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Free Play Florida 2018 Main Playoffs - Finals

IE Pinball·video·1h 49m·analyzed·Dec 8, 2018
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TL;DR

Free Play Florida 2018 finals coverage with tournament gameplay and analysis.

Summary

Coverage of the Free Play Florida 2018 pinball tournament finals, featuring commentary on gameplay across multiple machines including Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, and Medieval Madness. The tournament concludes with four finalists competing in the championship round, with emphasis on rules complexity, shot difficulty, and competitive strategy.

Key Claims

  • Free Play Florida is now a Stern Pro event

    high confidence · Commentator states this during tournament introduction, attributed to community awareness and Project Pinball charity tournament involvement

  • Tournament had over 100 players with approximately 75 in classics division and a strong women's division

    high confidence · Commentators reference 131 total competitors, approximately 75 in classics

  • Game of Thrones has a 'Blackwater' multiball feature that 100% of winnings go back to players

    medium confidence · Commentator Paul Daniel mentioned during presentation that Blackwater payout structure returns all proceeds to players

  • The Walking Dead machine in the women's division played significantly better than the men's division version

    medium confidence · Fred Richardson notes women's division machine 'played like buttah' while men's version playing poorly with inconsistent target registration

  • Medieval Madness is a challenging game with complex rules and mode interactions

    high confidence · Multiple commentators describe it as 'a Limon masterpiece' with mode interactions that compound scoring

  • Game of Thrones' left spinner is difficult to hit consistently due to ball physics and feed angles

    high confidence · Extensive gameplay commentary highlighting inconsistent plunges, ball returns, and tricky feed mechanics

  • The 2018 Inland Empire Pro qualifying (IEP) event added a high-stakes division with Papa format

    medium confidence · Jim Bell mentioned upcoming January IEP changes including high-stakes division and Papa format continuation

  • The Walking Dead machine had drop targets sourced from earlier games and includes prison door mechanics

    medium confidence · Fred Richardson identifies drop targets 'from meteor or galaxies' and discusses prison door mechanics

Notable Quotes

  • “Blackwater 100% goes back to the player I've never heard of a place doing that before that's fantastic”

    Commentator (describing Paul Daniel's presentation) @ ~0:01:00 — Highlights innovative tournament structure at Free Play Florida venue

  • “This is a Limon masterpiece in my opinion”

    Fred Richardson @ ~0:45:00 — Strong endorsement of Medieval Madness game design and complexity

  • “The way the ball comes off of things in the angles of the shots I mean it's a live game like you've got to be on your toes because that ball will come down and just stick”

    Patrick (guest commentator) @ ~0:20:00 — Technical analysis of Game of Thrones playfield physics and shot consistency challenges

  • “I spent hours upon hours with the glass off trying to figure out you want to hit to left orbits and then around three times”

    Fred Richardson (referencing Donovan Step) @ ~0:30:00 — Describes The Walking Dead rules complexity and optimization strategy

  • “I for 26 years I don't think I've ever seen him get angry”

    Fred Richardson (about Jim Bell) @ ~0:35:00 — Character note about a prominent competitor's demeanor

Entities

Free Play FloridaeventFred RichardsonpersonJim Bell SitopersonKylepersonKarl DeAngelopersonDrewpersonBrianpersonPatrickpersonPaul Danielperson

Signals

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    event_signal: Free Play Florida 2018 achieved over 130 competitors with strong women's division, elevated to Stern Pro event status through community awareness and Project Pinball charity involvement

    high · Commentators note 131 total competitors, ~75 in classics, strong women's division, and Paul Daniel's presentation on Stern Pro event designation

  • ?

    venue_signal: New resort venue provides significant improvements including 24-hour food service, pool amenities, reduced facility costs, and commitment to 3-year tenure

    high · Multiple commentators praise venue, mention 24-hour food availability, pool access, and three-year commitment from organizers

  • ?

    gameplay_signal: The Walking Dead machine exhibits significant playfield inconsistency between divisions - women's version plays smoothly while men's version has target registration problems

    high · Fred Richardson explicitly notes women's division machine 'played like buttah' while men's version struggles with target registration and drop target mechanics

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Competitive players value mode stacking, shot angle precision, and playfield physics complexity as core game qualities

    high · Extended discussion of Medieval Madness mode interactions, Game of Thrones feed angles, and The Walking Dead optimization strategies

  • ?

    code_update: Medieval Madness tournament update includes disabled lock stealing and modified jackpot progression (4-6-8-10 instead of random)

    high · Commentators note 'cannot steal locks from players which is really cool' and explain jackpot value sequence

Topics

Tournament gameplay and competitive strategyprimaryGame of Thrones machine design and mechanicsprimaryThe Walking Dead machine rules and mode complexityprimaryMedieval Madness playfield physics and shot difficultyprimaryFree Play Florida tournament structure and organizationprimaryPinball community and event venue qualitysecondaryStern Pro event status and circuit developmentsecondaryBroadcast technology and streaming infrastructuresecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.82)— Commentators express enthusiasm for tournament quality, venue, competitive level, and game design. Positive references to community organization and player caliber. Minor frustrations with audio/technical issues and machine playfield inconsistencies.

