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California Extreme 2015 Pinball Tournament Qualifying

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TL;DR

California Extreme 2015 pinball qualifying tournament with live gameplay commentary and machine analysis.

Summary

California Extreme 2015 qualifying tournament broadcast featuring live pinball commentary by Carl D'Angelo and Laura Stoddard. The event showcases 12 games across EM, solid state, and DMD machines with manual score updates and technical challenges. Discussion covers game strategies, rule mechanics, machine maintenance issues, and player performances during a multi-hour qualifying session.

Key Claims

  • Star Trek's new code included a medals system that changed incentives for playing modes and improved it as a tournament game

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo describing Star Trek gameplay during commentary

  • The tournament format counts best 7 games from 12 total games (4 DMDs, 4 solid states, 4 EMs) to require a well-rounded player

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo explaining tournament structure

  • World Cup Soccer's right ramp had a big hole requiring diverter disabling, changing strategy to always route balls left

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo describing maintenance and strategy changes

  • Iron Man had very low scores with highest at 80 million, indicating game was extremely difficult

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo discussing Iron Man scoring difficulty

  • World Cup Soccer had left flipper EOS switch mechanism failure due to improper mounting with only one screw instead of three

    high confidence · Tim Moyers describing flipper mechanism failure discovery

  • Scuba has five stand-up targets at top that advance bonus and light lane multipliers from 50 to 300 points

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo explaining Scuba rules

  • Louise from Bay Area won a women's tournament the previous year

    medium confidence · Carl D'Angelo asking about Louise's tournament history

  • IT Never Drains tournament scheduled for January with date uncertain, possibly around Arcade Expo weekend

    high confidence · Carl D'Angelo opening remarks about upcoming tournament

  • Firepower requires specific technique including stand-up shots and spinner work, not playable on the fly

    medium confidence · Carl D'Angelo and commentators discussing Firepower strategy

Notable Quotes

  • “The medals system really gave incentive to playing all the modes. So timing them out. Really nice change from the do-over at Stern. Much better tournament game now too because of it.”

    Carl D'Angelo@ 1:48 — Describes how Star Trek's code update improved competitive balance and player incentives

  • “We were thinking it would require a well-rounded player to actually qualify for the finals.”

    Carl D'Angelo@ 7:06 — Explains intent behind game selection and format design

  • “The whole entire EOS Switch had swiveled and that's why the flipper stopped working.”

    Tim Moyers@ 31:10 — Identifies mechanical failure cause from improper mounting

  • “So it's just a totally different game. If you can get those stand-ups lit on the very first ball, then every ball after that is worth 300 points for the various lights.”

    Carl D'Angelo@ 34:49 — Describes how bonus multipliers compound across balls in Scuba

  • “This game is something you can't play on the fly. You gotta tap up, you gotta backhand those dogs.”

    Commentator@ 46:42 — Describes specific technique requirements for Firepower

  • “So yeah, we're not going to be able to see much of the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, being 6'10", sort of impedes the camera angle there.”

    Carl D'Angelo@ 40:03 — Identifies technical broadcasting constraint

Entities

Carl D'AngelopersonLaura StoddardpersonTim MoyerspersonTodd McCulloughpersonRyan WooleypersonTom CollinspersonCalifornia Extreme 2015eventIt Never DrainsorganizationStar TrekgameMetallicagameWorld Cup Soccer

Signals

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    event_signal: California Extreme 2015 pinball tournament qualifying being broadcast live with manual score updates

    high · Multi-hour live broadcast covering 12 tournament machines with player performances and standings updates

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    code_update: Star Trek received new code with medals system that improved tournament playability

    high · Carl D'Angelo: 'The medals system really gave incentive to playing all the modes... Much better tournament game now too because of it.'

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    product_concern: World Cup Soccer experienced EOS switch failure on left flipper due to improper mounting

    high · Tim Moyers identified only one screw holding EOS switch bracket, causing swivel during gameplay

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    operational_signal: Tournament machines required ongoing maintenance and adjustment during qualifying (flipper repair, ramp diverter disabling)

    high · Multiple machines had issues discovered and fixed during live tournament

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    design_innovation: Firepower machine appears to use WPC-conversion mechs rather than original System Six, affecting gameplay feel

    medium · Commentator noted mechs are 'a little flat and snappier' than traditional Firepower due to WPC conversion

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    content_signal: California Extreme 2015 broadcast faced technical challenges including network connectivity issues

Transcript

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0:00
Hello and welcome to California Extreme 2015, followed by this girl D'Angelo. Next to me is Laura's daughter with no voice. Who can't talk today. And you're not watching Air Never Drinks in Southern California, but we do have a tournament coming up in January. We don't know the date yet, but, you know, we're going to mark any calendars for January. Third, fourth weekend, something or other. Maybe Arcade Expo weekend. Maybe not. We're still working things out, but sometime in January. All right, let's get to the action here. We've got some connectivity issues, so hopefully everything's going out smooth here right now. But these standings are not being updated live. I'm having to manually update them one at a time. So every 15-20 minutes I'll jump up here, update them, and then come back. So right now we are watching Pear on Star Trek. We have our adjuncted tilt cam on Star Trek. So this subject is a very tight tilt. Very many people are not shaking the game too much.
1:30
Let's see how clear it is. Where is he in the standings? Right now he is in 14th place in the standings. That looks like a club and he does not look happy about that of course.
1:41
I know he's on ball too but the screen is a little closed here I think. But the playbook looks good.
1:48
So this game has really changed since the new code came out. The medals system really gave incentive to playing all the modes. So timing them out. Really nice change from the do-over at Stern. Much better tournament game now too because of it. It looks like Bear is just going to try and get some points going to... Oh, that's going to tilt. No, wow. I can't believe he didn't tilt there.

Firepower's mechs are WPC-converted rather than System Six, making them flatter and snappier

medium confidence · Commentator discussing Firepower mechanical differences

  • “Yeah, because that's why they're a little flat and why they're much snappier than a traditional firepower. Because you can make the upper saucer with ease with the right flipper and that's not true really of any firepower.”

    Commentator@ 48:35 — Explains how mechanic conversion affects gameplay

  • “This broadcast is brought to you by Pinball Balls because Pinball Balls, the booth here at the show, is the only place I could get any sort of LTE signal.”

    Carl D'Angelo@ 12:33 — Notes venue network issues and solution

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    Iron Mangame
    Firepowergame
    Vectorgame
    Scubagame
    Abracadabragame
    Pinball Ballscompany
    Sterncompany
    Ginny Fieblerperson
    John Kremmenperson

    high · Carl D'Angelo unable to use venue network, relying on LTE device in Pinball Balls booth; manual score updates required

  • ?

    tournament_event: Tournament uses 12-game rotation (4 EM, 4 solid state, 4 DMD) requiring well-rounded player skills

    high · Carl D'Angelo: 'We were thinking it would require a well-rounded player to actually qualify for the finals'

  • ?

    venue_signal: It Never Drains January tournament scheduled pending Arcade Expo weekend confirmation

    high · Carl D'Angelo opening: 'We're going to mark any calendars for January. Third, fourth weekend... Maybe Arcade Expo weekend'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Multiple players tracking scores across diverse game types with varied success rates

    high · Broadcast tracks individual player rankings, scores, and placement on each machine type

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    gameplay_signal: Iron Man demonstrating extreme difficulty with narrow scoring range (49M-80M top scores)

    high · Carl D'Angelo: 'Scores have been low on this game... that alone tells you how difficult the time has been'

