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California Extreme 2016 Pinball Tournament Qualifying

IE Pinball·video·2h 2m·analyzed·Jul 22, 2016
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TL;DR

California Extreme 2016 pinball tournament qualifying livestream with game commentary and competitive play.

Summary

IE Pinball streams live tournament gameplay from California Extreme 2016 qualifying, featuring multiple classic pinball machines (Pinball Magic, Medieval Madness, NASCAR, Whirlwind, Eight Ball Deluxe, Expressway, Taxi) with commentary from tournament organizers and players. The event is a limited-entry qualifying tournament with 20 entries per player held in a dedicated hotel room with 12 machines (9 operational). Key technical issues discussed include broken Medieval Madness trolls, electrical circuit constraints causing breaker trips, and playfield mechanics on various games.

Key Claims

  • Pinball Magic wizard mode is worth 500 million points

    medium confidence · Jermaine chatting in during Oscar H. Ray's Medieval Madness game; used as potential strategic information during qualifying

  • Medieval Madness at this location has both trolls disabled—left troll broken from the beginning, right troll broke during turnaround approximately 5-6 months prior

    high confidence · Stated directly by commentator when explaining Medieval Madness game condition

  • Dan Lee Moscaritolo recently took second place at Pinvasion tournament a couple weeks prior

    medium confidence · Karl DeAngelo's statement about Dan Lee's recent performance; chat room invited to correct if inaccurate

  • Bowen used a post-pass technique on Barnyard (Medieval Madness) by bouncing the ball up the swing instead of cradle separation

    high confidence · Commentary observed earlier in tournament: 'I saw Bowen doing something very interesting on this earlier...he was bouncing it up the swing and then post pass'

  • Electrical issue: Hotel charged $400 fee for tripping breaker, which knocked out 3 of 12 games, leaving only 9 operational

    high confidence · Tournament director directly stated: 'We found out that if we tripped the breaker we would be charged $400 for tripping the breaker in this room'

  • Tournament qualifying format is limited entry: everyone has exactly 20 entries, no more, no less

    high confidence · Stated explicitly: 'everyone had 20 entries and only 20 entries. No more, no less'

  • Hotel wifi works in the pinball room; tournament director running tournament display off cellular LTE with no data caps

    high confidence · Setup explanation: 'the hotel's wifi even works in this room so we have the tablets on the wifi and then I'm running this screen off the cellular' / 'Unlimited data plan' / 'This is a Verizon unlimited LTE with no data caps'

  • The tournament ends at midnight; final stop is 9am the next day

    high confidence · Question posed about tournament end time: 'I believe it's midnight, right? Yeah, midnight' and 'The final stop tomorrow at 9am'

Notable Quotes

  • “Potato. Say potato if it sounds good.”

    Tournament director/commentator @ Early in stream — Running gag/test of audience engagement during technical setup

  • “Only cheating if Raymond has headphones on and listening to us.”

    Karl DeAngelo or Johnny Pinball @ During Pinball Magic commentary — Joking about revealing wizard mode strategy to tournament players via livestream

  • “I have fun getting to 11...You're too calculated and mean and thick.”

    Johnny Pinball (responding to criticism of conservative play style) @ During NASCAR commentary — Player defending conservative strategy against commentator criticism

  • “He deserves a slap on the back of his head.”

    Karl DeAngelo (about Mark Bob Brown) @ During Medieval Madness with Mark Bob Brown — Joking criticism of Mark's gameplay decision during multiball

  • “A lot of work and all this stuff up and running it's insane every time I set it up I wonder why I'm doing it but it's a good time.”

    Tournament director (possibly responding to thanks) @ After Eight Ball Deluxe game — Reflects on the effort required to run live tournament broadcasts

  • “I'll give you a secret. This is worth...Unlimited data plan.”

    Chris (setting up Whirlwind commentary) @ During Whirlwind segment — Joking setup about unlimited cellular data for running tournament display

  • “We found out that if we tripped the breaker we would be charged $400 for tripping the breaker in this room.”

    Tournament director @ During Whirlwind/setup discussion — Explains why 3 of 12 games are non-operational

  • “I think Expressway is the only game without a real queue.”

    Karl DeAngelo or commentary @ During Expressway segment — Notes that Expressway has been unpopular compared to other games in the tournament

Entities

California Extreme 2016eventKarl DeAngelopersonJohnny PinballpersonMark Bob BrownpersonOscar H. RaypersonDan Lee MoscaritolopersonJermainepersonBowen KerinspersonMichael Adcock

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: California Extreme 2016 features dedicated pinball tournament room with livestream broadcast, chat engagement, and live commentary

    high · Entire stream is organized community event with commentary team, chat participation, and tournament infrastructure

  • ?

    event_signal: Head2Head Pinball tournament mentioned as upcoming event in late August/early September

    medium · Mention during broadcast: 'This is Head2Head Pinball coming, hopefully late August, early September'

  • ?

    community_signal: Strong Pacific Northwest participation with approximately 12 people from Seattle area attending; players making 8-12 hour drives to California Extreme

    high · Karl DeAngelo: 'I made a nice drive with a lot of dedicated Pacific Northwest individuals here' and 'I think about 12 people from Seattle coming down'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Tournament strategy discussion: debate over conservative play (avoiding risky shots) vs. aggressive multiball pursuit; Bowen's post-pass technique on Medieval Madness noted as alternative cradle method

    high · Commentary compares Johnny Pinball's conservative approach vs. aggressive multiball pursuit; notes Bowen's post-pass technique on Medieval Madness

  • ?

    event_signal: California Extreme 2016 features separate dedicated pinball room distinct from main show floor; room layout changed this year with games positioned upstairs

    high · Tournament director: 'We are pinball in a separate room this year...you go up the escalator and we're on the left. We're far away from the show floor...Dedicated room just for us'

Transcript

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0:00
you Hello everybody! Can you hear us? If you can hear us, type potato. come on that's the potato sorry about that oh no done? anybody? no potato?
6:09
no potato it's on Jermaine says sorry about that potato hey great commentary about donkeys and potatoes that's right He's feeling magic.
6:27
All right, so we're watching Ray Ray on Pinball Magic here. All right, so what's going on here? So he's got the inner, what is that, a loop shot, a ramp, I guess, right? That's a ramp that feeds the levitating ball. But it seems to be rejecting his shot over and over and over again. Yeah, I noticed that. Now, you hit it even from the right flipper. Yeah, I did. I found it to be safer. Just because he's doing dirty shots. I mean, come on. There you go. No. Maybe, you know, that murder might be stuck closed. I would stop shooting that. Wow. Yeah. So, it plays multi-ball. He's got multi-ball lit on the right scoop where the hat is. And he went for it, and he bricked that, too. Okay, let's see. All right, introductions. I'm Carl D'Angelo. Okay. I'm Johnny Modica. And I'm Mark Brown. All right. And Ray is probably looking and saying, why? Why are you ejecting? Why?
7:30
So he wants to get that Mayhem. There you go. The Mini Mayhem coming up. All right. So Mini Mayhem is a two-ball, multi-ball eject punch for $20 million. So you want to hit the... There you go. And just like that, it's over. Just like that. Over. Hello and goodbye. Yep.

  • Expressway game frequently drains down the middle after hitting the button that drops the post

    high confidence · Commentary: 'The problem is this often goes down the middle. Exactly. It hits the button that drops the post and then down the middle'

  • Aaron Harding is described as 'a very, very talented young player' from Seattle who sometimes gets psyched out in tournaments

    high confidence · Karl DeAngelo's characterization of Aaron Harding when she steps up to play Taxi

  • “Raymond, are you third? Yeah, I can't seem to get one extra point to get the first.”

    Karl DeAngelo / Raymond Davidson @ During Expressway gameplay — Raymond's standing in tournament after taxi attempt failed

  • “I have no more entries. I have three. I think Keith's maybe the one with the most entries left.”

    Jermaine / unidentified commentator @ Late in tournament — Players running out of their 20 qualifying entries near end of tournament

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    NASCARgame
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  • ?

    community_signal: Raymond Davidson previously set 40 million point score on Whirlwind using staging jackpot technique; indicates high-level competitive play and technique development

    medium · Jermaine: 'I watched Raymond's trial game yesterday at 7pm when the qualifying opened and he put 40 million. He was doing a staging jackpot'

  • ?

    product_concern: Medieval Madness at tournament location has both trolls disabled (left broken from start, right broke 5-6 months ago), affecting game design and strategy

    high · Commentator explicitly states both trolls are inactive and explains history of breakage during game description

  • ?

    technology_signal: Electrical infrastructure inadequate for tournament setup: 3 of 12 machines knocked offline due to breaker trips, with $400 penalty charged to show for each trip

    high · Tournament director: 'We found out that if we tripped the breaker we would be charged $400...With 12 games we really pushed this...Is that why you actually broke three of the twelve games? Yep'

