INDISC 2020 - The Open Finals

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TL;DR

INDISC 2020 IFPA Open Finals coverage with tournament gameplay, competitive analysis, and mechanical issues.

Summary

Coverage of the INDISC 2020 IFPA Open Finals at the Museum of Pinball in Southern California, featuring elite pinball players competing across classic and modern machines. The broadcast showcases tournament gameplay on Diner, discusses competitive strategy, rule mechanics, and features commentary from Jeff Teolis (Pinball Profile), Stephen Bowden, and Dr. John Carson. A mechanical malfunction (lodged plastic in Diner's saucer) caused a significant delay mid-tournament.

Key Claims

Eric Stone had the #1 qualifying score on Diner at 34 million; second highest was 22 million.
high confidence · Jeff Teolis, commentating the finals
Rescue 9-1-1 was selected to be in the tournament bank but was chosen not to be played because of how long it takes to play.
high confidence · Jeff Teolis explaining format decisions
Two of the four open championship finalists are both under 18 years old.
high confidence · Jeff Teolis observation during finals coverage
Jared August competed in the top four at Pinball Expo in Chicago and this is his first major tournament.
high confidence · Jeff Teolis, commentating on Jared August's performance
Keith Alwyn, as top seed, was able to bring in Wizard and take out Viking from the tournament set.
high confidence · Tournament rules discussion during finals coverage
Trent Augustin was 41st seed in Open qualifying; he dropped from a tie for 39-40 in the last two minutes before the midnight deadline.
high confidence · Jeff Teolis describing Trent Augustin's seed placement
The high stakes prize pool: first place just under $4,800; second place just under $3,000.
high confidence · Referencing neverdrains.com/2020 prize information
Bowen's tutorial on Puppet TV recommends avoiding stirring the cup on Diner because it resets everything.
medium confidence · Jeff Teolis referencing Bowen Kerins' content

Notable Quotes

“anybody who gets into the finals that alone makes the final four is astounding as a player it's incredible”
Dr. John Carson@ 0:38 — Sets tone for respecting competitive depth at the event
“if you can just keep postpassing it and hitting the orbit you know on your on your standard everyday route diner that you have in your local arcade with the nice flippers you can own it for 50 million”
Jeff Teolis@ 7:59 — Illustrates skill ceiling and how setups affect gameplay dramatically
“there's not going to be any cradling up i mean there will any of these post pass not going to happen on the go”
Stephen Bowden@ 8:48 — Commentary on Andre's aggressive, no-cradle playing style
“you can't run a tournament this size without really dedicated text”
Jeff Teolis@ 14:25 — Acknowledges tournament operations and technical staff
“he probably already knows what he's going to do he probably already did it”
Stephen Bowden@ 24:43 — References confidence in programmer's ability to address game balance issues
“we're talking what about millimeters that like can't touch each other”
Jeff Teolis@ 30:49 — Highlights precision and danger in mid-tournament machine repair

Entities

Jeff TeolispersonStephen BowdenpersonDr. John CarsonpersonEric StonepersonAndre MaskoffpersonColin UrbanpersonJared AugustpersonKeith AlwynpersonTrent AugustinpersonJosh Sharpperson

Signals

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event_signal: INDISC 2020 represents the newest IFPA major tournament held at Museum of Pinball in Southern California, featuring multiple concurrent tournament series (Open, Classics, Match Play, Women's, High Stakes) with substantial prize pools and international participation.
high · Broadcast explicitly identifies INDISC 2020 as newly designated major; prize pool details ($4.8K+ first place high stakes) provided; multiple tournament formats confirmed
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venue_signal: Museum of Pinball demonstrates capacity to host large multi-day tournaments with dedicated technical staff (Jim Bell, Jay Collins, Dave Hill), broadcast infrastructure (multiple cameras, scoreboards), comfortable spectator areas (bleachers, couches, VIP sections), and integrated event management.
high · Commentators praise facility quality, technical staff by name, broadcast production with multiple camera angles, and venue amenities; event grows and operates 3x yearly
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competitive_signal: Two of four Open Finals finalists are under 18 (including Jared August, first-time major attendee who also placed top-4 at Pinball Expo Chicago). Signals significant youth pipeline in competitive pinball.
high · Jeff Teolis explicitly notes youth presence; Jared August identified as under 18 with prior top-4 finish at Pinball Expo; commentators discuss youth player quality
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gameplay_signal: Analysis of Diner reveals deep strategic layers: post-pass techniques, stir-cup risk/reward (500K vs 2.5M), multiball management, right-ramp accuracy, dine-time jackpot sequencing, and customization vulnerability (flipper setup affects 50M+ scoring variance).
high · Extended commentary on Diner mechanics, Josh Sharp technique reference, scorecard variance (34M top vs 10M decent score), post-pass failure modes detailed

Topics

Tournament Format and RulesprimaryCompetitive Gameplay AnalysisprimaryClassic Pinball Machine StrategyprimaryMachine Maintenance and RepairssecondaryYouth Players in Competitive PinballsecondaryHigh Stakes Tournament PlaysecondaryGame Design and Balance IssuesmentionedInternational Pinball Communitymentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Broadcast expresses enthusiasm for competitive depth, venue quality, and player skill while managing frustration with mechanical delays. Commentators praise tournament organization, venue hospitality, and community spirit. Humor about chili dogs and side events maintains light tone throughout technical issues.

