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2017 It Never Drains in Southern California Playoffs - Semifinals

IE Pinball·video·2h 29m·analyzed·May 8, 2017
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TL;DR

2017 It Never Drains SoCal pinball tournament semifinals with Space Station and Lost in Space matches.

Summary

Commentary on the 2017 'It Never Drains' Southern California pinball tournament semifinals, featuring matches on Space Station and Lost in Space with analysis from Adam Lefkoff and other community members. The broadcast covers player matchups, rule explanations, strategic gameplay, and tournament mechanics with informal discussion of game strategies and player performance.

Key Claims

  • Robert Gagno played excellent in the group round and deserved to advance

    high confidence · Adam Lefkoff, opening commentary about the group stage

  • Johnny Pinball got 11 points in round one

    high confidence · Commentator during Johnny Pinball's ball, referencing tournament records

  • Paul Madison scored approximately $30 million on Space Station at Nationals

    medium confidence · Adam Lefkoff recounting a notable Space Station performance

  • Andre is a world champion pinball player known for on-the-fly play and flow-based style

    high confidence · Commentators introducing Andre before his turn

  • About 3 million points would get a top ten score on Space Station in this tournament

    medium confidence · Commentator analysis after Robert's first ball

  • Keith Elwin is the player one in the Lost in Space match

    high confidence · Tournament bracket and live commentary identifying players

  • Kevin Burrell was at MAGFest the previous weekend and stayed for the tournament after 96 hours without sleep

    high confidence · Commentator noting Kevin's tournament participation

  • Condition Red multiball is automatically lit on ball three in Lost in Space

    high confidence · Commentator explaining Lost in Space rules during Keith Elwin's final ball

  • There were no tiebreakers in the group stage despite typical tournament patterns

    high confidence · Adam Lefkoff, noting the unusual scoring distribution in his group

  • The post pass shot on Lost in Space doesn't work consistently, making the ramp transfer easier when the ball is moving

    medium confidence · Commentator strategy observation during Keith's play

Notable Quotes

  • “Johnny Pinball played lights out last round. Let's see if he keeps up the momentum.”

    Adam Lefkoff @ ~18:00 — Sets narrative about Johnny Pinball's strong tournament performance and streaky playstyle

  • “It's almost if Andre had designed a game, this would be that game.”

    Commentator @ ~25:30 — Characterizes Space Station as perfectly suited to Andre's flow-based playing style

  • “One of the most amazing games I've ever seen of Space Station was at the Nationals. Paul Madison put up, I think, $30-some million on it.”

    Adam Lefkoff @ ~26:15 — References legendary high score on Space Station as competitive benchmark

  • “Usually, the more balls in play, it's advantage Andre.”

    Commentator @ ~40:45 — Describes Andre's strategic strength in multiball situations

  • “He's young. Yes. He had a massive game of eight-ball yesterday.”

    Commentator @ ~60:30 — Notes Kevin Burrell's recent tournament success and youth allowing tournament stamina

  • “See that little tick? Little flick, yeah. Just keep it going.”

    Commentator @ ~85:00 — Strategic coaching comment on shot technique during Keith Elwin's play

  • “It's like, if you're Robert, do you even try to lock? Or do you just play stop and score for the rest?”

    Adam Lefkoff @ ~48:00 — Illustrates strategic complexity when opponent can steal locks in Space Station

  • “I warned him about that. But, yep.”

    Adam Lefkoff @ ~43:00 — References penalty for live catching on Space Station, showing commentary on risk/reward play

Entities

Adam LefkoffpersonColin UrbanpersonRobert GagnopersonJohnny PinballpersonEscher LefkoffpersonAndrepersonKeith ElwinpersonKyle

Signals

  • ?

    content_signal: Tournament broadcast coordination requires multiple technical roles including camera management, instant replay, mixing board, and game control - several volunteers handled by tournament staff

    high · Kyle managing technical operations while also playing; references to keyboard commands, switching feeds, managing on-screen graphics

  • ?

    community_signal: Live tournament broadcast with real-time commentary, player interaction, and community chat participation (Frisbez providing rule clarifications remotely)

    high · Tournament stream with live players, commentators, and remote community members contributing during gameplay

  • ?

    community_signal: Tournament participation indicates healthy competitive pinball community in Southern California with multiple skilled players competing across multiple venues/events

    high · Multi-day tournament draw with players making cross-country commitments (Kevin Burrell from MAGFest, tournament spanning multiple days)

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Andre's flow-based on-the-fly playing style characterized as ideally suited to Space Station's design, suggesting meta advantage for certain playstyles on specific games

    high · Commentators note Space Station would be Andre's game if he designed it, emphasizing his flow-playing strengths

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Strategic analysis of lock-stealing mechanic in Space Station creating game-state decision-making around whether to attempt locks vs. safe stop-and-score strategy

    high · Extended discussion of whether Robert Gagno should attempt relocks or focus on stop-and-score awards given lock vulnerability

Transcript

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0:00
All right. Hello. There we go. Hello, Internet. It's Adam Lefkoff again, sadly, unfortunately. But I've gone through my stages of grief. I'm good. It's all right. I had a tough group. Johnny Monica and Robert Gagno played excellent, and they deserve to go through. I'm here with Colin Urban. Colin from, I want to say, what, Portland area? Yep, Portland, Oregon. There you go. Shout out to all the – are you in one of those gangs I hear about they have in Portland? A little young for that still, but, you know.
0:41
Maybe later on. Yep. Colin, just missing out on the cut. It was super tough. Yep. Did you play all the games? I think so.
0:54
Didn't play all of them. I could have done better in Funhaus and a couple other ones, but I just focused a little bit more. I know you're playing some Lost in Space at the end there. Yeah, Creature. Yep. So I was playing last round. I'm not sure which games we were covering. Hey, Jack, what game haven't we seen a single game on? And we'll see if we can. Can you pick Lost in Space? You can watch that. We could. I don't know how much. How about Lost in Space? Does Lost in Space sound good? Of course, there's like a 10-second delay.
1:25
We have young Escher Lefkoff is in the final eight. Oh, here's our groups. Oh, no. Is that the quarterfinal group? Yeah. Carl is still playing. That's good for Carl but bad for the Internet because we need him doing all his fancy. He's probably the only one that knows how to do instant replay, although maybe he's your main nose, huh?
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  • ?

    gameplay_signal: Lost in Space strategy discussion reveals mystery awards as significant game variance factor - random awards can dramatically shift game trajectory (robot multiball on ball 2)

    high · Commentary notes Kyle receiving robot multiball from mystery award as 'huge' and 'massive' advantage early in his ball

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Johnny Pinball identified as 'streaky player' - high variance performance with potential for exceptional play or underperformance depending on momentum

    medium · Commentator states 'he's a real streaky player. When it's going well, he's as good as anyone'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Keith Elwin demonstrated as elite-tier player capable of executing difficult shots under pressure (successful right orbit after ball near lane, target completion sequences)

    high · Commentators note 'that right there is why he's the best player' and describe his shot execution as appearing 'meant to be'

