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IFPA 2018 National and Women's World Championships - Part 9 of 10

IE Pinball·video·1h 21m·analyzed·May 14, 2018
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TL;DR

IFPA 2018 Championship finals coverage with expert commentary on tournament play and game strategy.

Summary

Coverage of IFPA 2018 National and Women's World Championships finals, featuring tournament play on classic and modern pinball machines including Abracadabra, X-Men, Sorcerer, and Barracuda. Commentary by Petey Hendricks, Ben Granger, and Fred Richardson covers game mechanics, strategy, player performance, and tournament logistics during extended evening play. Highlights include Hannah vs. Karen Women's World Championship match and men's bracket progression through game seven eliminations.

Key Claims

  • Abracadabra is one of the better-playing EM games at the tournament despite some concerns about four EMs in the lineup

    high confidence · Petey Hendricks commenting on machine quality during Women's Championship Finals

  • Tournament started at 10 a.m. with practice and extended into late evening (nearly midnight), resulting in approximately 12 hours of continuous play

    high confidence · Booth commentary discussing player fatigue during finals

  • IFPA tournaments allow players to view wait times for games and select alternatives to avoid long queues

    high confidence · Booth commentary on game selection mechanics and popular games like Metallica drawing long lines

  • Proper single-player game protocol requires first player to warm up and play, then second player to warm up and play separately, not simultaneously

    high confidence · Tournament directors advisory by Petey Hendricks regarding IFPA 30-second practice rules

  • Oscar H. Ray (Raymond) defeated Colin 3-0 in their match, with Colin having previously lost games on Sorcerer and Iron Man

    high confidence · Bracket updates and match commentary throughout broadcast

  • Chris and Kyle reached game seven (Abracadabra) in the men's semi-finals after Kyle won Aerosmith to tie their match at 3-3

    high confidence · Bracket tracking and match progression commentary

  • Women's semi-final matches between the ladies went four-three, indicating closely competitive games

    high confidence · Booth commentary noting match competitiveness

  • Petey Hendricks and Alberto Santana represent Oscar Blues team; both went out of the tournament while other team members competed in Louisville

    high confidence · Petey's team affiliation statement and shout-out to out-of-town teammates

  • Josh and Zach Sharpe established player etiquette conventions (one and two player, one and three player protocols) for tournament play last year

Notable Quotes

  • “What you do is collect one through four, you increase the value right here in the bonus. You want to move that up in order to qualify that center shot to be that value.”

    Petey Hendricks@ 1:13 — Explains core Abracadabra strategy for tournament players

  • “If you follow IFPA 30-second practice, make sure that if you have a single-player game, that whoever is going first warms up first, plays their game, and then second player comes in, warms up, and plays their game.”

    Petey Hendricks@ 5:18 — Tournament protocol advisory for tournament directors

  • “I can't imagine why people stay up late and watch us do this crazy business, but here we are pinball, and we're bringing it to you. What are you doing with your life? Watching pinball.”

    Booth (Fred Richardson or Ben Granger)@ 6:08 — Self-aware meta-commentary on the broadcast duration and viewer dedication

  • “This game plays really well. You know, a little scared to see four EMs out there, but this is definitely one of the better playing ones.”

    Petey Hendricks@ 6:21 — Assessment of machine quality in EM-heavy tournament lineup

  • “Well, I would not be surprised if Kyle was the one that chose this game. I'm guessing Chris probably took second and deferred choice to Kyle, because I know he likes this game.”

    Ben Granger@ 23:49 — Game selection strategy insight based on player preferences

  • “You're playing in the finals match. The visor comes down. The lane closes up. And that shot just gets about that wide. It's about a centimeter narrower than the ball.”

Entities

HannahpersonKarenpersonPetey HendrickspersonBen GrangerpersonFred RichardsonpersonColin UrbanpersonRaymond DavidsonpersonChrispersonKyleperson

Signals

  • ?

    competitive_signal: IFPA tournament structure allowing players to select games from list and view wait times, with elimination-based bracket progression through game sevens. Single-player games require sequential player warm-up/play protocol.

    high · Detailed booth commentary on game selection mechanics, bracket progression, and player protocols throughout broadcast

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Tournament strategy includes game selection based on player preferences and machine condition, with specific shot priorities (left ramps, multiball locks) and risk assessment (dangerous shots, center drains).

    high · Extensive strategy discussion for Abracadabra, X-Men, Sorcerer, Barracuda including shot priorities and multiball strategies

  • ?

    event_signal: IFPA 2018 National and Women's World Championships featured extended play (10 AM to nearly midnight), multiple concurrent matches with game availability visibility, and simultaneous semi-final/final brackets.

    high · Booth commentary on tournament start time, duration, bracket management, and game queuing

  • ?

    community_signal: Josh and Zach Sharpe established player convention protocols (one and two player, one and three player positions) that are now referenced in tournament play.

    medium · Petey Hendricks reference: 'which is interesting because I know that's a Josh and Zach Sharpe thing and we talked about that, kind of just sort of came up with those etiquettes last year'

  • ?

    content_signal: IE Pinball producing multi-hour live broadcast of IFPA championships with real-time bracket updates, multiple game coverage switching, and expert commentary.

Transcript

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0:00
Good collect right there. Okay, we have Hannah and Karen heading to Abracadabra. Wow. You know what? This game plays pretty good. Yeah, it does. The flippers are strong. They're clean. The shots aren't bad.
0:16
So, Abracadabra, real quick. Not a whole lot going on here. Thing to point out, you've got your rotating light like you do on a lot of EMs. Behind these drop targets, you've got here. That got all funky. Yeah, hang on. Oh, he was switching.
0:36
Your drop targets have lights behind them. When they're lit, they're 5,000. When they're not, it's 500. So like many of the EM games, you look for that and try and be resourceful and collect the ones that are lit. There's also the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Since you haven't erased it yet. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Getting all goofy. You should get that garbage off there. So you've got one, two, three, four, which are also here on these return lanes. All four of those are return lanes. Okay, get the spaghetti off the table. They're doing their warm-up. Looks like Karen is getting ready to go ahead and play her game.
1:13
What you do is by collecting a one through four, you increase the value right here in the bonus. You want to move that up in order to qualify that center shot to be that value. race that if you can. The other way to increase that value is to go ahead and knock down all 10 drop targets. There we go. She just hit one of the lit ones. Got her three. This game plays pretty well. Flippers are strong. You can actually send it up right there. I was just going to say the one and the four target are definitely in the play. She hit the bumper and went up three. So just like many ems the name of the game keep it alive let's uh get some play the only dangerous shot on this game that i've seen today was if it goes down the one at the top it was right down the middle yeah i didn't see any uh stdms today there we go very nice save those flippers jump out there and they grab the ball it's nice like i said i i played there we go played uh one game on here and one, and I think it was like a 58 to 51 or something. So again, she's going to try and clear through her one through four. That's an unfortunate loss through the center.

medium confidence · Booth commentary referencing established player protocols: 'which is interesting because I know that's a Josh and Zach Sharpe thing and we talked about that, kind of just sort of came up with those etiquettes last year'

  • Stern AC/DC Premium Vault Edition is available as a machine at the tournament

    high confidence · Game listing in bracket and broadcast coverage

    • Petey Hendricks@ 29:34 — Describes extreme difficulty of ramp shot under tournament pressure

  • “Petey Hendricks in there the booth, champion at Graham West Virginia this year.”

