2019 Women's World Championship finals broadcast: Kerry Wing vs. Maureen Hendricks at Flipper Spiel Las Vegas.
Summary
IE Pinball streams the 2019 Women's World Championship finals at Flipper Spiel Las Vegas, featuring Kerry Wing vs. Maureen Hendricks in a best-of-seven match across multiple games (Star Trek, Iron Man, Tron). The broadcast showcases high-level competitive women's pinball with commentary from Jessica DiNardo, Colin McAlpine, and other community members, highlighting the venue, game setup, and player skill while managing technical challenges.
Key Claims
Kerry Wing played in both the Women's World Championship and the North American national championship on the same day
high confidence · Jessica DiNardo states: 'carry is the only competitor today to play in both the Women's World Championship and the North American national championship'
The Women's World Championship featured 24 starting players, reduced to final two (Kerry and Maureen)
high confidence · Commentator states: 'it started with 24 we are down to two and we're playing on Stern Star Trek'
Flipper Spiel moved to a new location about one year prior to this tournament, combining with a video game store
high confidence · Jessica DiNardo explains: 'it has moved yes dr. John so it is now kind of combined with a video game store that does Magic the Gathering tournaments and other interesting stuff here at night so one-stop nerd shop in the new location it's been here for a year so just after these tournaments last year is when they moved to the new spot'
Star Trek had the longest queue of any game all day at the tournament
high confidence · Commentator notes: 'Star Trek has consistently had the longest queue of any of the games all day and I think it is because it's playing so consistently'
The Women's World Championship qualification included top 16 from open IFPA rankings plus 8 wild card spots from women's-only tournaments
high confidence · Colin McAlpine states: 'we had international players joining us today so it's the top 16 from the open IFPI rankings and then eight wild card spots from just the women's ifba tournaments of women's only tournaments and maureen is one of those wild cards'
Maureen Hendricks runs 'Babes and Pin Land' monthly women's tournaments in Seattle
high confidence · Commentator states: 'Maureen runs the babes and pin land monthly at women's tournaments in Seattle so she took that over from Kayla'
Tournament machines had modified settings: Star Trek had out lane posts with rubbers removed, kickback set to extra hard, and very short multiball ball save timers
high confidence · Commentators explain: 'the out lane post the in lane Outland post dividers have been had the rubbers removed so it plays a little bit tougher than usual the kick back is on extra hard' and 'the tournament directors chose to make the multi ball ball saves the minimum duration they are all very short on all these modern machines'
Notable Quotes
“Derek was the winner of California a really a difficult state to win and he's been on a hot streak lately”
Commentator (Tom Graff implied)@ 1:31 — References Derek winning California circuit, establishing context for strong recent competitors
“I deserve to lose and he more than deserved to go on”
Tom Graff@ 2:15 — Shows gracious competitor acknowledging superior play; humility and sportsmanship in tournament context
“Adam from flippers Fila has done such an amazing job you put in so much work getting all of the games ready getting him tuned up I'm clean getting him like tournament shape and he has spent personally so much time getting everything together for us here”
Jessica DiNardo@ 5:27 — Praise for venue operator's preparation and dedication to tournament-grade machine conditioning
“I always marvel at her kind of control and her ability to think ahead towards bigger scoring opportunities”
Jessica DiNardo (about Maureen)@ 16:56 — Describes high-level strategic play and shot sequencing from finalist
“Star Trek's turn is no different so she's up to thirty six and a half million and now essentially she's probably gonna want to start another mode”
Commentator@ 13:21 — Play-by-play commentary demonstrating Kerry Wing's strong first game scoring
“I think this is outstanding definitely for anyone joining us this is the Women's World Championship so we had international players joining us today”
Colin McAlpine — Emphasizes significance of international women's competition at highest level
event_signal: IE Pinball streaming 2019 Women's World Championship finals from Flipper Spiel Las Vegas with professional broadcast setup and commentary
high · Full broadcast with multi-camera setup, expert commentators (Jessica DiNardo, Colin McAlpine), and concurrent National Championship coverage
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community_signal: Growth in women's pinball competition visibility with 24 starting players, international competitors, and dedicated World Championship broadcast
high · Jessica notes 'we've now you know evolved as a pinball competitive community where we can stream these fine women players competing at the highest level', international players participating, wild card qualification system for women's tournaments
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venue_signal: Flipper Spiel relocated approximately one year prior, expanding from standalone pinball arcade to multi-game entertainment venue (pinball + video games + Magic: The Gathering)
high · Jessica DiNardo: 'it is now kind of combined with a video game store that does Magic the Gathering tournaments... it's been here for a year so just after these tournaments last year is when they moved to the new spot'
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operational_signal: Tournament machines feature aggressive modifications reducing player advantage: removed out lane rubbers, maximum difficulty kickbacks, minimum ball save timers across all modern games
high · Star Trek setup: 'out lane post dividers have been had the rubbers removed so it plays a little bit tougher than usual the kick back is on extra hard'; ball save: 'tournament directors chose to make the multi ball ball saves the minimum duration they are all very short on all these modern machines'
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Topics
Women's World Championship 2019primaryCompetitive pinball finals coverageprimaryStern Star Trek tournament play and strategyprimaryBroadcast streaming and technical operationssecondaryFemale pinball player representation and communitysecondaryModern pinball machine rule depth and strategysecondaryTournament machine setup and modificationssecondaryFlipper Spiel venue and locationmentioned
Sentiment
positive(0.85)— Enthusiastic praise for players' skill, venue conditions, and tournament organization; genuine excitement about women's competitive pinball visibility; some frustration with technical audio issues acknowledged but handled professionally; overall celebratory tone about elite competition
Transcript
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the poor without the finger could be there for a half a second oh man let's transfer it into another double Elway chicks a way into a double catapult super what are we eating here with all of this [Music] I watch it out there all right you got it Clark is it Clark Clark got it first a oh what what just happened this is really good right there yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna get out of the booth for a little while I need some food and some sustenance and I gotta relearn how to math because apparently I can't multiply nice work today Dirk you give me some derivatives and find anything else I'm screwed so it was awesome being on the booth with you guys and see you soon enjoy the rest of the finals yeah good Derek was the winner of California a really a difficult state to win and he's been on a hot streak lately he sure has shown up dig the circuit final in Chicago he was crushing it yeah yeah that was amazing let's do a quick introduction then we'll catch up on where everyone's sitting in the market right now all right hello welcome to booth yes oh well good run thank you thank you Tom bait is a lead eight is good good yeah you've been kind of top eating all the big tournaments lately haven't you yeah the last year I came in third at this tournament and played well again and then I just will McKinney played outstanding and I did not and so I deserve to lose and he more than deserved to go on so you're humble because you must have played amazing to get that far no I'm looking at our progress here in the bracket so the brackets not the most up-to-date so right now on Tron we've got drew versus Mitch and drew is up 1-0 on Paragon we've got Nick versus Mike and Nick is up 3-2 on see Game of Thrones just finished out yes on the bracket it says act sharp is leading Donovan 3 to 2 meaning they're playing game 6 over there on line with Rome's no ok so now that our our behind the scenes spreadsheet is now behind good well that was the women's semi finals match or the finals so that was semi finals so it's Kerry versus Maureen so yes from Seattle she was playing amazing pinball all day she took Hannah out in best interpreter 7 yeah so and that's a not such a pinball helping I wasn't sure amazing definitely and Maureen runs the babes and pin land monthly at women's tournaments in Seattle so she took that over from Kayla great so we're gonna swap back to the game now all right it looks like Kerry went back to Star Trek to Star Trek so the players get 30 seconds of practice on the machine so it'd be a little bit of warm-up time if you're just joining us again we are live from flipper spiel and Las Vegas we're here for the Women's World Championship we are starting finals right now Kerry wing versus Maureen Bart Hendrickson we are concurrently running with the North American national championship so once the women's finals is complete we're gonna see that all the way to the end and then we'll switch over to Nationals again I am Jessica DiNardo thank you so much for joining us Carl D'Python Anghelo is running an amazing stream here at ie pinball and yeah we've got we've got a good good day of been long but the games are amazing here with Jessica as Colin MacAlpine and I'm glad Paparelli and this is some high stakes pinball right here because both of these women are winning substantial prizes and what is that what is the top prize for the West I'm not sure I don't have that in front of me I know it's there was there was sponsorship and there was funding and I know the prices have gone up and they were already pretty pretty large so and you know this is just a big deal getting to this this point in the tournament no matter what thank you to the people saying nice things in the chat it's nice to be here and be kind of helping well I'm not playing anymore it was a rough date but it was really fun like these tournaments are so much fun to play they are and the game selection is great and Adam I've been saying it all night Adam from flippers Fila has done such an amazing job you put in so much work getting all of the games ready getting him tuned up I'm clean getting him like tournament shape and he has spent personally so much time getting everything together for us here so can't applaud him enough if you're in Vegas please check out flippers feel the condition of the games is really really wonderful the locations fun it has moved yes dr. John so it is now kind of combined with a video game store that does Magic the Gathering tournaments and other interesting stuff here at night so one-stop nerd shop in the new location it's been here for a year so just after these tournaments last year is when they moved to the new spot I know if I was local this would be the place keeping me away from the tables tables away from the tables yeah a different kind of table here we go this is the finals the final two women standing and the Women's World Championship it started with 24 we are down to two and we're playing on Stern Star Trek the out lane post the in lane Outland post dividers have been had the rubbers removed so it plays a little bit tougher than usual the kickback is on extra hard so if you consume it it will be very