    • 2:25
    That's incredible. There seems to be just having difficulty finding the drops on here and getting comfortable in the game. He's down to the final shot for the mode. I don't think he got any medals for this. He'll probably get a bronze. Maybe at the end of this. The medals add up for those that don't know. At the end, when you get to Kobayashi Maru, after you finish the first round of submissions, it adds up all the medals you've got and award your point. So bronze are worth, I can't remember the exact values. And I don't think Lauren knows them either. Only played it once, but can you tell us? Oh, another club. And he is just not happy about that.
    3:13
    Alright, see if we can pull something together here. I feel Monsterball will net him some points, and if he gets both that and the Vintage Battle, I believe it's Vintage Battle, the first one,
    3:25
    he can make up for the back-lester for two balls, unfortunately. Alright, so SuperMentorT made the away team to start the Galactic Mode. A single shot on this mode will finish the round for him. There you go. So he's finished his mission.
    3:54
    Awarded the Silver Medal. low value unfortunately but he's just looking to get maybe three in a row right now as far as the super ramp and as far as the multi ball is my guess
    4:08
    very filthy, very bouncy car when I played it earlier the lower shot seemed easier to make than the upper shot So like I got it in the thing that could take me back down to the shooter lane six or eight times so I could launch shoot and hustle it for anything. Which I thought was kind of weird. Really? Yeah. Because the lower shots were easier.
    4:37
    Alright he's starting to bend his bulletin ball here. Ball's gonna launch out he wants to shoot the uh, shoot the gap the ball. to get a two ball, get a three ball multi ball. If he fails to shoot it, he'll start a two ball multi ball. You also add the ball in with the black hole. Black hole being right there.
    5:14
    That tilt-bop spring is not quite a bit. I don't think he even got in the danger. No, he hasn't. Just got to watch it. He's going to get two or three times multiple on accident until the end of this game. It looks like he's having a very good time. That was a very well timed add a ball to explain that multi ball. He's looking pretty good with this. Going in for the, I can't remember, save the enterprise run I believe it was. He's coming in 3 in a row. He'll have super ramps now. So he's definitely having a nice comeback ball here. Players looking alright and qualifying, about 31 points off the above lesson last update. Um, players looking to live by now tomorrow. Let's see what the final score was. Players looking to beat.
    6:35
    Let's see, pair, uh, Breepency had 27 million. Karczak was in with some 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 40, 41, 42, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 40, 42, 45, 46, 47, 49, 40, 45, 46, 47, 49, 40, 46, 47, So he needs, uh, his current score is definitely not in his, uh, in his ranking. So any improvement here may move him up. For this tournament we're counting the best 7 games. We have 12 games here, spanning all areas. 4 DMDs, 4 solid stations, 4 EMs. We were thinking it would require a well-rounded player to actually qualify for the finals. Alright, he's probably thinking if he wants to do this. Look, he's got 58 million. That's definitely a nice bump from where he was. So I'm wondering what he's doing right now. I would think he'd be trying to start a mode and play multiple. And away he goes. I'm impressed with the multi ball how steady he is keeping that plumb on. It's easy to get out of control. I'm impressed with the multi ball how steady he is keeping that plumb on. It's easy to get out of control.
    8:16
    He just used his kickback, the original kickback on the throw. You did not just do that. You can drown it? Yeah, I can drown it. That's cool. Alright, he just used his kickback, the original kickback on the drone. You did not just do that. You can drown it? Yeah, I can drown it. That's cool.
    8:59
    It looks like he's gotta wait for the inevitable ball turn to get the ball unstuck from the pop pop pop
    9:08
    I believe that's what it is It looks like it That's a typical place for it to get stuck Alright, here it goes I think we should go back to Lua at this point. We're going to hit this last remote.
    9:42
    For those of you just joining us, this is Calvin Extreme 2015 qualifying. We're going to track out the last three hours until midnight here at Midnight Pacific. I am Carl D'Angelo, and Laura Stoddard is next to me at the moment. Until I get a... A real person that can talk. A commentator camera. Ah!
    10:09
    The plumb bar that doesn't look centered because of the way we have to put the camera underneath the plate film, it's sitting on the coin box, and so it's a little bit off center. Oh, that's a rough trade.
    10:23
    Well that was a nice, uh, nice game for Bear. I think he'll be very happy with that. Very happy. And after his score is updated, I'm going to run through an update and we'll see where he, uh, where he landed.
    10:37
    And he's going deeper and in with his score. 120,990,670. Very nice. I think that's one of the highest scores for the week. Definitely a difficult playing Star Trek. Let's see what Star Trek's time is, where he's going to land up. Star Trek, 104. That puts him in third place on Star Trek, earning him 95 points. Alright, I'm going to update this.
    11:13
    All right, I've X-Word disabled. Thanks to the OneNote network here, I get to X-Word disable my local server, wait for Dropbox to copy it over, and then I get to import it from a different computer, this computer, that's running the stream. So a lot of fun, but it's working out. All right, I've got the X-Word disabled. It's working out.
    11:43
    Alright, and we'll have it here. I will change this one. Okay, standing should update in just a few moments. In the meantime we're going to switch over to a new game here. Our other tilt cam game, Metallica. This broadcast brought to you by Pinball Balls because Pinball Balls, the booth here at the show, is the only place I could get any sort of LTE signal. They're across the hall and they were nice enough to allow me to put my little LTE device in their booth. So this broadcast is due to them. The network here, unfortunately, is preformed. So thank you from the guys, good guys over at Finball Bowl. We really appreciate what they put. All right, let's take a look at it. We have Tim Hanson on the It's barely in ninth. Yes, and you can see Pear jumps into eighth place with his excellent performance on Budger.
    13:38
    This Metallica is actually his set for five items for Crank It Up. So Crank It Up is the main strategy here. And let's see if he's going to cash out. He cashed out $44 million for home development. no gold. So, Tally is actually playing very solid. Easy to make a lot of the shots and get those items that you need quickly. I found the, uh, where's my whiteboard? It's drawn on the screen, nothing's coming up. I found the gray marker to be the quickest way. Yes.
    14:27
    It's a very smooth spot up into that target alley. So that was a nice catch on that flipper. When I was playing earlier in the day, the snake was doing a nice flipper and bounce over. Now it looks like the snake is veered over into the slingshot.
    14:51
    I don't know why I'm watching it, but I might. This is more fun because you can draw on it. So with this game being pretty much a crank it up game, I find it very important to lock in your shots you know when you got the hurry ups ready to go to lock it in so on uh if you're on ball one or two that you can use that shot later to go that you're cranking up my i'm surprised with what he's wrong maybe he was over uh
    15:36
    but i still saw a game called score nothing to be disappointed um i think bowen has a high with I think the round was 411 or 455? Yeah, somewhere at 433 and he was almost to end of the line. Would have been fun to see. He was one crank step away, right? I believe so. Let's see if he's got a touchdown. How do we move over to World Cup Soccer? Uh, give me a sec here. Don't touch it yet. Okay, you're the B3 over there. Uh, bottom right. I'm just gonna make that one go on home. You can see my hair. So who's going to replay effects? I assume everyone watching this is going to replay effects. I would hope everyone would watch the summery play back. Yeah, we were talking at dinner, there's about 20 of us on our same flight coming from Stotown. 20? Really? Oh jeez. Oh my gosh. Looks like maybe we're not watching Welcome Soccer. I didn't even pay them before I pushed it over. I don't know, it's interesting to watch them work on the game as well. Looks like we have a flipper coilers. Alright, let's switch away. Unfortunately this is a big one. Fox is passing a bit longer to do it. We'll look it up. Yeah, we just switched to in-frame. I'm impressed.
    17:43
    Are you going to watch the bottom of the tower? I'm going to go over there at a higher time. Wow. Alright, we're moving on to an in progress game of Iron Man. The current player is... I think we're going to put him here on the queue. That's not going to work out. Iron Man. and John Collins I don't know John Collins
    18:56
    Laura doesn't want to be in the camera though You can see my head I messed up there I'd love to have DVD cam so we don't have commentator cam that's another 12 cameras for all these games an incredible amount of cameras Does anyone feel like to make a donation? No Carl is way too nice. Alright, so we have Kevin Burrow coming up next on Ironman. We'll watch this whole game here. Kevin is currently in 11th position. How's it go? Let's see. Ironman playing... I don't know how to say it. It seems nice. Very bouncy, very tilty. Very difficult. Scores have been low on this game. Let's see, the highest score... Yeah, I could never settle into a groove on that game because the shots were really hard to find. I don't know whether it was the flippers or that I needed more time practicing on it. It was hard. Great. The highest score right now is 80 million with Robert and Andre at 78. And after that you go to 49 million in third place. So that alone tells you how difficult the time has been. The hardest lift, the easiest shots, I don't think I ever got a ramp. It just seemed like I couldn't find the sky.
    20:27
    Oh boy, good thing he has a ball chain. Well that was close. This camera has a little problem with the nail ease for some reason, but it's good enough.
    20:45
    Another gamble. One more shot to start Ironmonger multiple. At which point the goal is to shoot one of the Ironmonger shots, the left orbit, the center lane, or the right orbit?
    21:09
    Yes. Billy has two shots left on the red target. Should he wait to do that and get double scoring? The first one isn't double scoring. The first one is... Oh, I thought it was. The first one is fast scoring. The second time you saw him, and he gets a double scoring. Oh, okay. Then the answer would be no. That would be no. And I apparently need to change my son, too. Thanks, Carl. Yeah. That's what I'm here for.
    21:40
    Alright, Mongers down, we have the Super Jackpot Shuntlet, come to middle. And unfortunately a failed cradle separation, but CB gets it in the great period. Going for it, and he makes it, nice shot. Nice shot by Kevin.
    23:10
    Oh, that's going out. Yeah, no way. Alright, New Year's around, what's it? 15 million? How big is that? We have 8 something going into ball 3.
    23:35
    Alright, fuzzy camera. Yay, we got what we need. Alright, we're going to go to a soft 50 game now since we don't see too many of those. We've got 12 games here to cover. A lot of games. Bottom five, top four. Hey. Family podcast. You're on it. Alright, we have Viking. I don't really know much about Viking. I haven't played it too much. I know we used it in Indus because I didn't touch it. But I found my strategy was to shoot the ball here and then I would shoot the ball here. I found my strategy was to shoot the ball here and do nothing else. Shoot the ball here.
    24:43
    And I'm not as good as you are. The center hole up by the Pops didn't seem to do a whole lot, but that one on the side did seem to.
    24:51
    You can see we have Pat Choi playing, and he was actually reading the instruction card right now, so I don't believe he had much of an idea of what to do on this game either. Believe it or not, those instruction cards are moderately helpful.
    25:05
    It really liked to go in that hole up there. One thing about this game is the posts here and here have been inverted, so it takes a lot more to bounce the ball back into the inlay. They're more there to trick you at this point because it was nearly impossible to bounce them back into play. I do like those hot bumpers right there though. Yes, they... It adds a different element to the game.
    26:03
    It's a very nice live game, it looks like a fully restored game and if it shows then it plays like one of the Super Crown teams, Green Earth Brothers. I'm going to play well.
    26:38
    And a good ball three ends that first game. Alright, what else do we have here? Welcome to Hawker, we're going to get you. See if there is a welcome to Hawker. Okay.
    27:29
    Alright, on to World Cup Soccer and it's Gin Fiebler stepping up. Let's see, where is Gin? Gin in the... she doesn't look like she's in the top 24 just yet.
    27:42
    Let's find out where she's currently in the ranks. Actually, I should probably run an update right now.
    27:50
    Jennifer is currently in 29th, just a couple of places under the cut line. She's 539th. Okay, special thanks about this World Cup Soccer.
    27:59
    the ramp back here had a big hole in it so we had to disable the diverter which means the balls will always come around this way, always. We changed the strategy because a multi ball becomes a cradle up on the left flipper, shoot the right ramp, shoot the left ramp and then shoot the goalie and if you can keep doing that over and over you can rack a big point very quickly. However, it also means, it's not a multi-ball. If you want a 3-ball multi-ball, you are forced to shoot the right ramp to lock that ball. You don't shoot the right ramp. You can shoot the left to the game of conference rates with a virtual lock, and you can shoot it in the final Josh group, but you'll only have a 2-ball multi-ball. Let me go update the standing.
    28:56
    Alright, next boarding, waiting for the airport. Yep. Alright, see if we can pull this off. The radio on the left, I know she's walking in there, and I didn't say anything, so, I know she knows what to do. Man of expertise. I was on the ramp, I gave off the ramp. A lot of times I was rejected and half shot off the left ramp. It was a killer. Ooh. Unfortunately she did not. How do you feel about using the magnet save on that game? I always forget to. It's a pretty good thing to do, but I never do it. A few times I do remember it never works because I remember it like seconds in the lane. All the time.
    29:54
    Alright, they are standing but being imported in just a moment here. Again, you're playing? Yes, we are live. Are you talking? This is Tim. We are talking. I'm importing Fanny right now. Do you want to talk? Alright, Fanny should be updating in just a moment. Bye everybody!
    30:20
    Alright, here is Mr. Tim Moyers. You were just playing this game, right Tim? Yes. How did you do? Not too well. We got the left flipper working. Alright, we got the beaver range still right there. Someone want to go check the rubber feet? No. Yeah, really. We haven't had a single problem with rubber feet falling off or anything like that at all. No, the rubber feet have been great actually. You know what's interesting is when we were underneath looking at the flipper mechanisms, we noticed that the left flipper had three screws holding the entire mechanism to the playfield, and the right flipper had one on one side and one on the opposite corner. Wow. And the EOS switch bracket was held on by one screw. So unfortunately during gameplay the whole entire EOS Switch had swiveled and that's why the flipper stopped working. That's incredible. It was getting a little weak when I was playing. Yes, that's why. Now you know why. So that is, we should officially name our World Cup Soccer the Rat Rod of Extremes.
    31:35
    So what are we moving on to? We're moving over to Scuba. Little Scuba. Yeah, we don't see Scuba much on camera, right? Let's see. No, we don't. That's pretty good.
    31:46
    No, Scuba's playing extremely tough. Anytime you have those small flippers with those older style swings, it makes for a very difficult game. You know what? I didn't even touch Scuba.
    31:58
    I don't blame you. I didn't play a single game on it. All right, but we're going to have a full game on Scuba. Well, the secret to Scuba, if you don't know the rules, is you want to hit those five stand-up targets at the top. Which ones? Yep. And then that's what advances your bonus player lights actually. So if you notice in the playfield right here, that advances your levels and then that lights up all your lanes here and allows them to be, instead of 50 points, 300 points as well as it lights all of your in lanes at the top. So suddenly the game goes from a very low scoring game to a very high scoring game. So it's very difficult to get all of those stand-ups hit.
    32:48
    All right, so we have Luis, I believe. I'm looking at the cues. Every time I look over this way, I'm looking at the cues. We have them projected on the wall-slang ceiling here. Yes, that is. Louise is coming from the Bay Area, I believe.
    33:10
    I believe she won the women's tournament this past year, didn't she? Was it this year or last year? Last year.
    33:20
