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SDTM Competitive Pinball: 2019 Cincinnati Strikes Tournament & Women's Tournament

Straight Down the Middle·video·11h 6m·analyzed·Nov 26, 2019
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TL;DR

SDTM covers 2019 Cincinnati Strikes Tournament with 64 players, movable camera rig, and live AC/DC gameplay.

Summary

Straight Down the Middle covers the 2019 Cincinnati Strikes Tournament, a three-strikes format competitive pinball event with 64 players. Hosts discuss the movable camera rig setup enabling multi-machine coverage, tournament format details, and provide live commentary on early group matches featuring strong players like John Del Zapo (top-30 IFPA player from Ohio) and Joe Ceravino (IFPA #1600). The event showcases AC/DC as the first machine, with detailed gameplay analysis and discussion of tournament culture and accessibility.

Key Claims

  • John Del Zapo is a top 30 player in the country and has a commanding lead for the IFPA state championship in Ohio with over 100 points across his best 20 tournaments.

    high confidence · Host commentary identifying Del Zapo's competitive standing and Ohio IFPA ranking

  • Joe Ceravino is IFPA ranked #1600 and is a photographer who has done work for Replay FX.

    high confidence · Host identification of mystery player as Joe Ceravino with his IFPA ranking confirmed

  • The tournament is using a progressive strikes format where you receive 0 strikes for first place, 1 for second, 2 for third, and 3 for last place, with elimination at 9 total strikes.

    high confidence · Detailed format explanation by hosts during pre-tournament coverage

  • 64 players registered with a waiting list for the Friday 3:00 PM tournament start.

    high confidence · Host statement about attendance; confirmed by second host and contextual remarks about IFPA Whopper points drawing participants

  • The venue features 19 games in tournament rotation.

    high confidence · Host statement that 19 games are in the bag tournament and were tested the night before

  • Eric Wartenberger designed and built a movable camera rig with multiple cameras and microphones on an aluminum frame.

    high confidence · Hosts describe the rig's construction and Eric's work perfecting it, noting it was previously used at Northern Kentucky Open

  • The Hobbit pinball game is problematic for tournaments because it plays very long and can take up to an hour for four skilled players.

    high confidence · Host opinion based on tournament experience discussing game selection constraints

Notable Quotes

  • “I have been waiting 362 days since the last time we did this.”

    Host (SDTM)@ 0:20 — Sets enthusiasm level for annual tournament and shows this is an established recurring event

  • “How many hobbies can you say that about? Not very many. You get to play with extremely talented players.”

    Host (discussing tournament accessibility)@ 9:46 — Captures the inclusive appeal of pinball tournaments where casual players compete alongside top-ranked players

  • “Don't think when you're playing in an event like this, you don't have a chance against every single person in your group. You absolutely do.”

    Host@ 9:58 — Emphasizes competitive spirit and accessibility; encourages newer/casual players

  • “If you offer me a trip to Hawaii right now, I wouldn't take it. This is exactly where I want to be.”

    Host@ 22:50 — Demonstrates passion and commitment to pinball community and tournament culture

  • “Trent Augustine is obviously amazing at the Stern games, at anything '90s and newer with the DMD. Sometimes those classic games can be a little bit of his Achilles heel.”

    Host@ 10:35 — Provides competitive meta-knowledge about player strengths/weaknesses across machine eras

Entities

Cincinnati Strikes Tournament 2019eventEric WartenbergerpersonJohn Del ZapopersonJoe CeravinopersonTommy SkinnerpersonJeff Wester CamppersonJoe EmbrypersonHaley MastersonpersonTrent AugustinepersonDaniel Robinsonperson

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    event_signal: Introduction of movable camera rig at Cincinnati tournament enabling multi-machine coverage without downtime breaks in streaming; represents production infrastructure upgrade from previous year

    high · Eric Wartenberger designed and built aluminum-frame rig with multiple cameras/mics; previously tested at Northern Kentucky Open; allows seamless switching between 19 tournament games without static camera constraints

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    community_signal: Strong attendance signal: 64 registered players with waiting list for Friday afternoon tournament; indicates robust participation despite unusual start time (3:00 PM weekday)

    high · Host noted worry about Friday 3:00 PM time slot but Eric reassured participants would attend; 64 players + waiting list confirmed on-stream

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: AC/DC tournament setup appears to have tighter ball save settings and specific nudge behaviors; 40-60 million point scores considered competitive; bell shot identified as high-risk center drain trap

    high · Hosts observe Tommy Skinner's 60M as strong lead, Joe Embry's 40M as second-place-worthy; discuss ball save restrictions; note double-nudge behavior and bell shot mechanics as dangerous

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    competitive_signal: Hosts identify player specialization patterns: ball-three specialists as strong closers (Daniel Robinson); era-specific strengths noted (Trent Augustine strong on modern DMD games, weaker on classic games)

    medium · Discussion of Trent Augustine's 1990s+ DMD dominance vs. classic game weakness; Daniel Robinson identified as ball-three specialist; implies competitive meta has evolved

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Transcript

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0:08
It's all starting. It's all happening. It's all starting. It's all happening. We should tell people that it's all happening. We should tell people. We should. So, you can't Welcome everybody. Yeah. I mean, I've been waiting all year for this. Heck yeah. I I have been waiting 362 days since the last time we did this. Has it been exactly 30? No, unfortunately. We shifted it by week this year, but it made for a good story. But the the Thanksgiving day kind of shifted, too. So, you know, maybe we maybe it's been maybe it has been through. Maybe it has. Hey, I see a KB Slasher in chat right now. Thank you guys so Thank you, Ross, for stopping in making it all lit like I was wanting you to. Man, it is lit up. Welcome to Cincinnati. Welcome to Cincinnati. This man right here is Justin Masterson. That's Scott Vith right there. Ve, huh? It's me. I've always said V in my head. Have you always said I've never had to say it out loud before. Oh, wow. Thank you, Scott Beef. That's so funny. It's funny. I've never had to say it out loud before. No, I'm Scott. I'm I'm either Scott or scooter to everybody, which is perfectly okay to me, especially in this neck of the woods in good old Cincinnati. That's right. Welcome to the tournament. Eric Wartenberger, our tournament director. Our one of our event directors is going to be our main tournament director for the uh for the events today. Uh you can see the camera rig right there on your screen. Not exactly hooked up to anything just yet. Not yet. But here's why. Because this year, yeah, we have gone above and beyond. And by we, I mean a lot of other people did a lot of hard work, including Eric. This is a movable camera rig. It is. And to give to give you an idea of of the effort he's put into this. He was even tweaking it 10 minutes ago from now. I know poor guy was he was a little on edge about it and I can understand that. You know, I'm I'm the same way about that. I want everything to go absolutely perfectly when stream starts, right? So if if if it's 10 minutes out and something's not quite right, it's like oh crap. For very good reason. You want it to be perfect just right along with you guys. I wish you could see the rig because it's got cameras just and microphones just all over it on this really cool aluminum frame. And I'll take a picture of it. We'll see if we can put on the screen at some point. But it is beautiful. Which means this this year we're not going to necessarily be stuck on one machine. For a for the whole stream, we're going to be able to move that rig around anywhere we want it to go. Absolutely. We've got 19 games, I believe, that are in the bag tournament right now. Yep. And they were testing them last night. They were everything was working great and we can move to any of them at any time. Absolutely. And we plan to do that. So we will not have any breaks in the action. We will have rounds going constantly for you at all times today and we are super excited about that. I love when I'm watching a pinball stream and I get to see a lot of action, but a lot of times there's downtime in there. There is. It's hard for there not to be. It's hard for there not to be because you're trying to move cameras or somebody's not playing in that moment and you end up tuning in and watching just nothing happen for 20 minutes. Agreed. We're going to avoid that at Cincinnati this year with this movable camera rig. Yeah, this is something Eric's been perfecting both at at his house, you know, for quite a while. Of course, if you guys were watching, you know, on this channel back um a few months ago for the Northern Kentucky Open, you got to see it there kind of in its normal setting, but you know, it's it's portable just like this. We can bring it wherever we need to and set it up however we need to. And they get to see you at the at the open as well. That's right. So, if you missed the open, you want to see Scott V at his best, uh tune in. Yeah. I it's on YouTube somewhere, right? I think you Please say it's on YouTube. That would be an Eric question and he's a little busy right now. So, we're not going to I know that Twitch saves all your previous broadcast somewhere, right? For a while. For a while. Yeah. For like a twoe period. I think longer if you're a a prime subscriber. Basically, if you're giving them money, they're like, "Yeah, we'll save a little." Yeah, that makes sense. Understandable type uh procedure on their part. So, Eric just pulled the trigger on this tournament, everybody. Uh I just heard the claps. That means he laid out the rules and uh said, "Let's get underway," which is a good opportunity for us to talk about the format of this tournament. That's right. I believe the format for this one is a three strikes tournament. It's a strikes tournament. Yeah. Straight up strikes. You know, nothing, you know. Oh, there's our camera rig moving. You're looking at Eric Whartenberger's face and feet right there. That's right. And now you're looking at his uh beard. His schmexy beard. If you can read lips, I assume he's not swearing. I don't know. No, I don't think he's swearing right now. Okay, give it time. Give it time. We'll try and keep it good on here in the meantime. We'll do our best. So, yeah. So, this is a strikes tournament. Yes. Um, and I've played in a number of different types of strikes tournaments. Some people play sort of knockout where it's like three strikes you're out. Sometimes they set the strikes higher and the number of strikes you gets depends on your place. Correct. On this one, uh, I don't remember what the format is. Uh, we can tell you right here. It is actually progressive strikes. Progressive strikes. Okay. Nine strikes. You get nine of them total. Uh the way it works, if you win your group, you don't get any strikes at all. Congratulations. You are looking good. If you come in second, you get one. If you come in third, you get two. And you come in last, you get three. Ouch. And you are in this thing until there are nine strikes off the board for you. So minimum number of games, you're playing three games, no matter what. You're playing three games. If you have just a bad run on all three of those games, then it's okay. You know, you are still, you know, Thank you.
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operational_signal: Tournament features mix of modern and classic machines (19 total) intentionally balanced across banks; hosts emphasize variety as designed feature requiring preparation across eras

high · Hosts discuss mix of modern (AC/DC) and classic (Grand Prix, Stars, Big Guns) games; note that game selection strategy includes difficulty tuning (removed rubbers, adjusted posts) to prevent overtime play

  • ?

    content_signal: Straight Down the Middle provides detailed play-by-play technical analysis of rules, shots, and strategy; hosts balance competitive depth with accessibility commentary encouraging casual player participation

    high · Extended commentary on AC/DC modes (War Machine, Thunder Struck, Jam Multiball), shot selection strategy (bell vs. ramps), ball save mechanics; simultaneously emphasizes that tournament is welcoming to non-experts

  • ?

    competitive_signal: John Del Zapo identified as top-30 IFPA player with 100+ point lead for Ohio state qualification; Joe Ceravino ranked IFPA #1600; tournament attracts mix of strong regional/national players and local enthusiasts

    high · Host provides Del Zapo's top-30 national ranking and dominant Ohio lead; Ceravino's #1600 ranking confirmed; commentary on competitive tiers implied by score gaps between players

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    product_concern: Hobbit identified as problematic for tournament play due to excessive game length (up to 1 hour for skilled players); suggests tournament operators actively manage machine selection to avoid time-intensive titles

    medium · Host states 'Hobbit...plays very long. Goes on forever. So you if you have four really good players playing Hobbit, you they could be playing for an hour'

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    community_signal: Hosts emphasize inclusive tournament culture: casual players can compete against top-ranked players; pinball skill randomness equalizes matchups; friendly competitive atmosphere prioritized

    high · Host notes winning one game against Trent Augustine despite not being ranked; emphasizes 'even the best players are going to have off games'; describes 'really friendly, fun experience' with handshakes and respect post-tournament