difficult to relight yep and other than and also the multiball ball save timers are very short nice save there picks up a danger and Kerri was doing something that I absolutely love as a go-to on Star Trek hitting the warp ramp and then holding that flipper up as a means to get some LOC progress and not take extra dangerous on the fly warp shots she glances into a lock target there to like both her locks her first two locks so one of the center which she just claimed she'll have another one on the left-hand side right there and then she has to complete that target Bank one more time to light her third lock for Klingon multiball which is a good way to get a feel for the game find your shots and if you can prolong and get to the super and the double super get some really good points and that was a both lock - and a new mode start so what do you and what would you like to okay she's going prime directive so she's made herself eligible for a three in a row in the next mode if she chooses and prime directive was also a pretty good one to stack with her multiball she gets her locks quickly she only needs one target that's flashing to lighter third block it's not that a way to Emma right and this is one of the easier ones to get a gold medal and it's very good value and since she's going to be shooting it up the left orbit probably to try to go for that lock or the right orbit for that matter just picking out points getting towards those medals and prepping this lock shot yeah definitely for everyone who's still asking about you know different games that were showing this is the absolute finals for the Women's World Championship so we have had women come from all over the world to play this top 16 in the main IFPI rankings and then eight wild card players from the women's whopper rankings so this is the last round for this so we're going to see this to the end and after this is complete we will be moving over to the North American nationals so we're going to stick with Kerry and Maureen it's a best-of-seven so it says here on Kerry's profile that her favorite game is the one she's playing so she really likes during Star Trek she's one of them oh okay she won it in this Bank I'd probably be picking Star Trek as my first go to as well it looks like it's letting you play it yeah this this game definitely lets you play more so than some of the other modern games in this Bank you know Star Wars is brutal the game of Thrones is set up brutal iron Lee and it's always brutal okay the AFM is playing tough because it tilts from incredibly tight x-men is playing tough so yeah this is a good choice too if you have confidence in your your skills in a modern you're familiar with the game so you understand the rules and what to do this is a great choice so let's see if she takes her shot at the final light Locke target here or perhaps the warp ramp to feed that sorry yet so to say took a shop and missed it and now she has her destroy the drill which she needs to shoot one shot here that's blinking and then she can unfortunately she will not get a chance to do like away team on it but little off before the train and Star Trek has consistently had the longest queue of any of the games all day and I think it is because it's playing so consistently and people really kind of know what to expect when they're coming on to it it's been holding up really well all day right there's nothing that's a huge surprise that's coming at you with this one now I can't actually remember that row on the far left there that she was making progress towards three in a row which super ability is that when you can pick that table okay so if she can get that multiball in ball three she'll likely complete the mode and have super pops running which the multiball is still going can be really big so marinas playing Nero right now which has most everything lit now lot of players will actually try to avoid starting the Galactic away team in this mode because it's an extending it to shoot those drop the the stainless harder to death unfortunately she died that she looked like she was maybe going for a ramp shot there and unfortunately the right out laying claim another victim well this is anybody's game with one ball left and Kerry has the advantage here both some points and set up she's one lock away from the multiball dr. John you can't blame that on us by us saying the game played well Mike well when we say when we say play well I it's probably let play let him get the longest ball time overall compared to the others right they're all tough they're all gonna be tough and there's no major modifications like you know no locks on the sorcerer or no upper gate on Bear Cora or the weird feed on Game of Thrones there's nothing that they've done to Star Trek that's terribly surprising all right all right let's see if the fourth time's the charm for that Center shot today all right Klingon multiball the rule is to cling on each jackpot is lit twice and you can get your super buy what is it the eighth jackpot we got the disco ball going it's got the laser light show in this le and yep she's gonna be she also still has her destroy the drill which she could if she can coordinate to shoot underneath that upper flipper could get a glancing away team for some good value on the left orbit spinners yep but that's a difficult a bottle off with the multiball going now four balls in play right ideally a lot of times you don't necessarily want to use that add a ball right away but you if you just glanced into it and there's nothing really to do yeah well I noticed that the its on hard settings the ball save is shortened for multiball so she's already done the two balls she gets to that kickback so she's still alive nice power in Lane take that one you can get it so pretty much all her jackpots are still lit and she's going to the left side that also completes her destroyed the drill mode right now she has super fun super fun with this multiball when super is lit you can double the value that by cohn going on before you collect the super so six million in change as a base can be as high as 12 that's correct nice nudge there only took one danger so I forget it what's the number before you get to super she's got one more left to light super and now super is lit and she calm mode for 12 and a half very nice nice work nails another jackpot whoo beautiful save and she has dangers here so that was that was great it's a nice touch on these modern games that have good flow where it rewards the player for playing on the fly and shooting their shots in combo and Star Trek's turn is no different so she's up to thirty six and a half million and now essentially she's probably gonna want to start another mode there it is so what do you go for here Jessica I would save Nero for less so I would continue kind of the way that she's going yeah this modes a low value but easy to beat yeah space jump you can take out with essentially two shots actually well three sorry one shot here galactic away team and then one shot the middle you can also play it out and because she's on her fourth mode the mode values go up with each successive mode so she's getting a half an endpoint remote shot whereas if you played space jump on ball one you'd be getting only about 120 550 based value she's opting to not go for a way team but just take the points on the table with the lid that added more time unfortunately in that added in out lane so letting down a great score roughly 50 million points for Kerry in Game one and the good news for Marine is that you're never really out of it you can just need one good ball in these modern games and so let's see if she can put it together we've seen Maureen put up some amazing amazing scores and she's had some great comebacks she's just a stellar player so anything is possible between these two yeah and she went for neuro two so that second level modes are more valuable than the first level modes you will in this stage of the game it's not a bad choice because the trying to complete Kobayashi are all six modes of the first level is gonna be a difficult task and only one ball to play so getting those mode shots are good and she has a lock lit up the middle okay and she got vengeance ready with the missiles and with this mode running Oh nice way with the upper flipper that's not how she was intending it but she'll take it and this is a good opportunity for here with this valuable mode running for her to make a comeback so she got the Atta ball got the Allen Edwall before releasing the mention shot you know so the regular multiball hasn't even started yet she added a ball she still needs to nail that before the timer runs out to get that ball out and I think that did it that did that's good no one dangerous okay so the Nero two-mode shots are actually the preferred thing to be shooting for here not the Vengeance because the Nero two shots are much more valuable but with that being said if she can get to the end and combo it for two ball just crawled over the post thirteen million so the ones that are flashing purple and green are more valuable in this mode so her left scoop and right rim far more valuable right now taking a breath getting control that left scoops been giving people trouble today yep oh all right just like to have that one back but it's only game one so still plenty of pinball to be played now for Marines we have you play with her frame quite frequently Jessica yep Marines a good friend of mine she's up in Seattle so it's a nice easy you know commute between the two so I'll go up and play in Seattle or she'll come down and play in Portland so we see each other quite frequently and you know we're staying together here in Vegas so all right is she is an amazing player I always marvel at her kind of control and her ability to think ahead towards bigger scoring opportunities so like guardians of the galaxy she blows up because she knows exactly what progression she wants to move through though on the different modes and when she wants those different shots which is not something I'm capable of it also it's really cool to see her do it those monster games yep it's got so much going on though it's really coming along yeah where's Lee what does she listen to in her headphones she doesn't listen to anything okay silent noise walking yep that's cool I actually want to try that out because music throws me off but having the headphones to kind of cancel out the background noise goes a long way the chatter for sure yes it's it goes a long way towards deadening that sound so she sometimes listens to music when she's playing but right now she's not listening to anything and then you can just like joke around with people and tell them you're listening to all kinds of bizarre things yeah it looks like Iron Man has been selected again we get to watch Iron Man Thanks Carl is still helping keep the stream running while he's taking a nice little well-deserved break after doing all this all day yeah so for anyone who's just joining us we are at flippers field in Las Vegas for the Women's World Championship it's running concurrently with the North American national championship we are watching the women's finals right now so we've got Maureen and Kerry Kerry is up one game to know how do we change over time yep all right we're going to Ironman beautiful yeah I have to come visit Portland that's one of the be sad and vignette well show you around yeah absolutely as the the Portland pin Ross little thing that pin brawl is still a giant bracket of a tournament yes yeah still exists what time of year does that take place that's a great 8 April maybe I don't so coming up soon look at my flight options what is it but it's something that's already sold out it's something that's sold out there's a wait list for it I don't know what that that looks like I haven't been playing a lot of competitive pinball so it's not something that was on my radar well big this year so I around with Josh one of the things with the dollar fee now which funded part of the the national championship is that I have to send Josh so much money that I just got a miles credit card all right so they're starting off here more reena's player one and we saw a very brutal Ironman game in the last round and