still do a great job. So, I wouldn't worry about it.
No intros. No, I I lost all my music on here, so I don't have any of that.
Oh, geez. How'd you lose it?
I had to reset this uh the roadcaster, so it killed everything. But
anyways, we're live. And that's loud to me.
Yeah, that is in my ear. It got a little louder for some reason.
All right, everyone. Welcome to uh the IFPA California Championships. Let's see. We're uh
running a Oh, yeah. We're practicing it. And I don't know who's going to go first, if it's Kane or Steve on this, but
I think Steve picked it. Yeah, it's on Steve's list. So, and I believe he already has practice if I was watching the camera, right?
Swap that back then and then we'll uh check this out. Let's go. I'm excited for this. This is like the best day in pinball. 30 streams live. like you you could just like starts real quick. All right, this is this is live and they're doing the one and four I I believe.
Correct.
Which is always I it's always smart. I think everyone should do it no matter what.
Let's go. Hey crowd, what's up? You guys are in here early. I love it. Did you have it so that it was like slated to to go live or were they just ready?
No, they were just ready. Everyone's ready.
I love that. Uh, so we're one and one. That's that's that's great. Um, so is this are your strats here just spell time first or you just are you trying to get up to the bonus for any reason first or like what what's your what's your three point play
in this kind of format? Uh, I might just try to go for time and let things kind of fall where they, you know, go where they go
instead of build. Normally, I would build up, you know, the lanes at the top first, but
hint, you can backhand the lanes. You can backhand the orbit on the left. I did it
on this one. Oh my gosh.
So, uh, from the left flipper, you can just I I practiced it and you can It goes It barely makes it sometimes, but even if it doesn't make it, the, uh, return's so good.
Wow. Um because you just knock it off the the wall and it goes to your left flipper again. Hey everybody, ready player Derek.
So chat, how's the audio? Is the uh the game too loud or is it good?
Just checking cuz things are never quite the same between uh local and and internet.
Reality and fantasy. Nice. He's got that time shot down. I I also feel like he's going to have a pretty big I don't think Kane knows this. We're going to find out real quick, but I I think he's probably going to just do like a copycat strat like, "Hey, I've Yeah, you see that back up back?" Yeah.
Yeah. It's real good. So that does that change things now? Like
Yeah, just go up top.
Yeah, cuz there's there's points there, right? Once you once you get all the numbers, every lane's like 30k or something or some weird I know something lights for points up there. Oh, nice shimmy.
Well, that also builds the amount of time, isn't it?
So, I mean then then you know he's got 35 seconds now. Oh, we do have a uh have this thing.
Okay, that makes sense. And he drained out. So, it did look like he set up three of his time letters, then switched to going up top, which might be I mean, if they carry over from ball to ball, that's probably a decent strat. Yeah.
Yeah. Jam it. Uh, if anyone does start the bonus time and knows the exploit, uh, we are going to see some very, very long games.
Well, with that backhandable left orbit, absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah. But the you plunge it, hit a lane, let it drain, plunge it, hit a lane, let it drain.
Yeah,
cuz the time doesn't uh while it's in the shooter lane, the time doesn't stop. He's going to get this the skill shot. I was 5k in a letter. It looks like it spotted a time letter when he got it.
That's I would have thought that that would have been like
No, it didn't. Sorry. Did it?
Yeah, he's got the T.
Oh, I can barely see it.
Yeah. [ __ ] So I I would have assumed like a skill shot like that would have been like worth like a ton more. So the 30k is now lit up there. Is that upon completion or is that every like every number on the top left?
Is that the orbit value?
Uh it's up here in the
at the top. That's what you're looking at.
Yeah, the the orbit one is the 2x 3x. That's your multiplier.
I'm still waking up, you know.
That's fine. I should have brought you. I should have I turned you on to coffee a while ago. Which was probably a mistake.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.
Yeah. Kane does seem to have a plan here,
which is do this. And I I like this plan.
Yeah, absolutely.
Down, but okay. So, all right. All right. I was going to say I don't know about the time letters, but they don't matter because we'll see when when Steve comes up. I assume they have to carry.
They Yeah, they will. I'm sure. I'm sure.
Yeah, they do. All right. So, one number to get the 2x. This game is actually a little bit tougher to like scroll all the numbers cuz there's five lanes. So if you miss it once, you you know
it's only one direction to the right. Right.
Um well, and truth be told, I'm a I'm a right only scroller.
Okay.
Like even games where you have to go left, like I just I'm just so much more comfortable. So he So yeah, here comes the plunge and play.
And um Yep. gives me lanes as you can then drain.
Yep.
There it goes.
He's got 25 seconds.
Drain faster. Drop catches make it drain faster.
Yes. Yeah. And and this version of this game is it's very bouncy.
Yeah.
It's it's a
it looks it
Yeah. It plays a little shallow but very like not saying it's not playable, it's just it's very bouncy.
So he's looking at the screen for the amount of time he has. You can see that on the credits and the ball number 17 seconds left and you know scrolling across all the other players too.
Yep.
If you don't know this game.
Yep.
Can't you lose points if you do the U-turn backwards lose points? I don't think you it deducts anything. Oh, that would have been nice. So, the skill shot does spot all five at once, right?
The entire
uh I think so. Well, when the other when Kane hit it, he he only had 5,000 points in something else. But I maybe he did cuz maybe he was at 2x automatically. I don't
It's been a while.
It's been a while. So, yeah. Like I said, there's 60k sitting up next to the to the numbers, and I don't know if that's upon each completion. Okay, now he's back in play.
It's going to be completion of the entire set.
Yeah, that would make sense.
Um, so he was not able to build his multiplier during that though, right? Cuz he's at Unless the lights are out. I don't see any multiplier on. No.
So that's see the strat that he goes. Yeah, this this just seems like the thing
and he's got 20,000 in bonus already. So that's, you know, 40k and every time he lights it. Uh you can post pass on this. I highly recommend doing it to get it to backhand more and more. Watching the scrolling updates, I see that Scott is up 200 against uh Delito.
Yeah, he beat him on pneummonic and I didn't see the other game.
Just Robocop right now. We got Scott 3 to1 versus Nick on on Viking.
Mhm.
Uh this Viking the 50k isn't lit at the back, right? It's still only the but the bonus collect is like always lit.
Okay. I believe if it's set to the same way that it was uh uh pre-worlds,
that's a nice friendly feed out of the time with that.
It's not bad. It's just
bump to the right. Well, yeah, it's a narrow shot, but at the same time, it's it's if you make it, you're not worrying about training.
It's very early. It's very early on this flipper like because of the because everything feels floaty and just kind of I don't know. It's it's a it's weird, but I like this. He's going to wait for to get one more cuz you do have to time this. I hate saying that, but um
never mind. That's I was saying it was okay.
There is a little post in there and I thought it was going to hit the metal post. Uh but he he nicked it off the the left flipper first.
Nice ball.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of my the things that I when I play in these and it's like a solid state and you're plunging off for me. I don't know why I want to plunge player two. If I'm player three, I want to plunge player two so that I when I walk up I I can determine if I'm live or not. Um
okay,
that that's how I like to do it. I don't know because if someone plunges in front of me and I walk up and like you know I just randomly plunge u and it's my ball I'm like oh you know but it's good to uh talk about it before before your matches like who's going to who's going to plunge out but I I don't know I've always just preferred that method. I'm sure everyone has different preferences. Ah so the bonus X carries too. Okay. So, backhand all day is like even even bigger.
So, because you're you're building bonus from every lane, I would assume
and the the 30k stays
game doesn't go shot.
No, on ball two and three it doesn't. Uh
okay.
Doesn't doesn't allow it.
Well,
oh, now it's now it's so after the completion. Yeah.
Oh, nice save.
We're learning things together. That's 10k every time he rolls up down up that lane.
Oh fudge, he says. It's such a tough position though because it's it's like I do want to go up top all day, but if your if your opponent gets one 30 second time thing, like look at look at the score deck reference.
Well, yeah, of course you need to you know it's a combination of both.
Yeah, both things.
Yeah, but knowing that everything carries. Yeah, knowing everything carries. I'm I'm starting with the top lanes and and then
The slings are sensitive, which is good on this game or else I think it would play far too easily.
Yep. All right. See, at this point, yeah, Steve's got to go for time. Although, he's only got 5 seconds, so no, I would not go for time.
Yeah. Yeah.
But he's going for time cuz that's the only reason he would have passed.
Yep.
Yep. But 5 seconds is not enough to do anything.
No, you get one plunge and you can't even like risk letting it letting it drain.
Yes. This is uh from Belcetos in Vietta, California.
And and he mistimed it too. So So now he's 5 seconds with you know like if what's So the 50k would be on completion as well I I assume. Okay. So he's down. He'll get one plunge. Even that was dangerous.
Yeah.
And he sees it now.
Yeah.
All right. Backhanded orbit.
Yep. Yeah. That is the uh that is the only way to go today. And again, if if you bump that that feet out of there, it it comes off nicely onto the on the flipper. Okay,
there you go. Doesn't have to go far. Oh no.
Feel like that left flipper is getting a little weaker quickly.
I was going to mention that over time today it's probably going to get weaker.
Yeah.
So the back end will not be reliable.
No. It depends on how many how many minutes between rounds too. If you're the next one playing uh it's going to be the same thing with like Oh, although the flippers are really strong on Robocop right now. Sometimes you you'll get there and play and you can't make the jump because it's you don't have enough power off the left flipper. So, uh no, this is not the lap. This is uh Jim's couse. I like the bump over. Nice. He is one letter away with 75 seconds. Oh my.
Yeah, that I mean that'll
now you have to like
Yeah,
your strat has to change.
Stop with the orbit. Yeah,
you already have enough bonus.
Oh,
I get the E.
He's looking at it.
It's funny. The the clock from Wild uh or whatever is playing on the backside. So, he's like like I'm listening to the little ticking sound and and uh watching this game. I mean, cuz if he gets it, he I don't want to say he pretty much wins, but if he does the same strat,
he wins.
It's real tough to bump it.
Oh, no. All
right. So, Steve will win that game. Let me uh we'll go to the bracket and see what their next game is. Let's take a look. This is the bracket. Uh, you can type exclamation point bracket in the chat if you want to see this. Uh, let's get this updated. This was I'll put this in for them.
Time fantasy.
Steve one time fantasy.
Yeah,
you can see all the current. You can see we've got one finished.
Yeah, Johnny with the
and I'll be back.
Got some rig moving to do. Yeah, this is pinball at the barn. Uh, and it's it's even more exquisite now from where it was at Worlds. Like the the whole upper part with the spiral staircase is like done. There's a movie theater in there. There's like 10 like more kids games, but some really fun ones still there. So, it's pinball as far as the eye can see. It's like 80 degrees out here, so for you guys dealing with snow, be jealous. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's got a lot of things that illuminate. Um, a lot of the a lot of the benches and I believe in some of the carpeting is uh stuffs taken from the pinball museum. So, you'll see a lot of relics um and antiques from the pinball museum that was in banning. Uh the pool is not open. Uh because of the limited amount of people, um all the stuff behind the barn is shoved down. Um,
uh, Safecracker is up there. I think Phantom is up there. Like Scooby-Doo, um, Lord of the Rings. They were nice enough to leave a ball save on this game, even though it's off on like AFM and stuff, which I feel makes like AFM like not pickable. We might get a little echo from the audio since the game this game's in this room where we are.
Yeah, this one's playing really really good.
Yeah, I might turn the rig mic off for this.
Okay,
just to kill the uh kill the echo that's going to happen there.
Okay, too close. I'm
I'm here for it. Um, yeah, this one this one's playing great from the from the pops. It's an it's just a little bump out uh to the right flipper. Um, you want to avoid that sling like you just saw. Um, but we'll we'll see how people go with the ball save on. Um, I'm going super skill shot for my first ones to just uh catch on the left and hit the flail. Um, okay.
It's a very, if you plunge medium, it just it sits perfectly on your left flipper. You just live catch it and then you hit the flail. Um, and then I just start picking off my my locks and stuff. So, we'll we'll see. The only the only problem with doing the the long plunge on that
uh is that um it'll switch your modes and the first mode that it's on is usually a really good mode. So, like you don't want it to lock on like the blue mode, which is the ice wraiths or whatever.
Right. Right. Right. Right.
Um you want the you want the modes that have really good uh um powered up modes. Like the red ones are both very good. One of the red ones is incredible. It the one that has all of the shots lit at the beginning. As soon as you hit the power up, all the shots that you haven't made yet lock in place and they're all worth 4 million over and over.
Well, dang.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. So, you want to not hit the shots. And if you're going to go for the power um mode, I can't you know,
or the power feature thing. Yeah, I know.
On once you crank it up, uh all of the shots stay lit. There's a there's a couple good modes um for that's a great one because you can just do that in single ball play. You can just keep looping the center ramp over and over because it stays lit. Uh the a decent one for multiball is the uh yellow one with the the hydras because uh their powered up mode is the three middle shots. So this one if he if he was to do it, it would lock the three middle shots and you just keep bashing those during your ball saves and stuff like that. Um as uh but if I'm playing this one in single, I'm waiting for it to rotate to the far left and just taking one out and and whatever. So
Gotcha. Uh this is live.
This is live. Yes.
Yeah. Knight is set to a little bit harder.
So, he did the the super skill shot. He did. He He took a one-time on it. You do have enough time to to drop catch and and take one shot. There's, you know, you get the grace, but I'm cool with this. Um, so I I He does not like his mode, so he's going spinner to uh change the mode up. Uh cuz this would be the Burning Sands
which was the other the same that the other guy
the same one that the Kane had. Yeah.
Yeah. And it's fine. Like I said, if you're going full-on multiball, that mode's fine, but you need to get the
the crank it up stuff. So, he's trying Oh, misjudge. He's trying the bounce uh just like the ski pass. And it's it's a little dangerous on this one. Uh, I feel that the proper is the post catch. Like the one where it comes in the lane, you just slam the right flipper and it catches it on the right. Yep.
Worst case, you get a you get a rolling post pass instead.
Um, it's it's just a much safer thing. Okay. He did get kind of the grace on getting the the yellow shot here, which is important. It seems trivial, but like if you can finish this mode, there you go. Like that.
Yeah. Uh if you can finish this mode or Yeah, I don't know if you want to leave shots for multiball or if you just want to finish it and and hope.
You got a lucky uh left out lane save lit there from the targets.
Yeah, it's just the two targets within the timer, right? Okay, this is this is good. So, he will have the center ready. I think I saw his sword glowing. like your first target is to the power. Like you I I'm hitting that with the ball save on and and he's got war going on too. Uh he's being a
There we go.
All right. Uh and then my second objective is the left orbit. Um
right. Prep the attabal.
Yeah, because the attabal is backhandable on this game. Uh, he's got a ball on a pop.
Is that where it is? It's not It won't ball search right now. We're going to need a tech then.
Oh, no. It's on the flail. I'm sorry. It's on the flail.
It's on the flail. Yeah. Right here. Circle it. I can't I can't. Yeah. In case anyone
Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing that
tech tech. I'm not a tech. So, but let me find a tech.
Find a tech. Hey, first time. How are you a first time chatter on tilt pinball? First time ever saying anything. Uh, hey, what's up, Auntel? Melody Co. Yeah, I'm not envious of the uh the Chicago I grew up in Boston, so I get I get how rough that is. Yeah, they've been putting them right on this right in this pile right here.
All right,
the answer is no. All right, let me get this Tom versus Gary. Uh Gary Lop top one.
Carl was very busy this year with uh a couple things. Congrats on your pinball game.
Thank you. Uh, so I have yet to play it, but I am excited to play it. Um, but yeah, Carl is still contributing by being a wonderful streamer and commentator.
Raven is a great game.
I just picked up a Raven yesterday. It's It's specifically to because I don't know. Have you listened to Dirty Pool at all?
No.
Okay. So Jeff has been dying for a raven. He tells he asks everyone when he interviews them what would they buy. No, Jeff. Jeff um Jeff Dodson.
Oh, okay. I was sorry.
He asks if you want to buy a raven, a raven, or a raven. Okay. So, he's got this meme going with the raven. One came up for sale in Rancher Cookamonga.
So, I went over there and picked it up and now it's for sale for $10,000 to Dirty Pool if he wants it.
Holy jeez. Uh I think you should Dirty Pool. Um, complete the meme.
Great. Those are both excit uh, Great Pyramid or I've never heard of I've heard of Black Pyramid. I've never heard of Great.
One of Jeff's things is is praise the Great Pyramid that he's got. So, so yeah.
Got it. Got it. Got it.
All right. Where is Kane?
He's still in his multiball. He's He's actually playing really controlled. I'm going to see if I can turn the audio back on the rig just cuz if they're not talking over there, it might be okay.
Oh, he missed the
Yeah, he missed the button. It didn't even activate. It looked like he tried to hit the button on the lock bar, but it didn't. Uh,
okay. I mean, there
it is. All right.
Jackpot shot on the left or No, no, not yet. I forgot about that.
No. Okay. That's not a bad way to to end the ball cuz you've let the mode start.
Okay. So now on your next ball, you're
you can start bashing away at locks again. Um because of where the night letters are.
Um because you need one more night letter than you typically would, I think.
Sorry.
No, you're okay. Um I I think like getting to the the retro mode is not plausible. Uh, what mode did he lock in?
Can you hand me those other two sheets? I just want to make sure things are updated in here.
Yep.
Double duty.
Double duty. Two sheets. Double.
I I like that. You You got to hit that. So, Black Knight is I don't want to call it a linear game, but sometime with with with Knight being set to hard, it is kind of linear. Like, you have to set up the right points and um and mode in multiball. And preferably, you you do not want to complete war until you're in multiball. That's coming back. Short plunge. Oh, no. You can do that. Okay. So he's he's holding off on his war because he knows that he can't complete it and he's not going to even try and complete it in single ball play. So yeah, the the slings sling said no. I mean this would be huge for Kane. If Kane can tie the game, how crazy would that be? We got a few matches done already. Round one kind of goes a little bit quicker and then we get into the there's some money on the line and uh people concentrate. So now you need two hits for every lock. um depending uh terrible mo not a good good mode uh which is unfortunate. He's going to get war started again cuz the mystery gave him the lanes but this mode I I feel like they they had to bring that music back. I don't
like I I'm I've come to enjoy this game, but I feel like the music and the call outs are like half of my uh pleasure on this game.
Okay, I'm fine with just going mode. Wasn't expecting that. If the orbits are flashing red, then you will get those U-turns, and they can be you can actually just keep U-turning and catching um postpassing and doing it. There's there's points to be had. I don't know what lights the U-turn hurry up, but uh you saw there that it it it caught. So, and this so this is a second war. The unfortunate part is that he's in single ball play, but the final shot on the second war can be 30 million, 40 million. It can be really, really big, especially if you've been um short plunging every ball into the uh not short plunging, plunging it into the pops cuz the pops determine the value of each of the three shots.
Okay, left pop to left shot, center pop to center pop uh shot. So, that's what builds those values. And then the hurry up at the end is the three shots that you've collected uh aggregated together.
Okay.
Okay. Steve Ward picked his own picture.
Yeah, that's right. I was going to say that that's these are IFPA profile pictures. So he uploaded that picture himself.
Yeah. So A, welcome to the chat. B. But now he's live on camera so he can crop something from the replay and and make it better. Uh I mean he's playing great. I I think he just finished that mode out. The mystery um since he's got his ball slave lit should be 4 million. 3 million's good.
He is a attractive man.
I love it. I mean, he's just he's just ripping these shots. Like, this is not the easiest mode, but he he has the There he goes. And he gets the lock lit from a from a friendly bounce.
All right, finish the mode, too.
So, this like you get your lock and then you just start making progress on your next mode. Yeah. I said that no one's going to get to like the Black Knight challenge, but
but he
he's so close.
Yep. Exactly. You just take Yeah. Take your lock here.
Okay. I always want to take it so you can light new ones.
Yeah. Yeah. Exact. And that's what I'm doing here. Like I'm not I'm not really going for mode until I have my ball three lit. Um and then you know if you can kind of choose on the next ball like depending on where your opponent is like uh an empty multiball without any modes is not worth a ton. Oh, see he he even got a nice nice shot and it hit the center target and it was real nice to him.
Nice read there to save that ball.
Yeah. So, he only needs one more hit to light the mode because like I said, you get that nice little center hit that countered. Hits the shield with a little bit of accidental power. So, I guess he needed three. All right, here we go.
I like the spinner animation with the flamethrower and the 12,000s that just go at your head. All right. He's He's doing a little shimmy tart uh thing on there to slow the ball down when it comes out of the uh the habitat. It's kind of cool. All right. Mode ready. I I don't know which is better. I think that I'm lighting my lock first because it's it's easier on ball three to to hit that ramp.
But this is all three. Never mind, JK. That was a That was a great thing to do. Take your take your mystery. Get the free 4 million or whatever it's going to give you.
I I mean, the lock is one of your mode shots here.
Yeah, you absolutely take it.
Yeah.
I mean, you you He's got No, he's not. No, that's Yeah, I'm I'm a little surprised by it because he's he's three shots and the mode in multiball would pretty much guarantee him black knight retro mode. Whatever.
Two more letters.
Yeah, two more night letters in the in the middle.
There he goes. Oh, but I mean there's the reason you don't shoot the target at the same time.
Exactly why. Yeah.
I mean, the the riskreward, the ROI on those shots, you you survive two shots and all of a sudden you're at 180 million instead of 140 million. Solid solid ball. Solid game from Kane.
Yeah. Yeah. 140 on this one.
Z's got some work.
Yep.
Yeah. That's my other reason for not loving the regular skill shot is by the time the ball gets down there, you have no great like you can't
can't take any random shots from that point. But it does feed nicely to the to the right. So if you do want the lock, it's on the right. It's on the flipper you want. All right. So, they've they've gone to the shimmy technique of of, you know, slowing the ball down out of the out of the right lane, which is I like I like that.
He's going to wait for one yellow target to just get some points.
All right. How many locks is this? Is this multiball? Yes,
it is. Um, so one of the things that I'm not Okay, this is this is good. I don't know. So the progress on this mo on the modes is very difficult for me to tell cuz you want like the optimum amount of middle shots here. Um, when you have the the powered up whatever cuz they're they're four, five, six million a piece. There he's he's nudging now, which is the way to do it. I like that little drop catch. I'm okay with this. Catch this though.
Yep. Lift the add a ball. Going to take it right away. Trying to
Yeah, if you're at three balls, maybe I don't. But
yeah, I I agree with taking it.
Nice shot. Nice control. Almost.
Yeah,
there we go.
Okay. Just in time, too. It drained.
Yeah. The one saving grace you do have is the the left orbit is backhandable. So, if if you do have one trapped up on both, um you know, you're a little safe, but you just don't want that pressure to like have to have to backhand that shot. It's not a guarantee. Nice little move. Need some more letters. All right, he's 3 million. He would would love for the mystery to be the outlane safe.
Nice shot right through the flail. These lands are now liberated.
Oh, this is tough. So,
yeah. What do you do right now? Extra ball just for the points, but it's not going to get you there. So,
yeah. And he's got the the war power set in the middle, too. Like, it it's
time's ticking down on it, too. Or, you know, value is getting lower and lower, but it's not really I don't know. It's too dangerous to shoot in my opinion.
But, but you have to shoot three dangerous shots to let your mode anyways.
Yeah. But that's kind of the most dangerous of all of them. Yeah,
I feel I'd rather take shield.
Yeah. Yeah. And that's significant, but at the same point, he's got another 50 million to go.
Yeah.
It's a tough call and that's one of the good things about this game.
So, they had brought uh some intermediate code into one of the tournaments once uh and when you lit your lock, it was giving you credit for the mode start. So, you'd light your lock to to do to take care of like hitting the a dangerous shot cuz it was an open shield. So it was like super like friendly. They patched that out quickly.
Wow. That was nice. Power in lane there.
Yeah.
Oh.
Oh.
Yeah. Moon lock. And And at that point being 40 million behind depending on the mode. I I think you modeed out like you're not surviving six shots.
Good game though.
Yeah, good game. All right, let's uh
I'll refresh this in case people are actually inputting stuff so you can see. updated to
you can if you want you can always hover over things here and you can see the various matches
and the wins and stuff like that.
Good job, Carl. I love this.
While I'm moving the rig.
Yeah. Uh so just uh some of the completed matches. Johnny takes out Kang. Uh Tom, you know, the hovering stopped working. Well, we're not going to mess. Clear whiteboard. Love that. Um, oh, it's cuz I got to hover on the actual I don't know, guys. I don't know what happened, but anyways, Johnny B Quang 40. Tom beats Gary. Congrats, Gary. Just making it kind of a newer player. Um, 4-1. Scott beat Nick Yank. Like, that's that's a big finish. Uh, Nick is a great player. So, Scott will now go on to play Jack, who's also a great player. Gabe took out John. I
I think Carl put most of them in, but you can double check them.
Uh, Gabe took care of John. Uh, do I dare scroll down? Like, is there a world that I try this? No, there's not a world that I try this. I can't find it. Maybe I can like get underneath. Oh, I can get underneath it enough cuz he brought up a different screen. So, uh, Scott up 20 on Jim Derek all the way down here. David Green, another new guy pushing Derek to the limit. Uh, and I will tell you, David Green is in like business casual. Like he's he's got like a popping hood. Like he's like he's going to the winery if he if he leaves this place. I love it. Trivia notification. See, I I missed all that. Jim and Scotty. Uh, these are all up to date,
are they?
Uh, I mean, I bet not completely cuz like I don't see I didn't see um like games here.
They're not They're Yeah, they're not showing me the games. So, they haven't selected their
They're not inputting it.
Yeah,
I got I got to get up.
People should be uh inputting their own matches as they go along. So, if we were out of date, it is not on us.
All right. I have to. So Kane and Steve are on this next. We're watching now Jim versus Scott because they were playing it already. They have to wait. So we're gonna just uh take a pick at them. And Jim is player one. Yes, we're
Yeah. And he's played most of his modes. So he needs to get all of them to level three for another multiball. Is that what this uh is that the next part of the strat?
Yeah. So yeah, he needs to get everything to level three. you advance to
and you got a spot from one of the inlanes, it looks like.
Yes, you did.
All right.
So, yeah, anytime those inlanes are lit, if you hold, you know, if you roll over, you'll get a random item spotted. So, there's
that's what you do.
Yeah.
All right. He's going to be going for the out lane
for the out lane, but he still uses his ball too.
I mean, they both had like decent ball ones. One more for the world.
Yeah, Scott's only one away from his second multiball.
One one set of drop targets or which probably not going to shoot.
No, you just you just hope that the
I can't really tell which in lane is lit, though. I I see where the lights are, but it's they're so bright I can't
I could never have told like that was my thing when I was playing this uh lab. I I wasn't sure nor was I really going for it. My my strat was just whirlpool all day.
Okay.
Well, the multiballs are just if you're one away, it's just too valuable.
Yeah, if you're one away, I agree. But, um, if you can hit Whirlpool four times in a row and get a million spinners up there, like that's basically what happens.
Okay.
Yeah. So, each time you hit the whirlpool when you're not in the mode, the first time it's 50k per spin, then 100k per spin.
Yeah. Exactly. 300k there.
Yeah. So if you if you survive the pops enough, like a million per spin is like more than most your multiballs unless you get to the super. All right, 31 to 13 inverted. So yeah, same issue. He's got the He's got the drop targets. Uh he's he's played all the other modes that are worth points. That did like that just like shot, right?
That is crazy. All right, now you just want to time this out.
It's not going to matter.
But I don't think you're going for that round, right? You're timing out. Extra ball, you're timing out. That mode you're timing out.
Well, the spinner's worth quite a bit actually. So, okay.
But at the same time, I being only one away from multiball, I would I would have timed it out. That's just my my personal preference.
Sure.
I like that this game can be played multiple ways, right? Scott has an opportunity here. All he needs is that that one set of drops. I mean, it's it's it's death right here. These drop targets.
Yep.
But, uh, if he can get those and they get into multiball, it's
he has a very good chance of, uh, coming back here.
Now, the game is pretty lenient. Like, you can move it a little. So, you're just hoping that it comes towards the middle. Like, the outlanes are more dangerous than the than
I don't know. All right. So, this you want to time out. I do not know if you can skip the Oh, it doesn't matter.
I don't think that that's worth any. It's not worth enough. The extra ball is not worth enough.
Okay.
And this this doesn't have any stall time. Like you don't have to hit a switch. It's just it goes. You can see the timer on the playfield. Great use of space. Uh, do you play this out? I think you do. 3 million a shot.
I No, not when you're 21. Yeah.
I mean, if I was, you know, less than that, I I would, but but 3 million is just not enough. I mean, you're going to get 9 12 million. You're going to get, you know, that many hits out of it. It's just too dangerous otherwise.
Yeah. So, so I think his his route was multiball first. What's up,
Row? Okay, I'll be right back to it. Uh, you want to meet meet me? I'll be
sure.
Yeah.
All right. So, you got just me now.
Well, you're going to have just me after this round because Derek's Derek's explain the winner of the uh
of the Kane and uh and Steve match. Let's get back to that. So, that's going to be next. See, that was Jim's third game. That was their third game. So, let me um
I'll see if they update it. If they don't, I'll do it myself. I have a
sheet in front of me I have to fix, though.
See, David versus Derek. They put something wrong here. Let's see.
Oh, thank you. When you're back. Absolutely. Uh, I got to go to my database now. Yay. This software is nice and neat, but it's not full featured and that's why not everyone I haven't offered it to anybody else. So, uh, game six and Derek one Let's see. Derek received 11. So, he won uh Right.
What's up? Oh, you you're muted. You know, you want to talk.
I I I do not like talking. I'm the most quiet guy there is out here.
Bit of an introvert, but it's all right. We get to watch this cool light show here. Yeah, we're just punching everything in, right? Getting everyone caught up.
Yeah, I'm trying to fix an issue here.
Yeah.
See, because I don't I wrote this this software was used for the IPA 19 championships and then I haven't touched it since until yesterday where I tried to, you know, just uh get this back up and running for this uh Derek. Derek,
you want
There we go.
Feel like
that fixed it.
Too many Dereks in California right now. Um, we should have checked in the on the status of the other matches, but uh
I went over a few of them when um when you were switching games.
They put that in. Okay.
Nothing nothing is uh
they're not putting in Okay. Nick and Tom put their games in. Jack and Scott have not. Andre and Gabe have not.
They just started.
They just started. Yeah. Okay.
I think the rest of them are kind of going still. All right. So, we get to H. The dead bounces are awful on this one. I I got screwed on one of the dead bounces uh on this one in a different tournament. So, I I no longer trust the dead bounce on this game.
No, absolutely not.
Um this is going to be warm-ups, so everyone's just figuring out where the ramps are. The the beginning of this game will be the same for each player. It will be three shots to the three shots to the left orbit. I mean the left ramp and then a shot directly to the uh to that
Oh my goodness, that rejected. That is the first time I've ever seen it reject on the plunge. Uh cuz he it's set to like automatically go into the scoop so no one gets like weird feeds. Oh, that that drop catch, guys. Like these are just spongy at the bottom. This is still this is still warm up. So, I like that. I like knowing that you can bounce it over. I don't like that second flip, but I guess you kind of have to if you He wants to test how to get it to the uh to the right so that he hit the ramp. I I like this practice here from I am I am impressed by what Kane's doing.
Yeah, the plunge is like a guaranteed 500,000 as long as you don't like over hit it and somehow like hit the habitat.
So, welcome to the best pinball day of the year. I'm sorry that it happens so early in the uh in said year in the month cycle. But for anyone that's a fan of the game, 30 streams all in parallel um with some amazing matches. 500,000. You plunged correctly. 520,000. I don't know where that 20 came from, but Oh, that's that's great. That popped up into the hole. So, he's going to get a free uh launch back to the right flipper instead of it coming out through the pops. Okay. Ah, way to way to hit that without using an A. The way his body postured, I thought he was going for a big move and uh he went for a big chill move. One more ramp. We'll start his hurry up.
He wants the lock shot. Oh, it's Oh my goodness. That's huge. That is huge. If that goes If that goes left,
he's out millions of points. It chose right.
Nice shot.
All right. Bracket's mostly updated.
