SDTM: Chuck Wurt's Unique Stream Setup

Straight Down the Middle·video·2h 30m·analyzed·Nov 20, 2017

Analysis

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TL;DR

Chuck Wurt showcases DIY tournament streaming rig with track-mounted cameras for multi-game rapid switching

Summary

Chuck Wurt from Straight Down the Middle demonstrates his custom-built tournament streaming rig featuring ceiling-mounted track system with multiple cameras (playfield, DMD, player cam) controlled via a single USB hub over extended Ethernet cable. The setup allows rapid game-to-game switching for tournament streaming with minimal camera adjustments. He tests the rig with various games and prepares for a December 2nd tournament with 40-player capacity.

Key Claims

The streaming rig uses a Rubbermaid Fast Track system mounted on the ceiling with custom attachments for rapid game switching
high confidence · Chuck Wurt explaining the technical setup of his tournament stream rig
The rig can handle 13-16 games maximum with current cable length constraints, though 12 games are reliably streamable
high confidence · Chuck Wurt discussing scaling limitations of the setup
Camera specifications: playfield at 30 fps, player/DMD cameras at 15 fps due to USB hub bandwidth limitations
high confidence · Chuck Wurt explaining technical specifications of the multi-camera setup
The December 2nd tournament will feature 40 players, 6 qualifying rounds, and top 16 finalists in a match play format
high confidence · Chuck Wurt announcing tournament details during stream test
Game switching takes approximately 30 seconds maximum between games
medium confidence · Chuck Wurt estimating transition time between games
The basement setup has capability to support 100 feet of Ethernet cable running between the rig and computer
high confidence · Chuck Wurt describing cable routing across basement ceiling
There is a rumor about a future game release but no specific details are provided
low confidence · Vague mention during gameplay discussion about '8-bit or 16-bit graphics' coming in the future

Notable Quotes

“I only have one group of cameras that will be able to go game the game should be really quickly...the setup I have is a rig that is on a track that goes across my ceiling”
Chuck Wurt@ 1:51 — Core explanation of the innovative streaming rig design philosophy
“December 2nd is the actual tournament that We Are Pinball preparing...we're going to have a 40 player match play six rounds and then we're going to have the finalists with the top 16 making the finals”
Chuck Wurt@ 38:22 — Announces upcoming tournament details and capacity
“so I only need one set of cameras...you're getting the actual—you're getting one-on-one experience with the players. You're seeing his reactions actually playing the game”
Chuck Wurt@ 52:23 — Articulates the key advantage of the track-mounted single-rig approach over traditional multi-camera tournament setup
“the biggest thing is you're getting the DMD, you're getting the playfield, you're getting the player—most importantly, a lot of times you see the player cam at tournaments. It's just kind of showing the whole row of players, and you're not really sure who's playing the game you're watching”
Chuck Wurt@ 51:44 — Identifies critical gap in existing tournament streaming that his rig solves

Entities

Chuck WurtpersonStraight Down the Middleorganization Legends of Wrestlemania (Limited Edition)game Winchester Mystery HousegameWe Are PinballorganizationHobbespersonJeffpersonNorCalpersonOperation: ThundergameFiregame

Signals

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community_signal: Chuck Wurt developing comprehensive tournament streaming capability for home venue, demonstrating commitment to pinball community engagement and broadcast quality
high · Detailed explanation of December 2nd tournament with 40-player capacity, streaming infrastructure, and plans to host multiple tournaments per year
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community_signal: Active community engagement with stream testing, technical feedback, and viewer participation in challenge matches
medium · Multiple viewers (NorCal, Jeff) providing technical feedback, asking questions about setup, and expressing interest in visiting for tournaments
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event_signal: December 2nd tournament scheduled with 40-player capacity, 6 qualifying rounds, top 16 finalists advancing to finals
high · Chuck Wurt explicitly announces tournament details during stream test; detailed planning for streaming different games per round
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technology_signal: Innovation in tournament streaming hardware: single track-mounted camera rig replacing traditional multi-camera array, enabling rapid game switching with minimal setup
high · Custom Rubbermaid Fast Track ceiling-mounted system with USB hub and Ethernet cable infrastructure; 30-second game transitions; designed specifically to address player identification issues in traditional tournament streams

Topics

Tournament streaming infrastructure and technical setupprimaryDIY/custom streaming rig design and engineeringprimaryMulti-camera management for pinball broadcastsprimaryTournament logistics and event managementsecondaryPinball game mechanics and rules explanation (Fire, World Cup Soccer)secondaryHead-to-head competitive pinball playsecondary

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Chuck Wurt is enthusiastic about his streaming rig project and excited about upcoming tournament. Viewers are supportive and offering technical feedback. Some minor frustrations with camera positioning and audio levels are expressed but treated as solvable engineering problems rather than fundamental issues.