Transcript

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[Music] good afternoon and welcome to the ifpa open the finals my name is jeff thiels from pinball profile steven bowden here from deeprootfunbones.com and dr john carson from austria the international flavor here pretty exciting for this massive major wouldn't you say stephen this was an amazing event so far we're about ready to crown a major champion in our of our newest major here in 2020 and indus worth a trip wouldn't you say dr john a big trip but uh the amount of talent here the uh the depth of talent the variety of games and the difficulty of the format anybody who gets into the finals that alone makes the final four is astounding as a player it's incredible and that's trend augustine's butt trapped yet again he didn't make the idea someone just did a number two on the screen well i'll tell you another thing too uh simultaneously we've also got the high stakes action going on and actually two of the players are playing in both colin urban is playing and who else is in uh asia was but he's as there was it wasn't i think there's one other one i think there were three is raymond in raymond's out ramen zap so okay only one so we're gonna see some back and forth action it's just what i mean there were no rules saying you could only pick one at another they actually thought the finals would be done by now and then they could start the high stakes but again we've seen a lot of tie breakers some excellent play that's why it goes so long lots of long games so that's the reason why things tend to you know move a little slowly during the finals because you're more careful you tend to think about your shots even more than even doing qualifying so that time tends to build up and so here we are yeah steven i've seen you prolong a few games dr john and i we do our part we keep to our time you know we're in we're out we're quick games i was in the queue behind stephen on rescue 9-1-1 for my 10-year-old daughter to play in the juniors we said we're lying up here there's only three people waiting stephen got on an hour and 25 minutes i think it was that's finally after i learned how to do the thing that only because i was watching you know before yeah before we get to the finals about rescue 9-1-1 it was in the bank it was chosen not to be played because of how long playing it is steven the thing is all right here's the thing the thing is on rescue 9-1-1 is that well not only is every every mode you can be a multiball but once you lock balls and start multiball you can get jackpots over and over and over by juggling the balls between each other some some good post passing some shots some careful switching of flippers and you can get 100 million a shot for as long as you want and there you go so diner's our first game eric stone you're going to see you're going to see colin urban last year's champ andre maskoff another world champ and young jared august who also was a final four finalist at the pinball expo in chicago i'm loving that diner is gonna be up next it's uh this is a game that also gave me some blessings and also some curses i had the number one score done qualifying but i also got my butt kicked very royally on this game this game plays very fast but also does play very simply we want to make sure that we get our meal served to our five customers you see in the middle and the key will be that right ramp a very fast right ramp you got to be able to be accurate and also react to any misses each shot gives you a dino letter get all the dino letters and stir that cup lock the ball and get multiball now as you can see the flippers are not going to give you an easy time trying to cradle so uh what i saw somebody do it was in fact Josh Sharpe he'd make that shot now right here we would hold the flipper up and ski jump over and then post packs back to make a clean shot that was a great shot by eric stone who did it on the fly much harder to do and he's rewarded with 2.5 we just saw a very rare 2.5 million usually you'll see about 500 750 but on a clean shot two and a half million is big and on the fly you don't have to do it on the fly you can sky jump come back but i mean that's who eric stone is absolutely i mean and one thing one thing about those post passes the post pass from the right flip over to the left flipper is a little iffy yeah that's true too a little on this one so we may see a little bit of reticence against that but this should start multiball that's the rom that's been installed right so that's workable yeah guaranteed all right here we go and in multiball it's all about dying time right we got we got to build up our downtime we get we can serve our customers faster and also if we want to try and beat the rush you can try to shoot the spinner on the right if i can hear if i can get here i can't do it there but i will but next to the right ramp you'll see a flashing red light and that is the first step to to beat the rush you have to shoot that and then you have to shoot the right saucer on the far right and that will make the ramps worth 500 000 on an alternating basis not all the time that's this special round to make it a little bit harder to do and they do that so that the great players aren't doing repeatable shots exactly you notice and you may also notice during the inlay sometimes the white lights will light that will raise your dime time bonus that is the jackpot to get the dying time jackpot you have to serve all five customers and then shoot that little right orbit that i pointed out that one there but that one would have started beat the rush but the other ball has already left us so we're out of multiball and we're back to notice near knows all the dino letters are gone now so he's got to build them all back up using that right ramp there's one and two oh now this game has done that where we'll switch directions again avoiding the repeatable shots right wow eric's been playing fantastic all weekend what do you have a second in the first classics tournament and then one and one yesterday's classic so he's just been firing all weekend and he certainly likes pinball there was a match play event 120 players on thursday he chose not to play that and he said that rest might have actually helped him hey i believe it i played in that event and did okay in it and then and then came in here and uh you know played okay but i i i don't know if it would have helped if i would use the rest here oh missed the r oh can i get control get it back all right now it's post pass time maybe not okay he's just going for it build up the points on the first ball give everyone something to chase and he could also try and build up down time if he keeps shooting that cash register and gets to the max amount he can build up dine time awards scary coming out of the pops here i've noticed a few times you'll see some quick saves oh nice in lane nice and lane good no nudge there and then oh just a little bit late on the shimmy he might have been able to bring that back you're getting a little bit of wiggle you're allowed this isn't the tightest tilt i've seen right so uh you're gonna see people use those dangers for sure so stirring the cup steve up the top i remember seeing bowen's uh tutorial on this on the puppet tv stream always said avoid stirring the cup because it resets everything right so that was a bit of a change in this round just sort of force you to get rid of the cup i mean you still could get the yarn to ski jump it over and lock the ball i did do that just but you really want to stir the cup for the chance that two and a half million i mean that's huge did you get to see this game much in australia no david peck has stolen them all obviously they're all in new zealand down to new zealand i love taxi and diner they're just such great themes good setups good set up uh designs again you can see that you see the exact example notice that what we just saw there that post pass is very iffy and we can see he just iffy down the left outline that normally with the flippers set properly yeah and that's the loneliest shot in pinball isn't it right and we left out yeah oh nothing like being left out yeah jeff took a while to get it but we got there we were there we got there if you could just layer these jokes and explain it and help help the slower of us but if that post pass was nice and friendly they might we might be here for 11 hours i mean if you can just keep postpassing it and hitting the orbit you know on your on your standard everyday route diner that you have in your local arcade with the nice flippers and you can own it for 50 million but a big credit to sauron uh from denmark who does a wonderful job on a lot of these roms radical we'll see a sauron rom on as well yeah he is the hidden nvp so i think indy 500 too yep and for the young people watching good to see two of the four finalists in the open championship are both under 18. what hope do we have gentlemen uh we're going to change the rule i've talked to josh 21 or older that's it they're playing the opening yeah you can see andre how do you take an early nudge just to stay in the game that's good next spot no no luck nope this is he just got started so he had to take a very early nudge and every time it lands from the top it's kind of scary we just have to be ready to adjust to what happens well one thing you know for sure about andre there's not going to be any cradling up i mean there will any of these post pass not going to happen on the go and that ball wanted out really i mean he did all he could for that he's just an in-lane on the fly i mean he nudged it out the ball the ball just had eyes and it was ready to go they set up relatively fair these games i i didn't think they were overly harsh as far as jeff said the tilt settings and there are some outlane posts still in not ridiculous robbers the rubbers weren't pulled off it's i mean some of the center post rubbers you might have seen well moved on a few and that makes sense on but the post is still there yeah all right now jared stepping up we noticed d.i.n already spotted on the first diner just to get you to encourage you to stir that cup shoot that right ramp let's go i have been watching this kid play he plays out of em brew in ferndale michigan and uh very very delightful him and his father scott so i know a lot of fans in michigan are watching young jared first major tournament you said jeff well he came in in the top four in uh pinball expo too wow he's he's just lights out and he was really good at newer games but uh i can tell you right now he's just as good at the classics all right right now we did have a ball shot into the far right from the mystery there and now it's on the top okay here we go it was a little bit of a delay oh good save good save quadruple danger yeah so he is that that's that he got it that's the second time in a row he's had a clean transfer oh a little early so fast i mean when you miss that right ramp you have to be ready it's so fast okay now he's got two even tilted our screens right that was a strong move that was a very strong move it's 20 feet away that's a good chance here we go all right this is a good one this is good then it stopped see it was it looked good and all of a sudden it just stopped all right so he wants to try and serve these customers he knows below the ramp we have the uh little white light which also serves food and then we also have on the left there's a lock and also that also serves food that contributes towards you serving the customer mike's got one customer done working on his second but he really would like to start multiball first and we have a bit of a stucky yeah we have a stucky here where are you the techs have been doing a great job all weekend keep here it is it's back out but for the age of some of these games it's amazing how well they're held up absolutely all right working on diner and oh all you have to do is hit that right hit that right orbit oh beautiful log catch again a third straight transfer again it's great oh a little bit of too hard of a nudge there's and he either two dangers he's two dangers already so he couldn't make as much of a move but he did pull in the second so far one but we look what eric's got the five million already remember what he did to get it strong he just he just played a long time remember he he had the big two and a half million stir on the cup there that's right that was huge that's bigger than all three of the scores so it can be really all about that cup who gets the 500 versus who gets the two and a half mil right and eric will give this a moment after the tilt understandably and to give you an idea stephen you mentioned that you have the top score you did on diner going in uh the top score was 34 million the second highest score 22 million so you must have had one heck of a ball but uh you know a decent score on this game over the weekend in the 10 million range uh but as we see these four great players we could all see them exceed that but again there has been there has been a modification on the uh multiball rule where the ramps will alternate for the 500 000 they're not for 500 000 all the time but they will alternate i don't know whether you're losing the