And the other the other good thing about this uh pretty much like auto going into the scoop on the bottom is uh you you will be guaranteed to play a three ball multiball like the skill shot plunge.
Oh yeah. Yeah. That's nice to to have that.
Yeah. Cuz if you didn't have it set that way, there's a lot of variability. the ball comes out weird, but you get three ball instead of two ball because you hit the skill.
The only other bit that I'd really like to see for a tournament ROM, I I know there's been modifications, but I I want the jackpot shots to be the same for every player.
Yeah, I I
cuz because they're significant advantages to certain shots.
Yeah, you get you get the ones that feed back to the flippers. Uh
yeah, left ramp and left scoop for your two jackpot shots. And you you've got a you know serious advantage over the other player.
Yep.
Oh, that didn't register to the
It looked like it went through the spinner lane. Maybe it didn't.
It's been It's been a little rejecty up there. Even Even Clean Shots, I think that the um trigger is way way back like under the ramp.
Okay. collects his his uh whirlpool timer, which after your multiball,
you he didn't he didn't light it actually. He had you have to shoot the left ramp first in order to light the shots, the millions.
Got it.
So, he just got the the standard value, I believe.
I lied to everybody, but he's still getting a million.
Oh my gosh.
That was the same kick we saw at the end of the last game. It was the left. I don't even know what to call these on got leaves. those those standups that fire like slings, like they're like missile launchers. Uh fired right into the right sling and then right down the middle. He's getting some of the the free uh Oh, you advanced the All right, so he got a free ramp because of the end lane.
I do believe that if you hit the left ramp, the uh the spot shot always moves to the other other in lane so that you can't ramp in.
Right. Right. Yes. The game is designed so you can't just get three inlanes over and over. Y
you have to work for them or get lucky.
That's a spinner. you. Oh, that's a spinner out. Uh, decent progress ball, you know, five 5 million without playing your multiball. Not the worst. You take that. I think he's probably going for the 3 million stand up mode here, especially with since it's going to like your first shot is like fed that way. Man,
that left. What do you even call that thing? Like
it's a kicking target.
It's just a kick. Yeah. All right, fair enough. It It has fired three balls out and then the first two were one way. Like that was just straight out. Those are definitely the most dangerous things on this game. Like most of the feeds from the top are pretty okay. Like if you're good with nudging, it's not bad. That's great. One more of those. Big shot to the left scoop. Nice. Rips 4 million. Nearly ties it up.
And look, he's got
ramp ramp.
Yep. Exactly.
One ramp doesn't have a good feed, but
true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He he he'll get a shot at both of these right off the plunge.
And he he actually cuz it would have fed left and right off the plunge. So he would have been in.
Oh, I was like, if that got up there, that'd be crazy. Uh, just backhanded in the scoop.
That's over.
So, yeah, you want to shoot the left ramp right now because that lights you see this little light. Yep, there we go.
Backhands it just like you said.
Now you got to shoot the right ramp for the millions now.
There we go. Million mil mill. Oh, that was a solid shot there. 9 million. I I think
superoid. This is s surfing safari.
Yep.
I can appreciate that his icon is a Noid from uh Domino's,
which also has a game. I don't know if it's because he knew that there was a Domino's pinball game. Not the worst game in the world. I got to look. I got to look. I almost got kicked out of the booth.
Oh, this is a this is a solid this is a great game for where it was back in its time. It does have like a soft cap on points.
It's all in the multiball. There's just so much so many points in the multiball.
Yeah.
And then if you fill up the grid, then you're you're really going to town, you know?
Yep.
Then you got the the the the super target, right?
Yep. Super, super, super, super.
I like it.
Which is fantastic when you do it.
All right, getting a little uh help here on rules, which is fine. He's not playing.
Yeah, rules help is allowed between balls.
He's just asking, "How do I get there?"
Yep. So I ah man it's so tough because he needs he needs the the drop targets and the spinner to three like
Yeah the spinner really isn't that big of I mean it can be it can have a bad feed coming out of it but the drop targets is just the death kind of like the kicking target.
Yeahbody
yeah I I think
is it new? I mean, yeah, if it's not on the website. Yeah, if you want to fill it out.
Like, I think I'm just going whirlpool. Like, we saw a 9 million whirlpool once it was at a million.
All right, let's see what he chooses here. He needs he needs four of these to make Kane play. That's the first time we've seen the kick rocket shot not hurt someone. Does he backhand it? He does.
Now you uh No, no last second shot.
Oh, he did take it. Okay. I did not know if there'd be a grace on that or not. I didn't know if it stopped at one, but there was a zero. got the double lit right now. I mean, it's that's what that little ticking is right now on the left scoop.
Yeah.
Does it do anything a bonus? Does it give you a chance?
But it builds the double the double letters at the on the backboard to get your double scoring.
Oh my gosh, that
Was that like a tap bounce?
A dead bounce.
Jesus, that was crazy. Wait, is that 100,000? Like you just ripped that two more times. Oh, win the scoop.
Yep.
Uh
500. Yeah,
which is fine. You get a you get a control. I'm just wondering if you go to the lock shot and then Yeah, I think the lock shot was the right way to do it.
Yeah, you do get put in jail here with that with just those two things to do.
Yeah, it's tough. I mean, at a million per per whirlpool, that's where I'm going.
Yeah, at this point. Yeah, I agree.
Uh I mean, so so as long as he doesn't mess up the plunge, this is over. So he rocketed a plunge earlier and it hit the habit trail and didn't didn't go in.
So I I still think he has it in bonus cuz it's
But you just you just don't want to. There you go.
500,000.
Yep. That'll that'll do it.
We don't. Okay. I'll mark this as can.
Nice game. This is where I'm testing like where can I where can I get away with uh ski passes and not Is he gonna keep playing though? Okay. I'm gonna We're gonna look at the bracket again. Welcome back to the bracket. Oh, that's my setup where I was inputting stuff for people. There we go. Here's the current bracket as best as uh it can be with people updating and uh I'll be back.
You picked a great match like a 3-2 match that's still going. Good job. Good job, Carl.
Yeah. Uh no one else I think has finished. I mean, some people are getting pretty far into the uh into the second round. Uh Dennis and Corey going to a game seven. Uh game seven's the the top seed gets to choose any game from any era that was not picked um by both players already. He stepped away. I will have him. Oh, world poker tour of the uh the wizard moon, right? I'm getting that confused with uh what is it? Whip it or something? The women's pinball. You have a question. Did you finish WPT yet?
All right. Here, I'll take the mouse back.
There you go. It's going to be interesting to see how people play this one. Um the common's strat is uh chats lanes and then collect these hurryups. Have I finished WPTV yet? No. Because it keep breaking cuz you're playing it so well. The last thing was the right ramp. Two welds broke on it and I uh I couldn't I had to buy a new ramp. O Kane's locked into these uh these ramps. That's that's nutty.
Good for this game.
Yeah. So, the flippers are You have to be real early on these. They're not The upper flipper is strong. The bottom ones are just And this is still practice, so no big This looks a little floaty to me.
It is. It's a It's a little flat. Um but the like Depending on how you're playing this game, you're you're really going for like I assume you're like a shots in lane type player.
You do nothing but Yeah. Yeah. If if you can pull that off, sure. Otherwise, it's just left orbit to side ramp the entire game.
Yeah,
that's that's the game. There's nothing else you're going to be doing.
Yeah, the side ramp I had a hard time finding the timing on. Um so I I'm wondering if that spinner to side ramp is like a a nicer kick. But
you're talking the the the the saucer on the right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. I didn't realize there were two There are three spinners on this game. Crazy.
He's He hasn't been like full hard hard plunging and I think it gives a better feed out of here. So I I like that strat. Uh cuz the the the hard plunge was coming out but it was coming off of the rail when uh when it leaked out. So that was I I like this. But you can fall into one of those uh you know one of the shots if you don't do it too.
Yep.
But the good thing is if it falls into the the right one, you can just catch it on the right flipper.
Like he showed earlier. Uh oh, this game leans hard to the right. So him
Yes. So So that's even more reason to to play it that way.
Yeah. So these traps are easier.
Yeah. And the sling's not
sensitive. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Surprising.
Yep. So, yeah, he's already at 75k. 3k spinners. Oo, lights is Oh, he didn't need that, I guess, cuz his lane was already freeway, though.
Oh, yeah.
That didn't give him a freeway.
It has to go all the way.
Yeah, there's a star roll over on the right that has uh on the left that it has to go.
I see it. in the upper left.
Yep. And this is a great ball one. He is ripping that side ramp. Two more to light the red light.
Yep. Yeah, cuz you get spotted. Every time you hit the side ramp, you get spotted a a light. So, I'm pretty sure like does the first plunge of the ball spot a light too? So, like on ball two, if even if he hadn't done this, he would have probably been okay, I believe. Didn't get that plunge anywhere near.
Oh, no.
Yeah, a half ramp is is full dead.
Richie special.
Yep. Yeah. I mean, getting punished for missed shots is that's what pinball is or should be. Getting punished for maid shots is where people do not enjoy it. I want to see if if you do get spotted just from plunging.
Yeah, you do. So, he he would have had his lock automatically lit from plunge. I'm glad I get to watch this cuz if you knowing that this like the lanes are not because when you did chats they didn't come back to the same flipper. They kind of like rainbowed over.
Yeah. It's not as safe. I remember that from the last time I was here at Jim's house.
Y
um
the timing on this side ramp is so ridiculous. Uh I believe you can post pass pretty pretty safely on this game. That sling is sensitive. The other one, not so much. But if you feel comfortable just hitting the spinner, like this is a good feed. It's It's the same thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
Yeah, that sling woke up it looks like.
Yep.
Yeah, but at the beginning of the ball, you do have the outlane ball save, so that's kind of nice. builds his ramp value by getting one of the numbers. Incidentally, trouble trouble. Okay.
Yeah, especially with it rolling right like
that was a good little nudge. So, someone walked by and I could see the his score. It's 252.
Oh, no.
Yeah. Did it just float off the left? Right. Cuz it's kind of leaning right like the trap is way tougher on that side. 297. Okay.
Yep.
One of these scores has an extra digit. So, good on good on Kane. Like kind of a newer player. Both of them are newer in the grand scheme, but playing excellent.
You got away. So, this is as long as this locks, this is multiball, right? or it doesn't matter. He's he's in multiple.
He's in multiple. Yeah, cuz that ball was still in the uh in the lock
All right. So, side ramp for
for jackpot, right?
Yep. One time jackpot.
All right.
Pass. Oh, almost. or we try to uh stage. Either one.
Nice. Take that.
Okay.
Yeah. He's He's going for the spinner.
No, no, no, no. You've been so good on the Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
I was going to say he's been so good on that left orbit to the ramp. You just keep with that.
Yeah.
Really needs that freeway though, too, right? His inlanes are not lit for the kickback.
Uh, no, they are not.
Oh, nice try. Nice try to air defense there. And there's no grace on that. So, you just start over. All right.
Yep.
O, what's so weird is he did all that and he got like a 200,000 points, you know, a little bit extra with a bonus, but he started at 1.2, so you know. What do you prefer, highspeed or high speed 2? Huh?
Um, I think the correct answer is always neither. But highspeed 2. High speed. Like this can be this one from game to game can feel so different. And if you don't know which way you're supposed to play the one that you're on, you're in trouble.
Like Highspeed 2 kind of plays the same no matter what location it's on. This one in Seattle, you had to play shs because like the side ramp was so unreliable. The plunge you the plunge wouldn't even go around.
Yeah, that's that's problematic.
So, yeah. So, it's like you you know, you can't even plunge into the side ramp cuz it does exactly what that does.
I mean, whatever timing he's got on that, it's like perfectly getting over the second.
It's just enough. It's Yeah. Nice nudge off the right. Like these small nudges that help the ball off the side parts of the of the game. Like I I see he hits that star target. Um I think they're undervalued. People do not realize that there's so much you can do. Not even slings, just side of the game. He you see he just gives this little bottom nudge.
Get up.
No. See? All right. Preemptively like rocking the game, though. My favorite in Getaway 2 is when that outlane goes right into your video mode. That's like my favorite.
The perfect kickback.
It is. Yeah. Ain't no video mode on this game. Half ramps, half half pipes. Always always the danger. Oh, just straight like clean in lane. Oh, look how smooth he look. Like Kane is like relaxed right now. He He feels okay. Well, he's having fun.
He is, but he like this is where he's going to be dangerous because he he looks like he's zoned. Like he like he looks like he's he's ready to win a championship.
Like smooth drop catch like whatever. He misses it. He shakes his head like I've been here before. gets a nice little kick up into the uh into the spinner. Rips the ramp again. Yeah. And he's he's got that that live catch down so that it doesn't come up high enough to hit the uh the sling. I I think uh Steve might have just been holding the flipper up and it was jumping high where he's deadening it with a with a bit of a live catch. All right, Steve has to come back right right now or he'll be eliminated. This is the uh this is it. If he does win this game though, we go into a sudden death tiebreaker, which is another best of best of three basically.
Yeah. I uh something Did it reset all of his multiball progress?
Um, it's Yeah, the lights don't look a little I don't know how before platinum lights look on this. I never actually paid attention to it. So,
yeah, I I'm not 100% either.
But if it's a if things did reset, that's a We're sorry. It's unfortunate.
Okay. He was ready. He's good.
Okay.
He needs one more.
Yep. Yep.
There. Oh my gosh. Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
Yeah, that's
that's that's that is wrong.
Don't hit it too good.
Wow.
Yeah, that that's
I don't think I've ever seen that one.
Uh yeah. Yeah. to when the the second gate opened to def deflect it left, it came out and bashed the ball back down the ramp.
There's little diverters here and well, I missed it, but like here and here. And when he hit this ramp, the diverter came out as the ball was still traveling at good speed and it backed it back down and we we saw that candy cane.
That's that's that's
not a good way like that makes you that's a feels bad for
Yeah, that is a feels bad. Yep. Yep. Exactly.
All right. So Kane advances.
Yeah, I play Kane.
Um you'll be playing Kane. I'm probably going to move to the uh let's go to the bracket.
All right. Mumi is going to be
we're going to go to this group, I think.
Okay. Miami said that she was she's getting Taco Bell and probably join in. So
Yep. And she was around. So hopefully we'll have some conf break right here as we switch between uh matches. But uh stay tuned.
Yep.
Thank you, Derek.
All right. Yep. We'll be right back. I get get the rig moved and see if anyone else can come on the mic. Chad, I think we'll go down to here to We'll go watch Raymond and Derek Thompson. How about that? Uh, I'll find what game they're on and we'll move the rig over to them. right, we're coming in Black Knight. Uh, this is ball three. Raymond has put up a crazy 400 million on this. And we'll get the group switched over. Let's see if I can do this. Uh, not this. That's going to break this. Yep, it's broken. Uh Raymond versus Derek changed match. So, we're going to try and stick with the single group for their entire maps. That's why I pick the pick these two because they just started their first game. so we can watch their entire series. I'll try and keep it that as uh the night progresses, but uh there may be other things. All right, Derek gets his ball just in time it looked like there. Super sling started. Uh Magma Beast is uh 4 mil there it looks like.
I'm on my small monitor. I should look at the big one.
Reaping the rewards of doing well at Indis like qualifying for California State. We always seem to have someone at least that comes through here. So, he really wants one more night letter. What's the quickest way, chat? What What would you recommend, Derek? Go for to get that final letter cuz you already got the one for the Magma Bees, right? Oh. Yep. There we go. Derek's signature signature bird. All right. Uh, I will get this moved again.
See, they put their game just. Hold on. All right. I got to move the rig. Okay. So,
all right. So, we're uh going back to black back black knight back to high speed. We just watched high speed with the previous group. But, uh
Okay. And this is Dennis. Hello,
Dennis.
Dennis is jumping in. Cory beat me 4-3 uh in a great match.
Wait, 4-3? Not not 53. is
it's best to seven.
This is a sudden death, isn't there?
It's uh Yeah, it's But it's still best to seven. We played We were 33 and then sudden death. 4-3.
Oh, there's only one game for sudden death here.
One game for sudden death. That's right.
Um
I thought these were IFA World uh rules and not the Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Sudden death is uh literally Yeah. Okay.
So, they're in a three-player game. Is this warm-up or is this warm up? Okay, good. Okay.
Um, practicing the plunging. I don't know. I don't know this game hardly at all. I actually had to play this uh against uh Cory, who apparently has it in his garage. Um, but this is a classic. This highspeed is a classic. Um, I wish I knew it a little better, but for me, the only thing I really know is I want to get all the green lights and then all the yellow lights and then all the red lights and then try and uh escape. I'm going to run away from the popo. Yeah, I mean you're pretty much on on this game you're going to be shooting the left orbit and uh and then shooting the side ramp or you can see what Rand's trying to do and light the inlanes. If you shoot an in lane, then the freeway lights on the orbit.
Yeah.
So you're getting those those values. We can't you know this is this is your freeway value right there.
Okay. You can draw by hand. Oh yeah.
Um
and that's clear.
Clear right there. Y
yeah, that was uh that was one thing. And in fact, I saw Cory in warm-up chatsing a little, and I think that was just to practice, you know, lighting uh or or hitting the lid in lane to then uh get your freeways. Yeah, those freeway values can be pretty substantial, but it seems to me like there's really a lot more in the multiball if you can get there,
right? But it's a onetime jackpot also. So once you get that jackpot, then you're going freeways all day. Yes, it is.
Oh, I see. During the multiball, after the jackpot,
Exactly.
you go for freeways. That makes a lot of sense. That makes a lot of sense. Hello Jared. Thanks for joining us here on the screen. All right. Now they're playing for realies.
Yeah, for real.
Okay.
Uh and this is round two for them.
This is round two.
And who who had the buy?
Who?
Raymond had the buy.
Raymond had the buy. Okay.
Yeah, they're great players.
Yeah. Here's that left orbit, too. Oh, nice little nudge to keep that in. I think
that was nice. Now, shooting a left orbit. This is for the sake of shooting the side shot from the upper flipper.
Yeah, it's just a set spots you a light.
Yes, exactly. The side ramp spots you a light.
Now, since he got one freeway, his in lane is lit to relight the kickback. So, he may try to sh it to Well, he shot the target intentionally or not, but that re reit the kickback as well. The kickback is so important to always have lit.
I I feel like the kickback is important and I didn't know this rule that you're talking about. So what you're telling me is is that after collecting a freeway, an inlane lights to
So now both inlanes are lit. Are are would either one of them light his kickback? Oh, he must have done it cuz his kickback is on. You know what, internet? Here I was thinking that I had to get these, you know, these three here andor these three here to lay the kickback. But I'm learning now that that's not the case. I totally agree. Um, this is a big scoopy drain situation here. So getting kickback is super valuable. Um, yeah, Carl, I didn't totally understand that. So after a freeway, uh, a lit in an inlane lights for ball safe for for
I had no idea about that. I thought you had to do it the hard way with this one, two, three or Oh, I thought you had to do it by hitting the flashing one. Actually, I thought you had to hit the flashing one to let your kickback, but it's in lane.
It's Yeah, inlanes are always the
always the easier way.
Okay.
Why I always want to get Yep. There you go. See?
Wow.
Wow. I had no idea. That's fabulous cuz I I totally agree. Those big those big scooping outlanes like that. Wow. I always want I always want kickback lit if I can get it with those big thirsty outlanes.
All right, that's Oh, no. We just saw
Wow. So the last match we watched Steve shoot that for his multiball start and it did exactly that but it drained out the right and he lost the match because of it.
Wow.
All right. One more.
The game is leaning right. You can see.
Okay.
So here it's just he's just trying to present the ball to the upper flipper go. need that side ramp.
And and basically for me, I was thinking that to present the ball to that upper flipper, it has to be either this or probably this. Is that the way you play?
One of those two. That's it.
Yeah, this is very interesting. I'm glad we're talking about this. Uh thank you, Pinball Hero. I had a great I had a great day. A lot of fun.
I feel like that's pretty good. Now, is he going to pick up where he left off in the exact same situation except the plunge won't count as a side ramp or
Right. I think he has to shoot the side ramp twice. the plunge one and then shoot it again for the for the lock. I believe that's shooting for the freeway on the right orbit since it's lit. So, anytime you shoot an in, you know, roll over an in lane, it lights the opposite orbit for freeway.
Yeah. But also to light the kickback again if the kickback's off,
right?
Fabulous. I love that.
Yeah. I had no idea it was so easy. So yeah, Raymond's just going to be going for looks like for freeways to start here,
but that works too.
And to me, it doesn't look like freeways are that much. Is the extra ball set to points?
Um, I don't know about that, but freeways build up over time. It's up to 125,000 I think is what that uh the right answer is.
I think the right one is light extra ball.
I mean, the last amber one is what I meant. Um, okay.
But but the the value stays at that for the rest of the ball. It'll go down. And it's also your bonus multiplier, right?
Oh my gosh. Again, Derek gets him.
I didn't know it was bonus multiplier.
No, no, it's side range for bonus.
Or what is it?
I'm I'm spacing out on that.
Yeah, he's shaking his head, but he he kept his poise.
Hey, Fun size. Good to see you. It's been fun texting you today.
Yeah, Derek doing well here. Okay. Now, this is just side ramp for jackpot, right?
Yep. You get a onetime jackpot. It'll be at 750,000. Then after that, it's freeways all day.
Okay.
Stage. Nope. Okay. He's got the jackpot.
He didn't stage, but he got the jackpot. I would say that's worth putting that ball out of control.
So, at this point, wait for the light show trap up because this is a crazy light show that goes on for so long. Okay.
And don't shoot the side ramp cuz if you shoot the side ramp, the ball's going to release. So instead in lane orbit in lane orbits
orbit so this ball stays tucked away for until he drains this
unless he shoots the side ramp at which point it will it will come out. So there's a freeway 25,000 for that.
Okay. Now and when the when the inlanes So the inlanes are both lit right now, but when they're not lit, how do you light them?
With a freeway collect
the freeway itself lights,
right? So the in lane Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Once you there you've got an in lane
now. And now darkening that in lane here, shooting here, lit this freeway. That's what he was going for. And now the ball comes back. Well, this is this is great. I I didn't know any of this stuff.
The fact that getting the jackpot um basically tucks a ball away for you and lets you play with impunity in single ball play is fabulous.
Yeah, I had no idea. That's great.
But most people's instinct is to I have to shoot the ramp again. I have to, you know, get the ball get the ball back in there. But then they all come out and then you've wasted your your freebie time. Yeah.
And doesn't there's no way to relight the jackpot. So,
Right. It's one jackpot and then you you and you can go all the way around and play a second multiball. Yeah.
But when you're in multiball, you can't go around. Okay. Crazy. Uh
not bad here. One thing
Yeah. One thing I noticed, I guess the side ramp is this always 50,000 as well.
Uh there's ways to raise it, but yes, that's the base value.
Okay. And then that's also spotting one of the lights, right?
Yes. Exactly.
I believe the one 123 targets are what increase the value of it. So you're never going to shoot those.
Oh, not on purpose. Yeah. Here. Okay. So, oh dear. Okay.
This is the score here is not insurmountable whatsoever.
Takes one multiball and as long as you can find it, it'll be good. Steve Pub, thank you for the sub.
Yeah. Hey, our our our conference state champion from two years ago. Yeah. Going for side ramp. Very good.
Once you find that combo, that's all you need on this game. You you you'll tear it up.
One thing I noticed is that the feed, I guess, from the right and left, but when it comes down from the lock, you can just hold up the flipper and catch it. So, I'm surprised it's that kind. See, there he shot the in lane, but it didn't light. It lit the It lit the
Because it was lit,
right? It's the opposite.
It was lit. I I looked at it and I thought it wasn't lit, but it was. I understand. When it's lit, it lights freeway.
I just I don't like the the shhats on this. I don't like the It seems like it goes out of control after it on how this game is playing today.
Interesting. Yeah. I mean, it a lot of times you shots for safety and uh but on some machines, uh it's uh it's it's doomsday. So, that's interesting that you you you avoid it on this. Okay. I mean, most high speeds, that's one of the strategies is to shoot the just chats,
light the freeway, collect the freeway, and just do that all day.
Interesting.
I mean, multiball just seems like so much to me.
I mean,
but with the with the max out freeway plus the ramp, I'm getting 75,000 per for per combo. Basically,
you get 125,000 I think it is for the freeway.
Or is it 100,000?
I think it's 100, but then you get 50.
And then you get 50 for the ramp. Yeah, exactly.
Interesting. So, just grind out those 150s.
So, I mean, that's
if you can do it and it's safe.
Yeah,
that's where you're at.
Anytime I can do something safely, that's good stuff.
So, he needs the side ramp to start the police pursuit, right?
Right. It's going to come around. He has to lock it again now. There we go.
Oh, I didn't realize. See, you can shoot it twice in a row. Somehow that eluded me.
Well, the that was because the lock was ready. That was he was running the red light right there.
Okay,
breaking through, you know,
getting away from the cops.
All right, he's he looted the cops and now
and now he's got his jackpot.
Okay,
look at that. Simple as that. So, he's got two balls in play. He's going to trap both these up. Or maybe he's going to lock one more. Um
Oh, you can lock another. You can put two away during the three ball multi,
right? Because one can go on the other side.
Okay. Okay. And that would just be again side ramps the only way to do that. I had no idea. This is fascinating. So, I see some of his stop lightss are lit. What's going on here?
There's a bonus if you lied to everything. Um I believe
I feel like I remember I hardly know anything, but I feel like someone said like Yeah, I'm curious to see what it does.
See, he's at this point.
He doesn't want you don't want to shoot the ramp, right?
Just shoot the freeways.
And his freeways are 75,000. So this kicks one out or both.
Well, the one cuz he already drained the other. So this is it.
Oh, he Yeah.
Okay. I was thinking that he locked the other. So, we're back at uh back at square one.
Boy, I can't see his score. I can't see the
1.9.
Okay.
Yeah, that glare in that room is just But again, this is He's caught back up pretty much. I mean, after bonus, he'll be he'll be he'll be
too bad.
And when you light freeway with a lit in lane, it's for a limited time. Is that what's going on? I see.
Interesting. So, now if you're him, what do you do? Go for multiball again?
Uh I chat it cuz I want my kickback lit. And yeah, and now it's just the same thing. Just rinse, repeat. I wouldn't be shooting the right orbit. I'd just be I'd be postp passing, going left orbit, side ramp. There you go. Freeway is 100,000. Ramp's 50. So, it's 150,000.
Yeah.
Do it again.
Actually, freeway might only be 75. I'm not sure, but
that was a It was 100 on that.
Oh, it was 100. Okay.
Cuz it's maxed out. It's that I can't draw on this screen. I can only draw that one, but that value is 100,000. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100K. Wow. Uh cuz collecting it doesn't build it. only building it builds it. I see.
Well, it's it's maxed out now.
Oh, cuz it's at 100.
It's 100. So, it's not going to light extra ball,
right? Maybe it's turned off.
I sort of wondered what would happen if someone got over there, but maybe it's turned off.
Yeah, I love what you're saying about always keeping that left kickback lit. That I I can imagine that must be so important. Um, Yep. I love kickback. I love ball safe. Okay. Freeway. Freeway. Freeway.
And the spinners are, you know, points, too.
How did he like those spinners?
Uh, it might be one ramp shot, one I don't I don't really know off the top of my head.
Yeah,
it's nothing. It's just something that
it's a little Look at it on the on the on Derek's ball. See what lights it.
It looks like it's only a thousand a spin. So, it's not a jillion points, right? But it's not, you know, it's
but Jim spinners are always, you know, lubed pretty well.
He loves a good juicy spinner.
Oh, what? That's 30,000 maybe. Maybe a little more.
Okay. Second freeway light spinners. Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
All right. So, now he does want to get into the freeway to cuz his inlanes aren't lit right now, right?
So, he can get the in lane to relight the kickback. Okay,
nice.
Great save.
And there it was. I mean, the left out lane is what takes a lot of balls. But, um, that's fabulous.
5x bonus maxed out.
And this is a Derek pick. Is that what's happening here?
Um,
it must be Yes, it is. Yeah. Yeah, because the his selections are on the top. Raymonds are on the bottom. It's on the player card. Oh gosh, that was dangerous.
Yep.
No, no, no. Uh, no tilt warning there. Nothing. He got That was a good good push, too. I think
he saw the machine move.
Oh, no. Wow. He's He's uh playing dangerous. Oh no.
Nice nudge. Just can't find it. He's uh lost it. There we go. There we go.
Relief.
I think I tilted this machine earlier, so I think there is a tilt. But it is interesting like you say that he didn't get any danger. So that pretty big move.
Yep.
So if you don't know, Derek Thompson runs the YGP pen in Edmonton, Canada, which uh the final tickets went on sale today for the the rest of the match. I haven't looked to see if they sold out, but I'm going to assume they did.
Okay. Um I think I think everyone here in the final 24 are from California except for Derek.
Yep.
Like he's our one non-Californian and he's from Can
our one invader this year.
Yeah. Um
Yeah, that's neat. Does Canada have Oh, okay.
We're the red light time.
Yeah. So, just side ramp.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. slow down.
So again, running the red light will start the pursuit and then he has to shoot the side ramp again,
right?
Yeah.
And normally most high speeds have a progressive jackpot,
but this but this is a modified ROM where captured at 750. Yeah,
I like that. So, I feel like he can shoot the little hallway there. I think that's what he's trying. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's trying to shoot the hallway here cuz that presents the ball so nicely to that upper flipper to the side.
It's just a tougher
and he missed it. He bricked he bricked it and it went right down the middle.
Um, got to go move the rig. Okay. So, congratulations, Raymond. Second win. Very good. Very good. Very good.
I'll be back.
Okay. So, uh yeah, we see it going on here. A lot of uh a lot of exciting matches. Um wow. So, it's pretty interesting. Um these guys here, they're already three games into the second round. Three-0 for Johnny here. Nick Stein and Tom Isaac are four games in. So, both those games could be one win away from ending or uh could go on forever. I mean, not forever. Uh Jack and Scott just starting. Andre and Gabe just starting. Okay. All right. Uh and then there's more there's more bracket down here that I can't see. I'm not going to touch the computer too much. Um Oh, yeah. Cuz they haven't started yet. Yeah, cuz they're still What about this? doesn't Oh, so this should be red. This is just a software issue. So don't don't go nuts about this. That just like the others should be red with Cory Dunn defeating yours truly, Dennis, in a fun and fabulous match. Um but yeah, Kane. Yeah, Kane, great player. We knew that this was going to be an exciting, you know, pair to watch just because they're both from Southern California and they're both fabulous players. Yeah, they're both absolutely fabulous. Uh and great guys, too. So, that is what is going on. All of the matches here are best of seven. Um, and the way it works, you might have explained it before, I'll explain it again. Each player picks an old machine, a middle-aged machine, and a new machine. Uh, and then they play those six games. Uh, they alternate which one they play by, you know, picking. So, um, you know, where are we? Uh Raymond pick to play a Raymond pick and then Derek picked to play a Derek pick and now we're going back to a Raymond pick and Raymond gets to pick which one. Uh and then only if it's tied 33 do you go to Sudden Death and Sudden Death is literally sudden death where it's uh one more game and uh the higher seed gets to pick. But anyway, here we picked them up uh in the middle of their 30 seconds of practice. Uh I love Hoops. I I I freaking love Hoops so much. Oh yeah, it's a great game. I
I think it's fabulous.
One of the things that I'm expecting them to see them do in this 30 seconds of practice is try to plunge this. It's so important to learn this plunge. Uh because that lights your hang time and boy, hang time can really amount to a lot of points. Um then in addition to that, um I expect to see them do what Raymond is doing again. Here we're just in warm-up and that's trying to work on the locks. Look, you know, practice locking the ball here and practice uh locking the ball up here. So, that was pretty good. That was He did a lot for just 30 seconds of warm-up there. Um yeah, and let's see what Dererick does for warm-up in particular, you know, let's see if he can let's see if he can plunge this start hang time. Um the other thing he wants is to is to light his lock. But those are the two things you're trying to figure out on the lock. So, I had the same plunge that he had. Oh, that was went really well. I was able to light hang time, but I had trouble getting the lock when it was on the left. And he had trouble there, too, but then it popped back up and went through. So, that would have been a plunge he was happy with, but a ball that he wasn't happy with. Yeah. So, there. Wow. He's getting good pop bumper action off this pop bumper. Um cuz anytime you plunge and you get hangtime lit and lock lit, Wow, you're doing great. Um so, he has lock lit. So, that's what he's trying to practice right now. Okay, he feels good about that. First multiballs, two balls.