    • 5:19
    Yeah, I think we look good. Yeah. Now, how do you like that? That that's how long it took to set up that camera. It took about 10 seconds of moving that thing. Yeah. Everything the play field's in the perfect place. Nap Arcade in the house, man. Good to see you. Glad you are here. What's going on? Nap Arcade. Nap Arcade. One of our one of my level one regulars here. And follow him on Facebook, too. He posts a lot of stuff on Facebook about arcades, new new places, both in his neck of the woods in the Northeast. But also across the entire country. So if you want to know what's happening kind of in the barcade scene and and new venue scene all over, it's a great place to do. I'm going to start following NAP Arcade right this very second. You should. While we're doing that, we're going to pull this up right here and we can tell you all the players that are in this group. You might have a rooting interest in this one, by the way. I think we should show you that. Yeah. Tommy Skinner, Joe Embry, Jeff Roster Campam, and the wonderful Haley Masterson. So, here's the downside is that Haley uh had a surprise guest in town this weekend and couldn't make this tournament. She's going to play, I think, later tonight, the women's tournament. So, they're subbing somebody else in for my lovely wife, Haley. Okay. And I don't know who that somebody is yet. We're going to find that out on the fly. We'll find out. Yeah. Yeah. But I do have an interest in this either way because I also really like Jeff Wester Camp as a human being. Jeff Cam's a good dude. He's just a good dude. As I'm sure Joe and Tommy are as well. Yeah. I just don't know Tommy and Joe as well as I do Jeff and Haley and whoever you know the mystery player for Haley turns out to be. That's right. Yeah. I believe I saw the number, by the way, as uh 64 players. 64 players and a waiting list this year. So, that's great. I was a little bit uh shocked when I found out we were going to do a a Friday 3:00 tournament. I was worried we would have a hard time getting people to show up. Eric reassured me. Don't worry, people will take off of work if they have to. And sure enough, I walked in the door, there's 64 players and a line and a waiting line hoping to get in. Yes. Um, when you offer up the kind of Whopper points that we're able to offer up to everyone here, there's no doubt people will come for this thing. And I'm not surprised in any way, shape, or form that they're here for all the action. I think that's I mean, for second year out, it's pretty wild. Yeah. Okay. By the way, we fix we fixed it. So, we have side tone now. Eric Eric is He even sets up the rig. What doesn't this guy do? He was giving us set up the rig. He's making sure we're good on the mixer. Giving us a little uh If I'm coming in too hot, folks, let us know. Yes, definitely. Please do. Yeah, you're I think you're coming in pretty good. I'm looking at the volume levels. Peek behind the curtain. Looking at the game sound. Everything looks good to me. So, uh, and we can always adjust it over here as well, in case we find that things are not to our liking. So, if if you're watching, uh, this AC/DC machine and you're wondering, why are we showing random people? That's actually the player cam. We just don't have a player up yet. Yes. Because I was sitting there thinking, why are we showing random people? And then I realized, oh, nobody's playing yet. That's right. I imagine they will be over to play in just a moment, though. Everybody's getting We can see familiar faces. I can tell you that much. I see uh someone who I would consider a potential prohibitive favorite on this machine over on the right side. That would be John Del Zapo. Oh. Um he drove down all the way from Cleveland for this. Decided to make this his uh tournament. And I'm to give you an idea of the kind of dominance he has in the Cleveland area. Yeah. You know, I believe he's a top 30 player in the country as it stands right now. and he has a commanding lead right now for the IFPA state championship in Ohio for qualification purposes. Really, I mean, I don't see any way that he does not end up as the number one player in the state of Ohio going into the tournament. He would have to stop playing tournaments right now. He still probably have a huge lead cuz I believe his lead is over a 100 whopper points. 400 just across his best 20 tournaments in the state of Ohio. That's incred. So needless to say, you know, when it comes to all the events. Yeah. Jay Dell's the the the Juandel Zappa as I see him mentioned on Facebook sometimes. I mean, so this is what gets really exciting for players like me. Um, so I'm I'm, you know, not a top ranked pinball player. I'm just a guy who loves playing pinball. And so I get to get into a tournament with somebody like John Delapo in a place like Cincinnati or Louisville or Michigan, any of the great shows. Yeah. And you get to play with some of the best in the world. You do. Just straight out of the gate. And how many hobbies can you say that about? Not very many. Isn't it amazing? Yeah. You get to play with extremely talented players. You get to and and you have, you know, don't think when you're playing in an event like this, you don't have a chance against every single person in your group. You absolutely do. You know, pinball is is a game where even the best players are going to have off games. They might know the rules a little better. their ball control might be a little better, but sometimes all it takes is one bad bounce and you drain out and that's that. I mean, so here's proof positive. Last year, our A division tournament winner, Trent Augustine, yes, I managed to win one game of Argusy against Trent Augustine. In what universe does that happen? Well, it's physics and randomness. And every once in a while, Trent Augustine is going to have a bad ball. He is. And and I will tell you a little secret about Trent. He is obviously amazing at the Stern games, at anything '90s and newer with the DMD. Sometimes those classic games can be a little bit of his Achilles heel. Oh, that's good to know. So, if you're going to take him on something like a match play with him, okay, yeah, you want to take them on in the classic games, it's it's a bit of an equalizer for him. Speaking of which, I think it's uh it's worth noting that the the games that we have are a really nice mix of eras. It's an amazing mix. this. One of the things I love about the Cincinnati tournaments and about this show in general, even over shows that might be bigger, you know, batter, what, however you want to phrase it, y is this show has that amazing mix of modern machines and classic machines. Eric always makes sure there's a perfect mix of those machines across all of the banks for the events and today is no exception. You could be just as likely to have a brand new machine, something new like AC/DC, or you could be playing Grand Prix in the next round. You have to be prepared for everything in front of you as we get this rolling. And it looks like Tommy is about to get this started here for us. We're off to the races with Tommy Skinner. He's starting looks like Thunder Struck mode on AC/DC. He is. Now, there's a lot of different ways to approach AC/DC. Uh it's a it's a deep game. It's a game with a really rich rule set. Uh, but a lot starts with the song that you choose. And, uh, I tend to be a War Machine guy. I usually start straight up on War Machine, which is an orbits shot. He went for Thunder Struck, which is a roving, um, shot. So, let's see if he can get it. So, you'll see the Thunder Struck targets. Mhm. Uh, switching as he's playing. So, it'll it'll go for a period of time and then move to another shot. And when he makes the shot, that will cause it to switch as well. It's not going to stay in a static place for any major amount of time. So, you know, advantage here. If you feel like everything on the board is reachable or you just want to kind of play a variety style game, this is a good mode to start out with. You know, you can get a feel for everything. And he's really off to a nice starter. Fiveway combo to get this thing rolling. How do you like that? So, starting the multiballs in this game is a lot of it is in the ramps. Yes. And if you get good at shooting those ramps, especially if you can combo those ramps, you can start a multiball right off the bat. And it looks like that's exactly what he did on this jam multi. Great start for him here on Jam.
    12:57
    So, I mean, nice early 4 million here. I missed it when I was checking something. Did he go for the jackpot on here as well or did he uh I also turned my head. I don't know. What kind of commentator are we really? That's what we get for looking at the computer screen. That's what we get. Yeah, he's already up to 6 million right here without a lot of work to do it. Just solid ramp shots, you know, precision more than anything right here. This is the kind of pinball I would like to be able to play, which is where you're not taking all kinds of hack shots and trying to recover, right? If you can pull off those combos right off the bat, just ramp ramp ramp ramp ramp, you're you're starting right into a multiball. Did very in tournament play, that did double. We're going to have to keep an eye on that. That was a pretty tight Oh, look at that. Bob right there as well. So, something to keep an eye on as the day goes on with this machine if it proves to be that way for everybody. Y you know what kind of nudges create it. Didn't look like he had a very tough nudge right there, but he got a double out of that. So, something to keep in mind as the day goes on. So, Joe Embry stepping up here. If you've never played in a tournament, and I hope you do, uh, those who are watching, I'll encourage you that um, it is insanely fun. You might get a little nervous for it, but you don't have to be an expert at pinball to play in a pinball tournament. You don't you don't need to know the rules on the machines before you get to the pinball tournament. It's It's helpful, but you don't need to. Yes. And everybody is rooting for you along with you. So, if you have any fear that it's, you know, intensely competitive, you'll see people angry at their own play, but I don't see people um getting rough with each other or anything like that, it's generally a really really friendly, fun experience. Yeah. I I I I phrase it as the kind of, you know, kind of how I like to view my own competitive experiences sometimes as he goes for hell in a bad place to be. Yep. Um, you know, I want to be super competitive when I'm playing, but at the end of it, I want to be able to shake everybody's hand and say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yep. And I think that's how a lot of people think, oh, is he going to get tough start for Jeff Western Camp? That was a rough drain. That was a rough. So, let's see if we know who our mystery player four is here. We don't off hand. I don't know this particular player. I don't know him by sight, but I'll see what I can find out. Yeah, we'll see if we can get that information for you before the end of the game here. Actually, I'm going to go find out because Oh, hey, here we go. Oh, it refresh. This would be our friend from Pittsburgh, Joe Sarave. Joe Ceravino. He is actually 1600 or so on IFPA. Yeah. So, very good player and actually a very accomplished. I think he does photography. Had to see a lot of his photography work. Oh, very cool. From Replay FX. So, definitely uh glad that he was able to make it. I actually saw on Facebook he was excited he'd be coming down to the show and I was Yeah, that's wonderful. Happy he was. So, good for him. He is able to uh I assume grabb up one of those weightless spots and uh get in the event. Yeah, a tough break for him on that. Yeah, I'm glad. So, I was bummed Haley couldn't make it. I'm glad Joe's with us. I am very glad Joe's here and glad we get to feature him on our very first string game of the day. So, you mentioned the the double danger earlier. Yes. Traditionally, uh in tournaments, I've noticed that we tend to see tighter tilts. Agreed. And tighter setups of the game. So, um people because you don't want a tournament to go on forever. Yes. You tend to see people do things like remove rubbers, move in post, things like that to make the game harder. and specific game selection because of that too. Yep. Yep. Are there games that um that don't make for good tournament games that you've played? Um Hobbit. Yeah. Strictly from the length of the game. It plays very long. Goes on forever. So you if you have four really good players playing Hobbit, you they could be playing for an hour. Yep. And you certainly don't want that. Wow, that was a really tight. That was really tight. So, so Tommy's back to his ramps now and he's picked up jam multiball already on ball one and we'll see what he's going to do here. It looks like he's shooting the orbits. Yep. So, he's in war machine mode. War machine mode is basically uh it's a twoshot deal in so much as you want to hit the the spinner on the left orbit first uh which will continue to grow in value as you play the mode. And you want to hit immediately after there's a second shot um that you can hit for big points. And he managed to hit both which started uh it actually started another ball in the cannon for
    17:25
    him. And that's what we were just seeing was the cannon shot. Yes. Nice and lucrative up to 25 million here. So that's a very good start. And he's got Alba multiball lit again. Look at that. that spinner up to 40k every time he spins it now. So, as I said in War Machine, that spinner grows more and more valuable and 40k ain't bad. Um, and it would be I've seen it grow grow grow to where War Machine is by far the most lucrative mode in the game if you can if you can continue to hit it. Yes, you see it did drop a little bit right there. Only only two when I say that relatively there. And now he can put it together with another multiball. He started his album multiball. So it starts with a cannon and it he did not opt to take the shot right there. I I would imagine the play right here is you want to go for the bell because you hit that bell enough times you can activate your 2x play field. Y everything you do in a mode extends the amount of points you get for it. Add a 2x multiplier. Especially in the position he's in right now. You know, he's playing for the for the dagger right now. wants to put this score well out of reach. Yeah. To make sure he doesn't get a strike and he's got a big lead now, so why not play for it? Exactly. And he he used that cannon shot to his advantage there. A lot of folks, you know, you automatically want to shoot for the targets. That's what's on the on the screen for you. But to use that shot to hit the bell is fantastic because it's it's already starting a multiball. You're not going to lose your ball if you miss that shot. And the bell shot is a really dangerous shot. It is. So, if you can start a 2x going into multi without the danger of losing your shop just by firing it out of that cannon, why not? He absolutely should do it. Yeah, having the the luxury of the the stern ball save is very much in your in in your favor there. And he's played it well. 39 million here and jam is
    19:16
    reit straight from one to another. Oh, he's going back to jam. Oh, and the drain on the left side. Nonetheless, really great ball. Let's see where he ends up.
    19:27
    674. Yeah, he's going to be up to about 44 million. Great job for him. So, Tommy Skinner opened up a big lead there. Let's see what Joe Embryy's going to say about it. Joe's starting this ball in second place in the group.
    19:46
    Starting jam multiball is a very double. So, yeah, that's tough. It looked like that was an upwards nudge. you know, generally we seem to see those are a little bit more brutal on the machine anyways. Y um it looks like that could be extra the case today. So, starting jam multiball is a pretty traditional way to start, but it's easier said than done in that you have to come right out of the gate and start shooting ramps and combos. And unless you know this machine well, and I literally mean this machine, not just any AC/DC, that's it's not as easy as as I think Tommy Skinner made it look. Agreed. Jeff Wester Camp is up. He's going to take the cannon shot now. He probably is going to shoot right at that target. He's not ready to start a multi. He's not going to take the uh multiplier yet. He shoots the bell and it would Broadway on him. Yeah, that is why you don't shoot the bell unless you got a safe shot because it that's what it's built to do. The bell in the center will swing back and then straight forward and hit that ball right down the middle. And it's it's almost unfortunately penalizing you for hitting the shot. It really is. It really is. If you hit it straight on. Yeah. You hit it straight on. The bell takes all the momentum off and then puts all the momentum right back on the ball going down center. Yep. And we haven't seen anybody be able to nudge their way out of that yet. Hopefully we will. We'll see. I think if if they do that, they're going to have to nudge it very early, make movement on it very, very early. Yep. Oh, it's another rough one. So, right combined. Yeah, Tommy Tommy is back up. He's got them all combined beat at 44 million. So, this ball, you know, with any good luck, he's going to keep open up his gap a little bit wider, create some more running room. Being in in the number one slot is a tough place to start, especially when you're starting a pinball tournament. So to to have a gap like this to open up creates a lot of comfort. There he goes starting his third multiball. His next one. Now let's see if he takes the bell shot. He does. He takes the bell shot. Now you see at the bottom of the screen you can see that he's got his uh ball save running which is a great time to take that shot. Oh right there. There it is with our wondrous tele. And when see how he's going to keep trying for those center shots. He's going to keep trying for that bell. He's going to keep trying for those TNT targets because he's got his ball safe going. As long as it's safe, why not go for the multiplier? Agreed. Now, in this case, it didn't didn't quite help as much as you'd hoped because the ball save dropped off right before he drained his ball. And it looks like that even that ball save in multiball is set for a pretty strict setting. So, yeah, you don't get a lot of wiggle on that. You really don't. It'll be interesting when we get to uh to look at some of the older games like Stars or even Big Guns where there is no or very short ball save. Uh that would be where the girlfriend is right now. Oh wow. I went to Cincinnati. She went to Florida. I think you made the better choice. Well, she made a good choice though. Pelicans aside, pelicans aside, Pelicans are cool. There is I will say um Oh, that's so fun. Yes. Back to pinball. If you offered me a trip right now to Hawaii, I wouldn't take it. This is exactly where I want to be. I appreciate that. High praise to say. I've been looking forward to it for a long time. So Tommy is done, but he is done with 60 million points. Offer me a trip Monday. I'd take that for sure. Right. Yeah. I got a lot of work to do on Monday. I don't want to be back at work. I'd rather go to Hawaii. No doubt. Yeah. Let's go to Hawaii. Exactly. All right. So Joe is back up. He's trying to make a move on Tommy Skinner. It's going to be tough. Uh but not undoable. But Tommy really does have quite a lead here. And for these other three players, Joe, Jeff, and Joe, the key too is, I mean, you want to be second place. You might lose by 55 million points, but as long as you're in second place, you're only taking one strike at this point in this format. That's not bad. No, they're fighting out for second. And actually, Joe's score is not bad considering what the other two balls did, right? So, we'll see how this comes out. Jeff right now is starting here in fourth place. Needs about 4.5 million to get to second. And you know, we know he's got a heck of a of a wall to climb to get to Tommy. It is not impossible, though. And the skill shot is a great place to start that. Some people are ball three players. I can't tell you how many times I've lost to somebody when I had a commanding lead who just is awesome at ball three. No doubt about it. Daniel Robinson's one of those. If you see him playing uh on the stream today, he's one of those ball three players. That's a rough one for Jeff. So Jeff's got uh third place. Third place at best. No, fourth place now. Yeah, he is locked into fourth, which means Tommy can do no worse than second. And now it's whether how far up the ladder can Joe take this. Um he's starting a 37. It's about 2 mil. Nice save right there. Save. So he's going to try and hit his ramps to start a multi. I'm guessing he's doing dangerous choice on that bell. Kept it alive. Good job. Yeah, he did. 5.6 about a million away. Now you can see a little nudging there. I thought we'd see a danger, but he's nudging smart. He is nudging smart. Lot of side by a lot of side to side nudging there, which seems to be the more the safer way to do it. And he's got super lanes. The song jackpot would do it. Yeah, good play. Go for it. Get your second place. And now you're really playing with house money. You got a long way to go. Oh, that was nicely done. How bad do you just want to see a 60 million point run right here? just to see it happen. Nothing against our man Tommy, but I want to see him have to have to shake a little bit on that last on that one strike. He's got jam qualified and he gets the start of jam multiball. So, let's see what his strategy on the on the cannon is here. I'm guessing he's going to try and take the bell and he does. Falls a little short of that bell, but he's in multiball. He's got a ball save and he might try and pick up that uh multiplier now by shooting the center. Yes. Again, as long as you've got a ball save going, that's the shot to take because it's a dangerous shot and you wouldn't take it otherwise. Agreed. Oh, look at that tough drain, but ball save still running. It is. He'll get that back. There it is. Actually, two balls back. Yep. Did he get an addabal when we weren't paying attention? That's He may He may have snuck an addabal in there. At a boy, which Yeah. Add a ball. Add a boy. Those are so helpful. Especially, you know, we see it a lot of times on like Iron Man in Jurassic Park now, too. Yeah. just not only the fact you get that extra ball in play, but you get your ball saver back. So immediately if you want to take some chances, you can do it, you know, without fear. Yeah. And on on many games, um if not most, when you start an add ball, even if you've already drained two and you get an add ball, you can get all four back. Yeah. I mean, I've seen, you know, very good players who have a good understanding of the rules just do a ridiculous job of timing that add ball so perfectly. Oh, super lane subs. He's running up to 30. He's on a great run. He's at 30 and he's going to try and uh he's going to try and make a run, I'm guessing, at Alba multiball here. Nice job him getting a couple. Oh, he won't get there. But a sensational ball number three for Joe. That's going to get him second place. He's only going to take the one strike. Doubled the bonus as well. So, he got about 2/ird of the way there. 40 million. I have a feeling a lot of rounds in this tournament is going to get you a win. Yeah. Based on how this machine's playing. Yeah. 40 million is not a bad score on tournament for AC. So, not only we talked about how the games are set up harder, but the the experience of the tournament is, I think, very different than playing, let's say, in your basement or even at the same arcade, not during a tournament. It is um the fact you have to play against you know even though you're not it's always technically you against the machine but it's it's almost human nature that you think about everybody else's score. You think about what you got to get to. You start playing in your head. What do I have to do to get there? Especially in a case of that game where Tommy puts up such a good player one score. Player two, three, and four then have that to look forward to. They have to think about that. It's very intimidating when somebody gets up there on ball one and puts up 30 million. And it does mess with you even though it's technically sort of it's like bowling. It's technically a solo game, right? There's nobody interfering. But man, when you're playing against somebody, it changes the feel. That is absolutely correct. And it takes a little bit of time to get used to not having that affect you or just realizing that, hey, it's okay. You know, I'm going to score what I score here and not to uh not to freak out about it too terribly. And I haven't gotten to that point yet. I don't know about you, but when I get when I start a tournament, I still get really nervous. Yeah. And I don't I don't know if that ever goes all the way. I don't If it does, you almost become a little worried about yourself. Like maybe it maybe I should be feeling more nervous about it. It's like I'm too comfortable. You know, I listened to uh the pinball players podcast this weekend and um number one IFPA player in the world, Raymond Davidson was on. Thank you, Darren. Oh, this is great. I love it. This is a little pinball pin that says, "Let's start some on a start button." I love it. Oh, can I say that on the stream? Maybe I can't. I'm I'm going to allow it. I think it's okay. Hold on. How close can I get on this one? What the pin says. Do you need me to explain the rules? Which more often than not, I probably should not be the person explaining the rules, which makes it that much funnier. That's right. And means I absolutely should be wearing this button the rest of the day. Shall I look into the Let me see what the next round's got. We can stay on AC/DC or we can move uh to another machine. Let's take a look at our standings right here. Oh, that looks good. I like it. So, we can tell you a lot of the rounds have already finished up here. Um, and you can see that list of players who have come out of this round already without any strikes. Nathan Shields, Bill Wahurn, there's our Tommy. Yep. Uh, Kyle Cody, Willie Jason, uh, John Delappa, not a big surprise there. Dale Nun, Chad Hobbs, Ken Gunther, Jane Verwis, she's visiting from Chicago, I believe. Very nice. Um, Nick Delanti, Stewart Niswalker, and Mark Smith. All without any strikes so far. That's your list of players right now. So I would imagine in the very near future we should be seeing round number two kick off because Yep. we had 16 matches and they are all completed. So I would imagine he's going to be hitting that big red button any moment to make the next round happen. I am surprised. I honestly am surprised to see Adam Robinson with three strikes already. If you don't know Adam, he came in from New York City for this. He did. He did originally from Louisville. Originally from Louisville. Yeah. And he is a I'm going to say top 100 player, top 200. I don't know if he's that high ranked, but he's that good of a player. He's really good. And I'm surprised to see him with three strikes straight out of the gate. But as you said, it happens. It absolutely happens. You see good players. Let's go back to that standings list real quick here. Look at Wayne Rouse, Bo Pendleton, who we just saw, Jeff Campam, Larry Scott, you know, people that we know both locally, but also Tim Saxon with two strikes. Tim Sexon's pretty dang good player, right? Yeah. So, James Scott with two strikes. You know, those are players that came in third in their group who we know from, you know, our own experience are damn good at pinball. Y, but all it takes is one, you know, one bad game. But the advantage of this is now even for all of these players with two strikes, they know that even if they have a bad day coming up, they're guaranteed to at least play a fourth game. That's right. You know, if they go three strikes, three strikes the next two rounds, then they are still going to be a-ok. Okay. Um, and moving on. Uh, the button has been hit. All right. So, the question now is, um, what machine are we going to move to? Yeah. Let's see what we got. Um, let's see if we can find if we flip over to the round. Can we see the um the tournament screen? Yes. Um, if not, I'll just I'll just look around the corner. Yeah, we can do standings here. There you go. Does he have the standings up right there? Nope. He's got us up over there. Okay. We We like that. That's all right. I can look it up on Game in Progress on Look it up on Game in Progress. I'm trying to see if we can figure out where we're headed to. See if we can get a different machine in. You bet. I may in fact even grab Eric real quick and see if we're going to move it. So that way we can show you what game we have cuz yeah, we do have another game on AC/DC if they so choose. But we may also want to mix it up and do something a little different. I think we had a kid come over and start a game of AC. I think he did. I was wondering who that was. Uh 64 people. Sometimes it's hard to to do your your person management, shall we say? Yep. And and make sure. But that's why we have tournament directors. We have people kind of, you know, acting as security. That's right. To make sure that the tournament space is as safe and easygoing as as possible and as as good an environment for the players as it possibly can be. Oh, here comes Aaron. So here's our matches now. So, we've got Oh, he's gonna move for us. Let's see where he's going. He's moving. All right. In this round, we've got Jungle Queen, Argusy, World Championship Soccer, Genesis, Big Game, Grand Prix, Sweethearts, Sweethearts. That's a new one. We moved over one. Is that Grand? We moved to Grand Prix. I think that's Grand Prix. Oh, that's exciting. Medieval Madness: Iron Man. No, it's Jungle Queen. Oh, I love this game. It is Jungle Queen. I think we have that on our on this farm. There we go. Yeah. I love this game. So, this one comes, I believe, right out of Eric's basement. It does. The reason we know that is because we have to show the match up. Yep. Yep. Nice. So, actually, you're right. Instead of me naming the games, we can show the matchups and you'll be able to see who's playing what. And here it is. Sweethearts 1963 gobble gray game. There you go. While we're waiting for them to get started here, I think they're just getting everything rolling. Um, let's go back to the topic we had a minute ago because I'm I'm looking in chat about that right now. Games that should not be in tournaments whatsoever for whatever reason. I see two names brought up. Lord of the Rings being won. Y and I assume he's thinking the original Stern Lord Lord of the Rings. That would be my guess. Not the Jersey Jack. And then Black Knight Sword of Rage. Now the the pro I think is okay. Um, as Jason Kelly looks like he's about ready to get this thing rolling here. The premium on Swords of Rage, that's that's got that upper play field where you can just loop it forever. Drop that. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Um, yeah, and that's what I think is really brought into play as Jason begins his plunge right here. Um, the Chicago tournament, I believe about a month, a little over a month ago, you know, we saw basically, you know, the kid the teenager show, you know, between like Alec, Alexander, um, Kamarek, uh, Escher Leoff and those guys. They blew that machine up for a billion points. That's amazing. And oh, drain. It was what? Three of the top four were under 15 or something or under 18. It was crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. Colin Urban I think was in that group as well. But just here comes Mark Smith USA. Out of our mind level skill. Not only uh Mark Smith USA a player today, but he's also a sponsor of the tournament. So if you see uh if you see him, give him a high five. Yeah, he was very kind to sponsor uh the Cincinnati tournament. Very much appreciate it. He's uh he does realy and he said this is a great way to support the hobby. Yes.
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    Oh, see that's that's the exact same shot and that's dangerous. Yep. Big one on this one. Get anything for the 5,000 point shots here. ABC for double bonus up top. Your your center drops. Uh B can only be collected up top. Uh center lane center center lane top saucers are always worth 5,000. So, yep. So, the B is the one you want on this one because again, the only way you can get it is up top. Yes. And it's harder to get up there than you think. That was a rough ball and we're watching how right now Willie Allen, another great player. And again, just a reminder that great players sometimes have a bad have a bad ball. And as Rash reminds me also because it's Jungle Queen. Oh, yeah. And because it's Jungle Queen. Yeah. Uh, if you guys do the uh Windows projector screen. I think you can do the Oh, did you have the cool Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So, um, if it's me playing this, the goal for me is always to get those lanes up top collected for double bonus first because I don't I don't tend to survive the drops very well. Yes. So, I I tend to go for the corners. The other reason that I tend to do that is because you've got the the two saucers up on the upper left and right are 5,000 points every time you hit them. Correct. And so when I'm when I'm trying to work my way back up, that's what I go for. The trouble is, as you can see, uh the lane separators up top take up most of the upper lane. So it's really hard to get your ball back up there after the plunge. Agreed. You you kind of have to go off a corner of a bumper and between those lane separators.
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    Nice stop there. So, we're back to Jason Kelly. Give me right over the top there. Such a bummer. So, um I was also surprised to see Jesse Baker's ball go so quickly. But this is what I love about EM is that EM are sort of an almighty leveler. Right. Whether you know the rules or not, whether you've played it a million times or not, an EM will surprise you. And I love seeing them in tournaments, we're going to we're going to switch a lot, I think, between them. Rough one for Mark Smith. Pretty dang close to a house ball right there for Mark. Yep. We're going to switch between the EM, the solid states, and the newer machines, some of the DMDs, and even um I don't think we have any LCD screen machines in here. I think DMDs are the the newest we got. Look at that. These outlanes are just killing it. Even for Willie. I mean, I mean, Willy's just had two of those back to back. Wow. That's rough. So, here's Jesse sitting about 8,000 points right now. Got 8,000. Jason's ahead at 23. There you go. Got the B shot. We needed that. Back up through those bumpers. You'll see him. So, it might seem a little counterintuitive to nudge when you're up in the bumpers on a tournament because you're thinking, what's what's the the gain here? But on this game, those lanes are so important that it's worth trying to nudge to stay in him. It is. That was a good ball for him. Up to 26,000 immediately just like that. Couple good nudges, couple good shots. Yep. And there he is in first place going into ball number three, which I believe is set to five ball. Correct. Yes. Yeah, the EM are set to five. And there Jason gets his B lane right there. But again, goes right down Broadway. And I will say one thing that may surprise uh viewers on this one is if somebody gets an extra ball, you actually do play it on this machine. The the way the rules are set uh the Eric set the rules that you are playing extra balls on Jungle Queen. So don't be surprised if you see it
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    just got that saucer. Yeah. Wouldn't that have been nice? There it is. There it is. That's 5,000 right then. That's 5,000 right there. Oh boy, that was close. Just missed the other 5,000 there. That was close. Come on, pick it up. Oh, keeps it in play. Doesn't look like he's utilizing those that extra set of flippers just yet. Y, that's also something that can be very intimidating if you've never seen a machine like that or not used to a machine like that. Yeah. And you see it a heck of a lot more in the classic format. you know that two sets of flippers on each side as opposed to what you might see in a modern game which would be like one side flipper or something upper field flipper a side ramp y instead. I I actually love these when you see two sets of flippers especially when they're clearly oriented towards something that's otherwise very difficult to get to. So much riskreward in those type shots as well like that right there. Yeah, that was risk and reward. make the shot he's looking for, which I assume is that 5,000 point shot over on the side. It's worth it every single time. The risk, you're going to get a bad bounce. It's going to go down the center. And there's a lot of center for this to go down. Yep. So Jesse's starting out at 25 26. So he is more or less tied with Jason Kelly. Yes. Um Jesse is at what 130 rank or something. He's 153. Yeah. So he's he's a darn good player. He gets a lot of experience. And Jesse is also uh the owner of the Arcade Legacy set of arcades and bars here in town. Um so he gets to play a lot of pinball and he hosts a lot of pinball. He's been really great for bringing pinball to people who wouldn't normally play. Looks like he is exactly 32,000 points on the dot. There it is going into ball four. So he didn't have to do much to maintain his lead right there, but Jason certainly lowered the gap tremendously. Get one of those 5,000 point shots and it was worth the ball very much so. So let's see what Jason can do here. here. He's going to try and nudge to keep it in B. Good job, Jason. I don't think we've seen anybody complete ABC. So, I'd love to see that. You can see A is now lit on the in lane. Uh so, if he can get it over there, that is well worth the 5,000 point reward or the sorry, the bonus doubler. That's the tough shot right there. Boy, that wants to go right down the middle. There it is. There you go. He might be trying to get it back up to that saucer. Yeah, cuz he's taken some he's taken some kind of wild angles on the left and right of that bumper. The other thing we want to keep in mind is where his bonus is at right now. He just upped it to 8,000 rough rough drain. But so he will be at 45,000 points. That bonus could become very very lucrative. That it can make the difference. I mean that can make the difference. So here's Mark sitting at about 26,000 it looks like based on his score. Oh, that thing's just tantalizingly going around. He does get the B ramp.
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    Nice shot right there for 5,000. Yep. Uh-oh. That's that d that's the danger of that one is that if you shoot from one of those tiny upper flippers, it's really easy to loft it right to the ne to the opposite out lane. Yes, it's a really easy little drain and it's ugly when it happens. There's the shot that's most likely to get you up to the top. Did not work, but it does look like he cashed in another 5,000 on the way. He's up to 42. 42 ain't bad. So, he's suddenly in second place right here going into his final ball coming up. And remember, you see all these players, none of them have any strikes. They were all winners of their first games. Yeah. And the way that the um seating works for this tournament, the uh the Swiss format, is you're constantly going to see that as the day goes on, you're going to see players with very similar strikes playing each other. So advantage if you play well, you know, you're going to be playing against very, very good competition, people who also have a very hot hand as well. Willie, unfortunately, that time not so much. That was rough. I mean, if you're not, it gives you an opportunity. you know, maybe a little bit,
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    you know, with a couple of wins. It doesn't take much strike format, a couple of wins, rounds where you don't end up with a strike and you can you can move up significantly in the standings. Yeah. And it's it is sort of a gift that way that as you get a strike or two, it puts you against players who also have them. And that's I found my way back up the ladder that way. Yeah. Nice save, by the way, for Jesse. Yeah. Very nice. He just did think he hit the five there.
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    So he's going he's going off the lower flippers for those drop targets. And um that's those are the ones that'll send it right down the middle. So you really have to be confident if you can. You want to go to the those little upper flippers for the drop targets cuz those are more of a straight shot that'll produce a back and forth and stay away from the center drain. Agreed. There you go. He cleared 5,000 on that side. Nice that. Nice job. Now let's see if he can keep it alive to finish the other side. Definitely the longest amount of ball possession that we've seen in any of the rounds of Jungle Queen so far. Good ball control is one of his strengths. It's going to be the strength of anybody who you see that has a ranking like he has in IFPA. Yeah, he recovers well. He traps well. And his his aim is really good. He's a sharpshooter. Uh sometimes you'll see him duck way down and put his Whoa, look at that Lazarus. You see the relief on that face right there. That's just utter joy. That is I don't want to say blind faith in the machine cuz he obviously knew where it was going to hit, but that's a lot of faith in the machine. That was a lot of faith to not nudge, do anything rash. I guarantee I would have nudged that. Oh, I would have been hitting flippers like a crazy person. Rough outlane drain. And he's got a great bonus here up to 67,000. So about a 22,000 point link going into ball number five. Great ball right there for Jesse. Could be enough to prove to be the win. We're going to find out right now. I mean, I think the gauntlet's been thrown and let's see if uh if Jason can can clean it up here. I mean, he he had a what? A starting ball of 23, right? So, he could have an ending ball of 23. Gets the 5,000 drop catch there, right?
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    Uh-oh. Again, everybody's Everybody's shooting off those lower. This bonus is doubled, by the way. So, everything he gets if he builds that bonus. Oh, that's It might have been a tilt there. Oh, it was a tilt. Wow. Yep. That's That's got to be significant. Going to cost them about 8,000 points on the bonus. So, I think this might be one on ball five where they give you a double bonus. A lot of the older EM will do that. You just go straight in with a double bonus. So, that that is a not the time you want to tilt like that. That's got to be disappointing for Jason. Although, he's going to catch a is he going to catch the breaking? Short time for Mark Smith. Saves him. Yeah. Mark Smith 57 gets that bonus that again it's that double bonus that put him over, right? It is. Yeah. So Mark Smith pulls into uh currently second place, but Willie Allen could upset it all right here. Willie needs about 28,000 on this ball just to get out of the seller. Yep, it's a doable, especially with that double bonus. Nice job putting on the right flipper.
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    That's why you can't take that shot, but it's it's so tempting. You see those drop targets there? You got the ball coming to your right flipper. So tempting to shoot him left. Yes, Evan made a good point about Jesse as well. He just came off winning our uh seasonal tournament up at level one on Monday night. And that is not the way to do it, but he didn't have to play that one out. Y 72,000. So he's going to go into round three with zero strikes. Good for him. Way to go on that. So So Jesse Baker walks away with number one, Mark Smith number two, Jason Kelly number three, and Willie Allen, unfortunately for him, coming in fourth with picking up three strikes. That is correct. Let's take a look at the matches right now. Uh see if anything else has finished up. Uh we can tell you Genesis has finished. John Delapo gets the win in that. Boy, that's a tough group. John, Chad, Cody, and Nathan right there. That's a tough draw for all four of them. Uh looks like in stars, Wayne Rouse takes the win in that. Uh Joe Embry comes back and gets a win in Iron Maiden in Big Game. It's going to Todd Dennis. Uh firepower goes to Kit Burke. So, great job by her, you know, to take the win on that machine there. So, we're starting to see some of those results pour in. Um, and we can tell you right now based on current standings, John Delapo, Jesse Baker, the only two players that have currently uh come in with zero strikes after their two rounds. On the flip side, very surprised to see B struggling here. Bo Pendleton, uh, two rounds in a row. Now, you can see he's, uh, he's gone to the numbers. Yeah. Well, you hate to see that when you start getting those double digits next to your name, right? When when it stops showing you how many strikes and it just says we're just going to show you a number by your name. That's not the look you want this tournament. So, B is going to maybe be one player that is in risk of uh being eliminated next round. And I would imagine we're probably going to have at least one grouping to see those six strike players all up against each other. So, we'll see someone eliminated. I I love those rounds. I love the rounds where everybody's fighting for their life. Yes, those are really fun. So, um, the Bo Pendleton fan club, by the way, is in chat. That would be Meg. Hi, Meg. Oh, hi, Meg. We'll give him extra support. So, um, if you look at the at the rundown, I'm looking trying to figure out where the biggest sort of surprises are. You pointed out Bo Pendleton. I pointed out Adam Robinson. I think Nikki's in there for me, too. I I'm surprised to see Nikki where she is. I'm surprised to see Matt Goslin. Um well, I guess he's he's only got one. Yeah. And anybody with the dots, of course, is um Meg, we were just glad you I was reading that wrong. I was reading her him under six, but no, he's only got one. Okay, he's a good And anybody with the dots, their game is still going on. So, we'll uh switch between back and forth here. See these games begin to end. Of course, now that Jungle Queen score has been entered, and you know, some of the games that are still going on, we're not surprised those games are still going on because they do run a little bit longer than a jungle queen would. Yeah, it's just the the DMs are always the first ones out, aren't they? They they run fast unless you have amazing ball control like we saw with both, I think, Jason and Jesse in their games. Yep. Or you just trap a lot. That's right. Take breaks and sips of coffee. Take your time. There's There's nothing wrong with that. You know, we want you to get up to the machine to start playing soon, but once you're at the machine, you control the pace. You control the flow however you want to. If you want to trap up and take as much time as you need, dack on it, take a break. Yeah. As long as you keep a finger on that button, you're fine. Absolutely. So, we'll switch and show you here while we have a moment. We want to thank all of the sponsors for Cincinnati right here. Uh Penn Stadium Lights has sponsored um some machines, some of their equipment for the stream today. Speaker light kits as well. Pinball. Um, couple of great establishments both here and in Louisville. Um, Arcade Legacy here in Cincinnati and Rebard down in Louisville. Kentucky Fried Games. So glad to have you guys. Very happy to have them. Tilt Amusements of course uh Trent uh fine establishment up in Delaware just north of Columbus and the What the Flip Pinball channel as well. Appreciate their sponsor. That is I believe Lindsay's uh Twitch channel. Make sure you give them a follow right along with the channel you're watching on right now, Straight Down the Middle, Pinball, SDTM Pinball. So, we're glad you're here watching. I was noticing, too, um, some of the some of the sponsors that come have tables here. And so, if you're coming to the show and you're curious about something like Speaker Light Kits, go see their table. They're here. Absolutely. And you can talk to them about u about what they can offer you. As you can imagine, it's mostly speaker light kits. That's right. Or pin stadium lights. Pinadium lights. I don't know if Pin Stadium is physically here or not. I know Scott is um Scott's here. Is he here? Yeah. Nice. Well, at least I kept seeing his stuff, so I hope so. I would hope so. I hope somebody's keeping an eye on him for him. I haven't seen Trent here this year from Shilt Amusements. Uh Trent Bo Pendleton is is here on behalf of Onalf of Okay. Uh Trent, I believe, is uh playing for his Stern Pro Circuit Life down in Florida. Wow. Because there are there are Stern Cro Circuit events as well this weekend both in North Carolina and Florida. So, it is a sensationally busy weekend. Wait, there's two Pro Circuit events in the same weekend? There are two Pro Circuit events the same weekend. I believe the last two of the year. Wow. As well. So, so this is important stuff. Well, then we can forgive him for not joining us. I suppose we can. Oh, it's moving. Our camera's moving. Here's the move cam. On it. No, no username. There is You are If you want to watch QVC, man, we will happily QVC all of these wonderful sponsors because they are very, very We can sell you some stuff. What do you want? We appreciate them. Yeah, we'll we'll sell you pinball stuff. I know. We can get a great katana. There you go. I Hey, I I bet some of the pinball machines on the floor are for sale. That's true, actually. That's right. I just sold one yesterday. Hey, there you go. What'd you sell? Uh, Sorcerer. Nice. So, Gilbert uh was really interested in Sorcerer, and I was Yep. Nice. I was interested in having somebody have it. So, that worked out great. So, let's see where Eric is moving us to. It looks like he's got a setup on Medieval Madness. He does. And it looks like that game is in progress. So, he moved to a game in progress. That's bold. He did admire it. And and we appreciate the players there, too. That's not something that, you know, we ever expect. Yeah. You know, but we appreciate all four of the players on this, Joel, Larry, Josh, and Rachel being cool with us switching over to that game. Thank you for pausing. You know, that's something we talk about on on a regular basis in tournament play is it's hard to do. You know, you have to get used to the pace being a little bit different as a result of it being a tournament. There are pauses. there are, you know, you have to account for the possibility of a ball, you know, to get stuck. So, yep. All things that are you have to consider and it takes a little getting used to, for sure. A pinball just reminded us too, there is a big tournament in Sweden. There is. That's right. So, you know, international whopper points being handed out as well. Love it. You know, everyone getting their getting their play in before Thanksgiving. I would love to play in an international tournament someday. I just would love to get overseas at some point. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds good. have to get out of the country. I like it here. I don't want to don't want to start that conversation. But Scott said he wants to leave this country. Only if I can go to Japan. I I would love to explore the culture over there. Japan's a cool place. I was there earlier this year. I know you were not in That's That's why I wasn't in at the Kentucky Finals. That's right. It was amazing. Uh so right now, who are we looking at? We're looking at Joel Bergentino. Yes. At 27 million. Not a bad score for a tournament on Medieval Madness. I mean, he's on he's starting ball three at 27. I think my highest ever tournament score on Medieval Madness is like 32 because this is a game where if you you can blow one shot and you're out. You can. And it's I'm interested to see if the strategy is similar here as we've seen it at our local medieval madness, which is is it castle all day? It is castle. It's castle all day, but you're going to pay for it. That is the risk of castle depending on how your machine you're going to pay for it. So I I've seen two approaches here. Um, and both are met with equal levels of frustration, but one is castle all day, which means just go for that center, get the drawbridge, get the door, uh, and hope you don't drain down the middle. The trouble is when you're playing a one ball game, the odds of that happening are pretty high. Uh, sort of like the bell and AC/DC we were talking about. Correct. The other strategy I've seen is go for those lock shots, those green arrows right there to the left of the castle door. Yes. Lock three and use that to batter down the castle door. Use that. see a lot of people playing it. Larry with a really tough left side draw right then. He is going to end this and unfortunately take three strikes. So he will go to four strikes after this game. I want to know who got that that score right there. 300 million on this machine cuz that is impressive. That's pretty impressive. It was Josh Noble. They may have taken the glass off. I'm going to That's what I'm going to say. Yes. I would never accuse someone of that. Awesome. Oh yes. Oh, good ball saver. That's rough. So, ball seven. Oh, he did get the ball save. He got the ball save. Yep. Snuck that in there. Madness has a notoriously tight ball save. Frustratingly short ball save. And he is going to tilt. He is for sure going to tilt. So, there's your tight tilt, Bob, right there. So, let's see where Josh ends up here. I mean, yeah, he he was leading at 58 mil. So, not a terribly. If you're going to tilt out ball three, that's the score to do it with. Tilt when you're winning. 58 mil is a healthy healthy tournament score and seeing what Chad's saying in Chad he's like castle all day center drain all day still worth it. I would argue if you have an opportunity at the multiball take it but definitely don't take it as you said with the thought in mind that you're doing anything multiball. Okay, that's perfect. Okay, we'll stay medieval. I think it's fun that Chad is joining our conversation from inside the tournament. I love when people do that. You know, KB slasher Ross, I don't know if he's here. His brother obviously is Joel is his brother who who we're watching right now. So, um I think Joel's nephew is Ross. Joel's nephew. That's right. Yes, you got it right. I'm I'm playing Ross to be older than he is, right? I should know better than now. He He plays pinball like a guy who's been playing pinball for 30 years. He does. He's He's a really strong player. Yes. What I can't figure out is how Chad can hear us right now. Um maybe I'm trying to hunt him down. Is he under the table? Where is Chad? How does he do it? We're going to have to have a conversation with him about that. Chad is fresh off a win in the uh Northern Kentucky Pinball League. He was We were talking about that on on the Monday stream. Yeah. Oh, and that's great for Rachel right there. Two in a row. Rachel does, I believe, take third place in this. We'll see those scores in a minute. And yes, third place for her. So, that means Rachel will take two strikes. Uh Josh will will not take any. Joel will take one and Larry will take four. Larry's going to take Oh, that's going to take Larry to four. That hurts. Yeah. And unfortunately with a game like Medieval Madness, 1.7 isn't that uncommon even among great players like Larry. Larry's been in the pinball scene in Cincinnati for years and years. He's a really decent player and that's the game you have on Medieval Madness sometimes. It very very much is. So, let's see now uh with the matches that are done if there's any matches left. Uh I believe there is only one match left. That is uh WWF Royal Rumble with Tim Staxon, Miles Crawford, Steven Shely, and Wayne Indic. That's a tough group right there. Yep. Um gives us an opportunity also to show you kind of a better look at the standings and where everybody currently stands. Um as it stands, we we are going to have officially four players that um are going to survive into the next round with no strikes. Nick, Nick Delahanty, Ken Gunther, local player, Jesse, local player, and Johno Cleveland. So, you called it at the beginning. You said John Delapo was going to clean house. So far, John Delapo's cleaning house. I had a feeling. I think ranking wise, I think he's the highest ranked player here out of everybody so far. And I'm not going to bet against him. I've seen too many people try try and do that. I we saw him win the amazing race uh earlier this year up at level one with maybe one of the most calm efforts I've ever seen really on Adam's family. Just stood up to the machine. Just zen. Zen. It really was. And and that's his style of play. It is It is slow in a good way. It is meticulous and done really, really well. Michael Dawn's dropping. Michael Dawn is dropping gifts to us. Look, we got sugar. Got some fudge. I got some brownies. Feel free, by the way, my water if you're at Cincinnati or just in the neighborhood to come bring us gifts whenever you like. I'm dying for a coffee right now. Feel free to bring one by. Pretty sure it's not a uh violation of Twitch to in this case sake. You can come bribe us. We'll just say hi. We'll just say hello. You can bribe us for hellos and hugs. That's right. I don't think Yeah, I don't think we're breaking the Well, maybe. Maybe a little bit. No, I'm going to go with it. I'm going to go with it. It's okay until someone tells me otherwise. Player three is up on Royal Rumble. Pinball Nerds podcast coming in. I'm going to switch to that window so you can see it here. Carrie Zenwing is one of my favorite Zen player. Yeah, she plays that same way, too. Oh, got the Zen vibe. Got the Zen vibe going on. Yeah. How do you do it? I mean, I I I have never been able to manifest that in a tournament scenario. Is it just years of meditation? How do you How do you get into it that much? That's a good question cuz I don't think I've ever been able to do it either. I don't think I've ever done it. Even when I do this stuff, like I'll get up there, I'll breathe, I'll count to 10 and and I'm still twitching on the inside. Yeah. And to be able to do that even further on a multiball. Yeah. Is when it really, really gets impressive. You know, you see someone like John have two balls trapped on one flipper, one on the other, and have absolutely no fear, no worry. What's happening? It's just I know what shot I want next, and I'm going to hit it. And probably 75 to 80% of the time, then they do it. Yeah. Then they actually do it, right? It's one thing to have the patience, then it's another thing. It's next level to then have the confidence to say, I'm going to hit this shot and it just doesn't matter, right? And they do every time. Oh, I love it. Every every time, by the way, we were wrong. We do have one LCD screen over there. We have an Iron Maiden. Oh, we do have Iron Maiden. Not considered the Owen machine. Yes, of course. I know. So, I'm when I get up there to do like, let's say I can trap two on a flipper. Yes. I am just so I'm so excited that I have two trapped that that third one goes to nonsense. Like I'm just so excited that I did the thing that then I'll I'll just ping it off something and lose it and then you have to get into cradle separation which is another level of of play. I appreciate pinball nerds comment. I mostly use craft beer among other legal mellowers. There you go. Since I'm here in Canada. Well, you know, you do what you got to do. How is the craft beer scene in Canada? Pinball nerds. I would like to answer this because I'm not a beer drinker. I would love to know. I mostly drink whiskey. I'm a wine and bourbon guy. Are you? Yeah. Mixed? No. Fortified. But if someone can come up with a way to combine those into one drink other than say a bourbon barrelaged wine. Yeah. Which, by the way, those are very good. Are they? Yes, they are. I don't I never drink wine. So, when I go to a restaurant and somebody shows like, "Do you care about the wine list?" And I'm like, "I would be the worst at this. I'm just going to order the cheapest one. I don't know what's good." So, good for folks who actually know what they're doing. I'm not going to claim I know what I'm doing. I'm just gonna say I enjoy it and I enjoy trying different wines. Yeah. So, I'm still very much a rookie at it. That would that would be the fault of my wonderful girlfriend getting me hooked on that. Oh, really? I got her hooked on the bourbon. She got me hooked on the wine. Yeah. So, it's a good trade-off that way. I think it's an important distinction between getting your partner hooked on it and driving them to drink. Very true. You You did the right thing. The other thing is not as great. Agreed. Agreed. And if I'm driven to it, in fact, I avoid it like the plague, you know. I know myself too well. If I get bummed out, it's like I It's the funniest thing. When I used to walk into Level One, it would be, you know, if I walked up to the bar and I ordered a drink, they'd look at me and say, "What good thing just happened to you?" Well, that's a nice feeling. It's a very good feeling because they they they know me well enough to know. It's like, I'm I'm going to drink water if I'm not feeling good. Good for you. I have made the other mistake and it's not good. Next round is up. We're pushing the big red button. This is going to be a fun group. Rudy Soup, what's going on? Good to have you with us. Good to have you here. Appreciate it. A little bit of an honor. I watch Rudy Soup podcast. I do watch I watch him on Twitch. Yeah. One of the Buffalo Pinball players. Yeah. Rudy Soup. I appreciate all the Buffalo Pinball guys. That's the truth. You know, they they've rated our channels on a regular basis. And uh a good bunch up there. I'd love to make It's not far from Columbus. I should make the trip sometime. Yep. Just to go hang. I love their uh their podcast as well. I don't know if you listen to the pinball. Yeah. Y love it. Love the reviews on there. That's actually how I learn about a lot of pins coming down the pike. That's awesome. Does they cover them on there? Speaking of the legend themselves, the Buffalo Pinball is in the house. So glad to have you, Buffalo Pinball. That's right. Love your podcast. Appreciate you. Appreciate you being a part of of the online scene here and appreciate everything you do for pinball up in the upper part of New York State. Absolutely. All right. Yeah, this is going to be a fun group right here. Two strike group. So basically an average second place finish. Yeah. Uh among the first games. So you've got Michael Dawn, Kyle Ko, and it is pronounced Ko. Yes. When you look at it, it looks like Cook. I made that mistake. And much like Ve, uh I had it in my head wrong. Kyle Ko, Matt. Yep. Yeah. Um so this is a really interesting So Kyle Ko is fresh off a win in the B divisions uh of the Arcade Legacy Selfie League. So he's he's coming in highly confident this weekend. He is. Michael Dawn put on one of the most impressive tournament performances I've ever seen two years ago at the Cincinnati Pinball Championship. He hadn't played a pinball tournament in 25 years. Yes. And he walks into the Cincinnati Pinball tournament. Cincinnati Pinball Championship. And I think I was there for this. I think I played destroyed it. Yeah. Just destroyed it. And you're watching Michael Dawn play now. Now he likes uh Medieval Madness. his his Achilles heel uh is that when he gets worked up, he tilts a lot because he gets very physical. I mean, you'll see him when he loses a ball, he'll jump. Uh you'll see him get physical. So, he has to watch out for that tilt because this game is set tight. I mean, we've already seen two tilts uh just at the tail end or one tilt just tail end of the last game and one double danger. We very much have, but about as talented of a player as you're going to find in this tournament today, Mike D. Yeah, been playing for a long time. Back into the scene now. I am pretty sure he is well qualified for the Kentucky State Championship. Oh, he's got to be. I'd have to look and see what the number is, but I'm sure he's uh probably top five in the state of Kentucky. He's got to be. And you can see the IF rank really built over just about, you know, a 2-year period. He's already up to 341. Wow. Big time. Isn't that something? Yeah. Here's Kyle Ko stepping up. You can read what the shirt says. I can't quite read it. My eyes are not that good. Whatever it is, I bet it's hilarious. So, Kyle and I actually work together. We're we're co-workers and one night I invited him to play pinball. And um he never looked back. That was It's your fault he's here. Yeah, it's my fault he's here. Appreciate all your least I can do. He has never looked back. I mean, he's just been all in and he's been playing great pinball. That is great. So, see if he's he's going to kick it right back into that catapult now. It looks to me like he's shooting center. I think he is. I don't think he's intending for catapult shots, but it could have a very welcome benefit here. Yeah, it might might help. And that is if he completes the move, suddenly your Merlin magic shot becomes and you drained unfortunately. So, we'll have to just talk about it. Hurts. It it opens up the possibility for a two ball multiball. Yep. Now then the question becomes, do you try and get the two ball as quickly as possible or do you change your strategy at all to try your hand at getting another mode? Be it trolls, be it joust. I would think joust would be the easiest one cuz sometimes those ramps you really need nice precise shots to get them and the orbits are easier to progress. Yeah. Um basically to make it a three ball instead of a two ball and should you hit the shots, not that you're trying to increase your potential super jackpots. Yep. It's beneficial to do that. My strategy on this game, and it's it's not everybody's, is I immediately go to the ramps because the center is so dangerous. And when you shoot the ramps, you're qualifying for that two ball multiball. As soon as you complete one of those um side modes, you're qualifying for two ball multiball. So, um I will go to the ramps as much as I can until I get to a two-ball. And the second I start that two ball, I'm just going for the center. Okay. That way, I get one castle. From there, I start shooting the three ball lock for Castle 2 because I'm not playing a castle without more than one ball in play. So, your play is go for the madness multiball as soon as it's available. Get a madness. Everything else be dang. Y Okay, it's get a madness, kill a castle, get multiball, uh castle multiball, then kill a castle. And maybe the good flip side to this is we watch Matt Godson do his flip side. I like that. Matt has been a someone I've known well even before pinball scenes. Um, I knew him back all the way to the late '9s, back when we both were attending another event that has been rekindled here in town called Cincy Classic. No kidding. Um, we were both uh attended that show. I know him through Larry Scott, who I've known for, for pretty close to 20 years now. Um, so yeah, I know him kind of we're sim we're similar uh spirit animals. We're retro game guys who pinball. Yeah. Very cool. You know, more so than say necessarily, you know, pinball. So, this is this is not your primary incarnation. Uh, this is the reincarnation. The reincarnation because I probably do more pinball now than I do retro gaming. I dig that. But and and we, you know, it comes back around every year at Replay FX because I help run the console lounge, right? I go to Replay FX and spend four days not playing pinball. That That has got to be heartbreaking. It is a little bit. I don't know how you do it. It's heartbreaking when you're halfway across the expo and that's when you're watching Holly Koskin win the big women's tournament. Seeing your fellow Columbus person do it. You don't get to see it in person. You're you're literally screaming from 200 feet away going go Holly
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    with with the turn with the event director Mark Stein right in front of you laughing and talking about the whole thing because that makes it even better.
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    Shout out to the replay effects guys. I am very excited for next year's show. I think we're going to be doing some fun stuff up there. Yep. It's going to be a good time. I you know I've never been and I really really want to go. You need to go even for just a day. I would love it just for the spectacle of it. I don't need to play the tournament. I just want to go. Pimber is Pimber's a tough thing and we can talk about that, I'm sure, as the day goes on when we have breaks. As we watch Tim Sexton, look at that. He open he opened up the castle and look at that shot. Oh, just barely enough energy. That was perfect. He opens up the door immediately backhands it into a slow roll into the castle. That's the kind of shot that you look back on like like you meant to do it. Yep. Him on nerves. That That is Tim. That's him. That's Tim Sexton right there. It's Tim Balls
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    ranked 121. So he might be the second highest ranked player in the field. I know Delapo is probably one as he I thought Adam was further up than he is, but maybe he's not. Maybe he's maybe he's in the threes or something. We can check that here in just a minute. A really great player as well. We can be sneaky sneaky and check that by going over here to Game of Thrones. He's 509 right now, believe it or not. 500. Boy, I was way up. Maybe I just Maybe I just like him. Maybe I'm just exaggerating his rank cuz I like him. So Mike Dawn really had that figured out. He knew what he wanted to do. He got the shot to get the quick hurry up but wasn't able to cash it in. Those hurry-ups are they stack. So if you're going to the hurry up is a really dangerous shot and I don't tend to I don't tend to take it unless I absolutely need it to win. Yeah. Um because you can stack those. You can get more than one uh madness going or more than one. I don't what do you even call them? The side missions. Side quest. Yeah, the little side quest. If you get if you complete more than one um you can actually stack them and they and they get exponentially more valuable. So I usually wait until I at least have two activated before I go for that hurry up because that hurry up is a center shot which is a drain shot. We just saw Kyle do it as well. Exactly. This is it. It's an absolute third rail to go for that center. And if you if you touch it in just the wrong way, you're dead. Yeah. It's the kind of shot where how the machine is playing is imperative. Y and it's worth mentioning, too, this particular machine, this is the remake version of Medieval Madness. It is not the original one from the '90s. It is the Chicago Gaming remake. Y plays exactly the same. Rules are exactly the same. You do get that nice looking DMD, though. I got to give you that. Yeah, it's nice, huh? Is beautiful. Beautiful. I have seen also the remakes of uh Attack from Mars and what was the other one they did? Monster Bash. We had Monster Bash back actually where we're sitting right now doing our streaming. Yeah. Was where they had the Monster Bash machine last year at Patty. That's right. I remember it had a beautiful color DMD. You are Monster Bash in our hearts and minds. And I am so sorry for all of you. Matt Goslin's back up now and he had a I I think a really solid ball last time. Let's see what he can do here. He's in first place in the group. He's working on castle number two. It is not uncommon in a tournament scenario to see a 4 million point win on Medieval Madness. Not at all. It's that weird of a game. Gate destroyed and got it. So that will move him up to about 9 million points putting I would say more than a oneshot lead over the competition right now. Y you know I would you know anytime you have basically a castle shot as the only thing keeping you from winning or losing it's it's a little bit dangerous as it stands right now that's not the case. Tim Sexton has one castle down but he is more than that 4 million point away from getting back into this and he's starting over. He's got his draw bridge up. I don't even know if he's got any hits on that draw bridge yet. I don't think he does have any on it yet. So, he's in a tough spot. Yes. Now, the nice thing about the draw bridge is if you hit it, you drop into a channel, you feed your ball back from the left side. It does. The downside of the draw bridge is that once that thing comes down, well, you're shooting right at a really simple drain shot. You are. So, he knows he's working on it now. You got your You got your ball to lock. Oh, he was not able to save that. And not a ton of bonus, but low scoring game. You I think you want that bonus right now. You don't want to tilt it away. Yep. Oh, yeah. I mean, at this point, half a million points can make the difference. This is not a high-scoring game. Yes. All right. Now, Mike Dawn, this is his chance. I have seen Mike Dawn go on so many ball three runs. This could be one of them. We'll see. Again, skipping out on the regular skill shot, trying his hand for the big million point. Hurry up. He's doing the right thing at the last minute. Do what you got to do. Ouch. You know, you never like to claim luck in pinball, but it does exist. And that was the unlucky right there for it to be in the in lane, pop out like a three-pointer going in and out of the basket. Doesn't that hurt? And zone down the out lane. So, he will end up in fourth place in the group. That'll put him at five strikes. Everyone else playing for the top three positions right here. Let's see what they can do. Kyle starting out with that multiball lock. That that shot is a fairly safe shot. So, you know, not a bad strategy here. get the first castle out of the way and then if he can make two more shots in that that ramp just to the left of it, then you can maybe go after castle number two with multiball on your side. I'm going to give us a little bit more sound from the machine. Okay, sounds good.
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    I trust your sound judgment. I am You're a little better at sound than I am. Sound judgment. I like that sound. We've been naming podcasts all day. Flipping out sound judgement. sound judgment. Well, that's not going to be flipping out's already a pocket. That's not going to be my podcast. So, he does get multiball madness here. He ends up cashing that in from the catapult. Great work. So, now is the time he if he wants to attack that castle, go for it. Super Jack. He had his ball save on, so he should be all right on that other ball. Oh, but I think he's got it for that one. Nope. So, not able to correct. That's rough. Oh, definitely a missed opportunity for Kyle right there. And I think he knows it. Yeah, he had a good thing going and unfortunately he just couldn't follow through on it. So, he's in second right now. Yep. Matt is working on building the lead right now. Oh god.
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    I just heard Ross say road kings deserved what it got. I don't know if I want to know what's going on with that. You're going to have to give me some give me some uh background on that. How about I bring Kyle over? Do you want to chat with him? Yeah, we can chat with him real quick. Yeah, I think that'd be a lot of fun. Let me let me see if I can bring him over. Yeah, bring him over for
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    sure. So, we'll see if we can get Kyle over here to talk for just a moment or two as over in the corner of my eye. I am watching some players play. I think Jane Verwis right now is playing Grand Prix. Uh, Royal Rumble appears to not be being played right now, but I just saw someone walk up to it. I'm going to assume that is Anna Wallace playing that with 64 players still in this thing, 19 arenas, but 16 games going at any given time. You know, there are constantly games going on, you know, on all but three of the machines. It's And not only you add that with the fact we've got all these machines, we've got the we've got the rig the way we do, never a moment where there's not awesome pinball being played. So, we're super hyped about that. Um Matt is going at it now. He's at 9 million. One more shot and he is now working on castle number three. 600,000 for every damage and six main if he can finish it. He's getting some nice breaks on that right here as Kyle is about to join us on the microphone. Talk about that ball three in Medieval Madness. Man, we can see the look on your face. It was a It was a little bit um s Okay, I wanted to read the shirt, too. Siri, is it warm enough to wear a t-shirt today inside this uh hall here? It is. Yeah. Yes, it is. It's It's definitely t-shirt weather. Yes, that's my kind of weather. I'm a t-shirt guy all the way around. All right, we're watching Matt. We're watching Matt do his thing. But yeah, you had the setup really nicely on that ball three right then. You had them you had the madness, you had the opportunity to go for caps which just couldn't quite corral it and then that second ball drained on you at a bad spot. Yeah, the catapult madness is what kept me alive and uh didn't keep it alive long enough. So now you're watching a little bit of your own strike fade in your hands here. Yeah, watching Tim here. About a million points is what Tim Zton needs in order to pass you. I think he's going to get me. But bare minimum, you know, you're only guaranteed to get two strikes here at the worst. So, you know, three rounds in, four strikes, not horrible um by any stretch of the imagination. I think that's averaging a little better than average. Yeah. Compared to how everybody's doing. So, how do you feel about how you're playing so far? Uh I was feeling fantastic. I'm still feeling pretty great. Uh well, he's gonna get it's just like one shot away or something. Oh, we must have had some kind of very close game next to us here. I can hear it in the background. Oh. Oh, it goes in. He's got trolls lit the thing. Yeah, you can see the look on his face almost of relief that he got that multiball.
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    Ross, did you seriously have two tilt throughs at Pinberg this year? I thought I heard you have one. I did not know you had two. God love you. Um, yeah, he's got three. He's coming for Matt now. He is. It's absolutely makeable here. I fully expect him to have very good ball control. He's got the gate down. So, the 400,000 and he's getting some jackpot shots, too. That 750 per is a nice bonus. It's it's he's at a score level where that's going to come in handy.
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    Still, and it seems like on this remake, tell me if you agree with this or not, it seems like the ramps are a little bit more accessible than they are on the original machine. Um, I got to play this so little. Uh the couple shots I had up the ramp weren't working well for me, but uh this is the one I have it here. That might be it. 12. Yeah, I think I think 12 is it. So Tim's going to come back from third place and take the win in this. We'll know as soon as the scores pop up and his multiball is done. But he's exhibiting sensational control right now. Still all three. Even in this right here where he's got all three balls in play at a time. really working it quite nicely. No trapping. Just
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    nicely done right there. He's got the bonus up to 14 15x right now. So I would expect that I would expect that that bonus to be a couple million now at an absolute minimum.
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    Two more shots to have a shot at the super. Yeah, one more. Oh. Oh, it just hit the edge of the flipper. Up to 17 mill. Yeah, I think he's got this thing. And yeah, he's checking right now. There it is. He sees he's got the win. There's still games going on. So, yeah, he's like, I'm good. Mission accomplished. What a wrap. Pinball Nerds podcast with maybe the comment of the day so far. This guy's good. He should get a job at a pinball company. Maybe. Yeah, he should look into hire you know. I hear it's hard to get into those places sometimes unless your name's Tim Saxton, right? You know, just saying. So, there you go. Third place on that one. You'll take two strikes. So, you've got four through three rounds as we said. Um, talk about your big win. You won B division in the Cincinnati tournament this this past week. I did. Uh, it was uh great feeling. Um, you know, I've always had a problem uh playing consistently. So, at least that day it was uh confirmation for myself. I can play consistently on occasion. That's awesome. So, uh it's a great league. Jesse runs a great thing over at Arcade Legacy. So, he does. He does. And we're happy to have him in this tournament. I I'm sure he brought a few machines with him, although I didn't confirm it. I was playing uh his Iron Man in the Cyclone right over here. I think a couple more maybe his. Yeah, I think we're well over probably about what about 120 pinball machines in the whole building here. So, a lot of people brought some some very very nice looking collections here and we're super glad they did to help make this happen. Yes, definitely some cool stuff here. Very cool. Kyle, thank you, man. Appreciate it. I'm going to let you get back to to play it here. Awesome. You know, keep playing well. Yeah, I'll keep those strikes low for you. Uh if we have you on stream, we'll we'll root you on as best we can, my man. Thank you. Absolutely. All right, that is Kyle Cook. Kyle Coke, I should say.
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    Um, oh, I can only show you the things I'm seeing right it. If I'm blushing, you can just make your own assumptions as to why. Kit Kat with the bits. Appreciate her showing off the the hunter bits for straight down the middle. Appreciate you supporting the channel very much. We appreciate them letting me on for uh doing this very, very much. All right, let's take a look at the standings right now. So, as it stands, we did see some people take some strikes here. It looks like John came in third in his group that time. So, we're going into the next round. And Jesse is it. Um he is the only player who's going to be going into the next round with um with no strikes. So he is in first place all by his lonesome right now. Um Josh, Dale, and Nick all have one, which makes sense. I'm not surprised that all of the players that had zero strikes were put against each other in that game, but you can see the big difference it made. Um, Ken Gunther, who example was in first place last round, now suddenly finds himself in 11th behind Tim Ston, who we just saw on stream. That's how quick this can change. A real pinball players game. Hey, that's fun. I could Oh, you know why? Why is that? That is our machine sound. I'll I'll dial that back while we're moving. I was like, who said that? I was wonder I have to tell you something funny I did on Monday night. I was remoted into my home computer to check some stuff while I was starting the stream. I forgot that I had a stream running on on there. So, I had background noise from a stream while I was streaming one for about the first five minutes. Uh my guy DJ got up there. Where are we going? Ball five on Big Indian. Love it. Oh, we're going Big Indian. Let's show it all off here. Where's it at? I can't see it on here. Can you scroll down there? I I'm working on it. All right. DM. No. EM. There we go. There it is. All right. There it is. Nathan Webster is player number one on this one. This is a four strike group. Okay. So, this game is so fun and it plays really slow. So, watch that ball float. I played this game last night after they got it set up. Yeah. And don't let it fool you. Slow doesn't mean easy. No, not on a classic at all. So, on this one, you're going to see a ton of center and left uh left out lane drains. That's last night when we were playing. What happens is people will go for the uh there's this various speed target back there that if you hit it um it moves back a certain number of slots and that's determines how many points you get. It's right here. Oh, I thought it was a right click. I did that wrong. Uh oh, the uh teleustrator. I got to bring I'll I'll get you a teleustrator. You want a teleustrator? I got teleustrator for days. Yo, dog. We heard you like teleustrators. Oh, that's where you tell a straight. So, this thing right here, I made a music note. Yeah, you did. That thing right there is the very speed target. And it can be worth a whole bunch of points if you hit it hard enough. The problem is people will take pot shots at it, end up in the out lanes. Last night, we saw a ton of left out lane drains. Yes. So, Pat right here sitting at 33,000. A solid lead for him on ball five right here. And I'll say again, slow doesn't mean easy. That floaty ball actually really can throw you off. If you just came off a really fast game, if you were playing World Championship soccer or Junkyard or AC/DC, that slow ball can really throw you off. It's like a change up in baseball. Yeah. A knuckle ball almost. A knuckle ball because not only is it going to move in unpredictable ways, but it's also, you know, Yeah. the the slowness of it, the unpredictability of it, the bounciness off of bumpers and ramps and everything is so different. Yep. Yeah. So, that's the other thing is one of the reasons that a game plays slow is because the tilt of the machine itself is more shallow. Yeah. Um and when it they picked up a bunch on that out lane there. He did. He'll be at 50,000 points when that's a great ball for Pat right there. Darren and Donovan have a lot of work to do to catch this one. Good job, Pat. Uh, when you have a machine set at a shallow angle, you also get really bizarre bounces that you're not quite used to. You tend to think you know where a ball is going to go when it's bouncing around up in the lanes up top. But when it's at a really shallow pitch like this, uh, it can do a lot more of that bouncing. Things will pop out that you had no you never thought would come out. Agreed.
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    Kckian coming in chat saying, "The way the ball is moving around made me think something was wrong with the playfield cam." That is the machine. No, we don't have it set to slow motion. No, that's just this machine. No, they're nudge. Look at that nudge. Just trying to keep it in that in lane. He knew Darren knew that one was going to be in trouble and he called it right. Darren Darren's a really good EM player, too. I've played a bunch of tournaments with him as an EM player. All right, Donovan's up. Let's see what he can do here.
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    Right now, Donovan's sitting at what? 7,000. Our high right now is, I think, 50,000 if I'm reading that screen right. So, he's got some catchup to do on Big
