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NEW Star Wars Fall of the Empire #pinball COMMENTARY with yours truly!!

Walt Wood Pinball·video·47m 20s·analyzed·Oct 30, 2025
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TL;DR

Walt Wood live-streams Star Wars pinball commentary, noting ongoing code changes and playfield design issues.

Summary

Walt Wood provides live commentary on Star Wars: Fall of the Empire pinball matches at Outlanes Pinball arcade in Colorado. He discusses gameplay mechanics, rule updates, and design issues including frequent center ramp rejections and excessive 'Borg' (pop bumper) hazards. He notes the game is still in active code development with daily updates from designer Rey, making rules unstable.

Key Claims

  • The center ramp shot on Star Wars rejects the ball too frequently, suggesting insufficient playtesting

    high confidence · Walt states: 'it seems like they didn't play test the game enough cuz that would have frustrated me to all in, dude' in reference to repeated center ramp rejections.

  • Star Wars code is being updated daily with significant changes to multiball rules and point values

    high confidence · Walt: 'The code's changing. Like I I played this in Chicago at the the expo tournament and it's way the like the multiball is way different than it was out there' and 'this code is changing daily. Like they've been putting out updates like daily.'

  • Hoth Multiball is the dominant and most popular strategy, with other modes largely ignored by players

    high confidence · Walt observes: 'When I was in Chicago, man, like nobody was going for that. It was pretty much just Hoth Multiball' and 'Everybody was just doing this. They were just going for the Hoth doing this backhand like all day long.'

  • The multiplier shot alignment on the playfield is visually misaligned and confusing for players

    high confidence · Walt: 'The problem is with the whole thing, it's not lined up right. So, you don't really like if when I'm playing that, dude, I can't see from my pinball instincts that that's going to multiply that or that.'

  • Designer Ray is actively watching gameplay at tournaments to gather feedback on what is and isn't working

    high confidence · Walt: 'Rey is still in the lab with this one, man. Like he was out there with us expo just watching us all like a hawk, seeing what's working, what's not.'

  • The skill shot on Star Wars is poorly designed because too many shots are lit simultaneously

    medium confidence · Walt: 'Like, everything is everything is flashing, dude. It's not really a skill shot if everything is flashing, is it? Like, dude, on Kong, like the skill shots make sense.'

Notable Quotes

  • “The code's changing. Like I I played this in Chicago at the the expo tournament and it's way the like the multiball is way different than it was out there.”

    Walt Wood @ early segment — Demonstrates active post-release code iteration and instability of rules

  • “This game is so Borg-heavy. And by Borg, I mean these these pop right to the out lane. You'll get this little thing to the out lane. Sometimes you'll get a jostle over there. This is so common on this game, man.”

    Walt Wood @ early segment — Identifies recurring playfield hazard problem—pop bumpers consistently throwing balls to outlanes

  • “it seems like they didn't play test the game enough cuz that would have frustrated me to all in, dude. and change. You got to change that.”

    Walt Wood @ mid-segment — Critiques center ramp shot rejection frequency as evidence of inadequate playtesting

  • “I wouldn't get these rules too down too much because it seems like it's still changing. And there's a multiball here that seems like it's unpopular.”

    Walt Wood @ mid-segment — Advises viewers not to memorize rules given ongoing updates; confirms meta-gaming around single dominant strategy

  • “The problem is with the whole thing, it's not lined up right. So, you don't really like if when I'm playing that, dude, I can't see from my pinball instincts that that's going to multiply that or that.”

    Walt Wood @ strategy discussion segment — Documents design flaw in multiplier shot visual alignment and its impact on playability

  • “Like, everything is everything is flashing, dude. It's not really a skill shot if everything is flashing, is it?”

    Walt Wood @ late segment — Criticism of skill shot design philosophy—too many simultaneous lit shots reduce skill differentiation

  • “Rey is still in the lab with this one, man. Like he was out there with us expo just watching us all like a hawk, seeing what's working, what's not.”

    Walt Wood @ mid-segment — Indicates designer actively gathering post-release feedback at tournaments

Entities

Walt WoodpersonStar Wars: Fall of the EmpiregameReypersonOutlanes PinballeventJasonpersonLyman SheetspersonHoth Multiballgame_featureChicago ExpoeventDonovan Stoutperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Outlanes Pinball hosting active ladies' pinball league with tournament and community events, demonstrating grassroots arcade operator engagement

    high · Stream documents multi-group ladies' tournament with named players from PBLO; Jason (owner) announces upcoming Halloween party and league start dates

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Tournament meta highly dominated by single strategy (Hoth Multiball backhand); other modes largely unpopular and ignored by competitive players

    high · Walt: 'When I was in Chicago, man, like nobody was going for that. It was pretty much just Hoth Multiball' and 'Everybody was just doing this. They were just going for the Hoth doing this backhand like all day long'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Center ramp shot on Star Wars exhibits excessive rejection frequency, with Walt stating 'it looks good on paper, but it seems like they didn't play test the game enough'

    high · Multiple instances of center ramp rejections during gameplay; Walt compares unfavorably to other games; notes this would frustrate him to tilt

