SDTM: Twipys Award Show 2017

Straight Down the Middle·video·1h 16m·analyzed·Jan 20, 2018

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TL;DR

SDTM hosts inaugural Twippies Awards 2017, celebrating community-voted best games, mods, and content.

Summary

Straight Down the Middle hosts Zach Minney and Greg Bone present the inaugural Twippies Award Show 2017, created by This Week in Pinball (Jeff Patterson) to celebrate the best pinball games, mods, and community content released in 2017. The show features custom trophies, sealed envelope reveals, and community-voted awards across 13 categories including best animations, best toys and gimmicks, best YouTube channels, and game of the year. Dialed In (Jersey Jack Pinball) emerges as a major winner, while the hosts emphasize the event as a celebration of the entire pinball community's creative efforts.

Key Claims

This Week in Pinball is referred to as 'the Wall Street Journal of pinball' and is used as a reference by podcast people
medium confidence · Greg Bone explaining the origin of This Week in Pinball's influence on the pinball community
Jeff Patterson from This Week in Pinball approached SDTM about hosting a physical award show after the November/October Pinball Expo
high confidence · Greg Bone describing the origin of the Twippies collaboration
All new machines from 2017 (and Batman 66 from December 2016) were eligible for Twippies awards
high confidence · Greg Bone stating eligibility rules for the award show
Community voted to exclude remakes and vault editions from competing against new titles
high confidence · Greg and Zach discussing the decision to only feature new games after community input
Dialed In won best toys and gimmicks, with features including motorized drones, quantum feeders, and a camera that takes pictures displayed on screen
high confidence · Zach and Greg announcing Dialed In's win and detailing its toy features
Dialed In also won best theme integration for its two original theme wins
high confidence · Hosts announcing Dialed In winning best theme integration category
Steven Bowden suggested the name 'Twippies' (This Week in Pinball yearly awards) at Jeff Patterson's request
high confidence · Greg crediting Steven Bowden for naming the awards
Christopher Franchi voluntarily created the Twippies logo and offered his work to the award show
high confidence · Greg describing Franchi's unsolicited contribution to the award show

Notable Quotes

“This Week in Pinball is the Wall Street Journal of pinball”
Greg Bone@ 2:23 — Establishes the credibility and industry influence of This Week in Pinball publication
“Every single machine that rolled off that line this year is a piece of art... there's blood, sweat and tears in this stuff”
Greg Bone@ 8:01 — Sets the tone for recognizing all manufacturers and designers despite competitive voting
“We're celebrating all of pinball with the Twit... whether you got the least amount of votes or the most amount of votes, you're taking the time to make pinball great”
Zach Minney@ 9:16 — Emphasizes the inclusive community nature of the awards
“I will buy a machine based solely on theme... I like Lethal Weapon”
Zach Minney@ 29:33 — Reveals personal collecting philosophy and acknowledges divisive theme choices
“These YouTube guys... you know what I watch every day... without all of you guys there would be... we wouldn't gotten started”
Zach Minney@ 36:48 — Demonstrates gratitude to content creators and acknowledges SDTM's own origins
“We had a lot of controversy and pinball a lot of stuff kind of set us back in the Hobby, yes a lot of stuff really propelled us forward”
Greg Bone@ 45:15 — Acknowledges 2017 as a mixed year with both challenges and growth

Entities

This Week in Pinballorganization Straight Down the MiddleorganizationZach MinneypersonGreg Boneperson Jeff Pattersonperson Steven Bowdenperson Christopher Franchiperson

Signals

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event_signal: First annual Twippies Awards Show held in 2017, created by This Week in Pinball and hosted by Straight Down the Middle with 13 voting categories, custom trophies, and sealed envelope reveals
high · Greg and Zach explain the origin story, structure, and execution of the inaugural Twippies event
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community_signal: Community-driven award voting emphasizing inclusivity; hosts stress celebration of all manufacturers and creators regardless of placement
high · Both hosts repeatedly emphasize that the awards celebrate all pinball community members and highlight the effort in all machines and content
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sentiment_shift: Hosts note 2017 as mixed year with both controversy and forward momentum; suggest competition among manufacturers improving game quality
medium · Greg states 'We had a lot of controversy and pinball... lot of stuff really propelled us forward... competition's are getting really really good right now'
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content_signal: Extensive YouTube pinball creator ecosystem with 20+ channels receiving votes; hosts identify YouTube creators as essential to community growth and SDTM's own inspiration
high · Full list of YouTube channels provided with voting recognition; hosts credit creators as foundational to their own show
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design_innovation: Dialed In recognized for innovative toys including motorized drones, quantum feeders, and on-screen camera photo display; represents advancement in mechanical/digital integration
high · Zach and Greg praise Dialed In's multiple novel toy features including camera that displays mug shots on DMD

Topics

Twippies Award Show 2017 inaugural event and structureprimaryThis Week in Pinball publication and industry influenceprimaryCommunity-voted awards across 13 categoriesprimaryDialed In's multiple award wins and innovative toy featuresprimaryPinball mod community and aftermarket productssecondaryYouTube content creators and their influence on the pinball communitysecondaryOriginal vs licensed themes in modern pinball gamessecondaryCelebration of all pinball manufacturers and creative contributorssecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.85)— Hosts maintain enthusiastic, celebratory tone throughout. Emphasis on community unity and appreciation for all creators. Minor acknowledgment of 2017 industry 'controversy' but framed as part of growth. No significant criticism of games or manufacturers; all winners and nominees praised.