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    Indian. And I think we're going I think we're on ball five here. We are. This is So, this is our final ball of the game. He He gave it a smart little nudge there to keep it popping on top of that uh on top of that sling. Nope. Right down the center, unfortunately. So, with those scores, that great ball by Pat Green right there is going to get him the win. Nathan Webster will come in second. Darren Martin in third and Donovan Gulf in fourth. We've been throwing around an awful lot of names here, but if you're just tuning in, that's Scott Beef. Hi, that's Justin Masterson. I am. And um we're He goes by Justin Masterson. I go by Justin Masterson. Uh and we are at Cincinnati 2019. Uh right here in, as you might have guessed, Cincinnati, Ohio. I would love to know where you are. So shoot us a note on the chat and tell us where are you watching from. Are you Yeah, post in chat. Tell us where you're at right now. And if the answer is you're in Cincinnati, well, come on over. Or if you're in Columbus or Indie, Cleveland, Chicago, come on down. Heck, if you're in Columbus, this is Eastgate. You're on It's on the east side of the Cincinnati area. Anyway, virtually there. You're like Delaware pinball. He's in New Jersey. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, it's a given. Given uh Yeah, Meg's in Seab bus. Yeah, make the drive down. If you're in Cabus from here, if you're in Seus, come on. I could be here by guess. I think he's in Iowa. No doubt. Iowa. Delaware pinball could be in Delaware, Ohio. That's where Trent and Tilta M is located. Good point. You know, you sometimes don't know. You You just don't. All the way from San Diego, California. My boss. Um glad to have you. My job is in San Diego, California. That is a nice That's a nice place to be any any day. Just for any reason. They get more sun in a month than Cincinnati and Columbus get in like six months of the year. Oh, for sure. Cincinnati gets two weeks of spring and two weeks of fall. Switzerland. Deadly joining us from Switzerland. Thank you so much for tuning in. So glad to have you. side Orville Albert Arcade, Nova Scotia, Canada. Love the fact we've got some international watchers who appreciate every I've been to Nova Scotia one time in my life. I took the Blue-Nosed Ferry up from York, Maine or from from the coast of Maine. Mhm. Amazing. I'm so jealous. I want to be back in Nova Scotia. Maybe not right now. Maybe in the summer. Sure. But uh but hello to you in Nova Scotia. We appreciate every one of you. Send the word out. Share the link to the thread. You bet. You know, we would love to get everybody who is watching pinball. If you if you're not watching, you know, make sure you're watching from somewhere for sure. Oh, I think the rig here comes the move cam. Oh, you know what's going on here? There's a there's there's a giant HDMI rig moving right now. There's a giant HDMI rig moving. I think he's going to move us over to Oh, I had it wrong. Oh, he's moving us to Harlem Globe Trotters. Are we getting Harlem? I love this game. I love this game. I wouldn't be sad if we were commentating on Harlem Globe Trotters for the rest. I love this game. Okay, I would. I like these other games, but this is one of my favorites. Meg says, "I know I suck. I was supposed to work tonight and then at last minute they didn't need me." Well, we are glad you were enjoying the stream nonetheless. Yeah. And tell that place to give you a better hour so that you know and we know every time you can be here cuz we want you to be here. Pinball Nerds podcast is inside an arcade playing Fireball while watching this. Fireball's a fun game. I'm impressed. your multitasking ability. That is a plunge game to the max. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I love firepower. Where have I played that? That How many scissor drains will we see this match? Oh yeah. Okay. So, um All right. So, three ball game. We have 12 potential possibilities. I'm going to go with three. Uh yeah, I like your odds. I'm going to go a little bit higher. Wait, let's see who's playing. No, Lindsay knows this. Oh, boy. This is round three, so we're going to find out who's playing very very Oh, we don't know. Okay, so Lindsay Rogers has one of these at home. I have seen her tap pass on this one. Is this her Harlem back and forth? This is not her Harlem Globe Trotters, but I have seen her do it back and forth, back and forth on this machine. That's how well she knows it. Wow. But uh but that's round three. So, let's see for round four who's going to play. That's right. I I think we're going to see uh five scissor drains. I think it's going to be Wow. I don't know who's playing yet, but I think I'm just predicting we're going to have a handful of these. Okay. The under pinball has put official odds. So, all right. If we're doing that, I am going with the over on that. Uh, absolutely the over. Absolutely the over. Del. The reason why I think because we're starting to see rounds where eliminations become a possibility. If we get a round here that is six strike players, then suddenly eliminations are in play. And if we look at the standings right here, I think we may have survived round number three with zero. Yeah, we did. Hold your tongue. What? No one. No one pulled an MXC and got eliminated on us. Most extreme elimination challenge. Right you are, Ken. Right you are, Ken. Well, we do have four players still playing. We have that group. In fact, their group has to report yet. So, once that reports, I think the next round will come up here. So, we got a bunch of people sitting on eight, but nobody out. How about that? No one is out of the event. Super hyped about that. I think uh Eric is in the process of hitting the big red button right now. Yep. because all of the scores have been entered. And there you go. So, John, Daniel, Tim are in that tough situation. Not sure what's up with Wayne here. Maybe Wayne uh wasn't able to show cuz I see him getting strikes down here. Yeah, that is strange. I think that might be the case. So, he maybe just wasn't able to be here and that is a tough break for I checked in with Daniel just a few minutes ago and I said, "Oh, next round's up." Uh I said, "You know, how you playing?" I hadn't seen the scores yet. And he just gave me that look that says, "Don't ask. Just don't ask me." Gotcha. All right. Here's the group. Oh, we're going to get to see some repeat players here. Okay. It's a five strike group. Uh Wayne Index, so it must have been his name just got entered twice. Okay, that's I think we'll call that a match play error. It happens. You know, we're trying to deal with a lot of people. It happens. Uh Michael Dawn, we're going to get to see him again. Um Nathan Webster, who we just saw play some I think we just missed him playing some Big Indian. and Larry Scott. All right, man. Well, this is going to be a good one. This is a very good group. So, we've already seen Yeah, we've already seen Mike Dawn when we saw him uh just a few minutes ago. Yes. Playing on Medieval Madness. He had a really rough game. Hopefully, he's been able to shake it off and can come back strong on Globe Trotters. I hope so. Larry Scott knows this game in and out. Uh we'll see for Nate Webster and Wayne. Uh I don't I don't know how it's going to go for them, but I'm hoping I want to see a great game of Harlem Globe Troters cuz I love this game. I want to see long balls. I want to see those drop targets on the right. just absolutely destroyed. I want to see tons of spinner action. I want to see it, too. Um, so I want to see globes all day. Can you set me up to draw on there? Yeah, we can do that. I need to just learn how to do it. For those of you that don't know, Scott Bee is the is the engineer behind today's uh stream as well. So, he just knows what he's doing in stream and I don't. So, yeah. So, there you go. And he's a fine artist. Something like that. We are watching Wayne get this thing going though. Um, yeah, I think that should be enough. There's one scissor drain. There's the first. All right, got one. My overb is Oh god. Get off my screen. Get off my screen. Get off my screen. There we go. And this is what happens when we try and broadcast this stuff live. That's right. Yeah. Just draw right there. You just up here. Okay. So, what what uh a traditional strategy on this one is there's two really big centers for points. One is over here to knock down this series of drop targets. Those are your multipliers. The other one is to build up and then nail these spinners right in the center. The problem, and I we referenced this before, is this little scissor flipper setup. It is so easy to let the ball go. Tilted it. That's rough. It is so easy to let the ball go between those scissors and and you you can't drop catch on this game. You There is no in lane to let it run into. If you're drop catching, you have to stop it on a dime. You have to be really careful. really have to do it more with the right flipper than you would do the left because of the potential of the scissor. Yep. On the right flipper, you're okay. On the left flipper, if you try and drop catch that thing, you're going to lose it out the back unless you have an absolute perfect live catch, a dead stop. And Nathan is of course taking just a moment here to let the machine calm down. This is the time where we won't, you know, you're never going to encourage someone to jump on the machine too quickly right here. Let the machine calm, let the tilt bob calm down just a little bit. And there is a He gets the saucer as well. There's not huge points in it, but it does move your globe letters. Yep. Which is really the big advantage of it. Gets already two of them in there. And she and L balls on the right. Right to the nonetheless, the machine's playing brutally enough that he's in first place at 22,000 points. Here comes Larry Scott. Do not let Larry's IFPA ranking you see on the screen right there fool you. It's simply but that he really only plays in Pinberg and local tournaments anymore. that's that, you know, he's more of just a casual player at this point. You know, I'm glad you mentioned that because that's a great reminder. We do get really focused on IFPA ranking, but that's a function not just of how good you are, but also how many tournaments you play that are IFPA ranked tournaments. Exactly. Larry is a a staple in the Cincinnati pinball community, and he and Pat bring machines every year. They hold they host parties. They play tons of pinball. Uh they just don't necessarily play the IFPA tournaments, right? So, it's easy for me to get hung up because sometimes I look at even my rank and I go, "Oh, man. I get, you know, maybe I'm not a great pinball player and I'm not a great pinball player, but I play a lot of pinball. It's just not necessarily ranked pinball." Exactly. So, I mean, you know, I know Larry has many wins in Cincinnati. I know he has taken trophies a couple years ago in B division in Pinberg. Yeah. So, I mean, he has big wins to his credit. So, you know, don't don't don't sit on just the ranking and think that, hey, you know, I can beat this guy. He's He's as good as they come in town for sure. Yeah, he's very very strong. And you can see he got up to 69,9950 there, which right now is a first place score. It is. So, let's see what Wayne can do. Rough. That's as close to a house ball as you get right there. That's a smile and wave. You can see it on his face. Now, Mike Dawn tends, as I mentioned earlier, he's a physical player. If if he gets one of those, he jumps. You'll see him jump. Yeah. But he has to watch it. This has got a really tight tilt on it. And when he plays physical, he can sometimes accidentally uh nudge the machine. So Oh, great. Ends right back in that saucer. Very nice. Completes globe. That's like a 30,000 point win right there. Yeah, you can see that dropping him. Put him all the way up to 90,000. Yeah, it looks like he needs that right spinner right now. No, now the left one. See it changing. I don't know how many points Global Awards, but it's a bunch. I think it was 40,000. Saw that. Nonetheless, he's Look at that little tap. Beautiful little tap. Yeah, there is no stopping that ball right now. It's just go, go, go, go, go. Yeah, this is not a a game where you're going to see much trapping. It's just too hard to do. You can't do it on the right side. Great little dead flip there with a nudge.
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    Your best bet is if you got a ball coming in hot to the left, is to dead flip it and then try and trap on the right. But you got to be careful with that because if you end up back uh rolling off the edge, not a lot of ways to save it.
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    There's his second multiplier shot down. He's got two to go. Very nice. Yeah, as we talked at the beginning, you want to get those multipliers up to make that uh make all that work worth it. Believe with that second shot that gives him 2x. Yep. Nice job. Still be pretty nice though. Nice job. So, he has Yeah, bounced him to 170,000. So, a really nice bonus right there. Then, uh Litter corrected me there. 50k for Globe. number. Thank you. And pinball nerd says too about about IP rankings. Like I said, like me, I'd probably be top 10. Well, okay, maybe not top 10. We love you pinball nerds. I don't know how good you are, so I can't comment on that. It might be instead of 2,000 if I didn't live in the freaking sticks. Yep. Yep. And Nathan not much better than a house ball right there. So, he's sitting at 34,000. Let's see what Larry can do right here. Almost 70,000 points now. It's about right about 100,000 points to catch Michael. It's very doable. And he's one globe, one saucer hit away from it. Oh, it just went around the saucer. That is a 50,000 point rim shot right there. And I just found out that one of my games had a wire form rail pop out. So, I'm going to go fix that and I'll be right back. Yeah, go fix it. Yeah, Justin brought some machines himself here. And it's a good reminder, by the way, as I'm going to do this that if you come down here to Cincinnati, uh the names for all the owners and their phone numbers are on there so that you can text people. Stuff gets fixed like that. You're not going to see a lot of down games. Right on time. There is the globe shot. There is the 50,000 from it. He is at 128. So now let's see what route he goes. Does he start working on globe shots again or does he maybe work towards the multipliers in the top right side? We haven't seen enough of this machine to really see if it's leaning in one direction or the other just yet. That will help though. That saucer up top is a really easy way to build up your globe letters very, very quickly. It's not the only way, but it's maybe the most reliable way to do it. You can definitely see a focus. Okay, there's the first one. Another shot after that should grant a multiplier. Nice save right there. I think bonus. All right, he's got 2x and that's grinding globe letters as well. He's already three of the five
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    there. So, he will drain out, but the bonus gets him over 200,000. 213,220. So, we are in ball three. Let's see if Wayne can do something here. No one is going to get eliminated out of this group. But boy, if you get three strikes, it puts you very much under the gun going into your next game because at that point, it's essentially you have you're win or done. You can have a second place finish in this format and still be completely out of the tournament. The way it shakes out is maybe the one big negative about a strikes tournament like this is, you know, with a regular strikes tournament, you always know what you have to get. You know, don't be third, don't be fourth. But with this type tournament, it can be very, very different than that. Got to think about it all the time. He did get to 70,000. So that at least gives the possibility of a third place finish. I see Eric over here writing a note. I assume it is for one of the machines. Yeah, it definitely is. So here's Michael second place right now. Gets his third globe letter right then. That ball's still playing up top there. Man, just too much momentum on it for it to get in the saucer again. trailing by about 31,000 points right now. Nice save, but it was too much. Was not able to recover from the flipper action right then. So, he will be stuck at 180,000. He can do no worse than third, but no better than second. So, he's going to be at either six or seven strikes when this is all said and done with.
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    And pinball nerds makes a good point too when we talk about the IFA rankings and it's very true. If you want to be a top hunter player, you need you need to either travel a lot or you need to be somewhere where the scene is super super active, especially with tournaments. Um Cleveland, Columbus has a good scene. Cincinnati scene is very good. Um Jesse and Stewart Icewonger have really built a lot of their ranking on building the tournament scene there. That is huge for Nathan. That's going to get him into third place as he gets the globe
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    points. So now it becomes about playing a little add-on pinball right here. Looks like he's going for the multiplayer shots on the right side and he is going to trap up on it. Taking his time. Almost feel like there may have been a backhand possibility. There is the scissor drain. All right, I'm calling a win. I took the over. That's all I'm saying. I took the
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    over. That is number two. And here comes Larry. He doesn't have to play it. He's going to just I think he's going to goof around long enough to see if he can get a globe. He does not. So, he'll let that drain and he will take his win in game number four. and he will stay at five strikes, which at this point now looks very, very good to have an a just under second place finish across all of your tournaments here. Scores have already been entered, in fact. So, you can see now where everybody stands at. Um, we'll see if we can get Eric to give us a new machine here in just a minute. Um, in the meantime, we'll take a look at the standings right here. See what else is finished. In fact, Harlem was the first finishing game of the day. Um, so we'll see if we can get it on another machine here in just a second or so. Do you think Eric can switch me to another machine?
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    Angie's going to give us a little help there. Yep. Over wins on uh on player three, ball three. So, Delaware, can we get some channel currency for winning that? I don't think we can bet anything else and have it actually be uh okayed by Twitch any more than that. They might find that just just a wee bit on the questionable side, shall we say. Um, we will take a quick look at the standings right here. Um, as we said, Jesse is the only player and all of the players, um, Dale, Josh, Nick, and Jesse, I'll take all the action. There you go. Um, they are all in the same group together. Um, the two strike players, four of the six of them are in a group together. So, yeah, you can see those groupings coming together here. Um, and interesting on the back end of it too, you can see the the group over here of Joe, John, Daniel, and Tim. Um, the four of them are in a group together. There's a possibility that three of the four players in that group don't move on depending on how the finish goes. There's also a possibility only two of them are eliminated or yeah, two of them will be eliminated no matter what. Um, that's what can happen in this type of format where it's progressive strikes. you you can be in a position now where Wayne is at as well where all it takes is one round and you have to win out the rest of the way to stay in this thing. We're going to see that as this thing goes on as well. Um there is one thing I'm going to check real quick and I think it's in the rules. Maybe that's something we can even uh check on.
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    I'm typing in my uh laptop right here. You can't see that. That's probably a
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    benefit. Friday Night Strikeout Tournament. There we go. And that is one thing worth noting. Oh, I think it's on the move. Let's take a look. Yeah, it's definitely on the move. That's an EM. So, we have switched over to the Tim Sexton game right now. Which game? Ser. All right, there we go. Ser Champamp is the game here. You see a lot of similarities to Big Indian right
    107:02
    there. This is a high-end group. James Scott, who I we know had a very tough start, but has shown himself very well since then. He's in round four with only three strikes. Joel is in this group as well. Your nephew is rooting on rollover targets. You can see there for one through five. You can see as
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    well doing a great job of keeping this in play. He's in second place right now with 17,000
    107:33
    points. Those bumper shots worth 10 each. Not big points there. He's got a nice bonus. It looks like two. That's going to help him. I think that might be enough to propel him into first place right here. And it is. So 33,000. That would be a win for Tim if he can get it. Joel's working up the ladder for everybody right here. 6,000. He's got about 5,000 for first and then he's got a lot of room to go for second and first place right here. But it's
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    doable. Just don't Oh, don't let that happen. And now the key here is to build that bonus up to the more points the better. up to 4,000. Now he's up to 5,000. So he's going to get at least third place right here just on the strength of his bonus play. A lot of saucer work right there, too. But there's not a lot of points in it. Now there is. Now he wants to get it back up into that saucer as quickly as humanly possible,
    108:30
    too. It's a 13,000 right now. Bonus at six. Oh, he's trying for it. He wants that top right shot.
    108:41
    very very much. Is that going to drain? No, it's the end of the flipper right there. So Joel doing a good job keeping this in play. More lights on the top right side
    108:53
    here. Getting keeping an eye on everything here. Yeah, ball three. That's right. This is a five ball game. Good correction right there. So we're not done yet. And here is James Scott four.
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    his ball. There it is. Ball number four. So, 22,000. That does put him into third place right here. Very competitive among the top three spots right now. Thank you, Loader, for that reminder. Appreciate
    109:23
    it. And this is a play all extra ball game, too. So, if we do see one of these players get an extra ball, they will be able to utilize it.
    109:36
    See what James Scott has in mind here. Keeping it in play. Good job there.
    109:44
    Completing all of those drop targets. By the way, looks like it's a 5,000 point bonus. He is only one away, it
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    appears. So, if he can get that ball over there, that is just barely kept in. I would think he wants to line this up on that right flipper there. Does Yeah, he's going to drop catch that one. Just nestle it back into play.
    110:12
    Now that Saucer's got value, thousand points per hit for him. Interestingly, with all the work he's done, there's not a lot of bonus in play here so far. Now, that saucer be huge with all those lights on it. Oh, just doesn't get the pop bumper. Oh, it's sitting there. What's he going to do? I don't think that qualifi There it goes. It does go down the drain. It definitely wasn't stuck. Wow. It almost feels like the kind of thing where you have to do just a tiny little nudge on it to try and figure out a direction to go. It's not stuck. It's in play. Whoa.
    110:55
    So, with that, he ends at 269. He has made the gap up to second place
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    here. Now it'll be up to Matt Goslin to see if he can gain that spot back. [Laughter] Hey, if you want to clip it for Stuck Balls, I that'd be awesome. I would love you to do that. Hit the clip button in chat, man. The more clips the better. We haven't had anybody do uh any fun clips just yet, so I would love for someone to do it. Meanwhile, we'll show that to Justin right here because because he is back from his quick pinball repair. My quick repair job. We just had James Scott get a ball stuck on the metal right there. Really? It just sat. It just sat. Oh, I love when that happens. 10 seconds. I love when that happens. He didn't nudge it. He waited it out. Did he? And it went down the out lane.
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    Unfortunat fate figure that out. I'm going to nudge it. Vbell and Chad V, how are you? What's going on? Veronica. Yeah, I'd be the girlfriend. Yeah. Well, hello. Beautiful Veronica. Beautiful Veronica. She is. I would like You've seen the pictures. She's I've seen the pictures. I can vouch for you. No, wait. She's out in Florida right now. She's in Florida right now. Wow. She is taking time from being on the beach in Florida to watch this stream. That is that is dedication and love if I've ever seen it. And I am so freaking blessed. It's not even funny. That is the coolest. So, here is Matt Goslin right now. 27,000 points. the opposite problem. My My wife was technically in this tournament but couldn't make it. So, I'm impressed. Yeah. Although, she's off doing cool stuff, so I can't I can't blame her. True. He's off doing cool stuff. That was over the right side there. One thing that um they taught me early and this was thanks to Eric Hortonburgger. Yeah. I I asked him, I said, "How is it that you stay out of the out lane so well?" and he said, "Recognize that at the top of every out lane there is the top of the sling itself, right? So you've got this thing here and then you've got the lane divider." And he said, "Recognize that this is almost always slightly higher than this." It is. And so your odds of going in or out are not 50%. They are. They're below 50%. That's correct. So he said you you want to stay out of that gambit every time. You want to stay out of that choice by keeping it off the top of the sling. Makes sense. If you can keep out of there, uh, you're going to do a lot better. And so since then, I haven't I used to rely heavily on the in lane outlane debate. It was going to be like, well, hey, I got a 50% chance, but you really don't. It's it's heavily biased against staying in the in lanes. Basically, stay out of the lane, stay out of the lane, period. Yeah. Ooh, the rare misplay. I I think Tim maybe had a shot at saving that. Was not able to. He will end at 41,000 on that bond. Maybe Tim had a shop before the game and that's why that's what happened. Is Is the restaurant out there open for open for dinner? Actually, there's a bar in Cincinnati. Really? Yeah. You don't even have to leave the event to get a drink. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Yep. Yep. And let's be honest, Jungle Gyms is right down the street and they have the one of the greatest selections of Oh my gosh. of wines and other such beverages ever. Wine, cigars, all of it. And you're not far from Newport in the party source. I'm just saying I will be hitting that at some point before I go home, too. Oh, you Yeah, you got to. Oh, the bourbon selection is amazing. Oh, I know it is. Oh, you got it. Nice save there. Joel sitting at 24 right now. Working his He's got to work his way back up the ladder. Made up a lot of the distance. There you go, Joel. And he survives the 50/50. So, one thing that Joel does really well, and I've I've had the good fortune to play with him quite a number of times in tournaments, oh, is that Joel usually keeps his focus on what is right now. So, you'll see Joel have a really scary moment. You'll you'll see Joel have a crazy save and he immediately locks back into what's happening as if it never happened. It's not quite Zen because he's very he's actively engaged like emotionally, but he is good at just resetting whatever just happened is over. Now, here I am. He is the perfect relief pitcher. Yeah. You forget about the last batter. You forget about something that happened to you. That's right. And you move on to the next guy. It never happened.
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    So here is James. And this is ball five. This is the last ball. Man, that thing came down fast. Sitting at 28 right now. He's in fourth place. So everything right now is only working his way up. Oh, just enough mo. Oh wow. That is a That is very surprising for James Scott. So, was that a double flip error or was it just going to happen? I think that was a double flip. I think it was too. I didn't want to put it on him, but I think that was a double flip. I think James will look at you and you could see his reaction and even he feels like he absolutely should have had that. Yeah, that that could have been his ball. It's not like him in any way, shape, or form. I mean, he he's someone who's routinely winning in Columbus, but what does, you know, our level one tournaments typically have? Not a ton of games like this. And the one we had, Sinbad, which just got given away, um, really wasn't up a lot of the season. So, you know, that is maybe one weakness of the Columbus. Didn't get a chance to practice on it. Did not get a chance to play a lot of classics. You know, we do have places that have them. Spoonful Records has a couple of good classics games always in their place. And yeah, nothing Matt could have done about that, but it does give him solid second for now. Yeah. So, did you guys already talk strategy on Surf Champ while I was out? Not a ton of strategy. Okay, so if I can um Surf Champ has these star rollovers and yeah, Lot of Breath and Pinball Nerds, you're right. We all do it. We all do it. We're all guilty of it and we all kick ourselves every single time it happens, too. So, Surf Champ has these star rollovers right in the middle of the play field. Yes. And those are they correspond with this saucer up here. So, as you light the star rollovers, you're actually building value in this saucer. And you'll see them light up as they We have seen that fact. When when no one when it's not lit, it's only worth about 100 points. Even when you have like one of them lit, it goes up to almost a,000 points and becomes very very lucrative. So, you'll see some people get really aggressive with these drop targets up here. And if you do complete them, you get 5,000. You get 5,000 for that. No, it's worth it. Um, a lot of a lot of times you'll see people focus on those star rollovers and then go in for this saucer because the star rollovers are they're not necessarily a gimme. They don't just happen. You have to Lazarus ball. Got a lot. Trust the process. Love that. And now he has them all lit. Is he going to go for it? I I think he has to. No, he's not. So impressed when somebody can do that. When they know it's coming back up and they wait for it. It's the second time we've seen that on a classic today. Love it. He is one drop target away from 5,000. Now he's got that saucer charged. No, that hurts. See if you can get it back up there. It's not a direct shot. If you take a direct shot, four times out of five, nine times out of 10, it's going to pop out. Yes. So, you have to get it up off that bumper. The beautiful thing is that bumper just to the to the left of it will want to pop it back up into the saucer. He was close, but not quite there again. Also, for that last drop target shot, it's really a matter Oh, he almost did it again. He almost did it again. The bonus is really good here. 64,000 is excellent. And yet, even with that, it still feels like he left a lot of points on the table. He really did. I mean, that's got to be disappointing because he had his saucer fully charged. He had one drop target left. You could not be in more of a position to cash in than he was. And to take three good swings at it and still miss it, that's got to be frustrating. This is a hell of an effort, though. And hey, you can soothe all your pain from missing those shots by just hoping that Joel does not get 32,000 points right here and he doesn't take any strikes. That's that. Oh, Joel is feeling it. Sorry, bud. And Joel just barely does move out of the cellar. So, he will only take two strikes from there. Yep. Yep. So, James, unfortunately, is going to come in last place on that one and take three more, getting him to a total of six. Joel's going to take two to get to six. Matt Goslin is going to take one to get to five. And Tim Sexton walks away only two strikes. Still very much intact. Let's pull up those standings. Jesse Baker, by the way, we round four. He is still He is four for four. Look at this guy. Undefeated so far. No strikes in the whole tournament. Just remarkable. Pinball nerds, thank you for those bits as well, man. We appreciate you, Pinball Nerds. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I love, you know, so this isn't the money thing, but when somebody gives bits to me, it's just like saying, you know, you can have like a little like this is a sacrifice. I just think that's so sweet. It's like you're giving me something that you actually have. Heck yeah. To say thanks. I just think it's amazing. So, thank you for that. Appreciate that tremendously. And and this is and Ross was rooting on his is his his big uncle big ball. Never mind. It didn't work out. You tried, man. Is that Ross on there? That is Ross. Is Ross. I hope we're not giving away anything secret here, Ross. We were bragging on you earlier. No, thank you for the bits as well. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. That's really amazing. Thank you. Thank Thank you. So, that big win for Tim keeps him tied for second. Anna Neil playing great pinball right now and Josh Noble, who we've seen as well, all with two strikes. I'll be curious to see where Eric chooses to take our roving camera next. I am very curious about that, too. I if I if I had to take a guess, he's going to go to something new. He's going to go to Iron Maiden. He's going to go to Medieval Madness. Maybe Junkyard or World Cup. I was going to say, are we allowed to make requests? Because I will never turn down a World Cup soccer request. I would also love Never ever ever turn that down. It is one of my personal favorites. And when I roommed with Larry for a couple years back now going 15 years ago, that is one that I played all the time. Oh, really? Yeah. Nice. You knew that. I remember with Larry for a couple years. I did not know that. Yeah, I did. Wait, which Larry? Larry Scott. Did you really? Yeah. Awesome. It's one of the things that got me into pinball in a big time way. I love that. Was the fact that he had 25 machines in his house way back then. Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yeah. Good dude. It's amazing it didn't come up while we were talking about Larry Scott. I just didn't bring it up. Yeah, you just didn't bring it up. Well, that's way cool. What a what a cool place to live. You're surrounded by machines all the time. It is amazing. We could Yeah, I was going to say, let's call our arcade. Hey, I think we got a bid fight going on here. They are helping sponsor this awesome. Oh my gosh. Nap Arcade, these people are helping sponsor the awesomeness. Thank you Nap Arcade for those 200 bits. We appreciate you. That's really kind. And thank you to Pin Stadium to Speaker Lake gets Comet Pinball. Yep. What the flip? What the flip? What the flip? As they say on the West Coast, doggy soccer. Nice. Tilt Reckar Arcade Legacy. We appreciate all you guys for helping support the stream and helping make all this happen. And you with the bits as well. you are supporting the fine people at Straight Down the Middle Pinball and helping them keep their streaming efforts going. So, you know, we appreciate everything that you're doing for them. They are our kind host today on stream. I know Eric helps a lot with their efforts of their their shared channel. Yep. So, yeah, by giving bits, you're helping them tremendously. We're we're glad you are. To to the whole straight down the middle crew, uh we're just we're grateful for a chance to get to stream with you. Got to meet Zach for the first time today. Hadn't had a chance to meet. How fun is that? Yeah. Yeah. and uh and flipping out pinball as well. Big huge presence from Flipping Out Pinball here at the show. If you are anywhere near Cincinnati, it's a pretty fun place to be right now. Come on out. Um we are 120 machines strong at this at this party. We've got tournaments all weekend. You don't have to buy into the whole weekend. You could just come for an afternoon. Absolutely. And uh and it would well be worth it. Ken got through there resetting it looks like getting a plunge on Surf Champ. So, he may be ready to start another round. You can hear Eric Wartenberger in the background. He has announced it. That means we're about to start our next round. Let's see where he moves us. If he leaves us as surf champ, it's very interesting. I kind of hope he does, but we're going to see what he opts to do here.
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    Uh yeah, let's put those standings up. Let's see them. All right, there it is. We do have some eliminations. Joe Cino unfortunately is out. Donovan's out. John Richie, ouch. And it looks like we lost Larry. Both the Nikki unfortunately. Oh no, we lost two Nikki. Jeff, I did not see that coming. That surf champ is one of Jeff's. I was hoping he'd get to play on it. Yes. Wow. Larry Schmidlin and Jeff Westercam both out already. Yeah, very surprising. I think we are moving, which means it's time for the Whartonburg camp. For you, man. It's the Wharton camp. Yeah, dude. Ross is rooting your butt on big time right now in chat. Ross is rooting you on big time in chat. Yeah, Joel just stopped over to say hello and uh he says hello back to Ross. Anna says hello, too. Hello, Anna. I'm trying to say hi to Anna. Oh, they're smart there. Said there's no time. So, now we got the high end. We're good. This is the amazing thing. Uh Cincinnati is only in its second year. Yes. and we already are up to filling three tournaments before before we ever started filling three tournaments. We've got 120 plus machines. We've got a waiting list to get into the tournaments. I just feel so lucky to be a part in just the second year of something that is I I think what it speaks to is not just the incredible work by Eric and Jerry and the people who put it together. Uh but it speaks to the hunger for pinball. It does. Cincinnati is not a huge town. There's what 250,000 in the urban core, maybe one and a half million. two maybe two especially if you count in Northern Kentucky. So it's I mean it's not Chicago. It's still a burgeoning area I think as far from a pinball community as well. There's a lot of good hot beds for it. You know the arcade legacies, the comics, the games, places like that. There's a lot of good places to play in town. Y but you know compare it to a place like Col Pins mechanical for example. You know Columbus that has like three pins mechanical you know level one um arcade super awesome. It has places that have really really significant pinball collections. Um, and Cleveland as well that has the longestablished scene. Yes. Between um, you know, your super electric collectibles, your places like that. Y. So, Ohio really is a great pinball state. It It's an amazing state. And, you know, I'm I would be remiss to say out of out of the three big cities that, you know, Cincinnati is number three, but it's still number three with a heck of a lot of pinball to be played. Oh my gosh. And it has a good and I love the fact this show brings out a lot of that private community that typically is not necessarily at shows. I mean there's a lot of great collectors in Cincinnati as well and this has kind of become the get together show them every year. This really is is the white tent over there. The white tent is up pinball white tent pinball tent that is Phoebe and Larry's awesome tent. I will if I if they have the fireball thing over there I may take a shot of it later. I may regret it. Oh yeah, I may take a shot of that later just they always bring uh Mark Combmes always brings a a fireball. Oh my gosh, that's pretty exciting. That's pretty exciting. Of all the places that Keith Elwin could be, he could be at either one of the fanboy in a little bit right now. You're going to have to call. I'm not going to lie about that. I'd love to get him over and do commentary with Keith. I can ask. No, you do that. I'm terrified. So, but speaking of him, look, we're playing Iron Man right now. This is the time to ask him about it. I'll be right back. The goat showed up.
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    Yeah. So, ball one is done. That is Pat Green who was up on that right now. So, Justin Masterson trying to work some serious magic right now. We'll see if he's able to do it. I'm going to try and uh tweak that score cam just a little bit so you guys can get a better view. I don't think I can, unfortunately. Was hoping I could zoom it in a little bit. Doesn't look like it gives me that option.
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    But we'll we'll do the scores as best we can. We know it's a little bit hard for you guys to see, but we'll make it work best we
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    Maybe later. He said later. Done. Would love it. I would love it. Yeah, I I am legit honestly surprised with two Stern Pro Circuit events. Not that he has to worry about qualifying for it. I'm sure he's up there. Yep. You know, it's cool to see him here today. I am so glad to have Keith Owen with us. So, he said he'd come on over later. He said he just got here and wants to stretch first. So, I get that. Oh my god. Take he Hey, he is Keith Owen. He can take all the time. That's right. So, this is a Keith Owen designed machine. I think it's a good opportunity for us to talk about this machine. This machine kind of took the world by storm when it came out. It did. And it's only what, a year and a half old. Yeah, about a year and a half. Yep. And uh some of the features on this machine are really Oh, that thing was fast. So, there was a big to-do about it because when we found out that that Keith Ellen was going to design it, everybody's like, "What's he going to do?" And I think what he did was he designed a true players machine. Some of the the really interesting features on this machine. So, you have an upper loop here. Mhm. That is just lightning fast so that you can get think of like a high-speed two. A lot of machines will have a loop like that. Yeah, it is. but lightning fast. Then you have an inner opposite loop right here. Right. So you can both of them can qualify for the same loop awards and loop jackpots. Right. So you can see actually he's taking that loop right there. Got it perfectly right then. Got the loop award as well for it. Yep. You've got this center ramp right here that leads to a spot target on top that you use to qualify and start a number of modes. You have a pretty traditional captive ball. But what I think makes this captive ball really There he goes with that loop. What makes this captive ball really interesting is the angle that it's at with respect to this flipper. So if you are daring enough, you can pick up that captive ball straight up off the loop and just hope to god you don't get a right out lane drake and I've seen it done and I've seen it done well and I've seen it done poorly. Here goes Cody rocking that loop of those jackpots out of it. Up to 10 million already. Yep. So really nicely done by him. Yep. And we've got ramps on either side. The one on the right is quite steep. It reminds me a bit of the ramp you might see in Kiss or Metallica where you have to get a running head start on that ramp if you want to clear it. There was a good attempt at that ramp right there. Kind of sort of. I was trying to zoom it, but it was a little challenging. Yeah, it's a little difficult to read the scores, but that's okay. Um I see
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    what's that now? We could try that. Yeah, I'll try. Make a copy of it.
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    I didn't either. I was like, "Go over to the table." He's like, "No." I was like, "Cool." Did he didn't seriously say that? No, he didn't say that. Keith Keith is awesome. We love Keith. All right, I'm going to work on H. This is going to be interesting to do on the fly. You know what? that we'll wait till the next uh we'll wait till the next ball save right here. Yeah. So, a great comment on the on the uh stream there that the upper loop seems easier than it is from Nap Arcade. And that's so true. Watching it here, it looks similar to let's say the one in in Beatles, uh the Stern Beatles. Um it is not an easy shot. It looks like it would be or like the sea witch loop. It looks like it would be. It is not an easy shot. So, the fact that they're getting that so consistently means you're looking at a at a good pinball player. And there's a little bit of riskreward in it, too, because you can lift up that top left flipper and if you lift it up, I believe the the loop is easier to get, but you get less points for it. The game realizes that and the upper left flipper. Yes. Yeah. So, that's the which is amazing that, you know, something like that, you know, minute but super significant can be put into the game like that. There's the nuances like that I think are one of the things that have made people really like the Keith Owen machines. You know, the multitude of of super secret skill shots, you know, the combinations. You see that with the Mr. DNA shots in Jurassic Park, you know, that attention to detail. Oh, the the combo super secret skill shots in Jurassic Park are so much fun. This skill shot is bizarre. So the super secret on this one if you want the most points is to come here and left out lane drain which is exactly what I but Pat might have been trying to do there. I don't know he might but I think he got the in lane one for 6 million also not bad as he is playing his ball too right here. Is it C? Yeah control C. Yes. Um I mean and so even when you're trying for it you don't get it. There's like there's like constellation shots. Y and the other thing it gives you added ball save time too. Y. So, you know, for being a little bit risky, it rewards you and says, "Yeah, we'll give you another couple shots to play around with, have some fun with." I I've really enjoyed in the last couple of years, there's been some use of ball save as sort of as a game feature, as a reward. So, if you play Total Nuclear Annihilation, for instance, uh ball save is half of that game. Yeah. Figuring out how to get your ball save going. And I I I appreciate that it's gone beyond just That was quick for Pat right there. It is enough to put him in first place right now at 16 million. Oh, there you go.
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    Kyle Ko stepping up on Iron Maiden. He's at 3 million now. So, he's got a little climbing to do to catch up to Pat. But yeah, Nap said it. If you hit those in play, it's a super advantage. He tried just not able to get it. He tried that skill shot. If Yeah, if you don't hit any switches, you get another try at that. Oh, he almost got it. Almost got it. You got it. Nice thought and play there. just not able to do it. Yep. Kyle has really had his focus today. It's been fun watching him play. Kung's actually around here. It seems like more places than not have it on for competition purposes. He was saying he's surprised to see the skill shots on for competitive play, but like I said, more places I see around here have it on for that. I have seen it. Yeah. Most of the time. Yeah. But but it's a good point. I mean, it's it's a it's a what is it like a 20 million point shot or something? It's 20 mil if you hit that out. It's worth huge points. It would be more than any player has so far in this game. Yep. It's a huge shot. So, he does drain down with bonus. He will be at He will not make it to 10 million just yet on ball number two. Going to come a little short. So, here comes Cody. Cody's up right about the same spot. Cody's a Columbus player. Seen him play quite a bit. He's He's repping level one right now. He is repping the level one. I've got my hoodie on on my uh right back there. Yeah. Another wonderful thing about uh pinball, and I don't know what it's like in every state, so I'll only speak for Ohio, but um like Jesse Baker, for instance, owns a number of arcades in town. Yeah. And then he goes and plays at other people's arcades. He does. People from level one, like yourself, come down here and talk about the great arcades. So, it doesn't matter if you have a financial stake or a personal interest. Everybody is just into making pinball bigger and better. Man, that dream fast down there for Cody. That hurts. Everybody wants to see the I think he should have had that. I think that was maybe just a little fast. I'm going to give him benefit of the doubt there just because of speed. I love it when all of these different pinball institutions are working together to try and grow the hobby, right? It would be tempting to see each other as competition. Everybody is just seeing it as collaboration. Nice super skill right there. He did get five million for that. Yep. And he is working on his mummy shots. Did he complete it? No, he's got sarcophagus lock licked.
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    Oh man. So, this is the downside of that ramp, right? That ramp looks like a cakewalk from here. But if you rattle that ramp, if you either half ramp it or rattle ramp it, it's going to come right back down the middle. The center drain on it is really tough. And you do need a solid shot to make it all the way up that ramp. It's hard to tell from this angle, right? Because we're looking down on it, but that that ramp requires a little energy to get up it. And a half ramp or a rattler is tough. It is. There's that inner loop. Pat was not able to So, you just saw Pat do two loops, one in the outer and one in the inner loop off the same flipper. Another part of this brilliant design. Sorry for another set center drain on Pat, but he made good use of the time he had up there. It was just too short. Yeah, there are there are very few pinball places that I will say that I will not go to. And if there are, I better have a darn good reason not to go there cuz I want to play the game. Yeah. And everyone that owns it is generally very very very cool. Ain't it great? Yeah. I mean, you see owners are all supportive of each other. They come out, play, they You see arcade owners showing up at each other's arcades and and talking about how great they are. I love that about this community. Yes. So, we are ball three time right now. Kyle is in Kyle's looking for that super secret skill. He knows. He knows. This is almost a traditional strikes game with everybody at seven strikes. First and second live to see another day. Third and fourth do not. Yep. So, all of these players are playing for their pinball tournament lives right now. Whoa. That is not That is a danger. That's it. Kyle's out. He is done. Yep. You can see how close right now third and you know the player three, player four are. They're separated by less than 100,000 points. Less than 1% of their total score. So, Kyle with that bonus only able to get up to 12. It now comes down to either Cody or Darren are going to be done. Oh, just missed on the skill shot. Not quite enough on the plunge. Boy, when you get the feel for it, it's amazing. And definitely this thing has been tuned a little bit for tournament play. Oh, look at that. Now, smart plunge. That's a smart nudge. So, if if we had instant replay, here's what I would be replaying. Clip it. Please clip it. He Yeah, he nudged and then nudged back. And so if you're wondering how the heck did he shake that table and not tilt, some people have the gift where they can nudge and then counter nudge. The two people that I have seen that have the best gift of that and I'm sure Cody has learned from them. Unfortunately, not well enough cuz he did drain. Oh, a bummer. And so now he's in a very precarious spot, he is 300,000 points, less than 300,000 points away from elimination. I mean, Darren can go for the regular million skill shot and be done here. Yeah. Oh, he did go over the switch. So, it's over. I think he still went for it, but I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he's done. Oh, he lost his ball save. No, he got it back. No, he got the ball save back. He just didn't get his back. It doesn't matter. I don't know if he realizes yet. Well, I mean, he's playing for the strike. There you go. He's trying to save it. Oh, he look at that double danger and kept himself alive. Yeah. So, there's no reason right here. There's none. He has got to be delighted with the way that went. He's very delighted. If he gets past 18 million, he avoids a strike alto together. Amazing. But Darren will stay in this tournament either with seven or eight strikes. I love that nudge clip. Somebody clip that. Please clip that. I want to see that later. Please, somebody let me know where it's going to be and I will go back and watch it cuz that was fantastic. Yeah. So, what we can tell you, unfortunately, Kyle and Cody are done and Darren's really playing for placement here cuz the placement does matter. Yep. That nudge by Darren reminds me of Oh, and there's the Karma the machine coming back. There it was. But that's all right. He got a few more points in He got a few more points and he did the most important thing he could. He cleared into second place which cleared into second and he lives to see another day. It's tempting to think of your danger warnings as a liability. Um remember danger warnings are an asset just like the next ball is an asset. You have them to use and it's really tempting to think of them as oh god I've gone too far. The question is how will you use your danger warnings? Absolutely. Are you going to use them at the time when they need to be used and are going to use them judiciously enough that you don't go over? Right. And that was a great use of those of that double danger by Darren. He was willing to do what it takes knowing he had three to go. I guarantee if he'd already had two, he wouldn't have made that nudge. No. And and you know, in that position where Dude, I'm we're clipping that save. That was amazing. I think three people clipped it. God love you, Twitch chat. Thank you so much. the stream.
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    I want to short I want to shorten this table to build a path so that you can hear. Oh my god. Yes, I would love that. That That was incredible. Darren, do you want to Darren, do you want to talk about it? No. He said he doesn't want to come over. Man, we're having a hard time selling people on joining us at this booth. Is it the smell? Is it me? No. Is it me? Do I smell? You do not smell. Okay. Or maybe we both smell and that's why we can't smell each other. We're nose blind. Allergies. Streamies. Do we smell? Can you Can you tell from there? Is it the bald head? Is it too reflective? I got one of those. I'm just keeping it under this cap. Amen. We go to the same barber, buddy. The one where they take it all off. That's right. All right, let's look at the matches right now. Yeah, let's see the matches in the standings. Looks like we've got about twothirds of the matches done. Looks like in that big match, Josh Noble took first place. Jesse Baker took fourth. No. So he is going from zero strikes on ACDC. I I never would have called that. Not in a million years. I wouldn't have either. Not even a little bit. He has his own AC/DC. That may be his AC/DC. Yeah, I think it might be. That is just remarkable. Just remarkable. Cleaners. Got to love you. I want to know what happens. Thank you, Pinball Nerds, for the bits, by the way. Appreciate it. I want to know what happened there, too. Um, looks like we have Nick Delaney winning big game. Rob Smith on Harlem Globe Trotters. Ken Gunther on Big Game. Wait a minute. We had two games on Big Game. Wonder if we had a machine go down or something. That might be why there are two marks there. Um the Medieval Madness remake goes to Caleb Wise Gerber. Um Rory Richie takes Surf Champ and the stars skin goes to Daniel Robertson. S Daniels with the Twitch Prime sub. Joe Soap with the bits. Guys, thank you so much for all of the support today. Thank you for that sub as well. So much appreciative of what you guys are doing here. Uh sorry we don't have the alerts going for all this stuff. We will certainly call you guys out cuz we appreciate everything you're doing. Oh my gosh. Yeah. If you have Twitch Prime, you can sub to this channel. Sub to somebody's channel. Yeah, sub. We are appreciative that you subbed because of Cincinnati. Thank you so much for supporting Straight Down the Middle Pinball. Yeah. Thank you so much. And and those bits, man. They really Yeah, appreciate it. I was saying earlier, I don't know if everybody was on, but it's a heart thing when somebody gives something like that like like the bits. Like that's a personal sacrifice. No doubt. And it just speaks to me. So I just I think that's a real heart thing for me. I just really appreciate that. And you're supporting, you know, we're not making money on it. You're supporting pinball is what you're supporting uh and streaming. So thank you for that. We're really proud to be here and uh and so proud to have you with us. Mhm. So, we have three people have clipped uh I think Darren's amazing nudge save there. There's a clip in chat right now. We will we will go back and look. I cannot wait to see it. So, it's interesting now to look at these stats and see things start to shake out. Um we have some games going on. It looks like we have eliminated probably we're probably looking at about 20 players eliminated after this game is done. After these games are done. Yep. the one. But some of the surprises that I'm seeing right now. Yeah. John Del Zappa, who got off to such a strong start, now at six strikes. That only takes two bad games. It takes two bad games to do it. And he may well had him. James Scott at six strikes right now. And now looking at that top group, Josh Noble leads by himself at two strikes. Jesse Baker, Nick, and Anna at three. Tim, Rob, Joe at four strikes. So, this is one of the things about this is one of the reasons I love strike style tournaments because somebody like Jesse has been undefeated on the day gets one fourth place and he has three strikes that those three strikes look exactly the same as somebody who got three second places or a a third and a second. So, it's a it's a leveling kind of uh format. If we were doing a double elimination or a straight strikes tournament, not a progressive strikes tournament where you just get three strikes and you're out, we wouldn't be in this position because Jesse would have one strike along with anybody else who lost one game. But position matters in this one. And so his one fourth place finish all of a sudden leveled him out with people who have lost two, sometimes even three games or got a second place in three games. Correct. And I did want to check on one thing when we get to that point. any two-player games here that we get, and we won't see those until we get down to either a head-to-head at the end or a fiveplayer setup where we have a three-player game and a two-player game. Yeah. Those games will be two strike games. Oh, yeah. So, you know, we the only the only negative that I think anybody can ever say about this format Oh crap. Did that get unplugged? Yeah, that got unplugged. Oh, here. Yeah. Plug it back in. Do you know what it is? It's my fault. When I moved my elbow, I think I'm unplugged it. Oh, that's fine. I'm glad still in 98%. That's my hot spot for this bad boy over here. Oh, I see the secret laptop that you can't see. That's how we're keeping up with the stream right now. Yes, we're multitasking like pros here. Um, so it's going to be a two strike. You said the only downside of this kind of format is that typically in a two-player game, the second player would get one strike and then you can have games that go on like five, six rounds if two people truly dominate. We've seen it before. Y that's not a bad thing as far as pinball, but when you do have a little bit of a time frame, you know, we do have the women's tournament that we're going to be broadcasting later, which is going to be amazing. It's the amazing race format. Love it. If you've watched my broadcast before up at level one, you do know that we've done that format up there a couple of times before. Evan Bingham runs it. Evan Bingham also, by the way, one of the best I've ever seen at that the the the counter nudge. The counter nudge. He is so good at that. When I think of Evan Bingham, that's what I think of the counter nudge. Wait. So, can you go through the Amazing Race style format? Amazing race style format is like this. I don't know if we'll be having any preliminary rounds tonight for the women's event or if we're going to be going into it. Well, I'll check the rules on that in a minute. Okay. But Alabama Pinball, thank you for being a part. Thank you for uh watching. We appreciate you watching as much as we're glad to be doing this for you. It's no fun unless you're enjoying it with us. Um, we just be talking to each other. God knows we don't want to do that. Basically, every player in the tournament gets seated. We'll say 20. If there's 24 players, which I think there will be, y we'll see it in one through 24. Number 24 steps up to the very first machine, puts up a score, and then they go, they have to wait at that machine until the next player plays it. Every game is a oneplayer game. If number 23 beats the score, they move on to the next machine. And as soon as they beat the score, they move on. So, it's basically a don't have the worst score type format, right? Um, if they don't beat the score after three balls, then they have to wait at the machine until someone else gets a lower score. This process continues on in almost ladder matches style form until everybody has played that first machine. Whoever has the lowest score when it's all said and done, whoever is basically left at the machine is eliminated and would finish 24th place. We go through this process all the way down through all the machines. Are they happening simultaneously? machim happening at the same time and you're just basically machines as you can hold and have going at the same time. We've got 19 machines in the format right hereing. So if we have more machines than that, we'll actually have multiple rounds of it, which I think we will. Um I have never played this format. That's it sounds like a frenzy. It sounds like it's Is it Is it just a mad house of people running to machines to start the next one? It's organized, but really the tough part is scorekeeping because none of the traditional scorekeeping tools handle it yet. We really use like Excel and Google spreadsheets. I was thinking like a whiteboard like over each machine. Like how do you how do you keep track? Um a spreadsheet. It's almost like a like a like a diagonal style spreadsheet where you have 24 names and then it just goes up 23 22 21 just like that. Um but yeah, it is it is very frenzy. The action is quick. The strategies change so much because instead of feeling like you have to have the highest score, suddenly then it's the lowest score. Yep. Say someone puts up 20 million on World Cup soccer and you realize you have three balls and 20 million is what you have to get. It changes what you what you shoot for, you know, because then suddenly you're like, if I do this, if I get a t if I get one TV award, I'm done. I can move on to the next machine and do nothing. So the way it changes the meta of how people play a game, I think is the most important thing. That's that totally makes a difference. Yeah. If I knew that all I had to do was I need 10 million points on this machine. I'm going to play it totally different than I get the highest score. So, as soon as you're done, as soon as you've cleared somebody, the lowest person, you're done with that machine. You are.
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    So, we're going to a break. We are very right after this round. But don't you take a break cuz we're not going anywhere. Absolutely. We have tons more pinball to play. Scott and I are going to be here with all of the coverage for you. That's right. So, just because Cincinnati is taking a quick break in the tournament play doesn't mean we're going to take a break. I believe our break will probably be about 20 minutes or so, I would imagine. Yeah, it tends to be. Tends to be. Yeah. And I think after that, we're going to go into the Amazing Race probably as soon as this tournament is over. I believe the schedule time for that is 7:30, although I can see us going straight from one into the other. I could totally see that happening. Yeah. And and remember when I said I wish somebody would bring me a gift of coffee. Someone brought you a gift. Daniel Robinson brought me a gift of coffee. Daniel Robinson. You are the hero we deserve. You I might need some caffeine myself. The hero we need but not the one we deserve. You're watching Joelber and Tino just play at this point. Yeah. Because we're taking a 20-minute break in the action. Um and I think it might be it might be a good time to share a little bit more about Cincinnati, about what's here. Absolutely. Let's switch over to our cam real quick and we can talk about exactly that. Yeah. So, if you've never been free, can we get Eric over here? You guys should talk about it because you're you're connected to the show. So, well, let's do it. I'm going to see if I can get Eric over to talk for a few minutes about the show, guys. I'll be right back. You bet. And I promise it won't be a big commercial for P. Yeah, it'll be a big commercial for Pin. It should be. But uh we'll get Eric Wartenberger, one of the principal, uh arrangers and the the main organizer of the tournaments to come join us here at the the booth if if he can be bothered. Let's see. Hey, Eric, can you come talk about the show? Yes. All right. He said it'll be over in a minute. Um one of the things that's it it's hard to overestimate is the amount of cleverness and work that goes into a show like this. And it's uh when you get to something like this, so this is our second year doing it. When you get to something like this and you look around the room, by the time somebody like me buys a ticket, uh everything's already been figured out, but there is so much brilliant work and leg work that goes into getting to this moment. I wish we could say it's as easy as, hey collectors, just bring your machines and show up at this time, but it is the rest of the year doing things to prepare for something like Cincinnati. So, we're going to have Eric over here in just a minute. in true tournament uh fashion. Eric is fixing one of the tournament games, but we're going to have him over here to talk with us as soon as he frees up because I want to get a little bit into what it takes to run something like this. My hope is that uh folks like you and folks like me when we show up at a show like this, we just get to relax and enjoy it. And the reason why we can is because of that hard work. So, we'll get him to talk about it a little bit. I can tell you a little bit about the show. Again, this is uh 2019 is the second year of Cincinnati. It is a collector's show. So, essentially, you have all these collectors, whether it's somebody who owns one pinball machine or somebody who owns 40 pinball machines, they all bring them together into one giant conference room, uh convention center. A conference room doesn't quite do it justice. And so, we have a, you know, 120 machines out on the floor all set to free play. Uh, and all you do is you pay an admission fee, you get in, you play for free all day. The other thing is that the tournaments, uh, those those you buy into, but the tournaments are going all the way through the weekend. So, you can come, even if you're just tuning in now and that you're in Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, what up? Nashville. Eric Wartenberger, welcome. I was I was telling about the tournaments that they're running all weekend. Yep. And folks can still come down and hopefully find an open spot. Yep. So, I just talked to a player who didn't get on the wait list, but uh we have some last second movement right as it's starting because people don't show up that are on the wait list. And so, I just try to spread the word of show up if you want to play. Yep. And just hope for the best. Yep. If you just cuz you don't have a ticket yet doesn't mean you won't make it. You come on in, get on that wait list, and uh you might make it in. So, Eric, that tastes terrible. What are you drinking? Uh so, we have a local brewery that does these seltzer waters. Is it gross? And the blood orange one is terrible. Is it gross? Yeah. We won't name the brewery or the water, but so that was the opposite of a sponsorship. That was like an anti- sponsorship. Yeah. Um, so Eric, we've been bragging, frankly, about Cincinnati. We're in our second year. Yep. And one of the things that I wanted to give everybody a sense of is what does it take to make a tournament to make a show like this? Uh, a lot of help. Like countless people. Countless people. If you don't have people willing to help, willing to bring games, people that don't even own games come out in droves for us to just help people set up games. Yep. There's probably at least 75 to 100 people that help without being asked at all times this whole weekend. So, if you don't have enough people to help you, then there's no way you're going to get games and there's no way you're going to get it set up. Like, it's just tough. You got to get lucky. Yep. I mean, I've seen them I've seen all weekend. I've seen people who who didn't have games, who don't they don't have a stake in this other than they want to see good pinball fun. Yep. Show up. Guys like Kyle Ko who came yesterday and just helped me move pinball machines. Or Mark Smith, he didn't bring any. He just called me out of the blue and said, "You want my truck? Can I help you move?" It's awesome. And if you've never lifted a pinball machine, I'm telling you, they're heavy. That's a big offer. If somebody says, "Can I help you move your pinball machines?" That's your close friend. Yeah, that's your close friend. But yeah, um, also, yeah, somebody just commented in, uh, chat that people who also tech and TD, that's huge. That's, yeah, we have so many people in the tournament and outside the tournament, walking the floors at all times, um, being available to help fix games. We have so many awesome techs in the area. They're they're just fantastic and they're just ready to jump on and fix anything that needs to be fixed. Um, Ron, what's up, man? Ron Dog from Connecticut in um Nap Arcade, by the way, has been on with us the whole time. Hell yeah. Nap been so cool. Thanks, Jason, for watching, man. Yeah, man. Yeah. So, I mean, you can just see around here people helping each other out. I had my my sorcerer machine went down earlier. I walked 10 steps to Mark Combmes and said, "Dr. Pin, can you fix this thing?" Yeah. Yeah. He's awesome. He's one of the biggest contributors from a tech standpoint. There's so many things and parts that he has that he he's got a truck full of parts. He pulled his trucks up. He he can just swap in anything and get your game back up running like that. And then you can just pay him back later or give him some new parts. Like he's he's great. I told him to start a tab for me cuz Yeah, I'm sure more than more than one person has a tab with him going right now. It is. Oh, go ahead. Uh I I was just going to say uh like once we're done talking about the show and stuff, I kind of want to get a sense of where we stand with the standings. I haven't really been Yeah, let's check in. So, I am not uh so gifted with the Yep. So, if you go to strikeout standings there. There we go. All right. That's what we're looking at. All right. So, we got we had one player that I screwed up adding. So, there
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    So, so Jesse Baker, this we were talking about this earlier. Jesse Baker was zero strikes until that game. Fourth place. I just talked to him. I was like, I was like, I see you got some strikes. He's like, "Yep, I got all of them at all of them at once." Yep. Josh Noble has been holding on two strikes. Then you've got you've got Nick. Is it Delahante? Yeah, Delahante. Delahante. I'm not really sure, but yeah. Yeah. And anal right behind. We've been watching Matt Goslin this whole time. He's been doing really well. Oh, funny. Like we just keep picking the games he's on. Yeah. To see. Yeah. We We see a lot of Matt Goslin. Uh we haven't actually, I don't think, watched Gilbert play today, but great player. He's a great rectify that when we come back from the break. And then now the proud owner of a new sorcerer that I now need to fix before he takes it home. He I walked past him playing your sorcerer last night and he was up over nine million on this. Oh my gosh. And I've owned that thing for two years and I've never broken seven and a half and that's so mad. And I just thought it was hilarious that the moment after he had that game I think he came right up to you and and and worked out a deal to buy it. So that's I love that. I love that. Um I caught him on a high note. I should have double charged him. You know, I was like, "Hey, you're clearly pretty good at this." He's he's ready to fork over the dollar. But yeah, I know you gave him a good deal cuz I remember you saying you got a new play field with it. That's awesome. Yeah. Um, okay. So, we we we Oh, Josh is who I wanted to touch on. He came all the way from Minnesota, so that's huge. 8 hour drive. Yep. Yep. He's making it worth his while. Heck yeah. He's doing good. He's doing good. What is the What is the the prize today? So, today we have a trophy and cash for first place. Nice. Uh cash and a big plaque for second and then two smaller plaques for third and fourth. And we pay cash to the top eight. So, if you're out of the top four, you won't get any hardware, but you'll get cash all the way down to eight. Isn't that great? So, you can walk home with more money than you walked in with, which is really nice. Th This is disturbing how much we look alike in this shot. This is This is gross. This feels like we're in some weird club together. We both got the pig. You got You just got to You But you got to get the beard going and then Yeah. Yeah. It's there. It's just gruffling right now. Okay. So, uh yeah, we're going to come back at uh 6:15. Okay. So, I don't want to have to have you sit here. So, get up. Go take a break. I'm gonna take a break as well. We're going to put it on our uh sponsors screen and just so thanks to all our sponsors. Um anyone who's out there who doesn't know about these companies or things like that, I can touch on them real quick. Pin Stadium Lights. Everybody should know who they are. They get their name out there very well. Tilt Amusements is Trent. He's a distributor up in Ohio. Please contact him if you need a new game. He's got to be the busiest distributor in the Midwest. I see his stuff everywhere in the world probably. He's got to be um What the Flip streaming, please follow What the Flip on Twitch. Uh Kevin and Lindsay do a ton of awesome uh streams during the week, like midday, like early evening streams. They do this really cool uh named That Pinball Tune. Uh Lindsay is a very gifted musician. She she uh conducts and and and performs her own versions of uh pinball uh songs and themes try and guess. It's hilarious. Uh speaker light kits. Everyone should know speaker light kits. They're amazing. They mostly do newer sterns, but very beautiful light kits you can put in your games. I have to hand it to them for most clear business name. You You know what they do, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right to the point. Uh Comet Pinball, all your uh LED bulb needs. They're incredible. Their prices can't be beat. Their customer service cannot be beat. Please get with them. Arcade Legacy is a a very awesome local arcade here. He's got three locations. Please look up Arcade Legacy if you're in the Cincinnati area. If you're in uh our neighbors down in Kentucky, uh visit Rec Bar in Louisville. are amazing. They got hundreds of games between two locations. It's insane. They have expanded. If you were there last year that's bigger than the first one, it's insane. So, please support all these people. They were gracious enough to be sponsors for the tournament. Please support all them. We will be back around 6:15. So, everybody hang tight and thanks for watching. Yeah. Don't go anywhere. And if folks pop in, let them know we're coming back at 6:15. We'll see you then.
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    Okay. It's in my work bag behind I I'll get it. I I'm I'm I'm coming.
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    in Washington DC is trying to call me. Well, apparently my hot in Washington
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    And my work hot spot is called tiny wimy hotspott. I did tiny wimy in a in a paper one time in Someone marked it off. I was like, "No,
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    Well, we're doing it here, but it's not all of us. Okay. Okay. Well, we're doing it in order, but we're skipping.
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    do the Game of Thrones. Big there wasn't it out. many have we put the player name down here?
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    with the score. The way we tended to do it is we put the first
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    and then once they're cleared and There's not a way. I hope Evan will make it happen. What? He's in the bar. Yeah, that's how he's going to do it. So, I will share that with myself.
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    Yeah. Who? Lexi. Okay. Does anybody else need to edit? Who is her? Yeah. I mean, it's nothing wrong.
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    I do. for the iPad. It's not pretty. I don't think I have an app.
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    It is. And it's small enough that it fits in my pocket. and they keep trying to get me to keep every
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    No, I I had it all. I cleaned it and it was still, you know, like the film on the back still in the film when I bought it. Like it has been a box I opened it and then um two of my other friends with the same
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    might get All right. You know what? I think I should be able to give people access.
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    Who? No, I know. Yeah, I haven't had a chance. I haven't barely got off at all so
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    Not right now. Is that Pat? Was that That That wasn't Pat O'Neal that you were talking to, was it? His name is Tom Miller. Tom? Okay. I'm thinking of something different. I'll probably see Pat over the weekend. Old buddy of mine down this way. Yeah.
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    Do it. Go play games because I cut you off. Sorry. Do you use a tool session box? I actually save this. I can delete it now that it's working, but I can save sessions. So, I could even send this to
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    this. But it did not mess with any like you can be logged into two
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    Facebook and then It shares it across comput Hey everybody, want to thank you. Oh my goodness, that's loud. Want to thank you guys for hanging with us and remind you we are going to be back at 6:15 to get our progressive match play started up again. So, uh don't forget if you are still hanging with us, we appreciate it. And uh we are going to be back um in the meantime. Maybe we'll show you this uh this thing right here. And I'm going to see if we can add the text to that as well.
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    Yeah, there you go. No, thank you, man. We appreciate you watching. Hey, it's more fun to do this when everybody's watching and and responding and and you're making chatly you're making my life that much better. So, I very much appreciate it. That'll give you something live to look at in the meantime for a few minutes. So, hang with them. We'll be right back.
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    I tried to update it because I was drawing No, you can practice. Yeah, you can totally come in and practice right now.
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    come over and chat on the mic. Hey Joe, good to see you, man. Hey. Hey. Good to finally meet you. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I don't want to bother you while you guys are doing the stream there. A you're fine.
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    I understand. Very nice. You guys on lunch break, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Doing a little bit of a break till 6:15. Gives everybody a chance to get some food before we delve into what's going to be a long but fun evening between this and the women's amazing race for a while. I was just happy to sneak inire. I didn't find him. Whoever came to the table first was and I was like chosen and I went I went right behind me but I was like where'd he
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    go tomorrow? Yeah my I I'm going up with Tommy. We're going to pick up a game and wrestling show up in Chicago but then we'll be like Sunday. I It's crazy. Wrestling show. Yeah. No, after after after, not at a wrestling show, but after. He's doing like double duty. So, he's going he's going up to Chicago before the wrestling show. He's also picking up a game to bring back here on Sunday. So, I'm just along for the ride. Huh? Are you going with it? Pardon? Tommy Skinner. Tommy Skinner. Tommy from uh this flipping podcast. Really nice guy. So, uh yeah, just I'm along for the ride and just uh you know. Awesome, man. Doing new things, you know. Glad you're here. Yeah. Yeah. Glad to be here, man. Thanks. Yeah. Shake your hand. Shake your hand. Absolutely, man. So, always want to knock over all the school. That's the only challenge being over here. I see everybody, but I don't get to I don't get to talk to Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I mean, that's why we come up to these things so we can, you know, meet in person and stuff. It's great. Tell that pinball podcast guy. Tell that pinball podcast guy said hi. Say hi, G to Albert. Now, Orbeez. Yeah, good old Orbeez. Where is that camera? Pretty sure I can hear. There you go. Yeah, they can hear this. We It's a hot mic, but we're having fun, so it's all good. Where is that camera? That camera? Yeah. Oh, it's pointing. Wait, where's it? No, wait. That's a wireless camera over there. The whole rig is wireless except for that camera that goes on us. Wireless HDMI. The whole thing. Oh, it's bananas.
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    free to be okay. [Music] Keep an eye on it. It seems like it's very kind of
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    Are you just going for the gate, dog? No. I said, "Are you just going for the gate on that medieval? Are you trying to lock? Okay. Well, I wasn't locked now that they lowered
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    the take the rig. All right. Good. Can you get out of your way? I want to just follow Adam around like that. Just follow Adam around. [Applause] Excuse me. Coming through. Guillotine coming through. Big guns player. Excuse me. I need to come right over top of you.
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    your game. Sorry. Do I need to stop? Yeah. Yeah, if you don't mind. Yeah, we're about to get the tournament back started. Sorry about that.
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    There you go. It was my best game yet. Oh, sorry. Oh, you just started multiball, too. I feel terrible. I'm sorry.
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    right, Pennsylvania tournament players, the break is over. The next round is up. Please come to the tournament area and find your groups and your teams, please. Thank you. Again, tournament players, the break is now over. The next round is up. Please find your name and your players. Thank you.
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    You ever play on my kind of weird it What's wrong with that? You got in there and it up so you wouldn't have to pay as much. I was
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    All right. Um, her side to me. How did Justin Okay, that might Oh, yeah, that's the case. Hang on. There we go. There we go. Holly, can you hear stuff in the microphone even slightly? I can hear you a little bit. Okay. A little louder. Yeah. Okay. There we go. That's helping. Can you hear me? I think I can hear you. Okay. Yes.
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    All right. I think we are getting stuff going in this round here. In fact, I believe that is Joe right there. Sorry for the slight delay in getting this stuff back up and running. That is indeed whip champ Holly Koskin. Holly, how you doing? Good. Scott, how are you? Good. Good. So, you just got here? Yes. You weren't able to make the start of unfortunately the Friday tournament. No. Uh work. I feel you. Work's a pain in the butt like that. I was even poking on work stuff this morning when I shouldn't have been and I had taken the day off. So, I fully understand. Yeah. As we have Rob Smith standing up on the machine. Rob Smith's played a lot of stuff here in Kentucky and uh and Ohio. So, I wonder if he moved from California because you see his name in there under Rob Smith CA. So, I wonder if he is a California transplant. He might be. He might be. It's very possible. Came somewhere with a much lower cost of living, but a lot less sun. Yeah. I don't know. The trade-off for the sun. That's a That's a tough one. That's a biggie. That's a very, very big idea. I mean, I could use some sun. Do you see how pale I am, folks? Shoot. Scott, we're like bright as a sun over here. We're the most pale white people in all of Ohio. While Veronica is down in Clear Water and just sent me a picture. We're not sharing this one on stream, so it's appropriate. Don't worry, people. It's appropriate. Good old beach. Her back. It burned. Girl, sunscreen. I know. I used to put sunscreen on and it still did that. Ouch. I know. Looks ouchtastic, folks. Hey, we got Matt Peas in the house, man. Yep. Big guns is the game right now. So, have you played Big Guns? I played a little bit of it. I think Reckar used No, I have not. I've never seen that game, but then again, you know, I never saw Spanish eyes either. So, we're going to hope that we end up having a good relationship nonetheless. There you go. That's That's a good approach to it, you know. Just Yeah. Um Hold on. I can probably show you the magic sheet here. Here you go. Here's the magic sheet with chips. I have that left over cuz this is one from Eric's basement. This is one that he brings for the show every single year. And it's one that I'm not as familiar with, too. So, I should probably see if I have two copies of that. I don't. The one I have two copies of is Big. So, you have all the cheat sheets. I have some of them. I did not print them for all of them. That's fine. I have leftovers. But as we can see, the scores are low, pretty low so far. No one has gone over 106,000 as Tim Sexton stepping up to this machine. Four strikes right now in round six is a sensational score, averaging better than a second round finish every single time. What's the strike count for this tournament? It is a nine strike. Okay. And it is progressive. So yeah, I mean basically, you know, if you have one strike per round right there. Oh jeez. Yeah. First time we've seen that happen tonight where we've had that look from Tim's working it into the top part of the playfield right there. Taking notes from Mr. Ston right now. Tim is a good person to take notes from. No doubt about it. But he's got good control on top. Very good control. Kept it up there longer than anybody has so far. The troll bonus for 50 is nice. 50 for that. So he's got that slow drop catch like Evan does. Yeah, he does. Yeah, we've been calling Evan's name out a couple of times tonight because we're also uh mentioning the fact he's so good at nudging the pinball machines. Yes, both myself and Justin were complimenting his ability to do just that earlier on. And you're going to be playing the in the women's amazing race that's going to be happening after this tournament. Yes. Probably will knock off right at 7:30, but will start immediately once this is finished. More practice time for me is fine by me. That's right. And we're at the point now where we're starting to see those eliminations. I think some of the machines are going to open up and be available for some of the women to practice on, which is going to be really, really nice. Yeah, I mean, AC/DC right now seems to be Diane just played it seems to be tilting rather easily, but it's playing well if you play it like it's a prom dance. I've never heard it said like that. Stick your arms out. Real nice. Someone please clip this. Yeah. I love that. So, yeah, play AC/DC like you're going to 12th grade prom and everything will be fine. Like you're going to homecoming your freshman year. Yeah. Don't do anything crazy. Don't get any ideas. Just try to put your hand where it doesn't belong. That'll go badly for you. Yeah, it'll be fine. Exactly. Oh my goodness. Didn't we get another sub at some point today? We had two star. Joe Soap, I did not call you out earlier. Joseph, thank you for that sub. Appreciate you subscribing straight down the middle. And yeah, Tim's having an amazing ball right here. 673,000. No multiball yet, but plenty to do. So, that's the multiball shot from my quick reading of that is like you have to shoot up to the center. Yes. So, that's going to be my whole goal. But then obviously that's got to be pretty dangerous too considering it's a center shot. If it drains, you got a light tilt on it and Exactly. And it I mean it's not easy it looks like to get up to the center shot like that because with how those flippers are loaded up top it's hard to line it up perfectly for it. You've got to get it from the bottom flippers. If you're hitting the top ones you're more going for those two side hard bounce to the right out lane by Tim. Yes. Other thing to know about this game that jackpot. Yeah. Got to lock left and right first center shot starts multiple. There you go. And yeah. There we go. Lock balls by cannon. I swear I've got it on the sheet here. I