    • 1:46
    All right, Bob. Yep. All right, Lost in Space it is. We are going to watch Lost in Space if there's anyone here equipped with turning it on. They're doing all the groupings, sorting it out. Remarkably, there were no tiebreakers. Really? It's a surprise, but, you know. Wow.
    2:07
    There's usually, yeah, it happens. Johnny and Robert ran away with it in my group, so there was no hope for a tiebreaker, sadly.
    2:17
    So should we explain the rules of Lost in Space? I think they've already done it, but yeah, three multi-balls.
    2:24
    Robot, what are the other two? What are they called? Fighter and... Fighter's the crappy one. And Condition Red. Oh, no, Fighter's the ramp, right? Ramp toward five million? Or is that... That's something else. Fighter's the lanes.
    2:41
    Bumpers. Yes, yes, yes. That's the three million plus bumper value a shot. That's the worst of them, relatively. Yeah.
    2:52
    And the, what's the, so what's it called? The one where you shoot the left ramp for 5 million and you can boost it up to 15 and 25? The condition red. Condition red. And you have to hit all the targets, the red, greens, and blues. Yeah. There are no blues. Red, greens, and yellows. And that's lit for free no matter what on your last ball. Right. And if you play all three multi-balls, you get 25 million bonus in your bonus at the end of your ball. So don't tilt. Absolutely. A lot of points. It generally comes on ball three. If you haven't done anything, it's still sort of, we were saying it's sort of like draft. What's wrong?
    3:27
    We were going to watch Lost in Space. So, we're on Lost in Space. I mean, we could start on, Space Station's probably going to go quicker. It's real dark, the play field. Have we seen Space Station? Have we done it? All right, let's do Space Station. Because Lost in Space is longer. And we'll hit Lost in Space after Space Station.
    4:19
    And then in multi-ball you do lock. And when that right ramp is open and flashing, hit it. Fair enough. But, hey, don't cradle up. The game, you've got to go sort of on the fly, right? Because it's really hard to cradle. Okay.
    4:38
    I'm just giving Escher a few pointers. Space Station is not in his wheel box by any means. I hope I get one point. Okay. Actually, three points. I hope you get three points because that would be the best outcome. Anything more than zero would be good. Wow. Are we back in Pittsburgh? We got John Replogle in the control. I'm a little bit out of my element here. I'm way west. These mics actually work, so you can back off. Oh. It's evening time with John Replogle. Good evening, everybody. John was in the wrong side of the quarterfinal group with me, so I spent a lot of time with John recently. not what I would call quality time. I don't know. We've got to commiserate together. Yeah, it's still, you know, it's fun getting to play with you, bud. So congrats to you on being there, and I'm sorry you didn't make it through. But here we are. Same to you.
    5:28
    Space station. So the first time your locks are lit, and you need to lock two and then release. And Robert, we'll see what he does for transferring. All right, so he's going to take his lock. Nice shot. That's lock one. And you do it again.
    5:46
    Robert's accuracy is going to serve him well in this game. Absolutely. I just wonder whether sometimes he likes, he's real keen to cradle up all the time, and whether it's really tough to get good cradles. I'm curious to see kind of what he does here. I would also note that to relight your locks after your multiball, you need to get those three targets up top. And so if you can get two and then relight in the same ball, you can relight them much easier. It resets those targets. He's going to hit this probably. Oh. You can also lock up the right ramp and collect stop and score, but nobody really goes for that. In multi-ball, there can be really good value on the side. Robert's taking it, and it's a random award that counts between, I don't know, what, 20,000 and 99,000 thereabouts? That sounds about right. And it can be multiplied by the three inlays, so you can get it up to like a 5X stop and score. So there's really a lot of points there. The problem is that drop target that's in front of the ramp is very risky.
    6:48
    Everything in this game is risky. There's the second lock. Okay, so now he has to. Oh, he already got it. Wow. He got the stop and score for the second lock. Oh, you're right. That's what I just. Okay, so he needs to re-lock. And really, the re-docking only is, what, 250,000? And you can do it over and over. But this is really you want to cash in your stop and scores. All right. He's down one. So he got one locked. So it's kind of like a ball saver.
    7:17
    Picking up a lot of chatter on the mics here. Ooh. That was a mistake. He already had two lanes there, and he wants to just have one lane. Now he's going to have to light all three lanes again.
    7:35
    So there's 220. I think it's based at 200, and then it builds. Not for how. Yeah. Yeah, something. What's that, Escher?
    7:48
    It says the wrong player's photos are showing on the bottom of the screen. Is it or not? Oh, yeah. I don't know what kind of thing they're running here. I apologize for that. I don't know these controls.
    8:07
    So Robert's still able. Let's see what he does here. Over or under for the stop and score. The target is up. A little bit risky, but see if we can. He's just keen to. Wow. Very nice.
    8:20
    Now he'll hit the other one. Beautiful. This is quintessential Robert Gagno right now. This is exactly what he did to us last round, too. You know, I didn't actually watch, but I could assume from those large scores that he was doing something like this.
    8:38
    Oh. Oh, one rolled off the flipper, and he doesn't have his kickback right now. All right, so now he's got two lit again up there. Oh, no, I'm seeing it's hard because there's the USA underneath.
    8:50
    The USA builds the multiplier for stop and score. Now he has double stop and score. Unlucky there, but great start.
    8:59
    Way to start out the semifinals. So about 1.9, 1.7. That's solid first of all. Really good score for qualifying. About 3 million would get you a top ten score, I think. And Johnny Modica steps up. Again, Johnny played lights out last round. Let's see if he keeps up the momentum. He played lights out in round one as well. He got 11 points in round one. Wow. Johnny is on, and he's a real streaky player. When it's going well, he's as good as anyone.
    9:35
    Nice. Yep It's uh, it's really really tricky to get there. He goes now. Let's see if he nuts it first one boom very nice
    9:47
    So yeah now move on to the docking right yep So he has two of the lights lit and now he's not going to get that third one in theory
    9:57
    Although in this one it doesn't remember anything so even once you drain it. Oh he wanted that and And there's the reject. Half up, half up. Unlucky Pagani. Ramp is the same thing. I assume it holds your lock for next ball. It holds state. There's two balls. It'll kick one out. I think it might hold the progress as long as there's no balls left in the lock because there's no way to re-lock them. Oh, you're right. That's an excellent point. So if someone else plays a multi-ball, then he's going to have to re-lock. Correct.
    10:32
    I've just been notified that the Atlanta Falcons will be hosting the NFC Championship football game next week. That's interesting. So our player three is, who is it? Hector. Oh gosh. You might recognize him, huh? I told him not to try any flipper tricks because this game is... Hey, look at that. Oh, nice. That was a nice on the fly shot. On the fly, yeah, one time as we say. Yeah. Alright, let's see if he... he doesn't really know. That was one lock, right? Yeah, but did he steal that other lock then? Are we stealing locks? So you steal locks? Okay. Alright, so hopefully he'll hit one of these green shots. They big. Oh, that was a good shot. It looked good. Just inherently. Oh, oh, it didn't stick. Come on. Nice. Wow. That was another. So you steal locks in this game? Ouch. Yeah. I think one of the most amazing things about this game is that you can just go in and shoot One of the most amazing games I've ever seen of Space Station was at the Nationals. Paul Madison put up, I think, $30-some million on it. Oh, man, Paul was so dialed into that game. He would wicked shimmy that right outlay like nobody's business. It was a thing of beauty.
    11:52
    Oh, almost had a shot there. Nope. That was unlucky. All right, you've still got a ball coming out. Regroup.
    12:01
    Here's what we'll see whether he knows how to how to relock look like it. He was shooting it up there So you can backhand this oh yeah, he knows what it that's he knows everything you need to know about this game Yeah, that's it. He's one letter from his bonus ball to be
    12:16
    Is that what's lit off the shuttle now? Where's it a station? Yeah, I'll give you it Boy man the ball is just crazy in this one look out. Yeah, yeah Yeah, I'm okay.
    12:29
    It's all right. Not a bad ball for him. This has certainly hit the game he's most uncomfortable on in the bank. Yeah, for sure. That was good play and a real quality start.
    12:41
    Up next is Andre? Or is that? Yeah. Looks like it's going to be Andre. So it's real interesting to pay attention to the stuff on this game that nobody else really does pay attention to. And the space station scores. and that really can make the difference between a good game and a really great game is when you're cashing in on those. Yep, and you spell, right, you cash it in when you spell the word shuttle, is it? Right. On the left? And whatever it is on the right, I'm not sure. Right. But there's two arrows that are going up and down in the middle of the play field and those two arrows will correspond with the values you get for completing. It's really hard, I mean, if you're able to cradle up and you got one left kind of thing But most of the time the slings are going to collect You know, it takes a little bit of luck to get things But one of the collections is an extra time at the end Yeah, so it's sort of important A little bit I know there were some people confused at Nationals a couple years ago With whether you play that extra time or not And I watched someone, their time ticked away and they didn't play it and it made a difference. That would hurt. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this kind of game really suits Andre's style of play. Oh, my goodness, yes.
    14:07
    It's almost if Andre had designed a game, this would be that game. For those who are not familiar with the player playing, he's a world champion player, and he is known for his not trapping up and on-the-fly play. I think he's actually calmed down in recent years. He traps fine. It's more of, I would say, he's a flow player. He gets into the flow. Oh, that's surprising. We said all those nice things, and BrickDrake, well-deserved. Yeah, missed a shot, and done.
    14:39
    That is finals. It's funny how that doesn't usually happen when you're playing for fun, but, boy, once the pressure comes up, it happens. It happens more often than you said. Yep.
    14:52
    All right, so Robert's going to step back up. He has the lead by about just over 700,000 points. Yeah, so is there a lock already, or is Robert starting up there? Yeah, so without the green lights. Yes, did it up there two more times to light a lock. Does it light them all, or did you have to do each one individually a second time? I'm not sure the settings are. Yeah, I never got there, so I only played it once myself. But now we're gonna we're seeing my mistake that Robert made Yeah on ball one come back to us. He could have already had them already had a live here, right?
    15:29
    So you see there what's what what I don't know that the awards are do you know what the third award is right now It is probably going to be a point value
    15:41
    Think it's like 25k plus whole bonus not only is Carl playing in the semi-finals of the tournament but he's coming over to help with the technical issues of getting everyone's picture and showing status here.
    15:56
    So Robert with a comfortable lead after ball one. Let's see. Yep, he's doing it. Now he's got it lit. Yep, there it goes. So I think it will probably light all of them this second time. Ooh, nice little dead bounce there.
    16:12
    One more letter to go. All right. Stop and score time. Boom. Like butter. 86. Plus a lot. Yeah. I would bet that Robert actually was paying attention to what the value was. I'm going to call no on that. It moves so fast and quickly, he's just making his lock. But I'm not going to give him that much credit, sir. Okay. I don't think. The way it moves up and down. I don't know. We could have a chat room vote on it. There's his second lock. Boom. And that multi ball again. Burn. We're back in it.
    16:57
    I'll see if he can pull out the same square as the last time. Yeah, he lost one right away. Is the other one having trouble coming out? Yeah, there's the other one. That's the one he just lost. Oh, he already must have put one in. quick there's the two a straight lock so 200,000
    17:21
    yeah oh there it is he collects the award which was bonus held no nothing to sneeze that no no this game so if he does have a bonus ball though the one way at the near the top of the left sling that means he has bonus time at the uh do you know how to if i write on the screen you know how to clear it no i did not okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna tell us straight then all right there's some key that clears it but i i don't know which one it is there's a lot of keys we'll ask next time carl's here we'll ask about that do you know how to do the instant replay no all i know how to do is talk into a microphone and i can do levels on the mixing board yes you're dead this that's not healthy all right so here's Here's Donnie. I think you could have gone to a full cradle there. Yeah. Oh, that was a good one. You almost surprised yourself with that. It's like, oh, instead of getting to a cradle, it swings and uses up your kickback. It's kind of like a whitewater kickback. Really important to have that kickback. How do you relight it? Uh, I'm gonna say Shuttle will relight it, but I don't know, maybe one of the targets on the right side. I believe there, isn't there another set of drop targets up by the release area? I think there might be the kickback. I think that's Bellis' station. The middle three and then the ones on the right.
    18:56
    All right, so apparently we can press this gate to clear the stream. Let's see. Okay. Oh, yeah. We now have the power of stick art. Here we go
    19:08
    Johnny has me to Bali. You don't want to join here. So people consider your locks or monkey ball. Yep
    19:16
    Or he could lead in pressure either way He'll make this oh going to the backhand, huh? It's uh, no, I think the forehand is probably a better option, but your mileage may vary. Oh
    19:33
    Nice save. That was a great move. He was out of control for quite a while there. I'm lucky I didn't use it, but maybe not. So Escher's going to have to light his own locks now because I don't think... No, multiball's ready for Escher. Why? You can steal the lock lit? Or is there a ball up there already? There must be a ball. There's two balls up there. Really? It's a release? Multiball's ready, yeah. Oh, he's going to drain. That's how we think. That's how the left-boss think. You can't be given a gift that good. You've got to earn it.
    20:07
    Or have a cradle. I don't know. Wow, nice shot. He didn't even come to a full cradle. I hate when he does that. I'm like, stud. Actually, you know what?
    20:18
    Sometimes if I come to that full cradle. You think about it too much, right? Yep. Overthink it. I love to overthink things. Oh, I love to overthink things, but not when I'm about to make a pressure shot. Yeah, then you want to get it over with as quickly as possible. So does that have nothing to do here? I love that little drop catch. It didn't work for him, but still. Oh, careful. Oh, I got the. Oh, that's unlucky. All right, well, nothing to do next time. Still, though, he hasn't really. He's played too much. Oh, there. We see that a lot. That's a safe station for you. So live catching on this has a penalty. Oh, absolutely. I warned him about that. But, yep. No, I like the way he's playing right now. He's playing relaxed. All right. See what Andre, we said all those nice things about him. Yeah, I know. We sort of jinxed Andre in the last ball, which is,