Well, that's how Jim sets his game up.
Okay.
There is an option to have it be a three ball at the first one.
Okay.
And same with the lane change. Jim turns off lane change at the top for locks.
Yeah, that's right. You know, I had heard that you could sometimes change lanes for the locks or the flippers. It's so much harder when you can't. And this is on that this is on that harder setting. Yep. Exactly. Um, do the middle-aged machines have back problems? You know, that's a good question. Um, they probably do, but they haven't been complaining about it. Uh, you know, I think I think Jim has a good chiropractor for the middleage machines. Um, but that's a great question. Yeah. Um, yeah, I don't think we have a chiropractor on location. So, if those middle-aged machines have serious back problems, uh, we may not be able to fix them. So, we'll see what happens.
The max win counts is wrong here. Let me get that wrong. Yeah.
Yeah, they didn't put it in. Um,
so they're playing for realies now. Um, wow. He immediately plunges a lock and locks a ball. So, he's immediately going into two ball multiball. He's frustrated that he didn't get the hang time. Um, but that's okay. He's just going to play multiball. He's locked one ball here. Now, if he locks the other ball either either area up top in time, he's going to get a super slam, which he gets to pick for a million points. Um, but uh you only have a limited time when you lock one ball. After a while, it falls out. So, now he's locked one, he's locked both. You get to pick with the flippers whether you want 20 baskets or a million points, but you always want a million points. There's no situation which you want baskets. Uh, so anyway, he got one super slam for a million points out of that multiball and that's what you're trying to do in the multiball. You're looking to get that super slam for a million points. So that was some fancy business there. There is a center post. Um, it's not easy to use, but he used it there. You saw him shaking his head. Um, you can post pass on this game. So, he wants to go back up top because back up top is where, you know, light hang time is and where light lock is and that's what he needs. He's actually going to need to light two locks, I think. Is that right? Cuz light two locks down.
Yeah. So, he actually has to light lock twice.
I mean, you can get only one, lock that ball, and then plunge for the next one. You know, that kind of you don't have to do them at the same time.
Yeah. So, he's just he just wants up top.
There is also two things. There is also the right in lane for light hang time collect.
Yeah,
on the cap ball.
Um, yeah, that's true. I, you know, I actually practiced this earlier wondering if I could chats for it, and I actually could.
Yeah,
you know, I it's for me, I find the captive ball a very tough shot. But, um, but indeed, yeah, this right in lane lights collect hang time in the middle of the ball and it doesn't drain it or anything crazy like that. It just collects it. Um, and that can be quite a lot of points.
Yeah. All right, he's uh looking for that second lock right now. It is lit, ready to go to get it up there. It's a It's an interesting shot. It has a It's a rebound.
Yeah, it kind of banks in there. And he did it.
So now three ball multiball. Now, do you have to as long as you have three in play? Do you have to lock all three to get a super slam?
Yes. And that super slam to 3 million then instead of 1 million.
I didn't know that second part. It's a 3 million.
It's harder. It's very hard. Yeah, much harder. Um, so he's not going to get to do that, but he does have hang time left, you know, uh, which he's happy about. When he plunged his third ball, he hit the light hang time target, so he's happy about that.
Um, hang time is over. So again, he got one lucky in here. So now if he can just lock another one, it counts. It counts.
Look at this.
Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous. Um,
that's all right. Oh, that's not all right. Never mind.
I mean, that's a great ball.
It was a good ball. Yeah.
Yeah.
One of the things that I can't help but notice as I'm watching, cuz I I know as you are watching at home, you might be kind of playing along in your mind. You might be wondering why he's not taking some more dead bounces off the left. You know what? This particular left flipper is kind of floopy. And if you try a dead bounce, it just
Well, it's a got all got leaves with this style flipper mostly.
Well, at the same time, you can dead bounce off the right.
Yeah.
On this, but on this particular machine, left flipper better not. So, for those of you who are wondering why Raymond's flipping away on some of these balls, left flipper, it's cuz he knows that on this copy,
you got to flip the left flipper. Oh, that's just gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.
Yeah, that's fabulous. shooting for the spinner there while the hang time was lit. You can tell. All right, but that's a good hang time light and lock light.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's just right in the gap. It's in the gap. You know, there's a center post and there's a flipper and that was just right between Okay. Yeah, exactly. Pinball hero. Yeah, you would think, why is he not dead bouncing? It's cuz it's basically super floopy. That's the dream. That's the dream plunge. He lit lock and he got hang time. He did both. So that's perfect. That's an example of a ball where he might have dead bounced except he knows that left flipper is floopy.
So what is it now? So now he's in two ball because it's his first multiball of the ball.
Of the ball. Yes.
I wasn't even sure.
Carry over between game between balls. Yeah.
Okay. So So each ball starts fresh.
Yeah.
With first multiball, two ball, second one, three ball. Fascinating. And you saw here he did go through an in lane. So this is lit exactly as you were describing up here. Um
it's also lit for special. It looks like
I don't know what special 500,000
I'd be okay.
Oh rough drain though.
Honestly I thought it was a dead post too or a center post too. I thought he had it. I would have made the same play.
So I mean he's very ambitious. So he's not thrilled with that ball but he's he's well ahead.
He's in a good spot. Yeah,
he's in a good spot. He's got a good number of baskets, too. I think I can't really see it completely. Maybe not.
Yeah, that's a little something. He's got 77. Derek only has 12 so far.
Yeah, I mean 77 is a good amount if that's actually 77.
I think it is. Yeah.
Yeah, I think so.
Oh, Derek.
Oh my goodness gracious. That is a tough one.
What's the superior basketball game between Globe Charters, Hoops, and Fast Break?
For me, it's hoops.
Yeah, I got to say hoops, too. I'm putting Fast Break actually second. Although a lot of people might disagree with me. Do you like Fast Break second or you like Globe Trotters second?
I think Globe Trotters. I do like Fast Break though. Don't think I don't like that game. I
I tell you, it's interesting you mentioned that. Basically, those are three great games. I mean, that's what I think. I think you're listing three very good pinball games. Um
uh Jared saying specials and extra balls are both 1 million each, which is interesting.
I had no idea. I I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to light extra ball or special. So, you're saying th this was lit for extra ball.
And that's a timed extra ball when it's lit.
So, I I'm embarrassed to say I don't know how to light extra ball or special. I know that extra ball's collected here and specials collected here, but I don't even Do you know how to light them? I
I forgot. I forgot.
All right. He had a nice 900,000 basket bonus there.
Yeah. So, 4.7. He's way ahead. I I think he wanted more and that's okay, you know. Uh basically, I mean, we're looking for Derek. He's going to try and do, you know, super slam. Uh he's gonna try to do multiballs with super slams and hang times. Um he's got hang time lit. I recognize that miss. I missed that hang time shot a bunch of times.
Oh, nice nudge. That nudge was crucial to keep that ball.
A life-saving nudge. Absolutely.
Pretty cool. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Oh, he got to collect hang time. It was only 280, but hey, I mean, it's 280.
That spinner right there just bumped it to 520. So, yeah, that next collect.
Oh, and it's lit again. It's lit again for collect. I see. I see. I see. Oh, this is great. Okay.
Yeah, he had a nice reflective shot into the uh into the spinner.
I know. Dirty pool.
That was crazy. Uhoh.
That the price of that uh of that um
collect
Raven's going to be going up.
This is This is how Okay. All right. That expired on something. Post pass, right? Yeah, this game you can post pass on
extra balls.
Oh, that was I didn't even see
that was a collect. Yeah, it was a purple light.
Wow.
I don't know. Um I don't think it was 1 million though.
Interesting. I wasn't paying enough attention though.
So, look at that hand timing bonus, though. He's at a million on the hang time bonus. So, at this point, hitting that left, you know, I I mean, the right in lane to light the collect is is is very important.
It's as good as a super slam like this. Here it is.
Yeah, he's going for the collect. You can tell with the early shot there.
Again, for me, it's very hard.
Oh, yeah. It's
I find it very difficult.
Oh, absolutely.
For me, it's the most difficult shot in the game. I suppose it's lit for special as well. So, this could be a big big number. And it timed out. the special times out too. Huh. Interesting.
Steo Pub, we don't allow any Californians to win this anymore, right?
Yeah.
I mean, last two years we've had uh we had Steo Pub win.
Who who won last year?
And last year was um Danielle.
Oh,
Italy.
Wow.
But well, that was uh if you remember the great two ball Johnny conceded at ball two.
Yep.
Yeah, Daniel can blow up some games. Okay, going to be post pass and back up top. He's got a light hang time.
One was 1 million, huh? I missed it then, Jared.
Thank you, Jared.
Post pass and back up top. There's a lot of There's a lot of back up top all day in this game. If you don't have your locks lit, you got to go back up there to lock them. That's the only way. If you don't have hang time lit, you got to go back up there to light it. It's the only way.
I mean, right now his his as long as he doesn't tilt. Oh man, he just can't get that right lane. Oh, what a
I don't I don't think he's there. He's got like 1.7 in hang or 1.8. I think he needs another 700.
Right. Right. I'm saying I'm just saying he has that uh banked. Just remember that with the score.
It's very close. Oh my gosh.
So, he probably wants to lock here, right?
He did. I mean, not that he couldn't do hang time. I mean, you sort of made a fascinating point. If he gets through this right in lane by hook or by crook and gets this, it's for the win,
right? Just one. What's he at with the hang time now? 1.2 1.3.2.2. Yeah,
it's not quite for the win, but it's Oh, wait. No, with the baskets it would be. Yeah, right. Yeah. So, he just needs one collect.
The good news is is he's still in hang time. Actually, I have no idea why that's lit, but he's still in hang time and he's got his lock lit here.
Oh gosh, he dead bounced left. He he actually has done a couple of successful dead bounces off the left which shocked me. Um he's got nerves of steel. Yeah, exactly. He's got he's actually got a hundred. He's got a million. Oh, that was gorgeous. That was gorgeous. He's got a million in baskets.
2.4 goes a 3x.
Trying for the lock. Just can't find
I mean his hang time is just going up and up. Oh gosh, he's got a lot of bastards.
Here we go. Here we go. I mean, he's he
That collect's lit. The collect is lit. Collect. Collect. Collect. I mean, he's probably there already, but there we go. That doesn't That's going to feel it.
Unless he unless he
No, no, no, no. It's done.
Oh, no. It's done. Yeah, it's done. No. Yeah.
Nice game there.
That was fabulous. I mean, cuz he had so much trouble on balls one and two.
Um, and that's why, you know, that's why Raymond wasn't satisfied. Uh, he's a great player, but he knew that he wanted a lot more out of the deal.
Okay.
Absolutely. Let me get this updated here so uh we can get
important some game selections here.
See Derek wins hoops. I'll put this in for them and then uh the remaining games are Solar Fire, Viking or Attack from Mars. We'll see what they are moving towards. Okay, with the rig.
All right. Um and I see uh I see Nick here turning in paper. So Nick has already won uh his his second round as has Johnny. So unfortunately Tom, Isaac, and Zach are not going to continue. Oh, and Gabe has won against Andre. Okay, so this is pretty exciting. I mean, the funny thing about all these matches is that every single one of these matches is two fabulous players and one of them gets knocked out, you know? I mean, that's what it boils down to. Two fabulous players, one of them gets knocked out. Um, so what are you going to do? So that means that Johnny and Nick are moving on. They can actually start the first round three game here. Uh Johnny and Nick are going to square off against each other, but right now um we're continuing uh to watch uh to watch Raymond and Derek. I guess they're like off the screen all together. I guess they're like down there, but Raymond is ahead uh two to one and the rig's on the move. I don't know which button to push. And as it turns out, we are going to Oh, a little Viking. Interesting. So, again, this is a Derek pick. Fascinating. This This game is so interesting because I play it really differently if I think I'm going to have to beat a super high score than if I think I'm going to beat a a midlin score. Cuz you can really blow it up with these inline drop targets, giving you bonus advance and bonus multiplier advance. and you can collect bonus for big numbers. But honestly, if the game's playing super tough, I might even just go spinner all day if it's playing really tough. You know, it's hard to know what you're going to have to be. I think probably these guys are so tough. These guys Oh, he was able to move that a lot. I think these guys are so tough, we're going to see a lot of this stuff, and we'll talk about what that does as they do it. This again, this is just warm-up. This is just a little 30 second warm-up ski. Um,
yeah, go Canada. Okay, pinball profile. I mean, I'm I'm not gonna lie to you. Derek's playing great here, so it's possible. I wish I could tell you, you know, we were going to keep in California, but we got to fight. It doesn't it's not going to happen all its own. Um,
that's that's one warning pinball profile.
Yeah. Um, the gates are tough to use. Actually, we saw in practice Dererick made a pretty big move and got away with it.
We did.
Yeah. So, it's interesting. Um, again, in the outlanes here, uh, you can bounce that ball back into play.
You know, that's like what you're supposed to do. There's a theoretically one-way gates. Um, and you can bounce the ball back into play. Um, I like the A plunge here. I think that's the safest plunge. It's not irrelevant in this game, I think. Um, saucer can be very dangerous on some copies. Wow, gorgeous catch. Little flipper hop there.
Overall, this looks like it's playing not too mean.
Yeah,
just looking at it.
Yeah.
So, are they tapping? I since I missed the practice. Were they tapping? Post passing or they alley passing?
So, I didn't see Derek make any sort of pass.
Okay, so Raymond's trying to backhand that if he can. Okay, that was a tap. Wow, that Yeah, he tried to tap there
cuz various copies you can do one of those three to get the ball from the left to the right to get the drop target.
Um though problem I've found in some copies is if you alley pass it can open this gate up and and bounce that way.
I've seen it happen and it's so sad when that happens.
Um so let's hope not that. For me on the copy I've played most I do the alley pass. No.
Okay.
But again, if it's a game where I don't need that many points, I could go spinner from the left flipper, too.
Oh, no.
Oh, jeez.
Oh, Derek.
Yeah,
Derek's signature.
It's funny because this is exactly why I said, so I guess they're playing as players one and three,
right?
Just to make sure nothing happens. Um, so they're just plunging off uh player three. This is why I try and plunge the A. I think the saucer is super dangerous, so I always want to plunge the A. I think that's the safest plunge. Well, so much for plunge in the Aink.
Oh, that was a great play. I mean, so you see he got it through, but the gate just stayed up for a second long enough for it to bounce back out.
I said blowing this up, not
there. Okay. So, uh, so far player two, which they plunged off, is beating them both combined, which you don't see that every day, but yeah, player two is beating them both combined. Uh, and player two is not even an active player. They're players one and three. It's a two ball game. That's what that means. Great plunge. Yeah, plunge that A. That's what I like to see.
I just want to make sure. I I like the play. He's alley passing to try and shoot here.
Good. Good try. Good dead bounce there. So now he's on the right. So that first drop target gives one bonus. Oh, that's 50. That's 50 for a limited time.
Ignore it.
Missed it.
Just ignore it.
50 is pretty good, but I guess he has bigger fish to fry.
Yeah, it's not worth the uh the danger of that target. Okay. Interesting.
For me, again, it depends on what I think the final scores are going to be.
All right. And if you haven't just noticed, the ticker just went by saying that Scott has defeated Jim Belcito.
Wow. Scott, which Scott wow. Okay.
Unbelievable.
Tom Isaac defeated Nick Stein.
No, Nick defeated Tom.
Wait, Nick.
Nick and
Oh, this was a single game. Sorry, that was an old update that's scrolling across the screen then.
Oh, okay. So, these these uh oneway gates also have a difficulty setting if you didn't know about it. There actually three different holes inside there to make it open to make it harder for the ball to um for the gate to close after the ball passes through.
So, tell me more about this. I don't know what you mean.
The the gates right here, these gates have difficulty settings.
I had no idea. which if you look at you're not going to be able to see it here, of course, but next time you're at a Viking, you'll look up close and you'll see three different holes that you can put the gate into to make it harder for the the gate to drop back down when the ball passed through it. Wow.
This that so much for saying this was a easier Viking. Or at least I was.
Yeah. I I'm surprised that the gate has difficulty settings. That's so weird cuz I would feel like you' just want the gate to not stay open. I feel like you'd want to pop it through the gate and be done with it and be safe.
Interesting.
Okay, plunges the A. I love seeing him plunge the A.
Yeah, I had no idea. That's really interesting. So, he did not lock in the super bonus. He was getting close on ball two, but he didn't. Um, if he had locked in 20, he would have. Um, but no such success. Yeah, he's definitely going inline drops all day. Again, the second second one takes you to 3x bonus and it's two bonus advances itself. Third one takes you to 4x and it's three bonus advances. See, so this is it's very valuable.
It's where the big points are. I mean, the spinner is the the safer, easier strategy
for some cheap points,
right? But once you once you get all these drop targets down, then you do collect bonuses and you just collect, you know, over and over and over again. That's where you get the really big scores.
That's where you get the massive scores. So again, he's at 5x here. He doesn't Oh, so it's his final ball. So super bonus is irrelevant.
So he's going to shoot the spinner now. Or is he going to Nope. He's going to go back. He wants to target for the Yep.
There we go. There's
It's 50k and five bon. Oh, it didn't bonus advance.
No, because it wasn't a drop.
I see. So it's 50k. No, 50k is pretty good. and he can just grind out 50s all day and and it seems like he's happy with the feed out of there. So, why not? Um, like you were saying, you know, he has another option and that's make a big bonus collect, you know, here. This would be a bonus collect for uh 90,000.
It's also building the bonus, too. You want to shoot the spinner now to build the bonus up to the higher value since you're at 5x. Now, does the spinner go up one per 10 clicks, or is it faster than that?
It's per 10 clicks, I believe.
Okay.
Oh, exactly as you said. Yeah, exactly.
But,
yeah,
that's at what cost.
Maybe why you don't do that.
I mean, if I were him, I'd be very happy with this. Uh cuz, you know,
it's solid. He's way ahead,
but at the same time, it's not insurmountable by by any means in this game.
Not at all. Especially Yeah. I mean, Raymond, all these players are pretty fabulous. Uh Raymond again, he qualified top eight in the state. That's why he got a buy. Yep. Plunges the A. I always want to see people plunge the A. Perfect. Raymond going straight for the spinner trying to build the bonus up. Maybe he's going to be trying for the um the thousand points to spin
cuz if not to get 400, right?
Well, you could you could do something with it. Obviously was he's not comfortable with the left at the moment.
Oh.
Uh Stucky.
Weird.
All right, let's get a TD.
No, he went for it.
Oh, wow. He did.
He said, "You know what? I don't feel like goofing around." So, he's building base with spinner. I'm fascinated cuz I think this is so dangerous. one,
but now he's at
say he was at 1,000 to spin at that point. So
yeah, I mean 400 I'm sure he had a long-term plan for that game because he's a super smart player. Um so in spots like that, that's where Raymond really often shines because he's so smart. He can come up with a good plan when he realizes he needs 400. I know he had a plan. I'm not sure the details, but that was him trying to execute it and it didn't quite work out. So, pretty exciting. We actually go to 22.
So, if you want to scroll around these, you can hover over and see the various games or just take a look at the matches if you want to click in and see what people did while I get the rig moved.
Yeah, you can see here. Um, I was curious what people would pick. So, Tim picked Medusa, Party Zone, and Jurassic Park. Medusa very obscure choice in my opinion. Party Zone also a little obscure in my opinion, whereas Jurassic Park is one of the most common games. Cory picked Hot Tip. He had a good game of it against me. I picked Hot Tip. Um I also picked Hoops and he had okay game of it against me, so he picked that. And then Attack from Mars. Cory loves him some attack from Mars. So pretty interesting just to see their picks. Kane ahead here after two. Interesting. Kane picked Argusy, Highspeed, and Black Knight Sword Rage, where Dererick picked Stargazer, Robocop, and Foo Fighters. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, these guys are sharp. These guys are absolutely sharp. Uh we see down here, we see down here that Scott is ahead 3-1. Uh and then they're just getting started down here. Just getting started.
All right, moving on. Solar Fire the players updated.
It It's funny. I don't really have a lot of uh experience with Solar Fire, but I have, you know, uh Grand Lizard experience. Is it identical to Grand Lizard?
It's not identical, but it's very very similar. I mean, this was this came first, but um I'm going to have to remember
this came first.
Oh, yeah. This is actually dual playfield versus Grand Lizard, which is a single, you know, this is it. is what
this hasn't that's an upper play field an actual upper playfield on this versus grand lizard is a single level playfield
it's not upper level
grand lizard
no that's a one that's a single playfield single level
I didn't know that I thought I thought it was also an upper level
um it looks like these are are these not thousands are those just actually 20 40 60 80 or are those thousands
they'll be thousands
okay thousand Um, so I mean is there any sort of modified ROM that prevents lock stealing or is this a lock stealing game?
I don't recall. I never
For me,
yeah, I can't tell you.
For me, I thought this was a strange choice because of the lock stealing. There's some other game in the banks that has lock stealing and I'm like, for me, it's very hard to pick a game with lock stealing, but maybe it has a modified ROM.
I can't recall going for locks on this most of the time, though.
Really? So that's fascinating cuz I I'm a big locks guy.
Um
this is more about getting your bonus multiplier up the spelling solar.
Um and just drop targets at the top kind of thing. Um I want to say there was something with the Oh, Derek might show us what's getting the multiplier on the left lane.
I do.
I don't Yeah, that shot right there is what he's looking for.
Okay.
Well, you saw him shake his head. He's happy knowing where that is.
And there's magnus saves here. Yep.
There's separate buttons on the side of the cabinet for magnuses. And what do you build them up?
You build them with the drops on the on the lower. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. I don't even know what's this. I have no idea what that is.
I can't remember.
I can't remember. I
I haven't played this too much. I don't
It just lit up. It just lit up. Anyway, this is just practice again. Um, so he's just flipping around. Um, it looks like he for for me I play for multiball, so it's interesting that you don't. And maybe that's why Raymond's comfortable picking it as player one. Maybe he just doesn't steal. Uh, lock stealing is fine for headto head. I don't even know what you mean. Okay. Um, yeah, for me, I hate lock stealing headto head. I think it's a huge advantage for player two. like ridiculous because player two can steal balls can theoretically steal locks from three balls where player one can theoretically only steal locks from two balls. Anyway, we'll see how Raymond plays. Maybe he just doesn't lock. It's very possible. So, I see a couple differences between this and Grand Lizard. Like this is a saucer instead of a standup. This is I I see it's not trivial to get up to that upper playfield. Yeah. Like I know when I play Grand Lizard, I can get up top, up the middle, no problem. But here we see
nice use there with the mages.
Gorgeous.
Again, this is a Raymond pick, so he knows he knows what he's doing.
He said he was going to pick Viking, but Dererick had chosen Viking already, so he
Matt. I agree. Um I don't like lock stealing, especially in comp in competition. I I do not care for it. Yeah, easier said than done, Sina. But you're you're not wrong. Okay, so that was nice. So, it's kind of interesting for me. So So again, when you hit the first one of these, it locks in the value that you're going to get if you complete them in time.
Right. Just like Grand Lizard.
Just like Grand Lizard. For me, when I'm on the bottom going up, I time it.
Yeah. You know, I try and time it. Um,
you can,
but he went up and he actually did not hit any of them, even though he successfully made it up. So,
that looked like an attempt to go up top from the from the left didn't work. See there, he locked it in at 40. See, if he had shot later, he could have locked it in at a bigger value. So, I'm a little surprised he didn't Okay, now he's locked it in at 100. So, if he finishes that off, which he just did, that's 100. See, that's a big number. I mean, you take a look that that's that's half his score in the whole game, just that one completion of the drops there. Um, it definitely looks like Raymond is playing up top all day.
Well, it's safe. So, that's why he did that.
Yeah. Now, I don't even know what this is lit. Oh, this is lit to lock.
Yeah,
it's actually a lock on solar fire. Okay. I didn't know. Let's see if he goes back up top. Nope. So, I don't know anything about this. What do you know about this? Is this solar? Is this
That's for fire letters, right? I believe. Is it? It says solar.
It's solar. Okay. Those are the solar with the hot fire.
And is that like
So it's just it's just like in time fantasy where you're you know you're going to shoot it to light one. And then bonus X uh for I can't read it all at the bottom. It says it above the solar letters at the bottom of the playfield.
Oh, okay. 20 seconds of double scoring for flashing letters.
Well, that's for that's for fire. Solar right above it. Solar is bonus X.
One bonus X for each letter in solar. So, does that carry over between balls or is it
Jeez, I don't know.
I do not know.
Okay, looks like Derek is also happy to be up top. I like that double dead bounce he took there. Um, coming down. I I think that's really an important feed when you come down how you want to play the ball. See there, he timed it to lock this in at 80. So, now he was going for 80 there. Um, so I like that. I like when you're trapped on the right. Now he's going to time it and try and hit the first one down when it's at 100. It's really It's It really cruises across there. It's going pretty quickly. Perfect. He did it.
Gorgeous.
He's probably not going to finish them in time, but I I love the It was exactly what he wanted to be doing from the lower right flip.
Do you post pass on this? I feel like I do.
Yeah, I would. And then backhand the center ramp instead. the the forehand seems to rattle if you don't if you don't shoot it right.
Do you think he can backhand solar?
There you go.
Wow, that was a great shot. I didn't think that was possible, you know. I hate when I lock it in for 20,000. I'm like, gosh darn it.
Yeah, it's still points.
It's still points. You're absolutely right. And then I know on Grand uh Grand Lizard stuff's going on up here. This was this was flashing for a limited time, but I don't know what it does. I know this builds up in value. I see a 25 and a 50 there. I just don't know the details. It's funny. He's grinding for so long and he only has 158.
Oh,
I tilted. My gosh.
Is bonus big on this? I don't even understand. with the multipliers it can be
okay
it can it can be decent value
okay
but no multiplier so it didn't really matter that much
you know it's funny I really felt like he had a great ball and uh Raymond's ahead by 120 Raymond's ahead substantially so there you go
ah Jared I understand what you mean you can lock because It's heads up. So, you're controlling your own destiny. You're not having uh player two give player three lock balls. I understand. Makes a lot of sense what you say. I wasn't even watching. Do you do you do you plunge? Oh, the plunge is maybe different on this. No,
no, the plunge is the same.
Plunge is the same. So, do you hold up the right flipper?
You can
on the plunge to keep it up there. I mean, another thing you can do is you can time the plunge. You can time the plunge so that if you fire away, you can lock in 100. Um, yeah, it's a cool play field. Okay. See there, it looks like he's actually killing time. He locked it in at 20 and it looked like he was killing time up there, trying to keep the ball up there instead of going for the 20.
Yep.
Um, indeed 100 is a lot more than 20. See if he he just went right up and locked it into 80. I I like it.
Didn't get it, but I like what he did there. I like that dead bounce. Mhm.
Yes. This is like Space Grand Lizard. More like Grand Lizard is Amazon Solar Fire. We should say that.
Oh, okay.
That's the way to look at it. This came first. Very cool.
Interesting. Yeah, I feel like Grand Lizard is so much more popular. This was a lower production run than Grand Lizard
and then they just Grand L lizarded it. I guess they just felt like there were improvements to be made,
I guess,
or they needed to gain quickly and this, you know, they could take the design.
Maybe they ran out of red paint and they had a lot of green paint.
I mean, there were several years between these though, so
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
This is 19 I want to say 1980.
Okay. Grand Lizard is 86 8 I think. I'm just I'm just going up.
Yeah, I'm not sure. That's a good question.
Um, yeah. Is the top is the top shorter timer than Lizard? I'm not sure.
It's a good question.
And is it berry game? I assume it's a berry game.
So So he locked a ball.
81. That was close.
Okay. So, so this is the first lock we've seen. So, I don't even I'm not used to this upper lock on Solar Fire. What would he have to do to free that lock ball?
Uh, you have to lock the other balls. I believe you have to light the other locks
like two. Is it here and here?
Right.
Okay. Cuz on the Grand Lizard, there's of course a release,
right?
But not on this one.
Yeah.
Good catch.
It didn't give him the value on the drop targets. He knocked them all down and it did not register.
Okay. He's calling for a tournament director. Um, do we help?
Who's our tournament director? Jon Jonathan, right?
Yeah.
Jonathan.
So, I wasn't even noticing his score. So, you're saying he knocked it down and he didn't get score,
right? All four drop targets were down. It's going to be a minor malfunction right now. Um, if it happens again, it will be a bigger issue.
Uh, yeah, Jim and Jonathan are
So, Jonathan's just helping out. Jim's the only TD. Jim's right there. Jim was watching the stream upstairs maybe.
Okay.
I'll be honest with you. I thought I thought Derek had a really long ball one and I was surprised he didn't have more points. I wonder if this isn't the first time it happened.
No, this is the first time they knocked down all the drops.
Okay,
solar gun is similar to the doodle bug thing, but nobody goes for it. Okay,
so be for 100. And we know the drops were cuz we saw Raymond collect 100.
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
Oh no,
he magneted himself out. It's tough this magnet. It's not like a modern magnet magna save like on Black Knight Sword of Rage. No, this is it's it it magnetizes for a limited time and the ball does whatever it does.
Well, it's a pulse and you're in control.
You're in control of it. He could have chosen to just hold that button down until the you know he it was full at three three lights wherever the meter is. Whatever.
He could have let it set. You could have let it set, but if you just tap it, you're
Yeah, it's it's a timing thing. It's actually quite skill based. I I love magnet saves like this.
It's very skill based. Yeah. I mean, you're you're making the decision. It's like it's better than a nudge cuz it's a magnet. Uh and you're making the decision how long you want that magnet to be activated. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
There we go. He got his 100,000 there.
Raymond's like, "You know what? As long as I get points." Um,
so the last game to have a magnet saved like this was uh Rick and Morty.
Oh, okay. I don't know Rick and Morty well at all. Neither the show nor the pinball. Um, but you've you've done some streaming of that, haven't you?
Yeah, I did a while ago.
Ooh, that was just dead center, I think. Um, so that's ball three again. You can see Raymond's frustration. Even though he's ahead by 240, he wants more. Oh, Winchester Magna House. Could that be an update?
Oh, did anyone find the secret Easter egg yet?
Well, people knew it immediately because of Dirty Pool Pinball.
Oh, okay. Well, I know.
He gave it all away.
I didn't know. So, how did Dirty Pool Pinball know?
He He designed the audio for the game.
Okay. Yeah, it was supposed to be a secret. I was all excited for the secret. Now I can Now I'm going to look it up. Um, everyone's loving Winchester Mystery House, by the way.
Yeah.
Waiting for more to go out.
He's getting points now. He He got He got his hundred there for clearing the drops. So, we don't know what happened before, but
he's really close to um Raymond then.
Yeah, he got a lot of points from something else that I don't know where his last 60,000 came from.
Just one drop target bank and he wins. What's he What's he doing? What was that? Maybe he was going for the rightmost target cuz that's the hardest one to get. It seems like
Oh, just a quick thing would get it. Oh, okay. Starting over. All right, that's fine. That's still enough.
Enough.
You might be right. You might be going for that.
There we go.
They got it for the win. Wow.
What a game. That dirty ruined pinball.
Um, yeah. GG. So, after being ahead,
was Raymond had two zero? Yeah, Raymond was at two-0. Now Dererick is ahead three to two.
Yep. And get that updated. You got to play every game. You have to play every game.
Oh, someone did something here.
So,
no, we're good, right? Yeah. 3-2. 3-2. Okay.
3-2 Derek. And we're going to attack from Mars.
Yeah, this is pretty exciting here. So, um, again, I think since we checked in, this hasn't even changed. This hasn't changed. Uh, Tim and Corey have started. Tim's got the first game. A lot of stuff hasn't changed. This hasn't changed. Um, and then, uh, we said Scott MSAS must now be playing Dustin. Let's load off the screen. He showed me that there's a mouse that I can move around, but the mouse is over there. Um, yeah. So, Attack from Mars is going to be pretty good. This is, uh, so this is actually a Derek pick, and Derek is up three to two. Um, but I I guarantee you, Raymond knows how to play Attack from Mars. Um, yeah, this is a good game. This could be a long There's a secret on Raven, too, when you buy it from Carl for 10k. Okay, thanks for letting us know. Uh, that's something to keep in mind. So, yeah, we're uh but but for now, for now, none of that. We're just going to go play Attack from Mars. I'm going to hit this button. Let me hit tournament main. Yeah, Attack from Mars. Um, and again, this will be updated in a second. It's actually Derek with three.