being such a low-scoring game at times really you want to pick up points anywhere you can get arm there's different approaches I personally would be going bogie on ball one to make something happen and but there's four or five different ways to approach this game right so people keep telling me I'm not I'm not an Ironman fan I will listen to all of your suggestions yeah generally generally speaking there's a there's really two ways that seem to be the predominant strategies and that's either bogey or longer and then you can kind of layer on or mix in some other stuff as it as you see fit there is a way actually to stack you can stack bogey with monger at various stages of it so you can stack bogey on when the monitor is up and shoot the orbits or the right ramp or you can start it right before you begin monger yeah totally I was I've this is we've been chatting this is possibly my least favorite pinball machine ever so no love for Ironman at all so I've been trying to find a way to make it fun to play I don't like playing games that aren't fun so we have sunshine joining us in the booth getting more women in here commenting on the Women's World Championship so I love having more more women supporting women so we are in the finals right now carries up one game to nil on Maureen sunshine what is your Ironman approach I like to Bucky okay no way okay straight from the get-go yeah yep I like to find those ramps early and I feel like if I do find those ramps that's a pretty safe way to earn a lot of points okay that's a sound strategy especially with how interesting some of the feeds did you play this earlier today um I did yeah I even played it against Carey wing and this is this is a game that Carey is very consistent on well Maureen is definitely a really strong competitor in here as well not to not to be discounted they both been playing amazing pinball all day today so absolutely it's really exciting to see the two of them matched up it'll be a great great finals for us great save on that partial Ram pattern from marine there there have been a lot of partial ramp returns [Music] so how do you did you face a lot of that when you were voguing earlier the half ramps you know usually usually I would miss the ramp like I would break it with one of the stand up targets so I either made the ramp I didn't really have any half ramps got it I either made it all the way or not at all all right so Maureen has started her Monger so she needs to hit one of the purple shots to bring the marker back up and there it is just like that so now she just needs a couple more hits tomorrow it's really nice this is beautiful she wants to send it up the center now right there for three million points if she can hit it yep so close still have some grace period here still beautifully played keeping keeping her cool oh nice her recovery is just amazing she just has this ability to anticipate where the ball is gonna be and rein it back in she's got beautiful reflexes this game is playing so fast that ball is flying about and she is on top of it yeah thank you everyone for sticking that with us it has been a really long day so thanks for tuning in we are in the finals for the Women's World Championship and after this we're gonna switch back over to the North American national championship and they're going to see that out to the end so long day here in Vegas but a lot of really amazing pin Vaughn a lot of fun just great people playing today so when talent in this room all right let's see if Kerry can get Dowling's ramps here for some bogey nice good combo she gets double points for that if you can hit those ramps in the combo for the first one at least nice a little bit later than going for the left ramp but she's still just two shots away from bogey yeah she's finding that right yeah this is best-of-seven no I bet she's a little disappointed she brought the monger up there yeah so now she's kind of in a she had a choice to make here she could still go for a bogey now and you can then you know you typically you're gonna want to shoot orbits after you start bogey because the monger is blocking your left ramp or you can hold off on bogey and go for ironmonger multiball and then you have bogey running during with you all so what's the benefit of trying to go for bogey at this I was a great save on some on some Iron Man's especially ones with juicy spinners this one didn't have the spinners to used but if you can shoot the orbits and live catch with bogey running it's actually a very good way to play bogey and you also will get the points for the spinner right now the spinners are actually pre decent value when the monger is up and it also continues to add to your next monger hit so every spin you get will make your next monger hit more valuable and the monger fights back but making progress I think I think Kerry was just like oh I gotta get this mother so where do you go now with your marine sunshine what's your are you gonna bogey now I I mean it depends on how confident she's feeling with those ramps I would or you know what she's got this and she had more machine flashing right now she does alright so that is this kicker on the left-hand side she won't get a chance to start it but that would have started a two ball multiball with the opportunity to add two more so this is a this is a reachable Hill for Kerry she has a couple options you can choose four hits away from monger which is always troublesome to try survive she took the second move the first move I think she would have survived that the second move no her options were to let it drain and lose or decide to move it and take the take her chances with the tilt Bob and end up losing an error so but you might as well take your chances yeah at that point it's all or nothing so it was exciting unit neck-and-neck let's bring this to let's bring this to seven so we're going to move on and then Kerry's gonna have next pick of machines Karl is off to move his mobile rig over to the next game not quite sure where they're headed yet you want to introduce my name is and I have played in the Women's World Championship I think this is my fourth year wow that's awesome I'm Jessica DiNardo I live in Portland Oregon this is my first ever Women's World Championship didn't go as well as I had hoped but it was really fun Thanks Thanks I was just excited to make it here at all so yeah my name is Colin Colin MacAlpine from Austin Texas and just I love that we're we've now you know evolved as a pinball competitive community where we can stream these fine women players competing at the highest level I think this is outstanding definitely for anyone joining us this is the Women's World Championship so we had international players joining us today so it's the top 16 from the open IFPI rankings and then eight wild card spots from just the women's ifba tournaments of women's only tournaments and maureen is one of those wild cards so it's amazing to see her here in the finals with carry and carry is the only competitor today to play in both the Women's World Championship and the North American national championship so it's a big day and we're on Tron yeah all right somebody's increase the volume level this is excellent you can actually hear the game volumes have been very low all day for everything across the board the most I usually was hearing were a few Star Trek call-outs and a little bit little bit of Tron action because it's so close yeah Shauna is such a great soundtrack and music and call-outs great fun game to play it's very kinetically pleasing when you hit the ramps and various shots of the game and I was there assuming this is their warmup okay so Jessica what's your which which path do you like to take on Tron I am I got a lot of flack this earlier but I know I like to go for disc okay everyone's like why would you possibly do that you know if it if it has a reliable feed back to the flipper then I really like going for that I was practicing this one yesterday I didn't end up playing it today but when I practiced it yesterday I hit the end of the line pretty smoothly the feebs on this are really really nice and that upper flipper is strong so it hits that side ramp really nice it does that but that's not a bad choice I think to go for just on this because it's an independent the physical copy and so that that's fitting disc on some trongs is just you know chaos and it will you know if there's some modified disc with like super grippy rubber and that will that will fling it and put weird wacky spin on the ball or fling it down the left out laying down the center this one I agree with you this this disc is not I had significant trouble finding that left ramp and Korra shot on this Tron versus others I played so I maybe should have gone with your strategy yeah it's it's interesting I haven't really seen a lot of people go for it today but you know we also haven't seen a lot of Korra multi balls so that's interesting that you say that you had some trouble and that's not the first time we've seen that happen today so that's really interesting because that shot normally if it's modded at all usually makes it a little bit tighter to hit it but it's impossible new target is hanging out way to the right so this this you target right here is hanging out this way blocking partially blocked in a core lane yet carry still managed to backhand it somehow that's yeah it's an amazing angle that you wouldn't think should happen but you know physics this is another one of those games that is just really bouncy and it can get a little bit out of control which is when it's really valuable to have the skills that Maureen and Kerry do you'll be able to but we're really close right now they're all very very close to each other yes we know that the volume on the stream is low Karl has had issues with that it's unfortunately this is the loudest that he can turn it without it getting distorted so we apologize for the low volume coming from the stream he has tweaked it all that he can so hopefully you're able to hear us enough we apologize for the inconvenience but he he tried to work his magic but it's getting distorted yeah he's been he's been working on it for sure but this is as high as he can get it to go now okay well she's set up and ready to go for a light cycle so her yellow arrow is flashing at the Right Scoop letting us know that she could even plunge into light cycle on her vol 3 that's always a nice a nice skill shot it's like alright multi balls ready to go let's bring it in she almost got Korra off the upper left flipper I seen some really interesting angles nice that was a nice way to handle there's that combo beautiful she has clue stacked on this so she's also getting points for the little clues circle helmet shots there's another one right there and of course any time you spell clue in the inlanes if you're watching from home and thinking wow these multi balls are playing a lot harder than why I machine at home that's because the tournament directors chose to make the multiball ball saves the minimum duration they are all very short on all these modern machines so you do not enjoy that ball save time like you normally would in factory setting [Music] Oh however in late whoa how roughtly great ball from Maureen yeah that was really good Kari has her lifecycle ready on the scoop so and has sunshine can attest to though carry on one ball can put up what 30 million points oh my goodness 35 on her first ball yeah we heard a lot of cheering coming over from but game just monster ball and I mean when you look at the caliber of play that we have here we go multiball that was great decision-making - yeah she knew she wanted on the left flipper she took her time and got it there starts her light cycle she's a very zen player when you watch her we were commenting earlier that she just you know you look at her face and her composure and even when things are going horribly horribly wrong and she's taking big action to fix them she still looks so composed and so relaxed and I think that really helps her to be prepared for what's coming next an unlucky collision there right above the flippers cost her the multiball that cost or the ball and the game so congratulations to Maureen all right Maureen