picture here we got pictures coming off and on here we apologize now we're back yeah we're back we're back we're back and we're seeing surgery we have well we have screwdriver oh i mean we have magnet right i think there was a fly in the soup in the water yeah right that's he went in the cup to try and get it what's the door doing that jesus okay a little construction work new cameras well carl's rushed over to save his camera from the play field being lift up against it i'll tell you right now the tax here this weekend jay collins jim bell ceto i think his name is dave hill uh and the entire museum of pinball staff it's just been such a pleasure to come to this tournament and and in the whole weekend of events the two classics the match play the women's the high stakes going on right now and of course this new major the ifta open scoreboard scores uh i think i well i know we've got uh five million i believe for uh five billion five million for eric stone right and 1.8 for jared those are the your two leaders if the games are on scorbit they will scroll on the bottom of your screen underneath their names you can't run a tournament this size without really dedicated text it's just as as great as a game can be things are gonna break down with the volume of play over several days and it's it's a i know even for running league nights you know you think your games are great you want to find out what's wrong with your machine yeah have a bunch of people come over here they'll do it right have a bunch of kids come over to your house all chimp-flipping for an hour or two sure what happened to your coils this looks pretty good needs the r for uh to stir that cup and he was very successful the last time doing it so he's in a very good situation to put a whole bunch of pressure on his opponents with already at a five at a five minute clip now stephen or john any idea what they they might be looking at i i can go find well there was a stuck ball situation with underneath the register that's kind of where what jim was there and there was a bit of hesitation of the of the ball locking there were some problems there so it appeared to be the surgical area that he was looking at i've also noticed a few times in games in this uh playoff action the skill shot wasn't registering so normally it starts off at the top of the jukebox and alternates you know left to right and down the jukebox i had that happen once now i remember you now i understand that would just stand for the 150 and it's like why is it oh and i just pull it and nothing okay and that costs you especially if it's ball two balls right that's two times two times that amount or three times that could be enough absolutely every point is so important here in this four two one zero scoring they're waiting for the food we had a food truck here all weekend i had my first american chili dog and you still survived well i went to pick it up and guess what oh you can't eat it with your hands no no well you do the chili makes the whole bun dissolve if you pick it up just get a handful of glue you gotta use a knife and book [Laughter] you know they've always said australia is the cutlery capital of the world i mean culinary not cutlery that's not a chili dog i did have it sit for about five minutes chasing my daughter but that's probably why it's soaked through it's a terrible stereotype you know when they say that's an iphone that's a knife right you have it from chili dogs [Laughter] i had in and out burger for the first time okay that's not worth coming back wow they're a huge sponsor of ours but that's fine right not now sorry carl i have to find somewhere else whataburger that's actually steven waterbury whatever the full respect for the watermark okay steve and i come on now it's like it's like uh coke and pepsi right in and out versus whataburger and i i brought raymond and i bought brought Steven Bowden and some others to whatever i'm like just try this thing it looks like it's done in 1960. oh delicious that where they save on the frills of the design of the building they put into the burgers and the food it's in the food all right again waterfall whataburger but they should be oh who won the pac-man challenge uh Steven Bowden cheats he plays yeah there's more than one way to win a battle and then dirty bumper yeah so i assume that was the whole reason you came this weekend it was all the time that's right then he lost at mario kart i know right yeah to esha and emily who vote neither have their driver's license but he got completely married you might i think we've played about 300 chuckles telling me the curator that i think 537 not to mention the video games the walter day museum there's just so much action here and uh you know whether you're into tournament play or not you're a collector uh there's just so much to see here and for the three times a year that they're open you know certainly maybe it's gonna be the arcade expo that you want to come to there is a third event or look on the calendar next year in january 2021 for in disc when it returns so it's uh very special and it gets bigger and bigger because this room we're in right now is actually a video game part they just kind of pushed a lot of video games and included all these you know 18 games in the main the 15 and the classics the seven and the high stakes and women uh and made this very comfortable there's bleachers all around for people to see big screens of course the patches the couches very nice lamps very comfortable yeah very incredible oh yeah the couches these would be gold in pinbury wouldn't they a replay of that vip area baby vip here everywhere you know what it's like i mean that is people play for whoppers no way i play for getting a chair at pembert that's the goal we can see world traveler bob matthews with his many lanyards he has 66 lanyards around one for each year he's been alive and that's not a joke he's been playing since 1975 he's in his sixth decade of playing pinball competitively wow that's that's amazing and by the way still great you know some of us john uh may have uh hit the threshold of the halfway half century mark or certainly will very soon i look at someone like bob who is still at the top of this game and not just in classics but he does it in everything and we look at his style of life jeff and then we look at ours and we think we we're not going to make it yeah so if you want i'll step away from you and find out we're gonna have a look okay john and find out what's going on well while john's gone let's talk about my goodness he used a fork and a knife about what is that that is travesty all right for me seriously carl jump in you're a chili dog man have you ever eaten a chili dog with a knife and a fork no like who that's the word the word he said because it was running it fell apart they'd go for a spoon right like if you're kicking anything a spork i'll give you fail complete pass where does the knife come in the try is no good or whatever hold in the shot there there's damien uh we're gonna see the former president Josh Sharpe where is he oh we're getting a super ruling well let's not talk about it uh oh the game may be eliminated uh-oh you know what major malfunctions happen right stephen right it happens and uh yeah now that's gonna be pretty uh disappointing obviously for mr stone it is it's only one ball right and the other guy certainly had chances to get their diner but still you know in any ruling doesn't matter what it is first of all you go by the rules and you get several tds to make the decision collectively and all agree upon right but in any ruling somebody's going to be happy and somebody's going to be disappointed there's nothing you can do but it is just pinball we've got the but the key will be on what we project will be eric's second choice will he be able to get back because he chose diner i assume so on his second choice we'll be able to get back in the flow and just push that away like that didn't that didn't happen another thing another thing to consider too is that the players in this tournament you can only if you're the bus driver so you get to select the game or order most people pick game you can only pick the game once in the tournament until every other game is exhausted so maybe you only had three games left and now he's gotta go okay do i take fourth on the game and hope somebody picks a game i want right it's getting down to that level because we're at the final where a lot of your picks are already gone yeah diner's now gone and eric you know eric certainly is good at you put any game in front of them but the older games like a diner he certainly knows that from years past so there's no new rules or have just come in in the last year or two years i mean he knows that like the back of his hand so you look at what's left [Music] that being said he certainly knows the game oh i was in a tiebreaker with joe lemire who just blew the game up and and eric said well here's what you do so he knows again um you know he knows he knows indy for sure f-14 he knows meteor we haven't seen yet wizard was brought in yes so another neat thing about this tournament is the top seed can bring a game in and throw a game out so keith alwyn who was one and done there's carl there's Karl DeAngelo hey girl how are you [Music] keith brought in wizard and took out viking and i know that he loves yeah i know he loves wizard he goes it's the greatest one flipper en game one flipper yeah right right like that black knight i only play with the right flipper on black knight sure black knight uh like 2 000 2 000 yeah this one's the same much easier getting the lock in the uh start the mode just with the right flipper backhand you can do a lot of backhand well yes on the right hand side you to do a lot of backhanding on the left too absolutely yeah and and you know we saw the premium yeah yeah that's not going to happen again it wouldn't be bad it was your social media that said all right it's like but it'll be back it will be back come on it will be back it will go because they'll change the men are already working on it we know we know we know who they are it will be fine he's a wonderful programmer and a great guy he probably already knows what he's going to do he probably already did it what would you do okay how would you fix that well take no make the flail block you from walking up there once you go down right do something to to make the flail come back up lower lessen the scoring from the turn around see yeah well less than the score okay because knowing Steve Ritchie and you think of like a no fear and the loops and the loops and loops the jumps i guess you can say there's that on the premium or the le but there's also other switches up there maybe it's loop maybe it's lock maybe it's lube maybe it's uh the stand up maybe it's not a repeatable shot steve ritchie would want that but now is it in the hands of a coder at this point i believe so you know because we have we have um empirical evidence that that wouldn't work we've seen it you've seen two people rule the game for two literal actual hours yeah yeah one for one game so there's the empirical evidence like the point is proven it's like your honor here it is i'm sure you've done that john you've probably just blown up the game like that and then woken up the gathering for the high stakes over there yeah well that's going on too you know the the two players that actually are waiting for this they can get their games in there so so do we know the prize money for the highest ship yeah you know what i'm gonna pull i'll pull that up right now here it's on it's all on in uh neverdrains.com 2020. yeah so i'll pull that up right now the prize pool is just is it 2020 or is it 2020. that's the thing uh yeah oh 2020 there that's correct you never said 1982 [Music] high stakes top prize just under 4 800 no second place just under 3 000 so last year there were about let's say 40 to 60 people in high stakes right they had almost 160 decisions it's a full event full whoppers full authorization fifty dollars in entries you have a bad first game that's exactly that's fifty dollars it's like take fifty dollars and put it on the black table boom did you contribute jeffrey did you contribute sure i did absolutely no i didn't know no i did not one out of three people are smart with their money all right jeff's not rushing over there to play no no i i i i put a couple entries sorry my mouth was full from a running chili dog [Laughter] well the congregation is increasing over there i know so i see now okay just to let you know who's in the uh again our producers over there so we're filling time we hope we're enjoying this uh unless you know who's in the high stakes if you're trying to read this string if you're not online uh the top seed was trent ogenstein now let me tell you about trent last night at midnight the qualifying for the open was done two minutes before midnight trent was in this tie for 39 40. right the last two entries in dropped him to 41st out of this tournament so very unfortunate for trent who's one of the greatest players but i believe he is in fact the top he is the top seed for the high stakes so he's in a group with johnny monica uh anthony cirillo from