Um,
but uh
yeah, again uh everyone gets 3 seconds practice.
I'll get that updated.
I had a really tough game on this with Cory. We both just flubbed it up. You know, you can get a lot of nerves in these situations. You can get really nervous. you know, this is the state championship. They're playing uh for their lives here. Um you know, for figuratively, they're figuratively playing for their lives. Um and uh yeah, you got to got to be careful about getting too nervous.
It's going to be interesting to me. It's going to be interesting for me to see what strategies, again, this is warm-up, but when they start playing, what strategies are they going to take? Um this is on hard multiball locks. So, you have to light each of your three locks individually. So it's like light lock, lock, light lock, lock, light lock, lock.
So it's six shots instead of four shots.
It's six instead of four. So a lot of people go for that ordinary multiball, myself included, but it's a little further away. Um we might see people going for Total Nuclear Annihilation by taking three shots at each of the four major shots throughout the game to get the very valuable Total Nuclear Annihilation multiball. Uh, and and you know, it's a little old school, but we might see people going for saucers. Uh, I think I I think I I think I destroyed a saucer and was trying to destroy a saucer. Um, and a lot of times I I actually set out to do multiball and then the game situation made me think, geez, I'm just going to go saucer.
Yeah, that can happen.
You can just sometimes uh
kind of change your horse midstream, so to speak. Um, boy, this is playing this a fast AFM.
You know, Cory and I lost a lot of balls to the outlanes. Nice loop pass there.
Um, the rollover pass from left to right was there for us. So, oh, but he's just he's practicing. He's just warming up. So, he's just practicing different things.
Super pops all day. Funny. You know, I I talked to someone once and they really suggested going for super pops during strobe multiball instead of playing strobe. I don't do that.
I don't know.
I don't know. I'd have to I don't know the value of super pops, I guess, cuz you're waving 50 million per
per bank on strobe.
Yeah.
Is that right?
So, uh supers is it's easier. I mean, it's safer, I should say. The ball's always going to go in the same place. It's kind of what I do in Total Nuclear Annihilation. You just want to shoot the orbit, let it wait till it comes down, then shoot another ball up there to orbit. You know, it's the same kind of thing. It
It's interesting. There's a lot to be said during multiball for putting some balls out of the way. Yeah.
And that's what shooting the orbits on this will do. Put them out of the way. Yep.
Okay. For real's super pops into video mode once. Interesting. Okay.
All right. Got the saucer open. The Brandenburg tour is in danger.
I love the call outs. What a great game.
Iconic.
Okay, right orbit. That probably means he's going Total Nuclear Annihilation. Um, that's what I usually assume that means when I see the players taking the main shots of the game.
Um,
I mean there he lit lock and locked the ball.
That works. I mean
those are those are both good things. Let's see how he plays this. Does he roll over or shoot? Yeah, I like the rollover quite a lot on this.
The saucer feed's so important here, too. Oh, not not that it came out of the saucer or the scoop, I guess. I mean, the scoop feed is so important. Thank you.
All right. Right. Right ramp.
Right ramp or saucer. Yeah, you just took the saucer.
Okay, sure. It
was lit.
Yeah,
it's hard to accidentally destroy the saucer, but it's easy to sometimes accidentally make progress towards opening the saucer. That's why I like that he destroyed it so that now his accidental saucer hits or or if he falls in here, it can actually reopen the saucer.
Right. Very true. Very true. Unless you're playing the CGC edition.
What's What's that?
The the remake.
Oh, what happens
in tournament mode? You're locked into the same award every time.
Unlike this one where you can get different awards. So, you're always getting 50 million. Yeah, exactly.
Actually, I play it this mission control and it's Oh, it's so sad. It's It's just 50 million every time.
So, that's the Is it the remake then?
No.
No. Okay. Then it just doesn't have the uh the updated ROM.
Yeah. It's a It's heartbreaking.
Yeah. I like I like I I think the stroke of luck awards are like a real valid part of this game and I like having them really
Yeah. because then you don't get video mode, you don't get stroke multiball, all that fun stuff.
Yep.
And they're all deterministic, so there's no reason not to have it.
Yeah.
Good play there. Nice control.
What's the ROM called? It's Is it the home ROM or is it not? So, is that why it's not on location? I don't know. I I have to look up the It's been a while.
Nice double
1.13B. So, no, it's not it's not a uh
it's not an H. So, available.
I love watching how well he's playing for control here. You know, a lot of rollover, dead bouncing, a lot of flipper skills. He's making that he's making this multiball look easy if he can if he can light lock and lock again. Can he do it right now?
Gorgeous. He's going for it
on two warnings though.
Yep.
Got nice. Made it over.
Uh-oh.
That was a tough one. Yeah, he knows he's on two dangers like you said. A little careful.
We must build an atomic blaster. See, it's always nice to hit some of these shots, even if you're going for the main multiball, just so you have a uh and when you come out of the main multiball, you have another path.
Y annihilation.
All right. Right ramp or backhand the try to backhand the lock. Which one? Nope. Go for saucer.
Well, he's got it set up there. He's just Martian lit. He's got lock lit. He's
Yeah,
his saucer is ready to be destroyed. He's got a lot of stuff going and they're about even right now pointwise. But I'd say Raymond's actually slightly ahead.
Yeah, cuz he's got the saucer lit and multiball lit and Martian attack lit.
Not destroying the saucer. So Dererick's going to be able to super skill to to drop down the uh the bank here.
True.
Which he does.
Now the ball save is shorter on balls two and three, right? So
see, I didn't know that, but I I felt like something was fishy about the ball save. Is that in general on Attack from Mars? I believe so.
Ball save is shorter on balls two and three. I had no idea, but that totally matches like a feeling that I've had that something is fishy with the with the ball save. Uh-oh. Yeah, you know, you miss your shots on this and it just puts the ball out of control. I mean, that's that's a simple story. It's a standard pinball story. Okay. So, I think Dererick's probably extremely disappointed there.
Yeah, I'd say so.
Um, and uh now Raymond just has every opportunity open. Regular.
Raymond's not going to Yeah, I was going to say he's not going to super skill so he can get the in the scoop so that he can get this ready to go. Start the multiball then start and stack everything if you can.
Fabulous. Yeah, get that multiball. Almost. Uh-oh. Oh boy.
So, this is really anybody's game here. Even though Dererick is ahead.
Yeah,
they both have multiball lit. Wow. I mean, yeah. Wow. I mean, basically Dererick hasn't destroyed his first, sorry, Raymond hasn't destroyed his first saucer yet. And that's 200 million right there. That's basically the difference in the game at the moment. Yeah, but now the difference is bigger because Derek can destroy the second sausage or the multiball if he wants to. That's
I mean there's a lot of points for both on the board here. It just depends on how much they can Derrick goes straight for the saucer here too.
Interesting.
He's getting good points out of it.
I like the jackpots of the multiball myself, but he has
I'm a sucker for trying for dirty pool every time.
Yeah. Um, for me, I really like the super jackpot. Um,
Oh, yeah. Of course.
So, yeah. But,
but now that ball save's gone, he's going to tighten up and go for the jackpots.
Mhm.
It's trouble.
He knew it was trouble. He went for air defense there. He just tried to shoot that errant ball out of the sky.
Good control here. Six super jackpots is 10 billion. Thank you, uh, Pimble here. I, you know, I've only gotten to five. No, I've never gotten to five. Um, but that's good to keep in mind. Oh. Oh, the ball vanished. Oh, no. It came back. Okay.
All right. Come on, Derek. You can find the left ramp.
It's one of the easier shots in the game. And now the super is lit. Roving from left to right for a quarter billion. He got it. Yeah, if you light that super, even if you drain down to one ball, it stays active for a long time. So even though it Yeah, even though he got it right away. Um he actually had a long time because he lit it. So lighting the super jackpot is huge.
Uh and then even though he drained down to one ball, he was still able to collect it for a cool quarter million. I bet he is quite happy with how things are going.
He's ignoring the hurry up, hoping that he can build it. If you can shoot that right orbit, it'll keep it going. But, uh, I think it's going to it's getting pretty close to dying out here.
Yeah. And at this point, it's not worth taking, so we might as well.
So, again,
the right orbit will build it back up to the max value for three shots.
I think he's just done with it. I think he's
uh, not necessarily.
I mean, it's over now, right?
Yeah.
He did ignore Martian attack, which I approve of heartily. Um,
I mean, I like what he's doing there. Um,
he's got a ball. Raymond has to pull something together.
Yeah, he really does.
See how close Raymond is to total dilation. So, yeah, he's still got a lot of shots there. You see the main multiball plus the first saucer destruction. That's what he's going to be going for.
Yeah. Takes a nice loop pass on the plunge there. I I think he just goes multiball first, right?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. and just try and get get some I mean you can get more than one super jackpot in in one multiball. Um so you know it's a thing
just having trouble getting control here.
He is and he's such a good control player. Oh and it's over, huh?
Yep. That's it for
So Dererick's going to win. Uh yeah. So um I mean you got to play every game. That was a really tough match and Rain was up two zero and uh Derek pulled it out. I mean, these games are set difficult. Uh, or these games are set with a high degree of difficulty. Uh, well played. Good run, Raymond. Um, yeah, good run. Okay, they're still Canadian in. You're right. Okay, you're right. You're right. Big ball profile. You're right, Mr. Welsh. You guys are right. Yeah, good run. Vu.
All right, so where should we go now?
Oh, that's a great question. Um,
we got Tim and Cory at on their fourth game now. It looks like Derek and
Oh, this is one zero. It only says one zero here.
Oh, I'm on the wrong screen there.
Oh, no. You're ahead. We're not. The internet doesn't see what you're seeing.
Yep. Yep. I'm uh I need to refresh this. I did not.
No, I'm on the wrong
I'm on the wrong window.
So, internet, we're seeing something a little different. Seeing
There you go. Update.
It's win. Should we go to group one?
They're just starting game five. They're on a tiebreaker. Dustin and Scott are the longest. I don't know. I actually don't know.
We're not going to interrupt.
Yeah, these games already in progress, so I don't want to jump in right now.
Sudden death 33. Very exciting. Um
Nick and Johnny are over here.
I say uh how about how about group one?
I'll see I'll I'll see what I can grab between one of those two.
Yeah, take a look. Either one of those would be would be fabulous. Yeah. So, sorry internet that we didn't have that uh updated, but we do now. Um, okay. Nick up two zero here against Johnny. Uh, but um, yeah, and you see Gabe, Gabe advanced, Nick advance, Johnny advance, and Nick and Johnny are already playing. And then here, look at these. 22 and 22. A dead heat here and here. And still alive.
3-3. Yep. Canada's hopes are still alive. This is what the Jonathan agrees. Uh, yeah, Matt, I like watching Johnny lose. I mean, you know, it's hard not to. Um, but you know, he does win a lot, you know, so that's something, too. No, uh, we're all we're all the Southern California group, including Johnny. Uh, we're like family down here. So, it's fun to see everyone do well. Um, and, uh, you know, hey, some people it's fun to watch them lose as well. It's like you can't lose. Yeah, Jared, I think if this game wasn't already in progress, game seven, we would have definitely gone there because that's very exciting. Uh, but we're not going to interrupt uh, someone. Yeah. No, it is rude. If you're very close friends with them, Pinball Hero, it's more okay. But you're right, it's a little rude to to rude for anyone to lose sometime. We like to joke with Johnny. We like to joke with Johnny because Johnny is super fun to joke with.
All right, we're doing this because
Yeah, plague. Exactly, Jared. The plague.
So, I'll get the player. So,
okay, great.
We'll watch their match in here, but then we'll watch the Derek and Kane match after this on the same game. Okay,
that was the plan.
And is this their match or warm-up or
This is their match now.
This is their match. And they're playing as player one and three.
Give me a second.
Just so nothing crazy happens. Okay. Sorry.
Uh, it's all good now.
Okay.
All the zodiac signs up there.
Doesn't even fire half the time.
How did I do it? It was like this, right?
Yeah.
He was so happy with his his sample plunge. Oh, actually, they're not plunging the correct way that they're supposed to plunge. But anyway,
um yeah, let's play some Stargazer. I have you streamed this yet today?
No, not yet.
Yeah. for me. Um, I definitely play this game for spinners. Um,
it's a gym game, so
And the spinners are going to be
spinners are spinning. Yeah, exactly. You really You want to lock in that top one,
the center spinner with the drop targets there. Exactly. He's not quite at max. He's one away from max. Two.
He's at 3,000 spin.
Um, and the nice thing about that is that this spinner, it stays lit until he finishes this drop target bank.
Um,
right. So, it's lit. He can shoot that over and over for 3,000 a click. Um, okay. Now, it goes away between balls. Um, I mean, he he sort of did the thing that you want to do a little bit once. So, on the future balls, all the both these players are hoping to do that same thing more than once. Um, so Nick very cool here. So, he's going to try and time it so that he gets it when this is maxed out.
Oh, nope. He's doing something completely different. I think he was trying to light his right spinner.
Right. Exactly. The other way is to kind of flip back and get go over the star rollover to light the spinners on the right and left.
Nice tap there from Nick. A signature move of his. So, yeah, these star rollovers, they activate one of four awards and I think two of them are to light the spinner,
right? And then I don't know what the other ones are. That's pretty interesting that he went for that. He did also now lock this spinner in at 2,000. So that spinner is lit for 2,000 until he clears that upper drop target back. That's just 2,000. Wow, nice save. It's just 2,000 over and over. Great play. Great play.
Nick's flipper skills are incredible.
Gorgeous.
They've always been. I I don't know how he has not won a championship yet. Today might be the day. Today might be the day. Yeah. I mean, Nick's uh incredible on the flippers in all sorts of ways. Absolutely fabulous. So, he's up to just under 400. It's interesting to me that he's going for that Nick was going for star rollovers to light the opposite spinners. What do you think? I mean, is that does he is it just safer?
It's safer. I'd say the feed coming out of that upper the upper left pop is a little more dangerous, I think, than the other stuff.
Yeah, you got to go up there. You know, if you're going to lock in this value, you got to come up here and hit one of these and put the ball pretty far out of control.
So, Johnny's going to try and time it when that light is all the way to the top.
Close.
Excellent. Excellent. Yeah. So, that spinner now is 3500 a click until he hits this final drop target. 3500 click. Here we go. interesting. He looked like he was going for the left spinner there.
Yeah. I don't know. Uh-oh.
Okay.
High five.
Yeah, he turned off the spinner. Collected a small modest amount. Okay. Um
Well, that was that was ball two, right?
Yeah. 400 game.
No. Uh cuz it's a it's a Nick chosen.
I'm joking here. Oh, I see. Joking as if it was Daniela. Yeah. Um Nick's not that far ahead yet, but we'll see if Nick gets way ahead. We might see a tackle.
Nice little lip. Yeah, that's the thing. So, it's funny when you when you use the Star rollovers to light these spinners, you light them for one rip only. Um, but if it's still spinning and you get the ball back on the flipper, you can hit the spinner again and make that rip keep going on. Um, so it's kind of interesting. It's an interesting part of this game that this lights indefinitely until you turn it off, whereas the other spinners light for one rep each. What's he get to? 624. Anybody's game. Absolutely anybody's game. My guess is with this is Nick's choice. I bet he's a little dissatisfied. I think he wanted more.
I would I might agree with you with that.
Yeah. Oh, good save there. He almost put himself out. Jeez, it's really It's a goofy bottom, isn't it? Isn't it goofy down here? This lower play field.
So goofy.
Defining characteristic of Star.
Yeah, I love it. And it is different. Oh, little tap pass. Oh, this is interesting. He has this locked in so that this is actually 100k for completing it. His upper spinner is worth almost nothing. But he gets 100 just for this, which I would take.
I'd take it. No.
Well, I think you take it because you have to.
Yeah,
you want to reset the value and that's it for that game.
Yeah, Johnny with the tap pass, right? I don't know. I don't know what inspired him. It didn't uh it it uh it didn't work out for him, but Johnny is okay. Three three-0 Nick.
So Johnny with his back against the wall.
So when you lock in the worst
spinner.
All right. I don't know who's going to be first on the Derek versus Kane. Figure it out when they start, I guess.
Yeah.
Oh, are they waiting for Stargaz?
Yeah, they're waiting for That's why I put it on here cuz they're going to
I see. And are they And so they're still two They're still 22. Yeah, same with you.
Um, so it's still they're 2-2 right now, right?
Oh, maybe uh Oh, okay. Yeah, you got it right here.
Yeah, I just don't know who Oh, Derek. Yeah, I didn't know who was first or second. I put the player first on top.
Yeah, so Derek was the eighth seed overall. He's coming in off a buy. Kane was actually the 24th seed overall. Um, so he was the Kane just barely made it to the state finals here. Um but again I I think this is their practice, right?
Yeah, this is their practice.
Um so yeah, so Dererick coming off a buy. Uh Kane actually went up two zero in this match, but now Dererick has uh has evened it up at 22. So pretty exciting. Pretty exciting. Ira, thank you for the for the sub.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you. I don't have alerts on for this. Kane looks so young in his picture. Yeah, I know, right? Look at those calves. Yeah, he's got young calves there. Mhm. Mhm. So, if you're looking for standings, you can hit the like UBS links just did in the chat standings. There's also exclamation point match play which takes the match play version. So we're actually running two different versions just to I I built something just to have a little more detail and so you can see the actual games and such.
So and you get that by exclamation point standings.
Yep. We've already got it in chat or someone did not
I don't see it here.
Yeah, that's interesting. That's right there. See Kane sporting the revenge of pinball league shirt. That's a noniffpa league uh at Revenge of. Great spot. Revenge of uh in Southern California uh up towards LA. Yeah, really nice spot. They got a lot of like a lot of limited edition games there. A lot of really shiny stuff. Um and nice people, too. Nice people uh in the league and and operating the place. Okay,
away we go.
So, they got to plunge these balls away, I guess, here. Okay. Or restart the game. Oh, and they're going to play as players one and three again. Okay. Yeah. No, that that revenge of a nice spot. We have so many nice spots here in Southern California. We're really lucky. Have a lot of great places to play. They're going for the sharp plunge here.
You must feel it's safe. I guess I mean if you think it's safe.
I don't know. I never find that exit from the right side. I always panic a little uh when it, you know, when it comes back around from the top.
Yeah.
So, for me, I backhand this.
Well, that's what he's going to try to do right now. You can you can tell he's he's waiting for the
high value. Not quite there.
Two away from it. So, but it's still 3,000 a spin.
3,000 is So, when the when the left and right spinners are lit, they're lit for 2,000 spins. So, 3,000 is good. And and that spinner Oh, it goes. It goes and it goes. Now,
at the same time, you could be going for just drop targets and and you randomly get the, you know, all the other targets around the playfield and that builds quite well for bonus.
Yeah. Like, like these things that bonus multiplier is building up. Huh.
Right. Exactly. So instead of just focusing on spinners, you can focus on those shot targets and and get a very good score that way, too. Although this spinner
does spin so well. So I don't know if I'd say to do it on this particular copy.
Yeah, maybe if you're out there somewhere and your spinners aren't that juiced, maybe uh maybe go for bonus multiplier. That's interesting. I don't know bonus that well on this, but you're building base bonus by hitting these Zodiac targets. Is that right?
No. Yeah, the targets around the playfield. Uh the and the bonus carries over. So the
the bonus and your bonus multiplier carry over.
Everything carries. Yeah.
Right. So, you know, whatever you do on ball one, it's, you know, you're getting it three times.
Yeah.
So Derek actually has that locked in at the minimum. If he had hit this, it' have been worth a h 100,000. This is a funny thing about this. If you lock in the spinner at 500 a click, when you complete the bank, you get a 100,000. But if you lock in the spinner at the maximum 4,000 a spin, you complete it and you only get like a very modest score, five, you know, 10,000 15 something, something very low. Um, so that's what's funny about that drop target bank is it sets your spinner value and your completion value. Um, and if one of them's high, the other's very low and vice versa.
That was only player two, so you get to do it again.
Oh,
yeah. Kane Kane's pretty happy now.
So he accidentally played player two. Do we do anything?
Nope.
Okay.
Nope, we don't. Uh Mike's saying in chat that the other um spots in the star rollovers on the bottom are to spot those various targets.
Okay.
Oh, okay. So, you could grind out and build yourself a nice base. Very good. Okay. Thank you. That's very good.
And he's just going to wait until that light gets up to the top right. Oh, he missed it. Okay, control. It's so valuable to be in control on this game. Um, because you can get to you get to pick here. You get to pick your spinner value. And he picked 3500. Not too shabby. So now what what do you do from the left flipper here? Well,
you can tap it over. You can um back flip and start rollover and hope you can tip pass over to the side or you can post pass.
Okay, that's kind of a neat post pass. Yeah, this is what he wants.
There we go.
Okay, that upper spinner 3500
per click.
What was that?
Just a miss shot.
No, but he he he he backed it up.
He was trying for the to light the spinner maybe or
Okay. while he was there. Interesting. Maybe he figured that lighting the spinner didn't affect this this spinner shot much. I don't know. for me. I just go for it. Okay, they are uh Okay, Derek's got 300. Banana flippers. I'm not so sure. Pinball hero. I'm not so sure. Back to the short plunge. He He He's obviously pretty confident in it.
Well, Kane did it, too. So,
okay. This light's moving so quickly now. The more times you complete that bank, the more quickly that moves. Makes it a lot more difficult. Okay, he's got 3500 spinner.
Let's let the good times roll.
Nope. Great control there. Got another shot. Boom. In fact, boom. Shaka Laka, I venture to say. So now he just wants control again on the right flipper so he can do it again. Unlike the other spinners, that spinner doesn't go out when you hit it. See? So now he's same spot.
3500 a click. Derrick's Derek has game face on. That is not what he wanted at all. And he's going to be okay. He's just going to because he unlocked the spinner value. Now he locked it back in at 3,000. Oh, down the middle. I mean, he kind of did the thing. He's at 474. Um, yeah. Yeah, they like this. They like this short point. And he has the left spinner lit, I guess. Is that left over from before? Did the spinners spinners stay lit? The outer spinners?
No. No, they should not.
I don't Oh, he must have gotten a rollover that I didn't see them. Okay. H. Yep. That is not what he wanted. Okay. Again, they're playing as players one and three just to make sure like no spinner spins carryover or anything like that.
No tilts.
No tilt.
That's the reason.
That's the big reason.
Yeah. Really the only reason. Yeah. Just uh
preventing tilts. It's the IPA thing. represents the IFPA at Todd McCullix. I forgot which year that was, but it was a match of Kaye George versus was it Danielle? Um Kaye Tilted through on the final game.
Wow.
And so it was decided on the tilt.
Yeah, I'll
championship.
Yeah, that's pretty pretty gnarly. I mean, I think this makes a lot of sense. Hey, Amos Amy, thank you for using your prime sub on us. Thanks, Amy.
Um, I'll be honest with you. Uh, state championship four years ago, I tilted through on uh on Joker Poker, one of my one of my best games, actually.
I was very sad.
Yes, Jared. It was on Old Chicago. I remember I was playing versus Andy Rosa and he tilted through and he did not get DQed on my game.
What?
Yeah,
tilt true is just no choice, right?
Well, that but back then that rule was not there yet.
Wow. Huh. Okay. or the TDS didn't, you know, different things from different TDs
interpreted. Okay.
Yeah. Everything gets better over, you know, year after year and stuff.
Yeah. Derek, you can hear him mad at himself.
You hit the shot. You were aiming for the standups.
Exactly. He was aiming for the drops. You know, he's aiming for the drops.
No, standard electronics games cannot tilt through. So, you're right. It is not uh there's no purpose for it on this game specifically.
Okay.
But I think it's a blanket rule so that no one
so that they do it on all the solid state games. And I feel like you could you could you could definitely have a spinner still going.
You could.
Yeah. Some things get better, not everything. Absolutely.
Yeah.
And tattoos. Thank you for the Thank you for the
Hey, thanks. Um Okay, so 680 for Derek. Um Kane has his work cut out from him. Let's see how he goes about it. For me, you know, at this point, it's definitely spinner as opposed to bonus, right? Of course. Yeah. Well, yeah, for ball three, you have to build it. Exactly. And it looks like spinners do carry over between balls. I was wrong about that. Um, but yeah, this is where building that bonus on ball one is is important.
Yeah. If he was walking in here with a big bonus, that would be a different story. Yep.
Hey, hype, hype, hype. Thanks. Sign out.
Sign out. Thank you.
I think he's trying the post pass there. This is good. This is good. So, oh, and yeah, this he's got both spinners lit. He's got that lit for 2,000 and he's got the upper spinner lit for 3,000.
I mean, that outer spinner spins a lot. So,
Mhm.
Maybe that's why you take that over the uh over the more valuable spinner.
It could be. I mean, the other reason is maybe Mike likes the feed better, but I don't know. I I I like the upper spinner myself,
right? Well, now it's not lit. So, well, think about it. Also the that left spinner is further on the flipper. It's an easier shot. You have more power going towards it. Yeah. And he's trying for that outer spin.
So he is completely skipping the upper flip the upper spinner. That is fascinating to me. He just feels that much better about it. I I love it.
Oh, rough drain there.
It didn't work out, but I mean you can see he's scoring well. I So he just feels that much better about backhanding this to light this spinner and taking 2,000.
Yep.
I Interesting. I I like it. But I mean, he obviously knew what he was doing. Obviously knew what he was doing. Okay. Um, so we're going to stay with him, right?
Yeah, we're going to stay with him. Yeah.
Okay. So, that's going to be
who? What?
Black.
Derek. Well, okay. So, we're going to Black Knight.
Yeah. Um, so we're going to Black Knight Sword of Rage. Fabulous game. I love me some Black Knight Sword of Rage. Absolutely love it. Um, not much else has happened. you know, so this got turned in internet. Um, maybe we didn't put this in yet, but I I want to tell you who advanced and I can't. I feel like Scott just walked up and turned something in, but I just could be completely wrong about that. Anyway, Black Knight: Sword of Rage. What a fabulous game. Black Knight Bricks of Rage. Let's hope not, Mr. Welsh. Let's hope not. Yeah. No. If you miss on this game, just like all of the games in the Black Knight franchise. If you miss on this game, that ball is right back in your face before you can blink and it's out of control and you better hold on to your butts. Yeah, absolutely. Very difficult. You know what, Carl? I felt like this was turned in. Did you Did you get this? Do you notice anything? Okay.
Um, yeah. Either Jack or Scott advancing there. All right. Thank you. A little bit of warm up. I love the music on this. It is uh I love the sort of homage to the Black Knight 2000 music both in ordinary play and of course my favorite in retro mode. Yeah, definitely. Uh for me um I definitely go, you know, modes and multiball in this game. It's a very standard light lock, lock, light lock, lock, light lock, lock. Very standard uh multiball. And uh if you start a mode first, you can bring multiball into your mode. Uh and that's what I try to do. Now, it's easier to get modes going than multiballs. So, I wouldn't necessarily expect one multiball, you know, with every mode, but, you know, definitely expect people to to go for that. Scott Bjack, thank you, Scott's girlfriend. So, Scott advancing past Jack. Um, I think Jack might have been the second qualifier in the state overall and he's been playing fantastic. But you know what, Scott Msas, he's a great player, too. He beat Jim Belto, he beat uh he beat he beat Jack. Yeah. Amazing. Um, basically that's what it boils down to here at the state finals. Every single game is two fantastic players and every match it's a best of seven and someone gets knocked out. That's it. That's it. Um, fun fact, the game updates for Black Knight Sword of Rage has Black Knight 3000 in the file path. Okay, cuz they could have called this Black Knight 3000, but they called it Sword of Rage. Yeah, Scott knocked out Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you so much, Jared. It was Scott Burgess that knocked out Jim Belceto and Scott MSAS who's knocked out Jack. Thank you so much. I I totally forgot. I was totally said earlier. Thank you, Jared. Yeah, Scott Burg is doing well. Doing well. All right. He's probably about gun practice, I assume. All right. All right. All right. All right. Derek up 3-2. Kane fighting for his proverbial life.
He's playing his pick. He's player one, but he's on his pick. Got to adjust the hair, adjust the hat, adjust the shirt, and let her win.
Oh, that's interesting. He tries to He goes for the ordinary skill shot. There's a super skill shot by pressing and holding left that he didn't take. See, for me, I never want to play Burning Sands ever. So, for me, for sure, anytime it's on Burning Sands, I'm going to try and go through this spinner and change it. Um, so that's why for me I would have taken the super skill shot in his spot, plunge around and change it. I don't want to play Burning Sands. No thank you. Um, so he's lighting his lock there. Game is fighting him.
Ball is not in control until now. Nope. He's playing Burning Sands. I can't believe it. I'm surprised that as his pick he's going to go ahead and play Burning Sands. I avoid it like the plague, but here he is. One lock and burning saints. I mean, there you go. I mean,
very difficult mode and to me it's not worth it. That's a nice catch there. He didn't even have to do anything fancy. Okay, lid his second lock and collected a Burning Sands shot. Let's see if he does a post pass here. Yep. Oh, very nice catch. different girlfriend. Same different Scots, different girlfriends. Um, yeah, great. Oh, and he's already in. I didn't realize he locked three so quickly. Okay, so he's I mean, if I'm going to play sandworm, of course I want to be in multiball with it, but that just goes for anything. I just always want to be in multiball. Um, yeah, he he had power lit, so he hit this when power was lit, and since he was in a mode, that gave him uh power sandworm. Um, so now his mode is going to be double scoring and easier to finish. He's already lit his attabal here, which is gorgeous. And he's going to take it. He completed his warlings. He's got the war hurry ups here. And he's still in the power sandorm, I think. Yeah, the sword here. This is your power meter. So, it's still still in the power here. Um, so he's got war shots in the middle and you see he's got sandworm shots in the middle. Fabulous save there. Holy cow. For me, I do like completing the war hurry-ups because it gives you night letters. Um, and I always want night letters. And we'll talk about that more when the time comes. Okay, this would give him a letter. He got it. He got it. So, he got himself a night letter and he defeated the sandworm. So, and I think he got the war hurry up letter, too. That's what I thought.
I'm a serious gift.
Oh my goodness. He's got 91 million already. Boy, makes me seem stupid for not wanting to do Sandworm. Yeah, I know. He's getting a ton out of it. Good for him. Um,
so he's got he's just in multiball now and all these shots are lit for jackpots. How sweet it is. Okay, he's going to be out. Um, but that's well done. If I were him, I'd feel great about that. He got Sanworm out of the way. He's at 96 million. Gesh, that was fabulous.
Great start. Yeah.
I mean, do you avoid sandworm? I avoid sandworm like to play. No, I you know really when I played I just take what the game gives to me. I I probably should be more selective but
yeah I'm a big fan of this Hellhand the the whatever it is wicked cavern.
Yeah when you're in multiball it it really doesn't matter I feel.
Okay. Yeah, you may be right.
Any mode is easy. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, for me, I just can't help it since I can do a super skill shot and change the lit mode. I'm always going to change it off yellow. I for me, I hate the yellow. I don't know. Yeah, I like power plus uh wicked cavern/hellhand. Yeah. You see, he wants another multiball, and I don't blame him. I go for it, too.
It's mode plus multiball.
Yeah. Actually, like on most on most uh Black Knight sort of rages, this play here, you can you can have like a whole video about how to play this. And it really varies from machine to machine what you can do. Some of them you can just hold up the flipper and it stops. You see Shane uh Kane doing a little shimmy to make the ball stop. Sometimes you have to do a post stop. Um there's all sorts of things like that whole playing this feed is such an important thing in Black Knight Sword of Rage and so far he's playing it extremely well. He backhand the shield here to so he light he lit light mode. So now he can light his mode start here and then light and then actually start it here. But you can see anytime he's on the right he's cradle on the right he's he's just making light lock lock progress. Anytime he's cradled on the right man he is doing so well here. This is just ball one. Starts the mode and and
yeah, this is an incredible first ball and starts his second multiball
on ball one.