is now up she gets the favorite plunging pinball yes you don't need anything else after him so that brings Maureen up two to one and we are here at flipper steel in las vegas we were watching the finals of the Women's World Championship and there is a mild way of starting we have been here for just over 12 hours so that's as much enthusiasm as the room can muster yes definitely but then when you watch the games that we're playing and the caliber of play that we have they've been playing and up in here for a very very long day we've got a lighter and everything so we are watching the Women's World Championship Maureen Bart Hendrickson is up over Carey wing to wins 2-1 this is a best-of-seven round so Carl is there with his amazing mobile ring that you can see in a frame right now you can see carries trying to decide what she wants to play yep yeah so she gets gaming choice so the person who loses gets to choose the next game in the series so she is definitely trying to find something that's going to get her back on even footing with Maureen and then once we are done with coverage of the Women's World Championship then we're going to move back to the North American national championship that which is still in progress right now so this is final this is this is it for women's right now so we're down to two amazing competitors that we have left here and it's just been a really wonderful day of pinball here we really want to thank Adam from flipper spiel for having such an amazing selection of games for getting them all ready he's put in so much hard work these past few weeks to get everything ready and x-men we are playing x-men and you got a shout out sunshine in the chat from Garth dunk saying that one time you came back and 50 million come back on Tron saying that you know all about Tron comebacks alright so it looks like we are in position on x-men we know that the lighting scheme is very blue we apologize for any contrast difficulties and I'm assuming this is once again practice practice yep so each player gets 30 seconds of practice before they begin now this game truly has a lot of different ways to play it this isn't a game that I had ever played very much we don't really have like Portland doesn't have a lot of them out on location so it's been interesting to me to be able to watch it a little bit hear about all the different strategies and stacking all of the different you know heroes vs villains and you know which mode you want to bring in I personally like going for the Hellfire saying that you know trying to get the two different multi balls off the side ready yeah yeah I agree I have the Hellfire is these this cute little target Bank right here that you can hit from your right foot per and oftentimes you'll get the ricochet over to here to get Brotherhood as well as well so you can actually get two for one in terms of trying to qualify that there's three ball multiball so it should be quite lucrative and then to start those three ball multiball circle the little scoop sure so it will eventually light your villain flasher right here and the scoop is here now this scoop I've heard I did not get a chance to play x-men but I heard that the scoop is not very friendly and that it has a lot of rejects so we'll have to see how how these two players adapts or deal with the rejection scoop did you play this today son I did yeah I had a lot of luck I you know I just hit it like a forehand I just hit it solid and I hit it hard I got it into the scoop I played it earlier today and I was lucky enough to have some side-to-side action that got me Brotherhood multiball qualified pretty early on in my first fall and so I would I would take that villain scoop but I wouldn't take the multiball I would take another villain okay because it would automatically be lit as long as Brotherhood multiball is lit at the villain scoop the villain will always be lit for you Oh interesting okay yeah so is what it is is it normally with villains you have to do a whole nother set incremental set of linton lanes these three inlanes and towards the qualifier knights villain but if you have one of those Brotherhood or hell fire lit it and I think it still requires one completion this setting does not okay I guess that's a justifying at least I did I I found that it was always lit for me but it's a very good strategy so I would just hold I you know I kept that little multiball in my pocket ball three yeah so tough terrain there on the right outline for carry and she did not get a whole lot of progress there so let's see how Maureen chooses to play this and the other typical strategy a lot of people will use is they'll go for Wolverine so you can see the top of Wolverine here and underneath them is a shot that registers and there's also a magnet that will wreak havoc on your ball just in front of Wolverine as well a nice soft lunge which is pretty do take that skill shot from the upper flipper yep yeah I try anyway and it's on virtual locks it will release each time after you get it into the magneto locks correct and it is there is a magnet that's just throwing it around a little bit it's true there's also someone in the chat was mentioning to this is the setting where you can stack all of the hero motes together so that was definitely something that we were talking about oh about earlier it said on hero stacking yes oh yes well now yeah so that's crucial to getting as many of those start as possible before you play your magneto multi-bulb because it drastically increases both the value of your magneto jackpots as well as the number of them that are lit thanks Beast Lera for tuning in appreciate you staying up so late with us that was a great save one danger off that big move so that's real nice her killer she's there what she did there to get that ball completely out of that area which is exactly what you want there we go this is a good mode to bring into a multiball if you can lights a whole lot of shots so we'll see if she goes for Wolverine here to start that multiball yep that's what she's aiming for and then how many hits is it on Wolverine to get that started I believe it's three or four okay and it's hard to tell how many you have unless you pay attention to right after you hit it looks like she's a little early there so she's not going for it which is interesting but she may just be trying to get as many heroes as possible and just take the Sentinels credit while she goes okay that was a Wolverine head is actually the Wolverine hit was part of the mode scoring for I believe the Phoenix or Cyclops one two so she has four modes Hero Mode she started but she if I recall does not have a whole lot of LOC progress on Magneto as opposed to Maureen who actually has three balls locked and has her multiball lit and ready to go but she hasn't played any hero yeah that's a good point she doesn't she doesn't she doesn't want to cash it in and so she has some heroes set up she started the rogue shot is her one you know decent value the rest of them are gonna just be worth fifty thousand a pop I believe well we know she's capable of grinding points out when she needs to so now can you be making progress towards Hellfire when you're not correct not in any other multi volts that was a tough train and she felt that one to be unfortunately with her magneto multiball because she didn't have any heroes except for row only got about a half a million on it so it's a you know just a matter of it's it's tough cuz did you what she plunged did it start her multiball was that oh yeah so we're in a really interesting position now where Kerry can make that progress on her multiball and then Maureen has a bit more work to do Wolverine has decided to keep the ball for himself she's waiting Thank You Wolverine for only dropping it we've seen some meme tosses from him today and she started at this point she's not gonna be greedy and try and bring in a villain she's uh she's needs some points you know so what are the rules - whoa Vereen multiball well do you see those red shots you hit one of those those red shots and then you hit Wolverine correct and they in the I think they alternate sides so you see them on the left you want to hit a shot on the Left hit Wolverine hit a shot on the right hit rover in and rinse repeat you also want your in Ling's so that you can light the scoop on the left so you can get your out of all she's done so it's now a three ball multiball the other little nuance that you won't notice on the screen because typically you're never looking at the screen during multiball is there will be arrows pointing to the right of the left to tell you which of the sets of shots are more value the others for the first few phases she's now on his Phase two though so she's now got the center shots followed by Wolverine and she can get one more hit here to Wolverine for some more points and takes her up to 16 million actually that was two million there right there so that was actually the super jackpot for Wolverine which gave her not only the two million points but also gave her 3x bonus multiplier and the bonus X on this game is not insignificant Shadow King all right so what do you do if you're Maureen right here what's 13 million I would I would probably if she can get a villain started yeah and start sentinels and then start Wolverine they save how are you handling the kick out in this game Oh a dead mouse works great all right so we are at two games all yeah yeah chat I appreciate that I appreciate the feedback about is to be a separate day for these tournaments it's just it's a matter of you know time and you know the availability of all the people that are running it the tournament directors the people are getting the games ready and as far as also the the weekend required from all the competitors so yes ideally we would have these tournaments on two separate days but it's just a matter of you you really have to squeeze it into the same day to fit into this weekend yeah definitely because pin masters is coming up so that starts tomorrow yeah that's Friday Saturday and then finals on Sunday so yep so sure where they'd stick that extra day yeah and it would be really challenging for people to take a Thursday and that kind of thing so they're trying to make it work for everybody I think they kind of tried to let people know you know this is gonna be a big day and the practice started at 10:00 a.m. and the game started at 11:00 a.m. I think we're on attack from Mars I think also in this particular I think there were some games that were just much more preferred so there were long lines agreed first Star Trek definitely the friendlier playing yeah you didn't you didn't see a whole unless it was me play for anyone who maybe is just joining us we are at flipper spiel in Las Vegas she did find during her practice yep so each player gets 30 seconds of practice we are watching the finals of the Women's World Championship Kerry Wing and Maureen Bart Hendrickson are at two games apiece this is a best-of-seven so we're going to watch this until the end until this plays out then we'll switch over to the North American national championship so we've got both of them running concurrently here at flippers feel huge thanks to Carl D'Python Anghelo and ie pinball for setting up an amazing rig for streaming for having such amazing equipment here and for having us all helped in the commentary I'm Jessica DiNardo from Portland Oregon and with me in the booth I am sunshine bond and and my name is Colin MacAlpine and I live in Austin Texas so it's been a really that may have been ball one because she's waiting a long time here I thought it was practice but I thought it was practice it was practice - maybe she wants to let the table settle so she gets a fair shake at finding it she had a game on this earlier where she did not give tilt enough time to settle and paid the price so she was probably learning from past experience yeah competitor a opponent of mine after I think got in a danger didn't wait very long and ended up danger danger tilting off of a side slap coming out of the right orbit at the beginning was ball yeah especially with the remake I think there's definitely a lot of tilts through potential it doesn't seem to settle as quickly as