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2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet Tournament

chuckwurt·video·2h 6m·analyzed·Jan 6, 2026
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TL;DR

Dave Stewart wins 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet grand finals over Carlton, Scout, and Sterling.

Summary

Coverage of the 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet tournament grand finals, featuring Dave Stewart, Scout Bevins, Sterling Matoska, and Carlton Plord competing across six pinball machines (Game of Thrones, Pulp Fiction, Walking Dead, Bone Busters, Atlantis, and Diamond Lady) in a speed-based gauntlet format. Dave Stewart won the championship with a time of approximately 232 seconds, Carlton Plord finished second, Scout Bevins third, and Sterling Matoska fourth. The event was the seventh running of the Pincinnati Gauntlet and included discussion of the triple crown bounty ($800 prize and trophy for winning three consecutive local tournaments).

Key Claims

  • Dave Stewart is the 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet champion with a winning time of 232 seconds

    high confidence · Tournament commentator (Chuckwurt) announcing final results at end of broadcast

  • Sterling Matoska was the gauntlet winner from the previous year and is back-to-back gauntlet finalist

    high confidence · Commentator discussing Sterling's placement before his finals heat

  • The triple crown bounty of $800 and trophy will not be claimed this year because two different winners won the previous two legs and neither is in the finals

    high confidence · Commentator explaining triple crown rules and current status

  • The gauntlet format allows players to choose game order and start multiple games simultaneously

    high confidence · Commentator explaining gauntlet rules to viewers

  • This is the seventh running of the Pincinnati Gauntlet tournament

    high confidence · Commentator announcing final results at tournament conclusion

Notable Quotes

  • “When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ mid-broadcast — Reference to Game of Thrones machine in gauntlet lineup; illustrates casual tone and thematic context of tournament

  • “Dave Stewart is your gauntlet champion”

    Chuck Wurt (commentator) @ near end of broadcast — Official championship announcement and tournament conclusion

  • “It's not like the old Southland days where they clipped me up with a mic and made me commentate on my own game of Taxi, which was a lot of fun.”

    Chuckwurt @ early in finals commentary — Personal anecdote revealing commentator's past experience and tournament history; shows familiarity with competitive pinball events

  • “If you win the Pincinnati, you win the Head match play, and you win this tournament, there's an $800 extra bounty and a really sick horse trophy on the line.”

    [name withheld pending review] @ mid-broadcast — Explains the triple crown incentive structure and prize details

Entities

Dave StewartpersonSterling MatoskapersonScout BevinspersonCarlton PlordpersonChuckwurtpersonPincinnati GauntleteventGame of ThronesgamePulp FictiongameWalking Deadgame

Signals

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    event_signal: The 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet completed its grand finals with Dave Stewart winning. Event format involves speed-based gameplay across six different pinball machines with flexible game selection order.

    high · Tournament commentator providing play-by-play and final results; Dave Stewart won with 232 seconds, Carlton second (252s), Scout third (302s), Sterling fourth (325s)

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Sterling Matoska, previous year's gauntlet winner, did not repeat, finishing fourth in 2025 grand finals. Dave Stewart claimed the championship.

    high · Commentator noting Sterling was 'last year's gauntlet winner and also another gauntlet. Back-to-back gauntlet finals' but placed 4th this year

  • $

    market_signal: The Pincinnati Gauntlet offers prize money and trophies; triple crown bounty of $800 is available for players who win three consecutive regional tournaments.

    high · Commentator explaining '$800 extra bounty and a really sick horse trophy' for triple crown; event included monetary prizes distributed at conclusion

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Tournament gameplay reveals strategic considerations: Pulp Fiction noted for 'evil' tilt, Walking Dead can be progressed on any player/ball via simple objective, players can optimize game order and start multiple games simultaneously.

    high · Commentator discussing 'The Pulp Fiction's tilt is evil' and players being 'encouraged to go to level one' on Diamond Lady; rules explanation showing flexibility in game selection

  • ?

    venue_signal: The Pincinnati Gauntlet is an established local tournament series (seventh running in 2025) with structured sign-up ($10 entry at 10am), grand finals, and trophy/prize distribution.