Yeah,
you know, here I was saying here I was saying that, you know, well, we're not going to get we're not going to get one uh multiball per mode certainly. And that's exactly what Kane is doing. So, uh he's in powered up. He's in powered up Magna Beast, so it's double scoring, easier to finish. He just finished half of it, which is why I got another Night Letter. He just started another war hurry up.
So, he's out of multiball.
No, he's not.
Oh, no.
Ready, too.
And the Adall's ready. Sorry, I thought he was. He looks so dejected.
Wow, that was a nice bounce over there. The the
Oh, come on. Add
it can go. No, it's dead now.
Gave it a shot.
Huge 10.7. Look at the values here. Honestly, I didn't know Magnum was that much. Is did he pump that up somehow? Is there any way to boost that?
I don't know the rules to this game as well as most people, so I can't tell you unfortunately.
Huh.
I wonder what's going on there. I wonder if that boosts like as you play more modes or if there's some other way to boost it.
Okay, so he's out of the war. Hurry up and he didn't complete that one.
He was powered up from the first hit. That's
so he right away went to the power instead of making a few shots first.
Almost
I thought that was going to be
almost dropped it, but he saved it.
Now, is this still just two hits to light lock?
Yes.
Okay. Oh, wait.
I'm not even sure.
No.
Yeah. I mean, he looks like he's definitely on his way to spelling night and going retro mode, which is my favorite thing ever.
So, here he's in hydra. Hydra is a fun mode. You shoot any shot, but then you have to shoot just that shot again. So, that's why he's got one green shot lit on the left orbit cuz he hit it once.
Got to time out though.
No, he timed it out. So then everything was lit again and then Oh. Oh, it gave him Yeah. Yeah. A little bit of a grace.
Okay. So again, he's shooting one shot and then same shot.
I mean, what a ball one. I mean, that's uh that's pretty fabulous.
Yeah, that's a a little 200 ball. Who gets 200 in a whole game?
Well, Raymond pulled out 400 on this earlier, which I was like,
"Oh my god,
I wish we had watched that thing." See, here's what Dererick's going to do. He's going to full plunge to change that. He's going to catch it and then he's going to take the super skill shot. I guarant that's guaranteed what he's doing because he doesn't want this. See, he doesn't want Burning Sands. He's going to full plunge, try the super skill shot. He's going to catch and then he's going to complete the super skill shot, which is going to light his mode start.
See that catch? Yeah, there you go. Okay, perfect. Picture perfect. I love it.
Yeah, Derek's very good at this game. He knows a lot of stuff. Oh, but it went back to Burning Sands. See, this spinner changes the mode for you, but sometimes you just get stuck back on Burning Sands. So, now he can lock it in at Burning Sands, or he can try and hit that spinner to change it up. Let's see what he does.
Where are you going?
Hey, thank you.
I love it.
This game's really close to us, so we have a bit of an echo, but I think it's more important to have the uh the game out of your
It's fabulous. I love Derek. Not afraid to talk to himself. We're We're way over here. You can see us. Oh, what a gorgeous play. Okay, that was a massive move. One danger.
That was a massive move. And I absolutely love it. I absolutely love it. See, he's he's taking the post stop there. That's how I normally play this now. Shane or Kane was doing something amazing with the little shimmy.
Yeah, but now that he's at two dangerous, you wouldn't dare shimmy.
No. He's just having trouble controlling at the moment. There he
is. He'll get there.
So,
same same stack as Shane in that he's got the Burning Sands and Multiball. Black Knight Sword of Rage with Power Balls. That's so cruel. Yeah, you're right. Uh uh Mike that he might have gotten a big super collect in there, but I'm not sure. I don't feel like I saw him grab the ball with a Magnus save. Talking back about Kane's ball.
Yeah, get that ball lit. Perfect. Very good. Very good. Nice. Yes. Oh, good. Good recovery. He lost one out the left. Time to use that ball. Tried.
Now he should be able to backhand it, too, right?
Well, the ball's going to come out of the scoop, so
Yep.
Nice. Safe. Missed.
I mean, you can play you can play and just hold the ball here, assuming that if you start to drain the other one, you can backhand it and bring it back.
Yeah, it's just a little more risky, that's all.
Yeah, it might be what he's doing.
No.
Nope. Nope. Yeah, cuz while the ball sits on, he can take the dangerous hits at the center, you know?
Right. Yeah, he was doing that war hurry up. I think he finished it and that's how he got eye maybe.
Yeah.
And he's got powered up. He's got his powered up burning sands. He'd love to finish it, I would say. There you go. Gorgeous. See, instead of just going for the mode shot, he's going to hit this twice first to light this as a lock. because you always want to stack. See, he's trying to play as efficiently as he can because now that wasn't just the final mode shot, it was also a lock. See, and anytime great players like Derek are playing, they're always looking to stack stuff. They want to make every shot worth as much as possible. And that means when they can make it worth two things instead of just one. And sure enough, there it was actually three things. It was extra ball. He finished the mode and it locked his first ball for his next multiball. I love it. This is very good. Very well played.
Uhoh.
Nice.
Oh, I love it. So difficult. So difficult. Oh my god.
Isn't he sound too dangerous?
Yes.
Oh my god.
Bonus isn't, you know, massive on this. So it's okay.
I'm going to agree that that's a wow on
that that doesn't tilt. It's pretty incredible.
See, he he he like Kane has like a really strong focus on playing multiballs. I love it. I think it's brilliant. Good catch. Yes. Second lock.
A blessing bestowed upon you.
Thanks. I hate it. Geek sure love to do hellhand with multiball. Yes, please. All right, got a light now. The the lock that is.
There we go.
He's got it.
Survive. Survive. Survive.
No.
I mean, he's okay because of course. Yeah,
he's got the monster stack lit. That one shot is going to be your mode start and your multiball. Gorgeous.
Yeah. But what a ball one from both. Couldn't agree more. So, he's probably going to I don't think you get a letter for finishing them though. I think you get a letter for going like halfway through or something as far as night letters go. He really wants one more night letter, but he's got he's only on ball two
um to get to that. Yeah. Retro multiball, which I absolutely freaking love. It's interesting that he goes for the ordinary skill shot.
I don't see a lot of players doing that, but he picked this so he knows what he's doing. So, I don't know. Yeah. So, when you have to hit this twice or more on future multiballs, it goes really well with hydra mode cuz in hydro mode, you want to hit it twice for the mode, but then he also had to hit it twice to light his his lock for multiball. And again, I'm not sure if he had to hit this twice or three times for this third multiball that he's that he's working towards. We'll find out after this.
Hydra is hard without power. Um, yeah. Yeah, cuz look how few shots he has now available. Yeah, whereas with power they like all stay available or something like that. Good save there. Super ready.
I'm going to avoid this war hurry up if I'm him, but I don't know if he's going to or not. Yeah. So, he post pass here cuz this backhand is way safer than the forehand. So, I love the decision and he executed it perfectly. Um, so now he's probably just going to try and start his next mode. And when he gets halfway through, so if he gets halfway through another mode, he's going to light retro mode on the left. Um, so I mean, he got 200 on ball one
and 20 on ball two
and 20, you know, 22 on ball two. So
but but he's one letter away from retro mode. So that I'm excited about. And I'm
still got to get there, though.
You got to get there. You got to play the ball. Um, and he's not that close to a second multiball or anything like that.
No, he doesn't have anything set up, so it's going to be tough.
Close to a third multiball, right? Yep. Even the
got some dangerous shots to light the next mode even. I mean, that's that's
And the modes do get harder and harder to light.
First mode, not so hard to qualify. Mode start and then gets harder and then harder again and harder as you go.
Derrick's got the nice stack here, though.
I love it. Yep, he's got it. I love Hellhand.
I don't know if he's got power ready or not. If he does,
no, he doesn't have power ready yet. Um until the swords full, but that's okay. You know, he's still going to he's got his attabal lit already. And he already got the attabal. Wow. Amazing. Um so he's in Hellhand and he's got these blue jackpots. That shot was both part of his stack. As you proceed through Hellhand, more and more shots light. Power's lit now because he filled his sword through enough mode shots and switch hits. And he's in he's got it. He's got the powered up hell hand. It's double value and it's easier. That's what the power does for all these modes. It doubles the value of all the mode shots and it makes it easier to finish.
That was extremely good. You know, he thought he was going to save it by nudging and he realized he didn't quite pull it off. And you just got that magnet save right in there. Fabulous.
Beautiful post stop. It's a jackpot and it's a mo shot. I absolutely love it. Absolutely love it.
Where does he go here? Yep. I like it.
It's not a jackpot, but it was a mode shot. And these mode shots are worth a bunch. That was incredible. Holy cow.
He is pulling out all the stops. He's not leaving anything on the field, as they say. I left the left left orbit again or not orbit but the Yep.
Yeah. Yep.
Winch repeat till we're done here.
Yeah. So now the So Hellhand is defeated and he's basically to proceed anything anywhere he's got to shoot through that flail. Forehand then backhand or backhand then forehand. Which one? Or just get through it all together
or ignore it. I'm not sure. Yeah, it looks like he ignored it. I mean, I don't think U-turns are worth much. Um, yeah, we got Kane joining us right now here watching Derek come after him. Um, you guys are playing this pretty well, Kane. I'm not going to lie.
Trying to get war.
Okay. I like doing war during
Look at that value on the right. 14 mil for the uh is that 14, right?
That's a big four. Yep.
Crazy. Okay. You might be crazy, but it's 14 million. Now it's down to 12.
Oh, it didn't it didn't register
spot Warlane's in the middle of war.
That was a mysterious gift.
So, he stopped the flail, but it didn't give him credit for the shot. But the flail is temporarily paused. So, now we can go up there. Um, yeah. Don't come home tonight. That's right. There you go. Thank you for your sideways encouragement as always, Michael. Okay, so we got that key jackpot. He's still in the war. Hurry up. This is 17 million. Got it. And a night letter. Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness. And just like that, he is on Kane's heels. And And he's still going. So, I forget. I don't I don't even think he's gotten I think if you get enough jackpots here, you can light a super jackpot, which is also a night letter. And maybe that's exactly what he just did. Enough jackpots uh in in the multiball gives you a night letter. And that's exactly what he did. He got the sixth night letter
and he goes into retro mode.
He almost broke his head. And just listen to this music. Are you kidding me right now? gorgeous throwback to Black Knight 2000. Absolutely incredible. Um yeah, and so just like uh you know the original Black Knight and Black Knight 2000, the more balls you have in play, the more playfield X you have. So while he's got three balls in play, he's in 3x playfield. So he's got all these jackpots lit and he's in 3x. So, he lost one, but it was a good recovery there. Nice air defense. He's out. Okay. So, I mean, he got
He got 20 mil out of it,
I think. Yeah. 20 or 30 maybe. Yeah. 20 20 or
Yeah, 20ish.
Yeah,
he doesn't care. He's ecstatic. He's like, I got retro mode.
So, this is interesting. So Kane, you know, he has work to do. Um cuz it's not easy to get that letter. So
no, where he is right now, it's definitely not. So
this means he's a long way to go to light mode.
Yep.
So he's got to take like four, I think, shots on these three things to to qualify the left ramp to light his mode start and then he has to get like halfway through the mode to get that six letter.
Exactly. It's It's
It's tough.
It's a tough path right now. Yeah.
I mean, I think that's what he's going to do.
Well, he I don't think he has a choice right now.
Yeah. I'm still surprised he doesn't take the super skill shot cuz the super skill shot gives you like nice advance toward this mode start, but he knows what he's doing. That's why he's still playing and I'm here on the sideline. Okay. He knows that he thinks that shield is the safest.
So, that's what he's going to play for. He's going to play for all shields. He's going to post pass and backhand the shield. I I like it. I think he knows exactly what
I'm convinced there is no safest out of those three shots.
No safest.
Yeah, there's no safest.
He switched it up. Okay.
Oh, well, he made it through somehow, huh?
Yeah, I I think the shield is the safest by a substantial margin, but um Okay, catch it. Catch it. So, I think he's got to post pass and backhand the shield again.
No, no, the shield is not lit for the mode, though.
I think it still counts. Yeah, I think it still counts even though it's not lit. I could be wrong. We're going to find out.
I don't think it does. Yeah,
this will help you on your quest.
You're 100% correct. You're exactly correct. But
you're exactly correct. I didn't even realize.
But he's just going shield all day cuz of the safety.
Why did it do that? That was not supposed to do that. So, I don't know why it did that.
Why it did what?
Why is the shield rejecting him?
It should be It should It's It's kicking back. It shouldn't be going through.
Cuz it's solid. I see.
It's down. Yeah,
but it's firing. It's firing really hard.
Well, it's supposed to. That's what this shield is supposed to It's a design for it's a it's a neat mech.
It's a shield bash. Okay. Yeah, it was really firing it back.
Yeah.
Okay. Start.
There's his chance.
Okay. Now, again, he's got to get enough shots. I don't know how many it is. He's got to get three or four shots to light this retro mode to get that T. Might be three. I love the way he's playing that feed
one and it's over.
No,
I don't think he got him. No, he's not going to get him.
No.
Oh my god, what an incredible game to finish on. So Kane is going to have to bow out gracefully. Uh and Derek, he he did it. He got to the four wins and he's going to move on. Absolutely incredible. Um great job Kane. Fantastic player. Again, Kane was the 24th seed. I mean, that's how great the players are. The freaking Kane Kane, as incredible as he plays, was the 24th seed in the state finals. Um, fabulous game. Fabulous game. Uh, shocking that 226 didn't win. Um, incredible ball won by Kane. Couldn't finish it off. Derek had two great balls. Uh, and got to the retro mode. Hey, he got to the retro mode.
There it is.
All right. I'd actually like I'm looking at the bracket here.
Yeah, take a look here. I'd like to I'd like to watch this match
which is going to be Derek versus the winner of the tiebreaker here.
Gosh. Cory and Cory. Another sudden death for Cory. He beat me in sudden death. Will he beat Tim?
I don't know.
I don't know. I'm going to go walk around and find where they are. See if I can
see what they're on there.
Yeah, very exciting. A lot of exciting stuff going on. Wow. So, Nick ahead. You got to play every game. Scott Mas ahead. They're just started. Dustin ahead. They got a long way to go, man. This is exciting. Things are developing. Yeah, very exciting. Very exciting. Yeah, pretty amazing. Again, Jack second seed overall. Unfortunately, he's out. Just to let you know, uh, internet, these fives aren't really fives. They're really fours. Um, this is just a software thing. So, these are really fours. So those matches, yeah, they were as close as they get. And lo and behold, here they are right now. Tim and Cory tied 3-3. That is as close as it gets. So
yeah. Yeah, you got it. Um, yeah. So pretty exciting. Yeah. So I don't know where they are. I don't know where they are. Car Carl's moving around. I don't even know. I don't even know if I can pick if I can hover here. No, that doesn't do that. Okay, Dennis is figuring stuff out here. Does doing this do the thing? It does not do the thing. Internet Dennis doesn't know how to do the thing. That's okay. Um, yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. UX. Uh, yeah. Red means in. Yeah. Yeah. Corey killing it. I mean, we had a great match. It was so fun to play with him. Um, and it went down to the final game, final ball. Um, yeah. Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. What kind of food is being served? Well, we door dashed some stuff. I brought some Diet Coke and a sandwich. Um, so I'm going to eat that pretty soon. Um, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. Uh, good times. So, Carl. All right, Zach. Good to see you, buddy.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not playing the classics.
Okay.
Yeah. Oh, are you going to Matson's birthday?
What is that?
It's like the 31st of this month.
I'll see you there.
All right. All right. And excuse me for my uh social graces. Just saying some goodbyes. some of the players like Zack coming up from Northern California. We don't get to see him that often. We're really happy to see him. Yeah. Uh we're coming to your birthday. Exactly. That's right. Yep. I'm coming up for your birthday. Coming up for your birthday. Big birthday conference on uh on uh on January 31st up there at Lind's Arcade in Seaside. It is going to be freaking amazing. Yep. January 31st celebrating DRI 374 Mike Matson. Michael Matson's birthday. Going to be awesome. Super match play. It's going to be fabulous. Lind is such an amazing place. I actually only visited Lind for the first time in my life in December and it was so great. I went back again in December. Gorgeous, fabulous place. Great spot and honestly just some of the nicest people you're ever going to play with. Such a great group. Yeah, look at Dennis playing outside of SoCal. You know, you know, I I I I got an inspiration, Jared. I got an inspiration when some great uh players from Linds came down to play with us at the pins and pirates rally at captains and I said, "You know what? I'm going to go up to Seaside Champ and uh and yeah, I really love it up there. Amazing vibe, wonderful people and a great pinball spot." Just pure from the standpoint of how good a pinball spot is it. Yeah, it's a great spot. They got like 38 games up there. Um and it's not just like a it's not just all Modern Sterns. got a real like a rich collection. Um, I totally recommend it. Lynn's absolutely fabulous place. I think there's a wait list. So, if you're considering it, go to the match play. I think you go to the match play and you can get on the wait list cuz I think it's full. Oh, eight spots left. Thank you, Michael. Eight spots left. So, if you're thinking about it, hey, go to that match play. Um, feel free to put the match play link in if you want. Uh, Michael, uh, go to the match play and you got eight spots left. He's accommodating a lot of people, but those eight spots, they might fill up. So, check it out. It's going to be a great time. Meanwhile, uh again, we have Carl is around the corner somewhere, and he is basically looking at what is developing. I think between Tim Hansen and Cory Dunn. I'll be honest with you, internet. I'm not even sure what game they're playing. Thank you, Michael. There it is. Go check that out. Um, yeah. Anyone who's watching, if you want to go for Michael's birthday on January 31st at Lynn's Arcade, please come out. We're going to love to see you there. I think Carl's just looking to see what is happening between Tim and Cory. Um, he's not interrupting their game. And uh, yeah, I can't tell what's happening. I'll be honest with you. He's around the corner somewhere, but they are playing some sort of knockdown drag them out game seven throwdown between Tim and Cory. See if let's see. Oh, 12 spots left. Okay. 96 capacity. Fabulous. Um I know I know, Michael. Uh there's a story behind it. There's a good there's a great story behind it that I probably won't share on the internet, but uh yeah, I got very inspired by some visitors uh uh to the Pins and Pirates Rally. Yep. I love it up there. It's such an amazing spot. Such an amazing spot.
All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. I I'll tell you. I'll tell you. I don't want to embarrass anyone over the internet. That would be the first time anyone was embarrassed. Yeah. Yep. I was up there at Linds. Yeah. No, great spot up there. Fabulous. Fabulous people. Yep. Truly amazing. But anyway, right now, uh Tim and Corey,
do you know what Tim and Corey are even playing right now?
Theater of Magic. Wow. Okay.
Okay. Cory having a big ball.
1.1 billion. 1.1 billion for Tim on ball two. Ball two of Theater of Magic. Um yeah, 1.1 billion. Uh so there there it's quite a throwdown. So, it's 3-3 and Cory is having a big ball too himself. Um, so Tim was the top seed overall in the entire tournament. So, he gets Pickkins. Yeah, I just got a text from Butterhouse today, Michael. Um, yeah. Uh, Tim got to pick a fourth game. So, again, just going back for those of you who weren't here at the beginning, each player, both, for example, Tim and Corey got to pick three games. an old, a mid, and a new. Uh, and then they alternated playing their picks. So, uh, they probably started with a Tim pick, then a Cory pick, then a Tim pick, then a Cory pick, then a Tim pick, then a Cory pick. And sure enough, after those six games, it was a dead tie, three-3. Sudden death. Tim's the higher seed. He got to pick. He picked theater of magic and he has 1.1 billion after two balls and Corey is still lighting it up I believe on ball two as we speak. Unbelievable. Um, yep. I'm texting uh I'm texting with Butterhouse on a daily basis. No, that's not true. But they texted me today. They uh what do you got? What do you got for us? We're on theater. Look at these score. Are you kidding me right now? Are you kidding me? Is it really 1.1 to 1.2 after two balls?
Cory just played three multiballs in one ball.
Good lord. That is player card.
Incredible.
You know, it's funny. I don't even It It's so hard to find these on location, period. Because people get them at home and they keep them. And they're tough to keep in proper playing condition. A lot of these theater magics break and are hard to fix. Um I don't even know this game that well. Do you know this game pretty well?
Yeah, I know it well enough.
Um so um
that's the um unfortunate end of this. Oh no, it's not good.
Okay, he's got safe escape.
I was scared there for a second.
I don't even know.
Oh goodness. These ball saves I never for some reason the magnet saves on this game I just do not trust.
Is it Is it like the magnet save on Solar Fire?
No, no, no. It's a It's an automatic one. You don't even have a button to activate. It's It's I would assume this is the Saurin ROM. Um this is the same one that was at Indisk.
Okay.
No Mystery Castle yet, Matt. Mystery Castle is in the tournament. I think
they It's been played,
but no one Yeah,
I think it's been played.
I think so. The games being picked today have been very similar across all the groups. I've noticed
it's interesting.
A lot of Black Knight, a lot of uh
Mhm.
lot of Stargazer, a lot of high speed, that kind of stuff.
I'm surprised about the high speed. I feel like that's such a anymore. It's a rare game today,
you know.
Okay.
I think um yeah, like I I played it. I don't I didn't know the first thing about it. I mean, that's not true. I didn't know the third thing about it.
All right. So, Tim just locked the ball on the vanish uh in the you know, there he can bring it out by hitting that captive ball on the left, I believe.
Okay. Right here.
I think that's what it is. Although, he's just going to uh So, no, this is definitely not the code. Jim at one point changed the uh geometry on this game for Indisk. Okay. I don't know if he reverted it back or not. So the balls coming off of this. Yeah, he did. Cuz the balls coming off of that right orbit.
He made it so that it would hit a post and then go wild after that.
How nice.
Well, because otherwise it's just do the same. You can just do this all day long and just shoot the left orbit as over and over and over. Build your multiplier.
And is that the big exploit in this game is just shooting the left orbit over and over.
I mean the hurry ups over and over. Okay. The theater hurry ups. Now, during multiball, is he going for that captive ball here or what's going on?
Uh, he's going to ignore it and just shoot the orbit.
Okay, just orbit
cuz right now if you spell theater that hurry up to 58 million,
so he's in the orbit, does it?
Oh, that was an unfortunate a little bit of fumble there.
Yeah, he fumbled it. He knows it, too. He knows he dropped it.
But we're back to uh left orbits.
He's smiling. See, this is the I mean, they're fighting for their tournament life. Uh, and they're smiling, you know, they're smiling. They're having a good time. And it's fun to play pinball. And that's I love that. I absolutely love that. And I feel the same way about pinball.
Competition is fun, but it's it's really just fun to get together and play together.
Oh, no. He took a wild shot at the trap door, right?
Yeah.
So, he is what, barely ahead.
Yeah. I mean, he'll have a decent bonus here, but uh
I say decent, right?
I didn't know that bonus was so big. Now he's built that up throughout the game.
The orbit when he was he was shooting orbit to get the multip from ball three
the multiplier up the up top. I mean the yeah it builds up to the whole game but the the lanes at the top are with
the letters are their bonus. Okay. Interesting.
So Cory's got a look at all the modes Cory has gone through. He's gone through five out of the eight.
Wow.
So obviously these have been two completely different strategies here.
Interesting.
It would have been nice to see a full game. Yeah.
Well, after this, maybe one of them will pick it and we'll be about to see it again.
Maybe.
Yeah, this is exciting.
Let's see. This would have been Tim's pick. I believe he was the higher seed. So for sudden death
for the captain ball
do not shoot for the captain ball.
Too dangerous.
Yeah, it it puts it out of control. So at this point it's going to be hurry up until that happen.
Maybe he's going to hit it. I don't know.
So how is he getting theater letters?
The left orbit. Okay, theater letters are left orbit
and then you also get multiplier
at the at the rollover lanes right here at the rollover lanes.
Let's see.
Good catch. Yeah. So, the mode's over. He doesn't care. He wasn't He wasn't playing for the
Yeah, you don't play for that mode. He was going for the orbital.
What happens if you play all the modes?
Uh there's this there's a wizard mode. It's nothing. I don't I don't remember the scoring on it.
Okay.
But that's some dangerous shots to the trunk if you want to do that. So, do you really want to shoot the trunk?
No.
It's a dangerous start to the trunk just to start the mode. Right.
Right. To light the modes. Yeah.
He has vanished lit on the left. Yeah. So, now he can shoot the tiger saw to start this have a two ball and then start grinding out theater letters if he wants to do that. So this is good. So he's Oh, so why is it not showing skill shot options here?
Because it's no no skill shot because it's
okay.
There's no selectable skill shot.
Okay, so wait, he has a mult he has two ball lit or no?
I'm confused here.
The right orbit is what starts that.
Okay. Is that cuz he's like at All right, I'll just watch. Oh no, the right orbit was because he had locked the ball and vanished. So that's how you started.
We assume that he's
not quite he didn't have a a multiplier to to
Wow, what a freaking close game. What a match. Oh my goodness. 200 million. Wow. What a great game. What a fabulous game to end on.
Um Cory beats me in his first sudden death. Unfortunately gets knocked out in his second sudden death against Tim. But it's two great players. Only one of them gets to go on
always.
So that's all that's all you can do. That's all you can do. Um are we going to go to uh we're going to follow Tim?
Yeah, we're going to follow Tim. Yeah, we'll follow Tim and Derek. I think that's a good match to watch and we get it from the beginning and see everything.
Absolutely fantastic.
So I will go hound them to start. Sorry, I'm leaving you alone again.
Okay, you're leaving me alone. That's okay. I'll later on I'll leave you alone. It'll be great. Um yeah, so you know Oh, such great pinball today, Michael. I couldn't agree with you more. Wow. I mean, just fabul. I mean, look at this. Cory survi survives the first sudden death, gets knocked out in the second sudden death. Absolutely unbelievable. These two are still going at it. I don't even know what they're playing, but they're still going at it here. Um, just incredible. Let me see. I don't know why I have this here. Um,
um, yeah, this is the furthest he's got in states. I'm surprised because Scott MS is such a fabulous player. Such a great player here. Um, but so's Gabe and so's Andre and so's John. I mean, everyone everyone that fell before and Nick, all these players are great players. Okay, so this isn't refreshed. Uh, we're hearing from the internet. Thank you. Uh, thank you, Jared. Nick won. Okay, so Nick won here and he's going to have to wait for this entire match, which hasn't even started yet, and he's going to play the winner. So, Nick going to the final four. Uh and then we're just now starting just now starting this uh top group in the round of eight. Oh yeah. North versus South. Well, I mean this is this is Derek versus Tim. That's North versus South, too. Yeah. So, we got we got a got a lot of regional rivalries.
Kane gets money. I get money, too. Uh anyway, uh time to order pizza. It's going to be a long night. You might be right. You might be right. So anyway, uh what we're waiting for here is right now again um Tim and Derek advance. And what that means is Dererick is the lower seed. So the first thing that happens is Dererick picks a game. It's either going to be old, mid, or new. He can pick any game he wants. And then Tim picks a game. Now probably what will happen is if Dererick picks an old game, Tim will pick an old game because then Dererick has to pick again. See? and they each have to pick an old mid and new. So basically Der Dererick has to pick first. Then Tim picks second. Derek then picks third, Tim picks fourth. Derek then picks fifth, Tim picks six. So Tim has a big picking advantage in that uh you know he can see like oh maybe maybe uh Derek picked a game that Tim was going to pick anyway. So he can pick something different. So he gets to pick second, fourth, and sixth. Then Tim will say, "Okay, we're either going to play my picks as game 1, three, and five, or we're going to play Derek's picks as game 1, three, and five, and the other picks will be two, four, and six. I'm expecting that Tim will want to pick his play his picks as games 1, three, and five, but we'll see what happens. We will see what happens." So, But uh
and that's what's going to happen. So I don't Tim was here a moment ago actually,
but they're going to do some pickings.
They're going to do some pickings.
Yeah. Just waiting for the pick of
We got signings. We got some envelopes. All right. I'm going to leave you alone and I'll be right back.
That's fine. Yeah. Thank you.
All right. So now you get silence instead. Uh, what else is going on here? We uh let me look at the rest of the bracket. I'm sure Dennis went over it already, but refresh this just in case. There we go. So, waiting on these two. Nick handily took out Johnny. No two ball Johnny this year. And Dustin and Derek are just starting right now. That's the status. And sorry about these fives. I I had this left over from IPA Worlds. And I forgot the the sudden death for state is only one game, not two. Not to best of three. So that's why I see some players with five. We just double up the last win, whatever that is. All right, Tim is here. So him and Derek are going to make selection. Yep, that goes there. Thanks, Corey. So chat, how is this? Is anybody actually looking at this? Is this actually useful or should I not even bother uh expanding this kind of software? Again, I like it for the stream because it lets me put the player card up with the with the games. It's easier. That's my main reason. All negotiations going on. They're talking about what they played last round, trying to make sure they just don't want to pick someone else's game. I think Derek's picking Black Knight. I heard that. Any other surprises in states while waiting? Uh, the only the only thing I saw in chat I think Jared posted this was that Zach Sharpe took out Zmac in Chicago. That's all I've heard. Haven't heard anything else and I haven't been looking at anything else. All right, I'm going to get the rig moved to whatever the first game's going to be and be right All right. So, um, we're moving to Jurassic Park.
All right.
Um, there is a group on Jurassic Park right now. So, I'm going to put them on and then I will get the
Are you already?
I am not yet. No. Do you want to do it?
All right.
Yeah. Um, yeah. Player cards out there from Twin Galaxies. If any of you have the uh the uh pro football card, just so happens that yours truly, this is Dennis Iicorn, is on the Pro Football Player card from Twin Galaxies. Um a bunch of us uh that play a captain's got on uh some player cards from Twin Galaxies. I don't know if they're still doing that or not. Uh I don't know if they're still doing that or not. That's a good question. I don't know. Um but it's pretty cool. Yeah, Matt, you could be a common card of low value that comes in every pack. Hilarious. Yeah. Um, you know, you might be I don't know, Matt. You might be a very valuable card. It's possible. You could be rare. You could be super rare. I don't know. Um, but yeah, there's a there's Dustin Dark Helmet here. Looks like Dark Helmet.
All right. I don't know who's first or not, but I'll figure it out.
Yeah. I bet it's going to be Tim. And they're going to play a little dress.
Yeah. So, Tim and Derek are playing Jurass Park after this group. So, I stuck it on the rig. So, we get this bonus game of Dustin and Derek.
Okay. They're doing very poorly so far after one ball. Very atypical for them.
Yep.
Um but I bet they're going to do better now.
I mean, I wouldn't be shocked to see these guys get a billion in this game. You know,
I haven't seen how this plays or anything. Have you?
I haven't either, but these guys are over excellent players.
What if the game set up nasty? I could see anything happen.
Mhm. Amy has thoughts on Matt's value. Maybe maybe those shouldn't be shared over the internet. I don't even know. Um, but here's Dustin and Derek. Canada's still alive.
Canada is still alive.
Could be a Canadian California champion. Wow.
Well, you know, we don't like to grant anyone uh, you know, from California.
We do like them. We do like we're sure that two years we have not. So,
we have not done this. I bet we would like
I mean that's why that's why Derek came. He knew he was the only out oftowner, so he's a shoe in practically.
Yep. Yeah, you might be right. Dustin not picking mystery castle while wearing that shirt is an issue. Yes, that is
fabulous. So fabulous.
That's a great shirt. I don't know why I don't Where can I get one of those?
I think Dustin made that one. I think I think he sells it somewhere. He put it up somewhere. I think it was his, right?
Yeah.
Chad, correct me if I'm wrong, please.
That's a great shirt.
So, he's taking his time and I like that for me. You know, if you can play with patience, play with patience.
Yeah, but we're not playing with patience here.
Are we not? He is.
No, we're not. We're timing out uh the paddock.
Oh, we're timing out the
We're timing out the paddic to get to visitor center.
Wow. I didn't even know this. So, if you if you play all these paddics, you get up here to visitor center and you can time them out and just you let the dinosaur eat all the people.
Yes. The the Yes.
I didn't even know this was a thing, Kyle.
At least that's what I think is happening right now.
I did not even know it was a thing. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe he's just uh maybe I'm wrong, but yes, that is a thing. If Zmac was here, he would be doing that.