Transcript

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so how did you got me you can hear me I can hear you cool you know CPU usage seems real so how do you how do you make my headphones less sensitive so like what I'm here and comes down a little bit max no that's better so you still hear me yeah he's doing me like that I got caught oh all right so for a one view or welcome we are this is straight down the middle pinball with your pal Chuck work we'll change it to here so you guys can see the straight down the middle low down here I'll put that on the other screen as well all right so tonight we are gonna be testing out my tournament stream rig so we're gonna be simulating a tournament tonight to make sure everything is at least watchable the setup I have is a rig that is on a track that goes across my ceiling so I only have one group of cameras that will be able to go game the game should be really quickly now they're all using a USB hub that is connected to my computer via ethernet cable so there's a hub by the cameras and then it takes an Ethernet cable all the way to my computer where another hub takes the USB to my to my computer now in order to run three webcams off of that hub I had to dumb down the resolution on them and the frames per second so the player cam is only 15 frames per second so is the score displays slash DMD depending on the gamer will be running and then the play field is actually at 30 frames and the resolutions are dumb down too but it should be plenty watchable but like I said this is our our test run here to see to make sure we think sounds ok looks ok and just kind of let us know like just kind of if we were actually running a tournament would um as far as visually and audibly if anything we can fix or make better so alright with that I guess she had I'll go over and fire up the game and I guess you can let me know or just kind of take note how it looks and then I guess stream let us know how the audio is Chad and I can hear each other talking but we can't hear the game how it comes over on the screen so just let us know how that's going alright well I'll go play a game a big game and then we'll we'll switch it up oh boy alrighty I didn't even think about not being able to hear the game and you're in the background dan flippers because one of the webcams is turned on so you can get game settings so that's how you're hearing somebody game sound stream sound [Music] alright alright so this was a real tournament you know we've shown groupings right now talking about the winners and losers Oh [Music] all right it looks pretty good yeah you nailed it oh yeah so we're just move the camera to another game that's how long it took yeah you're not gonna build your gun real well microphone is pointed at the game the microphone is more for game audio I can tell it makes a difference when you pick the right song [Music] so it sounds like you can hear him a little bit through the stream which is perfect yeah so you're just joining this we are doing on the test for a tournament okay okay rolling wonder I mean that's that's good I mean does the mix sound well I mean should I be louder or should the game be louder and can you hear airplane all right cool rollin wonder yeah the headsets that we're using the mixer is pretty nice so commentator audio it's going to be good hopefully you know a lot of termini can't get anything audio to keep adios nice welcome addition all right cool thanks rolling longer for the implant that's exactly the stuff you're looking for how does the video look the playfield camp should be 30 frames a second so at least on my end it looks pretty smooth yeah so December 2nd is the actual tournament that we are preparing [Music] then stadium lights it is huge for streaming and they look great in person too but when they're straight it just like to figure out how to do the whiteboard thing on this I know I figured out at one point did the whiteboard thing or not yes or exploit here using OBS here yes I mean everything we have one person comedy all right so house is gonna play some G ot I'm just gonna so they have wait a second before you start once a year you win so yeah I mean if you can switch these pretty quick yeah like I said let me know how we sounds how the game sounds now we just I guess my goal is I obviously better see the player I want you to be at least hear the game but you know because of how loud this patients gonna get we can't keep that microphone by the room too sensitive where else there were just overpower the stream I think but we'll see fighting seems okay my basements pretty great [Music] yasss it cocktail because he's a big limb so and for this setup - I know the cropping of the camera so they look too pretty but it's more or less yes so we can have as little adjustments after moving the rig as possible that's why I kind of little room for error on each camera so when we just we should be able to just flip it to the next game there slide it down to the next game even and that's it minor adjustments because it's cropped in so close [Music] same notes back here still not sure plunging I'm telling every time you play this game a short plunge [Music] extremely smooth hopefully it looks smoother everybody you went the player in the DMD only be in 15 three more seconds well worth the sacrifice if I can stream this many games in such a short amount of time that way stream and commentate entire fault line and the finally as long as I can get Zack and Greg come straight down the middle and come over stream this guy's better come over there be awesome you guys will make the stream update the you know and anybody in stream if you know the OBS software feel free to let me know how to refresh a browser source that I've added to the string without right now I have to go to the settings of that source and then just hit OK and then it'll refresh it won't like how am i get to refresh every time I go to that scene or if you had to hit quick keystrokes to do it I guess it's not a huge here I know but I just like to be [Music] how did you even get the multiball alright uh see you want to take it to the fire you could probably if you just put your hand right up on the side of the metal bracket that's attached up there and just just kind of obscure it down with water yeah so you should feel the metal bracket up there up on the plastic yeah so push it from the right side but just push it from the metal bracket that [ __ ] slide oh yeah I don't know if there's a if there's a partition in the middle it might not slide is easy but yeah but we'll check the groupings here so right now if you look I have to go to properties and then hit OK and then they come back up but I guess it's not the end of the world but let's check the standings too so you know they update yeah this is uh this is looking real nice hopefully it sounds good too all right let's see what we got going on here all right Hobbes the the storage camera just needs to be tilted a little bit so it's pointed up a little bit more that's perfect and then the the game's fine you're fine yeah go ahead all right for your viewing pleasure stream the worst system 11 ever made fire okay so what you want to do in fire is it's kind of hard to see from the glare from like crazy bright LEDs I have in there but up at the top there's a horseshoe underneath that house that's in the back of that