    So the tough thing on the first corner she's going for, I wouldn't recommend it. If she gets that ball to drop in that very far right lane, it tends to go straight down the middle. That's a good spot right there. There it is. It goes over on that side. Not much you can do. No.
    33:38
    Those are games all about the points. You've got to keep it over to the left over there. That's pretty good.
    33:46
    That'll be all right. She'll get a shot at it now. Yeah. Just a tough game. So really you're looking to get the action off the pop bumpers and go in the second. Yes, right. And if you can, you want to keep your flipper, you want to be hitting to the right and to the left of those pop bumpers. You know, left flipper to the right side and just keep getting that ball going up and around. What's a good score on scuba? You know, I think you'll find that people vary around 2,000 points. 1,300 to 2,000 is like probably an average game. and then a good score is anything over 4,000 and then a great score is in the 6,000 to 8,000 range. I want to say, was this game that Bob came over and told me? What's the score here? The high score right now I believe is 9,000. Oh yeah, Bob rolled it with 10,000. 499. Yeah. It's all about it and the bonus, or the, I don't know what you call it, the light feature carries over from ball to ball. So if you can get those stand-ups lit on the very first ball, then every ball after that is worth 300 points for the various lights. So it's just a totally different game.
    35:03
    And it looks like my camera just died. Perfect timing since the game was over. Wow, that's an interesting thing. Yeah, we just saw it. Let's see, let's go back to Star Trek. We have Sage Stewart coming up next on Star Trek. We haven't played Vector yet. Let's go to Vector. So, Carl, you did extremely well on Vector. I did all well. I'll explain what I was doing and do it the moment. the moment the back connector change the camera
    35:55
    I had only played vector once before today I didn't really know the game very well I still don't know So yeah, who's on the game right now? We have Ryan... Ryan Wooley. I don't know Ryan. No. So let's start by explaining first of all the multi-ball. So when the game starts, the three drop targets pop up right in front of the ramp. You've got to knock those down. Then the second set of drop targets pop up, and you have to knock down all three. That then lights the left ramp and the ball circles around and then locks over on the right hand side. And you hopefully get the goal over there because if it's too short, if it doesn't have enough power, it lands in there. Yup, and it'll come back, yup. But that's not a problem because you can shoot the X-R-I-G target. Yup. What I ended up doing in my game was if I had a left flipper, I'd shoot it up into here. There's a star rollover that advances the target and I shoot X, Y, Z for multiplier. If I add in the right, I shoot the targets. Yep. And then to release the ball once you've locked it, you have to hit the four stand-up targets right in front of you. Unless you lock three balls. Right. If you lock three balls, then they come out automatically. Right.
    37:19
    So I accidentally unlocked the ball once I hit the target. I wasn't really going for it, but the ball ricocheted into the target. I was surprised how these targets were not as dangerous as I expected them to be. No, you really would think they would just come right back at you, but they really don't.
    37:38
    Their side flipper, however, is... Yeah, it's pretty much dead at this point. They're dead. Well, yeah. and I'm off the ball, so I'm going to try one more time. Yeah. Those XYZ targets are worth a lot, a lot of points. That's the best bonus build right there. The other interesting part is these, you bring down the outline, and you have the bounce of these two. Yeah. And that's your bonus collect. Oh, interesting. And you get bonus. Uh-huh, interesting.
    38:14
    This is Tom Collins that just finished the game. He's another Bay Area contender here. Maybe we'll watch one more game on Vector. I can't remember the last time this game was on the camera. I can't remember what it was up to. Are we looking at an updated list? We are looking at an updated list. The standings list is a little bit old. Let's see, what was the time standings? 9.26, so it's been 10 minutes. I'll wait another 10 before doing it. Okay.
    38:50
    So are you happy with how you're holding up? Or are you looking to move up tomorrow? You're in eighth grade right now, aren't you? Yeah. I'm going to just play a couple more games. I got off a really good start last night and didn't have to play anything today. And I just watched my scores go down. So now I find it. It's always this format.
    39:19
    Well, we apparently have a, uh... head in the way of a flipper, so maybe we'll, uh, flip this thing. Alright, let's do that. Let's see if we can grab Todd McCullough on Abracadabra before he finishes it.
    39:55
    But Todd is just in the hose room. So Todd has a very nice back of his head. So yeah, we're not going to be able to see much of the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, being 6'10", sort of impedes the camera angle there.
    40:11
    Yeah, unfortunately. We can watch your score though, not the ball, just the score. Probably about... A little bit of a handle there.
    40:22
    The spot where the camera's at, there was no way to actually raise them higher. I knew Todd was coming and I wanted to make them higher. Sure. But there's actually a... Yeah, there's a camera angle. I don't know if the bandwidth is something I can do.
    40:42
    So Abracadabra is a great wedge head EM. One of the keys is to get your 1, 2, 3, 4 lit. That builds your bonus value.
    40:53
    And then you can hit the drop targets that are lit and collect the bonus value. So, aiming for the right drop target makes a difference in this game.
    41:09
    Todd and Paul, says the chat room. Yes, yes, 7 feet apparently, not 6'10". Well, that's, you know, he's 6'10 in real life, he's 7 feet in the NBA.
    41:23
    They always exaggerate. I don't know. I'm joking. I just assumed he was close to that. Yeah, he is close. Is that with heels or is that with sneakers on though? With heels on. That's probably one of the nicest guys around though. He sure is. Oh, Wikipedia don't lie. Well, Wikipedia is one of those really interesting organisms out there in the world. It's the only encyclopedia I know that evolves on a daily basis. We can ask the man himself. He's actually sitting right in front of us now. Yeah, let's get a factual piece of data here. Hey, Todd, we are arguing online. We're broadcasting right now your exact height, not NBA height, real-life height.
    42:09
    Thank you. 6'11". Yeah, 13'16". Right. So we're actually at the average of what I suggested and the 7 feet. Right. Chat room, Wikipedia does lie. Yeah, Wikipedia does lie. It's official. All right. We got Gene, X-Wong, or is it Wong? I believe it's Wong, everyone pronounced his last name Wong. I've never been to Aston, though. Yeah, we'll have to ask. Playing on Abracadabra. Just had a rough call one, looks like. Moving on to ball two. So yeah, as you were saying, like the 1-2-3-4? Yep. Or 1-2-3-4 down the air? Yep. Which advances the bonus value. That's right. which makes the mid target worth that much. The target changes with bumper hits and sling hits. So pretty much it builds it up. After you hit all the jump targets, you have to hit this target right in the middle to reset them. That's the game, right? That's the game. And you know, plunging is I think a very important part of this game. Taking your time and really nudging that ball down the right number is crucial.
    43:19
    I never got a chance to play this, is it playing well? Yeah, I think it's playing really nice. It's tough. But it should be. Yeah, that's tricky right there. but it should be
    43:42
    yeah that's tricky right there There. And he was really trying to plunge the floor. He gave up. You gotta have patience.
    44:06
    He's being chapped for the uh... being not quite comfortable being chapped over from the floor. How about you Tim, have you gotten comfortable enough to strap over? No, I... it really does not want to. But I feel in this game there's those things, there's not much harm in trying. You're not gonna... you can have a quick reflex on the right flipper to get out of trouble. Right.
    44:43
    My team game is over and we're gonna move on here. Alright. How about firepower? We haven't seen any firepower today.
    45:11
    Changing these themes in X-Lake gets a little tricky when you have 12 games, because you have a maximum of 12 teams, and when a 13th team for the... Ah, now there's a good typical score on Firepower. This thing is playing really fast and tough. I played one game on it and that was enough for me. I think I got 100,000. I got two balls, only two grains. It was not a good time. That idea is fun. Alright, so coming up on Firepower we have John Kremren. Alright. Down here from Denver. Don is known to be a good classes player. Let's see where he is ranking right now. He is 16. He is playing well. Yes he is. Just a little over two hours of qualifying remaining. I think, yeah, that's firepower right there. You just have to go for those stand ups. You have to get your spinner lit and you just hit the spinner as many times as you can. And you gotta get your kick back away. Yep.
    46:42
    But this game is something you can't play on the fly. You gotta tap up, you gotta backhand those dogs. I think so. You cross shoot them and you're dead.
    46:54
    Yep. He's a little slow on his lane change there too. As soon as you get it up there you want to be moving that attack response We got a nice range tilt again Yeah, a nice little range tilt there Since it's a high eye apparently
    47:14
    I just watched one more game of Firepower, coming up there's Rick Frintz How are they doing? Alright? So what do we got next on Firepower? Rick Fricks. Alright. We got a random guy wondering if race and start playing games Always happens
    48:00
    Just a brutal game. Are you going to run the screens on midnight? Yeah. Cool. I'll try to. That's not going to be good.
    48:15
    It's just about getting control of the game. Yeah, it is. All right. Oh, no. It's so hard to be slippery. It's so flat. Yep. It's the slattest engine in the game. I think these are, I don't think those mechs are the system six mechs. I think that those are the WPC mechs that have been converted over. Really? Yeah, because that's why they're a little flat and why they're much snappier than the a traditional firepower. Because you can make the upper saucer with ease with the right clipper and that's not true really of any firepower.
    48:55
    With three balls. Yeah, we might have to talk to Kramer and tell him to be kind to the machines. We have some long lines here. Metallica is currently a 9 player team. Sorry, second 6 player team. There's a lot of people in the tournament. Looks like I'm second up on Metallica there. You are coming up? Let's see if we got a player for Trio, a sucker for Trio, shall we say. Oh yes. I uh, I've seen uh...
    49:46
    Trio, I know absolutely nothing about Trio. Well Trio's a... There we go. So the real key on Trio is to use that right saucer right over on the right hand side? Yep, that's just like bonus. So you can build your bonus up and if you can hit it in there over and over again, that's where all the points are. So you feel it's controllable enough to be able to do that? Yeah, you know, it's tough. You don't have in-lanes, so those lanes being close to you, small flippers, makes it difficult. But if you're going to get a good score in this game, that's where you're going to have to head to. We have the call of the HMRI project right now. Raise calls, saying there was no one really willing to play this game. There it is, there she goes. And of course it's the brutal kick out. So what you have to do is hold the right clipper up and then catch it off the tip hopefully and then be able to hit it with your left clipper. That's a trio game right there.
    50:59
    Alright, let's play another round. Alright, I'm up next so I gotta keep my eye out. We got another victim for trio? I don't know, I was wondering if you could play another round. Another sucker? Oh, we do have another victim.
    51:24
    Looks like Nathan Robinson is going to be up next on TRIO. Alright. Here comes Nathan Robinson. From I don't know where. Alright. So the bonus is pretty big, up to 200 points, is that right? Yeah. Are you going to do it again? The rollovers in the... These three? Yeah. And the in-lanes there should do something here, let's see. No, not yet. Push it up. Whew! So those three rollovers actually light your... What are those called? The one two three right there mushroom bumper. There you go. I can think of it and that's what that's what those bonus
    52:35
    There's 50 points right there So you have to like the much to like the mushrooms Yes But once the ball gets to the lower play field, I mean you're pretty much banging away at those mushroom bumpers
    52:54
    But it's super difficult to get it up above that. Uh oh, he tilts it and it's a loss of game, not just the ball Ooh, loss of game Alright, that's enough free over now
    53:09
    You've not done any monkeys. No one's hit any monkeys lately Go to some Jungle Princess, also known as Jungle Queen in the former player version.
    53:45
    I want to thank everyone that put cameras for me. Yeah, shout out to Jay, huh? Jay. Say that again? Yeah, Jay Collins on the camera. That was very nice. Very nice. Gene Ekwong, lots of cameras. Who else is here? Kevin Merle and Jermaine Mariola. I hope I'm pronouncing Jermaine's last name right. And Zach from the Bay Area also. Thanks to all the guys. We wouldn't have this coverage of all of those games without their help.
    54:30
    And Carl is not going to acknowledge himself, but thanks Carl for putting all this together. Awesome as always
    54:56
    Tough break there on Jungle Princess Alright, we are watching the duck or princess, we are uh, I cannot read the news.
    55:19
    I am going to update the data for you. Alright, standing up there, there will be a drone approach. Alright Carl, I'll be back in a couple minutes. Alright, good luck.
    56:12
    Alright, standings have been updated. See, it looks like Rick just made the cut. Quite a few permanent players just beneath the cut here. You can see a lot of action these last two hours for sure. Minds are definitely getting along here. We've had a lot of players, a lot of action. I'd have to look at numbers for previous years, but having one division this year, the Circus Ever Main and Classics division, really brought the numbers up overall. And we were just hoping to have a, you know, you had to be a well-rounded player to be able to qualify. because you've got a lot of people that specialize in EMDs, a lot of people that specialize in classics, and just making them go out of their comfort zone to normalize. That would sound like a really good idea.
    57:28
    Alright, let's see, we have Andreas starting up on Jungle Princess. And Andreas, if you don't know, he's the programmer for Matchplay Events, great website for match play tournament software. It's a fantastic job. I think it's a new suite that was very needed for a lot of things. If you don't know, it's matchplay.event. Check it out. Well worth it if you're going to run a tournament.
    58:00
    So Jungle Queen, it's really important to try and get that B on the plunge. It's very difficult to get back up there to get the B. After you get the B, you get the A and C. You're like, you're a double bonus. Each target adds 1000 to the bonus. There are some other areas that I believe that add bonus as well. Going in these holes gives you 5000 points at any time. And basically you just want to shoot the holes or shoot some monkeys. Shoot some monkeys. These servers can be deadly. So overall I thought this one played very fair. Not too tilty, a little fast. But it's definitely a game I would replay myself. It looks like Andrej is gone. He's gone for the CP hold. Shoot the old gravity. It's the moment where you get the gravity on this game.
    59:20
    Yep, we're live. Hello hello. Watching Andreas on Jungle Frento. Ah. We were watching him I was supposed to say. We'll stick on it one more. We got Tremor and Axe on it. Who we got out there? What's that? Who's out there? Go right now.
    60:26
    Yeah, what are you doing? What are you playing? Are you, uh... Uh, waiting for some Metallica to see if I can probably, uh, open that one up a little bit.
    60:34
    I'm seeing a few points here in the top 8. I'm struggling to get a few points. You're calling a little bit too. You too, I'll be honest. Yeah, I'm calling. I'm done for the night though, so I'm hoping I... Dude, I know, you've got a pretty good crew sitting there. Uh, people can leapfrog. Yeah.
    61:00
    And really I've only got a one player leapfrog. One player, uh, with, uh, eight players. Did you play this Jungle Princess at all? Yeah, a few times. This is a tough machine. The flippers are a little underpowered. We don't get any free 5000s on it because the bumpers are underpowered too, so it's never really tough to get any. It's playable. Just cover the juice. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. That was unusual.
    62:00
    That must be Adam Lufkoff. That must be. Hello Lufkoff. Is this your bedtime? Colorado? Nice to see you, sir.
    62:18
    Where are we going to? We're going to go to Meteor. Ah, the Meteor of Death. The Meteor with a former Papa Roman champion, right?
    62:42
    Yes. I believe so. Ellen? Fair enough, fair enough. I don't know, I think this Meteor is playing fair. Fair. Yeah. It's tough. It's tough, tough, tough, fair. I left the first little uh...
    62:58