the original I've been seeing a lot of that happen here but yeah definitely gonna see some some more controlled play I think with how to update the tilt is on this one and with the remake I've been finding that the shots are a lot earlier on the flipper at least the only the inner shots like the orbit still seem fairly natural but things like your lock shot feel way earlier on the flipper than that normal and I would say a fairly safe exit from very safe for yeah I would say 90% of the time so the only modification that this pin has on is the stroke of luck is set to a fixed 50 million so it does not have the tournament ROM that allows you to actually award a terminus t'k Awards that are not points yeah it's been really nice to see that consistency yeah that's I there's a there's a there's a ROM out there that allows for you know deterministic Awards that do start at AK wave and line it's you know Marshall multiball and we'll still do video mode and strobe multiball but yeah actually that's probably because of not having that it probably plays a little faster because you don't have an additional multiball to take up time and a video mode is obviously just gonna more time and a pretty good amount of points especially the way this thing is playing so it's probably better just to have it be 50 carry was looks like she was flipping at that beat from the scoop she's there she goes she's one doubt one more way I think this is interesting that carry is going first it kind of indicates to me that marine must have deferred and taking position instead of game Oh interesting I can see that strong start from Kerry she's got her multiball set up and ready to go so Maureen had been her previous two games on this at least going for Total Nuclear Annihilation all right so carries one lock away from her multiball which is a great call-outs and animations for this when you give these jackpot shots and super jackpot eventually so she can hit that last green triangle she will start her multiball and she does she have her attack wave already going I don't believe so I don't think she even hit it at all previously it looked like it was all still waiting dangerous shots yeah definitely concentrating on her orbits and ramps and making preparations for she got some multiball pretty fast nice grace period on that nope I still might get it no not anymore yeah the the grace period for for you know ball saves multiball and for the jackpot shot seems to be a lot slimmer this one yeah she's working on her Total Nuclear Annihilation so if you hit if you hit three of each of the four shots the the two orbits and the two ramps that'll give you a multiball she's only wow she's looping like a ball that's amazing she's only four shots away from Total Nuclear Annihilation yeah she's playing that's pretty flow she's got some great combo action working on this game too there we go yeah those orbits are like better that's beautiful alright letting that calm down wow that was fast she can nail that left ramp she'll get her hurry up for 300 million nope I think it's over yeah she wasn't quite quick enough so she's got another 100 million hurry up lit she can either take it or she can shoot too right ramps and claimed 300 million on her way to starting total an eyelash here we go hop it over yes nice also close excellent decision making a little late there that's fine she's still alive oh and we apparently also froze our camera because we still think that they Big O beam is ready to shoot this better it's back Carl's gonna go check it out anyway worrying is definitely gonna let that one sits after she had played another game and saw so worried makes right faces she's definitely gonna let that sit Carl's gonna maybe nope everything's working now alright now she's back so Harry has a really strong lead right now in ball 2 but Maureen's got a lot on her plate still so she had that unfortunate started yet nope you can get a lot done on the ball yes she can now typically you have two choices when it comes to a plunge you can do just a regular plunge or you can do a super skill fun she opted for the super skill all the way to the left and then if you hit it up the center you only have to make one shot to get your your saucer saucer open yep or you can finish out a row of you know hit a ramp and you finish that entire that attack ramp or in orbit and you finish yeah yep so that'll clear it out for you just a Martian attack going here we go yeah I haven't seen anyone go for the super skill just with with feed well there's no ball save on anything but with the feed from the scooping what it is that's still 300 million yeah but ball save on that multiball has been shortened so definitely she she would have gotten those back probably in a normal game but the way that things are adjusted right now with the timer being shorter short but valuable this would be 50 million wow that came down fast I feel like that feat has been getting slightly more dangerous as the night goes on this seems to be changing slightly sherry is dialed and just like you said his ends stoic nature about Carrie as she plays it's very very zen very meditative super-enhancer racking up she's got a 300 million shot the center she wants it she could also turn it up to a half million a half billion shot here it is it's a half billion now at the center if she gets that lift not well the right orbit the way the game's playing oh here she goes she's one side away from the billion hurry up come on Carrie come on got plenty of time you don't to worry there's so much time was incredible there's very few things that attacked from Mars and look still she's so calm she's so collected about it she just knows what she needs to be doing and she can deliver on it and it's just I mean the flow that she has in this game is amazing this is one of the highest scores we've seen all day today on this attack I think she's beautiful and that's why I carry is the only person to play both the Women's World Championships and the North American national championship today okay one final grace period payoff five and a half billion and then she's right back to her combos she's working on her next strategy and she still hasn't hit any sauce no yeah she's gotten one took down Italy she helped out Italy but forget the rest of the world oh yeah and if you're down I mean she was she was this methodical and taking down those 12 shots and now she's doing it again that's just incredible yep dead bounce over hit another left orbit why not take the 300 mil yeah and I'll just go back to my right ramp then everybody else has trouble hitting okay he's gonna nail it everyone has trouble hitting and the crowd goes wild Maureen congratulating her I love the women's tournament how supportive everyone is of each other yes all right take it down marine that would be the comeback of the day oh and I want to see it the good news is it's anybody can do that exact same thing there we go start getting the flow fine in the combos she's like oh okay combo I'll do it Oh but still in amazing spirits so that brings Kerry up three games to two over Green submarine it gets next choice of game we are here at flipper steel in Las Vegas we are watching the finals of the Women's World Championship Kerri wing and Maureen Bart Hendrickson and then up cheers everybody airs and once that is complete we'll move back over to the North American national championship and we'll finish that out for the day I'm Jessica DiNardo with me of the booth sunshine bomb is here and Colin MacAlpine thanks for being here guys yeah it's a pleasure to call these games with you and oh yeah it really it's been a long and amazing day so practice started at 10:00 a.m. here local time in Vegas and the match has started at 11:00 so it has been 13 hours that most of these people have been here on their feet playing games and waiting for games then playing more games and waiting a lot on okay so there's an amazing selection of machines here at flippers feel thanks to Adam for getting all of these games ready for competition for having them in such amazing shape of all the machines that we've had here the only machine to go down with stars that was doing random resets so it looks like we're going on to time zone Oh have not yeah I remember the first time I played this in pin burg a few years ago and yeah I haven't played since definitely a better space it feels much more open so this will be played as a one player game and carry once again his plane first so maybe that would suggest that Maureen chose a second again that could but that does seem to be yeah so the way that it works with the EMS with the single-player games is the player practices and then plays and then the other player practices in place so it's not the same as we've seen previous where both players have their practice and then they start the game together so Kerry will practice and then she will play her game record her score and then Maureen will practice and then play her game all right so our roving reporter Zoey came by to tell us that Kerry has been choosing to go first so marine chose the game and also AFM but Kerry chose to go first and it certainly worked out well for as well keep it going meanwhile this unattended ball has been doing very well better than some other players games so Jessica and sunshine so how do you play time zone so time zone is really interesting it has this tunnel that's in the center you can see the lights flashing and when you plunge there's a little switch here that'll lock in the tunnel value so right now it's lit for five thousand and up here if you go down the center that will collect your tunnel value is really super important to get the timing to get it to lock down to the five thousand but also the flipper strength or the plunger strength to be able to soft plunge into that well just doing quite well getting into that Center : yeah these throw away plunges are perfect yeah effortless almost there's a target right in the center that does two things it collects your bonus and it gives you the up post yes and you can keep doing this if you what the trick to this game is if you can lock in a good tunnel value just keep if you can lock in the deep tunnel value so the deepest value is the 5,000 in the tunnel and just if you can keep hitting that Center target and having it come back to your flippers and find out you know find a way to kind of just you know juggle it a little bit and go back and hit that center again have it come back and controlling your flippers again you can score a lot of points that way and the thing that will bring your posts back down are these two down post buttons so anytime you go over those the post will go down and once you've locked your tunnel in that's great until you hit these stand ups here or these scoops here that will set your tunnel to scroll again okay so a lot of places in the play field that will start scrolling your tunnel value again yep and you can collect your tunnel value through here so you can loop around and come in there and then it'll kick it back up to the top so that's one way that you can collect your tunnel value the other one is up at the top that we talked about before the two scoops at the top can open your upper and your lower gate and then when you go down you'll collect 2,000 points there and 2,000 points there so if you go through the upper you can collect 4,000 points on your way back down and then you get another plunge so you had another chance to set that tunnel value and collect it up at the top look out you know I think this was a very smart choice of marine I agree just because I think that Kerry has just been really dominating some modern games for the hours and and this is gonna this is definitely a different different style yeah absolutely but also the confidence she knows this is one of those already she's been gone through them pretty quick yeah when she's getting that 5k skill-shot on this game that can be so so valuable because we've seen a lot of games come in around the twenty thirty thousand mark so she has no tunnel value now what is up with that guessing a light is out look at 5,000 there nice yeah if you get some good collects in this game sometimes that's all it takes she does not