    • 7:50
    Any grace on the jackpot at all or no? No, not really. No, just... Don't even do it. All right, you've got the magic carpet ride. Next thing is to silence the critics. Shoot the ramp, and then you have to press both flipping buttons at the right time. And he did not press it at the right time. Hey, or maybe he did, and the ball bounced. Oh, he did a good job. Alright, he's progressing the trick. He's got the target. Okay, now he's got one white triangle over here. So, now what? What happens when you do all three of the triangles? You get the super duper... Very good question. Okay, because you got the two. I saw your game and you actually got the two triangles. Yeah, I did too. You get lots of points. Alright, that's it. We forgive you. Don't worry. See how I cleared that blue? Yes, you cleared it properly. I don't know why it went blue already. Just like that, just down the middle. By the way, the tilt is pretty sensitive. It's very sensitive. Sound good? Yeah, potato. Say potato if it sounds good. Yeah, potato, thanks. No thanks. So Ream is currently sitting in third place. However this was a limited qualifying tournament. So everyone got 20 entries and only 20 entries. No more, no less. And everyone's just using them up. So they've got it. Jermaine, who is somewhere in this hall, says the Wizard Mode apparently is 500 million. Say what, about $500 million? Well, Jermaine's chatting in the, you know... Oh, Wizard Mode. Wizard Mode that apparently gives you $500 million. Jermaine, go back to the journal.
    9:38
    Wow. Is this kind of cheating? Because, I mean, our audience is the same audience that's playing in this tournament.
    9:49
    What do you think about this? Nah. No? No. We're not in for any numbers? Only cheating if Raymond has headphones on and listening to us. Okay. Sorry. Cheating on our ratings, that's what I'm saying. So I saw Bowen doing something very interesting on this earlier. Instead of trying to cradle separate by that method, he was bouncing it up the swing and then post pass. He post passed very easy on this game. Right. Okay. As you can see, the separation where you toss the ball up the swing does not work very It doesn't have enough momentum to get over the other flipper. Okay.
    10:27
    What about doing the one-two? Is it worth it? Basically, the one-two is the two loops. The two orbits, if you want to call it that. I have no idea what they do. When they're not lit. Because he was going for it when he was lit. Well, it might have been part of the current trick he's on. Okay. So he's got one lock.
    10:45
    Yeah, go for a mini mayhem. Nope. No mini mayhem. Maybe now? Nope. Missed it. Well his next shot is on the captive ball but he's going to go for the mini-mainham because he can collect the captive ball during the multi-ball by accident. So they don't freeze when you're in multi-ball the shots? Some do. Like the Silence of Critics you can't drop a ball off the wand at that time. In fact they won't even divert it. It will go straight around the ramp to the wire farm. And stuff like ramps and orbits, I mean, those are fine? Yep. Okay. And another instant drain in multiple. Wow.
    11:28
    No ball save. I thought that just happened. Ah, just like that, it's gone. Just like that, he got jinxed.
    11:41
    I mean, not too bad of a score. He won it at 250 million. It's going to be points. But I'm thinking he probably needs more than that to jump up a little bit more. Let's find out. Instant Sandwich, right? De Bruyne on the next player on the end. Alright, next game. Mark, why'd you pick the game? Yeah, Mark, what do you think? Oh, we're just getting going. How about Medieval Madness? Medieval Madness. Who just said past you Johnny? Who is that? Drink too much too.
    12:19
    Cheers. Lee Moscario. Cheers? Lee. Doublehead pinball. What's that Johnny? I don't know. Alright, who's playing?
    12:36
    That's live. Don't look at this game. Okay, not looking at that game. So the drawbridge is inactivated? Yeah, on Medieval Madness you basically got the drawbridge that's inactive and the left troll is also inactive. So you have to hit the left, um, target? Right? The left yellow standard target. Both trolls are disabled. Oh, both of them are disabled? Yeah, the left one was broken when we had the game, when the get go. The right troll broke during the turnaround. Great. One of those ramp shots is a little tight. So Mr. Gene is playing right now. What a nice picture of Gene by the way. Look at that. Huh? That's what happens when you send me a profile picture. Wow, that is a profile picture. Oh, very nice. And you forget the stuff that we have over there. He should be a photographer. So drawbridge and active means easier shots in the castle. Um, I don't know, what do you think? Easier shots? I don't know if it's easier shots, because, I mean, when the drawbridge is up, I mean, the ball kind of gets trapped there, and it's a nicer feed to the left flipper. Yeah, it's just bouncing off the gate there, and it gets a hard shot coming back at you. But I think with the drawbridge down, you get, maybe you get, you know, you get more hits or something on the castle, do you? No. You don't? No, all in the losing. Okay, so just in my head, then. Yep. All right. Where's Gene sitting right now? I don't know. He's 21st. Ah, so he's hoping for the election. He is hanging on. Yes, he wants to improve.
    14:22
    Five points from the bubble. It's a previous score down there on the screen right now. 26 million, 200,000. Okay. What does he need? Well, he needs anything. All right, he needs one point. So he's at 26 million right now. Okay, but I mean, what's his lowest score? What's his fifth lowest score?
    14:44
    Medieval is in his wheelhouse right now. He's got 72 points on it. So he's got 26 million. He's got to do better than 26 million. All right.
    15:01
    And let's see, what does he have? He started close. Trolls shoot the targets. Shoot the targets. There you go. Well, I'd rather shoot targets than trolls. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know if those targets can be dangerous. I don't know. That left feed has done that a few times. If you don't catch it just right, it bounces off the flipper. Death. Yes. Only time from experience. What's it going for? Castle Multibot? I'd say Castle Multibot, absolutely. Oh, there we go. Hurry up. I would ignore the hurry up and just go for Castle. You think so? Yeah. Oh, almost backhanded that thing. This game has superbands on it. Actually, I feel that it makes the game a little bit easier because you can dropcast them. I agree completely. Oh, I barely made it. Oh boy, he's playing risky. Let's see the feedback to the right flipper here. Little bump, live catch. On the fly, on the fly and he's still hitting the castle. Didn't make that jump. He's going to go on the fly isn't he? Yeah, he did. Oh, cross it again, come on. Oh, drop. More castle hits. And I'm sure he's saying, why am I doing that? Because that's what happens when you do that. Did he improve? No. Unfortunately, avoid. No improvement.
    16:38
    And just like that, all that effort just, poof, gone. So how big is our audience right now? What do you got, about four people? Four people. Oh, yes. It's on that screen. I can't see it. We have a total of zero. No, 12. Wow, 12 users. Out of which, ten of them are probably here playing with us, right?
    17:06
    Do we count as three? I think so. All right, we're going over to Lee. Lee, who did not take a profile photo. Lee Moscaritolo. He didn't want a profile photo, but there he is, right on camera. There he is. The guy with the hat, right? The guy with the hat, yes. Mr. Lee.
    17:26
    By the way, can you say his last name? Say his last name. You go for it. Moscaritolo. Come on, you're D'Angelo, you're Italian too, come on man. I am Italian. Well, you got some Italian blood if you're D'Angelo. You sure? Yeah. I don't know.
    17:41
    You come all the way from Hawaii? An Italian in Hawaii. Man, he's going everywhere lately. He's in every tournament around the country. Is he? Yeah. He took, I believe, just second place in Pinvasion just a couple weeks ago. Oh, wow. Okay. I think it was second.
    17:58
    All right. Chat room can correct me if that's incorrect. Well, let's see what he does here at AFM. And I guess he's doing pretty good right now. I mean, he's got, what, 7.6 billion on ball two. That's actually pretty good.
    18:19
    Yep, and he's improved his score because he's at 4.5, which is a good score. Yeah, so right now he's just getting more points. Where is he standing right now? he's all he's a 10 yeah he's just above me in there he's gonna jump you're gonna move up well you're ready John me we'll move to a buy oh well it's a 15 point difference for a buy no probably not right in by convention yeah because he had an 86 so he's probably gonna he's gonna probably try to get another 10 points out of this well 10 points are still nice He just passed Dan Dempsey.
    18:57
    Yeah, he still has ten available entries, so he can play all night long. You mean for the next two hours? Hour and a half, anyway.
    19:07
    I think I've got to start playing my entries, too. Are those super bands on that machine? Yeah, they are super bands. Yeah, absolutely. You've got that extra shiny, you can see it.
    19:20
    Shiny green. Did he just get a big hit? Oh yeah he got a big hit. He had a little push up to try to pass the ball over. Alright Louie, what you gonna do? You gonna try to open up the other lock? Your last lock there? Concentrating, drying up your hands, saying, Okay I got this, I got this. I'm gonna make this shot. Let me fix my hat a little bit. Hold on, make sure my mojo is all correct. The shirt, mmhmm. I'm aiming for it, I'm concentrating. I can see you. I see you. I see you. Yes. You're on mine ramp. He's going for the lock, you think? Absolutely, he's going for the lock. He is going for the lock. Watch this.
    20:01
    Let's see. Does it all work? Too much time. It's going to be a break. I know. All right, wait until you see my... Oh, no, it worked. It worked. Oh, very nice. He's got to finish it. Oh, and all of that. All of that preparation for that ramp shot. He got one, but he couldn't finalize it.
    20:27
    You should have started making bets when stuff like that happens. You know, is he going to hit her or not, right?
    20:36
    All right, folks, I'm on deck. Maybe you will manage. You're off? You guys are both leaving? All right, Mike. Thank you. I'm not both. We're still here. All right.
    20:44
    I just fixed my hat. Run, run, run! You looking good man, you looking good, you ready? I see you. Alright, where are we going? Oh, you wanna follow Mark? You wanna go play? What's he playing? I don't know, Mark! Mark! What are you playing? Oh, you're playing MediEvo? We just saw it. We just saw MediEvo. Alright.
    21:17
    Yeah, I know. That's it. Alright. I'm working on changing it. When are you up? Uh, I am third. So, we are moving over to NASCAR. Well, I'm going to put you down on third, so it's going to be a while. Alright.
    21:40
    Michael Adcock from Bellevue. Hi Michael. Made a nice drive with a lot of dedicated Pacific Northwest individuals here. That's a good drive. I mean, how many hours do you think that is? I think about 12 hours, maybe 8. I would have no idea. Alright, so NASCAR, he, what ball is he in? Oh, he's in ball three. Ooh. Ooh, not bad. Yeah, he's got a lot of work to do. 11 million, yeah. So you're saying this game is playing pretty friendly today, right? It is. The, uh, since the car is disabled, all you have to do is shoot the car. And if I had the, uh, teleprater by me, I would, um, point to you where you shoot the car. Because you want to shoot it right on the left of it. Right. Right here? Right around there, yeah, because it'll bounce in that little area. And then come right back down to the clipper very nicely. So just kind of like that. Does it matter which clipper you're shooting it from or no? I was going from the right mostly. All right.
    22:54
    Now, did you actually have a purpose when you were picking your modes and try to combine them with multi-balls or not really? You were just basically dashing at the car? No.
    23:07
    He's bashing at the car, huh? Yeah. Okay. Let's see. He's going right side only. Would you play it right side only or try to get your locks?
    23:19