Transcript

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good evening pinball community what is happening everybody my name is Zack this is Greg what's happening Greg this is it's the night tonight is the night thank you guys thank you we're already starting like that hell yeah I'm actually not very many again so no I'm not loose [ __ ] all right I'm feeling good I'm feeling we've been excited for this night for at least a month now haven't we yeah yeah hell yeah it's nice it's really nice can everybody hear us okay yeah the stream we'll make sure everything's nice audio chick-chick-chick microphone cheer always well great look at those fancy Jake Thank You Johnny demonic you know we uh it is an award show so we have to dress up right you know let's sound good we're good is everybody ready for this [ __ ] myself thank you Ron Jeff he's probably freaking out right now we're gonna let people get into the chat and everything please logging in we've got a curse drop a quarter and it'll be full a quarter you all right Greg I'm ready to start this [ __ ] I am what time is it everybody in yeah I think I think there's a lot of people in there by partying tonight everybody have a good night mm 17 Twiggy's baby double danger Oh what's up dead Flip looking good Jim thank you sir thank you thank you yes yeah thank you all right Greg so let's start off with telling the people how this awards show even started how it began all right over the last year you guys we have all fallen in love with a website called this week in Pindell yeah this week in pinball also known as twit yeah right so over the last year Jeff over at twit has compiled the beauty of this website and a lot of people were doing some similar stuff but boy oh boy this guy is consistent every single Monday you're gonna get you're gonna have the newest news and pinball breaking news news you haven't necessarily heard it it's there that's writing so much so that I think all the podcast people are using this as reference it is the Wall Street Journal and pinball really is so over the last year we've fallen in love with this week in pinball he on Thursday he develops different interviews different exclusives he's bringing us a lot of stuff so I think around was in November maybe end of October after Expo he says to himself you know what we need a pinball best of a greener yeah so he reached out to you guys the pinball community and he said what do we want in this kind of show so we get a lot of suggestions from you guys what she was very thankful for I was gonna pass that on and he got a list of different things that viewers pinball people hobbyists coin op people were gonna vote on to say the best of 2017 which we needed there's an award show for everything that's why not pinball pinball is making a comeback been growing pinball is freaking fantastic so it's why not have an award show I agree with you man so so I I'm I'm we're friends with Jeff yeah I was talking to on the phone he was like yeah I think I'm gonna do this I was like dude kick-ass idea I love that you're gonna people can go and vote and it's exclusive so you can only vote once yes so it's not gonna be a fan fest of just people over but mentally so he did that he threw it up there people started voting and I you know what I didn't I called him and I said Jeff buddy old pal and he always knows he's like what's that what do you want what do you want saying and I said this is a great idea Jeff you're brilliant but you know what this needs and he said what do you want Zach and I said this thing needs an award show right and that's where we step did that's where we stepped in said let us do this well let us do this SDTM style and give you more than just a monday artist and jeff was hesitant he was rightly so it was rightly so I mean it's us it's not I'm surprised we haven't messed this thing up but yeah so he said what are you thinking about he was hesitant and I said here's what I'm thinking and boy oh boy man I already this print I lay out this whole thing and he said you know what Zach I love that idea why don't you run with that idea so over the last two months yourself myself and Jeff have been working and working and working trying to prepare it doesn't seem like a lot now we're preparing for this we wanted to bring you the best award show that we could and so right on a miniscule pinball budget and the highest quality that we could and the funnest show that we could and we hope that weird what's more fun than Lethal Weapon 3 in the background all right so little disclaimer here so he decided that the new games that are shipping to customers in 2017 were eligible for these prestigious awards yes oh my gosh oh the people oh look at this beauty you actually are getting oh look at this shining paint free let twit award so the winners will be sent a badass Twitter Ward that's right can't you picture like 12 of these lined up Oh or just like you like you little golden globes or your little Oscars lined up I'm jealous I want one of these I know it is beautiful okay so all new machines for the year of 2017 were eligible that being said he also included December of the previous year with Batman 66 because that really just kind of came out so remakes and bold additions everybody was asking what about remakes what about vault additions it's going to be determined each and every year based on the input from the community from you guys and whether or not they really differentiate themselves as remakes or vaults mm-hmm from the original right yes exactly things like you picture attack from Mars yeah masterpiece yes I'm very much so but is it really fair to vote that as best our best code of 2017 when it was released back in the 90s exactly so the pinball community spoke they said overwhelmingly no let's keep new stuff so we're gonna do that that might change your after year if something significantly changes agreed it might be eligible but the moral of the story the base the the end of the stores gonna be new games like new titles it's gonna be up to you guys yeah guys are the ones we're the community service awesome all right now the other disclaimer how we doing good everybody's doing good good so here's the other deal pinball will they say pin balls hard don't they pinball is hard and all pinball is I'm playing Mad Libs a [ __ ] sorry chill dude no all pinball is fun it is it's awesome so people were thinking well why are you raiding this it's like app inside 100 people you know this it's all subjective why are you doing this yes and it is subjective it but it is fun it's something it's something it's an addition to pinball something additional for us to watch is something additional for us to have fun with yeah it's something additional for us to sink our teeth into and fulfill that that that hole that is always there with pinball that's why we watch you too this way watch twitch that's what we watch everything that we can to to consume as much pinball as we can and this just adds to that consumption that's true in it it also what it does without getting too hokey here it kind of unites us as a team of pinball lovers yes it really says with that being said as we are revealing some of these things everybody needs to keep in mind every single machine that