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Pop bumper ('Borg') hazard placement results in frequent outlane drains; described as 'omnipresent' mechanical problem

    high · Walt repeatedly references Borg hazards throughout commentary; multiple drain instances shown during matches

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Legacy design practices being maintained: Lyman Sheets' 'grace period' ball save mechanic incorporated into Star Wars, reflecting design tradition respect

    medium · Walt references and praises Lyman grace period mechanic as positive design choice; notes its incorporation shows continuity with legendary designer work

Transcript

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0:25
Ladies and gentlemen, hello. How are you? How is everybody doing? My name is Walt Wood. I am a pinball player from Colorado and I will be calling this match tonight. I've got a world famous pen right here.
0:52
Let me know if you guys can see that on your on your end where we can show you shots like right where we can show you shots like right up the middle here. Um we could show you Oh, cool. We're Um we could show you Oh, cool. We're going. All right. Look at this. All right. Here we go. We're going. Let's go. So, I didn't realize that we're going. I'm ready. Let's go. We got ball safe. All right. Now, let's see. Big big one on this Star Wars I found. Let me just do this in the beginning and get you guys some direction. This standup will light locks here. So, see, she just shot that. Didn't do anything because she didn't hit the stand up first. Now, she's got her modes. I'll get that off screen. Now, she's got her modes lit. We were just I was just talking before this stream what the colors mean of the modes. Me personally, I don't really know um off the top of my head what they mean. Um I heard from Ry what they mean. It was kind of vague though. I don't really understand what and the code's changing. Like I I played this in Chicago at the the expo tournament and it's way the like the multiball is way different than it was out there. Like there's no addall super. There was an Adabal super that's that's missing now. So she's got the right ramp. Now the right ramp in competition mode will qualify your Han multiball up the center ramp there. That's the one where you hit it a bunch of times in a row and you get that in comp mode. You have to hit that right ramp. See, now it says two more for Falcon. So, that's going to be her. The falcon is that hurry up. And there's a Borg. She got the Borg. This game is so Borgghheavy. And by Borg, I mean is uh these these uh pop right to the out lane. You'll get you'll get this little thing to the out lane. Sometimes you'll get a jostle over there. This is so common on this game, man. It It's just Oh, it's ever omniresent on this game.
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  • ?

    design_philosophy: Skill shot accessibility concern: too many simultaneous lit shots reduces skill differentiation and doesn't reward player decision-making

    medium · Walt criticizes: 'It's not really a skill shot if everything is flashing, is it?' and compares unfavorably to Kong's more selective skill shot design

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Designer Rey actively attending tournaments as observer to gather post-release feedback and inform code iterations

    high · Walt: 'Rey is still in the lab with this one, man. Like he was out there with us expo just watching us all like a hawk, seeing what's working, what's not'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Star Wars code undergoing rapid daily updates post-release, indicating incomplete playtesting at launch

    high · Walt: 'this code is changing daily. Like they've been putting out updates like daily' and advises players not to memorize rules due to instability

  • ?

    product_strategy: Multiplier system (white circle icons) intended to provide strategic depth but poorly communicated visually; players uncertain about actual mechanical function

    medium · Walt and chat participants speculate about multiplier function; Walt unclear whether white circles correspond to specific shots; mechanical intent obscured by visual design

  • ?

    product_concern: Playfield visual design misalignment: multiplier shot indicators do not properly line up with intended target shots, creating confusion for players

    high · Walt states: 'The problem is with the whole thing, it's not lined up right. So, you don't really like if when I'm playing that, dude, I can't see from my pinball instincts'

