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INDISC 2024 - Classics Target Match Play Playoffs - Quarterfinals

IE Pinball·video·1h 29m·analyzed·Jun 19, 2025
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TL;DR

INDISC 2024 Classics Target Match Play quarterfinals coverage with expert commentary on EM gameplay and tournament dynamics.

Summary

Coverage of INDISC 2024 Classics Target Match Play Playoffs quarterfinals at IE Pinball in California. Three commentators (Anna Neil, Hardy/Sean Ali Brisco, and Simon Peele from Australia) provide play-by-play analysis of matches on classic electromechanical games (Volley and Arena). Highlights include Ashley Weaver's participation (defending women's champion), discussion of tournament organization, streaming production quality, and detailed gameplay commentary on classic pinball strategy and technique.

Key Claims

  • Ashley Weaver won the women's INDISC tournament last year (2023), described as her first major win

    high confidence · Host Jeff Teolis speaking to Ashley Weaver at the beginning of the video

  • Ashley Weaver organizes Seattle Women's Super Weekend pinball tournaments, aiming for two per year similar to District 82's model but focused on women's events

    high confidence · Ashley Weaver directly describes her tournament organizing activities

  • Simon Peele is from Australia and competed in the pre-tournament on Wednesday despite jet lag from a 17-hour time difference

    high confidence · Simon Peele's direct statements about travel and jet lag during commentary

  • Karl DeAngelo and the IE Pinball team produce tournament streaming with professional esports-level production quality

    high confidence · Simon Peele and Anna Neil discussing the streaming setup and production at INDISC

  • Anna Neil and Hardy run a Twitch stream called 'Hot Nudge' focused on pinball streaming and have previously streamed the Women's Worlds tournament

    high confidence · Anna Neil directly states this about her streaming activities

  • Arvid (Swedish player) is ranked third in current IFPA world rankings

    medium confidence · Commentary notes rankings were recently updated and there was uncertainty about exact rank (initially said fifth, corrected to third)

  • Simon Peele noted that pinball tournaments in Australia don't have comparable production quality or streaming infrastructure to INDISC

    high confidence · Simon's statement comparing Australian pinball events to INDISC production

  • The quarterfinals use match play scoring of 4-2-1-0 points rather than the standard 3-2-1-0 format

    high confidence · Commentators discussing the scoring system for this round, noting it gives 'extra point for the winner'

  • Arena is a rare pinball machine, with Simon noting he has never seen one in Australia and the commentators emphasizing its scarcity

Notable Quotes

  • “It was my first major win. I don't know if you remember my interview was so ridiculous. But you know what? I get that kind of euphoria, that excitement.”

    Ashley Weaver@ 0:19 — Defending women's champion reflecting on the emotional impact of her previous tournament victory at INDISC

  • “No one really does it like Carl and the IE pinball team here. This is just, you know, immaculate setup.”

    Simon Peele@ 12:53 — International guest acknowledging the exceptional production quality of INDISC streaming and tournament infrastructure

  • “Fear the youth. They dominate a lot of these tournaments. They're so good.”

    [name withheld pending review]@ 19:52 — Observation about younger players' dominance in competitive pinball tournaments

  • “There's a really great ranking system and it's uh really works out who are the best players because you know you play enough games.”

    Simon Peele@ 24:02 — Comment on the effectiveness of IFPA ranking system for identifying top competitors

  • “I've flown nearly uh 14 hours and I know the guys from Europe have done a similar thing... just our love of pinball and you know, we're playing with the best players in the world.”

    Simon Peele@ 23:46 — Reflection on the international draw and passion that brings players to INDISC from around the world

Entities

Ashley WeaverpersonSimon PeelepersonAnna Neilperson[name withheld pending review]personKarl DeAngelopersonJeff TeolispersonArvidpersonJosepersonSunshine Bondperson

Signals

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    event_signal: INDISC 2024 Classics Target Match Play quarterfinals receiving professional video production and streaming coverage at high production quality comparable to esports finals

    high · Simon Peele and Anna Neil repeatedly praise the 'stellar' and 'immaculate' production setup; commentary notes rivals esports production quality

  • ?

    community_signal: International pinball players traveling significant distances (14-17 hours) to compete at INDISC, indicating the event's status as a major international tournament venue

    high · Simon flew 14 hours from Australia; European players travel long distances; event attracts 'all the great players' from around world

  • ?

    community_signal: Women's pinball tournament infrastructure expanding with dedicated events like Seattle Women's Super Weekend aiming for multiple annual tournaments in singles markets

    high · Ashley Weaver organizing two women's tournaments per year in Seattle, modeled after successful District 82 format

  • ?

    content_signal: Pinball tournament streaming has evolved to professional production standards with dedicated camera rigs, mobile streaming equipment, and multi-camera coverage rivaling esports

    high · Commentators note Carl/IE Pinball team has built superior rigs that others try to emulate; streaming setup called 'stellar' by international guest

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Electromechanical games (Volley, Arena) present high variance and difficulty due to mechanical ball physics, tilt sensitivity, and lack of digital consistency

    high · Extensive commentary on bounces being 'deceiving,' tilt risk on older machines, ball control challenges with gap sizes and sling designs