    You see the uh... The little flap thing there. Oh boy. Boom. Alright, boom. Yeah. The move... The side post. The uh... outlay post. Which is needed. I admit it. Otherwise you can't play for a long time. Yeah, you get a lot of V's.
    63:21
    Yeah. Well, when it gets to here, give it a little shake. Give it a little shake, yeah. That was half an easy game, 298 on ball three. Not looking very good.
    63:40
    Nice nudge to keep it out of the ground. I did win pin bird on it, yeah. Oh! Not too shabby, not too shabby. Nice game.
    64:04
    Yep, that was too weak. I intended to go over to Trio because we have another victim for it, but only one. Another victim for it? Yeah. Oh, Trio. It's the shortest line here. It actually doesn't have a weight limit. That's a good reason. Yeah. That's a good reason.
    64:40
    We are good enough that she can shoot the klektonos hole through the pool. She's still in the middle.
    64:54
    I'm just looking at names. Here's one of those coming up on what? Roberts, uh, Super Low Crank It Up, they're cool. We do wear it like that, no.
    65:07
    No, I gotta go, Scoobo. Because, uh... 5-6-2-6-4-1-5 5-6-2-6-5-8-6 5-6-2-6-7-8-9 4-4-1-2-6-1-6 We've got Robert coming up next on Scuba.
    65:35
    And I'm making a mistake by not playing right now. And Robert's going to drive the bus in whatever Dubai he'd love, which is a possibility now that Robert's above me. Oh, you didn't watch Scuba then. So we're watching Scuba. I mean, Robert's now is a court player. Oh, good.
    65:56
    Someone else want to podcast for a while? Unless Scuba's out of the picture right now, let's check this out. Yeah, great setting there guys. You playing it or not? I'm glad to be on it. It looks like Nicole might be on first. But Scuba doesn't give very much air time, so let's play Scuba. We see Iron Man, Star Trek, Welcome Back All Day. Right. The only other place I ever played a scuba was Papa. You ever play one anywhere else? Yeah. No, no, no. Papa. Yeah, that's where I played it.
    66:59
    Yeah, actually it's kind of a cool setting for World Cup Soccer. The traveling diverter? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's cool for the, starting the, or playing the multi-ball, but it makes it a little easy for when you have multi-ball because you can trap on the left and kind of ramp, ramp goal, ramp goal all the way. Ramp goal, ramp goal, all the way. That's why when the goalie was stuck on the left for a while it made it more interesting. It makes it harder because it's early on the blind.
    67:44
    The diverter was deactivated because there was a big hole in the ramp. And we had to cover it. Yeah, giant ball size hole. So that's the right of the diverter has been disabled. Alright, looks like we're having some problems with the screw, but we'll move on.
    68:03
    I'm gonna go over to my side, I'll go. Everyone's still jammed, alright? Dun dun dun! There's a pop.
    68:16
    There's a pop. Alright. Hello, let's go there. Alright, we're going to the middle of the game. I'll show you. We have... Look at that name. Alright, really game-y. Samuel? We'll try to get some more Kevin at some point if he's playing I guess. From the chat room. That's probably up at the stand soon. The wonderful hotel here in the heart of the Silicon Valley with a very poor Wi-Fi setup and very little cellular reception made this weekend a very pleasant one. Thankfully, there's just been enough to get this broadcast running. but the tournament server doesn't like me softening it for whatever reason.
    69:51
    Alright. So this is what I was playing. I was destroying for a grave. I was trying to get my three items.
    69:59
    Where is my white board? I was trying to get my three items. I'm just going to lift and lock it in so every ball on balls two and three I would just be shooting the grave to get the, you know, each hand gets me an item. Oh, lock in the grave. Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. And I never saw it sparking.
    70:24
    They're really friendly for me for the game I play. I don't know if it's gotten worse or not. What's that? Just the rebound on the target, nothing changed at the time.
    70:37
    Yeah, just parking maintenance all over the place. Definitely odd playing a pro over a premium. Completely different game.
    70:50
    The way they play is the way they play. Oh, we have a... Oh, we got a crank it up going. Enterz Batman! Enterz Batman! If you're playing for fun, not really for points, this is my favorite crank it up mode. I love the animations in the music and the sounds. The points can get really big if you've got the double scoring and actually get a shot with three items in it on one shot. It's a massive... That's kind of random, right? Where are they like at? Every switch, any time you hit a switch, it changes. Yeah.
    71:28
    Alright, we'll stick to the for one more game. Looks like next we have San Francisco Pinball Department lead pair Schmerzenberger.
    71:50
    If you're just joining us, my name is Carl DeAngelo. I've got Jim Steven next to me and we are watching the last a few hours of Calvary Stream 2015 qualifying. We hope to, if the cell connection holds up,
    72:06
    we'll broadcast the finals live tomorrow. I believe it's supposed to start at 9am. We'll see if that actually happens. But it's going to be 24 finalists, top 8 in the Super 5, pop-a-style finals. 4-2-1-0 points for each round. Three games per round. Top 2 in each 2 for each group, move on
    72:30
    Alright, I'm going to update the standings here Okay Alright, next quarter we have to wait for the... Go ahead Herb, I used the McTagg again First ever, as they say, tie for the Bible.
    74:25
    Alright. Very nice going for the market. Very good for the market. Oh, it's getting bumped down.
    75:01
    Alright. What's the bumping going on? Oh yeah, there'll be plenty of bumping. Two hours left. They're going for the most valuable stand-up in the pinball.
    75:25
    Oh, we're up there. Crank it up a bit, right? So, three questions will come to a crank it up for a pair. It's an additional nice live catch. There's something about that scoop. When it flitties, it actually gets smaller. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh. Oh man! Oh!
    76:19
    Oh, the ugly magic of an early crank it up. Kevin out there anywhere? No, I don't see Kevin right now.
    76:37
    It's not catch time any games, bro. I'm going to... I'm going to go to Habra. Viador Maverick and Daverick They got far more hoy predictions on them having Pretty tough ambra, clippers a little soft. The one roller on the top is quite nasty for going down the middle again. Which one? Number one. Number one? Yeah. Doesn't do it every time. It's two in a row for me. Oh! Oh, wow. No, this is a different era. None of the Indian teams are... These are all Northern California games. Woohoo! They don't have to bring anything up. How is this the Northern California Broadcasting Department? I don't know. Now we can see Norman off on the broadcasting equipment. Yes.
    78:18
    Oh, man. Damn. Yes. I don't know, you see the uh, the fan base for IPA, if anybody cares about them, it's
    78:49
    all Northern California. It's all Northern California. But we're hosting in a ton of California, so, it turns out to be all Northern people, we're just gonna make a bank of all golly days. They can play off my math. arena, rock, what else we got? I'm sure we can buy a little night soap. Maybe some Hollywood heat. Alright, Andre Reid. Alright, Andre reset to target. One sprung opportunity. Nice looking play.
    79:42
    Just out of the moment. Hit target. Nice. $3,000 points out there. Training program. Reminder that right now in the second row, you have to use live content and not pre-con. Oh, nice. $4,000. 4,000 charges
    80:33
    Oh! It's incredible how... how they put an outfit over You got a good voice Yeah Greeting the program. End of line. This game is incredible, Hal. End of line. Hal, the more you get in it, the more valuable the scoring is. It's so well balanced. One of the best winch heads ever. Great game. Alright, this is the room I shared. Apparently this is Dave Stewart. No, this is Dave Crude up next here. Where's Dave in the standings? Dave is just below the cut line in 27th right now. Trying to get more full game coverage here rather than jumping around so much. Probably stick on game for a little bit. It is Stewart.
    81:59
    Oh, I really wish we could get Adam on the camera. I really gotta get something like that set up. He's looking stuff up like Dave had a total of 18 consecutive points today. Which, not having any info sitting in the broadcast area, I'm surprised that...oh, he nudged that out. What's that? He nudged that out. Oh, was it one thing? Yeah, he was nudging it out.
    82:53
    Nice. Pretty tough to do in a 2-0 game. I didn't play a single game on this one. Did you try? Did you play it? I didn't play a single game on this one. You didn't play it ever? I avoided it. Wow. I don't mind it, but I... I avoided Trio. Oh yeah, I didn't play Trio either. I avoided Tsuba. I didn't play Tsuba either. I didn't play Fubasa!
    83:30
    That's right, Skype me. I have no headphones here, so I don't have any way to... We won't have any way to hear you or what you're saying. Otherwise, I would have. I really would.
    83:46
    James is not having a good game here. hospitals hey and Next time I have with Bob Matthews who is trying to rise from the dead as well. He told me around the tour of La Crosse that he was giving up and not going to play anymore. I convinced him to go take a break and come back. Right, he then rolled scuba. Did he really? He rolled a scuba.
    84:47
    10,000 points. He still not up there? What's that? He still not up here. No, no he's not. Wow, he went with a rolling on scuba. Yeah, I'm sure he's not. Let's say he's in his 10 now, though. Maybe we'll watch the game on Ambridex. No one's sick of Ambr, yet. It's a good game. He's trying to pull it up on Ambr, huh? Oh! Ambrdex. And I had a... Someone hit my...
    85:12
    camera, right? Sorry for the shake. Womble Womble Got it. Womble. Game Program. Reminder, if you have a two day wristband, and you intend to come back tomorrow, please do not remove that wristband overnight. Happens every year, so try to minimize it. Your wristband will stay intact overnight. If you need to shower, I would recommend that you do shower before you return to our show. Your wristband will stay intact. Do not worry, you will not be destroyed by the water. And please do not try to pull off or hot-screw or any way remove your wristband if you are returning to the show tomorrow. It will be everything you want.
    86:16
    Yeah. This guy's got a great amount of voice. He's got a really good voice. Come on. Remember the old facility that was covering here? They'd have like, you could never hear anything they were saying. It was like it wasn't worth it. This one is like clear. The guy's got a really clear voice. Yeah, this year it's definitely the right guy. He talks a lot, but he can hear what he's saying. Yeah, there have been a few too or not. Yeah
    86:46
    Ball free already Thank you for some tube love over there It's so nice when you can get that bop bumper action. You get like four hits before it's enough. Oh, you're getting the switch. Yeah, getting the switches. That's nice. That screw bumper, though. Right. One step drop is down. Alright, one step drop down.
    87:48
    I was like, give me some two! For God's sake, give me some two! 2 oh wow Man, three LLanes in a row in this game. Crazy for an average at-race. One game where LLanes don't take your ball if you're out.
    88:35
    Give me some two, no not the one. Ah, he saved the one, that's good. Oh, the point is to get rid of the bot bumper.
    88:55
    Oh, bumper to the alley. Alright, let's see if Kevin is the right guy. Kevin, you have a next time challenge, huh?
    89:12
    Kevin's coming up on World Cup Soccer. Alright, let's go over to World Cup Soccer. We expect to see everyone that's our tournament coming in January.
    89:34
    Whatever that means. When is that? What time in January? We don't know. What do I need to do? In fact, we don't even know where we're going to be.
    89:51
    Anything's possible. We'll be there. We could just find a date for our match play tournament. Yes. Thank you, Steve Massa. That was our date that we just hadn't announced yet.
    90:06
    Alright, who's up right now, Daniel or Triton? Oh! We'll see what happens, not the last week again in January.
    90:36
    We like the weekend before the last weekend, the holiday weekend. Somebody took our weekend. If you can't beat him, you might have to join him.
    90:52
    Oh, he's in here. He's been here like 20 years in a row. What's going on? Oh, it looks like Gavin is not up on one. It looks like we have Rich Denna. I didn't know he was playing tournament this time. He got stuck in like a couple hours ago. Yep.
    91:38
    Mr. Rick Stetta is in the building. So for those of you that joined us late and don't know, we have the diverter at this table because there's a giant hole in the ramp back here. So the ball would go up and come right back down.
    92:04
    Well, it's here for an interesting, uh, current multi-ball rule where you, now you have to, uh, if you want a two-ball multi-ball, you have to shoot the left ramp.
    92:14
    But if you want a three-ball multi-ball, you gotta shoot the right ramp. Yeah, I really like that. It'd be great if you could do that. You could do that without having the, uh, the multi-ball. Multi-ball, where they're still closed. Yeah. There's Craylee on the left, and if you've got that left, that left ramp, down, it's too easy to get to Germany.
    92:34
    Hi. Howdy. Jim's playing Metallica. Howdy. Hi Carl, how are you? Good, you? Terrific. It's been a fun night. Just back from the Game Show Game Show. That's right. We had the worst match game contestants I've ever seen. Terrific. What do you think? Late night? That's pretty sweet. I like the setup with cameras. It's clearly hectic. What have you been seeing here? Just a lot of people. We've got a lot of people on the bubble. Really excited for show. It's interesting to see Dave Stewart there. He just won in Seattle last month. I would not expect him to be in the position he is. He's definitely struggling. But some of the people, have you seen Brandon Tibbetts play? Yeah. We haven't seen the game, but I've seen the scores. His play has really been impressive. I've never seen him play before.
    93:41
    I thought that was great. You see a lot of really strong local players here coming through. Jared is very strong.
    93:52
    Eric, Jermaine, Jeff, Brandon, Zach, Wallens. Players who may not be as well known nationally, but they're very strong and they know what to do. And they're pulling it together. Do you think this format is helping out with that? I like that there are EMs and modern games, so you see this mix of the players earning the high scores.
    94:17
    Tim Moyers, for example, I watched him play Jungle Princess yesterday. and he had these just amazing delicate moves on all the EMs that other players were not really capable of. I can't do them. And he was pulling like 120, 140 on those EMs, and he's put himself into a qualifying position by those games. Yeah, and he's looking pretty good too. Although, actually, let me run it up to you real quick. Cool. Oh, so we're live here at the Hobo and Annual Open here in California.
    95:00
    This is an extremely good event. And Rick Prince right there at 25th, coming all the way from Philadelphia. I have confidence that Rick can put it together here. He knows he can.
    95:16
    And Rick is kind of a master of all types, so he's a player who can strongly play on modern games as well as EMs.
    95:26
    I'm not sure who we have coming up next on World Cup, Bob. We had requests for Kevin so it should be Kevin but unless he not around it It looks like he uh has left the building so he been skipped Did you say Kevin Nichol left the building Uh, I meant Kevin Burrell. Oh, Kevin Burrell. Ah, okay. You were thinking it would be, uh, the hotel. Yeah. Alright, let's, uh, go check something out there.
    95:51
    Where are we going? Where do you want to see, Bob? Uh, why don't we see, uh, oh, Ander Massenkoff on Scuba might be, might be interesting. Rick Prince on Abracadabra also, he's on the bubble
    96:04
    Let's go Rick Let me uh... squeeze over here If I can get us over to Abra before the game is over. Alright, yeah, yeah, I heard we are out of nowhere Abra. No more Abra-gadabra? Yeah, we just lost a couple games to Abra. Oh yeah, there we go. But being on the bubble was my advantage. That was an unfortunate bounce there.
    96:52
    And we got... What do you see people doing on Abracadabra? Just going for those banks of drops? Yeah, they're going for banks and hoping to get the 2 or the 3 or whatever. What does 1, 2, 3, 4 give you? How does the center drain? It matches the moment drop. It matches the target value, too. Well, it's not the moment value. But it's the value given when you hit down a lit drop target. One of these lights.
    97:25
    Let's see who else is on the bubble. Let's see if we can find that Eden. We have to see Eden playing the game. Is he coming up soon? Oh, we got Derek Gatti on Viking. Now James Stewart will be playing Viking next. Maybe we go to see him. Right now? Oh yeah.
    98:00
    Alright, let me squeeze on me a moment. These buttons. I gotta squeeze. We got Keith Delwin in the room with us here. I wonder when he's finally going to come down and play a couple games. He's only got a couple more hours to qualify. I think he can still make it. Yeah, he's going to try. Oh! I love the outlanes on Viking. It's so interesting over there. You've got I remember those from flip-flop the perennial Cal stream game, but I'm biking it's just like these