    Booth@ 39:25 — Identifies Petey Hendricks' tournament championship win

  • “Well, and Chris could have said player two. Yeah, we'll know soon, won't we? Yeah, well Chris is stepping up. I know Chris likes to wait...”

    Booth commentary@ 15:53 — References Chris's player position preferences

    • Josh Sharpe
    person
    Zach Sharpeperson
    Alberto Santanaperson
    Chad Lowerperson
    Robin Lasanperson
    Ellen Frankelperson
    Heliana and Richard Tracy Limbergperson
    Timothy Sexsonperson
    Adam Beckerperson
    IE Pinballorganization
    IFPAorganization
    Oscar Blues teamorganization

    high · Continuous broadcast references to bracket checking, game switching, and production logistics throughout content

  • ?

    venue_signal: Tournament featured significant number of EM games (four noted as concern) alongside modern machines (Stern AC/DC Premium, X-Men, Sorcerer, Barracuda), with modern games drawing longer play queues.

    high · Booth discussion of EM quality concerns, modern game popularity (Metallica, X-Men, AC/DC), and queue visibility

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Specific machines showed condition issues affecting playability: Abracadabra flippers described as strong and clean with fair play, Sorcerer left ramp extremely narrow under pressure, Barracuda locks sometimes finicky (noted Raymond 0-for-8 example).

    high · Detailed commentaries on machine-specific mechanics, flipper responsiveness, and shot difficulty

  • ?

    community_signal: Women's World Championship prize pool supplemented by donations from organizations and individuals, with broadcast chat room actively helping answer spectator questions.

    high · Appreciation statements for prize pool donations and acknowledgment of chat assistance

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Petey Hendricks confirmed as tournament champion at Graham West Virginia 2018; Ben Granger confirmed as champion in Minnesota 2018; Colin Urban praised for outstanding play at Texas Pinball Festival and this tournament.

    high · Explicit statements of tournament wins and player recognition in broadcast

  • ?

    operational_signal: Single-player game protocol guidance provided: sequential warm-up and play for each player rather than simultaneous warm-up.

    high · Petey Hendricks' explicit advisory to tournament directors on IFPA 30-second practice implementation