Transcript

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0:02
Hope you're enjoying Classics Target Matchway playoffs. Next round coming up in a second. Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, you're going to see the women's playoffs. Last year, this woman, Ashley Weaver, won it. How exciting was that? Uh, it was really exciting. It was my first major win. I don't know if you remember my interview was so ridiculous. But you know what? I get that kind of euphoria, that excitement. I don't know what it's like to have it as a winner, but I saw it in you. And did you get that second kind of burst of energy when you came in and saw your name on the banner? Oh, yeah. No, I still got to go get my my picture. I got to I got to get a picture with Kaylee. Team Seattle. Team Seattle. Speaking of Seattle, you do a lot in Seattle with the uh pinball and arcade show and also uh Seattle Super Women's. Yeah, Seattle Women's Super Weekend. I'm trying to do two a year like uh basically kind of like what District 82 does with its Super Weekend only instead of open tournaments, it's mainly women's tournaments. It's such a hot bed for pinball. You're doing great. Good luck in women's and in the open and everything else. Thank you, Jeff. All right.
1:09
Hello everyone. Welcome back. I'm Anna Neil. I'm Hardy. Say it all in. And I'm Simon Peele from Australia with a funny accent. We're here at the uh quarterfinals of the Target Match Play Classics Target Match Play event here at Indisk in Sunny California. Um it's been an eventful couple days. It has. Hope you two have been uh getting good luck in your favor. Oh well, here and there. Some hits and misses, you could say. Yes. Not much of trying. that's uh been putting in quite a few cards for Tan Nova, but uh who knows what might happen as they say. Yeah, anything can happen. It's It's still early. It's only Friday. And as our brave participants are about to find out, with classics, anything can happen. Oh, absolutely. The great equalizers. They are. And these classics are set up great. They're playing really well. Yeah, they are indeed. Definitely. All the games here are set up well. Uh I I love coming to Indisk. Is this your second, third? Uh this is like my third, I think. Okay. Yeah, this is my first. How about you, Simon? Uh certainly my first, but I don't think it would be my last. It's a great event and kudos to the guys and everyone involved um for the for what they put together cuz it certainly is such a great event. Such a great event. Yeah. Yeah. I keep going back because of just how well organized and well Oh, yeah. All the pins are running great. Once they go down, they're back up. You know, it's Yeah, they have a lot of good staff here. So, if you guys are into pinball, come on down. Um, let's see. Did you guys deal the earthquake this morning? I did a little bit. Yeah. Was that your first one? No, I used to live in California, so I'll do a few. Totally. How about you? No, I was fast asleep. Oh, nice. I got my 4 hours sleep last night. trying to adjust to the the time zone because it's uh obviously we're 17 hours in front I think when I where I come from so it's a bit of a challenge but uh here we are I'm enjoying every moment of it fantastic nothing that a bit of caffeine can't fix that's right me and Simon were playing on Wednesday at the pre-turnney and he had just flown in so I give him kudos for trudging through that on little sleep oh man and still competing at a high level jet lag is no joke I I think my uh some of my choices that night, a couple of beers and some jet lag certainly made it uh an interesting night. But anyway, it was always fun playing pinball. I mean, I love it and many everyone around here. It's just such a great thing to be involved with. There's so many great people I've met uh internationally of course got a lot of friends in Australia, but it's just a really interesting um I'm not going to call it a sport, but it's uh something that's a great hobby for um so many aspects of it. It's a sporty hobby. Can we say that or a gaming type hobby? Okay, here we go. This is Voli, everyone. It's not $5 Voli, but you know, it's still good. No. Um, Voli is a great game. Uh, Voli is uh Have you you've played Bali? Yeah. So, basically, each of these will light your pop of the respective color. And um you want to light those because those are thousand each. And then they also light your drops um on the center playfield. And obviously when you when they're lit, you get 5,000 each. So you don't want to waste your drops if they're unlit. Um try to get up top as much as you can. With any em you want to live up top. Yeah, if you can. Yeah, if you can. It's It's hard to control EM sometimes. Exactly. Okay. Looks like uh are we doing practice first? I'm not sure. I'm not sure either if everyone gets a practice or if we missed that. Looks like M. No. Oh, wait. Yeah, it's a single player game. That's right. So, he's uh he's going on his own. So, that was his first ball. Fortunately, a little house ball, but Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. No, it is. This is Okay, this is legit. This is legit. I thought he was walking away. Come on, Bob. You got this. He's got the yellow lit. There's the green lit. So now each one of those drop targets at the top and on the right there are worth 5,000 points which is huge in in this game. Oh yeah. Um and the pops are a thousand each. Just got a tiny bit of that off that left. The good news is it sticks with you. So your yellow and green are still lit and now he's Yes. From ball to ball. Yep. And then the drops only reset when you've hit them all. That's right. Okay, there you go. Oh, he's going for that blue. Yes, he is. Nice. There we go. There you go. And that feed from the uh inlanes on the end is sometimes dangerous because it hits that post and it can bounce on the Yep. Right there. Good idea. Right here is very dangerous because it usually goes out that way. It can. Yeah. And this is a Is this a tilt ends game? Yes, it is. Yes, the wedge heads are always like that. Yeah, there you go. You got all the yellows. Do you play this one often, Simon? Uh, yeah. I'm old enough to have grown up with these. These are some of my favorite games, the wedge heads. This is a good one. I love this one. Yeah, I think this is like a fan favorite for the pinball community. All right. Okay, so that is his that was his last ball. Yeah, he ends the game at 35 150, I believe. Uh, yeah, I think that's a one. Going first in these kinds of rounds when it's a oneplayer game is always very nerve-wracking because you're setting the standard for everyone else. So, now everyone knows what they have to beat to not get last. Definitely drawing the shorts on on the classic for one player games. We go first. Yeah. Okay, we got Jose now. Nice. Jose from the DMV area, DC, Maryland, Virginia, here with this uh other DMV partner, Stephanie. Great women's competitor. All right. What do you get? The green. Oh, yes. He got green. Yes. Oh, see that's what you were talking about. There it is. Danger. Get that yellow. There you go. Nice. All three. There we go. Beautiful. Second fall. All lit. Oh, nice bump, too. That was lovely. Perfect. He's set up now. I'd be salivating. Oh, here we go. This is This is a dream setup right here. Indeed. It is. And the blue. Perfect. Wait, what's happening? What's Oh, no. Was that his practice? Oh, you're kidding. No. Oh, that's such a bummer. No, we were excited. I was so excited for him. Well, maybe that'll happen again. Hang on. Did Bob have it? We must have missed Bob's practice. We must have missed Bob's practice unless he did. Yeah. And so in this round, um top two are going on. Uh top two scores. Uh yes, I think it's um a match play of three games. Yes. Uh match play scoring is 3210 as it was before, I think. Um yes. [Music] So the top player on this game will get three points. Second place will get two. Basically, you get a point for everyone you beat. Yes, that's a great way of explaining it. That's how I remember it. Okay, he's got the blue, so he'll be aiming for those.

high confidence · Multiple commentators discussing Arena's rarity during the match coverage

  • Harlem Globetrotters pinball machine has an exceptionally satisfying spinner that continues spinning long after the ball reaches the top

    medium confidence · Hardy's anecdotal observation about experiencing the Harlem Globetrotters spinner

    • IE Pinball
    organization
    INDISC 2024event
    Hot Nudgeorganization
    District 82organization
    IFPAorganization
    Seattle Women's Super Weekendevent
    Volleygame
    Arenagame
  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Arena's skill shot loop-de-loop is critical to success and described as something that can 'make or break' a player due to high point value (1 million)

    high · Multiple commentators emphasize Arena's skill shot as 'most of the game'; Jose's million-point skill shot puts him 'far ahead' of competition

  • $

    market_signal: Arena pinball machine is extremely rare in circulation, with Australian commentator noting never seeing one in his country; seen as collectible/specialty machine

    high · Simon: 'I've never seen one in Australia ever... So rare.' Commentators emphasize rarity and that 'you don't see it on location a lot'

  • ?

    tournament_format_signal: INDISC quarterfinals use modified 4-2-1-0 match play scoring (giving extra point to winner) rather than standard 3-2-1-0 format

    high · Commentators discussing scoring system: 'top player will get three points, second gets two' initially, then clarify 4-2-1-0 with 'extra point for winner'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Younger players are noted as dominant force in pinball tournaments, with commentary suggesting age-related skill advantage

    medium · Hardy's observation: 'Fear the youth. They dominate a lot of these tournaments. They're so good.'

  • ?

    venue_signal: INDISC venue praised for machine setup quality and rapid repair/maintenance; commentators note all games running well with quick turnarounds when machines go down

    high · Repeated mentions: 'All the pins are running great. Once they go down, they're back up'; 'They have a lot of good staff here'