Transcript

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there's funky Fred hey Freddy all right what time what time is it three o'clock o'clock we're doing all right all right now I'm bold you are gonna think about dinner I haven't either buddy you had you're the one with the cookie over here I know breakfast of champs mystic and frontier mystic Oh frontier I don't think of a good spinner games - why it's far away oh yeah you know I'll tell you what's the worst spinner it's in pinball the word spa oh you get like two spins if your future spa is the worst yeah that's not a speck SuperSonics a good one there's a good one Grand Prix hot hot hot it has a spinner all right so we're getting ready what do we have in the finals we know we have Jim Bell sido Adam left off we've got Karl DeAngelo and let's see all right there oh okay gain the spores got a great point here by the way a great presentation earlier too from Daniel talking about everything that happens here free play Florida that this Resort provided this so that the costs come down and 100% goes back to the player I've never heard of a place doing that before that's fantastic and also the trophies too Daniel the trophies by free play Florida pinball lounge had tons of free food and pop and munchies and I mean there's been a lot of people in the Florida community as you know Brian that have made this possible it's very very exciting and again a lot of this awareness - for project pinball we had a we had we had a Deadpool side charity tournament and it's it's why free play Florida is now a stern Prost event it's why it grows there were over a hundred players this year women's championship classics and a a be a great show and we've got Carl D'Python Anghelo uh sure drew Sidora and Jim Bell sido in that order so Carl be driving the bus now remember in this tournament you can't pick the same game twice and sure enough what are they going to he deferred it's TX all day here in free play Florida all three games are gonna be on TX everybody cuz the next person's gonna defer we're gonna stay here okay all TX I'll be right back you're now in there Brian okay Patrick's gonna join me here in the booth for just a second audience can hear the TX sector barely I think maybe I don't know how you doing good how are you how was the show you were in the Citizens rate for most of the weekend right yeah yeah did you do any streaming I didn't I tried to stream from a GoPro but the Wi-Fi wasn't good enough keep hearing that from people you know that's a shame and I was gonna do some some candy cabinet like arcade shmups and the guy that we flew in for it you know wasn't feeling it so we're gonna do it actually at my house okay he's staying with me for a couple days nice fantastic show this year we owe amazing yeah this new venues is incredible III assume we're gonna stay here for three years right yeah cool you can go to the plume you know the pool yeah that pool is 24-hour food which saved me that's amazing because you finished playing pinball at midnight and you're like what am I gonna do there's always somebody here making hot food oh we got Jim Bell Zito so I haven't been watching the tournament for the TX they go on the basics Fender Strat or pretty much spinner strat all day 2000 spin pop bumpers Justin when lit post passing to the lid spinner from the right to the left yep shot Singh from the left to the right it's pretty much the way it's gone I don't love this game how do you feel about TX ochre I mean it's growing on me you know I haven't had as much time on it but it's addictive it's very addictive and it's very satisfying when you make the shots so well thanks Patrick for stopping by us could see them can you get Carl hey we've got Fred Richardson just join us in the booth hey so friggin tired you have done a lot this weekend except finish first it's been a fun weekend this is my first time at free play Florida yeah it's it's had a blast it's been good I mean of all the ones we've had here this is this has been a great one you've talked it up to me quite a bit and then obviously with I app and OBX not being on the same weekend we were really able to get a good turnout and it's it's good that it works out people can can make both events this year a lot of good players strong field good batch games I think the means for we're a lot of fun and here we are on T X sector I'll do it for Jim he'll finish up with about a 1/8 and change call it a 1/9 yeah we've been seeing a lot of TX sector today already drew who is played outstanding went on a little tilt on the final round of classics but I had him in my group twice and had to stay with him in order to keep advance and employ that was that was a challenge who played great over there in classics I thought he was the man to beat yeah he's been solid all weekend great player nice to see him out very nice rainbow and finally Coral have we mentioned how cold it is in the room yet yeah and as more people get eliminated and leave the room it seems to get colder in here my drink has not needed any ice which is nice we love our air conditioning in Florida even in the wintertime good event dance polar with project pinball outstanding job a good crew of people here we got some good trophies great payout 200% payouts I took fifth in classics and kept 200 bucks so that was I was welcome losing a tiebreaker that I would lose on a tiebreaker to later in Maine as well yeah so the payouts for first place is looking at about $2,100 which is holy cow pretty sweet wow that is solid so we'll see y'all next year at free plate Florida huh over 100 competitors what was our number 131 one tannish yeah about 75 in classics have a very strong women's division as well there's Carl trying to get his uh his locks lit one more advance and he will qualify that he was dialed into that right spinner in the previous game see if he tries his shots nope yep that's the thing with that there we go he hit that target back there which enabled him to light his lock those sight shots are difficult though he's just gonna keep playing with his food up there at the spinner looks like it bounced all very nice oh yeah I can get stopped with the pom pom purse the spinner will keep spinning a lot of times you hit it now I'm flying back hitch and it stops it it's okay you're getting 250,000 a shot really for that spinner so it's yep it's good money Carl comes out of first ball in the lead two point one that sure wanted to make it tough on everyone else so he went ahead house balled his first one yes just to make everyone else feel comfortable I sure spent on a tear that's just dad's been playing well as well everyone's got a coat on you know until you pointed that out I was sitting here just fine now I'm I'm sure outside our mind don't don't bring it up glad everyone can tune in check out the business oh there's that plunger shots so inconsistent sometimes it just drops and then sometimes he drifts away see he's trying to he was trying to shots at close pass it over hello that have moved it out of there okay oh he's a left one I save him back in that left spinner how's it gonna shouts yeah matter of fact most of them just stay