    • 2:52
    A player three stepping up. I don't have a player list in front of me, but we're going to we're going to roll with a player three stepping up here. Let's see what we got. Oh, chilling, brother. Thanks, Jason. Thanks, Jason. Jason, proprietor, owner of Outlanes Pinball, where we are going live tonight. This place is great, man. We're doing doing great things over here. A quick drain here. Uh the your world really begins getting that drop target, getting that light lock, drop target, man. That's really where you want to get it going. And and you got the shoot anything uh skill shot here. Like T3, man. Come on, Ray. Ray's got to dial that down, dude. Everything is a skill shot. Every yellow thing. So when you plunge, everything's lit a yellow. So you shoot anything. If you guys remember T3, it's pretty. Okay, so now she's got her missions lit. You can tell by those colored shots. And the pops just man, just putting her in danger there. You got to move that when it's over there, man. You be in trouble. Sorry about this spot. I have a stern pinball patch that's green. I'm on a green screen. So, you know, and apparently my head has some green. I have a green plate in my noggin cuz it's like patching out right there, too. I guess I have like green splatter on my dome. Well, how you guys doing? Hope everybody's doing well out there. Pinball Land, man. Thanks for checking us out. She gets the slings. She's got her missions lit. She's got a She's got a Death Star lock lit also, which is uh that flashing shot right up which is uh that flashing shot right up here. You can see it right up there. That's a That's a Death Star lock. It's When I was in Chicago, man, like nobody was going for that. It was pretty much just Hoth Multiball. Hoth multiball is the green blinking flashing in lanes you could see there. Kind of reminiscent of Metallica with the inlane drops. There's the toilet bowl. World famous toilet bowl shop. Come on. Now, the toilet bowl will add uh every time you get a multiball, that's your first shot. Your first shot is the toilet bowl cuz 10 spins will add a ball. Any and every multiball you get. So, it's most important thing when you start a multiball is go for the toilet. Just think about like this. You started a multi multiball. Oh man, I got to go to the bathroom. Like, just think about like that. I started a multiball, man. I got to go to the bathroom and then shoot the toilet and then your world will have meaning, you know. All right. 32 32 mil there. Player player one ball two here. All right. I don't have a player cam, but that's cool, man. We can still see the action. All right. Gets a skill shot. One of the 90 skill shots. The the world famous reject on that center. And here it comes. You got to see where it comes. You got to be vigilant for that. That thing rejects a lot. All right, now she's got her locks lit. Oh, well, look out for the Borg. Okay, she's good. She's good. Okay, she's got to calm this down. Oh, it's all good, man. It's all good. We got mystery. Sorry about the player game. Well, I'm sure it'll come back on. Mystery player. Mystery. It's a mystery to you and me. Mystery.
    6:27
    All right, player two looks like they have they don't have I I can't quite see it, but it doesn't look like it's maybe 11 million at the most or eight. Kind of hard to see the displays. All right, player three, ball two stepping up here. All right, so she's got her missions lit. There we are. And now she's got her multipliers lit also. That's the the white flashing falcons or whatever those icons are, the white circles. So now that she's shot, once you shoot a shot, man, she got a Borg, but luckily she got the ball back. Once you shoot a shot, when all those are flashing, it's going to lock in that shot for a multiplier. So now you could see the white light is lit at the center. So she's going to have that multiplier up the center ramp. Oh man, that that target did her in. Oh man, that that target did her in. It's all good, gang. It's all good. It's all good, gang. It's all good. [Music]
    7:34
    All right, player four steps up. Oh, I got the player came back. All right, her shirt looks just like mine, man. her shirt looks just like mine, man. Let's go. She needs this. Oh, man. Look at another Borg. This is what I'm telling you guys. See, again, the Borgs are strong with this one, man. She'll get the ball back. No, you're still in. You're still in. Keep going. There you No. Oh my god. Come on. It's There you No. Oh my god. Come on. It's all good. I think she was so shocked that she got the ball back, man. That kind of threw her off. That's all good, man. It happens. That happens to me. I have That happens to me. You don't think it happens to me, too? You're crazy. It happens to me, also. All right. Player one stepping up here. Ball three. Now, this is where it counts. She's got the lock. All right, let's see if it's virtual or if it's uh Okay, so that's where you lock the ball. Okay, so that's where you lock the ball. Yes, she There you go. She called it for Yes, she There you go. She called it for us. That's where you lock a ball. It looks like she's got a ball in a shoe It looks like she's got a ball in a shoe lane, too. So, it's not virtual. Okay.
    8:43
    All right. Here we go. Let's see what she does. All right. I would just Oh crap. You got to be careful about that feed, man. All right. Now, she's got the light speed. This is the uh I think this is the like the T-Rex mode in uh uh what do you call it? Jurassic Park uh what do you call it? Jurassic Park where all the yellow arrows will build value and the white arrow is going to start the multiball. But see, it won't go through the stupid back box again. Dude, it keeps going through the orbit. Okay, there. Did it give it to her? No, it didn't give it to her. It gave her Oh, see that? She got burned, dude. It see that? She got burned, dude. It should have went through the back box. Sorry, my greasy fingers in the camera. It should have went through the back box, but it did. Yeah, it didn't. So, if she but it did. Yeah, it didn't. So, if she would have shot that blue arrow, it would have started a multiball. She So, the game thought she hit at orbit because she got rejected on this center for the 50th time in a row.