Wow.
Okay. He has a Tublic storefront. Yeah, I've seen Tublic. Okay.
He went the capture area on the arrow on the easy ramp shot. Yep, that's possible, too.
So, isn't there a rule about sitting around time stuff out? I think you're not I think there's a rule against stalling
for the sake of stalling.
Yeah. Yeah,
like to slow up the event,
right? But if the game's progressing and it's not
If the game's progressing, you're not st you're not doing that. That's right.
By the way, they cannot see the chat over here.
They can't see.
This is for you.
Oh, it's just me. So, I'm pointing to things that no one knows what I'm talking about.
Those arrows that are pointing off the Yeah.
Can they see the Well, they might be able to see the chat there depending on how they're displaying.
I doubt it. Not like Yeah, but that's specific for that screen.
Oh, but like this. Oh, no. No. No. Yeah. Thank you.
Yep. I'm glad I'm in HR for Jurassic Park. Think all the legal work after those people getting eaten. Exactly. You're glad you're not in HR. Exactly. All those eaten people. Oh, that's a paperwork nightmare.
Hey, remember also No, nobody dies in this game. They're just not rescued.
I mean, I think they die though, right?
But the Stern's official statement is they do not.
They don't get like trampled or eaten. Really? I don't know. Interesting.
Reminds me of the extra ball animation. I mean, I saw the movie. The movie is not victimless.
Correct. But this is the game and I'm sure there were some licensing requirements in that decision.
Okay.
Interesting. I don't think uh
boy that tilts tight, huh? Yeah.
That's rough. This game is there. Neither one is I bet they I mean certainly Dustin changed his plan now, right?
I possibly. Yes.
I mean, he's only got one ball left.
I mean, at this point, I'm thinking I want to play T-Rex multiball just to do something. But how? I mean, he has no T-Rex letters, so never mind that.
Yeah, he's got a control room.
Oh, the control room, of course. Yeah.
So, he did. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
Do you get control room lit for timing out?
No, he finished the first battle.
Finishing. Okay.
Yeah, just finishing the first first battle,
right?
Yeah.
Okay. Little 6 million giving increasing his score by 50% with that skill shot, but more importantly going to control room. I wonder what he plays.
Really? Virus attack. Wow, this is I never played this.
After the update, all these changed and this one became a lot more valuable.
You know, all I remember is this. Isn't this like shot C shot C shot C shot C. Isn't that what it is?
Yeah. Control room 13 million it said here. For me it depends on the game. Like there's a lot of these that I'm not that great at the Cshot, you know? I mean, he just got it and that's great. Oh yeah, I see. I see these Cshots are valuable. 17 now, but it's a tough shot. We can see he's not getting it every time. Okay, 17 million. Good for you. So now I guess any blue shot like that one. And now control wound is worth 22 million. Fascinating. What he's Oh, that's a nice save. Oh, what poise. Wow. Yeah.
Such gentle like delicate dead bouncing. So now that control room's over.
Yes,
you got good points.
Yeah.
87.
Yeah,
that's not bad.
I like that. I like that.
Nice increase compared to everything else in the game so far.
I I'm a big fan of Raptor multiball, so I'm no I'm no stranger to that. You get that hitting this in here enough. Okay, one ball locked. Just got to bash away on that wall. Get himself a multiball.
It's interesting he abandoned the soft plunge there. I wonder why.
That was a nice nice backhand on the fly there. So, he should be able to back him from a cradle. Pretty straightforward.
As you can tell, that raptor multiball is lit.
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Yes. Very well played.
I know. Okay.
Backhand that time. There you go. Raptor triball. Throwback to what? The day to East Jurassic Park, right? Raptor triball.
Yep. Yep. Exactly. So, this starts off. He's got jackpots here and here. And then once he gets both of those, then all the chaos letters will light for jackpots. So, he just did that. Um, and he's got all of the chaos letters lit for jackpot. He can do them in any order he wishes.
All right. And after that, then the supers are lit.
He gets raptor hex ball if he gets them. Right.
Right. Right.
Nice shot there. Okay, down to two balls. You see him staging here. You notice he's flipping with the upper flipper even though he's in a cradle here on very very high level of talent there. Stage flipping. Super good stuff. Okay, he's out. He's out. Okay, what's he Oh, I mean he's got he's got 145 plus bonus. What is he going to be? 150 here. bonus is not going to be that oh yeah about 150 149
150 okay I mean
clearly not
didn't make it to visitor center
but sometimes you just got to change your plan you know you got to base your your game decisions on the game situation
well what's Derrick do here then what's he going to do
he doesn't have control room lit so
right he hasn't finished the first paddock
I I mean, he really has nothing right now. He's got two T-Rex letters. Um,
I would go for Raptor cuz I if I think it's safe.
Damn. All right.
You're right. I mean, he I mean, he has his work cut out for him, but he's such a great player. I mean, he could have had a he could have had a 500 million ball, you know? I mean, he would have stopped. So, but um yeah, Chaos. Yep. Could have Chaos. Could have been Raptor. But he needed, you know, he needed over a 100. He needed 130 million more. So,
which isn't much in this game.
It's just This one looks like it's playing really difficult.
It It sure does look like it's playing difficult. I didn't even play this one. Even in warm-up, I didn't play.
Um, okay. So, we're moving away from the I don't remember what are they at. What that
that was their first game.
That was their first game,
but it looked like Yeah. And we were going to follow Tim and Derek.
Okay. Now, we're following Tim and Derek and they're going to play a little Jurassic Park. Okay. Now, are the are they going to are they going to time out and go to visitor center?
No.
No.
No. It's Zmax's the only one that really does that.
And and Dustin.
And well, no. It Dustin wasn't doing it. We did.
Okay. He changed. Okay.
He was waiting for the uh Easy Shot for the um panic completion.
Okay. Letting the dinosaur roam a little bit.
So, we should see some new games here that we haven't seen on stream yet. We will this start.
Tim also picked Hot Tip and Party Zone. Okay.
And Derek picked Stargazer, Robocop, and Black Knight. Okay, cool. Yeah, we see we saw Black Knight, of course, but uh and Star. Okay.
Right.
But yeah, Robocop. I haven't seen that.
I don't I don't play that one. I heard that all
there's not much to it.
I heard it's spinner and ramp.
Yeah.
Congratulations,
All I hear is Star Trek in the in the audio, though.
Yeah, they got a nice next generation,
Johnny and Raymond.
And they're out. They're just playing for fun. They're playing for funsies, right?
Yeah. To me, that's the game that I really think about timing out the modes in.
Why even start them? Yeah. No, that game's the only spinner and side ramp and that's it. That's the whole game.
For me, I time I try and go to Final Frontier. Ah,
no.
I just do the warp nine.
Okay.
All day long.
I'm not that good at it. Actually, I'm not as good of an upper flipper player as some players are. I don't know.
So,
takes seven minutes to time out each mode. But the the problem is that you can actually do it. So
gross. That would be some really nonfun streaming right there. Yep.
Um but yeah, Tim uh Tim picked this. Looks like he's shooting S to light his paddic. Yeah, they have three players in the game because this is a 30 second practice round.
Yeah, this is practice. Yep.
Wow.
Yeah. And every game it's 30 seconds of practice. A little sensitive, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah. Little sensitive.
Uh, so this is 30 seconds of practice for Tim, 30 seconds of practice for Derek. I mean, these are like these are top player was I can't who was uh what's has Tim Tim has gotten close to state champion, hasn't he?
He's such a good player.
Did he la
can't remember last year? I mean, he took a several, you know, a long break from pinball. So, yeah, since he's come back, he's fantastic.
I'll tell you what. So, I know this Derek a former California state champion. Okay. and Tim, he was the top qualifier this year. So, he came into this thing as, you know, technically the favorite. You're the top qualifier. So, these are two
super super top tier players. Um, so we'll see what's going on.
I choose not to go Zmax Strat on Guardians of the Galaxy on Thursday. Thank you.
Tim is a former state champ. Yeah, I was thinking he might be. Um, was he like 3 years ago maybe? Do you know Jared when it was? Um, but no. Yeah, Tim. Tim and Derek. So, these are two former state champions. Uh, and they're gonna go at it after 30 seconds. Oh, one of the things before his break. Okay. Okay.
Yeah, but obviously he's playing fantastic. Top qualifier in California.
2017.
It's so funny that 2017 is now, you know, eight eight and a half years ago.
Yeah. practically a decade.
They're crazy.
You can see You can see here that right there. Tim's got his notes. See that? You can see his notes, internet. Zoom in.
Yep.
Zoom in. You can see.
You can see he's got his notes.
Patty World Poker is coming. It's fixed. So, it will be streamed again. I just haven't had time to fixing it for the, you know,
12th time. No.
Oh, okay. You have you got some good Jurassic Park?
Yeah, I have a I have a big video on YouTube of it.
Okay, fine. I love it.
Yeah, we all are we are all stuck in an extended 2020. I'm going to check out your Jurassic Park video. That sounds interesting. So, it's just IE Pinball on YouTube.
Yep.
Okay.
It's a complete park tour, I think, is what I called it. All right. That's the entire entire game.
I'm going to check it out. That sounds great.
Okay. And away we go for real Z's.
Short plunges. I'm I don't I've never done the short plunge.
You know this. I don't really
I don't mind it cuz I want C anyway. So I I take it for the the skill shot and the C um while I'm still in ball. I don't know. I will sometimes do it. Um there's real points though to be had from that like four-way skill shot if you can do it. Rejection.
Now here we go. Boom. Yeah. See, now he already has C and H. So, he started his paddic and he's 40% of the way to chaos. So, I think that's I think that's probably why he doesn't Bam. Yeah, this thing's pretty nasty.
I'd be going for that kick. Uh, Yep. That exactly the rescue or what? Escape. Escape. I forgot what it's called here for a second. Yeah.
What is it? This uh this escape light. This only lights what when you go through this.
Yep. Exactly.
Right. Yeah. See, when you go through that upper rollover down into the pops area, that Holy move. I
think it's him. That was a huge move.
Yeah, but when you go through this rollover down into the pops area here, it lights this escape target flashing for a limited amount of time. Um, and if you hit it in time, you get the left out lane ball save. So, it's pretty huge. Um, so like that's exactly what Carl was saying. Carl's saying if this is lit, oh, he's going for it. He wants that left outline ball save and I totally go for it. Um,
yeah, he thought he was going to throw that table like in Tron Aries. You know, I didn't see Tron Aries, unfortunately. But maybe I still can.
That was a huge move he got away with,
which is funny because it was kind of sensitive in one sense, but I guess sometimes it can be sensitive, but still accept a giant move.
Yeah. Well, if you depending on how it, you know, how it's hit, it's the rebound can sometimes counteract
the swinging.
Like start at swing and then undo it,
right?
Yeah. Yeah, but he displaced that machine a pretty significant amount. That's pretty funny.
I'm guessing Tim not super satisfied with ball one. Definitely didn't accomplish everything you wanted to accomplish.
I would agree with that.
The great thing is is you can really do a lot in one ball in this game. You can just keep it going. You know, you can have a long productive ball. So, let's see what Derek can do. Huh?
Oh, wow. What happened there?
He punched the dinosaur in the face.
Yeah.
And he didn't get credit.
Did it airball off the dino? Is that why it didn't go on the ramp?
I am not sure.
It looked like it had plenty of power.
Yeah. I like that shot. Is that Do you call that the tower shot? That side ram.
Yes.
That's a nice shot cuz uh from the upper flipper cuz that's how you bring it back to safety.
At the same time, it's a tougher shot.
It's a tough shot. It's a very tough shot, but for me, that's what I always want is that tower shot cuz it brings the ball back to safety.
Yeah.
Yeah. Absolutely not an easy shot.
Honestly, I think it's cuz Ned's up to no good.
Is that why?
I think so. I think he changed teams at some point and uh
got something nefarious. Okay, let's
see if he's going to build it much or if he's just going to take it.
He's got to be a builder.
Oh,
well, I mean, it's decent build.
That's nice. I didn't even realize he built it that much that quickly.
Three shots.
Fabulous. That was really good.
Yeah. 6.5 is the max, I think, on that. But this I mean this multiball you can get several hundred million out of it if you if you play it right.
I mean I'm not just going to say if I can but one can.
Yes indeed, Carl. I agree that one can get several hundred million.
There are lots of points in the Well, now there's not. Now he just ruined his uh multiplier, but
and the mult looks like it's overall. No, it's not. It's not.
Okay.
Yeah, he got his first shot here which gave him 2x. So now his jackpots are like 7.3 million. Uh, and now his multiple is over. I mean, he's fine. You know, he he wanted more, but he's okay.
All right. So, his uh capture shot is on the right orbit and right ramp right now. He's it looks like he's waiting till it's in the center, I think.
Move over.
Yeah. So, he doesn't want the rescue. He wants to wait.
He wants to wait. He wants to wait for that yellow to come over. Okay. Got a DNA combo from the center to the uh truck.
That's center to truck. Okay. I didn't I don't know the combos at all.
I made it when I did my stream. I made a cheat sheet of every everything. What all the dinos give you? All the I don't remember where it is now, but
Okay. Okay. I guess virus is a new thing. I haven't been doing it. I got to do it.
I got to try this virus attack.
So, this is just blue sea. Blue sea. Blue sea. Yes. Okay. This is a struggle here.
Time is ticking down. The likelihood of actually finishing this now is pretty low.
Uh, what? What are we taking? Raptor. Raptor. Raptor.
Chaos.
Raptor. Raptor.
Oh, okay.
She actually changed it. I didn't think we would change it.
That's interesting. That was a last second change. That was
I mean, for me,
I take Raptor there as well. Um,
Raptor is more valuable. Well, that's why you take it.
I'm a fan. I'm a big fan. I mean, yeah.
Let me ask you this. Do you think his his control room choice is any different if he's about to go into multiball or do you think he still goes virus? Maybe it's different because the Yeah, that's more difficult to do during multiball.
I feel like hitting the C during multiball, that's a tough task. Yeah,
that's a tall task. Uh interesting.
Raptors for babies, you know. Um it's funny because I think raptors eat babies,
but I'm not sure if babies eat raptors, but uh I'm a fan. Yeah, I'm a huge fan of that raptor. Um, and I love playing I love finishing a paddic and then starting control room and then starting raptor. So, I'm playing something like restore power or system boot uh while I'm in raptor. And then, of course, if you just get at least one jackpot during raptor, you light a second control room. I mean, those control rooms are great points.
Oh, they are. They are. I'm I'm anti-stacking this game. I don't want to stack anything
really.
Yeah, because then I because I want to focus in on completing those modes. You feel like the focus is much more important than just the safety of the multiball. Yeah, I'm uh you know, I'm uh for me, I like the safety, but I can see it because
you really want to be making the shots you're making when you're trying to make these shots. Um
yeah, that's very interesting.
All right, Tim showing why he's doing the short pun.
Yeah, get to get another shot at it.
Where's he going here? Okay. He's just he's really just doing it for extra time before activating ball saving.
Yeah,
they got that all three targets in one shot there.
Wow, Wow. Thank you, Escape.
Yep. Prioritize relighting it or just keep going for Raptor.
Yeah, cuz I get a little confused about the truck orientation, but here. So, this relights this cuz he went through this rollover like you're saying there.
So, this is a limited time, but I'm sure he wants it. All right.
I would think so.
Close pass and hit it.
Nope. Huh. They finished the paddock.
Then he got it
and then used it and it was going out. It was about to go out. He nailed it and it it it cost him the use of it.
That's hilarious.
Oh, started a control room. Look at that.
I don't think he wanted to. Doesn't look like he wanted to.
Um
system boot. You know, one thing I I learned that in system boot there's like all these like combos and they are worth wildly different numbers of points depending on how difficult they are in system boot. And I still don't know all the various combos. But if you look it up on like the tilt forums rule sheet, they'll tell you
like this system boot combo is this much, but then this other one like the second shot could be like 25 million, etc. So, it's pretty interesting that in system boot, you're shooting the blue shots. Okay. So, you always know you're shooting blue, but which ones you shoot uh makes a big difference. Actually,
it's anything with the upper flipper pretty much.
The upper flipper more.
Yeah, that's
Uh-huh.
Got the ball back.
He's got his final shot then, I believe, too, right?
Yeah, he's here.
Make it. Make it back. Damn it. Almost. See, that's why I don't do virus. I struggle with that C shot.
10 seconds left.
It's not that bad.
It's so interesting. You were
that says he has started everything. Like you said, he's trying here, I think, to shoot that tower shot to bring it back into control, but like you said, that's a super difficult shot. It's not easy. And ultimately, boom, he was out instead. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. think he goes chaos here?
No, he's not going to purposely go for it.
Okay. What are you What are you thinking here?
Uh, I bet he goes raptor.
Okay. See, I might go I might I might short plunge to the left flipper and try this skill shot to get the Oh, and just go for chaos.
Okay.
I'm I'm I like chaos.
Oh, yeah.
You know,
but it's just not as valuable unless you get really deep in it, I feel.
Yeah. Some of these players like Derek are a lot better at playing the multiballs than I am. I play a lot of multiballs for safety, but um you know, these guys are great players. They can get they can get a big number out of it.
See, that looked like No, you think that was He's going for the helicopter to to get to pick up the rescue.
Okay.
So, he's trying to finish the paddic so he can move on like Oh, no. That was definitely No.
Yeah, I think he's going O here for Chaos. I I I mean, I would do the same. Um, but I mean, this is part of the reason it's such a great game. There are so many different ways to play. Um, and there's a lot of He just misjudged it. He just plain misjudged it. There's so that's what makes so many of these games like Jurassic Park in particular so great is you have real options. It's not just like one trick pony, you know? It's not just like, oh, you got to light the spinner, hit the spinner. No, there's a lot more to these games.
Yep.
Um, and that's what makes a great game when there's enough balance that there's more than one viable strategy. And I really I really like that.
Um, and that's why Jurassic Park is so great. Tim seems to be indicating he's going Raptor.
All right, one to go.
Nice shot.
Uh-oh. Okay. Uh, one more target hit for a uh, right out lane ball save. So, he'll probably get that on accident during this. And he just did. So, he's got the Nedry save on the right out lane now.
I forgot. Is that from hitting 2x enough?
Yeah.
Is that okay?
Yeah. So, it's three target hits for the first one, at least with these settings.
Okay.
Fortunately, he is not hitting any jackpots here. No,
he really needs that. Uh,
I mean, he's in ball safe. Yeah, but you really need that first jackpot to get the uh control room lit. That's your whole
purpose for this to me at least.
Nothing yet. Nothing.
So,
they keep getting in the way.
How's he still in balls? Did he
Well, it's it's gone now.
Yeah.
There's a dead. All right. There's one jackpot.
So, that's the important thing. Get that at least one. But it's good points, too, I think.
Oh, no. The the multib is great points if you especially if you get past chaos, but uh
but that took a long time.
See, he's staging here. This is down. This is up.
Okay. He's got his finger on that flipper button just right.
Yeah. It helps with the um with that right ramp. It helps uh with the deflection.
Yeah. He'd rather have this down when he's going to shoot this right ramp.
Yeah. So you don't hit the tip of the flipper and then it goes out the left out lane.
Exactly. All right, away we go.
So, I think he got Did he get I think he did he just get Addabal from supply drop?
Yeah, it looked like it.
Okay. Yeah, Adabal from supply drop. That getting supply drop lid is 2x and he hit 2x. So, right now he's in 2x playfield.
Um and he's got he's he's going for the chaos jackpot.
All right, that's the end of that. But he's got control room lit. I would go straight into that, which is probably where he was shooting for it.
It's interesting that he didn't catch the ball on the right. I guess he wants a little pace. You know, you can either shoot the C from a cradle or you can shoot it when it's rolling a little. It looked like he kind of
he took a shot at it when it's still rolling. He might prefer that, but there he took it from a cradle. No problem.
I like this restore power. Now this is center spinner and then like all the shots. Right.
Right.
And then can you shoot center spinner again to build it more?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, that's rough.
So he's ahead but not happy but well ahead.
I mean
yeah he's got a good lead and it's final ball, right? So
yeah, he's going to be over 180 I guess.
Okay. Almost one almost 180. Derek.
Um,
I'm reading the ticker. Oops. There's no second sudden death game. Ignore that.
Just kidding. I
feel like it's two games. It would be gradual death.
Well, for world championships, it is after you get three and three, it is another best of three.
That makes sense.
After that,
I can see that.
But that's like gradual death. Yeah.
Yeah.
All right. So, Derek really needs um he's trying for skill shot to get some points on the board there cuz skill shot's not, you know, it's not nothing. If you can get that far away.
Uhoh. Uhoh. Uhoh.
Yep. Was it one danger?
So I guess he's going for Chaos is going to be my guess. Um
Okay.
Although he's close to
I think
Where's his raptor though? Did he play the Sorry,
I'm confused. I I I forget these things pretty easily.
Yeah, he didn't play raptor, I don't
but I think there's nothing trapped.
There's nothing trapped because because Tim played it.
Yeah, he didn't play. Thank you.
Yeah, it looks like he's going chaos. That's what I would do again if I needed 110 million. I'd go chaos.
Uh I I still like Raptor more.
Okay. I mean, those raptor jackpots can be pretty good points, so I see what you're saying. Almost. He doesn't get any credit for almost. Man, that is
that was just a slight misread there. It went to the right flipper instead of the left.
We've seen a couple of We just saw two Jurassic Park games in a row. It It was tough on these players cuz these are like these are the top players in California
and man, this really this game took him to task. It really gave him a hard time. Playing hard. Yep.
Giving a hard time. Not easy at all. Okay.
All right. Let's see where they're going next.
Yeah. Tim's going to walk away with a win.
Do this. Let me refresh this just in case there's something new. That's not the screen. It's this one.
Refreshing.
This one.
Oh. Oh, Scott beat Gabe in a sudden death.
I got a bug.
I see Scott twice down there.
Okay. Uh but yeah. No, but uh Scott Scott beat Gabe in sudden death. So Scott uh doing a great job here. Uh this is Scott MSAS. Um so many sudden deaths. Look at this. Sudden death. Sudden death. Sudden death. Sudden death. All these went down to the seventh game. Again, those fives are actually fours. Yeah. No, we want to see Scott, too. Um, so what what's going to happen here? Oh my. Oh, yeah. We got Scott twice. So, it's not really going to be Scott twice. Um, yeah, we're going to see what happens here. We're going to see how this goes. Um, so again, it's That's not really
um but yeah, we're uh we're on the move here and I think I think we're going to Robocop internet. I think we are going to play a little Robocop again. Tim with a nice win there on the first game, but it was tough on him. So, we're going to a Derek pick and that Derek pick is going to be Robocop. I don't know this game. Um, you know, as you can imagine, uh, Scott got engaged prior to the tournament. Yeah. Wasn't that nice? Um, but yeah, Robocop, I I don't know this well, but I did a, as you can imagine, I did a little bit of studying for most of the games in the tournament, and all I know is that you shoot the spinner and you shoot the ramp. I I really don't know much else to be honest with you, Car.
All right. Well, I got to fix my issues before I do things. So,
but um,
which means no drawing on the screen while I do it.
Okay. No drawing on the screen. Oh, cuz I stealed the mouse.
Steal the mouse. Exactly.
I didn't understand until now. Okay.
Get this swapped over. Okay. And then I got to look at this.
Um, so yeah, just again 30 seconds of warm-up.
Match 22. Why does that have two players in it?
Yeah. Got engaged in October. Congratulations, Alli and Scott. Fabulous. Okay. Again, this is just warm-up. Um, like to my recollection, this game, it's got a funny ramp like that. It's got a funny uh got a funny uh jump ramp. But my understanding is that if you clear the four green targets on the left, the three yellow targets in the middle, and the one red cap the ball on the right, uh you can play yourself a multiball. And if I understand correctly, you can spot those targets by going through the rollover lanes up top. Now again, I am not an experienced Robocop player. This is like just what I heard probably from I want to say I want to say Bowen Kerins maybe did a tutorial on this that I watched the other day.
I do think he put one out there, didn't he?
Yeah, he he has such great tutorials. I've learned so much about pinball from Bowen Kerins. with unbel like he was really where it all where really studying pinball started for me was with his amazing tutorials. Uh we as a pinball community we owe him a lot. So thank you so much Bowen. But uh yeah here they are. Is that uh Have you played this one? I haven't played.
Yeah, I know how to play. So
So we're So those will light the three locks. Um the um
the green, the yellow, the red.
And is each one one lock?
Yes.
And so you could light two and collect two or light one collect one light another one. Okay. Exactly. It also lights the spinner for that value. So it increases the spinner value.
So all three complete is big spinner,
right?
Is it like what 3k a click or something like that? If it gets
I can't I can't remember.
Okay.
Um but it's valuable. I mean to the point that sometimes if the ramp is not makeable because a lot of them have an issue, okay, with the strength of that because it's a jump ramp, you really got to make it solid.
Um
spinner
that spinner all day is is is a good strategy.
Interesting. And then there's also a mystery award on the far, not the far right, but just right of the ramp. Um, if it goes in the saucer up there
here.
Yeah.
So, there's a saucer at the top and that'll award a mystery value, which is truly random unless
uh unless there is a special ROM on it, like Matt's asking if it if it has the anti 209 ROM, and I have no idea.
Okay. I think Jonathan Soon was telling me that you could kind of do mystery all day, and there's actually some pretty good wards.
How do you light the mystery?
You just shoot it. Oh, it's just always lit.
Huh.
Fascinating.
Um, well, so this is a Derek pick, so let's see what Derek does.
Yeah.
I mean, so, and again, I assume that it's a lot safer to spot these standup targets by going through the rollovers up top than it is to shoot them. Is that true?
You can't spot them going through the top. You have to
just spotted them.
No, no,
no. You have to shoot them.
Oh, okay. I for some reason I He did. He got a He got a skill shot there.
Okay.
So, he got the red um suspect lit on the skill shot
from a skill shot.
The skill shot is just
So, the in you see the lanes how they're lighting up
whichever two.
Uhhuh.
See, it's going to land the rollover spot them. I don't I don't think they So, if he the skill shot is that lane, the right lane right now.
Oh, cuz it's glowing here. It's glowing and that would give him the red. Yeah, you know, I had, you know, I don't I definitely don't know anything, but I had heard that those rollovers uh would spot you.
Maybe maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe. Is it
or maybe it's a difficulty setting? Who knows?
Yeah, I don't know. We We'll see what happens here.
We We can watch. So, you're saying they uh updated ROM negates that. Maybe that's why. Maybe that's why because I've only played mostly played this game.
That totally makes sense. Thank you, uh, internet. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
20. Okay.
Yeah. I had no idea. So glad I didn't have to play this.
Where's my Oh, the that went away.
Oh, okay.
There we go. Wondering where the game audio was.
Oh, freaky music. Okay, so that was a skill shot, right?
Yes. Okay, so he's got a lock lit on the right ramp.
There we go. One ball locked.
Neat. Okay. So, no skill shot now.
No,
I I dig this music.
You are under arrest.
So, yep, that lane did kind of thing. So, I'm totally wrong. So, so his yellow lock is lit. Is that what's happening?
That is that. Yep.
Good save. So, so now he's just going to lock. Is that what's happening?
Yep. Right. Rap. Yep.
And this captive ball is going crazy. What's going on here?
Yeah. Just ignore the captive ball. Uh I think it's a um lights the kickback.
Oh,
I think.
Okay.
But it's such a dangerous shot.
Mhm.
That's not worth going for in my opinion. Even though the kickback is nice to have.
Fascinating. Okay. Yeah, cuz we love kickbacks.
That lane is quite wide, too.
It's very open at the top.
Mhm.
So now that spinner is worth quite a bit
and he hit it and he went through green up top. So he spotted himself the green uh the final green target. So his green lock.
Yep.
What a save. Holy cow.
Ball's moving fast. I can't see it.
Yeah. No, that was I mean so again internet I don't know this game that well. Um that he's going to be right in that situation when he comes back. Same situation.
And does the locking interfere with each other?
Yes, it can.
Can he null Can Derek nullify Tim's locks?
If if Dererick starts a multiball, Tim will have to relock those balls.
Wow. So
yeah, and that can be that can be rough.
That's a big deal.
Empty hits. Thanks for the sub.
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, tough competition today. You think? I I I'm going to have to strongly agree.
You are under arrest.
You are under arrest.
All right. Two locks lit.
Mystery. Here it is.
Three locks lit.
Was that mystery? Give him the final lock.
He gave him the lock. Yeah. Whenever you arrest a suspect, that's the lock.
Okay. Uhoh. Okay. And he does have his left alley kickback lit. Is that this or No,
that is. Yeah.
Okay. You won't have to relight the locks. You just have to relock the balls.
It'll just nullify them. You won't steal them, but it'll nullify them.
Right. Cuz locks it and the game doesn't have an auto plunge. Oh, that's that's
what's going on.
Just can't find that right ramp.
I should just say it's the ramp. It's the only ramp on the game.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
It's still There's still two Scots.
Once the other one finishes, I'll fix it.
Yeah. Um, yeah. Derek needs that ramp. You got to lock some balls. Wants to get himself some multiball.
Hear that? Hear that? Derek got to go quietly. Gorgeous. There you go. This is This is why he picked it cuz he can make he can make the ramp.
Oh, he's in multiball.
Uh, something went funky there. Something went really funky there.
Okay, so he's not supposed to be in multiball. Well, the multiball is fine, but uh it didn't uh it didn't give him a third ball. The locks. Oh, no, it didn't. Okay, fine. But something that definitely wasn't right.
I don't think he locked three balls. I think he locked like one. I think he had three locks lit. I think he's trying to trap up here.
You're fine, Derek. You keep playing.
I don't think he's not supposed to be in multiball. I think
it happened a few times.
Yeah. So, turn Yeah. Okay.
So, don't you I think he was in multiball and not supposed to be cuz he
No, he had all three locks lit. He just it gave him two locks at once or something. I think
that's what I'm saying.
Cuz what happens this this mechanism up here sometimes the ball it's supposed to go up. It's like this curve come back. Sometimes it doesn't make it and it comes down instead.
So you got two locks for one is my guess. That's my guess.
It's just a beneficial malfunction. I don't think there's anything
when it kicked out. It didn't
uh it just didn't go up the half. Yeah. Yeah.
Instead of kicking back into play, it fell back into the lock and gave him a second lock.
I gave him a third lock.
I gave him a third lock. Sorry.
He's fine. I mean, it's it's I don't
My ruling would be it's play on, but that's
Yes, technically I only made it twice. Y
actually only made it twice. Can't give you
I mean it is legal to
shake a machine to try and make it register a shot that's kicking out a second time.
Yeah, that's not what not what this is at all.
Right. But the point being is that if a shot registers and the kick out doesn't kick it far enough out and the shot registers again, that is within the rules.
Yeah.
Isn't that like Aztec or something that you can do that or some such thing?
Uh am I thinking the right game? He might be,
you know,
I know what you're talking about.
So, you're allowed to cuz you're allowed to try and make a shot register a second time. So, I think if it accidentally does
Yeah. Play on, man.
Just
nice save there.
And it happens on Aztec a lot, right? Okay. Yeah. This is this game where you you and it is within the IFPA rules to do that to try and if you collect a shot and there's a kick out, you're allowed to nudge the machine and try and make it collect that same shot again,
which is essentially what happened here without him trying. So, I feel like I I agree with both you and Jim. I think that's got to be the way to rule it. So he has the yellow one locked and he has he has to light the red and green lock. Is that what's happening here? Okay.
Yep. He got the yellow one on the mystery.
And this is basically we just we just play for multiball over and over again.
Uh or the spinner.
But yes, that's
when the spinner's lit for more.
There is a hurry up round on the right ramp. I forgot what lights it. It's uh yeah, there's not much to the game.
Mhm.
All right. The next lock, right? Nice.
Great save. Oh, there's that kickback. Yep. All right, there's two.
That's a nice strong ramp shot that's working fine
with this slipper. Yes, most Robocops are not.
Okay,
but yeah,
the white crosshairs on the standups kept the ball randomish light to hurry up after four or five minutes. Thank you.
Wow. Okay.
Or there's also a mystery award to lighted. I remember that.
Okay. So, he needs the green lock.
And he just got it. Wow. Okay. He's still happy to take some spinner points.