there you can post transfer from the right but left was really difficult all right Jimbo trying to warm up literally mr. SoCal should mention seeing Jim we got an in disc right around the corner coming up in January not too far I don't know if you've heard some of the changes to this year they are adding a high stakes division they have a they roll with the Papa format to the the card yeah and they're gonna do a high-stakes each card is $50 PC bucks a car don't go he's trying to draw people in with the special where you get a a main and two classics it's good to see the Papa format still and use still alive we just got done with that a PPO where do they use that so Southern California represented by Jim in Coral Colorado in the house with Usher and drew is from North Carolina North Carolina correct yeah you try and do that kind of a soft plunge so it just stops then something yeah like that that's a good plunge but then sometimes it hits that wall and just drifts away yeah and then you don't know where it's going so he can lock a ball a lot of times you can hit that left orbit there's a stop there no feature flipper silver orbit nope forget it this time yep piano little late on that and right down of the middle still within striking distance just over two for Jim steps up how did you do on this game this weekend Fred you know I played the heck out of it because I kept feeling like I was gonna blow it up blow it up got a lot of four or four or five but ultimately lost on a tiebreaker to Derrick who had just blown the thing open the game before and then we randomly drew that as our game so him close was ready and I lock lit everyone's got story yeah we go a little better right over there you're right spinner action have you saw the first one that hit went up and then came back and stops the spinner and that one went into the pop hoppers that's what you're looking for so that spinner has a chance to just keep going it's hard though because sometimes you just all you want to do is hit those spinners and you know makes it kind of a one-dimensional game but you hit the spinners and there's a hidden target back there which advances your progress towards lighting Locke when it's lit well as well as well hit if you can even though it's maybe one-dimensional game in that sense it's there's a lot of you know ball passing and flipper a lot of challenge just with the angle of the show that makes a lot of difference in the feeds like that when ball comes out from the right orbit side over here boy that can just get ya cuz it comes out from right there and sometimes you know it'll just hit and come straight down the sling he'd just be ugly it's not consistent Carl decide to let that one go without taking a swipe at it which is a smart move it's been doing that most of the time even though he had the perfect plunge and was right down the flipper so let's see if he he's just gonna spin her or if he's gonna maybe try and lock a ball so this is our first game in the for some reason this ain't does that a lot we've seen three of our players in just this game alone have those where you think it's gonna go over the air side it just kind of dies ties between the flippers so two balls Carlson leave to point forward Jim's got a two and sure Scott wood to chop not without not out of reach you know that's something I love about Asher like he gets an idea in his head he just he's not getting away from it oh I can catch this okay oh no no I don't think these are super vans these are metal about yeah they just bouncy Oh power and wane such a tricky feat yesterday there were people hitting the left having the ball returned from the right spinner and letting it come down to her left flipper bounced over Steve do that a few times hmm so you watch this feed now oh yeah it's all top of the sling yeah that's a solid shot all right go that's sound good but you're right even though like you were saying you know one-dimensional game but the way the ball comes off of things in the angles of the shots I mean it's it's a live game like you've got to be on your toes because that ball will come down and just stick yeah yeah if it was a one-shot game where the shot was repeatable like it came back in the same place every time there might be a different story okay this happened to me last night right oh yeah and then I trained on the lift totally that was the exact same thing I did was like but that sure is better than I am and did not get that I was forcing my third lock this usually when you see this game out it has a two ball multimodal has a third ball in it and so it's got a three ball multiball which is strange he's fine measures now knocking on the door taking a leave no that's better help them that'll do it oh he's feeling live shot yeah fun for the lock missed it that's okay yeah you can get some serious pop up or action going on there just like that Usher sitting that Oh three point five a little bit of bonus let's see where he finishes just under three six all right it's respectable after our slow start thank you sir I'll take that here comes Jim achieve a very emotional player gets out of hand jumps around a lot screams yells oh not even on the worst of the days I've known Jim for 26 years I don't think I've ever seen him get angry even so as you can see over there there's a funky save that what a lot of people do they the ball starts coming down that area a lot again they shake it too soon like that I was just gonna destroy a packed move but he was gonna demonstrate it for you as you're talking about it see people shake it too early and what you do is you actually want to go through that pass that first post and then you just give it that little nudge but frankly I hit it right to left and then and then swinging back yep and then in those back all right after a good save that's the best Jim can finish on this game now is third place she was gonna let that settle down a little bit before he steps up a lot of great sponsors here this weekend pinball lounge in the house curtain that great guys pride snacks and drink what snacks and water all weekend so nice so it shut up to those guys wait wait I don't think you hit anything dude I think that's it oh no tricking a switch hit a switch which switch cityhood you're kidding me oh poor true wow that's really funny so Carl's Jason Asher here looking for about 1.1 50 did not go first lock again he's getting the best plunge in this and that's okay he's gonna saw juicy Oh moved to spin her over so don't do it again yeah once been I would say abandon that I on the right sweetness still not there yet more solid shots would do it there's one and some pops will help to more fatty with all this done Wow and he walks away all right Carl takes an early lead for anyways nice job I sure second Jim third and I should be putting scores in huh could have been doing that all along Wow Jim finished up with well we'll find out true had about 800 Wow we're just making up numbers now we don't even know don't just go with a three 800 - Oh save group results are in let's go to the next assignment let's find out what Karl's gonna do so far Karl's been deferring his choice although he