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Part 10 | 2018-19 IFPA NA Championships & 2019 Women's World Championships

IE Pinball·video·1h 39m·analyzed·May 28, 2020
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TL;DR

Coverage of 2018-19 IFPA NA Championships finals with detailed gameplay analysis of competitive pinball.

Summary

IE Pinball coverage of the 2018-19 IFPA North American Championships semi-finals and finals, featuring high-level competitive play on games including Paragon, Abracadabra, Skull and Bones, and X-Men. Highlights include Nick Dave Mueller's upset run to the championship finals against top-ranked Zack Sharpe, Carrie winning the Women's World Championships with a Stern Pinball machine prize, and detailed gameplay commentary on rule strategies and shot execution across multiple pinball titles.

Key Claims

  • Carrie won the Women's World Championship and received a new pinball machine estimated at around $5,000 from Stern Pinball as the prize.

    high confidence · Commentators discussing the championship match outcome

  • Black Knight was going to ship around late April (referenced as 'just a few weeks away').

    high confidence · Commentator stating 'Trent was telling me it's going to ship around later in April so just a few weeks away now'

  • Nick Dave Mueller is a previously unknown Florida player who had a strong performance at the tournament.

    high confidence · Commentators noting 'I've never met Nick but he's been playing incredible today he is it's another kind of you know you know unknown at least until today Florida player'

  • Eric Stone made a back-to-back win at Pin Masters two years prior and was one of the fastest risers to top five, achieving it in about 12 months.

    medium confidence · Commentators discussing 'Stone might have been the fastest riser to the top five of anybody he did it in like 12 months'

  • Zack Sharpe was in the finals of the tournament two years ago against Eric Stone, with Stone winning 3-1.

    medium confidence · Commentators recalling 'Zack was in the finals of this tournament two years ago against Eric stone... Eric put it away'

  • X-Men has hero stacking enabled at this tournament, allowing multiple heroes to run simultaneously.

    high confidence · Commentators explaining 'they have these settings turn on for hero stacking oh cool so you can have multiple heroes running at the same time'

  • The tournament games were set easier than the previous year, with one commentator noting 'I feel like they're playing a little bit easier than they did last year'.

    medium confidence · Commentator opinion on difficulty settings: 'I feel like they're playing a little bit easier than they did last year'

  • Zack Sharpe is the highest seed in the tournament and had already advanced to the finals before the semi-final matches concluded.

Notable Quotes

  • “great prize appreciate the the contribution there and sponsorship from Stern Pinball for the Women's World Championship”

    Commentator (IE Pinball) @ Early in content — Acknowledges Stern's sponsorship role in the women's championship

  • “it's going to ship around later in April so just a few weeks away now”

    Commentator @ Early discussion — Provides shipping timeline for Black Knight

  • “Stone might have been the fastest riser to the top five of anybody he did it in like 12 months and deservedly so”

    Commentator @ Mid-content — Notes Eric Stone's rapid rise in competitive rankings

  • “I would have liked to have seen a dead bounce there but survives it”

    Commentator @ During Paragon gameplay — Technical gameplay analysis commentary

  • “it's almost undeniable that Zack had to win the hardest playing out of Chicago”

    Commentator @ Discussing state championship difficulty — Recognizes competitive strength of Illinois bracket

  • “after like our thirteen or fourteen do you start like seeing double yeah you you your body starts breaking down”

    Commentator discussing Pin Masters marathon format @ Later in content — Describes physical toll of 24-hour tournaments

  • “if you've already played the game in a previous round that you don't get another 30 seconds of practice”

    Commentator explaining tournament rules @ Finals section — Rules clarification for tournament format

Entities

Nick Dave MuellerpersonZack SharpepersonEric StonepersonCarriepersonIE PinballorganizationStern PinballcompanyIFPAorganization

Signals

  • ?

    product_launch: Black Knight scheduled to ship in late April

    high · Commentator states 'Trent was telling me it's going to ship around later in April so just a few weeks away now'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: X-Men has hero stacking enabled for tournament play, allowing simultaneous hero modes, which affects competitive strategy

    high · Commentators explain 'they have these settings turn on for hero stacking oh cool so you can have multiple heroes running at the same time'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Nick Dave Mueller from Florida had breakout tournament performance, advancing to championship finals despite being previously unknown to media

    high · Commentators note 'I've never met Nick but he's been playing incredible today he is it's another kind of you know unknown at least until today Florida player'

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Tournament games were set with easier difficulty settings compared to previous year

    medium · Commentator states 'I feel like they're playing a little bit easier than they did last year' and another confirms 'there's a special yeah last year was more brutal'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Paragon was configured with carryover super bonus, which significantly impacts competitive balance and comeback difficulty

    high · Commentators discuss 'super bonus carryover' mechanics and how 'having a strong is such an advantage yeah these early valleys with those bonus carry overs'

Transcript

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0:29
the poor without the finger could be there for a half a second oh man let's transfer it into another double Elway chicks a way into a double catapult super what are we eating here with all of this [Music]
0:50
I watch it out there all right you got it Clark is it Clark Clark got it first a oh what what just happened [Music] Wow so that was a high-stakes game yeah Deema throw because Carrie goes home with a brand new pinball machine of estimated value probably around five grand yeah great prize appreciate the the contribution there and sponsorship from Stern pinball for the Women's World Championship there are some great games that she has to choose from right now I wonder if she can pick a Black Knight
1:37
yeah why not I mean it's a choice of any game that's still in production so she could wait and no it's not it's been released and it's wonderful I think it's going to start shipping Trent was telling me it's going to ship around later in April so just a few weeks away now yep there's a big congrats to carry our new women's world champion and everybody they played today so this is the semi-finals of the North American Championship with Drew pseudo Leo from I believe North Carolina and he is playing against Nick Mueller from Florida and it looks like nick has had a heck of a ball one because I see 247,000 from one ball which is fantastic and that also means he probably has some super bonus to go along with that drew has 550 out of there nice is that final fives the beasts lair out the right heart none does that all the time right like the beasts lair survival just go super you know and I've never met Nick but he's been playing incredible today he is it's another kind of you know you know unknown at least until today Florida player I remember when that happened about what three years ago shocked the world back-to-back wins pin masters two years ago yeah and I I've I've asked people about this I think Josh confirmed it Stone might have been the fastest riser to the top five of anybody he did it in like 12 months and deservedly so yeah of course let's see if Nick's gonna go yep he's going he's attacking those in line drops going for bonus well tonight he has a 30 Harrison super bonus carryover he's almost up to 40,000 now because he had 30,000 for food in the bank and the math on that just it make it makes it hard to come back when you have that carryover and the other person doesn't get it done here I'm ball too if Nick does if true doesn't catch up it's gonna be hard having a strong is such an advantage yeah these early valleys with those bonus carry overs like this one and Harlem and a few others that it plays a big part of the game there's also depending on how the tournament director choose to set it you can also set it to not have the super bonus carry but in this case this is set up to carry the super bonus so Nick will have that thirty thousand again waiting for him on ball three yep they're playing here's one in players three and just plunging players two and four to prevent tilt throughs all right so Drew's eyeing doing his plunge let's see he's going for that he takes the goldens cliffs but he's a low value still for that they did change the paragon saucer to fixed value so you get a letter no matter what I think that was a good call right and you could actually get that Paragon spelt in a reasonable time correct so now he's got it trapped let's see if he lets it go to the lower flipper to attack the in lines he does but he was a little bit early but good save covers and it looks like we'll mckinney and zack sharp already game seven over on blackroll eat a pass I would have liked to have seen a dead bounce there but survives it and let's see if he can do that nice I was tapping a little too hard mine was going all the way to the upper flipper and making it more difficult he had a really buttery sweet tap pass it alone oh it's it's so important to have it down on this game and there it is nice a little bit late on his inline drop shot and it doesn't cost them gets another shot tells it I've got 2x now

high confidence · Commentators stating 'the highest seed in this tournament was ax e Zack sharp so he's already...'