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    promise. And worth mentioning that jackpot value does build during the multiball and it does carry from player to player. It resets each game. It starts at 500,000. So, it's interesting. We're going to see if anybody does get that multiball or if Tim's not able to cash it in. If then suddenly that gives another player an opportunity at a more lucrative one than they normally see, right? See if Joe's able to do something with that here. I mean, overall, it looks like the machine's bouncing. Like, the ball's bouncing pretty well where you're not having to really try to do like any weird saves. It seems like it's things are pretty much staying inbound. Agreed. The only thing I've really seen so far is we did have one where Gil had the ball bounce over a flipper, but that's going to happen on a machine. That was almost an upper playfield Lazarus right there. Yeah, right. Not something you I don't think I've ever called that out before. An upper playfield Lazarus. Ooh. Let's see what There it is. Did he get it? It's ready. It's ready. Aim. Fire. Yep. There it is. Okay. Metal note to self. The ball shoots out quick from the sides. Yeah, it does. Got it. So, two ball multiball now. Jackpot in play. Oh, it drains down the right side. That might be it for it. Got some points out of the deal. 472 is not bad considering what we've seen so far. Yeah, considering the other scores at this point, he Joe has set himself up really well and he's still going. So, and that's what it's all about with this group right here. You know, four strikes right now, I believe, is top five or so. That right out lane is just hungry tonight. It is.
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    Dy noted. Definitely. So, you I'm sure have reviewed the list of machines or have you very much yet? kind of my whole like last week and a half has kind of been a giant dumpster fire. So, understandable. Understand. Uh I' I've reviewed some of the machines. Some of them I know, some of them I've played before, some of them I have not. So, um you know, no different than uh a first pin kind of go with some of these machines. So, you know, but I've seen Grand Prix. I have not played Rumble, but yes. Um, that looks very familiar to one of the other ones that I played. Obviously, I played ECDC. Uh, played Genesis. I had that in our roller ring growing up. Um, yes. Yeah. So, there's I mean, there's definitely games here that I've played before. So, it's just, you know, try to just do your best and step up to the machine that you don't know. Try to read the card if there's one really quick and Oh, that's a tough break for Gil. And the reason I do say that is is there one machine in particular that you're most looking forward to playing. It can be any one you've played, one you haven't, but just uh the piques your interest more than maybe others do. I don't know. I'm curious because I you know I I guess I wasn't expecting to play I mean I knew there were going to be old games at Pinberg. So if anybody doesn't know, it was my first Pinberg. Um, so I guess I I wasn't expecting as many old games or I wasn't also expecting to do as well on those as I did. So, um, you know, pretty much just trying my hand at at making sure the old games go really well. And I kind of use that same, you know, gentle nudging technique that I used at Whipped. Um, but you know, like I like Medieval Madness. I like Iron Maiden, you know, like World Cup. I like that too. Um, I don't think that there's a game here that I necessarily hate. And if I did, I wouldn't necessarily say what it was because my opponents might be the same. Strategy. I see you working right there. Yeah. But I don't know. You've been here. What? You got here early this morning, right? About 2:00 or so. So, I wasn't here for setup necessarily. Okay. Um, so things have been going well. I take it. It has been going very well. Very smoothly. Every Eric tournament that we ever run into is is always so so smoothly run. You know, especially with the magic group over there that you see, being able to switch from game to game has been really really nice. Yes. Let's see where Joe's bonus ends up. Just 13,000 on that. So, he's he's in second place right now. Let's see if that's able to go off. Robin Gil have a lot of work to do right here. I mean right now that four strikes we were talking about it is enough for them to be tied for fourth place for fifth place in a group of the only other player Matt Goslin also has four strikes. You're looking at the other group here that has that. And I mean this is a a game changer especially forever comes in last place. You go from maybe being, you know, tied for fifth to being one game away from elimination. Yeah. Ooh, hard.
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    Oh, that is a tough break for Rob. I can't see where that score ended up, but I think he might be right there. I think he was around 111. 111. Yeah. So, here comes Gil. Here's Gil. Gil, one of the regular Arcade Legacy players, so he knows a lot of these machines well. He's probably played this big guns in other situations at Eric's house well before now as well. Yeah, he's at 81,000. So, he needs 30,000 just to get away from the seller point. He's got the first cannon loaded down. Yeah, that ball flies. Yes. Out of that shot. So, you've got to be ready if you're not It's I don't think you're going to get a good drop from it either. He's trying to do the He's trying like heck to post pass over. And it doesn't look like it wants to post pass very easily either. No. Is he going to keep trying or is he going he's feeling See, usually if I if I try to do things like once or twice and they don't go, I just let it go. I go somewhere else, kind of regroup. And that was not a bad strategy change right there. He switched the gate open, got in the upper play field. And as a result of that, now he's at 200,000. So he's guaranteed himself third place, and that's where he's going to be. Yeah. So that means Tim is a walk-off on this one. Great job on his part. Nice job to Tim for the win. Get the win. Yeah. So he will stay at four strengths. Um Joe, I believe, will be second. He'll go to five. Um, Gil will be third. Go to or did Gil get second? I'm losing my brain right now. Gil got third. Gil got third. He'll go to sixth. And Rob will go to seventh. So that's a tough break for Rob. Extremely highly ranked player. So you don't expect to see that kind of game from him right then, but it did happen. You could tell he was pretty disappointed with how that last ball he didn't get a didn't get a grip on it and had a house ball in the last ball, which was unfortunate, but just did not seem to agree with him. So, we're going to I I see Eric watching the rig right now. So, we're going to see if maybe he's going to switch this to another machine. I would imagine that's a possibility. Um I do see, interestingly enough, I wonder if this is going to affect things. Um Genesis looks like it's down right now. It looked like that when I came in about 15 minutesish ago. So, I don't know. I wonder if Genesis might be out of the rotation now the rest of the night until someone is able to take a look at it and fix it up. We'll have to see if that's the case. See, and I remember playing Genesis as a kid. So, like you guys don't know, I grew up in uh I was a competitive athlete for almost 20 years of my life. I was a competitive artistic roller skater. So, kind of like what they do on ice skates with the jumps and spins and your partner puts you up in the lifts and throws you around kind of thing. Yeah. Just on roller skates instead. Yeah. So, I'm like I did that. But uh you know, so I pretty much lived my life in a roller rink 4 to 6 hours a day, six, seven days a week. So yeah, we had you know, we had Genesis, uh we had Twilight Zone, we had Funhouse, um we had Roller Disco. I'm trying to we had TX Sector. Um Oh, nice. So we had a good good variety growing up, but it's it's interesting how how much more difficult Genesis seems now than it did when I was a kid. Right. That's interesting. less there wasn't as much pressure because you're just playing for fun and now that you're actually playing for things and money and adult toys and what have you. So that's a fair point. Yeah. Gets a little little pressure. Changes the way you think when suddenly there's money or there's prizes even whopper points. Yes. Essentially prestige in this case on the line. It does make you think and play maybe just that slight bit differently. Trying to get to the point where I just like have my veins turn into ice. That's That's what I'm going for. It's just like iceman. Iceman. There you go. Let's pull this back up here. We'll take a look. Yeah, Tim did have like a 5second multiball right there. You're right. Yes. Lord of breath goes. This was one of the few games that was kind to me at Pinberg. I got to play it twice. Won both times. If only the rest of my Pinberg was anything like that. Well, that was that I can feel those sentiments cuz that was pretty much like my Saturday. I I get it. Yeah. Like I qualified for B. Yeah. And then I thought, oh, like I qualified for B. I I really got to uh you know, I've got I've got to step up my game. So I was like, well, you know, oh, he nailed it. That rig is on there perfectly. And we are switching to Game of Thrones Premium Edition. We'll switch our uh sheet there right now. This is the top group right now. These are all of the two and three strike players you're watching. So, best of the best so far today. You're you're seeing them right here. Gotcha. Um trying to look where everybody's ranked. Interesting. Quite a wide variety here. Yeah, I'm not surprised looking at Jesse score in this game. This is a machine that I know he can absolutely dominate and 866 million on ball number two balls in would certainly be an indication of that. We'll give you another view here. A little bit bigger screen. So you see what Josh is going try by jackpot building
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    up. I mean they're nudging it around a little bit so it shows that there's some forgiveness there which is nice to know. Yeah. And that's and he got the award 34 million. Not bad. And that's not something we've seen across a lot of these machines. Most of them are set on a very very tough tail bottom. So it's interesting to see this one has a little bit of movement and I'm sure these players are realizing that and taking very close advantage of it. World Cup actually had some give to it. At least like I was trying to like shake it around just to see if I could tilt it and I didn't. So I'm like okay mental note to self. But then Kit told me like junkyard tilted when it fall saved. Oh god. So you've got that other end of the spectrum. So true. Just gota gota play careful. Other thing to keep in mind on this one, this one does have the the newer Game of Thrones code that came out a few months ago I believe as well. So not as familiar with the newer code, but I know it really does exponentially change the scoring of the game. Interesting. So 384 million. I mean that sounds like a lot. you got to get a half million points in this game. But I think now it's it's doable. And we're watching Josh make the run at it right now. Not with, you know, big three 400 million point combos, right? Just playing the game like you normally would, but getting 10 20 million at a time. See certain winners coming here. He's got 4.3. I mean, overall, he's maintaining good control of the ball. Very much so. If only replay meant something on this. It does it with it being a free play. Congratulations. We're telling you you're playing really, really well. Yeah. Oh, got a danger there. No tilt, though. Did not.
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    But he's going to he's going to really need to take it easy for the next minute or so. He
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    is able to do anything with it. Nice save there. Got it. Yeah. Stark value is up to 16.1. Takes some time. Reset.
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    That 48 mil. That will help. Yes. He's got hand of the king ready and got it on the first shot.
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    He has got a lot of stuff working here with the houses that he finished and the combo multiplier up to 6x multi ball started. There it is. I believe I saw one of them was 20 seconds of free shooting. But see, you know, I know some people are really good at doing the whole like trap multiball thing like Trent, you know, Trent does that all the time and it it works for him. And you know, I've I've tried that a few times and I know that other people have tried it, too. And and you either seem like you can play with it that way or you can't. And I would rather just have my, you know, Mach 3 with my hair on fire, I suppose. But um I get it. And it looks like too he had an interesting play right there where he had it one on the top right flipper and one on the bottom right flipper. Yeah. I wondered if he was going to try and do a half hit of the button to try and just free up the bottom one. He opted not to do that. That would have been a heck of an effort if you would have. Yeah, but not something that I not something that I would ever expect anybody to do. He's trying to get one free right now. Might have been a little Oh, the just ever so cautious nudging right there to free it up. Yeah. See that? And that's where you get in trouble cuz if you have bounces like that and you're not ready for it, you end up losing essentially both your balls, right? So, um, you know, I don't know. At least my strategy when I play Malta Doll is like just keep your eyes focused around the flipper area. Try to automatically know how far down a ball has to roll on a flipper to get it to go up a ramp and just stay focused in that area and just juggle, juggle, juggle, juggle until you can't juggle no more. Makes sense. So, here is Anna Neil. Uh, first time we've gotten a chance to see her on stream today and she is playing sensationally well. Only three strikes into round number six here. Fantastic. Tie for second place in this women represent. Woo. That's right. Chicago women and Chicago representing right now. She's doing great. I'm I'm going to assume that she's playing with us this evening. I would very much assume
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    that in this game definitely trying to get Oh man, that was a tough break. thought she had control of the flipper right there and just bounced right at the edge the nub of the flipper. Bounced over right into the brain. So tough break for Anna right there. She's going to have to run this thing back. That's the worst is when you know like it's just too late to save it and you're like, "Damn it, I should have hit that." Yeah. And there's almost nothing you can do. Yeah. And even for everyone except Josh in this game, it it's a dangerous spot because you're still two games away from potential elimination. Yes. You know, whoever comes in fourth place right here is going to have six strikes and suddenly their next game they're they're on the gun. They cannot finish last. Yeah. And obviously like all of us like to play with a safety net. When you lose that safety net, that's when it gets real real real sketchy. Real real. No doubt. Mhm. So what mode is Nick going to go for here? And it is still ball two. Annie has plenty of time to to make this this up and get that space back. The real question here especially too is is Nick going to be able to put up some points on the board to at bare minimum well ball three. So we got a multiball going here to at least build some distance for third place. A little bit of a comfort
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    zone cuz I would agree there is a huge difference at this point in the event just between being in fifth with five strikes and six strikes. Yes. Now, see, he is trying to do the more like captive approach, but he still is kind of letting things free at the same time. So, he's kind of trying to catch the ball and make a shot, let it go, not really hang on to it too much. That was a nice flip with the right flipper there. And he got a ball at it. So, that should make this three ball. And Martell had a ball as well. out lanes and hungry. Yes. So, we're at three balls right now. See Michael gone waving. I appreciate him bringing the brownies over earlier today. That sugar came in very handy. I just heard another knock and that was 35 million. Lannister for
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    119. Just ran this thing all the way back to a replay. Not bad. So, suddenly just like that, really on the strength of one mode, 466 million points. Holy smokes. So, you know, this is something we're seeing more in the new code than we ever saw in the old one. The old one, I think, you had to combo a little bit more stringently to get those big shots. And now they're not saying you don't have to combo. You don't have to build up your multipliers, but the path is a little bit easier than it used to be.
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    And there you go. Suddenly now Nick where he was at 10 million before is now threatening to make a run on first and second place here just like that. And that in the same sense tells you Anna is not out of this thing in any way, shape or form. She can run this back very easily. Nice patience there on the bounce
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    pass. Spinner shot right there. That house is now lit. Oh, he didn't dead bounce that one. So, he tried to just a little momentum there. Almost disaster, but not quite. Nice backhand shot there, too. Yes. So, winter is coming is now lit for Nick. He looks very relaxed, very controlled. It's a good sign. He is fully in control of what's happening right here. And this group, he is the a pretty darn good group as far as the IFP rankings go. And I think Anna plays a lot better than that 1162 would lead on to as well. Yeah. I mean, considering if you're this far into the tournament with only three strikes, like you're doing something right. Let's face it, you're doing a lot right. You're a damn good player. Simple as that. A lot of those rankings of this one can go out the window. Then you start to think about maybe who has homefield advantage on a machine. Have you played it? Yes. Have you had a feel for it? which is why I think, you know, probably Jesse would have an advantage on this machine. I think this is either his Game of Thrones or uh Eric's Game of Thrones, but I'm sure it's one he's played quite often as a result of that. Yes. Oo, good save there right out lane. Just ate that. Yes. So, there's the bonus. Still a very good ball for him. That'll get multiplied up to 28 mil. And just like that, 557 mil. Yeah. I mean, he's he's right in it. I mean, obviously Jesse's still got quite a lead here, but the scary thing about that, all that play was in third place the entire time. Yes, he went 5 550 million points on that ball just to still have the potential for two strikes, but is in a lot better range. Although, did Jesse just lose that? I think he did. Yeah, he did. That is a huge development in this game. Plot twist, folks. Yes. So now Josh has a big time opening to maybe win this thing. Put another strike on Jesse. Yeah, he probably knows he has a a good chance to make a move here to get into the lead. Kind of get out in front of people, give himself a little bit of a buffer, but again with this group, is there really a buffer? Targaryen and Tyrell, you saw those were the two houses that he still has to light. And Josh playing playing with a little house money here. He has a one strike lead. He's in first place in this whole event right now. But if he can run this thing up and not have to take another strike, he would have a two strike lead over whoever comes in second in this group, that would be huge. Especially knowing that when we get into two-player games, those are two strike games each. So, he would have a full game buffer potentially in a head-to-head format later on.
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    Yeah, I would take a breather too after that and be like, "All right, we we got to regroup." Good play. Good play, Josh.
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    Oh, and it drained to the right. So, that opportunity will not happen. And now it opens it up for Anna. Yeah, he didn't really make too many gains on on that last ball. Not at all. So, we're still sitting in the same area. And now Nick has a great opportunity to get into second place. Only about 70 million down here, depending on what Anna does here.
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    Other advantage for Anna is with only having about a million and a half, just about everything's on the table for her to get. Yes. So, she can pick whatever mode she wants. You know, there's no feeling like there's only a couple things you have left to do. Just just play your game.
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    And she's immediately working towards a Blackwater. Now, is she going to look to go into it with a mode going as well? I think so. Two more to like Greyjoy. Oh man. And o that's one of those that you'd be kicking yourself afterwards like you can see the look on her face. It's like she knew the moment that ball went in the air this is not going to go well. And unfortunately it didn't. Yeah.
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    Well, like they say, it only takes one ball. So, you know, her her next round is going to have to be all out. Well, and and remember for all these players, even for Anna finishing in fourth place right here, you know, she's only lot the only security is just don't be last. Yes. You know, and get three more strikes. And the way she's playing today, that's a strong unlikelihood that that's going to happen. So, you know, as long as she's playing solid pinball, she's still got plenty of games left to play. I don't blame her. She's even walking away from it like, I want to get away from all this for a moment. Just relax. Don't blame her one bit. Nick just got all one locked for Blackwater. Do what you got to do to get your head right. And it's hard to do in tournament play. Yes. It's why I'm having one of these right now.
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    H man. that right out lane this round was just and there it is. So, no one able to make any big moves on ball three. I'm a little surprised about that. I figured someone would be able to. Did not happen. So, Jesse will now take a tie for first place at three strikes. Josh will go to three. Nick will go to five and Anna will go to six. So, we just saw that game. Let's go back and look at the scores. What we just saw for big guns. That means now Tim Ston's looking pretty good because he stays at four strikes where everyone else had to move down quite a bit. We'll pull up the standings here for you guys to see right now. And in fact, they Yeah, they just said the next round's already up. So, holy crap, that was fast. And we can see it here. Josh, Jesse, Tim's the only player at four strikes. And then Joel, Joe, Nick, and Adam are at five. There are only seven players that are protected against elimination right now out of the 28 that are still in this event. So, there's going to be a lot of wrangling down here, especially these two games that are going to be full of players that have eight strikes. We're This is the moving round right now. Yes, I think we could see potentially 10 to 12 players be eliminated this round. This is going to be a hefty round. Yeah, this is going to be tough tough tough stuff. I assume the camera's going to move. Should move again. Although it may not. Let's see here. Let's refresh the page here. We're looking at our round seven. I could see him leaving it there for another minute only because Eric is currently doing a little bit of work on big guns. And we do have a game we can show you on Game of Thrones. Oh, they're working on Genesis right now. They're working on Genesis right now. So, he's busy doing pinball repair. Yes. You know, the roles of a tournament director. Yeah, and and Loader is absolutely right. Um, yeah, Nap's right. Chuck owns the the GOT Premium, so I can just about guarantee it's his. It is. Um, and yeah, Anna was so close to Lannister charged up Blackwater stacked with Greyjoy and Lannister. She had the formula in place. Yeah, she she had the pieces and parts building to get to where she needed to go. Just wasn't able to make it happen. So, it's probably unfair to say she lost by 550 million points. She makes one good shot. She gets Blackwater going and suddenly there's probably 3 400 million points on the board. Multiballs can save a lot. Yeah, they can be a saving grace when you need them for sure. Yep. And I think that's what we are going to see. We are going to see more Game of Thrones here. We're not going to make Eric move stuff right now. He's a very very busy
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    person. So I don't know. Did we get a game start right there? Did they put all four players in? Uh, leave him there. Yeah, we got a game. Justin was just asking if he wanted to move the rig. I said, "Don't worry about it, man. We got We got a game on here, so we'll stick with it." Yes. Game of Thrones is a fun one. Anyways, you're streaming all weekend. Are you playing tomorrow? All weekend. I am not playing at all. I'm streaming the whole thing. All right. We're going to be streaming the tournament tonight. Oh, no. He is moving it. Never mind. Lies, folks. You know what that means? More Eric. Okay, thank you. More Eric and more love for the sponsors. You see Arcade Legacy there. Chris Jesse, you just saw him on stream playing. You saw What the Flip as well. That is Lindsay's Twitch channel. She was gracious enough to be a sponsor for this tournament and this show as well. So, all right. Where are we moving to? Oh, it's going way down the list here. Yeah, I hope Jane will tear this up. I'd like to see her uh stay in this tournament and do well. She is in fact Well, her and Matt are both between 800 and 900. So ranking wise, they're right there. And as we've said before, don't count out Larry Scott, man. He's he's about as good as they come around here. Oh, this is going to be good. It's Sweethearts. We are going to see Anna play some more. And with that, we are going to start. Now, this is a oneplayer game. So, basically, we're going to watch each Eric. No, I believe we're going to watch each of these players play an entire game of this of five ball. We're going to write down their scores. We'll keep track of them in chat right along with you. So that you know, every year there's one game like this that it's a oneplayer game. Odds and evens has been the game in the past before. In fact, I remember one year at the NKY Open, um, odds and evens was the one ball tiebreaker game. That look sounds painful. Oh, here we are right away. Quick down the drain. Yeah. Yeah, you're we're going to see a lot of that here. This is how this game's going to go. I can see that already. Yes. And looks like he's grabbing a little information real quick, perhaps.
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    Hang on. My phone keeps blowing up. Well, I'm going to have to go take this, I think. Yeah, go take that phone call for sure. We'll get Justin back over here. I think he's played this game before, so we'll get some uh Yeah, this back at some point tonight. Please do. Holly, thank you for coming over here. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it as always. See you guys. Keep rocking it. Trying, man. That's awesome. That is Holly Koskin in 2019 whipped pinball champion. And I don't know, maybe there's another championship in the cards for her tonight or tomorrow. She is she is working like hell for qualification for the women's tournament both in open and women's. So, you know, she's going to be angling for a big time finish here. And no, this one does appear to be. We'll get Justin back over here in just a second as Anna has stepped up on this machine.
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    Yeah, double holes agree that's a good play. We'll get some feedback from Justin on this one right here. Yeah, I think Ken had finished his game at 799 points. Um, this is a single player, correct? From what we're looking at here, uh, Sweethearts. Yep. So, I think Ken ended I'm going to I'm going to write down Ken 799. Yep. Corct me if I'm wrong on that, but I think that's what I saw. Playing these one player machines is always a little bit of a psychological game to me because it's just you and that machine five balls in a row. Yeah. And usually especially now fall back in. That's a tough break for for Anna. And usually a tilt will end game. It doesn't just end ball. So you have to be particularly careful. I am trying to read my information right here to verify just that fact for you. Now you're seeing that classic sort of EM bounce there where everything is a little bit slower and the bounces are a little bit more uh pronounced.
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    Yeah, to call this machine floaty would probably be Oh, nice. Nice fortuitous bounce right there, but then it went right back in. So, is Anna done? No, not that's ball four, right? She's taking a break or ball three. Yes.
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    So, I'm certain you all have already talked about this, but the women's tournament is coming up right after this one. So, for folks who are tuned in uh watching this strikeout tournament, just bear in mind that there is more pinball action from Cincinnati coming right after this in the form of the women's tournament, which is going to be done in amazing race format. It is. To give you a little more on the format of that, there's going to be three rounds of group play just for seating purposes. Oh, left out. Um, obviously, I think it's in your advantage. You want to be the last, you want to be the number one seed. You want to know the score you have to get on every single machine and you want to have seen every single person play before the end of this. And so if is there qualifying, do you know in this one to get seated? Three rounds. Three rounds of three rounds of qualifying. Okay. Three rounds of Got it. No one's eliminated in that it's simply to seed the players to get your seed. And the And the advantage of the seed is knowing the score that you have to beat before you play. Exactly. If you are the lowest seed, you have to start on every single machine. You get to play more pinball that way. It's not the worst thing ever. And it looks like Anna's score is 700 on the dot. Look at that. 700 WL. That's very radio. Very radio. It helps that when you do this, everything gets more radio. It does. I think if someone scores 700 and you're in Cincinnati, you have to call it the nation. 700, right? The nation station. Then it 50,000 watts. Yeah. It used to be a million watts. Did you know that? Back in back in the 60s. Yeah. Yeah. That it all came out of the tower up in Mason. Million watt station. They said you could hear it in Russia. I heard you could hear it in dishwashers. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Actually, I remember a story back when I was much much younger in the '90s that people that lived over by ENKU, which is my alma mater, they were having an issue a while back. They could hear the FM station for WNKU on their dishwashers because of So fun. Yes. I do remember people saying uh back in the day you could hear WLW in your chain link fence. Yes. If you stood close enough to your chain link fence or your braces, but that might have just been a um urban legend. Uh did they have braces back then? Or I mean I had braces in the 80s. It wasn't braces. They had to have had braces, right? I don't know. When did Well, uh should call I should call my orthodontist and get some more commission. When did braces happen? When did when did braces start? Can someone not Wikipedia of that right now cuz we're playing That's right. So, you're watching John Delapo hopefully uh hopefully tear it up. Yeah, he's had a couple tough rounds here, but still six strikes over six rounds. That's averaging a second place finish here. That is This is ball four coming up here. He's only got 318 points with these lane separators, right? I mean, it's it's a very strange setup on this pin. you have lane separators virtually crossing the playfield in the center of the playfield. Not something you normally see that in the in the vertical center of the playfield you'd have all these lane dividers, but um they make a a pretty effective barrier to getting back up in the pops, which is where all the points live. Your shot has to be almost perfect cuz even if you get it past that, you know, if you're hitting those side posts, it's going to block your the velocity of your shot. And he is done at 400 points. This could be the end of John's day. That would be I know a a surprising and disappointing finish for John. Yeah, especially with the way he started. He started so strong, but this is the nature of progressive strikes, man. And especially a game like Sweethearts. Y you can have a bad round. You can This is what can happen. It's and it's one of the things that makes the Cincinnati tournament so unique. You have to be good on such a wide discipline of machines. That you know it's it's going to show I think who the best allaround pinball player is. That's right. It's certainly not something like you know we're not going to tell you who the best Stern player is today. Nope. We're not going to tell you who the best Williams player is today. You've got to be the best allaround pinball player to win these events. And it it really does test the strength of every player because you might you might be fantastic on an EM like this, but the second you get up to a really complex rule set, maybe you maybe you don't have the strategy down or you may be one of those who just plays lightning fast, fast reaction times and you can save a ball. But when you get to something like this that has these shallow slings, it's going to make life a lot harder. Even if you're fantastic ball saver, it is. It's going to make life a lot harder for you to do that. These little tiny flippers make life hard. Agreed. Now, in all fairness, Bill has less of a quotient for failure here than anybody else does with seven strikes. He does not have to just beat Jon. He has to beat Anna's score of 700. Now, the good news for Anna is she's guaranteed passage through as is Ken on the basis of Jon's score right there. Yep. So, this is ball three. 305. 305 on ball three. This could go either way. I mean, just the way he's averaging, it could go either way. It is. He's averaging about 150 a ball. That would be 750 at the end of this, right? That would put him in a good spot. Ken 799 is hard to beat on this game. I mean, it's it's a slow count on this game, but look, 700 is now showing really really nicely. Yep. He's hanging in those lit pops. That's going to be really nice. It eventually drops through the 509. So now the score is looking pretty good. Yeah, Bill's Bill's not in a bad spot here. He was wise to let that drain. And you'll see uh on these you want to tilt and end your game on these one uh one player games you'll see people back off in a way they typically don't on so let's talk about the the back glass here all of the cards that are being built right here. Yeah. What what do you get when you complete decks when you complete lines on that? Is it a 100 point bonus? It looks like possibly I that's a fantastic question. I don't know I don't know this game at all. I'm not seeing any bonus points being given whatsoever. And I don't think I have a key for it. Oh, he's over. He got it on the left drain. And I think he still has one ball left. So So look, did you see that really careful choice he made? He had a Lazarus ball essentially come back up onto the flipper, but because he had nudged, he chose to stay away from it. Yeah, cuz if that had put him over the edge on a tilt, that would have been the end of his game. And he's got to know on score. And now he's got the top score. He's got 834. That I believe is a win. Yeah, that's a win. And that Ken is in fact writing it down right now. That takes discipline and class for Bill. Very nice job, Bill Wahborn. We're going to write down that 844 score in chat here so it's noted for the world. Yep. Great job by Bill. He will come out of this round with seven strikes and John Del Zapo is done. That I will say is a major development. That is a major devel. got to be a heartbreaker that Jon is going to end this tournament probably in the 20s. Yep. As far as position goes, they use that expression in football any given Sunday. And I think it's so true, especially in pinball. Any pinball event, any given pinball event, there's no guarantee that the best players are going to even break the top 50%. Now, in aggregate, you tend to see overall that the best players come out on top. But in any given competition, any given foresome or any given game, who knows? It is a wonderful exercise for anybody who plays pinball on a semi-regular basis to go through and take a look at your head-to-head on your IFPA standings. And and on on one level, you may think this is just going to depress me because you're going to look at yourself against someone like John Delapo or Trent Austinine or Carlos Dera, someone that you play some three people that I I play with on a somewhat regular basis. Y um and say, "Oh my god, I'm 5 and 30 or I think against trend I'm like 2 and 28 something like that." But the reality of it is that you know if you if if it was another sport or competition where you view it as having that kind of difference, you might not have two. It would be Trent would win every time or John would win every time. And the reality is they're going to have bad days and you have absolutely have an opportunity to have a better tournament finish at any event than really really good players do. You always have a chance. Yep. So, you know, if you do that, I don't look at the fact that I might be 2 and 28 against Trent as a negative. I look at as to say I have shown before that I can have good enough finishes and play well enough to beat him. I can do it. That's how you have to think about it going in in a match against somebody like Trent, right? You know you can beat him. Yeah. And and you have beaten him before. Yeah. And on the average, you may not most of the time, but you go into every match believing I can do this. I know. I know it's possible. No doubt about it. A lot of folks when they first think about playing pinball, maybe they've not played much. They tend to think of this as a game of chance. You know that it's just luck. And I I understand why. And I think that's pretty natural when you look at it. And we will certainly say there is a little bit of luck involved in. It's not full, but a little bit in in part. And I always tell people it's it's half skill, half luck in so much as you see games where you have amazing players who get a bad break. Yeah. And that doesn't happen in bowling. That doesn't happen in tennis, right? It's in that way there is luck involved, which I think keeps the game fun and accessible because a guy like me can wander in and have a game like that against Trent. Yeah. Or Carlos. And I would argue the better you get at pinball, the more you play it, one of the things that happens is that percentage. Look at that load of breath. He's 1029 and one against Trentar. That's a pretty darn good percentage against Trent. You should be proud of that. Wow. Very proud of that. Wow. Yeah. I wish I could claim the same thing. I cannot claim it. In fact, I could probably pull up my laptop. My laptop's still sitting here as I look at a couple of random things here. I'm not even close. I am a a billion and then one win, but not in a whole tournament, just one game. I know I've beat Trent in Xenon before. I seem to remember that very well. And there you go. Hips smart 11 and one. You've tied him. Yep. We're going to call that We're going to call that an accomplishment. That's a win. And you know, I know we're giving Trent a lot of props and rightfully so, but I bet there are 10 players here that I've never beat. I believe that, too. No matter how many times I've played them. Oh god, my ranking right now. 3775. I should maybe play more. You and I are about in the same in the same place. I need to play more tournaments and and commentate less. Although, I wouldn't trade this job for anything. I think I have so much fun with this. I kind of enjoy this job so much it's hard to change it. And by the way, my record I'm better than I thought. I am 4 and 32. Four and 32. My mine that makes me sad is that I am 1 in 29 against Carlos. Wow. I've just I just received a phone from the number one standing Joel Bergen. Wow. Yeah. KB Slasher, are you in chat right now? Looking good. Ross, Ross, can you can you drop some banana emotes in chat right now for your Joel? Cuz he's in first place at this exact moment. He is doing some good work right now. We should look at the standings. We'll bring those up. Let's take a look at those now. So, looking at that here, we are Joel Berino for two games to finish a couple here. Yep. Um yeah, Joel's in first place right now. Joe Embry has really stayed in it. He has. Same with Adam Robinson. Remember he took some hits early on? He did. And he has been holding tight uh for what three three rounds? Four rounds now. He has. Josh Noble still in a really good position there. He is three strikes. He's playing I'm trying to see what he's playing right now. They're playing Iron Maiden. Yep. So, it's possible that game could go a minute. Yep. Jesse, Joel, and Tim all have fewer strikes than Joel does. So, it's possible or sorry, Jesse, Josh, and Tim have fewer strikes than Joel does. So, it's possible that at the end of this game, at least two of them could uh come out ahead in the rankings. I'm doing really quick math in my head, which is really dangerous to tell you how many players I think will be left after this round. Um, 1 2 3 4 five are gone so far out of 29. Uh 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. There's going to be 11 players that leave after this round. 10. Yeah, I think it's just 11 for sure. Yeah, we're reaching that proverbial cliff now. Is happening. So we're 29 right now. We're going to be down to 18 or 19 by the end of this round. Wow. So it's going to drop pretty significantly. Um, so yeah, I mean that and that tells you John, for example, is going to be tied in this event for 24th, 25th place. Yeah, that's a shocking finish for him and it shows you how quickly things change. They really do and especially in this strikes format, right? If we were doing a a three strike, you know, elimination tournament versus a progressive strikes tournament, you would kind of have a sense as you were going. Um, but here, this is all of a sudden these strikes add up. People start dropping off like flies. They do. So, we're looking at the games remaining right here in this round. Uh, Game of Thrones is still going. Not the least bit shocked about that. I see Larry Scott is playing that right now. I can't tell what ball they're on. Um, Iron Man definitely not within our range of view. Um, and looking down the list here, uh, G, you know, Game of Thrones, we talked about Surf Champ is way on the bottom there. So, we definitely can't see how Rachel, Steven, Rob, and Stor are doing at that game. So, you know, lot to worry about with that in the very near future here. Someday I will look forward to the days when we have so many of these rigs set up that we can just switch between games. Oh my god. As they're going. But as it is, being able to move every round to move to a new game is just amazing. It is. I absolutely love it. Did we lose the player cam? Uh oh. Uh oh. I just assumed they were standing very still.
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    Um, I thought those guys have been playing for a while. Yeah, I think he's going to move the rig. I think that it might just be out of range, huh? Well, that might be an a an issue outside of our cam link. That might be an HDMI connection issue. Oh, okay. Um, because remember, give you guys again behind the scenes here, all of the rig is being done through a wireless HDMI setup. So, there is a transmitter, there is a receiver. So, the fact that that came back up as quickly as it did tells me that the issue is probably not on our computer itself. It's a connection issue with the wireless HDMI and we're going to have uh we're going to have him move it in just a minute. There's a possibility all of the stuff on that rig 2 is run everything's run off USB. Yeah. And it's run off USB batteries and batteries, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, it's possible we lost a battery. Yeah. We've got a like seven giant Mono. We should be sponsored by Monorice. That's who should be giving us some money right now because we have enough Monoric batteries right now. These things right here to sink a ship if you wanted like the best one. Yeah. Here you go. Here you go. Where's the camera? Right there. Right there. We are prepared for doomsday over here. This is This is only a 10,000. So by by their standards, it's actually kind of tiny. Um you could run a killer vape off of one of those, right? Isn't that kind of what they look like? Actually, we should plug this in. I'm not seeing a lot of power coming out. Let's see what I can do. Let's swap it out for another one. Let's see what I can do. Yeah. A What do you got there? My wife Haley brought me a beer. You ready for one? You ready? No, I'm good right now. This uh this stream is sponsored by beer. If anybody wants to bring me bourbon, though. Yeah, I will happily have a bourbon on the rock. Last time I wished for a drink, it happened. I got that's how I got that coffee. So, I I believe in this. So, if you're just joining us, you might have tuned in to see the women's tournament, which is coming up in just a little bit. But first, we have to finish the strikeout tournament. And that's going to be uh coming up after we finish this round. We think we'll have what, about 18 players left. Uh 19 players. 19 players left. I have a feeling we're going to be going till about 9:00 before we start the women's tournament. It's going to be a while, huh? We got a lot of pinball left in us tonight. We may even There are worse things than that. I am, by the way, 100% okay with this. If you're wondering, like Scott Bee has not left this position. He just pees under the table. Oh god, don't tell the No, he doesn't pee under the table. But but you you've got I think you've got the the endurance record for streaming and Well, cuz I've seen you do this for like six consecutive hours without stopping or getting up. And I don't know how you do it. Take a break. I'm taking a couple of breaks. Yeah, we we got a little we got a little stretch in there. Braces. So, we're okay. Now, I I know there's been times I've done like the amazing pinball race up, you know, up in in Columbus that I've gone back and looked at. It's like that's a 10 11 hour day and I don't remember getting up from the system very much. Wow. So, I get that, you know, that whole thing. That camera did change, by the way, before it uh it did became very it clicked in for a second. Yeah. You can see that's that's not a pretty picture. Not what that's supposed to look like. Hold on. Hold on. This is when the ectoplasm uh started. Everybody got covered. We don't have a I mean, this is not sort of a Slimer situation. Oh no. Where's my pro Where's my uh teleustrator? I wanted to show off uh Jesse here. Oh, it won't let you illustrate it. Won't let me teleustrate it even. That's not good. I wanted to teleustrate Jesse right there. I'm disappointed. Oh, it telestrated here. Oh jeez. So, there's a hairball we drew for you. There you go. See that looked for Jesse? No, never mind. So, I'm going to look into seeing if we can move this camera. So, we Yeah, and I think Eric might be on the move right now. Oh, he's on the move. Okay. So, I think we've got it. We're going to leave it on this view right now. Apologies for anybody's vertigo. Yep. This is not what we intend right now. We're going to see where he's moving this thing to and see if we can get the player cam back up and running. That's really fun. Try and deactivate and reactivate the player cam again. It's not on that part. Okay. Do it again. Okay. He's sure of it. I'm not as sure of it as he is. I'm just going to tell you. There he goes. Never mind. I'm going to shut up now. This is why it's his setup. That's why his rig. That's right. All right. So, we're coming up to stars now. Because it was so far down there. I noticed the HDMI transmitter was losing connection. Ah, was an HDMI transfer problem. Well, there you go. Let's see what we can learn about stars. So Stars, these are lessons I'm learning in case we set this up in another place, wherever that place might be. Stars is an early stern solid state and this is absolutely my era of pinball. Like this is these are the machines I would collect. These are the ones I get most excited about. I would love to have this game. This was a I think similar era to um Meteor. Uh yeah, would have been. So Meteor I have I have one of those. That's an early Stern. It also would have been up there with uh um Flight 2000, perhaps a little before Flight 2000. Yes. Uh but let's see what we can learn about 80s. Yep. And we did just have a game on this machine. Um it looks like that game the result of it starts. Where is Levi? I don't know where Levi is. Um and it looks like Caleb took that game. Uh it knocked out Lindsay, Pat, and Darren. Oh, I hate to see that. Good players knock out right then. Yep. So this was 19 1978. It was actually before Meteor. So Meteor was also 1978. Was the same? Yep. Um and I only know that because that's when the movie came out. Believe it or not, Meteor was based on a movie. Oh. But it is and it is the first I believe the first movie licensed pinball machine. Oh wow. Yep. The movie was weird. It was essentially a uh a story about the communists and the US and who's going to blow up this Meteor that's coming in. Okay. Uh so when you see the back glass on Meteor, you can see the missiles USSR in USA. It was a neat movie, but most people haven't seen it, so you don't realize it was a movie theme, but I think it was the first movie license pin. Correct. By the way, we are still waiting on Game of Thrones and Iron Maiden. Not exactly shocking. No. looking at the quality level of players that we have that we're waiting on those two machines. If you know how to if you know how to exploit the rules on those machines, you can play them forever. Go have a lot of fun. You have a lot of fun. You play them for a long time. You are. Hey, you're looking at the numbers for it right now. Yep. So, March of 1978 is when uh Stars came out. I'm going to guess that Meteor was a little bit later. Jose, thank you for those bits, man. Hey, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, so I will say having earned a owned Meteor and having um been with other collectors who own Early Sterns, these things are workh horses. Yeah, they will they will run forever. Now, it's not that you don't have the occasional problem with them, but compared to the other machines that I've had, Williams and Bal alike, uh, these sterns, man, they are built to last. Nice. Yeah, they're very serious workh horses. I mean, to say that they're never going to break down would be crazy. 41y old machine. Yeah, that's insane. But that's the amazing thing about it. That machine is slightly older than I am and it runs better than I do. How old are you most days? 40. 40. Yep. 39. 39. Nice. When's your birthday? Uh, August. So, you got me in by 6 months. Well, I I think it shows. Ah, in all this gray. Uh, uh, Veronica has been commenting on the fact this has been getting more gray. I think it's gotten more gray in like the last 6 months than it has ever been before. You're only getting more distinguished. That's what she tells me. I choose to believe. That's nice. I choose to believe her. No, my wife Haley says the same thing. She says she likes the gray and I'm like, "That's good cuz that's the only choice I have. I'm glad it works for you." Yes. Um I would be curious from those who are watching the stream, if you happen to have the chat function open, I'll be curious to see um what are your favorite games of this era? Because solid states from this era are my jam. I love them. It's all I own. I would love to know what are the ones if you could if you could play or collect, what would you get? We got one uh suggestion from uh Co-op Graphics that said check out Pinball by Stern. Very similar game. Came out a year before Stars. We might have one here. Really? I We may I remember that game. I have heard people trash that game. I have heard people love that game. Uh but I I thought I saw one yesterday. This is the amazing thing about this show. There are so many pinball machines. I haven't seen all of them. They're in this room and I haven't seen all of them. That's how many there are. We have a vote for Flight 2000. I will give you mine from that era. It's not a stern, it's a gotly joker poker. Joker poker. Nice choice because I grew up on that machine. My dad owned one. Yep. So, I have a sentimental value to it. And plus, I super enjoy the game, too. Got had a sort of a weird arc where they were producing some genius machines and then somewhere in the 80s, I don't know if they just ran out of money or what happened, but they started producing some real dog rockets and then tried to sort of pull out like back in the in solid state and the EM days, gots it, man. And then, you know, then we all fast forward a little bit and they were making some really loser machines. Yeah. I don't know if they just lost their inspiration or a chief designer or something. Maybe somebody on the stream knows what happened. Uh, but they made some real weird machines for a while. Finding this here. This is one of my favorite memories about this game is Joker Poker is one of the few. Well, okay. So, it must have been a much older one.
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    Okay. Game of Thrones is last ball, last player. And she was saying she needs to get she needs to get four million here. I thought she said 2004 million. Oh, 204 million. Okay. Well, that's not nearly as close as I thought. No, I thought she said 4 million. Um, Loader Breath with a bunch of good suggestions. Meteor Galaxy 9ball. Grand Lizard. Grand Lizard is a fantastic game. I'm right there with you. Um, Joker Parker is one of the few games, if any others, that had that was released at the same time, both as solid state and electromechanical releases as both. I love those. I think uh was it Gotle that put out um oh is it Catacomb? No, El Dorado. El Dorado that was put out as an EM and a solid state and you got to choose which one you wanted. Okay, so it was a choice thing. I always wondered about that. I think so. Or they were within a year or two of each other maybe. Yeah, I kind of wondered for a while. Is it a choice thing or is it a thing where they just decided to change the style of manufacturing it and re-release it? say, "We're just done with reals. We're going to go solid state. Hey, we still have these joker poker parts. We're just going to change the manufacturing because it's efficient to do so." Did someone in chat answer that question? Was it a choice? Yeah. Could you could you opt into one or the other? Which I guess the question that's being asked is were they simultaneous? Were they simult
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    chat let us know cuz we can't open stuff up while we're here. We're we're dumb streamers. We rely on you to be the smart people. We're counting on all of you. Help us streamers. You are our only hope. And I don't think Jane got it based on that reaction. It does not look strong. She got black water multiball. Looks like total bonus of 3 million. Ended up just shy. Yeah, that was a game where everybody went over 180 million it looks like. No wonder it went on forever. Yeah. Hipsmart says stars. Very nice. We're about to say see that one. Blackjack and Stargazer. good picks. I can honestly say I've never played a blackjack. I want to know more. So there there are your points. Larry Scott takes that game. Matt Goslin stays in this thing. Dan Donald and Jane Verwis are done. And it is moving again. Eric, there's the Eric Cam. Eric Cam. We need a blinking flashing Eric Cam insignia. Hold on.
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    There you go. Eric Cam, that's perfect. I don't believe this is sanctioned and I don't really care. I like the part where um Keith Elwin came in and we all got excited and and then we scared him away. He's He'll come back. He'll come back. He'll come back. All right, so let's take a look. I was too busy fanboying. Oh, we're on an EM again. The next round is up. The next round is up. We are drawn up. So Argusy got drawn. So, let's see what we can tell you about our tournament directly after the strikes tournament. You can start meeting Gilly, getting checked in, and getting paid for. So, please, if you All right, we're going to turn down the ambient audio for a second because that's probably not as relevant to the rest of you. Uh, all right. So, my notes for Argusy. This is one that I'm streaming for the very first time today, which I'm excited about. Um, keep getting ball back up top. Top rollovers advance bonus, which can be huge. Yeah. Complete drops to light the double bonus saucer on the right and the 10point switches. Turn the spinner on and off and then rip. Do what you always do on a pinball machine. Rip that spinner. Rip it all day. So, you've got uh Hold on. I'm going to figure this out this time. No, I'm not. How do I draw? How do you draw? Yeah. Um, you keep telling me and I keep not remembering. I keep thinking I know how to do it and then I keep proving myself wrong. Okay, you got it. This is the right one. This is the right one. How can you tell? They all look the same. at the difference here. Oh, okay. So, up here you've got a rollover. That's going to advance your bonus. Right here, you've got the spinner that gets switched on and off on the Did he say on the lighted bumpers? Is that right? Uh, yeah. Complete. Uh, 10point switch is 10. Turn the spinner on and off. So, y anything you see that is a 10point spinner. Okay. 10point switch. Okay. Switch. You do have this amazing plunge shot right here, too. Yeah, you do. and we'll see if we can if we can figure out which ones are turning the spinner on and off. There's there you go. It looks like the slings are doing it. That is a really nice saucer shot right there is very valuable as well. Other thing I'm noticing about this one compared to the others. Little bit higher tilted. Not quite as floaty. Yeah, we're not getting the floaty action, but the flippers and the bumpers look really well powered. So, that's a great choice to have it at this angle. tells me everything is is makeable. Yep. Some of the older EM weren't built for big power coils and so you can't you can't expect them to have the flipper and bumper power. They just weren't made for it. So, you can't put them at the same level of pitch. Agreed. This one also seems to have a little bit less of a center different. Almost looks like it has newer Williams flippers on an older EM machine. I don't know if that's design or what, but I think it does mean there's not as much of a center gap as you would normally expect to see. Still a sizable gap. I'm a little nervous about that gap if I'm playing. Oh, nervousness, I think, is perfectly okay, but you're right. Joel Bergentino up there. Not a bad start for Joel at 157,000, almost 158. Next up is Jesse Baker. Jesse has had a really fine tournament so far as well as Joel. Um, and Litter Brother, by the way, is a big fan of Argusy. Oh, yeah. By the way, fun Cincinnati fact. The casino in town named Argusy. Used to used to be called Argy. Is it still? No, it's Hollywood now. Oh, it's Hollywood now. Cuz someone bought it. Oh, wow. That is bizarre. I I think that had to have been a malfunction. I'm wondering. I have never seen Jesse do that in many games of playing with Jess. Let's keep an eye on that. Yeah, I think he might be queuing a TD here just to look for potential malfunction. Yeah, it is just not that is not a Jesse behavior. No, it's not. He's flipping as well and not getting the response out of it he wanted. In fact, I'm trying to see who he was talking to about it. I can't tell. He might be looking for Eric right now. Yeah, he might be looking for Eric because I don't see Tim stepping up to the machine. Yep. I think there may be a possible malfunction there. We might have an issue here. I see Tim coming to the machine. Now, I will say I don't think this would qual if you can't replicate the problem, I don't think it'll qualify as a major malfunction. If the TD walks up and doesn't have the same issue, um they're just going to declare that a dead ball that that ball died. Uh Tim's trying out his flippers. He doesn't seem to be having any trouble there. So, uh he's going to keep playing. We're we're going to keep at it here. I'm sure this is something where we'll keep an eye on it as we go. Keeps hitting that roll over. He's juicing that that left side drop target value. And if you can get all four targets, you get to collect that value. So he will end at 7,000. That was a quick 72,000. Quick ball for Tim Ston. Let's see. Josh, I don't think that last digit ever moves from zero. So we're going to assume there's a zero. It's just painted on there. Yeah. See, saying hi to Jen Rer here. She is going to be playing in the women's tournament as well. Very sure of that. He's got that saucer down. Unfortunately, not worth a lot just yet. Big spinner rip there. Great spin. Those are thousand points every time. Got a lit spinner and a big rip. Now he's he's doing a little nudging here. He's got he's got some action that makes me nervous that he might tilt on this. But let's see. Getting it back up to the top right there. One of the the hard things about EMS is you don't get warnings. You just tilt. Yeah, it it it just tells you you're done. You're done now. So, he's got that spinner lit. I think the slings count as uh as 10point switches, so they're going to turn the spinner on and off. Unfortunately, that time it was off. So, he's not going to get uh much in the way of points. Now, the interesting thing there is he actually switched it mid spin. So, I saw some of those spins go and some of them went and that's an unfortunate nudge. Yep. So, he will end at Oh, that's a great bonus though. 129,000. That bonus is huge in this game. Really decent. Really decent. So, we're back up to Joel Burgentino who's coming up in the lead at 158 essentially. Yes. And that gives him the lead by well about 40,000 points. This may be the only game remaining in the entire tournament where no one is at risk for elimination. I'm going to check that right now for you. And that is correct. Um, every single game, every other player is right for elimination if they finish at least in last place. So, the only safe players are in this game here. And you can see why because they're playing really really good pinball. So he is Oh, that's a tough No, it got his gate is closed now. So he he closed that gate through. If you see there's a light in the left in lane that'll tell you if the gate's open or not. Uh which is helpful for us streamers because it's hard to see the gate from here. In fact, I can see it here and I did not notice it before. I don't know if any has anybody collected the left drop target value yet? I haven't seen anybody pick that up. I don't think I have either. It's really to see it. So, he does have that gate open. Uh, so had that gone out lane, it would have stayed in. I'm just curious because the the left is worth uh it's like 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000. Yeah, respectively as a climb. So, you really want to collect that if you can. There's Jesse trying for it. Almost the saucer. Good nudge. Good nudge. Great nudge. No, tilt it out. Nope. Not a good nudge. I lied and he tilted. It was a good effort. It was probably going down to the bottom anyways. This one's tighter than a drum. At least it was when I played it
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    yesterday. You can see Eric presiding back there just watching to make sure that this thing doesn't get uh wonky again. It's tighter than Mike Brown's pocketbook for the Bengals. Ooh, I'll take that. I went there. You know, Cincinnati fans won't disagree with you. No, they won't disagree. We're not one of those that we're married to our owner. In fact, I'm sure many of us would probably agree. I'm going to bet the odds of that are much more than 50%. More than 50%. Yeah. Mike Brown, if you're watching the podcast, please sell the team. Sell the team to somebody who cares about football.
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    So, uh, right now you're watching, if you're just joining us, you're tuning into the what may be, uh, one of the last what, three rounds, four rounds left. I bet we have four rounds left. We still got a good amount of pinball left here for sure. But you're joining at a good time because the we now have a bunch of strikes on the board. competition is is heating up as we get towards the end of this tournament. Yes. And we got a whole night of pinball. As Scott said, we we may be Oh, that's a great one. We may be uh commentating until midnight because we still have the amazing race women's tournament coming up. We do. What's What's this sleep thing you speak of? I've never I've heard of it. I've heard of it, but I've never tried it. Not during Cincinnati, that's for sure. No, no, no. Yeah. You are watching right now the top ranked group in our nine strike progressive strikes format right now. Uh 554 and four respectively for these players. This is Josh Noble, player number four. Um like I said, we are at Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the name would represent. Going to be here all weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday bringing you various tournament action. We've got a believe a match play tournament tomorrow and we've got the gauntlet tournament on Sunday as well. That's going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait to see the setup for the gauntlet tournament. Basically, for those of you guys who did not get to see it last year, great save. And if you look at the Cincinnati site, if you go deep enough into the videos, you can probably see a lot of my videos recording people running it last year. I think we're going to have to run it even if we're streaming it just because yeah, you have six machines and you have to complete six ta a task on each of the six machines within six minutes. Mhm. The key is you can do them in any order you want. You can play more than one pinball machine at the same time. There are really not a lot of rules here other than here is 6 minutes. Here are six pinball. You can hit that start button as many times as you want. Go ham. Yeah. You can stop the game and start it as many times as you want to. You you I've seen people turn the machine off and back on. It's legal. Yep. Yep. You can do whatever it takes short of of the slam tilting to make it happen. Yeah. Don't slam tilt. We don't want we don't want you to do anything that hurts the machine. Yeah. I will say turning it on off I have seen some pretty aggressive tilting because again it doesn't matter if you lose your ball. Right. The point is just keep going. Yeah. But tilting takes time. You have to wait for everything to drain and reset. Yeah. I would absolutely call it the um you know the the wrestling noisqual no disqualification style match. Yeah. Exactly. Version of it. Oh sling Jesse. I mean, remember everything in a pinball machine more or less is built to drain you. That's what they do. They collect your quarters and they drain you. So, so when you hit the center of a sling dead on like that, it is aimed it is engineered to shove you to an out lane as fast as possible. And that's exactly what happened to Jesse. You can also see not only is is the center aimed right at the out lane, but this thing here is angled to send you straight down. Yeah. The point of the pin is to take your quarter and make you start over. Great spin there from Tim Sexton. Huge spin for you. Yeah, that was a big spin. And he's toying around up in that upper upper. Oh, almost got it. It's not lit right now, so it's not going to be worth as much, but um it would be nice to be able to get it in there. We'd like to see it. Oh, just hits the end of the right there. And yeah, there is the there's the not 50/50 odds that we were talking about earlier with the outlanes. You hit that side bump there. The odds that it's going to go back in. I mean, it's made to deaden the ball. It's not made to bounce. Exactly. It's not made to give. It's made to just say you're done. Yep. And this angle again, remember, is made for doing this. It is. I don't know what that other line was. I don't know. I don't even care. I don't even care. It's a bad line. We don't want that line. I like the teleustrator. The teleustrator. I probably need to stop playing with the teleustrator, but I really No, you should not. We're going to get you a touchcreen next year. Oh, hot dog. We're going to have you draw. You know what? You know what? You know what we're doing next year for sure? Instant replay. Oh, man. Instant replay all day. Now, I know with OBS you can do instant replay, but I don't think we've gotten the technology down quite where I want it yet. We don't have the technology. There's a drop catch and right back up. So, he's he's very much off the right flipper aiming for those drop targets. He wants to pick up what is now, I believe, a 10,000 point. Nope. Didn't get it. Not quite able to do it. Nope. If you do happen to be watching this inside the vicinity, Gilly is taking signups for the women's amazing race right now. Uh there is no player cap on it. So if you are here and want to play, come over and play. Now's the time. Come over and get yourself ready. I'd say we're probably still about an hour away from ready for that. We're about an Indianapolis away. That's maybe if you really stepped on it, you could make it here from Indie. If you're watching from Indie, do you think if you're on the south side of Columbus, like if you're in Grove City, you could get here. Okay. I think you could get Is India a stretch? Yeah. Yeah. We're on We're on the east side of Cincinnati, aren't we? Yeah. I'll say this. I'm sure, you know, if if you called Gilly right now and said, "I'm driving from Indie, you know, maybe you could jump in and not be Oh, nice save by the race." I don't know. I don't know. Joel, so Joel Joel's going to be kicking himself for that because he absolutely had a great save and then he took a pot shot and we all do this, right? We get reactive. We fire a ball off the flipper without thinking about it because you're in like do or die mode. You are. And um he knew the second he let that ball go, I guarantee he knew that was going to drain. Is this ball five, by the way? Uh let's see if I can see. Having a hard time. No, this is ball four. This is ball four. It's ball four. And we for Argusy, this is a hell of a long game. Yeah, it is. You don't tend to see games like this on Argusy. Oh, Jesse. Just bad luck for Jesse all the way around. Jesse could have done anything if he tried. I think every once in a while a pinball just throws one of those at you where there's nothing you're going to do. Him and Tim are very close in score right now. both around the 180,000 mark and that could prove to be very very interesting considering where they're at at strikes. Tim is a little more of a a room for error here tied with Josh at four strikes right now. Tim has been at four strikes for quite a while. I think we saw him like three rounds ago at four strikes. So, he's on a good run at the moment. See if he can keep this up here. He's got some Look at that. Oh, that's going to be dangerous. Stepped it in, though. Not bad. And he made a really a really smart play at that corner drop target. There he goes. He picks up his 10,000. He gets a reset. And now we're up to 30. And that is a good spin. That was a th00and for a lot of that spin time. Yep. He's going to do well on that. Watch out. Look at that wonderful save. And one thing he did really well there was he didn't just save it. He saved it and then got control. And that's hard to do. Nice to do. Rough bounce off the sling again. Good bonus though. 300,000 as of this point. 310 is the current high. So that puts him into second place and gives him a very good chance to make a run here on ball number five. All right, Josh Noble is our current leader at
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    312. And he's going to try and keep that lead as you can imagine going into ball five now. It's by no means a runaway. I mean, he's got uh he's got what 309 sitting right behind him. So he needs to do something on here to open up this gap. Couple good spinner rips.
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    And bad luck. Bad luck. There are 35 women. Holy moly. This is going to be We're going to be here a while. How many How many women are registered for the tournament? 35. 35 women registered for this tournament. Freaking five. I love it. I love it. You players, you rock. You rock. You freaking rock. We're going to be here a while. Yeah. Here's what we should do as well. All right, guys. Um, while we transition over to women, we need two shots of urban now. Yeah. You know what we need is we need we need women commentators. Oh, we absolutely need that. I need I need to get out of this seat. Actually, I think and we need Do you want to take You want We should Bri commentate. Absolutely. I'll take a break. Do you want to take a break? Sure. Okay. You or you? It doesn't matter to me. Okay. You take a break now. Bri, come over here. Talk about this. This is freaking amazing. I know. I went to Gillian. I was like, I'm going to go about it. Hold on. Hold on. Time. Time for some Lord Shacks voices. This is amazing.
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    Hi Bri. Hi friends. Hi. You're going to be helping you're going to be assistant TD tonight for this too, right? I am. Yeah, I'm helping run it. I'm super excited. Oh my god. 35 players. I know. Let's talk about that. Talk to me about how the qualification will then work for the amazing. How many people are going to make the amazing ways? Everybody. No, not everybody. Okay. Okay. I was going to ask. So, the way that this is going to work is we are going to do um three rounds of match play. So that is three games per round. 7531 7531 and then we're taking the top half. The top half women who make it forward are going to make it into that awesome amazing race for you have to only take half because that's the IFPA rule for finals. We want to make sure that you know TGP for everybody is as high as it possibly can be. That's right. Good call. Yep. And then so in that case we have 35. We would go 17 in that case. I think you have to go under. Yeah, you do have to go under. You have to go under. So that'd be 17. Yeah. So, and then we know the Amazing Race format. We talked about that on here. So, yeah, I'm super excited. This will be uh the first time I've run it not at the Amazing Race tournament at level one. Saved by Tim right there. Nicely done. I believe he is at 320 right now. Saying hi to Rita as well. Yeah, 320. Got to get to 360. And look at that score right there for for Joel. 324. It's that close right now. A close game. Holy moly. I mean, unfortunately for Joel, he's had a decent game, but he's going to end up in third place. You know, I don't think he can do any better than that. He'll have seven strikes when this is all done. It's really a Tim and Josh show right now. This is great. Just keep staying up there. Yeah, that's a nice rip. Oh, it was,000 for most of the time that it was ripped, too. Mhm. It's up to 354. The bonus is looking really good, too. He keeps lighting his bonus. He's got the bonus up to 40. He's going to pass him now. Now it's just a question by how much is he going to pass Josh by. So Tim and Josh are going to continue to be our top two players here no matter what. Gate was open. So he takes advantage of that. Did he get the drops? Oh, I thought he did. No, I think he's got one left. He's got the far right one left. This is quite the show right now for him. There it is. Did he get it? I thought No, there the left one's still lit, too. Oh, tricky. My eyes are fing trying to look at this.
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    Yeah, 35 players is sensational. It is great to see we're getting so much participation for this night. I am very excited for us to start this thing here very, very soon. Me, too. And in the meantime, we've got amazing pinball to watch for all these players right here. So, that's right. You know, and he is over 400,000 now. So, with that bonus, I think that bonus is up to 100,000. It's going to be 500 440 now. All right. And finally, no. Gate was open again. He doubled it. This is This is amazing. Now, this is the ball three that Tim had to have. Mhm. And he's having it right now. Nice job, catch. What a job. Oh, there's another round of targets.
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    Sorry, just checking something here. Here we go. All right, we're back. Kind of. There we go. So, are you enjoying your time here at Cincinnati? I am enjoying it. I have been staying very busy behind the broadcast station here myself. So, thank you very much. We appreciate you. And that might finally be it. But wow, let's see how the bonus. That double bonus is going to run him up over 700,000 points right here. He is now doubling the score. That was an over 400,000 point ball on ball number five. More than anybody has had in their game up to this point, period. That's clutch. That's how you win tournaments. Yeah. Is with really, really clutch ball three, ball five play like that. That's right. I know Tim was super excited because he got it into all three tournaments this weekend. I was a little nervous cuz he was on both weight lists, but I was like, you should come anyway. It will be really fun. And uh I'm really glad he did. So, I'm glad he did, too. Glad to see him doing well. Star stud cast here. We got Keith, we got Tim, we got some some good stern representation here. Happy about that. So, Josh does end up in second place right here. So, I think the strikes are should be updating. There it is. Tim is now alone in first place. Josh with five, Joel with seven, and Jesse now with eight. He's on the border. He's got eight strikes. And so now with one game remaining, we can kind of give you an idea how many players are left. And depending on how this game goes depends on how many eliminations we're going to get here. We've got basically at this point seven players safely through. Yep. And out of that game, I don't think we're going to get more than two. More than likely, there's a possibility of three, I think, if everything shakes out correctly. So, we're going to be down to probably just three matches here. Maybe as low as two, you know. So, within two rounds, we go from 29 players to eight. That's crazy. Simple as that. Hey, What the Flip is now hosting the channel, too. Thank you so much, What the Flip? One of the sponsors. I was in that 29. Yep. A lot of you Zappa was in that 29. You can see right there, James Scott, too. James Scott. Yeah, there's a lot of good players that got eliminated right at the end there. And of course, your placement does depend on the number of strikes you have when you're eliminated. So, that does make a little bit of a makes the placement a little bit easier to figure out, which is, but wow, it is definitely happening very, very fast and furious right now. And with the amount of strikes these players have, there's no reason to think it's not going to continue this way, too. you know, two players now, Tim and Josh, still have a oneame buffer. You know, they can finish last place in any of the games on this tournament and still make they're going to be okay. They're not going to be eliminated just yet. Everyone else is going to be in a position not only where they can't finish last, they can't finish third. Yeah. My last game I had to do first or second. Yeah. And I mean, basically, it turns it into a for you a traditional strikes game that way. Yeah. Absolutely. You have to play it like you normally would. It's true. Um, so that one, needless to say, I kind of got put up against Lindsay and Jane. Oh god. I was like, come on, girl power. I don't want it like this. The random number generator is is is not nice to anybody. That's definitely not my friend. If I If you ever listen to me and Scott, we both play Pokémon, and the the random not number, I guess, in that case. But I cannot get a shiny to save my life. Uh, the last shiny I got was only because the game did a special research to give me a shiny. Like, I can't do it. It's too much. I I've just given up. It's fine. I think I managed to catch one with the Pokeball before. Don't ask me how the heck I pulled that. Wow, that's impressive. Reminds me I should be catching it with the Pokeball right now and it turned off and I hadn't care cuz I'm having too much fun. Pokémon Go on my Switch or Let's Go Eevee and I I don't know if you know anything about the rule set, but like you pretty much play. Yes, match play does do Swiss pairing. In fact, that's the setting that we have on it right now is the Switch pairs. Um, looks like the last game is Junkyard. That's a good group play in Junkyard. Anna, Ken, Larry, and Matt. Um, a lot of good local players. And then Anna, who has been playing really, really well today. Um, she, I believe, is the last female player been playing really great. She's been playing great in general, but she's also been playing great in this tournament. Just a couple rounds ago, she was in the top group. I know. You know, just a tough run on Game of Thrones right there, which we hated to see. Um, so there you go. I mean, we're down to 15 players right now. It's going to be more like seven or eight when this rounds up. So, a lot happening fast and furious right now. Yeah. Um within the tournament. And I'm also interested to see what game is going to come up next, where our rig's going to be. Mhm. Um we've had a a good run lately of the classic games like this. You can see Larry Scott in the background right there kind of following along what's going on here. We'll switch their game up on Do I have their game up? Yeah, there's Junkyard. So, you can see their strike levels. Um Anna and Matt have to win. Mhm. That's the stress on them. Ken and Larry have to come in first or second. That's why we say depending on how it how it goes. You know, if Larry wins and Ken comes in last, I believe we would have three eliminations in this group. Um, so it could turn into a little bit of a blood bath. Um, Meg, you missed a lot. We missed a lot of people get eliminated from the event and it it is final now. Looks like Ken won and Larry got second. So, that does eliminate Matt and Anna from the tournament. The W the the newer DMD and the newer LCDs have not been nice. The newer DMD has not been nice to Anna, unfortunately. Where are we moving? All right, we're moving. All right, hold on. Hold on. It's It's Eric Cam. Hold on. Let's pop it. Eric Cam for everybody. I hope he sees that, too. All the Eric Cam. All right, we have three games. It is Sweethearts. It is Genesis. So, I think we're going to be going to Genesis here. Can I see the standings? How many people are left? Yeah, we'll show you the standings here real quick. We have nine players left. So, it is three three-player games. Um Tim, Josh, and Adam Adam Robinson's made a really nice comeback.
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    Adam's Adam Robinson's made a really nice comeback in this tournament. He got off to a really, really tough start. And let me see. All right. Hang on. Okay. So, you can see the body. Yeah. Yeah. This one is a special one just for Genesis. So, I'm going to close a couple windows here. Oh, Genesis. For the sake of my sanity. Yes, Genesis has to be a little strange. I love all those old Got Loops. Yeah, I think they're so much fun. I really do. I'm always super excited. I'm like, "Ooh, Genesis. Nice." This is specifically our Genesis set right here. Look at how the camera sets up right now for Jesse right there. And look, I I I'll have to pull up the window projector right here of it. It almost looks like
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    I think we might have something. Let me look here. Okay, hang on. Yeah, we've got to double up on the scorec, I think.
