Concord Champ '25: Quarters, Game 3/4 on Attack from Mars by CGC. Streamed from The Flipper Room.

DRI374·video·23m 37s·analyzed·Nov 18, 2025

Analysis

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TL;DR

Concord Champ '25 quarterfinals on Attack from Mars features Dustin, Andre, Jared, and Daniel competing.

Summary

Live tournament commentary from Concord Champ '25 quarterfinals on Attack from Mars (CGC remake). Four competitive players compete in Game 3/4, with Dustin establishing an early lead before faltering in later balls. Commentary discusses gameplay strategy, player skill levels, and Attack from Mars mechanics including multiball, total annihilation mode, and saucer shots. Stream technical issues noted during broadcast.

Key Claims

One commentator owns a real Attack from Mars and prefers it to the CGC remake despite acknowledging remakes are beautiful machines
high confidence · Direct personal statement about machine ownership and preference
Tournament practice time of 30 seconds is often not strictly enforced, with some players taking longer without being called out
high confidence · Commentator observations about tournament conduct and rule enforcement inconsistencies
Tony played in the round before and scored 4.5 billion in total annihilation, significantly higher than other competitors
high confidence · Direct observation of previous match results; noted as exceptional performance
Attack from Mars has very shallow flipper traps that make it difficult or impossible to trap up the ball
high confidence · Commentary observation: 'Those flippers are so shallow you can't even trap up'
Andre's play style is characterized by fast reactions and on-the-fly shot execution, fitting Attack from Mars gameplay
medium confidence · Commentator analysis of player strategy and machine compatibility

Notable Quotes

“Yeah. I own a remake once and I just didn't like it. I own a real one now and I'm much happier.”
Commentator (unnamed) @ Early in stream — Reveals preference for original Attack from Mars over CGC remake despite acknowledging remake quality
“You know, he's been live catching that, but that one was towards the end of the flipper. I think it just kind of surprised him. Yeah, sometimes we just assume it's going to be the same way every time.”
Commentator (unnamed) @ Mid-stream — Discusses ball handling variability and player assumptions during high-pressure competitive play
“That is a very difficult shot. I assume it's doable on this machine. Yeah, it should be, but it's a really snug shot to to get. You really need to know where where it's at.”
Commentators (dialogue) @ During Andre's ball — Technical discussion of backhand lock shot difficulty and execution requirements on Attack from Mars
“That is next level flipper skills there. We're in a it's completely different division of players right now.”
Commentator (unnamed) @ During Dustin's play — Assessment of competitive skill differential between elite tournament players
“You can't play it like you would in your local arcade or at home, you know, going total annihilation and hitting lock shot after lock shot. It just doesn't happen that way.”
Commentator (unnamed) @ Strategy discussion — Highlights difference between casual/home play and competitive tournament execution on Attack from Mars

Entities

DustinpersonAndrepersonJaredperson DanielpersonTonypersonAttack from MarsgameCGCcompanyConcord Champ '25eventThe Flipper Roomorganization

Signals

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sentiment_shift: Positive reception of Attack from Mars as tournament machine despite difficulty; players and commentators respect its challenge and skill requirements
high · Enthusiastic commentary, detailed technical discussion of shot execution, recognition of player skill differentiation
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competitive_signal: Attack from Mars shallow flippers create significant ball control challenges in tournament play; safe play (saucer shots for points) vs. aggressive play (total annihilation attempts) represents key strategic decision point
high · Multiple commentary observations about flipper depth, ball save strategy, and shift from aggressive to conservative play mid-game by experienced players
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community_signal: Andre exhibits on-the-fly shot execution style; Dustin demonstrates early dominance but struggles with consistency; Jared executes total annihilation strategy
medium · Commentator analysis of player styles: 'fast on the fly, you know, it's his reactions are so good' for Andre; observations of strategy shifts by each player