    Locks. Locks, huh? Great plays. And he's got... What has he got? I forgot that red light blinking over here If you hit that it starts There's going to start some Laps or fast laps or something like that What was it?
    23:49
    Sure What do you mean sure? It wasn't worth it You think I'm going to shoot that if it's not lit for a mode? I'm not going to shoot that over it No that's like speed laps or something You can get a champ lit up for that right? Okay Is that what it is? No I thought you could get like more You could get like a million I'm not going to shoot that orbit with the ball rocketing back to the pivot. Why would I do that?
    24:12
    I like how you play, Johnny. You're so conservative. No wonder you're... You're so conservative. Let's look at these standings here. No wonder you're 11. Yeah, but you know what? I have fun getting to 11. You're too calculated and mean and thick. So keep that. All right, we're going to swing back over to some medieval just to get some Mark Brown action going since he was on the mic with us. That's right. Give him a little kudos.
    24:37
    877. This is me thanking Mark for being on the bike. Thank you, Mark. You're the man, Mark. All right. Now Mark is looking at what, he's on ball too. His best score is 17 million. 17 million, okay. He's even better at it. Apparently Bowen sucks. I love light TV, you know, you don't have to do it. bleeping and stuff like us doing it? No. No? No bleeping. Yeah, we can do the manual bleep. Just go bleep. Oh, look how Bowen's talking right now. We might need to.
    25:41
    Wow, that was kinda cool. Like a weird double pass life cap thing. Alright, AntMillion, what have you got? So what's he doing? Is he going for castles actively? It looks like he's... I mean, he's got Trolls that he's got one multi ball I would try to get a second multi ball just to you know have that extended the ball safe and that's not gonna happen I still would have done it because I mean I'm ball two I say you know now I wouldn't run any risk and just take the multi ball ball three especially if he's got a better 17 million that's not gonna take too long to get through he's got two right trolls plus that yeah he's got trolls plus that but I mean I would try to get a second multi ball With one multiball, your ball speed is very short. Yeah.
    26:28
    And balls, yes, like, wow. The only problem is that he doesn't really have much set up. Well, he started a multiball.
    26:48
    Three pro bombs, okay, that can come in handy. Target, target. Yeah. Some of those just joining us who trolled are disabled. Well, I mean at this point I would just go for Castle because I mean you'll end up hitting the targets. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, of course. What are you going for? Come on, Mark. Mark! Come on, dude, what are you doing? He's going for the jackpot. What are you doing? Do the trolls first if nothing else, at least get him down to the 180. Yeah, Castle, there you go, now he's inspecting his senses. Come on, Castle. No, he's not. Oh. Oh, now he can inspect his senses. Come on, catch him. No, he can't. Oh.
    27:23
    When you come back over, you can... Yes, I will chastise him. Oh, no. Oh, the troll bomb's on. He tells... Oh, that's it. He deserves a slap on the back of his head. So, yeah, the trolls, the left troll came to his broken. Yes. And then the right troll broke maybe five or six hours ago. So, yeah, no trolls. Just the targets behind him. Oh, troll. Uh oh, guess what, I'm next. I gotta take off. On what game? On, uh, NatCar. Alright, adios. I'll see you later.
    27:56
    Oh, I'm sorry everybody, you're stuck with me. Just me. Someone will come over to save me. Maybe not.
    28:05
    Chatroom, what do you wanna see? Well, actually, I'll just go to a game we haven't seen yet. Uh, let's see if anyone's on, uh...
    28:13
    Oh, people are in the luggage. How about blue chips? I bet you haven't seen them this game Yeah, you need to send me more best dance
    28:44
    Alright, here we are on blue chip. And Bob Matthews is around here to tell everyone how to play. I played this once. It seems like you want to, let's see, targets one and four like the left lane double bonus, targets three and sticks like the right lane double bonus. So we pretty much want to get those done right away because the targets carry over in the game. And he just got a couple of bonus there. Let's see, this is Stomp. Oh, barely saved that. Oh, barely served that.
    30:00
    And that's the end of his game apparently. I need to get the balls on this display so we know how far things are. Let's get someone that's starting the game soon. Let's see. I'm going to keep up with what's going to be coming up soon. Let's get going.
    30:32
    How everyone evening going Keepin it goin Alright, we got Mr. Pat Spilley coming up on 8 Ball Deluxe.
    30:56
    Main Street Mayhem, if anyone's around Lafayette, you should be going to the tournament. of the tournament. Sounds like it's going to be a great time. Same with the Vancouver Flipout. Except for Vancouver. Alright, looks like this player needs to shift a bit so we can see the side of Pat and some other Vandaflores. Sorry. Tomorrow. And Pat collects a whopping 10,000 for that bonus on the 8 ball. So the bonus multiplier on this, or the 8 ball, collects a single bonus. It does not take into account any multiplier fees there.
    31:49
    Oh, that was a nice little flip into the multiplier. Thanks guys, I'm glad you're watching. a lot of work and all this stuff up and running it's insane every time I set it up I wonder why I'm doing it but it's a good time I think these events need to be recorded
    32:16
    all right so looks like Pat completes his first set of shot targets and he's trying to keep it alive before going well like that Pretty simple game for anyone who doesn't know. You hit the seven drop targets on the right hand side. It's a build your bonus and the multipliers are the four in lane drop targets. I'm pretty sure everyone watching this probably already knows that.
    32:52
    Oh, with a fumble. Nice quick game of 8Bubble Up. Thank you Buffalo Pinball. And what do you know, thanks for hosting. You've got your equipment coming up. Papa Circuit event. Everyone around there, go to it.
    33:17
    And this is Double Headset Pinball coming, hopefully late August, early September. Check this channel.
    33:28
    Jack, you did not want my setup. This is just a nightmare to run. To be honest, I'm worried about tomorrow when I'm playing.
    34:04
    And if anyone's going to be able to run this while I'm away. I mean, I'll get someone that can have an idea, hopefully. But the usual suspects are not going to be around.
    34:15
    All right, here we've got Michael Tibbetts from Redmond playing Worldwings. My data plan is $5,000, huh, Chris?
    34:25
    I'll give you a secret. This is worth. unlimited data plan. They won't benefit I guess. No, no, no, no, no star. No star. Unlimited. It is a Verizon unlimited LTE with no data caps.
    35:04
    So it is truly unlimited. If only they still sold that. And we are in a separate room this year at Culinary Extreme. We are, as you walk into the hotel, you go up the escalator and we're on the left. We're far away from the show floor.
    35:29
    It's actually a very nice room. I should get a camera in here to pan around for tomorrow. dedicated room just for us, it's a good size, we've got 12 games in here, only 9 working
    35:46
    and thankfully the hotel's wifi even works in this room so we have the tablets on the wifi and then I've got this screen running off the cellular Yeah, the only downside is this player cam here is there's no lights where this game is. Or actually we turned off the light. Nice save there by Michael, just this little tiny nudge. Yeah, there's some lights that are behind the game, but they cause too much glare for the players. so we never had no glare from the players before. Oh, oh, oh man.
    36:29
    Oh, playing with fire there. So this whirlwind was sometimes, I'm moving. This whirlwind was sometimes,
    36:46
    these headphones are loud. Switch mic steps. Sometimes you can let it bounce over here, dead bounce. And we just roll up the in lane and say you could shoot right back into the scoop and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
    37:02
    Zero entry if you want to. Yeah, come on in. Alright, and we are welcoming Jermaine to the mic. Hey guys. Hey Jermaine.
    37:16
    Alright, how much time left? We have hour 15. Hour 15. I am on the bubble for 8. I have not refreshed this, is this accurate?
    37:30
    You are on the bubble for 8 I'm not complaining Alright, so where is Michael here? 97 Michael's on the roof here, 97
    37:48
    He's been hearing the NFS entries as well 20 entries pretty fast. Or not so fast with the lines we had earlier today. True, I mean if you play 8 ball and D and go faster, you wait for NASCAR in a minimal manner. True, true. We had some, I think NASCAR got some 14 people earlier today. 14 people deep. I've never seen that game being so popular. Alright, unfortunately I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, I gotta get rid of that MNL for tomorrow.
    38:23
    I gotta zoom in here too for tomorrow. So it looks like Michael's got a problem. I unfortunately was not paying attention and should have fucking just remained a bad broadcaster. Bad. So he
    38:37
    was maybe in Multivolve when he shouldn't have been? Yes, correct. He had the lock lit Bowen's call was correct to have him drain one ball and continue on. He had 6.3 million on board three. He is definitely improving. His previous score was 2.9 million.
    39:01
    How have you done on the one with Fedor Vovkov? I got 13 million I think. I drained with Superdor Lit, of course, or Superstellar I should say.
    39:13
    It seemed pretty good. The upper flipper is pretty strong and the upper ramp is pretty dialed. Yeah, the flippers were nice and strong. The backhand from the right flipper to the scoop, to the upper right under ramp scoop was good earlier in the tournament, but it got a little, you know, iffy. I found today the forehand was getting rejected quite a bit. Yeah. How does...
    39:56
    Never mind me. Just keep running. Nice staging on this. There's a nice wide gap on the clipper switches. It's easy to stage. I watched Raymond's trail game yesterday at 7pm when the qualifying opened and he put 40 million He was doing a staging jackpot, staging jackpot, up to 7 million jackpot actually Wow Yeah, he was all putting up one ball, one meatball Well, Michael's got that flipper already staged, ready to go He's got that ball on the left side You can get some control here.
    40:42
    Throwing up there. Okay, backhanded or...nope. Just missed the scoop there. Slow down. Take your time. Take a break. Focus. focus
    41:06
    right on yeah true boom I first jackpot at 2 million and every jackpot at least increased by 1 million uh...
    41:30
    is it right there? I know he's hitting at eleven and a half million all three oh boy he's got only one more I believe oh wait no sorry he's got superstellarly quite the opposite. So now if you shoot the stellar once again you get 2 million bonus and you get all the modes rewarded again which means quick multiball, million shot list, you know so you don't have to play with that list. Memories. At the 3rd score 12 million that would be 85 points maybe or? Let's take a look. Well, I'll start transitioning this to something else. We'll check my good after scores input.
    42:24
    So is the best score a score they got in this tournament earlier? He got. The best score... Yes. Yes. So this is a best game format. It's a limited... limited number of entries. Let's move over to, what have we seen here? Taxi and Expressway. Anybody on Expressway? I can't see around the hole there. There is someone on Expressway. Why don't we go to Expressway then? No one has ever seen Expressway on camera I bet. I can't see which one you're on. It's Johnny Carl's. From New Jersey? From New Jersey. Let me get the camera and switch your... 8-8-6
    43:13
    The decal setup For a switchy, 20 buttons A lot of work And here is Expressway! And there is the drain on Expressway You will see a lot of those Can we tell which body he's on, or is that somewhere else? He's done. So we'll stay on this for the next player, as long as there's a next player. And yes, we are going to have Kurtz... ...weekend. Oh boy.
    43:49