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    Oh, so you can see all the parts. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I see it. I see what he's doing there. Yeah. So you can read all the parts. So you can see the body parts. Arms, brain, body, legs. We will follow along with this the best we can here. I think that's about the best we're going to do. But not bad. Not bad effort here. Um, this game, as we said, three-player game, so one and two strikes are being given out. Jesse's got to win, in which case either Joel or Ken would be out. If Joel or Ken win, we're probably looking at we're looking at Jesse being eliminated and potentially one of the other players being eliminated. How this turns out. So, let's see what Jesse's able to do here. What's that? How you doing, by the way? I am in the last round here. the last time. Very nice. I know. I know. So, I'm a rules person, so I'll just fill a silence with rules. Please do. I do not know the rules as well as this. Larry Scott's a roommate Larry Scott, by the way. What? Old roommate Larry Scott. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. Yes. Um, Genesis is a really unique game. Um, going up to it, people think that they have to spell all of the body parts, but in reality, just go for arms. Always go for arms because if you go for arms, you get a multiball. And when you have a multiball, you can do so many other things. That's true. Uh but yeah, the name of the game, go for arms. Once you do that, spell the other body parts and you get a nice bonus. So, yes. Yeah, it's a very unique game. It's pretty fun. Yeah. The first time I saw this game was based on the band Genesis in Cleveland. I don't think it was. That's all speculation though. Okay. But yeah, it was in the Cleveland show two two years ago. Yes. And I was like, "This is cool." Mhm.
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    Oh, look at these. Got a few left over from previous times. These are cool. Now, as you said, once you've collected the body part, it increases the scoring by one. So, yeah, once you've collected, if you've just collected legs, you have 2x scoring. If then you collect another body part, you go for 3x. Yeah. And if you hit those drop targets in the middle of the board, they'll give you a letter for a body part. Yes. And you said drop part. if you hit got to hit him in order to do it. If you hit them out of order, you have to clear the drops to try and get the next number in sequence. So, it almost has a mouse and around feel to it, except you have to be more precise than mousing around. Mouse around simply doesn't register it if you hit it out of cycle. On this one, you have to actually if you hit it out of cycle, you have to basically hit shots to correct your errors.
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    So Joel right now, player number two, 153,000. That's a back Eric just
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    I think Eric just learned something right now. That's the happiest I've seen him all day. It's like I didn't really That was an amazing shot.
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    Me it is the she was saying that the the progress has been going really fast. It feels like you know we've hit a cliff and suddenly after that um Everyone's jumping. Everyone's, you know, either jumping off the bandwagon cuz they're hitting that ninth strike and it's all happening all in like one fell swoop. Oh, and Joel wasn't able to save that. Still a good first ball for him though. Almost 300,000 points. Not [Music] bad. Here is
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    Ken, a regular to the Northern Kentucky Pinball League. lives there. I believe he lives out in Burlington if I remember correctly. Hopefully, we're not giving away too much information there. Don't go stalking him, please. We're not about that here on Twitch. Let's see what he's opting to go for here. Yep. Arms. There's your first arm shot right there. Yeah, I'd be shocked if Ken doesn't know what to go for on this machine. I'm sure he has played it a sizable amount of times. And there it is again.
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    key is each time. Can he get it over to the left flipper? He does and nails it. So, if he's got that shot locked in, should be looking very good. Nice pass over, too. That was beautiful.
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    So, the other question here is once he does start that multiball, is he able to progress on the other body parts? during multiball or is that cut off? And I don't remember the answer to it and I don't remember if I wrote it down. I don't know. I think so. Okay, here is Jesse. Third place right now. Remember, he has to win this group. He has AR. That's going to be M. Yep. So, in a similar place to where Ken was on this. Mhm. Ken got himself up to ARM, one shot away from it. Jesse's trying to desperately post pass, but it's just got Yeah. Oh, that end of the flipper shot. Really nicely done. So, that gives him arms, which also means his score multiplier, his multiball multiplier's up, and he's still flashing for Brain and Legs. So, I think it does still count for progress, but it switches. So, you see how they keep switching. So, that was one for legs and etc., etc. Uh-huh. Nice save. And you can see the points just begin to build up right here. He's already over 400,000. That's the multi multiplier. That's the score multiplier. Now everything is just so expanded on your should right there. Oh no, one more. Sorry, can't count. If he gets it during this multiball though, he did. His multi is up to six.
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    So now suddenly, just like that, he's at a million. He's got the multi up to 8x. He just finished another one. 1.7. Yeah, this is a game where it really does go exponential in the scoring if you're able to build it up like he just has and still has the multi going here. It's huge points. No, it doesn't even matter what you hit, it's huge points. Doing a great job of keeping both these balls in play as well.
    294:45
    He's working on legs again. That should be the second one for that. He's already one shot away from arms all over again. Oh, he tried. And he did. He kept both balls in play. I think he got it. Is he going to get credit for that? Let's find out. No, I don't think it went. He got credit for it. Yeah, he must have. 3.2 million. That is a great multiball for him right there. But and I believe his scoring should still be 5xed or at least 4xed.
    295:13
    So, he's going to reap the benefits of this the entire ball until he drains out as he should. Yeah. Yeah. He's got to play I don't want to say perfect pinball, but he's got to win every game from here on out if he wants to win this event. And there's a lot of Whopper points. Certainly a lot on the line. He can. If anybody can do it, he can. He's played these machines enough. I know he can do it. He's local. He knows it. You look at all of those advantages right now, they all work in his favor. Mhm.
    295:55
    Zax, I very much appreciate the emote you just posted. I'll show them to Bri in just a second. They feel appropriate for being close to Northern Kentucky, too, considering one of them really good. Yeah, he did. Even the drain there was a 250,000 point drain. So 4.86 86 million. A huge ball, too. Maybe one of the best we've seen in this mode for him. Well done. So, the pressure is now on Joe and Ken. Even if neither one of them is able to get to the the 4.8 million score. This can very easily become a match of which between the two of them. Whoever whoever wins stays and they might it's going to be with eight strikes, but eight strikes keeps you in the tournament. Obviously, I'm sure none of them are thinking that way right now in the case of Joel. O now Joel's got to be starting to think about what do I do. He's three shots away on arms. Ken has an advantage on that. Joel got some points. He's at 400,000. Ken is one arm shot away from a multiplayer right now. Waving wants to come over and stream for Does Joe want to come over and stream for a minute? Go.
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    [Music] I'll take a break. I can use a little break. Go for it. Yeah, I'm going to take a break. Jen Ruper's going to come in and call this action for Ken right here. We'll be right I'll be right back. Listen to the wonderful tones of Jen Roer. They sound much nicer than mine. Trust me.
    297:33
    All right. So, Ken is going for that arm shot. And hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. Hi. Hi. What are we watching? We are watching Genesis. Oh, I love Genesis. I think it's such a fun game. I really do. Especially when you get it to open up in the center like Jess just did that. Oh, I missed it. No. There's that last shot for arms. Oh, did I did I miscount? I mean, oh, I was going to say, were you able to see it even though there's like It looks like there's a little bit of a glare. I could see it. Oh, you could. Okay, cool. Good, good, good. But it's just it's so rewarding when you get that. Oh, yeah. I did it.
    298:17
    So, this is the tap group, correct? This is the top group. Yes. No, no, no. Cuz Tim has four or four or five strikes. Oh, okay. That was a quick ball for Jesse. He needs to win this to stay in. So, I'm sure he's not feeling too comfortable. It is reachable. Yes. I mean, he he did that all on ball, too. Oh, you know what? This just goes back to it always saying one ball. All you need is one ball. All you need is one ball. That's right. One ball. Fast balls for everyone. So, you just like It all comes down to Ken. Let's see what he can do.
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    Do you feel the pressure? I feel I always like hold my breath when I'm watching people. Like it's fine. I'm like, "Oh, no. We'll let it out after this one." So, this is one thing that's a little bit difficult that we can't see the top of it to see which Oh. Oh, we can. Oh, you Oh, you can't hear. Oh, I can hear. Okay. I wasn't looking at that. Oh, goodness. So, to see what he had in. Jesse is moving forward. And looks like Ken as well. Let me see if the score will come back up.
    299:43
    I do see lots of kicks from Stew over here. I know. So, we should be able to go to Let's see here. What are you looking for? Oh, I me say if you wanted to look at the standings.
    299:59
    Oh, looks like we might be switching up the cameras and getting getting onto Royal Rumble.
    300:13
    There we go. All right. So, we're moving the camera. Oh, wait. I can move the camera. I'm not as fast as Scott. Sorry, friends. But I did. We have a little thing that says Eric Cam. Oh, the air cam. the air can. Oh, it's the one where it literally shows like Eric moving the cameras. It's beautiful. Yes.
    300:33
    Yes. All right. So, guys, if you look, there should be one called DMB. Click on that one and see if that looks okay. All right. We're have to wait till he's done. I'll move it up a little bit. Okay. Okay.
    300:47
    We can't see Eric standing in the background as well as me saying hi in the background on two different cameras, too. So, this is a fight for the death. All of these people have eight. And it looks like I think we might be on ball two right now. Player number I'm not quite sure. Nope. I think Stu just finished playing which means I think that this is that was Larry. Larry. I do know that the beard cam. Good. Uh, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, do you want to watch it here or do we want to like I know we're actually close enough. Yeah. enough to be able to like see it over on the other side. Have you played this game? Uh, Royal Rumble. Yeah, I do. No, I have not. It's a really fun one. I haven't played that one yet. I think that was my game that I was I was doing a practice game on Grand Prix and I was about to go up when once Holly was done on Royal Rumble, but then they were like, "The next round's up and it's and it was Royal Rumble." So, I did not have the opportunity to play this yet as a warm-up game. So, it's pretty fun. Chuck cheating playing all those machines. I don't think so.
    301:55
    Oh, somebody was excited to bring me over. I don't know why someone was excited for me. That's me. Oh, Meg. Hi, Meg. I was like, I think that's Meg. I know. It's like most of these machines came from Eric's basement. I was like, is there anything in your basement right now, Eric? No. Now's the time to clean while there's nothing in the basement. Deep clean the floor. bring out the humidifier. Did you do you ever uh deck brush? Yes. Yes. Can deck brush? Actually, uh my neighbor's toilet overflowed last week and so my whole basement flooded, so I just had to do that, which is great. I I was more thinking like at work, do you ever deck brush up the floors at work? Well, yeah, I do that all the time cuz I work at Starbucks. I I was going to say I enjoyed deck brushing because it got me like away and be able to clean the floors and be nice. All right, so this looks like this is ball three. Ball three. Stew has a pretty decent lead right now. I would say I would say I would be comfy, but I would be comfy with that lead as well. But again, like we just talked about on the game on Genesis, all it takes is one ball. So, especially this game, all you have to do is collect the wrestlers, get the multiball, and then you can load up on points. See, this is where you teach me how to play the game now so that when I get it in the women's tournament. Oh, these are super handy. I was like, these are super cool. Did he make up this guy makeup? Scott made them. Yeah. I'm not 100% sure, but they're pretty awesome. I like this one. Everything else in the game is trivial. Yep. Yeah. I was like, I asked somebody how to play it and they were like, collect wrestlers get multiple. So, it should be one of those things where, you know, I I think I was talking to Carl um H I don't know how to pronounce his last name. Yeah, exactly. When he was at Pinberg and he went up to like one of the games and it had like the rule sheet and it was like if you need to read these then you're already screwed because you don't know how to play this game. So,
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    so Larry went into this ball on third place. So, let's see what he can do. And I think he needed about 50 million at least to catch Caleb. Mhm.
    304:00
    So, I'm going to complete Oh, and I'm not quite sure if that's going to be able to do it. Not a lot of bonus. Not a lot of bonus, but let's see.
    304:13
    I think this may just be Depun getting that skill shot is going to be able to put him over. Good old data ease. Your skill shots. Know your skill shots. Yep. That's going to do it for Oh, yep. That'll do it for him. So, it looks like Stu and Caleb are going to be continuing on. No, in this battle. In the battle. There you go. For the death. For the death. Not for the death. To the death. For the win. A battle for the win. We do see a decent amount of women collecting over here now. And we have 36 women last time I checked. Awesome. Let's brag, brag, brag. Sorry not to do that, but it's really awesome to see all these really cool women come out and do this tournament tournament. So, it'll be really, really fun. I'm super excited to help run it and uh I can't wait to stream everything. So, Oh, no. I'm Scott for streaming. Thanks to Gillian for running. You know, it'll be really awesome. I'm super excited. Snaps all around. That's right. Snaps. Snaps all around. Snaps all around.
    305:11
    I know, right? So, let's see if I can mess around with this a little bit because we still got Caleb that's playing. I don't If you go to matches, it'll show you like the they finished. And then if you go to standings, it'll show you how many strikes everyone has. Strikeout standings. Yeah, that'll show you how many strikes. All right, let's go to standings. So, it looks like we were waiting on this game, which means let's go to this. Oo, goodness. I can't interpret this. There's a lot of people on here. Multiball. They're going to multiball. They're going to multiball. Go back. Go back. Go back. Go back. I'm getting yelled at for messing with the computer. This is why you don't let Jen run the computer. Don't let Jen run the
    305:51
    computer. So, it looks like Stuart is moving on. Uh 132. Yep. So, Stuart is moving on to the next round. Now I'll go to the standings since the match is over. Okay. Yes, I was yelled at because they were in the middle of multiball and Jen changed it. So if we look at the standings right now, Tim is still in first with four strikes, which is super awesome. I was just bragging about him coming out. So that's super cool. If we look at his match, he ended up getting first, Josh got second or third, and then Adam got second. Those numbers are super tiny for all of you. I think they might be able to see it on their computers, but like on this screen, it's just because it's like half the screen. Yeah, it's super duper I'm like, "Holy moly." Okay, let's see. Can I find the Eric Cam? Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. I totally can't. There we go. Yay. Nope. Can't type. Fine. So, we got the Eric. I like it. I like it. Where are we going? It looks like we are going to Grand Prix. Hey, look at me. I can figure out computers sometimes. Okay. But Jen just gets yelled at when they fault. So, don't let me touch anything. Don't let me touch anything. I'm going to refresh this. Yeah. So, I was going to say, what do we see? So, can we go to the match stand? Hold on. We got to go over here. Well, no. I meant Can we see it without changing this? I already put it on there. It looks good. Yeah, it looks good. All right. I can figure out computers sometimes. I know, right? We're all nerds here. It's okay. Nerds are welcome. Nerds are cool nowadays. Nerds are cool. I'm going to No, no, no. I'm going to pass things back over to Scott. Yeah, I'm going to pass it back over to Scott. All right, so it looks like we have Tim Sexton and Josh and Jesse on Grand Prix and we have Steuart Ken and Adam. A big thank you to Jen for her help in commentating there. Appreciate the big Indian. Sweet. This should be fun. I am going to hop off cuz the women's tournament is starting. So they are going to go ahead and start the women's starting. Okay, cool. We will try. Thanks for having me, guys. Absolutely. We will switch everything over standings wise and everything to women's as soon as that starts. In fact, I may even work on some of that uh while we're going here. Uh so yeah, we will do our best to keep you guys up to date on the women's tournament at the same time while still bringing you the finals of this. So hang tight. We'll stick with it as best we can for you here. Could be a little interesting, but we'll make it happen. Giving Holly some love here. She is getting ready to compete as well. So, uh, Big Indian is the game here. We're going to switch over. Round 10. Big Indian. There we go. This is not what I was expecting here. What do we got? Oh, no. Grand Prix. We've got Grand Prix up. So, this is super interesting here. Um, this game 4, seven, and eight. Uh, Tim Ston still has a twoame buffer. I mean, and if he keeps winning, that buffer could be as much as a threeame buffer uh when we get to head-to-head type formats. And there's a possibility we could be on head-to-head as soon as the very next game. Uh reason I say that is everyone else has either seven or eight strikes. So, everyone else is in big time danger right here. Joe Soap, thank you for those 100 bits, man. You are now the leading bit giver out of the whole thing. So, we are on ball number We're already on ball number three of that there. No, there's no way. We're on ball number one. I can see it down there. There's ball
    309:25
    one. And it is five ball. Extra balls on this are turned off. So, do keep that in mind. Forgive me if I'm looking at another screen for a little bit of the time right here. I am uh spending a little bit of my time here making sure that the match play stuff gets uh set up properly for the women's tournament. We're going to keep you, like I said, in the loop on how that is going all at the exact same time. So, make all this happen for you. Certainly a little bit busy right now, but boy, it's busy in the best possible way. You know, this is what we want. We want there to be all kinds of action going on right now. You may have to ask her ask Gilly. All right. In fact, I'm gonna try and
    310:21
    That's one way to do it. Tim is back up. We're looking at the scores right here. Yeah, no one came close on this one right here. He's at 270,000. No one else is over 30. He is zoned and that's probably putting it very, very nicely. Yes, Czech war does rock and so does Grand Prix. Thank you for those bits, pinball nerds podcast. Appreciate
    310:45
    it. There's another really nice nice. And there it is. I don't know if anybody's going to be able to knock him off because if we if he keeps this up on the pace he's at, then suddenly it's if Jesse comes in second and Josh comes in third, then Tim's the only person that comes out of this group. He's it.
    311:15
    So there's the dream. But nonetheless, this is going to be a nice bonus as well. See where he ends up right here. It is a high number 45, excuse me, 452,000 points for him. That game is right literally right behind us right now where I'm watching Josh Noble do his thing and he houseled. Did he? No, he hasn't played yet. I just looked and saw him step away. They're looking at something on the machine, though. I'm not exactly 100% sure what they're looking at here. And I'm certainly not gonna bug the players about it, but yeah, Jesse and Josh are both walking away. So, something they must think is a miss. We don't know what it is yet. We'll get Josh is coming over. What do we got going on here? 25,000 bonus. I wasn't sure if that's normal or not. Okay, he it's it's more of a just rule check here um to see if something's acting the way it should be. And that is that right now Josh has 25,000 bonus on the left side. He's asking Tim about it, too. So, without, you know, jumping in too much and making sure there's no issue. Yeah, Eric's coming over to take a look at it right
    312:36
    now. So, I think this is just more of a sanity check than anything right now for for him. He wants to make sure everything's working as intended. Um, make sure he should be getting that level of bonus on the machine. So, they are checking right now. What's going on with that?
    313:09
    All right, we are I am continuing to work while this is happening on setting up some some stream assets for you for the women's tournament. I don't see the match play as of yet.
    313:24
    Yeah, I'm wondering what's going on here, too. He's obviously going ahead and playing it, so they must have figured out that that is okay. Eric's over here watching it at the same time. In fact, that bonus continues to go up a little bit.
    313:40
    So, we're certainly looking for things to see if everything's working as intended right here. I remember Grand Prix, even when it's been at Eric's house, has been a little bit troublesome at times. So, hopefully we're going to get a They're playing it out. I mean, he's playing this like a normal game right now, but I'm sure Eric's there to double check the machine, make sure it's playing as it's intended to, so hang tight on that. We're watching it right along with you here.
    314:10
    Okay, so Eric's walking away. He seems satisfied with what he's seeing right there. That that spinner, by the way, was really, really nice.
    314:24
    talking about it right now. Can't seem to get a grasp on what we're seeing right here.
    314:42
    So, after that ball, by the way, Josh's score ended up at about 78,000 points. So, I think the assumption here is we're good. They're going to go they're going to call this a play on. I don't see anything to indicate anything to the contrary right now, but we'll keep an eye on it for you. That is a nice spin, too. Oh, and he got it turned to a thousands at the last point there. So, that was excellent. Just that single one, even though it was not a great ball for him. 110,000 on the strength of the spin. So nice comeback right there as we begin to see the women's tournament come into play. A lot more activity happening around here. Hopefully we'll have that information for you very very
    315:31
    shortly. I said I am trying my best to get that information. Tim basically with a house ball right there. But even with that house ball, still a nice little bit of bonus to tack on there. He's up to 495.
    315:44
    Seems like everybody's cool with what they're seeing right here. So, I think we are okay to proceed.
    316:16
    All right. So, just like that, Josh is done too. 130. This what we may be looking at here is is this may be becoming very critical for for Jesse and Josh. You know, they're on ball number three. Try and see what ball they're on right now. Think the light might be burned out for it. I can't even see. I think this is ball number three.
    317:09
    right. So, Jesse is back up now. He's still playing. In fact, 231. He's beginning to form the comeback here.
    317:24
    Nice spin, but still only 100 per. Does get it switched at a decent point there. So, his last few spins were worth a,000. He's at 249. He's about halfway there now. Also, his bonus is looking like it should be pretty good. He's got the bonus worked up to about
    317:44
    65,000, but he only got the left side bonus. Didn't get the right side. Remember this game, the side that you have lit does matter as far as the bonus you are given at the end of a ball. End of ball bonus is determined by that ball one to three is left, ball two is the
    318:02
    right. This game being a fourball game, I would imagine. Yeah, it's still determined by the big red arrow. It just zips a couple more times around.
    318:16
    Ask someone something here. Hey, Michael. Michael. Michael, can you find me out the match? What? Can you ask Bri to find me the I need to find the match play link for the women's tournament. The what? The match play link if you can find it for me. So, just like that. Yeah, Jesse is done. So here's Tim. They're on ball number four.
    318:51
    Let's see what he's able to do. He's got it over 500,000 now. So making some progress there.
    319:08
    I need a match play. Match play. I got to set up assets. I don't see it in here. If you look up here, do your best.
    319:21
    You found it. Um, that was last year's. Sorry. I looked it up, too. All right. 594. That was a nice spin and he got it turned into a thousand really quickly there, too. All right, cool.
    319:44
    Actually, it looks like the match play of this is doing a little differently than I thought. Each group is playing three games, so each player is going to get to play nine games on this machine. Um, before we do that, but we'll have that information for you here very, very shortly. I'm not sure how we're going to do the matches side of things yet. We'll figure that out as we go. You guys get to maybe watch me do some uh some stream hacking in in real time here. I would be more than happy to do that for you. You know, that's what you signed up to watch, right? Yeah, we're ball for here. He's almost at 700,000. So now it is critical for Josh here to make up this ground on Jesse. If he's not able to do it, Tim is the only person that moves out of this group and it becomes a head-to-head where Tim has a three game basically has to has to only win one game. Whoever plays him has to win three. It's a four strike lead and that is brutal right then. The bonus is going to help him quite a bit. In fact, it gives him a lead of under a thousand points. So, with that bonus, he's made it up.
    320:53
    Right side bonus is what Jesse's looking for right here. That's going to help. So Jesse will continue to hold the lead after this ball is done, but he needs to get some points and build that up.
    321:07
    Those saucers help. Oh, that was almost a really tough draw right there off the saucers.
    321:18
    A good spin. Not big points on it, but enough points and he will drain. So 300. So 335 right now is his total. And Tim will play this. Tim has to play this out. He is not in any way, shape, or form guaranteed first place. And one of these other players were to come back and give him a strike. That would absolutely be critical in later rounds right here. Do we maybe have it again? We've got it again.
    321:47
    Yeah, the 25,000 issue has reared its ugly head again. By the way, I'm going to put in chat right now if you guys want to follow uh the match play. I will put that link in chat here. Looks like Tim's playing it. Eric's going to watch this out
    322:13
    So, I'm going to be interested to see what the end ruling here is on this one.
    322:41
    All right, got that link for you here as Tim is still going here at 800,000. He's got a chance to No, I jinxed [Laughter] him. Congratulations. That was commentators curse at his very best. I hope you're happy, Tim. Um, don't feel bad for him because he's at going to be at 940,000 points right here. Just a amazingly well played game by him. Look at Joe Soap showing all those uh pinball showing level one pinball undesirabs pinball live. We appreciate you guys showing all those emotes in there. And he man, he is he's playing some really good pinball right now. So this is the big question. If Josh is not able to make up this difference right now, it's over and both of them are going both Jesse's going home. Then it's all on Jesse to try and see if he can get all the way to 900,000. Oh, he had to nudge that thing. Smart
    323:39
    nudge. So, I mean, for either one of them to live, for Josh to live, he just has to be second place. His bonus right now is trending it looks like 30,000 and he claims it. Time to claim that. He's up to 390. So Jesse will be forced to play out this ball three and see if he can continue to play the role of
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    spoiler and he drains. So now Josh's tournament life rests in Jesse's hands. Jesse's got to run it all the way back. He's got to get up to 940,000. So, his target score is about 605,000 points away. Josh to stay alive. Oh, that thing stayed in play. That was important. Really only cares about where this ends. And Josh is going to live. Josh will only get a single strike, I think. I don't think there's enough bonus there. There's not. So Jesse is done at 10 strikes and I believe we're going to be down to a three player final with Josh at eight strikes. We're going to have another player at eight strikes. In fact, we can tell you that's going to be Storwonger right now is going to be in this thing. Ken and Adam have been eliminated. Great comeback, by the way, by Adam Robinson after everything that he did. So there it is. Tim has a an enormous lead. And the interesting thing here is this can still end right now if Tim wins because this is a two- strike game. Because this is a three-player game, it is one strike, two strike. The rules definitely change a little bit here. One more time for a little bit. We got ourselves some Eric Cam. That's right. Eric Cam is live and in charge. And yes, that is me clicking the button by hand so you can have it flashed on your screen because I have no shame. All right, there's Genesis. We've got it up on the screen for you. Uh, looks like he's got a little bit of configuration to do here. Oh no, it's big
    325:57
    game. Wonder why they moved it to Genesis. We may be in a waiting state right here. big game may have been chosen in the women's
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    tournament. So, I'm going to refresh this page and see what we have here. In the meantime,
    326:24
    I'm going to go into studio mode real quick here. I don't want to interrupt the ladies and just started ball game. Perfect. All right, Eric just gave me an update. The ladies tournament is playing a game on big game. They're on ball number three. So, they're going to wait that out. uh make sure everything is good there and then we will move things
    327:03
    over two. While that is happening, I am going to work on the statements
    327:11
    pages. Apparently that changes everything. That's not what I wanted. We're going to have to do this on the fly afterwards. That was a nice
    327:27
    thought. Stern and Kapow are remaking big game into a CCR pin. Okay, CCR, help me out here. I should know what CCR is, and I don't know what CCR is off the top of my head. So, give me a little bit of insight on that. That will be tremendously helpful for me. Um, all right. So, matches. I'm looking at matches right now.
    327:56
    I've been spreading that rumor around. [Laughter] Jason, is your custom company called Kapow? I think we need to learn these things right now and see if that is indeed the source of our uh leaks here. Oh
    328:20
    god, stop recording on me right there. Let me fix that real quick.
    328:53
    It must have cut off. Oh well is okay. Ah, now I feel you. Now I understand what you're saying. So, yeah, we are in a waiting process for just a couple of minutes right
    329:21
    completion. And checking a couple things on my neck of the woods as well to make sure everything looks good. And I think we are moving again. Yes, the women's game is done on big games. So, we are going to get everything switched over. In the meantime, don't forget to go support
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    twitch.tv/whattheflip. Go watch them when they're live. They're one of our fine sponsors today. Arcade Legacy in the house as well. See Jesse playing in this tournament. You'll see all their locations in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. They are one of our fine sponsors, too. Wreck Bar down in Louisville, Kentucky. Actually, the Jefferson Town area part of there. That place has got so many machines in it now. It is crazy, crazy, crazy how many machines they have. So, with that, for the first time tonight, we bring you big game. First time we've had a chance to see this. First time we've had a chance to see the tic-tac-toe boards for you.
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    So, to give you guys an idea, if you have not seen this particular machine before, yeah, I think we're good to go. And again, again, by the way, if I don't know if uh Delaware Pinball is back in chat right now, but the um our talk about how many scissor drains you're going to have, it's totally in play once again. And I'm going to go if if the overunder on a three-player game is one and a half, which means we have nine balls to play with, I will still go with the over. I think two of them will drain by scissor here. Mostly because of the stress involved in this for both Josh and Stewart. Josh and Stewart. Safe to say for both these guys, this is going to register on their top 20 tournaments with this kind of finish. Tim will have to see. I got to think it probably will as well, but when you're ranked 121 and you've got a heck of a lot of Whopper points, then it does make you wonder. But here we go. This is potentially our last game of the Friday Night Strikes tournament if Tim wins it. Let's see if he's able to do it. And let's see what he's able to fill in on that checkerboard and how many BIGs he's able to get. If you collect big at those top lanes, right spinner is 1k a spin for the rest of the entire game. So, we could see a lot of people doing that. Also, if the X card is lit, the left spinner is 2k a spin. So, as you would expect with games of this variety, it's all about ripping the spinner. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to say either one of these guys absolutely could come back, but Tim has been playing so well as of late that that's an interesting one right there. Yep. Did drop successfully. Whoa, that was a la Was that an over the flipper Lazarus right there? I don't think I've ever seen that on this machine before. Sure. Josh right now is hoping he didn't just use all of his uh his good fortune and good good luck cuz wow, what a play right there as Justin is joining us right now. Feel free and clip that. Please clip that. I'd love to show that later. I was looking at the reaction of Eric over here when that happened. He was about He was as shocked as we were. What did I miss? Oh, yeah. Everything. You missed an over the flipper Lazarus. Oh, what? Yeah, that's rare. That's fun. Did it I don't think they do on this one. It went over the flipper and then back up or it came back up over the flipper? Uh, it came back over the flipper. You're kidding. From the bottom back over. That's so fun. That is so fun. By the way, Hip coming in with the hot knowledge right here. Estimated value of winning this. By the way, good on Hipsmart. Tell me what site you go to to get these estimates cuz that's freaking amazing that you can pull that that that quickly. Is that a Whopper points estimate? This is a Whopper points estim. Oh, you need an advanced degree in in calculus to figure that I thought it was Whopper. Whopper. Whopper. Hipsmart is our Hips Smart is our Whopper insider. Wow. In chat right now. Look, I came back just in time from my little grocery run that I had to do. Yeah. I appreciate. And by groceries, I mean beer. And that's important groceries. Yeah. Yeah. My wife was uh she's here ready to play the women's tournament. She's like, "We need And they have started. Yep. They have started the women's tournament. So, we're going to switch everything over very quickly once this is over to the women's tournament and start to bring you games for that. Ah, there it is. There's the chunk out. The Whopper estimator. I will look at that later. Yeah. So, winning this 35 points to win, 27 for second, 22 for third. My goodness. This is going to help Tim. That's That's a whopper of a tournament. That is a whopper of a tournament. Yeah, I went right there. Get a little slap at me five hours in. What can I say? That's right. Um, oh, and that thing is right down the middle. So now I can see if it was similar to that where it's off a jet bumper, why it might pop back over the flipper. Was it similar to that where it's just coming in like a rocket? It may have. Straight down the middle. Yeah, that site did not recognize Daniel Robinson, so I estimate the winner will actually get 36.2. That is so specific. I'm really impressed. Nav Arcade has it. Beer always helps my pinball play until it doesn't. Bourbon and wine very much help my pinball play. Yeah, because my PB on Guardians of the Galaxy is on a bourbon. It was on a was me being tipsy on bourbon. You you were about four bourbons in on that one. Not too. I'm a lightweight. Yeah, I'm an admitted lightweight. I'm not afraid to say it. I unfortunately am not. I I come from a long Irish stock. We drink a lot of uh whiskey. You would think it's an expensive hobby. I'm a Catholic German kid. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. I should not be a lightweight, but I for a long time, so that's why. Not that I'm stereotyping Irish people. Well, I'm not. No. No. I was a little bit, but now I'm not. We are just stating things that we believe are true for ourselves. That's true. I can only speak for myself. That's right. So, Tim is looking really good. Tim is looking freaking amazing right now. He at this point, if he were to lose this, he would he would lose one of the three games he has in hand. Um, if he wins this game, it's over. That's it. That's it. That's the end. That's all she wrote. Um, so right now, Josh Oh, he tilted it. Wow. Oh no, that's a tough tilt cuz it looks like he was building up some points. Big opening for Tim right here. But Josh is looking at 84,000 points right now. Not too shabby on ball two. Not too shabby. This one is all drop targets, right? If you can get your drop targets up and then light the big game on the upper left side of the playfield. If you can get that lit and just nail that spinner, woo boy, big points. I would love love love to go back later and look at Tim's standing on this. So far, four strikes through 10 rounds. You're averaging I I mean, we can do the math on this. 0.4 strikes per round and you get one strike for finishing second place. Amazing. Which means out of 10 rounds, that's six wins in 4 seconds. And you got to assume if he had a bad round and finished third or fourth, then the number of wins just goes up. I mean, that's remarkable. And he did have a rough start. You remember we were watching him early on in the tournament. He got off to a rocky start. I thought he got a third. So there you go. That means he's won seven or eight of his rounds today. Amazing. There it is. Tim has won every game except for two third places. Hipsmart is our statistician. Hipsmart, are you an accountant? Hips, do you have a Twitch channel? Cuz I want to send you bits right now. For real. I want to send you bits every time you come up with that stuff. I also can't prove you're not making it up because I don't do the math. So you might just be making up numbers. Yeah, but he's convincing me that's good enough for me. So, nice little trap on the left here trying to pick a strategy. He is now in first place. He has 126,000. The bingo boards are starting to light up for him just a little bit. You can see that bingo board strobing there.
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    Ah, database developer. If you ever need a job, let me know. I can I'll maybe get you on to my place.
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    By the way, I am currently making a note to follow him very s Oh my god, what did you get me? My friend, we are going to toast the amazing players of pinball and specifically I want to toast the amazing women of pinball. We're about to get to celebrate and enjoy their All right, we got to What kind we got here? Uh so, okay. Yeah, without doing a promo, this is uh Hotel Tango ready to drink bourbon. Never had it in my life. Never. I've never had it either, but I went out and picked it up. To the amazing players of pinball. to the amazing players of pinball, the women of pinball. Yep. The wonderful Cincinnati players as Stewart is trying to be one of those wonderful players right now and had a bad ball three, bad ball two. So, this is it. Josh has to at least beat the 157,000 point score or he is done. That's it. This is a lot of pressure on Josh Noble. He's played a really good day today. You're right. All bourbon is ready during bourbon, but I do like my bourbon over the rocks. And he got some ice. So, you know, that's that's good stuff. You know, drinking it. You want to see a face. It's me drinking it straight up. Drinking it neat. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, let's see. He might be waiting for the strobe. He might be waiting to end up on the card he wants. He was. Yes. He was looking for that 2,000 per rip spinner. Yep. Let's see if he can if he can time it up again. There it goes. Big spin. Nicely done. Big spin. So, almost 100 over 100,000 points for just one rip of the spin. Yep. Our Twitch uh viewers can't see this, but there's a big crowd of people just to my right watching him play. Yeah, but watching it on our Twitch stream on this TV. Yes. Yeah, the cards are in. You're right. There you go. There you go. There's another nicely done. I mean, if you can get through there now, he has what, one letter left to light on big game. Just that E. And uh if he can if he can get a really great rip and land it in that saucer after that, he is looking pretty. Look at that. There's the E. Beautiful. This is his chance to rack up. He got the E. Look at that points right here. Put a ton of pressure on Tim. Make this thing go. All right. Nice trap. Good control.
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    He's going to wait for that spinner to light and then he's just going to go for it. No, a miss there. That's okay. He's going to trap it again. Back. Car the Hobbit. Thank you for those bits. Thank you, Cara Hobbit. Is Is he Car the Hobbit? That's Adam Robinson. Car the Hobbit. I did not know he was Car the Hobbit. Thank you. Thank you, my man. He gets a hug later cuz we like hugs. I like hugs. Consensually, of course. Yes. Yeah. We'll ask him first before we go randomly hug. Fair. Oh, okay. I mean, you got to hand it to him. He is taking his time. He is being patient with this. It's very tempting to just go for that big rip. The second you get the ball back, he's waiting for the light. He's pausing and looking for his opportunity. Absolutely. He's already got everything lit in a really, really nice way right here. Oh, didn't quite get there. You know, don't don't risk it. You know, he might have been going for that inner spinner. There he goes. Yep. Going for that inner spinner. It was lit. There you go. Good points on that roll over. Good points on that spin, but let's see if he can get the the big spin. I think that's what he's looking for. He's trying like heck to get it right now. Hasn't lined it up yet, but good save. Oh, wow. Another nice save. Now he's got big up at the top lined up. So he can go right side if he wants to and have a,000 points and have a,000 points for rip. But he's playing big. That wasn't a big one, but it was still a rip. Like about 15,000 points right there. Seems to be just a little off on the timing of that. Not far. Is Haley not approving? No, I don't know. Was it good? Was it good? Oh, okay. No. Okay. Okay. We we look at that little tip pass back over. He's had several of these where he just it's just chaos for a second. He pulls it under control. And one thing that big game does offer you because they're not those those uh scissors flippers. Uh he's got a chance to trap more easily than you would on a traditional two standard uh two flipper setup. That's right. Look at him start playing the math game again. 101 bits. Thank you. Oh, thank you. You can trap it right in between there. Oh, that was a nice save. Thank you, Hipsmart, for those bits. There you go. That's not bad. It's uh He wasn't lit, but look at it counting down. See how it's counting down those letters? He was getting 5,000 points for each of those rifts, wasn't he? Yep. He's really Oh, nice little tip there. He's doing a great job not nudging too hard either. It's got to be tempting. There's the drop back in. There you go. Nice drop catch. He gets a drop catch into a trap. looking to go back up to that spinner lane. He's got his strategy down. He seems to be picking up the um the drop targets, the sort of incidentals here and there, but he's mostly just timing up that that spinner rip and collecting those big game letters. He wants that that X bingo card lit. When it's lit, the 2000's game. And there's the drain. Nicely done by Really, really solid showing. I mean, he showed up big on that ball three. He had to. That was his tournament on the line right then and he made a great show right there. That was Grace under pressure right there. That was Grace under pressure. So, here comes Tim. He's got all the buffer in the world, but I'm sure he doesn't want to use it. And now he needs about 440,000 points. Very makeable. Yep. Bring this thing back. I'm surprised he took that shot. And there's that. So, we're going to have at least another round of pinball here. We got another game coming. Question is, can Stewart pass up Tim's score as well? Tim has somebody's going out has to go all the way up, though. Yep. You know, at this point, Tim scored to him is is inconsequential. And it's really inconsequential to Tim as well because at five or six strikes, it doesn't matter. It's still two games. Yep. That he would have to lose in order to lose this. He's he's giving up one of his three games right now. He just he's given up some pad in the middle, which is it's got to be a little disappointing, but I think he knows that he's got some room to run and can recollect and play that next game. What you can't do is take it for granted, right? And he certainly didn't. He played a good game. He played an excellent game so far. So Stewart, realistically, his goal here is 530,000 points, by the way. That is good bourbon. It's good, isn't it? I I like it, too. Car the Hobbit 102 more bits. Thank you very much. I didn't even see him get his phone. Thank you, Carobbit. Did he telep Did he give us 102 mental? He telepathetically did it. Telepathathetically did it. Isn't that uh I love it. I think what what is that? What is there's a pin where she talks about telepathetic. Oh, it's Alvra. Yeah, telepathetic power. There you go. Alvra has that power over all of us. Let's see. There you go. It's trapping that up. Going to wait. Wait. Your turn. and then go for that spinner shot. Can you get it from that top flipper though? Nobody let it roll down. Try and get it from the second one. All right, Stew. Stu picks it up with a little bit of a tip save there. And nice. That was really well done. Did he get the 2,000 per? He did. Oh, bad bounce. Oh, but the drain to the side. Bad bounce. I mean, that was that was tough. He had to get it under control and it was just a little bit too nuts. So, Storley will take two strikes. He is done. Josh Noble wins the round. He will stay at eight strikes. And Tim does only take one strike. Although, as we said, it does mean now that we're in a head-to-head situation, he has a twoame lead. Yep. So, this is simple. We're going to have basically as many as two games. Yep. He'd have to lose what? Two in a row. He's got to lose two in a row. That's what has to happen right here. Uh, can we look at the women's standings? I can't yet. I don't have an updated page for it or browser settings. I can tell you each round that they're doing of match play is it looks like three games. So the women are all gonna get to I I see just one round here. Single elimination or double. Do you know it's match play right now? I'm I'm looking at the right here. I guess if it's qualifying Yeah, this is strictly qualifying right here. So I'm trying just trying to do my best to keep an eye on standards. I can tell you right now based on what we see that it's big Indian for the next game. Nice. What a great choice. I love when we see an EM, especially kind of a slow EM in the I appreciate what the random number generator is doing for us right now. Very much so. Hey, Loader Brett's in on this. 102 bits for him. Thank you very much, man. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for those bits.
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    All right, so we're watching Eric Cam. We are. And Eric is getting set up with Big Indian. Big Indian has been has been a little bit of a showstopper tonight in that we've seen a couple of uh really really strong players struggle with Big Indian and we've seen a couple of players who aren't necessarily top ranked who really have done well on Big Indian. Yes. And I think that's just a function of moving to an older EM like this. It really is a playfield leveler. The big question on Big Indian is are they going to use that very target on the left? Because if you if you knock that target all the way to the back, you can get a 5,000 point boost. Yes. But notice how that very target is set up. It's going to want to send it straight down the middle if you It is if you come out of it at the wrong angle. So
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    Josh Noble is taking his inaugural flip here on what may be the final game of this tournament. It is big is a fiveball game. Correct. This is a fiveball em. It is. I think we're playing on five. Yep, it's a five ball EM. Yep. And I'm working on a couple things over here, so don't mind me for just a few moments. Yep. And Josh is going to trap up and choose his shot. Let's see what he's going to go with. He is avoiding that very very target like the plague, which is probably a good move, especially with a game that's on the line like this one is. It's just too much variability. Yeah. you don't see a lot of those varied targets. They they show up only really in the older EM. Later, you did see some innovations that were kind of like them where you'd have, for instance, a a captive ball system where you're trying to hit the ball as far as you can back, uh, but not too much with these varied targets. They didn't really survive. You saw that ball do a little bit of a weird rotation there. That's usually due, especially in an older machine, to some of the variations on the playfield that naturally come up after 50 years in service. So, just because a ball is looking like it's going to go, you know, cleanly to a left flipper or a right flipper, sometimes it'll hit a little bit of wood planking or a raised or lifted insert and then it will it'll change trajectory and drop right down the middle. Correct. Sorry, this edge. Just checking a couple settings here real quick. Josh was a little on the fence with that one, but he managed to pick it up with a tippy tippy tip of the flipper.
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    back up to the top. I assume he's trying to complete those lanes, which would make a whole heck of a lot of sense. It would. [Music]
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    He's having a nice long ball time here. He has had a couple of really great saves. Going to trap up, keep it safe while he chooses his strategy. Now off the right flipper, he's been going mostly drop targets. And it looks like he's going to continue going for those drop targets. And off the left flipper, he's been aiming for rollovers that take him up to those upper lanes. That's Yes. Nice dead flip there. Great choice. Would have been tempting to flip at that tip pass and back up and around. Let's see if he can complete these lanes. All right, one letter left to go. He's got two bumpers lit. Each of those lit bumpers worth 100 points when you hit them. That adds up to big points in Big Indian. Yes. Let's see. He's going to try and clear these drop targets. I bet you he's only got one left to get up there. He got it. Did he? No, he missed it. Looked like he got it, but he missed it. Mhm. And that's a drain, unfortunately. But he had a really nice start. So, he's looking at what 19,000 points or so. 19,000 is correct. Yes. Not a bad first ball for Josh. Another big Indian in there. Unfortunately, there's no one in there. No one. Keep looking. It's not going to be there. Thank you. Don't get freaked out. So, here comes
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    Tim. Ball number one for him here. Oh, is he taking a very target shot? I don't think so. And he houseled it. I think he was probably trying to pick up those those drop targets and just accidentally whiff a little bit to the left. Yes. All
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    right, Nap Arcade with 100 more bits. God, you guys you guys are having way too much fun. Thank you, Nap Arcade. And I am going to encourage you to never stop. Never ever stop. Yep. Keep those Keep those bit wars going. Absolutely. Oh, there he goes. Completes the B. And we got one bumper lit. That's part of the beauty of completing those letters up top is you do get the bumpers lit as you go, which is pretty great because those bumpers are worth 100 points every hit. Oh, that's disappointing for Josh, especially after such a big first ball. All right, it's not ready yet, but I'm going to put this in here. We have a spreadsheet that we're going to be using to keep track of the amazing race portion of this.
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    Tim Ston back up on ball two of Big Indian. Uh, that wasn't it. Crap. Why didn't it copy like I wanted it to? Oh, right over the top. That's a bummer.
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    Huh? We're switching over in a minute. Right now it's qualifying. Yeah, it's not. You're not on there yet. It's qualifying is the first like All right, try that link. Evan, yeah, we are talking amazing race. I'm working on getting everything shared right now and matches and everything sorted out for you as best we can. The link that I just posted that 81K12, uh, that one you can follow right now while we look at this finals right now. Going to try and nudge into the use that and follow the standings for the qualifying right now for the amazing race. Um, there are 35 players and it is top 17 that are moving on. All right. Cuz as IFPA standings work, you have to take, you know, under the top half. Yep. So, uh, we're going to do that the easiest way possible, which is to cut it in half and round under. So, is that to say that after qualifying 17 players will drop out or that's after the first round of Amazing Race, half the players. That is after qualifying. After qualifying, you'll have some dropouts that it's a good prime to have. We have that many players. Yeah. Isn't that great? It's amazing. Up to 36 by the time it started. So, I would imagine then top half would be 18 players. Yeah. and we'll have 18 people running the amazing race. I mean, that's math I can do. So, that's a good sign. I can do that. I mean, that one I can do. We like IFPA happy math around here. You know, we we we want the we want the IFPA people to be happy and give us lots of opport
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    in and out of those top lanes. Boy, after some even some of the EM that we've seen the last couple rounds, this has that slow motion feel to it. Yeah, it's got that floaty feel. We can assure you it's not. That's just how this game plays. Nice drop catch. I love when you see somebody drop catch and it just looks like almost a dead stop like that. Yes. And this is a great machine for trapping up. You don't have to worry about springing out of that in lane. Generally, you can if you have it coming in at a decent angle, you can get a drop catch and just hold on to it. Thought he might ramp past that. Did not. And the trap, I believe, on this one is easier on the right, but I I can't swear to that. I remember having a little bit more flipper um angle on the right. Josh Noble trying to get something done there. Didn't do I think as much as he was hoping, but still sitting at 22,000 to Tim Ston's 3,380. So a wide lead there. We'll see if if Tim has been really Ouch. Ouch. Tim has been really courting that very target on the left. And I don't think he's going for it. I think he's just accidentally sort of nicking it on the way by. Almost every time he's touched it, he's had a drain because things start to get crazy. So, we'll see if he can avoid that. Get the more clear shot to the upper left. It reminds me of the the snake pit shot on Gorgar where you It's a pretty It looks more open than it is, but the actual angle you have to hit off the right flipper pretty narrow.
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    Now, I believe on Big Indian that they are playing extra balls, but I won't swear to it. So, let's see what they do. I believe they're playing extra balls on this one. Typically, in a tournament, you would turn off the extra ball function. But on EM, you don't have the opportunity to do that. So, you either play or plunge them. I believe they're playing extra balls on this one, but we'll see. We'll see. All right. He's got the I checked off. Let's see if we can get the B and the G. Little sling tennis there. And ooh, ran the danger of being up and over on that one. You can see him prepping with his flippers just in
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    case. Kissing that very target. And he goes for the very target. Really, he got it. risky play, but he made the most of it. Yeah. I don't think it went all the way back. I don't think he got the full value of it, but he is really going for it. He wants it. You know, I think this is this is Oh, wow. This is kind of genius in its own right. He's got an extra ball. Um or I thought he had an extra ball, didn't he? Let's make sure he's not Is that game over? He's flashing game over. I thought he had an extra ball working, but I didn't think that was ball five. He took a bold move there by playing the uh the very target. And I think it was the right choice. I mean, you can get a lot of points there. Okay, I'm going to have to bug Eric about something. What happened? It only gave one strike. I'm going to have to bug Eric. I don't think that's correct based on the rules I read. Um, and so this would be it. And I don't think the way this is set up, this would be it. I'm going to need to bug Eric about that. Hang on just a second. Go bug Eric. In the meantime, watch an Eric cam. We'll switch over to that so that you don't throw up at home.
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    Nope. Looks like we're just going to have to throw up at home here. We'll switch off of that for just a moment uh while he moves the camera so that we don't all get motion sick. Uh but as it looks, we're going into a third game that could theoretically put either of these contestants, either of these players out. And uh that's pretty exciting. All right, I got the answer. Um don't sweat it, guys. Um match play simply is incapable of giving two strikes for that. Okay, so the answer is uh and by the way, it's on firepower. Firepower. We have not seen firepower all day today. So that's EMSS, right? I'm going to let you run this. There we go. There it is. Firepower for everything. So, God love Josh. He has run this thing back. And by the way, that should say seven. Don't worry, Eric will make that change. Um, this is it. This is it. This is our final game. Somebody's going home. Oh, nice. Second time we've seen that. Third time we've seen. That is just bizarre. Yeah, that's just bizarre. Yeah. So, what has to do for match play give you guys? He has to go in and manually assess the second strike. So, it's 7 to8 which means either player is going out if they lose. This is the final game. This is the true finals and it's firepower and it's two player. I mean, this is the exciting part of pinball, right? We had a twoame comeback. Tim has been playing all day. I know. We had a two game comeback by Josh. Tim has really struggled. The question is, can he pull it together and kill this momentum that Josh has built? Yeah. I do apologize for the glare on the screen. There's not much we can do about it. There's one big overhead light in this area and it just so happens it's directly over firepower. Yes, Meg with the 500 bits. Holy crap. I just saw that. Holy macaroni me. Thank you. Meg just said heck with all of you. I want to be number I want to be the one. I'm going to win this bit warp. I'm going to win. And I think so far she has. Although, you know, I'm not going to close the door if anybody else wants to try and beat her. Never ever close the door bit. Thanks for supporting Pinball Streaming. Thanks for supporting Pinball. Thank you for supporting straight down the middle. We appreciate everything you guys are doing. If you've never played Firepower before, the basic idea is these very tricky little targets up front that he's shooting at. They're in a really He just got the last one, but then it but he's going to start, I think, with a a ball lock. I was going to ask that question. I don't remember 100%. Do they carry over to I think so, but hey, you know what? I've been proven wrong already 15 times tonight. So, um, so the the goal is every time that you complete one of those banks, uh, you get a little prize and if you do them in order, you get a big prize. Um, let's see if he can do it. Oh, no. Straight to the outside. So, that is ball two. He's only at 27,000 points. 22 here for jump. Oh, look at that. Yeah, the prize that you get is playing out of order here, by the way, based on what we can see. Let me refresh and see if it changed it. It didn't. They seem to be cool with it, though, so I think we're cool with it, too. All right. I don't I don't know what you would do in a situation where literally both players are doing it wrong. I don't know what you do. Oh, rough ball. I think in this case, we assume they're playing a legit game of pinball. Okay. Okay. Yeah, they just started ball three. So, this could be really This is going stunningly fast. Yeah. Yeah, they're flipped. They're flipped.
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    Well, that's maybe the answer then. Hold on. Hey, there we go. There we go. Got everybody back. That's cuz HipSmart knows what's up. There we go. They are playing. There you go. Look at that little drop catch. Put it back into control. Putting it back up into the top lanes. If you complete fire, which is the top lanes, and power, uh, well, you get all kinds of points. Um, going all the way around. Now, that is a super dangerous shot. And I'll tell you why. There's a gate up there that can stop the ball. Um, but if the gate is removed, it doesn't stop the ball on the plunge. And if you shoot all the way around on the orbit, um, it just drains right down the center. So, that was a dangerous shot, but it turned out okay. You also have a thousand when lit spinner and a really nice little spinner rib. And it's hard to see, but there is a lock shot at the top if you Oh, see that's that's the issue right there. There it is. That's the issue. Good ball, though. The bonus will be all right. 156,000. So, it all comes down to this. This is it. This is the tournament right here. Josh has got to score 130,000 points. And this is a lowscoring game of firepower. I mean, this is very reachable. Yeah. Looks like he's calling over Eric to uh see if maybe there's a maybe a scoring issue or something. I don't know. Let's see. Are we getting a weird light? Uh, let's see. We're looking at Oh, he's going for the toolbox, it looks like. Uh-oh. When Eric goes for the toolbox, this is Oh, something's going on. This is not what we want to have in the final game. The final ball of the final game. The final countdown of the final game of the final ball. We'll try and see if we can get some information from someone over by the TVs over here as far as to what Let's see what I can find out. Still Tim's ball. Yeah, Tim is still lit up on this. [Music]
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    All right. What do we got? Give me a ruling here. So on that one, the ball passed through the trough but did not register. So, the way the way that you decide this uh according to Eric and I'm assuming rules is you let the ball pass the trough again. Okay? And if it kicks it back out, you get another ball. If it registers and your ball's over, then you're done. And it registered and the ball is over. Okay? So, that gives him the bonus that he earned. That's the bonus he did not give him initially. So, he didn't get that ball back, right? But there if it had kicked out, then it would have been his his ball to play. Okay. And I think it's safe to say based on what we saw there, there's no reason to think that it wasn't going to to do that, right? Right. Yeah. It's not like he was plunging and hadn't hit a switch or anything. So essentially the machine made the right choice, but we were leaving it up to the machine. So now that changes our number that changes his number. That new number is aboutund and probably it's 150,000. Yeah, 150,000 to estimate it. Again, I think still not quite as doable as 130, but pretty dang close. It's a makeable amount of points in fire. All right, let's see this ball. And we are on ball three. Josh makes this up. He wins. He does it. Tim has it. There he goes. He completed the fire uh lanes up top. Good bounce. Nice drop or a nice dead flip and good stop. So that's the moment that you want to flip at it. And he didn't. He's going to try and get a lock on the left, I'm guessing, cuz two balls is better than one. He did not. He went for the center shot. You got it on the first try, which is good. Now, one of the things that makes Firepower multiball a little bit different than most uh modern multiballs is that it doesn't give you Oh, and that is it. That's game. So, Tim is the winner of the tournament. Congratulations to Tim Ston. Tim S. Just a great run through this thing. Won this last game of firepower. So, he will take home the big big whopper points, some prizes, some cash. That was as close as a tournament gets right there. Yeah. Came down to one ball. We didn't think it was necessarily going to be that close. Nope. When he had a four strike lead and as it turned out, it came down to a final game. Isn't that fun? Win or take all. So, yeah. And and it was totally reachable. If it had been a runaway on firepower, we'd have felt it, you know, ball two coming into ball three. We might have felt like, ah, what's a big deal? But that was totally reachable. That was a lowscoring game of firepower. So, we'll get Tim Ston over here to celebrate with us in a moment. We will also switch over to the women's amazing race tournament in just a few minutes. Will I assume really we can get a camera over for Eric right now if we can get him to put a camera on a game that's going You bet. Or even if there's games that the women need to play on firepower, we can leave it there and make that happen. I'm kind of just eyeballing the list here. Most of round one has completed. Um but yeah, we'll see if Eric can get us a game. We're going to wait for a little bit of a break in the girls tournament. So about 20 25 minutes and then we'll do the top four announcement. Cool. Do you want to move the camera to a women's machine? Yeah, just give us a game. Yeah. All right. He's going to move a camera over to the women's machine. We are going to wait a few minutes to do the announcement until there's a break in the women's tournament because we don't want to disrupt the women's tournament with the announcement of this tournament. Correct. So, uh it'll still give us a chance to talk to Tim in a minute or so. We can certainly do that. In fact, Josh as well whenever they want to. Let me grab Tim so you can chat with him a bit. The women's qualifying format is three rounds of uh qualifying. It looks like each round is three games, although um and then we'll do the amazing race from there. If you follow that match play link I posted just a minute ago, I'm in fact going to grab it one more time and I'm going to work on putting some standings up right now. In fact, I'm going to switch over um this right here.
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    I'm going to make the change in our standings here and pray to God this works. Oh, great. I think I just lost my uh I think I lost my hot spot there. That's no good. Uh 8x
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    1k2. Okay, this is good. You can now see the standings as we go along here. And as we said, there are 36 players. Um, it is not target match play. Gilly opted to do it a little bit differently here. So, uh, you know, that was her option. Um, all good. But yeah, we've got 36 players. We're going to have the top 18 move on. So, if that stands right now, um, it looks like the only player who's gone perfectly through round number one is Michelle Brown, who won all three of her games and has 21 points, Lily Nun, Licky Carlton, Emily Emily Vining playing very, very well as well. But in the meantime, um, while we wait, we're gonna get, I think, the game on Game of Thrones here. So, we'll switch over and show you that. In the meantime, we will show you the fine face of Mr. Tim Sexton right here. How's it going? The winner of our Friday night progressive strike tournament. Congratulations, man. Yeah, thank you. I made it off the wait list like 3 days ago, which was um, good. Yeah, I didn't I didn't think I didn't even know I was coming to this show until this week because I was like, if I'm in the tournaments, then Yeah. But yeah, I got off the wait list for Friday and Saturday this past week and came down and yeah, it's cool to come down here. I've never been to the city of Cincinnati or or nearby hotels. Yeah. In the in the greater Cincinnati area either. So, I'm I'm taking in all the sites and uh yeah, I got the victory. I'm happy about it. It's a fun little area. I mean, even though it's not the most exciting place you think of, go across the street to Jungle Gyms at some point before you leave. Okay. There is so much crazy stuff over there that you don't see in like any other grocery store. I It's weird to suggest a place like that, but it's a new And that's a local. It's like right across on Route 32 from here. Okay. Tenth of a mile at the most. All right. Yeah, I'll head over there. Head over there. Yeah. You got to try the Skyline. You got to try the Chili, too. I've seen the whole the whole way coming into town. There's Skyline Chile at every single uh Yes. Um exit off the Cincinnati has Skyline the same way. that every other city has a Wendy's and McDonald's. We have those, too. But yeah, that's that's awesome. Do they just serve chili? They serve chili. They serve like chili cheese burritos. Oh, okay. They put chili on. There's obviously the conies, the hot dogs with conies and the mound of cheddar cheese on top of it. So, okay. You got to try a little of everything. Are they the only um chili chain in uh the United States? Uh well, there's Gold Star Chili around here as well, which is local. So, there are competing chili chains. And there's a lot of little, you know, kind of indie restaurants as well that a lot of locals are big fans of. I don't think there's any around like this vicinity right here in Eastgate, though, so can't help you much on that part, unfortunately. But yeah, you got to at least try Skylliner Gold Star before you get out of here. All right, we'll do. Thank you so much for for telling me about the local culture here in our best Cincinnati, Ohio. And well, the rest of the culture is the Bengals, and we sure as hell don't want to tell you about that. Well, so I want to talk about the tournament a little bit. Let's talk about it, man. Congratul You had a heck of a run then. Four strikes going into the final matches. I mean, you won, I think, eight of the 10 games that you played coming into that. So, talk about how you were feeling coming into those finals. Uh, I wasn't feeling good after the first game because I came in third by like a little bit and then it just kept working out that I was able to kind of like grab the points I needed. Look at Anna hooking you up there. Oh, man. You're winning victory beverage here. You have a victory white claw over here. This is my first White Claw ever. Really? Yes. I'm starting the night off with a white claw. Enjoy it. But yeah, so I went in and then um Yeah. And I got a couple wins and then I got another third and then I just sort of like had a really nice run. A lot of um I played a lot of really good ball twos and and ball threes when they were like moving the camera on to me too. So, I was it was it was fueling me the the stream energy. You know, I miss streaming so much that I think that's what it was. It brought back the uh the uh performative like oh instincts in me like, oh, I got to I got to put on a good show here. I got to make some good saves. And um yeah, I my saves in the outlanes were were much better this tournament. And I then I was really struggling on the last games. Big game. I'm just I just haven't played a good game a big game in my life yet. Mhm. And then the uh the big indie and I I was just going into it like if I can get that that vera target that's 10,000 points and there's like no other way to get 10,000 points except the ball one that Josh had. Yes. And so then yeah, he had that ball one and I came I got like 18 and he wound up with like 28 or something. But um I just kept shooting early on that on that very target because it was so floaty and I knew like you have to flip like as late as possible and I thought the flipper had enough power to do it and I just never flipped late enough. Gotcha. That whole game. And that's that's always like people miss shots early way more often than they miss them late. So makes sense. Yeah. And I recognize all the names in the chat of course like everyone I was reading the board and reading Eric and stuff. Have you? Oh, yeah. We haven't done the trophy ceremony yet, but I took a picture of this trophy cuz it looked so cool. Oh, yeah. I don't know what it is, but it's going to look great. Like, I don't know. It looks like it's something I want to light up. Does it have like It's just I don't know if it does or not, but it looks amazing. This really cool piece of glass work. And I can't hold it yet because we haven't done the ceremony, but we'll we'll probably cut over the camera. Let me Yeah, you can hold it. All right. Let me not break it here. All right. Oh god, this thing's heavy. This is the trophy. that he has taken home right here. The strikeout grand champion trophy. So, I won't hand it to you as a crazy blown glass look to it, you know. Oh, and the Cincinnati logo and you know, put into the glass right there. It is a beautiful, beautiful work of art. And now it goes on your mandol at home along with all of the good Whopper points that come with it. We were estimating that to be about 35 points tonight. So, I was trying to avoid the microphone and I spilled some white claw on me by accident, but it's white claw. I think we'll be okay. Yeah, I think it's fine. It was like three bucks. So, yeah, it's not bourbon. If we spilled the bourbon, I would feel really really bad about that for myself and for the microphone. I don't want the microphone to have that. So, am I cutting into time for the commentary on the women's tournament? No, we we can talk. Let's talk about some Game of Thrones right here. Yeah, sure. So, this is the new code on Game of Thrones. Yeah, this is Nicole Miller playing right now. You can see the group standings for this round on the match play right here. It looks like Nicole has the lead in the group right now with 12 points. Wow. They've got those outlanes wide open on this one. Yeah, they do. Okay. And it's a premium and um that castle multiball is worth a lot now. It used to not be worth too much and then Dwight did a couple code updates and now it's worth some really good value. Yes. And you get that like one uh freebie shot up top. You can just hit the left orbit on like a onetime shot, the left little turnaround at the top and then that gives you a free castle progression. Correct. So here it's lit. Here it's lit. Oh, just missed with those code changes. No, it got it in the grace period with those code changes. Is that now your kind of preferred, you know, meta as far as playing it to go for that multiball? When you see the when you see a premium, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of there's a lot of extra stuff on the premium now that Yeah. you you want it puts the castle the upper play field into into play more than it did on the previous code. So yeah, I mean you already get the good stuff of like the time extended in the modes and the mode progress up there. Um but yeah, that that multiball is like a key multiball to go to for I would like to go for it before I get wall even usually. And look at these wow power outlanes. They're like you blink and you're the ball's gone. Yeah, those outlanes mean business. And we haven't seen anybody combo in this round quite the to the degree that everybody else has yet. Um, see who's stepping up to play right now over there. It is Rita Stevenson. See with Gilly running this tournament. She's a Columbus native. We've got a good Columbus turnout for this particular event, but lots of people from Cincinnati, from PUA, from all over the place, you know, around here. 36 women playing is a sensational turnout. So, super happy with what Gilly's been able to do with this and and adding in the amazing race format that we've tended to enjoy doing in town as well makes it a lot of fun. Yeah, Ohio's been doing a lot of amazing race. Uh yeah, we have events. You can thank that guy right there, Mr. Evan. Oh, yeah. That is narcissist. The pinball narcissist. Yeah, that's right. They're fun to follow along with on the on the software as well. They are. We got to get it in match play somehow, too, right? You know, I you know, right now kind of we have to do everything kind of through spreadsheets, which is a little bit challenging. I thought Carl had a way he could put it in as an ever drain for target match play. The target match play that Evan did. He has that in there. But I don't think we have like the low score tracking for the actual race in there just yet. Unless Evan knows something that I don't, in which case, why didn't you get Carl to hook us up?
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    So yeah, we've got a Baratheon mode here. Baratheon mode is one of the modes where you can build up the score like really high. Oh, nice save from the outline. And like keep building, keep building, keep building, then you catch it out. And I don't I usually see people kind of like finish it right away, but if you have a really juicy left spinner, you can you can build the score up to tremendous value before you Yes. hit your big cash out on the trap targets. Yeah, Rita is not stopping for anything right here. Absolutely no trapping whatsoever. And Jason's right. You know, she just finished fifth in our pins for pin tournament that we had in Columbus. Got a great bunch of whopper points for that one. So, her game has really improved. Her health's improved a lot over the past few months and the game has come right along with it. So, you know, we're happy to see Rita healthy right now and and the game has has followed along as you might imagine. Um, so what's next for you? You've got the tournament tomorrow. I'm playing in that. Going to do the gauntlet Sunday. Gauntlet should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. This, of course, you know, first time down here, so this is your first chance to run it. Um, is that a format you've ever run before or tried before? Only in like a small sort of garage tournament situation. never under the lights and cameras and SDTM pinball streaming prowess of how streaming a gauntlet. Man, you need to go back to the traditional camera format where you've got every like game and you can just like swap to each one. Eric has promised me he's got a really interesting format for how he's going to do the cameras for that. Okay. And I'm very interested to see how it looks. Two rigs and you keep like uh swinging them behind people or something like that. You got two rigs. Can I borrow one of those? That'd be great. I would love that. Just take one back home with me and be like, I'll caretake it until you need it again for next year's Cincinnati. That'd be just fine. So, someone mentioned the Black Knight Topper. Yeah, the Black Knight Topper prototype is here. It is um on the opposite side of the room as the tournament, but Okay. Um there is new I will announce there is new speech. And it's it's a it's a code that hasn't been released yet, but there's new speech and some of the new game for everyone when the code comes out. Okay. Some of the new speech is topper only speech. For instance, speech like you look puny from up here is only going to be on the topper. Ah, and there's a lot more call outs. Steve went backes if the topper is plugged in. Nice. a and makes deliberate comments about, you know, God from the perspective of a topper. I love it. Yeah. Love that lovely customization. I I I I can sense so much the the the graphic quality kind of the ability to do those fun things. You can see how much it's improves from game to game to game to game. You know, I and I haven't had a chance to play the Alvivra game yet. I'm anxious to because I want to see what, you know, new things have come into that game. Yeah, there was a last night two days ago for it. So I know I know there's more stuff. I haven't worked on that project. I've been I mean there's so much stuff going on at Stern now. Yeah. Stern's a busy place and you're a busy guy, right? Of course. I'm a busy guy. It's a good problem. That's good. It's a good problem. Very good problem. Amen. I'm with you. And uh we we keep getting you know really great people in there to um you know improve the quality on like everything we're doing at Stern. And I think like I get a lot of great feedback at shows about, you know, just the games people are are buying and enjoying and or just playing on their locations. Um, you know, lots of cities now have, you know, multiple locations where you could play pinball, which is great. That wasn't the case a couple years ago. Agreed.
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    Yeah. So, I do apologize for ignoring the game, but we've got a lock lit up the middle here. Yeah, this is lock set to hard because that's they may well be. I mean, this is tournament mode, so nothing would shock me there. Mhm. So, actually that so those software changes and and Eric's set this up. I imagine he's done a great job posting the software changes on the backs of the games. Yeah. So, you could see exactly what everything's set up as. Uh almost every machine here has a some sort sort of document on it to tell you what's going on which is even how many balls um if it's three ball or five ball. Yeah, Eric does a great job of of setting up these things, you know, so that even if you've never played in a tournament before and even if the machines are set hard, you at least have an idea of what you're doing. Oh, there's the Lazarus from Lexi right there. Great job. And she's got um the second lock plus 3x playfield um plus the mode running. The Martell mode could be pretty good. Oh, and the drain there. That's a bad time for that drain, unfortunately. I think just the points there. Yeah, 20 million that took her. So, that will assure her at least second place, right? It all depends on what our last player does. That would be Rita. She needs about 9 million here in order to get the next points. I don't remember where Nicole played in order here. We'll have to go back and check that here shortly.
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    So, she is she could go for a mystery ward that would, you know, I don't know how many how much gold she has, but that would be a good option if she shot the right orbit. Or also just going into the mode, it's three shots. Mhm. Oh, she has uh Lannister lit as well. Okay. And the charge right there was 7 12 million, which is going to get her most of the way there just by itself. So, yeah, now you have to hit a target and then if that's not enough, you have to hit one of the shots that light next to it. Oh, so this shot right up the middle wins her the game. See if she gets it. Actually, it might be over already because of the uh other target hits. Oh, no. 19 something. That might be it. There it is. Yep. That'll that's going to win the game for her. So, she'll get seven points out of that one. It's a good win for her. And it's a multiball to go with it. Yeah, we'll see if there's any game still going on here. Yeah, I think Lindsay is over there playing a game of Genesis, which I imagine is in tournament play.
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    So, so speaking of what's been keeping you busy, sir, what all have what what is the the the most current thing on your plate that you're allowed to tell us that's not ND8 in some way, shape, or form? Um, it's an interesting question to answer on camera. I've got to think of exactly how I want to answer this. Um, so most recently that that someone's seen. Let me think about that. So, okay. So, I I did a little bit of work on Jurassic Park. Um, and nice ball for her, by the way. Got all the way 78. There you go. And I did I can't remember if I don't know what code release I've gotten, but anyhow, I did some some T-Rex animation work for the the premium, just some extra like T-Rex movement and stuff. And then I also did like kind of the groundwork for a couple of the wizard modes. And the thing my question is I I don't know if exactly if those wizard modes are in the game yet. Um I I went on to other stuff and Rick went back to to tweak them. So it's not like I didn't do like you know start to finish anything. I was just kind of lent as a helping hand on that project. Either way, super excited you get to work on Keith machines. or the topper is really the big thing actually like the topper plus there's okay so there's a code release coming because right now there's there's topper speech I'm I'm telling you about that's going to be added for it and um adding the new speech stuff like that plus plus some gameplay tweaks and bug fixes like um I'm it's it's imminent that's people have been asking me when the topper is coming my best answer soon and then the code as Well, soon. It's a standard Blizzard style answer. When's it coming? Soon and when we're ready. Yeah, I think you are being called to go take that trophy and hold it in your hand. So, Tim, thank you for coming over. Appreciate everything you do up at Stern. Glad you came out and uh looking forward to see how you do tomorrow as well. Should be fun. Oh, yeah. So, Tim Sex and everybody a winner of our Friday night progressive strikes tournament. Congratulations to him. We are going to turn. We've got the player cam up for everybody right here. So, we'll just make that our switching games channel right