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Game of Thrones (Premium Edition)game
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tournament_format_signal: Tournament may eliminate 30-second practice rounds for games already played in earlier rounds to speed up tournament progression

medium · Commentator suggests 'if you've already played the game in a previous round that you don't get another 30 seconds of practice'

  • ?

    business_signal: Stern Pinball provided championship prize machine (estimated $5,000 value) for Women's World Championship

    high · Commentators acknowledge 'great prize appreciate the the contribution there and sponsorship from Stern Pinball for the Women's World Championship'

  • ?

    event_signal: Pin Masters 24-hour marathon tournament scheduled to follow IFPA NA Championships, with both qualifying and finals to be streamed

    medium · Commentators discuss 'the pin masters I don't know if he's gonna stream the whole all qualifying both T times... we're gonna be streaming more pinball starting tomorrow the pin masters'

    • 5:30
    starting to feel the flow which flow I say in air quotes because there really isn't flow in this game it's more of just you know getting your shots down he is still alive gonna collect some golden clothes nope and I'll take the clip he was up pretty high there whoo another good save that's spinner on the most Paragons when it comes down through the spinner is usually straight down the middle yeah but not on this one
    5:58
    okay gets another with the top flipper now he's at 3x nice deadmau5 that's good patience now I really want some that saucer yep I'm assuming the extra ball is set to 25,000 it is okay
    6:33
    all right so he still is the only 7000 bonus no way there must attend light must be out there's no way you only in a 7000 after making it all the way through the drops yeah okay the ten lights I know okay so he's gonna OH immediately drains him but almost a hundred thousand and bonus there correct and he's got a twenty carryover so this at least it kind of keeps him within striking distance but put it away if he if he's able to get another 5x : here it wouldn't be impossible to catch up if he gets the 5x but it would be a lot of work for Drew
    7:12
    all right his paragon saucer has lit for massive points right now I think it's 50,000 right yep yeah the only time I got to play Paragon without setting was that IP owns aniline it doesn't even hold and use that upper footprint shoot
    7:39
    great save there recovers dead bounce yeah this is a good choice because if he can get two more in line drops he was a good tap get thirty thousand for his troubles all right and he's making his way to the right where he needs to be here another tap a little bit strong but recovers early yeah looks like that ball almost wanted to like squeeze between those two flippers great there we go great pinball with the decisions there he's now at 2x nails the spinner and he's getting close to the 40 mark all right that's it he's at 40 X bonus 3x and he's gonna be getting close to that area where it's almost mathematically difficult without some Paragon special plus to get into 44 Judi yeah I mean I saw it was just somebody just left Dale's it Daniel from Portland who I was playing in the the lead round of 16 and he put up around I think 700,000 and one ball so it is doable oh and then pops into the Paragon and she just got booms from everywhere here massive points sweet power in lane you take that now he's got 25,000 at the extra ball if he can get it to that top saucer or that sunset atop saucer he left in saucer I love this tournament for really giving a platform for players nice that you know I've never even seen this guy competing he's crushing oh yeah absolutely marvelous well that's true Eric stone was from Florida the year that he made that run to all right so he has complete max bonus so now and there's there yeah I would I would actually if he can find that shot from the left flipper and shoot it up through this kind of orbitty type shot to get into here or here is actually probably a better strategy at this point because he has there's nothing else he can get on bonus well the yeah so feed that extra ball shot yeah because it was lit but it's gonna TS to chop all right he did that special lid at that top saucer would be 50,000 but that was an excellent excellent game so essentially Drew has to get max bonus max multiplied bonus and then he also has to chop wood at some paragon specials and also the the the valley of demons special right so 245 is the max bonus which would put them close to 500 so two hundred thousand points you can make up but it's gonna be a lot of golden cliffs a lot of he's got to get a special maybe an extra ball his golden cliffs now he's only a six he does have a paragon special waiting for him that's good he has 20,000 and super bonus carried and I'm not sure what's going on is a quill game over there but it is Game seven on Black Rose probably the game I know the least in this room but I know it was using Nationals last year
    11:00
    how did you find the games to play today sunshine most of them are set pretty tough huh you know what I feel like they're playing a little bit easier than they did last year there's a special yeah last year was more brutal well that's good to hear especially for golf tomorrow it's the games are set really hard when you're trying to get ones in twos it can be devastating and really I found this paragon to be pretty friendly for a Paragon agreed yeah last year you had an arrow Smith nice timing people's lunch there's the two I the only thing I don't like what they did is I don't like what they did to sorcerer I think taking away the multi ball and sorcerers rice a perversion you know you could put the lightning flippers to make the tilt really tight but the game how it is maybe put those fat yellow rubber surround them oh they have the fat Euler rubbers around that ramp there's those already there yeah lightning flippers is a good way to go alright so drew is he's not made a whole lot of progress on his end line drops alright I struggling to find those shots again but he's still keeping the ball in play good tip there there we go there's another one oh we flipped away it oh and there's game 5 to Nick from Florida and hey important momentum shift going into games is gonna be hot climbing it looks like right now he's around the 300s he's certainly gonna be climbing a lot after this event with a load of whoppers he'll be winning here and finishing at least in the top 4 maybe even in the top two if he can continue his success here really strong performance there from Nick on Paragon as well as many other games this whole day yep you don't get to this point unless you earn it must have come up with a lot of big ones throughout the day
    13:09
    it is rare when you lose with over 400 on Paragon I lost again a Paragon today with over 500 my opponent rolled it that's sweet we're gonna lose look yeah let me in style three ball three ball game no extra balls any rolled Paragon alright great performance alright so what do they choose next back to they're going to abracadabra yep so here we go this is another one that is rollable yeah if you can get the bonus value which really the bonus value means that your lit drop targets and you're out lanes are going to score anywhere between 1,000 progressing up to 5,000 and it's a five ball one player game so here we go and I'm assuming that drew chose this given that he lost and now Black Rose is telling will mckinney that he is done with his ball and i can't see the scores from here but looks like it's gonna be ball three of a deciding game 7 for Zack and will over there on Black Rose so this game I don't have that much experience on but if you drop the targets on either side it lights the center for that extra bonus and then it resets the targets correct yes lovers at the top the one two three and four they're also represented on the bottom that raises the bonus value of the drop targets right now those drop targets are worth a thousand but if you do one two three four there were two thousand if you do that again there were three thousand I don't quite know if this is practice or not so I'm assuming it's practice so I'll give you an update on the non practice game in Black Rose which is game 7 zach has 97 million and will has 5 million okay so will that's game seven ball three right now exact as player one so it's gonna take a monumental effort from will to try to come back Zach looks like he's starting another multi ball and getting some more sink ship letters so he said 100 and Counting correct yeah and Zack was in the finals of this tournament two years ago against Eric stone yes that's right yeah Eric yeah I'm sure until the finals and I think it was after Eric was already have 3-0 and Zack finally won a game and win 3-1 and then Eric put it away yeah and you know everybody had to win a really hard tournament to even get this far and their state championship but it's almost undeniable that Zack had to win the hardest playing out of Chicago be Keith in the final C out there yeah he had to take down as a brother Josh and then the finals I don't remember who all else he beat on the way there you know obviously you have a word Rick was there it was that his house would have been was Sasha Anderson John no he wasn't playing this year didn't play this year was Timmy playing yep so you had Tim Balz playing very tough field there in Illinois so all right so we're actually getting started here on abracadabra thing and drew needs to win this game to force game seven
    16:35