    Kurtz is now on the game. So we are, the one thing about this room is we have three circuits, and we have, so there are three 20 amp circuits we believe, and with 12 games we really pushed this. We found out that if we tripped the breaker we would be charged $400 for tripping the breaker in this room. Yeah, the show would be charged. Is that why you actually broke three of the twelve games? Just to only have nine games? Yep, yep. Smart move. Bingo, you got it. Yeah, smart, the tournament director. Uh huh, that outlandish. So explain to me, I have not played that game at all. This game? Yeah. Okay, so if you're getting that scoop at the top, you're getting the post put up. Oh, the one at the bottom? The one at the bottom. And then when you hit the two little buttons by the flippers, when you hit those buttons, the post goes down.
    44:57
    So right now what he wants to do is he's got 10,000 lit on the scoop on the right. Okay, oh, 10,000. That's 10,000 right there. Excellent try. Now the problem is this often goes down the middle. Exactly. It hits the button that drops the post and then down the middle. That's so neat. Oh, that happens to you when you were playing earlier, I believe. Yeah, it did. And welcome to the mic, Raymond Davidson. Hey, how's it going? You have to be pretty close to these things. So Raymond, are you third? Yeah, I can't seem to get one extra point to get the first. I tried taxi and it was not too kind. So I'm back in line for Pinball Magic. We'll see how that goes. Does that be on the spot? Do you just go for the right scocher? Well, once it's lit for big value, the value carries over. Apart from that, it's still alive. Just don't hit those high winds. Does it score the bonus if it rolls in from the top and the bottom? Yeah, it can roll in from any side. Okay. But you're losing your ball most likely once you... Oh, is it the trio hole of death? Yes, it is. Return of the trio. How do you raise the up post? the mushroom bumper in the middle or the scoop at the top. So you want to hit one of those and then just shoot it in the hole? Correct. Looks like skill shot is pretty important on this game. You can intentionally plunge it into that hole up top. Get a major advantage. Kids football games are always like that. Facts or Tyrant? That was Typho. I think Expressway is the only game without a real queue. I mean, we are winding down a little, but we've got at least 5 to 10 people on each machine. The queues have to die down at some point, right? I mean, people have got to run out of entries. I have no more entries. I'm out of entries. I have three. I think Keith's maybe the one with the most entries left. Yeah, Keith gets the most unused entries award. I think that would be an interesting one.
    47:07
    We are qualified with the most entry left. We are up for taxi. You give to me ride. Alright, so we've got our... Aaron Harding. Aaron from Seattle. Your area, right? Yeah. I think we've got about 12 people from Seattle coming down. Nice group. Nice crew. Yeah, she's a very, very talented young player. She gets kind of psyched out by tournaments sometimes, especially, you know, Steve's sort of bigger ones. But when she's on, she can put up some good scores. Nice.
    47:46
    Oh, just got Gorby. Jackpot is lit. That's when it gets tricky, really. Nice, nice deadpats. Wow. Okay, I would have trapped up, but I probably would have missed.
    47:59
    So the jackpot is set at... 1 million minimum and 1.5 million maximum. So the next jackpot we set to 1 million. You can quickly increase that by completing the other in-lane. That's a good way of getting around the progressive feature, huh? Right. That way, you know, you don't create the jackpot. Yeah. Oh, that was a terrible bounce. That's a good way to start out the game. I mean, that's already better than the last one. Yeah. She got a little smile on her. She knows that she did pretty good. So for this skill shot... Sorry, we had a question whether the tournament ends at midnight or 2am like the show does. And I believe it's midnight, right? Yeah, midnight. People would have to sleep. the final stop tomorrow at 9am. Oh, yeah. Well, unless you're fortunate enough to have it by, then they might still want you to check in at 9.30am. I don't know. It depends on who's running the tournament. Yeah, they beat you last year. They made you PM earlier.
    49:16
    I think last year they did make me come early anyway. You're making me think of Donnie at the last City Champ last year. Oh, yeah. What happened there? I didn't go. You were there, right? Yeah, I was there. I think he just qualified. I think he was maybe 16. And he just didn't show up. I think he had some confusion around the starting time. Oh, nice. And he arrived like five minutes late, which was, you know, four minutes after the DQD. And gave a spot to someone else. Oh, no. That was a bit of a heartbreaking after two days of match play. Wait. He was literally... So they said be there at this time and he got there five minutes after that time? Right. But there was some confusion. People tried to call in. and nobody could get in touch with him. The alternate people were there. They had to stop. Yeah, I mean, that makes sense. You've got to get going. Wow, look at me, meanwhile. Yeah, Aaron's a general. Wow. One thing that's interesting about taxi is the shooting the ramps will build towards lighting the million shot, but once you get the expressway, you no longer make progress towards those airport rides. So it's interesting. I like to usually pop off a couple of ramps and multi-roll to advance that, and then once I get set up, go for the expressway to get your 300K, and then also light the ramps for 100K. All right, just going back to Jackpot City, it looks like. I'm a Jackpot kind of guy, yeah. I really want to be on the ramp. That was a sick nudge.
    50:51
    Really, she has no option but to hit one. I don't know, I have a Sancer or a Maryland on this one. That's kind of how that goes.
    51:05
    Yes, I think usually mailing is something you really want to do with two balls. You really want to get the multi-ball going. It sucks getting locked out in this game because to light your locks you have to get a passenger, and if your only passenger is Maryland, it's tough.
    51:20
    You can dodge that problem with the skill shot if you know where the 25 plus add passenger award is. Oh. At least actually the plunger, the spring is very strong. Oh yeah, I just full plunge and watch it spin around a couple of times. Alright, am I up on Pinball Magic? Oh no, XSplit has lost my mouth again. This is going to make things fun. It happens sometimes, it's the funnest version. Oh, I still have a few people to go. Okay. Yeah, I'm surprised the lines are still this long. Ah, it's bad. People in Magic have to be really nice. I think if that's the game, that'd be an A for him. So, do we have anybody fighting for their life that we can follow that still has entries left? Let's take a look. Let's see, we have Jared. Oh, I've beaten Johnny. What? You beat Johnny Monty good. Oh, Johnny! At the reference point, Johnny kicked me out of Indy two years ago at the last minute. Yeah, he always does a last minute shenanigan. Yeah, he's Johnny Monica. All right, what do you guys want to see? Chat room, speak up. They have a slight delay so we'll wait just a moment.
    53:10
    Hey he can still go down. Johnny can still lose a point. Bad Cats, Bad Cats, let's go to the Bad Cats. Oh, wait a moment. Andre's only two points ahead of us. Andre's knee on the bubble, he said. That's a bit surprising. Does anybody know what sort of tiebreaker for non-buy, non-playoff, like what the procedure is? Well, Greg Dunlap would be our guy, right? Yeah, he's the rules for this tournament director. Because he has some funny thing he put out about it.
    53:52
    I need to find that. I'll find it while we watch something else. All right, give me a game. That's it.
    54:01
    What about AFM? Do you guys watch some AFM? All right, we'll stick AFM back on. I can't see it. The pillars are right in the way. Alex on AFM. I think that's one of Kevin's friends. Yes, one of his, I would guess, Tetris class, maybe music games. Yeah, I remember he was out in SoCal for something and he and Kevin came out to our Mustang launch party and he won the Mustang launch party. Oh, nice! Yeah, it was the first tournament he won, first pinball tournament. That's great. He currently has 1.3 billion at his best score and he's 111. I like how he's doing the advanced Passover maneuver. Doesn't look like it worked out for him that time. Oh no, draining! Draining with multi-ball lit. On ball three, that's a drop. Yeah, so they'll look at his score, but you know, it's not, you gotta insert your multiball
    55:09
    to get a real score. Alright, who's this young guy? Nick Fitzpatrick. Apparently Eden was not here, so Nick is next. Oh yeah, we'll see the great Eden Stamm make a return here. He's about to play some AFM. Well, he just got bumped. He got bumped. Oh, he got bumped. He has one more shot and if he doesn't show up then he's pulled from the queue automatically. Oh.
    55:37
    That would be a bad way to not get the games you need in. I think Raymond had a 20 billion game earlier on AFM, right? Yeah, yeah, I put up 23 bills. Just lots of snoopers. The right flipper is very strong. Once you find that lock shot, you can shoot it as many times as necessary. And the flippers are also very grippy and trappy. This block?
    56:05
    That block? People are wonderful in the chat room. Hello. Wow, there you go. You can't get away from a pan, even on the switch. Yeah, there's barely any... How do I go with these things? Hey moderator, laziest, quit being so lazy, moderate my room. Jack, do you want a sword? Jack wants a sword I think, where's his sword, how do I put the sword on him? And uh, that's about it, time out, no we don't want time out Jack. I know Jack wants to moderate. Alright, so he got a 50 million award. Right, that's the main issue I think with that AFM. It has that ROM that if you get 50 million every time you should put mystery instead of the... Instead of the smart mystery, yeah. I mean, it is a bummer because I think it means strobe multiball is not a thing you can get. And video mode... No, you can't get video mode either. and you can't get you know open software which is part of the strategy yeah you don't want to shoot the software you want to get the mystery to open for you yeah that's kind of sad what's interesting is isn't the regular mystery like when it's not in tournament mode even that mystery is fairly predictable right like right like why not just leave it on mystery like someone might get a light lock on ball three if they're doing bad or something but I'd rather have some award.
    57:49
    If you have no crazy mystery award that would unbalance the game. Yeah, like I think... I think even to get through a multiball you have to qualify it with like super jets or something. I'm not sure what the secrets that lie with that.
    58:04
    Looks like he's going... Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've done that a few times. So you want to know what the results of the kids tournament were? If Nick was one of the... I think one of the older kids was, I don't remember the name,
    58:23
    the final on the website? No it is not, they did not remember. For the kids final, since we still have qualifying they took them down to the main hall here at Xtreme and had them battle it down there. So I don't exactly know what happened, unfortunately.
    58:37
    Alright, Eden is not here so we're going... Oh Eden is here? He is here. There's a giant hole in my leg. I just hired the giant Eden. All right, let's watch some Eden Sam.
    58:50
    Eden Sam, one of my great influences, got me into competitive pinball when he ran the Northwest Championship with Kaylee George, also another influence of mine.
    59:00
    I was a young lad. Signed up and played. What was that, like 14 years old? 15? Hey, the brick of cash was pretty big relative to my hand size. Yeah, why I can't imagine.
    59:12
    That was a few years ago, wasn't it? I was, uh, 2008, I think was the year. Alright, so Eden, Sam, missed his, or did he get the skill shot? I can't... I think it did open it. It did open it, okay. Alright, so he's gonna... Ooh, what do you do with this? You're like kind of in jail. Okay, I agree with that. I think shooting the right orbit with the left flipper, when you have nothing better to do, is a good way to, you know, park the ball.