Well, he's got his final lock lit.
Yeah,
but again,
but if
they might get nullified,
right? If Tim
You're right. He might have to lock three balls again on that.
And he unnullified And he unnullified Tim's locks.
Right. That's right.
Cuz he nullified them, but then he locked
Tim only needs one. Yeah, exactly. Tim only needs to lock one ball now.
So basically, he didn't lose credit,
right? As funny as that is.
Cuz the game ended up in the same state that he left it.
Yeah. skill shot. 200,000 points. And here comes the lock.
Fabulous. That was really good.
Yeah, this is the proper
intro sequence here. The wrecking crew, I see.
And now during multiball, he is Shoot the ramp.
Shoot the ramp. And And what happens?
You collect a jackpot.
Okay. And then over and over again.
Nope. You get one jackpot.
Okay.
And that's it.
And it's gone. Or one or zero jackpots?
Or zero. Yeah.
Um and then like like his spinner is out now. Does starting multiball basically extinguish the spinner?
Yep.
Okay. Interesting. But they're basically he's going up top because he's spotting yellow.
Yeah. Spotting letters or spotting
Yeah. Uh drop standups.
He knew it was trouble.
Yeah,
he knew it was trouble. He made a play on it. I mean, that's what you have to do.
Okay, so bonus is quite low. I'm seeing here. bonus is not Yeah, it's not the biggest game.
Okay, Derek. Uh, so so he has to lock all three.
Yep.
So Tim nullified. Derrick's two locked.
Yep.
Wow.
Classic8s game.
Okay. They're They're good on these skill shots. They're good on them. Yeah, that that that's good points. That spinner is good points when it's all lit up like that. I like that. I like it a lot. Good nudge there. Yes. Bring it back now.
So, he wants locks and he'll take spinners, too.
Oh, yeah.
Hard to control anything on this, though.
Yeah. Jeez. Oh, so he tilts out. I mean, I don't think he's worried about the bonus. He just wanted to save the ball. Um, I'm not sure why we don't have profile picks on captains. I'm not sure about that.
Yeah, he got some spinner. He got some juicy spinner here.
Potter, this is my software I'm running, so that's why.
Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, you have good stuff. I love this stuff. Actually, you might have written the software that we used, too.
Drains the the the DTM stuff. Yeah.
Um, did you
use it? You used it at the rally. So, but but you didn't use it for finals. So, you didn't have that stuff.
Okay. Okay.
Use match blade for the finals.
Yeah.
See, he's got his notes. Read it. Internet internet. Freeze. Read in. Enhance. Zoom. See what he's trying to do. See that? That's his notes. He's not just texting his friends. He's looking at the notes.
He's got a hill to climb here. He's got to light all the locks really early. He or it's just grind away at the spinner if he can light the spinner. It's just he doesn't have much lit here.
So, there's mystery rewards if he wants to try to, you know, hope for something,
but it's a it's a tough one.
Yeah.
300,000 there.
He He can't really light the SP. Oh, that's null and void anyway. Doesn't really matter.
Yep. I mean, he basically has to light his locks to light the spinner anyway, right? So, there you go. Okay. So, so far each one of them won their pick.
One one. All right. Find where they're going.
Man, this is a great match. Yeah. Let's take a look around.
Let's refresh this. See if there's any updates apart from the double Scott bug there.
The old double Scott bugs. It'll be Scott versus Scott in an all Scott throwdown of Scottiness, except not really. He'll really just play the winner of Dustin and Derek. Um, yeah. Um, but again, yeah, Nick's already through. A little hard to see here, but Nick is through. He's in the final four. And Scott is through after a sudden death tiebreaker. He actually won four to three in the final four. A lot of pinball left. It's one right now. It's one to one. I don't know if I can hover or not. No, I don't think I can hover. But yeah, uh so now we go back to a Tim pick. Yep, we're back to a Tim pick. Oh, and it's going to be a good one. It's going to be a pick that I picked for myself and lost. It's going to be a five ball game. And I'll tell you what, I think it's going to be uh Galloping Ghost in third to show. You know what I've given you, internet? I've given you a hot tip. Yeah, it's a hot tip. Gonna be hot tip. Electromechanical hot tip. Five ball game
um again uh practice. Uh yeah. No, these guys are so great, aren't they? Uh I I learned so much from watch them. Absolutely. Um for So this is interesting. There's a solid state hot tip and an electromechanical hot tip. And this one's the electromechanical. Uh and they do play differently. One of the biggest differences is that on the solid state you can build spinner uh you can build base bonus with the spinner. On the electromechanical you cannot. So it's very different. Um it can be a lot easier to max out your bonus on the solid state than it is on this one, the electro mechanical. So it's going to be pretty interesting to see what they do. Um it's still uh so the saucer is pretty relevant. If if you go through the saucer when this red red light is lit here, uh you get double bonus for the ball. And double bonus can be a lot.
Uh if you go through the saucer when this is lit,
you can light the captive ball, which is quite dangerous, but it's worth 30,000 and like a bonus advance or more. Um, so there's a lot going on there. Uh, and then outside of the saucer, you've got these six hot tip drop targets. And if you get all six of those, you light your spinner for the rest of the ball for a,000 a spin, which is a lot. And it's a again, it's a Jim Belcito spinner. It's juiced.
This game is all it's just spell hot tip, shoot spinner.
Spell hot tip, shoot. That's all you're doing. That's all you're doing,
you know. Well, and try and plunge. Well,
sure.
Yeah. Um, again, I think Okay. Yeah. So, they're doing it. Um, I think they're going to play as players one and three.
It looks like it. Yeah.
Um, you know, right now they're just practicing, I think.
Oh, yeah. They just
um but I think they're going to play as players one and three,
maybe.
Um, but yeah, no, spinner. Uh, spinner is really good for me. Um, sometimes I'll hit the spinner even if it's not lit for a couple reasons. One, I do like double bonus. And two, it does drop the ball here and you might get some of these hot tip letters.
Yeah,
just after being up top. Um, but of course you can shoot them directly as backhands.
Actually, the I think all of them are easier from
H is easier from the right flipper, but these others are easier as backhand. And I think the tip targets are actually easier as forehands. The backhand is not so easy on the right. Um, it kind of looks like it's almost symmetric there, but if you look, it's not. It's not symmetric. This is like three things here. This is just two things here. And this pop bumper is off to the right a bit. So, when the ball comes down here, it it starts by being over on the left side, not over on the right.
Um, and I think they're starting a four-player game and they're playing first and second. Yeah, shots time. Uh, Mike, absolutely. A lot of the players when they're on the left and they want that spinner, they'll chat to get over to the right. That's exactly right.
It's a nice wide lane. So, it's not the most difficult chat.
It is nice. Yeah, it's nice and wide. Yep.
I want
Now, does he go for hot tip or up top again?
Going up top
just cuz that cuz that cuz that works towards hot tip anyway.
Yeah. And you also get in the saucer hopefully and build something or light your double bonus, right?
Nice strong sling. Good. Yeah, it feels good even when it's not lit, but wow, it feels good when it's lit. I'm sure internet you probably already notice as he's hitting this and this the the thing selected on the saucer changes. Might also change with the pop bumper.
What are you doing?
He got the He actually got the Captain B.
I'm not sure it made it. Oh, but he went over the rollover.
Yeah, exactly. He got some credit for it.
Good bonus increase.
One more. One target left. That's Tim. Let everyone know. Look at Look at that. Gorgeous.
Yeah. Fond memories of this from Papa from playing it a lot at Papa Classics. Awesome.
Either way, I don't care.
As long as we're consistent, I don't care.
I think they were talking about who's supposed to plunge. Actually, this was covered at the beginning. player. So, player one is supposed to plunge player two and player three is supposed to plunge player four. And I asked the question because here it matters.
So, that's because if if you let player two plunge player two's ball, then you're giving them an extra practice point.
Yeah, exactly. So, I like I like the way um they're doing it,
but the interesting question is is like now Dererick's going to plunge. Is he allowed to try and mess Tim up by putting this in a special spot or is he supposed to just randomly
I don't think it's good. I don't think anyone's going to
worry about that.
We we asked we Cory and I had this come up and Jonathan happened to be there. We asked Jonathan he said you two can decide between the two of you if you're allowed to skillfully plunge or if you should just full plunge. And we said we really feel like we should just full plunge.
That's what we did. But it is interesting because it does make a difference here. Yeah.
And technically you're having those players plunge that ball.
Yep. Tim just got the double bonus left.
Okay.
My
these players, neither of them is afraid to commentate their own ball a little bit, you know, with a little Oh my god. Oh, double. Yep. Yep. Uh a little Oh my god. Or a little What am I doing? Get up there. No, no,
my bad. Not my bad.
Okay. Okay, that's all right. Well, these guys play so well. It's so fun to watch these guys play.
Starting to think on this hot tip, you may need to directly shoot the targets. Um I think you can pick them all up on ricochets, but it's not trivial.
Yeah, but it's a lot of
it's a lot of hits up top for that. And I think you're
I agree. Yeah,
but it's interesting. He was on the left and instead of shooting these directly
Yeah.
he he decided he No, he wants to post he wants to pass left to right and get back up top. I mean, I guess that's the other interesting thing is sometimes the ball comes down to the pop bumper out of the saucer, but not always. Like that previous time it didn't. It just rolled down here and then, you know,
um, out of the saucer I find that it really goes like way over to the left. Um, but again, it doesn't always come out of the saucer.
Look at that. Come on. Complete those jobs. I want mine too.
Got four. It's pretty good. Pretty good for just plunging off. Oh boy. Little Captain Bowen. So apparently this is actually I think he said this is play extra balls.
Oh, is it?
I think so. Yeah. So I think you get I think maybe you light saucer for extra ball by completing hot tip twice.
Which I haven't seen anyone do. Um
but I think I actually read the instruction card
about it. And uh clearing hot tip once lights horseshoe one
and then horseshoe two a second time. Horseshoe three. And all that of course goes away between balls.
Uh this is ball three.
Three. Yeah. Three.
That scoop seems dangerous.
It's gnarly. And he played it really well by just holding up the the left flipper. I was I was slapping away at it.
Those are some nice nudges to get the double bonus lift.
Mhm. I guess he didn't feel good about it there. Nice shots on the fly. He actually got it over there and went back up top. Really well played. He's got a pretty big base bonus here. 80 and then doubled for 160. So, this is good. This is going well. Fabulous. I love it. Wow. Really well played. He's so good. Amazing.
One target left.
I want to be hot.
He wants to be hot. I think it's very hard to forehand the T. I think it's a lot easier from the left.
Oh my god.
And again, it's hard for this pop bumper to knock it into the T.
Oh yeah.
Oh no.
Byebye.
I mean, he knew it was something. He didn't want to goof around cuz he got 200,000 in bonus, so he couldn't, you know, didn't want to slam the machine too hard. Um, he's at 500 after three. Not too bad. Thank you, Rex, for this uh interesting trivia. We appreciate that. Thank you so much.
Thank you, Rex, for the prime sub.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, Rex. Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. I guess, you know, technically this is a horse racing themed game. It doesn't really seem like it though. Just seems like a spinner themed game. Spinner and saucer. Wow. That's the feet out of the saucer.
That was so strange cuz the feet out of the saucer went down and out.
It didn't even It didn't even go back up.
Yeah, it
And that was out of the saucer, too. It
varies. Everything varies.
It varies. Yeah. for me. I'm always trying for double bonus.
Well, yeah, of course. That's the the main purpose, main thing you want to do up top.
Oh, got tip right away. Look at that.
That's nice.
Nice. It's interesting here. He's not He He He is absolutely committed to up top all day and I have a lot of respect for that. I I'll be honest with you. I might try the T here just cuz I know it's so hard, but um he has shown fantastic ability with his up top all day strategy. I mean, he's really killing it. Oh, so I don't blame him. I like it.
Oh, he got See, he showed he proved me wrong, too.
He didn't get them all, but he sure enough, he got the O and the T.
So, it's a good thing he didn't waste the time by shooting the T directly. He got another top. I I mean, obviously, he's doing fantastic. Um, a little hard to see. I think it's like 537 after four balls, I think.
I think you're right. Yeah. Oh my goodness. That he just I'll be honest with you the internet. Sometimes we just drop the ball, you know. He's praying for playing for control and he just dropped it. Happens to me all too often.
Okay, Tim,
can we get a no bounce hole?
Yeah, he's going to try and swish it.
Swish.
I don't think so.
In my 30 seconds of practice, that's what I just did. I just plunged off a few things to try and figure out the different ways to get in the saucer
with zero, one, or, you know, two or no hits. around the pop bumper.
Mhm.
Yeah. See those those those ski passes where there's not much power on the ball. I I it just doesn't seem like it's enough to make it up the left arm. So you see most of those have been missed. Here we go. Double bonus. Wow.
Um that's why where I think hitting, you know, shooting at the tip targets might be more advantageous.
Yeah. when it's you're saying when it's coming over here and it's just not going all that fast like it might make it over but it's only going to make it to the tip
right and he hasn't be able to make the the orbit on any of those
just go up here instead I like what you're saying I like it I think it makes a lot of sense um I mean he got 630 so he's in fabulous shape Derek would need a pretty spectacular ball I mean
takes a spinner lighting
what is what is this bonus max at is it like
100 does it max out 100
it's either 100 150. I I think it's 100 though. I could I could be wrong.
He's going to need a big ball. It's going to be It's going to need to be a big ball with double bonus and a lot of bonus. And on this version, again, on this version, you can't build base bonus with a spinner. He's just going to have to have a really long ball. It takes a lot to build your base bonus that high. You can see I think even the hot tip targets don't advance your base bonus.
No. Um, I think you got like base bonus here, this stand up here, the saucer here, and of course the outlanes. Um, it's not your preferred method of advancing bonus.
All right, got control.
I mean, he's up to 200 here.
I mean, he, you know, he missed a shot. He knows it. Tilted. Well, that's okay. It's ball five.
Oh, that is.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was ball five. See, he was satisfied.
All right. Um, great game by Tim. Yeah, that was pretty big. That was pretty big. Really well played by Tim. Yep. Yeah, Cory and I played this earlier. This is very similar. Cory got the big score. I got the little score. Very similar. Uh oh. What are we looking at here? We're Oh, we're doing the thing. Oh, we did the thing. Okay, so we did the thing and now we're looking at the thing. Yeah. So, um yeah, this is Drain's tournament manager uh doing the stuff. So, now we see we just played Hot Tip, Jurassic Park, and Robocop. And now we are going to go to we're going to go to Black Knight Sword of Rage. Yep, Black Knight Sword of Rage Pro. We saw it earlier. We're going to see it again. It is some good stuff. That's a great game of pinball. I love Black Knight Sword of Rage. I I like it a lot more than I think the average pinball player likes it. I think it's fabulous for the most part. When I say I like a game, I mean I like the gameplay, and that's what I mean about Black Knight Night Knight. But in addition, I love the music. I love the homage to the original Black Knight into Black Knight 2000, especially the musical homage to Black Knight 2000. badass.
Uh, and it's gorgeous, too. Like, this would be beautiful to have in your home. We're not going to show you the side cabinet, you know, the cabinet art, but it's really a beautiful game. Um, so I love the sound. I love the look, and I love the gameplay. I I think it's a great game. So far, all three games have been won by the picker.
Doesn't always happen that way, but it has so far this match.
Some flames.
Flipping around, making shots. Lighting the war. Hurry up. Just practicing practicing the old post passing and shield shooting and lock lighting It's kind of weird. Like the mode is like here it's called Wicked Cavern, but then on the screen you saw it was he was battling the Hellhand. It's kind of weird that the modes and the sort of creatures that you fight in the mode have different names. this is just 30 seconds of practice for each player. big move. Only one danger. It's interesting. That's one of the things that these guys want to find out. You know, when you're warming up, you want to test and see what can I get away with. Um, yeah, this is just practice, but they want to know how how how much can I move the machine and, you know, not tilt. How much can I move for one danger? How much can I move for two dangers? Say again.
Okay. Wow. Okay. Okay. Uh uh Derek Thompson and uh and Dustin are uh Derek is up three to two and they're on attack from Mars. So Derek the Canadian uh coming to town trying to mess us up. Doing a great job of it. I got to confess. I mean, I I don't know what to say. He's doing a great job. So, wow. Look at this lifetime stats. Tim and Derek. 19 and 19
and one tie. How about that? Yeah, you can see how highly ranked these guys are. And here we are for real Z's. Now, let's go for real. and Dererick bringing the ball around, catching completing the super skill shot. And that that lights, you know, light mode start when when you complete that super skill shot. I don't know if it always lights it or if it just advances you towards it, but it it always at least advances you towards uh qualifying mode start. So, you can see instead of instead of taking the shot here and then taking the shot here, he's he's building up blocks first. He's just like he's not wasting any effort on anything except working towards multiball right now. Um, and now he's like, "Okay, now I'm ready." So again, this is going to start his mo this will start his mode and light him, I think, a second ball for multiball. Yeah. So now he's probably just going to do light lock and lock. get himself into multiball and away he'll go. He has power lit. Nice. Great use of the Magna save. I That's absolutely fabulous. And now he's just going to go into multiball. Okay, here we go. He's in multiball and hydra. I'd look to see him hit the power here right now cuz it's a lot safer during ball save, of course. And his power is lit. Boom. There it is. See, now his hydra has all these shots lit and it's much easier. It's still going to be the case that when he shoots one shot, he has to shoot it again. But after he's done, instead of that shot going away, it stays. So that's why he's got one shot lit cuz he already shot it. But when he shoots it again, when he shoots again, they all come back. See, they're all back. Um, so this is good. Oh, I don't know where that came from.
He has no idea where that ball save came from, and neither do I.
Heck of a grace period, I guess. Guess he had a big grace period from the attabal he got from the the uh sorry the ball save he got from the attabal. Fascinating again. He'd love to hit finish this war hurry up. I'm not sure if he'll go for it or not. Yeah, looks like he went for it.
Yep. So, this gets him a letter and a bunch of points.
Going to go for it. He went for a mode shot instead. He's going for it. He wants that letter. There you go. Great shot. Yeah. So there he started the game with K spotted. He got N for getting halfway through the hydra mode. Uh and then he got the I for completing the war hurry up. So he's already got three letters down. Oh, four now. What's that fourth letter for? Oh, and then enough jackpots in multiballs a letter. So he started this game with K. And just in this first act of stacking that he's doing, he got a letter for the mode, a letter for the multiball, and a letter for the war hurry up. Fabulous. Uh yeah, G from the super, right? Thank you, man. Yeah, this is so this is this is wonderful. I mean, he's got three letters in one ball. He just he just reit out ball save. When you hit one of these, the other one flashes for a limited or sorry, it flashes. When you hit one, it flashes for a limited amount of time. And if you hit the other, you advance towards outlane ball save on the left. Uh first time you only need to hit each of them once, but then later you need to repeat that process more than once to actually get that left outline on ball save. So he's shooting that and he knows why, but I don't.
You building up super features?
Is that what's going on? Does the spinner like boost the does it light super features?
I thought I saw that. That's why I'm asking.
It might be like lighting super features. And I think it also boosts them, but maybe only when they're in progress cuz it'll even say super feature boosted,
right?
Um, so yeah. So now he's on to work his way towards another multiball and another mode.
Wow, that Good. Good bail out there.
Oh, that gave him super features boosted. It You know what it might be? It might be this one lights the super features and this one boosts them, but I'm not sure. Yeah, the super features are pretty interesting. Here on the left side of the screen, you can see which ones he has active. And uh
super features boosted.
There you go. Super features boosted and you can collect a pretty big uh super feature jackpot if you have those things going and then you do a Magna save. Um you collect the the super jackpot for the super features. Now that's gone now. it is
um cuz his ball's over, but that's part of what was going on there. Um I think he knows this game a lot better than me because I don't really do that and he definitely seemed to be doing that. Um cuz I don't understand how good the scoring is, but he obviously knew that that was something he wanted to do and he was making good progress. He was making good progress towards it. So, and he's got and he's got four night letters. All right, freeze internet. Read the read his notes. You can look inside the mind of Tim Hansen right here, right now. You just got to you just got to
screenshot this.
I know he's typing
now. He's typing. He's like, "Man, this Derek's really good." That's what he's typing. He's typing, "Don't forget to score a lot because Derek will likely score a lot." These guys are great players. Oh, yeah. Let's see. Let's see if he takes a super and changes off of Burning Sands. I bet he does. I mean, that I don't know that that's the reason he's doing it, but I would do it for that reason myself. Yeah, zoom in and enhance. Nope, he took the ordinary skill shot. Fascinating. We saw We saw Kane who also picked this doing the same thing.
Oh, no.
No.
Why' you wiggle?
Why' you wiggle? He says to himself. He knows.
He's He I mean, he's fabulous in the in lane out lane area. Like if you watch me play and then watch him play, you'll see how much better he is getting the ball out of the in lane out lane area with those welltimed nudges. Gosh, he's so good at it. That one didn't work, but wow, he is a master of it. But even a master sometimes missteps slightly. He's on Burning Sands. I would hate it, but we'll see what he does.
If I've learned anything today, it's that you hate Burning Sands.
It's a true story, Carl. I'm not going to lie to you. Dennis hates himself some Burning Sands.
I know for a fact I probably learned from Derek to plunge around, catch, and shoot the super skill shot. I probably learned that from this exact Derek. Um, but he didn't do it. He He went the normal skill. He went the normal plunge.
It's interesting.
Looks like Derek has just defeated Dustin. Let's move on to the semi-finals. Our Canadian is in the semi-finals.
Unbelievable. Dustin's an incredibly great player. So, for Derek to beat him, Wow. That's a That's a big feather in his Canadian cap cuz those guys are uh
they're just shooting lights out. That's fantastic. Yeah.
I mean, those guys play so well. So well.
Like I'm good. Yeah, it's already in here.
You know what the problem is? We never built that wall. All right. I might, you know, some of this I don't understand all these things as well as other people do.
And looking at all that stuff, I just realized I missed Derrick's ball completely.
Um, very short ball just like Tim.
Yeah. No, it was quick. Yeah, it was quick.
Me already.
It was unfortunately quick. Tim just figured, you know,
he'd be playing for a while. Tim Tim went out to a 7-Eleven uh because he figured that Derek would play for a while and he didn't want to see it. He didn't want to see how high I scored Derrick.
Yep. Hello, Queen Pinch. How's it going? Good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, we're having a lot of fun here. We're still So, we're in the round of eight right here, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. Round eight. Might. Okay. Changing the lighting. I don't know.
Yep. Tim's out there somewhere. All right. We're doing some lighting adjustments. Here's Tim.
Yeah, we're at Jim Bito's house.
There we are.
Hello, friend. Queen Pinch.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Here's Tim. Hey, look. It's Tim.
Yeah. This is NorCal versus SoCal. Here we got Tim versus Derek. It's It's It's juicy. It's juicy. Derek is ahead here after two balls, but but Tim's only played one ball, so anything can happen here. Best of seven. You know, Kane got good points with Burning Sands. Maybe I'm really missing the boat.
Yeah, maybe you are.
For me,
let's see how Tim does on it.
I think of Burning Sands as like more difficult, but not more points. But Kane was getting great points, so maybe I haven't given it a good enough chance. I need a shirt that says I hate burning his hands. Yeah, you can see it on my face, but it would help to also have a shirt. You're right. Light lock. Multiball is lit.
Great nudging here. Wow, so good. These guys are amazing. Mode shot and multiball start. Hello. He's got power lit, so he can make this mode a lot easier and more valuable if he wants. Um, I don't blame him for lighting his attabal first. Now, one shot here doesn't always light your attabal, but his shot was so nice that it did. It's just hitting the spinner enough that lights his attall. So, he's got Adabal ready. And then, wow, he's almost got the war hurry up done already. He's so fast. Wasting no time. Yep, there it is. Okay, got himself a letter. Progressing through Sandworm, picking up points. Yeah, he got 22 million just out of that war hurry up. Very impressive.
I will tell you. You can see now instead of the burning sand shots roving from left to right and right to left, they're just frozen. It's always these middle three. Once he hits one, it goes out. Oh, he's not too. Um, but after a while of it being extinguished, it comes back.
So, I think he finished it off. Yeah. That's a pretty good sandworm. 50 million.
Yeah, I think it was like I forgot who was saying it in the chat earlier. It makes a big difference. The earlier you start the power during a mode, the better.
Yeah, makes sense.
He Yeah, he had some shots before starting the power.
Um, of course, he waited till multiball to start it cuz it this is such a for me I can just drain so easily off that that target. That's a death wish right there. But during ball save, yeah, it's pretty yummy. upon you.
Well, not too bad.
He has caught up. He's caught up to there.
He has indeed. So again, when you're not in the mode, you got to hit these enough to qualify light mode start at the ramp. It's kind of funny like
you have to light light mode start.
Qualify mode start.
Yeah, you have to to light. So right now qualify mode start isn't lit. So, he has to light qualify most dark. It's very hard for me to figure out how to just properly say this.
So, he's got qualify mode start lit at the main ramp. But again, he's like, I got it cradled. I got an easy lock. I'm going to take it. He wants that second multiball.
Well, yeah. You want the multiball with the mode again? Of course.
Yep. I like it.
This is fine cuz he doesn't have to start the mode, you know.
Mhm. Mhm. But he's probably going to come here and light lock first. Yeah. Mhm. Now, again, the first multiball, it was just one light lock hit per lock on that mini shield, but now it's two and he got two. So, here he goes. mode start second lock and he's in another war hurry up which could garner him another letter if he completes it. I don't know if he'll even go for it in single ball play cuz it's so freaking dangerous. Oh, that was his third lock. I thought that was his second lock.
No, that was his third.
Third lock. Oh, this is this is fantastic. Yeah. Wow, this is great. Yeah, this is fabulous. His attabal is already ready on the left orbit. He didn't want the add ball that soon. I think he would have been rather get down to two balls and then add back to three instead of still being in ball save and still having three balls and adding a fourth to get to four.
All those balls and I didn't hit it.
All those balls and I didn't hit. So there he goes. Middle target.
Yep. He's one letter away. Oh, this is going so well. down to two, but that's okay.
Yeah,
it's funny. You wouldn't necessarily know this if you haven't played it before. This is a nice backhand, actually. This is a really nice backhand shot. Yeah, it's a lot safer as a backhand. What a save.
He looked like he dropped to his knees there almost because of the lighting. That was great.
The danger of the shield.
That was so fast. I just didn't even see it happen. I mean,
it's so funny. Hey, I mean Dererick had a great ball one, but he had such a short ball two.
Y
and now he's got to, you know, get a 100. It's a lot. We know he can do it. We know he can do it. Yeah. Very dedicated. Tim plays very focused. Very dedicated. Just making his plan. Might be thinking, how am I going to get two letters to get to retro mode? He might be thinking about might be thinking something else.
I think he's got to be thinking he wants another multiball, right?
I would think so. But what can I shoot and survive?
Yeah.
Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Gorgeous.
It's these lock target shots where it's going with the right orbit is fantastic.
Absolutely gorgeous. I totally love it. Oh my gosh.
He can't believe it didn't go and neither can I. I mean,
how did I hit that target?
Yeah, he can't believe it didn't. It didn't go in the shield.
Yeah. Yeah, we're both shocked. We're both shocked. Um, it just didn't go in. Didn't go in. And And that's the thing again. Black Knight, all the Black Knight games, Sword of Rage, original Black Knight, and Black Knight 2000, if you miss, they're just instantly punishing. instantly punishing.
Um, yeah, great Saintsman. I'm glad there's some interesting results across the country. Uh, we haven't even been paying attention. We've been so focused on everything here. We haven't even noticed.
Um, so,
all right, let me find what's next in the
Can you give us the bracket, too? I don't know how to do that one.
That simple IPA bracket. Okay. Um, so again, Yeah. So again, it's uh it's Derek and Scott MSAS in the final four. Again, Nick has been on ice waiting waiting patiently uh also in the final four. And then here we are. This is best of seven. So this could go one more game, two more games, or three more games, and then we're going to see who goes and plays Nick in the final four. Derek and Scott, they've already started. They're already on game one in here somewhere. Okay. But the other this one, Nick's just been waiting. Just been waiting, waiting patiently or impatiently. It's his choice. He doesn't have to wait patiently. He could wait impatiently if he prefers, but probably waiting patiently. Um and uh here we are. 30 seconds of practice on the party zone.
I I don't think we've seen it yet today. Have we seen it yet? Yeah, first time seeing party zone uh yet today. Um, I think there's a mod here. I think there's a mod where like the left ramp drops it like I think in the normal way the game is set up. Left ramp like comes back to the left flipper and sometimes you can repeat that a million times, but there Yeah, you saw it. The left ramp comes up here, but then instead of dropping it into the left flipper, it puts it into the pops. Um, that's a good adjustment for the tournament, I think, because a lot of times very good players can just shoot this over and over and over again and roll over and repeat just forever. It's like 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 all the way up to like a million and it can just be too much and it's too safe. So, to kind of remove that super safe strategy, uh, this is modded so that on the left ramp, uh, it gets dropped into the puffs. So, that's cool. Yeah, I like that. I think it's a very good mod. I actually didn't play this at all today, even in warm-up. Um, but you know, you got your songs going on here, and then you got uh you got multiball potential. You got the Sonic robotic comic thing going on here. There's a really delicate skill shot, I think. here. Um, really delicate. It's tough, but it's I think it's like a million. There. There it is. That's a Believe me, it's not as easy as he made. Look, that's a very difficult skill shot, but he nailed it. Um, there's some way out targets here that I don't always understand, and I think maybe they're changing the value of this back uh back door weird hallway
can be worth a lot, actually. Okay.
I don't know if he I don't know. That's not bad. That's a pretty controlled chalk punch. Gosh, you know, I forget. How do you How do you even light lock? Lock doesn't start lit, does it?
It has been so long since I played this. Can someone work out a mod for Diner? I feel like Diner is a tough game in its own right.
Although, what's the story? Yeah, there's some cheesing you can do in Diner, I guess, if you're good enough. I don't know if I'm good enough, but but you're not wrong.
Um,
I like Diner, though. I like Diner. Diner's good game.
someone is saying something. I don't know what anyone is saying.
Apologize.
Okay. It's a Tim pick again. Tim, uh, number one qualifier. Number one in all of California in 2025. Derek,
a super strong force to be reckoned with. Eighth place qualifier overall in California 2025. Both former California State Champions. So, this is a heck of a match. Uh yeah, let Zmac Diner. Yeah. Yeah. Jared, I saw Zmac was uh where was that that I saw Zmac grinding out some some diner ramps or some such thing where like you usually do one thing but he was just grinding them out for a quarter million each I think or something like that. I remember I know what you're talking about. I think for realies he's now Good bounce there. Nice play for control. So, I guess he's just grinding out right hallways. I don't even know this as a strategy. I know that it can be up, it can be worth a lot. Um, I tell you, Tim so knowledgeable, real student of the game. I have a lot of respect for them. They both are. Derek, too. I've learned a ton just from talking to Derek about pinball. All that a lot of that stuff on Black Knight that I'm talking about. I learned that stuff from Derek. These guys are super sharp. Yeah, this seems to be just building here. It looks like he's just doing right hallway all day. I didn't I did not know this was a strategy, but he's getting like 2 million. Now he's getting 4 million. Now he's getting 5 million. I thought that there was something cool you could do to light it for a lot. I didn't know you could just repeat it like this. Yeah, he seems to have a right hallway all day uh strategy that I was not aware of. Do you know that strategy?
Yeah, that's one of the strategies on this.
Okay. Interesting. I didn't know it was worth that much all the time. I thought you had to do something special to get it worth a lot.
Nope. There is a 5x shot on everything or um
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking about.
Something. It's on there. Um,
yeah. I was thinking you had to get 5x to make it worth your while.
Yeah. And then you have the double play field after multi after multiball also that boosts it all, you know.
Ah, okay. Thank you. Uh, J tread. Thank you.
You don't have to do it though. You can just do that all day long.
Shouldn't be that safe a feed coming back, you know.
I mean, the ball's obviously out of control, you know, in the pops, but I feel like the flipper gap is not very wide on this.
Well, it has carrot flippers, doesn't it?
It might be. They look pretty big.
I like carrots.