    so the basic rules of this game or you want to clear drops I say beautiful this game needs wowing it after last weekend yes I do like the team one was better than abracadabra but this has a very similar rule set and that you have these little targets so the drop targets have a light behind them and whichever ones are lit will score the bonus value that is lit here or progressing all the way up to 5,000 there and you progress that you know bonus value by clearing both banks and then hitting the standard of target of death in the middle or you can finish lanes one two three and four or also the linked lanes down here of one two three and four that will also advance your bonus value so um you know obviously the play field made me think of team one but is the center shot worth as much no no no but the center shot is worth really as far as advancing your bonus value and resetting your drops it does not score the that sweet sweet five Knox or 10 Knox that you can get on team one all right there's the three he's in lanes complete now but this is unfortunately he's did not have the two very good first balls as ball three he's only sitting at 7,000 so he wants to really start to cash in some points to balls to play at 7,000 drew really needs to start laying on some points here he's at the 2000 bonus value level so you can start sniping those drops of 2000 value yep alright you got some points out of that survived it the other hook at the trap put the other hidden value this game is if you can get the pop slit which they alternate on and off with the upper slings and if you can get them lit for a thousand and get the ball kind of stuck behind a pop-up or for a little bit you can get a few thousand that way yeah so that's something you can really control the droplet a nice he sniped the middle drop there for 2,000 points that was a good shot alright good trap picks off another one okay it wasn't the lit one those only got 500
    18:54
    okay so if he does not want the three anything but the three oh well commentator curse nice save there he's in a good defensive position when that ball is in the pot bumper you hold up your flipper nearest to the pop as a no vents mechanism nice get the and immediately that stand up is just death deadly so he's got 20 almost 24,000 this is his final ball and so he has a full set of dropped target banks which are worth 3,000 if he hits the lit one so ideally right now he wants to plunge the one or the two and then when it comes down to a flipper he wants to start picking off the lit drop
    19:51
    alright there's the one oh nice good move there oh I couldn't quite get it I think he he realized he could say that - he's got a smirk on his face so 25 560 right and while this game says bonus on it it's not a traditional bonus the bonus value of the target correct didn't you only get it if you go down the out Lane similar to high hand so even though tilt ends oh you only get it if it goes out the element correct okay so even though tilt ends game if the balls going down the center on ball five you might as well do whatever you can ya gotta make a move correct yeah you might as well nothing to lose you might as well go ahead all right well he knows what he needs to do here 25600 will advance Nick to the finals and it looks like the game over there is over I'm assuming Zack sharp has advanced based off the score update that we got from Colin meaning the winner will move on to play the highest seed in this tournament was ax e Zack sharp so he's already got four thousand going on ball one here he tried to pick off a lit up the first level of bonus really there you don't need to really focus too much and it'll live drop because there's not much differential that is a trick this this is leaning to the right and that pretty oh that was practice oh he didn't care yeah the one lane well if you're playing in pin masters tomorrow you need to shimmy if it's coming down to one lane because it has a tendency because it's lean and go straight down the center okay bye-bye good to know alright so he's gonna actually start his real game here so Nick has he even can afford to lose this and still play a game seven if he wins this outright then he will advance to the championship match against Zack sharp former number one player in the world former winner of pin burg highest-ranked sharp laceration
    22:03
    nice all right here we go all right now you know we've seen scores up near the 100 mark throughout the day but you can never take it for granted 26000 there's not a gimme and especially with the house ball propensity is on these older games all right you got the two which is good you want to go through the three start making progress on those drops the other thing I like to do is I like to go for the one in the four lane if they're lit which both of them still are oh and you got the three nice now I would shoot for the one in the four lane
    22:47
    thank you for the bits pinball nerds podcast all right up over seven now dead you know so 7000 almost 8000 balls that's good he needs to make some progress here good you got the one to walk out look out look out good opps not to trap there but just barely misses the targets on the right nice little Drive nails it that 10 now he can so yes nice that was it that's dead nope went to the right good dead bounce it's going to the backhand the floor again so his bonus values up to 2000 at this point in time if you get the ball in the flipper if you have an up drop really great save those lovely that's dead Oh doesn't pick up the bonus value there is that 14 two balls left needs about 12,000 here's the floor oh nice you had the flip boy that one alright he does not have a little n to shoot at okay he only needs a two two events to his three thousand voters level good idea trying to get it up through the one to see if it'll come back down the two at this point the pops are his friend because he's getting most of his points out of those random lit pop umbers beyond the misses this is all that was an interesting pass or right now nails it on target left on each side nudge it down the highway and it was not there yet but oh and he actually would have preferred me what if he got it oh and that's it and congratulations the owner unbelievable play dancing to the championship match all right this is it North Carolinian ship series all of you watching at home it twitched thanks for tuning in we're going to the finals now of the North American Championships Zack sharp against Nick Mueller high-stakes the winner gets a brand new inbox stern pinball machine and a trophy that is not even easy to lift they even made a brand new plaque to go along with and for those of you that haven't gotten enough pinball yet we're gonna be streaming more pinball starting tomorrow the pin masters I don't know if he's gonna stream the whole all qualifying both T times I don't see why we just didn't make this a 24-hour you know oh my god let's just go nationals have you won t for our battle have you guys played in that I have not played I've done it three years in a row now wow it is a marathon I'm after like our thirteen or fourteen do you start like seeing double yeah you you your body starts breaking down you're actually fighting standing up just as much as you are thinking about getting a good score there's all kinds of mental challenges and hurdles it's uh but it's really fun it's fun it's great
    25:57
    yeah you get a little loopy but Eric stone once left after one game it was the 24 minute but Eric knows I love them remember chicken not beef all right this is their practice zach has been able to drive the bus so to say and have the first twice the games throughout the day he's been going to x-men a game that I really love
    26:25
    so x-men has a lot going on we'll use this practice time to talk about that for those of you just tuning in or that might not know x-men Wolverine on your on your left side there is a multi ball Weapon X multi ball tend to want to save that for a mode running the light lock targets up the middle on each side of Magneto light those three locks that you see they're flashing green you could use the side to flipper or the center flipper to lock those two on the left and the modes are lit by in lanes so the right ramp is your friend the side ramp is your friend you're going to try to get in lanes to get the most of it on the left side and that's scooped there plenty of different options on the table they're worth points and there are also targets on the left and right side of the play field here and here for Brotherhood and Hellfire Club also lit at the scoop as a moan there's a lot going on in x-men and there's no one way to play it and the other thing we found out about this game is they have these settings turn on for hero stacking oh cool so you can have multiple heroes running at the same time all right so pinball nerds podcast the reason why three players were started out but just so there are plenty of balls there for practice and I appreciate it too that way we also knew that it was practice and not the real thing this is the real thing no that's not a bad strategy on a quick outline made some progress on Brotherhood though very yeah very little that was very deliberate all right let's get pumped here this is the finals we need booms I think Nick and Zach have plenty of them to spare Wow
    28:16
    stir needs to write while on the next pinball machine the moon black night Wow excellent skill shot oh no he did not he hit the switch in the right orbit so he did not get this skill shot credit for that but get some in lanes they're in lane he's right the dialed in and an Iceman ramp gets a bouncing for the Cyclops and then hits the rogue shot a very good shot making skill being displayed here by Nick the Cyclops ramp is really important in this camp it's reliable and safe way to get your in minutes got the trap what mode do you like to play sunshine with any of that choice I feel like if I'm really close to starting my Wolverine multi-ball I actually like to bring Sabretooth into that okay Sabretooth okay and what what slit I mean I sent in those likes everything what is Sabretooth light
    29:14