    98:43
    Bouncing back lanes you get in lanes on here too, but you can basically save either either out lane and
    98:54
    It's very difficult to get that ball back into play, but it is possible And apparently possible get back in and then back out through the same hole again too as we just saw from Damon And his game is over already. So that was a few lost minutes there. We got Zach Wallens on Scuba. Look for the Blues. I can't read that. Let's, we can watch. How's Tim looking? Tim Hansen, how are you taking it on?
    99:24
    Ellen coming up on Metallica next. Trimmer on Jungle Princess. Alex on Iron Man. So we don't want to eat more Abra. No more Abra. It's nice to see a pair of Schwarzenberger playing well. He'll be next on Trio. We don't see much Trio. Yeah, Trio would be interesting to show just to show how scary and ridiculous this is.
    99:54
    This thing picks up everything. So you're good wherever you are. Do you want to get back here? Alright, let's go back in. Let's get a different...
    100:10
    It's just... I don't know if others have been saying this, but it's just so impressive with all of this equipment you have set up to make this happen. It's an incredible amount of effort and work and expense, so thank you for doing this. It's really fun to see these events and I hope that it's interesting. We got a pair playing out on Trio now.
    100:32
    And Cher has just been eating everybody alive. I don't know. I mean, I never got a chance to play it. And there's a reason for that. No one's been wanting to play it. The line has been nothing. And now I'm seeing four people on it, including Dean Grover and Robert Gaggo. Coming up. Yeah, I got to say, if you're looking at the scores on Trio, there's some interesting effects that happen. You see this at Papa too, where in these events the top, say, whatever, 88 or something get points. Games that play faster, even though it may appear that they have short lines and you can get on them quick, that also means that more people are playing them. And it means that scores are at more of a premium on that game compared to a game like Star Trek or Metallica. So even though you're looking at like, I don't want to wait eight lines deep for Metallica, That also means that fewer people are playing Metallica, which means that's worth more. There's a bonus collect there.
    101:32
    Another one. No bonus. Zero bonus collect. Now, I thought I saw that that bonus collect carried over from game to game. It shouldn't be game to game. And we'll find out soon enough. Okay. But I'm pretty sure it shouldn't carry over game to game. Because you have to hit the mushroom bumper.
    101:50
    Right, every time you hit a mushroom bumper, it goes up by 10. But I swore that I saw somebody start a game and it was already at like 50 or 100 or something. Probably a malfunction. Ah. Thanks Adam. Trio...
    102:09
    That's true. Robert will take us to Trio, Scuba and Jungle Princess. Maybe Vector. Ah, Vector I'll take.
    102:23
    and the ones that are going to quit the TRIO game so we're going to stay with TRIO for a couple games Jason Rice will be next on TRIO that's Jason wearing the red shirt I don't know what football team that is let's see if I can look up where people are
    102:45
    my tablet was taken for score keeping so it might be so Yeah, so if you look at the bonus and that hole, that hole in the lower right, it started at the value that it was left at. So one could potentially sit and wait like you would wait on a Big Bang Piggy Bank in a casino. Wait for it to be ready to pay out with a big jackpot from that hole. And effectively that's just points on the table. So what happens if you hit a muscle up raptor and it loops over? Uh... Could we get to 200? That probably does. Zero? Where are we now? We're at 60, 70? I don't know, we'll see. We'll see how long it takes. It sucks to go in that hole and get zero. I know that. And it's hilarious that that's possible. To shoot something and score zero. We had a... Yeah, I believe we had an entire game in zero on this machine. Yeah, with a tilt end game. They had a score of 0, and a score of 1, and a score of 10, all of which on the tight tilt end of the game. Jason got 205 points right now. Yeah, so... I don't think Jason is unlikely to qualify, but for a lot of players, if this is one of One of the key events they get to go to, it's all about where they end up. And we also have a casual division for the top six players out of people who are not in the top 1,000 in the world rankings. Along with two wild cards that get picked on the morning of the final. We'll pick them tonight after qualifying closes. And then those eight players will play the casual finals for cash. We've done that at Cal Extreme, I think we've done that pretty much since the early 2000's. It's a nice thing. I like the wild card. I think over the years, the evolution of these events from paying only the winner, only the top four, up to day 8, 16, now 24. I think that's been a really positive thing for pinball because it gives everybody a great chance to succeed. and everybody has lots of different measures of success then. My first qualify, my first final, my first round.
    105:13
    I wish there was more match play, but that's just kind of the nature of the beast when you have, I don't know how many players this is, 100 plus? 150. 150 now, wow. I think we were in the same.
    105:28
    155. Yeah, so that bonus continues to carry over as we've got Dean Grover on the game now. Yeah. And, uh, I would say Dean is not sitting in the top 24 right now. Unless I can't see, I don't see his name anyway. Dean, really strong player on EMs, and you see him making some shots there that are, uh, they're smart shots. And you, on some of these EMs, if you're trying to send the ball back up to the top, you may think the flippers aren't strong enough to make those shots. And you have to take advantage of the momentum of the ball being given to you. There's a lot of on-the-fly shooting compared to a modern game where you know the flippers are already strong enough to get the ball to the top of the playfield under any circumstance. And that's something that playing EMs, it took me a long time to realize that, and that had a very significant effect on gameplay. So right here, he's not going to get a controlled shot, but he's able to flip hard and get the ball up near the top, I guess. So what's that? He's got 400. He's approaching the wizard mode here. 500 points, right? At this point, he's just setting up the game for Robert. Yeah, he's putting that big bonus there, that 90 now. Oh, there it is! Boom shakalaka, super jackpot, Dwayne! All right.
    106:51
    Oh, my God, Trio. I can't wait to play in the finals. I can't wait to not pick this game in the finals. At least the cash is out. That's right, Dean won the classics two years ago. Really great classics player. He's great on the modern stuff too.
    107:27
    He seems to be especially strong on the classics. Are we going with trio some more because of Robert? Yeah, we'll stick on the... Alright. Robert is in fourth place overall, so he's in a pretty secure position.
    107:40
    But the higher seed you are, the more chance you have of getting control of a group into the semifinal or final rounds.
    107:48
    And so it definitely does matter. He's not too far off from losing that. And there's also a $25 bonus for every first place finish on a game. So if he can somehow knock off the number one score here, he could push it all the way to number one even, or at least take home 25 more bucks for a try. Yeah, we need to go get some hits after this. You got a car? Yeah, I do. Oh yeah I do. We go to a 24 hour safe play or perhaps a 7-11? We should be plenty right?
    108:29
    Out. 150 million on Star Trek. Hands you the keys to the bus. Yeah, I don't care about the bus. You don't want the bus? No, I find I just like picking games. Oh yeah, you're player four, you win every time, I've seen that. I've been there.
    108:56
    So you'd rather be fifth? I'd rather be fifth. Wow. Or 6th or 7th or 8th, just stick me in that four. That's very interesting.
    109:06
    I would rather drive the bus. Well... Or at least know, you know, if you know, it gives you the option. Like if you look at who's behind you and you know you like the types of games they're going to pick, then you can play yourself into the position that you're in.
    109:21
    So even if you wanted to play a fifth, if you got a second, you could just act like you were fifth anyway, just hand the keys. True. It's done that before.
    109:30
    And by this, we're talking about game selection in the final rounds, which in a tournament of this format where there's EMs and solid states and modern games, it's a much more important position to be in to be able to select the games, play to your strengths, play against your opponent's strengths, and don't let them play the games they want to play. Play the games you want to play. True, true. But looking at the group, I mean, apart from Robert, I can assume a lot of the games are going to be big. Robert kind of belongs up there. That is true. I can see Joey Springer going to a lot of different types of machines. Robert, let's say, you never really know. He gets a groove on a game from qualifying like Vector. And he might take everybody to Vector all day tomorrow.
    110:21
    As long as he can last. Vector's a really interesting game. It is. I haven't really had the time on this for him. We've got Rick Prince on Vector now as he's trying to get over the top of that bubble.
    110:34
    Mario, you got ball one. Takes so long to shoot. Viking, Viking. Viking, no vector, no Viking, no vector. This is California Extreme, the last hour and 12 minutes of qualifying here. We are looking live at Vector. as Rick Prince starts his vault 3 at only 220,000. Now, this game is all about getting hype.
    111:22
    Hype, really? Get out of there. Oh, man, bad game there for Rick, and unfortunately we didn't really get to see very much of it. No, it's not about getting hype. Yeah, I was going to say, I didn't know the game much before today. I played one of the plays, I think, But I ended up just sitting next to the V and then if I'm over here it's just the target. It's dangerous. I thought they'd be cute. Yeah, the left side is pretty dangerous, but you're kind of obligated to go for it. Sometimes you can backhand some of those drops to reduce the risk. But that left loop around shot through the back, those yellow arrows in the back are all bonus. and the more of them that are on, the more bonus you're getting from just your plunge, not your plunge, but just every shot through that left. So the yellow targets on the left is priority one. And like I said, from the left flip, if I have a trap ball, I might go for that right loop up to the top.
    112:25
    That gives the score and gives you the opportunity to get bonus multipliers through the XYZ drops. So Dean Grover is on next. This is Lisa Ramone, I think. I didn't catch the last name completely. Yeah, Lisa Ramone it looks like. Yeah, and Vector's even got the, Vector has some of the strangest outlanes I've ever seen in pinball. Like you've You got that backwards in lane out lane on the left and on both sides you have these insane holes that allow the ball to be kicked back into play and the one on the left is even a bonus collect The one on the right is a bonus collect also? Yeah, the one on the right is a bonus collect which is just gone Yeah, that's pretty much, that doesn't make no sense At the same time the game seemed pretty good for Thurman's life I was surprised. I thought it would be kind of one note just because of what we're saying. There aren't very many shots to make. The only real shots to make are the hype letters in the middle, which release captive balls for multi-ball.
    113:39
    It looked like if you collect hype in order from left to right, you just get to release all multi-balls. And if you don't do that, you might get one ball kicked in the play. I think they have to be blinking. And if you shoot it when they're not blinking, you don't get any releases. yeah you don't get your release
    114:06
    now we're gonna be watching Dean Grover on here next and again Dean is contending for the top 24 but he really needs to put it together here in the last hour it's not looking good for him but he does this in one other one other another strong game he could pull it out. So I usually just try to get a control like that was good there and then take shots at the drops. There's something to do with the flashing drops on the left like when they're all three flashing they're in order and then I read on the rule card that if you get them in order you didn't have to complete the second but it doesn't seem to have actually done that.
    114:49
    Maybe that's a software setting. Anyway, he finished those three on the left and then three more come up. That was cool back there. And then there it is in the bonus collection roster.
    115:01
    You see him trying to make that right shot there. A bit of fumble drain. He probably could have saved that with a push off the right.
    115:08
    Tight tilt on this too and very heavy bonus. So players are often compelled to make, just let balls go that they otherwise could have stayed.
    115:18
    He just collected one thousandth. You can see there he's still a little late on, a little early on that shot. No, late, late, I'm sorry. That's trouble.
    115:28
    So is it value the bonus? Yeah, you get that at the end of the ball, plus whatever is in the... The 550 is telling you the speed record on the left ramp. And if you beat that speed record, you get a special.
    115:45
    Oh, man! What a save there. Let's see if that turns the game around for them. They still got to knock down that second set of three drops that are closer. It's really just, I mean, it's really interesting. I don't know any other game that has this kind of layout to it. And oh! Oh, almost the ladder! It's not a satisfying game there for Dean and with only an hour and seven minutes to go he's probably not going to get too many more chances here. Well there's a lot of games open it looks like. Sorter Keys on a couple. Let's go over to Star Trek. Tim Williams is going to be out next. It'll be interesting to see Tim on this game because Tim's play on Jungle Queen, Jungle Princess, the younger versus Jungle Queen. younger versus Don't Wink, and other EMs. Sim is a very, it's a supreme nudger with, let's say, medium-strength nudges. And this Star Trek is set up where you really can't do anything to it. It's going to touch tilt you all the way through, like warning, warning, tilt. It's not uncommon on a Star Trek, the way it's been playing.
    116:57
    And I think that's actually probably good for the settings, and we need to know it has a line six deep and the other games barely have a line. You know, there's been some effort put in to try and equalize the length of play on the games. And we're now looking at Michelle Puck.
    117:16
    And she'll be followed by Tim Moyers. Star Trek, a mode-based game. You get to choose a mode at the beginning of each ball.
    117:30
    and the modes are generally dictated by the flashing lights so she's on space jump here, second mode in the right tree those three if you finish them all will give you super ramps as a special round so what would you do? is that your general go to go for those three? yeah I start with the first three, those three go for super ramps just to skip some things I've been intending to do that Yeah, and there's also the possibility of getting like two together. Right, so getting the diamonds, let's say. Yeah. And then getting this and that, that one and that, and then sequence. To get them all three, I would go in at the same time. Yeah, you go, you've got your Prime Directive, Space Jump. If I'm going good and I've got Prime Directive and Space Jump and I'm still going on Ball 1, I might go over to destroy the drill. Because then I'm going to drill, Nero, save the Enterprise, and get Super Ramps and Super Spinner going at the same time. And each of those can be worth $10 million or more. Especially Super Ramps is the most valuable, and the reason for that is that ramps are doubled as combos.
    118:44
    So for that side ramp, you can get $2 to $4 million per shot during Super Ramps. and if you can somehow get dialed in on that side ramp to go two or three loops in a row, you can find your score ballooning in a hurry. And we've got the tilt cam here for Tim's game.
    119:02
    Just watch what happens because it's very easy to get a warning on this game without really knowing that you're moving the machine. All of the nudges the player makes, they can be very subtle, but they do have influence. And the ball is still swinging from Michelle's game.
    119:20
    It never stops. It never stops. It's like Miley. Sorry. Sorry about that. I really apologize. I don't know anything about that.
    119:35
    The bones combo. What the hell is that? I've never seen that before. Is that like the Hurley combo? The Huxley combo? from Gentleman
    119:50
    So you see Tim like right there, he's almost on a warning just from that movement and a bad luck train on the right alley and there's really not much you can do about that other than not shoot the vengeance in the first place there which is dangerous but you have to shoot the vengeance at least twice during the game or get two completions of the three bank on the right to get to vengeance multi ball which really need to play Avengers Multi-Ball at some point during the game to have a good score
    120:23
    I don't know all that much about Tim, is he a local player? Yeah, he's a SoCal Okay He's in my area There's a warning there, you can see the Bob's still moving
    120:34