Transcript

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0:00
Thank you. Rewind the clock. Enjoy. Again, we may have folks commentating. Sometimes you might just be watching them play the gauntlet. But thank you for sticking with us all weekend long. It's been an absolute pleasure, and I'm so thrilled to get to do it. Jason, thank you, of course. Meme, laugh, love, thank you. Just wonderful. I saw you guys all weekend long, and I'm so glad that you came to join for the whole weekend. So enjoy the gauntlet.
1:30
Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. The Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you.
9:00
The Rewind the clock, go home to Jericho and it's like a new. Rewind the clock. Thank you. The Rewind to the original video. Why didn't you give me a later answer?
12:34
Why didn't you give me an answer? I don't understand. There's something I don't understand. There's something I don't do.
12:51
I don't understand. There's something I don't understand. The Thank you. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Rewind the screen. Continue.
Bone Busters
game
Atlantisgame
Diamond Ladygame

high · Commentator announcing 'the seventh running of the Cincinnati Gauntlets' and referencing 'started at 10 a.m. sign up, I believe. $10 at 10 a.m.'

  • ?

    content_signal: The Pincinnati Gauntlet was streamed live with play-by-play commentary. Technical issues occurred near end of broadcast (stream disconnection), but stream recovered successfully.

    high · Commentator noting 'the stream just killed itself' and later 'Reconnection successful' near end of content