said no where to the walking dead so I got a feeling maybe that's his choice but we have to find out cuz looked like there were some shenanigans going on where well I'll pick order and you picked this and set your game choice sir see see sorry sorry about that call forth a sure picked locking dead and drew crew gets his choice of first second or third I got a feeling he's gonna pick three a my nose wearing links it's over there it's having a snack courtesy of a pinball lounge Thank You pinball lounge taking care of us one two three Kim takes two extras gonna lead us on the walking dead good luck everyone now let's talk about this game because it play like poopy oh yeah so I I can't comment on that because I did not even play it in qualifying I will tell you what it is diseased and it's got the drop targets from meteor or galaxies which one and don't forget the prison doors that sometimes and what's funny is we had one in the women's division and it played like buttah and the women were over there just destroying it meanwhile we're trying for 30s on this one but of course I see that everyone's gonna blow it up so looks like it's just gonna start off with going for is well Walker not even modes just a little two ball multiball and you know what honestly the way this thing is playing that's not a bad strategy just get something going get some drops get your first get your first mode took a shot at the targets there see ya I can't tell if that target went down or not no they don't go down they don't go down they're laughing at him right now if you saw he made seven shots over there and he's still going fall there's one all the secret is to backhand it okay you know I was born nice okay alright well take a little 2 ball action here with barn going that's left orbit he hasn't hit it oh he hit a drop target and locked it into the one he had already finished just fine I don't come back and ball savers done the team left off has done some work on this and have an entire career developed for how much she shots are worth during them and what a lot of people don't know is that modes work hand in hand with each other so based on how well you've done you can increase the shot values to other modes from previous moments this was shown to me by one of the best Walking Dead players I know and that's Donovan step and then after Donovan got really into it and Adam took one at home and told me he spent hours upon hours with the glass off trying to figure out you want to hit to left orbits and then around three times and then come back and spin around and tap your head and stop it around that's simple gives you a super jackpot Jesus just off to a nice start look at that very good first of all finishes up with an a3 next up it's gonna be mr. Bell Seto bringing some southern sunshine to the table he might be on a phone call what's going on in chat any questions this is just mayor the sound kind of bad some kind of flickering I I have flickering in my headset I thought it was just in my head side I hear it too okay so we got a little audio lacrosse talk somewhere either that or good for pointing it out we were just that was better when you reduced it whatever you didn't on the package yeah okay yeah we're using wireless technology here mm plus battery you know it's got one of the coolest rigs in bimb all wireless hoopty and you just roll around much like a metal detector next phase is going to have a screen on top of it to prevent glare so we're looking forward to phase 2.0 which will look much like a hang glider pointing out past mode bonus I like it sure so talking about values helping each other out from mode to mode chatroom puts in that you how well you done adds that mom cleat barn left or if it gives you a pass pose correct and that's why we were hitting barn before CDC Jim did not have a good first ball coming out of there at the milk see what Drew's got she was looking for a big game here Game two after coming in last in the first game you really need to yeah step it up a little bit in Game two absolutely he decides to go ahead and guess prison ready right off the bat sure not a bad idea hope that one did more sir hmm it's like he's gonna keep backhanding the wall Walker or was he trying for prison nope and you know it's not bad because you get that bounce off the wall Walker goes over the drop targets and you know that's that's one way to complete and they come over softly so you get her a likely that we're gonna go down yep makes in a prison when you can sure both those counted one more now his prison multiball is ready one more shot on there we'll start that and I'm guessing he's probably just gonna go for it just thinking about it oh look did subjected hashtag when it doesn't register that's very good yeah let's have some multiball and yes let's guys have competition settings on it we are on tournament settings correct extra balls worth two and a half mil Clause disabled no ice get that shot out of the way and now go hit the prison so during this mode you want to hit a shot hit prison good shot good prison trucha playing with your food there we go prison I believe you can start mode during multiball if you have it lit previous to the multiple so there's two ways to do it in in in ours right here we've got it set so you can go ahead and start modes however you can adjust it so you cannot and you can bring them up mode with you into multiball but you can start one once you're in there but as mentioned this one here you can I think I believe you can yeah well no he's completed drop targets and I don't see any modes going so hmm ah there we go no okay oh look at that oh yeah he's got the right one down to a little blood bath go with this yeah man so even though I can't start a mode too late for that okay decent sure well some something again though it's shot prison shot prison so it wasn't shooting the prison he kept you just shooting shots yeah I got an operator error okay hey you got some points in the bank walks away 23 mil probably gives them a little confidence after the last game too so sure so everybody else getting that squeaky squeaky too huh by the way I'm Fred Richardson funky fresh in the booth here with my good friend Brian dominate Brian of the Florida region hometown hero thanks for listening in today it's been a lot of fun all weekend and we are close to having a winner we're down to our final four that's coming back my opinion one of the best pinball machines out there and a story as far as rules complexity enjoyment it's hard game it's a very hard game yeah like that it's a it's a Limon masterpiece in my opinion bounce around keeping alive see I like I like to go and get my two shots on Prison get done so that way my other shots are completing letters in it get that out of the way he's got a 2x play field multipliers going right now cuz he went up and hit the tower oh yeah oh yeah no that's why oh I thought it was dying did move it about six inches to the left I thought he might get away with it but not quite baby-faced asher says he's going to wait for the game to settle down unlike a true champion no I'm just kidding Louis what was that thread that talked about going up