Topics

Competitive tournament gameplay on Attack from MarsprimaryPlayer skill assessment and comparative analysisprimaryAttack from Mars mechanics: multiball, total annihilation, saucer shotsprimaryStrategy differences between casual/home play and tournament playsecondaryTournament rule enforcement and conductsecondaryCGC remake vs. original Attack from Mars comparisonsecondaryBall control and flipper mechanics on shallow flipper machinessecondary

Sentiment

mixed(0.55)— Commentary is professionally analytical and engaging, but underlaid with competitive tension and frustration from players struggling with the machine's shallow flippers and harsh feeding patterns. Commentators acknowledge the difficulty and respect players' skill execution, but also express sympathy for difficult bounces and bad luck. Stream technical issues noted as minor frustration.

Transcript

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All right, Daniel desperately needs a win to get back in the hunt. I mean, unless someone needs one practice or something, a little bit of practice The Earth is under attack. Everyone's practicing. Yeah. I own a remake once and I just didn't like it. I don't I don't like them. No. Uh I know they're beautiful games, but Yeah. It was just it was just to look at and so I I have a real one now and I'm much happier. So that was a good loop pass. All right. Oh wow. Wow. I'm surprised he could get away with that. Yeah, those those are wide open. So yeah. All right. Is this part of practice? Is this part of his 30 seconds? You wonder. Yeah, I finally started live catching it out of the scoop. Anything going over there is no highly in danger. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, there's definitely going to be big tilts here. Big tilts. Yeah. One of the things like as a player, you know, you always want to learn and like I said, I struggled with this game when I played it yesterday. And so if I can pick up something where, oh yeah, I should have thought of that and maybe maybe gone that direction, you know, in the future could help you. Have you ever been have have you ever seen anybody called on practicing more than 30 seconds or whatever? No. No. It's just one of those things that just 30 seconds practice and some people just go run over it, right? And and nobody gets called out. And it's the same thing when you're sort of like when you're stalling between I know your balls, right? This you should supposed to be like 60 seconds, whatever. And some people just take like 5 10 minutes before they show up. I know it's respectful of everybody's time. Yeah. But, you know, I kind of chuckle when I see people put, you know, their timer out. Yeah. All right. Joe Plunge is having a good ball. So, is the order correct and updated there now? Or I Dustin won last game, so I'm guessing he would be going first. Yeah, Andre was second, so it seems like it's in line with the finishing order from last game. Yep. Is there video of it? Send it to me. All right, Dustin Dustin can really put the hammer down right here. Yeah, he has a good ball number one. It really puts the pressure on, you know, the others from Yeah, that's next level flipper skills there. We're in a it's completely different division of players right now. I did the loop pass, but after after that it was like a little sketchy. Yeah. All right, that looks familiar. Oh, yeah. Go to sling sling town and break a shot. Get in the slings and see you later. Yeah, it's over. I finally just went after the saucer and I think it got me a second place finish. But yeah, some sometimes you kind of need to just go after the bread and butter when when things are not panning out, right? It was the same way we watched another game of Attack from Mars and it's just like just get the damn saucer and get some points on the board, right? because nothing is obviously working, right? So, yeah, sometimes you can't play it like you would in your local AR arcade or at home, you know, going Total Nuclear Annihilation and hitting lock shot after lock shot. It just doesn't happen that way. So, no. Yeah. Tony played the round before us, right, and he sort of he he started setting up his Total Nuclear Annihilation. I thought, "Oh, that's a risky move on this game, right?" And he ended up playing it twice. Wa! Yeah. with 4 and a.5 billion on the board. That's a hell of a game on this this machine. Yeah. Yeah. No one else came close to a