you know, so it's like crazy juice. It would be irresponsible to not shoot it. Yeah. Dang. Great ball from Chad there. Good bonus. Picks the lead. sets himself up really well for ball three, too. And Elizabeth, she could get last and she'd be chilling. So, like, she's not really She doesn't actually need If she wins, it's done, right? Yeah. If she wins, it's done. That's it. So, like there's no there's no downside. Yeah. Regardless if this uh plunging B is always sketchy. B for bad. Wise words.
    228:40
    There will either be two players left or one player left after this game. I would. She could go for the drops. She could post pass. Okay. Goes for the drops. A lot of drops there. Yeah, her Z card's almost full. She needs a three, a five, and an eight. I don't know what she got. Just the five and the eight left. So, she got the three. Oh, yeah. Spinner's not lit. So, she could hit a sling. She could hit the center pop. She go for the unlit spinner.
    229:12
    Big girls in bad game. Yeah, big bad girls. All right. Big ball three. Big games. Big ball three for all the big marbles. This a stretch. Yeah, you got it. Yeah, I'll work on it.
    229:46
    Ah, he's going for the light punch for the G. Well, he was trying for the light punch with the G. Oh, didn't get it. It's fine. You don't. It's fine. Uh-oh. Oh god. Whoa. Nice work there to stay alive. All right, here we go. Spinner. I think so. I think you just let it roll. Go to the lower flipper. Bam. It's usually like as soon as it touches the top of the sling, it's out. Rip. Dang. Yep. It's fine. He's open for uh Oh, wait. A lot of bonus there. He's guaranteed third. So, so place, I mean, in the tournament. Yes, he is out here. He is out.
    230:37
    So we might see Chad Chris Gizki final. Nice little 35k off the plunge. Screamer in lane. Screamer everything. Jeez. Screaming. Yeah, it's nine progressive strikes. 012.
    230:57
    True. Yeah, he did what he needed to do. Great drops action there. Nice spanner.
    231:31
    Literally just One drop away from max bonus there, but it's fine. It's great. That's a great score. He's chilling. Watch that bonus count. Oh yeah. It's a whole thing. It's a nice animation.
    231:49
    Don't fall for it. Don't fall for the big game par propaganda. Plunges. Big big game is out to get you. Yeah, exactly. goes for the dead bounce. All right, trapped on the right. Unlit spinner. Took a shot at it. Out lane. Yeah, that's gone.
    232:20
    Okay, so now this is the final game. Game. Yep. All right, let's see what we get. It's going to be a one v one. Winner take all. all the marbles. Loser gets two strikes. Winner gets zero strikes. And they're both at eight. See what we got. What do you think the game's going to be? What do I think the game's going to be? If you to guess what the game's going to be, I'm going to guess pulp. I guess Stars. Yeah. I haven't seen either of them play Stars in a little bit.
    232:59
    I wish he had a Doodlebug. Actually, I don't because he'd probably make it hard. Yeah, it's like you can make Doodlebug easy. Yeah, you can make it hard. There's no making it easy.
    233:14
    Yeah, Diamond Lady is a good guess. I'd love to see some Diamond Lady. Yeah, could be. Wow, Ethan likes Diamond Lady. That's crazy. Yeah, just a Diamond Lady flex. It works. Eric's going to send me the ROM. See, I told you. I just got to rebuild the flippers and get new sling coils and replace all my drop springs. But it plays. Is it really the same game if you replace all the parts? Game of Thus. Yeah. Diamond thesis. Diamond thesis. I mean, the playfield's the same. It's not the vitigrath playfield, though. It's the like terrifying screen printed one. It's like chipping all over. I need someone artistic. to go over it with a fine tipped paintbrush and make it nice not horrifying. Maybe some colored pencils. Yeah, perhaps. What is it? What do we got? Uh, Grand Prix. I will get that. Okay, cam up. Let's see some spinners.
    234:19
    Will the rig move? Who's to say? Yeah, he's got it. Stewart's on on the case.
    234:33
    Some Playfield gouache. Am I saying that right? That's a word that I read a lot in museums and never hear pronounced out loud. As a child, I said a lot of ors. Oh my god. Speak English, not French. RIP. Yeah. Uh, I think I first heard it in East Ventura. Gouash or where's or Oh, look honey. There's the orurves. Gus up. Goose up. Gu. Excellent. Like yellow squash. That vegetable that I hate. You don't like squash? Yeah. I think it's an F tier vegetable. F tier. And what's what's S tier? S tier vegetable? Like like a nice tomato. Tomato. That's not even a veggie. Okay. Name one that's not actually a fruit. I'm a I'm a like a celery enjoyer. I like fennel. Fennel's pretty good. Okay. Potatoes. Is potato a vegetable? Is potato Well, it's certainly not a fruit. True. All right. So, I think for the memes, uh, Chad's going to come in second. That's my prediction. For the memes, it's a meme that Ched Hobs comes in second place. That's just like a local meme, local lore. He's had a lot a lot of second places historically, so it's kind of the joke that he gets second place. Now, he's more than capable of surviving a pop feed and ripping a spinner just as much as Elizabeth is. Yeah, I found these saucers to be relatively friendly as far as Grand Pre I've played. Yeah. And these spinners are actively generous. Yeah. You said that you think they're too spinny. I think they're a little too spinny. I think it's too free. You think it overpowers bonus? Is that what you're trying to say? You would rather have more pressure on getting double bonus. I think I would just rather have to work a little harder to play all of the game. What do you mean all of the game? I mean, like, what else are you trying to do? If you max your bonus here with the spinners too juicy, like you can still max out your spinner value and rip, but it's just like it's score inflation. He's been playing for 30 seconds and he's at 250k. It's crazy. Yeah. So, that's really 350k. It's just when the score is six digits. Yeah. And everyone's rolling it every time. Everyone's rolling it. How many people you think have rolled it tonight? I did not roll it tonight. Me, I didn't either. Oh, dang.