there after somebody shakes it and I don't remember mmm-hmm a show over there conferring with his coach slash father yes it's the back one I think when you wiggle that no like right here look at that it's gone well when I let it go that's it though that's the court can we put something heavy on there for my scouring pad on there maybe needs more weight we're trying trying folks sound so bad [Music] chatrooms telling you to just hold it just hold it and just hold it go ahead and hold it so we can all enjoy a little bit more mm-hmm all right now sure steps back up wants to add to his QC total looks like he's gonna go for another well multiball yeah why not it's fairly safe keeping with the back in Oh don't hit there open that door yeah Ami's here they come I'm sorry we don't say sombody's walkers oh go the tunnel shot oh he saw that coming yeah you knew that was coming you're walking out of there with 89 it would be my neighbor display driving guy with the dog looking for midnight munchies I believe all future copies of the game will be printed without Rick Grimes on the game we got a little cuddle puddle going on back here man we're warm right Jim's a couple letters away from qualifying this prison getting that multiball go that's ugly Oh Jim go for a prison nice and all the way up top nope two shots yep oh yeah it doesn't register every time needs to work better if you shoot towards the side not in dead silence there you go try two shots his slingshots mm-hmm no three shot sound well or one shot on prison what do you want there buddy I'm just going for a while okay too nice you got it it's with riots yeah my favorite modes he's also got two times play field multiplier going I think it's there we go there we go come on Jim he's got some little progress going on his drop targets 2x score in his own home needs a shot on the prison hold on to that ball keep it in a cradle poopoo sandwich Oh Jimmy that's not like him okay what's gonna finish up with 30 after ball two sure with a strong lead just under 90 34 Jim yeah why didn't you go for prison that was alright drew looking to gain some ground here puts foot down get some points get him out stick it with a multiball hit your bloodbath his bloodbath was Freddie three drop targets and he will start it what's he gonna stack it with well Walker I think that was I think that's where he's going yeah cuz he's already done is prison so oh yeah all right so this is well Walker there we go started his bloodbath so as many of you know you hit that three bank and drop targets over there on the left hand side it will add a ball up to three times so frankly it's best to add one and play for a while and then add one but we get excited that's still coming back ball timers on now he's alive I was gone so we do know that it is on competition mode so we're not able to add any modes from the drop targets so this is what you've got to play with that's gonna be hit but it got him up to 80 mil yeah nice that last 11 million got him really close yeah that was a good shot there all righty well that's got to feel good now what oh he's gonna try and complete that bank of targets over there I coulda mode going out of bad strategy want to try and hit it when it's on weapons can that middle light so he can complete that bank and work on another bloodbath oh good all noise what's going nowhere yeah that one hmm okay good ball yeah yep yep nice bonus too got some lacquers okay then takes away 91 well played drew all right Carl now it's your turn skill-shot full value very nice trying to get those meteor drop targets down six shots knock down three targets and we got some well Walker here we go again I would have tried to bring a mode in with me but that's just me especially looking at what the other player scores didn't know he didn't oh and he did Oh see now left orbit left orbit left or no how much how do you know when it's time for it to go you just gotta count them yep not quite there yes but very close to first Wow brought him right back in that was a really nice move read the grid read the grid know your rules oh yeah that's all the difference Adams pointing out if you had to time play field multiplier look at that yeah when he skipped it alright ball three and I believe most these scores are over highest qualifying no I'm kidding but still very high scores for what people were scoring that's what you get when you get the best playing I wouldn't expect anything less at this point I think Esther's gonna stick with his well Walker plan four hits for it three had just exploded two more shots one more shot yeah oh there it is yeah mm-hmm so we got a little well Walker you say not much to do other than bash that well Walker since we can't start a mode you can go around and get your play field multiplier Oh gotta love that call that the legal Lazarus sure someone will be capturing that moment go lovey she's got about the delay Ripley so now these guys two times play field multiplier going on gotta hit some Walker shots at that well oh yeah that's gonna be a good one right there so six sure okay sitting at 115 that's trouble wouldn't tell at the bonus of fishes up at the 116 all right 116 6-7 103 Oh score points get that prison done so your shots are counted for something okay here we go Jim steps up it's got some work to do yes Jim sitting in fourth place with 30 Mel and you know he's got a lot of work to do bloodbath isn't sitting there well Walker's got looks like four shots on it his prison hasn't been activated yet so I need to hit that shot and make seven more shots after that so he's got some work to do well start it with a full skill shot we'll take that take a few shots while your ball save is still oh yeah two more shots on that there we go although if I'm down that much I'm probably trying to get a mode in there we can start with the mode first yeah but sure is easy to say something from the commentating booth where's this other ball I think Jim was busy finished chewing whatever he was eating that Wow that's brutal hmm well I think that was the right strategy last place in this game correct well I mean he'll have a point going into the final game just one yeah hmm be tough crew trying to take himself out of last place from the previous game looking to try and pass pressure here full value skill shot mr. miss one along the way oh no that's coming back oh that stuff hopefully no it's gonna finish up with 93 Carl very close behind Carl sank in first place here he wants to put this away now he wins this game he wins the tournament it's got three points never mind yeah I just like to say things I'm like a president I just throw stuff out there when I feel like it fake news okay that's coming back it was likely Oh ugly ugly dream what did he finish up with you did he break oh I I'm gonna get the last three on oh you didn't get this course no I just need the last three on okay five four three okay I'm good now the scores are in update boom now you should have fresh scores refresh there we go five four two one so Asher now takes the lead five points to Carl's for true has two in chip has one so again nobody really out of it gonna be a big struggle for Jim