australia he's from park perth flew over from perth first uh trip to the us first major tournament nice guys his last entry put in towards end of the night suddenly found himself there put four games together very pleased and he's already a winner he won an in this challenge didn't basically by buying a plane ticket what it was was who traveled the farthest to get here he ruined he ruined it for me you had it beat me by 400 miles you had it uh so that's the group trent augustine johnny monica anthony cirillos right now they're playing and jim belcedo by the way they're playing stargazer uh in the other group group two Keith Elwin chris warren from alabama joe lemire and ascher lefkoff so esther's actually been able to play his game right he's in the tidebreaker that's right so uh they're playing hoops escher's done he has 10 million joe lemaire 2 million chris warren 1 million so esther's got at least two points there again same format four people in the group top two after three games advance group three coming all the way from denmark the number five player in the world in the ifba peter anderson and he's playing iron man clocked in at 10 million germain jermaine mariol uh who is in washington he's about to play in the alberta provincial championships next week okay making the switch up to canada making that trip uh he's playing he got 15 million in iron man so good on him he actually won the game look at that buddy baby royalty is here hey everybody hello presidential i gotta catch my flight in three minutes oh president day so jim had i feel like he was like a surgeon so the piece that was lodged in the scoop he was able to go from underneath remove the kicker assembly and the saucer assembly take extract the piece from the machine put the scoop back now he has to put the kicker assembly back carl is holding the coil assembly for it and there's springs and there's crap everywhere and if he like crosses five volts to 50 volts the game blows up and it's over so it's all like you know we're talking what about millimeters that like can't touch each other wow and jim just said his back is killing him because he's been hunched over so i put the chances of the machine blowing up at like thirty percent and by the way jim's playing the high stakes as well and jim's playing that's why uh that's why i'm here that's why i'm leaving in two minutes that's why i'm here you know for as long as i'm able to be here it's like me getting on an airplane while dracula blows up in italy i picked the best times to leave anyway whatever all right enjoy fellas thank you thank you for the updates he means well that guy he certainly does who was he where's the camera that was logged in the saucer which is what okay in the dine time saucer oh wow yeah that's what caused all the issues yes hold on a second john it's gonna be blurred okay all right focus no no no no let's try it john maybe no it's not working rookie i'm sorry but there where it was there was the culprit that has uh given us this not rain delay i guess you call it a plastic delay is that what this is yeah so a broken plastic delay that we've had on this uh finals of oh by the way if you've just joined us this is this is industry never trains in southern california 2020 the newest major yeah we are in hour two of ball number two on game number one of the uh right of the first game of the fight and we're back and there's a lesson there kids do not throw your plastic waist out it ruins pinball exactly right don't litter right just killing turtles in the ocean all right it's killing pinball games so that is the 66 ticket man as we call him all right bob matthews so now speaking of plastic look at this back there he's balanced he's got the strongest neck and pinball with all those lanyards around him gene x doing the official photography got the piece of plastic all right so now we have meanwhile back at the ranch eric stone now has to plunge the ball with no skill shot assume because he's in play here we go and we're back and everything's fine everything's good everything's fine all right we have an eye we need a knife we're getting that we have dangerous drops we have everything all right so now he's serving customers and we're back in play all right so right now he's working on his uh fourth customer and that is what we're always afraid of every time the ball comes down for those bumpers don't take down the middle let's put down the middle drains people complain about walking dead but pumpers have been doing that for years just more dangerous and more evil that's right more evil willy wonka no i'll say no no no no no no serve the food that's uh kate having a chat in jeff's microphone somehow [Laughter] kate's doing the mono commentary in the corner yes silly meanwhile he's shooting right ramps now colin gets his eye with accuracy all right that ramp is very very tough just to let you know there was uh some score increase on eric stone while that happened so eric actually has 300 000 less than what you saw okay matt and pinball baby they go together all right will he be able to stir that cup will he live will he live no he won't no he won't that ball fooled him did you see how he pulled it because it went hollow it went in magnus saved from the wall i was like no you don't have to nudge this no and oh yes you do oh psych oh yes oh i'm sorry the one good thing about having slightly dinged up pinballs with marks on them you see how much spins on the ball oh yeah as it's coming towards an outline it's very special you don't see it when they're smooth but there's a lot of action ghosts silver balls that's the new way give me the english have a star trek ellie with uh the straw attack insignia on it you just see how much they move all right so andre is that with his three letters now again is this is as if he just started you know just get back into it get your two letters they're your cup number one 300. all right and we got to serve the food to these customers and then between get multiball trying to control the bullfight there'll be no controlling no it's not with android well i think he respects this game a little more let's see the transfer wow you're right look at that that's the red no it's frozen that's can't be andre i'll see the transfer is not working but you got it done okay all right boom you can see he was in limbo you could feel the pain coming you know ah and again the value by eric of getting that big first ball to make everyone chase even the biggest psychologically it makes it so much harder to pop uh not stirring the cup but locking a ball for the first time on the third ball is advantageous because of the plunger you get another 450. right it's not big points we're talking 10 million which we thought we would see on the on these games but still that could make the difference this is beating people up this game okay no ball lock so only only a very small award there it's one thing steve i see in the finals some players step up and beat qualifying scores how much does nerves help you to do that and how much does it cause a detriment in your scoring well nerves will help you if you can control them and that's why people start to slow down that's why finals games take longer they're just slowing down just a little bit control the adrenaline you know but then we had that game of black knight that we saw yeah right there was adrenaline all the way through i think people's hearts were pounding all over nice nudge to save it all that braum tribe is dracula in germany right at the world championships great stream by jdl i know the lindsay fan that was hello jim hello dina all right if you can get all right he wants to get that right saucer lit and if you can get in there he will start multiball there we go and there it is and the game was actually lit just for a moment right so he has he's working on his fourth customer now this is significant so he has a downtime jackpot of i believe four million and that ran out of here half the kids out of the pool no doubt that ball just was like we're out of here now who are our customers we've got maggie thatcher waiting right now we've got food food on the cash register ramp the left ramp and food on the cup ramp the right ramp so she can get served with just two shots good nudge don't play in lane outland game you'll always lose get out of there down time up to five million wasn't able to quite grab it patience this is his last customer yeah one customer this is his last customer with a downtime jackpot of 5 million all right time to oh change direction for him which was good because that's going to serve that that's going to serve that food there he's got one more item to go one more food item are you gonna hit that center bank though no no way start multiball let that do it dry it post pass is moderately okay yes well he bailed out he bailed out to the saucer but okay oh and the mystery wasn't left right yeah he couldn't start up top hello that's where it's apparently here it is oh nice shots there oh look at that food item this just maybe on the right but i'm not doing it oh it's so tempting look at it it's a chili hit me it's a chili it's a chili dogs utensils hit me and control the ball what are you going to do are we in a bad state here i don't see the multiball the right green arrow it wasn't lit it was lit before the scoop oh yeah it's not on now it's not on ah yeah jim's coming over to his work again who put a plastic in the scoop who did it so remember colin had the same thing in an earlier round it wasn't lit he played on hello martin from australia has joined us jeffrey i've heard of him heard of him i might be staying with him in a few weeks there you go from the melv from the melbourne silver ball league correct and neil where's neil relaxing neil's been here all week in new york from the uk the uk he was here with his buddy kirk he's not back yet uh no no no he was upset that the aussies came over he was uh and even houston as well this week like he's really been all over i think he comes to the states five six times a year i know he'll be coming to the new york city pinball championships he'll be coming to pemberg oh neil's on the plane wow yeah jeff's staying in the dungeon yep you've got the uh the deep root symbol for his uh mouth yeah [Laughter] our second stall here on diner but uh and josh hasn't left yet all right this will be interesting he usually bolts when things get crazy he's waiting when the hot decision comes he's running he's running now so how do you fix this stephen yeah really because we can't trust that if he makes the orbit it would start multiball is it a lamp out or is it a i mean if i had to play on i'd write wrap mystery into the saucer and it would go there and start multiplying sure i mean i remember doing that on my 34 million game okay this sort of thing kind of happened he didn't get a multiball on his first first ball he's got a pretty good score so i wasn't sure all they're telling him to do just exactly what he said and see if it's a malfunction for everybody so there you go he's nice sure the cup too third cup here it is not big but half a million half a mil a little bit of a rattle there oh lane see that's the size yeah 5x it's not a big bonus game but meanwhile there's the last food item oh don't tie 7 million he can shoot the right ramp and collect the jackpot he's right there oh and there it is excuse me there it goes completed the food item and that's it but wait now we have an interesting question now what does the game do again oh yeah that's great right because that ball is locked but it's not multiball but it is but it isn't but who knows where we are oh boy see i think this might have that's good this diner is like uh chick-fil-a closed on sundays josh is heading over closed hold the flipper is the suggestion from the brothers sharp let's get the big back get that guy off of cactus canyon just have to hope um some guy trying to bob a bowie or uh a little stream here man he's not watching this is why he doesn't like competitive pinball he says there's too many malfunctions you should just have ten machines and you play them at each event and they custom made four tournaments only no themes just white woods zach you continue doing what you do the credit players and the growth of the ifpa will continue to do what they do all right you stay in your park we'll stay in ours it's like i want to have fun at my finals yeah yeah exactly this is fun machines breaking down is that fun all right it's question and answer time with the uh chat line go ahead uh we've got we've got all the time that's it i'm not binge watch no virtual older games holding up well all right draining a ball what happens when we drain a ball oh shoot we got a photo of this there is the bonus count which he would have gotten for losing this ball and are we in player one now right but that light is still is player one we have to lock lit the light for multiball is not on still this is a major yeah to me that's it and yeah it's across players and wow major yep and we have two people that will be unhappy and two people very happy we'll see how the pinball gods let this karma sort out that's right my show three quite correct tell us the olive story please