    • 19:00
    Thank you. We're going to be cool. You were finished.
    22:30
    Thank you. The men must die. Thank you. The Thank you. Thank you Thank you Rewind to the original video
    31:54
    Thank you. Rewind the screen. Thank you. Rewind the clock. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Check out the big brain on Brad.
    42:54
    Thank you. Rewind the screen. We're gonna be cool.
    51:15
    I'd knock that shit off the top. Thank you. Rewind the screen. Thank you. I'm ready when you are.
    57:54
    Thank you. Rewind to this coming. We're going to be cool. Wait for this coming. Thank you.
    62:54
    Thank you Rewind to the original video Thank you. Rewind the screen. We're gonna be cool.
    65:54
    Thank you. So far, this is our first flight. And done. That's a 2 minute 10 second time for Sterling. Now we're going to clean up a little bit here and we'll do it again.
    67:16
    Thank you. Thank you for watching. One more champion. Carlton stepping up to the game now. You got to watch that input there.
    68:46
    There are a few things you could do to optimize your time. You can play multiple games at once. You're not just tied to one game at a time. You can start in any order, move in any order, do what you need in the order you feel best.
    69:16
    Thank you for watching. Jules asking very important questions here. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Oh boy.
    71:35
    Hands on head. Still working on that kickback lane. There we go. 2.10 left on the clock. That's a 3.50 for Carlton. We are halfway through our finals here. The next flight of four is going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to step out because that's my flight.
    72:16
    We're going to be cool. Check out the big brain on the bread. When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
    73:16
    Thank you. Rewind the screen. Rewind to the original video. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Rewind the screen. Rewind the clock. Thank you. Now, you've got a corpse in a car, minus the head in a garage.
    81:46
    Thank you. Thank you Thank you. They ended pretty quickly compared to last year because there were less rounds to play. You are here now watching the Pinsonati Gauntlet, the grand finals, the last finals of the day. You will be seeing Dave Stewart, Scout Bevins, Sterling Matoska, and Carlton Plord playing for the last trophy, the last plaques, and the last piles of cash while we're at it. I will sit in the booth for everybody else's game except mine because I can't...
    98:26
    I don't have a wireless headset or else I would actually try it. But unfortunately, we don't have that technology here. It's not like the old Southland days where they clipped me up with a mic and made me commentate on my own game of Taxi, which was a lot of fun. I kind of play. I exist. You do exist.
    99:19
    How is your weekend going? It's tiring, but I'm good. I didn't do too terrible for my first time, not knowing the machines. Yeah, congratulations.
    99:30
    You as well. I feel about the same. I am tired as all heck. I still have a four and a half hour drive. I have to get cat food for the kitties.
    99:39
    We ran out of cat food, or we were running out of cat food when I left, And Sarah texted me and said, hey, can you bring home cat food? I don't, they'll be fine for tonight, but they're going to be really grumpy in the morning. And speaking of people who are hopefully not as grumpy, Dave Stewart, our first finalist, stepping up. The first objective here, Game of Thrones, you're locked into playing Stark. You need to start the Lannister mode.
    100:08
    Pulp Fiction, you need to lock a ball in the pawn shop. And that's just doing the drops and hitting the scoop, right? Yep. Nothing special. Knock all the drops down, put it in the scoop.
    100:20
    I can attest that you could get Valley Brick pretty easily, but Dave here making real quick work of that there. I thought it felt pretty good. People were complaining about the Pulp Fiction's tilt. I mean, the Pulp Fiction's tilt is evil. I will give it that. But overall playing, not bad. If I had a little bit more room to nudge, that would be amazing. Dave is also going to go ahead and finish up Game of Thrones. Moving over to Walking Dead, you need to hit down the left drop targets to collect an item.
    100:57
    See how it goes. You can see from here, maybe. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for watching. Rewind the clock. And yes, that is a Tracy you are hearing. Do not adjust your sound. That's me.
    102:50
    All right. Scal's got to step in now. They are trying to go over their strat. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Oh, are they just going to ramp it?
    104:05
    Okay. Oh! Okay, we finished Game of Thrones, started Lannister. Now we're going for the center drops of the Pawn Shop. Get in the scoop. Get one lock on that.
    104:21
    Once you see it, like, green, that should tell you when it's done. Thank you for watching. So it's all these games along the line here. So Game of Thrones, Pulp Fiction, Walking Dead, Bonebusters, Atlantis, and Diamond Lady? Is that what it is?
    105:10
    Not too familiar with that game. I played it one time in my entire life. Okay, we got three tiles down.
    105:25
    Thank you. Then I was told you can jump back and forth, you can plunge, you can try to get some things going while another thing is happening.
    106:05
    Okay, only Atlantis left. Hit the one draw, er, one target a few times. Do we get the three ones? Do we get it?
    106:25
    Thank you for watching. Okay, about 2.50 left on the clock. You are not a bozo. And that's how you don't play the gauntlet, folks.