building when everyone call it so straight up the middle if you hit it around that horseshoe it will bring up your little fire hydrant save posts that's in the middle of the flippers and it will also advance your bonus X only if the side of the horseshoe you go through is lit and the inserts that light in that horseshoe they're changed by the the slingshots so there's tousling shots up in the upper play field by that building and there's two slingshots down by the flipper so every time a slingshots hit those lights cycle up in the horseshoe so if you ever are trapped up on fire and see one of the sides of the horseshoe lit you always want to go for it because like I said it's gonna advance your bonus X which can be huge your best can be huge on long balls and it also brings up your fire hydrant ball saved in between the flippers so it's pretty much a good rule of thumb to keep looping around that horseshoe other things that will lift up your ball save fire hydrant plunger in between those slippers if you hits the orbits that right now you can see they're flashing green their little green flashing circles on either side so if the those two shots are too movable ramps that go up and down so if the ramps are up meaning you can loop around underneath the the ramps like Hobbs just did it brought up that fire hydrant so he was able to just not slip and have the ball bounced off that fire hydrant and gained control so fire I can back up came back up again because you keep sitting that loop so yeah one of the main things you want to do on a fire is don't hit those ramps that you just don't hit those ramps ever and concentrate on shots that are gonna work you towards multiball and bring up your fire hazard plunger I was just trying to get it under control he's one shot away from multiball there he goes so he was one shot away like I said it's hard to see where there's a ladder ramp that comes up when you're ready for multiball that puts the ball straight into the opening of that building in the back and that's how you start multiball and once he once you're in multiball all the fire inserts scattered about the game there's six in the lower play field above the slingshots on the other side he's already put all those fires out and then there's fires up top there's six of them up by the building in the back and then there's two fires that are around the orbits that he just hit so to go with multi balls to put out all those fires and if you can it'll give you a million points one of the things that is terrible about this game is when you're in multiball and you get the million point jackpot there is nothing else to do in the game like nothing is more valuable it's just you have multiple balls out there and I don't even think you can work back towards anything but you could probably up your bone sacks whatever but multiball is pointless after you hit the jackpot you might as well just ring out and work towards your next multiball which i think is so dumb you should be at least work towards more jackpots and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure you can't get more than one jackpot in the multiball so right now Hobbs has one of his locks lit if you see you've got a green light Circle it on the great ramp well the farthest rate ramp round and when you have a lock lit it lowers that ramp so you can and it loops it around the game and puts it into the house over to the left and then if the left ramp is lit for a lock with a green light on it that loops it around and puts it in the right house for lock and that's the first two locks you need to get for multiball hey NorCal pinball what's up welcome to our test stream that I'm setting up for tournaments at my house man we we got a rig that's on a track on my ceiling that's about well it's separated by a hundred feet of Ethernet cable and so yeah this is all the cameras pushed to the max that it will allow with all them working so although it's not as smooth as other streams could be I think this would work pretty well for a tournament to the point of the rig is you know I only have one set of cameras so this will easily allow us to switch game to game from round around in the tournament and still have a watchable stream so we're kind of testing it out tonight it's been going good so far it looks like but the main thing we can't see is the audio quality so let me know our goal is to hear the commentators clearly and then be able to hear the game and maybe the player if they have loud enough outbursts but so yeah cool man yeah so my first on pin Seneca why I also put on there all the gear I'm using that's a be the camera shot there yeah so if anybody wants to try at home I suggest having an unfinished basement some heap things easier but yeah I had a tournament here in June I'd like to have you know a couple two three tournaments here a year yeah that's great thanks for the the help on the the streams there I'm glad you're having way more luck with the c920 to that I've had man I still know what's going on with that camera I even have two of them too so I've tried multiple multiple c9 22s and I still get that that issue with them just change like crazy today alright next game here all I want clip before you amps see what that's good getting glory well show the game so between games we would share the groupings here standings here and this setup I have it to support 40 people so a tournament up to 40 people would show up on these two screens here so again we're just messing around seeing how this all works out so I'll go switch to the next game and we'll keep this going I just want to see how many games we can switch to in an hour or so so alright [Music] that's kind of cool and now is it like like 8-bit or 16-bit graphics we send something top-down stuff like Zelda yeah [Music] there's a rumor that it could be coming out the future yeah okay so you want to see if the process NorCal we're talking about I'll give you any info you want man you mean the the process of switching the game up on stream it's kind of tough to I don't know waited to do that show it on the stream because like I said the computer where all the cameras are hooked into is so far away so like the camera that's here but I'll be oh okay maybe you're talking about leave leave this view on so you can kind of see us move 4d in the game we could do that for the next one but yeah like I said it's a pretty quick process and I've I've made it so it needs the DMV cam is usually the the one you kind of have to tilt to change a little bit but I try to keep the cropping wide so we don't need to do that as much but it's not an exact science but I want to say you know thirty seconds tops it takes to go from one game to the other and that's if I were to go from a game that one end of my basement to the other which you're probably at least forty feet apart yeah okay cool yeah I'll do that I'll I'll leave this screen up when we switch to the next game so you can watch one of the last things I need to do is finish up the cleanup of the cables that are running into the rig right now I had them all combined and a flexible kind of plastic sheep sheep like you see in pinball machines the thing that goes from the head the body you know they keep everything organized so I put those all over the couple cables that go to the rig and then I'm gonna have a channel that runs across my ceiling that