    21:08
    we're not going to say nice things about Andre in this ball, okay? That's our goal. Yeah. So Andre has, he only has 22 letters to go in the word shuttle to collect something. Oh, he's got a 2x. There's the kickback going. Wow. On the fly. One time. All right. Now he needs to get another one up there. He's got his two lights ready for the next one. No kickback, though, so playing the pit without a net. Oh, nice bounce. Andre cradles and bam.
    21:56
    Not for long, though. Yep. Nope, he doesn't think about it. You're right. He doesn't spend a lot of time.
    22:03
    All right. He does not want to drain here. You hate. Yeah, you hate. You don't want to hand it to Robert. You hate having to plunge to the pots. You know, anything can happen. And he chose to take the... He cleaned it or not? He cleaned it. Oh, he did. He did. Cool. Is there any bonus for doing that, or is it just... It increases the value of the pop bumpers. Is that what it does? Yes. Wow. Okay, no net here, so he really needs... There it is. All right. He seems... He's having a little internal discussion with himself, as he often does.
    22:38
    Well, I would love to have a microphone in that room. Usually, the more balls in play, it's advantage Andre. Yeah. Just, you know, up until about seven or eight, I don't think it really and changes anything that he does
    22:53
    One more from our lock and I'll get the 200 maybe a little oh Fine. Yep. You're not gonna get three. Oh
    23:02
    Wow, that's that's a surprising drink. Oh No, wow I'm that's unfortunate that uh, I It was induced yes, um 9.97. Wow, it's a tight. We got a tight match for a second. Robert's got a cushion, but it's certainly not an insurmountable lead. I'll tell you, these lock stealing things really start to, this ball three, it's really important. It's like, if you're Robert, do you even try to lock? Or do you just play stop and score for the rest? I think Robert just does what he does. I'm sure Robert will. I'm just saying, like, if you were there, would you talk yourself into maybe not leaving locks? What else would you do? Stop and scores? Gosh, that's a really good question. Well, he doesn't have to make that decision because he's got a no flip. Yep.
    23:50
    Well, those no flips are okay when you're at 2.7. I guess Robert chose not to go for a relay in the locks. Yeah. And he induced the 2.8. All right. So let's see what Johnny.
    24:04
    Oh, yeah. So apparently for clearing those, you also get a small amount of points. Small amount, but not enough worth relighting. But maybe in group play. Frisbez does 10 to 20,000. Gee, Frisbez, who is that? They seem full of useful information. Come get on the mic, for goodness sakes. Yes, Frisbez. What are you doing at home? Don't let us talk all the time because I'm always wrong. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Okay, maybe there's a different thing. As you said, he wanted a point in this, and I think he's got a point. So, well, Johnny, 1-1. Thank you. 1-1. Yes, he does. Escher's got a point. So, just... Well, does Johnny have bonus time? No, he doesn't. Because only Robert does.
    24:52
    Only the ones lit. Okay, so that one through four is the indication of bonus time. Is that correct? Okay.
    25:02
    That sure looks like a pro. And so that's an indication of a player. So, which is sort of weird. Oh, that was... He's done it again. Three times the charm. I think he'll remember this time. All right. All right, go to stop and score. Oh, lovely. Lovely. I can promise you he wasn't planning on what the stop and score was. Oh, another one. Oh, gosh. He's going back. Oh, that was... See, the pinball gods needed to give him a few more points there.
    25:30
    Does he know about the multiplier rule for you? He does. Oh, but he missed it. All right. Lovely.
    25:46
    Nice. Nice save. Nice dig. All right, he has a bonus ball now. Oh, bonus ball. Now, make sure he knows. Does he play it now? He just said bonus ball. He played it at the end. Yeah, he played it at the end, right after Robert. I'm going to make sure he knows. Okay. Esha.
    26:02
    Esha, you play the bonus ball when it's available, okay? So be ready. So, Escher will not be able to catch Robert on that bonus ball. That's just, I think, out of the scope of the point. He's not going to catch Robert on the bonus time. It's just whether Andre passes him or not. Maybe he could get a few more points. Do you know if you can get locks and multiball in your bonus time, or is that... Unknown, but I know that I've never scored that many points. Now, you'll actually see that the shuttle is lit for Andre for extra ball. That one? Yeah. That side? Yep. And so what is that? What's extra ball get you? Are they on? I would hope not. I don't think so. There's some extra balls on. Not on these. They were on on the EMs. We can pay attention in case he collects that and see if it gives a points award instead of the extra ball. I'm going to go ballistic at that. Well, it could be, you know, maybe 50 or 100,000 points. That would be significant in this situation. Yep, he needs about half a mil or so. So it's a situation, you know, Andrea is last right now, but he needs a couple hundred thousand points or points. Oh, my goodness.
    27:16
    All right, so we're going to see two bonus balls here, and they're going to both be pretty pointless, isn't it? Yes. It's not going to make any difference. Right. As long as neither player slams him. Hey, but it's some bonus pinball for the playing community. Can we swap over to Lost in Space? Yeah. Go Lost in Space. Let's see what's going on. Yeah, that's a great idea.
    27:44
    Where's Carl? Oh, he's playing. I'm going to... As soon as Carl is done on Lost in Space, he's going to come over and switch cameras. That's why he doesn't want to switch it. He only has three million points. Yeah, I know. He doesn't want people to... So as soon as Carl is here, we're going to give you play-by-play without. So Carl is player three. It's ball two.
    28:10
    Oh, he got robot multi-ball on his mystery award on ball two. That's huge. That's massive. And he only has two more warning letters to go. All right, we're switching right to it now. Are we? Someone knows how to do it. Oh, it's Jermaine. Thank you, Jermaine. Really? That's all we had to do? I think John could have done that.
    28:36
    Okay, so Carl, this is his ill-gotten brother. So that flashing O is worth $20 million a shot. All right. Oh, and the submarine is... It's great to have two lit. All right, two and one. Okay, and the L would both. Yep. It's hard. Oh, okay, over-under? No, he'll be patient. Wait.
    29:01
    Nice. So try the backhand again or an over-under. Yep. Or an over-over. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yep. So he can feel kind of bad about it because sometimes when you're not really ready for it and it gives it to you, it's like you're not mentally dialed in to make that shot. So now he's got to do the hard robot, which is each letter. I'll miss your lit. So here we can see scores. Player two has $151 million. That's Chris. That's a nice game.
    29:35
    Keith is player one. Yeah. So we don't know what. But this is ball two. This is ball two. Right. So we still have more action to go. So Kevin's up next. We'll see. Kevin Burrell is at $2 million, so he hasn't done anything. Oh, he hit a B last game. And a T. Oh. So three more. He just needs a Roo.
    29:56
    Yeah. That's what I did yesterday. Kevin Burrell, the only player here who was also at MAGFest last weekend. So he stayed up for like, you know, 96 hours straight there, and now he's here on the West Coast playing. He can do that. He's young. Yes.
    30:13
    He had a massive game of eight-ball champ to get into this nice five position of his. And he's parlayed it into a final eight. Oh, he also. It's a condition red. A condition red multiball. Boy, the mystery award's being really nice. Okay, so the ramp's worth five, but if you hit all the red targets?
    30:37
    No, the magnet actually works during the multiball, the start sequence. Okay. So you hit those three sets of targets, and they each increase it by five million? Is that correct? Yes. No, you have to complete them all, and it will make it into a 15 million.
    30:51
    So during ball save, you kind of wail on them? Like right now, he's still got quite a few. After you reach out to multiball, the progress won't hold. That's right. So you can restart if you don't hit any.
    31:05
    Is there any supers in this? No, it's just Keith got it to $25 million a shot. Really? Yeah, he waited them twice. That's crazy.
    31:14
    So both Carl and Kevin's gifts there were basically sent back. Very nice. That was a nice save. Yes. you got a spinning disc on this game too oh danger Will Robinson you can actually be awarded extra dangers in this game I believe have you guys watched this movie the original TV show the movie that was made in the 90's yes it was absolutely awesome it was awesome I'm in California I can't talk bad about that California movies It's a California movie, huh? I don't know.
    31:57
    Oh, I see. They make movies in California. That's a well-deserved drain there off the mist. Haven't seen a successful backhand. It can be tough. All right, so ball three here. Player one is Keith Elwin. Oh, he's got always the... This is interesting because he has one of her row buys. Condition red light? Condition red's always on ball three. So watch carefully what Keith does here because I was actually told about a way you can start the multi ball In sort of a cheap manner the ball safe. Yeah
    32:32
    See if you got there in a maybe Not intentionally anyway, no he's gonna tell you the right orbit. Oh, no you What was that? That it was late that right there is why he's the best player nudged up there that ball was still gone Yeah, it was and he made it look like it was just meant to go into the end lane and and that ball goes out Lane so often and that's it's the little things Alright, so here he is. Let's see if he it's key So he's gonna be working all those targets to build that thing up to 15. He wants to win so yeah
    33:07
    If he takes the fight I would be really though look at that, well, maybe he's maybe he's just going five I mean, Carl and Kevin are behind, so you know. It's not Papa scoring. It is not. That's right. It's not a sprint. It is a marathon, so points is points.
    33:29
    So he gets the restart, yes? No, he took his. He took his jackpot. He's got his robot, yeah. Backhand has been stingy. He started doing this last night when he played it a couple times. The post pass doesn't work, so use the ramp to transfer.
    33:51
    And he's giving up on the backhand, that means, too. Yeah. For whatever reason, it's an easier shot when the ball's moving.
    34:01
    Wow. Couple power in lanes. Yeah. That was not a skill. No, no, no. That was just low from the machine. Yeah, it was. That was a quality shot.
    34:14
    You could argue that if it weren't going to power in lane, that he would have done something to keep it going. But, yes, that was very fortunate for him. So let's see if he has, again, he only has, what, one more letter? Or is it already lit? Now it's lit. So he can blow it up here. Let's see if he can get two traps up on the right. you can repeatedly make that shot, the boys.
    34:39
    Well, it certainly isn't an easy shot. No, no, no. All right. It's the best. So now he's going to shoot with the left and try to get to two on the right. If he makes it, it's money. Oh, nice. All right, let's try again.
    34:54
    0 for 2. That was way early. See that little tick? Little flick, yeah. Just keep it going. Oh, look at this. Oh, that's in trouble. Side to side. that and okay so if you do a little flick here you can get it in and he's working it he's trying to get them out all right here we go the boom butter oh no it's early
    35:22
    look oh that's gone oh wow wow that's gone man he's got nothing wow So, go for fighter at this point. Get the bonus. Yep. Or, I don't know, 25 million for the, uh, Oh, for the 3-in-1 ball. Yep. So, is he gonna award it? Maybe. Nope. 10 million, hurry up. I'll go for it. Uh, where do you collect it? Robot. Oh, on the O? Nah. Nah. Sorry, I'm not interested. I'm timing it out. I don't know if you can make progress. You can't make progress towards anything. You can make progress towards condition, right? That's it. It's good. No bump. Oh, no, no. I would be timing this out. He will now if he can get control. Oh, wow.
    36:09
    So Keith has a potential for two points. Two points. Yep. Chris Stevens also still has potential for three. I believe that, what was the high scores for the weekend? I believe we're approaching that. 250. Okay. Raymond? Raymond had a 215 for third place and there were a couple over that
    36:28
    So one could know that was for you know, cuz I had a 206 it was third place. Yep 200 is Yeah, he he must and he's a robots lit
    36:39
    So he must had a really he had an excellent Robot I got all three. Yeah, oh, yeah. Oh look at that drop catch very nice. That's fine The spinner really... There's a metal post there, so you get some of those if there's enough momentum. Oh, it's still exciting, though. That was pretty exciting. We had the replay. Actually, we showed one of those earlier on the replay. Oh, my goodness. A little fist bump for that. It's funny when it's going well sometimes, you know. It seems that way. Well, when things are going well, your play opens up, And you start doing the thing that feels natural. And that usually when things go really well Excellent Excellent point there So again one more to go All right Just gravy at this point Yep whoever can get it has more chance to win
    37:34
    Oh, that was nice. One of those was probably going down the middle and he blocked it. Nothing to lose here.
    37:42
    Oh, there. All right, so. So now what? Back to Spelling Robot again? Yep, the hard way. You have some mystery there. Yeah. I just keep hitting mystery until it gives you a multiball. It's about one in three.
    38:04
    There you go. It's about as random as Party Zone. Instant multiball. There's only like three things for it. Now he still has Condition Red, right? In this ball, he could get another $25 million potentially. Or is that a once a game? No, it's probably you could get it all three balls, I guess, if you do it each time. Hard to do, but it's not possible. He's having some trouble getting it. I've got to say I think I like this game.
    38:34
    The way Jim has it set up, I think with the magnet, it can be a little too controllable. We're not online? Oh, well, I guess we're recording for posterity in that case.
    38:49
    Oh. I probably blew it on up. Let's see if it comes back up. So. Just recently. Getting fighter jackpots.
    39:07
    So we're back on. Sorry, chat room. We lost connectivity there for a moment. You didn't miss much. Chris has got a multiball awarded on Mystery, and I think you should do it again.
    39:21
    What are you trying to backhand? He's trying to backhand. You can backhand the end of the pops pretty. Very nice. You can.
    39:28
    There's a Mystery. Another multiball. Wow. Five billion is nothing to sneeze at. Snimby does not have his condition right yet because Mystery should have given that to him. He's probably already played it, though. You get it if you haven't played it. Oh, yeah. So, take another mystery. Why not? Oh, that's it. That's excellent. Excellent work from Chris. Yeah. Chris gets a deserved round of applause. Well, nice from our copiously large, not quite Pinberg size, but. Not quite. We actually have bleachers here. It's pretty cool. Everybody's sitting. Oh, we can see it, actually. This is a really great setup here. Top notch. Nice collection. I wish a little bit more of it was on for this weekend, but.