    well it certainly it it lights Wolverine okay right I know that one of the shots I can't quite recall what other shots at lights but it seems to pair pretty well okay oh and another quick run out lane now here's this now if he because if he didn't do anything there if that ball actually came up and he could have actually probably flipped at that I think that's you could actually take advantage of that as long as you don't induce the death save ya did it almost get up ya know yeah if it pops up on its own it's like that's if it's just bizarre Lazarus yeah alright alright so he has storm going I stand now will have just started because that was a second he's now completed storm already okay so this is what you were saying before usually you can't get Wolverine during a x-men but that's just started so this is a wrong change or could you know it's just an adjustment change okay I like that a lot actually it's called hero stacking and so hero stacking is on and so he has started as Wolverine multi-ball above all safe ashore the boss has a short so his Wolverine is gone okay he's villain what and he's making progress as well on his Hellfire and motherhood no he missed that one okay but at almost 7 million to Zach 700 yeah he's he's got some points at least yeah this is quite shocking for Zach to entering vol 3 with less than a million points ak is no stranger this game he can drop eighty million on it at any given time so let's see if he can make some shots here is up that side ramp their skill shot for 250 and you know lookout Wolverine on its own isn't very valuable but he might just decide to force the multi ball to chop some wood and try to take a lead I mean you can't blame them because on its own Wolverine is not wow I want a quick name X name one North American Championship Zach I will now have choice of game or position he will likely choose game and Nick can rest easy he got the favorite the most you know the favorite plunge and pinball where you can plunge off your ball three because you didn't need it yep that strategy didn't work very well I mean it's um it's it's rewarding to get those multi balls going yeah yeah at that point the game I would have almost rather he gonna just try to do what we just to get something right just to try to get better get your out of all and then all right goes right to Star Trek Zach favoring the Stern's the head marketing of stern not shocking but they're also the most likely to give you a long both both this well x-men obviously is not necessarily playing super friendly but the Star Trek has played pretty friendly yep more controllable than some of these other moderns I don't anticipate that we'll see Zach picking Star Wars I don't think maybe he will surprise me I'd be surprised he'll probably pick Game of Thrones if he needs to pick again and probably picked wrong yeah so maybe maybe he is contractually obliged to only pick stone [Laughter] all right yeah I actually you know some of those suggesting this in the chat you know I I actually I think we I think we may have done this in our state championship but if you've already played the game in a previous round that you don't get another 30 seconds of practice because you've already played a full game on it you know this is this is it though this is more the I'm not saying for this the routine the manager thing for the whole tournament yes you could have things changed sometimes tournament can move along a little faster and just you know kill the 30 second practice if you've already played the game alright let's see which parent we go who likes to Nero okay so he's that's generally a long play strategy cuz that usually means he's gonna try to get a three deep on Nero yep this Star Trek hasn't necessarily been giving enough length of play to be able to accomplish that but we'll see if zach can do it right I mean traditionally you're gonna keep Nero for your vengeance or maybe your Klingon that way if you get your away team you could utilize that to pick off those dangerous targets but if you're going three deep narrow you can really boom that second and third Nero four big points yeah interesting that did not go all the way around zach is actually timing this mode effectively he's taking the max amount of time before it the timer pauses before he shoots his next shot so why would he do that I'm not very familiar with the three deep narrow Nero strategy so if he either that or he could be going Kobayashi Maru but he's essentially trying to get past Nero 1 Nero 3 deep well Nero 2 is decent value Nero 3 can be relatively easy to finish with some quirky kind of flipper mechanics to get the two shots lined up on the left ramp and you can loop the left ramp if you do that you're left orbit will be worth double for the rest of the game alright there's lots of mode shots you can hit on that left orbit that can be quite valuable if you play destroy the drill later or if you play the save the enterprise mode it can be very valuable having that doubled left orbit alright picks up the lock slit and Nick up a game here we'd love to put pressure and make sure you forces act to have a good game of Star Trek here picks up the lock this shot-making is so accurate right on cue oh it hits this thing out of the feed but he recovers whoa only one danger on that huge shove get some mental yeah it was it was alright this mode ends prime directive I don't think he got such a silver medal but
    35:11
    now one thing you don't want to do is you don't want to open the Vengeance before you get your next mode running if you drain doesn't it stay yeah you're locked out of starting your next mode correct here we go space jump all right so he is going on the super ramps strategy here if you light all three or finish all three of the modes on this part of the triangle that will give you super ramps which is worth about ten million points that was an unfortunate fumble there he knows it too he could have saved that but who knows just you know fatigue just you know not flipping the right flipper when he wanted to but he still had it that's a decent ball given where his AK is after ball one all right so Zach trying to get control here that cans the lock not the way he intended it but he'll take it absolutely and I'm really curious to see what his strategy here in terms of it was just a way to get to Kobayashi faster whether he really wanted that second and third narrow let's see let's see if he goes 3d yeah I think he's just wanted to get through it he just wanted to get near over with no no it was yeah he wanted here one over with for sure and then he decided to go and forget about flipping that upper flipper because he wanted the ball in control on his right flipper good move he wants that lock up the middle there it is cashes in he only has one more flashing light lock target and he will have his third ball lock ready and Nero to is a very good mode to stack with multi wall Zach showing the masterful drop catches oh my
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    nails the right ramp that's a fun feeling shot in this game missed out on the light lock target you'd like to have that shot back alright so one more lock so here we go let's see if we can hit this light lock Earl goes for it notice there's no timer running so Nero too is an untimed mode he's almost done with it he's gotten good value rate of it nudged there a little late on that backhand to the left ramp nails it with the forehand one more shot to complete and nails it 13 almost 13 million in Euro - and now that's a perfect lock so it's interesting Nero 3 is actually very difficult with multi ball you want to play Nero 3 in the single ball so in Nero 3 if he's gonna do it let's see yes yes so each flipper button will move an arrow and so the left moves arrows to the right and the right flipper button moves another arrow to the left and it cycles back around and wraps around the play field so you can set this up on the left ramp which he's gonna do and now you can do little half way pushes on the left flipper button and set it up on the warp ramp oh he was trying to get cute with that Nero well he did exactly yeah that's it he just missed the shot but he set up perfectly you wanna you want the the right flipper button controlled arrow on the Left ramp and you want the left flipper button controlled arrow on the warp ramp and then when you flip your left flipper to backhand the ramp it will move it to the left ramp alright and Klingon multi ball starting here for Nick running space jump at the same time there's a side ramp booms it for more jackpots for the super he's getting double value here because he's hitting these in a slight Shambo this is good value here for his Klingon right gets the end lane and there's the add a ball that's going to be puts the fourth ball and like a short ball safe but did not double his super jackpot so it was only worth six but now taking a lead here again it's got three two after winning Game one all right got the double trap here nice save and doesn't break his trap excellent skill
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    Wow that's entering the center drop is releasing to the right sling that's brutal okay oh I'm strong on the cradle separation but he still stays trapped
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    two more for his next super space jump is complete it's got the double trap nails it and another one and nick is just shooting really accurately right now it's hitting every shot he takes almost alright so he needs the warp ramp for his last jackpot it wasn't the super honest on the side no it's not super yet it's still got a half a piece there's still a half a piece that he has to hit right there the DMD might be wrong but it says the second one is the side ramp I think oh
    40:39
    oh nice does it with the stage for the super for 10,000,000 beautiful so now he's gonna have a roving shot no he drained out okay still 35 million from Klingon multi ball excellent excellent play from Nick Mueller from Florida showing that he knows how to play we have a Steve body with the pinball dictionary here in the crowd I think we need a stage boom nice 50-million zach has an uphill battle to climb but zach does not have has not played his klingon yet so he just has to get that third lock lid and he's in Nero 3 right now so well I will see if he chooses to go for his third lock or if he chooses to play his Nero's I think he's gotta be killing for this lock here he knows if he gets Klingon he has a good chance to regain the lead
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    early all right it was his kickback all right has control he's setting up his left ramp oh really setting up the left orbit interesting
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    making his decision about which shot he wants to hit and they left orbit oh and on the moon but the Ricochet gives it to him and zach is exactly where he wants to be now he's at 22 million halfway through Nero nice now ashes in a double Nero three so three shot left's on Nero had a ball in his seconds Anna balls lit there and he wants to save that until after his ball save is done there's the first jackpot combos another one and it's gonna be almost completely random about whether he gets anymore Nero three progress because bound to happen right well it's just those yeah there's those arrows are moving all over the place you know it's really difficult to try to keep track of all right all save is off but he just got the add a ball I believe he has four balls and play a nice tip Oh beautiful he's able to keep a triple trap and save the ball now he's at a ball still no it's the second one is in that of also a plague could control let's see which shot he wants to go for so he actually completed his Nero three because his left orbit has now doubled for the rest of the game signified by this solid enterprise arrow right there so that would mean that his super if he takes it on that shot it's potentially a double twice I don't recall I think that the double value may only apply to mode shots okay well he's now taking the lead at 50 million again brakes is current as cradle but he still has one right there's a nice little bit was four million a shot