    9:43
    Oh man, that center like it looks good on paper, but it seems like they didn't play test the game enough cuz that would have frustrated me to all in, dude. and change. You got to change that. Okay, so now she's got her multipliers lit.
    9:58
    All right, here we go. So next shot we'll start uh All All right, cool. I got a player sheet now. All right, great. Stepping up here is Ronnie. All right, let's see what she could do here. Thank you, Jason. Jason the man coming in here. All right. All right. Yeah, here we go. We got Ronnie stepping up. I got a player list now. We're good. We're golden. Mystery players over. We got a play. So, now she got the See, she the center shot worked, but unfortunately it wasn't lit. So, let's see what she does. All
    11:00
    right, here we go. Here we go. Let's see. She's got uh Let's see what she's in mode. I don't quite know which one. All right, here we go. Welcome to Tatooine. All right, that was a 10 million shot. That's money. All here we go. Oh, careful with that. Stop. There we go.
    11:19
    All right, she needs to stop this ball. Oh, look out for the Borg. There you go. Nice. All right, center shot went through. The center shot seems to be going through when it's not lit every time. There we go. Backhand to that. 14 million is money. Keep that going. I would just run with these blue shots right now. Now she's got her multipliers lit again. So next shot will Now it won't be lit on the one. All right. Now that one's not lit. So now it put the white circle there. So that next blue arrow is going to be money when she hits that. Oh, look out for the sling. Look out. Look out now. There you go. Nice. Okay, here we go. Here we go. This is nice. She needs to hit that Luke shot. That Luke shot is pay dirt. It's pay dirt right now. Hit that shot. Oh my god. No. [Music] Hey, that's all good. That was a great ball. That was a 39 million mode. 30 million mode right there. Plus million mode. Great performance right there. That was amazing. All right. Next up, stepping up, we got All right. Next up, stepping up, we got Candace.
    12:23
    That's 61 million. Look at that. That one mode. So you guys can see how important those white circles are when you apply them to your shots. I think the best one to do is the one I think the best one to do is the one right here. It's this shot right in there in the in the in lanes cuz that's going to be your mission. Every time you end a mission, that's where it ends. It ends on that shot. Every mission ends on that inlane drop, the Luke shot. So that's like the most important one to put it on. All right. Now she's got her locks lit, which is great. So she can stop this ball and start. You can backhand that that lock shot. Oh, she's gonna get that back. Lyman grace. Oh,
    13:08
    so folks, if you don't know, we call that the Lyman sheets grace period. You get the ball back when the light goes out. The lineman's spirit lives on. And so he gives you the ball back even if it's a second. See a lot of games that he didn't do. See, now it's kind of common place to put the lineman Grace in there. But a lot of time, a lot of games that he didn't work on, the second that ball go the shoot again light goes out, you're done. You're not getting that ball back. You know, go home, pack, you know, pack eat your pack lunch. It's been it's been real. That's it. You know, you're not getting the ball back. But Lyman put that in so you get like that extra second or two. It was a beautiful thing, man. And I It was a beautiful thing, man. And I think his spirit lives on with that wine and grace right there. Cheers, man. I know he's he's hanging out here with us somewhere.
    14:02
    How you guys doing out there, man? Hit me up. I got a chat right here. How's everybody doing out there? Hope you guys are doing well. Playing some pinball, getting some Star Wars. I wouldn't get the rules down too deep on this version of the of the code yet because I know for a fact Rey is still in the lab with this one, man. Like he was out there with us expo just watching us all like a hawk, seeing what's working, what's not. So I wouldn't worry too much about getting these rules down. Just um the one major things that won't change are your multiball, right? So, you got your This is the most important thing, guys. I'm going to tell you right now. When the second you plunge a ball and get it on your flipper, you want to shoot for this target. It's It's the most important thing in the world is that drop target. That's going to that's going to begin the whole world for you because it's going to open these locks. And this this multiball seems to be the most fruitful even though it seems like Ray scaled down a lot of the points.
    15:20
    Burp uh burp uh anti burp cam here. That one is going to be the multiball with uh most of the points, but it seems like it scaled down some of the points, but it's still the easiest one to get into. The first one time you hit it, it lights all three of them right away. The second time you get into it, you got to hit it once and then it lights it and then you but you can stack them. So, you can hit it three times and it'll it'll stack all three lights at the same time. So, that's really easy to do. And then the second time you can also stack it. It's just two different shots. That's the only difference. That seems to be the best one. And then the one in comp mode is this one. You got to shoot the right ramp to open up. First you shoot the right ramp and then it opens up the Falcon multiball, which I think it's light speed. Are they calling it light speed? Whatever they're calling it. It's the one up the center. So that's the one that's going to open up after you shoot the right ramp a few times. That seems to be a good one to go for also, but it seems like this shot rejects way too much, man.