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    here. Great job for him as I think Rita's going to stop over and say hi for just a minute as well. I'm all for that. Rita, we'll talk to her about her Game of Thrones game right then. We'll hit the refresh button on this. That'll update. So, in her group, she ends up in third place with 11 points. very evenly balanced group. 15 13 119. Uh Stu was in third place. He came in third. So, he's going to get a big bunch of Whopper points for that as well. Rita, how you doing? Doing good. Good to hear. Good to see you there. I think Justin will be back over here in a few minutes as well. Maybe I'll take a break so he can jump in a few. We're going to do this first. What's that? Yeah. [Applause] Justin's giving me bourbon. He's my best friend. Oh, I love bourbon. [Music] There is Stewart with his third place finish. That's pretty awesome. Yeah, that trophy for today is sensational. I haven't seen it yet. You're about to. [Music]
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    That's real far to be here. He came from New York, right? I thought he said Minnesota. It might be. Yeah. Tim Sex. That would be Stern's own Tim Sexon. Congratulations. Yeah, there it is. That's awesome. And a nice big hunk of cash to go with it with all of those tournament entries as well. That's great. Can't beat that. [Music] You got to love that. Oh, we're up again. Yes, I believe the next round has been called. Let me uh check the standings here. We'll uh make sure this is all up to date for you. art group was the last one in. So nice. Yeah, you had to move it right when I was playing on it. Yeah, but you know what you just did. Oh. Oh, wait a minute. I have no clue what I You have to remember now it's once again it's Eric Cam. See, we like to show off it's air cam. That is really cool. I love it. I love this whole setup. Oh, he just realized he was putting it in backwards. I love this. Hold on. Now it's Eric cam. That's what we're talking about here. Oh, how fun. Please, someone clip this for Eric and show it to him later so he knows how much fun we have with that camera for him. By the way, thank you so much for coming down and doing this. Absolutely. I love doing it. I love, you know, you know, helping out everybody as best I can. Big game is going to be back on target here. So, let's check this. I guess I should go find out where I'm at. Yeah, we should find out what group is up on big game. I'm going to guess it is group number nine.
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    Um, yeah. So, you can rock and roll like you did with the strikes. I can get all the standings. I've already got the standings done. The matches are totally different. So, you can see what I'm Yeah, you can see what I'm having to do with that just because of the nature of how it's set up. It's working, so I'm not going to mess with it. Um, the spreadsheet, I'm just gonna put text on there as I go and a link to it so people can follow and chat. Um, and we'll make it work. Yeah, we're not going to reinvent the wheel too much. All right. Can you tell me where I'm playing? You are playing Yeah, I can tell you who you're playing with. Hold on. Um, why is it not giving me internet for this? Why do you hate me, hotspot? That's okay. Here, we'll pull this back up. You are playing with Tish. It's a Columbus group. Tish on fire. I would head over to firepower right now as your game number one indeed. That's perfect. I'm excited. Absolutely. Rita, congratulations on your recent finishes. Good job on Game of Thrones right there. That was an excellent comeback for you. I had no clue what I just knew I was hitting what I needed to hit. So, well, and you you had a stern employee calling that game for you. Wow. Tim was over here calling it right with you. And so, you can go back and watch. Did I do things right? Yes, you did. Cool. He was very happy with your play. I think you should be proud. Well, I I had fun, so that's what counts. That is all that matters. Rita, thank you so much. That is Rita Stevenson. For those of you who don't know, she was the the MC for our pins for pin tournament up in Columbus that I was helping with at level one. Um, and finished fifth in that tournament, too. So, she had a sensational finish in that event. Not only running it and helping with all the charity work for it, but also doing a heck of a good job with uh with actual pinball playing, which is not easy to manage all those things at once. Lord knows you and me, we have a hard enough time streaming. Oh yeah, just this one job. Yeah, like we want to be on the Twitter account. You had one job because we have one job and sometimes that job is really complicated. I only have one half a job because I don't control any of the streaming stuff. You do all the pointy clicky and I just keep leaving. Like I was gone for like an hour. Were you really? I don't think you were gone for an hour. Mark put two new coils in. You got two brand new coils in there. Did you just change out two coils on a pinball machine tonight? Yeah, Mark did. Marks. Wow. Wow. Look at that. So, yeah. I think we're awaiting the group to be up on big game. That group, as we saw here, is Haley Masterson, Josie Jones. I know her. Yeah, I think you guys have met. You share a last name. You do. How does that work? I don't know, man. What are the odds? What are the odds? You done well. She's awesome. Thank you. I'm really excited to see her play tonight. I'm really excited to get to stream her game. And I'm going to be honest. I think I'm supposed to be impartial as a commentator. I am not impartial. I really want her to kick some ass. She's your wonderful wife. You should never wonderful wife. I am not impartial. I want her to win. With all respect to the other great players in her group, I want her to win. Hey, I don't know who to root for in that group that Rita was in cuz it's all Columbus players that I know and appreciate. Oh, yeah. You can't win. You just have to root for everybody. I I I have to vote for like a 111 111 or something. However, an evening of all the scores would Yeah. Just Yeah. Root for a four-way tie. Root for a four-way tie. Let's show you guys the standings real quick while we're waiting uh for everybody to come over here for this. Um we can do that here. That women's standings. Yeah, Michelle was the only player who went perfect that round. How do you like that? And in fact, this is kind of using the Swiss standing setup as well. So, you know, all four of these players had a little bit of a tough time first time around. Haley with seven points, Josie and Teres with five, and Danielle with three. So this is a perfect opportunity for all these players to begin their comeback to get into the top 18. As it stands right now, one of the three rounds in, it would be Tanya, Tish, Jen, and Rita who would be tied for that position. They would probably play a one ball or Yeah, they have a one ball playoff playoff for that spot. That would be my guess would be a one ball playoff. But we'll see. Eric is uh deciding the rules. Yeah, we'll see how that all shakes out here as we go. Sorry about that. So, we'll switch back over here. We're waiting for the players to come up. I remember a few years ago when when I first started getting interested in pinball and they had a a women's tournament and I remember thinking, why a separate tournament for women? Why is that important? And um without judgment, I was just curious. Sure. And I started talking to some some women who were in the tournament and it became so clear to me that pinball had long been um sort of dominated by men's experiences, right? It was all very men's themed and I really grew to love and appreciate that we have women's leagues like bells and chimes that we have women's tournaments and I'm so glad to see that uh we have a place where women of course are playing in the other tournaments but there's a place that is solely a women's tournament where they can showcase their talent and their pinball expertise and we get to be party to some of that tonight. Absolutely. And I am so proud of people like Gilly, people like Kim Martinez, uh, Jen Rouper, Megan Brown up in Cleveland. Ohio really has, as far as states go, a really, really strong women's presence, not only in people playing, but in people organizing both women's and open tournaments. Good save. um you know in order to to kind of grow that base of people playing and make sure for all of the people that play are involved it is a good safe environment you know that they can learn the game you know they can become more comfortable with it and then if they want to they can keep playing women's tournaments and the more the better but also you know become involved in some of the open tournaments too. Oh rough battle that was there that looked like it had a chance to come back it might have been a Lazarus ball I think she was just a little late flipping on it. So, one of the things that you'll notice when you watch Haley play is that she doesn't waste any time. She likes to she'll trap for a half a second. She'll drop catch and immediately release. She likes to play really active active pinball and I think you'll see that when she steps up. Definitely. So, next up is Josie. I believe I believe Josie will be playing next as this shakes out here. But yeah, I mean and and we have so many, you know, other people who don't do the, you know, the organization side of it that are quality players. Amy Casting, Holly Kosk in it. Uh Leah Gosu from uh Cleveland as well, you know, here in town. You you look at the, you know, the the women that are playing as well. Brooks Bradlin as well that plays out, I believe, out of Piqua helps out with Crazy Martins up there. You know, there's a there are a tremendous amount of Jen Roer, too, who does both tournament organizing and playing, too. You know, we can go through these names. Yeah, we could go forever. naming the uh amazing women of pinball who have made this hobby what it is. You know, one great example is Phoebe Smith. Phoebe. Yeah. I can't believe I didn't talk about Phoebe. She has her her artistic talent. She revolutionized restoration. Yes, she did. In play fields and back glasses, Phoebe and and she's walking by right now. I am sorry I did not bring up your name much earlier. I just don't see her playing enough tournaments. And I have not made it down to her place in about a year or so. Oh man, that is a crying. That is a crime. and Larry have built a an absolute palace of pinball. In fact, mecca, they met over pinball. That was how they became acquainted, I think, was playing pinball together at like a local bowling alley. Oh, wow. And they got married and their home is filled with pinball machines. They built a little pinball annex for all the machines they couldn't fit in their house. Every year they bring a bunch of games to the show. They do. And you see some rarities. They have a Starlight, a William Starite, which is a really rare machine. They have a Joust, the two-player machine. Yeah, they do. They have They have a rat pack. Yeah, they have some beautiful examples of pinball machines you just don't see anywhere else. What's the standup machine they have? I can't think of the name of it off the top of my head. Oh, um, uh, what is it? BCON. Farcon. Farcon. Yep. Yeah. And you don't you don't get to play that. You play FX and Phoebe's house. That's it. Right. And they have they have been so inviting and so opening. And Phoebe is at the center of Cincinnati's pinball culture. She helped to create the culture that we have in this town. And if it weren't for Phoebe and Larry, I don't think I would know pinball. I wouldn't know nearly as many people in Cincinnati that play as I do. I mean, the reason I know as many people as I do is Larry for one, but you know, not only that, it's it's Phoebe and Larry and and just the the exposure to so many other people that play. Yep. And if you ever get a chance, and it's it's fun talking about her cuz she is about 3 ft to my left. If you're She has no clue we're talking about. No, she doesn't know. She might not even like it. I don't know, but she probably does. If you sit down and talk to Phoebe about her history in pinball and some of the amazing artists, designers, players that she knows, I if you go to a pinball party at Phoe's house, chances are 50/50 that the person who designed that pinball machine is at that party. Yeah. She was close friends with Python Angelo who passed away a number of years ago. She still when you go to their house, you're meeting designers of the machines that you're playing on. You are because she has made those she and Larry have made those kind of connections. So, we can't do enough to celebrate the amazing women who have made pinball what it is. And I think having these having these women's focused tournaments is one opportunity to pause and say, "Isn't this a remarkable thing to celebrate?" No doubt about it. and and we're honored to be hosting a tournament of this size, of this magnitude, doing something special with it, you know, and and I appreciate the work that Gileian's put into this as well that Kim does for her events and Megan does for hers up in Cleveland. You know, everyone here too is wanting to do special events. It's not just, you know, a headtohead or something. It's, you know, we're trying to find different rules and and tournaments and and ways to make it truly special. Yep. So, you know, and and I hope the end result of it is that, you know, pinball continues to become, you know, more open, more diverse. We get more people from more different walks of life playing the game. If that's happening, even in a very, very small way, we're succeeding. We've done something right. And after after years and years and years of what amounts to pressure and discrimination against women in pinball, not necessarily at a corporate level, but you when women would show up to tournaments, they would they would get all these nasty comments and terrible things said to them. And that's still something we have to look out for and we we work on, you know, monitoring very very closely. Yep. And the fact that these women have continued to blaze these trails in the face of that kind of discrimination and that kind of treatment, it just I think speaks to the strength and character of the women who built pinball. Agreed. People have gone had to go through some crap. Oh yeah. That I don't even want to think about and still do. And I I won't get too political, but I remember showing up a couple years ago at a tournament and they had just released the AC/DC Lucy edition, which had a very scantily clad woman. It was just a throwback to this ' 70s misogyny uh in pinball and I was thinking how do you show up to these events and see this nonsense and still continue to do what you do and the answer is they are stronger than that you enjoy they enjoy pinball that much so we're looking at uh big game right now we're waiting on I believe Danielle to come up might be her right now walking over I hope it is we'll find out in just a minute we got a little unlucky with a group of people that were uh maybe not 100% ready to go. They weren't quite Yeah. weren't quite ready to go. No worries. You know, for a lot of these people here too and and this is, you know, a statement for for what Gilly's doing and and really what some of the other players are helping with, too. I'm sure for a lot of these people, this might be their first tournament. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yep. So, it it is, you know, learning how to, you know, when to be ready, what's happening, how to keep track of things. That's not something that people, you know, immediately understand. No, you don't necessarily at first, right? like it it can be quite confusing especially when you have a qualifying round followed by an unfamiliar format. Yeah. So I I made that mistake and still do sometimes that I don't quite understand when is it my turn, when is it not. I might go outside. I might go get a drink or play another game. Yeah. And uh so it totally makes sense. Now it looks like Danielle is getting ready to play. Checking in with uh Gilly the tournament director. That's what I'm thinking. I'm trying to figure they're talking about something here. So I'm sure they're hashing something out or figuring something out. Maybe it's a maybe it's a daughter of her that's playing right now. I'm not sure what we have going on. Trying to watch it from a distance right here to give you guys an idea, a feel for for what's happening here. In the meantime, I'll just remind our viewers that you're watching Cincinnati, Cincinnati's pinball exposition. Uh we're in our second year this year of Cincinnati. We have 120ish machines all set to free play. So if you whether you love pinball or you're just for the first time thinking about pinball, uh which I'm guessing if by the time you got on Twitch stream, you probably already love pinball. But if if it's you're just sort of wandering into pinball, this is a great way to get to learn the game because you come down, you pay your entrance fee. It's a relatively nominal fee to get in and then you're playing free games all day. And in fact, if you buy a weekend pass, you're playing free games all weekend. Absolutely. Meg says, "I love Phoebe. She has an amazing setup at home." Isn't that the truth? If you ever get the chance to get invited and you've never been, cancel your plans and make it happen. It's worth your time. It is amazing to go there. It is a palace. It is. And it's not just great machines. It's artwork. It's history. The whole bit. Yeah. It's machines you're not going to see anywhere else. Sling action. Rough. Oh, that's a tough break right there. And yeah, it's not only that. It's not only machines you won't see anywhere. It's things you'll see in conditions that you'll never see anywhere else. There are Zakaria pinball machines, the Italian maker, that are just beautifully redone. And those Zakaria machines are impossible to come by. Yeah. And these have been restored and are in perfect condition. Some of them look like better than new in box. You know what I mean? Like they've been improved somehow. Haley's getting a lot of action off of those bumpers and slings. A lot of energy on the ball. She's going to try and trap up and calm down for a second. And I I think I mentioned, but she doesn't tend to trap for long. No, it sounds like that little tiny trap is about the most you're going to get. Yeah, she doesn't tend to trap. She She'll She'll pause for a second and shoot right back off. And there are there are uh Wow, look at that tip. Nice job, Haley. Yeah, that was rough. If you if you half ramp that one or half lane, I guess, it's going to try to come down the middle. And she got one little tip of a flipper. It just wasn't enough to save it. But she did collect some of those uh spins, which is great. And she got some big game letters up there, which is great. Not bad. Not bad at all. So, here is
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    Josie. Take a We won't take a look at the stands yet. And here's Gilly doing a heck of a job. I I think we are looking at some newer players here in Josie, Teresa, and and Danielle. So, she's doing a yman's work right now, you know, making sure that they're they're in place, know what they're doing, and and in a comfortable place to play. Shout out to Gilly for that. And that was a great save right there. Now, look at that little tap. Oh, that was a tough play. Look, there was no save in that ball. That that one was headed for the drain and you weren't going to stop it. At the speed it was going at, I don't think she could have nudged and had it made any sort of appreciable difference. No, no, no. That that that one was just destined. That was a drain train and it was going straight down. All right. You're now looking at Terresa Roth who's stepping up for I believe it's ball two. Does that sound right? Yeah, ball two. That is correct.
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    She's also playing it hot, so she's not going to trap up. And unfortunately, did not end up working out for did not pay off for her. I'm trying to remember who is it. one of the one of the sort of top 10 people that's over and over always plays hot, never traps. And I'm trying to remember who it is. There's somebody on the stream knows who I'm talking about. It's a it's a guy, an American guy. And I cannot think of Raymond, are you? Raymond Davidson. I don't think it's Raymond Davidson. It's definitely not Keith. Keith traps up his Yeah, not Keith. If anybody knows who I'm talking about, please let me know cuz I can't remember who it is. But I've watched him play a dozen times and every time I think, why aren't you trapping? It might be Andre. It might be Andre. Okay.
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    And conventional wisdom says always trap. But I'll tell you what, this guy has won more tournaments not trapping, not stopping. It might be Andre Masov. If you've got the flow down to play, go for it, man. Yep. Give me more clues. Hipsmart, I think you got there. I think it was Andre Masinov. Well, Hipsmart is our resident statistician, so if anybody's going to know, it would either be him or Evan. But Evan said he needs more clues. So obviously Evan doesn't know. West Coast Feller. You are looking at Haley Masterson uh playing her ball three on big game. And as I said, I'm biased because we share a last name and a home. Yeah. Uh but I love watching her play. She is far more talented at pinball than I am. She spends less time playing and consistently beats me, which means she just has more natural talent at this. And she makes smart choices. You'll see. Again, she doesn't tend to trap up, but she knows what she's aiming for. And you know, eight times out of 10, she nails it. Yes. Unfortunately, those slings, when you hit a center of sling like that, it's going to the outline. It is. She found it. So, with that, stepping up is Josie right here. Josie at about 20,000 points right now. Now, right now, Haley is in the lead with 183,000. She's looking pretty good, but there's one more ball to play. So, let's see what Josie can do. Josie's sitting on about 40,000. So she's got 140 to make up. Not at all undoable in in a big game. She's able to roll this out here. She won't make it. Just a little late on that right flipper. So she'll be at 45,000 49. 49. So she's in third place right now. So here comes she's just going to try and hold on to third, but I'm I'm unfortunately in in big game. That's a Oh, that's a house ball. I am so sorry. She is in second place right now though, so if she's able to do that, it's worth five points. That would I believe that would double Teresa's take from her first round. Oh, nice. Uh Haley had seven points. So if she gets the seven points right here, she will double her output from round one as well. Yeah. So Haley's hoping that uh that Danielle can't get 130,000 points on this one, which is a big ask. I mean, 130,000 points in one ball a big game is a big ask. It is. Let's start with 4,000. Get the 4,000. Get the third. There you go. Nice trap. One spot at a time. That is upper flipper traps are always a little bit of a dangerous gamble, but she got it. All right, there you go. She might have been going for the spinner rip there. And she is taking. Oh, good save. I thought that was going center drain. I thought that was gone. You can see the skill in her game right here. I think she's still working on building the confidence on it, but you can see the the flipper skills are there. Oh, yeah. Yep. Look at that little tap pass. Perfect. She's going up and down the rollover, so she'll get double credit for those. Me, we know you as me McCoy. We love Bo, but you're in person, too. We love you. Oh, nice save. Not able to save that. She had it for a moment. Get to second place on the bonus. It was not a big bonus. Only 4,000. It's not going to be enough to get her there. It just It was It's enough for second. She got to 69,000. Yeah, she got to 69. So, she cleared barely in a second. four point ball for her in the terms of this tournament. How do you like that bonus? That's what put her right over the edge. Yeah. Nothing like a bonus win, even if it's for second place. That's a lot of points. Yeah, you bet. And you want You said it's a four-point second place victory. Four. It's a four-point difference. Four-point difference. Five. One to five. Wow. Just with those points. So, she might be frustrated with how it ended, but she's not going to be frustrated when she sees the standing update. Nope. That's well done. And there it is right there. There's Haley with the seven. Um, and Eric is moving the camera. So, let's see where he's bringing this bad boy to now. I love switching games, Cam. Oh, it's a tracking shot. These these are pricey. Eric Cam.
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    Can't wait for him to go back and watch this and say, "I can't believe you did that." Eric Cam is going over to Grand Prix. We're going to be watching Grand Prix. This is wonderful. Four player em five ball. Five ball. We're going to stick with this group. I think I think we're going to go, you know, so we'll see this shake out here. I'm going to step away for just a second myself. I could use a quick momentary respit. You bet. You bet. Enjoy. I And a small drink of bourbon. And a small nip. So, we're on to Williams Grand Prix. Oh my god. I That needs to be renamed right now. Chuck Vision. Chuck Vision. I love it. From here on out, that's Chuck Vision. Hold on. Um, studio mode.
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    Chuck O. There you go. Next time we get the chucka vision cam, we're doing it. Chuck a vision. I love it. It's done. It's done. It's so done.
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    This is what happens when you leave geeks in charge of the chat, people. That's what happens. I'll be right back.
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    Haley with a big number one finish on that big game. So, she picked up a bunch of points for that and earned every bit of it. So, she's now looking at uh she got seven points on that one. And that puts her not in a terrible spot. Let's take a look at the standings for a moment.
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    So, you can see a lot of games in play. A lot is yet to change, but Haley Masterson went from 34th to tied for 21st. Again, she's trying to make the cutoff, the 18 person cutoff. Uh, everybody is vying for those top 18 slots here in the women's tournament. And if you do get into the top 18, then you go on to the amazing race format. I got a briefing on the amazing race format, never having played it myself. I'm going to let Scott be the expert on that, but he can brief us when he gets back. All right, let's go back to Haley Masterson, the winner on that last big game. Congratulations. Thanks. That was wonderful. Thanks. How was How did it feel that game? Um, you know, that's probably the second or third time I've ever played big game, and every time I play it, I get more comfortable with it. It's bigger than like the normal play field. Yeah. Y. So, it's a little bit hard to get used to, but it's actually kind of wide body format. Yeah. And it's kind of slow moving though, so it's not so difficult. So, did you have a strategy? Here's what I'm going to try and do when I get in there. Or did you just play it hot? I don't know the game that well, so I couldn't really come up with a strategy beforehand. I just went with in the moment what looked like a good shot. I tried to trap it as much as possible. Yeah. We were noting actually that when you trap, you tend to trap and release very quickly. You don't mess around. It's like trap, fire it off. Well, yeah. You don't want to think about it too long. Yep. And it worked. I mean, that was a that was a big game. A big game. Yeah. You won by a sound margin. Thanks. So, now you're going into Grand Prix. Yeah. Do you have a strategy for Grand? Because I don't know how to play that one either. Okay. Uh my strategy is if there's a spinner, go for the spinner. That's always the way. A spinner. If there's not a spinner, don't drain. It's probably against IFPA rules for me to coach me. No, no, no. I mean, yes, but I mean to say whether or not that's a good strategy in my account, but it doesn't matter because you're winning. Have you and I'm not. I'm sitting at the commentator Twitch the Twitchiverse that you know me. Yes. They know that we are married and Oh, fantastic. Cuz I was going to say I think you're up on Grand Prix. Okay. Good luck. Hi. You want to wear both of these? No. Hey, we touched microphones. That was fun. Married with microphones. Married with microphones. All right. Let's go back to the cameras. you know, the thing that we are here for, which I will do as soon as I figure out how that
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    happens. I'm going to do that thing. There we go. All right. Here's Haley Mastersonson playing on Grand Prix. Now, I can't tell her this because I'm pretty sure there's a rule about it, but her spinner strategy would be my strategy as well. Unfortunate drain there just to the right out lane up and over. Uh but he collected a little bit of bonus there, but not a ton. I'm guessing that wasn't the ball you were hoping for. No, no, not at all. Nope. But good effort. Um I I really enjoy this game. How do you feel about Grand Prix? Do you know that game that we played at the um barbecue place that has cars in it? the getaway highspeed too. Yeah, I like that one. I like that one better, I think. Like between the car theme ones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This one's a bit slow, which gives me too much time to think and then I start doubting myself and then I get really weird. But like if something moves more quickly, I do better. See, I think you know your strategy. Your strategy is don't stop and think about it. Yeah. Your strategy is just play. If you ask me how to flip the p like the flipper, I'll lose it instantly. I know this feeling. You sit, you ruminate on it, and you end up messing up. Yeah. Yeah. I know this feeling well. I try my best. I'm similar. I try my best not to overthink when I'm playing. I just need to relax, go up to the table, and have a good time. Yeah. Easier said than done. Yeah. And you're in a group with Josie, Teresa, and Danielle. Yes. Danny. Danny. Thank you. Goes by Danny. Goes by Danny. Um, and Danny's actually up. I've noticed that you've all been really supportive of each other up there. Yeah. So it's not necessarily something you see with every forsome. I mean you all are congratulating each other and cheering and those kinds of things. I think that's really cool. Well, there's something quite unique to the women's tournament. I find that there's a lot of Oh, rough one for sure. There's a lot of uh down right down the middle tipped on the right flipper and then under the such a bad house ball. I hate when that happens. That's rough. You know what? All I got to do is turn around. She's got to do a smile. Next ball. There's always the next ball. You're watching Josie Jones right now. Oh, another center drain. Boom. Grand Prix is just up these players. It's hard. There's a pretty wide out lane or a pretty wide center. I am concerned that we might be out of order right now. No, we're not. Are you sure? I'm seeing Yes. Okay. As long as as long as you're sure. It goes Haley, Danny, Josie, Teresa. Okay. I just saw Danny and then you were with me after Danny. No, Josie played a very quick ball. Okay. As long as you feel good about it, I feel good about it. I do. So, what I was saying is there's something very unique about the women's tournament, which is there's like a No, I'm certain we're out of order. Sorry. Player four is up and that's not Danny playing. No, player four is Teresa. Player four is Teresa. This is just an old I need to update this thing. Okay. Thank you very much. I'm telling you, I know it cuz Oh, I believe you. I just I was looking at the wrong thing and that's on me. So anyway, the girls tournament is is or the women's tournament is wonderful for that. There's a like an instant camaraderie that sort of happens in the forsomes and it happens uniquely in each forsome and in a different way in each forsome, but there's just a lot of support and it love and it's wonderful. That is really cool. And not that I don't have a wonderful time in the co-ed tournaments, it's just that there's something really unique about these tournaments and I always appreciate them. And you said that that feels really unique to the women's tournament. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah, that's really powerful. There's just something. Oh, rough drain. Wonderful. So, this is where it's on me is I can see now where the order is on Grand Prix. Thank you very much for correcting me. You're welcome. And good luck on your ball. Thank you. I'm going to send one of the girls in. Okay. Okay. Okay. Teresa, you guys.
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    So Haley's gonna step up to the machine and Terresa Roth is going to join me. Oh my gosh. I'm sorry. I'm stepping on. No, no. Here you go. So you're watching Haley Masterson. Teresa, how's it been in this forsome as you're doing your qualifying rounds? Oh my goodness. We've been having so much fun. The ladies saying the ladies here are so friendly. Everybody needs to come out. It it's it's good for the family and everybody. I love to hear that. She She was saying there's a sense of camaraderie. There is. So, it's competition with camaraderie. Definitely. Definitely. Everybody's pretty pretty well friendly. A little tip right off the There's a lot of people that are pretty serious. You know, they want to they want to keep their titles and all. Um uh I I like to just have fun and meet meet some more pe more players. I'm I'm just excited to see that there's so many more women players than there used to be. Yeah. Yeah. So, I wasn't in the pinball scene more than a couple of years. What did it used to be like with regards to women players? Okay. So, I started going um Well, I've been playing pinball pretty heavy since 1978. nice um with my husband and we've been going up to the pinball expo in in Chicago since probably about 1990 or 1983. It's been a long time over 35 years maybe. Wow, that's so great. Yeah. Um, so I was doing really good in the women in the in the tournament and at the time um I was in the women's division but one of my friends had pointed out that I was doing really good in the tournament and I was I was beating Rick Stetta at the time and I thought well hey if I'm beating the men I want to win more than a t-shirt I come up to win a pinball game. Yeah. So I said I went over and I said I want to be moved to the men's division. And they said well we've never done that before. You're kidding me. No I'm not kidding you. Were you the first woman to play in the Chicago Expo tournament? I I was probably not the first woman to play in the Chicago Expo tournament. There were a handful of other ladies, probably about a dozen, maybe less. One of the first. Yeah. But I was the first woman moved to the men's division as far as I know because that's what they said at their table. They'd never done that before and they had to discuss the matter and they said they come back and they said, "Okay, we'll do that. We'll move you to the men's division, but you can't go back to the women's division." I think they meant just that weekend, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so I said, "Fine, no problem." Well, I realized what I did after it was too late because really my only concern was I wanted to win, you know, a new game. You won a pinball game. Yeah. We had a Black Knight at home and uh I'd been playing on the Roller Games and we had it and we'd been practicing, like I say, since 78 pretty heavy. Well, there weren't very many women up there at the time. Probably about several hundred men. Um, so the men weren't used to the ladies beating them. And then I realized, uhoh, cuz I had men coming up and saying, "Hey, you know, what's the secret here?" And you know, I didn't really know what the secret was. So I tell them, "Well, the secret is, you know, there's some flippers down here." Some of them called me sandbaggers and got mad, whatever. And I'm like, "My secret is you just have fun." Right. Well, they some of them didn't like that answer either, but Right. So, it took him a little bit of the weekend and Rick finally beat my score. And so, I joke him and say, "That's my game at his house." He got Oh my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. You didn't get the game wizard. I was so excited for Qball Wizard. I I'd learned how to get the bank shot. I I decided that all these targets were up here and I thought, well, if I could get them all bank shot. Yep. Yeah. Instead of one at a time like we've been thinking old school. I got them all at once and I went You got the bank shot and I thought, well, that was pretty fun. I come around the left and up on the right. Got to love it. And I kept on getting that roundy round. Got to love I love that game. I think you might be up on Grand Prix, but come come back. Let's talk. Thank you. Yeah, let's talk. I love this. I have everybody. I've only been in pinball for a little time, so I need more stories. All right. Teresa is gonna go kill it on Grand Prix and I want to hear more of those stories.
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    So, I learned something just 10 minutes ago from Haley that you can see the order right here, right at where it says Grand Prix and underneath. Uh, so we are currently watching Teresa who is in the player four slot. So you can see her score at player four currently just crossing the 30,000 point threshold which puts her really quite distinctly in the lead. She's got quite a lead there. Thank you. And Teresa is trying to get in that saucer. A little nudge. Didn't quite make it, but she is off to a killer start on this game. And remember, she's in the four slot, so everybody else has already played their ball. So we on ball one here. Not bad. No, we're on ball four right now. Ball four. Yep. Just started ball four. Yep. But she has opened up a wide gap at 40,000. So her next closest competitor is Haley, I believe, who's coming up next. All right. So, let's see if Haley can close that gap. She's got about 29,000 points to make up. And uh no small order that. But now Haley's familiar with this game. She's played it before. Yep. She knows Grand Prix. I asked her about her uh her strategy. She said, "I'm just going to nail the spinners." That's a very good plan. I thought so, too. Oh. So, let's see where Haley went. Oh, she's right over there. They're going to have to flag her. All right, hang on one second.
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    So, there is so much I mean Haley spoke to it, but there is so much um camaraderie happening here. I wish I could show you on the camera, but uh you're seeing support, you're seeing uh clapping, you're seeing hugging. Everybody is just being great to each other. And that was actually we saw a lot of those wonderful traits in every tournament here. But as as Haley said, there seems to be a little bit of an extra dose in the in the women's tournament and we love to see that support. Pinball is such a friendly, fun game, I think. And of course, there is an intense element of competition, but if you can blend that competition and support, I think it makes for a much more interesting game.
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    It looks like they may have moved on. Maybe that was the end. Maybe that was ball five. They may have moved on to a new game. and let's see what comes of it. I'm going to go back to I should take a minute while I figure out it looked like they I thought they were on ball four. Maybe they were on ball five. That might have been the end of that game. Um in which case Theresa would have walked away with that
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    victory. Let me switch over to our sponsor screen minus the Chuck Vision. Although I'm going to leave that on there. I like that. Um, we do want to thank all of the sponsors of our tournament. Um, and we have a ton of great support here in the Cincinnati area. Some of the folks who sponsored us uh through this tournament. Pin Stadium Lights. They make stadium lights that uh do all kinds of amazing things. They can change colors. They can respond to the game. Uh, you can control them from your phone. That's Pinstadium speaker light kits. I'm sure you have seen their work already. If you haven't, I recommend you get on to speakerlightkits.com and uh check out what they can do for your machine. All kinds of beautiful custom speaker lights. Comet Pinball making uh some of the best lights in pinball LEDs, all kinds of lighting options from Comet. Arcade Legacy is a local group of arcades and barcades uh run by and owned by Jesse Baker, who you may have seen earlier today. Uh, Tilt Amusements is they've got to be one of the biggest distributors in the Midwest, uh, if not the country. Run by Trent Augustine, who in and of himself is a bit of a pinball hero and a remarkable player. Um, and Tilt is proud sponsor here and they do all kinds of great sponsorship all over the pinball world. What the Flip is a really fun uh, pinball stream. If you haven't watched What The Flip, we were talking about it earlier. One of my favorite elements of What the Flip is that you get to see uh folks who are or sorry, you get to see uh Lindsay, who is a musician professionally, remake pinball songs and play guess that pinball tune. Uh and she will play it for you and see if you can guess what game it comes from. And of course, WreckBar, which is down in Louisville, Kentucky, um, and has been fantastic working with this show, bringing up their own pins, and they have expanded to a couple of locations now, just hundreds of pinball tables. If you're down in the Louisville area, it is it is a destination. It is worth getting to. So, thanks to our sponsors. Let's go back to our
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    camera and I'm going to go ahead and refresh this so that we can get a sense of what we're
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    doing. You are watching Grand Prix right there. I think it's probably about as close to the middle as I'm going to get. This is Emily Vining up on Grand Prix. She is player three currently at 6,500 points. And uh quite a deficit she needs to make up
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    here. See if she can pick up that spinner. No, she's looking for that spinner on the right. And oh, unfortunately, a little tip and right under the left flipper. So Emily stops at 13. A little bit hard to read on the score, but she we're looking at 41,000 here on uh our fourth player, Maja. Oh, Maja picks up a tough save there. Gets it in the saucer to collect that bonus that's adding up on the right side. Big old spinner rep. Now watch, watch that value grow. That left spinner just maxed out in one good spinner rep. And you can see the points are coming.
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    Look at Oh, just to the out lane. So, you're building value on that spinner. And uh you get points for the spinner itself, but if you build the value, you can uh get it all the way up to I think it's five is it 5,000 points or uh 50,000? 50,000 when you're back. 50,000. Yes. Hi everybody. Well, hello Scott. Welcome back. Uh, I heard there is bourbon over here with my name on it and I think I need to drink it and we should talk pinball while I drink some bourbon. Please do. By all means. I'm glad you're back because our poor viewers had to settle for my non-existent skills with this computer. I managed to more or less get it back to its original state. So, I feel good about that. Okay. Oh, do we need to who's who's playing right now? Uh, okay. So, is it the Jenna group? So, right now you are on Yeah, you're on Jenna Dailyaly, who is our second player on Grand Prix in round three of our qualifying. Oh god, let me switch that up here. Perfection. There we go. And our poor viewers have had to deal. You can see our viewership dropped by at least 25% while I was alone. People support my man Justin. You know what? Here they come. I got my ball count wrong and so I was like, why is everybody leaving this machine? Well, it turns out the game was over and I had totally just missed it. We have been on the air for 7 hours. I mean, and there is that comes with that. I understand. That's why we've been taking short breaks when the opportunities present themselves. Oh, that's a drain for Jenna. Uh it looks like ball three. Yes, ball three on Grand Prix in round three of the qualifying for the women's amazing race. A lot of bumper action there. Checking off that B target and building value on those spinners. Oh, rough drain. I mean, they're all rough, but that one hurts because I think she was going for that spinner. Yes. Trying to rip it. So, who we have stepping up right here? Is this uh this is Maja? That's Maja. Majar Rasovich. Hopefully, I hope I have pronounced that correctly. My apologies. Maja. Ma. We should ask her because I don't know that I said that correctly.
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    Try and land it in that scoop. Nope. Just going to do the third. Not quite. But keeps the ball in play. Uhoh. Uh-oh. Lobed it right up and over. I do that all the time. The the worst feeling in the world when you feel like that happens and you feel like in your head it's like that has to be a preventable error. Y and and sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. A lot of times it's just instinct that creates a shot like that and it it drives you crazy when it happens. It really does.
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    So here is Jane Verwis. We saw her in the open tournament play very very well. Yep. Oh big too much. Too much of a tilt there. Tilted. It was a little much. Had a rice smile on her face when she walked away from that. Like dag gone it. You know what? She had to save that ball and if and she wasn't too far into bonus territory. So if you're going to tilt, that's the time to do it. She was not. So, she is at 72,000 points. And that is Jenna Daily. And she's she's got a significant lead though if I'm looking at these scores correctly right now. 430,000 points. So, Jenna having way ahead. She's on absolute tear. This is game three for the group. Emily is in fourth place right now. If the standings stay as they are right now, Jenna would win this group. Yep. With 15 points, which would be sensational for her standings. So, we're on ball four and this is a five ball EM. So, we've got uh a little bit of room left to go, but with a 436,000 point score, I got to say, I know where I put my money. But Emily says, "No way. I'm going to step up and change the game." And Emily has a win. She won swe. So, you know, we know she's capable of winning these EM machines. Comfortable playing them. I mean, anytime you be, you know, Jane is one of the better players, I think, here out of the 36 that Oh, going for that spinner shot. Almost had it. I'd put her top five of the players that we have here. Jane. Jane. Yeah. Top. So, anytime you beat her in a game, that's a good accomplishment. That was one of those sling grazes there where you didn't get a full actuation of the sling, but it was just enough to push it right down the center. Or it might have just been a little rubber bounce, pushed it right down the center. Either way, it's frustrating because your brain goes, "Okay, it's going to fire off of that sling to my right flipper." I present you their dinner tonight. Crab Legs for Days. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, I know. That's fun. All right, Maja's back up. Trying to make up a significant gap on told her we have bourbon ball for Yeah, we don't need we don't need food. We'll say that in a bit. She's got that. Oh, that's a tough break for Maja right there. See, the look on her face says it all right there. Just frustration of feeling like you're doing everything right and then you just don't get the right bounce at the right time. That's just the word. Tough tough break for her. And when you're when you're lit like that, it is so tempting to take those pot shots at those spinners. She had the spinner lit and it was like if I could just nail that, it would really add up. Yeah. And it's very tempting, but unfortunately sometimes it doesn't go your way. And and when you feel like you need the the amount of points that you think you need to make the comeback, you're always tempted to think you need to do it in one shot. You want to hit the proverbial five run homer. Exactly. Is not easy to do. That is a nice spin. So Jane really widening or Jane really closing that gap with a spinner rip, but it's going to take a little bit more than that. Now look, that saucer collected all of those accumulated points. How do you like that? Huge benefit right there for her. She needed them bad. Uhoh. Good save. Good save. Not as much on the on the mark there, but still a nice recovery. So she'd already collected it, but uh really great recovery. And why not get a few points at the same time? So now she's trying to gain control of the ball back again. Oh, and it drains. Oh, she is not happy with that machine right there. Nope. That was not a happy one. I mean, she was on the comeback trail. What a competitor. She was leaning into being that far behind and absolutely closed the gap by almost 50%. As of now, that's going to put her in third place. Uh Emily still has a lot to play for here. You know, this is match play group, you know, so no one's uh no handing over anything just yet. Oh, probably a somewhat preventable house ball right there. But if you're going to do it, do it when you're winning. Yep. Don't do it when you're trailing. Do it when you're winning. They happen. Far enough ahead. We'll take that. Exactly. Look at her hair, by the way. Random comment. Super cool hair. Cool hair. Cool hat to go with it. I like the look. Emily did not want to see that. Emily did not want to see that. She will be at 120,000 right here. So, all that's left to determine, can Maja run this back? Let's see. I thought it was okay to say. I'm sorry. I thought it was okay to say. Get there. Oh, yeah. So, she's not going to close the gap with that, but she is going to end up in second place. It looks like It looks like uh Jenna's taking this one. Jenna will have 15 points in the group. Let's see if they have updated the standings yet. They have Jenna, Maja, Jane, Emily on this one. Yes. I say that, by the way, considering I have none. Oh, I I would love to have hair. I would love to have any hair at all. Would be
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    great. We're horrible sometimes. Apologies to everybody. So, let's see what's up next. I mean, this was our qualifier, right? Three round qualifier. Three rounds in this and we're going to cut off the bottom 18, bottom 17. Correct. Yep. So, let's take a look at the standings as they are right now. Michelle Brown is still winning and has games to play. Wow. 33 points right now. Looks like Brooks Bradlin is at 29 with games to play as well. Of people that have finished round number two, Nikki Carlson at 32 and Enneil at 28. So, looking at this based on what we're seeing right here, you know, there's going to be some additions and points here. So probably 24 points y is going to be the safe number that maybe puts you in some sort of tiebreaker as it stands right now. Y and that is a very very talented group of players that is up in that top area at the moment and really a solid group of players that's on the borderline right now. Um and even looking down this list right here Diane Spackman at 15 points, Holly Koskin in at 17, Rita at 17. These are really good players that, you know, I'm surprised are a little bit further down and need to have some success at the end of round two and into round three in order to ensure themselves a shot at being in the top 18. You know, not a given for them. And I think in in my mind, it would be surprising for some of them not to make it in the you see a player like Lindseay Rogers that I just sort of expect will end up in the top 18. Absolutely. But again, we've said it a hundred times tonight. We'll say it again. That's pinball. Don't expect anything. Yeah, don't expect anything. No one expected the Spanish Inquisition and no one expect No one expects the Spanish Inquisition. No, no, no. So, let's see how these other games shake out. We're going to move the camera here in a little bit and we'll see what else we can watch. I think we're just going to wait on uh Eric is coming back over to do a camera move as we speak. The Eric Cam. Yes, Chuck Chuck Vision. I I've been waiting for a camera move so that I could I could flash that on the screen. The Chuck Vision sign. I I did mention when I was walking by, I said, "Uh, hey, do you know what we did with the player cam?" He said, "No." I said, "I'm not telling you." He's moving it. All right, everybody, flash it with us. Choco vision. Choco Vision. There he goes. Ooh, it's it's it's a Oh, come on. What's he going to pick? Don't fail me now. What's he going to pick? I was hoping maybe he go Stars. He's not going Stars. Genesis. Oh, Genesis is out. Looks like he's going right by fire. Big game is out. World Cup. Maybe a little junkyard. He's goingard. He's going junkyard. No, he's not going junk. Oh, he's going past it. Harlem Globe Trotters. Please be Harlem Globe Trotters. Looks like Harlem. Please be Harlem Globe Trotters. There's only one way to find out, kids. That is Harlem Globe Trotters. Man, do I love this game. All right, so I think we're going to be watching this group right here play Harlem Globe Trout. Globe Trotters. Yeah, it's brutal. Yeah, Globe Troters is brutal. It's those scissor flippers, man. So, we need new over We need new over under on the scissor flippers. Um, all right. Four players. I'm going to go We're going to keep it at one and a half and I go over cuz I think there'll be two. I'm going to say four. I'm I'm aiming high again. Wow. Last Last time we had three. I'm going to say four. Got to love Jen. She comes over like, "The camera okay?" No, the camera's always okay cuz Eric's doing it. Yeah. Camera's amazing. It's always perfect. It's always amazing. Look at the camera. All right, so let's see what we got here. We're on ball one on Globe Trotters. We are. And it looks like Jen. No. Who's up? This is This is Theres Edwards. Theres Edwards. All right. Theres Edwards. One of the OG people in the Columbus pinball scene. Been around in Columbus for a while. She's been around a long time. In fact, she was one of the first, you know, public league proprietors really. You know, the Copa League, Columbus, Ohio Pinball Association. Oh, very nice. It was really the thing that got me back into pinball once I moved to Columbus. We talked about the women who made pinball and she's in that list in every region. There's Oh, there's one. There's one. There's one. Oh, you hate to see it happen. Those scissor flippers are just a bear. My rule on that is always flip away. It doesn't matter what a great shot you want, what a great shot you think you have. Always flip away on the left. A better player than I am can actually work out the timing and and get the shot they want. I can't do it. So, when it comes to my left flippers, I'm flipping away every time. If I get on the upper flipper, I'm shooting at those drop targets to increase my bonus X. But it's on that if it's on that lower flipper, no way. Tough break for Jen right there. Thought she had an opportunity to get that shot and wasn't able to do it. So, she's sitting at 20,600 on ball number two. And Rita's on her way up now. Rita right now is in the lead with just under 50,000. Good start for her. She was commenting to us when she saw that we were putting Harlem on stream talking about the fact the machine was playing very challenging. I believe her word was evil. Evil. It's being evil. I can see that word. I think where's I There's only one Harlem that I can think of in Columbus and I don't even remember where it is right now. It is such a we played a lot. It's been in previous pinball races I think that Evan has put on. So we maybe had it show up from private collections before, but not one we see on a regular basis. And a just a fun machine. One of the better ones. So much fun. I'll tell you that the best Harlem Globe Trotters I've ever seen is the one that Lindsay Rogers and Kevin have. Yeah. Amazing. And this is not that is this is Eric's machine, right? Uh this might be Eric's. Yeah. I know Eric has one. Yep. So Rita with a tough break, but she did enough right to get 67,000 points. So sometimes even in the midst of a ball that doesn't go your way, you just have to do enough. You put one good shot together. I didn't even see her finish globe. I don't think she did. So suddenly, bam, 117,000. Doing well. Now the the globe shot is worth or if you spell out globe, 50,000. 50k, which is in a tournament, those are big points. Huge points. Yeah. Every time you get a saucer, you get a globe letter. I know there's other ways to do it. We probably can pull that up right here. And it's a relatively rare three spinner game. Yeah, you've got the two spinners just towards the middle there, which you can see kind of the crisscross pattern. Then you've got the spinner on the left, and that spinner takes you back up to the saucer where you can pick up globe in those 50,000 points. And I've seen the strategy of just shooting globe all day cuz it's a much safer shot than the spinners of the drop targets. Agreed. Good. Right. I'm glad you're a Washington Generals fan. You know, they they just never seem to win. They never, you know, the Generals just have not performed. I bet on them every game. Yeah. Oh, there's two. Oh, there it is. It's the reaction to her reaction. Another scissor flipper death. It is so tempting to try and catch that ball. Yeah, because as pinball players, we spend a lot of time learning how to do that. It's reaction. It's habit. You can't do it on Harlem Globe Trotters. Scissor flipper games will punish you for doing the thing you've spent your entire pinball career working on. So, here is Tish. Jumps right. Flips would love that. Got that bonus up. If anybody is going to do great on this machine, out of the four people that are playing right here, knowing them all, look at that. I would expect Tish to really rock this night save right then. You know, she has the experience that she's played this machine. I'm sure I think she's owned this machine before. One thing you might put in one letter left for globe yet. If you're wondering why didn't that spinner rip or even that one count for much? Why isn't it driving the letters up? Well, if you look, there's a little lit circle to the right or the left that tells you the one that's lit. You want the one that's lit. If you hit the one that isn't, it's not actually going to drive up those bonus points. Correct.
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    All right. So, really good effort there, but unfortunately not enough to take the lead. So, we are back to Jen Roer who's going to try and pick it up here from 20,000 to try and get up and over top of Rita Stevenson's 117,000. Check setting real quick here. So, going to build some bonus
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    there. Nice spinner rip on the on the right side. That was a backhand rip that got her all the way around the horn on those
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    points. And if you look below, if you're wondering where all her points went, if you look below, you can see the little sort of billiardshaped triangle down there that will tell you how the bonus points are coming along. There's a 50,000 point award for completing globe right there. Great use of the saucers. Really nice save.
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    She might have been going for another backhand there, which is really smart. Starting globe all over again. Now lift lit on the left for the spinner. Let's see if she can get the rip. Oh, just a little bit left on that rip. Did pick up the bonus X though. And those bonus X's at this point are going to make a huge difference for her because she has had just so many bonus points.
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    Oh, took a big shot there. Not quite. Got that spinner rip, but it wasn't the lit one, so it doesn't do much. Almost. Oh, that was a dangerous one. Good. She got a little bit more added to her bonus. And that switches over back to the lit. Good. Look at that dead flip. She did not fall for it.
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    Little safe tap there. Just like that, she's two letters away from the globe again. If she can get it, that bonus would be very significant at this part of the game. And really, her job now is don't tilt and try and build that bonus X because she has done a tremendous job collect. Look at that. Tremendous job collecting bonus. This is going to be an absolute monster bonus. All she has to do is not tilt, which she did. I was going to say this be a time that you start to shoot for that shot. Watch it go. She is going to collect 270. World's a bonus there. Great ball by Jen right then. So 270. All of a sudden the tides have turned. A commanding lead on both. It's a whole different game now. And the pressure is really on Rita. Jen wins this. She will have 17 points in the group. She will win the group. Yep. And where will that put her in the standings? Uh it will help her tremendously.
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    Yeah, man. Thanks. Water if you got it. water if you got it. Oh. Oh, no. Actually, there's a whole cooler right there. Yep. All right, let's see what she can
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    do. Look at that. She's building bonus on the spinner. See if she can Oh, she took a shot at it. Didn't quite make it. Not up and over the sling, which is good. See if she can trap it. Nope. No trap. Little tap. So, she's playing hot, too. She's not trapping much. Oh, she needed that really badly in order to take that first place shot. But so, will Rita be able to hold out for second place here? Let's see if she can keep that second place.
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    Second place is a fivepoint uh award. So, not bad. It helps you. You get I mean, you get second place every single time all the way through this, you're going to end up with 45 points in your qualifying and you're going to reach the amazing race. Yeah. The goal here in qualifying is just to make it on. Yeah, consistency is your key. If you have a great game, if you blow a machine up, you know, you're happy about it. You use that confidence. You use it to your advantage. But the key is, you know, a avoid the bad game, play consistently, you know, good things will come. Now, if we get a little pause after this part, we need to ask Jen about that ball cuz that was a big ball. That was a big ball. I would be for that. Let's see if we get a little pause here. She is focused on this broadcast right now. She is watching Fever City TV. Nice save. Oh, there it is. I think she's wanting Kid to do well just as much as Kit's wanting Kit. I love this. I love that Jen is cheering for Kid here. She said something else that we can definitely I cannot repeat that on the air. No, we can say that she um thought the game was colorful. Yes. And vibrant and All right, theres special. I'm trying my best not to swear on the air. Oh no, what a draw for Tish. It is enough that it gets her into second place, though. So that's five points for her. That means she will end up at 13 points. Jen will end up at 17 in the group. How do you like that? So that's a great job for Jen. Big time point scoring right there. I'm going to see if I can grab Jen and see if she's willing to chat for a second about that. Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah, cuz I thought that was just a giant You guys should chat about that. you looked at more of that game than I did. So, I'll take my mic off and let you guys chat for a minute. While we wait, let's look at the standings real quick as they stand. Their game not withstanding. Jen's going to move up to 28 points there. Oh dear, what did I just do? Uh, we don't move that back. All right, there's Jen. Here, you take this.
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    Are they moving? They're not moving yet. So, switch it there and I'm going to get out of the way for J. All right, I'm going to welcome It's about to get better. Stop it. Stop it, Scott. It's going to get worse when you're leaving. No, it's not. It's getting better. The stream improves exponentially every time one of us leaves. That's been our experience. Stop it, Scott.
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    So, Jen, yes. First place finish on that game. Yes. Going into ball three, you were up against some pretty stiff competition. Yes. You were down by what? 80,000 or something. A lot. Yeah. And you were up against I think like 110 120,000. Uh I think it was like 110. Yes. Yeah. And you finished that ballund 70,000 up. Yeah. I had 270 on the end of that ball. 160,000 up. Yeah. What happened? Um well, first of all, I was really mad because they had two house balls. So you guys missed my ball one. It was a house ball. Was it? Okay. Ball two. You saw a house. We were lamenting that with Um, so I was very upset that I was like, I know Harlem Gold Trotters. I know what I need to do. I'm like, get in the scoop. Hit your spinners. And that was literally what I zoned in on trying to do was getting it in the scoop, hitting especially up that left that left orbit spinner, getting it back into the scoop and and trying to let the globe trotters. So, you had an unbelievable backhand on the right spinner. Totally on accident. I was going to ask, was that on purpose? Okay, that that was incredible. I mean, it was this massive spinner rip on the fly from the right hand flipper. Yeah, that was totally on accident. Yes, that one. You got to love those. I do. I really especially I think my the best one that I really liked was I hit the left spinner and then I came back down and hit the right spinner and both of those were ripping at the same time. I was like, "This is what I want. Please do this." So, yes. So, it was spinners all day definitely is what I was trying to go for. Um, especially that left one trying to go up in there. The left spinner getting in the scoop, lighting the globe trotters. Y uh to try and build those up. So So going into ball three, we've been talking Scott and I a lot today about how this is a this is a psychological game as much as it is a physical skills game. Yes. You did not you were not in an advantaged position coming into ball three, not just score-wise, but after two house balls. What did you do to to turn the tide psychologically so that you could turn that game around so profoundly? So I really I took a I'm sure you probably saw me. I took a deep breath and I'm like, you know what? I know this game. like I I know Harlem Gold Trotters. I've played it before. I know I can do better than this. You know what you have to do. And really just kind of zone in. And I really I think about it in a way of I'm not playing anybody else. I'm playing myself against the table now. And I'm just going to play like I'm having fun. And so I turned up my jams, zoned in, and was like, "This is what you need to do, Jen, and just and just go for it." So you were like a little self-confidence talk like I know what I'm doing. Yeah. I did, you know, the the what do they call those? Those daily affirmations. had a little like daily affirmation like you know what Jen you know this game you're better than this you can do it I know you can do it so that's definitely definitely what I did so and it worked it did it did and I got to know what's on your headphones in that I listen to Lindsay Sterling I was listening to Lindsay Sterling the violin player yes oh that's so great violinist that is so great well you got to congrats online as well pinball narcissist Jen Ruper Stormtrooper that's Evan thank you Evan which Evan do I know Evan I think that's Evan Bingham oh nice Evan we were actually bragging about Evan earlier today we've got fantastic Thanks. [Music] All right, we're switching over. Yeah, looks pretty good. I zoomed in, so you might be able to see this a little better. That looks really good. Cool, Jen. Congratulations. Yep. Yep. Way to go. I'm going to Now the Now the stream's going to get better cuz Scott's coming back. So, what an exemplary third ball. Really brilliant. Thank you. So, that was Jen Roer who just won uh first place on round three of the qualifying round for the women's tournament on that magnificent Harlem Globe Trotters ball three. I mean, just fantastic. And that's the kind of thing that like I could tune in for that day after day after day when you see somebody pull a comeback like that that is intentional and thoughtful and strategic. She calmed herself down. She said she was like doing some affirmations and then I'm just going to go in there, play my strategy, and follow it through. And she did. I love to see that. Jen is one of the more thoughtful, energetic players that we have. If you watch her play, you will see her entire her entire body, her entire self get into the act of playing pinball. It's It's just a full body. It's fun. It's a full body experience. It's awesome to see it because you can see just the the joy and the happiness in how she plays, you know, and the enthusiasm and she channels it in a great way too. So, a moment like that gives me hope in my own playing because I don't have the skill Jen has of calm down, selft talk and play. Again, I we talked about this earlier, but I tend to get antsy. I get in my head a little bit. So, I like to hope that I can get to a spot to have the have the strength that she does to go, okay, I'm good. I'm just going to step up and play. Yeah. All right, we are now looking at Iron Maiden. And this should be uh group nine. And believe that it is Danielle Bell, Jesse Gavl, Diane Spackman, and Josie Jones. While we're And we've got all the credits in. We'll take a quick peek at the standings while we're waiting here. Um see where everybody is. Right now, the tie would be at 24 points and we'd have four people playing. Look at those names, too. Theres Edwards, Jane Verwis, Phoebe Smith, and and Nicole Miller with very good fun showdown that's going to be. What a fun showdown. That's going to be amazing. By the way, Brooks Bradlin, great job for her. She is alone in first place right now with 36 points. That's averaging 18. She doesn't have a last name on here. Is it like the share thing? Uh maybe she just goes by into professional wrestling, you know, and you put a single name there. She's just Brooke now. I know it's Brooks Bradlin. I think she helps a Crazy Martin, so we know who she is. But it's more fun to say that she's going into professional wrestling and she's just Brooke. Just Brooke. Brooke. Cue the entrance music. So, um, is this group in a one ball playoff? Uh, no. No. Okay. No, this is round three, so they're going to play three more games. Share.
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    All right. Let's see what happens in round three here. Yes, Danielle looks like she's going to be stepping up first. We saw her earlier. Yep. You know, it started to see some of those flipper skills really start to come through there. End up walking by at one point and complimented her on getting second place in that group. And yeah, you know, she seemed happy about it, but a little nervous thinking about the fact, oh, I was on stream. Yeah, you're kind of on stream. The camera's there. That part is off the giveaway. That part's officing. Yeah, it it it takes getting used to. Every time I step up and the camera rigs there, I get like a little bit more like I, you know, don't mess this up. And and it is interesting some people I mean you saw Tim Ston we when I talked to him about it he felt like he played better with the stream on him as opposed to maybe you know and and I tend to play okay with the stream on me too. It doesn't bother me. Maybe it's the whole being behind the camera right here thing on a regular basis. Kind of used to it. So you're used to the fact there's a camera stuck in your face at some point or another and it's just you deal with it. Um but yeah, it doesn't bother me tremendously. Nice skill shot by the way for Danielle. Yeah, Danny Bell starts off strong and Oh, I was hoping she might get all three drop targets there. Didn't quite get
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    it. So, let's see what she's going to put together for a strategy here. Some people try to go right to the modes. Some people start to build mummy right away. We'll see what she goes with. She's got two lit bumpers. Feel like the best strategy between those two is kind of in between that if you can have mummy multiball going with it. Yeah, it's just the best combo. Not much you could have done with that. Not horrible for ball one though. 5 million has some stuff started. Pretty close to a mode start here. So, there's some good things working. The question is, she going to be able to do anything with it. One of the tough things about games like Maiden and Star Wars is that you can get a massive points disparity if you stack the right three or because there are sometimes you don't necessarily know how you're doing it. Yeah. Oh, for sure. I mean, you can end up with a 300 million point ball accidentally by starting the modes, starting the supers, starting the multiball at the same time, and then you happen to hit the right shot and all of a sudden you're sitting on 300 million on that ball. Feel like if we get Keith Ellen over here, I should just talk to him for five minutes about the art of how to how to maximize your power jackpots. Oh, for sure. Because that is the one thing where if you can sometimes get it and have it be a few points. Yep. You know, two 2 three million and other times I've gotten them and it's like I just got 100 million points on a power jackpot. My game has just changed for the better. There's one right there. Kind of snuck up really early in the game right there for Jesse. Four million points. Not bad. Uh oh. Oh, she got it right there into that in lane. I thought that was going out. Really nice. And she is lit for the inner loop. Let's see if she can lock it there. Nope. That would be the Would that be the trooper multiball lock? No. Sarcophagus lock. Well, not a bad not a bad first ball. Not too shabby. Nope. Tom just walked by and saw me yawning. I think you feel sorry for me. His timing was absolutely impeccable. Tom Edwards. That would be Teresa's husband.
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    All right, Diane's coming up to play next. And let's see if she can Let's see what she can put together. Now, one of the things that confused me right off the bat on Iron Maiden when I played was which mode do I select before I plunge? It turns out it doesn't matter. They're not You're not selecting modes. Those are just songs. Yeah, but I but I still want to hear I know, but I still have a total I have a habit. I know which three it's going to be. I I go to aces high when I need to pull something impossible out every time. I go to um oh, what's the other one? Um,
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    Flight of Icarus. Flight of Icarus. When when there's a points disparity I need to make up, but it's early on in the game. I just have a couple of things that like this is going to be my song. Here you go. Same with Metallica. I know. I know what I'm going to go to when the time comes. I don't think it has any impact on the game at all, but it's like it's mental. Yeah, it's mental. You know, whatever you have to do to get yourself right mentally. Oh, Dian's going to get a ball save there. She will get the ball save right away. Yep. Actually, she didn't get the ball save. I think it didn't hit any switches. Oh, we'll take that. So, just gave a replay. So, look at that. So, she gets a combo points for that. There are big combo points in this game. And when when Keith Ellen was designing it, I know that he had sort of the the players in mind and wanted to reward behaviors that really are difficult. And so he built a lot of combo specials in there. There uh we're on flight of Icarus mode now. So this is going to be left and right ramp. Combos are worth even more. And if you can get it done, you get a big old award. Uh let's see. Let's see what she can do. Ah. nothing because of the tried to shake it out of the out lane, but no dice. Couldn't get it.
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    Good effort by Diane. It did not get the points. But again, we talked about this at the beginning of this game. This game has everything to do with what's lit and what's not. What modes are stacked and what aren't. And so even really good play might only get you three or four million. If it's not the right really good play at the right time, but you stack a playfield multiplier with stack a mode with it, you're in great shape. Yep. Yeah, really good. All right. So, Oh. Oh, wa. Wait a minute. What did we have going? Walked away too early. Yeah, that was a walk. Walked away too early. In fact, I think Danielle was starting to walk up to play it. She was I think Josie thought that was done. Yeah, that was a little confusing right there. Well, so in her defense, the ball save light had turned off and it had been off for a second or two. And that is the stern ball save thing. You get a second or two after you get a little ball, your second. And the rule I had to learn the hard way about a dozen times is wait until you see your bonus. If you don't see your bonus, your ball is not over. It's absolutely correct. And everyone learns it the hard way. I even learn it the hard way to this day. Yep. That I still find myself doing that or getting frustrated or having someone say, "Ball save." I even do it sometimes from here. I have had players when we're playing in casual games who will save my ball for me and be like, "Dude," and like hold the flip, "Dude, dude, really? Your ball's not over." Uh, looks like perhaps calling for a TD. Are we? Nope. Just waiting. Just waiting. Okay. Looked like going for that skill shot. Did not get it. Tough play, but also didn't didn't hit much. So, got that ball back. Yeah, we can't see. I believe the ball saver light is just underneath our viewpoint. So, we don't have a good view of how much ball save time is left. Oh, is it? I thought it was right there in the center. Okay. I I might be down there. I'm just I haven't seen it very much. I'll look next time. Yeah, we'll pay attention. All right. Trying to trap up. Got it there. Going for a center shot. Yeah. Not a bad choice. And we talked about this earlier, but you can hit that mummy shot on the upper loop, which is exactly what she did two times in a row. I think it's actually a cuz that mummy shot is dangerous. It deadens the ball and drops it down the center. So, if you can get it off the upper loop, it's not so scary. Agreed. Looked like a center shot there. Not sure. Oh, nice try to save. Didn't quite work. She will maintain her first place position at 16 million. Not so bad. Not bad at all. Remind everybody, you are watching qualifying for the women's amazing pinball race at Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. Uh the show is going on tonight until midnight. Maybe a little longer if we uh as long as to play. Maybe we'll close out the place and just leave it for the tournament players. That wouldn't be the worst thing ever. Um but we'll be going till they're done and we're going to have tournaments both tomorrow and Sunday as well. So, and if you're thinking about visiting Cincinnati, we are going to be if you've ever been to a tournament where they or sorry, a show where they start cleaning up pinball machines early and you come on a Sunday and you're like, why is everything empty? This is not that show. So, we run until Oh my god. Yeah. We run until 4:00 on Sunday and everybody keeps their machines here. There's no packing up early. So, even if it's Sunday at noon and you're like, I want to check this thing out. Don't worry, you've got plenty of pinball machines to play. We're not going to do that pack up early thing. I think even if a pinball machine is sold, you're not allowed to take it with you. You can't turn it off. You can't take it with you. So, Eric set up some pretty Eric and Jerry set up some pretty strict rules on that because we've all been to the pinball shows where everything's great until Sunday morning. Yeah, I've totally been to those shows and they are frustrating as all get. frustrating and you pay for day three and you don't really get it. I've been to shows where or seen shows where the floor on day three is like 20% of the machines, right? Because they've all been sold. I mean, it was a swap meet and that's okay to have a swap meet at a show. That's part of the the joy and the allure of it. I sold a machine today is maybe you can take a machine with you and Oh, look at that. What a good comeback at 14 million. But yeah, it's important to give the people, you know, a good quality show and show them what pinball is all about. And that means you got to have stuff on the floor. That's right. And Eric does an Eric, Jerry, Jeff, everybody does an amazing job with that. I'm appreciative of that tremendously. I'll tell you what, as somebody who has paid money for a Sunday I didn't enjoy at other pinball shows. This means the world to me. And and I'm a guy who brings pinball machines to this show. So, it is an inconvenience to wait until 4:00 to clean them up. And I am so grateful that that's the rules that they make. I will say that from a retro game show perspective too. Yep. You know, the packups tend to happen very very early on a Sunday or if it's a one day show. They happen early because people go for early bird deals. People come to, you know, buy and collect and and I'm sure I've even been guilty of it a couple of occasions, you know, myself. But, you know, yeah, I I enjoy the fact that any show, be it retro game or pinball, that says keep your stuff here so we have a full show for everyone. That's right. And even even today, so one of the reasons that people take their games home early is if they've sold them, they don't want anybody to break them, right? Because it's sold now. And I I sold a machine last night and I left it open today and we burned out a flipper coil. But you know what? That's pinball. And so we replaced the flipper coil. Very tough break for Josie right there. Sitting under a million pinball number. Sorry, I've totally distracted us. That's okay. We're talking about all kinds of things. I just am proud of this pinball show because you don't have any of that take it home early, close up shop kind of and we're even getting such a great group of hardcore players here too, which is especially good cuz pinball people do travel. They travel quite a bit and there are two other shows. There's an OBX show in North Carolina. There's Free Play Florida down there. So many people are still coming to Cincinnati, too. There's there is enough room in the industry right now, enough enjoyment that everybody's winning. And I think that's amazing. We've got some really top tier players here. We do. All right. So, we're watching came to this show. Yeah, that's right. What does that say? Keith Elwin came to this show. Need I say more? I love it. So, we've got Danny Bell playing right now and she is sitting at 8 million trying to get it going. Unfortunately, will not. Little frustration there understandably so on that. So, she will end up no more no better unfortunately than third place. So, she will either have one or three points. Comes Jesse right now. Still in the lead at 16 mil, but Diane's making a run at this here. Oh, no kidding. I mean, Diane had a really killer ball, too. And it's going to depend a lot on what Jesse does on this ball cuz if Diane if Diane has another run like she did last time, Jesse's going to have to put up some serious points to pad. Good shot. We can certainly ask about based on familiarity with machine is how many of them know about all the super secret skill shots, right? And just about guarantee you that Diane does. I haven't seen many people shooting at it, but Diane has been shooting at it. Yeah, I know Diane knows this game well. 2x play 2x playfield. This is big. She locks mummy and drops it. Oh, so close on the shots. Just maybe two shots away. That hurts from doing some big time stuff and not able to cash it in. She started to spell mummy and couldn't quite convert it. That's why if you can, I try and pick up that mummy ball on that inner loop because if you hit it dead on like that, the ball dies and then drops right down the center. Yeah, that is very true. So, here is Diane. It's about 4 million. It's a very makeable number. I'll tell you what, if I'm Jesse, I am biting my nails right now to see how this would be, too.