    • 9:16
    And his uh right out lane is lit for 5,000, which is nice in case it does go out there. At least you get a consolation prize. And that gap so large. It is very large. And you don't want to tilt. No. Especially ball one.
    9:34
    Done it before. I've seen people do it. Oh jeez. Now what's he going to do here? All things perfectly balanced.
    9:44
    Yeah. Okay. I'd do the same just because tilt does end game on the old wedge head. So So will he get it um propped up on the left flipper cradle? I believe so. Okay. Which is good for him because he's got the yellow lit. So he can just go right to uh hopefully the two on the right. There he goes.
    10:06
    Jose repping his local pinball shirts. Uh here in the pinball community here, we like to make shirts. I don't know if that's common everywhere. If you come come to Indis, you can also see a fashion show of all our pinball swag. It's very true. There is so much uh different types of shirts here. I don't think in Australia we wear these pinball shirts enough coming to this. Yes. I think it's something we need to adopt. Yes. Yeah. There's there's a market for it indeed.
    10:34
    Yeah. I'm wearing a Yagpin and I didn't even go to Yagpin. I just won this. Oh, really? So now I need to go to Yagpin. You got to go. Yeah. It's required. That's right. I'm trying to read what Oh, pin Baltimore, I believe. 2023. I hear that's a really fun show. Yeah. Um, so if you're in the Baltimore area, definitely check that out. Uh, a lot of fun to be had. If you're if you're interested in pinball at all, come to one of these shows cuz it's it's cool. It's very welcoming. You get to learn how to play these games that are sometimes really old and sometimes very rare. So, it's uh it's a good time. My first time playing hoops this uh in my life. And uh it's playing it's a beautiful copy. It's not nice to me, but uh it was fun to play. I love the old school got leaves and Yeah, me too. With the uh gotle flippers, which are quite unusual from any other brand, they do stick quite nearly vertically. It's a a ball can roll roll down the in lane and you can stop it dead. Yes, there's not too many other manufacturers that uh allowed that. Y not these days. No. Hello. Hello everybody. Jose is waiting. I'm Anna Neil. I'm Hottie Sean Ali Brisco Pinball and Anna's in hot nudge just in case you didn't know. I'm in Hot Nudge. Yes, Hot Hot Nudge is my Twitch stream stream. Um we do uh pinball streaming for fun. Uh we we have done some tournaments before, but it's much it's a much harder thing to do. At Logan's or At Logan? Yeah. Uh we actually streamed the women's worlds last year as well. Oh, nice. So, that was a lot of fun, a lot of work. Um, but it was really cool to see all the women come out and just slay games. I wish everybody at home could see how involved tournament streaming is because there's a setup here that rivals uh esports uh finals, whatever you want to call the Super Bowl, I would say. Yeah, it is significant and the amount of work and effort they put into producing this is quite professional. Uh I won't say we don't do anything like this in Australia, but uh we don't. And I've come here and I've been amazed at the scale of it. It's fantastic. Absolutely. But no one really does it like Carl and the IE pinball team here. This is just, you know, immaculate setup. Yeah. We all try to emulate the rigs that he built. He's got his little mobile rig sheet for us. But this production quality is uh stellar. Absolutely stellar. Absolutely. So, what we're seeing here is they've uh the ball was stuck on the top of that that sling and they need to put it back on the closest uh on the flipper on the left. So, they don't put it in the plunger. They put it uh on the flipper. So, he has to shoot from there and he has to just hold it up while everything's assembled again. He's holding that flipper up and away he goes. Regains his um This is the hardest part. M yeah cuz he could try to go back up top to get the green, but I would just get those two drops right there if I could on the yellow. But really the composure after having a stuck ball is the uh I mean for me it's a mental game right there. Y now that ant that ant lane wasn't too bad cuz it's 5,000 because it's lit. So that's not the you know 5 5,000 is significant in this game. Oh yeah. Yes. Oh, he's going for that last one. Get the green. There he goes. There it is. Beautiful. All right. Oh no, he had an elbow elbow bounce. Yep. Okay, he's moved away. Just gain himself. There you go. It's so tricky those slow bounces on the old ones cuz you know you try to live catch, drop catch, and Yes. Oh no. Okay, there we go. Some control. Um I think he was aiming for the blue there. I think so, too. Yeah, there he goes. You got it. There you go. There we go. Beautiful. Beautiful. 15,000 or 10,000 right there. Any of those targets survive. There you go. Are all his greens down right now? Uh there I think there's one in the middle. It might be right here. Not sure. Looks like it. Watch this. Perfect. Now we got and again. Lovely. Oh, there's 5,000. And he's reset the bank. And that's a great result. Now we go. Now they're all lit. Yep. Now they're all up and available for 5,000. This is a volley dream right here. Yep, it is indeed. Basically rolling your drop targets to come back. Yes.
    15:13
    Beautiful. The third one in lane. That's a great result. A great trap. You know what? Great ball. And as we've seen so many times on this game when we've all played it, he's hit the yellow targets and straight down the center, but he got 5,000 or 10,000 perhaps. So, it looks like he ended with 78030. Great score. Uh, if you can get close to rolling volley, you're you're in the money.
    15:46
    All right, up comes Sunshine Bond. Uh, one of the one of the great women's competitors here and just overall competitor really. Um, but I'm in the women's tournament, so I see her often. It's always nice to see familiar faces, unless they're beating you. All right. So, so this is probably her practice. I was going to ask, do um so in these uh playoffs, are you entitled to a practice uh ball? It seems that way. It seems like a 30 second practice rule. Um at least that's what Jose got.
    16:26
    Although the way she's playing she's I know. Oh no. I don't think this is her practice. It's got to be. It's got to Maybe she didn't. Maybe she just decided not to do practice. Okay. Okay. You got this. You can always decide not to. And after seeing Jose really rip it up in his practice. Maybe she's like I don't want to waste my practice. She's got blue and green. Blue and green is great. Get those 5,000 droppies. Beautiful. Great ricochet from green to blue.
    17:01
    Okay, now this is a hard one. Nice. Beautiful. Oh gosh. Not again. Did that award that 5,000? I didn't hear it. I didn't hear it either. She got screwed on that one. All right, ball four. She's got looks like about three on the blue, one or two on the green. Stay there. There you go. Okay, there we go.
    17:37
    Off balance. All right, straight into it. No waiting. I wish we knew what ball it was. I think it's it's five. Okay, she needs that yellow. Oh, there it is. Thank you. You're welcome. It is very tiny. Okay, nice. So, she definitely beat player one, I believe, with just that one drop. Yep. There you go. Clear out the blue. Nice. She got a wants to clear out her. Well, you know what? End with an extra five. Yep. It awarded at that time. So, she's at 54520. She is currently in second. Jose in first with 70 something and change. And then Bob with I think he had 35 or so, I believe. So, yes, I should write it with my handwriting. be too big.
    18:23
    Oh, it is down there. This one's down there. Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. Scorbit. I forgot. That's right. All right. There we go. Cool. And you can see the wonderful stats if you're looking at the player names. You've got their wins, losses, ties versus uh each player. We'll scroll for you. It also has their IFPA rank. And we've got Arvid coming up. Arvid, a top world player, currently ranked fifth. I believe I haven't seen the latest pro rankings right now. Hold on. Oh, no. No. Third. Sorry, I can't. Yeah, I know. Everything changed recently. So, um, so I wonder if this is his practice or not. He's doing tappies. A little tap pass there. Looks like that is his practice. That's his practice. Yeah, he was mixing that up with a shatzing and a tap. So, that's pretty advanced play. Yeah, he's got to work on it. See if he can do his skills.
    19:22
    Uh Arvid is from Sweden, I believe. He is indeed, which is a long ways away from I played with Art in Germany at the World Champs. Oh, cool. Uh all the kids, you know, when I say kids, they're a lot younger than I am. 40 years, I think. Um they're certainly good on the newer games. That's and the old games. Here he is in the quarters. He plunges out, punching his last ball, as Daltton likes to say. Fear the youth.
    19:52
    They dominate a lot of these tournaments. They're so good. Dalton is still a youth to me. Okay. I think he was rallying them around him. I see. Okay. Good. Good. Good. All right. Green. That was green.
    20:13
    Little tip over. Beautiful. Nice shot. and lets it bounce. Lovely patience there. Good dead bounce. Oh, and the shads to try and change it to the left. Well done. Beautiful. Really smart strategy. Right. Top two are remaining. Oh, almost skimmed it. There it is. Okay, so now he wants to go back up and get his other light. He got his blue. Beautiful. Well done.
    20:51
    Just great strategy overall. Just one at a time. One one drop bank at a time here. Great shots.
    21:01
    Has he got one left in the blue there, I think. Yeah. Top uh top one is let remaining and two on the yellow. Oh, that's nice. Sometimes those inserts will roll it to the center. There we go. Hey, great ball one. Wow.
    21:24
    which is okay. Yeah, he only has two more down to get all of them reset. Exactly.
    21:33