    59:40
    I kind of like taking my first soldier straight out. I can't believe he made that lock shot on his first try. This attack from Mars, it's easy once you know where the shots are, but they are not intuitive, at least for me. They were really late on the flipper, but he nailed it. I think he's been trying a few times, though. I mean, with the big cue, you don't get to play very often in a row, but... Look at that! Oh, wow! That was sweet.
    60:06
    All right, now he's got to do something with it. Oh, I'm up on pinball magic. Oh wow, there is Raymond when he was 12 years old. I think the smile hasn't changed though. I believe the panties may have changed a little. Alright, so, wow, that was... He's not getting it back. There is a nice mercy on the MultiBall, get one additional jackpot. I think most people have been playing MultiBall all day. Have you done good on that? Yeah, I had a decent day. 5 or 6 billion. All multiball. All the standard multiball. I figure on that first one if I get it to a super jackpot then that's my strategy. I stick to it. If I don't then I'll play around and try for annihilation. It was nice yeah it was easy to backhand that just like you saw Eden do I love the backhand thought I mean obviously when it open
    61:22
    If the clicker angle is good, it goes in very nicely. Oh, this is not Nick. Let me get that updated. Hey, look, there's Eden. Okay. Eden from BC, Canada.
    61:35
    Oh, he hasn't played AFM before? Or he's voided everything that he's played. It's 37th right now. He could use a good score now. We are past the 1 hour mark from the 15 minutes left for the qualifier.
    61:56
    Boom! Wow! He's dialed in. That's all I was telling myself on this game. All I need to do is dial in that one shot. Just the lock up. You dial that in, you're golden. And the pass over from the left to the right from the lock, 9 out of 10.
    62:17
    Didn't even need much of a bump. Hold it up. When it comes out of the coaster as well, it goes straight to the right side, right? I mean you can keep your flipper up and it goes to the right... Oh no, I thought it hit on my... No, it was hitting the shoulder for me a lot. Yesterday was more in between the middle and the peeper bounce.
    62:43
    I'm getting some progress on total animation as well when he's peeping around. Yeah, and only what, six more shots? At this point I might actually go for it. Yeah. Lock shot, yep, lock shot. Boom. Boom! Flexing the biceps. Have you... Can you actually post that? No. I was backing out. I thought I've never seen anyone do it, so I'm assuming not. Alright, so now you need to hit all five jackpots to get a super jackpot made. The value of the jackpot do increase by 10 million? Yeah, it starts at... Oh, the jackpot's by 10 million. Super starts at 250. Right. And then everything... Oh, Dirty Pool? And then it's like that. So Dirty Pool, you have to put it in? He doesn't have to put it in, you can let it sit there if it is. Did he actually get it? Yeah, it is. In this multi ball, leave it there. Right. So you have a one ball multi ball. Oh yeah. But because it's a key trap, it's not against the rules. Correct. Nice pass over. Little dirty. That's impressive.
    63:55
    Whoa. I guess if he had the actual dirty pool that would only be worth 300 or 400 million, right? The value of the next offer. Right. I guess he's already drained it. Yeah. Unfortunate. Now this is the danger. Well, not so much from this one. Oh, if it was in the middle, it would be... Yeah, so in the... Yeah, exactly. Right. Calm down. Okay, I mean, 2 billion, ball two. It's a good start. And then he goes straight back to multi-ball. Ok, I'm in 2 billion bolt too, it's a good start, and it goes straight back to multi-ball.
    64:30
    I don't know, 5 shots for a billion hurry up? I might be going for that now, seriously. Wow, yeah. Left ramp. So the billion hurry up is when you do all 4 shots, the 2 ramps and the 2 orbits at the same time. when you complete all three shots of each of these four shots, then you get a Billion hurry up in the center. Well, actually, it works with the Billion hurry up right away and start total annihilation, right? Yes, exactly. It's even better. You don't even have to shoot the center. You get the Billion and total annihilation. Yes. I mean, you have to avoid the saucer target, but that's not too difficult. Right. Well, you get the other shot. Well, he's going for Martian, unfortunately. Martian, huh? I don't know. Martian's killed him. I guess he needs one more left ramp and then he's pretty much ready to go
    65:20
    Alright, took a skillshot on the as-post there, which dropped the stuff they're offering Maybe he shouldn't be going for total... uh oh Oop! Nice save I think he's having a little trouble with these shots, he should probably just go back to the standard multiball I just went up to him, I would be thinking if I was playing the game I mean... He does not look comfortable on all the shots
    65:46
    He's only four shots away from end of the hour I think he's going back to... Oh, nice save there I think he's going back to the multi-ball We are having technical difficulties
    66:06
    He went there Yes, because of the ramp there. Nice trap. Boom, alright. So that's the first. So now he started to hurry up. He's tacked two hurry ups together. So that's the first. It's down for me here too. No, it's down for me also. So it's... It's... Well, now it's back up. Try it now. Try it now. We've got some issues here and there with the website going down. That's too bad. I mean, two and a half billion. He's got some total annihilation. That hurts when you set everything up like that. Hey, Masked Villain, we are watching the chat. Even if we don't respond immediately, we are paying attention. I think we can.
    67:06
    Yeah, I'm the first. Canadian? Is he the only one? I think he came down with Trevor. Trevor, yeah Trevor. They came together. They said they had a Blackpire on their way down. Oh, no. From their rental car. But I don't know if there's any more Canadians. I know the Gagnois are not here. This time they were travelling cross country and getting ready for... We have to get an active game because of the issues we're having right now with the software. We'll try... I'm going to Pinball Magic. Raymond is working his last entries there. I think he has a couple more. He's on Pinball Magic. Ball 2, working on his multi-ball. Yeah, I can't get my profile up here because it's... We're just gonna hide that for now. Right. Hide this. We have to go live and then...
    68:10
    Yeah, how's the standings look for everybody out there? It's... We're having a little trouble connecting to the laptop right now. Over here. Oh, it's not great. Over at you. That's about the only way you drown in that game though, right, Alpine? It's pretty brutal. so it's going to 260, it says 260 which actually should be pretty good he's still going though yeah, going into ball 3 so now he needs to, what does he need to do? he needs to do the left rat and actually hit the flipper when the ball is over the holes that are blinking in red to drop the ball inside the holes so that would complete its first set of progress on the item in the middle which will then stop the second round at 20 million a shot
    69:08
    the back left frame is a bit hard to hit sometimes, a bit stiff and then there is three targets, the red ones All right, the free target on the left is locked on the left ramp as well, which would
    69:30
    have enabled a quick multi-ball. Yeah, I can't get the website on my... Oh, I can now. It's slowly coming back up. I don't know if there's... Maybe there's some maintenance going on right now at the network. You know you could try professional services like Azure from Microsoft? I am sponsored by Pear. Oh, you are? Okay.
    69:55
    Sponsored, huh? Well, in a way, yeah. Okay. All right, so that was, I think there was no point for Raymond right there. He had 270 sticks earlier. Did you get 270 sticks as well this time? I had 260 earlier, but it doesn't matter. Did you get one more point? Nope. No, your points? I had multi-ball, or lock-lit, and then I just flopped it. Oh, no, no, don't, what are you telling me? Oh, you're above Johnny, excellent, excellent, good aim. Yeah, if it would have went in that stupid hole... Oh wait, Raymond is taken with Bowen now. Bowen dropped a point, so he's in the lead. Oh, did I, did I knock down Bowen a point? I thought I needed more. I would think somebody else. I don't think you got a point. You had 480 here.
    70:53
    So we're watching Pinball Magic tomorrow with Sean Dolcini. Does anyone know Sean? No. It's a no and a no. He has seen him before. Yeah, I've seen him, but I don't know where he's from. He didn't fill out his profile, so I don't know. Profile, right. Yeah, I mean, we could IFBA it, but I think we're just too lazy. I mean, TeamBallMagic is an interesting game. I had never played that game in a tournament setting before. I don't know if it's very common in a tournament game. No, it's not. The scoring is a bit linear, as far as getting the shots and the jackpots, but there is some little depth to it, you know? Getting your feedback really, when you want to go lift your locks, you can get full progress during multi-ball, you know? And then you can start a mini multiball instead of going for a freeball multiball. I don't know the advantage of a freeball multiball. Is there any bigger jackpots? Yeah, it starts at 30 million I think instead of 20 million. Yeah, there's like a lot of walks that come in with jackpots. Simon's picked the check at Free Gold Watch. Oh, that's right, that's right. That's where I saw it last year when I went down to City Train. We have a lot of locals, SFPD is widely represented. I think Tim Hansen is in the lead, then Andre, Eric as well, Zach, Luis, yeah. Eight people in the top 24 from SFPD there. Alright, it starts with a mini mayhem, two ball multi ball, 20 million point jackpot on the left ramp, right orbit relights them, or increases the value of them I believe as well. Is that a one shot increase for the next jackpot or is that an overall increase for all the jackpots? It's just the one. Right, it's not great.
    72:46
    Like a 10 million increase maybe, or 5 million? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, wow, everybody out of the pool. That, that. Everybody out of the pool. I think...
    73:03
    Alright, that was the... ...Rudel. Now we... It's the end of that game. Ryan on A-Pen. Maybe some Medieval Magnus? What do we have? We have some new games starting up here in a couple, which we know we're not. I see some Raymond Davidson trains made up in London. We'll see. We had six more people before you, at least 40 minutes left. That may be your last game. Yeah. Is that your last entry as well? I have two entries. I'm wondering if I should do another Pinball Magic now that I kind of know how to play it. So the Vancouver Flipout Pinball Expo, I think they just created the Facebook event with all the information. Yesterday, I think the tournament director will be a dev steward. It will be multiple tournaments, limited entry, best game at the main tournament, and then an unlimited PAPA style qualifier practice tournament as well, with two more side tournaments for kid women and some kind of wizard tournament on the four-legged one, I believe. I'm making my heads burn. I hope our friend from California will come up north for some upcoming tournaments. In September we've got a North Coast Pinball Champs and Vancouver Flipouts. Two weekends in a row. Oh, that sounds like a... how should I put this? An interesting vacation?
    74:49
    Yeah. Sounds like nice... I'm going to get my wife a drink. It's a short flight from the Bay Area or L.A. area.
    75:01
    It's not so bad. I believe someone was in the Seattle area for a family holiday recently, right? Yes, and no pinball was allowed. And no internet for a while as well. No internet, yes. That was fun. Alright, so I've changed my choice back to Pinball Magic because I realized I just need 300 million and I think that'll be faster than trying to get 80 million on Medieval. And that's definitely doable. Have you seen Brandon Tivetz? Brent is one of our techs, right? Brent is helping me out. I wrote up with Brent and his wife Laura. It's funny, I see him at all these events, no idea he was from California until PA. Rancho Sucre Manga, that's an interesting name. That's where I grew up. Oh, did you? Yeah. Wow, so you still live nearby where you grew up?