    • 2:36
    She just needs her four, and again, she'll advance that bonus value. Every time you advance it, you have a chance to collect it on that center target. That's a dangerous maneuver, but I was hitting it, and it was being pretty fair.
    2:53
    Hannah would have the choice of game or position being the higher seed. I'm not sure who chose what. Yeah.
    3:02
    Well, if this is their very first game, typically we've been seeing... Ooh, nice. So she's only got one drop target left on the right. It's a center one on the right bank.
    3:14
    I don't think she's really worrying much about whether the light's behind it or not. You just want to clear it out.
    3:21
    She's already advanced her bonus. There it is. She collected it. She advanced it to two by clearing through one through four. And when she gets that other drop target on the right side, it will go up to 3,000.
    3:35
    There it is. Boom. She has to hit that center target to reengage her drop targets again. So that's what she'll be going for is that center shot. And that is good for $2,000. Right now it will be $2,000, and then it will bump her up to $3,000 as soon as she collects it. So she's looking pretty good at $40,000 through three balls. Get that one. There it is. Nice. So it went up to $3,000. She's going to collect it at $3,000, and then it's going to reset to $4,000. she's sitting pretty good just hit that time oh that's a tough one just get that center target oh don't tell me that was five was i off with my balls that must have been nope nope yeah it's okay she's writing it down so if you want to use our write our score down here so that everyone can remember what she's shooting for 44 350 so we have this for see Fred can't write. Oh, you're kidding me. Is it going to stay there? You got it.
    4:46
    Technology at its best. Wow. That was a right-handed person being a lefter. I just wanted to say that. Okay, here we go.
    4:54
    Oh, that's what you were talking about, Petey. The one right down the middle. Yep. She's not phased. Not phased. Did she? So she deferred choice. I'm guessing. Yeah, this was just her warm-up. Because it is a one-player game. Yep. Another thing tournament directors should take note of out there, make sure you do that. If you do have, if you follow IFPA 30-second practice, make sure that if you have a single-player game, that whoever is going first warms up first, plays their game, and then second player comes in, warms up, and plays their game. you wouldn't have them do their 30 seconds together and then have one person go out there and play five balls.
    5:42
    All right, she's off to the races. Here we go. I'd like to do that depending on how the first 30 seconds of my ball goes. Did you see that? That was my warm-up.
    5:54
    Yeah, you have to declare it first. But Petey Hendricks, Ben Granger, Fred Richardson in the booth with you tonight.
    6:05
    Thanks for joining us. If you are, I haven't even looked. I mean, I can't imagine why people stay up late and watch us do this crazy business, but here we are, and we're bringing it to you. What are you doing with your life? Watching pinball.
    6:21
    This game plays really well. You know, a little scared to see four EMs out there, but this is definitely one of the better playing ones. Yeah, this is a great game.
    6:32
    Okay. And we are watching the Women's World Championship Finals. The finals. This is for all the marbles.
    6:41
    This is Hannah. Ball three or four? Three at least. And you see the score up on the screen. That's her target, 44-350.
    6:51
    Just hold it. Shoot. I was wondering if she was going to go for that fifth one. It was lit. Not a lot of people know that because those lights are kind of hidden back behind that. Yeah, it's really, I mean, it just looks like. There we go. And a four. Nice. Cleared out her one through four. And now she can collect on that center target. And that was her second time through. She's on three.
    7:18
    This is when she can start making up some of those points right here. Don't forget about the thousand point pop bumper. It adds up to the pick. Mm-hmm.
    7:32
    These flippers are... A couple thousand. There we go. Very nice bounce over. Nerves. A little bit of nerves right there. Still 3,000 for the drain.
    7:47
    Oh, no. That's the one. Not that one. Not the one. Okay, here we go. Ball five. You need a different plunge. Here we go. Four.
    7:57
    Like her style. She had the house ball and just goes right into it. Yep. You know what I need to do. Petey pointed out, if you drain down the out lane, you will collect the bonus value that's there.
    8:12
    Alright. Game one is over. First game goes to Karen. Alright. So now Hannah's going to get her choice of which game to play next. as they're writing that down um i see uh carl and see this over there you want aerosmith or barracora for a minute oh i want to watch some barracora barracora all right look at both the semi-final matches between the ladies went four three outstanding awesome okay here we go some good old barracora
    8:55
    I can hear Petey drinking his drink over there. It was funny. Okay, we got Ray and Colin playing here.
    9:05
    Actually, Colin's in the refrigerator next to me, so it's kind of interesting. So he's not up right now is what Pete's saying. Oh, that's nice. Oh, look at that. Sweet, come over.
    9:18
    Just have to help it over that edge. Nice little tapper. didn't feel like backhanding that shot so he said i'm just gonna go nice little power in lane there power lane go with your tapper nice touch ray oh geez he's trying to dial in that uh that left flashing shot there he gives value send it all the way around no he's all about that okay what the alley pass sure crushing rose hannah and karen have chosen to go to x-men louise and carrier currently on it though so okay so we get a little more of the semis here trying to get it into there and just not having any success what about uh you gentlemen i have a little rule that i play with i don't always follow it but if i go over three on a shot no matter what it is you change it up You go for something else.
    10:21
    Because otherwise, you know, definition of insanity. It's not really an option on, say, like an EM where you just need that one drop. There we go. See, persistence pays. Nice job, Raymond.
    10:37
    He's going to go ahead and start two-ball, multi-ball here. Relock those two balls and go for a three. Ray and Colin. Let's collect. Let's see. I believe if we trust the bracket as it stands, this is their first game. It's our third game. It's their third game, so they're not up there. Where are you guys at? 2-0 Raymond. Okay. Never trust that bracket. What did you play on your first two games, Colin? It's been wrong all day.
    11:05
    Just a little behind. It's not wrong. Sorcerer and Iron Man. Just for an update, Colin is sitting 0-2 against Mr. Raymond Davidson. Divergium.
    11:19
    All right, I'll see what he can do here. It looks like Hannah and Karen, who are actually not the two that are playing now.
    11:32
    Yeah, they're waiting. It looks like they're going to... They're waiting for Luis and Carrie to finish up X-Men. Yep.
    11:41
    So a little wait. You can do that here in the IFBA. You can select game, and we have a doc there that shows you, and so they're waiting.
    11:51
    I don't know what's going on. Once again, Mr. Carl D'Angelo is the wizard out here with what he has. According to our little sheet here, Chris and Carl are on a game seven on Aerosmith.
    12:08
    Chris and Carl. Oh, wait, they're going somewhere. Carl must have won Aerosmith making it 3-3. They will be going to a game 7.
    12:19
    But as we said, we'll stick with the women's final as they play. If we find out where Chris and Carl go, we will go there first until Hannah and Karen are ready to play.
    12:32
    I did not get a chance to play Barracora this tournament. Definitely a fun game. Great rules. Very nice. I heard that. So how's that? And there we go. And now you've got to move them over. They collect a 4, 5, 6. Very good. Get that value on the right.
    12:50
    In the earlier rounds, there was some weights. When you have 20 groups playing at the same time, some games got five deep. The popular games like Metallica and ones that everyone liked.
    13:07
    But you also had the benefit, too. As players, we could see how long the lines were. If you had to pick and you were someone who just wanted to keep the flow going, you could see there's nobody waiting for Abracadabra. There's nobody waiting for Sorcerer. Maybe I want to play that instead of waiting for an X-Men or a Metallica or something like that.
    13:32
    All right. What was that plunge? That was not an extra, was it? That was the plunge off of Yep they're done Hi Chris Specials Ladies and gentlemen that is Chew Chin So that should make it Ray 3 nothing Ray on fire We still don't know where Chris and Carl Are going Thanks man just letting you know let's take a look at our brackets real quick if we can sure uh which ones would you like uh start with men's all right because there's more players in that so we want to see are you able to scroll it at all so um top eight finishers that are out now mr uh timothy sexson uh mr adam becker colin urban who played great this tournament again man And first time I saw him at InDesk this year. And, boy, he is outstanding. And the bottom spot in that tree is the Chris and Carl 3-3. Correct. That will be playing Escher.