    43:42
    tells himself to stop it but I don't know what he wants to stop he's crushing it no he wants to actually draw and there he is back in control again excellent play here look out let's see if this kicks off the sling it does that's so wrong all right left orbit backhand there it is staged Oh hair balls into the Habitrail staged last but is the warp ramp correct it looks like he has two of them actually so he has to hit yet the last jackpot and the super both at the warp ramp I saved jailbreak but he got one back how did he get that back I think it just popped into the Atlanta boy team yep okay all right so Zack is just playing really controlled and using his flippers to continue to shoot at this shot while staging and not breaking these traps and it's just really good really pretty all right the second award for black hole is super spinner which is doubled nice there it is it for me you know as a super guy on the same shot it still has three balls in play here really good quality cradle control play and breakage that but regains it right away so patient so patient and here comes the stage flip let's see if you can hit the side ramp no missed it a little off it's another chance at it he's ready with a staged flip he gets another chance at a knowledge oh I thought he had it there oh it still has multi-ball going though look out
    45:55
    no I won't have now a Jenny now I can do the right flipper for you once what she does Oh missed it again gets another chance it was again your body's building an atomic blaster really patient recovering from every mess here it goes no late nice a better defense and a ski passing between back to control again a really good display of skill for six times twenty million points unbelievable
    46:38
    big balls another five million or two big time Klingon multi ball but great tilt yeah that's a good bonus he's got coming to very very good skilled now how much okay - after 1050 bonus Nick has he has super ramp so which will be a 10 million so if he can play and complete the save the enterprise mode then he will have 10 million for super ramps he can get and he can play his Klingon I think ready plate but I'm sorry I know you're right the vengeance is there's only one shot away Cup is now open and Oh nails and it goes out the right out lane and that is an even one one now for Nick and Zak and Nick is gonna get to choose the game or order surely he will be picking game yeah we'll see both of these players are strong on many occasions here to here Paragon has been selected all right going to Paragon which Nick has been doing well on throughout the day
    47:48
    all right thank you everybody once again for staying in tune with us here we are now it's about 12:30 in the morning here in Vegas feels like 4:00 in the morning - yeah yep I've got more casino to do oh my gosh alright alright one piece I think they're practice yeah he seems casual
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    excellent play here let's see if we can have another riveting Mantic at my opportunity here to thank all of you for tuning in to the North American Championship Series finals here live in Las Vegas at flippers feel thanks to our sponsors grand line games and colored DMD ie pinball our host and Carl D'Angelo this beautiful camera setup that we have here as well as some of the other IFA sponsors deep root my bookie and the various other Stern pinball and all the people that competed throughout the year funding this tournament playing in I have PA ranked events putting their dollars up for grabs and contributing to their state championships which all these amazing players were representing their home states here and helping fun part of this which is why the stakes are so high a brand-new pinball machine to the winner lots of money to 2nd through 4th and actually really everybody here got paid today similar to how we were all on the money at Chicago a couple weeks ago no matter what happened we were getting a check and that's what yeah that's a really good feeling for all competitors yeah even if you get knocked out the first round you still getting something and it's a nice way I mean I know that Zack and Josh and the ifba took a lot of flack from a lot of people and the implement of that dollar fee but I think it's been a resounding success if they're still people that still the competitive scene is still growing and let's let's see what do we welcome welcome to welcome to the chat Eric stone but he makes a very good point I did not even occur to me oh it gets into IFP yes no matter what happens and that's a huge huge moment yeah I mean it was the hardest cut line of all time that's her I was at 70 I thought I was gonna have it yes should he choose to accept the invite he is no matter what happens here he is got himself a spot and the IFP a World Championships in Italy taking place at the beginning of June congratulations to Nick and I saw any scissored himself I did that once today too yeah happens to the best of us never runs scissors so who was last round it was drew Yannick feat drew last night yes that fee and now actually I could be will it's interesting who's higher drew or will I think it's I think it's drew but they're playing a third fourth match so if Nick wasn't to go correct and that third floor match has a lot more bearing than yeah this money that's true yeah all right here we go Zak short stands its paragon he gets it in the paragon saucer which is not strobing for letters so that means it will award a letter each time he has a letter P he is going to tap past Oh
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    the Beast is kind don't trust don't expect that to happen I don't know late so he's gone early and he's gone late let's see if he can make the adjustment great nudge there you know to keep it out of the outline area there it is yeah I had to get a rid of that one Oh beautiful here comes the waterfall feed hold up the flipper and that's an interesting waterfall feed it's pretty nice yeah that's a he did a good job there nails it nice goal cradle pass everything in sequence he's just doing it pretty nailed the shot bounce it over tap it over net shot clock work Oh punished for the Miss Oh
    52:00
    I don't know can you see us alright we'll be back then it's early if you can't but if you hear us alright so others could still see it yeah if you can see the weather and he could see the stream I feel okay about it
    52:17
    hello Jeff keel is alright stones probably up early to get into the new station for his weather casting there's Nick picks up the paragon letter which has more weight than normal since it's set to 50,000 special and non strobing as Colin says nice okay little table from the top to the bottom but does not survive the beast that costume yeah that's an interesting flipper hop that's taking place where the wire rail meets the heel of the flipper there and it will hop and they'll put it out of control and so then he had to flail at it and lost the ball all right Zach sporting his stern attire all right he gets no gets nothing no soup for you
    53:19
    takes down a drop 5 G 2 survives are right out lane takes down another drop I didn't realize that those does not survive that one still anybody's game I did not realize that the inline drop targets gave you these Paragon letters yes they will spot that they will spot Paragon letters making them even more powerful yes so it's almost no question that you have to be comfortable with that tap pass or at least some way to transfer the ball
    53:52
    all right so it's twenty three thousand nine ten to fifty seven thousand four sixty anybody's game here on ball three if one of them can manage a 5x and get some bonus that's gonna be the deciding factor here their scores not yet look at all event oh what a great save side to side there and good recovery takes down see there's that fluent other ones right that oh and that's look for handsome that game goes to use axe art yeah one two one two two one for Zack against Nick Mueller from Florida Zack sharp representing Illinois they both won their state championships that were played a little more than a month ago and the similar format of head to head style and each of those state championships was based upon the top sixteen or top twenty four players in terms of points that had been earned at their top 20 events throughout the whole year of 2018 and so they both earned their way into that and then defeated all comers in their state championship and it looks like Nick is not surprisingly selecting black rose because right he certainly tore it up now granted Zach tore it up against Nick so I'm looking forward to this we haven't seen Black Rose much today and we'll get to we'll get to see some black rose play it is late here it is quarter till 1:00 in the morning for those of us on Texas time it's quarter till 3:00 for Greg it's quarter to 4:00 I'm in Vegas time I don't know adjust it Vegas time is 24/7 no waking hours all right this is still practice everybody I'm gonna ask a couple questions here I don't know blood rose that well and both of you got to play it today at some point now that Center that ramp that has the bowl what gives you progress towards LOX correct the the bowl essentially what gives you progress towards lighting locks are you're in lanes I'll show you use that shot so and the the whirlpool ramp will feed you were left in lane so you can use it for that you can spot these lock letters at the in lanes also by shooting the lock shot itself will spot you a lock letter yep and rate a the card number one player in the world who surpassed Zack appreciates this as it's one of his favorite games if not his favorite game it was his first game if I remember correctly from that news segment yeah another thing on this game is for my mistaken there's a mower bounces there's a mode with increasing value on the ramp right broadside or something like that two million four million all the way up to 30 so that's not will light a million's mode depending upon which of the little kind of lightning bolt ish inserts you had and yeah but yeah there's good value there at the center the center shot if you want to play those modes I think you're gonna see both these players going for the multi ball and then during multi ball if you shoot ramps Oh bet he knew it he knew that that heart heart part way ramp plunge side ramp plunge will go to the right out Lane and it's always uh it's always scary when you know a game can plunge drain me like that without a ball save when whenever I play in a tournament run by the Sharps where I know the ball safe is off I usually try to adjust as much as I can to making every plunge as safe as possible especially on like games like Game of Thrones where you could at least get it on your flipper nice nudge ramp gets the end