    76:01
    I think I'm about, what, 8,000 miles from where I grew up? Maybe Johnny Monica might shake up some pinball magic.
    76:10
    Although, we have been watching a lot of pinball magic, so I don't know. Right, let's see. I mean, we don't see much blue chip on screen. Yeah, blue chip is quite interesting. I mean, we had that game in the classic bank, and the Northwest Game Show was nice. I mean, if you mean interesting by how fast it goes down the out lane. I mean there is a bit of a lockpot, because some loose targets that are above the pop bumper or top are a bit random. I mean you can't really hit that on purpose. And they are good for double bonus or spinner leads. I can't quite remember which one does what. If you have to combo certain numbers together to get either a double bonus lead or light spinners. Yeah, one and four on the left likes the left double bonus and three and six on the right likes the right double bonus lane. And the spinners I think are two and maybe three. I think there's a way to light the right sort of area for like some serious points, right? Yeah, well if you've been getting that scoop it's nearly impossible. These have a double bonus, right? Yeah, those have a double bonus lane. Once they're lit, unfortunately that's not lit. Right, and then double bonus can go up to 50,000, so you can get 100,000 bonus, you know, just substantial of that game. Wow, that's... Nice lap tail on these flippers. Sluggish. They got the hot tip flippers. I think they are hot tip bonus double. Nice. Wow, yeah, you got it. Oh, no! Oh, that was the ass. Brutal. Brutal. Boosted the tilt. Compained.
    77:41
    See ya. Keith Elwynn eyeing us. Keith Elwynn still in the lead with one point. Coming back from dinner, I believe. Yeah, but how many entries left? I think he's got more entries than he can play. Oh yeah. He was trying to play 8-Ball earlier to just get rid of his entries, and then that's the two games he put the ice on. Yeah. That was about it.
    78:07
    We just came car ride before. You had a 2 million on 8-Ball, didn't you? I did. That's impressive. 3-Ball, 8-Ball blocks, just like a ta-ta, you know? Someone says this is a great preview of the Pinbird EM nightmare. You just have to remember at Pinbird, EMs are bonus points. Strictly bonus points.
    78:29
    The advantage of the Pinbird is you play three of a game and an EM. It doesn't feel too bad. You have just the one EM and three other games. You're like, alright. I mean, you can get hosed with an early, early, early solid state where they feel pretty luck boxy. Right. I think just about how many of these EMs are the 2 inch thicker ones? Yeah. These are the very painful ones. I think Raymond liked his walk up. What about World Cup? The EM on the back of the walk up machine with the weird flinch up. It wasn't an EM but it was a solid state that was very bizarre. I think it was called World Cup. Just plain old World Cup. Oh yeah. Is this Bowen about to just go to town on my Whirlwind store? Well, he's only got two million right now, so let's see. Yeah, but he's still in multiball. That's the issue. Oh, my God. Look at that. Just like nothing. It didn't even move.
    79:29
    He didn't even break his cradle. It didn't even phase him. All right. I haven't had one bull coming back from that pool. Not one.
    79:37
    All right, well. All right, Bowen has 20 million. If there's anybody who can get lots of jackpots on Whirlwind, it's Bowen. Looks like you got a reject from that scoop, which I've seen happen. More and more. Yeah, more and more. Yeah, yeah, exactly. A bit like the Papa scoop. I've seen the Papa scoop. I had that issue. I was lucky to play this day one when everything was crispy.
    80:02
    Yeah, we were talking about your day one 40 million. Yeah. The first game. Yeah. Boom. Well, wait, that just... how did that... how did that happen? It looked like it, like, ricocheted up the ramp. No, it was the... It was the flipper? It was the second flipper. Okay, I must have missed the flip part. Alright. The current standings for whirlwind are quite interesting. Buenas, buenos dias. How is he doing this, like, left orbit magic?
    80:31
    Oh, is he doing the left orbit? Yeah. The upper flipper? Yeah. Is he doing the saddle combo? Jailbreak, jailbreak. So you really need to get to 21 million to get to perfect. Oh, the reject. I mean earlier I had 4 out of 5 rejects. Oh, wow, look at that, and it fed the upper flipper for another jackpot. Holy crap. That's 4 million.
    80:57
    How much is he at, like 15? 12. Alright, so obviously the next one will be 5 million. I mean that's the main goal to score high in this game at this point. Yeah, you just have to keep your multiball alive. Try the backhand, what do you think? Nope. I don't know what that shot was for. He was trying to shoot really late so that it wouldn't reject. Yeah. Look at that. That's just... wow. Okay. That's... Hey, he's working. Yeah, I mean, that's a good combo. I would rather try the backhand first, I think. Yeah. I mean, he could break that shot. It's like a forehand. Oh, his bet score is 20 million, too, so he just... Right, and Keith has 21 million. Oh. So if he beats 21 million, that gives plus minus one point, and he goes to first place. I see. Oh, and no good. and no good, no good oh, oh, oh wow, oh my goodness alright, well it's only ball two alright, so he already played his quick multi ball I believe yes, oh wait, is that the third from the right? third from the right is not you Jeff I think that's like the third from the right, he played his million shots he had his million shots, and that's the end oh boy, out of control wait, oh boy, nice little tap, look at that did he just, he won? he had a lock leap again, oh yeah Wow, that was fast. Yeah, I mean he did shoot the ramp right at a multiball, which will spot you one of the compass arrows. I mean the upper ramp, out of multiballs, spots you a direction shot and really the seller for the modes, right? So, obviously massive, you know, dialing that shot. So what's the plan now? Quick multiball to finish off your compass arrow? I know that's what Keith does. Keith does, he shoots the ramp a couple of times, shoots the drop target, starts quick multi ball, uses quick multi ball to get the extra compass arrows you need. So as you just see, the ball goes up the right in lane, that lifts the stellar, the mode for Indian Eye class. Yeah, looks like he's going for the ramp, and if he misses, he'll get the northwest target, so that will help him out. Oh here's a quick whip. Hey, he's doing exactly what I... So the quick multiballs is lit after 4 or 5 shots on that target. So he has to get it to go in the... Wow! And it has to stick. The tricky part is it has to stick. Boom! There we go. So now let's see if he goes for jackpots or if... Well of course he's going to go for jackpots because... Nothing at all, guys. Wow, look at that. And it did actually spot him the southwest target. So you can spot the main multiball shots during quick multiballs? Yes, apparently. Wow, okay. So often times you'll come out of quick multiball with regular multiball ready to go. Oh, alright. He doesn't care, he has lock-lick. Oh, he needs one more shot. He needs one more, yeah. Oh, that's quick multiball. Wow, just chaining them together here. Wow, that was a good live catch. Look at that, he's dialed. I am fearful for my 40 million at this point, the way he is attacking this game. So the way the scoring attacks work is not the Papa scoring, it's not digressive, so it's 100, 97, 95... 95, yeah, so I'll only lose 3 points, but... Well, it's his fault, 40 million. Yeah.
    84:33
    His first goal is 21 million to pass, he can go first place overall. Boom! Wow! Wow, he has close galore!
    84:48
    Oh, alright, that was a bit of a backflip there. Boom, alright, that was a right in lane to Moulds. He's getting pretty close to his... He has Locklet, I think he's going to prioritize that for sure. That's lock number two, right? Yep, that's... Unfortunately for the second multi-ball, you have to start it by hitting the upper ramp. Right. So now he's going to probably full plunge and just try to whip it up there. It doesn't always go around, right? That full plunge sometimes. Look at that. Oh, no.
    85:25
    All right, it's okay. All right. Is he going to go for the through the pop shot? No. Is it the... Oh, look at that. Oh, whoa, that's... That worked. Oh, yeah. Oh, I like that.
    85:40
    I mean, he's got 5x bonus as well. Alright. So you're late now. This is scary. French time right there. Alright, here we go.
    85:57
    Feel the power of the wind. Did that give you a million right off the bat? Like a 2 million jackpot? I think it gave me 1 million.
    86:05
    He did get a million, you're right, he had 17 before that, so... If you hit one more jackpot, he's pretty much there at 21.
    86:12
    Yeah, um... Okay, here we go. Oh, he's going... he loves that upper ramp shot! Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh, look at that! OOOH!
    86:21
    Alright. Yeah, it was a three-way combo, exactly right. It was the air-spot ramp, huh? Upper orbit, upper orbit, and upper ramp. I missed the sound effect! Oh, I think the jackpot took over. Yeah. So 21.3, that's pretty much it with the bonus, I think.
    86:40
    Now the next score to chase is Kevin's 27 million. There's Tim Henson with 22. Oh, okay. For an extra point, and then Kevin has 27. Oh, man. It pretty much is Tim Henson, I would believe, with bonus. Is bonus any decent here?
    86:56
    No. I mean, he has 5x, yeah. He has mega-cellarly, right? No, I think... Oh, he does. He does. Boom, that's a 2 million right there. And it likes quick multiball as well.
    87:07
    Unfortunately, the third multiball usually doesn't happen, but he could grind it from good points out of this quick multiball here.
    87:20
    Since somebody wants to drive the bus, walking very hard on that. Yeah, so he'll move to number one after this game, surely.
    87:31
    There's 11.30 minutes left. So this will actually push. This will push Keith down a notch then, unless he beats me as well. So then he would be tied with Keith. Yeah, tied with Keith.
    87:45
    I'm sure Keith is going to put a few entries somewhere. Oh, you better do it quick, their time is running out. So 26 he has right there, so now he's passing Kevin as well.
    87:55
    That's 27.7. He's probably going to lock in number one here, unless I can do some pinball magic. Alright, I think he's... Yeah, so if you pass Kevin, that's giving plus four. The stage jackpot. Oh no. Whoa. Whoa. Special. Lost any points? No.
    88:20
    So, now what do you do? I mean, you can't do any more moves, right? That's locked in until the next board which he doesn't have. Yeah, so... Sweet. I don't know what his... Can he do quickly the T-Ball from the ramp again? Looks like he's just going for multiball. Look at that. The hard way? Yeah, Comfort's complete.
    88:39
    I mean, it doesn't really get any harder. Well, you get more shots and it's one shot at a time, or is it just the amount of shots? I think it's the same, yeah.
    88:51
    I mean, he's been hitting the hardest shot, which is the left orbit anyway, so... I guess the upper orbit may be the hardest shot. Well he's going for it. I mean Bowen just loves this game. This is like one of his favorite games. Well he's got two arrows in one shot. He's raised the right of the ramp and then it's the right... Oh no, what happened? He missed the button. He just wanted to pass Kevin. Alright, well, I mean, I'm kind of sad how anticlimactic that ended, but... It's still 28 million. It's still 28 million, yeah.
    89:38
    Alright, can we switch to... After 18 hours of 45-yard, you get the top two score, so that's pretty good.
    89:49