jeff from ryan c we've got a head shake that's all we're getting is a headshake because those don't break [Laughter] right yeah exactly zach sharpe is here he's working on it right now now making foolproof games what might be all right back to the chat which game with the word star is your favorite john what happened stars stars is mine as well they got into some states where multiball wasn't allowed to be started so is this a comp is just ball three for everyone everyone with the score added hopefully the power of the power reset reset whatever weird story oh dear okay we're blaming the new rom the sauron rom you know what puts everyone in the same state going to the board everyone's going to get a chance to stir that cup three shots right they start with three letters yeah neil mcroy likes star trek there you go stargazing i had that been left the way it was with jared having a ball locked eric would have had a chance to steal here right yes one yeah they were close they were both close to jackpots as well yeah jared didn't have a shot at it he did not make it true there's your multiple there's a multiball the balls are alive this is eric and eric is still alive so he can work that ramp so for the mathematicians he was five point something subtract how many three hundred five point jeff he was about five hundred five point four added to the score but you had to subtract something no it was five seven so it's five fours to yeah i could see bob doing the math what's going on now he's got an abacus out that's it and he keeps in his pocket so eric is trying to get that orbit oh nope not not quite there it is there's the first shot now he needs the saucer the right saucer young fella so now the ramps are 500 000 a piece but they are alternating according to the sunrise so they're not always on it's one and then the other is that's what it's supposed to be so you can't just catch and just shoot the same ramp over and over first period couldn't get one for the road so go take out no take out no 5000 takeout oh tough i mean that that shot you think would be easily repeatable but it really isn't with the way these flippers are two in a row and let's change it let's change directions for no reason all right the transfers have gotten better two more shots here we go all right here we go we'll get to two and a half million oh that's good dude it just stops oh do you know if you hit it too well sometimes it goes above right yeah yeah that's it backhand of the lock nope i thought that was pretty good not much of a rattle there but he tried to he tried to tip it over the flipper didn't move if you tell us what he wanted to do there's a lot and now we're good because now the multiball green light up there and the the right orbit is flashing so we are everything's fine everything kosher everything good all eric's thinking right now please don't let this game yeah right i'll function please just like please i have about eight mil right now i'm feeling good i've got to hit this shot oh you know what they are going to lose they're going to lose their tips which which really benefits the guys with the high scores i know it's proportional but that tip was huge before yes schools because we have our scores showing up for our ratification eric has 5.3 million added to this score colin urban 871 andre 813 and jared 5.1 million so is that his second danger whoa that was a nice save that was good it drives a sneaky little backhand long way to go for diner he's going back there wait he could shoot release i give you the right ramp to light the mystery temporarily and get the multiball you could do it that way instead of going for the orbit your orbit's so tough yep but boy when you dialed in you just get it you got you got it that's the most important shot in the game all right that transfer wasn't as good will he live will he live will he get doubled 8.5 roughly yeah eight point six we'll get eight six your mod of the scoring system is four seven right so 8.7 for uh eric stone now colin irwin brings forward 871 5440 to this ball he really wants that rights that right saucer needs let's see his transfer yeah transfer is good madonna all right he might be starting the cup here how's this shot i'm too hot it's a lot of effort for you know what you're expecting hopefully is a million and you're really hoping for the 2.5 can he find this shot got it oh there you go all right oh i didn't give it to you you already had one no that doesn't mean because the lock is in there that happened all i remember that happened i'm also doing my 34 million it happened to call Colin MacAlpine too if i were right so now maybe he might get it this time oh so he did not get the automatic multiball from that shot and colin's trying to do something that's never been done here since 2012 since in disk started no buddy has repeated as champ we've seen great champs robert gagno Keith Elwin certainly won kaylee george's one colonist one someone all right so as soon as that what up will be andre massenkov who will bring forward 813 860 points to this ball so he definitely has some work he's going against eric's going eric stone's 8.7 million and colin urban's 2 million just about tim sexton is in the chat hello tim you might be able to answer our question about black knight and what possible changes you can do to stop the uh the blowing up that happened at uh expo yeah on the premium such we're seeing the pro here it's been so much fun it's uh the tiebreaker was awesome it was the music was dramatic like it was almost like at the end of an episode even the group before i mean the scores were huge yeah yeah raymond put up 80 something it wasn't enough sorry um yeah it made the second game jurassic park rather disappointing didn't it i don't know you know there's been some pretty epic games here earlier uh holy mikko on uh scared stiff 40 something million we saw andre maskoff on sopranos ball won 200 million i think he was under boss on ball one okay i see uh i wonder if colin's there's some conversation with some powers let's be here what's going on here we're all a players in our own mind tim just uh quick i'm gonna give you a quick update while we're waiting oh no take them back here goes andre coming in with 8 13 on this ball this is the compensation ball what's your pass to get past colin here which is the first step stephen you want to get you want he wants to come in with a one point two he needs multiball that's not it's not a disgust i mean he has to start he has to start over he has no customers you know but not three shots to diner and maybe do it there no one's getting two and a half million it's all stopping the half yeah okay i mean 500 no one's getting it i mean he's not going to get multiball with this oh wow he did it actually did it this time congratulations that's interesting colin didn't get that right so he can do what he can to build up the dining time jackpot while he's serving these customers and also beat the rush with the orbit and then the right saucer oh it changed donna if you can get that he at least start to beat the rush but makes the ramps 500 000. and that would eat into the lead oh that ball knocked it into the right outline he's gotten in there all right now the letters are reset so it's time to work that ramp work it six shots and a bad spot 500 yeah work the ramp lock the ball might not even stir the cup i mean i mean it's getting that bad like he's getting to be like you know okay take the five shots bounce it over he jump it and then shoot the cash register to lock the ball so you know you have it you can tell he's figuring out the math himself right because right now right now he's at about what 2 million it's not we just saw real quick his dine time is 2 million so because we had to start we got to start this over so everybody's dying time jackpots went down i mean remember that jared i believe had like a six or seven he had a shot at it you know what we're going to need a faster game for game twos they're going to bring back rescue 9-1-1 no even with the modified flippers on it right everybody got like everyone break out your [Laughter] nope right all right let's serve those customers oh wow and in lane not that one yeah you could tell the arc was pretty good it was pretty uh dangerous on that [Music] half of rainbows steve not gonna get there not quite that's 1.7 for andre well he'll take a zero on this and right now we already know colin urban has one point so it's really a matter of can jared get four or will he get two he's coming in with 5.1 million and he's 3.6 3.5 and a half which he can do i have no doubt all right again with those with those three dino letters already in i wonder if he could stir the cup and get a miracle two and a half million no but i think is possible for sure lock a ball no again not not as good on the transfer there he's been good oh nope it's getting it's getting iffy attack taps it over another transfer coming all right now here we go oh and it changed direction on him that's okay missed the setup shot didn't even get it give him a setup track this is timed all right yep no eric stone four jared two paul urban one andre madison top zero bit on the next guy eric still picking game number two in hour number three coming up of the ifpa open final four and eric's choices are limited by his previous selections he goes to wizard hooray oh boy well thank you very much for watching i'm jeff thiels from pinball profile steven bowden from fun with bonus and deep rear pinball and all the way from australia with fork and knife in hand dr john and there goes zach sharp there he every time you is deep roots someone from stern has to walk in front sure yeah yeah this is part of the stern pro circuit the first event uh 20 events make up the stern pro circuit another big big prize in that that event from last year's 20 events uh gonna be taking place in march actually this guy right here steven bowden the number one seed going into that and it's a ladder match too which is pretty exciting 20 players so they'll have 17 18 19 20 play one game if you're in last place thanks for coming out here's your 600 bucks next person in and it goes all the way up until we get to our final four so the nice thing for you steven playing and doing so well at the stern pro circuit events is you get to sit and watch 15 other games before you or i don't know the math yeah 13 fine yeah wait for the top four sure that's it pretty exciting i'm i'm loving it cashing out so the minimum price you can win what's the minimum price for coming forth i think it's thirteen hundred i don't know and uh again the grand prize too another new inbox pinball machine you've already won one of those right and you still have a ball in the box scores of 44 million in the last game disabled that's the one thing i thought you disable the spider there'll be no crate uh extender there'll be no coffin extender that's one thing he could do now they'll still find a way to exploit to find a way to feed it i was watching i was watching raymond davidson he was in uh coffin multiball cradled up on the left the jackpot's on the on the right ramp right but he had shots on the right flipper and he was just looping that over and over to get it up to the maximum of 450. even though the jackpot was worth 750 didn't matter why not just keep doing that when he was ready to drain just shoots the jackpot 20 right seven million or something like that those hidden points yeah you learn something when you see great players do that right okay scary stuff number two in the series of three featuring elvara i think the best call callouts of all three i really enjoy them well they're still working on the call-outs a lot more to come in the uh the new version we haven't seen yet it's tough too with video though because you know you can't really double flip and cancel the video and these these are short like five second callouts on these games yeah that's a lot of production to do the video just to double okay that's all right now you can see he's trying to get that he's trying to get in that skill shot yep got it and he knows he can use the validation yeah didn't hit a switch here we go he's going to go for i assume coffin first let's see very excitedly hits both flipper buttons to stop it we want to make sure it was in there the spider order usually we see is cough and then crate that'll come back that'll come back yeah if you're close to multiball then you might consider the double trouble and he doesn't have that quite dialed in yet now this man had 36 million in the previous game of this there's time to pay for it he paid for those two misses that was payback he had he had that shot dialed in last game but we played that last game on scare stuff what an hour ago you can you can start to lose that that feeling of where the shot is and and all in that time we're trying to get it back general yaga from the chat line please don't speak to jim bel city he wants orbiter one put in here he'll find a way he'll find a way oh boy right you think he will find a way jeff and steve are having an intimate moment with their water bottles yeah don't say yeah don't say over to one too loud also they'll show up it's like lightning flippers on