And left the same comment for both Godzilla and Jaws. They said, brand new or close to it plays great. so benjamin you mentioned to me that you have also been by franklin park recently when after you heard about this new lineup that they added last week so on friday we recorded the podcast and i think i allowed my uh incredulous reaction to the idea that four games were added into the update segment. And I went on Saturday and played a couple of games. I'm going to get out of the house sometime today. I may as well go up there and get a burger. Again, good burgers. I hope my doctor isn't listening to this because I did that again today, which is to say that twice in, I mean, you know, not in a calendar week, but twice within seven days, I have gone there to have a burger and play some pinball. I should probably cut back on the burger part of that, but it's very close to home. A diligent listener to the updates segment might have noticed that Max's Game of Thrones and Max's Jaws have been removed from Buttermilk somewhat recently. I don't know where the Ghostbusters came from. I don't know where the Godzilla came from. Maybe those are new or newer or new to him. I am fairly certain that these are those games. You don't get an extra ball for a high score. You don't get a free game for a high score. You put in your $1 and you play your game. They're not new, but they were cleaned up before they were put there. On Sunday, April 6th, user Nudgy went by Barcade St. Mark's. they noted that the Ghostbusters had been removed but a Black Knight Sword of Rage Premium had been added they also played the Jaws and said right flipper floppy or weak and misaligned with left otherwise working and the Funhouse is on and plays well. Also on Sunday an Evil Dead from Spooky Pinball was added to Scrappleland On Monday, a Pulp Fiction LE was added to Scrapple Land. User Dan Tastic said, Bad Mother Flipper with Topper. On Tuesday, a Godzilla LE was removed from Scrapple Land, but there's still the black and white one, the 50th? 70th, maybe, anniversary? 70th? I think it's 70th anniversary. Yeah, a Metallica remastered was added to Scrapple land user unit off said Arrived brand new with Scrapple the dog Just now also on Tuesday the World Cup soccer was removed from area 141st in Manhattan on Wednesday April 9th A Star Wars comic art was removed from Come On Everybody in Clinton Hill Brooklyn by S Penza That location now does not have any pins. also on Wednesday user Gushfest was at Sunshine Laundromat and let us know that the F14 has display and upper flipper issues also Wednesday user JNS was at Scrappleland and left a few comments they said of the Addams Family Gold all issues addressed this game is shiny they said of the Evil Dead that had just shown up fun and funny super sturdy i don't think i got a single danger warning and of the indiana jones the pinball adventure they said played perfect i want it in my home on thursday april 10th a pulp fiction was taken out of sunshine laundromat a james bond 007 le was added to scrapple land user jns was at Burger and Shake Company in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. And let us know that the NASCAR there, the left flipper locks up. Bill acceptor, not bill accepting. Also on Thursday, user Upstate Pinball let us know that the left pop bumper is fixed on the Pulp Fiction at Rolos. And that the scared stiff at Young Ethel's has had a left flipper rebuild. rebuild, playfield cleaned and waxed, and new balls. Not yet reflected on Pinball Map, but I caught from Barcade on Blue Sky that Barcade Chelsea has just had a Pulp Fiction added to it. From the photo on the post, it looks like it's sitting in the spot where Looney Tunes was. Yeah, I would agree with that. So I'm guessing that might have been removed. Maybe we'll see on the map next week. We'd like to welcome Miriam Nadler, the IFPA Women's North American Pinball Champion. Hi, my name is Miriam Nadler. My pinball initials are M-I-R, and I am a pinball player. Miriam, you won the IFPA Women's North American Championship. Congratulations. Thank you. Tell us about it. It was a real blast. I'm still very pleasantly surprised that I won. It didn't feel like something where I came in expecting to win, but I did and I'm thrilled about it. It's really awesome. There were 54 women at the event representing, I think, 48 states and six provinces from Canada. That sounds right, yeah. So you started in the first round with no buys and you went all the way through. That was six different matches and each match was essentially a best of seven head to head. you for for the first five matches you went four and one in each of them all the way through until the final match at four and two right a dominating day i got to see you play in the semi-finals and the finals was streamed on backhand pinball thanks to mark pattenode in the semi-finals you were playing jane verweiss the illinois representative from chicago right and a member of the hot nudge stream jane is really good oh yeah she's she's the dominant she's ranked number one in women's right now she has been a strong player for a long time what was it like going up against jane it was intimidating just knowing that she's she's such a strong player she's definitely like nice about it she's cool about it she doesn't have like an attitude about it but just knowing that going into a head-to-head with her that like knowing that you're probably not going to come out of it yeah no i've i've played against jane a few times traveling around and i do find her to be an intimidating opponent she's always so cool and collected totally but you beat her four to one is that right yeah me and jane went four to one do you remember those four games what what your four winners were on it yeah from memory and not because i'm looking at the bracket on match play. This is straight from the dome. I believe that game one is Paragon in that round. It's important to note for the format of this tournament that it works in the same way as the state and provincial and I suppose district finals do, where it's best of seven, but you alternate picks of games from three different eras, and then the top seed will get to pick which of you goes first, as far as picking one of your three games to play. So all of the games are going to be like one player's choice and the others then back and forth. And I played Paragon against Jane. That was the pick that was the most consistent for