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    Lot of bumper action, which I guess it's good for points, but it's pretty nerve-wracking. And she's two mummy shots right there. Mummy multiball lit. Yep. Chance for D to play some multiball. You have the ball saver light. I was wrong about that. You Okay, we can see the multi ball saver. Okay, great. So, ball save is on. So, that's not going to count. It's not going to matter. She gets the jackpot on the mummy ball. That's the captive ball up top. And she's still got a ball save. She takes another shot at that mummy. I She may have struck it. I'm not sure. She's trying to She's got some power jack. Oh, I think that might have been it. Oh, no. She gets that ball back. Nice. Oh, bad ball save. Bad bounce. Yeah, you got to love the stern ball save. Unfortunately, that ended up being a house ball back. Couldn't do anything with it, but boy, and the power to cash in right at the end there. That is Look at that. Look at that. 16 million for that. Great. She has great got to be thrilled. So, how did she pick up that 16 million? What was that? I did not see which power jackpot that was. Yeah, I didn't see it either. I was too busy watching the ball and not the screen. This is one of those games. The only thing I feel like that's hard to read is your progress on the power jackpots over on the left side. I think after a while you just kind of learn which one's which. Yep. Yeah. Unfortunately, if we could zoom in, we would, but on the left side of the screen you can see all the different types of power jackpots there are. And one of the beautiful uh sort of levels of depth behind this game is that there are so many different power jackpots. There are every single type of shot loops uh ramps pop bumpers switches has a power jackpot to it. And if you light them at the right time and get them at the right time like she just did, that's really really good. So Josie does get the skill shot there. She was aiming for the regular 1 mil one. She picked up the regular skill shot. Nice. Nicely done. So now it's the road back. Got to get to I think 10 million to get out of last place here. Every one of those is two very valuable points in the standings. I'll tell you what, it is so tempting to go for that orb right there and she was wise to avoid it. Ouch. Even though it was wide to avoid it, that's a bad bad break to not get the result you want out of taking what I think agree is the safe play. Yep, she took the safe play. It just got a little bit out of control and there was no winning it back on the out lane there. Agreed. Here's so that Diane will get the win in that machine. We're starting to see some results come up here. So, we'll see if uh Eric opts to move the machine somewhere else. I would think that's a possibility. We got a tip here from Loader Breath. Can I say that? Loader breath. Is that right? Load breath. Yeah. Does that sound right? I'm going to go with it. Okay. Best thing I learned on Maiden was which of the five modes are multiballs and which are single ball modes. Agreed. The single ball modes can be stacked with trooper multiball and mummy multiball. The others cannot. Rhyme of the ancient mariner once you hit the shot. Y and ace is high. Yep. Are the ones. And yeah, those stunt your progress on other things. They can be valuable in the right space. If you need a multi for something, it's great. Yeah. But if you want to stack modes, you got to go to the single ball. Yeah. Yep. And stacking on a game like this, we talked about it, but the the rules are complex. Stacking on a game like this is where you get big points. If you can stack your power jackpots, your multiball and your modes and a bonus X or a playfield X rather, you are all of a sudden that's where you start getting to those 300 million point shots. It's the beauty of what Keith Owen did with this game. He made it accessible to people who don't normally play pinball. Y it's a fun theme. It's got cool music to it. You know, the it it's eye-catching. It catches your interest. Y, but it's got more than enough that a hardcore player, someone who, you know, a rules honk if you will, maybe a Steve Richie machine fan is going to appreciate it. And there's enough depth in that to make that happen. We were talking earlier about uh Adam Robinson. I know he had the first pinball machine he's ever owned is an Iron Maiden. He put it in at his place. Yeah. And he has been playing that thing for two months solid and still feels like he's getting depth out of that machine. Wow. Because there's so much to do. And that's hard to do. I I mean with games or pinball or anything to get depth out of that for that long of a period is it feels like it's a lot harder to do that now than it was a long time ago. Yep. I think that's simply just the nature of how we are as people to sort of evolve to that. Yeah. The wealth of information that is thrown at us on a daily basis makes it harder to get that depth to keep that kind of interest. Yeah. Well, and and I'll say here's as a point of comparison, you mentioned Steve Richie. Uh I think the new Star Wars machine is actually too complex. So I I have seen that I have seen new newer players Yeah. and even some intermediate players go up to that machine have no idea what is even step one much less step 12 and sort of cash out. So Mike Mike Dawn's a great example. He's in this tournament fantastic player won the Cincinnati Pinball Championship two years ago. He still is like, I don't know what to do on Star Wars. Because it was a bit opaque. Game like Iron Maiden, you can walk up to and start enjoying the second you hit the start button. Yes. And you can explore it for months. I will tell you the only reason I have an understanding of a few things to do in Star Wars when I'm playing it is that I've watched James Scott and Carlos de Lasera and Jesse Baker and people that I know and respect are good at that game. I did not watch them play and piece a few things together like how to do the layout modes. Thank you for those bits, Joe. So, if I did not piece together that you hit, you know, you start with Leia and then you hit this shot and this shot and this shot, then I would never know that that's what you're supposed to do and that you can have, you know, about a three or four shot sequence that if you get them right, suddenly you're at 200 million points, right? when I've watched people play that game for 10 minutes. That that's the frustrating not get 200 million points. And if you're the intuitiveness is not there, right? And with respect to to Steve Richie's design, I do think that um if you are a new player, cuz we always invite people, hey, come to a tournament. You don't have to be experienced. You just have to love to play pinball. If you're a new player who steps up to that machine in a tournament and you play a 4-minute ball and you get 13 million Yes. or 20 million and then you have somebody else who knows the rules step up and play for a minute and a half and get a hundred million. You're going to walk away dejected and I don't want that in my tournament. So I'm not saying I don't mind a little bit of that. I don't need the level of it that Star Wars. Star Wars just brings I think way too much of it. And now Lo bread likes it. He pinball chess and that's a good word for it. It is really a chess game inside of pinball, especially when you add multipliers and all those crazy things that are mixed up in the game, too. It is complicated. Super comp because Steve Richie is a rules guy. He always has been. My my running joke is that he woke up had a very good dream one night, shall we say, and then woke up and bam, Star Wars was a thing. Rules upon rules upon rules. It's his dream machine. Yeah, but I'm sure I'm sure it is. And it's obviously great flow machine. You've got that wonderful Uturn there. You've got awesome ramps and shots. I just as somebody who really likes watching new people get into pinball. I want people to be able to just walk up to a machine and play and enjoy it. And that can be I think a barrier to somebody enjoying Now then you flip that around and then I think Black Knight represents a you know the proper mix of you know how do you how do you balance that out with something that has a lot of rules but still is fun to play has you know shots challenges you forces you to play a you know a structured game which is also what Steve Richie wants you to do you know he's he's going to reward you for playing inside his structure um I feel like the The balance is there in Black Knight as opposed to Star Wars. Yeah, I I totally Star Wars is too much. Black Knight feels just about right. Yeah. Yeah. I've really enjoyed Black Knight and a lot of folks I I know uh who got the the Pro model felt like it was lacking something. Yeah. Um I actually struggled with the premium model more because I don't love that upper play field. I really enjoy the pro model. Certainly scoring broken. We learned that in Chicago last year. Yeah. Or last month. Yeah. That you can absolutely dominate on the upper play field. Yeah. I mean, basically that broke that game from ever being used in tournament play ever again. Yeah. Um, as you see here, we're looking at the group of Lexi, Danielle, Theres, and Lindsay. Just updated with their first round scores. Lindsay took round number one, and we are watching Lexi start out here with Iron Maiden. Actually, she is player three. Player three. Yep. In this group, but she is starting her game of Iron Maiden. Yep. So, everybody's on ball one so far. No runaways, but Lexi's off to a fantastic start and has already pulled into the lead on Iron Maiden. Starting flight of Icarus mode, that's your left and right ramps mode. Being a Columbus regular, obviously she's played this game a ton. We almost joke about it up in Columbus. If you know, anywhere you go, you're going to find Iron Maiden and Black Knight and all. You're going to see you're going to see all the Trent machines. You're going to see Oh, yeah. All Trent machines. Yeah. Because it's his own base. He's done a good job getting them out there. Well, same here in Cincinnati. Trans machines are all over the place. The Trentar is strong in some The Trenar is strong with this one. Question about Lexi. Are the ears uh constant or are they just for tonight? They're constant. They're constant. She plays with them. She has a little stuffy that she she actually walks up and puts on the machine, too. Oh, really? Is that like a good luck charm or Good luck charm? Yeah, I admire that. Some people do headphones, some people wear 14, if I remember correctly. She's Gilly's daughter. Um Oh, I didn't know that. Girl, I probably should have put that together. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean she's probably been playing in pinball tournaments with Gilly for, you know, a couple two and a half years now. So fun is that to be able to play with your own family. I love it. The the family atmosphere of that is really really cool. I love that. You know, that's a that's another wonderful thing. Oh man, watch her grow up. When I when she first started playing, she was about 6 in shorter than me and now she's like 4 in taller than me. Now grant you, in fairness, everybody ends up being taller than me at some point. That's why Justin's over here like that tall and I'm down here. It's not a depth thing or anything. He's just freaking tall and I'm not. Actually, it's funny. Eric and I get mistaken for each other because we tend to dress the same. Yeah. And we're about the same build and so I I get tapped from behind a lot. As if maybe I'm supposed to go TD something and I don't know any rules, so I don't. Gotcha. Did not see who this was. I believe this is Terresa Roth based on what I see here. Uh Danielle. Oh, this is Daniel. This is Danielle. Yep. Yep. Yep. So, we're watching Danielle on her ball two and currently second place. But again, nobody's got a runaway so far. 10 million is not a runaway game on Iron Maiden. We've only gotten one ball in. Nobody's had just an absolute blowout of a ball. That's going to take her just north of three and a half. And Lindsay Rogers back up to play. And here is Lindsay. Lindsay, you may know from the What the Flip pinball stream. They are a sponsor of Cincinnati. That's right. Thank you. What the flip? Thank you to Lindsay and Kevin. And thank you to Mighty Squirrel, who is now hosting the Straight Down the Middle channel. Thank you, Mighty Squirrel. Yeah, he's one of my actually one of my pinball and retro gaming buddies up in the Pittsburgh area. No kidding. A fellow Wind Jammers fan. I don't believe I've extol the virtues of Wind Jammers. What is a Wind Jammers? Uh Wind Jammers is a classic Neo Geo game. Um yeah, that's right. Oh, sorry. I'm thinking of Nat Geo. What's Neo Geo? Neo Geo is was a both console and arcade system. It released on both at the exact same time. Oh. So, you know, people could buy the home system for a ridiculous amount of money in the early 90s cuz it was pricey. And you could also then go to the arcade and play the game in the arcade, too. That was kind of the the sell point of the system. Um, and some of the games, you know, the Metal Slugs of the World, uh, Samurai Showdown, King of Fighters have become more popular classics, but Wind Jammers was this one-on-one frisbee game that has always had a cult following. I've always been a huge fan of it myself. Jesse is a huge fan of it. Jesse is probably the best player in the entire state and one of the best players in the country of Wind Jammer. Of Wind, the Frisbee video game. I know nothing about this. That's wonderful. Tell Jesse about it sometime. All right, I will. Um, I take a little responsibility for getting the majority of Cincinnati hooked on it back in the old game junkie days. What a rich life Jesse leads. Yes, he does. Yeah, Jesse can Jesse whoops me at it now. I think back if it was mid mids. Yeah, I probably could have played with Jesse and beat him cuz I was that good at the game back then. I've gotten rusty and now at this point I I'm kind of just a filthy casual at it. I got to get better. Yeah. At Wind Jammers. At Wind Jammers. Okay. I keep thinking of pilot wings. It's not that. There's Wind Jammer. No, no. Pilot Wings was fun. I I don't think it has a real competitive scene to it, unfortunately. Okay, that'd be fun if it did. You should invent the pilot wings. The competitive scene. Lindsay out on flight of nice ball though on Lindsay's part. Nice ball. Not bad. The bonus is going to be nice on that 800,000. So, she'll be just under 10 mil right here. But this is another one of those moments where she was shooting all right, but she just couldn't complete those lit shots that were that were going to give her like the triple X. You know what I mean? Yeah. And you're right. I do need to brush up because they are making a win jammers 2. Oh my gosh. The game got a little bit of a a more notable comeback. Nice skill shot right there for Lexi because um company called Emu re-released it um a port of it on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Oh, so a lot of people who maybe didn't have access to it or just played it on an emulator that tip. Then it's like, hey, now I can actually buy and own the real game, myself included. Yeah, that's really cool. Uhoh. Uhoh. Oh shoot. Now, that's one, and I would never have the discipline to do this, but that's one that might have been a Lazarus ball if you'd let it go. It was leaning left. It had a lot of speed on it. It might have popped back up, but I would never have the discipline to let I would never either. I would never have the courage because it's weird to say it takes courage to do nothing on a machine. It's the same when you have a center post, like a post. Oh my god, the center post. Oh my god. I've got one on Meteor and when it goes towards that center post, you just have to hold your breath and not touch anything. Earth Shaker had the center post when I owned that and I can't tell you how many times that thing keeps me alive. The worst thing you can do is flip at it. Oh no. There's a ball save. Thank goodness. And yeah, the popularity of the game, the company that released the port, they're coding an all new game, uh, Wind Jammers 2, that's going to be native on PC and Switch, which is kind of cool. Is it fair to say it's the only Frisbee game ever made? Uh, no. Because there was a I don't want to say knockoff, but a spiritual successor on PC called like a kin game called Disc Jam. Okay. That was 3Dish and came out about 2 years ago. So, Oh, no. It's not the only, but it's the OG and it's the best. I'm going have to check out some wind jammers. I'm not a video game guy, but I'll have to check out Wind Jammers. Uh, just ask. I I guarantee you he still has one down at the bar in North Side. Okay. He did for a long time. He better still or I'm going to kick his butt. You're watching uh Danielle. Is that right? Yep. I think this is Danielle. I've kind of lost track between Danielle and Teresa. Yep. We had two Danielle's in the competition, so we got to we had to keep it straight, but this is Danielle. And oh no, please get that ball back. I think she will. She does. And let's see what she can do here. Backhanded up that very steep ramp and going for the other ramp. See if she can get a combo. No, no uh dice on that, but she did start power pop. So that means ending up in those pop bumpers is a pretty darn good thing for you. Not typically something you see on a pinball machine, especially with one. No, that's right. That has pops kind of in that Adams family location that makes you feel a little bit dangerous. Oh, the Aerosmith pops, the Adams family pops, the Kiss pops. They're all brutal. They hate you and you hate them. Yeah, that's right. Although on this one, I don't I don't get the sort of brutality I do from Aerosmith or Kiss. For some reason, I don't tend to have terrible drains off these pops. I think the bounce outs are a little bit more friendly. They don't necessarily Oh, that is a tough break. Oh, no. It's tough. So that was her ball three. See where her score ends up here. It's at 7 mil. So unfortunately that's going to lock in fourth place. Yep. For her. Yep. She's walking away in fourth. So here is Lindsay right now. I'm watching Jen. By the way, I just turned my head cuz I saw large amounts of full body player. Yeah, she is into the pinball machine. Full body player. I freaking love it. It's hard. It's hard not to watch when that kind same with Mike Dawn. It's hard not to watch that kind of full body playing. It's just pure raw excitement. But you do have the super. Lindsay got the Oh, the super secret skill shot. Nice job. Clip it, baby. Clip it. Look at that. That is first place loops. Look at that loop. So that super secret skill shot just could have won the game. It is more than anybody had on their game up to that point at all. That is a tough skill shot. The beauty of it though is that if you miss badly enough, you actually don't hit any switches and you can try it again. You can. She is just destroying that spinner. So, she's on power spinners now, which for Lindsay is a good thing cuz she's good at it. Just took advantage of that with a power
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    spinner. See if she can Okay, she's going mummy. I think what Lindsay was trying to do there is get back up to that upper flipper because she is so good at that loop shot. And with power spinners on and that loop, it's pretty tempting. She's going for mummy. Maybe mummy would be a smart play right here. Maybe she's just going for mummy. Maybe that's all going for. You got power targets lit as well. Look, she's so close. Two more letters. That was danger. Can't get that. Okay, she got she got that was the smart way to do mummy. One more letter on mummy. See if she can pick it up. Jackpots, by the way, she picks it up from the left. Got it. And another loop jackpot with So she starts the mummy multiball now. And now she's racking up loop jackpots like crazy. Loop jackpots. Crazy. 54 million. That's what you've come to expect from that particular type of shot. Look at her. Oh, almost got that mummy jackpot there. Good save. Oh, that was a great save. Actually used the fact that two balls were in play to her advantage. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sometimes they call it an air defense where you hit a ball with another ball just to keep them both alive. that one almost. She used the fact that two balls were in play to completely block the center drain. It basically went flipper ball flipper and kept both balls in. Oh, I love that. She bridged the center gap. That's clever. Yeah, we'll have to ask her if it was on purpose. Jackpots in a row right there. Up to 80 million just like that. This might be the dagger. And another one lit. This could be big, big points right here if she's able to get it. And I'll tell you, Lindsay is a smart, conscientious, intentional player. So there's very little that she does that she didn't mean to do. And so when she all of a sudden starts this mummy multiball after getting power spinners, etc., I think she knew what she was doing. And yeah, load of breath is right. You can't retry. It knows. It does know when you've left it. Oh, really? Yeah, it I think it does. That is right. I could have sworn I did it. I guess I didn't. I've noticed that because sometimes I would try and push the flipper, push the plunger to make that happen. That's a method you used to see on like Twilight Zone quite a bit. You push the plunger to try and get it to the right spot so you're not putting too much momentum on it. Y Yeah. If But I've noticed when I do that on on a lot of Iron Man machines, just the act of pushing the plunge Oh, okay. is enough to cause an actuator to go off and me lose the ability to go after the skill shot. Thank you, Lord of Breath, for that. to the point where I don't even try and do it that method anymore on Iron Mage. Just look at her. That is huge. 30 million for that and lock ball three for a trooper multiball. She is lighting this thing up right now. Now watch the playfield light up on trooper. So every shot's a good shot in trooper multiball. Every shot. Yeah. If you can complete a shot, you're getting a jackpot. There's one for a million. And those jackpots are going to get more and more and more valuable. Let's see if she can get all of the different shots. You can get the trooper. I believe 2x I think Evan's right. 2x is still lit. Another jackpot lit. This is where the power jack really really lucrative. There you go. There's a 740,000 point jackpot. 6.2. Not bad. Another cannon shot award. That was worth two million. I think now we're looking at what? Four in play or five? There are four in play right now. Pharaoh rewards. Extra balls are lit. Everything is lit. Look at that trap on the left. Oh, you hate to see that splash. Oh no. That's all right. She's going to recover. And let's see what she can. Hey, Chuck stopped in. Yay. Not only is he tournament directing, he's also chatting. Oh, what up, Chuck Wart? Hi, Chuck Wert. Whoever that Chuck W guy is. Can I just reiterate when he says thanks for watching all day? I'm going to say the same thing. Thank you for watching all day. Absolutely. Freaking another 21 million on that 167. This is what we've come to expect from Lindsay playing this game. Lindsay goes on an absolute terror. She is a loop champion. Look at that. Do you see how fast that loop went and she had no trouble with it. See if she can pick up this mummy. She has even survived. The one thing that I've tended to see happen with her game, and I've seen it happen in open at level one, when there are drains in her game on multiball, they tend to be multiples. Y like it's it's I don't know if it's bad luck or whatever, but it tends to just hit in bunches. She's overcome it. She's still getting big time power jackpots and now is lining up for another multiball hopefully very, very soon. Mummy is getting ready to go again. She's ready to do it again. There's sarcophagus lock right there. Yes.
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    The award values, by the way. Taps mummy on the way by. That's the way to do that. Yep. Uh-oh. Nice. There's those free taps on the way. Might as well get them. Yep. Uh-oh. She is seriously approaching one shot. I don't think she's even trying for the moon shots, even though they're fairly lucrative right now. Watching Lindsay in her zone is just such a treat because when she gets dialed in, she just locks on, makes choices, and then executes perfectly on them. And I love to see that. Again, she's not she's not a player who's just playing on the fly. She is making very intentional choices. She is calculated
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    and I've seen her level of composure grow more and more and more having watched her play tournaments the past couple of years. 16 million on the bonus hits 211 million. The best score we have seen this evening. That's correct. On Iron Maiden in both tournaments both. Yeah. I would love I don't know if anybody can, but I'd love to know what the ball time was on that. It was substantial. She was six, seven minutes. Yeah, she was awarded an extra ball which just gave her points. That was essentially one ball. That is a super tough break for Lexi. She will end up in third place in the group. So, that'll be worth three points for her, giving her eight points total. Lindsay is prepping to go seven and seven again. You got to love that. Which will give her 14 points. Put her in a very good position trying to make a run here at getting in the top. I want to talk to Lindsay. I want somebody to talk to Lindsay. If I get her, will you Will you ask her about that amazing ball? I will absolutely ask her about that. Yeah, go get her right now. She does have a game three to play. So, we probably can't keep her that long. It'll only just be a second. Yeah, that's fine. So, battle is lit right here for our last player. I believe I think this is Danielle. I know we get it mixed up and not able to do anything. She will end up that 14 main is good enough for second place, though. So, it might be trailing by 200 million, but hey, that's enough to get a second place finish. And that's five points. You take those five points every single time. You don't care how you got there. You're just glad you did. So, yeah, sensational game right there for Lindsay. She needed it. As we look at where the standings right now stand. That is going to put Lindsay. Yeah, she needs these points. That's going to put her up to 32. She probably needs another good result, at least a second place finish in this last game right here to get into the top 18. You know, this is her run back into it. If she's able to make this happen after a couple of really tough rounds early on, she's able to make this comeback, that would be absolutely sensational to do. So, we're waiting to see if Eric's going to move the machine here. I don't think we have another game. I'm checking the list here. We do have another group that could play Iron Maiden. I don't know if they're going to. Uh maybe we'll see if we can get a uh a switch up from Eric. I think he is going to move the uh the unit right now. We'll see where it's headed. Um I think we should put it on the switching games can. Uh-oh, that's not good. We've got a little bit of a r We've had some range errors with the player cam today. So, I'm going to assume the machine's going to be moving in just a minute. And once it does, we're going to see where it's headed.
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    waiting for him to make his way over there. Yeah, Eric's on his way over. I think Justin's working on grabbing on Lindsay to talk about it if she wants to. She may not want to right now. Obviously, in the midst of competition, it's fully understandable if she doesn't want to mess with it right now. We get it. And yep, camera is on the move. So, while we're waiting for that, I'm going to see if I can deactivate and reactivate that camera. Nothing yet. This is Chuck Vision, so we'll get it up in just a moment here. I'm going to try that activate, reactivate one more time. Still being a bit of a pain in the butt. So, we'll see what happens here in just a moment once he gets it moved here. We can show you the other cameras here and where it's headed. And we can tell you it is headed to Stars. So, the group that is playing Stars is going to be the same group we just saw. Uh Lexi, Danielle, Teresa, and Lindsay. And we're gonna see if we can't get the player cam. We're gonna reset that thing one more time. There we go. Now it's back in play. Our HDMI link is back up and running. I assume Lindsay wanted to wait. She wanted to wait. She is, as true to form, highly focused. All good. I figured that might be I thought that might be the case when you were talking to her. There is nothing wrong with that whatsoever. No. No. We we appreciate when players want to come over and talk, but we understand it. Competitive nature is uh is what it is. Yep. And you got to play your game. She is she is dialed in. I didn't even I couldn't even get a smile out of Lindsay. She is that focused. She was just like on to the next one. We're not going to stop and look backward. So, actually, speaking of the next one, it's Stars. Stars. So, we're going to get to see her play again. We are. In fact, we get to see Lexi, Danielle, Teresa, and Lindsay play again. We do. We just pulled up the standings. Lindsay is, and this is the important thing, she has 14 points in this round right here. Let's update those standings. That moves Lindsay into the tie for 18th right now. Wow. If she wins this next round, she's probably in. Yep. This could be a second place. It's going to be interesting. Might be a tiebreaker. Yep. So, I'm sure she's I'm sure she's looked at these standings. She knows what's going on with it. She's like, I have to play well right here. I have to do this. Yep. She knows what's going on with these points. She's been watching it really closely. I'm sure all of all the players have. Yes. And they know what's at stake. Oh, tough start for Danielle. Yeah, tough start. She got two bounces and straight to the right out lane. So, we haven't talked much about strategy on this game. This might be the first time we've had Stars on stream tonight. Yeah, it is. Remind me to give him a hard time. I haven't. No, no, I'm sorry. Second time we've had Star. Second time. But I love this game. So, we were talking about how much I really dig this era. how much I like old sterns and stars reminds me a little bit of flight 2000 on the left side of the playfield where you've got all these drops and this narrow channel with a spinner to try and get the to try and get I believe that was Teresa that we just saw. I know we've been mixing up Theresa and Dean Young. I'm going on order and hoping for the best. So, right now we're looking at Lindsay Rogers who's playing and player numero two. Player numero two. So, I may have my numbers backward because I had Lindsay in at number four. Yeah. And I don't know if they're perfectly following the order right here. Oh, look at that. Right off the center post. That was a beautiful little Lazarus ball right off the center post. Yeah. Nice. Do you Okay. If it hits the center post perfectly, do you view that as a Lazarus ball? No. No. No. But, but that one was that one I I suppose I can't call it a Lazarus, but it was real close. That was on his way out. Nope. That's fair. Go Lindsay. Thank you for the bits, Gun Nut 400. We appreciate Thank you so much, Gun. Thank you for supporting the stream tonight. Thank for supporting Lindsay. She's kicking butt. She's kicking a whole lot of butt right now. Needs that needs that love and support. Yep. Trying to see if she can make it into top 18 here. I think a second or first place finish would do the job and that's what she's needing to do.
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    All right. So, Theresa is going to see what she can do in this third place or third player slot. Yep. Let's see. Uh, stars is one where man, I I don't know that I have a good strategy for stars. So, there is a star. One of the stars is randomly lit at the start of every ball. Yes. and the rest of them you shoot the standup targets to collect them, adding 200 points to the spinner value each time you collect a star. What I don't know is what's the best way to go about safely getting to that spinner rip. Um, and we're going to see if maybe Lexi will figure it out. Oh, Lexi brought I think that that might have been her stuffy that you mentioned that she brings up with her. That is it. Yeah. Okay. So, this is her good luck stuffy. So, oh no, it did not did not serve for good luck. And of course, there's no ball save on this era of starting games. So, she's not going to get that back, which is a total bummer. Never even got to touch it. Never. Thousand points on the ball. You hate to see that happen. Yeah, it hurts. That is what happens on these style games, though. I can't quite tell what player one score is. Looks like 40,000 would be my guess there. Oh, is that one up top? Sorry. I think I mean 40,850 and 40,500. Yeah. So it is super close. Although is does it go upwards? Is it 1 2 3 4? Well, let's see. We are watching. I think it is. Yeah. So 23,000. Okay. So 23. Okay. So Danielle is at 23,000. Mundus. Uh Mundus, thank you for those bits as well. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Mundus. What does that mean in Latin? Anybody? I should know this. I go to Cington Latin School. Yeah, for real. I should remember. Mundus is world, right? Uh I believe so. I'm going to say it stands for exhale world. That's probably not true. I would like to apologize to my my Latin teacher right now for my freshman and sophomore years. You can only apologize but in Latin. Umhuh. Mayopa maya may maximula. There you go. Out of nothing. The world. Oh, good one. Ah, there we go. Hey, that's really cool. Yeah. All right, Lindsay Rogers now. Oh, right off the top of that sling. Look at that tip. Look at that beautiful little tip. I love that. So, thanks for my Catholic upbringing. I can't apologize in in Latin. Maya. Maypa.
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    Oh, look at this wonderful little stuck ball. What? I love those. There you go. There's somebody who knows exactly how that leaf switch feels, right? Like just just the smallest little tap to get that back on the ball. Well done. Oh. Oh, she is going to be mad about that one because that is one that she has probably done a thousand times. Exactly. Right. And 999 of them go well. They go well. That's the one that didn't. Still in first place though at 71,100 points. All right. Theresa's back up. Yeah. Spinner rip. Not worth a ton just yet, but if we can get those stars. Oh, look at that. Oo, that was close. Way to go, physics. Smart play for her. She tilted. Nope. She tilted it out. That was just wild, man. Oh, I mean you could see it happening and the save was amazing. The recovery on what could have been potential disaster. It's just a shame the tilt came with it. Nice save by Lexi right there. I want to see Lexi do well here cuz she's had a couple of real bummer balls where there wasn't much she was going to do. It just didn't work out. And I really want to see something happen for her here. She's got the skills. I mean, we saw her at the pins for pin tournament light up Sinbad to the tune of almost 300,000 points. Oh wow. So, you know, when we were getting into the latter match portion of that tournament and wondering if some of the picks were due to the fact that, you know, someone picked Sinbad, you know, do you pick that because she's 14 years old and maybe doesn't know the classics as well. Well, yeah. No, but she rocked it earlier in the day to to Oh, look at that. I think that rules that argument out tremendously. I think so, too. And we just saw some really strategic thought there, right? like she decided to do a really oh no really quick little drop versus flipping away like that's not just reaction. That's that's intelligence. That's something you have to think about doing. You can't just do it out of nowhere. That's pinelligence. Pint I'm I'm I'm copyrighting that one. Is that going to be the name of your podcast? The Pint Intelligence Podcast or your fragrance? No, I'm pretentious enough as it is. I don't need So am I. Some weird port manto to make me more pretentious. Intelligence by Justin Masters. My own fragrance. Oh no. No. Oh Daniel. Pray for Danielle right there. So she will end up in place. That is that's going to leave her in fourth. And that's probably I think if I am reading this right. That's going to spell the end of that probably end her evening. Yes. Tough break for her there. Yep. All right. Lindsay knows what's at stake here. And what's at stake is whether or not she moves on. She is right on the cusp of I believe 18 she will be only one of two people to pull off a perfect 21 point round. Oh, I'd love to see that. Who got the first one? Do you remember? Um I believe that Oh, no. Lindsay. No. Oh, and remember, as we said, she is part of what the flip. That is her uh they have sponsored the Cincinnati and been part of all of our tournament help today. That's right. Follow the channel. Maybe right after we're done, but follow the channel. Don't worry, she's not on there right now. She's here. That's right. So you won't miss anything. Yeah, just follow it later so you know when she goes live next. Spinner shot. Nope. That was a drop target shot. Back up. You can't go wrong going back up to that pop up there. There's still some rollovers. There's still some value to be had up there. So it doesn't hurt you. You just got to hope that it comes out of the pop relatively clean. That's a good spin right there. And she had that spinner. Oh, I love the post. Love it. Cue the hockey reference. She hit the post. She hit the post. So, she now has a juiced right spinner. Set her second. Not able to do it. I don't know how much bonus. I think she's got it on bonus. No, she doesn't. Wow. Wow. She is short by under 400 points. That is just brutal on the bonus. And that means I think Lyn Oh, Lexi, I don't know if she saw what was happening there. It drained a lot quicker than she was expecting. Yeah, something happened there. I don't know if Yeah, Gilly's coming over to take a look at it. Yeah, she maybe it was a no no hit. Oh, that's what it was. It was a tilt. That's why we didn't see the numbers go up and down. Oh, no. Was there an extra ball? So, she might have gotten it on. Let's look here. No. No. Did the playfield get qualified or not? Um, I didn't see a switch saying that player three tilted the bonus away. So, we're thinking I we can't tell if the playfield got qualified or not. I couldn't tell right off. We were We were so busier tilted. Player three tilted. Okay. Yeah.
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    Not a tilt through, right? I don't believe there was a tilt through. Just finished. Wow. So the tilt is costs the win Lindsay the win. That will give her that really hurts the perfect 21 all the way around there and that might be close to the last game. There's an Iron Maiden Grand Prix and AC/DC game. Congrats to Lindsay on that. Wow. Now the question is it's 11:21 in the evening now. Yeah. And we're about to start and we're about to start the tournament. Are they going to play all the rounds of the tournament or are they going to break this into two parts? I don't see how we could have this go from today to where I'm sure some of the people are here just for tonight. Man, I think if Eric's good with it, we'll we'll keep going. Man, you know, Sanctum does a 24-hour tournament. This might be our Brett said you cannot tilt through on classic stern. So, there's our answer. No tilt through possibility there. Okay. It ended up not mattering in the in the result of the game for um for Lexi. For Lexi, it did not matter. It did not matter. She took a second ball. It wouldn't have mattered anyway, but but uh Gilly was right to to ask the TD question there. Yes. I loader, you, by the way, are just a a compendium of of pinball knowledge. I I appreciate when chat fills in the parts I don't know because here's a here's a news flash. There's a lot of parts I don't know. Yeah, I if it's not clear, I don't know most things, right? And you guys have all been so great tonight on filling in rules, on correcting errors in the rules that we've been calling out and uh correcting some of the game knowledge that we got wrong. Just love to have that. You guys are at their best. Please come in. I'm going. Oh, Nap Arcade been with us since 3 p.m. Thank you, man. 8 hours 24 minutes. Thank you so much. You've been in this as long as we have. We appreciate it. I think Lexi is going to come over and talk. I'm going to let Why don't you stay over here and talk to Lexi for a minute? I'm going to take a short break. I'd love to. In just a second. All right. We're gonna We're going to get a chat here with Lexi. Yeah, we are. We're going to show the standings real quick here. Aaron has moved into first place pending Nikki's last game. Possibly Broken Breeze as well. Nikki is the only person that could pass in score. So, we'll see if that shakes out. Michelle Brown still on the fence. Michelle Brown had that 21-point game and has just not had a good run since then, man. Going to be real interesting to see how and Michelle both had 21 point games today. And Michelle has not been able to really build on that lead as much as I'm sure she would have liked.
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    So, we're going to sit down with Lexi here in a second and talk with her about this qualifying round.
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    All right, let me get us back on cam here. Lexi, welcome to our stream. Thank you. We were watching you in that last game. Tell me about what it was like on Stars. What was it like playing that game? It's a fun game, but at the same time, the flip is not working on my last ball was not fun. So, what was going on there? We saw that ball. What happened? The flippers literally didn't work. So, our theory was that the tilt from the previous ball had somehow impacted the flippers. Yeah. And it's actually the second time it happened to me. Really? Yeah. It happened earlier. It just wasn't on live feed. What a bummer. So, you got the ball back and you got to try again. Yeah. Okay. it. But the flip was just not working messed me up and I did it gets to you both. Okay. So, tell me about now you played uh Surf Champ, Iron Maiden, and Stars. Yep. And on Surf Champ, I think that was your big game. You were second place on Surf Champ. Did you have a strategy going into Surf Champ? Keep the ball alive. That's a good one. I played it a bit earlier. Okay. Actually, uh, Medieval Madness was, I think, the only game that I played that I actually practiced. Okay. Because my mom told me that it would be, uh, from Game of Thrones to the basketball game. I don't remember what it's called. Harlem Globe Trotters. Yep. And so I didn't practice any of the other ones. Oh, no. And then they were all of a sudden in the thing and I was like, what? And all of a sudden this was now you had to play games you'd never practiced before. Well, I've done them before, but I just didn't Some of them I've done before at least, but I just didn't practice on the day. Yeah. Well, I mean, you did just fine. When I look at that one, Lindsay eaked out a victory on that one. She did a played a great game. You pulled out a second place win. I don't know if she eaked it out. I think she had a pretty commanding lead. Either way, you did awesome. And for having no practice on that one, I thought perhaps you had like figured out the strategy. You're saying no, you were just running gun. It was my second time playing the game. Okay. I played it a bit earlier and I knew a bit what I had to do and I was just like keep it alive. Yep. And it worked. Then you got into Iron Maiden and I actually really like Iron Maiden. I'm usually good at it, but for whatever reason today I've not been doing great. Do you have something you're trying to do on Iron Maiden? I usually try and get mummy multiball. Yeah, cuz and I'm usually able to get it, but I literally had one letter left and then I drained. I saw that. We were like lamenting with you like, "Oh, you were so close." The trick on mummy multiball is to hit that captive ball without draining down the center. Yeah. I usually like to use the little flipper to hit it. Yep. We were talking about that. The upper flipper if you can get it into that little loop, right? And that's actually Lindsay cleaned up on that move cuz she is so good at those loops. She would kick it over to that little flipper and activate mummies. She might she might have gotten two mummy multiballs in the same ball. Just a monster ball. Uhhuh. I did want to ask about your friend that you brought. Yes. Who is this? His name is Candy Catacorn. Mhm. But Nick, I for short, I call him Candy Cat. He gives me good luck. And he's very soft. So he's a candy corn and a cat. Yep. And he brings good luck. Yep. I'm mad that I don't have one of my own. Maybe that's why I don't win more. I need to get one. So u we were actually chatting earlier about how young people have been dominating in pinball recently that we saw, was it a couple weekends ago? We saw a big tournament. It was like three of the top four were under 18. Yeah. What's it like being a young person at this sort of pinball renaissance right now? Well, I actually came here last year. Yeah. And so I kind of know it a bit and it's weird being younger because all the adults are just like, "Oh, she's a kid. She probably won't be great." Yeah. And then I like dominate over them and they're like, "What? Doesn't that feel good?" Yeah. Yeah. So, do you get intimidated playing with all these adults? Uh, no, not really. I'm pretty used to it. Yeah. You've been You've been doing it your whole life? Yeah. Well, not my whole life, but like for two years, I think. Okay. A couple years. And you grew up in a pinball family? Kind of. My mom got into pinball like a few weeks before I did. Oh, really? Okay. So, you're both relatively new. Well, you you played really well today. It was such a pleasure to watch you play and thanks for coming to sit down with us. We're going to keep watching the tournament tonight. Do you have anybody you're cheering for? Um, I honestly I don't know who all qualified. Yeah. So, I would I'm rooting for Kit and Diane, though, cuz I'm friends with them and they're really nice. Right on. Yeah, we were watching them earlier, too. Let's see where we are in our standings and we can find out. I'm pretty sure I didn't qualify. Oh, we got to switch. Okay, we're going to switch off. Thank you very much. Thanks for sitting down with us and let's look at what's going on with Kit and Diane. So, we've got Thank you, Lexi. Um, all right. Thank you, by the way, for those three bits. Um, so to give you an idea of how important that tilt was. Yeah. Look at where Lindsay is right now. She has avoided the tiebreaker by 300 points on stars. Thanks to that tilt. It is amazing to me how every single tournament that we do, there is something like that where someone has avoided potential disaster or tiebreaker or qualified by the slimmest of possible margins. Man, that just it just is such a great reminder that sometimes pinball comes down to one moment, one choice. It's amazing. It's amazing how it does. And so Lindsay's now moving on to the moving on for sure. Holly made a hell of a comeback, too, to get into ninth place. Great job for her to make that happen. But right now, what we're looking at is a tiebreaker of six. Yeah, we have a sevenway tie. Seven. I'm showing it a seven. I'm going to refresh this real quick
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    here. Fresh cash current page. Make sure it's up to date. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Sevenway tie. Yeah, seven-way tie. Michelle, Emily, Phoebe, Lily, Andrea, Maja, and Nicole are going to have to figure out. Is it a one ball seven? Seven for five. I think that's what we're figuring out right now. So, we get to save five. We have five slots for seven women. 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 are the slots that we're playing for here. So, you don't want to end up in the bottom two. I'm guessing it's a one ball playoff, but right now I think we're trying to figure out working that out. I can't say as I've ever seen a seven-way playoff before. It's been a while. Wow. Wow. That's super fun. Three rounds of qualifying, you know, and and nine games. So, I mean, God love how this set. What are we doing? That is really exciting. So, imagine three rounds of qualifying and we still have a seven-way point tie right at the cusp of the top eight. This is going to be a lot of fun. And we're going to figure out the format here. see how they're going to solve this and work out this seven-way tie. Give us one second. I'm going to check in with Gilly on that, our tournament director, to find out. You know, I'm not going to I know. Sorry.
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    Switch on stars. So that's it. So So this is what they're going to do. Every person in the top seven is playing a full game in order to figure out who's going to move forward. And five of the seven are going to move forward. So, it's a three ball game. They're going to play all three balls, one person, and record the score. After all seven of the women have done that, they're going to know who their top four is. Top five. Hang on. Give me a minute. No, you go. I'm sorry. So, we're watching right now our very first of those seven women play. There are three ball
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    game now. I think did Gilly say they were going to do one, two, three in a row. Let's see. I think you're watching. Yep. Emily Vining is now stepping up for her three ball playoff. It looks like they're not going to do three in a row. It looks like they are going to take turns on that. So, it's going to go 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 all the way through three balls and then I guess it will be the other three. We'll just go 1 2 3 1 2 3. Emily Vining up and unfortunately not getting too much. So, she's back down. Uh let's see who's up next.
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    Gilly's going to call it for us. This is one of those moments. It's just not often that you have a seven-way tie and so everybody kind of looks to the tournament tournament director and says, "Okay, what do we do?" And it's going to take a little bit of shuffling around to get everybody where they need to be. Next up is Phoebe Smith, who I think we have talked uh about for at least 15 minutes and she deserves another 50 more. She is a queen of pinball in the Queen City of Cincinnati. Oh, she gets another post bounce. Couldn't quite get it back. So Phoebe is in the ball or is in the player three position trying to win that.
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    Oh, I see. So, Scott's putting up a score to qualify so that we can we can say, "Hey, here's what you got to beat if you're going to stay in." Love
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    it. All right. And our player four, I missed who that was. Sorry, I was looking away. Our player four was up and back down.
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    Let me switch really quickly. See if I can refresh and figure out. Wait, that's why who is playing who and when
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    Emily vining back up in the number two slot. My guess is they probably Oh no, Emily with another up and down. What a bummer. What a bummer. Phoebe Smith back up. It was Andy Rosa. John Thomp. Okay, now now wait, can you tell me and Phoebe with a house ball. Man, this game is just absolutely punishing. Let me get some names up so I can tell you who all is playing. Give me just a second and I will be right back with you.
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    Forgive us. We are We are doing the best job we can to remember faces and names and everything. And player one and player four failing we are failing slightly are unfamiliar players to me. So I'm going to apologize profusely right now because I can't tell you because they're not on the bracket. We're not on a typical bracket. I can't tell you who's playing. If you happen to know because you know these players, please let us know. Uh, I know Emily, who is player two, who's up right now. I know Phoebe, who's player three. I do not know players one and four, so I'm going to apologize now for that. Double flip and straight out for Emily. Probably not the game she was hoping for there. Phoebe had a house ball on the last one and a really brief ball on the first one. So, she's going to try and play catch-up. The score to beat right now, uh, she's trying to top another one. Another one. Ouch. You don't see that often from Phoebe Smith. Um, but you know, house balls happen and not much can be done about it. Look at this. Right. That was a 50/50 gamble. It came out on the on the better side of 50/50. So, let's see what score we're looking at. Oh, bad bounce off the sling. She's going to finish actually in uh in the number two spot on this forsome. But what's important is the score because we're just going to take the top five of seven scores and that's what's going to matter. So right now the lowest score is 21520 and they're all done. But that's of four. Yeah. All right. 21520 of four. The next one is 28 something something something. I can't see it cuz it's behind the thing. Um let's see what the Let's see what the second one is. 24 180 is the second lowest score. So right now those are the bottom two. No, sorry. 16550. I'm wrong. 16550 is the lowest score. That's fourth place. Let's fix that. 16550. But they have to you have to beat 21520 because we're keeping the we're losing the bottom two. Right. So right now 16550 is the lowest score out of these players. Uh right. Yep. So that is our current fourth place score. But they would have to beat this 24 number as the SE because the bottom two are going to drop off, not just the bottom one. Right. Uh that's true. So 24180 would have to be the score or sorry 21520 would be the score that you need to beat these real quick.
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    If they can beat 21520 then they're going to stay alive. I see what you're saying. Yep. Because if we're counting right the bottom two are going to drop off and we have seven players.
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    There it is. I see your math. I get it. All right. Yes. Uh Meg, that is the update. We have seven players vying for five spots. All right. Let's see. So, we are doing a full game tiebreaker on stars. Yep. And based on what we've seen here, if you pass 21,520, you will beat two players. And by beating two players, you are guaranteed at least fifth place. Yep. And by being guaranteed fifth fifth place. Yeah. I think we're still going. We have had no one tell us we're stopping. So, uh, so we may not even get to the tournament until midnight. We may not. And we're going to keep playing. I love it. You ready for this? I love it. I'm in. I'm in. I'm so And we're doing this again tomorrow at noon. What is sleep? All right. What is food? I I I never ate dinner. Oh, man. Is that Andrea who's up right now? That may be Andrea. Let's Let's look at our uh really quick. I'm just going to look at our standings. Make sure I know who all is playing here. Yes. So, that's Andrea Nun who's up there right now. I believe we're going to I did not see Nicole before and I did not see Maja. Now, I did not necessarily see everybody. So, we'll see how this I think Lily was uh the player one before or player four. Yeah, I I have seen no one say don't play. And the advantage of this is, you know, Eric Eric's running the facility here. You know, if if anybody's going to say stop, it's him. And I don't think he's stopping. He's got a room here. He hasn't called it yet. He hasn't called it. I don't think he's going to. All right. So, she's up. Andrea's up and down. Well, she may not have qualified a switch. She did not. Uh, did she? I No, I think she might have. I did she qualify a switch? I'm looking. I didn't see if it went to player two. Um, I'm trying to look at the machine directly to tell you. Yeah. No, one up. One is still up. Uh, where did Andrea go? Andrea, let's see. Andrea.
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    Yeah, she's right there in the hoodie. So, they're they're conferring on it. Yeah.
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    Yeah, we're getting clarification that I think Phoebe is up this round, too. So, yeah, Andrea is play on. Okay, from what Eric is saying right now, Eric is giving us she is okay to play. Yeah. With zero points, that means she didn't she didn't touch a switch. Nothing happened. Yeah. So, even though it was a house ball, it was the cleanest house ball in the history. If you're going to have a house ball, that's the one to have. Think about how unlikely that is given where this jet bumper is. Yeah, you have to miss a lot. See, right there, she qualified it with that. There you go. So, she gets a second chance at life. That's always nice. And there you go. But she was able to get a few points on the board and frankly all she has to do is double that score and she's in the safety zone. She is. So, not bad when you get a ball back. All right,
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    Justin, I want to make sure you know I appreciate all of your hard work tonight, man. Hell of a job. Likewise. It's been really fun to do without you. If I was doing this solo this entire time, I think I'd have lost my mind. Oh, bummer. Okay, let's see what she ends with. 84. So, not much of a bonus. I thought she might get a little bit of a bonus there. And here comes Is Phoebe number three here. No, this is No, Phoebe's done. This is This is Nicole Miller. Yep. I think Phoebe may have been that 16 number. So, she may somebody would have to score pretty darn low for Phoebe to stay in. All right, so this is Nikki. She's going to get up and do her thing and try and beat this 21520 score. Easier said than done. Agreed.
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    She's got 2,000 in bonus lit. Good spinner rep. Little bit of juice on that spinner. Not too much yet, but it's probably more than she needed. Yeah, I think she's gonna be in the same boat here. 10,000. She's on pace. So again, all you have to do is double that score and you are safe. Yes. Or you're so close, it's not even funny. So it's tempting to look at that ball and say, "Ah, that didn't go very well." But again, all we're doing is doubling. So we're back up to Andrea now. And again, all of these women are fighting for their life to try and beat this score. 21520. Oh, bad ball for Andrea, but not horrible. She not 7,000 points on it. And she's 18. She only needs three more. If she did that exact ball again, she'd come out ahead. Yes, she would. She'd move on to the Amazing Race. So, let's see if Maja can beat that score. Oh, right off the post. That was a hit the post. Love it. Love it. That's going to be a gamble. Back out. Love the way that went. And to the out lane. But look, she collected on the way out. And those lit out lanes are so helpful when you're in a position like this. They are. 15,000 for her. So she is Man, everybody is leaving us in suspense here. Yeah, this is going to be super super tight the way this is going. So the lower number to beat is 16550, which means if somebody comes up short of 16,550, then that actually moves the brackets down and the 21 stays in. That's right. Yeah. 215 is the guaranteed number.
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    to 12,000 right now. Look at that. Look at that advance the bonus. That could be the thing that makes it happen right there. I think she's got it on bonus. She at 6,000. She's at 6,000. So, provided she doesn't tilt, I think she's clear. But, as we've seen, does she know that she may not. She should be in a pretty good place there. Yeah. Now, why didn't Now give her that bonus? Did she I don't She might have tilted it. Maybe she did. I mean, that's all I got cuz she was sitting on a decent bonus. Yeah, it looked like it was 6,000. Uhoh. Uh-oh. Come on, Andrea. Oh, that was close. Oh, she tilted two. Oh, she did not clear. Is she feeling like maybe that was not a tilt? I mean, the guy the other guy said you cannot tilt through on these stern machines. Y. But did she not give it enough time? I think we might be looking at a tilt to calm down. No, I think that was legit. She nudged that. I saw the screen shake. There was a nudge. So, I think we might be looking at a at a legit tilt there. But you see what I'm saying right there? She didn't give enough time. It didn't tilt through. It wasn't going to tilt before she plunged, but she didn't give the machine a lot of time to calm down.
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    Oh my god. Bri, come over here and talk about this. Okay, play your tiebreaker and then we'll talk about All right. All right. All right. All right. Hi, friends. So, the most All right. All right. So, crazy thing just happened. Yeah. Talk about it. So, we're doing one ball tiebreakers on games to find position. And Brooke and Aaron were playing on big guns and got the exact same score. So, they're doing it again. They're doing it again. Oh my god. Oh, one ball. Keep playing. That's the right way. Yeah. Load breath. That's what I was saying. I don't think she waited for the tilt bob to settle. So, I mean, I think that unfortunately is on Andrea as opposed to being on the person before. The person before that because the machine didn't tilt through, but Andrea did not give the machine time. So, her nudge was legit and Oh god. Oh no. Two of the players move on. I believe player one I believe that that tilt costs Andrea the spot. So, our 21,520 player from before moves on. And it looks like Maja and Nicole move on as well. So, wow. For Andrea's tournament to end like that is a super super tough blow right there.
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    And and and yeah, Lo and Loader Beth, we were talking about the Andrea tilt right there. Yeah. So, in the sense of it it is it is on the player coming up. No, it did not tilt it through. It did not tilt through, but you still it's it's the responsibility of the next player to see that, you know, it's okay to give it 30 seconds for that tilt bob to calm down. So, you know what the real confusion? So, I went up there to figure it out cuz I was curious. Yes. The real confusion was uh not the tilt through. The confusion was the tilt light doesn't work. And so, she couldn't figure out why the flippers died on her. So, she said, "Oh, that's a legit tilt. I just didn't realize it tilted." Yes. Yep. So, that really those results really surprised me. Yeah, I was another time, the second game in a row of stars where tilts have decided the game. I was sure. So, Andrea and Phoebe are the two that are going to drop out. Is that right? I think you're right. Is it Andrea and Phoebe that dropped out? Andrea did not make it. And if Phoebe had the 16,000, she's the only person, which puts Emily back in the competition. We were sure at 21520, Emily was out. She's not out. 21520. I think that's Emily. And I think she might be back in the competition. She is. She is totally back in the competition. So, we're going to set up now for how we're going to track the amazing race. This is going to be a little different than what you're used to because we're going to track what the low score of the machine is. My goodness. And we're going to leave it blank until we get a result. And by the way, did you hear what Bree said? What about big guns? What they There was a two ball. There was a one ball tiebreaker for positioning on big guns. Yeah, they tied. No, they tied. You're kidding me. No, they had to play a second ball. Oh, I love that. That That is just impossible. This night. What? Is there a full moon out? Oh no. That's crazy. It is almost midnight. That's crazy. Oh my gosh. I have to go check into this hotel. I'll be back. I don't think I officially checked in yet and I think they're going to give my room away. Oh god. Don't do that. No. Go go go go go. My goodness gracious. Oh, things are happening. So many things are happening and they're happening with stars, no less. So, all right. All right. For for the benefit of Evan, because he asked me privately and for maybe my own benefit and sanity as well, I'm going to repost a link. Oh, don't tell me I lost it. Nope, I did not lose it. That's what I want to see.
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    here. It is a short link. I will probably test it from here as well. G I R P GZ Z. If you go to that link, and I am going to that link right now, it will pull up a link to the amazing race, uh the fine staff of that right now is working on the setup. And I think the setup is going to be very similar to what we have done in the past with the amazing race, which is the top eight seeds. And those eight seeds appear to be locked in. Jane Verwis, Ton, which is starting at Nikki Carlson, Brooks Bradlin, Aaron Melup, Brie Reynolds, Sophie Looney, Jen Rouper, Tonia Kennedy, and Jane Verwis will all get buys into that last eight group. Uh, the other 10 players will play this out and see who is going to join them. So, basically what we're going to have, those 10 players who remain are going to play this out. Seven of them are going to get eliminated. So, we're going to have 11 people go into the final section of the amazing race here. Three from this group of 10 and then that final eight. Uh, if anything Bri Brie Reynolds is right next to me. If anything I am saying is incorrect, please by all means let me know. But I believe we've got this all right. Um, we're going to show you here on our screen is the low score on the machine.
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    And uh so we're going to move this over to the DMD view right here. We're gonna take temporarily off the matchups here. We're going to move that
    531:56
    here. This is always a fun format to call. It is kind of crazy in how it how it all comes together sometimes, but um we're ready to go with this here.
    532:08
    See Holly and Brooke sharing a moment over there and high-fiving. But Game of Thrones will be game number one. So, we're going to show I think everybody play the game of Game of Thrones here. Enjoy that. As I'm waving and saying hi. Hey.
    532:29
    So, I think we're ready to see everyone here. 18 of the 36 are moving on.
    532:36
    I can't believe we've been doing this now for nine hours, but man, we appreciate it so much. And I am actually watching if if you're following if you're watching online right now. Um, you can see the names begin to be entered right now. And you you'll kind of get an idea how all the names go. It It does get a little crazy, but hopefully the spreadsheet will do a good job of explaining it for you. Go there. Go to tiny go to that tiny.cc link. Um,
    533:12
    So, that's a good question. Low score predictions for Game of Thrones. We saw some fairly low scores in regular play. I'm going to guess I'm going to guess 4 million is going to be my number. I think there's going to be some some some scores where people just aren't able to put combos together, aren't able to to make it happen. So, I'm going to put I'm g my guess is going to be 4 million points, which seems brutal, but we were seeing lower scores than that in qualifying rounds and even in open rounds. Um, Loader is saying 11 million, so he's a little bit more confident than I am. I appreciate that confidence. I will have a little bourbon in honor of that confidence. I'm glad I've had this over about three and a half hours, which you know, I do have to drive to Kentucky later. Think I'll be okay after I have some food. Oh my god.
    534:08
    And I drank that little of it. So there you go. God, it's good.
    534:17
    Yeah. might mighty coming in with the with the talk about the upper playfield. I'm just not as used to I mean and this is my personal preference on this machine. I'm just not as used to the upper playfield portion of this as I am the other part of it. We'll look at these standings one more time. I'm going to get some information right here.
    534:56
    [Laughter] I hear Gilly talking over there creating some fun.
    535:04
    So Andrea by the fact that she qualified by the slimmest of margins, literally 300 points,
    535:13
    She is going to be the initial player here. Andrea Nun will play first.
    535:22
    This is kind of fun. Here you can Bri is literally next to me on my laptop entering the names into the system right now. So if you're watching the spreadsheet, and I know a bunch of you are. I think there's about eight people watching the spreadsheet right now. You are watching the bracket come together. Um, for the love of all that is sacred and holy, if you can ever tell Matchplay to put this format into something, I would love them and I would give them a pro membership for the next five years right now. It will make our life so much better. I would love it.
    536:04
    All right, but there we go. She is entering all the names as we speak. Andrea will be player one on Game of Thrones. That is the part that you need to know right now.
    536:21
    And Mighty Scroll, you're absolutely right. I mean, the um you know, th this format creates just all kinds of interesting possibilities, too. Um, the fact that you go for a low score really changes the the entire way you play pinball. I would say it makes games that normally you would not think are good, now suddenly maybe they are good. So, it's one of the things I like about this that what you expected maybe you shouldn't expect in this format.
    537:03
    Everyone is getting by the way because this is a race we are getting marathon numbers here. So I am seeing everybody be handed their numbers.
    537:26
    All right. And like I said, I am doing my own levelheaded best to follow everything
    537:42
    here. There we go. That's good. And I love the fact we're having the spirit of conversation as Andrea starts her game. So advantage for Andrea being player one. As long as she is in the lead on this, she is going to play. Yeah. Come on over. Jen Ruber, I think, is going to be joining us on commentary. It's the women's amazing race. We should have some of these amazing women helping out on the microphone. I would adore that.
    538:09
    So, the interesting thing here is Andrea really is playing a full game here and now she's already on ball number three. So, this is happening very, very quickly here and it's going to be interesting to see if that how that score holds up. She's only at 1.6 right now. Now, that is going to help big time. There's archer shot right there. The seven mil. No, Andrea made it by about 300 points as a result. Actually, wait a minute. Yeah, I don't I don't I don't know. Maybe someone I don't know if someone left or not. We're thinking, didn't Andrea miss the cut because of the tilt or did someone leave? I I don't know. I with all the tiebreers and everything, I wasn't present for that. So, maybe we mixed up numbers here. I don't know. Oh, I just hit the wrong button right there. All right. Right. So, we have our number. I just kind of saw it. Yeah, there it is.
    539:05
    Oh, do I have a buy? If you're in top eight, you do. I think I am. Yeah, you're in top eight. Oh, I do. Oh, I have lots of buys. Okay, that's something we were wondering. We thought Andrea was the person from the second group that was eliminated from it. But I assume Gilly's got a a a handle on it and everyone is happy. Gillian and Bri. So I'm going to assume we missed it and she did not miss it. I mean, we've been sitting at this thing for 9 hours or so. So I'm assuming my own tire doing Scott. I am tired and I did not eat dinner because I've been here. Oh my goodness. Oh. So it's a little late to get dinner now unless I want White Castle and that might be a very dangerous proposition. Yeah. Those of you who are not are not of this area and do not know White Castle, just know it tastes good and then it eats you alive. You don't like you eat it and then it eats you. There's what we're getting at right here. So Nikki is stepping up now. The way this works, Nikki is only going to play this until she hits 7 million. If she doesn't, that becomes the new low score. If she hits 7 million, she's done.
    540:17
    So now the question becomes, what's her strategy to make it happen? Now we have a number and now we can start to think about the path to get there. Oh, and this is a a premium. I see that now. I did not I don't have one for that, unfortunately. Sorry. Well, you know what? Luckily for you, I I I somewhat know how to play this game. Thank goodness I know how to play some. With with the new code, though, it's it's definitely a different strategy, right? Yes. Um that it is. It's definitely a different strategy, but You know, I'm I'm a fan of the pro versus the premium. Seen a lot of people say that for sure. Look at you getting those messages. What? Oh, yeah. Never know. There you go. Can't double buy a triple buy. A This is a dumb and dumber quote. Yes. Can't triple stamp a double stamp. That's right. Can't triple stamp a double stamp. Yeah, my strategy definitely would be Lock is lit here. That value is growing. It hasn't been cashed in yet, though. She did drain. So, where is her score at? 1.6 is a good vote to see three. Yeah, about halfway there. Almost exactly.
    541:28
    She can make the archer shot that we saw Andrea make. That would be enough to make this happen. That was a good good light towards Tyrell. One towards Ty. And we got a winter is coming which now if she can hit this winner is coming and cash this in which I believe she almost has it.
    541:50
    There's your answer. Yes. 10 a.m. tomorrow. We'll see everybody then. This this is going to become very exclusive company in a few minutes right here. It is going to be a very intimate setting. But I like that we had that for Clein and I loved it. Yes. You know, everyone was there rooting each other on. Kind of some hooting and hollering, some fun going on. It was a good time. So, is she gonna get it? No, she's not. So, this is now I think officially a little bit at risk.
    542:18
    So, yeah. My my take I was going to say, exactly. Start your battles now. Don't need a lot of points. Yeah. Don't turn on too many lights, guys. At least not over here. That's going to be good. Yep. Keep doing that. That might be saving her. That's it. No, not No, she's 400,000 away with her bonus though. I think she might get it. But still, I wouldn't I wouldn't be dead set on my bonus. Anything can happen right now until But that's the shot to do it. So, y she's got she's got the number. Yep. Gilly is giving the word to say she's good and she can step away from the machine. Do a nice clap. Clap. Good job. We get in that mode. I don't know if everybody's in that mode yet, but I'm sure we will as this clears out and whoever is left, which is basically the players and us and Justin and maybe a couple other people. Yep. Couple of other people hanging out metriculate their way over this way to be able to watch Yes. the the women's That's right. tournament as it's going on here. We'll post the link one more time, the tiny.cc link right there.
    543:34
    which means I believe we're going to have Nikki is already starting to play. That's right. Big gun right now. This now changes the order of the whole thing. So, now in this case, um, Andrea is stuck waiting. Yep. and uh Nikki will lead off on big guns. And so yeah, that order of who starts out you you tend to think would change, you know, would stay the same. You got to have good games for that to be the case. And you know what? I know that we've talked about this. We talked about this because Evan does his amazing race, you know, every year in in Columbus. And it's it's a definitely a psychological game that you have. It's a very different mindset that you're going into because you're not trying to put up a very high score. You're just trying to beat the score that's currently on the table. Yeah. What you do, it should maybe it shouldn't change. You know, it could it could change. Oh, she was not able to save that. Nice try by Lily to do it, though.
    544:35
    There's a new episode of The Mandalorian, Meg. That means you can watch it whenever you want. You don't have to watch it right now, right? This is happening right now versus The Mandalorian. Who's going to be talking about The Mandalorian at midnight on a Friday? I'm sure someone will, but not, but I don't have Disney Plus. I Oh, you can borrow mine. Oh, thanks. I appreciate it. Yes. Uh, it's a good show. I watched the first two episodes. It's pretty good. Well, struggling ball number two. Where's she at? 4.8 on ball three, which is ex This is a very similar situation that that Nikki was going into this ball. So, I Is that Archers? That's Archers. There it is. Yeah. Okay. So, that was the path that Andrea used to get it. Um, collusion.
    545:23
    So, yeah, Lily is good. Someone tell someone tell Lily she's good. I don't know if she knows. I think she did. Yep. All right. There it is. She's moving right over. So, so we'll see. Um, we have a score, by the way, on big guns. It appears to be 187,000 and 70 points. So, uh, now stepping up is Maja. Am I pronouncing that right? Maja. Maja. I'm going to say Maja. Maja. I would say Maja. Yes. Maja Razkovic is setting up. Starts with a castle award. That's a great way to start that. Getting basically half almost half the points you need right off the bat. And it looks like she's going for the strategy of she's Lannister, which is with this new code a very much different strategy, but trying to get Greyjoy and bring that in at the same time. Yes. which means she's going to probably try and go for her Tyrell locks, go for that classic black multiball and bring all of that in at the same time with your Greyjoy shots, having your shot multipliers going with the gold that you're collecting from Lannister and then obviously your Greyjoy. Agreed. At the same time, nice shot right there for 1.4, which is going to pass. Yep. Which is exactly what I would do. I would pass right now because I'm trying to build up some other um houses at the same time because the shots for Greyjoy and Lannister are not they're similar but not exactly the same. So there's no doubt she's playing this, you know, normal game style which for her is totally working. Yep. I think the only reason I would change it up would be because and I think she's going to have this plus this bonus. I think she's going to be okay. Yeah, she does. 8.8 she's got the number. Yeah. So she's good.
    547:02
    Yeah. The only reason I think I would have taken the houses right then is for that exact reason. If you only need a couple million points, then you might as well take the houses now and just get them. Yeah. You know, so that I think that's one of those examples where, you know, knowing what your number needs to be definitely changes your strategy a little bit. Oh, absolutely. But in her case, she decided it doesn't have to. I'm just going to play my game, which is just as good and just as valid. And it got the job done on one ball. Yep. And again, if you're just going for points at this point Yeah. Haha. You see what I did there? So, Michelle Brown is now stepping up. I believe Michelle, if I was looking at my numbers right, round one put up a perfect 21 points. Uh, you know what? You were more in tune to that than I was cuz I was focusing on my points and how little I was doing. I know. But you came back. I did come back. I did do had some good games. I'm gonna look at that number here and see if I was correct or if I was going crazy. Yeah, Michelle Brown put up a perfect 21 points in round number one and 13 points in round number two. Round number three, she only put up three. So just on the basis of that ending game right there, you know, she really kind of stumbled into this final right here, she had enough points to do it, but even with two pretty solid rounds, 21 and 13 is really good. You hate to stumble into this this round right here going on four. It almost it almost kind of brings you a question of whether or not is this a stamina game, right? Oh, it absolutely is. You know, so you know, is the stamina starting to die? Whereas, you know, you started off real strong, but you know, now, you know, 3 hours into this tournament. Yes. You know, no doubt. Are you starting to feel a little tired because I'll be honest, Scott, I'm tired, too. too. And I'm drinking bourbon, which is probably not helping my little Well, you know, we'll cheers. Cheers right now. So,
    548:57
    I have one sip of water down bourbon left and we'll call that for the night. Then I drink water. Yes. I haven't had that much bourbon. I mean, you can see how little between me and Justin we've drank. It's like that's a smidge. I know. That's literally That's like half a shot between each. Yeah. That's like we're enjoying it just for the sake of We're drink flavor. You're enjoying the flavor. Exactly. Amen. So, this is going to be So, Michelle, so Michelle does have a little bit of work to do. 1.735. This could be an example of what we're seeing. She's starting the modes very, very quickly here as well. She's not doesn't feel like she's setting a whole lot of stuff up or thinking about what the shot is. It's just raw play and it may be it's just Oh, that's a nice save that might have saved her event. Yeah, that so I think your stamina point is well taken right here. I think we're I think mental stamina more so mental stamina and that's gonna be Oh, that is not good.
    549:58
    So that will allow Andrea to move on. So we have 2075210 is going to be the score that we need to beat on Game of Thrones. So and and it may just be a comfort level too, right? So, she may not know Game of Thrones um as well as maybe some of the other players that are in the finals here. That is very possible. It could be a combination of both, too. So, no doubt. How we looking on the other games? Nikki le off on Genesis only 82,000 points on that. I think that's going to be that's we're going to see how that holds up. That's not a great score, but I think there's a chance we could see something a little lower than that. Here comes Jenna Bailey.
    550:41
    Did Jenna play in the tournaments last year? I don't know. I wasn't here last year. I don't I'm glad you're here this year. Yes, I'm glad I'm here this year. I have to drive back tonight, too. I'm not staying. Oh my god. We got a long night away. I was not anticipating it being this long. Nor was I. Oh, and Hips makes a very good point. Now you're you're at a point of skill shots. If you just go for skill shots, you get two of them, you're done. which and this is something that we actually saw very similar in the women's amazing race at level one in Columbus in June where the first game was on Adams Adams family and I think the low score to beat was about 2 million which you know that's a skill shot itself right there so hit a skill shot and maybe a couple bear kicks I want to say it might have been a little higher than that to start it might have been like six it was six but then I think it was yeah it unfortunately did and even when it was six we were thinking the skill shot strategy too because it goes 2 three four. Exactly. And then if you let your lock Oh man. Oh god. Know we're going to see you tomorrow, man. Thank you for those bits so much. We have a new low score though. Oh my god. Yeah. 850. Oh, Jenna just Oh. Oh, my heart's kind of breaking. Yeah, you need to see that. You really do. 8506. Now we're starting to get into the point where maybe we're looking at Now it's a single skill shot. It is a single skill shot. Plunge and skill it and you're done. So that's a tough break for Jenna right there. It's a very Yeah. I also though, however, I don't have much to say because I haven't played this Game of Thrones yet. So I'm not entirely sure how well or not say how well, but how different this is playing compared to because I'm sure you you sitting right here, you're you're an eyeshot of AC/DC. How many tilts have you seen today on AC/DC? quite a few tilt tilt bob on it. Heavy heavy. It's it's very sensitive. So, it's, you know, it's it's the way that tournament games play, right? So, you know, on on location, you know those tables, you know the in-n-outs, you know how they play, but you know, come to a tournament setting, the games play entirely different even though you know the game and it's all different. And something that we haven't really looked at here is, you know, how do you get the skill shot on the premium? Are the are the the same ramps up there that you would see before? Um, you have to do a softer plunge to not actually plunge it all the way up into and we haven't seen anybody try that yet. Got it. Okay. Yeah. But it's very difficult to see because of where the upper skill shot or the upper playfield is. It is. Yeah. Blocks those rollovers that are up top. Agreed. Which is maybe why we haven't seen people do that where I think with the pro, we just almost would assume you're going to shoot it up there. you're gonna get the skill shot almost like it's second nature. Exactly. Yeah. So, she's sitting at 458,000 right now and yeah, we're not seeing that skill shot play for I think that reason. Now, still what you can see is if I think if you get the ball in one of those shots up there, depending on which one you get, if it's lit, that should be enough, too. What I was gonna say maybe with this Blackwater's going to come close. You know, at this point, if you're going for points, I do exactly what she did and take the house. Take the house. Go for your shots. Get some points. Top left. There you go. Yes. So, there's there's almost like a horseshoe on the top left of it to go over to get a skill shot. Gotcha. Um versus doing those arrows that are lit right at the top there. Yeah. Make progress towards houses. And she's about 100,000 away. The base bonus is going to do it. So, she will move on here. And we are starting to run out of people to play this. Um, that was Melissa who put that up. Ann and Neil will be next and Holly Koskinan will be after that. And that's it. So I think now we can officially say Jenna is in big big trouble. I You know what though? I know how she I I absolutely know how she's feeling right now. Yeah. It's a bad feeling to have to watch. And this is so the first so the first we'll do a little are you ready for some let's do some story time. Okay. Story time with story time and then we'll pass we'll pass the mic off. I'll probably pass it off to him and let you stick around. But you got to get ready to play soon. Bathroom. Yeah. I got to use bathroom too. So it's a story time real quick. So the first amazing race I ever played in. Um I drew the short straw and I got to play first on Guardians. Oh. Put up 10 million on Guardians. 10 million on Guardians for those of you out there who know Guardians. 10 million. Not a very great score. Not a ton, but we've usually seen the score end up being and I had to sit and watch everybody play and just beat my score. Beat my score. Already fine. We blink and she's got the points. And it's it's it's a very psychological type of tournament where you know you do have a score like this and you're trying so hard to be also too when you're in a tournament like this with a b you know it's a women's tournament and we're all so supportive of each other and you're like oh I want you to be the scorer but at the same time I'm like oh don't do it because I want you know it's it's it's so hard because we want everybody to win. You want to be supportive. I want everybody to win. You still kind of want to win though too. I I do, you know, but at the same time though, I want to be supportive like doing my like I got good balls, you know. Yeah. You don't want to see anybody go through what Jen is going through right now where you have just the game the game the bad game. Yeah. Where it's it it becomes like this where it's not competitive. And this is the you know this can happen in the race. It just takes one bad game and then suddenly everyone has and we all have everybody has everybody does everybody has those games. This format brings them out. It does. Yeah, it does bring it out because again going into that psychological aspect where oh, I only need to make that score, you think it's easy, but then you go up to play and not so much. So, agreed. Agreed. All right, Scott. So, Holly is it. I will see you playing here in just a few minutes. Oh, maybe a little bit. I don't know if they're going to stick on Game of Thrones, but we'll see. So, no, we may not stick on Game of Thrones, but we'll see you when the top eight comes around, cuz you're in the top eight, right? Uh, yes, I am. There you go. So, we'll see you playing. Yep. Thank you. All right, that is Jen Rouper, everybody. We appreciate her being on the mic here for just a few minutes and we'll see what we have coming up next here. In fact, we may even after this round, we're definitely going to have a switch over. Maybe we'll have him switch it over to World I would love to see World Cup. See if we can get Eric ready to switch to World Cup soccer. See if I can get that game on there. I would like to. Um it looks like now big gamewise um um ma ma Maya I think I should be saying it Maya. They're they're pronouncing it as Maya here in the spreadsheet now. Um Holly is good. So that means Jenna's night is over. She will end up in 18th place. Still not a bad finish with the quality of competition that we're looking at right here. So with that in mind, uh the rig is on the move. We're going to show you that switching games cam one more time and remind you that Chuck Vision is very, very, very real. It's happening right
    558:07
    now as he is running through around everybody here. He is putting it in place for World Cup. That is pretty much on the money right there. Yeah, Chuck Vision is wonderful. That was that is the best idea. Nap Arcade has had all night. So, I think we're good. Um, we don't have I think we're going to have someone playing World Cup here in just a moment or so. And I think that person is going to be I think it's going to be Andrea. Uh, the low score right now on big game is 160,700, which is not a horrible score on that game. Um, to give you guys updates, I know a bunch of you are watching the spreadsheet here. Um, Lily Nun big guns 44,000 and Holly has beat that score. So, Lily is now done for the night. She will end up in 17th place. Um, that's BRRI. That's B. That's Bri. Good for her putting up three billion on that machine. I don't know when she did that. That's a sensational effort. Um, only one person waiting to play Genesis. That is Holly as well. So Holly, as a result of finishing in ninth place, at least around this first bend, she is the person who is uh the finisher on all of these machines. Um she's trying to do that to Nikki right here at 82,150 points. Firepower is all the way down to 28,400 by Michelle