us oh boy yeah you know what yeah do it yeah but yeah do it do it i want to see it only in the high stakes only in the hospital oh god when they get it when they get jacked up to 100 next year orbiter one there you go carl we'll get out of here by midnight that way again great fantastic all right yeah all right we have the word heist girl carl high stakes ems right all right wood rail oh wait somebody m's played long okay all right doggies with the zippers tight tilts wedgeheads do it all right zipper flippers all right the former champ here the current champ i guess really is uh trying to get back into it yeah he's only got one point means nothing three games you can do it nobody is out of it in game two well that that missed left round almost punished but he's he's back into it and you know they're used to diner diner gave a little bit of shake on that their the tilt is so tight on this game got the loop working so what's better the uh the crate multiball first off or the uh ramp left flock well people will be going after the ramp left lock then yeah he's going for it oh he's kind of because it's a repeating shot that's right great round rock lock yeah crate's got a little bit more randomness in it and it's only 250 it's uh you know you obviously need it for scared stiff but no he took that shot only because he's ready he's ready for it you're like let's go but does he have the extender that that's why he's trying to do it over here on the backbox yeah he's trying to bounce over and activate the light back spider time okay nice shot so he's done crazy set up now do coffin what's the bit well did he already have coffee i mean i believe that was a miss on the double trouble maybe that would make sense oh a better feeling than a ball coming back down the ramp at you who designs these things by the way the roms are set on double trouble and uh i think crait 40 seconds 40 seconds so get it done right yep gives you time andre maskoff plays a lot of action free gold watch in san francisco city champ coming up in june there we go we've got a list for 2021 thunderbirds orbiter 1 houdini tna there you go the dream theme yes high stakes go that's one thing indus does here if you if you've been watching over the past few years they don't repeat games in the main bank and there's 18 here that you won't see next year or probably uh yeah i mean like you had excalibur last year i think that was crazy okay close found it carefully okay very good good start let's go coughing all right here we go and we're on our way now we'll be able to find the shots all right good now here's where we'll know if you can get the ramp started all right all right it's very good he's got it going a little bit late again we're not allowing much nudging on this game almost up in the spider [Music] oh that you don't see often that really was destined to go out it was like up over and gone so he's got one ball locked spider's ready for next spider spider's always ready though every ball at the start all right so let's see how jared attacks this young jared august we're gonna assume the same standard opening plunge it and then up didn't quite make it fall oh nice got in there so assuming coffin again yes general yakov you could use them it was used to affect by the good players on viking oh one shot and one fail okay okay one shot one kill that's what this was but boy when you find that shot you can pretty much go unconscious with this game you get the moldy ball crate i don't remember how much step yeah the leapers i love those leaders oh no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no this is punishing you forever faster yeah there's much faster game here you know well that's the thing a lot of people watching who may be not competing maybe they have scared stiff at home or they play it out their location are looking going really these are the final four but the settings are very very difficult here i mean you can't breathe on that this is almost don't breathe on it right this is you know you can look at it you can maybe touch it don't don't blink don't blink at it definitely don't throw that out don't get angry at it it'll give you it'll give you a danger just for talking nasty about it so look at nick trying to bring in bugs bunny nick another young player out of kitchener waterloo no nick not happening so colin gave her the uh two minutes for roughing waiting okay that was good oh wall street was off that's fine he doesn't hit anything yeah he's good double trouble we go is this from block three show me there we go brilliant nice 40 seconds of million shots now time is start is ticking down a bit now and the ball is safe here we go so start hammering no point cradling when the ball saves on all right let's see get a couple of these there's a little bit early on that still still er look at how hard this is to cradle early made it double's still on one more for the road no one more for the road yes this restart not the crate of course coffin the double is still on that's the important is 40 seconds separate okay no well raymond did he left ramp all day all right because he go with the jackpot i ignore the jackpot down it's down at regular value now he can just doesn't matter you're gonna get up to four fifty and if he created on the other one did he not make the right ramp they didn't count them was i in twilight something oh no no one for the road nope nope he'll settle for that all right we're back to work i mean you know we've got some left ramps to shoot and some left over well you're gonna see the ramps to get the locks lit again now he's got the spider lit that's important it's already no all right okay did he get he did not get his credit extender i don't think he was he was aiming for the mystery for the spider hole to get that cradle extinguisher so he did not get it you can see the lightning the lightning that would be orange below the six tails of terror there yeah it's not lit so he does not have the extender and he's gonna need deadheads in the lab i guess for uh scared stiff there we go make these ramps oh yeah make these ramps three people people are watching why is leading the jackpot because it puts it in crazy play when the ramp is so much safer and you're gonna get it's only it's gonna be there's the end anyway it's 250 for the rant sorry it's 250 for the jackpot watch him get these beast loops get four you get 450. you can still as long as you don't miss it keeps going up but then it goes back down it's like okay sort of like a combo but it'll still be good it's safer okay with the spider would you use one of the uh would you use something like lab maybe or the dead head just the finished one would you finish dead heads because i don't like the one up there well he doesn't have any heads at all so that would only give him oh it only gives you one is scared stiff too hard to do would you just go back for a regular multiball cough and multiball it's very risky i mean because it involves five random shots up in that crate which can bounce anywhere okay so i mean yeah the game pays you for taking that risk with million shots everywhere but but if i can just get back to multiplying i'm gonna make half a million shots okay here we go i'm doing it a little bit late on it recovered look at that there's one lock lock it's lit very late on it no spider there yeah all right two locked now a shot at the did he get it oh no he's still he's still validating that's right all right no he chose not to take it his score was blinking so he hadn't validated yet spider-man he's not doesn't work oh it hits the hits will go down to ten hits no yeah one more i i just love watching call and play i learned so much lock slit wow backhand up in there nice i'm intentional but take it come on get control that's good rock slit boom there's two okay that's three three yep how about so fast we're in the ball again look at that beautiful red playfield now half a million shots let's see him work these ramps all right there's the third ball just getting in the way of the party oh he's trying to control him oh okay all right oh that one guys that's right bye-bye taking the job he's like i don't need this third ball oh yes you do three that's twice normally trying to cradle separate yep back to work this is fine everything's good for those that were watching earlier you saw a clinic when he was in a tie breaker against donovan step on radical and when you say back to work that's exactly what colin does all right now this is what you were talking about now he's got two dead heads up there okay one spider could spot the third one or you could take the ten hits off the lap didn't want to go in for him but still 11 12 mil that's a good number and he holds four hundred thousand too that was a that was a big hole there andre mastinkov tried to he's got one lock lit there boy if he gets in a rhythm oh yeah you want you want to see some flow yeah the game won't stop and all of a sudden he will have beaten you you know what happened flights may be missed right right yeah there's our crate okay so he's got both of them great coffin crate coughing are done so now what's that one dog okay so spider uh to get double trouble maybe double trouble he has to low he wants to load it up okay oh nice nice no no dangers double trouble even though he's got to do it now yeah i mean one to the right one exactly ah that might be that's a miss okay it's right beside it you're right yeah he will yeah that lock will still be there and the spider will be ready double trouble lost two shots exactly you got it see the plan is done plan now it just needs to execute so you can always plan but then somebody said you always have a plan until you get punched in the face that meanwhile the leapers are getting a way of locking us doesn't care he wants locks stuff he's all handsome evil leapers i always thought it would be a great pin golf uh kind of uh objective the objective thank you to do leapers forget scores just do leapers first one to 20 liters and live through it yeah let's go i almost spit my water wait until you took a swig i thought i was stalling on the world objective here goes steve with a drink oh i'm sick oh man all right now we uh sorry we have to have a discussion with mr stone because he has the four points yes but only 300 000. he's got some rent he's got some ramp work to do and some locks to make with only 300 000 looking at a player who's got 12 mil all right i mean that's kind of where we are right now we're in we're in grind phase we're not in chopping wood right we've got options yeah those options include grinding a lot but yeah not chopping grinding there is shopping and grinding right i don't know what it is we'll look up the urban dictionary but he's uh he's thinking about things here he comes he's heading over he's going to scream check the Carl Weathers Carl Weathers's good he is checking the Carl Weathers trust me he's probably uh calling this one in to fort myers he will be on screen remote directly and there he is okay great camera work by carl d'Python Anghelo by emoto harney and everyone here gene well x wong is doing amazing photos beautiful photos on facebook instagram yeah okay wants to get in there what's he gonna take when he's in well what has he already done i don't know he doesn't have much progress i think he has one lock uh so oh it came too close to this thing so you couldn't do validation oh he's still [ __ ] oh how many slings yeah how many uh switches you need to find now he's on the spot no now he's taking all the zero yeah hero to zero four points to see so now that's gonna really even up even up these uh playoffs right there because with his with his zero and with colin sitting at 12 million yeah there may be somebody yelling in the background all right no idea who that could be the colin with 12 million i mean that four would look mad and ass and really turn all the tables oh we're gonna have an exciting game it's coming down to game three everyone's gonna be having a shot at this we had a play-off in the ladies for the uh finals last night we've had two playoffs in round two here lots of uh close skills everybody's uh no one's really running away with anything and you know all the playoffs we all get paid time and a half oh yeah right oh yeah what's double zero right i believe that's zero all right now colin has this crate he still has a little bit of ball stay left over oh he's playing he got he went through a secret passage that spotted a tail he only has the dead heads left one more and there it is boom can i tell you by the way while this has all been going on colin urban has also been playing the high stakes just to let you know this is it it's game time let's get started 10 shots half of them involve the evil crate okay so he's got to survive at least five shots of randomness and that was straight down the overturn to the ramp well is on he's going to return to high roller casino where he's in game three right now men can multitask well he's not going to advance in the high stakes so he'll have all of his attention for game three advancing in that group of high stakes is uh jack tabbon and luke nojornak so colin urban and raymond davidson are going to be out at uh the high stakes