me throughout the day. Okay. I think I played it every round. Always your old game. Yeah. It's old, mid-modern were the three sort of divisions, I think, of eras, right? Right. And just double checking, but I did play Paragon every single round in that tournament. God bless that Paragon. it was one of the nicer ones that i've played the other paragon that i played the most was kate martin's paragon and the one that they had at the venue which was a great venue by the way in portsmouth new hampshire but this paragon you could just like get really clean shots on the inline stand-ups on the left that increase your bonus x and that opened up a saucer for i think it's like 50,000 points just for getting into that saucer. I think in all the years that I played Paragon before this tournament, I've known that that's the strategy and rarely actually been able to like get even the last drop down before you get like a weird kind of usually like a shake out that goes down one of the out lanes or at the center. Yeah, particularly with that weird pop bumper in that left out lane. Yeah, it's hell over there. But on this one, I was just able to make that shot. And I think it was at the return from the stand ups was a little bit safer and a little bit kinder. Were you grabbing a bounce pass off it over to the left every time or were you like one time and it back up there? I was one time and get back up there a lot from the tip of the right flipper. I'm trying to remember how exactly it went. That's cool though. That's cool. When you know you can do that and you flow on it like that, that's cool. I do recall watching you on the stream. You were not trapping up much. You were very much flowing and grabbing and going the whole time yeah that's generally my play style and i know that there's a lot of different kinds of ways to play pinball for me i think about a second into being trapped up i just get kind of bored unless i have a really good reason to be trapping up like if i know that i need to make this one shot to save myself in a strikes tournament kind of situation or it's like the shot to win the entire thing maybe time and out of mode for that matter right i mean like that's a great strategy that I rarely actually do, unless I have something amazing lit, you know? The one other thing about Paragon I want to mention that was really fun, and if anybody saw the footage or goes back to look at it, I think four times in one game, and then a few in the next one, and this was all on stream, which I'm very... This is the one thing out of the entire tournament that I'm like, thank God that that was streamed, this game was streamed. I can be like, no, it really happened. Look. Whenever it came out of that snake on the right of Paragon, that little, like, swirly kind of snake shot. The waterfall. Yeah. Is it a waterfall? I think it's called a waterfall. I think that's the name of the show. On the play field, it says that. I don't know why I call it a snake. Maybe there's a similar shot in a different game. It looks more like a snake than a waterfall. What would it look like if it came down wavy? Yeah, it is a snake-shaped shot. The feet on it, it was always, almost always, 95% of the time, landing on the very tip of the left flipper. You had to do this kind of really wild, really precisely timed left flip, right flip with a millisecond in between. And don't scissor out the right side, by the way, if it's coming to the left flipper and you've got to do that double tap save. You've got danger for scissoring out between those two right flippers, too. It sounds like you were doing some real work. Doing that same ridiculous save several times in the same game felt incredible. That's awesome. Did you keep the same set of games as you went through your picks for each round for your old, mid, and new? Or did you mix them up? The games that I played overall throughout the entire day, or that I picked rather, were World Cup Soccer, Paragon, Shadow, Tron, maybe just those. So two mids and you're modern and you're old were the same all the time. Yeah. Your Tron's always your new and you had World Cup Soccer and Shadow as your mids back and forth sometimes. Yeah. There's that kind of delicious, like real life meme of putting Powerballs into a Tron and just having whoops, all Powerballs. Tron, which is a delight. It's so fun. It's so snappy. It's so fast. Yeah, but it makes it feel like you're taking off the ankle weights before sprinting or something when you play a Tron that just has normal pinballs in it. I was doing pretty good in that Tron, but not incredible. It did not have power balls, is that right? It did not, no, tragically. I was swapping between the Shadow and World Cup Soccer as the mid, depending, I think, on how I felt. That Shadow ended up having a really beautiful thing about the way that it was set up which is when you have some momentum going through the left loop to the upper right flipper there's always this idea that like hey maybe if you hold the flipper up that it will go into that little side saucer which is like a mode start sometimes or a multi-ball start other times so you really want to be able to get it in there easily on most shadows i played that's a like once in every eight attempts sort of thing and maybe if you super dial in a tiny like the perfect amount of nudge or something that will get it in there This one was just like, you almost couldn't not do it if you went for it. It was more like seven out of eight attempts worked great. That really opened up the game. So yeah, playing con multiball all day. Yeah, absolutely. And even just starting modes first, because that's a mode start shot, which I never go for as a mode start shot on a shadow where you can't do that trick. Yeah. Because it's just a little bit too risky. I was just watching your match with Jane. If anyone wants to see it, it's on the Backhand Pinball YouTube channel. has archived all this stuff so you can pull it up. You played Shadow against Jane. It was your third game. You stood up, you shot the skill shot. The selection was on light con. And then one-timed the left orbit, held up the flipper, went in the con hole, started con multiple. Then you played a little bit of con multiple and had a quick triple drain, but boom, you had 100 million points. And that's the ideal, beautiful combination, including the really classy triple drain. It is really what you're looking for in that kind of context. You know?