    40:13
    I'm enjoying playing some machines that even I've never seen, and I've seen quite a few. Yeah, they're all in a pretty nice shape, too. So, yeah, fun place.
    40:26
    It kind of reminds me of Poppo back in the early Poppo where they, you know, there's a sheet on every machine, and eventually they'll get to all of them and get them working. But, you know, it takes a while to get that many games. Oh, it takes a long time. I mean, years. I mean, the Papa collection is now in, well, the best shape it's ever been. Absolutely.
    40:50
    And it helps that, you know, twice a year everybody comes and plays them, and you guys fix them, we break them, and you fix them.
    40:57
    So it works for me. Yeah, I mean, I guess maybe it's okay for me to give a shout-out for the replay effects. Triple drain there. Festival.
    41:06
    Yeah, get on the waiting list if you're not signed up. Do you know what the size of the waiting list is? I don't, but I know that you can sign up for it at replayfx.org.
    41:16
    Excellent. And you might have a shot. Yeah, I mean, well, any tournament where there's 800 people playing in it, you're going to have a couple people who just can't make it. So Carl still has a chance at a W here. Kevin Burrell is at $17 million, and he needs the O. If you're Kevin, would you go for, in condition red, would you go for $5 million? Yes, absolutely. A win's a win. You know, take them one at a time. Get one win and then.
    41:42
    So, he tried to hit it on the fly. He'll get another shot here. A little early. Mystery's lit. I'll give it to him too. Oh, he hit it. Wow, nice fight. All right, let's give it. There it is. Fighter.
    41:57
    So, this is only three million a shot. So, he's still got some work here. Nice shot. Well, to me, it's two and a half. You really want to go to B here because the pops build up the. Wow, nice left rampage. He's had a lot of really nice clean ones. He's quite happy holding on to those two. I've got 29 already, so he's in there.
    42:18
    Oh, over under. Yeah, but unfortunately. How much did Carl have? Do you remember? 35. All right, let's see. 33. He's got it in bonus, right? I mean, you've got to. Well, he's got to be careful, you know.
    42:33
    We'll find out, right? Let's see. There's got to be. Yeah. Not by a lot. And the best player in the world just said this was a garbage tournament game.
    42:48
    It sounds like sour grapes to me. He didn't get first on it. He picked it. Tell us how you really feel. All right. So, oh, we don't get to see what initials there. I'm going to see what Chris puts in. He's putting in PPL, which stands for Pat Lawler. The Pittsburgh Pinball League.
    43:09
    Shout out to his friends in Pittsburgh. Three wins for Chris, two for Keith, one for Kevin Burrell by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin. And the submarine is underwater now, probing, lurking. But he's saying, little pig, little pig, let me in. And he's just sending out those little pings to know we're into the torpedo. So we are here at the It Never Drains in Southern California pinball event. We are in the semifinal round. We are about to come up on game two of four.
    43:43
    And my name is John Replogle. I'm here with Adam Lefkoff and Colin Urban. Sorry, Colin, I had forgotten the last name. It's all right.
    43:57
    Collins one of our new generation players. Where are you 14 now 15 14 14 when you turn 50? Man, okay. That's your turns 14 to me. So you're like exactly a year older Because the future
    44:16
    See right there I see Esther's in the chat room, which is He should be focusing on playing rather than chatting
    44:27
    It's interesting that Keith deferred at the last round, so that's really his first pick of the tournament.
    44:41
    You can only choose a game once the entire tournament, so choosing games is a little bit different than some of the tournaments. Robert, I know, picked all of his favorites in the first round.
    44:56
    Yes, he did. He, you know, he's going to start having to do some deep cuts. So we're going to be watching some road kings. All right.
    45:09
    So road kings is pretty basic. It's somewhat like mousing around, but you want to spell, you light your locks by spelling all the blinky letters. I learned the hard way that your progress does not hold all the ball. If you're one light away and you drain, then the next ball, you've got to do it all over again. You can hit the targets directly, or there's a death target in the middle that you can hit that will spot a letter. And if you shoot the right orbit, it spots a letter as well. Is it any eject hole that spots a letter, or is it only the ramp eject? I believe it has to be lit to spot. I don't believe that's lit for a spot letter when it's... Okay. I think you have to hit the drop target in the center to... Now, what does the center ramp do in this game? You can relight your kickback just like on the Malson. Yep. And the interesting thing is when you shoot the right ramp, it kicks it back into play and it throws it into the sling. So there's a little bit of danger there. But at the same time, I thought it was the best value for spotting letters. And when you miss, you get letters anyway. So there's no – it's not like Malson in that you can't do just the continuous safe shot to get that first multi-ball. I think this is a true gem of a game, actually. It's not bad. I don't know whether they made a lot of them or don't see it very often. No. I know Papa has one. I would also point out that the right out lane, in lane is pretty tricky. It has this little guide from the edge, and if you don't do it just right, it can drain you a lot. You get a kickback on the left. All right, so who's our player one here? Is this Keith? Yeah, Keith. All right, so Keith is doing what he's spotting his letters the safe way, but watch this kick out. It will be interesting to see whether he does this even once the – Ooh, he got a nice in lane there.
    46:57
    I don't know if it's about spotting the letters the safe way or whether it's just about getting the extra jet bonus, because that adds up and increases over time as well. But it's also a safe way to get some multiball, which is really what you need to do. Yeah, he's going to go.
    47:14
    And that's also where the jackpot shot is, so it's a good shot to know where it's at. Well, the jackpot shot is any of the three. You just have to hit two of them. Right. But once once you in multi ball it under the ramp stays lit the whole multi ball floor That was pretty brutal right now. I know that rain. Yes. I Yeah, I had one of those myself actually
    47:37
    So I keep It's a rough little start Chris Steven and now let's see if Chris can carry on his lost in space momentum
    47:48
    It's funny when you win the first game you wish in its Papa style and when you don't you're glad it's been bird style Did you get an extra game to sort it out actually in the script a three out of the four players when the pinbrook finals is here? so Oh, yeah, you're right It's amazing how it's not luck
    48:08
    Nope Not at all. I think Kevin was in the final everybody years ago That's what I was talking about actually you could have bumped that on the right when it hit the gate earlier I don't know. You want to show them where that gate is? So there's this gate here, and then there's the out lane and the in lane, and the bumper actually sits a smidge higher than where that out lane is. So it's right here. There it is. It's tricky, tricky business.
    48:44
    Carl has some very fine in lane, out lane control, and it ate him up right there. John and I are shaking our heads because the guys in the pictures fix to be on Ghostbusters. Huh, I wonder who picked that one. Must have been Robert. No. Yeah, no, you're right. Because Robert. Because he's continuing to pick games. He might pick all 12 by the end of it. You know, I wouldn't be surprised. So player four here is Kevin Burrell, who he got his one point. Carl and Kevin are really the ones who want to right the ship here. Look out.
    49:21
    Oh, my goodness gracious. That happened to me, too. That's why I was like, look out. Because what happens is when it feeds down the right and it comes here, you've got to bump it off and get it out of trouble. Because if you just let it do its own thing, you can't let it go pathically. Really bad things happen. I'm going to learn the hard way.
    49:42
    I bet they sort it out next fall. Sadly, I did that on my second ball, so I should have known better. So Keith walks up to a ball, too, where he was probably pretty upset after his performance. So he's not even last place? Right. Oh, he's in the lead. It's not, yep. It's not the bear. You got Al Rod in this thing. All right. But, of course, all his progress from those few ramps are lost. I was a little disappointed to discover that.
    50:10
    Seemed a little harsh. Boom. Nope. He seemed uninterested in bouncing it out, though. That kind of self-bounced out. I'm not sure what that is. That's the hold bonus light. And if you collect that, then your bonus will... It's almost like he delayed the wait that out. I don't know why. It's not a great shot because it sends it back up to the bumpers. Yeah, I get multipliers. I really think he just wants to get some multiball because he can do his thing.
    50:37
    He's going for letters. But he didn't post pass. On ball one, he post passed. Yeah, but he's actually shooting the letters right now. It's like he's giving up on that left ramp. It's dead to him. That's trouble. Nice.
    50:48
    No warning. So let's see if he goes ramp here or whether he just goes right after the targets. I'd say ramps. Targets. Ramp. Because you got one more. He's got the kickback.
    50:59
    And it's going to spot the right because it spots the road and gives him a lock, which is great. Back end here? Yeah, you can. You can back end it. Oh.
    51:14
    Well, that actually was good value on the miss because he got another letter there. It's a little tougher on the forehand, I think.
    51:23
    There we go. Okay. So I'm just wondering whether he gets that lock. If he doesn't consummate the multi-ball here. Ooh, that was – God, the feeds out of the pops are nasty. That one was more savable than some of the others. if you could have read it really early.
    51:43
    All right. No, he will get to keep that lit lock as long as you don't tilt. Yeah, are you confident about that? I am very confident. Excellent.
    51:55
    Just because I'm confident, don't believe me. But, no. All right. So here's Chris now on his second ball. Let's see if he learned something from ball one. Oh, that was a little.
    52:06
    All right, let's see what he does. Postmaster? or he's going back up. I don't know. Go back up to the dangerous pops? Yeah, you get multipliers.
    52:15
    Yeah. It's like bringing a knife. It's a knife to a knife fight until it turns into a gunfight, and all you've got is your... I mean, yeah, if people don't get to multibars... Yeah, you can play a little more conservative. That's a good point. Just sort of play safe, and if letters come, they come and take a lot. But they got some of these flop feeds. That's trouble. Maybe the Swarovski in the finals. So, as is often the case, sometimes you get that first win and then everybody turns it around on you in the second game. You're feeling good. You're feeling too confident in yourself and you don't. Sophomore slump. But, hey, you know, all these players can pull it out. Robert seems to be playing Ghostbusters for a very long time. Yeah, he's a player of four, so he must have chosen a different one, which is interesting. Ghostbusters makes him feel good. He's already picked all his favorite games.
    53:19
    He's out of picks. He's going to be doing all right. Oh, my goodness. Back to Road King. Oh, and of course it goes in lane. Really have been laying after tilt really even a standard. I love the pinball gods. They're awesome Right brilliant save to brilliant save to oh, sorry
    53:43
    All right, so this Kevin's gonna I left the set for a bit oh, yeah Yeah. Carl on zero points, too, is facing a familiar abyss. You don't want to be zero or one after two. No, and you don't want to be zero, one, or two, any of these opponents either. It doesn't get any easier. No, not at all. But, of course, he is a submarine for a reason, and the further behind, the less likely you are to see that torpedo coming. So it's still early. A lot of pinball to go here.
    54:24
    And remarkably, Keith Ellens still continues to lead this game. Nobody seems to. Maybe the case. I see Kevin DDR or somebody spooked his address because he's still in the chat room too. These kids today, man, they play pinball. They do chat room. I don't know how they multitask. I can't even tie my shoes. That sounds like a problem, man.
    54:48
    All right, let's see if Kevin likes his hold bonus or whether he's going right. He's timing it out and then striding it when it's not lit.
    54:57
    I don't know what he's thinking. He's going to post pass here. All right. Nope. Oh, he's going. Wow. That's Kevin for you. That's one way to spot letters. That's one way to end your ball quick. Oh, there's. He got an in lane. See, they're not all out lane. There's a ball there. No, I like it. Once it's down, it stays down, and then boom. There's a letter. Oh, no, the brick drank instead. It's hard to tell. I thought he made it. I've got to say, I do not approve of that decision-making. Nope, I do. I liked it. That's how I got to my multi-ball on ball three. Oh, my goodness. So, if I like the Christmas strategy, going for the multipliers then, right? Suddenly, multi-ball isn't as relevant now on ball three. It's the point. And there's really good, you get a lot of multipliers and bonus in this game. Yeah. And with these kind of scores, John and I are shaking our heads because the scores were significantly smaller this game. But it makes it a really interesting, oh, trouble. Oh, he got a clean one. It didn't. All right, let's see what he does here.
    56:00
    What's he going to do? Yeah, he'll post fast and do the ramp, right? Well, I don't know because if he spots a letter, it's going to be, Maybe he's just getting points. That's another possibility. Because that was $50,000. Boy, puts that ball in jeopardy. Oh, surprised he flipped there. 50K, though, I mean, at this point. This is a little surprise. That is okay now. I don't think that would have been a safe bounce over. Yeah, all right. A little bit squirrely. Okay, now he'll go ramping in. Got one more letter.
    56:30
    Is it $50,000 again? Yeah. Oh, it's $60,000. Oh, it goes up each? I didn't know that. Oh, interesting. He's got his lock lit. Put him maxed out. He's gone. Oh, no. It came high. Where's our focus? Okay, we're good. That was excellent. When he had to bail anyway, he went ahead and hit the center target because he had nothing better to do. And, you know, that's smart. So now he just, a nice little boom. Oh, what was that? Way late. All right. He needs to settle. Yeah. Boom. Oh, man. That's a. Wow.
    57:00
    Wow. That was a brick. Yeah. That was a brick drain. I'm surprised that Keith, especially after missing the first one, he did adjust, but a little too much. He adjusted. Yeah. So let's see what his 337, see if it holds up for anything, or whether this group turns over and gets back to square one. I'm going to say it's Lisa worth a point. Yeah.
    57:34
    Chris made a nerve flip there. Nice. Yeah, lovely. Lovely to get the ball out of trouble. I didn't collect it. Here's where you start counting points in your head. It can be really tough. Oh, look out. Oh, clean in lane the whole way.
    57:54
    All right. 250. Chris can really take a stranglehold on this group if he can grind out a first year. Two firsts.
    58:04
    I think I would post pass and go for the ramp here. Yeah, with that 50,000. Oh. He's not feeling it. Look out. Trouble, trouble, trouble. Oh, no. Perfect.
    58:16
    Yeah, but he's, it was a nervous nudge. I don't know if you can qualify that. Putting it back up. Points is points. Oh, not a lot there.
    58:31
    Okay. That's gonna get him. He's got it in bonus now, right? He's got 25 times 3 So he is right 75 335