have those gates open okay 60 so now Maureen will have somebody somebody there we go thank you chat for putting in the score there so everybody else can see it good job so Maureen gets her practice now before she starts her game so she just needs 24 to 70 and if Kerry wins this then she takes the win for the Women's World Championships so Maureen needs this to stay in the game and bring it to 3-3 and sunshine you made a fantastic point just a little bit ago about Maureen's choice of game here and that's what of this format I think is so appealing because unlike other you know four player group play where you have one bus driver who gets to pick all the games in this format you are always going to have a chance to pick games because every time you lose you're gonna get to pick and in you know really interesting and cool choice here by Maureen recognizing that carried been destroying things on moderns and so she takes her to the end just choosing to shake it up a little bit take take carry out of her comfort zone I think it's really important if you're gonna have a shot and it definitely is yep correct practice yep with the timer on the playfield so we can we can see it and the non actual practice ball she got that one in the center for the bonus collect I was finding that I could lock the 5000 in but I would just hit the right saucer which would just send it spinning again anyway so trying to find the balance between those two is definitely it's it's a true skill shot it's something where you really need to little friends got it he's on it from playing seeing what what button needs to be pressed record needs to be jiggled there he is man of the hour Carl D'Python Anghelo with this beauty of a stream ie pinball thank you all for tuning in he's probably resetting that camera to see if you can unfreeze that there we go perfect this is the finals for the Women's World Championship from flipper spiel in Las Vegas Maureen is playing for her tournament life yes she needs to get more than 260 beauty bonus collect on the 5000 thats how you want to start this game so his has Kerry won this event before I don't okay so neither neither of these women have won this event used to be a first-time Women's World Championship for either Loreen or Kerry and marine coming in as one of the wildcards here now what is that what does that mean how did she get a wild-card for this so the Women's World Championship is the top 16 women from the open IFPI rankings so from open tournaments and then there are eight spots that went to wildcard she's at that center post up so she can calm down for a second collect herself relax a little bit now the post is down great badge so the next eight spots come from women's only tournament rankings through ifba so Maureen runs the babes and pin LAN tournaments in Seattle and she was able to Oh what just happened there which locked her into a particular yes she's locked in the 3,000 already you don't typically lock it in so you roll over the switch and the shooter like yep but it started selected on me yeah definitely at least I didn't lock on to a thousand yeah I was about to say you know locking on a 3,000 isn't the worst thing in the world it's happened on all three balls now the chozo okay I guess we're sorry we get on Thank You Colorado pinball and others for noticing that that's an interesting little quirk because yeah it was not doing that during Kerry's maybe yeah maybe significant enough certainly they need them they're looking at it this was ball 1 yep thanks really creating it that's there it is yeah yeah it's doing it every time now here's the sad part is that well if I were reading I mean that's so that's an interesting thing the metagame strategy here this Marine could have chosen to just ignore it and play on because she doesn't have a big score to catch yeah of carries and it's still getting a play on this a.m. that she wanted to play on now because of this it may get ruled a catastrophic malfunction and they get may get moved to a different game I don't know that this is good for marine actually because she did so well with that first ball I mean she was nearly halfway there I agree yeah one ball and see what happens yeah she played two balls I believe from actual to actual again that was the start of ball three and let's see what happens here that tunnel is locked in at the beginning which it should not be uh-oh we are pulling away probably so they can work on me okay yeah Adam Becker one of our TDs and Tech's here no stranger to having to fix pinball machines in his press Start arcade yeah the good news about this game there's no there's no progress carryover between balls and so you can you can easily give an additional balls and there's you have to worry anything about losing progress I'm sure Carl will appreciate me getting it off of the close-up of his face wheels that around as interesting as the view was of them trying to fix the Michigan I don't think it would have got a good angle on it anyway alright so we are holding Women's World Championship the finals of the Women's World Championship yeah that's a really interesting interesting question of do you call attention to a thing yes it could be detrimental to you in points but some people wouldn't even notice that that was happening but right now it's every little point counts yeah and hopefully you know this what this won't get the game eliminated from play I don't think that they can choose to play on at this point just because it is such a consistent issue it's happening every time well I think that but in that situation before before she brought it up the question is could she have just played on it wasn't any beneficial malfunction to her yeah unless it was locking in on the 5,000 every time yeah correct then she wouldn't have to worry about the timing of the plunge with the tunnel and there was some timing in it so she would do just a tiny little plunge and it would be locked into something yeah it was locked in as soon as I kicked them as soon as they kicked out yeah yep that's what he was testing when he kept dropping in the drain and it kicked out it would lock in the tunnel so we'll see hopefully he'll be able to to find out diagnose the issue and get it going so that we can play on yeah thanks again to Carl for herpes so great with this dream so right now the ruling is there trying to fix it and I believe since Maureen had played two balls already there's simply give her three balls and add the scores together correct so she had about 9500 from the prior two balls and the score she's trying to catch of carries 24 260 yep you have such a wonderful memory sometimes I'm glad you're here I'm glad you're here for other reasons also that's not the only one so we're at flipper steel in Las Vegas we're in the finals of the Women's World Championship Carrie wing is up three games over Maureen Bart Hendrickson who has two games so if Carrie wins this game then she wins the Women's World Championship if Maureen is able to pull out this win then she is still in it and we go to Game seven that's part of why this is such a big deal to get this machine you know kind of back in the running so Kerry's already played that game and know Maureen is trying to catch her on it so if she's able to do that she lives to fight another game we also have the Nationals playing in the background correct let's see if we can bring up the bracket no that's still not a good scroll technical difficulties as we're trying to adjust the screen so we can see the brackets hey easier with the mouse a lot easier yeah alright so you click on drag clicking there we go there we are so two two ones Nick ahead of drew one zero at least as far as what's been loaded in there's sometimes a little bit of a delay on the brackets so once we finish with this last match or two on the woman's then we'll be switching back over to the Nationals and then just to give an idea of where things came through the women yeah back to Karl's head so this is where we were sitting here so Maureen check out Hannah you know the last round and then Kerry took out Louise in the last round so Hannah and Louise had their heads up Brahms match so Hannah took third place overall and Louise took fourth congratulations to Hannah and Louise for the third and fourth place finish that's a great accomplishment given this field of competition here and the Women's World Championship an amazing field of players it's been really high caliber play all day it's been a long day of pinball and everyone is sticking it out like a champ so thanks to everyone who's hanging in there with us we are waiting to see if timezone can be fixed hopefully this game finished since Kerry has played her complete game on it as a single player em and then Maureen hopefully we'll be able to finish out her next three balls of play on time zone I believe if I'm not mistaken we had the the previous three Women's World Championship winners in this field in the form of Zoey and Vienna and McCarran yes yep yep here today but a new Women's World Champ will be yes oh yeah all of the hardcore pinwheel nerds sticking it out all day all of the hot pinball action Karin flippers feel thanks to Adam and flipper spiel again for hosting a great location if you're in Vegas please come and support flippers field it has a very nice selection of different eras it really does refreshing yeah I think you sunshine you even got to play a game with four queens earlier than I did two inch flipper zipper flipper game zipper flippers yep that Center saucer is a really nice like feeds back to eat zips the flippers in and feeds back to them nicely ya know if you can find that shot again and get it to not go roll through the back of it then you can hit that saucer all day it does look as if Carla's setting up the rig for the repair yep so looks like we're gonna be on Game of Thrones and we'll find out who we are better than HBO we have new fresh Game of Thrones action give the player so we're joining them on ball 2 and Zach Sharpe just started his multiball is he player 1 he is player 1 player 1 yep 2 2 2 right now between Zack and who's be playing against he's playing against will McKinney updating as we speak so this game of thrones plays very difficult it has it has no rubber host on the inline Outland divider and wide open outlanes and it's also set to casual mode so everybody is forced to play like they'd never played pinball before in terms of they don't get to select a house you don't get to choose which mode you want to play if you only have one battle house battle it it will automatically start that house battle and so yeah it's it's it's a technique that the tournament directors chose to use because that way they're avoiding any shooter lane switch issues of one player getting locked into a house that they don't want so everybody gets locked into a house they don't want which is dark yes we are gonna switch back as soon as the machine issue is resolved since this will be the last game or two of the finals for the Women's World Championship but in the meantime we want to be able to show as much of the Nationals action as possible good shot there 15 mil for that 6 X multiplied shot to Targaryen and that's not even in the mode yet and this game has been modified slightly so yesterday kind of in warm-ups you had a really nice feed from the right orbit down to the right flipper you just hold it up and catch it and everything was great but they added a little post rubber here which now sends the ball over to the left with mixed results it's inconsistent though depending on how it's coming off that wall so sometimes it still goes oh and the key there is it makes it more difficult because it's inconsistent yep you have to read it and you had to read it quickly yeah so will wills no stranger to this game he defeated me on our final game Game of Thrones and he put half a billion and when it made its a hand of the king so he is perfectly capable of catching and surpassing Zach here he is looks like he's and that's going for the lock shot he went for it now nudged it out of the outline area which is great move and this is this is the difference right here is he cannot pass on this he must start his Greyjoy mode which looks like he's