also advancing and we can tell you right now jermaine mariol keith ellen astrologoff and uh we're still waiting for group one but that's that this is this is the big thing wow we got to plunge this to get a double trouble right i mean that's what we're that's where we're at set up now okay now concentrate now don't miss it with the jackpot cause then you won't get anything he got it got it kenny hit the left orbit get in there there we go he does this this is where these 40 seconds come into play because time is still ticking right now during this intro hurry up intro andre is looking for a mic to drop here he's ready to go here all right here we go and don't forget he's going to have the extender too so we're going to see a lot of [ __ ] tonight right here he's not not a good start though ball saver's still on but he has not hit a million shot yet still still hasn't hit one and he's already used to some standards there's no okay where's one shot oh no the ball is just left one for the road two maybe another one for the road no and back to the drawing board now he still has 14 seconds of garbage time double play i mean goodness we can find if he can find some something good to double while this is going on but this is not going to be anything really significant can you pound those left ramps well they're just done shots in the crate but the animations will kill it won't it it'll take forever yeah he's got extender on great one more shot i at least he can stop six seconds yes all right but at least he's in there and did he already get his extender he must have well we'll see we'll know if those uh come on and they're not on and there they are okay he has extender so again you can choose to go for the crate or you can cradle up and just go ramps if you can find that left ramp why go crate when you can get up to 450 a shot right he is really trying to get control and he got his dead head he even oh he's just focused on the dead head he had to yeah yeah exactly right but he did get those done he's there's no extender ball save doesn't no damage ball safe's done this is it so we're here all right do but he still hasn't been able to get control of both balls like he wants to so he can really focus on that ramp you know oh he's gonna go for it oh he pay for that one last shot work on the lab working the lab no that was a good strong move that one strong move even andre doesn't hold there after the double danger yeah one strong move kept it what's he need left what is it bottom left is that the leap the leapers oh no that is the levers that's not nice so timing out will complete it should right i'm asking i don't think i'm gonna it's gonna let him time it out carl will timing out the leapers give him leapers the experience of andre maskoff to know that so he would not enjoy your pin golf jeff [Laughter] oh i'll take a 9. you know what here we go let's get ready to get scared stiff right right let's go we just gotta wait for him to count it down come on let's do it all right all right get in there and we'll start getting thank you very much don't know the lights all right 10 shots what's the payoff 20. well the payoff is your million a shot multiball but yeah so it starts at 250 and goes up 50 000 each okay i'm just trying to link the map until you get to the 5 million last shot yeah but the progress gets you there i wonder what the whole thing is yeah because he's nice at the 350. 354 and 455 and then you want the last one is 5 million sure nice here comes the random kick out another another random kick out another random kick out that's teasing all day that is so wrong gabe to tease him like that get off go side to side come on we're good for a ramp all right great great great five spine oh tingling seven down and three to go blood curling oh he was laid on it oh [Music] he was late on it what'd he finish with ten so he's just under calling oh no oh two more two more shots two more shots we had it so andre is playing for pride in the last game no he'll still have a chance calm we'll have urban will have oh i see you're playing five five and two well if he gets two he's got a chance there's math there not for win but i i i think i think there is andre would have two colin urban would have that's right yes we know eric's gonna stay at four get that tough three balls jared could really change things right here wow he flew in he flew in friday night played one card finished third on the one card got the gc on out indy 500 okay always that's the boss okay okay oh get out of there guys i've noticed okay all right rent work right work all right one more more rent work no that's gonna be too hard all right it was actually just hard enough it's nice a little bit softer i think he pays the price that's right all right it was a good landing he stuck to landing careful yeah he did it right off the edge of the flipping nice job no you can't shake it jared feather this game good job good deadheads good job not shaking it there you know what you want to do when you're on a double d no no yeah yeah yeah oh well okay the math here colin urban will be at five points two yeah uh eric stone will remain at four and that will give jared three it is anybody's game the map is possible for anyone here five four three two they're actually keeping cards too to figure that out let me give you a quick update while they're getting set up high stakes uh yeah looks like they're still i can tell you right now trent augustine will advance still waiting to see it looks like it will be jim belcedo will be advancing that's a nice little payoff our guy has been working his butt off 14 hours attacking just the other day Keith Elwin has advanced ascher lafkov uh i mentioned jermaine mariol has advanced there's a three-way tie so either peter anderson kaylee george or elliot keith will advance right now they're playing hoops to determine that and high roller casino they're just playing it out but advance in that group jack tabman and luke uh horniak the recently engaged luke so congratulations another pinball widow in the making yeah yeah exactly i see some action going on on prospector and they're playing some grand lizard that hoops game still going on i think the hoops game the scoring is eight two two two right so jermaine has won both games that's what you want you want a chance in the third game right i feel a bit of yakov air superiority coming on oh wow we're ready to go to it ready to go jared's up and firing it oh yeah eric defer eric stone deferred right yeah yeah he had to all right so that means jared picked uh f14 let's go see it take a look at the ball saver and look at how quickly it comes on and off not much time there for the ball save all right we just we just arriving already jagoff has gotten his first kill the right orbit will not spot a tomcat letter no right you'd have to get the kill you can get it you can get a riding lane killing sure if you want to hit the center right good luck with that but no security blanket of just shooting that right up white saucer all day and they're working to try and get the tomcat letters and uh i believe that unless unless there's anything different you can still stack the tomcat locks right i mean just check this is a rules check i don't think he wants to play it long enough this weekend okay carl's even laughing because usually you want to try and get more than one well i'm seeing a lot of players again really go for the multipliers because it gets you back up top to hit the tomcat letters there's a lot you can do up there um it's always fun coming down from it right but and that bonus is a big factor we need some up to a million in bonus you can build from yeah he's got one lock ready nice great transfer like an active transfer he did there it is there you go there's one lockdown fire lock one all right two to go we can talk about getting things started the m he needs the m for maverick got close he tried to ricochet into it and yes these letters are down below on the lower play field but nobody's paying attention to no no it's only the upper maybe consider them maybe the c at the top i i don't know maybe i don't know what the ricochet is like on that colin urban wins this it's it's it's over we have our first back-to-back champ but anybody can win in this all right so colin did do a little bit of work on his ball one i mean that was not nothing that wasn't again the game you can relax on andre is up ready to join the battle and he can win he just needs a little bit of help that's all six points there will be tiebreakers for if uh yeah obviously first second but even if there's a tiebreaker between second and third or third and four there could even be a six five five five that's right yeah 21 points all right so now eric eric stone will quite justifiably give us the the two minutes for roughing waiting period here because i mean that was that was a move but we just we know how sensitive this f-14 is now so no shimmying no shaking none of that stuff this is straight up the battle between you and the general yuri and that hurt that that hurt that uh colin had to use that early uh no sorry andre had to use that early kickback there that hurts knock off one madison cough no score nothing so he can get it there'll be two more matches though he can get it back by doing like a right in lane kill switch or maybe just going for it on his own but would he so he's gotta go through life with a huge kickback play sensible that's not good and now uh topper sirens aren't on this weekend i haven't seen any flashing lights going off in the corner here comes eric eric's got a regroup i mean he had a tough scared stiff deferred here obviously didn't like that now he didn't defeat didn't defer nope he chose four jared was top seed my bad you're right he was the third seed so jared must have been deferring earlier then that's what the case was oh coconut complete but drifted down the right lane wow all right that's going to make colin feel a little bit more confident one ball in the can and he is up a half a mil again just just to get some sort of active control because this is bad and then come back accuse this kickback give me an eye oh gotta go under the oh you gotta a little bit stronger longer oh here we go did he just drop catch that top flipper what that just happened yeah so now he's getting more letters i will not survive lock will be lit all right that's two down for jared and collins confidence grows he wants to separate here all right his time in the battlefield was very productive on ball he wants to make this trip from portland worth it all right you just can't have your name on the banner once right you need bookends you need to do it twice and he's limit two for being out of the high stakes he lost he came over to australia in august and took out our queensland state champ and became the prime minister same time yeah and we had the initial left off come over he took the queensland state champion so we're being invaded gently by these uh us top players which is good for us improves our skills oh we can do that yeah i'm sure the australians are thrilled that colin and asher and soon to be every american are going to be coming to brisbane masters i'm sure they're thrilled with it well part of the story i've already booked this flight you know call Colin MacAlpine well bob matthews is a signal he's coming over sure part of the stern pro circuit now so it's worth the trip certainly thinking of everyone in australia especially new south wales which is dealing with the horrible fires every state every state it's getting everywhere isn't it i'll be there in a week a big burn off celebrating your milestone birthday in australia very good yeah meanwhile a special note andre has his kickback back no so that must be a song come on coming there yep it's gone yeah after a couple tilts and and seeing everyone kind of give it really the business you gotta feather it out he tried to give it a little less i mean it's killed but it's still not allowed you know i was talking to jared before this tournament started and he was playing again indy 500 he has one at home and he said mine at home is tougher and i said you set them apart and he said very very hard not so much tight tilts but like thicker rubbers yeah rubbers off outland posts off sure things like that that's a good strategy uh and and i think kelly george is another he's hit all of his games to one ball kaylee one or two sure yep but make it count nice good catch oh again you're not seeing anybody making the transfer because the the right orbit the right saucer doesn't spot letters so they're just going after the top play field to get more letters this is looking dangerous the t and the o on tom the red he's getting it wow fast and late he didn't have to use the kickback he's gonna take a breather no he's just going for it he's got it high street multipliers it is such a big bonus oh no that's gone that's smooth eric's stone very smooth all right it's going to be down to ball three here just the way you want it can take a deep breath feeling real good right now sure not gonna get only does he have 755 i think he has like could have two locks ready well here's a free lock for uh jared isn't it right it's 25 