you kind of just wouldn't move the rig you just kind of tuck them tuck the wires in there it shouldn't be too big if they get all that way it's always suspended up high and right now we're just let it sit around the but but y'all have that cleaned up and you try to shoot every suite and then yeah they could open up with that yeah his FINA three three musketeers yeah Abby's got all the ideas for the stranger thing and marching there could be a mode where it would be the upside down yeah so like so let's say you're playing it normal and then if you go into the upside down with all the lights would change but then they were the lights would make put it on you hear me it's like the coin and how about her turned around the other way [Music] nice dude you're watching the livestream thanks for thanks for checking her out yeah I went over to a buddy's house and we failed miserably at trying to do some of the harder stuff and I gained those fun that aside I got a lot more clarification on how some of the emitters work I'm backing himself on the tops one here pretty ever game Star Trek yep yep yep so I'm fix that up to them so they'll haven't your Christmas got a hook in the house shopping it out for a friend and I haven't gotten to play too much because I'm heading through what the left flipper doesn't work with someone with the board that I need to figure out all right Hobbes new game how's that look at the DMD needs to be pointed up a little bit that's good a little more that's good yeah man so there you go that's um that's about it yeah hook it like I played a couple practice games on when I've been redoing the flippers how to do a full flipper rebuild cuz they hadn't been done before and it's really tough to make that wind coaster and you don't have rebuilt flipper so that was the first order of business and then after I rebuilt them I did something to that solid-state flipper board where I need to find out what component is the left flipper became all flaky I wanted to stop working so that's showing the people so like we're freaking out like what's that game Oh Star Trek Star Trek Pro because there's another three different model of the games so yeah this is just for practice if we were actually doing the tournament because look you can pick and show people that so they can't see what you're seeing over here but if I click this button now their sham like we see so so see how that that first group on big-name compete you can see it right here so this is what the people that are watching and see it's the same thing when to turn because I'm a planner just like no you're not on everything that runs pretty pretty song this is like with yeah your mama beat here yeah we're trying to we want to stream that whole tournament well then we can put a bag over their head or something so well we could have him wear a Halloween mask while I play so one of the issues with World Cup soccer you can kind of see the DMV's the DMV sits back and it's little housing so unless you can get like real down low and look straight at the DMV it kind of cuts off the very top couple lines of the DMV so when you have a multiplayer game going it kind of cuts off the top of the numbers a little bit but it's still legible I couldn't mess with the cameras to get that looking right without changing the camera so much that I'm going to move it to another game that isn't like this that they would just wish the cameras like I said how long to be as minimal adjustment of the cameras and the game as possible we just want the the rig just be unclipped clipped to a new game and boom yeah so think this will work out so we're gonna have we're going to go to the Emily sink wise mom needs to be over careful of the microphone sensitive you're backing it up against stuff well yeah this is just practice these aren't the actual people so yeah December 2nd will be the stream for the tournament tournaments going to start at news should run pretty much all day we're gonna have a 40 player match play six rounds and then we're going to have the finalists with the top 16 making the finals there's one boy coming in with a dead so yeah no oh daelin Andrea coming I know all right well Tom's got going here on the world cup I saw he was a pretty butthurt oh yeah it looks like he got the first cold balls pretty quick okay so see the purple world cup letters here yeah so each of those has a city represented so the PD is like yeah so each one has a city so one of the goals of the game is to just advance their suits look Hobbs has already been see how he's already lit up five of them warm if you work your way all the way up to the top the last one the red big wedge on affects Los Angeles and that's the final mode of the game where you play you play Germany and you have to see how many goals you can hit yep that's why you play that last so yeah so he's so yes I get one two three four more cities and then he's to the final mode NorCal we will be able to stream with my current setup just to keep my conservative long - we'll have 12 games - easily stream with the current set up that I have I have we'll know it'll be 13 so whatever one more in this room and then we have three more up against the other wall but with the current slack that I have on the cables I'm using to run through a around the basement it might be pushing it to get to that other wall or the other three games rats so at least 13 up to 16 will be able to be streamed in the future yeah all right Eddie's gonna run down all the games that we have we'll see how good she is we have free firepower we took that to an arcade says okay and then there's one more of the big one next to the fridge yeah the one next to the fridge it's really big it's all colorful it's yellow if we can get it fixed Bob just pops just come and help me with that yes which makes your issue on genie hopefully that'll be fixed by the tournament but for sure twelve at most probably 14 or 15 but but I mean there's only six rounds in qualifying and what I plan to do maybe for the viewers to get kind of more used to the games and the commentators to be able to you know stick with a game we might we'll probably stream in qualifying their six rounds I'll probably stream for the first two rounds one game for the next two rounds another game and then the final two rounds third game that way we'll have as many people visible on the stream as possible in qualifying and then for the finals will obviously will fall out like we won't follow the same group through the finals but each round will pick a group and follow them through the three games so they're gonna play in their round and then and then obviously the final round will follow that group turn is what I said yeah alright Hobbes you good to take it to walk and daddy want me to do it alright on that one that side there wasn't a track long enough so you'll see that like it might not slide over where one track ends and the other one starts so you might have to unclip it but if that's the case I'll I can come to it cuz it's kind of like hidden where the like latches tick yet NorCal you are welcome anytime my friend not sure how often you're ever this way but and actually speaking of NorCal shortly after I was in college I lived in Lake Tahoe for six to eight months it was fun there we go alright how's DMD camera just come down Ted or sorry down and to the right of Ted [Music] cool