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    here's the lock oh that was prettier you're right about that dead husband I see look out oh good save can't find that lock shot anymore that's gone yeah there goes but he has a lock enabled so he is ready to lock a ball and then light lock one more time to start a two ball multi-ball array mentioning a bug if you play ramps worth millions and multi ball the world pool goes one three five seven
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    nice catch all right what's feeling he knows this kick-out Zack was choosing this dead bounce okay that's I like that better but that's a nice timing flip there that gave it a nice gentle Bop over to the right flipper another one yeah works out he's got his lock lit now nails in there's life long I was gonna start a two ball multiple correct as soon as you lock the first of all it starts a two bow multi ball you can choose to just shoot ramps and get sync ship letters or you can go for more locks and get a three ball multi ball quick drain out no ball save enabled and he didn't get much out of it there either of them going for the the whirlpool ramp here in their strategy to light locks nick has dialed in on that light in that actual lock shot which spots a letter and he's he's handling the feed yep gets control there and he's just gonna keep pounding that shot feels good about it there's another letter spotted good little catch there
    59:48
    that was a good non flip on the upper flipper that's a good skill for everybody to learn on these games there's often times where you don't want to flip them locks enabled again and he's going right back into it oh but it's a little bit late there and survives it okay good taps gets an inland Oh mother in late he's recovering from those misses but he botched that one a little bit there and he needs to take a deep breath and trap up yo take a second and he does nails it right correct so shoot Rams all right that's what he wants to do he gets sink ship letters nice save by writing either ramp so this side ramp or the left ramp or the right ramp actually looks like the pin golf goal would be what 30 million oh yeah they're putting up the Ping golf goals so another every every three million so yeah six to nine it's well you have 15 million on black roses the goal and he's just dedicated to the strategy chopping wood going to ball multi ball all right let's see if he can services ball and play longer he he knows how to do this because he sunk five ships in a game earlier today
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    and he is gonna get the chance no yeah still out of control still out of great all makes a save there another one does not want to let this to multiple another one goes again and in three multi balls just barely is approaching Zack who did not have a big score so it just goes to show you that that multi ball is not guaranteed any points at all you need to yeah capitalize it's and hey you know kudos to him because he's not giving up on it he's still realizing that he can get to a multi ball kind of at will and that dead chances working all right if it's too quiet I'm gonna try to speak a little bit louder and directly into the mic let me know if that's better and we're getting a little bit now I think you just pass sack if you can find that whirlpool ramp shot and you will get decent points as that whirlpool ramp value climbs as you could be that letters so this is a that sling drain so that was a lot of work for very little points yeah that's unfortunate if you choose to shoot the whirlpool ramp which will all feed you're left in Lane you can grow that value up to millions and get a million per whirlpool ramp shot
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    Zack has no favorite game Zacks favorite game was whatever is on the line at Stern because he works for Gary Stern
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    all right plunges around I think this is interesting too is that eighteen hundred rating is just a good indication of how strong a player Nick is because it's not easy to get your rating up that high correct yeah eighteen hundred rating is a very strong rating and it's a appropriate and what we're seeing as far as the low level he's gonna straight alright - quick ramps he's got he is he will be ready to sink a ship as he exits from this multi ball and Zack immediately capitalizing on his multi ball here side side nudges now he's a choice there's a save he can choose to play single ball play up he chose to go for three ball interesting know a lot of times the strategy is just to use that single ball play to ride ramps and get more sink letters while there's a ball tucked away in the lock complete ceiling for the bonus multiplier three balls going down there's the 1 million double broadside you do get double letters yeah when you're in three-ball play 2 million and finally we're getting some black rose action here I love hidden treasure crushes it let's see what that hates is more he's gonna go for left ramp and then side ramp nice for nice oh yeah if you can loop that side ramp it can get very lucrative so he is on his I believe second set of sync ship letters maybe yes third I think it's his third so he has I think two ships ready to sink and instead of going for the I would think he want to load the cannon now because the first sink sunk ship will be twenty million points the second one is thirty million but he's going for more locks he is not going for his load cannon and that's that dead bounce out of that they're gonna be this oh I thought he could load the cannon he's a little bit late on a shop forever flipper
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    he is choosing to go back into multi-ball are trying to get there yep
    65:13
    she wanted for the whirlpool interesting choice I give it a ball too I would want to I would want to get a couple you know if you can get another 20 and 50 million to put that error on Nick I would I would definitely do that now he's you know he's gonna do another multi ball and now he can choose to get more sink ships he can point press by looping the side ramp lots of different options here all right survives the side to side they're still doing those perfect drop catches and multi ball all right let's see if now he chooses to go for load the cannon we're gonna see a shot at the ship 20 million points on the line fired any user but he can load it again mmm instant reload gets there he's gonna go was it now again he can reload it by shooting that left ramp and then feed the upper flipper essentially you're only shooting that left frame just so you can feed every foot man he's just gonna go back for spelling morlocks yeah besides the other other opportunity to have a safe - well multi ball again to continue to put pressure on Nick here and the ball at 26 million and I believe maybe that's why he was doing it he will have a he will have a plunge into the cannon okay instant shot at 20 million to begin his next ball if needed no but up to 33 million or so for Zach after his bonus so he needs just one more lock letter Nick does to light his next lock he's probably gonna shoot the lock shot right here to spot it he does yep and now he's gonna try to get control and shoot the lock again Oh drop catch very nice drop catch from Nick and now we get a two ball multi ball let's see if he can survive long enough to get some letters there nice power plunge so he gets a letter off and he needs just one more letter so he can have a ship ready to sink but he's not gonna get it because they went down there right outlaying Nick is just getting really robbed nothing's Multi balls okay double broadside isn't bad big big points here
    67:39
    instead of going for number Bronstein he's gonna go oh he didn't have enough sink supply he's a twenty million right here this will be big million and he is that much closer now to taking the lead that's gonna jump in most of the way there Oh Hannah oh that was running - good question sunshine so that was his very big sink ship so he's gonna have to go back to multi-ball to get more sink chip letters which is he gonna do almost 30 million points nice control tips it overshoots it again I think he just four before goes bad and just figured you know what I know what I'm doing successfully I know that I've on five multi balls without it getting me any points but I'm gonna keep trying because oh that's unfortunate so she was getting close Zack is going to take Game four and he already had it Wow okay yeah so he does not even have to show off his sinking two ships in a row like I was hoping to see but a good ball there from Nick good try good try and he's gonna choose his last game of the tournament probably here if he wins then Zack will get to pick the rest of the way so while Nick can still come back and win this tournament this will probably be the last time he gets to pick a game