    107:17
    So, this point, the score to beat is that, I think it was like 330-ish? Thank you for watching. Is that the crown I read? That's the triple crown. I read the crown, that's right. If you win the Rodefinsonati, you win the Houdet match play, and you win this tournament, there's an $800 extra bounty and a really sick horse trophy on the line.
    108:09
    It will not be claimed this year. We have had two different winners in the two legs of the triple crown so far, and neither of those people is in this finals. So we don't even have a double crown. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you for watching. It's back. Nice. There's the pawn shop. Now, Walking Dead need to get the item.
    110:07
    Has a bit of a rough plunge there. Wasting a little bit of time in the pawns. Yeah, I mean, you're always going to waste a little bit of time in the pops.
    110:21
    That ball looks like it drained out, so no progress on that objective right now. Moving over to Bonebusters.
    110:30
    Bonebusters looks like that was also a swing and a miss. Having a little bit of trouble with Walking Dead here.
    110:42
    About two minutes. Yeah, we're about two minutes in. Two minutes have passed. Looks like that was a rough feed. Or no, it looks like maybe a lot of pops. Gets the skill shot on Bone Busters. Still waiting on pops. We are, I think we're in, okay, we're out of pop heck. Gets the item, moves over to Atlantis. Getting the ones.
    111:15
    You can spot them through the center saucer as well. That's one thing I did not do smartly. Moving over to Diamond Lady. Got to like the kickback.
    111:31
    Being encouraged to go to level one. Gets it. All right. Now we're on to Atlantis as our last objective.
    111:39
    Okay. Halfway through. Three minutes left. Yep. One objective. Three minutes. There's a watch out. It's going to come down.
    111:58
    So Sterling is now in third place. We will not have a repeat winner of the gauntlet. Sterling is last year's gauntlet winner and also another gauntlet. Back-to-back gauntlet finals, you know. That's a heck of an achievement right there. And Sterling is going to end up with about a 325.
    112:22
    Scout Bevins at a 302. And I want to say, Dave, is it about a 240? I'm going to get a double check on that before we have this last player play so we know exactly what the stakes are here.
    112:45
    All right. Getting it ready. Yep. All right. So it is a 232 that will win the event tier. Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you for watching. All six games are unstarted, so you get to press the start button. You can choose how many players you want to put on. Some games you might lose progress if you put in multiple players, but you can think of that as kind of safety. Yeah. I've been noticing that on the pulp. Yeah.
    115:29
    Walking Dead's another good example as well because it's just shoot three drop targets. You can do it on any ball, any player. Right. Carlton out, hits all the start buttons, goes straight to work. Rewind the clock. You can just move over to the next game, and once the game tells you, hey, you want to play Stark, you go, no.
    116:17
    So that's one objective down. We're on Pulp Fiction. We're in Pulp Fiction, heck, I will say. We're going to be cool.
    116:24
    We lock a ball. All right, moving on to Walking Dead. We've got, we are just about to cross the first minute mark here. Five on the clock, one in play.
    116:39
    Thank you for watching. Thank you. Tournament. 20 seconds left before Dave Stewart is your gauntlet champion. Oh, boy.
    117:50
    Yep, this is the... All right, here we go. He can hit this. He can drop it in. Five seconds. Two, one, zero. All right, Dave Stewart is your gauntlet champion, but we're still playing for second here.
    118:09
    The next time you're looking for is 252. Carlton is going to end up second. So Dave Stewart is your champion. Carlton second. Scout Bevins third. Sterling Matoska fourth.
    118:23
    We're going to get some trophies out here in a second. So I'm going to go ahead and bump myself down. Go get your trophy. I'm going to go get my trophy. I'm going to bump up the handheld so we can get that mic action. Thank you. Thank you for getting the hardware ready.
    119:12
    Congrats to our gauntlet winners. Not quite sure how many people lined up to do this originally, but it started at 10 a.m. sign up, I believe. $10 at 10 a.m. It is now 316.
    119:42
    We got $1.48 left on the clock to get these trophies out. Just kidding. All right. I'm not sure. Thank you. You know, it's bound to happen. That could have been a trophy that they threw on the floor, but it was money, and that's fine. We can pick that up. Nothing broke.
    120:55
    Thank you. All right, I think we're ready. All right, so the seventh running of the Cincinnati Gauntlets, our top four. Finishing in fourth is Sterling.
    121:52
    Yep, he's proving it. Thank you for running this. Thank you. All right. I think we're all done.
    123:08
    I guess we're going to try to find someone to raid. I'm guessing that's probably what they want to do.
    123:18
    Let's see. Thank you. Do you want me to raid someone? Do you want me to raid someone? Give me one second. I will go ahead and... Actually, I think the stream just killed itself, so... It did save. Yeah, so... So it's been trying. Yeah, unfortunately, I think that's going to be a rip here. I believe the... Let's see, did the Nekir box just crud out?
    124:18
    It would be funny if that's literally, like, the box just crudded out. Okay, reconnection successful. Wow, that took absolutely forever. Thank you for watching. 1. Bye.