    14:45
    There we go. Escher's sitting and waiting in the final four. And then the top half of the men's bracket has just been moving much faster today.
    14:57
    So, that's what that is. And here's our women's. All right, ladies. so uh also finishing top eight uh miss number one seed miss robin lasan went out ellen frankel and because the game seven on abracadabra sounds a lot like a lot of fun heliana and tracy limberg round out our top eight they were your fifth through eighth players and uh we are gonna go ahead and take another look at abracadabra we've got uh Carl and Colin, game seven. Chris. And Chris, I'm sorry.
    15:34
    This is a very interesting choice. I like it, though. Mm-hmm. And, see, with Carl winning that last game, this would have been Chris's choice. Doing their little warm-up. Interesting.
    15:48
    Well, and Chris could have said player two. Yeah, we'll know soon, won't we? Yeah. well chris is stepping up i know chris likes to wait uh they're not doing what we talked about earlier about yeah the one and two player which is interesting because i know that's a josh and zach thing and we talked about that kind of just sort of came up with those etiquettes last year with that and the one in three players one in three whose ball plunges who flippers strong responsive um they're grippy even though there's a there's a wide hole there you can grab that ball it'll reach out and save it unlike many many other ems all right we should be plunging through ready to go here so what you're what you're saying is that there's not super bands on this EM.
    16:51
    I do neither publicly or privately endorse any particular bands over another. But I do represent Oscar Blues. Oscar Blues team was here this weekend. Myself and Alberto.
    17:09
    Santana both of us went out. And the other half of the Oscar Blues team is out in Louisville. All of our friends out there. Petey's family's out there, the Pittsburgh fam. So we love them and miss them and hope everybody has a good tournament out there as well. See, 12.41 a.m. in Kentucky, that sounds like a liquor barn time. Liquor barn. So X-Men apparently started. Let's head over to X-Men. All right. Let's head on over. And we'll definitely get you word back on how that match at Abracadabra does, goes.
    17:46
    Game seven. Looks like they're doing their warm-up. She's doing a quick phone check there. It's very important. Making sure she's got the right music on.
    18:02
    Mr. Granger, were you listening to music today at all? I was not. Are you an earbud, earphone kind of guy? You know, I've tried doing the white noise thing. Yeah. That was weird. Yeah. I just have been playing too long without just had this. And it didn't really block all the noise anyway. It just was kind of sharp. I like to hear the game. I mean, I just need to hear the sounds and the connection. So we're underway here on X-Men.
    18:29
    That was Karen's first ball. She started. Hannah stepping up now, player two. So real quick, X-Men. Well, there's kind of a lot going on. You've got your heroes. You've got your villains. You've got a whole. when there is no ball save oh there is yeah if you hit nothing yeah i think well she had a score so uh her playbill not validated probably two yeah yeah playfield was not valid yep or like spider-man not a major shot hit definitely validated now yep she's underway okay uh strategies who wants to put out what they like to do on here well and uh for the long game you want to get a villain and get a multi-ball and do that uh however um with the way this uh nice nudge wow double danger hold on just don't do it that was beautiful yeah there we go yeah i think uh yeah creating those villains off of um oh that was such a good save with your hellfire and your um brotherhood brotherhood all right it'll keep that will keep your villain lit and that's that's uh that's how i like to do it at least balls one and two and don't take that brotherhood just keep playing the villains through all right karen steps up after not a super productive ball one. One thing for the Magneto multi-ball with virtual locks are on, so that allows you to use the Magneto middle shot as a lock.
    20:11
    Nice. Normally you don't get that. Yeah, isn't it normally a different multi-ball? You get a center shot one that a little different Yeah you can lead to it but it it like less balls She had too much left to right going on there and she knew it and she was trying to settle it down, and Karen struggled with that one. So that went out. Sling, sling. Every time I come over in your city, sling, sling.
    20:38
    Boom. There's a lock. That's the skill shot I like to shoot, too. There we go. uh you have to qualify your locks by hitting those spot targets on either side of magneto uh you have to lock four balls yeah she got hellfire lit already and wow so she's gonna have a multi-ball here what do you think it's set to must be like three four maybe yeah i'm not sure because normally i think it's about five i mean she was going right after it but uh okay it seemed fast. See if that comes back. She got one ball back. How about two? Nice. Okay. One thing you want to do on here, hit your return lanes, light your, oh my goodness, that was brutal.
    21:27
    And go in there and get your out of the ball. But she was not able to do that. That was real tough. Her Wolverine is ready for ball three. I was just going to say, she's ready to go ahead and start Wolverine multi-ball next ball. Talking about the prize polls in the chat, we'd like to thank every organization or person that donated into the women's prize poll this year. Thank you for making this tournament and following that and making that happen for sure.
    21:56
    Alright, there's a lock and a skill shot. Let's see, do you think she's going to go for multiple? I would say Wolverine. Nice. Again, just seems like it's real tough to get a handle on this one.
    22:14
    That says Cairns, ball three. Wow. Oh. This game you want to hold up that left flipper when it comes out. It rockets out of there. Did that even hit the left flipper? No. That just straight down the middle out of the kicker. Yeah. That was, wow.
    22:41
    All right, so that'll make it 1-1. Instant replay. And we'll be choosing the next game. So was Carl waiting on that? Let's head back. Aren't they on game seven? Yes. What were they waiting there? They were playing Abracadabra. Oh, so Carl's done. We'll have to try and find out what he got on that. switch over and see how chris is doing on it abroka debroker stephens he needs one two there's the two he is still uh on his he's not completed that or dropped targets yet this looks to be like a ball one possibly a ball two there we go nice Nice. Look at that. He did flip that. Oh. It's the 1,000. There's a million. Or 1,000.
    23:31
    What's your score? It's 67,000. Nice. Mr. D'Angelo. I'm not watching. Yeah, that's tough. He's got another drain there. Carl got a 67. 67 is beast. That's a big score on this game. That's beast.
    23:48
    That's clutch, 67. Well, I would not be surprised if Carl was the one that chose this game. I'm guessing Chris probably took second and deferred choice to Carl, because I know he likes this game. Okay, so Chris is looking to, there we go. That filled out one set, so he's up to two on his center spot target there. He can hit that at any time, collect the two.
    24:19
    Meanwhile, he will probably work his drops. Nice. And that's really the two things you're doing on here. You're looking to collect one, two, three, four. And your two says, there we go. That was a five. So we got one on each side. Now just the one on the left. Center one on the left hand. Boom. Like an assassin. Look at that. Oh, wow. Slapping it.
    24:45
    Good control. Catch that ball. oh look at that yeah kiss the one that was lit there we go now we got it
    25:02
    look at that walks up like a ladder and just hit your center oh he's grinding chris is grinding oh my did i tell you did i tell you what that those flippers would reach out and grab the ball That was remarkable. It just did. That was what I was talking about. That was like a quadruple flippy dip slap save. Oh, my God. Well, I know one guy that's probably not enjoying this very much. Hopefully he's not watching. Oh, he's watching.
    25:33
    Okay. So 67-something. Hannah and Karen will be moving to Sorcerer. We will watch the end of this and then head on over.
    25:44
    Sorcerer shouldn't be too quick. He's going to want to go right up the center. No. He's got that one last draw.
    25:52
    He's got one more ball, doesn't he? We're not sure. We don't know when he came in. Yep, he just checked his score. He just looked over at what Carl had gotten. Said, I need seven. I got four in the middle. Would you want to be down 7,000 with one ball? You know what? Honestly, Chris is in a really good spot right here.
    26:11
    Wow. A kiss of death, Fred. All right. That was a tough one. Tough loss there. All right. Okay. Carl will advance and be playing Escher.
    26:26
    Remarkable game there. And I see Colin over there. I don't know if their match is over yet or not. And we're going to be following Hannah and Karen over to Sorcerer.