    Alright, so what else have we seen yet? Somebody's trying on taxi or you want to look at the queue? What do we have on the queue next? What's Eden's damn situation? I know he's trying to... He was 30 sticks earlier. I know. How did he end up doing on that attack game? 2.5. He had everything laid. He was two shots away from total annihilation. He was one shot away from multi-ball. That's rough. Yeah, that's just... Okay, so Lee is in 10th position right now. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm repeating the wrong throw right there. I was like going for the glory. I'm sorry, Lee is in 7th position right now. He just passed us and put me in number 9. I left orbit, he's playing train Like, Rob, you can't make it the other way So he started playing today, he didn't come yesterday and he's been grinding his way to the top And he came very late today also Oh, right, right Another one top train right there Hey, how's it going? Right there, Boat Really fun, really fun event I think I mean, the way things have been going it doesn't have the same last hour vibe as some tournaments seem to where everybody is all panicky. Maybe it's just because everybody knows they had the exact same circumstance from the beginning to the end with the entries. I don't know. I'm really liking this. Interesting. Different strategy. There is much more on what do you want to play, when do you want to play it. And the scores are just way different from best games. A little bit. I think we've had some really high scores on a lot of the machines. We still have quite the high total, like those attack scores and the NASCAR scores. I think maybe more for the average games where the average player needs more games to get going where the top players do not have that problem as much You know I hit up 28 million on whirlwind at 11 I just know not to play expressway. That was my strategy. I signed up to that.
    92:07
    Oh, that was a justifiable filth there. You were talking about Lee, and he's really put together a strong set of games from very He's number 3 on Medieval Madness, number 4 on A Goldilocks, 4 on AFM. He's thrown an 11 and a 17 on that Whirlwind back to back. Oh, and it drained right out of the bumpers. And he still has 8 more entries. Just to say, he's ranked 7th with only 12 entries. That's excellent. That's very impressive. He was asking me about an hour ago, he was like, I was like, well, what is it going to take for you to get into the top eight and get a bye?
    92:47
    And my answer was, play better. He did. He immediately threw a 17 on the whirlwind and leapfrogged three or four people. He's being me.
    93:00
    Well, you better get out there. Go play some more. I did all my entries, you know, just so I could keep pumping and keep power. You can buy more entries, right? Yeah.
    93:13
    Alright, so do we have Raymond Davidson with his last entry, trying to get some magic going on KindleNet?
    93:20
    I think it's third entry now, so it's third try, fourth try maybe even? There's so many tournaments now, it's incredible. I'm just impressed by the way the community is continuing to grow in events and quality and just friendly players learning to get better in a hurry.
    93:43
    Here in this event we have Dan Dempsey also, who I've never gotten to play against him. He's putting up top ten numbers all around.
    93:52
    I think I've seen his name. I didn't know who he was either. He's 11th right now overall, so he's very strong. Eric and Louise Wagonsire, who have been back and forth competing for number one in the California state standings. Both going to qualify for tomorrow's finals. It'll be interesting if they end up in the same group. We've seen a lot of SFPD representation today. What's the Patreon doing? Oh, the Patreon, yeah, it's been amazing. I was asked about two months ago, people to support my trip to Pittsburgh, because the work contract I had that was sending me to Pittsburgh had expired, and I was facing either no more tutorials or maybe once a year tutorials, something like that. And someone said, hey, why don't you see what happens?
    94:47
    It's been over 140 supporters now. Or, I'm sorry, 139. I don't want to lie about that. And we filmed an X-Men tutorial a few weeks ago that's in post-processing. Mark, Simon and Papa are still doing all of the editing work so it will look just as professional as the other tutorials that we film in the same place, the same way. Right. And then backers get some other benefits like some strategy guides and other junk. It is good, I mean... And just really nice of everybody to want to chip in and I didn't know what to expect so it's been amazing. We've got a goal now for the wizard mode.
    95:37
    So at a certain level, I think it's 1250, we'll be able to make extra videos featuring the workup and run-through of any wizard mode that the crowd wants. I think it was that idea, right? What? I think it was that idea. Yeah, Doc Wallen's idea. Hey, it would be nice if this happened. I'm like, yeah, that's a great friggin' idea. Let's go. It's a very different strategy from what you would do usually for more like points or tournaments. Usually Wizard mode is not the most efficient or safest way. And frankly there are a lot of Wizard modes I've never seen. I've never seen Sperm Attack, I've never seen WPT Final or whatever it is at the end of Poker Tour. T for Invitational I guess it is. I've never seen Somewhere Over the Rainbow, though I think Karl may have seen that a few times. A few times. Home game. What's your score on Wizard now?
    96:30
    11 million and change. Holy frickin' What? I was thinking 5 million for Joe. How is that physically possible?
    96:40
    There's a nice way to score some points in some of the rainbow that I discovered. He's not going to tell anyone. So what you're saying is play the entire game, get to the finale, and then good things happen. Right, right. Okay. So yes, if you ever watch any tutorials from Brian, everyone in the chat has. Please check it out. Thank you. It's really nice of you to support it and everyone else who's pitched in. The tutorials will still be posted to everyone in the same way they always are. So even if you can't contribute, don't sweat it. Don't go out of your way. I really just appreciate the support.
    97:22
    And Raymond got kind of stuck there. He's stuck in this silence the critic mode, which shuts off all other progress because the wand moves over to the right, over to these mouths. You can't walk balls anymore. You can't start mayhem. All you can do is shoot up the left ramp and hope to get the ball into those holes. I'm not sure what happened there. And that just gave him the silence the critics, it looks like. maybe too many times? yeah, it's just like, ahhh sure, why not I'm not sure what happened there, but that's not a bad rule, that's what it was if it was like fourth try, forget about it, just let it go so now he's in set number two where the first hit is these three left, red targets for 20 million yeah, this is interesting now because he's got multiball the jackpot is 20 million, but all these tricks are 20 million too and they are eligible right now. Boom, alright. So there's 20. I think you can pick up tricks during this, right? Yeah. Except if the trick's from the left hand, then usually it doesn't work. Well it's the critics' reward. Oh, only the left hand. Yeah. So what's the next shot that's still the left, right? Well yeah, this is your smooth turn. I mean, cradle two balls. One left, one right. And then to the right of it, live catch. Shoot the ramp, strap it up, and then you can reverse the winster. For whatever reason, shoot the ramp is easier said than done in this moment. I don't know why. I feel like I can shoot that ramp all day, and then I'm in the multiball, and I pressure myself into it. And did you say the next shot is the magic hat on the right side? Match the color on the magic hat? Yeah. The metric has is 20 million and he's not waiting. Look at that. That was some serious serious play That's that's gonna send him close to number one. What is the number one in this game?
    99:28
    He's a 314 so boy we're gonna get 377 is behind. Let's kind of get another Another jumbling of the board here in the last That's 338 already and he's got the tricks. He said he has to shoot that hole on the right side there for 20 million. But he'll get that if he plunges, right? Right. But it has to be the right color, right? Oh, boy. He has to match the color of the little crystal ball. Jeez. What? You have to wait for a specific color on the crystal ball? I believe so. So he has to match it with whichever the person is down here. So it's the orange. So it needs to be the orange. Wow. I believe.
    100:16
    I mean, I don't know what that has to do with a snake. Okay. Or is that later on in the game? I think that might be later on. I think right now all he has to do is shoot the hats. So this plunge is 25 million and a multi ball. Boom! Nice! Well maybe, we think it will match the color. There's a 2365, what did you say it was? 377. 377, well he's probably got it on the bonus then. a million per trick, a multiplier in hand, and was that multiple over? Yeah. I didn't even see it start. He's got 3x now, so that's at least 20 million bonus. So as long as he doesn't self out here, he will pick the number one score. What are the consequences of that? So you get plus 8 from what he currently has, so that would put him at 488, 4 points against the other one but you got 1 point as well so that's 5 points the what? the right flick shot is broken it's not ok
    101:33
    they have this easy steam ball wow boom more multiple this is Raymond's last entry way to go No, he's got two left, so one more after this. Now you, Bowen, had a nice cradle separation here where you were, you know, because it, using gravity off of the sling didn't seem to work on this game, so you were post-passing. I was doing the old sort of top and over under, the thing that Papa Gagno was using a lot of at the Papa Finals this year. you know what, it's not that dangerous a move, it looks crazy but it really isn't that bad look out, look out, don't get eaten by that machine, oh, well at least you get 4 minutes 15 minutes left for the 45 year old, I think I heard Greg
    102:28
    alright, so back to lock the ball the chat makes a good point here too that the live catches are especially useful on this game and just getting the ball quickly under control. I found that I had a lot of difficulty making that, so I stopped on the right hand side and continued cranking it right into the change target.
    102:52
    Boom. No problem there for Raymond. He's already secured the number one game here on Pinball Magic, and with it what looks like the number one seed in the final. Alright, so he has the capture ball for the steam forklift I believe, 20 million as well.
    103:23
    We're set up for some pretty good barrels tomorrow. I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot of this game, a lot of medieval and attack Maybe some whirlwind? Yeah, definitely some whirlwind as well Maybe NASCAR? I'll pick NASCAR Bad choice I only got on NASCAR once today
    103:50
    Alright, so Jack was ready on the left He did oh wow that's a really nice move there geek-crust oh he's got his captain pole as well for 20 million the benefit of getting your flipper down quickly enough what's that, what is that 3-2-1 thing going on there? oh 80, wow I don't know what that was on the display oh I think that's a green shot over there I think you can do some kind of 1-2 combo oh
    104:23
    I don't think it's what the... kind of one-two chelestrator boy what a ball there by Raymond and he pulls himself in the first position on pinball magic 58 million bonus whoosh
    104:38
    528 million on the game or is that 600 I don't know either way it's number one by a long shot 538 I believe 538 good start
    104:49
    wow So about the final format for tomorrow, is it three games, 4-2-1-0? Yeah, it's a standard pop of final, 4-2-1-0, three games, and the best two from each group will advance up to there. Double heads-up pinball, what are we talking about with that? We'll see late August, early September, hopefully. Will it have faces on the pinball? It is, yes, in the classroom on. Okay.
    105:17
    We're moving over to Taxi and Johnny Monica. Johnny Money's right now. How is he doing right now? I assume Johnny's currently in rank 9. Johnny is sitting on the buy bubble. He'll be qualified and play tomorrow, but this game may determine whether he plays, if he has to play in the first round.
    105:39