so yeah you guys can see you can switch this stuff pretty quick yep I had to custom make it while there's it's a lot of parts that I bought and I just kind of zipped paddle together millions of times all right so I think after this game of Walking Dead Hobbs and I are gonna have a challenge match where we're gonna play best of seven he's the higher rated player so he's gonna cheat Game one and then loser picks team after that and what we'll do is I'll turn up the sensitivity on the mic over by the game so you guys can hear us better and yeah we'll do a challenge match where we'll switch game to game of the cameras that is absolutely a baby pack we forgot to mention that baby packs never used to those tournaments but that is a baby pack man it's in a nice little nook right underneath our stairs that come down to the basement it's like a perfect spot for that game yeah that's the first buddy of mine actually lived in San Francisco and ended up forever yeah hey Jeff what's going on man testing out a tournament stream rig that I've been working on for quite a while yeah we were able to switch game the game really quickly minimal adjustments yeah we got I was playing walking dead right now I think he just started his fresh games that first one did not go well take care of no workout all right so you got the he got the dirty pool going so Jeff the I posted on the spread on inside my equipment list essentially there's this Rubbermaid fast track system it is for garages and you put on the wall so basically the walls in front of you set across your wall and screws into the studs and comes with attachments that you can just flip on slide down do whatever you want and like hang your bikes your tools whatever you want but what I did was and I just took that and applied to my shoe so amazements I'm finished and I have the tracks across the gorgeous and I have one of the attachments from the system I have basically and I'll post some pictures on pin sites too and the stream of the rest but anyway so there's attachments coming off of that track that can you just slide down or you can unclip them and walk them down to the other set of tracks so that I've tracked set up all over the ceilings down here so so he can your unclip it Walker to the other end of the basement clip it back on or if you're on one track you can just slide it down with your hand so it has an attachment that attaches to the track and then off of that I basically have zip tied to it a monopod that comes down and has the playfield camera on it so that's pointing straight down then I have interestingly enough I have a it's a an arm from a lighting stand for DJ lights so it's basically a hollow metal to the about this long and it has holes in it or you could mount DJ lights good but especially I did is I took that and I attached it to the the attachment for the fast track system and it yeah and it's all attachment there's a million zip ties in this thing but anyway it's cord that pointed at a 45 degree angle from this track so then I have a gooseneck clamp that also attaches a camera to it and that points at the DMV and then I have another gooseneck on that same arm that the lighting stand arm that comes over and is also showing the player camp so essentially everything is hanging from this track suspended from the ceiling yes so anyway everything is hanging from the ceiling why all in one piece it's all attached to an attachment set is on the track so that's how quickly you can hear this thing there are two two wires coming from it one's an Ethernet cable for the USB hub that has all the cameras plugged into it and it allows me to have the streaming station 100 feet away from the rig so I had the Ethernet cable running across my ceiling in the basement coming over to the computer which is way far away then the other cable is an extension cable that plugs the USB hub news power so I have that there and I have it all nicely wrapped up and I haven't gotten the other stuff I need to hang from my ceiling to have the the wires organized on my ceiling right now we just have them laying on the floor but it'll all be suspended when it's all said and done listen is that a mod on the crossbow can ya camera who made it some guys like me Yoko's something or yo-yo copter maybe on pin side it's actually a crossbow with a laser sight on it it's pretty cool yeah so the way I had envisioned something like this for bigger tournaments was maybe somehow making some sort of portable scaffolding almost that a most tournament you're gonna have one line of games or at least a line of 20 or you know 15 games missed shows I've been to all the games are in one line somehow make some portable scaffolding that has these fast tracks on it or something similar and then just have a rag hanging from it that you can either run we've got enough money it can be motorized you know and just move it with a remote or just slide it down like I haven't had clamps that kind of you know some sort of track system that way you only need one set of cameras and the biggest thing is is you're getting the DMD you're getting the playfield you're getting the player most importantly a lot of times you see the player cam at tournaments it's just kind of showing the whole row of players and you're not really sure who's playing the game you're watching so yeah I think I think it'd be really hard to implement something like I did at a public event tournament and like a you know a show or something like that but I mean I guess possible and it'd be much cheaper than having 50 cameras set up and like I said you're getting the actual you're getting one-on-one experience with the players you're seeing his reactions actually playing the game yeah so I think it'll work for the tournament's head of my house that's for sure can you more easily see where yeah the the laser sight helps but it's more kind of window dressing I I still kind of use where the actual physical mechanism is on the play field I find little pieces of the artwork that I know where it needs to be in order to hit that shot and that's what I kind of used to aim not necessarily the laser sight but it's cool all right how does you want to do a heads-up challenge sure Ferguson make it official I don't know all right so we're gonna house it I are gonna play a best-of-seven match head-to-head against each other so he gets to pick a beam we play it whoever loses that game gets to pick another game so that's like first yeah first to four wins wins yeah were you watching tell us if all the stuff looks okay like if you can see the airy [Music] so ever you tell us if if you can't see anything I don't know it's so cold like so that's that's called the DMD and that's and that's probably to be the only one that you're in tell us the missus did I just say like the wonderful words yes well just tell us whether this one needs to go up or down okay what if they need school if do it well say that to start trading with lasers head to the cannons that's sweet what are the cable so the game he's talking about has these two cannons that sit on either side of the game that like will load the ball in them and it'll shoot them across the game that's pretty cool what game are you playing we're not sure Jake it's the picket all right challenge match to know what your ideas baby fat man is the one game that is not able to be extreme with this rig unfortunately