    26:41
    There we go. I think they're up and going. This is actually, yeah, this should be real play at this point. Karen going first again.
    26:54
    Let's update those numbers. She's going first because she chose this game after losing over there. Thanks, man.
    27:06
    All right, so here's the deal, guys. Shoot that shot. That's what you want to do. Then what do you do? And then shoot that shot again.
    27:18
    You'll have a two-ball multi-ball. How do you get your three-ball, though? Then you want to shoot the shot again during multi-ball to get 2X play field. Shoot it again, 3X. Shoot it again, 5X.
    27:31
    That left ramp is, I guess you would say, important. And you want to make sure that you're dialed in.
    27:40
    And hitting that. Got to get the visor up. Oh, that's tough. Just sitting on the panel. And she left that up there, didn't she? Yep. So now what happens is Hannah will step up, and she will actually be able to hit that left ramp, steal that lock, and have a two-ball multi-ball. It's got to be their warm-up. Yeah.
    28:05
    All right. I guess that was their 30 seconds. Yeah, that should have been the plunging off player two. Oh, I'm sorry. Forgot the one and three. So there you go. Looks like they did it the way we talked about earlier.
    28:21
    Gets me every time. I'm like, wow, somebody just didn't. Oh, yeah. So you got that upper flipper. You've got the three drop targets up there.
    28:31
    Oh, nice. Careful, though, this game can tilt. Give it a little bit of love, though. And obviously she's going to try and get it to that right flipper. Bounce over. Nice. Perfect.
    28:44
    I lost on this game today and never hit the left ramp once. Ouch. That was a tough loss. All right, plunges off. Player four.
    29:00
    Raymond and Colin are playing Metallica. We still have it listed at 3-0. If we find out more, we'll let you know.
    29:13
    All right, 2X multiplier. for clearing out her top lanes there. Wow. And you know what? If you're out in the field drinking a beer, playing by yourself, you're hitting that ramp 57 times in a game.
    29:30
    You're playing in the finals match. The visor comes down. The lane closes up. And that shot just gets about that wide. It's about a centimeter narrower than the ball.
    29:43
    All right. Because Hannah's ready. Not to mention, everyone who's still playing has been playing for basically a solid 12 hours. Yep. Well, we started at 10 a.m. this morning with practice, and I think it's about 8. No, I don't even know. I don't have my phone on. Almost 10. So it's like 12 hours.
    30:06
    Carl and Escher will be starting on Aerosmith. Cool. Come on. That second ball remains elusive to both of them. And notice how that ball did not center on the left flipper. Same issue I was having. It just keeps rolling off. Watch this.
    30:25
    Okay, that one came back. So many of them just keep going. All right, we'll post, transfer. Oh, tried to let it settle down there. Uh-oh, uh-oh. There we go. Nice save. Stay in there. Shoot it on the fly. See how it's got that little jump right there? It's got a little tiny jump on that flipper. oh yeah it's just both the ramp and that that inner orbit on the left uh if you don't get there it's just really dangerous yes so we're looking at all three you know what i just thought oh flip flip oh it's the plunge ball yes you did all right karen's up and where are we at on their match is it 1-1? 1-1. Okay. Now one interesting thing there they didn't seem to be taking the short plunge that makes it multi ball. Okay these are gonna feed out to that upper flipper up there sometimes they kind of droop down and you don't even get a chance to shoot it let's see there we go good job. To be fair I believe that was the ball that she locked so it was kind of poetic justice. Is that what poetesses means? Something like that. You're the poet.
    31:37
    All right. Yeah, it's so hard to get it settled on that left. See that? It just keeps rolling off the end. Crap. And then you can't get on the right.
    31:47
    And then that happens. It's my game. That's my game right there. Wow, that didn't tilt either. She's up to 200,000. Yep.
    31:56
    It's not a gimme by any means. she didn't leave Hannah with a lock though nope Hannah's gonna have to do the work I'm just pretty tired how much gas is in the tank I mean we got people with like you know shoes off chilling in the corner I mean Mr. Chad Lower representing the great state of Oklahoma here we go this is her ball three Hannah's looking for a comeback here Okay. And again, it's just trying to settle that ball down, get a catch, and make a clean shot over to that ramp. There it is. Nice, strong, clean shot. $30,000 for that.
    32:46
    I mean, this is pretty much a make this shot, you're good. Oh. Yep. There you go. And the slings are active. Sling, sling. A little late on that one. Pass it over.
    33:03
    Up. Fighting. I love it. Oh, yeah. Nice shot. He's about 100 thou right now. This money ball can end really quick, though. It sure can. You try and keep it up there and get some of them drops. But again, you want to hit that right and then it's over and over. Oh, no. Gosh. It's not going to get there. It's got two X. No, not enough. Taryn moves up two to one. Okay. Good game.
    33:39
    Close game. All right. What else we got out there? Where will they go? What do you guys got in the chat? I can't see any of that. Anything important? Any questions? No good questions right now. Thank you for the chat room answering questions when we're unable to. It's great to see the community helping out new people with their questions. Thankful for everyone that is watching the IFFA Women's World Pinball Championship and the IFFA United States National Pinball Championship here on IE Pinball.
    34:18
    Fergus says, if you know Chad, his current status is no surprise. The third place match has ended. I don't have results yet.
    34:28
    We'll get some. While we're waiting, let's see, where are we heading? Going to Torpedo Alley. Luis Wagenswander is taking third place. Are they Torpedo Alley? That's what it looks like here. Let's head on over.
    35:00
    So it should be on there. You've got to reset it. Okay. Here we go. A little Torpedo Alley. Does that mean Hannah picked this? I think they're probably going to do their 30 second little warm up I don't know how much Torpedo Alley has been on today wow unique fun game I didn't have to play it today I know the very basics of the rules in order to try and be competitive definitely critical is the right orbit shot which goes up and all the way around you want to make sure that that's hitting well so i don't know if it is or not
    36:00
    qc providence asking how is the variety of pins between events do you normally see the same couple dozen we're on the wrong i would say yeah she's playing and why is this more than that but She's not. She's actually on Time Machine. Yeah, it's Barracora. Is it Barracora? We're one off, so let's go to Barracora. Let's see.
    36:24
    Sorry, Barracora is more fun anyway. Yeah, that was my bad. No worries. Doing a little warm-up. Or is this her first ball? Being that there's only one display, let's say we're in warm-up.
    36:38
    I'll go with that. I'll take it. Nice. Did you play this at all in your matches today, Ben Granger? I did not. I did. It plays very well.
    36:53
    The lock shot up at the top, or the, actually, both can be a little bit frustrating. The top one, got to be cleaned. Yeah. That's every Barracora. True. The lower one, it can be finicky sometimes. Yeah, we saw that with, was it Raymond who went 0 for 8 on that? But Raymond kept getting chances to survive. I've seen a couple where they shot it up there, it didn't stick, and that was your ball. I think we're live now. It looks like Karen here with player one, ball one. So this game reminds me of Pittsburgh a lot because that's where I played it.
    37:36
    We like us some good bear core. Yeah. Do you want to walk us through some strategy on this, Petey? Sure. You want to shoot the left targets, the B-A and the double R. That will light your lower lock for a two ball. But you have to do it in order. You also can shoot the A-C-O-R-A, top to bottom, and that will light the upper lock.
    38:03
    If you get the lower lock before the upper lock, like she just did there, it's a two ball multi ball. if you get the upper lock it will hold the ball until you either lose a ball but then it'll kick it back out or if you hit the lower lock it'll make a three ball there we go good the clear in the banks also builds up your multipliers for bonus two uh two separate sets of bonus multipliers. One stays with you throughout the game and the other resets after every ball. It's the core that stays forever and the bear that goes ball to ball. Correct.
    38:47
    Rough out. She had a decent two ball there. And this is Hannah Hatch stepping up. Punching off player two.
    39:03
    The only thing I don't like about this role is when I have such a horrible game and I'm beaten by player two.
    39:12
    Right. When your plunge-off players are beating your score playing, it's not a good day. I was close on that with Sorcerer.
    39:25