    All right, forget about that ball. Move on. Get that Oh. Bounces are deceiving. All right, get that last yellow. Nice. Yeah, that was the That's the good side. That's very true. Each every volley has a good and bad side.
    21:53
    No. Oh, nice. Slap save, too. Lazarus. That is what we call a Lazarus here in the pinball world. got his 5,000. I think it basically goes like this and you come back from the dead, hence the name Lazarus.
    22:15
    It's your angel ball. Yeah, I like that name better. He's going to backhand it or shots it. Back. Backhand. Smart. All the targets are reset again for 5,000 each. Oh, and he had the That's on the bad side. Extra five up there. 57 ball five needs 20,000 to pass Jose 21 is just four drop targets right right Yep. I hope he's not saying that in his head cuz that is what kills me all bad side. Bad side. He had to have a guy the last he absolutely did. 60 nothing to lose. That puts him in second. No, that's uh I think that's actually a a third. Is that 60? Oh, 62. Oh, okay. Sorry. It looks like a 52. I know. It It definitely does. 62, I think. 430. Hey, we're back. Here we are. Hi, everyone. Do we go through the intros again join? I'm Simon Peele from Australia. I'm Anna Neil from Hot Nudge. I'm Hadti Say Ali from Frisco Pinball. Welcome to Indis. Sunny California here. Yeah. Um, Riverside, California. Good old Aie, Inland Empire. Yes, stones throw away. Not really. From LA, Orange County, all that good stuff. We've got all the great players here this weekend. People come out from all over the world to come and compete here at Indisk. It's amazing to think I've flown nearly uh 14 hours and I know the guys from Europe have done a similar thing because, you know, they have to come from the east. Um it's a long way. Uh just our love of pinball and you know, we're playing with the best players in the world. There's a really great ranking system and it's it's uh really works out who are the best players because you know you play enough games. Oh, we're back into it. Um it does uh work that out. What which game have we got now? This is arena, I believe. An arena. You've got an amazing I love this uh skill shot loop-de-loop up there. There is a million. I forgot. I think it's this one. Yeah, right there. So, if you can hit that, uh you're already off to the races. So that is most of the game. Yes, basically. And then these drops uh these drops go down. And I think that's um trying to figure out if Where's your Oh. Oh, maybe this is practice for practice. Yeah, that's your guard, I think. Oh, for the um outlanes or Oh, right here. Yeah, let's see what he does. But yeah, just like Anna said, the biggest thing is the skill shot up top. It's one of those games where it can make or break you and often a player will measure that out in practice. So what he's doing now, you can see he's looking down trying to get an idea of where that ball will land when he lines it up in the plunger. So that's quite important sort of skill to learn and it's very difficult because it does take the variance out of that shot. So he probably learned a whole lot from those three balls. She's got a a reasonable idea. Well, a vague a better than vague idea perhaps um about where that that that shot is that plunge is. I forgot to mention uh Twitch chat. Uh we appreciate everyone being here, but just in case you guys didn't know, we can't see you. So, we've got the action in front of us. So, there are people monitoring chat, but uh if you do say something to us, we apologize in advance. I know that can happen sometimes. All right, let's see. It looks like they're doing 4210 point scoring. Okay, so this is uh Yeah, extra point for the winner. Gotcha. So, Jose on top. Interesting. Is that a special? Is that the Papa scoring or Papa scoring 3 2 1 zero. They all have names. I'm not sure of the name. Yeah, I'm still learning all that. But this is I call this one extra point for the winner. I like it.
    26:25
    All right, Jose measuring up. Oh, nice try. He's trying for the short plunge. He doesn't want to go all the way around. Do you try to go all the way around or short plunge? I try to just go all the way around and pray it open. Kind of like jackpot or pinbot sort of. Although on jackpot, people short punch to try to hit the multiball right away. Absolutely are. [Music]
    27:01
    Okay, he got his He just needs one more green letter, I think, to relight pit and that'll bring him back up on the top. Is that correct? Yes. And he's got one more drop down on the right as well. And his spinner was lit, so might as well go for that. Yeah.
    27:19
    Really good start here. Great start. Come on. Get up there. Nice shot. Great spinner. Rip that one. They don't spin like stern spinners, but they go all right. Mhm. Yeah, the spinners here at Indisk are beautiful. They are so juicy. I think Har I hit it Harlem Globe Troder spinner once and it was going while the ball was up top still. Amazing. It's got a great sound, too. All right, Jose with 469. Good ball one. It may have even been spinning until you you plunged your next ball. I think so. Definitely one of the most sat along with Grand Prix. Two of the most satisfying spinners for me in pinball.
    28:04
    Looking for her skill shot. There we go. Yeah. Now, how do you light the uh open the gate over there on the right hand side? Oh, well done. Beautiful. Beautiful. She got her a Well done. Well done, Sunshine. That was great. Great to watch. And she's re regaining her herself after that magnificent save. Let your heart re heart rate come down a little. Here we go. Here's a replay. Beautiful re. Look at this.
    28:47
    okay. That wasn't the replay, but that's okay. Someone will clip it.
    28:55
    She's letting her heart rate die down a little, I'd say. Yeah.
    29:02
    All right. She got her pee. She's trapped up nicely. All right, not bad. This ball one jitters out of the way.
    29:31
    All right, Harvid coming up. Both smiles as he rolls up. Thumbs up to his mates. Cher behind him. Jason as well.
    29:44
    All right. See what he does on the skill shot. I think he shorted last time. No. Here he goes. And
    29:59
    Happens to everybody. I think that's his signature move with his leg in the air. I've seen him do that. Yes. the last couple of days and gets his balance. Got to get a name for that move. The flamingo. The arbit. Yeah, the ar that's even better.
    30:19
    So, it does look like those rollovers are um Lock your ball. It's interesting that they went with L and not just add one more low number. They ran out of playfield space. Yeah, with that giant skill shot.
    30:43
    All right, Bob, settle in. See what you can do. Nice traps up. Tried the backhand there and pull that off.
    31:01
    Spinner is lit. Let's rev it. Oh, get it. There we go. The spinner is unl.
    31:09
    All right. Okay. Does he get to try for the skill shot again here? No, it's not not it's not lit, but he does get uh Oh, wait. Oh, I see. At least he could have practiced it. Yeah. Uh that is a $25,000 shot there. Uh oh, save it. Got a little bit out it. That spinner is avoiding him. He's had a couple of shots at it. Yeah, it's a tight tight little squeeze right here. Oh, reject it. And he shot it when it was unlit, so it doesn't pay as many points, of course. And he's got his S left. And that's a center. He's not saving that ball. I believe the spinner is only lit from the inner rollovers on the in lanes. Ah, okay. So, you have to hit it quickly once you come down the in lane or these. Yeah. or shots it potentially or shots it. Yes. All right, Jose.
    32:12
    See the skill shot. One 1 million skill shot. And you know that puts you far ahead. Really far ahead.
    32:23
    Oh, okay. Thought there was going to be a a shallow feed returning into the bomb. There we go. All right. 50.
    32:37
    Nice move. Great move. Good shake there. Spinner's lit. Spinner is lit. I fored it. target. Oh, into the pit. It's not lit though.
    33:14
    plates the upper lines. Looks like that's a lock. So locking a ball is a good way to get another skill shot. Yes, exactly. Just bumped it out, but you've got to find what you can do the top there.
    33:36
    So these drops right here once they're down, if he hits three these three, it should light his extra ball skill shot.
    33:45
    Oh, he's got it. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Oh well. All right, that's a great result of the list. Yeah, I would take that for sure. Okay, so I didn't like his spinner when he went over that rollover, so I'm not sure. There we go. Multiball time. Multiball. L to the rescue. Get him, Jose. He's got his 4x running, right? Is that hurt? Uh, is that his bonus multiple or is that his bonus? I think it might be. Okay. Oh, wait. Now, yeah, that's right. It can double up. Um, cuz he's got the 1x and the 4x. So, I think it's five right now.
    34:26
    Oh, okay. Oh, he's over a million. Okay, there we go. Ski pass. Oh, fantastic. Beautiful shot. That's the best uh clean shot we've seen. Yeah,
    34:45
    just really good good shots right now from Jose. Very accurate. Hitting everything he needs. There you go. Oh, missed. Missed the ramp bonus. Yeah, the the lit ones I think award the ramp bonus. I think they were lit up there. Arena's not a very uh a very um populated popular pin, I would say. You know, you don't see it on location a lot. Very rare. Yes. I've never seen one in Australia ever. Yeah. So rare. Yes.
    35:19
    But the thing that most everybody knows about is that skill shot. All right. There you go, Jose. Nice. All right. Another is this another multi. Uh I know he locked this one. Okay. So now he wants to get his skill shot. Yep. Here we go. Can I do it? You can do it. Here we go. Oh yes. Fantastic. Beautiful. Check for you. We have not seen that this game. That's a great achievement. It might seem like a lot if you don't play pinball. To do that though is a really great effort, especially if you come from a game like Attack from Mars where you get like a billion for plunging. That million is huge.
    36:08