    And he's on ball 3. He's got nothing on taxi right now. He needs 83 points on this. Okay, so probably about a 5 million score I guess he's looking at maybe? 3.3 million. Not bad at all. 3.5 would give it to the trip. He's got multi ball ready on the left ramp. More frames. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Wow. He let himself get out of control there by flipping it away into the low, the Ireland bank, excuse me. and I think there you know you can you can get away with a different type of flip there that sends it more either towards the opposite in lane or like an alley pass almost or just something that doesn't go as high enough to hit anything and it kind of rolls up and rolls down Alright, so 8 minutes before the end, we've got Raymond 487, Bowen 483, Keith 487, and then Team Anson 474 and Carl 469. What was that part about having to play Keith at one minute? It's like a pretty solid stop right there. If somebody could drop Andre one point, that would be a great idea.
    107:08
    It's interesting to me how even though this was a fixed entry format, you still see a lot of the same type of people you might have expected to be in the top ten of qualifying.
    107:20
    A few exceptions. Dan Dempsey, Liam Osterthold, you played really well in the qualifying. I definitely expect you to qualify. You're quite a ways up there. It is interesting. A few people who, maybe due to randomness or some bad luck or whatever, did not perform as well. For example, Bob Matthews, you almost always see him. He's at the top of qualifying. He's 17. Even Sam is tied for 25th, one point below the cut line with eight minutes to go. Looks like he's desperately trying to get on a game.
    107:57
    Can you see what game is he peaked for on the short side? No, I can't. I thought you had that feature before, Eden? It's on my list of to-do. Eden is queued up for Attack from Mars, but there are three other players ahead of him. I know, can you bribe people to leave in face-down so that they're... Yeah, can I do that too? I get another chance to take down Mr. Davidson? I mean if you want to try expressway I'm sure you can get on in the next 8 minutes I'm on, I think I queued up for pinball magic actually So yeah, depending on what happens I might actually get on pinball magic Oh yeah, possible, go to over there That's Alex Lambert who's playing here and Alex has a solid play with, hasn't really had the run of it today That's Sean back online. Sean the tech at Wiggle Watch, downtown Central Cecil. One of the best pinball players I've been to. It is a very impressive location and the games are super well kept. Very nice collection for a t-shirt printing company. You hear about what the location is or where it is, it can't possibly be more than a couple pinball machines in here. And then you go in like, oh crap. That was nice there. Good combo, and it was time for multi-ball.
    109:20
    Pretty simple multi-ball, but many players use this as an opportunity to get the passengers instead of just, you know, he's already picked up two more passengers. Just Maryland to go.
    109:33
    And at this point, getting the balls under control and then going for Maryland would be a nice objective. John is an on-the-fly player. Marlin in single ball play there. This is a death tension. But you have to, there's nothing else to do. Right. You can't really do multi-ball at this point, right? I mean, you could walk in three more ramp combos to get your million shot from the ramp, but... The worst part of this is that the drop target bank will reset itself after about 10 seconds. So if you don't knock down the remaining targets, boom, they're going to come back up. I feel like the gorby shots kind of ream out quite often
    110:20
    oh that's the gorby shot, that's just the way it is we're lucky that it doesn't happen as often as it might otherwise oh there you go back body's lit, bounced over there, I always thought it was kind of a... oh boy, yeah that's about 10 seconds maybe Yeah, and then if he doesn't get it within the 10 seconds, it'll go back to a nice post-transfer there, and a chance at the jack, and he's got it! Nicely done. Look at that. Sweet.
    110:46
    All right. Good smile there from Don, and 1.5 million, pretty much the same jack, but every time. He's the best goal so far with 1.7, so that's the one shot. It's nice to get one shot that beats your best ball. Yes.
    111:02
    So now what? This is the right move here. Get back to multiple ball, another chance to get points for the skill shots. On ball three this can be worth up to 300,000. And then start your multiple ball. Let's try it back to jackpot already. I mean, you can just go jackpot all day. It reset to one million, so it's still a very high value.
    111:26
    There's three minutes to go here. So I guess we'll see if Michael Mattson shows up for his final game of Pinball Magic. If he doesn't, I'm going to try. Now, Stone here is 38 points off from the A bubble. He's at 350, and his previous tax return was 56 points. So it's possible for him to blow. You need a 94 points? That sounds pretty hard. It does, it's possible. But he will definitely bump up in the casual standing. Oh, in the casual as well, okay. Yes. 94, that would be, I'm assuming, 6 million maybe? 7.7 That's a lot of jackpots Not much you can do about that Let me see if we do your last game of the tournament Over 3 million there on the final game, 3.1, good score, much improvement there
    112:41
    What do you guys want to go to? Oh, look at win 8 Who we got here? I see someone tied for 8 right now
    112:50
    I got 2 minutes here Ron On pinball match. I think the ball has drained. Ball three. Alright. You want to grab the scorekeeper and make sure he's near you. Yeah, no doubt. Alright, so the story is that midnight, the game cannot start anymore. The game started before midnight can be finished. They won't turn off the machines. It's not that mean. Eden stands 385. 3.85, still queuing for AFM? Yeah, he's probably not going to go on there. He's not going to play.
    113:30
    Well, there's a multi-ball on pinball match, that's probably the end of it for me. One minute left. 3.87 is number 24.
    113:42
    Beyond the bubble is not fun. I'm not fine. Reminds me of my first Indies tournament, won by Carl and Jim two years ago. Okay, I'm up. Bye. Oh, he tilted just for Bowen, so Bowen can play. That's very nice of Michael. Shall we watch Bowen last game? Yeah, we'll move it over to him.
    114:04
    So, Pinball Magic. I hope you like Pinball Magic. So we have Raymond 487 and Bowen 483, so we need 4 more points on Fieldball Magic. Right now he has 93, so we need a top 2 score. Alright. To tie Raymond. Right. And then the tiebreaker, we don't know if that happens. I would insignificant ties or something, I can look up the rules Maybe in first or second it's not so insignificant? But unfortunately it's not a buy tiebreaker Let's see, I'm on tiltforums.com looking for the rules that Greg put up there So 97 would need a 377 million for bonus Alright, so what does he have here? Okay, tiebreakers and finals are no longer random draw for machine, instead top seed will have first place amongst the game. That is known as the Trio Clause since Bowen and Andreas got stuck on Trio last year. Right. Let's see, tiebreakers for qualifying buys will change from random draw for machine to survivor style voting. each vote on the game they want to play. If there's a winner, that game is played. If there's a tie, players re-vote between the tied games. If there's a winner, that game is played. If not, then the game is randomly drawn from the games not voted for. Non-significant tiebreakers are not documented, right? Say that again? Non-significant tiebreakers are not documented, right? No, no. Bowen wants revenge as well. Yes, but we're just nicking Riding Pass Remnant on P-Ball Magic, so we need to get top two score, which means 377 million. Oh, that's... okay.
    116:13
    Alright, so that's board number two, is it? That was ball one. I'm having a hard time finding that ramp right now. Oh yeah, that's the tip into the metal plane. Oh my gosh. So in this game I noticed, can you lock yourself out of multiball if your last trick is that stupid drop it in the hole trick? Yeah, if it's the silence. Somehow I got out of it. Yeah, somehow you got out of it, we don't know how. I think if you miss it too many times, you should give it to you. Yeah.
    116:45
    I didn't realize you could use the flipper to control it until it told me on the D&D. Oh, yeah. You have to get a flipbook flipper. Okay. And you drop it.
    116:57
    I do kind of want to watch Eden at one point as well, because Bowen's already qualified, but Eden needs one point to qualify. Alright, we're moving over to Eden. Alright. It's a very exciting match here. Not to say he's going to be unexciting to watch. He passed midnight now, so no more games start after this, right? That's the last. Bowen just had a two-turn ball too. 2 million to start, board free. 300 million to go. Alright, here we are with Aiden. Now what does he need? I think he needs like 3 bills or something. He needs 2 points, or 3 points to pass number 24. So his current score in the AFM is... 2.5, about.
    117:55
    And right now it's a 3-way tie for 25. Yeah, he needs 2 points to bump up. So where is he then? 2.5? Oh, he has 2.5. So you need only 2.6 and a half to get that extra 2 points. So there's some history behind this. Last year at California Extreme, he qualified at midnight on Shrex as his last game. No way. As the last game, yep. So he might just do it again here. Oh, he's got the 3.9. This is how it starts.
    118:24
    I think he just needs... If he gets to the second level of supers, that's got to be free bill. But unfortunately... Oh, barely, barely, barely. Alright. I think that Bowen on Pinball Magics, the contact didn't happen. Is Keith playing at all? Keith has not played. Keith, quote, I don't care, is what his take on that is. Shocking. Alright, so that's, I think, maybe the first top three MS Lockdown at this point. But it's still things hold down. So, he only has one jackpot left to get to his 2-1 left ramp.
    119:02
    Oh, I popped around on the right there. Oh, that was a good dead pass. Look at that. Did that light the super? That lit the super. Oh. So now the super is big. It lit for like 10 seconds. Oh, yeah. It's like pinball seconds, too. So take it easy. Wait for that right orbit. Oh, my God. He got annihilation in the hole as well. The right ramp, I guess, would be the hindrance there. So we only got a billion out of that, but this will be worth $2.50. Oh, that's rough. Whoa, that was bizarre. Oh, it goes back from right to right. Still time. Oh yeah, that was a good drop catch thing. Oh no. Oh wow. Thank you for the rubber on the post-it. Alright, what's this? Oh my god. It's the back can on the loop. And he almost walked away from that. That was insane. Backhand super. I think that just happened.
    120:00
    So he's still got some work to do, though. And he... I think he wants to do it with time. Oh, my gosh.
    120:11
    So... Whoa, that was a bad feed there. Nice. Good patience on that cradle there. I would have probably freaked out. All right. So he's multiple all day, right? Oh, no. Same strategy earlier. Oh, I like that. Wow. He was thinking about dead passing and then at the last minute he was like, no wait, this is a good angle. I'll take it. I'll take the shot.
    120:29
    Nice. Alright, uh, looks like... Alright, do or die now. Is that... Oh no. Is that three? Can he get the left one? I don't know. He need... Oh no! Oh wow. I was gonna say, I almost picked the hurry up at that point. I would. I mean, any points matter at this stage, right? Oh yeah, especially with that bonus. Alright, you need 2.65, you need 2,500 million. I mean, that's too short for the Mutable, right? This is really tough. You go multi-ball? Ok, you go multi-ball because... You need two shots. Yeah. Ok. Alright, perfect. Here it is.
    121:02
    Nooooooo! Oh my god! Oh my god. I'm breaking. Just straight out. Just not even a chance to save it. Oh, this is horrible. Horrible. Oh no! Eden! One shot, one break. Oh! Well, I hate to see it end like that. We have Leon Taxi left. Yeah, we have Leon Taxi left. But he's ending right now. That's it. Alright, scores are being input right now. Final standings will be up momentarily. I know I'm very interested in the biker tiebreaker, is that going to be a significant buy? You can go ask Greg about how the tiebreaker ride is the survivor style thing. That's a significant buy, right? Indeed. Andrew is not here, so is that going to be tomorrow? It will be tomorrow morning, first thing. 9am? 9am, talk to Greg. Thanks everyone for watching, tournament starts tomorrow at 9am. We may not be... thanks Jermaine. We may not be online right away.
    122:18
    We'll be online as soon as we can be. Good night, everybody. Thanks for watching.