    So, quick reminder, we got Petey Hendricks in the booth, champion at West Virginia this year. we got Ben Granger in the booth, champion in Minnesota, my home state and I'm Fred Richardson and I was champion in Indiana this year and all three of us played today in the national championship so you got yapping at you. Alright she just cleared out Barr B-A-R-R and that advances your value on that left shot, lock shot there which she will probably be going for Yep. And boy, it can be tight sometimes.
    40:05
    Petey, you said you played this, and were you hitting that left lock shot? Yeah. There we go. That's a sweet shot. Nice, Hannah. Okay, she's going to have a two-ball multi-ball.
    40:18
    And are you immediately going to try and lock your balls so you can have three-ball? Is that what you're doing here? Well, no, you can't. You can only... Yeah, it's... Yeah, essentially the lower one. Oh, that's right. You have to get the top lock. Yep. Yeah. Got it. Use this towards progress. You could start setting up for the next ball. I think you get the B, A, and not clear the R, R, so that that's ready for the next one. And then also start working on a core to build up the bonus multiplier that stays Correct She building up her BAR right now I want to mention, too, there's the two spot targets in the center of the play field that those values increases. Well, there could be some points there. She is definitely going for clearing out her 1-2-3, I've noticed, versus 4, 5, and 6.
    41:14
    Some good points on that shot. I think it's 60. Looks like she's got 60. All right, she's in the lead.
    41:30
    She has not cleared out any of her Okora yet. She has gotten far twice. There's the O. Yep. Nice. That's up to 90. Now that one, when you build it up, you can collect it once and it clears it out. Nice. Boom. Real nice. Yes. The 456, it stays.
    41:53
    Correct. So she just needs the R and the A here. She's going for those. Very nice. Pass through. There's the R.
    42:08
    That's okay. That was a really solid, solid ball. Collins staved off elimination. It's 3-1 now. Appears they're playing Black Rose. And Carl, I believe, has won the first game against Escher.
    42:30
    All right. Hannah has no shortages of fours in her score, so. I believe she's got the max amount alright she could have one more I don't think so in front of it now that's just ridiculous that's just too many fours there's a lot of fours oh I saw that she could have done with that those are the kind of drains you can see from like two feet away you just know no that was a trainer what i do that was a drain bowl all day all right slapping prey so hannah steps up for ball too okay And some of those you can see a long way away too. So that was tough. All right. Karen's up to ball three here down by 220. 23,000 points.
    43:47
    Hannah, I know, comes to us from the Seattle area. Where is Ms. Karen Kaiser from? United States. United States, okay.
    43:58
    That's North America. While Mr. Stranger is giving us a geography lesson here. That's going to be it. 2-2. All right. Evens up the match at two games apiece.
    44:20
    While they're deciding where they're going to go for game five, I see. Let's jump over to Black Rose for a second. Looks like I see Carl and Escher playing something over there. Is that their game? No. Escher has been on ice for a while. I hope he can. Was that a ship? That looks like a ship. He's taking a ship. 20 mil? 30 mil?
    44:46
    30. Second one. Nice. All right. This means that Raymond's having a good game. Yeah, 127. That's pretty good.
    44:59
    All right, game five for the women is going to be on Ironman. Let them do their warm-up real quick. And see, so that was ball three. Looks like Colin's sitting at about 16 mil. Going to have a lot of work to do. A lot of chopping.
    45:13
    He's going to have to sink the whole battleship fleet. Yeah, that's a three-ship sinker right there.
    45:22
    I'll tell you what, I had probably my best game of the day on here, and I just got tired. I just was not tired.
    45:35
    It's over. Get your two ball. Try and get three. Then you get a two ball. Then you shoot the cannon. Then you get another.
    45:46
    Got to stay focused on this one, because it's a little all over the place. again you saw that ball ridge on that uh circle plate where the cannon is there we go raymond locked his two he's gonna have a three ball multi-ball both ramps will be lit for letters why didn't he stop that was interesting because you can do that you can it's ramp it's good try and circle those get a rhythm going on that get some catches on the what do we got we got another ship ready to sink. All them letters are lit. Yep, sure does. Got to wait until the end of his multi-wall to do it, but it's there. Okay. Both rams giving him one. He's just rocking letters today.
    46:29
    And it's out. But he's going to want to sink that one more ship. Here's a good question for you, Fred, asked from QCProfit. A weirder question. Is coaching allowed mid-set? When you are in play, you cannot coach. No one can walk up to Raymond right now and tell him how many ships he's got lit or whether or not, you know, this mode's gone, not during play. I think technically you're also not supposed to be looking up rules, so you step back and look at your phone.
    46:57
    That sounds like that could be. I mean, you can stop and look at the card, but you can't use another device. Right. I mean, like, theoretically you sit back and watch a tutorial in between balls. all right raymond finishes up with a 192 outstanding game highest score of the day that i've seen and colin's got some wood chop and uh all you can do is just walk up be relaxed and notice that's very quick qualified his lock oh at this point we should be able to also uh go to iron man no um well yeah we'll do that first and then we'll discuss uh what those guys could be doing over on no um this was also a qualifier for uh the world's oh yeah top finishing person who is not already who's not already in it we'll see if we can figure that out here um after we get iron man going all right we're on ironman and it's looking like it's either warm-up or it's ball one now she's holding her phone 30 seconds so this is their warm-up Ironman a lot of us know the game pretty straight forward rules this one definitely was tough no doubt about it no post on the out lanes no ball timer no post that stops your plunge so the skill shot is truly a skill shot
    48:57
    Apologies to the folks at home, there's candy in the booth and we're eating it. Okay, so... There we go. If you hear crunching, we're only here to give you factually incorrect information and eat candy.
    49:32
    Nice short plunge. So Hannah chooses a short plunge. If my math's right, congratulations to Colin Urban. He would be the one qualifying for Worlds. Wow. Way to go, Colin. Making it to the final eight.
    49:54
    Yeah, man. They made a play for L, dude. Trying to get a hold on that. Did that put you back in the tournament, Fred?
    50:10
    I am currently the number one alternate in the World Championships, so there's never been 100% attendance in the history. So are you just going to head up to Canada and home for the best?
    50:26
    I might have some reservations already. There we go. Starts her Ironmonger multi-ball. I started one and I couldn't even get my Ironmonger back up. It was so tough to get a hold on the ball. so quick rules run down um to get this multi-ball is playing you spell monger which is the purple lights in the center of the play field by hitting either the left the right orbit uh spinner or the center correct um spell monger and that will the bash toy will rise from the play field which you and spell it again and then stretch your three ball multi-ball hit the orbit one more time
    51:18
    and raise it up spell monger one more time and the center shot is lit for your super jackpot of three million points the bash toy goes back down and you have to shoot it up the center to collect your three million jackpots Oh, it's so rough. It's a rough one, Ken.
    51:41
    And if you've ever played an Ironman, you know that pain. That is like... All too familiar. It's like 70% of your balls.
    51:50
    Sorry about that glare we have on there. I'm not quite sure why the rake flipper is obscured. One of Tony Stark's latest inventions has gone a little haywire. It was actually an LED screen that's out right now and not showing anything.
    52:09
    Okay, so Hannah's back up. Looks like she can try and work these ramps, get a little bogey going. One of my favorite strategies when those ramps are hidden.
    52:22
    Nice. All right, one more. We'll start the mode. Look at that. And now you just want to ramp out. this. Oh.
    52:32
    All that work. You still get the points for getting there and a half a million for starting it. And you get your mark and working your way up.
    52:42
    Okay. Karen steps up with 619. This is ball three. And it's looking like Hannah. What does Hannah have? I can't tell if that's a four, five, six. I think it's four.
    52:56
    She was at the end. She was a 3-6 at the end of her previous ball. Or, yeah. So. Hmm. Oh, those ramps. And this is why.
    53:09
    And that's it. So, Hannah takes the win on Ironman. 2-2. That's 3-2. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we call him special.
    53:22