you're not a dreamer numbers you think it will save me from our previous match challenge has been son okay see you later Oh Haley's playing isn't that and we're gonna ask you what is this that's a create young it says active challenge ops accept challenge challenge match that's when the screens closed you push that to open it up alright Hobbs what's Game one all right every can see the scores yeah it's good Erica sexism ha yeah you see sure the pic Game of Thrones because I can't you mm I see em I was gonna ask this Palmer still down here in the middle if that is oh you can start that much quicker parrot does that look good or is it up north no it's fine as long as you didn't see all the numbers that's okay it doesn't need to be perfectly in the middle all right chat let us know if the the sound from the games is too much or ok or whatever so uncommon is if you would do it into a large tournament aren't you already doing open to listen are you going - yep that's the as a great ball at the house there he's he's basically on my close to my door so yeah the point of this setup is to use it for a larger tournament I have a tournament here on December 2nd there should be about 40 people where I have seen set up to show the good things right here standings here I'm just running a mock terminal right now mr. show yeah and then the rig to be able to switch into game quickly the whole point of this rig here because if I understood my weekly streams all Definitely Maybe this USB hub so I can have the cameras much higher resolution and higher frames per second test run for a large tournament so yep hopefully this will work out but yeah all right now time for me that trying mash that both and Pablo screaming Eric [Music] I know it's a private message [Music] sounds good Jeff like I if you check in the streaming thread on inside I just build materials you can say but at least for my stuff gonna head down here you're gonna need an unfinished basement with some floor joists attached these tracks too if not even have a pretty Jake eyesore a nice finished basement before you have to devise some sort of portable [Music] from the lights were flashing when the lights flashing okay yes Jeff I think it can feel like it said you need something some sort of like stand on one end stand on the other and then something or the top of all the games connecting here attract society normally reserved for attachment [Music] yeah [Music] Oh there's winning or okay I guess I can look boxes women Eric this one thanks at time to time it drives me crazy but the flippers are in different colors but I said it's because of the sports teams they're like and I said I said yep and now that is mango season I use all the rest all right so we have eight but they're said we can put up to ten [Music] first in the first year - as you can see I set up a separate scene for these EMS and solid states so even though I do a little bit more adjusting when we switch to one of these games it's still not that bad everyone say it makes everyone should eat them everyone's correct let's to time zero [Laughter] my own damn house and Havas beat me embarrassing [Music] so are you talking about different flipper origin I will say the white-on-white is weird because it makes it kind of I love my kind of like my tip of the cap to my favorite sports teams Rwanda you're asking how easy can you adjust the setup for each game on the computer are you saying through cropping the image to get it to show what we want to show I'm not sure the main things you can do from the computer end is clean the image and or bring it out we can rotate it so you can have the camera point any way you want and then have the computer flip it around and do that kind of stuff that's about it you can't do much of in the way like I said I think I have it to the point where it's pretty good and I'm gonna have to go there and break his legs this is the same oh I'm sorry you're right rolling wonder my bed yeah so that's the beauty and I just found this out recently with the the different scenes so obviously the the EMS and the early solid states need a camera that can see the whole backbox to get all the all the displays so I was able to set up different scenes so it's just click of the button the other camera setup we're good to tell ya so I'm glad it's working out hopefully this will be I got lost points now do you have yeah sorry about that rolling wonder sometimes I read to put them man oh man yes hopefully it's not too much of an issue because the game that we're playing right now is very close to the stream table so hopefully there's no issues with the sounds because [Music] so I'll just tell I'm Chad the high score on this Grand Prix since I've gotten it is one point four eight million and he's at one point one so he's on his way early on ball three that's what I forgot to do this camera needs to be positioned down a little bit so you can see the ball and play lights at the bottom haha so you can easily hear green lafrenze I guess hopefully you can hear both that's the goal hopefully at least be able to hear the game you're playing amongst other things when the whole base is gone [Music] Thanks so I have an issue with my Grand Prix where sometimes it'll when it switches to the next player it skips them and I'll have to keep an eye on that okay yeah that's the goal like if the whole basements going nuts hopefully you can at least trying to hear the game the person's plan [Music] I'm just shy of a million away from you Hobbs make it great well if this if this whole sobs is gonna I get a consolation ball because the game skipped me so Hobbs ends with 1 1 3 2 1 so 1 million 321,000 150 new CC for me what will be always but as long as it's not Walking Dead it's only gonna be next if you lose now there is no more million point light you just gotta remember a tournament you're supposed to like pull up a hand and I got either witness never had to do that yet DMD games just shows like the logo okay or you need to come up a little with the DMV perfect nailed it Oh [Music] set on the what's the dream I do though [Music] yeah game switching they're gonna look and sound that's how we can pinball [Music] there's a little bit of glare on this game yeah that's because I like sit right over this game there's been a long time since I've had over 300 used to find the ones over gyms which is all jacked up you're in deep doo-doo I know talking about how I'm gonna lose [Music] come on the car DMV on this yet [Music] she did once a rocky aboard [Music] to impress with a laughing ability pretty sure balls are on so what does plunge him I said you wonder what I play it sounds fair [Music] did you get a replay in this game yeah I had parties little kids are just so nice when I'm putting this and I'm gonna get crazy kind of solid games like the replay will be like four billion so good ok legacy [Music] I'll meet all the Expos like that's all I can do I'm calling a ball three combat whales I both wanted to be under 100 million ball 3 will be believe it I did not [Music] I'm off the hook of that small one but I'll take that yeah I think we're gonna be able cool enough I'm sure it'll won't be too much longer I don't think this games gonna get any more updates or anything yeah do you and have a million points out the under a million ball three billion well I am living up to the prophecy kind of