rolled off that line this year is a piece of art yes every single one of them took sweat blood I guarantee there's blood on the stern floors there's blood there's blood sweat and tears in this stuff every single pinball podcaster every single YouTube show every single pinball media content yeah puts a lot of time and soul and effort into the people who don't stream or make youtube videos it's hard to conceive the amount of time that those streamers and YouTube videos everything of what goes into all that so it's not only is pinball hard and pinball is rough to make and it's hard to get right for designers and artists and everything else but it's hard for the people that's bringing you that game playing bringing you that entertainment they put countless hours and hard work into that and this gives a recognition to those people yeah regardless of whether you win or not they it you or if your favorite machine Windsor exactly we all are working hard to make this at the end of the day we're celebrating all of pinball with the twist that's what the twit piece is gonna be year after year it's gonna be a celebration of pinball I don't care if your last place or first place Damon you made a machine and you're here and people love your product exactly whether you got the least amount of votes to the most amount of votes for your podcast who cares you've taking the time to make pinball great and to grow the hobby yeah it's exactly what we want so for you guys thank you so much just tuning in for supporting this also the pinball hobbyists oh our family thinks we're crazy yeah right so you're taking away time from your jobs and from different stuff to be part of this group called pinball yeah so for that thanks guys all right so beautiful good job all right and we cannot begin this beautiful beautiful twiggy's 2017 show without saying thank you we got some thank yous to give yes all right number one where did the twig name come from well anytime somebody in pinball names something it comes from one man and one man only a very fun fellow oh he's smiling beautiful beautiful man Steven Bowden Steve Bell not you a Steve bound on fun with bonus he's got his pinball dictionary Jeff from this weekend pinball kind of reached out there and said what should we call this thing and of course in true Steven Bowden fashion he's got a name just like that and he says let's call it the twigs yes and the twigs you say well twip why is this week in pinball yearly Awards yes so from here on out it is called the twigs and that's because of you Steven Bowden thank you so much thank you so much your name check out check out fun with bonus com all right who else we gonna think we're gonna thank a guy that we have a lot of respect for yes very much one of the greatest pinball artists yes in my opinion the great Christopher Franchi Christopher Franchi he created the the fantastic twibell ogo that the Gaza yeah you guys saw one of them when you were sitting there waiting first whereas franchis worker now did Jeff had to have to beg Christopher Franchi to do it no Fran she said hey look Jeff I really like what you guys are doing I like those knuckleheads over SDTM can I make you guys a logo and you disabusing it yeah and that's so nice of a guy yes so friendship baby love you thank you so much yeah so much also I don't know if he's he knows we're gonna say this but we've got to thank Jeff at this weird symbol don't wait the very much so yes guy honestly this is no BS I'm afraid of so I can tell you there's so much work yeah into developing it's every Monday every other day every Tues hard it's a lot of interviews very much and he is the most humble man ever so Jeff I really have to thank you buddy for doing as much as as much as you do with the website and with all of this very much last I gotta thank family and friends definitely family and friends thanks to my family for dealing with me in my pinball addiction very same low Thank You family Thank You Chester Thank You girls so Zack let's kick this [ __ ] let's do it this week in pinball presents and SDT and pinball production looked with the awards 2017 oh yeah oh yeah is everybody ready for these awards they're supposed to get them pumped oh yeah I'll try to but you know all right so before we get into the first category we're gonna list the nominees for you guys if if you guys want to see these visual you can go on this weekend pinball and follow along there Jeff is also gonna have this as a Monday article we're gonna have a follow up video as well nominees this year for the 2000 include Aerosmith beautiful alien and dialed in yes of the galaxy escape [Music] I am total let's see if I can say this right total nuclear annihilation by Scott me see those are your nominees for this year's 2017 Twiggy's nice categories of achievement here is what you guys voted on you voted on best animations and display best light show favorite new pinball mod best theme best toys and gimmicks favorite pinball youtube channel best theme integration best sound and colos favorite pinball streamer best code and rules best playfield gameplay and layout favorite pinball podcast best artwork and last but certainly not least the Grand Poobah game of the year so as we're getting into it let's start with our first category Greg it is best animations and display and the way that we'd uh the way that we set this up is we're gonna show you the top three from every category we're gonna announce yeah we're going to show you guys the top three who made the top three and then we will open up that beautiful envelope we're going to announce all the nominees like we did and then we're gonna show you the top three from every category and then we're going to announce the winner with some sealed envelopes that we do not know at all who look upon Jesus look at that but they're custom yeah custom and we don't know who the winner is our clue Jeff sent them to a sealed we know the top three exactly that's it so let's start with best animations and display best animations and display [Music] Batman 66 by Capel pinball and stern in vault [Music] best animations and display Batman 66 bike Apple pinball and your machine a bit over the top position it's literally loving building stuff painting the stuff all the hand painting that's right molding it's it's a again another labor of love exactly for freakin pin balls and you know what I love seeing I love seeing that we've got a lot of Mazda go votes yes I'm gonna list all of them right now bear with me we got the 3d trans lights that came out we got the atomic pile for Batman 66 I think the mod couple did that I'm sorry if I'm wrong with these I love that mod we got the baby grew head by certain pinball shooter we've got the Batphone for Batman 66 a lot of Batman a really cool mom yeah but they're really helpful and I think it's the Batphone for Batman 66 they take this super Ellie and they say but let's make it even nicer exactly the Batmobile parachute pickup van got a vote or 14 or 20 million I don't know Batman 66 speaker lights by Yellowbird yes the Bram Stoker's Dracula coffin mod that was really yeah yeah chroma balls I don't I don't know chroma ball sorry chroma balls no chroma ball but girl the balls got a vote here somewhere are multiple vote