already played once before he made partial progress you do not get the option to pass on it or select a different house because we are playing casual mode so were you guys having luck earlier backhanding the center ramp because it's been mixed reviews seen a successful it tends to go screaming back down we saw Hannah have some really was determined and she kept she would not give it up and she eventually got it up there it was it was well at least I kept coming back met her in such a way that she had more than one yeah I think he knew that he'd given a too big of a move there he didn't really need to give it that big of a move and so he knew it when it happened and he pretty correctly predicted that it was gonna go danger danger dope and I did so Zacks gonna let that sit for a while just to let you guys know you can kind of see in the background there but they still have they don't have time zone popped up yep they're coming back to the desk now so I'm wondering if they're having to make some type of ruling but essentially if they can't get that working again that would be deemed catastrophic and they're gonna be disabled that's correct she'll need to choose something else which is a real shame because she was in a position there where she pretty reasonably eclipsed carry score giving it fair time for that tilts to cool down yeah and it's unfortunate here I you know I highly recommend for anybody running tournament or leagues to you know use an earplug and put it into the hole that's in the bracket that holds the tilt stick and that way it dampens the swinging of the tilt Bob and comes to rest in a matter of like 10 seconds and then telling all your players that so that way they don't have to wait a full minute and your tournament will move that much faster yeah they chose not to do that here it could've maybe because they maybe they didn't have the time to put those in but I highly highly highly recommend that very high-tech solution that was a nice on-the-fly post-transfer is building his value with martel one more this will collect it now and then one final collect on the ramp if he can hit it while the arrow is flashing he'll get a 2x combo nice hand of the kingdom oohs Wow so because he played Martell as part of his one of his four houses actually only three that's the one thing about casual mode is it does make it easier to get the hand of the King because you only need three modes correct well because Zac Stark is already completed for you his casual and the camera is almost completed too so he's in a good position here he has you want your right flipper available the right flipper is the one that you want available in this because you can hit more shots with it you can take everything out except for that right orb attack nice I can vacuum the sword Rama phone nice and let's see if he can just tip pass it over Oh nope and sling sling and out went dead oh but he had a lord of life but it didn't register wide lord of life you the red woman did not come through back handing that sword shot has been working really really well today so he needs the right orbit he's early than late let's see if he can make the adjustment nice control nope oh that drama nice now he's into a free shooting mode because he has Zac Stark as part of his four houses that came into it so now for a certain amount of time all the shots are live now as now Florida light works and he's also in to explain 56 mil for that another 60 million yeah if you can loop that ramp right now that is good points and that's the end of his hand of the king he got nearly half a billion points in the hand of the king that was really creative 42 million for winter's coming video that was actually really valuable right there because Tyrell is a difficult house to light because you have to hit those green standard targets of doom and he got them for free after this dream let's see if he can survive these shots to the green standard targets I think he's working on the dragon shots first though oh he's playing Targaryen as well you're right sunshine yeah he stack Targaryen and Tyrell and that's why wow that was a clinic well played Zak sharp 1.2 billion will has his work cut out for him our Tech's have their work cut out for them because they're still trying to fix timezone we really appreciate all of the hard work that all of the texts have been putting in and keeping the games running smoothly all day stars is the only machine that was totally taken out so you know they've been here longer than we have they were here last night getting everything set up and back in bright and early in the morning and they're here sticking it out and trying to get everything working perfectly so we really appreciate everyone's efforts we appreciate you guys for watching yes and JSC huff in the chat that's a good question and that there's really I don't believe there's anything prescribed about a certain time in the rules the IFV a rules for how long you can you can try to fix a game so it's a good question I imagine that's at the discretion of the tournament director correct I mean they don't want to hold things up too too long oh wow that looked like how Game of Thrones played when I played against will so unfortunately he did not have the success he did when he played against me but even so trying to catch a 1.2 million score the way this game of thrones is set up is a very very tough task so that brings a sec and we'll sack now has three wins - okay three two - so zach has one went away from punching his ticket to the finals of the North American and championship the IFP a the the invites to this were based upon whether you won your state or provincial championship that was a culmination of all the points earned in those various states and provinces and the United States and Canada and we had I think roughly 50 players that that attended this year so a really great turnout and lot a lot of good pinball has been played today and we were down to the final four of that one we were down to the final two of the Women's World Championship and that's what we'll be going back to here shortly hopefully once they finish fit the fix on time zone yeah hopefully we're going back to time they are still in there working on that no no light necessarily it end of the tunnel but where we're looking to see what the next game that will is choosing will be in the exact will pairing and Carl will be able to move the rig so that we can follow along with that if time zone isn't I'm gonna be ready to go so we're keeping an eye over there we will bring you as much well the yeah tournament director is letting them work on the game we will see how that plays out and keep you guys updated obviously and get back to it as soon as possible we also have another semifinal match with the Nationals going on it looks like on Black Rose yep it's a little bit of a difficult angle to see from here what's going on yes over there it's a great space you know having their commentator booth a bit further away from machines is nice you don't have to worry about someone over your shoulder talking about what yeah so that is Nick Mueller playing right now he is from Florida and I saw him earlier just you know take black rose to school I think he's sunk four ships that's great Wow yeah I had a great game on it yesterday so I chose it today and I played Hannah first round today so I got to choose every game we played which is you know came in high seed and chose bare core and we had a really close game on that and I chose all older machines and she just bested me on every one of them it was a tough morning but had a great time like Hannah is wonderful she's an amazing player she's a great great human so it was nice to be able to play games with her together again we played at pinpin the last time i was in las vegas three years ago so it was nice to be able to be back here and playing with her again so she did really well all day just such a strong such a strong competitor really glad to see that she made it into she made it in off one of the wildcards for the woman women's tournament as did Maureen who's in the - so I'm really glad that they have expanded the field up to 24 definitely it's really nice yeah so it's 16 the 16 top women from the open IFPI rankings and then there are eight oh I was about to go yeah they're lowering the place so sixteen from the open IFP a women's rankings and then the open rankings and then eight from the women's I have peer rankings so those are from women's only tournaments I'm impressed with the determination they have to fix this game really being persistent yeah absolutely minor minor wave happening yeah thirteen and a half hours we've been here today definitely difficult to walk away from this one yeah I'm I'm I'm actually kind of shocked they haven't kind of called the you know it makes such a big impact in particular you don't really if you can fix it you want to fix it yeah definitely you know Josh is over there he's the TD he is the one who is machine repair nap it's definitely at the tournament directors discretion he is he is right there with them as they're going through the machine so we will definitely be keeping an eye on on his choice he can make the call at any time if it's beyond repair if it's the time that they don't want to wait on it if they want to move to another machine and it's also possible with that they feel like they have time to do this because the Nationals are still in the semi-finals I think if the Nationals were in the finals then they would be trying to wrap this up a little quicker yeah definitely but we are as you can see still working on games there's not really gameplay to to switch to at the moment so we're looking to see what happens on this one so thank you for the bits hakuna Kim Tata appreciate the support for this streaming channel of ie pinball if anybody else out there please subscribe or if you have a Amazon Prime membership please use your free Prime subscription to support Carl and all the work he does for streaming this event and many other events or if you have bits that you'd like to share like the community cantata did thank you for the bids hey that's me yeah thanks thanks for sticking it out with us you guys we really appreciate it in the background so it looks like there's a little chat happening with Josh marine so I don't know if this is a he said we keep getting very close thank you calls work for your twitch Prime subscription appreciate that are we just naming games right now podcast who's podcast they did like the A to Z game I forget who was Madame is swimming in the audience swimming while flipping he looks like he's playing some electronic pinball there thank you for finding the podcast and loving it I promise we'll record again at some point thank you for the bit spins rule thanks to everybody for sticking around we'll have some more pinball to watch very soon I'm gonna go get an update from them to see what the what the status is what the roving reporter Colin I'm sure he'll be very animated as he talks to them so that we have stuff to watch oh there's Dan I've got dancing now I could record her record one while we wait I think everyone should be required to get up and do a little bit of stretching some calisthenics so where is everyone in the chat watching from I know it's a little bit later on the East Coast about the radius moving oh is it fixed it looks like it's a mobile rake is bubble Wow Colorado New York West Coast Arizona time zone is which North Carolina well we will not be able to enjoy the tunnel of time and get that time back while we were having it fixed we will at least get to see this game go through to its conclusion which is real exciting hey Portland BC Canada more Portland's Oakland Vegas Kansas City and we're back on time zone nice work text stuck with it the text did amazing amazing work and we're back Albuquerque white-haired jail all right Arizona all right so she has 9550 she's trying to catch 24 to 60 that's going Center target lands clean looks like it's playing faster nice nice right was beautiful or maybe it's just that we haven't watched anything for a little while so it looks it didn't give it to her okay that gets right okay oh the cameras a little that's another 5,000 