    Oh, and a fumble drain there really is caused by the tilt. That the way he would normally have handled that is by doing a little bit of a slap save and the left foot would be regaining control instantly like he would on an EM. But knowing what he knows about the tilt here, he's not comfortable making that move, and then that fumble happens. It's unfortunate, but it's part of these events to get adjusted to the different strength and style of each game. I really love that about these tournaments. You've got to adjust and think and change your mind about how to play. I choked with this game a couple times and I was like, okay, you can't do that.
    121:19
    Vengeance multiball is ready and ideally Tim should start a mode here to bring something into Vengeance with him. So there it is. I'm not sure that was necessary. Oh, he was already playing safe dump. Yeah, he just made something. Now he has the one shot to complete it. So this is...
    121:36
    He could... he could time this out. Yeah, but it takes a long time to time out now. Yeah. Add more time.
    121:46
    Ah, but wasted his black hole though. I do not find easy to realize. Alright. Whoa! That kicked the ball and hit. I didn't see that. What happened? It came out of the vengeance. It didn't take a new ball out. Oh. Oh, I know what happened. It gave him the extra ball. Right. And the extra ball does not...if the extra ball is lit, it doesn't count as the vengeance start. I'm not really sure why that is, but I've seen that a couple of times where I'm expecting to start vengeance and all of a sudden it's like, oh, alright. We could have started that. We could actually have started another mode at that point, but he's got vengeance, he's got a ball in the middle, middle now it'll be a three ball affair but the opportunity make it four by using the black hole there it is so all right well eventually there will be more balls to this perhaps
    122:44
    but yeah if he had started the third mode like state of the enterprise he could potentially even just wait that out or finish it during during this multi-ball and then have super ramps going and it's a little bit of a wasted opportunity to be like that was six million points he could have had if Super Ramps were running playing a good multi ball here though
    123:15
    trying to hit those targets a few more shots Yeah, it's interesting here with the vengeance that when you finally clear out the vengeance and you have the jackpot rate, it'll come back. And that was kind of a mistake there. I think he may not have known that the other ball was going to come back, and he wanted to cash in the vengeance completion. But you want to get that as a combo if you can, by shooting the left to right ramps before the vengeance, and it doubles the value from $5 to $10 million. Not a bad multiball, but there's a lot more points in it that could have been there with super ramps, with a bow, with combos. It's a very intricate game right now with the design and the rules and the doubling and all the different things you have to think about. Nice shot there. That's a tough shot on this one.
    124:17
    Well they get one extra chance. They get a second chance. Right, but then if they get a loop again they... They don't lose their entry time, right? Oh, that was a question, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's a good one. In fact, there will be three misses until you're both in the game. So, 30 million or so there for Tim. And he doesn't look too happy with it. He's sitting above the bubble in 19th place right now. Andreas Peterson at 5.50 is two points ahead of Rick Prince for the 24th position in the finals. The top 24 players will qualify for Match Play Madness tomorrow morning with the first eight making a bye. So Per Schwarzenberger is sitting on the lowest bye position at 6.24. He's got a healthy lead over Burrell. So if someone wants to take that bye away from Per, they're going to earn it by strong play, not by attrition. But there's plenty of people. Yeah. plenty to do Tim could do it Kevin could do it and they're all going to be out there running for this last hour why don't we stick up to car tech we got this is Derek Masia I'm not sure if I got the pronunciation of the last name right and he's from Portland I think ok there you go
    125:45
    If he's not from Portland, well maybe he is now, I don't know. I've seen him hanging out with the Portland crew, so that makes him an honorary Portlander at the least. Works for me.
    126:01
    I'm watching Kevin argue about something. What's your name? Kevin Nichol, with the roost does. Probably Chilton.
    126:15
    Yeah. We got Kevin, we got Bob, we got it all here at California Extreme. Let me run another update for an hour and a half.
    126:39
    If you're just joining us, this is the final hour of qualifying at California Extreme 2015. We're here at the Santa Clara Convention Center for one of the largest arcade and gaming festivals in the world. the world hundreds of games and these players have decided to spend their time competing for many dollars and the glory of papa circuit points along with trophies and blacks so am i
    127:06
    cal diangelo here with the bowen karens on the commentary and we are watching derek mastia play star trek sorry about the last name i'm not sure exactly how to pronounce it
    127:21
    Matthew is right next to him on the Jungle Princess. Zach Rollins watching on, and Zach is in 23rd place.
    127:40
    Meanwhile, we've got Derek playing Save the Enterprise. He's taking a nice backhanded attempt to the left ramp. Hard to see his flippers given the hat he's wearing. There was a brief time where I was talking about banning hats. No hat policy. Especially cowboy hats like certain players had. Giant sombreros! But in the end, you gotta let players play the way they want to, I think. Yeah, we do. So we've had quite a change in the standings. Oh, indeed. We've had some movements. Zach Wallens moved down to 24th. And it looks like it's Trevor McDonald who's moved into a qualifying position. I don't remember seeing him there before. Brent Stoddard also in 16th now. Per Schwarzenberg continuing to hold on to 8th. So the top 8 haven't changed. But 24th is looking interesting now. Zach and Andreas only a point away from each other. With Rick 2 behind. Bob Matthews surprisingly on the bubble as well as Dave Stewart and a few other players for whom it's really kind of surprising to think of them as automatic qualifiers almost.
    129:04
    And that's even off from just a minute ago. So Dave and Bob are tied in 27th. They each need to pull one more game to get themselves into a qualifying position. And we now have seen Rick Prince put up a strong game just now. I don't know what that was on. We'll invite him to check out what that game was. Click through to Rick, we can see.
    129:32
    Some guy wrote this amazing software that would show game by game what's been happening in the tournament.
    129:39
    Rick Brintz puts up 150,000 on Abracadabra, and it's an astoundingly good score. Is that number one? Let's look at what's his position on that game. That is the number one score on Abracadabra, and to pull that with one hour left, I know Rick, and Rick is going to be jazzed on this for quite a while. That is almost a sure thing qualified for him. $25.
    130:01
    And a spot in the Final 24 tomorrow. As Rick would say, yeah, baby. You got him right over here. You got him over here. That's the first thing he would say.
    130:14
    And we're seeing some strong play here from Derek on Star Trek. Anything different about this Star Trek compared to other games of its kind that you notice when you're playing this? Not really, just, uh, pretty normal for a start. Um, I don't think the outlanes were set up to be difficult in a very clear play. Yeah, and the tilt is super tight. The in-lane posts have been removed, so you don't get the rubber in-lanes. You can bounce the ball back in. The out-lane posts are pretty normal, but it doesn't really help. He usually uses the out lane post in association with an in lane post. There's an interesting play there by Derek when the ball is moving past the upper flipper. He's generally letting it go. It gives him a chance to get a better trap at the bottom behind his hat. But also, it's a little bit conservative because you can take that left ramp and... During the game, 10 left ramps will give you double scoring for 40 seconds, which can be a very big boost. If you can get to Kobayashi Maru at the time you produce that double scoring, it can send your score into the stratosphere. That's some of what we saw from Jim Balsito when he put up his $300 million in qualifying. I did some practice in this game a lot. I had his office by now. There's some really wonderful opportunities for linking up scoring in this game now with the medals and so much work put in by the design team.
    131:52
    It's really interesting. The medals remind me a lot of the artifacts from Star Trek Next Generation. The fact that you have three different layers. It also reminds me of mobile games with the three stars, you know, where you want to look back and say, hey, how many stars did you get on that one? Oh, I got three stars on that mode. I aced it. I only got one star. I passed. It would be interesting to see if they've sterned up more with that because it's a great mechanic. And maybe they'll have bronze, silver, gold medals in a lot of their games. It could become a standard and something that people would just expect to see when they see new machines. I think a lot of that could be from the newer blood that's been brought to stern too, bringing their video game influences, so to speak. Yeah, people like Jack Benson and Tanyo. The other new program, even the old program, now they've brought in Dwight Sullivan to do some work on this. Dwight wouldn't be the one who would program those artifacts in the first place. So it's definitely something that would have potentially come from there. Here's Dave Stewart, and Dave is sitting in a tie for 27th position with one hour to go. Dave, no stranger to pressure pinball play for many years He won the Seattle tournament just this last month Right, dude. Second time in a row Wow
    133:20
    I don't know about the mode choice, I've seen Dave play the game where he goes through Nerd and then Nerd 2 I don't know if he's trying deliberately to go through all three of that mode to get a 2x multiplier on some shot, but I haven't seen any player going this way other than Dave. So I'm curious to see if he pulls it off, what's the value? And there's a warning taken from just nothing really, but just the aggregate of little tiny moves.
    133:55
    What were you saying? Yep, that was it. Yeah, so there's the completion of Nerd1. And if it's like what I've seen him play earlier, he's gonna just go directly for two. And he does. And again, I don't know the value of this. There probably is some value. Well, that 1.1 million shot right there... And certainly this is a great mode for score. Here's the second warning. And, I mean, he is moving the game around. He's not doing nothing. That's coming back. I bet he would normally settle, but with the mode structure, you really don't want to lose any time. Right. You can actually do that because the timers now during these modes will stop after roughly 8 to 10 seconds of doing nothing. And that's been done to defeat...
    134:55
    No, we're not watching Trio, Greg. See it open on Trio. Yeah, so I don't know if he's gonna go directly for... I would assume he's gotta go for 3 after this. Because why would you play 2 and not end stop?
    135:14
    2, though, I agree with you when you said that this is a high scoring mode. It's a really very high scoring mode. The way they run medals in this mode is that one shot is flashing colors at the same time as the other shots are pulsing the color for the mode. So for example, the right ramp right now is pulsing green as well as purple. And that means that that shot they just made is advancement in medals. Is that only on level 2 or is that on level 1? I don't know. I think on level 1 it's just a total number of shots. On level 2 with the tend to be like make this many shots incomplete the way they scaffold it to allow medals to be earned is by highlighting one of the shots and say you want medal you gotta make this shot there's a move right there and that was very dangerous that could easily have been a tilt right there Oh! Lazarus! and still with the multi ball it's just so cool to see that never get tired of watching that Good trap up here, and maybe a backhand to the right rim. Was that strong enough? Yeah, I've done it, but I can see why you wouldn't want to. Good super. The first super jackpot is awarded after basically completing half the jackpots on the table. Another strong move. I mean, I don't really think this was a good idea. No, I would have just kept the cradle and lose the ball, right? Yeah, just keep it up. You've got two balls in play and sometimes in the hectic play of multi-ball you forget about where you are with these and that he's on two warnings. Bob has settled down. Now this was a great game to put the tilt cam on. and uh pretty big jackpots in this multi ball now compared to what it was that's four million because of a combo only uh the super jackpot lit on the left side you get a second super for completing the last the last shot uh he had a chance there actually to pop shot and try for like a, maybe almost a 10 million shot there.
    137:31
    You know, there's reason to do what he did. Make sure you get back in control, get back to single ball play. And now what do we do? We're gonna see him take three? Yep. So he's going for nerd three, and if he can finish this off, he'll get a double play field multiplier on one of the shots. And that play field multiplier would then last for the remainder of the game on that shot. So this means you actually shoot the shot with the right flipper, or it looked like it was changing stock. I've been playing here for years. Honestly, I really don't know, but this is looking like David knows very precisely what he's doing on this game. And he's finished Nerd 3, and that's going to give him a double playfield multiplier on the left loop for the remainder of the game.
    138:17
    And three in a column, you get a bonus for that. That bonus is going to give you... That bonus is going to give him the points associated with that double. Sorry about the comment about the mic. I have no idea. I'm glad to see that. And there's another move. I mean, like, I don't... I guess that might have been worth it to keep your ball in play, but he must have a very large bonus at this point, too. point too. One other potential advantage of playing these other modes before moving forward
    138:58
    is he gets medals. If he does get to Kobayashi, those medals will also count towards Kobayashi. But it means playing more modes before even getting to that space. And it's hard enough to get to Kobayashi in the first place. Make yourself play eight modes instead of six to I don't know how valuable that is. That's right, I have to assume he thinks he's not going to get the gobyashin, that's part of the strategy he's taking. Yeah, more aggressive moving and he's really right on the edge of the machine this whole time here.
    139:36
    Chuck has done it! I find out what he's looking for. He needs to save the Enterprise. So now he's going for the cross the bottom and this is, this is, this couples with what he did playing out the nerd mode. The left loop is doubled and so what he's going to do now after playing this mode is he will have super spinner. And I'm not actually certain that the spinner is doubled. I know the left loop is doubled as a loop shot but I don't think the spinner actually counts in that. I mean I could be way off. I mean he's getting big values for all those other loop tops. Yeah. I mean massive values. 3 million for a shot on the level 1 mode.
    140:23
    Yeah, 1.7 million for that and an unlucky drain. Yeah, wants a little rager there. He'll have super spinner going into ball 3 with a double around the left loop. Strong mode there on save the enterprise. Big bonus
    140:44
    Even though even the 6x is larger almost 100 million already on the board for James Stewart as he plays ball three here Trying to finish off and get to Kobayashi, which would be a very big score for him
    140:59
    I don't recall if he's played the Vengeance multiball yet I don't know. I don't think he has. Yeah. We'll see. Let's see what the Devil Super Spinner does for him. I wonder how big this is. We're about to find out. Well, maybe not. Lock is lit. And so am I. Yeah, I mean, that's lock one. one so he's got oh boy
    141:37
    all right two more for vengeance i was he's got the punches though but this may be the vengeance hurry up instead of the uh instead of the vengeance multi-ball
    141:47
    i can't i don't recall if he's already played vengeance multi-ball so i don't believe he has He may be trying to set up Klingon with Vengeance Multiball because it's a good stack.
    142:02
    It looks like he just had a plan this entire game from start to finish, and he's done a good job of executing that plan.
    142:12
    And this might put him over the top into the top 24. He's got quite a few players he'd have to leap to get there, So I don't know how much this would boost him just by itself right now. Dave has a 65-pointer on the board for Star Trek right now as his seventh game. So he's definitely way ahead of that.
    142:35
    65 points. If he were to end right now at just over 100, he's going to earn 90, 91 points on that game. So he's at plus 25. and turn up that's enough right now so he is for all practical purposes he's about to go push his way right into I would say 23rd position which you know that's not safe we're seeing a lot of people jump in here with 40 minutes left to play in qualifying James do the 110 million points on Star Trek, very strong score.