I would like to chrome the place yeah rubber balls reach out to us cuz I want one I want to see chroma balls chrome chrome candy I like that clippy's of course if he's gotta have cliffie's color DMD releases they keep cranking those yeah comet LEDs yes machines love them comets preach LCD mod remake I think a couple people doing that but that was the one that was the crazy Bob sign for dialed in oh yeah the DMD extender Oh see a lot of competitions coming up flipping out pin balls Hobbit lockdown bar care that's needed it is so nice Ghostbuster slime river mob I hooked on pin more I like that too it's said that I know a lot of these ghostbusters center post everybody liked like sad a lot of people need that yeah especially on that machine that slippered feet ghostbusters firehouse yeah very beautiful Indiana Jones Adventure path mold very cool Jurassic Park t-rex mod you know I don't want to play to play favorites but stoppage in Jurassic Park laser if excuse Buster's topper that's a beauty it is we gave that away on the show thanks for laser if ik for that lighted speaker panels yeah lights and spinners on pro machines wait a minute is that oh yeah I was like wait a minute they just want pro machines to have spinners meltdown mirrors for ta mère blades mod father drink holders nifty LEDs pen graphics light up blades pinched stadium lights plasma pop bumpers those are those are cool play field protectors I think with a KD those pin sound red smoke which mod for wizards of Oz the Rob Zombie apron display the Rob Zombie mausoleum that's cool the sweet snack bar version 2.00 is cool very much always cool Time Bandits drop target add-ons yeah take a pro make it a premium guaranteed TNA lit side rails I tell you what hooked on people I want that TNA to put those lights out yeah on a very nice total light show we love that Oh totally show is you've had yeah change that pin that's right Tron Legacy playfield LCD monitor some special about that is guys a very exciting think flim bits does that move the walking dead Cleveland call-outs code that guy is a saint yes thank you for fixing that we really like that and I hope he's working on guardians yes under cab lighting vengeance mod on Star Trek that's our buddy beat me a very very fantastic product you have to have that first Star Trek 3 and walking Stay Puft Marshmallow Man by the measles freaking sick as always wow that's a lot of money and again every one of these people have put yeah I guarantee their heart and soul into those products so again yeah so what we're gonna do on this one we're gonna list the top five we did five we'll see I think I see check it out best new mama Oh awesome awesome freakin awesome mod ever yeah there's a there isn't one of them that I wouldn't put our machine yeah you should put them all on just random the walking Stay Puft just back there by the even that slow ass snagger that comes and picks up sorry alright so favorite new pinball mod the 2017 Twitty are you gonna do a little drumroll for us won't you call this one our buddy cuz I might not know what it says okay who is it the winner is ping stadium like this right pin stadium lives congratulate we know him we do congratulations Scott that was a big congratulation you know what that's a hell of a product let's be frank here you buddy you deserved that yeah very controversial motto say the least but I will tell you what man no he's got like watching Scott at Chicago Scott again like we've said about every other mod maker Scott works his ass off on three and he just non-stop in Chicago selling them damp in stadiums and it is a beautiful mod of I said system - yeah exactly an arm I said is actually on its way it's being shipped Zacks got already a couple on his machines and everyone's going on Houdini here yeah so I mean congratulate is a everybody did a fantastic job all five of those mods were fantastic but especially resolution flashes Europe it was great job Scott very much so sir all right you know what's next no but it's something oh okay now we're getting deep oh it's getting Deena to me theme and a pinball machine is every to me it I I loved important I will buy a refuse a machine based on theme I want to t2 is not a fan machine again I would buy a teacher solely based because he's now that's not nice it's not a bad machine that's Nigel's lethal weapon I like lethal weapon people hate it I like me some Mel Gibson and Danny Glover know that seems horrible alright so best thing who's gonna take this one hell no no this is terrifying we're hiding for it and real quick this is themed alone this isn't themed integration yeah this is completely just you see the theme what does a great pinball theme this year best theme Batman 66 [Music] Star Wars total nuclear annihilation [Music] okay okay me and Zack were discussing during that this is one that we literally hopefully they can't hear us we didn't check do not have any ID I think it is a complete toss-up between these three I think this is probably had to been one of the closest if I was gonna pass because I find all three of these to be oh I want three constellar maybe episode I game room is fine by me I agree but at the end of the day there's but one theme and my guess is but we'll see black card album the 2017 Twiggy's theme of the year is congratulations to stern pinball Star Wars guys see how itchy over there Dwight Sullivan with code yes everybody over a multi-billion dollar franchise like beloved by billions of people around the world like yeah you that is very cool me and I'm simple like us gave him a little heat because it's it's Star Wars that's tough that is tough great job on them but you know what that pin is grown on me quite people in it love that I do it is fun it is a tone you know what I've heard from a couple my routing buddies it's a hell of a nerd er [Music] alright on to the next one and this one this one's this is this is one of the things that we like this this is a lot about pinball I do too I like toys and gimmicks I love toys and give me I want to see that ball doing something I haven't seen to do very true very true so our next our next category is best toys and gimmicks best technology kinda in these toys very much so okay what are you thinking offhand what were some of the cool toys I kind of like dialed in how they had the 3d theater in there the magnets underneath I loved that I agree and I do like that Star Wars cool it is it is neither person I was actually what a little more impressed in person by and that didn't ec lock OH again it for you who have not played TNA oil the nisi lock is fantastic but the scoop right the scoop is a pig I can't Scott Danesi yeah that is not a scoop yeah it should just had a damn rod to just kick that bash your face cuz it's not it yeah but what about Harry Smith oh yes throwing a ball chair into a toy chassis shakes and then it drops them all out there's so many things in reality there's a big ol groove yeah like yeah then he's our balls don't trickle out the balls son listen careful with what you're saying here let's shoot the toys and gimmicks best toys and gimmicks Aerosmith by stern pinball [Music] Batman 66 by PayPal pinball and stern pinball [Music] dialed in by Jersey Jack temple no that's another tough one another