    237:21
    Midwestern name a vegetable challenge that isn't just starch. True.
    237:27
    I think asparagus is like a Btier vegetable. Yeah, it's pretty good. You can make it great. You can also make it really bad. I think Brussels sprouts have swung around from underrated to criminally overrated. Still good, but overrated. Quick one from Gizki. Yeah, apparently the dead bounce was underrated for her. She overrated the flip and got an rated out lane. But like you said, all she needs is like one spinner rep. Boom. She's at 500k. Yeah, but that's what makes it fun. It's like it's like a home run derby. It is kind of fun. where you want to be out here scoring a 90k and feeling sat satisfied about it. No, I want to be scoring like 500k and feeling like I had a solid game, you know? I guess. Yeah. No, that's you got to roll it, baby. Not in this house. We're in Kentucky. These are Kentucky spinners. Actually, these are just Eric spinners. Yeah. Oh, that is a thing on this one. It's like I swear the end of that rail right there is like kind of curled or some [ __ ] Yeah, you can like really make a move on it. Yeah, it'll it'll stop it and go. Normally that'll that's out. Yeah, I had one where that was out. I had one where I saved it and uh it's kind of fun. It's thrilling. Will you die? Yeah, you never know. You never know. I mean, you'll die eventually. Could die at any moment. Could live at any moment. Just like that. Okay.
    238:55
    Here we go. Boom. Now you think that's too fast, too many spins.
    239:02
    Yeah, I think if you're not going through the spinner cleanly, you should get like one light, not five.
    239:12
    I think you just need to get out of Cleveland more. Maybe.
    239:18
    I'm trying to like do mostly just Ohio stuff this year and then maybe branch out next year. Hell yeah. Ooh, was weird. Yeah, tough flipper action there.
    239:36
    This Kong audio is so loud. Hell yeah. It's the newest, biggest, baddest, the baddest monkey in town. Got to get those super sweeps.
    239:50
    Do you think you can drop sweep spinner rip in here? Uh, probably not. 10 million points free. Every time forever. Big rip. Ah, no. Small rep. Unfortunate kind of rep. Zero. It was a miss. Yeah, Cleveland is like being on probation. What do you mean? I don't know. I was just reading chat. From a Clevelander about Cleveland. I I trust it. That's states chase top. 500 500k even. Big cat. You know that after ball three. Wow. Beautiful score. Yeah, that's like two spinner rips, right? It's like four. M. True. Yeah. You probably get like 30 40 like 10. You get like 40k a spinner rip? Yeah. Look at that. It's very satisfying. Mhm. So, you're saying you don't want to be that satisfied when you rip a spinner? I want to be You'd rather be like somewhat satisfying. Some spins. Okay. But I don't want it to feel free. I want to feel I want it to feel like I earned it. But you did earn it by getting control and flipping the ball into the spinner. You still get to hear those spinner noises even if you uh Nice. [Music] Okay. Little into lane to in lane. Uh oh. Oo. Firework time after this game. No hoopla. Imagine what it would be like to be able to
    241:44
    I feel like even if you collect a max spinner, a max saucer, you just rip one spinner and it's right back there. It's like it's not even it's not even like you missed out that much. I feel like there's it's like you get the 50. What is it? 55 I think it's from the saucer and then you rip it now. It's another 50 if you if it's on the side you collect. You're kind of still getting those points. I I just I feel like it kind of invalidates every increment of points that isn't 50,000. Uh, yeah. But like I'm getting a little in the weeds. You're really getting in the weeds here. I'm getting in the weeds. It's fine. This is what I'm here for. No. See, I want the Dazzler spinner to be juiced. Oh, so that spinner it's okay. That spinner is It's okay cuz that spinner isn't the whole game. But it could be if it was juiced. The Kid Force one is juiced like that. You like hit it twice and you're in disco. a big ball five potential here. He's like 170. Yeah, he's he's definitely still in uh danger distance. He wants to pad that lead for sure perhaps. What do you think? Two rips.
    243:02
    No rips. All right, it's within reach. All right, for a quick ball, that was a lot of bonus. Yeah. Well, it's it it takes longer when it's single when it's 1x, right? Cuz it counts by ones instead of tens. It should have a 5,000 is real. Uh-oh. Base five scoring.
    243:33
    Okay. Double bonus. Very nice. Rip that left spinner. Yeah. Come on. Yeah, imagine tilting ball five. Okay, here.
    243:51
    That's not a bad idea. What do you What do you Is there a name for that? When you do that like drop catch, but it kind of turns into a half loop pass without the loop. Yeah, I'm not That's just like an EM drop catch. That was just Oh my gosh. Dang. All right. Jet takes it. First place. All right. Nice. Like Eric said, no hoopla. Uh, imagine in your mind's eye a trophy presentation. Well, you might see something here. Maybe some fist bumps. We're We're heading out, Chad. Or I mean, um, Eric wants to go watch some fireworks. He's like, "Let's wrap this up. We're going outside." So, he told everyone to bring fireworks and that has me a little concerned, but uh, it's going to be a whole thing. Should be a good time. So, um, make sure you guys come back tomorrow. will be doing qualifying and finals. It'll be a whole thing. So, make sure you tune in. Give it a follow if you're not following. I don't remember what time everything starts. 11 12 p.m. start. Okay. So, Eric's telling us to get going. Yeah. Thanks for hanging everyone. Yep. I don't know what any of these buttons do. Click the stop streaming button, I guess. All right. I'll see you guys. Bye. Thanks for hanging.