    58:45
    He's got it maybe Let's see if he's gonna do some math here. Oh, he's doing math. Yes, just shoot the right ramp. Just keep playing Yeah, no, well obviously, but oh look look do you see the finger the finger of math? Big river bath coming down from above.
    59:03
    What are you doing, Chris? I'm adding stuff up. What was that right there? Was he post-passing? Yes. He wants a multiplier. He wants, because he's got one more light to get another multiplier. Yep.
    59:16
    Nice shot. There he goes. So, uh. Yep. I like, I like the, it's when you win the first game, you can really play a little more conservative, right? You don't have to hit the home run. A nice single maybe to the gap, maybe leg it out to a double. Well, I mean, even if he gets two points here on this game, which I'd say is safe.
    59:37
    Maybe not, but it's a good possibility. I agree that just milking points here with the scores everyone else had and no one looks comfortable on it. Right. No, I don't fault this at all. This is great. Do it again. Yeah, it's a lock let. Do you take it this point? I would wait. I would wait for the second lock. After that brick drain we saw from Keith. Geez.
    60:01
    Let's see. It's pretty thick. You know what? He has a shot he likes. Too far on hitting it. So, his vertical papyrus maxed.
    60:13
    This is lovely. Chris really got to like his chances now. In this match and getting to the next round.
    60:27
    The camera is starting to nod off on us a little bit. That happens. Oh, he went for it. Wow. Almost had the key strain.
    60:43
    Take the right ramp, Chris. Andre tilts in Ghostbusters. I don't like that Ghostbusters. Oh, they're on ball three. All right, one more right ramp would light both locks for Chris.
    60:58
    It would. Yep. He's waiting for the camera to come into focus. That's very nice of him to do that for us. Yep. Post pass and. Yeah, the post pass really. No, he won't. Go ahead and take that one. It'll kick the other one out, so it's as good as a post pass, right? Wow. Okay, that was good thinking. It was. If you had that planned out, that was great. Boom, right ramp. Money.
    61:22
    What's he looking at there? He's looking at something. Is he looking at the center? I don't know if he knows the right ramp. I don't... He shot it, so... He'll figure it out. It's going to be on the log. He's definitely going to know now. Got to survive it. Nope. Nope. Good ball, though. Yeah, excellent. Well played. And it's going to be a nice big bonus. Yeah, he'll probably have about 700. I'll tell you after the count's done how much it is. You're going to be more accurate than he said. Maybe. I don't know if the focus doesn't come back.
    61:53
    So I'm going to say about 761. Yeah, gosh. That's back of the cast. Oh, no, it's without going over. Nah, I'm out.
    62:06
    Oh, there was a hold bonus, too, so I went too early. All right. We got Carl here. If Carl's going to do some submarining, this would be an excellent time to get the periscope up at least.
    62:19
    Can't really, oh gosh, you just hate to see the ball down there. So, yep, multiplier is part of the equation.
    62:35
    It's one of those games where once you sort of settle in and you get a good feel for it, the game starts to, you know, find your shots. This seems like it's more of a control than most of the Williams of this era. Carl's doing a Chris Stevens here, trying to catch Keith at least.
    62:55
    He's not interested. The only problem with shooting the right ramp is that B back into the slings, as we saw, killed Chris.
    63:03
    And Carl seems just fine to get multipliers. He's a very deliberate player. There's his whole bonus. So now he just doubled his bonus, right, basically? So he really needs to at least pass Keith here. Actually, I think the held bonus is going to be at one time. So that's what I saw on one of Chris's. Oh, he got a good one.
    63:29
    So why is that lit again then? Once you get it. I don't know what it gives you after that. Oh, man, he's getting some good inlays. He's got an extra multiplier for that, actually. Oh, okay. So after it holds, then it does a multiplier.
    63:42
    The more you know. And he got a favorable kick out. Look at that. He's got he's got Keith and bonus now, right?
    63:51
    He's got a hundred. Yeah, this is to answer the chat room question. This is a Williams from I believe 87 yeah, it's sort of that whole fire mousing around there
    64:04
    Wow a third one I almost went behind the stop bucket. There's his lock lit. Might as well. Oh, no. That little tip was excellent. Oh, he missed that. Oh, how did that come back? Off a blown live catch, too. Sometimes. There it is. Sometimes it's all skill. And really, Carl taking a zero in the first game. He needs first here. He really needs to pass Chris. I don't know if he needs first, but he definitely needs. He can't take third.
    64:43
    He'd be really keen to catch Chris here. You only have one more letter to go. He certainly has Keith at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He does.
    64:54
    Oh, my goodness. He's going to be short of Chris. Yeah, definitely. That was crazy. That's a lot of bonus, though, he has. That is a lot of bonus.
    65:10
    And let's see what Kevin does. I mean, he... Oh, my goodness. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He's got an in-hell bonus. He's got 80 in-hell bonus. Oh, my God.
    65:24
    And he got it. Wow. There's the submarine. You're telling me. That was stealth, man. And that was truly a stealth come from behind there. Oh, look at that. All right, and Kevin Burrell can do them all now that Kevin has learned the trick. You know, he drained with 319,000, and then he ended up with 859. So he had over his total scoring bonus there.
    65:53
    I'm watching Escher. This is ball three, and he started storage facility. He seems happy about it. I don't it must be a low scoring game if you're happy about starting storage facility
    66:05
    You can never tell on that game where the points are or not there Oh my gosh Kevin avoids death Death is haunted. Okay. Keep talking down. I'm watching that. Sure. I know no problem All right, so Kevin is out. Oh, that was the end. So Kevin is going to take a zero on that, and that will leave Carl. Carl comes back and takes first place on the game. Chris takes second. Keith takes third and gets one.
    66:41
    And so let's see if I can figure this out. Alright, we're going to switch over to Ghostbusters in a minute here.
    67:00
    It's about to end too. Okay. The monitors are resetting. Are we seeing it? That shirt is still playing. I have no idea what scores are doing. What's going on with scores here? Here we go. Good value here. That's the, oh that was a 12 million point shot. Nothing to sneeze at. 78. Which could be really bad or really good depending upon what everyone else is doing. This ball clear? Yes. Lovely. Patience. Oh, little quick there. Got it again. Oh, he gets another try. Lovely. Oh, geez. Wow, he had it. The John Trudeau flipper cap ate him up there. Yeah. So, what's he going to end with? I don't know. I have no idea what the score is. 1-17. Oh, he caught whoever at 1-02. So, I can just guarantee himself that's why he was happy about getting the multi-ball. It's 0-2-4-6. Well, no, there's still one more player. Robert wins, right?
    68:36
    Does he already have a huge number? No, he only has 49. So, Robert has one point right now. Who has 48? Is that Andre? Andre must have picked it. I think Andre was going first. My goodness. Johnny's the second. Yeah. Let's see what decision Robert makes here, because this is a, you know, if you need $50 million on this game, what do you do? How much? $50? About $50 million, maybe $60. You know, like. Play a mode. Do you play a mode, or do you go for a multiball? No, no, no. You go. And now he's trying to decide which scene to start. You know, you could. It's. Yeah. He's going to start. He's going for the scenes on the right. Passover and oh no he's got plenty of time it's fine it's fine he could let the ball drink it's fine oh no he got the Scolari brothers he's locked out of his mode so it's Robert just do Scolari super jackpot yeah but does that do anything for him oh my goodness gracious he's going after Scolari why not You know, it's going to be a couple million. So the Sclery brothers are two drop targets that pop up in the middle of the play field.
    69:52
    And Escher takes the win there. Adam's very happy about this. Oh, yeah. Adam's jumping up and down in his seat. I don't know if you can see it, but it's sort of cool to watch. Escher's going to go to five. Robert took... All right, so...
    70:09
    Robert took last there? No, Robert's still got one, so it's 5-4. Johnny gets two, 5-4-3, and Andre on zero. 5-4-3 is zero. But, you know, Andre can hold me out here. That's the first half. Second half, everything can turn around. Everything can turn around, but it's certainly not the place you want to be. Do we have the points on the other? How are the other four points? Let me see if I can figure that out here. Go over here to the Road Kings.
    70:39
    Okay, now we have the totals. 5-3-3-1. Kevin Burrell is in jail. Yep. But he can beat Keith and Carl to get that other spot. Chris is looking pretty good.
    70:53
    So we're halfway through the semifinals of the Neverdrains in Southern California, Indisc 2017. I'm Adam Lefkoff, alongside John Replogle and Colin Urban. Yep. We're just watching some Austin Pinball. on always an incredibly eclectic group of games.
    71:17
    When Jim Belsito's running the tournament, you never know what you're going to play, but you can expect an obscure Scott League, a couple of Segas, a couple of old-school Data Easts. Some Sterns. I've got to say, though, I enjoy playing tournaments on non-standard stuff. It is. It's fun to learn the game and figure out what the thing is to do, and it's awesome. All right. So I got the message that we're going to be seeing some Argosy at some point here. I don't know which. If it's Argosy, I bet Keith picked it because he hasn't picked it yet. I thought he would save that for finals. Yeah, he needs it. And he lived off this game in Classics yesterday.
    72:01
    Did you pick it? Yep, he did. Argosy it's going to be, so everyone settle in. If you need to go to the bathroom, go do that now. Here we go. Oh wait. If you need to like go have dinner or spend time with your family that would be an excellent time. You can come back and probably catch balls four and five. Extra balls are on. Extra balls are on which actually is really awesome. It's awesome if you get them. Not so much if your opponent gets them but yes.
    72:32
    I'm just waiting for the final thing to pop up. What's the other group going? Do we know yet? R just for you R Hey, I wonder when National Talk Like a Pirate Day is. I think that's a really awesome holiday. You know, and it's just a ship, right? It's not a pirate ship. There's no pirates involved. Yeah, but it's our, you see. Yeah.
    73:26
    Can someone look up the Argosy in Wikipedia? Because I believe it was a mercantile ship in the English fleet in the, I don't know, 1700s, 1800s. I don't think it participated in the slave trade triangle. I think it was Passat. So it was more of a, I don't know. Can somebody look that up in Wikipedia and put a? I mean, this looks like an accurate depiction of what it was like on board. You went back and forth. Sometimes you went down and off the sides.
    73:57
    Oh, my goodness gracious. Did you see that? Three or four. We really should watch Wheel of Fortune first because I promise it will go quicker. Should we? I'm just saying. It takes me about three minutes to get over to it. I can try. No, that's fine. Let's stay. We'll tell you what's going on. Andre's playing real.
    74:18
    And it only takes that long because I just figured, I just finally, you know, infant steps. But interestingly enough, Keith plunged off, and before he hit the flipper the first time, he had $60,000 in bonus. I believe that's a... Did you see that? That was awesome. Is he trying to get his double bonus right there? Well, he actually got a bonus. Look, look, look. Oh man That awesome Greedy punk Yeah no he told me that how he does it Spinner lit spinner dialed Oh lovely There's nothing like the sound of a thousand spinners in the morning. Or late afternoon. You can see why Keith picked this game. Spinner's not lit now, so does it pick up hot shot? Wow, we're really picking up, uh... What's all that? Ghostbusters. Oh, the B division is still playing? Apparently. Wow.
    75:15
    All right, his gates. Oh, lovely chill to the scoop. That was beautiful. Double bonus now. So he's all reopened. He alley passes to open it. Now, usually on Argosy, if you do that, the ball goes all the way up and then dies. But on this one, the ball hangs up in the corner, so it's like a free open if you're willing to alley pass it. Sometimes. Sometimes it goes up and you die. I've seen it die once. Did it die for you? Yeah, a couple times. So shout out to Neil Schatz.
    75:43
    So here's the point in the game where I actually like to shoot dangerous stuff. What else are you going to do? Not tilt. There. Just go spin all day. No. Where's the extra ball? The extra ball is you have to do the drop targets first.
    75:58
    Oh, almost a little too far. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. Yeah, but it wasn't lit. 10K. It should close the gate if you go through there after the gate opens. Oh, that would be just rude. Does he seem interested? I'm still going for it. Oh, he just likes it. He loves the chill. Takes the momentum off the ball. You're scoring at home, kids. That's the way you want to play. And you don't want to risk tilting the 200.
    76:26
    That's lovely. And Wheel of Fortune's done. No, not really. Can you see what Andre got? I see on Wheel of Fortune, player one has $4 million. Player two has $500,000-ish.
    76:40
    This is Escher played this last round wheel of fortune and that's what turned his round around for him He ended up winning picked it and won it
    76:50
    Chris gets the skill shot 10,000 plus the lane Chris is everyone's co-pilot Yeah, everyone wants to beat the other two who don't have five points and for Right there and because you don't want it you want everybody to come in you kind of want Chris to keep getting his points and then you just do a little better than the other two, and then you're okay. Now, in the finals, of course, it doesn't work that way. Oh, man. Lovely. Very lovely. That was great. Yep.
    77:21
    It tried not to come, but it just couldn't resist a good nudge. So Chris has almost got his multiplier maxed out. He's got the spinner lit. Spinner is hot. Does he go for the bonus here? Spinner. Just chip the spinner. You get boned. You're not even maxed out. Don't shoot it on the fly. Yeah. No, because it'll go in on its own off the play field. Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah, but Keith was actively going after it. Yeah, but he has the Keith trick that nobody else seems to be able to do. I know Chris watched that. If he watched that, he can do it.
    77:54
    He went for it there. I mean, he's still only at the – there it is. Now he's maxed. All right. So now bonus is – but if the spinner's lit, I keep throwing it up there. I'd say the hole is the most important thing and then I like to shoot dangerous stuff. Alright, he'll shoot this. Oh, did he see it? Yeah, he did. And here's where it either drains you or rewards you. Let's see if he tries the little backhand. That's the thing of beauty. Or does he go for dangerous stuff? I would go for... What? He was going direct after the gate. Interesting.
    78:35
    So, Phil and Guy's all bonused. I'm going for that now. He's done. Oh my god. How did he do that? Even I gave up on him there. It gets closed again.
    79:05
    You guys thought I was kidding about, like, taking a break. This is ball one of five. Ball two of 20, actually.
    79:20