    16:41
    Oh man, that was hilarious. But it just seems like that shot rejects But it just seems like that shot rejects a lot. So, it's like a hit or miss going for that one. Oh man, that was funny. And your multipliers, I'm thinking these are how you get them going, right? Hit the pop bumper that lights your white circles. You put put it on that one. This is where my mind's at, guys. Put it on that one because all your mode shots, all your mission shots are ending right at the same shot right there. your super jackpot shot in the Hoth multiball also ending right there. Same thing. That's why I'm coloring the line like ah man. Man, that's I'm telling you right now, that's the one right there. That's the most important. These things also, you see these lines right here? They're supposed to co coincide with the shot somehow. Like this. Oh, let me let me start over. So like this one right here, I think coincides with the scoop. This one coincides with that. This one coincides with this. This one coincides with that. Okay. Now going over here. This one coincides with this. And so on so forth. I'm not trying to say coincides 95 times. So this one goes with this. This one goes with that. And finally one more going with that. I think that's the thinking behind this. And when you have one of those flashing or solid, it's going to quantify it. So, it's either gonna double it or triple it or something like that. The problem is with the whole thing, it's not lined up right. So, you don't really like if when I'm playing that, dude, I can't see from my pinball instincts that that's going to multiply that or that. But, I'm pretty sure that that's going to happen. Racing racing Lozy, what's up? I think if you finish the mode, those light each shot for 2x. The uh Are you talking about the uh these uh blue oval shots right there? The ones I was just talking about? Cuz the the blue the white circles I I believe I've noticed those light every time a pop is struck. That's caught my attention. Every time a pop is struck, I've noticed those lightening up. It's Chase. Yeah. Okay. Hey, Chase Hart. What's up, bro? How you doing, brother? Good to see you, my man. Good to see you. So, yeah, if if that's the thinking, the problem is these aren't lining up with the shot. But I think that's like what we were just talking about a minute ago, I'm pretty sure is the thinking there with those shots. Like, I don't have inside information. I'm just going off what I play, what I feel, you know, what what makes the most sense to me. But
    19:25
    oh, Captain, what's up, man? Good to see you, brother. Good to see you. Good to see you. Or not see you. See your name. I'm looking at your name. Good to see your name. Good to feel your spirit. I hope you're doing well, brother. I hope you're doing well. But these, like I said in the beginning, I wouldn't get these co these rules too down too much because it seems like it's still changing. And there's a multiball here that seems like it's unpopular. It's not doesn't seem like it's going to be going I know. I I got it a few times in at expo, but didn't seem like a lot of people. Everybody was just doing this. They were just going for the Hoth doing this backhand like all day long, you know. But hopefully we got another group coming up soon and we we'll keep it going for you here. But
    20:41
    All right, I think we're getting the next group situated here and we'll see what's going on.
    21:23
    We're live for millions. We're live for millions. We're live for millions. [Music]
    21:46
    What does that one do? Move it to the next bank. I wish you guys could see this. Can I move the camera? Can I move the camera? Yeah.
    22:39
    I'm not good enough for the button. I haven't done anything funny yet. I got to do something funny to disqualify everybody.
    23:04
    All right, everybody. What's going on? What's going on? I hope you guys are doing well. I'm going to give Walt a quick break here. Hope you guys are enjoying the VIP, the uh um the special guest that we have. Walt was gracious enough and wanted to come on and um heck yeah, he's he's welcome anytime. So, hope all you guys are doing well. We're waiting for the next group. We still have we have uh multiple groups left for sure. So, I think you guys just saw Tammy, Cindy, Ronnie, and Candace. Um, I think I see Chase on here. Yep. Uh, so Kate's group is still up. We still have Nikki's group, Liz, Rosio, Alicia, um, Cassy's group, Beth, Wendy, Missy, Jane, whole bunch of uh, a whole bunch of ladies. There's some good talent in here, too. It's so so awesome to see. They've uh, some of them are brand a couple of them are brand new, but uh, some seasoned veterans in here as well. So,
    24:12
    Anyway, while um while I have you guys um for those that while I have you guys um for those that are local, um make sure and try to get out here on Friday uh and Saturday. Saturday's our tournament. We're going to do a $20 buyin tournament. Should be a blast. Uh that's November 1st at 100 pm. Back it up a day to Halloween on Friday and we will be doing a uh Halloween party. We have an awesome food truck that will be here at Outlanes. Um so uh we're going to do a food truck costume party and uh just have a blast. So that's in just a couple days. That's this Friday coming up. So ah there's Peter saying hi to uh Miss Miss Tammy the birthday girl.
    25:03
    All right, you guys. For those of you uh watching the World For those of you uh watching the World Series, who you pulling for? It's 2-2. And it looks like, well, I won't say the score just in case some of you guys haven't recorded or whatever, but game five, series tied 2-2. Pretty exciting so far.
    25:39