    And he says he's camera shy. the only other carl and escher the only others playing right now it looks like they're warming up on x-men x-men uh looks like escher got a good support system there in the background he does shout out to escher's mom yeah usually you know i've never met his mom usually it's it's uh adam of course who's with him and it's kind of cool his mom is here this time we got adam yeah he's with him in spirit absolutely and in chat uh met his mom text over halloween when they were having a halloween party at their old house back for the morn and uh i believe it is sandy adam please correct me if i'm wrong i feel like a tool if i am but uh wonderful gal and doing a great sport here with Escher in-house. Looks like they're over there playing what is that? That's not Aerosmith. No, they're on the other side. What is that last game?
    54:34
    It's the last game in that row. Decision still being made. Is that X-Men? Yeah. Yeah, we can go and while we're waiting to find out where the women go we'll watch a little X-Men.
    54:46
    Look at that Nationals bracket. Is it Escher? Sure is. Let's see if we can see what ball they're on.
    54:57
    Looks like his Wolverine is ready. I can't figure this out. So much technology in front of me. Some of the best.
    55:11
    Look at that ball just sailing around on that play field. I'm just a poor boy from the north. Backhand. There it is. Yeah, this is really an Escher's wheelhouse. I expect him to do pretty well here.
    55:27
    Starting Wolverine real quick. Got his ball back. He's got his mystery lit, it looks like. And going there and getting out a ball.
    55:38
    Boom. Nice. There it is. All right, the ladies will be moving to Metallica. We'll head over there here in a moment. Yeah, let's watch. sure do a little multi ball action here a little clawing and yeah bad all the way up that ramp right back at you now he has qualifies lock you because the virtual lock can't go straight up the center and boom and that's what he does ball one actually that was his first one now he'll need to qualify him nice it's He's not going down without a fight. Good save.
    56:23
    Beautiful combo there. Yeah, it was. That was a Corvette combo if I ever saw one. So you can sit and grind on your Wolverine for 12-13 hits.
    56:41
    See what he finished first ball. Can't see the scores, but definitely good. Carl stepping up as player two.
    56:49
    and as mentioned, the ladies are going to play on Metallica. Either they're warming up or getting ready to start ball one, as I see Karen playing, and that's great.
    57:07
    Jericho, yeah, a few people have gotten Jericho, actually. Here today? Yeah, Mark Pearson got it round one.
    57:16
    Colin McElpine got it as well. He got a typical Jericho. He started it and it drained immediately. Yeah, actually, both my opponents today got it. Yeah, that was against you, wasn't it? Yeah, now that I think of it.
    57:31
    Adam Becker got it. Ben Greenjar, our expert here on getting that. All right, are the ladies ready over there? We'll find out. Let's head on over.
    57:40
    See whether that was their warm-up or if that is ball one. looks like warm-up because they are on ball too so um this metallica a little bit different than the ones you're used to playing out in the street those inline targets are deactivated in the graveyard so uh you need to go up and uh make a connection with that spot target in the back in order to qualify that shot also talk about the different settings than your settings are a little bit different in the fact that you need 15 hits on sparky in order to get your sparky multi-ball uh taking that out of play for some players i went for it i got it definitely uh bash because if you go up the there's there's three spots on that sparky and if you hit the center i believe it counts as two hits so um just be accurate and uh crank it up over here in this shot typically um you uh boy how do you explain this without making it too long uh you have a shot your shot has a red light on it that is your shot um when you hit say the snake it will give you the snake when you hit sparky it will give you the spark when you hit up into there it'll give you your little cross um you get all those and um that shot then will give you one of each of those every time you hit that shot that's kind of what you're doing on this game uh you only need to collect five of each of these four down here in order to uh get into crank it up yeah which is lower than normal so it brings that into play versus a lot of other games, you may not be able to get to it in time. So expect here to see the ladies going for that. And that is a no-ball save on that Metallica.
    59:44
    She sticks with it until the ball is being calculated. I like that because you never know. You know what? Hop back out of there. That is not a dumb thing to do. Unfortunately, with the display being the way it is, we're not unable to really see the scores clearly. It is three games to two, Hannah. um oh that was an operator fatigue is a factor at this point i mean yeah that's when you do one of these and tap yourself and no yeah my bad okay ball two ever so often these great mods that we have uh can hinder us in the broadcasting half and this is one time where it is those i guess red or purple scores look great out there but nice nice oh that's yeah yeah that's not right though that was player one's in that 2.75 million and i think karen's gonna go ahead and let that game settle just a bit think about her life choices here did you say hannah is up three two Yes. So she wins this game. She is our women's ladies champion. World champion. Absolutely. You got payouts on that, Petey? I don have the exact ones but the first was 17 and second was four Something like that 1 Huh Hmm Oh 400 per second Something like that Well, we'll find out. I know I did a little crowdfunding for that and brought in some extra funds. Well-deserved. Again, I mean, the field this year is so incredibly strong. And I know so many great women's players out there that are not even here this weekend. so um who did some crown funding you did no the uh oh the ipa yeah the ipa for the women's champion world championship and and people volunteered and i feel like a fool for not knowing who hopefully somebody in the chat can remind us um i know one example um one of the ohio leagues uh put money into this and they sent out two or three players out here for this tournament yes miss amy was out here representing ohio uh keystein i believe michelle was from ohio as well and uh yes that's right uh amanda which amanda case okay unfortunately my ohio uh knowledge is limited i am a columbus area only so here we go first place 17 and trophy and pinball topper and title of world women's world pinball champion second 440 uh 320 for third and 200 for fourth solid and we said louise took third and uh i think she won yeah louise has third and carrie took fourth that's right carrie wing all right and it's got a little bit to come back on here it's looking like she's got about two mil right now she's just doing a little sparky bashing let's see if it's enough is it enough need a little bonus they're both okay anybody want to game seven okay game seven why not wow this another great match and hannah will get choice four three i mean we've we've seen like oh yeah seven out of the last eight go go the distance very impressive Hannah all day six games seven games we'll see if we can get someone to find out what game Hannah is going to choose for game seven royal guard royal guard yeah yes game that i warmed up on i really enjoyed looks like they are stepping up could it be another abracadabra game seven we'll have to see no it literally is royal guard we have not seen royal guard all day wait a minute are you kidding that's really yeah look right there what do you see well i warmed up on it i liked it i thought it uh i'd never seen it before and uh that played all right let's see if they're warming up on it wow holy cow here it is folks there it is okay royal guard was having issues earlier today and they took it out but apparently during the day it has been repaired and our final game of the world women's pinball championship will be played on it all right i'll give you what i know uh which isn't much there are four spot targets located right here the unique thing about them is they move they sit or they're sitting right now and if you can see even though i drew a line over it these lights are lit. That's where the spot targets are, right there. Okay? Will you erase that, Petey?
    65:30
    If you hit those targets right now, they will take out one of those lights in the light targets. They correspond with the four targets that are up here by a color. Every time you hit these, they move and switch over just like that. Now those spot targets become responsible for the four-color bumpers. so you're lighting the four targets up there and you're lighting these four bumpers that's what you're doing throughout this game um one of the important things and i don't know how it happens is you light this and it's 500 when you drain and it's one of those games where you sit and go well should i play the game or should i let it drain you heard it here first folks the breakdown Not sure what that's all about, but I can tell you that the slings are crazy. You've got, you know. Sling, sling. You've got those crazy long slings that will walk up, hit those spot targets on the side, and you want to make sure you avoid them from going out.