the ball free player more fun to come back on ball three I've had so many like great ball ones really like nothing better than you know be the last player back people yelling at you I know I've had some very bad handy kings it's nice to get hand of the king on ball three kind of funny how like doing good makes me better because that water can use in yellow well I use a little easier thank you and you can pass on grass and stay keep building that how you up and then snow fire there is work to do drain all your life goes back down serum come on Jeff I haven't played in a while Hobbs is having a terrible game but head-to-head competition on Game of Thrones if you get anywhere near a billion-year to win notice your matchups as long as you're not playing the top dogs in the world I finally got a win these little sites into the cams the white squares little sites like a little square already here that you can look through and if you got to make sure you were standing in the right spot of the machine yeah I feel like the switching is the only other thing is the last thing the test is going to be just have to fall alright so the best-of-seven match table is winning two to one people beat my ass Jenna yeah well luckily I have a buddy of mine who's redoing his basement slash house and he need to make some room so he brought over for his poor father so only kind of a down here mine too Star Trek playing a Tron walking dead premium xenon a genie or his and then everything else you see is mine but yeah I think just the this set up that we got going on it's gonna work great for a tournament so I'm excited we need all the followers of straight down the middle pinball to to petition and get Greg and Zach to come down here to my house on December 2nd and commentate the street anybody that can bug them on the forums please do plus they've never been to my house before so yeah Brady's his name and he actually started the Northern Kentucky yeah he lives right down the road and we've done temporary yeah so while his games are here at babysit him play him make sure they're playing great all right Jeff take care man I will say it's my turn I hope you do really good he's already got 8 million I played oh wait pulse dude that's not good Hobbs is slipping so if you're wondering what happened there Hobbs serve a one-player game so tournament rules game must be restarted so good for me to integrate first of all see if he knows hit the strip he does he doesn't none of us to end the line jackpots TP arcade woulda alright that's pretty good hobbed you pretty much got yourself right back there Oh can't reduce a little walk from trauma to the potato booth hello deep arcade now most couples tag same sports so annoying it's crazy all right first of all 70 million second ball some 100 on the third ball thanks DP welcome to the stream and case you just tuned in we're we're testing out a new stream rig I've been working on for a while so when I track on my ceiling so we can easily switch games in seconds and so yeah hopefully it'll work out well for a tournament I have coming up in my house here another four weeks loving that player can get to see Hobbes threw a temper tantrum ball to is not my ball thanks a deep arcade yeah we're doing a little test for a tournament coming up on December 2nd I come on so we've got a rig that we should leave around from game to game 8 10 different games like people here December 2nd hopefully we'll have some full-time commentators commentating the whole time [Music] put this drama before that tilt is pretty serious 7 million per ball we're gonna play trauma I really don't know it very well don't okay it reminds me a spider-man for some reason just how it plays that's out of game and I had a plate off a lot but I've done well out of it for some reason that's the reason why I mean sometimes we're looking for a role as further things up I've done good at them in Taiwanese cousin of you get nervous going for with shots if you just you know you don't really know what's gonna do first few times I played this that's the only run for close game yeah this that disk in the back puts so much [ __ ] on the ball I've seen the disk in the back take the ball throw it out in front of the disk and it had so much backspin on it it tossed it up through the spinner to the left of the disk yeah it was crazy so it came out spar around and then flung it back up the play field I plunged into light cycle hilarious I know I'd be a little tough to see the scores but oh well all right we're at 2 & 2 doing a best-of-seven match-play challenge match I won the first to see it was fire and Grand Prix and then eric has won the next two we pay attention why don't pick this game multiball would which is for me one let's see if you know [Applause] [Music] okay for me oh my god restart that's probably better oh man it's gonna ramp out get that luck grandly this is kind of thing like your Jim Bell CEOs doing [Music] during the innovation on the pre-lab [Music] okay okay okay I guess this man 138 I can't do much better I'll fix that the BB that's so quick that can be rejected so a 10 by 12 room so I remember heaven a 10 by 10 paradises my old house I mean my 12 what I having coined or coined or like you're not going to be able to play if you if you put the games along each wall so that means the coin doors are facing each other I don't think you're gonna have enough room to have someone playing one game another person playing the game directly across from it because they're gonna be touching butts the whole time so I think that room is fine but you you either have to only use one wall so the 12-foot wall you could put probably three games there comfortably but you could squeeze for in but the games will be pretty close together or what you could try to do is if the rooms just gonna be for pinballing and nothing else is gonna be in that room maybe think about sitting the games back to back so meaning have the games in the middle of the room and you walk around the outside of the games now you got to think too like can you fill the glass off on all that kind of stuff so I mean that's a pretty tight space but I mean you already have the games [Music] or is this like you got the space and you're going to get the game to start filling out yeah so yeah yeah I'm thinking it's way too tight for Beth wants but yeah you got to think about can take the glass off can people be playing multiple games at once but yeah I would I would maybe think about the back-to-back like kind of cluster in the middle of the room idea but again you might not have enough room to take class off if you do that or it's still not might not be enough for people to play at them so that's it that's pretty tough situation for sure all right in this ball I'm gonna have to drink that's my plan very nice very nice boy that'd be bad okay well let's just keep our fingers crossed for that 16 by 24 space they don't even have to worry about it because if you got a 24 foot wall dude you can put I mean my games are spread out and I got I got eight and a refrigerator on one 24 foot wall so yeah hey Buffalo thanks for the hose guys testing a pretty exciting tournament tournament right here tonight with my boy Hobbes we're doing a head-to-head challenge right now well yeah man it's I'll tell you what it's a lot easier to get the space in my opinion and then try to fill up