    There we go. And then one more, just a quick heads up, we will be doing, we are not going to be doing another ladies league um to end the year just because Wednesdays fall. There's everything that falls on Wednesday. So, it's real tough when it comes to all of the uh holidays uh upcoming. But we are starting our very next general um general league which is this coming Monday. So we have a real busy um next five days or so. We have a Halloween party. Then Saturday we have our tournament and then uh Monday is the start of a brand new league. So it should be and will be a blast. Um our last league just literally wrapped up. We just had finals um this uh on Monday. So, but we're rolling right into another league. The only reason is if if Donovan's over here, I could get Dino. Um his league is they're pretty much in the middle of their league, but he's not going to be doing um uh uh anything there. So, um obviously Blizzard is down, so we want to keep the leagues running for sure. myself. Anyway,
    27:06
    all right. So, but anyway, that's why we're looking at uh jumping into a league quickly because uh players just want to jump in a league before the end of the year, before the end of the year standings uh get final, the whole nine yards. Oh, there's AJ. What's going on, AJ? How are you, brother? Hope all is well.
    27:27
    So, yeah, there's there will be uh general league starting this Monday. Um, and the reason why we're doing it so quickly again is, um, Dino over here, uh, they're in the middle of their league, but he's not going to be starting one up right after that, uh, from what he was saying. Um, and then, um, of course, Blizzard is out, so we're going to jump in it real quick and, uh, get everybody going in league. So, here comes group number in league. So, here comes group number two, I think. So, we have Alicia, we have Nikki, we have Liz, and we have Rosio. So, excellent, excellent group of lady players here. Um, let's get ready to rumble with these girls. They're going to uh tear it up, I'm sure. So, good players right here. A good group.
    28:17
    And we're going to see Here comes my man again. We're going to get Walt to jump back on here, too. You ready? Okay. I'm going to step off. All right. So, we got uh Walt coming back on here, you guys. Walt just in time. I saw I was ready. Yeah, I saw I was ready. Yeah, you got it. We're going to start this you got it. We're going to start this group off. This is a solid group right here. And it looks like Alicia is starting. And then next is Nikki. Three of the And then next is Nikki. Three of the four from our friends down in PBLO. And there's AJ from Bite Me. All right. Cool. Hell yeah. All right. All right. Cool. Hell yeah. All right. What's up, AJ? All right. All right. Cool. Thanks, All right. All right. Cool. Thanks, brother. You got it. So, let's do it. Alicia is You got it. So, let's do it. Alicia is starting. All right. Thanks, man. All right. All right. Thanks, man. All right. Yeah, buddy. It's all you, my man. Yeah, buddy. It's all you, my man. Thank you, brother. Thank you, brother. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Oh, no. My man. All right, brother. Oh, no. My man. All right, brother. Thank you so much. We're going live. All right. All right. Ball cradle. That's a good Oh, she hit that drop dead on, man. That's a danger. I wonder if she meant to do it or I don't know. I don't know. AJ, what's up, bro? What's up, brother? I hope life is treating you well, bro. I hope life is treating you well. Next I hope life is treating you well. Next up, we got Liz. Next up, we got Nikki stepping up. Here we go. Shoot anything. World famous skill shot. Shoot anything. World famous skill shot. She'll get that back. Don't worry, gang. She's going to get it back. Here we go. I'm ready. I'm ready for these matches, gang. If you're ready, I'm ready. Now, again, we talked about the color of the modes. Not quite sure what they signify. The green might be easier. I don't really know yet. Sorry about that. And also again, these these this code is changing daily. Like they've been putting out updates like daily. I just I can't read that stuff. I'd rather just play the game and figure it out, you know? I'll just tell you guys what I'm learning, you know? All right. So now she's got the 2x on that Chewbacca. The toilet bowl ramp. It's just the toilet bowl ramp to me. It's just the toilet bowl ramp to me. I'm sorry. It's whatever, dude. It's just it's toilet bowl ramp. All right. There you go. She's got a blue blue arrows are golden right now in this mode. There. Nice shot. 52.
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    Pardon me. All right. Light speed. Here we go. Now she started that multiball. This is the T-Rex multiball from Jurassic. This is where Ray got the inspiration for her. And it pretty much So now that she shot that first shot, it just starts it. She hadn't a chance to build up any uh shots, unfortunately. That's okay. Now she's in. The center shot is lit for kind of a loop and supers kind of a thing for a limited time. So that center shot is still going. She'll have a shot at it. Oh, hyperspace loops is going. And that's also up the middle. But now our super is turned off. So she's got to hit a few more blue arrows to get her uh super again up the middle. But this is a fun super. This this is a fun super. This is fun to uh cram that middle over and over. Oh, nasty Borg. Nasty B. Borg, you nasty man. Oh, nasty man.
    31:36
    I got to talk to Borg while I was playing this in the finals. It was It was like God put him there. Borg, I went out to smoke. Cuz when you're playing these kids out there, man, they take like 10 minutes. You could literally smoke three times and go up. All right, Liz. Liz stepping up. Shoots anything. All right, she's got the skill shot on the bumper. And now our bumpers are flashing. So, okay, I'm still learning. That's why I'm good. I'm glad I'm doing this tonight with you guys because I'm still learning these rules also. So, I want to figure out how to get that white circle multiplier. So, I'm really paying attention to those pops here. Oh, she's going for the blue arrow. Drained out. That's okay.
    32:24