    143:17
    Good good X strategy and interesting how different it was from what we been seeing from other players Dave Stewart has moved into 24th position at 5 By that I mean the number of points he has, not the time. Zach Wallens is now taking over on Star Trek and if he can put up the same game we just saw from Dave, Zach would then leapfrog right back over Dave again and they would be playing on the border. So Zach was 24th now, but below the double, he needs to just, don't even worry about that. Just play your game. You're not here because you're lucky. You're here because you're good at pinball, and he's got plenty in him to make this score. Interesting to see, Zach tends to be an on-the-fly player, much more so than a trapper. He'll trap up little bit but very rarely like there there was a easy opportunity to strap up if he wanted to and instead he guns away I have to admit I haven't seen much Zach play Zach is an emerging local San Francisco area player plays his free goal watch a lot and just some excellent decision making great reaction time bad luck there but that was a little bit set up by a shot to the vengeance I tend to avoid the vengeance unless I absolutely must hit it because I see myself needing vengeance multi-ball.
    144:49
    Otherwise, there's really no value in shooting that target. We are at Cal Extreme. It's 40 minutes left in qualifying, 38 minutes. Zach Wallens is playing on Stern Star Trek from 2014.
    145:06
    And we are seeing him tear apart this game. Hopefully for him because he needs one more strong game to qualify for tomorrow's finals
    145:18
    Owen Cairns here with Carl D'Angelo got some others on the mic including Jimbo And uh, just been some great play to watch tonight
    145:28
    Yeah, we've been watching Star Trek for a while here, but there's lots to see on the other games Jim playing right now on Meteor is working towards the top eight by but he plays being held by a fresh Forstenberger.
    145:42
    We'll see. I'm waiting for my database to come through. This is always a really interesting time to watch. I like watching this part instead of having to play in it. Yeah, that's true. Because it is hectic. You gotta just... You can get in your own mind easily in these moments so I must play well. It's amazing how often the best play comes from behind the slap moment. Especially from Jim.
    146:16
    Here's Zach playing a good vengeance multi ball. He's got the out of ball so 3 in play. There's 4 in play. This is pretty solid he just got a combo.
    146:35
    The tilt camera? Yeah. There's a tilt camera on the top right. Yeah, that lower camera is looking at the way everybody loses on this game, which is an instant tilt. I just turned down the noise. Yeah. Zach is continuing to play a really strong vengeance multi-ball. He's in victory laps now. And it's dangerous here because you just have to watch out. Don't pop shot. Don't take a warning there. Get yourself back under control and just continue play.
    147:14
    One thing I don't see Zach even trying to do is backhanding, not backhanding, but shooting the away team to start the next move.
    147:21
    It's a very difficult shot over there. Look at the rubbers on those slippers. I might have a lot easier on the left. Yeah? I was having a bad time shooting the right to start modes
    147:35
    but Zach just took a Nero 2 alright, you must be watching Dave I'm learning from watching Dave good move there, but look at that tip off he's right on the edge already and Zach with his style of not settling down wow, that did not take a warning, that's amazing It's amazing.
    147:58
    Look at that. Look at that, Tilt Bob. It's huge. Ron Bell. Million. The speed of play here. And this is Zach's style. So I'm not going to say he shouldn't be playing that way. Because this is the way he plays. And that's the way he goes. And we see Zoe Rabel in the foreground.
    148:18
    Yelling a trio just like everyone else has. Really? we've got Zach on Star Trek Brian Brett's daughter will be next on that
    148:41
    Trevor McDonald on Jungle Princess will be interesting to see Trevor is sitting in 19th it's not precarious for him but it's he was 19th actually it's he may not be in 19th anymore 34 minutes left to go and players must be on a machine at midnight for their final game or that's it if you have extra entries, too bad I got an extra entry should I play trio?
    149:13
    go for it I'm tempted to play another game of Jungle Princess just to kill some more monkeys Great man, sounds perfect. I so regret giving mine away. Right now on Jungle Princess we have John Kremer from Canada. And Jungle Princess, the younger version of Jungle Queen, two player game only, still has the same rules, A, B, C, lights double bonus. As John's already picked up the A and the B, it's a good place to start. The holes at the top are worth $5,000 all the time. The monkey kills are worth $1,000 and a bonus, $500 and a bonus advanced. And if you complete an entire bank of monkeys, all five, you will light the $5,000 lane behind that bank of five, which can be an incredibly valuable thing. One other thing of importance on Jungle Princess is that if you get all 10 monkeys down on a ball, you will light the saucers and outlanes on a bad drain there off of that mini clip. If you get all 10 monkeys down, you'll light an extra ball alternating on the saucers and the outlanes. So that extra ball, obviously, is very handy. But it's hard to get. You've got to go 10 for 10 on monkey kills. You can pick off a couple of them. there so that was too late. He actually had a chance to save that but it turned into a bit of a rage field and just a little slow on the reaction there from John but John sitting 15th place. He's looking to be in good shape to play tomorrow. He might just be trying to get a few more games in on the machines that he's most interested in playing tomorrow.
    151:03
    We have Jay Stewart sitting in 24th place just ahead of Jeff Barivari who is not getting completely he could still make it but it's surprising you know an hour ago it looked pretty solid for him and we've just seen people sneak through Rick Prince is through, Jared Caddy is through, Trevor McDonald is probably through meanwhile at the top Joey Springer has leaped into third place
    151:40
    This is the start of Trevor McDonald's game and not a great ball one there but nothing you can do about it you just gotta brush that off
    152:00
    Nice moves there Oh gosh I'm not safe anymore. I was starting to think I should go play some Star Trek. You're not getting on there by 12, sir. With a 5-day blind? I don't think that's happening.
    152:26
    You're still sitting 7th. I think you're going to be fine. Jim just took 9th, so Jim becomes the first round bus driver. At 9th place, top non-buy. Which is a good place to be, you get to play the games you want, practice on them Well, you know, you gotta try to win on them too, but You're like, I can play more! That does not necessarily help you if you eliminate it 8 monkey kills here on this ball for Trevor The last two were the toughest And an unnecessary tilt there really But he could be calling this game a throw away I don't think you can really do that, you know, you've got the extra ball There's 5,000 for pulling that saucer on the plunge. Just no real reason to tilt there. You lose your bonus, and you never know how important that will come in. Actually, it's 5,000 for an outlay on this game, too, so he lost his bonus and 5,000.
    153:24
    Another 5 there. He's up near 30. There goes another monkey kill. They had to have been disappointed with that ball getting 8 monkeys down and a 4 on each side so it didn't even light any of the 5000s. That alone did a double bonus for the extra ball. That would have been 10,000 right there with that one more monkey kill on the left. And again 8 monkeys down on that ball. 4 on the left, 4 on the right. That's the worst. bad luck. 41,000 points for Trevor and that will be the end of his game. We've got Molly Atkinson on trio now. We've got Zach playing Vector with a chance to try and get through into the finals. We got... We got a little bit of a delay.
    154:29
    have a strong final tomorrow. It's going to be interesting. There's a lot of players who have the ability to win this. And it's a strong feel. I'm still very surprised that we're not seeing like, what's going on with Bob Matthews? I've never known him to miss the top 24 of an event like this. He burned himself down earlier in the day and just didn't seem to recover from that mentally.
    155:00
    Yeah, it can be mental in situations like this. I'm like, here's Zach playing Vector, and I don't know what happened to him in the beginning of this game, but he's sitting on under 40,000 after two balls.
    155:13
    That just shouldn't happen. It really shouldn't happen on this game. So maybe he's tired. Maybe he's just worried. There's no way. That should not be happening. That's a drain that is...
    155:28
    That's a drain that might be born out of working real hard during the day and then getting worried at the end that here you are in 26 needing one more game.
    155:39
    That strong player though, he's still got another 30 minutes to pull this off. We see Eden Sam behind him on Ironman. Again, Eden also outside the top 24. Again, something you really wouldn't expect, so that the names of players who are not qualified, you see some strong names. Andreas, oh, wow, his 550,000 on Meteor is coming through right now. It's still counting.
    156:09
    575, 583, the final score on Meteor for Andreas, And he needed 13 points of improvement to push his way into the top 24.
    156:22
    Oh, he's in. Well, he's in, but he's severely in. Andreas has pushed his way into 23rd place for the tie with Brandon Tibbetts. Dave Stewart is back out of the top 24 at 25th place. Now six points behind Andreas and Brandon on that strong game of Meteor, 580,000 high fives going around for Andres there and
    156:46
    So we have we have Brandon to get me a vector after Walter or we have Dave on Ironman after even Let's go with Dave because Dave's this up bump back down 25th and it's amazing He put that huge score on Star Trek and I like
    157:03
    You know, I guess not huge enough It's weird We got Bob playing meter and Bob just looks, he doesn't look right. He looks very frustrated.
    157:23
    How's Eden doing? I haven't seen much of Eden's play. Eden is about 30 points away from the cutoff. That doesn't mean he's dead to rights, especially on something like Iron Man where you can go from 3 million to 80 million on a pretty short heartbeat.
    157:49
    Iron Man's society, yeah. The camera goes on like the LEDs are violent. LEDs and Ironman are not friends LEDs and cameras are not friends that was a good skill move there Instacats on the left we got a bogey oh there's another good move there one morning taken by Eden as he starts bogey with Monger this is a strong stack he's got a good chance here to pull himself over 10 million at least and this should be an improvement in his standing now he's put up a very strong bogey, here comes the monger during the multiball great combo there, bogey continues one thing that he might target here is the warmachine shot which would extend the timer on his bogey case and one real big reason to do so Oh my goodness! Oh! He's thrown off his guns there after that train. Wow, that's rough. Just over 9 million there for Eden as he goes from 3 to 2 to 0. Yeah, I'm not blind enough to cover his strength, but it was around 10 million. Yeah, so that won't be an improvement for Eden Stam, still sits in 32nd position. We will be looking next at Dave Stewart, who is in 25th place.
    159:22
    I know that the scoreboard on the screen says 24th, but we have a push-through game by Andres Peterson on Meteor that took him into a tie for 23rd.
    159:35
    Those aren't going to be updated. This is live on the mobile. Live. Live from San Jose, California. We also have an interesting situation here where we have a tie for 23rd. And it's quite possible that someone else will push through and push them into a tie for 24th. And at that point, boy, here's Dave. And look at him, he lights out on the bogey shots to start the game. Just bogey out. He looks a little like... I know that. Yeah. What do you think? and I've been getting pretty good groove on these bogey shots especially the left ramp feels better from a moving ball than from a trap ball on this Ironman and I can't tell you why that is but it's just the feel and the flow of the shot that says don't aim for that left ramp unless it's after a right ramp basically he's getting a lot of whiplash shots too whether on purpose or by accident Munger is ready and that's not a bad drain He's got a lot ready. He hasn't started any of any of things and started Munger or
    160:51
    Whiplash or War Machine and This gives Dave an opportunity in the game to get to do or die Which you get by completing all five major tasks on the same ball No. Dave, Dave in a do or die situation here with 25th though. What's your mentality if
    161:17
    you're in a game like this where you need something? I'm just trying to have fun. If I have a lot of fun, I'm going to jump and I'm going to Yeah. So I'm trying not to focus on the mortality of the game. Right, especially like the way he's got to make those shots. That was nice there. He's got to make six shots at center and then hope to survive them. Whoa! Big mags. He got away with that one. Actually, pretty much all of them. You want to hit the magnet like towards the left. Oh, my God. Okay, so now he's got it. He started. What he wants to do here is hit the Ironman targets one more time before starting this multi-ball, yeah I don't like that decision right there. He lost about at least $3 million I would say by doing what he did. Hitting the Ironman targets would have started Ironman hurry up scoring. What's he looking to do? He's looking to improve $12 million score.
    162:14
    Yeah, it really does. That makes a pretty big difference to get an extra $3 million out of this multi-ball. And it doesn't seem like much. You go, well, if I take that shot and I miss it, that was very nice there. He's up to 13 million, and, you know, really, he could be through again. This is crazy now. He's got two out of the five tasks for do or die as well, and he's not far from whiplash.
    162:43
    Got the monitor up again. Each monitor hit is 250,000 right now. Boom, too pity. Boom, nothing. That's a good separation. He's definitely getting away with a lot of direct shots to the marker, but he's got good reaction. 15 million on the board, and there's Ironman fast scoring in the beginning, and you can see it's 10,000 per switch. He's going to get some good points out of this too, but not nearly as much as he would have if he had started the Ironman scoring before that multiball. It can be hard to think of that in a moment. You can just go, I need this, I need to get this multiball attached in. Alright, two more drones and it will be at War Machine. Yeah, this is huge here. At this point, I'm going for drones. Yeah, I'm going up the middle.
    163:45
    Try to catch that drone, or I could even backhand that little touch target on the right side here. I don't like going cross field to hit drones. You're going for bogey damage, right? Yeah. I'm exactly right with you. It's a baby attack. Oh, yeah, definitely, because he's got two out of the three. He's got two out of the five tasks, and he could actually get all three of the remaining tasks. There it is. So there's three tasks. If he can start War Machine multi-ball here before training. Oh. Really strong ball and he can still start War Machine and then Whiplash and move his way into Jericho. But he really looks, it looks to me like he's going to move his way back into the top 24 with this. So this, this turns out to be a bad break. Why? What's unfortunate about this? Well, it's going to block all the stocks he needs to make for War Machine. He can't stack longer with the home football. No. And he can't bring in Whiplash. Right. Normally, what I would prefer to do here is start War Machine and then start Whiplash during War Machine. And a little bad luck there. That's still alright. Alright, boy. Strong game. 23 million for Dave. Dave and he's got the hand of glory at the hand of, at the hand raise. 18 minutes left here to qualify in California Extreme and we see Dave Stewart likely leap his way back into the top 24 which puts Andreas and Brandon Tibbetts right on the borderline. You know an hour ago I would have been amazed to say Brandon Tibbetts might not make top 24. He looked like he was strong in 19th. We've seen Rick come through. We've seen Dave come through twice.
    165:32
    We've seen Andreas come through. Here we are now. And it's Andreas that eats it. Andreas behind by one point as Dave Stewart leaps to 18th position. That should put him securely into the final 24 for tomorrow. Sorry they've gone updating the real time. Real time. Maybe I'll get a mirror image. Yeah, your amazing software is so terrible. Connectivity issues. No.
    166:07
    Welcome to the world of convention Wi-Fi. Welcome to Silicon Valley where, you know. Yeah, you know, convention center in Silicon Valley. You'd think they would have free Wi-Fi here. No.
    166:18
    Alright, we are updated, let's see if it should update in just a couple moments, on screen. Alright, so now we're looking at the Andreas, Jeff, Brandon, make sure you stay tuned. And Andreas had to have that monster game of meters.
    167:14
    There's a stuck ball in the monger. This is always interesting. Right there the monger dropping down and the ball gets stuck behind it. It'll come back out now, but what should have happened there if that was extended is to have somebody open the game up and free that ball out. You can't get the play with one ball multi-ball. This is really good action, really close here and hopefully Joey Springer won't put together