with pins then like have all these pins I'm trying to cram them into a small space like I'd much rather have six pins and a 24 foot wall than six pins and at you know 10 10 by 10 foot room like here talking about Oh hahaha this is crawling back so we got some Lethal Weapon action going on Hans and I are playing a head-to-head match this is game 5 it's currently tied to the 2 and I think I just took it 3-2 - all right so the best-of-seven head-to-head challenge is now I'm up three games to two on mr. Chad Hobbs and he has game choice so let's see what he says this is pivotal he's got a win or go home right here he's got a win to force a Game seven like all these games well whatever did you just put a GC up on mine fire can't pick that book let's do ads and evens like that oh right II take the coin flip better than a game I know I can't win to know where yeah I'm definitely making you switches and if you hit it the top saucer I won't be able to kick it out we came over DQ for tops officer I try to plug it up so as you tilt it I think I want one so we got to make sure that we can see the score and the green space below it for the Baltimore actually probably good yeah good yeah that's good a little more yeah yeah it's kind of hard to read the score yeah these lights are kind of bright in there here I'll mess with the exposure that's better even better all right this is pivotal Game six on odds and evens ladies and gents ladies and germs top corner of the player can oh did have a Bengal tiger on the side of art of it that would be Jungle Queen and awesome gottlieb en from the 70s down on the cams up in the play field in the way the play field a little bit but sorry [Music] [Applause] so what House wants to do here is now he's got the ther get when you get the center post up you just want to keep nail on that sauce around the head on the play field so we're getting honest if everybody on the stream seen that we're getting a little a little lag there choppiness whites okay yeah you might have seen the the backbox the backbox art on General Queen it has a it's like it's white background with like black and orange like spirals on it so houses only got two balls left on odds and evil it only has 6000 points but this game can be brutal a lot of games are sub 10,000 points it's a roulette theme where you're trying to collect all the numbers one through nine and there's just saucer down the middle of the play field that spots odd numbers and a saucer in the top-left to the left of the top left pop bumper that spots even numbers and if you light them all up in the center of the play field there that lights special on the top right which not only Awards you an and a ball but 5,000 points so that's one of the goals the other goal is getting to the scoring tip if you can get to 35,000 points it gives you a nato ball then i believe it 60,000 points or 65,000 and then a 1000 they're all three edibles okay I'm trying to figure out I'm trying to think what would have been in the player cam of Lethal Weapon 3 I only have the game that would have been in the direction of the player cam would have been yeah the end of my camera which is got with their jungle queen I don't know what else it could have been [Music] oh he just missed the top saucer Hobbs done it was last fall he's sitting at 13,000 510 pivotal Game six he needs this to force a Game seven [Music] [Applause] yeah fire is fire is in all dark and it's almost like wood grain it's like a I think it's decals but yeah it's it looks like a fake wood grain and as a fire fire logo on it and that's at the end of the road it's kind of hidden and sitting it's sitting side by side well essentially side by side with lethal up in three so could have been that alright looks like I gotta be 17 to 6-0 like Game seven forced a game seven yeah the center post is controlled when you hit that sinner hole I believe so yeah this either saucer so either sausage so there's a saucer on the top left it's also right in the middle the play field that'll pop up the center post then there's two buttons right above the slings that'll make the post go down I should've known that was gonna switch it over to the so here are our standings not really no I'm just pretending although our standings are three and three I really just need to get the top two so I'm not too worried about how's that yeah they're in there yeah all fours in there right yeah I mean you can see it all okay all right oh I guess you're up first huh that is what I want all right I don't think I have ever beaten Eric at big game first time for everything the smarts of picking odds and evens I would love to note my win-loss record low like you can't see its face it is about the players it's gonna be hard to get some space on it when you tilt the dot tilted it up it probably there's a million rules in this game and bingo card here the spinner over and over okay rolling laundry that's cool some of yours tonight you're doing a practice dry run for a tournament coming up December 2nd should have around 40 people we have a rig so right now you know we're doing a best-of-seven match play challenge match between the two of us on the first two airs on the next two game seven ball one player and it's not looking good for me my best sport ever on this games maybe 300 that's an average maybe I should have went first I don't know at least when you're down by this month kind of takes some pressure off you just kind of forget about school very impressive oh this sucks Lord 6 Congress from the last that's about it ever done Oh wrong camera roll a million oh no it's got its it's the first game with seven digit displays first key Nilla arrey got the scores looking better thanks dude yeah big game is awesome I don't know if you've played it before but it's a great game all player cam was chopping off my head I guess yeah it's gonna be a tough one that keep right with people of varying heights little goodie ripped by Chad to start the game that's that's the shot you want to have that but left spinner lit as you can ripped out a full power you can get close to 100k per shot that's how quick they can dream all right two solid balls I ever in pinball have three good balls in around how this is very capable coming back so all I can hope for is you get max bonus I guess I could also go all right everybody thanks so much for watching the tops can come back here he'll take it if I hold them off that I'll win in Game seven of our second head-to-head heads-up challenge match looking forward to that new rule on the IFPI next year to have this count toward here IFP a rating not not your ranking but your rating so be interesting to see how they play out anyway thanks for everybody watching the straight down the middle pinball stream with your pal Chuck work remember I'm normally streaming every Wednesday from 8:00 to 9:00 9:30 that time but uh from time to time I'll switch today depending on what I got going on but again really exciting that we got this stream rigged to seemingly work pretty reliably so again December 2nd I'm gonna have a tournament here at my house 40 people match play tournament and we'll be streaming qualifying and finals hopefully with some good commentary from from Zack and Greg so remember bug them on the forums make them come over here and help me with the the tournament so awesome thanks everybody for watching peace out