    Beautiful. We'll dig out there. He It's interesting. He is ignoring that spinner when it's lit and focusing on the the targets on the left. Yeah. But you know, if you look at that score, well, you can't argue with his strategy, I guess. I guess not. Yeah. Already 3 million ahead of his nearest competitor. Sunshine coming up. Ready to do the thing. Hit that skill shot.
    36:57
    Oh yeah. Decides to bounce all around. Here we go. Um, okay. So,
    37:11
    interesting. Live catch. Stop the ball dead in its tracks. And yeah, I think you can get as high as 15x um on the center. Uh yeah, the center center uh inserts.
    37:34
    [Music] So basically during multiball, you're trying to rip that spinner uh to get it up to 15x. So yeah, good to know. Hop step aid. All right, Arthur. shaking it off a little. He's got some chasing to do, but anything's possible from this young guy.
    38:03
    Oh, this looks good. Oh, don't jinx it. You jinxed it. I did. I definitely did. It looked really good. The commentator's purse. Yeah, absolutely. I got to remember that. All right. And he's trying to get his locks up there for multiball. A great bounce there. bounce over. That's such a tight shot that spinner. Yeah, there's three tight shots right in a row right there. It's an interesting playfield. Oh, that was very clever that to get that to that right flipper. A little tip over. There he goes. Beautiful. Oh, that was nice. A pleasure to watch. Yeah, he's definitely got the skills here. Okay, that's the O. Beautiful. Yes. And the L. Boom. He's got a ball locked and he can go back up to the skill. Well, it's not it's not lit. I don't There we go. Of course. He doesn't. Yeah. All right. Get back up there. Fool's gold. Let's see what he does here. Love him. Yeah. Shots.
    39:21
    multiball time. He's got 2x going. He's going for the spinner again. Hit the assist targets. You can get up to 15x by combining all those. Oh. Oh my goodness. And back to one ball play. Just like that. Good old G. Good old.
    39:38
    Back to the shots onto the right flipper. And the shots again. And his pit is lit on the left. Oh, nice.
    39:54
    Roll it over. And beautiful up the top. Yeah, he's got it dialed in right now. He has. [Music]
    40:05
    What is that sound? Oh, that's the wall. Yeah. Beautiful ski jump right back to the top. Live up top.
    40:20
    Oh, ski jump and spin it. Commentators curse. Yeah, you know what? We're so used to him hitting it though. There we go. Right back. Got Oh, just not enough. Lets it bounce over to the right. Of course, it's all about always about the right flipper with Arvid in this game. It seems that way. Yes. Let's get some pin monk fans on those flippers. All right. Nice move. Oh, a little too much. Little too much. Just a little too much, but he saved it. To no avail, I might add. Still in the sec second place now. Um coming into ball three. All right, Bob got some work to do here. Will he get the skill shot? Oh no. Well, come back around.
    41:13
    Looking to the heavens, Bob, after that plunge again, but only 25,000. Focus on that lock up top. You can get it. It's so hard. Oh my god. Just not enough. Yeah. Maybe these slippers are tired. Yeah. Okay, it's going to spit now. B on Bob. Yeah, look at that. 5,000 to spin, it looks like. All right, 472. Good, good, good. Right back up there. Yeah.
    41:51
    One more up top. Lock that lock. Little tip over. Spinner is lit.
    42:10
    All right. So, his ramp value 80,000. Looks like that's the L. Oh, 75. All right. Beautiful. Clean hit. Look at that spinner still going. Forgot Lee. That's saying something. Yeah, I know, right? And now he wants that million points. Yes, there you go. Well done, Bob. Beautiful Bob. Nice shot. Clutch and back up. Bank. He's on four now. There you go, Bob. Here we go. Got to go through it. Pull a Levy and say boom. That's right. Surprised Levy isn't here today. Yeah. All right. He's trapped that one up. No, he hasn't. Very hard to do that on a Got Y. There we go. Got that up top. Beautiful. And notice the spinner uh value just 5x right now. So you want to go for that. Beautiful. Look at it go. And every uh completion of the cyst targets I think gives you another X. That is exactly right. I don't know what CIS stands for. Yeah, that's what I was trying to figure out. I don't know how it uh uh involves arena, but a lot of weird spelling in uh the Gotautly. Look at that score. That's astronomical from what he started at. That's a great result. Good job, Bob. Ball three magic, as Pez's emote would say.
    43:54
    I do like the sound on this this pin. It's uh very Wizards and Warriorsesesque from the old Nintendo game. All right, here we go. That was an extra. Yeah, which only affords you points in competition mode, I think. Back to the pit. All right.
    44:18
    Beautiful patience. Let it dead bounce. Really good. He's calmed himself down, hasn't he? Yeah. He's really lifted. It's been impressive to watch. Yeah. And a real get it again. Oh my goodness. Run it up, Bob. Oh. Oh, that looked good.
    44:44
    Yeah. Oh, what a great deserves a round of applause. That one three. And I think Bob from memory was number one um in the qualifying. Oh, for this game. Yeah. Uh the classics target, I think. Yes, I think it was. He was the first to qualify. Yes. Very cool. 5 million is a great score on arena. What a ball. All right, Jose. You know what you have to do. A first would give him eight. So, he would basically be uncatchable. Oh, no. Cuz someone could get two and Arvid could get two and then a four, I guess. All right. All right. What do we got here?
    45:32
    What the Gotaut got designers lacked in spelling. They made up for music. Exactly. Maybe their budget was bigger than he passed the spinner. They went on Fiverr for the art, but they got real musicians for them soundtrack. Oh, that's too bad. All right. Still a good score, Jose. Still a great score. Can't complain about that. still in a pretty solid second right now, but of course, anything can happen. This is pinball after all.
    46:05
    Thank you to the 443 people watching i.e. pinball in disk in Southern California. It never drains. Great tournament. Welcome everybody and I hope you're having a great time. I'm here with Anna and Simon. Hello. Hi there. We are watching Sunshine Step Up to the Plate. Ball three arena. Do it to it, sunshine. She's looking for the skill shot here. She wants that center area. There she goes. Beautiful. Beautiful. That is worth 1 million points and it's the biggest shot in this game. Great job, Slingshot. So, that is a great start to this ball. Now, what is she going to do? She going to try and Yeah. Well, hey, the million helps. It certainly helps. It's a big chase down. I mean, yeah, it's not insurmountable, but it's um puts the pressure on. Exactly. Harvard comes in very casually, didn't he?
    47:02
    So, we've seen 3 million skill shots. Not bad. Yeah, I think that's a record for on screen.
    47:15
    Arvid is doing his um strategy of just up top. Yep. Going for the lock shots. Here he comes. Spinner. And now he's got his Oh, multiball. He's got 3x multiply or Yeah. 3x value again. Can get up to 15. A nice trap up on the right. It's okay. So hard to do with those flippers. What he's done. Now he wants to try and do a cradle s separation where he wants to um get one ball on one flipper and one ball on the other flipper if he can so he can have complete control over one ball at a time. Exactly. Such a great skill to learn cuz it's very hard. Yeah, very hard. But if you can get it, your multiballs are going to last much much longer. And on games like beautiful tip over there and I think he's just executed that superbly. Very beautiful. Good job, Arvin. Um, at this point I don't know what a good strategy is. Uh, perhaps Well, he's just doing spinner spinner all day. I think that's a good good strategy. Yeah, he's got 3x on it. Nope. Okay, we got 4x now.
    48:32
    All right. Should have it in bonus. Not sure, but definitely coming for sunshine here. Yeah, definitely doesn't want to tilt cuz I'm pretty sure he's got it in bonus, but let's see. Nice move.
    48:53
    Just great control. Right control. That's something. Don't shake your head. You got this. You got this. There it is. Beautiful. All right, two more. His million is lit up top. So, if he can get back to the plunger lane, let's see on bonus. Oh, he didn't have it. Wow. Wow. I thought he had a bigger bonus. Short there. What? What a So, took a last out of that. So, Sunshine with two, Arvid with two, Bob with four, Jose with I believe six. Here we are. Hello everyone again. Welcome to uh Indisk here in Southern California. I'm Anna Neil. I'm Salman Peele. I'm hot Say It Ali. Good to have you here. We are in the quarterfinals of the Classics Target Match Play tournament. Um the qualifying was yesterday, all day yesterday. Quite grueling. Did you both play in it? I did not. I botched the registration. You did. I know Simon did. Yes, I had to, you know, I just bought the all in the first time I've come to IDS and I thought, you know, I'm traveling all this way, I'm spending all this money, why wouldn't I just buy the the full package cuz uh you just have to see the sights. Yes, indeed. Um so I was it's it's quite hard to juggle. I will say when you're playing the match play, uh trying to qualify and then you're trying to get some other games in. Maybe you're playing the high stakes or the uh another bank. So it uh it makes it very hard to tugle that especially when you know the mad rush is coming tomorrow for the open and high stakes qualifying runs into Sunday but uh tomorrow's going to be a mad house. So everybody's got classics qualifying qualifying started today. Um that cues those cues I can see right now are very much longer but that does help the open cues which was uh half an hour each last night and some people that's a I found that a real difficult thing to uh juggle that's the you got a lot of thinking time and often I'm in a queue and I've got 30 minutes to uh think about perhaps you know that's not the right game that I should play on the card format because it it is about completing a great card. Not a and not every game has to be the best, but it has to be pretty pretty good. You just basically need to be for a division. It's I think top 40. So, you need an average of 40. And if you haven't played a card format, um this is my second time only. It's very intimidating, but I understand the pros and cons of it. So, so for people who don't know what the card format is, it's a it's a different form of qualifying than we we did here yesterday for the classic start match play. It is an open qualifying where you're given um you buy a card and on that card you play five different games. Yep. Um and you cannot start a new card until you've either finished that card or avoided it out. Um your top card will be used as your uh qualifying score. Yes. And it's very strategic at the end when you're trying to figure out which one of your scores you don't want to bump down. You can hurt yourself. You can also hurt other people though and knock them down and hopefully raise your stakes. So this uh I am so glad we get to see this uh system 11 classic pinbot. Um I love watching this. Shout out to uh Captain Zanzibar streams this on Twitch a lot. Um the first entry in the bot series. You got Bride of Pinbot and Jackbot. Um is she is this her practice? I'm assuming so because it was only a one player game. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Yeah, that that would help. Yeah. So, one thing that a lot of players do on pinbot is they short plunge. Hopefully, do they do it on pinbot, too? I know they do it on jackbot. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, they short plunge, try not to activate the playfield. Um, hopefully land on one of these two flippers and then these targets here are roving. They'll go vertical and then horizontal and then you if you hit the one that's lit, the visor will open, which is where you can lock your two balls right here. Oops. right here and right here in the visor like eyes on a robot. And then you've got your multiball. Uh so that is the name of the game. Your what? Your left ramp raises your uh solar value which is I believe your jackpot during multiball if I'm not mistaken. Yes, you want to hit that ramp during multiball. Gotcha. Okay. It looks like we're starting up. We are. All right. Bob has not elected to do what you've uh suggested, but the skill shot up here, you know, it does multiply itself as you get more. So, if you are able to get back to the plunger, um you know, you can you get you get a double 2x on it and there I forgot what the middle target is. It's 100,000, I believe. Um which is big in in Pinbot. So, Bob is forced now to take on those those lights. Yep. These are all lit now. And that he's got to try to hit these. That's going to be Yep. That's gonna be tough. Nice. Oh, stay beautiful. So, yes. Uh he only has looks like he has to hit that blue shot one more time on the top there and then his visor will come down or Yeah, I guess it's down. No, he's he's still got to hit those blue. Yes, he's got to hit those blue shots. And then there's another strategy on Pinbot um uh traveling the solar system and getting all the planets because those add to your bonus uh at the end of each ball. And so if you can visit the sun, you are doing a Okay, there we go. Yeah, this is a I guess a space robot. There we go. He locked it first. Nice, Bob. He's got his hand up to something. Oh, and maybe he did not lock it. It might have gotten stuck in there. I think it's balanced between the two locks. That is an interesting thing I've never seen before. Now, what what will be the ruling on this, I wonder? You think they'll give him the lock cuz he shot it up there? Not sure. Yeah, this will be interesting. Or count in the center, too. Or count it as a reject because it didn't activate. Hello. Let's see what they decide. Yeah, they probably won't give them the lock. It' be nice. No. Yeah. No, I I I would think logically and I don't know if that comes into into play right here. Logic. Yeah. But I think that's going back on the flipper for him. Yeah. Which will be great. Having your ball in the flipper is a good thing. Yes. So, it would have be better in the lock. So, they have to be very careful here because the risk is that they bump that ball into the lock. Mhm. Yeah. and or it down the center. Someone should keep their hands down the middle. So, what he has here is a telescoping magnet rod thing, which is what we use here in pinball to try and Oh, these things are lifesavers. Get these balls out of these tight situations. There you go. Oh, wow. It's right there. Beautifully done.
    56:17
    Okay, so Bob has to raise the right flipper that where the ball will be placed. The glass is placed back in the game as his lock bar. Shout out to all the excellent techs and TDs for keeping everything running smooth this turning. You're hardly waiting um at all when something goes down and they are they are on it. And away. Nice job. All right, there you go. Oh, rejected. There you go. Second time lucky. Ball doesn't lie. He got it that time. Okay. Short punch. Let's see. Oh, no. He's going to take the Yeah. Take. So, there's the 2x. So, we got 10. And that return that was a a great return. It really It really was. Oh, another reject. But he did a trusting trusting that center post. He's got a nice little bumper on that center post. And the feed from that uh kick out on the upper left is dangerous sometimes. Oh, yeah. There it is. Oh, nice. Okay, remember he's got two dangers. I did forget that. Thank you. And again, it rejected. Got to hit it. Oh, no. Don't. He couldn't move it there. But he has locked a ball for the other players, which does come into play. So, this is a lock stealing game. Yes. Is that correct? I believe so. Yes. Okay. Interesting. I thought the other one ejected out, but I'm I am pretty used to jackpot, so I I don't play a lot of pinball. We like to get our We like to do our gambling with our pinball as well. Smash that cheat button. So, here we come with Jose. Jose, if he's a short plunger or a He's a full plunger. Oh, whoa. Came all the way back. The return is onto the sling, so it's in danger. Yes. And now he's forced to flip away and hit the bank. All right. He's got Oh, scissor. So, he was out of control there. And that was really It stemmed from that plunge and hitting the sling because once that ball's going east west, um that's when you lose control. The north south ball is okay. The east west, as I tell people, is the one you got to avoid. Yes. The east west. And these slings, I've noticed, are so powerful and they're so clean. If it touches it, um it's away. It's going to be trouble. So, it's interesting. They play the same player position through the whole round. They haven't changed up uh 1, two, three, four. Yeah, they must use the uh the seating from the qualifying to that's that's my guess anyway. That makes sense. So, that's only a guess. I like it. Sunshine is surveying it out. Visor's going up and down, opening and closing.
    59:10
    ready to step up. All right, hit that multiball skill shot.
    59:19
    I can't quite hear what she's saying. I can't either. I do this, too, though. I talked to the game. Oh, it's a ball search, I think, is what she said, which is odd because it never ball searched for Bob when he had that ball stop. Yeah,
    59:41
    I think she just got a play on now. Is she a short plunger or a long one? We will see.
    59:53
    Thinking about it what to do. the decisions that go in your head during these moments. All right. Don't hit the visor yet. Okay. Oh no. Oh my god. And as as you said before, it's that um that skill shot can the feet out of that skill shot can really make or break the beginning of your ball there. Yeah. It's so hard to just start the game under control. It sets the tone for your whole whole ball. One day. I think that's why Jose had a little bit of a It's flipping a little bit more than cradling up. All right, here we go. RV vid. Here it goes. Oh, no. That middle one there is the highest one, which is why I I'm always Oh, come on. Come on. Come on. Beautiful. All right. Now he's going to wait for He took one danger or two. Two. He wants to hit Oh, well, maybe not. Oh, be careful. He's going for something different. Be careful. Oh, no. That was one. He had one left and he did the arbit regardless. He had that foot up. Something I've noticed quite a lot of times. It's working for him. Look at Look where he is. Stop. I hear somebody yelling. There's something yelling going on behind us. It's a lot of passion in these games. All right. Okay. So, he has one more. Okay. He can't get that blue lock. Oh my god. Just rejecting and reject. That's his fourth reject. Good dead bounce right down the middle again. Go up there. Get your energy value. Nice. 100,000. 100 backhanded. Can he backhand it? Give it a shot. Okay. A little too early. Yeah. Don't listen to us.
    61:44
    All right. Uh, still bad. He's got Pluto still on the six digits right now. But yeah, another another strategy some people do is you drop these three uh before their time runs out. Once you hit one, they they run on a timer and then you try to um collect a planet from it or if this is lit that will award you a planet as well and that will help your end of ball bonus.
    62:10
    A little trivia about this game is this game is featured in the movie Big. Oh, really? Yeah, that's pretty cool. him. Yeah. From the 80s. Tom Hanks. Now, that was unfortunately, I think, Jose, a a player error, we call that. And we all do it no matter how good we are. Um, you just lose concentration. And I think he's in front and so he might be taking the foot off the accelerator a little perhaps. I don't know. That's true. That is a good point. Um, how how does the standings need to go here? He would if he gets first, he's obviously taken first. But yeah, so top two advance. So he needs to not get last, but he could still get last and do a tiebreaker. Exactly. In this case, it could be a three-way tie. If Sunshine or Arvid get four, Bob gets two and he gets and he gets zero. Let's dread a triple six. Hey, people love bonus pinball. Extra pinball. That's right.