tough one for damn sure yes I so subjective it's another just very subjective boys do you like exactly I kind of like to see an Aerosmith sneak in there I do too cuz I mean you know yeah it's been out for a little while now came out the beginning last yeah it is a [ __ ] guys have played Aerosmith yeah it's a solid game bear solid for sure so so who's gonna win this okay 2017 best toys and gimmicks yeah and the winner is dialed in dialed in Jersey Jack with another win congratulations sir and I think for that one we've got to say Bravo not on best toy or gimmick but best toys and yes multiple things going on you've got drones flying around well Morgan's you and ask for most people just think a little drone in there but with the motorized part doesn't mean and and the quantum feeders we're missing the biggest toys again that's never been done pinball resin little things been done there is a camera that takes your picture and displays it on the screen who doesn't love that especially especially when you're ugly people especially Barcade you having a good time and it also didn't start snapping pictures of you and they're like mug shots it sounds like you've been there [Laughter] [Music] oh you guys nice job you're not very smart with dialed in great job our next one oh this one's a little near and dear time it is very new yeah so this next category is favorite pinball YouTube channel now I'm what I'm gonna do here's what I'm gonna do great there's so many people yeah that's been their time and make youtube videos so I think it would only be right to thank you guys personally for making these because you know what I watch every day I'm one of them I do too that's no [ __ ] I watch every single one of them without all of you guys there would yes we've gotten started yeah we would have known where to start we wouldn't know what to do without you guys so let's list off some of these YouTube channels definitely and what I love about this is if you guys haven't heard of some of these people that gives you an opportunity to log in and watch it exactly subscribe to him yeah so we've got the listed or the the YouTube pinball channels that got votes this year nominees in the 17 include 904 pinball sign all Castle games Buffalo pinball slash bro to you even pinball Chris Buchi coast-to-coast pinball dead flip dr. John and Emily Carlson everybody likes ya John they do Falcon 55 Frankie silver ball GRC with rain Mike great American pinball ooh one of my faves ie pinball oh yes quality their John's arcade Papa everybody loves the Papa videos yes a pinball undesirables or buddies over a PBU pinball mafia pinball mayhem pinball [ __ ] hey I'll tell you what though that is one that I will be checking out after this stream I will check out pin [ __ ] another one I really like pinball supernovae yes Richmond pinball sevens pin balarama slam tilt spider one a straight down the middle of pinball show paddy Adams the Canadian arcade those guys are cool yeah this flippin podcast love those guys Tim balls with those tutorial yeah good Oh or good old friend Todd tucky hey Todd and Zen studios very much so that's a lot of good ones let's see who made the top three nominees for YouTube pinball show YouTube pinball Chandler Buffalo employee [Applause] sup guys here's okay yeah he's got a little crazy there everybody rush the game so alright so we're gonna get this going I think we're good let's play some pirates alright guys welcome this world watching the stream McClane could the Manny bubble pinball be got yes see you wanna kick it up man papa professional and amatuer pinball Association [Music] hey it's Bona we're here at Papa to play some walking dead pinball one of the newest machines from CERN and we've got the brand-new 1.41 code loaded on to it we'll explore some of the modes in this game and try to get to the the horde the last man standing in the terminus modes that are now available for wizards yeah I tend to have difficulty with this game let's give a shot and see how far we can get down the middle a pinboard super broken stagger I know those guys I know those guys too again three great youtubers I did I vote I voted for Papa I didn't vote I didn't go for us but I'm a bread man holy [ __ ] Zak we made it and I'm reading some of your comments I'm reading some of your comments we have no chance to win but top three we have a chance to win but we're actually we were blown away that we're in top three thank you I've been going at it for ten months now very much so but again let me remind you guys we are only the hosts we had no way of knowing who the winner is we definitely [ __ ] against pop on Buffalo you have a stop talk I want to see okay that's you - hell yes oh thank you sir thank you and thank you again Oh Mike again the other people like the pop of videos like they are my go-to video to watch when I need to know about a machine I love me some pros and the bro guys man they are some they have become good friends of ours and and if we need info down but if we need help with anything or we need anything we can easily just think they are they help us and again you know they gotta check out their YouTube show they do Brody even bobble those freaking shows we're huge inspirations for us but thank you viewers like X I'm gonna read I'm kind of like yeah I don't freaked out a little bit ah we need to drink after those stuff yeah we do oh oh Greg get a beer Greg's gotta be sir I've got some beers I'm ready for the beers Oh pull pin it down I've got some with pulp all right let's move on to best theme integration I'm still yes I'm a little best theme integration all right we've got a lot of integrated pinball machines only yes we do all right Sullivan are you ready to show the people the top yes three best themed integrated pinball machine sir no you know we love integration best theme integration Batman 66 bike a pal pinball and stern pinball [Music] dialed in by Jersey Jack pinball [Music] total nuclear annihilation by Scott Zanussi and spooky temple [Music] all right there you have it best theme in Greece but you know what I like I like the TNA had best theme integration because there was no how do you judge that but it's it's so integrate well yeah it seems the purpose happens you're going for that that eighties with that story yeah yeah that's wonderfully in a bit freaking capture the machine looks like it came from open then you hear that again so the winner reiteration theme integration I messed up your envelope guys guys they are running away with things this year it was dialed in is they're not crazy when you honestly think about how difficult it is and then two of the nominees the top three with original original themes for theme integration what does that say about pinball to you guys that says that originally the themes are not dead in pinball the whole that's a bold I don't think they're dead how in the hell do you have how do you have a TNA and dialed in and say that it is they were both fantastic very good job guys ah good job pinball was great this year it was good this year damn we had eleven here's the thing we had a lot of controversy and pinball a lot of stuff kind of set us back in the Hobby yes a lot of stuff really propelled us forward I think the competition's are