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    dick won the first game yeah it's 1 & 1 o'clock in the morning Nick won the first game on x-men and then Zack won on Star Trek and Paragon and black rose it is 3 to 1 Zack Sharpe over Nick Muller here at the North American Championship this is for all the marbles for a stern key I think Zack Rd has a key to the building but he could possibly get another one hustle in his pocket so we will see what happens going the abracadabra Karl going to grab the rig and we are going to see as much as three more games here to decide at all I'm sure Gary has saved that last WWE for Zack to win hey you know I think I think ray and a couple other people did fairly well with their WWE so Carl getting ready to move that rig above the game after nick ends his practice still thanks to hundred viewers thank you for sticking around here late at night thanks to everyone that's tuning in if you have a subscription that you'd like to give to the IE pinball to support all this awesome streaming rig and set up and work that Carl D'Angelo does just please subscribe if you have a prime Amazon Prime membership you can subscribe for absolutely free and that will help Carl and its continued efforts to provide all its quality you can also give bits if you have bits and you can also just tell it to people about it the other people who like pinball or people who don't know pinball that you want to tell about this fine stream we will be streaming in tomorrow at around I think 11 o'clock Vegas time and then that will be streaming all day tomorrow for qualifying of the pin masters pin golf tournament and also once again all day Saturday for more qualifying as well as the finals on Sunday all right you like competitive pinball this is the place to be if you're just tuning in now we're in the final games here of the North American Championship Series live from Las Vegas I'm here with sunshine bomb calm MacAlpine I'm really and it is on yep this is the real thing because he already had his practice
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    nice job catch picks up a target good in Lane and another comes that slow trap
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    ready at 11,000 here means that two crowd has gone silent you can't increase his bonus value to 2,000 right now it's just a 1000 yeah it doesn't have the same effect Greg I'm just getting 1,000 stead of the 50,000 it's true I'm still loud buy it a little bit early yeah blower covers oh nice there it is oh one more target lid on each side and you know that's that's strobing that strobing light on each side is not that important on the early part of the game as Colin said it's just a small amount of points but later on has much more implications history flexors are really incredible for being so late at night do you have one more drop on each of them no ok just research there's the reset now he's up to 2,000 per shot on the one ball one that was a great ball one really really good start on the stats Ben this tournament remember he battled to to take the 26000 win in one of the earlier rounds and just got it done on on ball one here and that completes it with the 2 and up to 3,000 pearl it in pearl it target unable to do some sniping of the lip drop this is ball three he wants to plunge for the two or the four see if he can nudge it over there not quite look out he doesn't want a nudge too hard because you don't want to risk it tilts on this game because that will end it all right golf another quick third ball there 33000 he's got a bonus value of 3,000 so he does have so he has two it drops nope and moved off the lip drop he has no drops of a whole barrel it needs to move one more Oh
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    nice defense when he tried to bounce it but it didn't have enough 38000 I mean we say this sometimes with older games sometimes you can't get too cute anymore fortunate right out of that the one he'd won was such a strong start um 38,000 it could be enough but alright somebody in the chat put up 38,000 970 please so we have that score up there and Zach that's what Zach is chasing to earn himself a brand-new pinball machine as well as old what's the cash value as well you get besides the Stern commotion it's just it's just the game for first place so relays $5,000 in the second place gets how much do we know much for the exact amount but it's probably in the thousands for sure and you know technically the new game could you could get a little bit more than five if you go about it the right way is this practice alright I'm just gonna start off here the count is 38 and change Zach knows what he needs to get but can he get it done here on abracadabra
    75:18
    no was actually I think he gets half the machine so Josh I don't know about that they could saw it in half Jeff is always but maybe maybe Zack let Josh right here we go yeah Game five all right here we go let's go some wise from which I had every time every time that they hit a lip yes in capitals with exclamation mark yeah so that we know how mean that one man you got a shimmy back all right quick Paul one here look at nudges it out
    76:04
    still got three balls here it's nice against Milan definitely not Wow alright here's the four get some thousands on the pop um alright let's see if you can nail that let drop wow that's the first time yet look like the ball is getting stuck up there for a second nice nice trap what do they want to do go for some trousers good shot making here unfortunately cannot shoot that to directly bad luck don't plunge the one no there you go all right oh the twos gonna get him a little bit all right now the values up at two thousand for their target backhands that top oh no your survives it's really good saves it beautiful you really need some of these lips to get two thousand and a pop that's image that's late all right the targets are all down on the right side the center will reset them I don't think it will I think the center only resets if you have both tanks both down okay different different than the Wow needs to get down but he's up he's getting really close here he needs about 15 now now I think oh all right so he needs e9 8,000 and change with this one last ball
    77:45
    thirty-eight thousand 970 okay so about 9,000 more a mouse boys 9,000 points with one ball two coves that sharp step up in the plunge matters so much here can he show Josh how to drain down the outline oh not quite the one he's safely through the two there's some pops 3,000 look out great save each target lid is 3,000 and he's got a trap here all right take out that oh and Nick survived all right Zach's gonna have choice in Game six [Laughter] [Music] Wow Wow we're still playing pinball Wow I still vote for 24-hour battle practice Game of Thrones going to Game of Thrones and for those of you watching it is on a setting where the casual setting actually that you would sometimes see in an arcade where you start off with Greyjoy lit you do not pick your house and you cannot reject modes you can still play two modes at a time but you cannot pass on modes please tell me they're just stepping up and playing look I mean talking about practice I mean games get changed sanctions change you know till fobs move things like that certainly on this game nice to figure out where that swimming ramp is take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors our host here flipper spheal and our host of the twitch I a pinball Carly Angelo thanks to Grand Line games hosting the IFP a North American Championship Series and Women's World Championship today caller DMD starting pinball Jersey Jack pinball deep root pinball my bookie and all the people watching at home thank thanks for your support after so many hours zack sharp was the betting favorite in this tournament today and I believe Nick would have been representative of the fields so that's like both sides of it so flippers peel and grand line games I think are one of the same correct I mean cuz we are at flippers peel right so I think grand line games hosts for sure which is awesome because I love everything about this place all right this is it who will sit on the Iron Throne by the way I'm excited for Game of Thrones starting again in nature absolutely me too oh great so lovely he goes for the center ramp on the fly up the left not quite nails it alright these are gonna be 25 million hurry up countdowns that it can be x combo shots that one won't be that that one could have been but let's see being nailed before the primer comes out so we're already seeing the huge difference he's choosing to go for just wants the start is not necessarily a bad strategy because you can then cache in all those Greyjoy's at the same value 25 million starting Oh immediately the Lord a light multi ball and the cool thing is here that you would almost never see someone playing Greyjoy on ball one in single ball plate with this change change the game up and now we're going right into multi ball with just Greyjoy running all right it's time for Blackwater I don't think he has anything running I think graduates no graduate is okay you're right each shot represents one of the five jackpots which will light the super jackpot at the battering ram and Greyjoy's a mode that scores points off of time shot so right now his objective is now and as well as fast as possible there's the left
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    and this game is a little bit more fast-paced than some of the other ones that we've seen today no no no more time out of all here you don't get to choose a house so it's this is it if you lose the multi ball comes out of it without supers it goes right back into the modes and now the Lannister is ready along with create your way it's a totally different game when you're playing it like this grinding out each mode one by one almost good nudge that's it I thought without taking a danger he's a master that's his last danger can't take it with you he's got he's essentially two extra balls why should that dragon attack the hardest shot in the game and he's on to dangers here picks up 15 million in Greyjoy he's at 40 million now great still wasn't complete Greyjoy's complete lannister is still running and those target ray joy then didn't light up the Greyjoy shield huh I guess it timed out so those gold targets those stand-ups are very dangerous to shoot but you get them by accident like that and nails the center ramp he needs one more right ramp to beat Lannister couldn't make the save he's at 50 million f4 one ball