000 but that's okay yeah well yeah give him his 25 but he's got to be in play heads up indeed that was an in-between move and he decided correctly on the fly oh look at that action it's just so hard to recover oh yes he's the t give me a t uh oh and we have a fault and the game has recovered it's alright sorry quickly what what will it the lock ball came out i know so now he can put the ball back in hopefully will it cancel that's another 25 000 but he can't plunge this up this third lock he's got to shoot it zach minnie where are you no careful nice okay make sure it stays in there now we're ready to go oh and man oh wow no they're curved out they're curved right on out jared august with a strong finish there on ball three it's down to colin irvin andre maskinhoff yeah this is good steve you've been in this situation colin's nerves are fine right now mine no that's so fun no colin's feeling great yeah he's he's having him well he's way in front yeah he's laying front yes now the nerves of andre and eric however not so good you'll be able to put a pacemaker on them and measure the heartbeat really oh okay and he wants to push he's got a lock you can transfer decent transfer not enough good nudge all right try again a little bit harder on the push get that ball over a little more one more shot here this could be deadly this is what you got to do to get the double name up twice it's looking good the landing oh he's good oh that oh what a landing there [Music] so if he came second and eric comes back with the first it'll be a tie now that's a lot that's a lot to ask for right now yes it is you see how eric's playing that's a lot let's see championship clinching ball six hundred thousand go get it it's a lot and also don't nudge it that's a lot meanwhile andre is here okay that's he's not yeah cause you can't yeah yeah let it sit lyric let it settle now we're gonna be here for a bit um reminder again new pinball from stern of your choice and how much cash stern monsters premium color so long as your choice is stern monsters it's your choice exactly and five hundred dollars five hundred dollars so about a six and a half thousand dollars payday okay eric stone wouldn't pay for our family's airfare but not to worry eric stone at least will be in second a time at least he's in this high for second right now yes that didn't watch that he got and he got to plunge that for 25 000 points so there is second okay now that's not nothing that launch bonus okay a little bit of incidental points it gives them the 600 000. make this lock for another 25 000. and we can talk about multiball how's the transfer oh transfer's a little better yeah we rushed earlier how many chances do you get rest a bit longer okay yep in oh struggle but it went in there another 25 on the board one shot oh okay i'll kickback no that was for the champions let's kickback that's fine no no no he has no safety this is it this is the shot this is it okay make it he made it he made it he's happy now he just has to survive the initial onslaught number this is no ball save survived in the onslaught the points don't just come you got to go get it okay 870. he's at 60. how much is this bonus there it is 125 and you're new we have a tie for first no we have a tie for first no right no nope eric is going to have eight points colin is going to have [Music] there you go champion is eric stone major champion for index 2020 there we go tough game tough play great play i'm gonna go talk to some of these uh guys right now all right i'll be back in a bit that was exciting you didn't think you could do it you doubted i him that is a lot and he came back and got all of that wow he played the key play of that was him holding the flipper up and that ball stopping right and it came back down just the tip as i said just enough for him to get it back in extraordinary and shoot that precious shot where he regained control of himself and his faculties i feel sorry for colin he won last year it's nice having a new champion every year well done to andre jarrod and collin [Music] wow that adds that so that's two firsts and a second for eric in the last three days it's a bad whopper weekend for the man that's huge he had that run two years ago where he won about four in a row didn't he did that yeah yeah so that's uh that's going to boost him up very in this the most valuable whopperized event in the world thank you again to emoto for the uh mobile camera work thanks to carl for all this extraordinary set up here still more to come two more to come the highest point never ends with almost 5 000 in play oh forgot to throw at the gym wow uh pretty exciting here a lot of people doing congratulations right now as you can imagine we have our first winner of the fifth major here the ifb opened that in disc at the museum of pinball here in banning california bob matthews is here with the hardware uh let's get our four players andre masinkov in fourth place come on over here andre let's hear for andre thank you no shame in fourth andre uh a great performance i know uh you got some words to say to yaga off though uh yagov last time i got yaga this time he got me so yeah it was a heck of a tournament and uh what a long day and uh what impressive play yeah we thoroughly enjoyed watching you throughout the day and uh to get to the final four i mean you've been to the few final fours of majors haven't you yeah definitely i have i was very pleased to get here and it was a tough dance at the end but uh yeah definitely someone told me i would have taken fourth today i'm very pleased uh you know with this finish you still got it and i know you'll be back again thanks very much andre thank you jeff all right congratulations big hand for this young guy i've been watching him at embrew in ferndale michigan uh he came here his dad scott i know is watching right now you saw him do really well at expo in chicago in october give it up for jared august get over here jared [Applause] all right jared come on over here buddy thank you jeff it's great to see you again this amazing young guy right here i'll tell you what he came here on friday night right yeah friday night uh still in school how old are you now i am 16. 16 years old and uh okay anyway 16 years old first ticket that he put up i know he had the grand champ on indy 500 i did when the ticket is done third place pretty impressive you felt good i did i did didn't expect it but it happened you're getting to be familiar here at the final fours aren't you yeah yes that's great to see and this is your first time out here it is so are we going to see you travel a little more it's my goal it's my goal always a dream and i know another dream of yours you know when you're done high school what would you like to do someday working at stern pinball get this guy a resume jared august third place at the ipo congratulations thank you thanks buddy [Applause] trying to be the first person to go back to back here since indus started in 2012 this close he had a lead going into ball three it was a great finish by eric stone we'll get to eric in a second but let's hear for last year's champ colin urban from portland just like jared i really enjoy watching the young players just perform so well you're so calm you're so cool you know all those things that happen in diner can be a little bit frustrating at times right i mean you know is it going to go down are we going to start over oh man yeah that was crazy it was just like what 40 minutes on that or i don't know but it was like you know and you get cold too right it's hard to keep the flow going i mean eric eric did it though he he got five million and then he got another like three or four million it's like that's uh so definitely you definitely uh definitely deserve the win on that for sure what kept you maybe warm was that you were going back and forth between this and the high stakes yeah i eventually just uh i tapped out of high stakes i was uh already not going to advance and uh i just wanted to focus on this um which i think i made the right call but yeah i mean that was that was crazy like playing an em then like jump in the diner then diner breaks and then play another ball of prospector i don't know not playing a game playing a ball on an em going the scared stuff back and forth yeah yeah um and so i was i was happy once i got the security stiff that i was just like i'm good with high stakes let's go to let's just play the game out and uh it worked out for me there so yes it did work out for you well first place last year second place this year who knows where it'll be in 2021 a lot of good things coming from this man right here congratulations thanks thanks colin thank you colin urban [Applause] so i'll tell you about this guy right now classics one which happened on friday night he came in second that's not good enough all right you try to improve so the next day classics too he won that where do you go from there you got to stay at the top and that's what eric stone did from florida from fort myers representing the pinball lounge how are you buddy i am just shaking like crazy and i'm a world champion i love it i i you are a world champion that's amazing it's a major oh my gosh i know i can't even talk ask me questions okay you can't even talk it's gonna make it difficult when you're gonna be asked to do the Carl Weathers when you get back home to fort myers oh yeah definitely next saturday now are you going to fly back on an airplane or just on your high right now both it's it's very very good what do you want to say about uh first of all these great competitors man you know you got to step up your play i obviously i was nervous on scared stiff i i don't know what i did and i knew i had to play well on f14 and actually if he defer to me i was going to pick f14 and i knew what i needed to do i needed to hit the the m i needed to get the lock i needed to cradle the ball i needed to get multiball and you know when i have that strategy in my head it's a lot easier and you know thank god i was able to do it the pressure i mean you were cradled up there on the left and we're thinking he hits that he starts it yeah easier said than done well i think i missed the first one and i said okay don't be too anxious let it go a little bit more down the flipper because it's a little bit lower than what i may have played on another f-14 and i let it go a little bit lower and once i hit that scoop shot man i was i was jumping for i mean i'm an emotional guy as everybody knows so whether it's a high or low uh yeah i just i just extremely exciting i mean i i still can't believe it you are a major champion that's yeah i know it's gonna take a little while to set in and you've also won another pinball machine you've done that before yeah cool uh yeah wwe le and alice cooper and i don't think this will be a wwe you've got a monster's coming your way but all right and you've got your name on the banner twice too which is gonna be pretty exciting yeah you know like i said this whole weekend was something else i had this little intuition this little feeling inside me saying i need to come to this tournament and i really didn't want to because it was so far away it was out of my comfort zone but i just went with a feeling and man thank god i went with a feeling it's one of the few times you didn't drive to a tournament yeah yeah it's too far it's way too far plus my car's been having problems i'll tell you what you don't have to drive far for a big event coming up later on this year it's happening in fort myers florida and it's the ifa 17 the world championship uh 64 of the best players in the world there'll be about 20 different countries represented so that may be where we see you next uh well yeah in this situation you know it's at the pinball asylum right in fort myers 15 minutes away from where i live and uh you know hopefully we'll put on a really good world championship for everyone i think you will eric congratulations thank you very much i really appreciate it okay thank you very much get your trophies look at this bob's got some stuff for you isn't that nice look at that by the way thank you for everybody watching thank you for everybody watching on ie pinball on twitch we appreciate that thank you to all the volunteers the scorekeepers the techs uh the wonderful staff here at the museum of pinball it has been such a pleasure here for everyone in banning california and it's not possible without some individuals we need to mention right now here's one right there his name's bob matthews who td this and gave up a lot of play time thank you very much bob for everything we appreciate it jim belcido was teching non-stop this is a tournament jim belcido can compete with and have a great chance of winning but they give up [Music] jim created this and behind in the booth in the production area carl d'Python Anghelo everybody please give it up for these people for making this possible [Applause] i'm going to say so long my name is jeff fuels thank you very much for watching thank you for coming to in disc make sure you come in 2021 and congratulations once again to eric stone all right we're gonna take a quick bear break and then we're going to come back to high stakes so stay tuned