getting really really good right now I think they're gonna be televised here soon man free love is hobbies yeah god I love ya I sleep for this stuff you know what is fantastic about this award show is it as voted on by the people it's it's it's there it's it's not some it's not some factory you know it's not some owners it's not it's it is the pinball community that votes on this it's not the the pinball foreign oppressed know in ball form press I'd like to think the pinball form brass are next I'm waving this thing right next I will lose a freaking out we've got best sound all else best sounding color with sound it would make it by Punk Reggie best sound and call that's a lot of really great sounding machines but let's see who the top three and I have I have I do have a favorite in this one oh and I really hold it because I do have a favorite that blows me away best sound in call-outs Batman 66 bike a pal pinball and stern pinball dialed in by Jersey Jack Pinto shoot the left total nuclear annihilation by Scott Denis Z and spooky thimble [Music] am I allowed to say dude what the hell is jeff gonna do now sorry Jeff what are you gonna do we got control of this thing my vote man is TNA hands down I'm gonna say aye aye aye I am I am blown away by the sounds on that pinball machine and not only the sounds but the sound system even the call-out so yes I hate to plug it but damn that is sick yeah lengthen the kollel oh it blows me away it has a nice subtle beat and then you plunge that bulb oh but again Batman it's not smile you know but again the fantastic yeah it's good what are you go wrong you can't go wrong with those clips you can't go wrong with that stuff and everything else what about crazy so the winner is for best pinball sounds oh well and call-outs 2007 twit be well-deserved total new chelation Scott Dunn easy and spooky bitty bow ball man wouldn't a straight move that is well deserved I would say that that was a runaway fight yeah like that was and you know what uh I think you all are doing a really good job voting see these are really good winners honestly due to you know that yeah that's always gonna be subjective it's never gonna be is gonna be some surprises but these are good I think they're good like I feel it - I completely agree okay so what are we moving on to now now this one here this again this a lot of hard work from a lot of people this is painstaking work at times we kept getting this damn system we're hunting right here is what freaked us out yes the next category is best pinball streamer and again we were so terrified about tonight because we're still learning everything there's always something to learn it seems like simple thing and you know there's probably some people out there pinball streamers like what are these dumbasses it's the simplest setup in the world they know what it is that's out of your control it is you have to you have to hope the Internet's not broke exactly you have to hope your operating system is working you gotta hope them too damn cheap cameras and everybody's using your sobriety pinball or working yeah it is it is friggin nut I've custom or as a streamer here recently than I have ever as anything and it is unbelievably hard to keep up that persona to keep up that enthusiasm of fun in the gameplay in the talk and chat play a decent game at the same time so we've got a lot of streamers that I'm gonna I'm gonna list every single one of them they got votes yes cuz they deserve that very much each one of you guys I've watched the read through these I've watched every one of them yeah every single one of them level okay of course we all know Buffalo pinball and bro do you even pinball Colorado collective love their space yes love their stuff a dead flip who doesn't love dead who doesn't know dead flip he is mr. pinball Donny Gillies (Dirty Donny) yes sir domine domino pinball that one too double danger yeah yeah handler burglar X ie pinball and Carl D'Python Anghelo Inc and moss lethal frags like badass band names like yeah Melbourne silver ball I think that's a head-to-head guys over there Michael Welsh I think it's pinball Mojave or a Mon Club mafia Neil McRae like an anonymous he just blew up TNA the other night double danger pinball sorry this is do a stream Oh double danger somebody wrote you there brother somebody likes something to be put out there there are another stream or popping a pinball live overseas yeah yeah we like him pinball mafia there's pinball mafia pinball undesirable yeah beginning pen daddy rage tilt pinball Richmond pinball yeah let us love these guys slam tilt yes stash yeah not to be confused with slash from Guns and Roses don't confuse that I would I know these guys straight down the middle of pinball show I love this and I Jeff I apologize into you I apologize if I get this wrong it just says that dude in Georgia if that's really your stream name that's what somebody wrote that dude in Georgia yeah like they didn't know his name just like I know this guy they called me about that Lord of the Rings moncla mafia this flippin podcast Tim Balz booth yeah wicked pissa all right so Rick you won't thank these people again for streaming yes for all your always watching and you know what it Tara Leigh it's not achieving the estimate to get into so you know not only these people do a lot of hard work but they they put a bit of a monetary investment into their their set up so let's see who are the top three pinball stream nominees favorite pinball streamer Buffalo pinball and throw to you even pinball featuring Nick Kevin mixer tuna and the rest of the gang seem on the screen what I've heard Charlie are the two best characters to pick are han Solo or there you go there it is crank it ups ready get in there [Music] dead flip featuring Jack danger professor you figured out the clipper code how's it doing I'm Jeff danger of dead flip Chuck's gonna take care of my lady when I'm gone I'm not gonna survive the trip to Australia ladies and gentlemen straight down yeah what we didn't that was all my fault on this dude again oh we gotta go through that again guys I apologize I got heavy fingers favorite pinball streamer Buffalo pinball and throw to you even pinball featuring Nick Kevin mixer tuna and the rest of the game seam on the screen what I've heard charlie are the two best characters to pick are Han Solo Luke there you go there it is crank it ups ready get in there [Music] dead flip featuring Jack danger professor you figured out the clipper code how's it doing I'm Jeff danger of dead flip Chuck's gonna take care of my lady when I'm gone I'm not gonna survive the trip to Australia ladies and gentlemen straight down the middle of pinball show future exact Greg and Chuck worked hopefully everybody liked it we'll we'll see you next week and we'll talk about all the house battles and details for every house how to beat them all that good stuff so thanks for watching everybody maybe it's the man fair favorite entertainment thank you guys for voting but yeah it's sorry for the mess up I hover over the button my finger touched it all right Greg best streamer be 2017 to Whoopi goes to this is hard buddy dead flat damn nice job very very much deserved yeah that guy brings it yeah I lived it he loves it yes