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    and you know normally that wouldn't be that great for Game of Thrones but with with this setup 50 million at least is some progress towards a winning score I think throughout the day we saw a couple hundred million hold up right yeah I mean there was also a hand of the king yep last round with Zack put up 1.5 billion so yeah if you can get a half bill you're in a pretty good situation he's in Greyjoy mode now so he's trying to get these purple flashing targets at 25 mil yep hurry up so pop and that and that's a tight tilt there's that one nut given the danger danger till now if if he was able to beat graduate without letting another lock then those subsequent locks would be progress towards Lannister so that he was able to play Lannister when multi-ball starts right it's correct that giving it the appropriate time most people wait about a minute so you can see that he still has Lannister and Greyjoy to go because the shields are flashing instead of solid the stark shield is solid because in playing casual mode you are playing as how stark and it gives you how stark for free so it also in casual mode makes it you know a lot easier to get the hand of the King because right and to complete three modes the Greyjoy 25-million hurry ups are simply the purple shots all of them all five purple shots light and they they they countdown I don't recall it once you hit a purple shot Greg if it resets the back to 25 million for the next shot or not or if it just stays at that value keeps counting down yeah I think the first time you lock in stays yeah that's it tilt really tight you got to be really careful when you're making those nudges you gotta just try to body it like really gently and just get the ball through the in lane and not move it you can't really slide these games out all the way that they're set up honestly especially the Stern's you'd expect Star Trek was in but you'd expect the Stern's are set super tight like x-men and and groans here Zack steps up gets control and they're safe but Zack is doing a good job of using the play field validation correct ball back here's the lock and it goes right out the right out Lane anybody's game here low-scoring game of Thrones this is a game of bones a lot of bones on the line you know serious bones will be collected as a Raymond Davidson won the tournament last year there's going to be a new champion
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    now is it lights lock I see people shooting with the left flipper but I don't transfer is safer than trying to use your left flipper to go up this ramp second lock right back into Greyjoy crushes the first shot there's the second he set himself up to get some decent value here okay yes it looks like those Greyjoy rewards are 5 million roughly based so you can get up to 25 million if you have a 5x going oh and that's not gonna make it oh it does somehow not tilt wow he didn't even think he had a chance he was almost ready to walk away debounce Thank You debounce all right well he knows that he's at 2 locks here two dangers
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    I cans the ramp that's a sword worth points and there's the light lock for the multi-ball ready and look he's transferring left I'm assuming he's gonna try to light another mode first is that what he's got to be doing Martel probably he doesn't want to play multi ball with nothing running all right maybe so Martel cow which isn't a bad strategy here because morto could be very valuable and easy to beat in multi ball all right the sling on that one
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    well he's gonna have to probably just go for multi ball out right in ball three now then he's got one ball left but zach is in the lead 52 million to 17 million it's really gonna depend on what Zach does on this ball that'll play a decision and what Nick does second start two modes and ones here yep it's got most of great joy complete and most of ladders are complete as well so it's got a pickoff like maybe one two or not nice nice Wow all three into the multi ball Wow get one danger cool calm and collected here unfortunately their site orbit is not gonna spot of anything because while the balls are Auto plunging booms the dragon I was on the fly and his first shot at it and that's the hard one to get done nice cradle separation likes the Lord of Light that one's gonna come back now there's a right ramp but it didn't consume no it didn't consume the Lord of Light oh thanks thanks Game of Thrones that's oh no that Lord of Light costume think they're really big there okay multiplier in the sword which depending on if it's earth keeper oathkeepers worth a lot of points and game alright so he's going for Martel so that he could try to beat Martel and graduate together so he's ready for hand of the king nails it again that's the second one one more we'll light it is there a way to know which sword you'll get like not even in the instant a beautiful execution there now it's lit he's gonna have a chance here to be hand of the king just a nice mystery if he can beat these last two modes yep and it's even possible that he completes Greyjoy Wow Wow Double Dragon our awesome video game by the way so right orbit and then the right ramp would do both picks it up there all right so let's see if he goes 40 million there if the multiplier is on the center Ram pull up for the center ramp and the safe points and it is 4x up the middle booms that that's got to be at least 200 million or close 157 big big execution from Zack trying to put this one away here and 196 million out of Martel and he knows that he's almost gonna and he doesn't tell yet a danger in the ball amazing Nova take it dude shoot the shot it's got it there's needle for for Andrew knows it and it's time hand of the king if he can hit the center alright regains control again and use it for up the middle hand of the King Running Start Greyjoy Martell and Lannister the jackpots are gonna be lit for small points to start off but you have to hit them twice with the multipliers are up at seven and a half million
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    what outstanding play by Zach sharp unbelievable ass could be expected ball save is gone there's doesn't have a saddle ball but if you can complete each jackpot twice he'll light the battering around for the super nice right ramp again four million a shot orbit building his lead up just lost that right orbit shot momentarily see if we can find it again no but he still got three though we're still in business he's hasn't been killed by a coup in the palace yet he's still hand of the king tell me uh how is sweet he go that was good rise up the ranks from hand of the King to the iron throne to the National North American champion of pinball Zach is trying to survive oh oh that was we forgot the hughes on two dangers still as I was forty four million from sac shark can Nick pull out there's the first line he's gonna go that's the third like I mean he's gonna be able to play Laster and graduate together at least here the ideal stack for this multi ball this could get a couple hundred million if he lays this out right yeah the reason why it's perfect is both of those modes are the ones I want you to shoot the exact same five shots that the multi ball does for the supers there's the first he's let's see what he goes for next he goes I think he was going drag him but he went early no he's got to Greyjoy shots at the dragon at the right ramp he's got two Landers blaster shot 'let's lancer shots lit it is the end of his ball save he's now that's what separates their Greyjoy is over use the backhand
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    he's got three Lannister shots Oh beautiful little pass over there while the what was the father know her skills Oh Lord of Light saves him
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    actually similar to the show what if I can't always bring everybody all right one more right orbit to light the Super's which we haven't seen any super sustain there as the super jackpots of little D batteries member stop oh there's the first boom more supers to install it's a timer he still has a grace period one but he can't quite get a little bit early 33 million out of Blackwater and now he's thinking mode completion champion the North American champion of pinball and ruler of the Seven Kingdoms really really strong play
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    thank you for everybody for tuning in we're gonna do our award ceremony here maybe we'll get an interview I think Colin's ready to go to sleep thanks Carl great job today sunshine thank you there's his older brother carrying over his new trophy and plaque
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    and catch us again live tomorrow for the pin master pinned off world championships a stern pro circuit event 64 of the best players in the world will be battling it out to see who is the best golf player I'm gonna let Carl take over the situation here everybody enjoy this award ceremony and good night see you tomorrow that caped John's to Mike for now if you're gonna do anything with it it's late I got charge my batteries
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    he's got alright hi everybody here we go who's left good job with you guys sticking it out all right first taking home the Canadian National Champion title by sucking the least out of the provincial champs Adam Becker
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    there is no money there is no money for that fourth place from North Carolina I think is that right drew $1,100 trophy drew said olia nice job there you go cameras right got your you couldn't possibly be more wrong there you go
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    third place representing Arizona he made me cry after Papa for juniors taking home $1500 in the third-place trophy will McKinney second place representing Florida weatherman jr. over here two thousand dollars and a trophy Nick Mueller and a spotty to Italy if you want it you're gonna go to Italy thank you think about it all right first place taking home I don't know deal with Gary taking home a new inbox turned pro the title of United States national champion and our first North American pinball champion Zach Sharpe [Applause] take that take that [Music] I'm done all right thanks Carl
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    we'll be back tomorrow [Applause] Congrats all right thanks everyone for watching this whole time and a nice stream I think and see you tomorrow around 10:00 a.m. the Pacific for the first day of my Master's good night everyone