    Should we go over the wheel now? Oh, we've got to see how the drama unfolds. Something might sink the ship by the end of this. You don't walk out in the middle of Gone with the Wind to check a YouTube video, Colin. This is like a fine wine. It needs time to age. We're just putting it in the decanter right now, or not even at the hors d'oeuvres yet. Actually, at the beginning of Argosy, we were growing the grapes still.
    79:49
    Or maybe securing the land rights to the orchard. You might be right. People can't see Keith's score. We can't either.
    80:00
    I don't know. Keith has a good score. Two, three, 361. We can see the other scores. And Chris has 197.
    80:14
    It's funny, Chris and Keith are both watching just in case they find a new, another role, a funny role.
    80:23
    It's always interesting how the top players are always like, you know, I can appropriate this skill from what you do. Yep. Is special worth anything? Or is it just, you know, free game? No, I don't believe it's worth any points. You can set them for points, but I don't think this one was set. Might be, I don't know. It's almost a very quick completion, he's up to 70. Trouble. Yep. It's sort of nerve-wracking to have Chris and Keith behind, standing right behind you while you're criticizing their play. Yeah, that L1, ever since he grew the beard, it's like a... Once you go gray, you never go back.
    81:10
    So what do we got? Oh my goodness gracious. How many points? 20,000. Huh. Kevin, you miss the skill and then it finds a way to go down the middle. I don't think I ever see it go down the middle on a plunge. That's brutally difficult. That's crazy.
    81:32
    So, yeah, maybe we will finish tonight. We sped through those last couple of balls. Keith has the skill shot. It does not go down the middle for him.
    81:43
    Let's see how many points he gets before he flips. It was 60,000 last time. It was just amazing. Oh, no, he might have to flip soon. Oh, he had to flip. So he had, like, what, 50? what 50. Uh, okay. Dell bonus? Not yet. I don't know. I take my Dell bonus when it's ready. This guy's troubled. Oh, not a queen yet, but it's pretty safe here. Oh, it kisses
    82:16
    this wing. Let's see. Interested in those pops. Lovely. Take the 30 here or a... I think Well, that's an interesting question because he only has one drop target left though up top up
    82:32
    My extra ball up top. Yeah, you like the extra ball by doing it take 30 Double bonus anyone. Oh gosh. Well, that's definitely what he's going for
    82:44
    Bump Goodbye, yeah, that was that was gone long time ago So if Andre moves out of the way 480? 486. All right, 486 for Mr. Elwin. After ball two. And here comes Chris. I think Keith played that ball really well. That's because he's standing behind me.
    83:08
    No, that's Carl. He was, and then he walked away. Chris misses the skill shot, but gets a nice sling for his trouble. This is trouble. Oh, another nice night. Oh, that's the end of that. I'm sure having some struggles on the wheel happens. So, Carl would like to really catch up. You don't want to fall too far behind, especially in ship racing. If you lose the same tact wind, you fall all the way behind, right?
    83:56
    Yeah, I mean, that's definitely how that works. I know nothing about strippers. And if you get too close, then you can steal the other person's wind. So I don't think it works in this game that way. I never knew there was anything in life where it was a sporting event to steal somebody's wind.
    84:16
    He'd like it. Oh, interesting. It kind of just sort of loaded out to that right flipper, and he kind of poked at it. All right, let's see if Kevin can beat his 20 here.
    84:28
    My guess is yes. Well, he just has. Yeah, one point one on it earlier. Oh, absolutely. And he won't be phased at all by this, although he's only on one point. So he basically has to win. He needs to go for second, worst case here. He got the gate lit through the bottom, so that's pretty cool. The skill shot, yeah, that's what the skill shot gives you, but no, it doesn't matter about the right side. Yeah. There's no safety. Kevin really, really struggling right now. He's three balls away from... So, a good pick for Keith so far. Yeah, Keith is up basically a ball, a max ball on everybody.
    85:12
    Oh, missed a skill that time. Oh tried to help it nearly That's lovely It was pretty that would have built it final yesterday. Oh man is yeah, it was pretty yep
    85:29
    Boom there's his date. Oh Good call Colin. Oh And he tried to tap past that into the hole that was interesting there it is
    85:44
    Alright, he's gonna do his little backdoor thing here. Let's see if it works this time. Take a 30 off drops. I want to say someone, uh, that's fine. I'll take his bonus. Uh,
    85:57
    there's been some different names. Alright, now he needs to get the, oh, he missed that. Wow, how did he not die there? That's usually death when you miss that spinner like that. There, he was active the entire, right? He's looking, yeah, he wants to open the gate again. Little squirrely there, little squirrely.
    86:17
    Nice on the fly shots. He's gonna try to backhand the gate. He'll probably go up top to reopen it. He likes to get some momentum on the ball. Why not get it all down? Nice. You can't, yeah, but you can't shoot it on the fly like that. You need something else to happen for you. Oh, oh. That was good, no panic there. Alright, so that scoop's now worth 100,000 points if you can get it in there.
    86:46
    Yeah, that's definitely the shot. Oh, that's it. Oh, gosh. Yep, it was it. It was just a slow death. Yeah, we'll take the 100. Yeah, especially when he's up by the amount he's at. So, uh, oh, we can actually see Andre and, uh, we can see both players on the, uh, wide cam there. I didn't realize that. All right. So, Chris, defense was 617. So, is this Carl now? Yeah. No, no, this is. Oh, it's Chris. Oh, sorry. Player two.
    87:22
    Lovely. That's the other advantage to shooting it up. And get that use it right away. Yeah, well needed it right away See if he's gonna on the oh look at that little pooch little pooch kit back up top all bad no gate for you
    87:39
    That was a rough rough drain right there, you know that happens down the right out lane, but down the left
    87:47
    Yep and Carl's once from the eight and he's out. He needs to just get back up top either alley to open that gate or send it back around. And that's where we want it. Andre's having a very long ball on Wheel of Fortune here. And there it goes.
    88:27
    Oh, lovely. That was a great nudge right there. Yeah, that was an induced rollover for sure. And now he's got a shot at. He tried to chill it, but it didn't chill quite enough. There's another chill.
    88:39
    Oh, it wanted to self-save, but it just didn't get the right angle. So, update if you can't see, 310 for player two, Chris.
    88:53
    280, I believe. Yeah. Carl. And Kevin is still in single. Oh, no, not again. He didn't panic. He just saved it.
    89:05
    Oh, my goodness. You don't. Oh, my God. Power in lane. He needs that lane. He needs that gate open. He needs to get the ball on the flipper. He needs a bunch of points. There's a lot of things Kevin needs here.
    89:21
    All right. Take a moment. Hit that spinner. Get back on track. There you go. Boom. 10,000 points. That's going to be more like a 20.
    89:37
    That was 25. Can you actually count that quick? That's impressive. Oh, God. Get up there. This is great. He maxed out his bonus there. Just needs the double.
    89:53
    Well, he needs the gate. The gate lift first. Double bonus, double bonus, and nothing for you. I think he was pointing something out. Hey, but he's caught up to Carl.
    90:05
    Well, it's anybody's game between 2, 3, and 4. What's Keith on? Keith has 6, 17. So keep it okay. Yeah, it's not a good game. Yeah, he's lost par on the million
    90:19
    That's the way to miss the skill shot is on sort of alongside Maybe I don't think so. Where's our instant replay? I'm usually I'm willing to be pretty hard on them. But man, that wasn't coming back Let me ask the peanut guy already. Was that coming back? Yeah, we'll never know. We can go back and watch it. Oh, it might have. Oh. Who said might have? Carl. Yeah. Yeah, Jim says it might have. Okay. So, Keith, when you're watching this later, three to one said you were wrong. I said you were right.
    90:59
    I'm watching this right now on ball three to see if you can get some multi-ball. Yeah, I think so. Hit it. Come on, get it! Oh God! Hit it, hit it! Yes! Oh, and he's got wheel fridges! Thank you Pinball Guys. Oh, Chris, nice save. Chris made a beautiful nudge there, again.
    91:25
    He's made some saves on this particular game. Yeah, Escher has a big points for us possibility here or were fortunate and adam is uh... well-known total oh we've got a ball academy dried up he lost it all cars almost all about us there no no no double bonus yet chris needs this double bonus at this point He goes back up top.
    92:06
    As you just missed out on getting a couple wins, you ended up taking last there, so that's unfortunate. So one more game now, so it's all in play. It is all in play. Sorry, what'd I miss? You missed Chris keeping the ball alive a lot. Oh, Chris is still playing. Excellent. He's going to. He's done. I don't care about it. He couldn't get that doubler. And we'll see if that comes back to bite him.
    92:33
    This is ball four, correct? Ball four. Ball four, actually. This might be the quickest game of Argosy all weekend.
    92:40
    Argosy. There's a skill shot. Such a big thing. Such a big deal. I love that kicker up top. So much fun. Keeping it up there. It is. You get points. You're not in danger of dying at the moment. It's win-win. It's like a slow too. You know, you've got to watch your ball. Yeah, absolutely. It's peaceful, like sailing on a nice calm ocean. That was almost dangerous, but survives. He's putting it back up. That's, uh... We didn't hit any bonus collect there. Our bonus increased. Oh. It's easier to do that when you got the gate open. Oh, how about it? Oh, no, look at that. Oh, he did that. Oh, he's done. Oh, he's not done. Okay. Is there a choclemontus? He's not done. My goodness gracious. What a... I agree, though. I thought that it was gone, and he got some wood on it. That's very nice. And he has been... It was in! Yeah, three's the charm. That's great perseverance from Carl there. And now it isn't.
    94:08
    It's funny, both groups really coming down to the last game. There's going to be a lot of... Oh yeah, there's going to be a lot of drama.
    94:22
    So the other group is at 6-5-4-3. Let me see if I can bring that up real quick here just to see where the points are.
    94:36
    Robert at 6, Escher at 5, Johnny at 4, and Andre at 3. So any two players can make it through in that group. There's nothing determined.
    94:46
    And, in fact, they can end up in a four-way tie at 6. Wouldn't that be fun? I'm trying to remember if that's ever happened at Pembroke. I don't think it has.
    94:56
    I don't think it has. We've had a three-way tie, but not a four-way. Carl still playing? He parlayed that couple of great saves into a max double. He's right back in it.
    95:12
    And he's... All right, so last ball. What key set? How much? 640? Carl, did he catch him? Yeah, I'm just curious. Carl's now in striking range. Yeah, he's definitely on. He's back on the serve.
    95:33
    Kevin really needs just, he really needs a full max bonus ball just to get him back into the game. Yep, yep, yep.
    95:47
    Tried to alley pass to open his gate up. Let's see if he goes again. He's going to. Oh, it was almost too good. It nearly did the out the other end. Oh, it didn't stay open. It didn't stay open though. He did it too well. Yeah. Let's see if he changes the attack. Go ahead to... Oh, his bonus is already getting up. Did you like how I threw that in there? Changes the attack? Yeah.
    96:12
    Mix those spins. Trouble. Nice. Lovely. Way to get it straight up, but... Oh, we gotta survive this. Okay.
    96:21
    That's a good bailout. Put it up to the happy place. Yeah, but here's the bad news. Yeah, he didn't have his double lit. There he goes. Nice. Now he has it lit. Alright. And back in. Oh, he got an opportunity to. Let's see if he does it now. I like it. There it comes. No, he'll go all the way across. And then you can kind of nudge it on the tip of that blibber.
    96:51
    Yes, that's the shot he needs to make because he needs to win this game. So he actually really needs to get the extra ball. He's done. No, no, no, no.
    97:06
    So he's still, he's not really on serve there. He's off serve. But here we go, final ball. Yeah. What's Keith up? Keith's at 46. So he's only about 70,000. He and Carl, player three. Yeah. And they're both on three points. Chris and Kevin are close to even now too. Uh oh. It's always nice to get it on the flipper the first time. Oh my goodness gracious, Gus. And now let's see what he tries. He's gonna go shoot the spinner back up top. He's done. Wow. So Carl has a chance here. Carl has an excellent opportunity here. remember carl was down to his last ball and staring at zero zero he's a submarine though yeah that's what we were saying nobody believed me i believe you now i believe you now he's like the closest thing he's like he is he's at his best when he's completely the further away out he is the more dangerous he is all right chris is also in the mix here and uh he needs about 220,000 Yep, he would love to do nothing more than that right now. Absolutely. He'd probably also think about just passing Kevin just to get that one extra point for in the lead. Yeah, with Kevin Burrell in last place here, that's not what Chris was looking for. Chris wants Kevin to take some wins too just to help out his position. There it is. Nice. Ooh. All right, so Chris
    98:46
    420 so unless Kevin has another disaster ball Chris could take last year and this really just puts it back It could be another another six five four three
    98:57
    That would be awesome we need a screen get Carl to start doing And we'll just we'll just split it eight ways and everyone go home Yeah. Oh my that's why you have the gate open there for that miss
    99:16
    No, we didn't catch the key Right Kevin Burrell suddenly he can do this on one ball. I mean he could come all the way back Yeah, just get double bonus. That's just get those double bonus and 40,000 points while he's playing
    99:32
    Make the skill shot. Yeah, this is his opportunity in this tournament. This is All right, that's part one of the six-part plan. Oh, my God. That was awesome. That was great. That was him, too. That was not luck. He made that. Yeah, he made that happen. That was great. Is he ever going to get it on the flipper? He died. Oh, spin is not lit. Take the double. Yeah, shoot the spinner back up. Take the double. Double. Shoot the spinner back up. Take the double. Oh, there's an argument here. Double of $50,000. He split the difference. He went in the middle. He couldn't decide either.
    100:10
    He's fine. Go ahead and throw it up in there. Yep. Good. Now you've got to take the double. For sure.
    100:19
    Take the double. It comes. It comes on its own. Boom. Okay. So does he do a little backhand? He was doing more of the. No, he's already got the gate open. Yeah. So he'll do the post pass. Or it'll come off the end of the flipper and he'll flick it in that way. Or he'll just talk himself into throwing it into the pot. He needs more than just the double bonus, though, at this point. Yeah, that only gets him the 620. Yeah, he needs about 30,000 more points than the double. Oh, my God. That's huge. Okay, so he's back in it, baby. He's got a chance. He needs spinner. Now you just keep going spinner, or you can get to the extra ball. He doesn't need an extra ball. But the drop targets would win it for him. Yeah. Instead of drop targets. Because the next set is, what, 50,000? 30,000.
    101:12
    Oh, he's got his gate open. I mean, what could go wrong here? A lot. All right, targets. I'm not sure what he's doing. He's 15,000 behind. He needs 15,000 points. I don't know where he's going. Oh, what the heck do you do here? Drop targets. Only if he needs one. Drop targets. Yeah, the drop targets are so dangerous. Oh, look at that, you can use the... Oh my goodness. He's got it. He needs 5,000 more, right? He needs 3,000. The outline's worth 5,000. He wants the outline. The outline's fine. The L does it. He got it. Wow, that was clutch play there. Really needed it. And Kevin Moore suddenly. 5-4.