lives this I've seen that guy eat I've seen the guy you cereal some people bring you an expo dead flip brings you the restaurants and expo handling brings you the streets of Expo hey you know what even all stream you brings you a good time done Jack is crying Jackie D congratulations sir man this is really important to a lot of people especially in the last I don't know 10 years these things have been coming more and more complex that's right it's best code and rule set sorry there's a lot of butts and flippers going on right now and check a box of slippers in but I should have brought my aviator so I could have done my JAC impersonation one more time but yeah congrat right now flippers and butts up in the chat right now hell yeah all right so best code and rules a lot of good code out there this yes a lot of good code I'm trying to think who I've got one that mmm I've got two or three let's see if they make it best code and rules dialed in by Jersey jack pinball code by Ted sd's Pat Lawler and team Star Wars by stern pinball code Dwight Sullivan and team total nuclear annihilation by spooky pinball and Scott Denis C code by Scott Danesi E and team okay suspects here yeah the pinball people are speaking which machines they really love yeah you're seeing the top three in a lot of categories very much so you know what I'm saying but the real question is who's got the best code and the winner is best code and rules for the 2017 quippy Awards is Donald's dialed in dialed in that's solid yeah there's a solid solid rule set it very much is it it's it's got good depth it's fairly difficult hit that SIM card it's a little rough that SIM card is tough and they've added co2 so you get to mini wizard mode it is not a spectacle it is very much circle I like I do too you know what that machine took me by surprise when it first came out and I still to this day every time I put a game on it I love it you know what I think it is crazy we're gonna go to best gameplay and play field layout essentially the design yes best this is difficult like who and how do you pick yeah all of these nominees ever look and what does it come down to dis have come down to a great shooter does it come down to good float does it come down to just fun factor like what the hell describes this this is the designers like this is the game designer this is tough this is tough let's see who makes the top three on best gameplay in playfield layout best play field gameplay and layout dialed in by Jersey Jack pinball's design Pat Waller starwars by Stern pinball design Steve Ritchie total nuclear annihilation by Scott Denis see and spooky involves design you may see there's been a few categories tonight that is literally like I think I got that one yeah yeah this one oh no clue I'm not gonna guess no me neither but I think all three of those are very deserving I agree I really think so so the Twitty winner for best layout in design 2017 is you know what I'm impressed oh my god darlin I hope so Jim is totally Jack I hope you're watching Jack somebody contact jjp because if they're not watching damn it they need to be watching we're taking all these team things away exactly I mean you know how you said how beautiful would it be to see all these line to play about - yeah jjp I'm telling you what don't take this [ __ ] lightly I expect when I do a factory tour that all of these are lying the other big when you walk is you know what this one for layout and design maybe in Pat Lawler's house hey vairy dress right very true very deserving it would be the nice thing to do I have Wohlers back you'd have to have a 12-foot shelf to already fit the wards on there as well get Pat his so I'm just saying that's right all right so very very good I like seeing Pat Lawler back in pinball making some machines and Tyler - I want to see what he's up to now I know yes okay let's move on and here's another category with some very passionate people that put in a lot I spend hours listening to pinball pond yes hours every one of you guys it makes a podcast yes my ass listens to it so before we go to the top three I won't list these guys now yes definitely all right got through tons of nominations you've got to have a list okay podcasts all of the nominees include [Music] arkaid heroes podcast blockade podcast breath do you even pinball dude like to even talk them all I do broken token podcast yes I like broken token local local does coast-to-coast pinball oh yes coin box podcast yeah mm-hmm Colorado pinball collective podcast big group over there eclectic gamers podcast is nice for amusement only podcast nice head-to-head pinball podcast with Ryan sayin all wrong we do we love those who died nights ooh another another entertaining podcast cañedo spin ice-cream McCann a doll the time but man I tuned in I did scream Adam I can't get enough of him little kings podcast New York City pinball podcast pinball players podcast yes pinball profile podcast pinheads podcast pinheads yeah skill-shot podcast the slam tilt podcast spooky pinball pod yeah yeah yeah love that straight down the middle of pinball Show podcast doesn't step up the kid named the Canadian pinball pond yeah yeah the pinball podcast simple enough yes very much the spinners lick podcast I don't like that yeah this flippin podcast yeah we like those guys this old pinball podcast and tilt through podcast 2/3 you need some more episodes congratulations to all of you for being nominated and keep up those podcasts you guys I can't tell you I cannot soak enough pot carry much so we're travelling or anything like that I love the podcast so keep them up we're gonna see more be weird but I listen to a lot of you guys when I'm in the shower that's weird yeah it's not just bored so I just listened to you in the shower roll the top three favorite pinball podcasts bro do you even talk pimble coming up on this episode of brody even talked pinball we're gonna review pinball in 2017 we're gonna go through all the latest news and updates and we're gonna review the brand-new guardians of the galaxy pinball machine by stern pinball incorporated all this and more coming right up head-to-head pinball podcast it is a it is a tourist trap because I can tell you that no one that I know in the the city freaking something alive has a kangaroo nutsack oh I love this thing man and tourist trap it's amazing do you think it's a good way that you have a scrotum sack from an animal like just you carry it around to keep your stuff to keep the coins they're gonna scratch my cellphone vanitas pinball podcast and I think this podcast has a tendency to go up and down up and down you know my mood swings back and forth but but I think I'm starting to realize the key to happiness in this hobby and it's not really hard it's not really hard once you let go of wanting to own stuff of wanting to just possess these rare items and all this like limited edition stuff you can start to be happier so the winner is the winner for the 2017 whippy Award for Best pinball podcast is no surprise the most controversial podcast in football [ __ ] congratulations kanata to that sorry I dropped that cañedo spirit I got a drop and that bomb with some beers alka-seltzer right now great great job we all love you we all hate you at the same