take first but that's impossible Wow that was that was a rough finish man he just needed like two million more points Wow the last couple balls after seeing a lot of really great play they were a little disappointing but that's how it goes sometimes pics now the aliens have joined our broadcast yes side dealings again Carl's going for Thatcher's chose radical so that'll be fun drew three true third Jim two and Escher is first on radical there we go mmm-hmm third game's up we got a close one yeah not over yet we'll see you later see Joshua the IFO shoe the order is assure is first Jim second dresser I've Karl is fourth can we get a four-way tie we can get a three-way tie okay three five five five sure all right it's all coming down to this ridiculousness bro I love this game a lot of fun we've got some update software on here so you cannot steal locks from players which is really cool and then also the value of the jackpots is not random starts at four six eight then 10 although I don't think I've seen a jackpot scored on this game I don't either uh he hit the one that's right that's right it wasn't lit oh yeah little tail span tail slider I only played one game on here because I got like a thirteen and that was it I thought played great all right it's got a spell radical again so he can skate or die Wow this is like when Esther likes to do his live streams and run to the hills it's a nice shot even the a shot wasn't too bad hey you shooting for that million there it is one mil all right just gotta hit that are shot you must have thought the extra ball was let there we are here we go to ball a ball hit jackpot first one is for I believe you have 4 6 8 10 there's our jackpot right there boom see how he likes to set this shot up I like to go up in those drops the 1 2 3 tends to feed it here we go 9 boom edge there's a 4 so now you have to spell it out a little Emily on yep and that Wolof much I he's hittin millions like they're going out of style misspelling radical will also light your kickback which I didn't I don't remember him hitting it but it looks like it's out yeah he used it up already okay there's his are there's this yep mmm-hmm spell radical and it will also let your kickback know that does not suck that does that's fine he keeps the radical letters once multi-port over yep we still only needs two letters to get back into a lock lock J's alright hit 12 my goodness all right lock his lids yeah all is locked great way to do it yep it sure appears to be focused at the moment as if he wants to win and he almost got that one yeah you did great first of all outstanding that 13mil would have been top five in qualifying that's only one ball coaching student going over there fire ball little review preview you even review the good ones that's right and talk about the one one item pass you miss a - I expect more out of your son here we go Jim is up and yeah go wrong spell radical lock a ball let's go again to ball multiball hit a ramp so he has a ball in the lock right now correct correct so what will happen is he will spell radical it will light his lock he'll go in there but it will immediately release the ball that's already locked and keep one in there whereas before or with any other normal Street roms he spells radical he goes in he starts multiple right this will prevent him from doing that and you have to be really careful if you do shoot it in there because he kicks that other ball out and very quickly it sure does that was tough save slow down jump there we go maril you know there's other stuff to the game there's build up your bonus and get some multipliers his lock is ready nice so watch it see how that kicked out right away there we go so now both him in there sure have a ball lock now if you were to go into next ball and there's no ball in there I'm guessing they'll probably just be on Skeeter he just spots the it lights up the lock again for him to relock the crowd I haven't seen her happy I actually did happen earlier it did okay great job with the knee ROM so what he wanted that nice good nagy if we needed that yep that was going out the right out lane some crazy guitar licks in this game too like it sounds like heavy-metal meltdown let's sure do what if they had any man Halen do this specifically there's oh that's a comet's tail slider where you at salsa guys letter value built up quite a bit Oh lovely you can see the meter here in the center you can see the value of the shots really high yeah it's okay decent start yeah that was a tough tough loss ball they're tough fumble terney ambolyn ambolyn in a now oh let's see if drew knows this game I think so he he chose this game when I played him in the first round okay Game one so he just by ended the era that has tight oh you don't they're ice hold it know about his style down that counts and you can increase the value of each of your letters by hitting these spot targets right here to the just right of the ramp these two spot targets right there will increase the value it's probably pointed out earlier of your letter now it they timeout you notice they're flashing and then they will actually disappear and be worth less but what it does is its advantage for getting letters in a row for sure take a breath slow down all right let see me needs the eye and the see just that spot target and then the right ramp but I like to drop those drops and hit add a letter right behind there nice looks like he got a warning get her a spot let her out of that too not the one you wanted though oh yeah he did okay so to see there you go mr. Arcon is up oh the middle one okay so he's gonna hit that drop target we're just gonna tap pass it over I guess that oh there we go everybody's got a ball on that good 100 with no kickback oh no it's late that's right he just spelled radical correct all right it's got spell radical again he's all the right side shots this time yep he's got rad and L really you're trying to shock that brian schatz it again okay and oh thank you for not getting hung up there I've pulled six balls out of there this weekend getting caught up on that left or now nope yeah you knew that coming okay well he's got a little feel for the game here comes the comeback yet Carl was our top qualifier earned himself a hundred-dollar bonus and piece of hardware got trophy which was pretty cool trophies here very nice-looking I might let that dead flip over but no so in the previous game he played on this he shots every letter I believe you're kidding me hmm trying not to fall asleep here there we go not for his plate just me and not having enough sleep so I want anybody to misconstrue that comment like ATAR so let's getting out of hand now there we go Wow good gravy it's right back at it interesting coming from Chad around that's correct once you score the jackpot you won't be able to do this anymore oh sweet ah you know that's why we don't do them that way but that's okay there's two more letters and they'll realize kickback one more there we go please we have some multiball on our way now still time oh no it's a tough one that was tough - you're feeling good with that 13 stepping up to ball 2 I choose scape always cheesecake