    102:08
    Are we at 5-5-4-4? My goodness gracious. I think we're 5-5-4-4. You said that was going to be a boring game of RAC. I said it was going to be a long game. I said nothing about the. That was awesome. That was a great finish. Kevin out submarine the submarine. And, yep. So, everybody's back in it. 5-5-4-4. and the other group is 5-4-3-2 or 6-5-4-3. Wow. This is anybody's contest right now in the final game. Let's see. And of course, you can't pick a game more than once the entire day. So... Which group do you watch? I got to say Keith is going to go for another game that he's going to pick game. And he is going to pick... He's already picked Lost in Space. Keith's going to pick Twilight Zone. Yeah, we're not going to watch Twilight Zone. No
    103:01
    I don't want to watch this group. I want to go outside and wait till it's over. I can't watch it's too
    103:09
    We'll find out in a moment where the games are Keith just told me he's gonna pick creature Oh, I forgot about it. See I couldn't see creature This is Sanjay since getting in front of me if I had seen it, I would have immediately said creature I mean, do we want to continue to follow this group? Yeah, I don't want to I can't bear to watch Yes, what happens to an Escher's group? Actually, Escher's group is both groups. We need a split camera. Where's Carl? Hey, Carl, we need a split screen. Both matches are. I can't run split. Come on, just whip something up. Well, what's the second game? If the game's over here, I actually could.
    103:43
    They're playing on Creech. You're playing on Creech. What's the other group playing on? Johnny, what are you playing on?
    103:54
    So this will be the first time we this will be the first time that we could in broadcast history we could have the double screen. What are you playing? I got this part. Wow, both groups wanted to pick Greece. breach. So, uh... Wait, Robert's picking though, right? No, Andre is. Oh, Andre's actually higher. He's just like fourth and he regretted it immediately. He'll be wiped out then. If it's wiped out, I'm going to have to step away and give the boy a little coaching. Did uh... no i don't think you did i want all talking about the thing no uplifting uh... before the game without the people as well uh... great it hope you make the phone calls donna What's the other game on?
    105:16
    Okay, so he hasn't picked yet. Alright, we're waiting on the other group, and here we are on Creech. Keith Ellen got a 1.7 billion. Has Andre picked Jurassic already? No, he hasn't picked yet. He might pick that. Maybe. Oh yeah, okay. I don't know that we've seen a lot of Jurassic played today. No, we've seen a couple of games, yeah. Yeah, earlier, not in my group. I was going to pick it if I ever got a choice, but nope, Robert picked all the games he wanted to play. Everybody's standing around, I guess we're waiting to see what Andre's going to pick or... It's kind of an important decision for Andre. He has three points. We really need to pick a game he can execute on.
    106:23
    Kevin Burrell walking around with youthful energy and a new life. He was one ball away from being out of the tournament. Now he's got a chance. Alright, here we go. Keith Ellens stepping up. You got to bump the ball off the edge, otherwise it will hit the sling. Funnily enough, when it hits the sling, it's really not that bad if you're willing to survive it. Yeah, I think about it too much. Oh, he missed. Did he miss the F? He went a little. The punch is really funny. You have the power plunge, and it doesn't go clean. So that's surprising right there. Oh, my goodness. Yes, that's a brick train on the I first snack bar shot. I'm not too happy about that. No, no, not at all. Now, he's one of the fives and not the fours, so he has one extra out there for a tie. You don't want to rely on that. Wow.
    107:17
    So, Keith brick trains and gives up serve already on draw one. So, Chris, really, you want to get a jackpot per ball. That's what you want to average. Jackpot per ball. Yep, that's how you do it. One multi-ball per ball, one jackpot. Gets you to a nice comfortable 250, 300 maybe.
    107:36
    He's staying cool. He's got only two letters on the kiss. It's funny. The ball hangs up at the top. It's really dodgy on the skill shot.
    107:50
    He's going to, he must, no, he's just getting it up there. Get some letters. Yep. It's interesting. Sometimes Creature can everybody, very, yep. Everyone can blow it up. Let's see if he uses the ramp. Oh, he's going to go ahead and do it in order at this point, ball one.
    108:06
    Yeah. Nope, went early. Nope, so much for not in order. So now go ahead and take your next slide because you want to get to, you got to do your targets for your eye anyway. You might as well get value for them.
    108:20
    I believe you can also get the film in sequence backwards to get the bonus too. I know I've heard that, but I think it's certain ROMs do it, and, well, we'll never know because that's not in order now.
    108:31
    You got the mic, Colin. Hey, here, sit in this. You guys are going to play wipeout. So do you know how to do the thing? Yeah, I know how to do the thing, but I don't really know how to do the thing if I don't know how to do the thing. Just do the thing. Yeah, I'll try.
    108:47
    So the thing is you plunge, you hold the flipper up, you shoot it around the middle, lock one ball on the slalom, and then you do it again. You plunge around, and you have it on the ball. And then you have to hit the slalom target and then get the ball back and then either forehand or backhand it back up, and then you do the slalom course. So you just have to lock a ball, and then you hit the target, and it's already lit. Yep, it'll be lit at that point. And that's all you do. Okay. And try to get the slaloms. If you find yourself in a mode. Time it up, you know? Yep. Just time it out. It's worth it.
    109:24
    All right, so curse is one. snack bar right away. Go ahead and make a menu. Good choice. He did get the letter that he needed, so going back up to the lanes and get paid.
    109:50
    Good live catch there by Chris. He's really dialed in on that. Alright, his multiball is now ready. Let's see if he can get that going. Oh, and he's on the good flipper. Yep. So I was trying to give Escher a few pointers. Escher's head, he's not a Gottlieb guy. I feel like he had his opportunity there on the wheel. It's weird because of the lighting on this one, the strobes are off, so you don't get the strobe flash when it's time for multiball. It's like, wait, is multiball lit? All right, so find the girl, rescue the girl, get the jackpot, get the super, wash rims, repeat, hit the cup, stir the cup to get the multiplier. In this kind of competition, Chris, who has the five points, he doesn't need multipliers. He just needs jackpots. This has the updated ROM in it, correct? No. No, it has the original. Oh, my goodness. That ball spent a really long time trying to decide what to do. Could you leave that up there and play with the? You could. That's not considered a stuck ball in that case. Wow. First try finds the girl I need
    111:01
    Rescue oh Wow, thank you. Jack the rescue Jack Find rescue and Jack all right and start start counting pops boom
    111:14
    He's already at one 115 and 18 more hitch should be able to do it in three trips three more hits up there
    111:22
    All right, you're gonna poop all right, there's no didn't quite Ah, no restart. Yep. Yeah, I'm done. But, uh, yep. Nice start. Time to move your car and get to the next multiball.
    111:36
    Yeah, move your car would be a good option. I want to see if somebody got to the, uh, super mode. Yeah. 12 ramps, right? It is, but, you know, it's not.
    111:46
    We've had this suggestion, Colin. Move your car, alright? Don't be thinking super. Ooh, what was that? That was a miss at kiss. Ah, okay. Oh, wow. Here's another 100. Well, it's down to about 80 million, but he can still boom.
    112:03
    He should be able to get it to about 24 if he doesn miss here Another 100 million That might go out to 21
    112:17
    He did really well there. He got it back so quickly. Oh, he did get to 27. God, that was great. If you don't miss that first shot, you can do the 30. Oh, it doesn't venture combo value, those ramps, for the collect the combo. Oh, it does. It's combo is still lit right now. It's 500. I think it's a combo. Actually, I thought it was lit right there. I don't know that he collected it. That would have been 16 million points. It wasn't 16 collect. It said on the screen 500. But that was for a snack bar score. I don't know. We need the insert replay. He could be right. He doesn't count it.
    112:56
    Wow, he's got that bank shot down. And a million a shot. That's not the bank shot you want to make, honestly.
    113:03
    He's got some targets. So for Chris right now, the only way Chris doesn't make finals now is all three other players beat this score, and then he still has outs with tiebreakers. So he's punching his ticket here. I'm not saying for sure, but I'm just saying. I think you're right. Did he get it again? Yeah, from the slide. Yeah.
    113:26
    But a great ball by Chris. Yeah, and points per minute. Excellent. Best points per minute of the round. I mean, compared to Argosy, yes. Oh, yeah.
    113:39
    Ooh, Robert tilted through two dangers. That's a play on, right? That is a play on, and it's a warning. If you do it again, you get a zero. It's hard to pull up again now, I mean...
    113:55
    At least... That can make it a very interesting... We'll keep you updated on that. Almost a soft-fluck there with the slide. He got his F. Oh, he got his F. Oh, and the power in lane. Wow, that was a lot of good things just happened there.
    114:29
    All right, go up top. He's get his film in order, but that eight billion I'm not advocating pressure here. He's he's got to learn how to deal with these kind of things himself
    114:49
    What he should ask for is just for somebody to check the rules and it actually lays it out clearly what the rolling there is
    115:02
    Attorney time. All right, so Carl's looking to move his car. Let's see if he stops and goes for the rest of the film.
    115:18
    And every player has this. Okay, backhand to ramp and right to M. Boom. Sequential film award. Eight million points.
    115:28
    And multiple is lit now, so. Oops. Bit of a miss there. He gets it back. You won't miss twice. Nope. So Carl's going to go for a multiplier here you think? Or is he going to go... That's a good question. What should he do here? Should he go for the multipliers? Or should he go just to try to match it with the jackpot? If he's trying to catch Chris, I'd go for a multiplier. So Keith says he should go for a multiplier. I already found the creature, so... Yeah, he was going to save the girl there. Yeah, that was a backhand attempt at saving the girl. I mean, you know, get the stupor. Oh, but okay. Patience and restarting the opportunity. Let's see if Carl can restart this. It looked like a good shot there. didn't quite stick. Wow. He managed to restart it. So what was the final verdict on the ruling? Robert gave up two dangers tilting through, but it didn't actually tilt. So that's a warning. Johnny has to play on with the two dangers. Robert gets a warning. If it happens again in this game, he would take a zero for the game. And unfortunately for Johnny, he has to play on. That's the correct ruling. It is. Yep.
    116:55
    Unless the exception to that would be if somebody judged it as an intentional. You could, at the discretion of the judge, I guess, if it was considered a rage tilt. Is that still a warning, or is that in the meet? That could be. I still think it's a warning at that point. It could be a warning, but it could actually be a disqualification from game at that point, too. Yep. Or, I mean, obviously if there's situations where that could be a tournament disqualification. Jackpot from Carl there. It's hard to make a call on that.
    117:32
    Now, if he gets the super, he's going to be past Chris. Yep. Oh, he tried the nice little post catch there and that worked out.
    117:40
    Wow. Oh, did he miss it? Oh, double. Nice. There it is. Super jackpot. Huge. 95. Normally it takes like 30 assassins' works to get to 30 hits.
    117:53
    Uh, I didn't find her the second time. Alright, Carl is peeling the flow now, so. No, he's done. Yeah, he's gone. Yeah. Bye, Carl. That being said, let's see, where does that put him? No, he's still 60 million behind. Because he didn't have any left rampage. Oh, yeah, that left rampage adds up, I guess.
    118:13
    Wow. And now Carl's one of the fours, so it's all in play here. Kevin was playing with him qualifying last night. He had some okay games, but nothing great. A couple of, you know, 200 million. But uh, it's uh, yep, he's gonna need a great one right now. Well, he's got to stay on serve He really like I said, he's gonna need a jackpot a jackpot a ball Not interested in the eight million doesn't really matter You just want to get your letters and get to know multi ball The eight million would matter if he didn't already see two players above 200 million. Yeah. Oh He missed his live catch and survives. Oh nice He seemed a little indecisive there where to go, but it worked out well And he was indecisive and then he went in for the kiss that was good It's nice to hit the snack bar from the right foot or tried it even when you missed that good things happen there He lit three
    119:21
    Yeah, you thought oh Right. Hey this game. You're never out of it and this is very much a one ball ball three Especially you can talk yourself into stirring the cup and getting that multiplier when you know, that's what you need. So Keith steps up with three million, but... Boy, I'm sure he would love to have that shot back. Oh, I bet.
    119:45
    He plunges, gets his kiss, completed. Just so everybody watching understands, when you plunge, you can time it so you can get as many kiss letters as... Oh, good grief. Oh my god. What a save. I was talking about I guess waters, but I just I lost my train of thought I Just watched yesterday do a perfect solemn Like by wiggling correctly. No. Oh no, but now he's in a mode
    120:22
    All right Hey lens going that's yours timing his mode out that would as well And Heath is... I guess even move your card doesn't really matter that much right now.
    120:41
    I mean... Well, he just had five points, so... If you get a super, then it becomes relevant. He's just, you know, he's sort of biding his time. He's got to get that eye. So he shoots a snack bar now? Backhand? Or something else? Or something else. Yeah, that's not core.
    121:06
    Wow, nice reaction there. He's got three of the four. One more shot, then he can close it out. Oh. Takes it direct. Interesting. That was interesting. And he has multiple. So you know that Keith, after giving the advice that he said Carl should have been going for a multiplier, you know Keith will be going for one. That sure is doing the thing.
    121:40
    You can't help yourself, can you? It's right in front of me. It's all good. It's right in front of me. The kid's doing the thing. I tried to do the thing, and I can't do the thing.
    121:51
    Oh, Keith Fox is a live catch. Oh, man. So he's already going to be on his restart. If he can make it, he'll make it. Yep. I guess the F was rather small, right? All right, but does that change the strategy here? Because now you have to actually make sure you get a jackpot.
    122:09
    For Keith, no. I think he's still going to look for fire. Before the jackpot. I think he's going to want to find the girl first to maybe rescue the girl, and then just take the jackpot if nothing goes well. Wow, that was fortuitous. I'll have to get the third one, too. That wasn't fortuitous. Oh, this is nice. You know what the worst words in pinball are? Oh, what happened there? It rolled off the flipper. You just let it roll off. Was he watching something else? He's watching after play wipeout.