    Not a problem. Another ball in the pocket. It's all good, gang. Don't worry. Yeah, look at this. You walk up and everything is lit, dude. Come on, man. Ray, what are you doing? I love Ray, but come on, dude. Like, everything is everything is flashing, dude. It's not really a skill shot if everything is flashing, is it? Like, dude, on Kong, like the skill shots make sense. You shoot the river, you can shoot the inlanes, and then when I do shoot it, I feel like I performed some skill, you know? I don't know. I'm just saying. I don't mean to be a stickler, dude. I'm just saying. Nice backhand to the Death Star to light the lock. That was pretty. All right. She needs to get that stand up. This is Rosio stepping up, by the way. Rosio's awesome. I've known Rosio a long time.
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    All right, here we go. Let's see. Oh, off the bumper. Sorry. Check my I'll try to do one of those. [Music] Sorry, gang. I'm learning on the fly. All right. Please forgive me.
    33:46
    Yeah, man. All right. Steps up. All right. Now, uh Alicia stepping up again. Nice. Oh, she shot that twice. Did it didn't give her any progress. Am I crazy? She start two two times. Right. [ __ ] [ __ ] Nice backhand to the right ramp. Okay, so that should qualify to Falcon, which is the uh multiball up the middle ramp there.
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    Oh, okay. She got that back. Nice. All right, I think it went. All right. Oh, watch out for the Borg. Okay,
    34:26
    there we Oh. All right. The pop bumper is flashing like crazy. What do you guys think? That's the money right there. That's the money. Oh, I thought it was going to hit it. Oh, it didn't hit it. Oh god. Direct fire to that target. She didn't mean to shoot it. She just shot it off the fly, you know. Oh god, that it feels like getting shot by a shotgun. When you shoot a target like that and it fires back at you, doesn't it feel like you got shot? Like a shotgun blast to the chest. All right, here we go. Oh, Nikki stepping up.
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    All right. 8 million on that shot. That was nice. Love you, Donovan. Good to see you, bro. Donovan rolling out, man. Living legend right there, dude. I' I don't think I've learned more from anybody in pinball than Donovan Stout, man. I love that, dude. He's a legend, bro. All right, let's see what we got. She almost got the bug. Dude, they they got to put the board guard easier to get. Dude, the Jedi needs to be easier. Ray needs to make that easier. I think there's a ball in there already, so it might shoot it out. Okay, it gave her another one. I'm pretty sure there's a already a ball from another player, isn't there? All right, there's a skill shot. Shoot anything.
    35:55
    All right, she's got All right, she's got her ion cannon. So that's the multipliers, the white circles. Oh, nice money. She put it right on the Luke shot. Oh, god. Let's go. She's going to get paid if she can. Look, now the blue arrow is on that same shot. It's going to be doubled. This is going to be money shot. If she can hit that shot, she's got to get the ball under control. There you go. Yeah. Look at this. Oh, look at that. Mission complete. 21 million on that one shot, guys. That's what I'm telling you. All your missions end on that shot. That's That's where you want to put your multiplier. And your super jackpot from the battle for Hoth is on that shot. But she's Man, I would just go go for Hoth. Oh god. Don't drain. Don't drain with that multiplier on there, please. No. God, for the love of humanity, don't do it. Oh my lord. Okay, here we go. She's good. She's good. Oh my god. Oh my god. Nice drain out there. Sorry, I missed that. Somebody was flagging me down. Oh. So, I'm in it, but people keep flagging me down. Sorry, guys. I'm like in it. I keep missing it. Sorry, guys. Sorry about that. I need to have my laser focus like this. I need to have my laser focus like this. I'm in the game, man. I'm in the game.
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    All right, we got a skill shot right here. Oh, it's still lit. Oh, there you go. She got she got the one up the middle.
    37:39
    Best viewers streamboo.com. Remove the space. I'm good, bro. Look at premarital. Look at this dude's name. Premarital Ascent.
    37:53
    Premarital. Whatever. We're good, bro. I don't know how to remove it. I would. I don't know how to do any of that high-tech crap. Sorry. So, there it'll say. All right. Here we go. So, she's got the multipliers. Okay. She backhanded that. So, now it'll be on there. There you go. All right. She can Let's see. Ideally, you want Man, she would really want to backhand that. Okay. She's going for the Death Star. Oh, Lord. Lord have mercy.
    38:28
    What do these do again? Oh [ __ ] I didn't tell a joke. Oh [ __ ] I didn't tell a joke. That's got a height. No, that sucked. That's got a height. No, that sucked. Uh, I got nothing, bro. I see. I suck with the buttons, dude. I I can't be I I can't use buttons. I'm an idiot. You can't give idiot things. What are you doing? I have Whoa, nice backhand on that. Yo, that should have been like double for a backhand on that shot. That was beautiful. All right, let's see what Rosio could do here. She's got her missions lit. The missions lit uh light from the force targets. I don't know if I mentioned that before. So, those stand up white force targets that are in the middle of all the shots.
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    How do you like the multipliers again? Um, it's something with the bumpers. like the you hit the I think it's something with the B. See, I don't really know myself. It's something with the bumpers. I'm thinking I'm still trying to pay attention to that and see. Oh, that was a bad nasty drain off the stand up. It's something with the B cuz once I've noticed once you once they're hitting this, once this is getting hit, where's my pointer? Once this is getting struck, then the multipliers are away and then your next shot, you know, puts it on it. But I'm not seeing like which uh uh what do you call it? Oh, let me get that [ __ ] out of there. I'm not seeing what do you call like what's actually doing it. All right, player three. Here we go. Alicia stepping up. Ball three. This is where it matters, folks. Come on. She's going for the Death Star. I like it, man. She almost got it.