okay so as we mentioned earlier um I sure had a ball locked and Carl just got done playing multiball so it wasn't there so I sure just hit that shot it's gonna put it in there and then he will go back to finishing his next letters for a multiball looks like he's got a couple of them spotted already so sloppy get that under control Jesus's kickback needs the di L so there's the D else right orbit the eye is the side ramp there's the L all more shot lots of tail slides letter them folks that's gonna be a guaranteed multiple there it is there's a million cabone the game has been cleared him radical so he should be working for six since he hit his for on ball one boom that was lovely it's got a restart or once it's good my read o six mill bow edge that just got funny that was outstanding great job Asher oh oh to be young again and have those powering lanes doesn't faze him just doesn't he Nats that was risky trying that right to left I don't know about that yeah looks like it's kicked back to it so sure why not points not mapping you got a nice little display of some letters that said extra ball did you get for your efforts it speeds up trouble keeping up with ya shot so fast Wow not really sure how that's saved but he did it my goodness ooh save it well we're not gonna knock them for that coming out of all to a 24mm great job great ball applause from the crowd as you should get in that situation Jim wastes no time steps right up so here again Jim had left the previous ball with a Mon lock now he goes for a beyond the plunge plunge right into it sure so I would declare this software a vast improvement I think so well done that's okay one more letter to relight that kickback it's at C and that's the drop targets that's fine it's the middle one watch that million shot on that side ramp though that's what he's thinking about being bent the keyboardist tries to get in on the action fine not back dropped our eyes catch yeah probably doesn't want to go fat's a dangerous straight ahead shot yeah yeah better on the other flipper yep just you uh backhand it there we go no mum I'll take million I guess should have backhanded him 20/20 rearview mirror okay that ball is backing the play which is good for true because he also left his ball as one in there so one more letter and he will light lock to for a two ball multiball hmm do you know what the top score was on this game during qualifying that's easy enough to find out let's take a peek I believe he's passed it frankly don't worry and go to main game scores radical top score was 26 from Carl D'Python Anghelo 26 193 score number two was Asher left off at 20 Mel okay Oh true that was tough luck right there Cole needs big ball here I believe he's got one lock that counts for him so second one it's a multiball it's gonna go back to the shets he sure is let's transfer just be patient I'll take your time if you're gonna do it don't rush it the only thing I would say is you're not scoring a lot of points you know in doing this you're expecting you're gonna get your points out of the multiball correct you don't get you know if you lose one ball really quickly out of the wall then doesn't really pay off right or no jackpots yep he's you can get a lot of other points on the game yeah the million shots come into play yeah that's for sure did there we go lovely unmarked okay oh no God kidding me ouch okay Asher's gonna wrap up his story no sound nobody's going for the snake collect either nope they're just not into play not too much up there Oh get up there look at that it's kicking out all right nice all right so you got shots no he's playing it smart move he does have his kickback right we both looked at bats yeah I'm gonna play around there let's see if you're okay oh good save there all the way up nope that one sticks right when you're playing tennis against the wall boom tomorrow letters this shot-making has just been amazing he's not missed very much you are correct sir that almost hung up where I had to keep pulling balls nada Oh like that Kim Phuc forget a drain drain fast yeah that's right no not again okay under control one more letter just the a ooh that was rough quick shot he passed Carl scores oh very nice high score for the weekend so far 27 6 that's what champions do folks 2707 7-0 great score mm that is above top qualifier Carl had a 26 out of 20 I like to see that like to see when your final scores beat your qualifying scores that's when you you have the cream of the crop in their plan sure why not let's just be radical all right let's see what Jim can do here three jackpots No oh yeah Jim has had some rough luck this weekend you've changed over like five nine five five four nine to zero save that one now drew a second place for the moment that's right Jim finishes up sitting out five five in second place crew starting this ball two to two that's some real nice prize payouts for this event though we've got top four or paying out actually everyone in finals got payout 17 through 24 for 75 bucks 9 through 16 throws 131 fifth rate each got to 62 fourth place five and a quarter third place 825 second place 1274 and first place will get 2,000 $174 very nice payouts yeah that's that's really that's higher than I expected it would be yeah I mean you got 1,400 for classic swim I mean my goodness come down to Florida were made of money here it's the no taxes all right so I'm guessing he must got a jackpot cuz he's got radical letters huh yeah nice half a million slit backhanded dude Oh went out got a million on the ramp though No Oh poopy that's all right keeps his letters comes out of that let's see what he's got did he pass Jim he did he must have kept sitting at 79 currently in second place got the Essure save right there it's gonna rename that in Lane the azure way right back in the sea Oh get up there take it one letter to go it's alright kickback salute yep he's got one drop target to hit get that C and that's your lane careful yeah stop back in that drop target light you kickback poor hand head on and locks up all all right take back is lit oh wowzers this is fun cuz of course you go throughout the entire play field and collect your letters unless you haven't collected a jackpot yet and you can shot your way to all right nine point six million five all would second place right now yep so congratulations Asher left off eight points a solid victory here at free play Florida 2018 congratulations there it is those are the final results finished that sure takes first with eight points Carl and drew are tied at four jim has two so I'm not sure if we're gonna do a playoff for a second and third I'm not sure what we're doing here folks so let's see if it puts us into a tiebreaker no I'll make sure you click here to sign in for the next round we do have a tiebreaker okay so there will be a tiebreaker here but but because of some scheduling and people needing to leave we're gonna go ahead and do a presentation here with the they're doing for the final or something I don't know what they're doing here and go do a quick presentation to Asher for first place yeah s-sure takes first place 2174 dollars apologies folks I know it's a little hard