    63:16
    Okay, there's a good there's a good feed for her. That is. So, now she's waiting for a good light to hit. What is she going to go for? She wants that center one. Did she get it? No, didn't give it to her. Come on. That looked pretty good to me. I know. Me, too.
    63:36
    All right. So, now she has to swing away at that side. Her visor is now lit. She's ready to walk some balls. She got that blue. Oh, she got it right away. It looks like it's stuck again. Problem indeed. Problem. Huge. Get that telescoping lens out again. So, here we are again with exactly the same thing that happened to Bob. Uh, where they're going to have to disassemble the top of the game and use the magnet to get that ball. And it will be placed on a flipper. They might have to fix this game for the next round. Yeah, I think so. There's fearless leader Jim Delo, trivia master. I mean, it is possible that this game has never done it in a hundred games and then we've had absolutely it's possible. We've had the commentators curse. We might might be extending into tech now.
    64:38
    But again, welcome to Indis. I'm Hardy Say It Ali. Let's go pinball. I'm Anna from Hot Nudge in Chicago. And I'm Simon Peele all the way from Australia. All right, here we go. So, it was stuck somewhere different. What the What? Like that that looks like it may have in fact gone past theim the hole and ended up at the back. Jim is really handling that boxer. It was like twisting jamming in there. Yeah. All right. So, now she has her uh ball on her left flipper, so she can do another backhand hopefully. No one's been able to get it into that blue eyeball. Yeah. Successfully yet. So, there's been several shots. So, let's see if she can do it here. See our first uh first multiball of the day on pinball for us.
    65:37
    She's talking to the game as we do. Get up there. And that's we've all faced that. And what happened there? That just hit the metal and the rubber. And when it's when it hits the metal, it behaves completely different obviously than the rubber. It will uh just roll along the flipper. So like just like that you've seen there. Wow. And you have to be particularly quick to She was just got that on the tip as it rolled down the flipper. Now,
    66:17
    all right. Still got his multiball skill shot. Great. He certainly does. So, will he go for it? Blue, red. Oh, green. And surely No, we can't believe it. He can't believe it, but the game can believe it.
    66:43
    so now he has to whail away at that visor or perhaps he's going for uh ramp shots here. Increase his jackpot value and then if he gets into multiball just uh stop. That's a great stop. That there's a name for that move. What is that? A post post catch. Stop. Post stop. Stop. Yes. I've seen the I've seen the gif or the gif, however you say it.
    67:19
    Safe safeish shot up here. 100k each time. I believe there is a max. I think he tried it there and that's something that happens when you There you go. You lose control, but he regained control nicely. He's got 25k on his upper left saucer kick out as well already. There's 350 on the Okay, so it's 50k each. Okay, Vortex is 3x because Oh, well, he still gets 15. Yeah, let's let's see the feed out of here. Yeah, nice feed. Didn't hit it cleanly there. So, we got lucky post transport there for ramp out. There you go. Certainly an interesting strategy. Yeah. To this game. Nice. There you go. Great post stop. Yeah. Beautiful move. Oh, got it nicely. Took a danger. I think at least one back up half a million. All right. He's in that little pachinko board a lot up there. He tried it there and he actually did a post pass on the fly and he's trying it to stop that ball and that what's that's what happened and that was not a tilt. There it is. That is the uh post stop. Yeah. When that ball gets out of control and that's he was trying to slow it down and it's very hard to slow these games down with the slings and the rubbers being how they are. East west as I said earlier. Yeah. Okay. Oh my god. That is what we call a house ball here in Pinball. And the one finger salute as he walks away from pinbot. Totally understand. Totally get it. Very It happens. Especially in these classic games. It's It's very He's still in a good He's still in a good spot if Jose doesn't pass him. He's Bob right now obviously sitting in first. Um if he gets second, he would be at six. And he would just need Jose to get last. See what Jose does. 5K on the Oh, please. There you go. Oh, okay. He's got it down. There we go. Okay, he's back in it. It's all it takes. One ball. Okay. Hopefully this feed is friendlyish. He had to give it a move, but he did it well. Didn't want to trust that center post. I don't blame him. Oh, come on. This blue shot. All right. Careful. There you go. I think he's trying to delicately backhand it in there.
    70:00
    Blue eye. Oh, in the middle. Get it. That's trouble. Well, good shot there. Oh, come on. Has anyone hit it this game? I wonder. I don't think so. and ball. Gosh, man. So frustrating. Yeah, especially when you have a clean shot up there and it just comes back. You figure I've done the thing. Let me have the lock, please. Well, so that makes uh Arvin's strategy a little bit more smart, too, I think, because since that blue shot is so annoying, uh perhaps just don't even go for it. That is a great point. And uh if he saw the danger in that and you want to ramp out and just get your points from there, it's working. Yeah. The importance of watching people play, I think, and just getting an understanding of what in a game works and what doesn't. Even though you may have played a game hundreds of times. Yeah. And you have a set strategy and it's like, oh, that, you know, that that switch isn't really working well today. Oh my god. She's Yeah, she's I think she hit that so hard that didn't have a chance. Nice. Okay, traps up. Take your time. You got this. Blue. Blue. Yes, someone we've seen. Someone hit blue. She's got double scoring. Her multiball. Yes. Finally, we have a multiball in pinbot. And well done. Let's see that solar. Oh, did she hit I thought she hit it. That's left ramp. Yes. Oh, yeah. So, that was that. Yep. Just like that. And she's back to it. But now she can wait again and try and reopen the visor with a one-shot deal like she was doing on the plunge.
    71:48
    That come on. Oh my dead center. Her collect planet. Oh, it was lit, too. Oh, the top of the sling and had a bit of spin and just span into the outline unfortunately. Yeah, sunshine. All right, so it looks like that is a third for Sunshine. Yep. So, she will end with three points and not move on. Uh, good round for her. Uh, great play. Sometimes, you know, ball just doesn't go the way you want it to. Great, great competing.
    72:21
    Okay. And there we go. Back to his strat up here. Up here with the bride, the bride of Pinbot here in the little pachinko area. Boom. That's it. Everyone's excited. Yeah, that should do it. Yeah. And there it is. All right. So, six. So, we have a 666. Uh, let's see. Jose got zero. Bob got two. Harvard got four. Yeah. 666. Three. We have the doubles. Bonus pinball. Bonus pinball. Ladies and gentlemen, bonus pinball. And here we are again. One more game. Sorry. One more. You're stuck with with me. I won't say these two. You're stuck with me for another round and me and me and the phrase. We hope you've enjoyed the the coverage. Uh shout out to IE Pinball. Everybody here working to make the stream wonderful and we hope you're enjoying watching competitive pinball. It's such a great community. Uh it's very welcoming like Anna said earlier. Uh one of the great hidden secrets of Twitch and um you know entertainment. Yeah, I agree.
    73:34
    Now, it'll be interesting to see what that uh that last game will be. Yeah. Uh it'll only be, of course, the any of the games that we played yesterday as part of the qualifying. Okay. As I understand it, they can't drag in another game. Okay. So, they're not going to grab from the other classic. Oh, wait. Not the ones being used for the classics open then. No. Oh, well, that will be interesting. No, they in my understanding it would have to be from yesterday, but I'm not Are they doing banks or are they choosing from all the games on this on this finals or do we know? Wait, no. Okay, never mind. I'm going to guess banks. I feel like that's the easy way out. Um, so yeah, so we're just waiting for the tiebreaker game again. Top two go forward. Sunshine ended with three points. Uh so she will not advance. So out of this three player tiebreaker, two will advance to the semi-finals. It all comes down to one game. Yeah. But a great tournament for Sunshine because there's so many great players here just to qualify yesterday and end up in this position. Um you played some great pinball. There's no doubt about it. Absolutely. And there's so many great players here like tops in the world and um it's it's a great level of competition. You learn a lot too. Yeah, I think of the a representation of the top 50. It would be a vast percentage I would say in the world from wherever they they come from, whether it's Europe, um even Australia, but I'm not the top.
    75:17