    122:41
    I've missed it. I'm watching as you do the thing, and you just looked up to see Keith. Oh, my goodness gracious. Wow, you know, he's still ball two. He'll get back to multi-ball, which he's got to do. Make a menu.
    123:15
    He was actually aiming at that target, I think. And then take a left pass if you miss. Uh-oh. He's fine.
    123:27
    Oh, God. That was a great save. Oh, man. Oh, geez. All right, Keith going into, he'll be going into ball three and not where he wants to be. Well, if the scores remained the same, Chris would move on, Carl and Keith would be in a playoff, and Kevin would be out. But obviously there's a lot more pinball to play before we get to that point. Oh yeah, all these players have a good chance of making it through. Just one time to the slide. This is your multi-ball. And here's move your car. All right, so he starts with 6.8 million on the move your car mode. Messes his life catch up. After Ball One, Robert Gagno has $141 million. Escher has $143 million. Johnny Monica has $60-something million. And Andre is checking it out, $61 million for Johnny.
    124:53
    Wow, that's good starts. At least for the $241 million. So let's see. Chris, four times. He's co-pilot here in terms of. Yep. And uh, they didn't make it a car. 68. That's not bad. That's really pretty good. Jackpot. So, backhand and right. Throw it in there. Nice. And throw it again. Yeah, I was actually just thinking I'd do the Mega Menu. Yep. You might as well double your, you get better value for throwing it into those targets even Uh oh.
    125:44
    The only thing is you can't see if they've changed. But I guess the only way to change them is pop-up, right? So.
    125:51
    You know, you have to hit this direct. I'll just go on, uh. I wonder what the thought process there was.
    126:07
    Well. Get anything you can and I'll change the. No. Change the position of the blue light. And forget. Oh. Then that's good.
    126:19
    Got a smack attack. Well, Chris is being very accurate right now. And of course I jacked him Didn't that look like you hit that there No All right, big million five ten fifteen
    126:46
    But hey, this is playing great what off the lot left a lot of points on the table But he's gonna be thrilled with that 425 after Duke. He's on a case. All right, here comes girl I'm gonna say through one he can watch. No, not at all Not including no no that's that's not the young man. They know He's a good chance. I'm gonna say he's playing I say I like his chances. Yeah
    127:10
    Carl Carl's gonna plunge into the yes to get the F and then throw it into the targets hoping to get something Do it back up He gets the M, which doesn't really... it's actually better to hit the M. Oh dear. That's fine. Now he does his Mega Midian, because he's got to throw it into the Blues anyway, so... Oh, lovely. Trouble. I think Robert just started the mode on Wipeout. Really? That was quick. Triple Diamond right now. Think is Robert the six in that group. So we remember what the to bring up the scores from the other group Yeah, sure. I'm just curious to the sticks is I think it was Robert
    128:07
    All right, so yes Robert is six and Escher is five so As we like to say at home Robert is Esther's co-pilot in this one You want the person ahead of you to potentially win because it doesn't affect doesn't give anybody else a free win below you Oh, he's stuck on the outline again. So he has the L left, which he'll be able to plunge to on ball three. Right, so Carl's, yeah, Kevin's, he's got two to go. He hasn't gotten a jackpot yet, obviously, so he can just shoot the snack bar to light him. And Kevin, you know, besides being his own advocate, is also Keith Elwin's co-pilot if he could get in between. That's correct. There's another out there. There's a lot of, there's so many scenarios.
    129:06
    We're going on the fly. Why not? It's always easy when the ball stays on. Oh, we got it. Oh, we only got one there.
    129:17
    Oh, nice. One warning. All good. Settle down. Put it back. Oh, dear. It's like, get it back. All right, take a moment. Now backhand. Backhand the ramp.
    129:27
    He really likes that from the right flipper. I'm not a big fan of it. Yeah. All right. What's he going to do? Throw it back.
    129:36
    I really don't like the lane pass on that thing. He's okay. He's still okay. Throw it back up. Throw it in the pops. All right. Go fast. No. Ramp. Use the ramp transfer. No. Old school. I like it. Okay, now is he gonna nut it on the fly? Oh, yes, he is
    129:56
    Boom what take this? I don't know. All right. He's fine. All right and start multi ball And third time's a charm. Yep. All right. All right. See if he can make this even more interesting
    130:11
    We've seen some really interesting games today. I gotta say oh Oh, you know what? I think Robert has the mode where he can double his score. Is that? No. That's not Vogel? Oh, okay. That would be silly if he could. The other one's Hot Dog. Hot Dog is the double his score.
    130:30
    All right. What's Kevin got here? Oh, dear. He needs to get some control. There's the nice one. Nope.
    130:39
    He's going for his multiplier, which I agree with entirely. He still has his restart so I was saying that earlier the worst quote in pinball is no sign ever here
    130:54
    I'm surprised why he wouldn't caught that one there Wow Yeah, oh Nice little oh That worked out double. Yeah girls been put it back up. Oh the creatures. I'm sorry. Yeah. Oh here. He goes There's all right. Go all right is it it's double down. It's got to be a double now. He said
    131:20
    One X though Alright boom here. We go spoon. It's still one. It's only one. I really he's off to buy a letter. Yeah, I is
    131:30
    You may not know that Yeah, did he ever take the time to pause yeah, no Oh, that was lovely. If you need... Back up. No, back up top. Get that double for this double super. Get control. Oh, God.
    131:53
    Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, no. Jeez. Oh, my goodness. This is crazy. This is... Yeah. Oh, no, it's gone. And... Yeah, it's gone. It's gone. That was a noble effort, but I... Would like to see in a little more
    132:14
    So back in oh no, he's going right back for the multi ball no playing around Of course getting the jackpot now he has to do the eye the hard way, but he only needs one more. Yep I'd go up. Take the M. Get your, get your, yeah, I don't think he's done.
    132:47
    Yeah, moving your car is not going to do it. He doesn't like backhanding the ramp. I know. It's interesting. Put the post pass in.
    132:54
    He's chatting with the peanut gallery. That's the way he rolls. Oh, boy. He's fine. It's not where you go, it's where you land. Unless you land in the outline. Oh, my goodness.
    133:20
    Yeah, you know, there were a lot of chances there. That was a fine effort from Kevin to try and get in. Well, I mean, here we are. The ball of truth. Keith has to pass at least one player. I got to say, I've seen Keith in this position so many times in broadcasting pinball. I agree, and he's pretty good at it. He doesn't always do it. He doesn't look super comfortable. He has his eye now, so he can plunge the F, and then he can drain, and now he can short plunge the L. Okay. So let's see how many lanes. how many lanes he needs to get the L. And if he can get to a catch, he gets a multi-ball, then it's all back in play again.
    134:12
    This is a very important moment for Pete here. Oh, God. He needs control. Wow. He didn't get the letter. Nope, so he'll just go backhand right back up. Yeah, he's fine. No, he'll get it right. Oh, he's moving his car. He can go ahead and start multiball, and then he'll have to move his car locked at max value. But what's he going to do? Is he going to dead bounce here? Because the light catch is not working. Okay, there he got it. All right, he's going to start multiball.
    134:40
    And he missed. Oh, and he missed again. He took something off of it, yeah. That's hard. Nice live catch.
    134:58
    Oh good wow and he uses up his restart. All right make it Yeah, he could he'd love to find that girl first try while he's going right after the multiplier
    135:16
    Kind of needs to well he was looking Nice babe Nope. All right, back to the drawing board. Now his move your cards locked in at eight. That's what he's shooting for.
    135:32
    He's done. And that's it. So Keith will end at five. Which is that? That's it. That's it for Keith. There's no way that Keith can possibly advance at this point. Wow. Barring a, uh, a, uh, no, a, well, a DQ event.
    135:57
    But yes. Uh, pretty surprising. He, uh, just after that ball one, quick drain and everybody else just, uh. All right. So Chris will be guaranteed one point. So he's guaranteed nothing. He is, needs to keep playing. No, I think it's going to be, uh, yeah. That's my tiebreaker. I would, at this point, Chris is guaranteed a tie at least.
    136:27
    Yes. Because both the players that... Correct. Yeah. And he got on with you all. And there's very little evidence to suggest that he wouldn't.
    136:38
    Goodness gracious, he's playing great on this particular game. So... Chris has played this round excellent. He's definitely been the... The dominant player, maybe? Yep, every every round has the player who's just on and you know
    136:55
    And he found the creature let's see Time to rescue the girl. I would do a single here honestly Alright, his is uh, rescue lit. Just pick it up. Oh. Okay, restart. No hesitation, no problem.
    137:44
    Martin Escher do the old thing. Another single jackpot, single jackpot. 63 million. the okay first about a multi ball and back in the middle man I think he missed his targets. That's just playing out of his mind right now over here. Where's Escher at? He has 185. He's got to beat the other two guys. Robert's ahead of him anyway.
    138:51
    I lost focus there. Chris is thinking of his 5 million. Which seems almost completely worthless, one. You're 300 million ahead. Either people are going to come back and get it or not. And that was it. That's a good game by Chris. That deserves a... Half-hearted. Yeah, I'm willing to give it.
    139:22
    Yeah, absolutely. That's a great game. Carl is one of the fours. So he and Kevin. Carl's guaranteed one.
    139:42
    It's between him and Kevin right now, basically. So Carl's actually in the lead for whatever it is that he needs. Unless both Kevin and Carl beat Chris.
    139:53
    Which, you know, it's possible, but it's... It's possible, but not what I would call likely. Yeah. Anybody got any food? Anybody got snacks? I had snacks. Do you have any snacks left? No, unfortunately. Anyone on the chat room can run some snacks over that would be awesome
    140:25
    I know Kevin usually bring big bag of snacks with them. So go through probably be willing to get some
    140:36
    How's the big jackpot by Carl 95 But all I need to do is increase his lead on Kevin. Kevin's close to his multiball too.
    141:02
    Alright. The submarine needs to move his car. All right, Carl's unlimited millions running. Oh. Flipper error. Not much to get done, but. All right. Now, Carl is. Okay, Chris is through. Yes. Yes, he is. Carl needs. If Carl beats Kevin, then Carl will go through. Right. Otherwise. Kevin versus Carl. Yep. That's all it is now.
    141:34
    All right. All the... He has one target to get his eye. I think long plunge and throw it up there and the M will come easy.
    141:58
    And he got it. All right. I'm going to see a lot for Kevin. Like I said, I can even do crashes. Have fun in SDS. All right, yeah, take care.
    142:46
    Keith Elwin doing the long rage drive home. Kevin just lost his ball, but he gets his big restart here. Yep. And now the ball just stays in the...
    143:05
    Can you bring up the points on Escher's group again? Yeah, sure thing. And it looks like, what did Johnny, was Johnny the fourth? Okay, so Escher's ahead of Johnny. I think Escher and Robert go through. Escher has at least one point. That gets him to six. No, Andre has to win to tie Escher if it were to end right this. He'd have to come back and beat Robert. Right. But you're still in the control of his own destiny as your past is Robert that he's been for sure But then Andre needs to have Robert. Yes. He has to pass Robert to get to a tie
    143:55
    Escher's Doesn't have any circuit points, but he knew if he could get like maybe a second place here with 75
    144:02
    He might could maybe sneak in and Kevin is out so Carl and Chris they get through let's switch on over to wipeout super scoring who won last year at the keep one last year Carl won two years ago and now he's back into the finals and Carl was one ball away from having zero points after two games that's why he's the submarine congratulations the five parts Chris and Carl and Robert so far and it's gonna be Escher or Andre at this point and Escher's got a lot of points all right I'm trying to do a little pilot see if I can get this right Alright, so it's Andre. So Andre needs to pass to Robert or it'll be Escher and Robert. So let's see how Andre does here. Robert, it's a good co-pilot. Having Robert as your co-pilot in semis can work out for you, especially on something like Wipeout. All right, so final ball for Andre. Who's our high seed in that of those guys in there? I know it's not going to be Escher because he was ninth seed, but Robert. Andre?
    145:25
    Andre's got a long way to go. Okay, so Andre has to pass $430 million. Well, Robert's a third qualifying position. Robert was third? Yeah, Johnny was 14th. Escher was 10th. Who was the second seed? Oh, Andre was second. So Robert will be the bus driver again, but he's picked so many games. I wonder if he picks them all, he could start over again.
    145:51
    That's an awfully good question. Or maybe you just can't pick after that. Ooh, nice. I'd read the rule that you just can't pick after that.
    146:03
    Because the rule specifically says you can only pick each game once. And Escher, young Escher Lefkoff makes the final four in this 2017. All right, so Escher and Robert.
    146:17
    All right, well, there's a lot of good pinball play to come. We are here in Southern California in Banning, California at It Never Drains in Southern California.
    146:30
    Oh, sounds good, man. My name is John Replogle. I'm having fun on the West Coast for a week. It's been a nice vacation for me and my wife.
    146:44
    First time out to a California tournament for me. Have you come down before a California tournament before, Colin? This is my first in-disc, so it's fun. Great tournament, great games. For me, it's actually just a shock of the, I don't know, the geography. Like, it's absolutely amazing. Yeah.
    147:09
    We've made a couple trips. I highly recommend Joshua Tree National Park, which, you know, you get to see some Dr. Seuss-looking trees, which is a lot of fun.
    147:27
    We also did some traveling to, we saw the Palomar Observatory with the 200-inch scale telescope. I don't know if you're an astronomy fan, Kalanari.
    147:44
    I haven't been there, so. But a lot of So as Adam was mentioning earlier Escher now has a chance To make the Papa Circuit If he takes at least He needs to take second place To have a shot And I don't have all the The records available But That would be pretty impressive if he could pull that off One event boom in
    148:24
    I wonder if you could get the time off from school though yeah there has to be a limit to how much time you can get off school to take these educational trips life event you can't see it at home but you know I was giving the quotation marks around the education there because it's just pretty crazy.
    148:48
    Hey, I think I'm going to make the circuit. Yay. 75 is the cutoff minus people not coming, like Steve, right? So, 70 points, maybe?
    149:05
    Yeah, so a third place wouldn't do it, because I believe... Yeah, I believe he's going to need a second here in order to do it. Because there's plenty of people in the lower 70s and upper 60s.
    149:20
    And a third place only awards 60 points. So it's second place or bust.