time but you are so damn entertaining keep it up keep it out to the - guys it is keep those going because you are there for a reason please please keep again seriously it's no [ __ ] we listen to all three of them on a weekly basis yeah I'd rather hear them than me and I love me oh stuck in the freaking car for freaking three hours of this master alright next Oh best artwork artwork paintball is art it is art pinball is art what draws you into the machine the colors the lighting the word art art the characters it's the first thing you see yeah all of that yeah well that's what pulls you in yeah yeah is that bad glass lit up agreed that agree oh babe knit playfield this is pinball or so and there's a lot of good look Wow the really monastic category they're all lookers yeah out of all nine machine dealer this nipple so they're all look there's not a one of those machines that I don't think is gorgeous yeah I wouldn't mind any of them to play field or in my game room and I'm picky about our 100% agree and think about it on every aspect let's roll the top three pinball art best art [Music] Aerosmith pinball by stern pinball art by dirty Donnie [Music] [Applause] guardians of the galaxy by stern pinball art by Christopher Franchi Batman 66 by stern pinball art by Christopher Franchi [Applause] [Music] okay oh three gorgeous very deserving and you know what Stern boys yeah I'll start yeah Stern is seriously get some of the best artists right now that you could ask them trifecta yeah they like all they have dominated freakin art you know he did this is between two guys a big dirty the big big dirty he's probably not okay with it nothing's probably not but it's good I like it you got the big dirty with Aerosmith you got Christopher Francie for the double up to machines he's like I'm gonna show off for two machines in the Francey come on yeah that's a win already it is the 2017 Twiggy's award for best pinball art goes to colors are gorgeous the artwork motor the head is beautiful the playfield is beautiful can't go wrong with any of those no you cannot man so and I again it is one of those that no doubt those guys put in Chris and dirty B you guys put all kinds of effort into that [ __ ] I'm always looking forward to their next machine same as Yeti and all of that is one of the things that is I'm the most passionate about on a pinball which is sitting in your house yeah I consider it a work of art I did some donations trying to pull people into put in those quarters and dollars yeah art is a must yeah it's got to look good when you walk down and you see it no yeah walk into a room and you see it to me that's as important as how it plays I know that that's ludicrous but I I love that I'd love to show it off I like to show off my machines and show them the beautiful data Eastern seconds all right the moment you guys have all been waiting for [Music] you're gonna sing to these people our next category is the final category it is game so here we go people all right give me the year game of the Year Batman 66 by Kapil pinball and stern pinball [Music] total nuclear annihilation by Scott Denis Z and spooky pinball well do you want me to tell you what is the greatest thing that we could have ever hoped for for a game of the year what is that it is three three different companies yes how fantastic is that's really cool that is crazy so it is Stern versus Jersey Jack pinball versus spooky yes Wow what Mork that just shows the balance that we had this year in pinball it is we have great machines from great manufactures exactly it's not just one manufacturer yeah everybody it's not one person dominating the market what do you think they're gonna before we call this what do you think that they're gonna have in store for us next year 2018 we've got a lot of cool stuff a lot of it with the public nice yeah some of it we don't so now that we know and we're really excited about we are very much so guys please keep pinball there are some things that I've heard lately that just like literally just make me kind of tingle before we call it out we want to do our our end of the night plugs again my name is Zack this is great from straight down the middle of pinball show hello pinball channel we stream we do YouTube videos yeah mainly YouTube yeah it's a bit but that's our bread and butter we're on Facebook please follow us subscribe we really love doing this for you guys when we keep keep and inviting you into you're inviting us into your home so that we get all kinds of pinball content we got some Houdini stuff coming up I got a machine we got some interviews with that company American pinball I'd like to see some Houdini next year yeah 2018 I think that will it really seem like it's shaping up to be a faint idea to give a shout out to our Boychuk word that's right Chuck so Chuck you stream for us we appreciate it man check out his tutorial Chuck is the backbone of our art with junior unlike any other tutorials exactly my money on that so for the without further ado this is your 2017 twigs game of the year this is the big one you guys this is for all of the marbles Oh people get goosebumps okay I'll be a nice job ha Jorge Python Anghelo the big winds tonight is how wall are coming back original theme how brave is that and that's got to feel good to be gone for a while and then to come back and have such stellar success in the community you know what I'm saying yeah and I know a lot of people had their pride like what you know now then winning so many get Gru's but honest it's a phantom that game come out I mean there wasn't very much bad to be said about it like it blew people away honestly once they get their hands on I think we were all surprised by the theme yeah you sent me you went to Chicago when it was unveiled it's right here and uh uh you sent me video of and picture hugs right what is that what what are you talking about man what if I told you it was the 2017 award yeah exactly peace if we put our hands on that pin and from the very first time we put our hands on that pan we were we were blown away that's right like like we we gave it rave reviews we thought it shot a magazine we called it it was fantastic so again congratulations congratulations to Scott Danesi E and spooky party could you guys freaking epic brew on every front with that broad ever to a large manufacturing company yes those things are selling yes who say anything about that pin and last but certainly not least Stearns Batman 66 controversial at the beginning where's the code boom here's the code lime and does Han this thing is killing the pen that's making the come back then that's like rocky like it's coming back because it got such negative press at the beginning and now it's in the top three people for game of the year off this mission how fantastic is that that's crazy yeah I'm amazed by Greg I've had a freaking blast how did - I had a blast thanks for allowing us into your kiss to your twitch thank you Jeff at this week in pinball's we can definitely this hopefully he didn't he didn't a Cornish heart attack Jeff we love you buddy so until next year's 2018 twigs yes this is Zach and Greg from straight down the middle of pinball show have a good one we love you guys bye daddy's and Sega they're still good no God