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    Imper It makes sense. It has Imperial symbol on it. Oh, yeah. You're right. It is the same symbol, isn't it? Oh, yeah. See, see, we're learning this together. Is she backhanding the Death Star, dude? That was dope. Let's go. Yeah, it could be the Imperial, man. It Yeah, it could be the Imperial, man. It could be the hob hobscotch symbol. I don't know, dude. I don't really watch Star Wars, man. To be honest, I don't know. Oh. Oh, that was nasty, dude. She hit the center, came right back. Golly, nasty. I need a shower after that one. That was nasty, dude. Reject off the center. Borg, what is your meaning? Borg, what are you doing to us? Borg, this design, Borg, I don't know how I feel about it. I feel it has like one shot too many. I mean, we'll talk about that, you know, as we go here. All right. She now she's got like she's in prime position. She got her multiball lit at the Oh, maybe a Grace. No, no, Grace. Thought she'd have the lineman Grace. She was like a quarter of a second too late, but she had her final multiball. But she's got 200 million. She's looking good. It's really hard for me to see the scores there. They're really tiny.
    41:41
    All right. All right. Let's see. All right. Liz stepping up here. Let's see what she can do here. Toilet bowl. What do you give us? Toilet bowl.
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    Toilet bowl. Toilet bowl. What is that? Oh, Trojan man. That's what it took me a second, dude. I'm like, what is that jingle? Toilet ball. Trojan, man. See, that's Stern's next step. Contact the Trojan people and get that jingle in there. Get that sound bite in there cuz dude, this I mean, there's like boring audio in here, bro. Let's go with this audio. I never thought I'd be sick of John Williams. Like, yo, that's coming out of my face right now. I'm sick of John Williams. I can't believe I'm saying that. All right, here we go. She's got the third lock lit on the Death Star. I get I think the game just gave her a virtual one because there's already a ball in there. Oh my god. Are you serious? The humanity of it all. Both players were right at the doorsteps of each multiball, man. Oh god. My heart can't take it. I'm telling god. My heart can't take it. I'm telling you folks,
    43:10
    Fun fact on the toilet bowl, if you hit the action button, you can actually pick which of the three modes you want to play. Oh, instead of letting it like just randomize. Oh, that's cool. I see. I don't know that. Oh, she's not going to get that back. Oh, I don't know the rules well enough yet to know like which which which one is the best one to pick? So, if you're doing that, then which one So, if you're doing that, then which one are you going for? The palace one. You know, I heard people talking about the palace at Expo. Is that the one to go for? Cuz there's something behind that because there's four circles and there's three options. So, what I'm thinking is
    43:51
    you just put three question marks up. I don't know what that means. Are you question like you don't understand my question? I don't get it. My question was you said you said you can stop the action button and I my question is okay. Okay. Well, if you stop the X button on mode, what's the mode to pick? I was elaborating on your Oh, okay. Yeah, I was just elaborating Oh, okay. Yeah, I was just elaborating on your mode. You're good, bro. I just Yeah, you're good. See, we're in the same boat. We're figuring this out together, you know? All I know is the toilet bowl is a is it's a [ __ ] to shoot. It's like, dude, that's why I'm saying I think there's one too many shots in the game. And I think it might be that toilet bowl. Like, there's one Nice belly start. I Like, there's one Nice belly start. I think there's one too many shots in the game because it seems like each shot is just a little hard to hit, you know, cuz I think this game is like Austin Powers. If you guys like ever played Austin Powers 2001, that's a Stern title also. And um I think it's like the same. It's almost the same playfield. It's identical almost. That one's easier to hit because there's one less shot. So, I think they crammed one too many shots in there. But they might have done that because they're trying to make this work. See, this is where my mind's at. They're trying to make this work. See how there's eight of those? So, they said, "So, Borg probably came to them with seven shots." And they're like, "Yo, well, there's eight of these lights, so can you put one more shot in?" I don't know. I wasn't in the room. That's where I think because look I mean dude it just seems like each shot like I mean we don't have to go through the eight again but like it just seems like every one is like a little too a just a little tight you know but if if there's eight shots then it would work this eight the eight lights right here would work you know if there's seven lights and that eight thing is not it's busted so it would make sense for him to them to go. Okay. Well, you need eight shots cuz it just feels like there's one too many shots when you're playing the game. That's all. I don't mind this game in a tournament. As a fan of pinball, I think it's kind of boring, honestly. And that center thing just rejects, man. Like, it's getting paid to over and over. I don't understand the whole thing.
    46:26
    So, I'm sure we got another group coming up here in a bit. And uh in the meantime, I'm going to And uh in the meantime, I'm going to step away for a few. Grab a cigarette, chill back for a minute, and I'll be back right when the next game starts, and we'll go through it all again, gang. I'm having fun with you tonight. Thanks for hanging out. This is a blast. I'm having a ball. We're having great times here, man. I'll see you guys here in a minute.