    559:40
    Brown. And it looks like Anna will be up next playing Firepower. Lexi is joining us for a moment. How you doing? Good. My mom asked me to bring down her tennis shoes because she was tired of wearing football. I don't blame her as much as you're on basically carpet over concrete right here. It would get old real fast. Yeah, I understand that.
    560:03
    Thought about making uh mighty sworn. I thought about making a moving rig like that for when we do our strike tournament at Helon. I just haven't built it all yet. If you want to know how to do it, you know, certainly reach out to to Eric. He'll be more than happy to help you with uh putting it together. I can certainly talk to you about it when we're off stream. You know, what I've seen with it. If you want me to take pictures of it over the next couple days, I'm more than happy to do that. Uh Maya will be leading off here on World Cup. So, let's replace that score for the moment.
    560:36
    We're going to have a new one as she is going to play a full three ball game right here in order to set the score. It is the first time that we have seen World Cup tonight. One of my personal personal favorite games. World Cup is so much fun. It is a lot of fun. It's not a super complicated rule set, but it's just a a relaxing fun game to play. And she's off to a great start working on that soccer ball in the middle. The penalty kick here for 30 million would be awful nice to get. depending on the machine, you know. Oh, she's going to have a This is the perfect combination. Gets the shot for the goal. I don't think it gave her the penalty kick, though. She must have just barely missed it. Yeah. Yeah. Did not hand it. Um, you can just reach out. Um, Chuck Wart here on Twitch um is his name and I'll do a friend suggest for you later uh so you guys can work on that. I know a lot of guys I know go up to Helicon on a regular basis. So, and there's my mom in the background. There she is. So 55 million right now and the goal lit for the walk round again. M's doing a good job of keeping this ball in play as well. That soccer ball right in the middle of the playfield right there just enough to throw that ball around. She's going to get another shot at it. And she smartly knows shoot the ball when the goalie's all the way to the right. Yeah, she and it looks like just playing this machine for just a little bit right here. I'm that center shot is really locked in. It's It's available. Yeah. It's also good. It's always so good when you get into the thing that's like purple. I don't remember what it's called by the goal. Yes. Yeah. That's always fun because then it goes just like boop right in. Yep. As long as you know when to shoot it, you're good to go. Ultra goalie is in play. All that's going to help the bonus. World Cup soccer is J-pop's best game and it's not even close. It's, like I said, it's one of my favorites. And that she has got a pair of ultra spinner bonuses. 55 million on the board right now. Then locks it in for a 20 bonus extra. Her bonus on this is probably as big as her points are in the game right now. She's setting up to very easily move on. Quite possibly. Now, that drain will stink, but she's going to get about 140 million bonuses, I bet. No more than that. 160. That's more than she earned in the game so far. Oh wow. 300 million. That's a And this is a bonus heavy game. Great job. Is this her first ball? That was ball one. Wow. And she is player one. So she is setting up everything here. Um from the others. Yeah, it's good strategy. Very good strategy. Means we're going to get to see a lot of play on this machine which I really like as well. Um firepower I think is now done. Uh Michelle Brown is eliminated on that and I think we are finding that World Cup soccer is going to be a little bit of the bottleneck here. Not that that's a bad thing. We're happy to see this game played quite a bit. And yeah, she's going to get 35 now every single ball. So she's going to be providing she doesn't tilt over 400, which really now bodess the next question. How available is the TV award shot? She needs that for final draw.
    563:52
    It definitely seems it's going to be easier to get off the lip flipper, I would imagine. I don't think we're going to see anybody backhand that tonight.
    564:01
    O, and she will not get it. So, her game will end, but that's a solid solid score. I think it's going to be pretty safe. 444699 [Music]
    564:15
    800. That's pretty solid. I'm h I would be happy with that if I was Maya. Have you been playing any pinball games today yet? I have not had a chance to play a single game yet. I am sad to admit that. I've been here. The best game I had was on Grand Pricks actually. Yeah, I got over 800,000. That is an excellent score on that game. Well done. Well done. Surprised. And I still not completely sure how I did it. Nice. And it looks like Eric did get a scoreboard up for the people here. Predictions on low score on this. It looks like we're going to have four people play it. I'm going to go 100 I'm going to go 150 mil. We've got pretty good players coming up to this thing. I think they're going to do decently well and we'll see if that comes to fruition. So, Andrea Nun will be the next up on this machine. Um, we are waiting to see. It looks like Melissa currently has the low score on big game.
    565:22
    I will put it on writing. Oh, I was trying to find the live stream earlier on my phone and I could not find it. Yep, that's where it is. SD straight down the middle. Pinball. SDTM pinball is the stream and we'll be streaming on this channel the entire weekend. Now then again, that exact thing could happen and suddenly everybody else's scores are going to look a lot nicer than my score is. got a nice group of people gathered over here to watch the women's tournament. We're probably going to be going, I bet, for about another hour or so for sure. We are so glad you guys are sticking with us even at this late hour or night. It's uh we appreciate your uh your understanding of the time and uh your your patronage to the stream. It's and how long it takes to just do one round. Yes, I think it took like an hour around for the qualifying. It took a while. I mean, three games per that's going to happen. So, but I appreciate the fact that there are so many games of pinball being played. You know, it's given everybody a heck of a chance.
    566:32
    So, what have you had dinner yet? Nope, I have not. Me either. Hey, Bernie Burn. Appreciate you being in chat as well. dropping a little bit of dead flip love in
    566:45
    there. And I think Anna has now moved on. Nikki is going to be eliminated on big game.
    566:59
    740. I got to send that link over and Okay, so maybe my score ends up being fairly close here. 137224.
    567:07
    Trying to follow a few things at once here. So you're trying to get a really bad score on this. No, worst score is eliminated. Oh, so we're showing the low score. So that is the score that Anna has to beat is what we're showing right here. Okay. We get that mana sandwich. That gone it. If my guess is that close, although by Price's right rules, I would lose because I went over. Yeah. [Music]
    567:42
    nice penalty kick right there for Anna. That is huge when you only need 130 mil. Now, the other thing if with getting the goal, does she know what ultra she is? She has ultra jets. So, yep, she's absolutely going for the ultra shot right now. Going up the spinner trying to get it onto the pop bumpers. Well, she got a vamp. You got a ramp. Not bad. Ramps are every ramp is in play on when you lock the ball for the very first time, too. So, that's not a bad strategy at all. Um, we have yet to see anybody hit the TV award that final draw shot. I almost hit it when I was playing earlier. Close. Yeah. Sitting at 71 mil right now.
    568:30
    I was like a second off it would I got frustrated. Yes. And now she got big go around. So she got the TV award shot, but is not going to be able to cash in. She only needs 25 mil here. And she drained. She will not have it. But as long as she gets one of the two there, that's another 10 mil on skill. Another goal. Really ought to do it. She's a million away. She's got the number, so she's good. And she just realized it. You only got to be a mill better. And she is. So she will move on. And it is now up to Melissa Winter Rob. And thanks to a bonus, she was a few millions over. She was.
    569:13
    So Melissa will be the last player of the machine here. After this, we've got Junkyard Argusy and then we are doubling back around. We will have two people, I believe, a well a couple people playing Game of Thrones to see who moves on to the finals with the other eight players. The Game of Thrones with the mini playfield up there is really fun. It is. It's a definitely a different experience than what we're used to with the pros. I I think John Guyger has a um has has a premium machine as Melissa is now leading off right now. 8 million to start. Gets the goal. Well done. So, as we said, that gold bumps your bonus up by 5 million and opens up an ultra. Um, I don't think there's any rand there's any rhyme or reason to which ultra it gives you. Um, Goldie in this case maybe not the greatest one. That is a great penalty kick goal shot for her. Also should add another goal to her no to her total. Oh, perfectly done. That's three of them. You're right. You don't see Junkyard. I'm glad it's in here. I haven't played Junkyard in quite a while, so I'm I'm excited to see it. I don't know if we'll show it this round. Maybe we'll show that next. It's one we haven't had a chance to show yet. I actually didn't play Junkyard.
    570:34
    Reena, good to see you. Get some rest. Oh, there you go. That's not far from here.
    570:45
    What's the SDTM pinball? I'll send it to you later. Okay. Twitch in a minute. Perfect. by you again. So, yeah, Bonus got the score. So, that means Andrea will be eliminated at 137. So, I think we're ready to move the equipment again if we can get uh Eric or someone to do it. Um, do we want to move it to Junk? I think uh trying to see. Maya is still playing Junkyard right now. So, I think we're going to move it. Do you want to move it to Argusy? If you can, if Eric's cool with that. Okay,
    571:25
    so we are done for the moment on World Cup soccer. Eric is going to do the move. So as Gilly is entering scores right here. Yep, that's your mom. Yep. It's always fun to see my mom on camera. Yes. So she is entering scores, I believe. Putting some stuff on the iPad, which would means we're back to checkision. Mhm.
    571:51
    This is now my favorite thing. It's the silly things in life that make us happy sometimes. Fun fact, my mom actually forgot her iPad at our house. I know she did, which is why she's using mine. Yep. She's using mine, too. Yep. We got to get you a new one. The iPad Mini is kind of dated at this point. Yeah. Yeah. That's That is perfect. I can see it is. So, I believe based on what we see here, we've got 432. We're going to have, I think, a couple people playing this game right here. We have started with six, seven, eight, nine. All right. So, here we
    572:34
    go. So, the junkyard score set by Maya is 1.8 million. You want to jump on for a minute? Whatever. I think we're gonna let Justin jump on here. We'll let Lexi stay for by Yeah, cuz I'm You should go eat or maybe play a game. Uh, well, all the games got turned off because, you know, it's closed technically other than our wondrous tournament right here. Um, that said, I'm going to let Justin come in. Take just take a quick little break myself and I will be back. Yeah. And Eric can jump on too. No, no, no. Eric. All right, you guys take a break. There you go. Yeah. There you go. All right. Great. Have fun. Yep. Have at it. Thanks for sitting in. Yeah. Thank you. That's awesome. Here, Eric, that one's yours. I'll take this one.
    573:24
    At any point, uh, you want to call Justin. Oh, right on. Take it from me. I got I got to see you the whole time anyway. I love this. So, you have two people who look um like we met at the same store. Uh Eric and I are going to pick it up for Scott and Lexi. So, it's it's I don't know what time it is where you are, our 30 loyal viewers, but let me just say thank you. Oh, yeah. For sticking it out. I feel like it's been like 30 plus strong all day. It It has. And it's been the same amazing folks who have been with us for 9 10 hours. That's wild. So, thank you so much. Yes. Thank you so much. and uh keep knocking on wood that the uh stream stays solid the rest of the weekend. But yeah, we've been really lucky. They got good internet here and haven't had too many. I feel like most of the games the glare isn't too bad like Yeah. No, everything's been pretty good. That one overhead light caused a little bit of problems on firepower. That was about it. That was the only one we really had. Yeah. Like the games that are around that big like chandelier looking light. Yep. that one uh problematic because I can't really turn that off because that helps light the games up. But so we've been mostly following along via this Excel sheet down here. So So are are we about to have a string of people come through Argusy? We think Yeah, we're about to have everybody go through Argus see who's who's left. So you can see who I think has been disqualified on the right. Yeah. Uh correct. Well, those are the buys. So they they had a buy here. They're going to start round two. Okay. Yep. Um, so we lost. Yeah. So those purple ones are the current low score, but the people with X's still have yet to play the game. So if you see I see you see purple and then X below them, that means the X's still need to play that game. They still need to play. So Melissa would have to get a lower score than Anna here on Junkyard. Yes. Okay, great. This tournament format is so fun. It's cool. I really like my friend Evan Bingham, I think, uh was the first one to uh do it up in the Columbus area. So, I think uh that's where Gilly got the idea from. I've played it before. His the one that he runs it there. It's it's tons of fun. That's great fun. So, if you're let's say Nikki Miller Okay. I'm just making sure my mic was on. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is. If you're Nikki Miller and you were out on Big Game, does that mean that you're just out for the rest of the night? Yep. So, so, okay. So, we started on Game of Thrones. Jenna got out on that. Lily got out on Big Guns. Holly was out on Genesis. Michelle was out on firepower. Nikki was out on big game. So, you can see there's one less person. One less person each time. Yep. And then our our buy will be down to one. And then the eight buys get added to that one person that survived the first day. That is so And they they kind of start over. Yep. And you just keep going around the loop until there's only one left. So fantastic. I love this. Now, when we get down to the final nine, they're just going to go through the bank again and then it'll be over. You know what I'm saying? Because there's nine in the bank. Yeah. So, at least I thought or Okay, maybe there's only eight. So regardless of what machine they're on, they're going to start the bank again. Yes, there's eight in the bank. So they're going to play they'll probably play Game of Thrones one last time. Okay. So we're watching Maja now. Wow. Big old spinner rip there on a lit spinner. Anna's the low score with 834 on this right now. That's insane. Oh, that's junkyard. Sorry, I was thinking I was like that. It's getting that late tonight. Oh yeah. Hey, Loader Breath. You've been with us from the beginning tonight. Thank you. And I'm glad to hear the stream is going well. Chris Warren, good friend. Thank you, sir. You watch streams like a champ, dude. Really, really great. Thanks for tuning in. People have been contributing bits. They've been giving us encouragement along the way. They've been telling us uh Yeah, I I know some of the guys in here, Nap Arcade. Yeah, you guys are great guys. It really It really makes you feel wombat really special when people show up like that. It's Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that. Nice move. Yep. So, that's not as simple as holding up your flipper. That was like a tiny tiny mini drop catch. Yeah, she's at she's at 252 right now. And that's that's pretty solid. So, pretty solid. So, I I want to say that's probably going to be safe. Yep. Especially since there isn't a lot of people that have to play after.
    577:41
    No, actually, uh, Wombat, that Walking Dead was not mine. It was a close friend of mine who lives right near me. I just had it for a really long time. I have my own, but I appreciate it. So, it was kind of like I owned it, but uh yeah, it was never mine. All right. All right. So, she's up to 272. And like I said, not to uh not bad for Argusy. Yeah. So, that's a that's a solid score cuz she's she's just going headtohead right now. So, that's very solid. Yep. So, we're down to two, Melissa and Maja. And that's a that's a big number. So, the the machine low score we need to put in is uh 318. Yeah. 3861 7 or 761. Okay. So, you know how to do that? Nope. 318 7. I'm going to watch you. Oh, I see. That's very intuitive.
    578:43
    761. That sounds good. Yep. I thought Argusy had all zeros on the end. Is that right? Yeah, you're right. Okay. I should have known better. That's like a 761 is like a total nuclear annihilation score. She got one reactor. She got one reactor. She got one reactor on that game. So, here's Melissa Winterrod. She is part of the NKY League. Oh, Maja just went. Sorry, Melissa's not playing. You're right. Sorry. She's part of the NKY league. She is a mainstay in this area and she is going to try and take on a pretty tough score at 318760. Let's see what she can do. A hell of a score. I'll tell you what, I don't think I have ever played a game that high in a tournament. Thank you for the bitties. We love you. A thanks Joseph. Joe has been supporting us with both uh encouragement and bitties all night. Heck yeah. Thank you. And again, like what a pleasure it is to get to talk about pinball for nine hours. Like in what in what amazing heaven? believe you for a single second, but I appreciate you helping. Wait, really? I love this. This is what I keep trying to explain. I feel bad for you guys having to sit here all day. No, this is if you gave me an option of doing this or literally anything else, I would pick this. Well, I appreciate maybe a couple of exceptions, but you can't say I'm on on the air. So, all right. So, not a great ball one. Or is she on I think she might may be on ball four already. Oh. Oh, I do see I do see what looks like a four. Boy, she does have the mount. That is going to Okay, that got a little bit out of control. Uh-oh. I don't love this for Melissa. That's This is five right here. This is definitely ball five. This is five. So, so she's going to need almost 200. This may be the end of Melissa's evening. Wombat, come to the show next year, man. Commentate. Come on in. You know what else has been really great is our streaming friends have been correcting where we've gotten a rule wrong or we've gotten a concept wrong all night. And that's exactly what we need because we don't get it all right. I always told Scott I was like if I if I could put my game knowledge in your and Justin's heads commentary you guys would be unstoppable. You guys would be unstoppable. Although if I had your game knowledge, I'd just be playing. Yes, probably. I enjoy this so much more than actually playing competitive pinball. combat if you want to come to the show and help with the stream. As you can see, for how much we're streaming, that's a lot of hours and I don't want these guys to get burnt out. So, if we got other, you can obviously see the kind of quality uh commentating these guys can do. So, if you guys feel like you can add to that and you can help like take some burden off them, please. Please. Absolutely. That would be awesome. Love to have you. Although, we do follow George Carlin's uh 11 words you can't say or whatever. I agree, Mighty Squirrel. like uh I've I played some practice games on this. That score that Maja put up is extremely solid. Y So it looks like Yeah, Melissa went fell short. She did get close. She got to 267. Um but she is done. So um so let's see here. We're going to be added to the five people and I believe we're going to Game of Thrones. I'm going to make sure and I'm going to get the stream over there and then I'll come right back. You bet. So, we're going to go to Amazing Race round two where now everybody who got that buy because of their seed or their placement in the first qualifying rounds has to jump back into the mix and you can get out in one game of pinball and that's that's a tough gig. So you can see examples from earlier in the night where you had folks who made it all the way through those three qualifying rounds and somebody like Jenna or Lily or Holly just fought hard to get through those qualifying rounds and you step up to a game like Game of Thrones Big Guns or Genesis, you have a bad game and that's it. Your night's over. So in that way, this game can be pretty brutal. This this tournament format can be pretty brutal. We're not talking about a double elimination or a strikes tournament. You step up, things go wrong, and this is what comes of it. Scott sent me over here. Yeah. To join. Yes. Well, come on. Sit down. Ladies, too, maybe. Absolutely. Here, these are for you. And this is your comfy seat. I just kind of jibber jabber. I That's all we all do about looking at what are we looking at here? We'll see. We'll see what he pulls up to here in a second. We'll see which one Eric picks. So, I think we're going to start on Game of Thrones. I think that's the plan for the next round. Okay. Can you hear me? I can hear you. Are you still in? I am not still in. I didn't even make it to the uh top 18. I tied for 21 with like 18 other people, I think. Oh, really? Yeah. I just couldn't see. I had plenty of chances, it seemed like, to do something. And yeah, uh I ended on a high note, though. I got um $1196 on Sweetheart. Really? Over a,000 I think is a good is a pretty good deal. That's pretty darn good. Here we're going to go to the Switching Games cam so that you can see Eric up close, which is I think what our viewers have been demanding. Eric is um I don't know. I don't know when he sleeps. He's been running this tournament morning to night all day. That looks good. I don't know if he does sleep. The best I can come up with is it's some sort of automat some robot.
    584:10
    So, you've played now every game in this bank at some point tonight or most of them. I played them all. Um combination of when they let us practice between the last round of the other tournament. Okay. And
    584:28
    um in the three rounds that I played. Okay. And we got to we got to commentate on your three rounds. It was fun to watch you play. Oh, come on. Well, not on all three, but we got to Yeah, we got to commentate. Yeah. Oh my god. What? So, what was what was kicking your butt tonight? What What was really tough? Um that AC/DC over there. The AC/DC. Yeah. Um I am not used to having an AC/DC set that tight. Uh I have never played one that that tight. And um I played it during practice. I played two games on it during practice and out of six balls I tilted six of them. And then I played um it again in one of my other rounds and out of three balls I tilted three of them. Oh no. That's how tight that was. So Lindsay's off to a rough start here on Lord of the on um forgive me on Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones. Yep. Um okay. This Game of Thrones seems different. I don't I think the one that I'm used to playing doesn't have that upper play field. Yeah, it's the the pro edition, not the uh the premium. There's I don't know. It just plays differently. Y I thought it was really hard. Yeah, I'm not used to the premium edition either. I'm not used to the upper play field and some of the code changes that have happened just in the last what is it 6 months or so have really changed the game. Um where I used to always start on one house and now I start on a different house. So, um, did you always start on Martell? I did. Now I start on Lannister. Ah, that's that's my new one. Ah, see I thought Greyjoy was the new one. Oh, is that the new hot thing? I that's what I thought, but I So So the Lannister thing is you get more gold and you can activate your bo your uh playfield multiplier a lot faster. Yeah. Yeah, that's and I love that. And you can do it again or something. Yeah, it's I think it gets you there so fast that it's like you can refill it faster, too. So, I end up getting, you know, I'll start my my Blackwater multiball with Lannister and then I'll just activate two three ax playfield right away.
    586:39
    Yeah, this I think this is uh this game is I I think they call it a is got deep rules to it. Yep. And um for a flow player like me, uh it's a little bit intimidating. Um but I do really like the like the lock shot and then the one just to the left of it that um shoots the ball back in your face. Kick back. Yeah. Yes. I love that. Oh, you like that? I do. Oh man, I just find that sober. That's like the dragon shot on the pre on the pro. I the reason I like that is because um the game doesn't seem to you don't Oh. Oh, Lindsay pulls off a great nudge there. What a save. Boy, she's a good player. She really is. I don't think she's been playing but a couple years that that I've seen her. Well, she just burst onto the scene there. The thing, and we were talking about this earlier, the thing that I really admire about Lindsay's playing is her focus. when she gets locked in on something, she will dial in a shot just like she's doing now and just destroy it. Just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. One after the next. Someone's talking to me. I don't know who um Loer Breath Loader Breath is. Hey, Loader Breath. How you doing? I won't call out names on the air because I don't Okay, I didn't get permission, but um Chuck can tell you who that is. Eric can tell you who that is. Yeah. Yep. Oh, sorry. Yes. I'm sorry. So, here's what we're looking at for Game of Thrones. So, we just saw Lindsay Rogers play and she's going to end up at 57 million. So, let's make that the new low
    588:22
    score. 57. What is the total there? Oh, I missed it. Did anybody in chat get that
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    one? Oh, wait. know Maya comes in at 21 387460. So that's the that's the one we need. 21 387460 just to keep that in front of us. There we go. Okay. Now I see what you got there. Yep. So uh Lindsay clears that that low. Uh I need my I need that phone over there. Thank you. No, no, no. Well, actually a minute. Okay. And so she moves on to big guns then, right? Yep. Although so Lindsay just moved on to big guns and we are waiting on I guess on Tanya. Tanya Kennedy play. Okay. Yes. Um I know Tanya a little bit. She happens to be the mom of Gregory Kennedy. What happened on Game of Thrones just now? Uh Lindsay finished at 57 something. Tanya started, right? Or did she not start? She's right there. Yeah, we No, no, no. Like she said she started but something something happened. Oh, I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I'm sorry. We were typing in a score. We don't know what happened.
    589:46
    So, it looks like there was something that started and it is unclear to them why or how. So, our tournament director, Gilly, is going to make a choice on this. Ball one, free play, and we're on a player two. Is it possible that they that she hit she started two? Yeah, that's probably what happened. We shouldn't be on a player two. So, that explains it. Okay, that's what happened. So, we're going to go back now to Tanya on player one where she belongs. And she's probably just going to plunge the second player ball. She might have just hit start twice on the upper play field. See if she can get anything going. Nope. She's back down the lower play field. Picks up the ramp. Phone. Oh, phone.
    590:39
    So Tanya is the mom of Gregory Kennedy, who is one of uh one of the best young players, at least in Ohio. No kidding. I I think he's maybe 15. He's um they go to Papa and Pinberg regularly and um he's really good. This is the first time that I've ever seen Tanya at a tournament, but um they have a lot of games in their houses and why not, right? How fun is that? I mean, a pinball family where you're growing up playing games at home. Yeah. And then to have your have your kid be a champion like that. Yeah. He's really good. I suspect at some point he'll be up there playing Asher and um Alex. We've been talking about how really I mean young people have have just been excelling in these major tournaments. Yeah. At at Pinball Expo, I came in during the finals and it was um Jared August. Yeah. playing maybe Alex and then Colin Urban um playing one of them. I thought I had come in on the finals of the junior's division, but there were a lot of lot of people paying attention to it. You know what I mean? Yeah. So, um it was the finals. Oh my god, it was incredible. That's awesome. And isn't it wild to walk in and be like, "These are the best players in the room." Not just the best players in their age. These are the best players in the room and maybe in the in Yeah. in the uh in the whole state or whatever. Isn't that great? I I like to think that young people may even have a little bit of an advantage if they start early enough, which is that perhaps there's a reaction speed or something that they can dial into. So that if you learn young, you might be a pretty great player at 15. Yeah. Now, I'd like to think at 40 I still have some reaction speed, but I may be slowing down a little bit. So, um, where I play all the time in Columbus, um, is a barcade and, um, they have fight night there on Thursday nights and the guys come up there and play the, uh, games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and all of that. And um, these guys are mostly in their late 20s, maybe early 30s. And some of them have started u migrating over to the pinball sport. Ah uh one of them is a guy named Carlos Deoserida. Oh we know Carlos. Yeah. Okay. So Carlos when I met him he was the Mortal Kombat champion in Columbus. And I would say within a year of him starting to play pinball he was a pinball champion in Columbus. Really? Oh my gosh. So may maybe those skills sort of port Well, I have a theory about that.
    593:45
    What do you think? The theory is that they understand rule sets with these fighting games. Mhm. They also um their physical skills are so so much I don't know, they're just really good because they're constantly pushing buttons without even looking. Yeah. Yeah. And so when they go over to play pinball, the rule sets aren't hard for them. They're young and they have really good hand eye coordination. Mhm. Mhm. So, there are a couple of them. Carlos is one of them. I think Jason Kelly is another one of them. I didn't re I didn't realize that Carlos I've only known Carlos as a fantastic pinball player. I didn't realize he was also a Mortal Kombat wizard. Well, and uh he is also really really good at Killer Queen. Oh, yeah. That game's so fun. Really good at it. And um I think that Carlos was one of the first ones in Columbus to really get into it. And um the team in Columbus is fabulous. They travel and they're they're really um really good. Looks it is a great crew up there, isn't it? Look, someone's showing love for Laser Los. A Laser Los. Love it. Move your Carlos. Move that Carlos. So, the number right now, I mean, uh, KB Slasher points out 2.2 is going to be tough to anti-beat, meaning that's a pretty low score on this game. Yeah. Um, but you know what? It's We've seen weirder things. I one time, this is a true story, in tournament last year, I got beat on Game of Thrones by a player who didn't show up. So, we flung all three balls. I still lost. You still lost. So, you know, that'll that'll tell you something about Game of Thrones. It'll tell you something about my playing. Well, I'd have to say that they should at least give you a few points for showing up. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. So, Jen uh right now, so Jane is safe. Jen is battling for her life, and she ends up well below um some of the other scores that we've seen today, but above uh Tanya's score. That's right. She beat the bear. She beat the bear, and that's all you have to You don't have to run faster than the bear. You have to run faster than the the other people, right? That's right. Is that what they say? Exactly. Uh and she managed to do it. So, that's great. So, uh, Bri is up next, and let's see what Bri can do here. I'm going to make our score just a little bit more
    596:34
    Martell. Oh, rough drain. This machine is set up tough. That That's what I said. It seems really hard. Yeah. I don't know if they took the rubbers off the posts for the outlane there or what, but I'm seeing a lot of those outlane drains where it just rolls casually up the out lane. So, have you ever played this amazing race format? I never have. It looks super fun, though. It is super fun. And um Oh, she's going into ball three at 1.4. The last time that we did it in Columbus um for the main the open division, they did qualifying and then they did um the amazing race with I don't know however many finalists it was, but we did a pre- amazing race with just women. Oh, and we did a pure amazing race where everybody gets in line. Everybody Yeah. Whoever's in it. And and that's the way that it had been done in previous years before it got to be so many people that came. Yeah. So So unfortunately that's going to knock Bri down to the lowest score. Yeah. 2086640.
    597:50
    Yeah. So it was similar to what we're doing today. It's all women's amazing race. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Only it was no qualifying. You showed up. Oh, that was it. You Yeah, usually however many people we had um I don't know, maybe 20 ladies that night. So, 20 people start on the first game and you just keep doing what we're doing right here. Y and um it's it's very humbling because um like you end up getting out on a game like um Attack for Mars with 500,000. Yep. Or 40,000. That's just so brutal. Yeah. And you know, you know, you go up there and play it after you're done and you'll get, you know, two billion or whatever. Yeah. That's how that works. Yeah. Yeah. this the pressure on this format um just we're going to see a lot of low scores. Yep. Well, because it's one and done and it's just you. Yes. There's there's nobody else to sort of buffer for you when you have a bad play or something like that. It's just you you you. Three balls in a row. Well, and the thing about it is is that the lower the score gets and then you come up, you're like, "Oh man, of course I've got that one naturally." Yeah, of course. So, right now, Brie Reynolds is at the bottom on this one with 2.086. I feel pretty confident Sophie's going to beat that here. Um, yeah, I feel pretty confident she's going to beat
    599:28
    that. Yeah. Yeah. 11 million. I couldn't see what her score was, but she seemed like she was doing something good. So, do you know where Sophie is from? I don't. Do you? I do not. I I'll have to ask her tomorrow or tonight. I've met uh I met folks who came in from Portland, Maine today just for this show. Are you kidding? How do you like that? I do like that. Portland, Maine. So, from the New England Pinball League, which uh uh Nate Shivers? Yeah, he's fabulous. He is fabulous. And uh Nikki uh maybe Nikki Carlson. Is that maybe Nikki Miller? the other Nicole milk. Yeah, there were two Nikki. So many Nikki's. Yeah. No, I I was just so honored that they came all the way from Portland, Maine for this. I thought that was really cool. I don't think there's a link for the standing because we're using a database to do it, right? Yeah. So, what the closest thing that you get is you get this thing down here, this uh spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet will tell you who's dropping out as we go and who's left. So you can see for instance on big guns that we had everybody there on big guns and I think Jane looks like had the lowest score so far. So if Jane continues to have the lowest score she'll drop off. Um so Portland Maine is Oh no Bangore Maine is like the most northern northeastern city in the United States I think. I think so. And many many years ago, um, Amazon used to do auctions and, uh, I bought a game on Amazon. I bought a, um, Dodge Viper. Oh, fun. And I got it for reason, really reasonable price. Yeah. Only it was being shipped from Bangor, Maine. It ended up costing me as much to ship the game as it did. to um to pay for the game. Oh, no. Yeah, the guy was super nice. Have you ever played that game, Viper? I played it years ago at a at a ice cream place. Yeah, it was a fun game. Yeah. 1 million right now. 1 million going into ball three. So, let's let's hope she can get something done up top there. That was pretty That was pretty clutch. That got it for you. Look at that. That was a clutch play. Well, I mean, that's the thing about this upper play field, right? If you get the right shot there on a game where all you're trying to do is beat a couple million, that's the end of your end of your game. You're good. Ah, so that upper playfield, if you can get it in those holes up there. Yeah. Well, if you can get the the right hole, the the lit hole on that the lit hole because you're really I mean, it's it's almost glorified skill shot. Aha. Okay. So, right now, so Brooke Brooke was able to uh beat the low score. We're going now to Aaron on Game of Thrones. If you're curious what's going on on the other games, you can look down on this spreadsheet, this Google spreadsheet, and uh you can see big guns. Right now, Jane has the low on Genesis. Uh Maja has the
    602:38
    low. And if there's an X next to their name, it's cuz they have yet to play the game. So, let's see what Aaron can do here to get up. Well, she is well over. She's good. She's going to move on to big guns now. 382 on big guns. Not a tremendous hurdle, but it takes a little bit of work. Um, Big Guns is one of my favorite 80s solid states. The game is just ridiculous. I I like that game very much. And I always thought that Medieval was the sequel to that. Oh, that's a fun thought. Don't you think? I mean, even if you look at the castle. Yeah. Yeah. It even had something sort of like trolls up there in that um chamber thing up at the top. Yep. I always called it biggin. Biggins.
    603:32
    Yeah, that's a great game. So, uh this is last up on Game of Thrones. Nikki from Portland, Maine is going to step up. Nikki Carlson is gonna step up. Yep. Yeah, that's Nikki from She's gonna step up and see what she can do on this one. So, they're from the New England New England Pinball League. Yep. I actually learned about New England Pinball League a lot on the Pinball Players podcast with Jeff Parsons. He's from He's from Portland as well, and he talks about their league a lot. Yep. So, yes, we are going to shift over to Big Guns just as soon as Nikki is done. and KB Slasher. We're going to move over there and um see what's going on and or Genesis. We'll see if everybody's getting close to done on big guns. Depending on how long Nikki's ball is, uh we may go straight to Genesis, but we'll see. It looks like Big Guns maybe uh getting checked out for a small repair, maybe some kind of malfunction. So, Eric's working on that. So, we'll probably move over. Uh more than cleared it, Nikki. More than cleared it. So, let's see if we can move us over to big guns and I'll see if I can help with that.
    604:44
    Am I in? I'm gonna see about moving this thing. Oh, okay. Do you want me to jump in for you? All right.
    605:06
    Tish, how you doing? What? I was loader breath. So, what have I missed? I think that What are we doing right now here? So, we have Well, okay. So, we've made all the way through Game of Thrones and Bri had the lowest score on that and they're moving the um camera to Big Guns and right now Jane uh from Chicago has the lowest score. All right. Uh Jen, I assume we are waiting to do this until uh TA is done because I believe TA is playing right now on big guns. She has 163,000 right now. So, we'll see if that holds up. James 382. That's not a horrible score on that game. No, it's not.
    606:16
    I bet Evan would be so proud to see this. Yes, he would. Well, he's he was watching earlier, so hopefully he still is. I would love to see that he is. I very much hope so.
    606:37
    Yeah, I still like the totally pure Amazing Race format. The one where it's just they they lob everybody together and it's a a random seating as opposed to the qualifying. Yep. Because in the end it doesn't really make any difference.
    606:54
    Can we fix Sophie's name on the spreadsheet? What is Okay, tell me what is Well, it's S O H P I E. Uh I Let me see if I can fix that here. Hang on. Hang on. Let me see what I can do for my phone. It should be PH.
    607:46
    All right, that should be better when they copy it next time. to look right. So, they're asking about what other tournaments are going on out here this weekend. We can answer that question for you. Uh, I believe we have a match play tournament going on. Not all yours were capes. No, they just have iPhones. Um, we have a match play tournament going on tomorrow starting at noon. So, it's going to be a pretty quick turnaround for all of us to be right back up here doing this uh tomorrow at noon time. I'll probably be here about 11 o'clock starting to get ready for that. And along with that, we're going to have a gauntlet tournament on Sunday. That should be a lot of fun. Did you run the gauntlet? Were you here last for last year's show? No, I was going to ask you. I don't know what a gauntlet tournament is. So, the way the gauntlet tournament is, I believe we're going to have a certain number of qualifiers from it. But what you have to do is you have six minutes to complete a task, a fairly simple task, but requires a little bit of work on six different pinball machines. You can do them in any order you want. You can play them in any order you want. It's like pinolf only. I think pinolf on a very large set of steroids. Yeah, because because you got to go fast. You got to go fast. There is no order. You can play multiple machines at the same time. You can do pretty much whatever you want within reason of deathsaving the machine. No death saves. That that's kind of off limits no matter what. You know, if there's something you need to reset on a machine, you can reach under the machine, turn it off, and turn it back on again to reset all your progress. Anything you have to do to complete the various tasks on each machine is the goal. So, Genesis is out. Okay, Genesis out. We're going to firepower. Um, I assume they Yep, they are updating here. So, we are on the move. So, let's bring back the Chuck Vision for everybody. Should be on big guns now, right? I think they're moving to firepower just because we've got people coming up to play it. Okay, cuz we're kind of backed up. We're a little backed up right here. So, we've got active people ready to go. Looks like Maya's score is 75,500 and Lindsay will be the next player on that machine. So, let's update that score for
    610:16
    everybody. Sorry to jump in there on you. That's a really weird score. It would I thought I was selecting it. I was wrong. All right. So, 75,500 is the score to beat. That's what Lindsay has to get over a three ball game. Yep. You can call it Chuck of Vision. You can call it Eric Cam, but we'd like to have some fun with it every time Eric is indeed on that camera. So, it's been so long since I've played this game. Is that a good score? Not tremendously. It's It's not horrible, but I I would call it makeable. I don't think there's any reason any of the people that are still in this thing right now, they absolutely should be able to attain that score in my opinion. The skill level of the people here, you know, as good as they are, they can do
    611:11
    it. So, she is sitting at 24,000 right now, working on like loop shots. Yeah, she's trying to complete the loop at the top and get all four of those.
    611:22
    as her starting point here. I think there should be good points. I believe multipliers. So, what the um you say she's going for the loops, but you really you need those targets in the middle, right? You do need the targets in the middle, too. You absolutely do. Oh, that was nice.
    611:42
    So, it makes me wonder if she's changing the strategy a little bit just based on the fact that she only needs so many points, only needs the 70,000. Yeah, if she can get that target almost, you almost wonder if she's going for it just incidentally or if now she'll try and backhand it. She tried.
    612:01
    Nice job keeping that ball in place. She's about 15,000 away. Oh, that was nice. Oh, and looks like she hit it on the side. That counts. All right, she's up to 62 already. She gets that loop one more time and lines it up. I believe that's going to make the multiplier 3x. So now I would think she has an opportunity just to get this on bonus. There it is. There's the big score right there. She's at 113,000 and she's got it. Nice. So one ball. I mean, great play by Lindsay right there to make that happen. Well done. So Lindsay will move on and Jen Roer is next.
    612:48
    Looks like looking at the scores so far, it looks like Jane has been bailed out on big guns. By the way, Sophie Looney 33,000. So Jane is now in line to play firepower. It's going to be Jen, then Tanya, then Jane. That's how this tournament goes. Sometimes you kind of get bailed out on a particular score, even if it's not by a lot of points.
    613:32
    So, let's see what Jen Nice shot up to the center right there. She finishes those loop shots as well. So, she's got a 2x multiplier now, too. Let's see if she opts for targets herself now that she has that.
    613:49
    No, that seems to be her strategy, too, is to play for those loop shots up top. That's funny. Now, see, you're calling it playing for those loop shots on top. And to me, that's ripping the spinner over there. And that may well be it, too. going for the spinner as you do it. Yeah, cuz on some of these games, I'm telling you, those those spinners, uh, I played one game that I swear it seemed like it just went on forever and ever and ever. Um, Big Game had a very active spinner. Yeah, we saw some sensationally good spinners on Big Game, especially that left one and we had that thing lit for 2,000. If you had lined up your bingo board right, we were seeing people get a 100,000 per spin. Yeah. Yeah. Really, really well done.
    614:43
    All right, so Jyn's passed. Yep, she is. So yeah, shooting fire with the top lanes is your bonus X. Spelling fire times lights and extra. So now Brooke has bailed out Sophie on big guns. She has. Wow. 200 262,000. So in all these cases, it's not a case where anybody's having a horrible game at it. They're just missing by a little bit per number.
    615:11
    So two left to play. Aaron and Nikki are the last players to play big guns. We'll see what they can do. And now it is Tanya's time to play. Oh, that's a tough dream on ball one.
    615:25
    Little bit of bonus. Puts her up to 15,000. Looks like Lindsay has set a score in big game and it is has not a great score. 53,000 on big game. So, yeah, if someone's able to do a one really one good spinner rip like we were talking about, um, because those bingo lights are going all the time, uh, switching from one board to another. That 2,000 on the left is really out there. One spin would do
    616:07
    it. So, ball three now. So, Tanya's in a interesting position right here. Who are you waving to? Gregory and Nick watching Tanya on the Oh, nice. Okay. Did she do it? No, she did not do
    616:27
    it. I think we have a new low score. It is 44,560, I believe. Yes. And I'm waiting for the confirmation to see it put in the official spreadsheet here.
    616:44
    No, she doesn't appear to be done yet. I think we've got a ruling going. I think we have a stuck ball. Okay. And Aaron has bailed Brooke out on big guns. Wow. Aaron mails 171,000. This has been Yeah, the ball is stuck. That's what we're waiting on here. That's why Tanya's still at the machine. Okay. Did it work?
    617:08
    No. See how Eric's going to take this out here. We're going to get it unstuck. Probably put it on either a flipper or a plunge depending on where it ends. I don't see it. Is that it on the right? We're going to find out in just a minute. Yes, we are. Yep. Right there.
    617:27
    All right. She's still rolling. The drop will indeed be into the plunge because that'll put it back approximately where it was before.
    617:39
    and she will continue ball number three right about now. So, so yeah, Nikki Carlson has to beat 171,000. Let's see if she's able to do it. And she did. So, I believe that is the end of the tournament for our number two seed Aaron Ma 171,000.
    618:02
    Okay. Looks like by the way, Jen Roer is through to World Cup. She is putting up the initial score on that machine right now. And no, she did not get it. So that score is going to change to
    618:27
    continues for all of these players. All right, we're waiting for it to be entered. There it is. So Jane will now step up. We've got Jane, Sophie, Brooke, and Nikki. as the four people that we are waiting to see play now on firepower and we now know the score they got to beat. So here comes Jane.
    618:49
    Did Anna get it? Uh oh. Anna got uh knocked out on chunkard. Oh both Anna and uh Jane are our cohorts from Bells and Chimes up in Chicago. Aaron too, right? Is Aaron Frog there too? I think she may be. I think you're right. Yeah. I don't know Aaron as well as I do Anna and and Jane. The only reason I say that they were the two that um won the women's tournament, I think. I think so. And they took second in the Battle of the Bells. Yeah. Yeah. The two of them together were a strong team. No doubt. Anna and uh Jane.
    619:34
    And typically if you see one of them at a tournament, you'll see the other. They both travel quite a bit. Awesome. Gotten to to talk to them on many, many occasions. They're both very, very cool.
    619:46
    And we're so glad they made the trip down to Cincinnati as well.
    619:54
    Interesting to see the ball come off of when when she's going counterclockwise around that orbit. Um it feels like there's a little bit of a drift of that ball to the right. It's very minor, but it's enough to make that shot, you know, the catch of the ball on the left flipper a little bit challenging.
    620:22
    Oh, nice. Very nice job right then. So, she is trapping up 24,000 right now. She's got two targets down. Yeah, she's playing targets right now. Oh, and maybe that's the reason they're going for the orbits as well. Just the danger of those center targets and the possibility of the drain on them. Yeah, and I'm telling you, trying to make that shot up the middle between those pop bumpers is tough. We've seen people do it, but man, it's not easy. Not even a little bit. So, 40,000. She's 18,000 points away. Three out of the four lit. Oh. Oh, and she's got a little work to do here. Was that ball three? She stepped away like it was. I think it was 52. Yeah, that was. So, she's going to be Oh, she's right under Tanya. Oh, man. That was
    621:21
    close. So, Jane will be under the gun again here as we're going to add her score once it's added to the official spreadsheet.
    621:31
    52,400 points with three players to play. Sophie is stepping up to the machine here in just a moment.
    621:40
    Sophie with the PH. Yep, it's all fixed now. We got it right. So, we'll see when Sophie is ready to go here. I think once Gilly has uh written down a few additional scores. Uh, Jen, I think that Jen is still going on World Cup, so she may be putting up a really, really nice score on that machine. Very similar to what we saw in it the first time around when we saw 400 million as the initial score on
    622:17
    it. Maya is up on big game right now, Sophie. And there's Sophie. Oh. Oh, Big Game. I see. I love I love the glasses that Sophie's wearing, by the way. She's adorable. Yeah,
    622:34
    I think we have Brook's name wrong, too. I think she has an E on the end of it. I think she does. I think we can fix that.
    622:51
    [Laughter] I think Holly is leaving us for the night. She uh has hit 1:21 in the morning and said no mas but she will be here tomorrow. She's she's saying other things too which you know we can I think it's one o'clock in the morning. We can probably repeat that without too much worry. All right, there we go. Bye. That should be updated for when they copy. All right. So, is she done? Did I miss that while I was correcting that one thing? I think so. Yeah, she's done. Yeah. Game over is flashing. 34,700. That's a tough run for Sophie right there.
    623:39
    So, just like that, now suddenly Brooke and Nikki have a much more much more enviable score to go after than they had just a minute ago. It's been dropped almost in half from where it was maybe two to three players ago. As Brooke steps
    623:57
    up, Brook, for those of you who don't know, runs uh a lot of the tournaments up at Crazy Martins in Picu,
    624:07
    Ohio. Got to meet her for the very first time at last year's Cincinnati. So, super hyped that she's back for this year. I know a lot of the, you know, the women in Columbus have been traveling to pick what Gilly has as well for the tournaments at Crazy Martins. They've been having women's tournaments on a pretty regular basis. So, super happy that Rick's been doing that. And now suddenly, just like like nothing, we're in a pretty dangerous situation right here. 11,420 and this is ball three. Two really quick drains. House ball here would be absolutely disastrous. Yep. Nice save for Brooke and it drained down the middle. That might be close to the end of the tournament night for Brook. 17,820. It's cut in half again.
    625:02
    Wow. We'll enter that new score. And that is what Nikki has to beat. So Sophie is bailed out. We've seen the score go down about five rounds in a row now on firepower. No one wants to beat the score. Weird dynamic that we're seeing with that. No, I'm telling you, I think what happens is uh you come up and you look at that low score and you go, "Oh, I got no problem beating that." And you
    625:36
    don't. I mean, let's face it, that score right there is a good bonus. It is.
    626:07
    So everybody's in now. There weren't any more buys, right? Yeah, there's no more buys. What you're looking at is the remaining players in the event. Nikki is about and she's got it. There's the score. So that unfortunately will be the end of the tournament for Brooks Bradlin tonight. She will finish in I believe I'm looking at the names right eighth place with a score of 17,000 right then. So I think we're almost ready for a machine move. Let's see if who I can round up to move it and where we want to move it to. Um maybe we can convince him to move it over to junkyard. We have not seen that yet.
    626:54
    So, we switch to Junkyard when Jen's done. Junkyard when Jen's done. Okay.
    627:04
    Yeah, Jen's playing right now. When she's done, I think that's our plan. We're going to switch over to Junkyard. Uh, the World Cup score, this is Maya's second round at it. 199 million is not bad. So, good run for her on that front. Um, there's a couple people that still have to qualify for that, but I think there's a good chance it ends up making it through. Uh, Jane is through on big game. The score has not survived there. There you go. Chuck of Vision is back. So, we've only got two people left on big game to help Lindsay. Yeah. All right. So, we'll let you know what the new score is here as soon as the machine is able to be put into place. We're waiting on this one here for just a couple
    627:55
    minutes. Give you a clear slate to work with here as we'll switch back to the game can right here. Show you a little bit more air. It's Eric eating pizza. Hey, Eric. And now we're moving into place. There we go.
    628:18
    Wow, that scored 992,000. We can actually update this as well. Interesting thing about that is that is a low enough score that one crane jackpot would be enough to fix it.
    628:42
    Yeah, Tisha is an extremely she's a very good player. She totally is. Yes, that is an incredible score on Junkyard, isn't it? Not 992. No, I don't think it's that great. Anything under a million. Oh, okay. With a shot. Yeah, I'm getting my decimals mixed up. Okay, I got you. How much amber you had? Oh, yeah. Here, I'll have some more. Oh my goodness.
    629:12
    I love it. I got to drink some water. Yeah, we're going to make up Bells and Chimes flasks. I love it. Nobody wants our shirts, but they might want these flasks. What other organization is making flasks, right? I know, right? Yeah. You're finding unique interest that other people have not, you know, found yet.
    629:36
    USD came together. Yeah, that's a tough score on Junkyard, I think.
    630:00
    Yeah. So, that is Maja. I'm listening to Eric talk about the changes he's going to make to the rig.
    630:10
    Eric, I want to play with it when you get that card because that sounds like it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun. Okay. Yeah.
    630:30
    Right. Right. Lindsay's out. And Lindsay is out. Ne Everybody beat that big game score. So Lindsay will end in seventh place. Still a very good finish for her tonight. I'm sure she had her hopes on it even being a little bit higher, especially with having knowledge of so many of these machines. Sorry you should be yawning, but we are 10 hours and 30 minutes in. Nap Arcade, you still trying to set that record? I gotta say that with this um this variety of games, most of them have been around
    631:05
    long enough that most people kind of know them a bit. I think you know the rules I don't think are an issue whatsoever. Yeah, the at this point it's just nerves. It's nerves, it's knowledge and for some people maybe it's they just haven't played a particular machine as much as other people have. But I think, you know, rule not, you know, being able to go get the rule set is certainly not. Most of these women seem really good. They're excellent. This is a great group of players. And um even in the open uh amazing race, we saw some ridiculously low scores from some ridiculously good people. I think this is fun. I I love it. It it it's a it's a humbling format in that sense too because you know everyone believes they're amazing at pinball and we we you know you have to think that in order to do really well in tournament play and then you come up with this and like what the heck happened to me? How could I miss that that bad? I I think another reason that I like it too is because everybody has to play their game and then the next person plays and then the next person plays. It's individual games and um there's not a lot of lag time between people playing their balls and you know it's just there's really not. People aren't stepping away from the machine. I think Maya's score is going to be a little under this. It's going to be close. No, she's got it on bonus. Yes. 1.1 mil. Okay. So, so the bonus win. Yeah. I've been saying Maja. Well, now they're putting it in there. They were putting in there as Maya for a couple rounds. So, I think Maya. I was saying Maja as well. Maya. We're going to go with Maya. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I trust she will or someone will. And I will accept all responsibility for my actions. So, Jane is now stepping up. The score is still 992,190. So, basically, break a million and you're golden. is the moral of the story here.
    633:17
    Gets the super skill, gets the fan for 50k. So, let's see what she ends up going for. Is she going to go for Yeah, she's going for the crane shot, too. Nice sneaking right there. Three letters for that. So, suddenly four of your nine letters are done. Not to mention that 100,000 for the sneak in itself is pretty valuable right now. It's dangerous because of what you just saw right there. There's the possibility that you see in so many of the Williams machines of the era of the center drain because great catch. Three letters left to go.
    634:01
    Crane hurry up is now lit and not able to take advantage of it. Just that crane hurry up might have been valuable from a points perspective as well. Okay. And Tanya's been saved by Sophie on World Cup now. She has. That one has been going down slowly but surely too from from 400 all the way down now to 75. Nikki can do this. It's a couple shot. I mean, it won't take many shots. The question I wonder what strategy she's going to go for here. Do you maybe try for a TV award big goal round? Do you go for a penalty kick? Or do you just maybe more smartly just try and get a good ultra jackpot early on? No. Got to save the girl. This video mode. Don't shoot the girl.
    634:52
    Shoot the dog. Don't shoot the girl. We get this on three shots. Yes. 100,000 for the win. 500,000 for that. That might be enough right there. Combination of everything was worth. There it is. Yep. She's over a mill. And she is on to the next one and steps away just like that. And that's another reason why this is a good format. The games don't have to stretch out. They don't. You're right. Yeah, you get the score. You're done. You can move right on down the line. So, Jen's junkyard score is still 992. No one has Sorry for the yawning everybody. This happen when you're 11 hours into streaming. So, I have so much respect for people that do streaming for a living and they're online 11, 12, 13 hours a day. Even when you're taking breaks, it's exhausting. And a lot of times they're playing a computer game or a video game at the same time that they're streaming and producing the content. You know, we're we're kind of just commenting on the content that's being produced in front of us. Stuff's a lot of work. No one should ever think otherwise. So Tanya is up. Does get the ball saved. Good timing on that. Already up to about 200,000.
    636:17
    And Nikki passes, I think. Yep, she's walked away. I think she has. Okay, so that means Sophie's out. So, Recycle is lit. Oh, tough. And yeah, that is the end of the day for Sophie, but a good sixth place finish for her. Nothing to feel ashamed about right then. It's the first time we've seen Sophie play in any tournament, so excited that she came out for this event. I wonder if she's local to Cincinnati or maybe from one of the other various scenes around town. We'll have to scope that out. Well, I'm super excited for Tanya. Yeah, I don't know if I've met Tanya before, too. So, um Tanya is Gregory Kennedy's mom. Oh, wow. Okay. And and Nick Kennedy's wife. Gotcha. So, and I've never seen her play in a tournament, but they have lots of games, I think, at their house. And um and there you go. Sophie's from Lexington. So there you go. And we've got a few tournaments happening down in Lexington as well. I think there's a place that's holding a bunch of events. So we're hyped about that. Be good to create a third scene. Oh, look. She's close. She's very close. Oh, she could have got the 500,000 on the shot. That would have done it right there. 3x multiplier though is not bad. Oh, and depending we might find out just how valuable that is. No, she's got a ball save. She got pity ball.
    637:46
    I think she's now has it. That would be amazing if she won. Oh my gosh. She could. She very well could here. And she's going to get the chance to lock this up on multiball. First one of these we've seen in a little bit. Yeah, it' be nice to have a burgeoning scene down in Lexington to go with the one that's in Louisville and the one that's in Northern Kentucky as well. Jackpot and she did it on a jackpot. Well played for Tanya.
    638:31
    I'm gonna see if Justin wants to come back over here real quick. I'll scream over. I think I'm gonna take a short break myself. Somehow Veronica in Florida is still awake, believe it or not. Great Veronica. She's having a blast down there right now. And so Nikki is the last one to try and go over this. If she is able to beat the score, then Jen will be eliminated in fifth place. Still, I'd imagine some very good Whopper points for a fifth place finish for her. Let me get Justin here. Hey, Justin.
    639:03
    We're gonna swap him out here. Me and see if maybe we'll get Jen over here, too, if uh if she's eliminated this round. I'd love to get, you know, some women commentating the rest of this here. So, we'll bring some additional help over for you, too. Just need to take a short break. Maybe some of the other women.
    639:27
    Yeah, for sure. For sure. Oh, excuse me. You got to play my ball on fast draw, though. Okay. All right. Yeah, somebody's got to. All right. So, we we're on Argusy. 297 on Argusy is the number to beat and 992 on Junkyard. Is that right? And when you I think while y'all were switching I think Jen went out. Oh, okay. On Junkyard. So that puts her I think Well, Nikki's still playing on Junkyard. Oh, she's still playing. Okay, so that's ball two. So Nikki, um the number to beat 992. Let's see what she's got. The number to anti-beat as we said before. Anti beat. Yeah, the anti-beat number. Let's see a score. 645. So this is She's on ball three. This could go very very wrong. Yes, it could go very very wrong. I hope not. I mean, all the women in this tournament have been playing now for Oh, wow. That was That was tricky. Uh, there you go. I think she's I think she's in the clear now. I think she just started a multiball. And that's going to probably put her over the top. Even just with the ball save on this, you're going to accidentally hit enough switches to clear would be my guess. Yeah, I think so, too. 891 9001 and the jackpot puts her over. I was going to say it would take some really bad simultaneous drainage right there. Yep. That would stink. All right, so we need to move this over to probably to Game of Thrones. We'll probably have to bypass Argusy and move to Game of Thrones only because the um the Argusy crew is getting pretty close to done. So, let me go arrange for that. Hang on one second. I'll be right back. All right.
    641:27
    So, right now the score to beat or the anti-score is 293690 on Argus. And that's Jane. And she's got two people behind her. Oh, we're getting close.
    642:01
    All right, we're on the move. Here he comes. Here's the air cam. There's the chuck of vision. Watching him get that all lined up. Let's see how we did. I'd say pretty good. So, who's Chuck? Uh, we just call him Chuck. Eric. Eric. Okay. Eric. Chuck Wart. Hey, for for the 20 of you who have been with us all night, thank you so much. We are 10 hours and 41 minutes into this broadcast and uh I wouldn't stop for anything at this point. It's it's heating up. So um what we have left is we we still have Game of Thrones uh with two players currently uh who are going to play Game of Thrones and we're seeing about who is going to join those two players. Right now, Nikki Carlson is uh playing her game on Argusy to see if she can get above Jane's 293. It's uh I can't see Argusy from here, so I don't know how she's doing. So, we'll get an update on that in just a moment. But, as that's happening, we have I've been saying Maja, but we're going to say Maya. And I need to ask her how to pronounce her name. uh and uh Tanya and somebody is going to join and we don't know if it's going to be Jane or Nikki. It depends on how things go. You know, usually it it's an advantage to play last. Yeah. But I'd have to say that would be kind of nerve-wracking in this format. Playing last. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. I mean it there's something about that minimum number that feels weirder. Yeah. Than trying to get your highest score. So, let's see what happened on Argusy. It looks like Oh, it looks like Nikki is still playing. So, she hasn't she hasn't cleared that number yet. And we're going to see how this goes.
    643:57
    Hey, Carlos. What up? Is that Laser Los? Yes. Move your Carlos. Move that Carlos. What is going on? Laser Los, we were just talking about you earlier tonight. We were bragging on you a bit. I didn't realize you're also a Mortal Kombat god in addition to your pinball godly hood and and Killer Queen and Killer Queen and every other game in the whole world probably. Rippling biceps. Have you ever chiseled features? Yeah. Yeah, that was her, not me. I'm just saying. Close. That was not me. So, um I'm trying. So, we can't quite see the scores on Argusy. So, I'm I'm looking at our TD trying to see what happened there. If Nikki got it, then Nikki is going to advance for our final three. It looks like Jane advanced. So, Nikki must have come up a little bit short. She did. She came up at 258 380. So, just about 40,000 short on Argusy, but she had an outstanding night. She's going to come in fourth in this women's tournament in this uh amazing race format. So, we're going to our top three here on Game of Thrones. And uh we've got Maya, Tanya, and Jane playing it out for the top three. They're going to play on Game of Thrones. And two will move on to big guns for the final game. I've got to say, I'm pulling for Tanya only because she's from Columbus, Ohio. Yeah, I've heard of that place. I love Columbus, Ohio. And there is great pinball in Columbus, Ohio. There's a bunch of places to play great pinball in Columbus, Ohio. She's going to be protected by that. Uh oh, nope. Thought she had a ball stay flash and she did not. That was a house. Going into ball two at half a million. Let's see what she can do up top. Looking for that shot. Not quite. Oh, rough bounce up top, but maybe she can work away. There she goes back up. So, just that castle award right there. 3 million Maya. I do not. In fact, I need to ask her after this entire evening of streaming if I'm saying her name right because I was saying Maja, now it's Maya. So, I need to get that right. Yeah, I've been working on her uh last name, too, probably. Yep. I haven't wanted to to um interrupt her during the tournament, but I will ask her as soon as she's
    646:29
    done. So, let's see what we got. She as the first player, it's really her job to set the set the tone for everybody. And the first player is the one who plays all three balls all the way no matter what happens because they're setting their uh sort of lowest possible score or their high score will become the new low. Of course, if it's high enough, it won't take long for a new low to show up. And I'll tell you, 12 million not bad for a lowest score game, but you have to remember that every round when you have fewer players, that lowest score tends to sneak up, right? Because there's fewer people who could possibly get a lower score than you. So, you can expect that we're going to see those scores significantly higher on this round of Game of Thrones than on the last round. One more to complete. There it goes. Now for the center sitting at 25 and counting on ball three.
    647:28
    Look at that. That was a big That was a big score. See just seven and a half straight up right there and worked all the way through that upper playfield mode. She's going to do a two mode battle. No multi going yet. I don't think don't think she the per playfield flashing like that? Uh, it looks like it's involved in one of the two houses. So, I I don't have the the premium or the uh Ellie myself, so I'm not sure, but uh it looks like it may be involved in the houses. Oh, nice time to get multiball started, too. Did she get that multiball at the same time? Nice. Nice. Boy, that's the way to do it because when you're playing two houses at the same time, you just have that many more shots, which are qualified jackpots. Now, the real beauty would be if she could also get a playfield multiplier going, then she would be sitting really pretty. Uh, let's see. She going to get either of those back. She is. She's going to get both of them back. So, she's in four ball mode with the out of ball playing Martell and is that Lannister the And she's playing top and bottom really, really beautifully. I mean, again, I'm not a betting man, but I'd say I'd put some money on her moving forward with this kind of score on ball three. Really making good use of that ball three. Little juggling in the middle there. Got uh an unfortunate collision and drain, but made great use of that multiball. 21 million on the multiball alone. So, she's sitting at about 45 if I'm counting right.
    649:11
    I thought she had more than that. 73. I take it all back. I didn't realize it hadn't counted the modes. That was just the multiball, not the modes themselves. So, so never mind. 194 in counting. And she gets a knock. Is that her? That's going to be I'm going to get some sound up from that machine.
    649:34
    There we go. I probably should have had that on the whole time. I'm not a very good I'm not a very good streamer. Yeah. I just remembered that was a thing I could do. It's a thing. It's It's 2:00 in the morning. Leave me alone. That's a cool thing. That is a cool thing. The downside is you can hear people curse, so we turned it down for a while, but uh you know, it's all right. Yeah, this streaming thing makes it bad to give the game a the finger, I think. Well played. Great ball. I mean, to come What a ball. To come this far, it's 150 in the morning. She's been playing pinball for 3 hours at least on just this tournament. So, the score to beat is 22796. Yo, I got to put that in there. Yeah, I'm putting that in there. That's fantastic. 220 something something something let's see if we can see it again 220
    650:36
    796 796300 All right. Now that is quite an ask. Yeah, that is quite an ask. Here, I'll put some I'll put some commas in there. Look at so many numbers. It doesn't fit right. Very cool. It's the lowest. Yeah, that's solid. That's the lowest score so far, though, Eric. I know. I'm just joking. The lowest score. 220. Yep. I feel pretty solid about her chances with that one. I'm going to go ahead and not on a limb here. I don't want to risk my reputation, but I feel pretty solid about that.
    651:21
    And these ladies have been playing pinball for hours and hours and hours and still putting up a score like that. Yeah, we started at 7:30. Amazing. So, four and a quarter hour. Is that right? Six hours. Six hours. 7:30, right? Yeah. Right. Yeah. I used my fingers actually. Yeah. No, count to 10. Uh that's that's the kind of that's the kind of day we have. So, not a great start. Let's 1.513 is about as low as we've seen on this game today. Yeah. 1.513. All right. Well, there goes that 220 is the lowest score. So, she moves on. Uh, yep. Definitely moving on. So, 1.513120 is the score.
    652:15
    So, all that Jane needs to do here to go to the final battle is get just over one and a half million points. What do you think? I think she'll get it. You like her odds? I do too. I think I like her odds. That's I think even I'd get that maybe. Yep. So, you know what? I would pick Martell here, too, because if I need to if I need to add a ball in a multiball or something, uh, it's nice to be able to just hit that button just in case things go horribly wrong. Now, I don't think it's going to be a struggle. She probably cleared it right there. She did. That's game, but I would have gone Martell, too. Yeah. All right. It all comes down to Jane, and I'm going to go get her name right starting right now. Okay, good. Let's find out where she's from, too.
    653:12
    All right, the final game is going to be on big guns. She came with the Chicago girl. [Music]
    653:44
    Maya. Maya. Maya comes to us from the windy city of Chicago and her and Jane uh she said are on the same team right now. So, they're going to duke it out even though they're friends.
    653:59
    Yeah. calendar. I think at least four uh women from Chicago played today. I love that. I love that all there was a big crew came down from Chicago. Yeah. Um I know Jane I know an Anna Neil um got that gate closed on the outside. She's going to try and try and hit these ramps. Somebody's locked balls on this game. Do you know on big All 18. Oh wow. If Maya wins this, she would have played all 18 rounds. She started at the bottom half. Oh, you got to love that. That is so great. I would love to see that. I I have a feeling we might see that. We might see that. She's been pretty on fire. Yeah. Uh-oh. Look at that. So, nice. So, can you steal a ball lock? I'm going to ask our rule or our um yeah, our rules expert, Eric. Eric, can you steal a ball lock on big guns?
    655:09
    Okay, so you Okay, you can't steal a lock, but if somebody activates a multiball after your lock, it's going to dump your locks and you have to get it back in. Okay, that's that. It's not exactly stealing, but it is ruining. But it is ruining. Yeah. I love this. She started at the bottom, played 18 rounds to get to this point. I love it. 35090 is the number to beat. Let's see if she can hold on. Now, I'm not cheering for anybody in particular, so I want however this ends is going to be awesome. 350 090 090 is the number to beat. All right, come on Jane. All right, Jane is up
    656:01
    now. Looking to beat 35090. Again, when you start on an amazing race format like this, there's so many people to play that you really can go in pretty confident if you have a half decent ball. But when there's just two of you, this is just a best score game.
    656:23
    But my cup went missed. Oh, look. She's She's more than halfway there. She's more than halfway there. Let's see if she can do it. Friends, this is the dramatic conclusion of hours and hours of pinball. Seven hours. What' you say it was? Well, six hours of the women's. Six hours of women's. Okay, that was a surprise. So, she has to make it on the next ball. She needs 33, no 43,000 points here, which doesn't sound like a lot until you have to do it. That's right. And this game plays fast. I played this one yesterday and during setup and it plays Yeah. fast. So, she had Oh, that that outlane could have been it right there. That's wild. Oh, all right. She got it.
    657:18
    There's your champion, Jane Varys. I hope I'm saying the last name right now. I have to get that right. Just before 2:00, we wrap up with our winner and we're going to do a quick interview with her in just a moment and then we will close out for the night. But, uh, how exciting was that conclusion after all these hours of pinball? Eugene, absolutely wonderful. All right. Nice talking to you. Nice talking with you, too. Thank you for joining us for this stream. And we're gonna see if we can get uh Jane to stop in and chat with us and then we'll close up for the night. What an exciting night. Welcoming Scott back. And Scott, let me go get Jane so you can chat with her. That'd be great. Oh, shoot. Did I just And uh we will introduce her to the world as our brand new women's champion in the amazing race format. Our 2019 champ. Great job for her. Chicago. Absolutely. What an exciting finish. Chicago showed up big. They showed up excellent. I mean, they have a great defined scene for sure. I'm going to turn this around so you guys can see what's going on. Yes. Hold on. Let me get one more thing here. There's Jane picking up her prize. And it is not just a not just an amazing medal. You can see the Ohio shaped uh metal with the cool wood burning. Not just a translite, but also a cash prize. Cold hard cash. Cold hard cash. Everybody's very favorite prize. When you got to drive from Chicago, you know, gas is not the cheapest thing. You know, cold hard cash always plays well. So, you can see our tournament director, Gilly, here awarding our winners. So, again, in third place, we had uh Tanya Kennedy. Mhm. In second place, we had Maya Rasovic. And in first place in the women's tournament here at Cincinnati, we have Jane Ver. A great job by We appreciate everybody that traveled in for this today and is staying for the whole weekend as well. I love that. Absolutely. So, you know, a super dedicated set of players right here. Certainly shout out to everybody, you know, up in Bells and Chime Chicago. You absolutely your crew your crew came and represented and did a heck of a job. Yep. Puppy man, sorry you just missed it. Jane Barow just won the women's division after I won't say grueling, but it was a long six hours of pimp tournament. Yeah, it was about six hours for the women's tournament with all the games they played and they did a great job. and and crew probably played about 20 games of pinball if you count the nine qualifying matches plus what they had to do to get to this point. I think Maya came through did not have a buy in the early rounds. Let's check where Jane came in here. Jane did have a buy. So, she only had to play through the second round of it. But I don't think at this point I don't think that made a difference in this sense at all. Thank you Colorado Pinball for the raid as well. We appreciate you trusting your viewers with us. And thank you, Jose, for so much. He's given us 800 bits over the course of the day. Oh, I just love that. Super hyped for Here are our winners right there. Yeah. Congratulations, everybody. Great job. We are shutting down East Skate in style tonight, my friend. That's right. With all of this great pinball play, we'll get Jane over here in just a second. Uh interview very quickly because I'm sure she's super tired. Look at that amazing camaraderie. Everybody's been so good today. Everyone's so good to each other and especially after a long day. So, let's reverse this camera. I know it's late. Let's get that set up and you guys can chat. Yeah, sure thing. Congratulations. Thank you, Jane. Congratulations. Great job on the win tonight. Here, I'll swap you over to that seat here because we can get everybody on camera. Not that they need to see my ugly mug on camera. My god. We need to see the winners. And that's her right here. It is. It's late. It is late. You had a lot of games in that last eight that you played where you were on on the line and had to wait out a couple people each time and you know that's the nature of this tournament. It ended up working out pretty darn well for you. You know, you live to see another day and you get the win as a result. How you feeling? How you feeling about the the waiting the whole the format? How that all Honestly, this is the first time I've ever even encountered this format before. Um I was aware of it. I know you guys in Ohio have played this before. seen it online. I was very confused about how this all works to be honest with you. And so it's new for sure. Every single, you know,
    662:07
    I had those are my teammates heckling me now. Um as good teammates should, of course. Of course. Uh so no, I I really had no idea what was going on for most of this. And um I just kind of felt like it was this just like just don't lose. I I like the second. Yeah, exactly. And that's basically it right there. Just don't be let felt lucky. I mean, you don't want pinball to feel lucky, but it did. Anyway, I can't believe it. Two years in a row. Two wins in a row. That's right. Two years of Cincinnati. Completely different format. I I want to do this one again. I'm excited about it. I We'll do this again next. I'm I'm excited now that I understand how it works. I think it is a very interesting format. And Anna said she's never been to Columbus, so you got to come to Columbus for the when we do the pinball race there in June, too, right? Like I remember seeing it, but yeah. Yeah. So, absolutely. All the games today, you know, you've had a chance to play now a lot of these machines for a good amount of time. Which one have you enjoyed the most and which ones drive you the most crazy? Oh, good question. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I'm excited to play Junkyard again because that has been missing from um our local region in Chicago for at least a year. Okay. And it was one of the first ones that I fell in love with and so I've only put a little bit of time on it, but I'm I'm looking forward to playing that one again for sure. Awesome. Yeah. So, that one any machine that you're looking at tomorrow like if I don't play that it won't break my heart. Oh yeah, for sure. See? Uh well, okay. Hey, Royal Rumble I'm a little frightened of because I have never played that one before. So, if I don't play that, I won't break my heart because I don't even know what I'm missing. Fair enough. Yeah, I'm excited about Stars a little bit because I know it's playing like really fast, but I You've had some amazingly close games on Stars today, too. The tiebreakers came down to 300 points. I never played in competition on that, but I did warm up on it and I think it's Well, you're in the open tournament. You're in the match tournament tomorrow, right? Yes. There you go. You might have your opportunity. It's 2 a.m. Thank you for playing. Thank you for winning. Congratulations on getting some cold hard cash and translates and all those. Awesome. Show Show off the metal. You got the metal right there. I do. Show that that that wonderful thing off. Beautiful. Where am I looking at? Gilly never skimps on the metals and the stuff like that. I love the woodwork that we that she gets for that. She does a great job. the best.
    664:43
    Apparently, it's not. We're What? What tournament? No, what are we talking about? I didn't Thank you everyone. Thank you chat. Thank you for all of your congratulations. Thank you, Jane. Great job again. Well done. Well done. That is Jane. Jane Ver was the winner of the Verwise Verwise. Am I pronouncing it wrong the whole time? wise. No, it's a fine. It's How would you know unless I corrected you? You're right. Verise. Jane Verwise. That's the official pronunciation. A wise pinball player and now is a twotime Cincinnati champion. Do you like what I did there? You like what I did there? Yes. Yes. It may never happen again. That's what happens 11 hours into streaming. You get a little slap at it. Well, you're doing great. Thank you. I appreciate it and I'm sure everyone else does. It's a It's a great effort. Justin's been a huge help today. Tish and and everybody and Jen and Eric and everybody changing cameras. This was a super fun day. This is good. This is good. Everything went great. Hey, let's come back in 10 hours and do it again. What do you say? Oh, this one's great. Good night, everybody. I need sleep. Thank you guys so much. We are signing off with that for sure cuz I am tired for sure. My my beautiful girlfriend just wrote I love you. I have to sleep in Florida. So, she's even like done. I don't blame her one bit. God love her. She's wonderful for for hanging in there. And Eric, I'm not I I'll let Eric wave. There we go. I think he's a little slap at me, too. We are going to sign off for the night. Thank you guys so much. We will be back on probably about 11:30 tomorrow in anticipation of the match play tournament. That will be what we are streaming tomorrow. So, uh come join us. Uh, if you enjoyed it today, you know, thank you also to for all the bits, all the subs, everything that you guys did for the channel today. You guys are helping straight down the middle tremendously, and we're glad you are. So, I got nothing else. Good night, everybody. Everyone, scream good night as loud as you can. Good night.
    666:37
    [Applause] Wow, that is impressive. Kid just impressed me there. That's pretty good. Good night everybody. See you see you later today. Bye.