so she is now I think just needs like another switch I think she's very close just to get 24 524 she's got it she's got it she got it done [Applause] hey she's just like him is it yes okay all right so Maureen oh so now Kerry will get the choice of pin or position and I'm guessing an update hour all right Kerry's gonna pick for Queens no so Kerry's been deferring to go no she's been choosing to go first Marine selected yeah because marine will usually she may choose me a second in which Kerry gets to go first like she wants anyway so Kerry's already played moderns of Star Trek she's played moderns of Tron and they're going Game of Thrones to determine the game of thrones for game 7 winner takes all in the Women's World Championship oh yeah everyone sent some bird fax if you support Maureen Maureen's twitch handle is bird fax okay yes karl has posted the rig skipper all right it's time for some casual mode Game of Thrones yeah all it comes down to Game of Thrones we're gonna start with some practice I imagine there is a very insignificant switch over in the bottom right below the lock targets that makes a bird sound really where is it can you show it right here so a bunch of Ravens will make noises as you hit that switch right there like that yep we are if you're just joining us or if you needed a reminder after we had a little bit of a break for repairs we are at flippers field in Las Vegas we are watching the final match of the Women's World Championship between Kerri wing and Maureen Bart Hendrickson we are at three games apiece so the person who wins Game of Thrones right now it will be the Women's World a champion super exciting they both played absolutely amazing pinball all day today it's running concurrently with the North American National Championship so as soon as this game is over we will be switching over to Nationals they have a little further to go before they finish up than women's because this is the very last game yeah I remember last year during they're still warming of it last year when I was in the bronze match for the North American Championship against ash her left off and it was so late that we both agreed ahead of our match that we would both pick only EMS we chose the yams that's wonderful all right so both players get practice so that was practice balls so now we will be starting Larry Bird facts excellent Thank You snow thank you everybody for sending your bird facts and in support of Maureen I don't know what it was what if Kerry obsessed with that we could send facts in about I do not know she is a musician sex facts Oh wings seabird facts are for Loreen and for Carrie wing get it all right she has jumped into her Greyjoy mode nice she slowed that shot down on the flipper and then as well this is big because each of these are on a 25 million hurry up she can nail this backing the only table to go down today with stars Wow no grace period on that I will say it again she is so calm and collected when she plays it is very zen it's very very inspiring to watch even when things seem to be going awry she maintains her composure and it's just a beautiful thing to watch her play great patience there in the dead bounce she was either aiming for the locks or oh okay that's Blackwater she has one shot left on the right orbit for Greyjoy if she can hit it before it times out and then no other mode going for her great for her Blackwater in which case she'll just want to hit all the grain shots it did indeed timeout so now she's down to her control it's all she can stack Lannister and gradually she wants to nail that right or but as soon as possible back under control she's still trying to nail it yeah still not a not a bad start at all for that one all right so once again casual mode puts you into House Zac Stark as your selected house and also qualifies Greyjoy's so Greyjoy is available to begin at the center ramp and that you will do not get to pass on battle modes you get no choices I'm hearing some AFM call-outs in the background somebody playing with true stability is playing multiball over there here we go Marine is off remote start some progress towards post-its so do you think it's worth trying to give some action to the machine as it's coming down to avoid alright that went all the way to tilt she didn't really have any bonus to speak oh so she didn't really have much to lose there so marinas back up essentially she did not make really any progress at all she didn't get a lock lip I think she hit Martel once and that's where she stands yep so there is a big rubber that they added that's right over here so it's altering the course of the ball depending on how it comes down that orbit sometimes it's just glancing past it and still comes to your right flipper sometimes it is going over to your left sometimes it is going straight down the center as we just saw so it's definitely making the game less predictable and the tilts quite tight so I hope there we go that's a much nicer food it's an interesting strategy here going for Martel if you feel comfortable with those orbits though I think it's not a bad strategy yeah having trouble finding that centering Machine if you don't make the right shot definitely so we're down to ball three of Game seven of the women world's championship for 2019 this is this is the final finals so we are down to game seven three games apiece - Cary Ann Marie epic battles between them tonight still has managed to not hit any of those yellow stand-ups hit that right orbit Oh late in the grace period yes it gave it to her 15 million and the completion she now has a sword lit at the right ramp which can be quite valuable that's the one aspect of Game of Thrones that is not deterministic and so you can get a thirty million shot on a sword or you could get a 1 million shot on the sword Wow yeah all right a little bit of work here collect yourself so here's the deal if she starts Greyjoy you can get a hundred million in Greyjoy simply from comboing 25 million hurry ups in about three shots yeah still alive that was a nice match and she has protection on the Ellen's now she may try it from the left early post transfer no she's gonna go back in [Applause] congratulations to carry wing our champion of the Women's World Championship here in 2019 well played Carrie was playing on both of their parts Carrie we mentioned earlier the only person today to play both of the Women's World Championship and in the North American national championship she's just been doing amazing just absolutely feeling it so she did a wonderful job and Maureen as we said came in as a wild-card and managed to crush her way all that day to the finals and take Carrie to seven games so that was absolutely amazing play on both of their parts it's been such a long day such an emotional look at this look at all the hugging and all the yawning that's happening 11:45 here Central time is 1:45 for me thank you to everyone for sticking this out with us we're gonna be moving on to the remaining Nationals matches shortly looks like Zack is playing as player two on abracadabra and I don't know the status of the drew and Nick match they played AFM all right everybody this is Jessica tapping out of the stream because I have been sitting here for a very long time you sir all your commentary thank you really good I'll find someone else to fill my chair I promise it won't we be hanging all right so I don't think the bracket has been updated recently because it's still showing that zach is ahead of two-to-one against will and I thought that exactly was now ahead 3 to 2 we're trying to figure out where we are with the semifinals and the North American pinball championship so hello everyone this is sunshine man I am still still on the mic we are we are changing our people commentating a little bit we are somebody gave Josh Sharpe a microphone that was a bad decision I'm past my bedtime man where am I looking Carl where am i which kid that it's the only camera I know I don't hi everybody all right I'm not going to yell into this that will do nothing to should I just leave all right fourth place my off-camera taking home $200 and the fourth place trophy Louise wagons honor [Applause] third place taking home $400 and the third place trophy Hannah hatch second place taking home $600 not being able to file taxes anymore without paperwork from me and the second place trophy marine Bart Hendrickson [Applause] [Music] and first place taking home a brand new stern pinball talk to my brother about that my job is done with that and the world champion trophy our women's world champion carry wing that's for you carry turning to face the camera come back and face the cameras show me your trophy there we go back to you Colin and sunshine where's the transition come on Carl it's like 2:00 in the morning the good news is my kids up right now
Jessica DiNardo is from Portland, Oregon and was playing in her first Women's World Championship
high confidence · Jessica DiNardo introduces herself: 'I'm Jessica DiNardo I live in Portland Oregon this is my first ever Women's World Championship'
Karl D'Angelo experienced audio technical issues during the stream with volume constraints
high confidence · Commentators note: 'Karl is off to move his mobile rig' and 'the volume on the stream is low Karl has had issues with that it's unfortunately this is the loudest that he can turn it without it getting distorted' and 'this is as high as he can get it to go now'
“and I was there assuming this is their warmup okay so Jessica what's your which which path do you like to take on Tron I am I got a lot of flack this earlier but I know I like to go for disc”
Commentator / Jessica DiNardo@ 30:00 — Shows Jessica's preferred Tron strategy despite criticism, indicating diverse approach to game strategy
“when you look at the caliber of play that we have here we go multi ball that was great decision-making - yeah she knew she wanted on the left flipper she took her time and got it there starts her light cycle”
Commentator@ 36:05 — Commentary on high-level decision-making and patience in competitive finals play
competitive_signal: Modern pinball finals showcase diverse strategic approaches: Star Trek lock stacking + mode sequencing; Iron Man Bogey vs. Monger trade-offs; Tron disc vs. left-ramp strategy disagreement
high · Multiple commentators discussing different viable strategic approaches on each machine; Jessica defending non-traditional Disc strategy on Tron despite criticism
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gameplay_signal: Modern Stern machines (Star Trek, Iron Man, Tron) demonstrate high rule depth with mode stacking, combo scoring, and strategic depth that rewards player knowledge and shot sequencing
high · Extensive discussion of mode stacking mechanics, combo scoring, progressive multipliers, and multi-ball rule interactions; commentators note game 'lets you play' more than some other selections
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content_signal: IE Pinball operating mobile broadcast rig with technical constraints limiting audio quality; Karl D'Angelo managing live production with equipment limitations
high · Repeated apologies for low volume: 'the loudest that he can turn it without it getting distorted'; 'this is as high as he can get it to go now'; Karl documented as managing mobile rig during gameplay
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design_philosophy: Stern's recent games (Star Trek, Iron Man, Tron) designed with forgiving shot feeds, combo mechanics, and flow that rewards aggressive play and shot-sequencing skill; intentional design philosophy favoring skill-based play
medium · Commentators note game 'has good flow where it rewards the player for playing on the fly and shooting their shots in combo'; multiple references to smooth feeds and bouncy playfields supporting varied strategies
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personnel_signal: Jessica DiNardo transitioning from competitor (first-time World Championship participant) to broadcast commentator role during same event
medium · Jessica competes in morning/early rounds, then joins broadcast booth as expert commentator for finals; demonstrates dual expertise as elite player and articulate analyst