    66:36
    All right, did they do their warm-up, or is that what she's doing? Delzapo says, here we go, only a $1,300 game of Royal Guard, no big deal. John representing shout out to all the Ohio folks my goodness what time is it out there 10 30 11 30 12 30 1 30 out to Thursday night okay got the 500 right there so this looks like to be her game not her warm up
    67:13
    So she will have hit one of the lights on the spot targets. That's rough. Notice how she's collected two of the bumpers and two of the bumpers are lit. She's collected one of the targets. The red target is lit. So that's what you're working towards in this game. um and there you go there stayed in play see and again do you let it go down and take the 500 or do you sit and grind and get another one and a quarter as player one you grind you grind you have to keep playing of course so now kick over to the there you go that's nice take that.
    68:05
    She's on ball five now. Yep. I warmed up on this today and actually had a really long game on it. I was having fun. So by long you mean like two and a half minutes instead of 30 seconds. In the EM world it seemed like an eternity.
    68:29
    As with many of these games Just keep it alive. Keep grinding and just keep hitting shots. Okay, both of you. You're going to get a five-hundred. And she finishes up with 27-26. Very respectable. Yeah, that's solid.
    68:47
    All righty. That's the score. That's not a chicken. That's actually a two. Okay. There we go. There's our number. And we'll see if they did a warm-up before.
    69:05
    Behind us discussing what happens if the game ends in a tie. Josh has said the match will start over.
    69:11
    Seven more games. All right. Seven games of Royal Guard? All right. Karen is up, and I'm guessing they must have done their warm-up earlier. So this is her game.
    69:30
    Those funky, funky moving spot targets. She collected one target, the red light. There we go. What I wish I could tell you is how to light that center 500.
    69:46
    I'll wait and see. Hey, all that up. See? Look at what she's doing. She's trying to build up. No, that was her warm-up. Oh, that was a really good.
    69:57
    Oh, you can tell because the headphones weren't on, Josh Sharp says. I'll tell you what, that was actually a really, really good start. So, Karen, do that again.
    70:08
    But that's what you do. Sit and grind on those spot targets and try and get your pop bumpers and your spot targets lit.
    70:21
    Looks like she's going to plunge out all five balls. She's going to have to power cycle that again. I would.
    70:30
    Getting her music ready. Say it. Way more stressful once you, like, walk right there. There shouldn't be a ball.
    70:44
    Would you like to be that guy? But it was power cycle. It doesn't matter because it's a piece of crap. Oh, she hasn't? Wait. Zach to the rescue.
    70:59
    You can do it. Oh, it's twitching. All right. Okay, got to get the ball to the trough so that we can start a real game here.
    71:23
    Ball one. we are ready all right here we go you see the score on the screen to beat 27 26 it all comes down to this that's helpful take that let's get a few more of those 50 point letters up there
    71:42
    she's going right back to doing what she did during her warm-up oh that looks oh that's look at that oh that's tough but that's all right all two don't hit that d yes it's something else oh but if you're gonna get the d get lots of d's Well, it's staying up top there.
    72:16
    That's getting me some. It should be noted for the folks at home, tilt ends game, which means that if she rocks it too hard, it's done. I mean, that's it, 1,300 bones. Yeah.
    72:27
    Now, the good news is. Oh, look at that. Nice. Well, because you got those rubbers. Yep. You can't flip solid.
    72:36
    Oh, that stayed in. Nice. Wow. She got two of each. She's got two pop bumpers and two spot targets lit already.
    72:46
    I want to watch and see. Get that other 500 lit. There we go. There it is. Oh, nice. I feel like I, the tiger, should be playing. You can listen to her headphones. You know, it might be. That might be. Listen to her headphones. Ball three. We'll ask her after. It's growing so quiet here.
    73:05
    Game seven. Oh, don't. Don't. Don't tilt. Okay, two balls to get about a thousand change some change bounce nice You're gonna get two over 500 inner center 500 lit so at this point yeah
    73:31
    Two more Like that smart good plunge. She can get that hundred full say now. She's good out the left out lane and no she ain't well i'm just saying that you know left out late in the center are all fives and you like those 500s by getting your abcde targets up top okay until she gets a 22 it's
    73:55
    i thought it was ball four no it's ball five oh this is it oh man oh that's what you wanted now 500 drain will win it yep she's got four out of five oh Oh, God, this is scary.
    74:13
    So it has to go on the left of the left. It would have to go left, left to not get 500. If she looked up, she could see it. Yeah, she would just let it go.
    74:23
    She's okay. That's going to do it. And that'll do it. Congratulations. She won. Karen Kaiser, the 2018 IFBO Women's Pinball Champion. Wow. What a remarkable game.
    74:41
    That was outstanding. Every semifinal and final match went to seven games. And we don't currently have any games going on right now. I'm hoping that we can maybe get Karen over here for a couple quick words. Yeah, let's go get our son. Yeah, I'm going to take a break and we'll get Karen in here. do some interviews with both our uh first and second place i think that sounds great and we can get hannah over here first and then karen and i believe we've got a handheld mic somewhere wireless oh look at that i'm not sure if it's there but i'm not sure if it's hooked up so she can sit between us yeah you don't bite the headphones on at least i don't think you bite perfect Well, and if we can get a camera and a mic on it, it would be great to get some words during this presentation. Looks like we're going to be handing out all four places. Oh, okay. They'll talk to Karen. Yeah, we'll talk to both of them. I'd like to have Hannah and Karen if we can.
    76:04
    We could. And we could see it. Yeah, that would be really cool. Alright. Is this a warm up or is this Carl playing right now?
    76:17
    Oh, good lord. Looks like he's got a little... How's your left off? Carl D'Angelo. Semi-final match. Player two, ball two.
    76:36
    Waiting to see who goes forward to play. Who advanced? It was Raymond. Mr. Raymond Davidson beat Colin McAlpine. And that means Colin and the loser of this match will play a bronze match to play third and fourth. Yes, Neil. The drops are disabled on this Metallica.
    76:59
    Right before the tournament started, they had issues with them, so they disabled them, which no bonus X. All right. We're getting ready for a presentation here for the women. Can we put the camera on that's in here?
    77:20
    Can you do that, Petey? There's stuff going on. Can you change to the phone? What camera? Oh, there you go. Yeah, change it to me. If you can get Carl, I don't know how to do it. Somebody go get Carl. He should be on the list. He should be on the camera list. Yeah, try scene 16. I mean, I would have said. Let's see. so let's see what we got oh here we go yeah that's right on point yeah that's the camera for the that'll work if you want to stand in front of it yeah there you go hey ladies and gentlemen Andy Kaufman Josh Sharp.
    78:15
    Wow. And pinball were very organized. It's not on. Check. What? Do you mind? No, I don't care. Is it working? Yep, you're hot. You're hot. We'll talk and we'll do it. All right. Yes. Yeah. Fourth place. She's gone. The rest of us are still here. It's too late.
    79:01
    Carrie Wing. Yay. $200. Give it up for Carrie. She will be photoshopped into the group picture tomorrow. Nice. Third place, $320, Louise Wagonsoner. Hey-o.
    79:19
    That's for you. Congratulations. So Chris Chin is taking pictures. Congratulations, Chris Chin, IFPA photographer. I hope your rates are tight. Oh, yeah. In a trophy. I made this.
    79:39
    Outstanding. Great play all day by Louise. She did. Second place, $440. A topper of her choice from Stern Pinball. Based on what's in stock. Walking Dead. Limited supplies may vary. Walking Dead.
    80:01
    Maybe. Is she going to sell it to you and cash out? No, I'm just saying, if you can get that.
    80:07
    Hannah Hatch. And a trophy that I made. Nice job. Here you go, Hannah. You ready for this? No. All right, we're done. Taking home $1,700. Wow. Unless you guys did any pregame split or no. Wow.
    80:40
    Fierce. Vicious. Whoa. Yeah. Stern Topper from Stern Pinball. Limited supply may vary. a trophy and the title of Women's World Champion Karen with a Y Kaiser. Yay!
    81:04
    Thank you, Chris. That's good. I'm excited for you. I'm pleased to help. You also get to sign the banner and take it home with you if you want. Really? No, you can't. We're getting rid of all your stuff.
    81:26
    Watch the signature here, then we'll head back over to the... I'm not taking it.