to see this they're not actually on the camera right now that guy I think so extras take off you're pretty soon but thanks again to him for an exciting tournament it's fun to watch I think we're gonna have the playoff you're pretty soon for a second and third Jeff colas taking off good to see you all right Jeff's heading back to the pool and we are going to have a tiebreaker first second and third we're gonna get to see a different game that we haven't seen I know I know try to get 1s it's gonna be exciting well I tried to get the camera on there before but it was mid World Cup and Karl said that's against his religion he does not leave a game we are playing Grand Prix folks Karl's gonna go second drew is going to go first save that up all right so you know what we like to do here is rip those spinners so we got spinners on the left and right side they built in value get get them on your bonus at the end of the ball you can go in the saucers up on the left up on the right so you're hitting the left spinner these saucers will collect the bonus that you've built up correct spinners obviously will advance the bonus that's right and then if you get the right up to the 50,000 right it's the correct if you max out and spin that is right man we'll stay for the rest of the ball so you can see some really big blow up games here once people get those spinners yeah all the way to the top seen a few eight nine saw some rolls this weekend as well going over a million you need to be really careful because if you try and trap up there's a hole at the end there right there and right there you try and catch and that bubble going ball drop so also we like to go up top and hit our A's and B's gives us little stars right there can't remember why but they're good I believe double bonus that's what we're looking for huh that's what you want to do just right there just oh it's hitting that insert up so why is it that was strange you know but at least his bonus all they were both max oh no yeah so it's gonna collect the max bonus there or 50,000 mm-hmm this is five bolts am game so all contestants will have five balls love this game I do too yeah Trent's got one in the barn I go over and play it all the time solid shot yeah I mean there's a little more to with the ABCD Drive I don't expect to see people shooting C and D it happens it happens true happen to choose one of Carl's favorite games in crew said I love it too so we'll see how this all comes down so the second-place prize money is are these putting the prize money or they you know who knows there's all kinds of doctor and I just went with the tiebreaker the the second place is 1274 third place is 825 so Wow this is a $400 game of Grand Prix that's right looks like there was some shenanigans with money splitting but nobody cares I didn't see anything so instead we just want to see the better player win bounce-a-lot ice correct all right so now he's maxed out that left side so every timing he said that's a thousand spin but as mentioned you can collect in the saucers oh hey at least his bonuses that one another yeah all right that's why this game is so addictive you you have that's been a ready-to-go and you feel like you could have just done a little bit more right throughs got the lead with 178 Carl's come in with just over a hundred thousand points my same good save yeah and I collect comes out there okay it's a little hard to shoot on the fly out of those saucers just where'd you play this game differently because like I trap up a lot and obviously you can't do that you don't hear her so it's a pretty fast playing game he's got his double bonus ah that's what you want to be careful of yeah takes a slight advantage carlos looks like it's got about a 209 on there versus the 178 of drew this ball three all three all four I must have been napping I'm gonna let that class same it's okay still man just get a nice shot on there there we go maxes out the left side however his bonus arrow is on the right so I can put it in that left saucer to collect that 50,000 correct as we sit in the broadcast booth trying to nudge the ball as it's going up my name is Fred Richardson funky fresh in the booth with Brian Romney here as well watching the tiebreaker game between second and third place here at free play Florida 2018 true finishes up ball four was at 235 going back and forth mm-hmm anybody's game oh that was fugly how sir all right boy weird that's really tight neck and neck one ball game yeah yeah yeah that's good collects that 45 didn't get to that 50 to max out a spinner but that's okay he'll think those points right now nice little bit little something-something okay it's building into ball bonus again yeah oh don't shoot for D well any less pops that's a nice rip there we go he's maxed out his right side now every spin is now worth a thousand points not a bad idea elect you don't really want to go for those saucers but they fall in there sure does feel good Oh Oh what's good like catch oh yeah yes be be seen once click on that right saucer cuz that's maxed out his left one whereas bonus arrow is right now it's only a five heroin that was a good way of that two shots both the spinners are lit and we get me smacks them both yeah I try to lazily throw it up there just like that one oh yeah that's the one you want to collect correct in the chat you cannot change your bonus arrow it alternates you know getting 1015 keeping the ball in play how you win this game that's how you win most EMS Oh big gash in right there putting the heat on Carl took the D out yeah just a c-stand that's a great ball that's a fantastic ball six seventy Wow 63 degree 320 alright cause I saw four hundred and sixty thousand points here there it goes smart side over town Carl has lost his shots okay on a max one but very nice take a look there Oh saw that all right Drew's gonna be our second-place finisher Carl's gonna finish up with a 301 820 all right let's applause from the crowd let's go ahead and do a presentation for the rest of our Awards right so they're going back to do the trophy presentation for the remainder of the positions again Ezra left off was our champion fourth place goes to Jim Dell Seto five hundred and twenty five dollars project pinball t-shirt and a nice plaque in trophy get apologies we don't have the camera on the works those are not the people who got the awards those are the photographers that you see in screen you turn the camera third place goes to Carl D'Python Anghelo 825 dollars hey there we go perfect stop there that's good gratulations Carl for a great tournament also for all the work that he did and helping organize this event it was really fantastic and I really appreciate it I know everybody else does too second place through Siviglia twelve hundred and seventy four dollars and that's it tournament is over thanks to everybody for watching today again congrats to Asher for winning and it's been a great weekend here at a free play Florida here in Orlando and this is Brian domine thanks again for joining us and we'll see you getting another event hopefully really soon take care everybody
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