    Yeah. So, um I always say, you know, come on down. Yeah. If you're in the area, definitely come to uh Riverside Convention Center. Yes. Um, and check it out here. We do have a few games on free play if you don't want to compete. Yes. Um, but also you should just compete. Yeah. Why not play one card, next thing you know, you're in the A division finals, taking home some cash and some hardware. At least get your way into the IFPA. Yes, definitely. And shout out to uh that organization for keeping us all on our toes and sleepless nights of where we're dropping and and and going up. But we love it. They do great work and uh it's very appreciated. Also, shout out to Jay Allison of Scorebit um installing his software and his devices on these pins to help us with scorekeeping. Uh another great piece of hardware to add to your collection if you have some. And uh Jim Belto's pins, Carl Stream. Yeah. And Jim's pins playing like they should for a tourney like this. Although Toy Story I will I will have a bone to pick with Toy Story 4. that that has been the most brutal pin I've I've played here. I I'd agree. Yeah. I think I I've seen after I think I've seen an average of like 3 4,000 points after two balls. Like it's just crazy. Yes. Cuz we in one of the leagues I play uh in Melbourne uh we play that a bit and really some of the scores are like millions. Yeah. And I I have seen I think I saw a score of 2 million, but as you said there's most of the scores are sub 500,000. Here we are back now. What have we got? Oh, sky jump. Doing sky jump. Oh, all right. I think I remember this one. Um,
    77:05
    take a look at the inserts. I believe you want to. Yes. You want to hit the lit one and ideally you hit the one with the double lit double light. So, cuz it's 10 times. Yes. So, if that red was on that white, uh, you would be in a lot better position. So, it's 10 times. Yeah. So, these are 50 if they're unlit, 500 if they're lit, and then you get um obviously 10 times uh target value when it's lit. Uh, and that's this right there. So, that would be 5,000. Yeah, he's got the four lit. Uh, he wants to get there. I forgot what moves the light. Um, I think it's the there's a pop up there in the middle. I think that red one. Yes. Right here. There we go. It's a lot of pins to remember, folks. You play them enough, you start memorizing them. All right, there we go. And another one player EDM. And tough part of going first, but do it, Bob. You got it. You got this. So now that he hasn't got that uh that uh he's got the two lights on the one of the ones that are down. So there's no opportunity for the 5,000. So he's got to knock them all down to to reset the bank. Oh, what a save. Great save there. Great save. Oh my god. He's stepping away. He can't believe his luck, but it really didn't go do much for him in the end. Not in the end, but at least it looks cool. Yeah, you got a clip out of it. Holy cow. What a great save. There it is. Beautiful. The mini laz to the last second flip and then his thousand is lit up there. So now he is forced to get those two targets to reset that bank.
    78:54
    Yep. Yep. Sky jump. And just be careful. We got another That was game over. Tilt ends game. Jeez, that was fast. That was fast. Game of Sky jump. Yeah. 1482 is going to be hoping uh someone one of his competitors tilts or house ball city. Yeah. So that just goes to show how hard these games are. Um the wedge heads are particularly difficult and that even the best players in the world can end up with uh only 20,000 points on these these older games. I always call them the great equalizers cuz everybody steps up and has the same chance basically.
    79:42
    All right. And now his four is the double. And he hits it nicely. Okay. Got Yep. He got Okay. 500 on there. Boom. There you go. Nice job. All right. So now it's just getting them all down. Yeah. It's the name of the game. Two more. Wow. What happens when you get them all down? Reset. You get lots of points. Um I don't know if it awards you uh anything extra. We'll see in a sec, I guess. We're going to see. We're going to see. The way he's mowing them down. We'll see quickly. And his upper left rollover is a thousand. It's faintly lit, but it's lit. Okay. Great catch. Get it. Oh, little early.
    80:33
    And oops. Cradle up. Take your time. You got this dead bounce. Beautiful dead bounce there. Actually, that awarded 5,000, I think. Okay. Yeah, it looked like 5k right there. Which is a significant amount in this game. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Paul won and he passed by there. Yeah, there he is. Oh, no. That's okay. All of his numbers are still lit. So, he has passed Bob, so he is in. Uh, Jose's good to go. Technically, I guess I'm not sure if it matters for seating, but um I know they won't tell him to stop. Yeah. All right. See what he ends up with. And plus, he might want to practice this game just in case. I would take it. I would totally take it. Semi. All right, hit some of these lit shots here. He had that 5,000. You seeing the red and the white line up in the Twitch chat is asking him to tilt. I don't know why. Tilt it out. They're like, we don't want to watch it. There's no special uh tilt sound for this. Or maybe there is. I don't know. Nice. And there it is. And he's got them all lit. So everything's 500 plus the Yeah, there you go. Come on, Chad. Don't you want to see him roll it? I know. Come on. Rolling an EN is a an achievement. Yes. It's like Aurora Borealis. You want to see it. There we go. Sky jump. There. Beautiful. Oh jeez. Yeah. Get that free game. We want to We want to pay it forward.
    82:25
    All right, now he has his little one lit. A great result for Jose coming off a, you know, a game where he controlled his destiny and be to be able to recover and and come back and advance. Yes, we've all known that feeling. You know, he's decided to he'd had enough. He could have rolled it, but he's like, me don't want to waste it. So, now we have Arvid coming up. Arvid just needs to beat 14,000 points here and he will move on to the semifinals. And the amazing thing is that doesn't sound like a lot until you play this game. Yeah, right. Indeed. Next thing you know, you're on ball four with 5,000 points. Yeah. Just like that. Just like that. There's one ball. All right. He's going quickly. He's trying to get in get through this. 10x is on. Oh my gosh.
    83:34
    Drop catch. Just getting them all. Just getting them all. Bounce over to on the shads to get it on the lift. Light another target. Oh, okay. That was a practice. I see. Hence the rush. I see. Okay. I was like, he really wants to get through sky jump. He must not like it. I could feel it.
    84:08
    Yeah. A little bit more careful now. Yeah. Yeah. Got he's going for his lips. Okay. Three of seven.
    84:27
    Oh, okay. That feed there is a nasty nasty feed. 7k to go. Yep. Three balls in hand. There's a th00and. Oh, beautiful. He's already at 10. Okay, now he wants to hit that one. There's two switches up there. Seven up there. Oh, okay. Two balls to get 4,000. Doesn't sound like much. 3 3200. Sorry. Needs to plunge it. Now, this is interesting. And who would risk this? I'm putting my hand up immediately. Yeah, because tilt ends game. You don't want to nudge it too much. How impatient will he be? Looks like he's being patient. Too much at stake here. Yeah. back to the plunge lane because it hasn't activated any other rollovers, right? Yes. Oh, interesting. Yeah, he's going for that 10x. Just needs the seven. He knows it. He knows it. And it's double. He's got it lit for both 10x and 500, which would be the win. Exactly. get the ball.
    85:37
    It's amazing how it's amazing where the ball can find itself and just sit, especially when the geometry is specifically created to not have that happen. Friction is a an amazing thing. Y good old physics. I knew I did science for something. He's just he's doing quite the uh the lip thing here.
    86:06
    All right. Is there a TD in here? That is the question. I think we're just waiting for someone to get this ball at this point. I saw people wandering around looking looking for texts.
    86:18
    I think he's hoping it's going on the right flipper. Yeah, it looks like that. And that's a great Is that the normal ruling? He hasn't activated anything up top though. Interesting. Because he hasn't hit a rollover leg. I would imagine it goes to the plunger link. But again, uh well, we'll see what the uh TD calls. It's up to the TD indeed. But having it on the right flipper is a better result. Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. That seven is right there. That's what he wants. And that will win him an entry into the next round, the semis. That gives him the dub.
    86:59
    Okay, is going on his right flipper. All right, carefully maneuver that. That is true. Ball is in field of play, so makes sense to go on the right flipper, too. All right, Arvid. Well, be careful closing everything. Don't tilt. Do not tilt.
    87:25
    cuz a compensation ball in this if that um did end game a compensation two balls would not be the same. Yeah. In the position he's at cuz you have to relight everything. And it's crazy cuz the the motive is to put the player back in the position that he was. But you can't do that on comps.
    87:55
    Okay. Sorry. Um, he Okay, we're still locking the door, the coin door here. They have to do it very carefully. Well, we don't Yeah, we don't want to jiggle that tilt, Bob. And there is a uh tilt ends game. That's correct. Not also. There's the tilt. is the uh other thing in the coin door that slam. Slam tilt. Yes. Sorry, I couldn't remember the name. The slam tilt bob. Well, it's not a bob. It's a switch. But yes, slam tilting a game is one of the worst feelings in intermin tournament. Jeez, I need to get I need to get some food in maybe caffeine. Oh, and there he's played on and he had a shot at that that last target and missed it. And again, he's missed it. And so that's the pressure. Yes, it is. There's There it is. Uh because the left this switch gave He's got it. Well done. Got it. Okay. Nice work. He never got that switch, but whatever. Luckily, is cool with it. Good game, Bob. Good game, Arvin. Really enjoyable. Very fun to watch and it's been fun hanging out with you guys. Yep. Loved it. Uh the first time I've really talked to you guys a lot. I've really enjoyed it. It's been fun. And that's the great thing about these tournaments. Come out, you're going to meet great people. You get to learn about pinball. I'm during this commentary, I've learned more about arena than I than I need to know. So, I'm happy about it. Yeah. Well, I remember it when I need to. Exactly. Bye, everybody. See you guys. Thanks for that.