billion, but he played it like he he owned it. Yeah. Well, let's see how Andre handles this. Normally, I would say this game fits right in the way he plays. fits his play style, you know, fast on the fly, you know, it's his reactions are so good. Okay, so he doesn't go for the loot pass cuz he's not probably not interested in the uh saucer. No. on the fly. Thank you. will be destroyed. Was he thinking backhand lock on the fly? Is that is that is that is that possible? Was that what he was thinking? Uh Andre can do many things. Got to save the liberty. All right. Live catch. Oh, he changed from his practice. Back hand lock there now. Yeah, he tried it. Yeah, look at that. That is a very difficult shot. I assume it's doable on this machine. Yeah, it should be, but it's a really snug shot to to get. You really need to know where where it's at. Now Jared's going to do the loop pass to uh center. Okay, very well executed. Martian. Yeah, a little weird spins on this machine. Oh, good nudge. Oh, you got credit for that there. Oh, nice save. This is like my greatest. I know. All right. Where's he going? Yeah, he's going Total Nuclear Annihilation. Otherwise, he'd go for the lock shot right here. Two bricks in a row. Still lives. Yeah, this sling town here managed to survive that. So, very good. Yep. This feeds to the right out lane, but he managed to get an offset. Thank you very much. Yeah. All right. Left ramp. Oh, that was that was the key one right there. Yeah, stream is lagging. It's currently at a third of what it's supposed to be. So, I'm I apologize for that. That is just Was that towards the end of the flipper? It just kind of surprised him. Yeah, I missed it because I was looking at the meters. Where did that Oh. Oh, it just rolled off. You know, he's been live catching that, but that one was towards the end of the flipper. I I think it just kind of surprised him. Yeah, sometimes we just assume it's going to be the same way every time and all right, Daniel needs to win this game. So, he can't be playing small ball. Oh no. All right. I like it. Wow. When you miss, you're in huge trouble. Mhm. You know, I I sort of have some redemptions so far because that's the way I felt yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People were making comments in chat as well that this game just ate through people. Yeah. I mean, yes, the stream is still running at half speed for some reason. I don't know why. The phone is ringing. Mike or Katie, if you want to pick it up. Got a print order to Yeah. to pick up. Got some framing business here. Got to pay the bills. Yeah, I feel inclined picking up and There you go. Take the hurry up. Get some points out because that's coming. Yeah. So, when I was playing, I made the decision after ball one, I'm going saucer just to get some points on the board. And it and that got you second. Yeah, that got me a second. But, you know, the caliber of these players, I don't think that's going to get you second. No. Yeah, that's not going to make you in certain situations. If you're ball three, maybe, but you um I think Andre is doing that that very same thing. Yeah. I mean, since you had a ball save, you can just like shoot it, right? And this is free points basically at this point, right? Oh, okay. I need to pick up my food. No, it's fine. All right. So Jared is kind of in competition with Andre. Um you know he's Oh, that's a nice very nice lead pass. All right. He's getting close to Annihilation. It's hard to tell. Is it the left orbit? No, he's got the left side. One shot each one. Roll it over. Oh, no. Watch out, man. They've got a big There it is. Start it. All right. Five 500 million. Hurry up. So Jared's in Total Nuclear Annihilation. Oh, it paid out. All that work. All right, let's see how many jackpots did we get. Four balls in play. Those flippers are so shallow you can't even trap up. No. Oh, that went south. Oh, that feeds straight to the out lane. Yeah, I'm liking where he's at, though. Yeah, I 1.5ish something. I thought I saw 1.7. Yeah, I don't think anybody's close to multiball. I don't think anybody's close to Total Nuclear Annihilation. No. Um, you going to try to open another saucer? Maybe. I don't know if that's going to get you there. I was just saying it's kind of a competition between Jared and Andre now for that second advanced [music] advancement. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It is for sure. Yeah. You're not I don't I don't think you're going to see Dustin go zero. Yeah. I don't think so. No. Oh, back in lock shot. Yeah, he's doable every man. Oh, he he went on on the fly. Double danger. Survive this, Daniel. All right, hit the lock shot. All right. Oh, there we go. Wow. A few returns on the fly and there we are. Let's see if you can roll this over. Wow, that is a weird falling down. Okay. All right. Let's see if he can get to the super jackpot round. Yeah. I mean, he really needs to do that to get close here. Yeah, grinding points on the regular multiball is a lot of work. Yeah, especially on this machine. Ball saver's gone. Okay, so you got it. Saucer there. Gone. That one's gone. Jackpot. Well, I got a consolation jackpot. Oh, those slings are brutal. Yeah. Well, he's got something no one else got. And that is another ball. So, true. He's going to see what he's got to chase down. Mhm. Well, Dustin's in a position where he didn't want to be. And that's last. Um, let's see if he can sneak out at least a point here. Yeah. So, so yeah, four to go on uh Total Nuclear Annihilation. Ooh. Wow. So, he's no rocks. I guess he's trying to trouble. Ooh. All right. That one came over. Three shots now. No. Oh my lord. Oh Jesus. That's He was in a tough spot. You know what? What do you do? I mean Yeah. You don't want to go after the saucer. No, he needed a multiple and a saucer to kind of climb at least a little bit, right? All right. So, he's going to stay at six. Yeah, this just got a lot more interesting. Mhm. Yeah, because Justin going to lose to either Andre and Jared and that means that they will be on the same points and yeah, one of them is likely to have and the third player in that constellation will be hungry for points on the next game, right? So, it's uh so it's anyone's game among those three. Yeah, he could have a 665. Yeah. Did that drop in? Okay. Let's see if he can get to the super uh jackpot round. That's what he really needs. Yeah, getting this next saucer as well because he has like 400 million plus sitting there as well. Oh, both of those are coming out. Oh, laser. So, that first one didn't go around either. No. Oh, he had a ball save. Oh, it came back. Yeah, he needs to start making shots here. Yeah. Oh, the saucer is getting damaged. No. All right, that's trickled in. Let's see where he's at. Six. Remember Jared still has another ball. Oh my god, that worked out. Does this Oh, I guess didn't know that have enough momentum. See how much bonus he hasund 104 million basically. So, yeah, Jared still has the ball, right? So, he will pass him, but I mean Jared will probably get similar bonus. Well, not all. Oh, is he going to open up the saucer again? I don't hate it. No. Yeah, he needs a lot of shots for Total Nuclear Annihilation, right? And All right. Take the hurry up. Yeah. Yeah. Do Yeah, why not? Take the hurry up. Oh, I was thinking it. Yeah. Survive. Survive. Oh my god. Oh, it's counting down now. It's all right. Would have liked it a little earlier, but All right. Are you going to go saucer? Open it up the right. Yep. Yeah, I I concur. Yeah, there's there's three millions in there, right? Oh, it didn't give me nothing yet. That sucks. I totally concur. I mean, that's 210 million right there. Yeah, another one. Yeah, the damage is worth a lot the deeper you go as well, right? So, here you go. He took his multiball, right? Yeah. And Okay. He he didn't really want to he didn't come out of that with where he wanted to be, but then he immediately knew that he was going saucers and he committed to it. All right, Jared might be doing the same thing. Yeah, but that's his first saucer, so he's not worth as much, right? Like his two damage shots will What were they worth? Like 80 Oh my god. Double danger on that one. See, I don't understand. If he's going to open up the saucer on the plunge and then he doesn't shoot it, why why why not just take your bonus X up top? Yeah. Okay. So Andre is uh is in the lead here. That will put him at six. Then Andre and Jared at Yeah, Daniel still have to play and uh he's not terribly far from Total Nuclear Annihilation, right? So he needs five shots. He needs a you know I mean a couple billion. I mean, tough tough chore on this one, but no one pay out. Okay, he still got it. Oh, not even a danger. Oh, they count. Oh, they That was a in droves. All right. All right. Uh, unfortunately Daniel's out, but he's got whoppers to play for next game.