    167:46
    one more Zion game to get number one seed in the qualifying. I'm looking for Andreas and I don't see him out of any of the queues. Yeah, I wonder if Andreas is... Brandon's going to go on vector after Mel C though. Right.
    168:03
    Yeah, did Andreas give up? Did he just run out of time or energy? I don't get it. He's in a spot where he really needs to play one more game right now.
    168:16
    We've only got 15 minutes left. And I don't know who else is on the bubble here along with Andreas. Jeff Ferevary, which I haven't seen. Jen Peebler has moved up to 27th now.
    168:35
    So Jennifer Peebler is only one game away from potentially qualifying as well. She's on the queue for Ironman right now. So she'll get one more chance there. All right, we'll try and catch up with her.
    168:51
    Yeah, I'm sitting in. Zach Wallens is down to 28th. I mean, he was 24th only 45 minutes ago. That will be playing Meteor shortly. Basically one more shot. I hope Zach pulls off a good game. Hopefully he can change his mindset from what we saw in Vectors. He definitely didn't look like he was thinking about the right things in that game. He was thinking about the right things in that game.
    169:30
    Right now on vector we've got Jim Maltito, and Brandon Tibbetts will be right after him. Brandon currently in 24th place.
    169:42
    One point. One point ahead of the bubble. And it's still precarious because any person could sweep from behind and pull that off.
    169:52
    Jim is ahead of him, fortunately, for Brandon because Jim, you don't want Jim to be at the bubble. Jim is on the bubble for a bye, so this game does influence whether Jim would have to play in first round tomorrow morning.
    170:08
    He's got the first dead drop targets completed. Can you hit any of those drops down from behind, or is it just, what is the purpose?
    170:16
    Yeah, what is the purpose of the tiny clipper? I really don't understand. It's like, they just had extra money and they didn't know what to do with it? Unless we hit the grave or whatever that is. Hype! You got to get hype baby! Hype! Hype grave!
    170:35
    There's the lock ball for Jim. Jim's got two in the lock and now the red light in the middle says that if you finish this hype from left to right. Oh my god that was awesome. If you finish this hype from left to right, he will get the multi ball. What? Wow! That was weird. That was a little unfortunate there. I don't know what exactly happened.
    170:57
    Jim man's under 600,000, which is probably not going to improve his standing at all. We will then have Brandon Tibbetts.
    171:10
    I am really surprised not to see Andreas at all in the queue. I wonder where he is. We have 12 minutes to go here at California Extreme in the qualifying. The top 24 will play off tomorrow for Big Bucks. No whammies, perhaps a stop.
    171:33
    And we're going to see Brandon Tibbetts play here on Vector. I haven't seen too much of Brandon today, but it's really interesting to see the different styles. He's a bit more of a control player than Zach or some of the other players, the San Francisco players we've seen. I believe he's also a San Francisco local, but I don't know for sure. The problem with some of the control plays, some skill moves that you think ought to work well, they just don't work on this generation of game. And you get yourself into some bad situations, like where you pop the ball over to that right outlay area. He got it back, but like post transfers, they're very risky on this game. You're better off probably just taking a shot through that right loop. Tapping very nice on this game. What? Tapping very nice on this game. Oh, yeah? Very easy to do, very nice. I just still don't trust myself to tap past in competitive situations.
    172:33
    I know I can usually pull it off, but I hate losing a ball in those kind of circumstances. I remember watching a guy tap pass on Ali and he got like 800,000 on ball one on Ali in the finals of the tournament It was bogus. Ended up with like 1.6 That's impossible There's a turkey this baby Oh look at that That's not good No no no that kills your Oh that's a very serious defect to the game The Y in XYZ is malfunctioned and it's probably not fixable at this hour. Maybe it'll be fixable tomorrow, but what it means is you can never complete X, Y, Z. There's X, there's Z, and all you've got to do is make that Y. Y.
    173:23
    And there's just no Y to make. This happened to me last year at the Indisc on Fireball 2, Or like one of the drop targets just disappeared or broke off so it was impossible to complete the banks of targets for points. So this is pretty severely limiting of what you can get. You can still get a pretty high bonus from the ramp, from the hype targets. You're not going to get the multiplier. There's another like I don't know. I mean that transfer really clenched on the ball there He's better off taking the points off that right loop
    174:17
    Yeah, well you get points for that shot that goes 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 Up to 50, so it's just it's not it's It's serious So Brandon ends without improving his standing
    174:33
    We're closing in on the end here I don't know if they called for people to just stop putting in putting their name on the list and we now have a two-way tie for 24th place between Brandon Tibbetts and Andreas Peterson In that case they would play a one-game playoff
    174:50
    And I don't know whether we'd have that tonight or tomorrow. I mean I'd rather see it tonight to be honest We have the time. We have the time. We got the beer. Andreas may have left. Yeah, so Andreas is disqualified and Brandon Simmons will be through. No, no I'm not.
    175:08
    I don't think Jeff is playing either. Yeah, I haven't seen Jeff Darivari go for a while. He's ten points behind the bubble now. So where's Zach on the Washington Pack? Zach has really...oh he just finished his Meteor game. Zach has 791,000 on Meteor and now we'll put Zach Rollins, well forget the tiebreaker, it's gone Brandon Tibbetts just and Andreas knocked out together with one shot by Zach Rollins wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, what a game that was and Zach has moved up to 23rd Sack has moved back to 23rd with just an incredible game of a meteor at the last.
    175:58
    Now Bob Matthews is on meteor, but he's moved all the way down to 30th. Bob doesn't look like he's in the right mindset to succeed right now. I don't know why. Who are we looking for next? That's awesome.
    176:14
    Trying to see what games are up. Dave's looking all right now. Yeah, we've got... We've got Biedler, maybe. Yeah, Jen Biedler will be next on Ironman after Eden's Bam. Both of them have the opportunity to progress with success here. So this will probably be each of their last games.
    176:34
    And either of them could sweep on through just like Zach did. That was a clutch game by Zach Wallens. I know that he talked about working hard to qualify at Galscreen this year, and he's just a strong enough player to pull it off and it's amazing to see that clutch game at the last, right when he needed it. But still, still he's only two points ahead of the cutoff. So it's not, it's not even a game. This is nuts. This last hour has been absolutely nuts for advancement and qualifying.
    177:08
    I don't know if the chat is, I don't know if something happened with the chat but it hasn't seemed like an update in a long time. We can help you stay in it or we can just light it up. What? Light on the other side. Oh, okay. Hey guys, say something. Come on chat room. What's up with you? Just because it's midnight on the west coast and you're not watching? That doesn't mean you can't say hello.
    177:34
    Who wants a shout out? Who wants a bad nickname? Yeah. We've got Jermaine coming up here just putting his head in his hands. He's 18th an hour ago and now he's 24th. It's pretty incredible right here. Nice move by Eden here on his ball too. Eden interestingly has played whiplash and nothing else, which is really rare. Looking through the list to see what he still needs to do. He hasn't even hit any drones yet.
    178:10
    So if he's going for do or die or Jericho, he's in a poor situation for that. And that was a stable ball. He needed to push it off the top of the left slingshot. Or just take a slap save. There's not much bonus on this game. It takes one or two warnings, but you'll get away with it. Now he really has no shot at do or die because he's not going to get to the second whiplash. he does have a shot at Jericho by playing through Monger here along with War Machine but he has no progress towards War Machine he's not really going for War Machine it looks like, he's not going for Monger he actually shot the drone already yeah so he might be going for War Machine now which is just so dangerous but that's kind of what he has to do, he's got to get to Jericho for this to matter yeah that's clear back into the the drone and he's gonna go up the middle and try to hit those drones and he missed and he broke the monger so he's not happy with that not happy with the accurate shot to one of the most difficult shots on the game
    179:23
    it's funny I mean I'm the same way with that shot if I if I oh there's nothing you can do about that I will shoot for the middle assuming that I can't hit it accurately enough and then I'm going to take one of those drones instead. I don't aim for the drones in the back middle. It's like, yeah, whatever. And then when you hit the spinner, you're disappointed. Later, when it's do or die, that's not going to happen. You wasted a spinner shot. This is going to be it. Jennifer Peebler will get on Iron Man. We are down to three minutes left to go into qualifying here at Cal Extreme.
    180:05
    And we've got to see Jen try to take down a score here that would put her into the final 24. You can see her sitting in 27th place.
    180:19
    Perhaps 28th. I don't quite know. I'm just trying to load the most discontent standing so I can get that number right.
    180:34
    Jen taking a warning there, no real reason for that warning but she is an aggressive player and I hope that doesn't come to bite her on this game. She took a warning in kind of an odd situation. Oh and what a move there! Beautiful move. Beautiful skill. Oh, and could have had it again there. That's really tough judgment to figure out when you need to push that and when you need to let it go and let the bounce bring it back in. But she's almost all the way to Monger multiball, which is a good place to be starting here.
    181:07
    Jen needs a 15-point swing here to push herself up to 24th place, which is Jermaine Marial. and in order to do that she's going to need to improve her score up to about 80 points on the Ironman.
    181:27
    Just to tell you where that is, to get 80 on Ironman she will need a score of 18 million. So if she puts an 18 million here, she will be right on the bubble to qualify. That's no easy catch. Little nice up and over there. Bad break. Smart decision here by her not to take a pot shot at the monger for an extra $250,000 and put the ball out of control. It's not worth it. She's not going to get the super jackpot at that point. It was a great decision to just trap up, wait for single ball play to resume, and then go make good decisions. She says, we're not on a fly shot for the right ramp there. And 600 for the left. It's going to be 800 for the right here.
    182:16
    Good trip. So it's interesting to see her decisions going between a flow decision and choices of trapping up. Like right there, she does a lot of bounce-overs, but then from the bounce-overs, she'll tend to take a fly shot. And I think there she was aiming for the right ramp to start bogey. Nice, nice, nice. Bogey begins.
    182:53
    So, Jen enters ball three at seven million here, and realistically, I think that she has to go get Jericho right now. That's pretty much the only way that she's going to get these points. The other way to go is to go back to Monger multiball, but that's incredibly risky. I wouldn't actually recommend doing that at this point. But, I mean, instead she has to get all the drones, get all the drones, and then hit the War Machine to start the War Machine multiball. During War Machine multiball, hit the Whiplash enough times to start Whiplash. Try to finish off the Iron Man targets while she's at it to maybe get a fast scoring. But you see what she's doing. That was a good decision and she's using the ball save time well. Three more drones to hit. I think that's trouble. Oh, what a great play. That's a game saver. Two more to go. This is trouble too. Wow, beautiful, beautiful skill moves. You see that there. That is absolutely the right decision. She started the fast scoring so she can get to the drones. There's the last drone. War Machine is ready. He needs to trap up on the right here. Another skill move to get that ball out. Trap up and make that War Machine shot. Oh, takes the warning. He's going to trap up fully here and then try to make War Machine. This is a critical shot here.
    184:15
    Don't think about it too hard. Just make the shot. Boom, boom, boom. Let's go. It's lit. Oh, no. Oh, this is such a tough shot.
    184:30
    There it is. War Machine multi-ball has begun. And she now needs to work on the whiplash target on the right side. She can also hit War Machine a couple more times to bring in more balls. Beneficially, she has the hurry-up, fast scoring running. Those are both coming back.
    184:48
    And no, it doesn't. Only the first one came back. That was really disappointing. And the monitor came out, too. This is very bad news for her situation because the Monger will block her opportunity just to get whiplash.
    185:04
    She needs three more shots to the Monger. Two more. This is pretty, wow, this is nail-biting time here. Oh, my goodness. Jen Peebler. Oh, get that. One more to go, and she's got it. She's got the Monger multiball. She still needs about 7 million here. Fast scoring has ended so she really needs here to finish this off, get Monger, get the Super Jackpot which would be worth 3 million by hitting this Monger 6 times and then hitting the center spinner behind it There's 4, 5, 6, and she has... Oh! Double drain! Oh, and that'll be the end. You can see Jen just so disappointed with the double grain. There's nothing she can do about that. That was an incredible play from a top player. Jen Peebler will fall just short of the top 24 from that performance on Ironman. We still have a few players continuing to play. The very last game actually is on Star Trek. So let's see if we can flip over to that Star Trek game right here. Wow, Jen Peebler giving us an incredible game to close us out here at California Extreme 2015 qualifying. And boy, what a kick that is to be so close. She had the super jackpot ready and that was a 3 million shot. That one shot could have been enough. It would have been very close at that point between her and the players who were in 24th. Meanwhile we have Jermaine Mariotte, looks like he's about to hold on for 24th. We do not have a tie. Andreas Pedersen and Brandon Sibich both squeezed out at the last and my goodness they were strong they were very strong. Jen Peebler with her play at Ironman at the very end improved but only still to 27th place and surprisingly Bob Matthews locked out of the finals along with even Sam Johan Genberg being Grover Kevin nickel at the Schneider some top names Kathy Gagno who was number one or number three sometimes on Friday is pretty far out Chris Keelig was a really strong player he's better than this we got one final game here still going on Star Trek Nice run, Bo. X.
    187:55
    Michael. Michael Tibbetts. Yeah, this is him. So Brandon and Michael Tibbetts. That's a different Tibbetts. Michael Tibbetts. Is that Tibbetts live?
    188:12
    Is his ticket live? Yeah. Or is his Tibbetts live? Tibbetts ticket live. Michael Michael Tibbetts was playing now on Star Trek. He'll get the final game here He doesn't have a chance to qualify for the top 24
    188:29
    Yeah, let's look at the casual standings Michael will qualify for the casual finals It's the third seed and he'll actually he could improve to the second seed by a strong play here So good vengeance multi ball. Wow an 83 million game in progress here for Michael as I think the ball is hung up on the pumper there in the upper right and there it is back in play So this is a great game
    188:58
    And so Michael and Brandon Tibbetts have been playing very strong throughout the day and play Brandon 26
    189:06
    And Michael clearly hanging 83 million on the start on a Star Trek is really solid here I haven't seen him play before so it would be interesting to see his style. Yeah, I can't play Ben, I'll be here. I'm gonna stay here
    189:36
    See you can bring my phone up to the second table Woah did you see that? Did you see that? He's only done two modes? Yeah, he's got vengeance shoring. It seems like he's playing for vengeance more than he is playing for modes. This one is an interesting mode here because you're going to get a lot of points for it if you make these as combos. It's very dangerous. Most players just blow that off. this is the man unwilling to avoid the brisk at the end of the night here. When are we starting up tomorrow? It's going to be 9 a.m. We will start with the first round of finals.
    190:38
    And we appreciate you joining us for this broadcast. Cal Extreme tomorrow. We'll see the top 24 playoff for big money. and all of the glory of the tournament. Thanks, Carl. We did it. Really good night out here. Great play. Amazing game we saw tonight. See you tomorrow. All right. Bye, everyone.