So, there's his first lock. Now, is lock always lit
at the beginning for the first multiball? Yes. But the second one, you have to light it.
Okay. Good. resets ball to ball. Okay. Yeah, breaking the shot. Very dangerous.
Well, this could suck.
He said, "Well, this could suck."
No, it wasn't bad.
That's a mod. Yeah.
Hey, why uh Yipsy Pinball with a party 47. Thanks for the raid.
Thanks, Yipsy. How'd your state championships go?
Yeah. What state's that? How'd you guys do, Yipsy?
Um, yeah. Yeah, this is here we are. California state championship. This is the end of the round of eight. Michigan. Fabulous.
Jared won.
Oh, great. Congratulations to Jared August for winning Michigan. Great job.
Um, it's Carl time. That's right. It's Carl time. This is Carl joined by Dennis. Uh, I'm Dennis. Dennis Iicorn. Thank you all for uh joining us. Four in a row. Wow. How about that? Okay. Glad you guys had a great match. Yeah, we're doing great here. This is the end of our round of eight. Um we have three players already uh qualified for the round of four, the semifinals. Uh two of them are already playing in fact. Uh and then here we're in game five just like you guys. Best of seven between Tim Hansen and Derek Price playing a little party zone. Uh this is a game that Tim chose. Tim is player one. Derek is player two.
Going to say just had his scored
had the doubler. Yep. had the doubler. Yeah. Uh, North American Championship Series is still North Oh, yeah. They're still in the NACS, I think. Right. Canada still has a thing in NACS. They have to for North America.
It's provincial championships up there, isn't it? Or
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Here. Thank you, Gravits. Canada has provincial champs. Um, but yeah, we still have a Canadian in here in California.
Yes, we do. Derek Thompson invading.
Yeah.
Oh.
Oh, nice save.
Had to save right off the bat. Those pops are dangerous. Boy, these slings are juiced, too. Oh, Colin MacAlpine won Texas. Okay. Hello, Colin out there in a game of TNA again. These lock stealing games, they blow my mind.
Yeah, they're fine. Don't mess up.
Don't mess up. I mean, I don't know. walked off of those. Okay. Colin taught me how to play uh Indiana Jones.
The one with the drops in the middle. I forget which one.
The Williams one. Yeah.
Yeah. Yep.
The play Fishtails on Indiana Jones. That's what you're
play fish tales on Indiana Jones.
That's the the rules are the same for the multiball pretty much.
Okay. Interesting. I never thought of it that way.
Right. Um, get three jackpots, then hit the captain the ball for supers. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Huh. I never thought of it that way. That's very interesting. So, I don't know if Dererick is saying he would normally go for a different strategy, but given the game situation, he's going to grind, right?
That's what it sounded like to me.
I feel like I usually play for multiball. Again, I am I am no expert when it comes to the party zone. I mean, my whole life is a party zone, but when it comes to the pinball game, I just don't know it that well. Th this is this is beating them up.
Well, yeah,
this is beating them up. These guys are two former state champions.
This is beating them up.
Lot of poise though.
Yeah, they're tied lifetime head to Oh, it's not here anymore, but they're 1919 and one lifetime. I mean, they're just that great basically. They are that great. Uh yeah, you like that supersonic robotic comic? I don't feel like it gives you much of value, but it says supersonic robotic comic.
I will not shoot that scoot saucer.
I I do accidentally.
No,
I've had too many uh bad experiences with games tossing it out the out lane.
Oh,
from that.
In fact, I want to say here.
Really? How does it do it? Like
it hits the top of the sling and then it dies.
Like
you're talking about the comic right in the middle. The comic.
Oh, no. The comic is up the up here. Oh, that that you're Oh, yeah. Sorry.
Yeah. Not the not the song guy.
Yeah.
Get your paws off me. See, it was like a werewolf, so it had literal paws. Okay. Right. Right hallway. Nope. He's going for multiball. All right. No,
I I like multiol Wow. Okay.
Uhoh. Okay.
Good recovery.
Yep. This is the move right now. Absolutely.
And like this is lit for 5 million or something now. Is it still lit for that during multiball?
Uh yeah, I think so. Or if not after obviously. But
man, it's been so long since I played this. What is What is exactly going on during multiball? It's doubled after multiball. So,
okay. What's going on, during multiball?
Uh, left ramp. Left ramp.
Left ramp is like adding fuel to the rocket.
Right.
And then what happens when you get it all the way fueled up?
Well, you you can build the value with the uh orbits or orbits. I'm putting in quotes.
Mhm.
Right. The uh the yellow shots. See, he didn't even care.
Okay.
And then a million ride it. And he's going to let this time out, I bet,
so that he can have his 10 million point shot lit. There he goes. Okay. 10 million points on the right turn. Yep.
Wow.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever that says.
And here we go.
Okay.
This is where Derrick's going to wish he
And this is the rest of the ball he's going to be in 2x.
Yep.
Okay. I mean, it's weird. Uh
well, I mean, he put up some points.
Yep.
Frog stance activated. These guys got some good stances.
Derek does not have multiball um ready to go anywhere.
Okay.
So, he's in trouble.
I mean, 30 Yeah. I mean, well, we'll see what he does here. He's got a plan. Step one, super skill shot.
MJ, thank you for the prime sub. Welcome.
That's still Oh my gosh.
No, that was gorgeous. I I absolutely love it.
Oh gosh. Okay, let's see how this kick out is.
He made a big move and it and it Oh my gosh. Isn't that what I talked about?
Oh my god.
It's exactly what I talked about.
That is exactly what you said, man. It is exactly what you said. Yeah,
I don't shoot that sauce.
Eight shots on the way out. I know what you mean. I know what you mean there. Uh Saintsman. Yep. If he I think that's what he was going to go for, too. Um
that's the uh the end of the match, right?
Uh it is. Yeah, you are so right, Carl. Wow. You nailed it. You nailed it. So Tim going to advance. Uh again, such both played so well. I mean, they're really such great players. Um so they're going to advance and now that means Tim is going to play against Nick Stein. It's going to be NorCal versus NorCal.
I think we'll watch that. What do you think?
Uh yeah. Yeah, let's go check it out.
Or should we be watching Derek and Scott?
They're on game one right now.
Um I mean it's win-win. Uh
yeah, they're both I mean these are both fantastic matches. Chat, what do you want to see? Do you want to see the I probably shouldn't ask chat, but Tim versus Nick
or Derek versus Scott. I'm leaning towards um Tim versus Nick.
Yeah, I mean I like the NorCal. Um okay, someone else says Scott Fiance says Derek and Scott. Tim Nick. Tim Nick. Tim Nickas Norcal Fiance. Nick Nick. Tim and Nick. Okay, it looks like Tim and Nick win. Thank you though. Uh, believe me, uh, we appreciate Derek and Scott. Uh, we're really happy to have them playing. Uh, and, uh, we appreciate your enthusiasm for seeing them. We want to see them, too. Unfortunately, we can only do one. Um, but, uh, uh, yeah, the tap god. Jared wants to see the tap god. Now, Nick has been waiting for a long time. Um, and honestly, that can affect the psychology. It it really can have an effect on you. Um, yeah, it's it's not easy. And it's uh it's really it's Nick's fault for playing so well. Uh so he started with a buy so he didn't have to play in the round of 24 and then he won 4-2 over Tom Isaac. Uh and again Tom Isaac advanced from the round of 24 to the round of 16. Then he won 4-1 against Johnny Modica. Super tough match. 4-1 is pretty dang impressive. And now uh he comes against Derek. Uh sorry he comes against Tim. So again, Tim had a buy. Had to beat Cory Dunn in sudden death. Went to seven games, but then ended up beating Derek in five. And here we are. This is where we're at. We got Tim and Nick are going to play. Um again, for any of you, I know that we just had a raid and welcome. We're really happy that you guys are visiting. All right. See you, Derek. Um for those of you who are just joining us, the way it's going to work is Tim is the higher seed. Each player between Nick and Tim is going to pick three games. It's got to be one old, one mid, and one new. Since Tim's the higher seed, Nick has to pick first. So, he's going to pick any game he wants, old, mid, or new. Uh, and then Tim gets to pick a game. He'll probably pick the same category. Um, because eventually they're going to pick all three. So, Nick's going to pick, then Tim's going to pick, then Nick's going to pick, but Nick has to pick in a new category. If he picked old, he's got to pick mid or new, whatever. You got to end up with one pick from each of the three years. Then Tim picks, then Nick picks, then Tim picks, and then they'll have six games picked, and they'll go play those alternating back and forth between Tim's picks and Nick's picks. Um, so they're going to go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. If it's still tied 3-3, if it's tied 3-3 after six games, uh, then they go to sudden death. One game sudden death to move on. And we've had that happen to me, to Tim and Corey, happened to Corey twice, happened to Scott MSAS, happened to Scott MSAS again, and Jack Slovich. A lot of sudden deaths here, so it comes up a lot. So, we'll see what happens. But right now, right now, they're just in the process of uh of picking games uh old, mid, and new. And again, uh this is Dennis Iron, and I'm joined by Miami.
Hello.
Hi. Welcome, Miami. Thanks for joining us in the in the booth here. Thanks for coming out. What have you seen so far today? A lot of good pinball.
A lot of great pinball.
Yeah, a lot of great pinball. These guys uh people have really been shooting the lights out. It's been pretty pretty fantastic. And uh and uh you're going to play uh WNACS tomorrow, aren't you?
Yes, I am.
So, California uh Women's North America Championship Series going to be held at Captain's Arcade Showroom.
Yeah. I think you're you're commentating.
I'm I'm going to come and do some commentating. Yeah, I'm going to come do some commentating there, too. So, that's going to be on the pins and pirates. uh uh stream and it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be some more good pinball. It's going to be similar format, but we're not going to have the round of 24. We're only going to have a round of 16.
Uh and uh yeah, it's going to be great. We're starting I think we're also starting just like this did at noon tomorrow.
Uh practice starts at noon
and then games at 1:00.
Okay. I didn't realize. Okay, practice starts at noon, games at 1.
Um yeah, and we're going to stream the whole thing. I mean, not every match because we can only stream one match at a time, but we're going to stream
stream every round beginning to end. It's going to be fabulous. Are you going to win?
I hope so.
Yeah, maybe you might. Someone's going to win. Maybe you
maybe
Louise could possibly three Pete.
Could So, she's won two in a row.
Uh, she's won two before, I think.
Two before ever.
So, not in a row.
Okay. But not in a row. Okay.
Her third time.
Yeah. A lot of great players.
Yeah.
Lot of great players. California is a tough state. Hey, it's Andre Masaw 2011 world champion. Hey, I just snuck in the booth. I hope I didn't snuck in surprise you or any of the listeners.
You snuck in. It's Andre. Good to see you, buddy.
Hey, good to see you, too. And
yeah, California, it's just such a wealth of players. And this championship, we got number nine in the world, who's already been knocked out. Number 19 in the world, although not a Californian after his name. His country is CA for Canada.
Canada.
Okay. For Canada. Yeah, he's still in there. He's still in there. Derek. Yep, there he is.
Dererick and Scott.
Yeah, it's so many great players. Um, you know, I noticed that you and I uh also both got knocked out, but it happens. Each one of these matches is two great players and one of them gets knocked out.
This is such a strong field this year, top to bottom. And California is always strong and heavy, but
it's almost as if there's 40 million people living in California.
Sure feels like it here. And only 24 get to go to this tournament. So, I was honored just to be nominated.
I mean, you're a great player. You more than deserve it. You actually got to buy. You got to buy. So, that's pretty good. You're top top eight in California qualifying.
Uh,
not too shabby.
Just barely. Yeah.
But you still got to play every game. And there's a ton of tough players.
Yeah. Or in my case, only five was that sadly.
You literally played every game.
Yeah. That you played. It it's amazing to be here and uh the talent and the atmosphere and the games and the high stakes for this title. You know, I've played in a lot of world championships. Um but just one national championship. It's much harder to get to a national championship than a world championship.
It is hard and you know there's a lot of sometimes there's just a lot of pressure. Oh, and we're back. We're back with uh we don't have the game selections yet, but we will in a second. We're back to the party zone. We're right back to the party zone.
Oh, so everyone, you know the drill. the party's
right
right
I didn't know that I play for multiball but we saw Tim again this is a Tim pick um
just he went here all day and it was just everinccreasing values
and the nice thing about multiballs though you get the 2x scoring afterwards like Dr. Dude, right.
Yes.
So, that in itself could be a good strategy. And then you hit the heck out of that right loop. That arrow thingy.
I just wish this game had more color on it. Like, it's a little dark and dim. Like, send it.
It It is. It is pretty yellow.
Sorry. Maybe that's my monitor.
It might be your monitor. This is pretty yellow.
This is pretty yellow here. Um, so I I couldn't remember. It's been so long since I played this. Now, are the locks lit from the beginning of the game on this?
I think normal settings. What is it? the far right loop, right? Over and over. You hit it three times and it advances through those three features. It's been so long and the 30 seconds I spent during warm-ups
for the tournament. Um I don't recall, but yeah. I mean, people in the chat especially,
I'm I'm sure there are folks who know, but I feel like it's lit right away.
Yeah.
And then maybe you got to qualify it after having played your first multiball.
I don't remember how to qualify it after the first one.
And perhaps it's the green targets. Could be.
Perhaps it's a haha targets next to the audio animatronic mega.
I for sure I think the haha activates the comic
but not Yeah,
for sure that
dangerous targets.
You know, green makes me think of locks.
I don't know about that that bank that's behind the arrow loop that Tim's going to shoot the heck out of
the way out of control over here.
Yeah. or does that just increase those awards on the right?
My feeling is that these standups increase and influence and change these awards.
I'm going to go grab their game picks really quick. Okay, put that in the number.
Here it is. Uh from ZMAC, someone who would know. Saucer in the middle relights locks.
Thank you, T-Mac.
And you know, we just saw Derek's game end with a middle saucer. It just spat it right out.
Oh, so it lights locks and then drains you immediately. Lights locked and yeah, saucer certain death. That's right. Thank you, Zmac. And yeah, I totally agree. Say again.
The center
Zmac says center saucer
in the middle. Relights locks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, plus I think it's probably the kind of shot where the ball spins out easily.
Yeah. I mean, it was so nasty. It was super nasty.
It was nasty upon nasty. And what's your thoughts on this modification? I guess it's necessary with caliber, high-c caliber players, the broken ramp. You cannot just endlessly ramp.
Yeah. So again, the shots up here would normally come back to the left flipper, but this is modified so that the shots of the left ramp instead drop into the pops. I think it's absolutely essential cuz otherwise good players can just grind out right ramp without really ever being in danger. And this one, yes, Tim is grinding out that shot that puts him in some sort of peril or danger like there.
That was a great attempt. I love the attempt.
Full effort, no tilt. Got it up in the air, but not enough to avoid that outright.
Yeah, NorCal Grudge. Yeah, that's a great question, Matt. Zmac, what what do we time out on this game? I love it. I absolutely love it. Um, yeah, we're really happy to have you all joining us on the internet. Thanks, uh, all of you all for watching. We're really happy to have you. Yes, absolutely. And um we'll see if Nick takes the same flight plan as Tim.
His first shot was to the right loop.
I mean, they both took the low score on ball one to psych each other out plan.
I see. This is tricky though. It gets dangerous cuz when you're on ball three, you need to stop doing that. I mean,
it's a true story. This is like this is like Olympic, you know, uh bicycling in the vellum where both players are just like doing a track stand with like no points and they just wait and wait and wait and then they start sprint, they sprint, they sprint, they sprint and then one of them wins. That's what's going on right now here on ball one. They're both doing a track stand.
Yeah, cuz that was all on purpose. That was all on purpose. They made it look like
it look like they were trying, but they're actually just doing a track stand waiting. And now on at some point one of them's going to sprint. One of them's going to sprint. So we'll see.
I I recommend ball two. Uh ball three at the latest.
Okay. Yeah. Time out your 10x playfield. That doesn't sound right to me. Um
how many right loops have I missed?
Uh not too many. They they they both drained. They both just drained their first ball. Um
Oh, does that does that work, Mike? You can tilt warning to your 10x playfield. Anyway, um so Tim trying to get back to the business of shooting some some right hallways. Uh this pinball machine just as far as pinball history, Rick Steta won this at pinball expo uh in a tournament where everyone just shot the left ramp. It lasts a very long time and you know Jim Belito's had it for years. It was at the World Championships two years ago. Um, so this game has definitely got some dragon tracks as they say, uh, once being Rick Stetta's multi-world champion, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian Magazine,
and the only guy to have all the titles at once, IFPA, Papa, and Expo,
and this was his copy?
Yes.
Wow.
I'm curious what he thinks about the broken ramp. I'm sure he'd figure out a way to win. Uh despite that,
this is interesting. So, we had Tim was not happy with his last game on this even though he won. He had been shooting this all day and he's completely changed strategies and he's going for multiball first. Very interesting just cuz we just watched him play this a moment ago and he's totally changed strategies since. Yeah, I'm knowing Tim will probably trap one and then also so he'll be live for uh shots to the loop with the 2x scoring afterwards as well.
Mhm.
And he just strapped one also
just to be in control.
Yeah.
Great catch.
Tim can do a lot of this, but you are at the mercy of those slings.
Oh boy. I wonder if that can get double dipped.
I believe it can. He almost had one.
That's beautiful. Right on the fly.
So, he's decided to do this with the multiball, which I think makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure why we didn't see him focusing on multiball more the first game. Um maybe he just figured as long as he eventually played it. I don't know.
He just played it with Derek, correct?
Yep. He just won. And I think neither of them were really super happy with it. Um, I mean, Tim was happy to win, but
yeah, those slingshots are so touchy.
Little spicy, aren't they? Little spicy.
Caliente.
Little Caliente. Yes, indeed they are.
And I believe there's a mod on this, right? There's no exit awards.
Yeah. And what's the exit award?
So, you see these flashing little
Oh, I don't know how to clear, but I think it's a couple pretty good bonus if you get out there.
And maybe they do that so you don't get something random.
Yeah. And that ramp, Tim's actually hit that ramp with the crummy feed twice during this multiball already, but he survived the broken ramp.
Very nice recovery.
I mean, he's sure getting a lot out of this two ball multiball.
He definitely isn't doing that thing where you you lay back anymore. For sure. His boppers are 1 million a bop. Okay.
And see it does the animation. So maybe it's locked at 100k instead of
100k is not that much.
No ramp. Do you transfer? What are we doing?
I doubt he's going to do that relight the locks business with the center shot.
Oh well.
Or is he?
The slings have another plan. Yeah.
What do you pick for your song?
I like Pinball Wizard.
Yeah, me too.
Me, too.
Say,
well, he survived it. Now he's got the 2x. He's got one lock.
I don't know. Maybe he goes back to multiball now. Or does he take advantage of 2x while he has it? Yeah.
Well, that's a 20 million point shot with the doubler.
Yeah.
Wow.
And his boppers were 1 billion each, but now they're 2 million each. I think in index qualifying and the IFPA open, I think someone got up to 300 million or so on the qualifying game. I think it was Billy Brown from down here.
Something massive. I mean, it was at least 100 million, I would think.
And Tim's at 170. So,
yep.
Oh boy, what a kick out.
Survived another one.
At least he now understands that you have to fight for your life when it goes in that saucer. So, it looks like it's maxed at 10 million, but he's getting it doubled for 20.
Um, so I'm glad it maxes out. I'll say that.
Well, he doesn't miss that shot much and he's surviving. 10x 765.
Two seconds. He's got one shot at it at the 10x.
There was so much pressure.
There was so much pressure. He's hopping away, but happy. Look, look at this. This is happy hopping. Happy hopping by Tim there. Yeah, that's that's a big ball too there. That's pretty big.
At 10x, it would have been a 100 million point shot.
Yeah,
but uh I think he's pretty comfortable with his start there. And uh it's time for Nick to go all out.
And again, that was like 2x from being out of multiball. And then this can be lit for 5x. And that's exactly what happened. So
Oh,
this just shows you how difficult of a playing game this is. Tim
probably put in some good practice in an earlier round play. So he's got a more comfort level. You know, he knows where the skill shot is. It just shows he put in significant meaningful time and what he's been drilling.
So we just watched him and Derek play this game. Yes. And uh he did not get 333 million. He got like 50 some but that was enough to win.
I guess that was his warm-up game.
That was his warm-up. And he But even seeing that he got 50, he picked it again. He said, "I'm going to take my salty run back. I can do it." Uh and sure enough, he's proving himself quite well here.
Yeah. I mean, 100 times your opponent's score is not a bad place to be
after two balls. Yeah, it's good.
But Nick, again, let's not count them out.
Nope.
No, indeed. Let's not. And again, this is just uh game one of a best of seven. So,
yeah, I just expect a very competitive match no matter what the final score will be um games wise. as a Southern Californian and I can say with certainty that a Northern Californian will be defeated in this best of seven match.
Oh man.
No, I'm a big fan of both these guys actually. Huge fan of both these guys actually.
Both great to watch and again you're seeing how tough this game plays.
Yep. Pretty tough. I mean he had the ball of the day on this. So let's see if Nick can follow suit. You know, when you're in this position, in a way, you can relax.
You need such a big ball, it's liberating. You don't have to worry like, oh, should I do this or do that? You kind of got to do it all.
And sometimes that liberated will actually make you play better than if you're hardcore focused.
Whatever. It's all about up to the slings anyway.
You curse the heck out of him. But no, I totally agree with you. It's libering. Sometimes when you're way behind, it's freeing cuz you're like, "Okay, I just need a huge ball." Um, so it didn't work out that way for Nick, but uh at least he didn't waste any points
or energy.
Or energy. You'd hate to see him put up only 300 and then waste all those points.
Oh, that's saved points for the future games.
Well played, Nick.
Yeah, well played.
Getting the most out of the lost. Hired Tim out. High score two.
And uh yeah, I'm going to look at the game selections for these guys and uh we'll see what Nick picks. I think Miami put So Miami is looking at it for us. I think she's got it. So tell us Miami.
So Nick, it could be Stargazer or Hoops or Metallica.
Okay, that's what Nick picked. And then what were Tim's other two picks?
Hot Tip and Jurassic Park.
Okay, so Nick or sorry, Tim repeated his picks
from the last round.
Why not? It worked.
Um,
and it looks like Derek and Sky are tied 1-1.
I think we're going to Stargazer. Nick is motioning for the rig to just scoot down a little bit and it looks like we're moving to Stargate.
Dennis doesn't know how to refresh, but he does know how to draw, so we're just drawing. Yeah. So, that's what we're at in the in the round of four in the semifinals. Best of seven. And it sounds like uh we're on the move here to Stargazer. I I love Stargazer. I almost I almost picked it myself, but I didn't. Um fabulous game.
Beautiful game. Rare game. Yeah, actually I didn't know it was rare, but there were not that many made.
Yeah, you're right.
In my lifetime, I've probably seen 10.
Okay.
And you're what, 150 years old now.
And I've been around play a lot of pitball. Yeah. It's such a great looking game.
Yeah. This one's beautiful. It's in great shape.
I'm curious how well that left spinner, the second from the left spinner turns. You guys know?
Well, it turns quite well. In fact, uh we saw Kane playing this and he was actually skipping this lit for like 3,000 to like kickback here and light this for 2,000 and rip it. So, he actually preferred the left spinner for 2,000 a click when the main upper spinner was already lit for 3,000. Sorry, I'll stop drawing those.
And did it work well for him?
Um, it was okay. I didn't I feel like my feeling is that this spinner is also spinning very well.
Um so it you know
he definitely knew what he was doing and he's a great player and he very intentionally was doing exactly that. And I feel like to intentionally skip this when you know it's lit for 3k when this is lit for 2k you got to know something. So
So anyway, we'll see what these guys do. Um, okay. Ace in Vanoi has one at the moment. Uh, for anyone in LA this weekend. Yeah, I tell you, both those Ace spots, great pinball and great food. Oo, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I love that.
All you can eat, right?
It's literally all you can eat. All you can eat pinball. And all you can eat.
I would have done that every time I went there
if they didn't have pinball machines.
The pinball distract.
The opposite thing happened and I've never eaten there. But definitely get the smells coming in.
Yeah. Now, that place is delicious. I don't know what Tim's doing. Tim is practicing leaning really far over the machine. I don't know what he's doing.
Uh, that's to get to the upper or it's the gunshot for the super. Oh, wait. This isn't T2. I'm sorry.
No. Yeah, you thought he was lining up the shot.
Maybe he's stretching.
He could be stretching.
Inspecting the spinners, maybe.
Yeah, spinner inspection.
And the one at ACOGI place kindly. I was playing it yesterday.
It does.
And it's beautiful.
Deep fried Oreos with Nutella. Yes, please. They have that at Ace.
Yes, they do.
Oh my god, I like Nutella. Oh, look at this guy. I It's You know what cracks me up? A lot of players when they warm up against Nick, they tap pass like mad.
I don't know if they're afraid of being outdone or what, but if you know, if Nick decides to tap, no matter who it is, they're going to be outdone. So, but I see a lot of people tapping when they play in warm-up against Nick. Very strange phenomenon.
Yes. On the games that humans normally tap on, and then there's some games humans don't normally tap on that only Nick will tap on.
Yes.
I got to say, Tim H, the guy who taught me to tap. We're at a tournament and yes,
um, we're playing eightball and you want to get on the right flipper and tapping was the only way. No post pass.
Okay.
Passes and uh, we kind of learned together. Him first and it's pretty doable. I don't know. He seemed good on the Stargazer going right to left, but he had trouble going left to right. Okay,
we'll see if that's weaker. Good luck, boys.
We saw some people short plunging on this earlier.
Really?
Yeah, I don't do that myself, but So, he kind of has accidentally activated this spinner at a low value. So, again, for those there is a beautiful tap. For those of you who don't play this that often, normally these lights rove until you hit one of these three and then that locks in uh two different values when you hit it. It locks in the value for completing that bank and it locks in the value for this upper spinner. Um so that's what's going on with the upper bank. Yeah,
about 100k for that rope.
Yeah, I mean this is really good. So this is
he's doing the cane thing with the far left plus his uh second from the left spinner value is quite low.
Yeah. So again, he's got to back it up here. These star rollovers when they're on the proper light, light the opposite spinner, not for the rest of the ball, just for one rip only. So that's what's interesting about Stargazer is that if you go over the rollover at the right time when the proper one of these is lit, you light the opposite spinner for one rip at 2,000 of spin. In contrast, when you hit one of these, it locks in a value per spin on this spinner until for the rest of the ball until you clear this. So, you could lock it in at 4,000 and then just get it at 4,000 over and over and over and over and over again. Um, as long as you don't finish these, it stays forever. Whereas these ones on the side, you light them with star rollovers and they're only good for one. Kind of interesting. And that left one looks like it's going great.
It sure does.
Wow.
Yeah,
sure does.
And then the right one. We'll see um if anyone gets anything going on there.
Checking his notes.
Other things that you push for when you play Stargazer with regard to bonus or anything? Do you ever go to complete a target set or the far left targets there that you're just Yes. Can you tell me about those?
I don't, but they increase your bonus multiplier and your bonus multiplier holds for the whole game. These zodiac targets are your base bonus. They also hold for the whole game. And if you complete a set, you lock in like 12k and then you start on your next set. Um Carl was telling us earlier that some people do. Some people really go for bonus. For me in Jim Belceto's house with the juicy juicy juicy spinners, I'm playing a spinner strategy cuz he really likes juicy spinners as do I. Um so let's see if Tim goes to lock this in at the max value. He tried to. He missed. But this is how I play as well.
Me, too. It's pretty simple and straightforward.
So, he locked this spin run at 3500.
And a jet might unlock it.
Yeah. Until he hits this. That's 3500 for the rest of the ball until he finishes that drop target bank.
Which he hopes to not do.
There it is. 3500 to spin. Yes, please.
Yeah, that went pretty well.
He's having trouble getting control. You know, I was thinking if I got to play Tim today, I might pick this against him cuz he's so good with the traditional in lane outlanes. I wonder how he is on this. So far, he's proven himself pretty dang good.
Pretty dang good indeed.
I suspect just knowing Tim for a while and facing him, I mean, he could play amazingly on those games without flippers. those darning bingos or Humpty Dumpty. I don't think any of that person he's just so good. I have to totally agree with you. Uh he's just so good at every form of the game.
And great work ethic, attitude, skills. It's exciting to watch him play with the body link.
Absolutely.
He's won the state championship 2016.
2017 we heard from the chat earlier.
Yeah. Runner up without looking it up on the IFBA site. Do you know who it was that year?
Was it you, Andre?
I don't want to talk. Oh no. I was knocked out by the runner up.
Okay.
I don't know who the runner up was.
Without looking
before my time.
Okay. You know what?
I don't know. Before my time.
The proprietor,
Jim Belcito.
Bel of free go watch San Francisco. Matt Henry.
So JM Garvey, you know.
Okay. Matt Henry. Good. Good one. Jared, you win.
Our NorCal State rep there.
You win our trivia, our internet trivia prize, which is a free all expenses paid stream to the California State Finals this year. Congratulations.
Oh wow. Congratulations. So, uh, his target set did did go down. Now, locking in those targets in the center. Um, again, erases things, but also the dot that you have to time to lock in.
It's the spinner you want. Speeds up progressively. So, but again, he got the 3500. He's in good shape.
That's great. So, we saw Kane actually do like a form of a post pass.
You know, you practiced the tapping, Tim. Why? Why not pull it out?
Oh,
see, you should have tapped. No, I don't know. This is This is great. I mean, I I think he's got to be happy with this. I think this is really great. Uh he's got a good bonus build. And again, bonus multiplier and base bonus build. Um, they're playing as players one and three here just to make sure nobody like gives the other one extra spinner clicks or tilts through. Someone was saying on the stream you can't tilt through on this, but they're playing as player one and three anyway, just to exercise complete caution. This is a Nick choice. Let's see what he can do here on ball two.
Oh, nice move.
Okay, locked in at 3,000. And just like you said, Andre, it's going a lot faster now. That roving light was roving a lot faster than at the beginning of the game.
Oh, was that the left to right tap that Tim failed on during practice?
Because he was tapping right to left, but uh I'm presuming it was a tap by
It will happen so quickly.
It happens so quickly.
Even if you're tapping perfectly on the right, it's like twice as hard on
Oh, actually Tim just provided the
twice as hard from the left. Yeah, he you see he's not it's not firing every time.
He doesn't feel confident with it. And I I see why,
you know, and that's the one you want to tap from most to get your shots at either spinner. Wow, that was almost a good ball.
So, he's locked it in at 2500.
He's like, I'm not doing it. No tap passing. No, thank you. Well, let's see if he clears that bank. As you have worse spinner values, your bank values are higher. All the way up to 100,000, I believe.
Yeah, it's a big jump to 100, though. So, you really got to be down here to get 100 for clearing it. I think if you're one less, it's only 35.
Oh, huge jump.
Big jump. Yeah, it's funny.
Yeah, it's like games that jump from 2x to 3x to 5x.
Yeah, exactly. I am not sure what the play was there.
Is he trying to backhand that last target? Reset that.
I don't know.
Get some pop up here. Maybe.
See, I think 2500 is okay.
He's got a good lead.
Yes.
So, it could just add some pressure.
Mhm.
Yep. It just dropped out. It just dropped out. Okay. I mean, this is Nick's choice, okay? So, we know that Nick is good at this game, but right now it's 438 to 9005.
Do either of you have an idea what bonus Tim is guaranteed at the end of this ball that Nick's keeping in mind? Plus potential points.
I do not. We just saw it score and I don't know.
Okay.
It's it's it it's something though. It's non-trivial, you know. So, that's not where he wanted to lock in that spinner, but he'll take it at 2k a click.
It's a great try. I mean, it was such a dangerous ball. Basically, these slings, that's what they're for. They're they're literally designed to throw the ball in the trash. I mean, that's what they do. And those outlines do not look huge, but they certainly feel huge on this one.
You know what's funny? They don't look huge. And I think that like this plastic leans out a little further than the actual rubber does underneath. There's like a there's like a rubber underneath that's just not as far out. Um so it's a little deceiving.
So what does that do? Does that mean
Okay.
It's bigger than it looks. Basically the outlane is bigger than it looks somehow and I was fooled but yeah the outline it's bigger than it looks.
So outlanes may be larger than they appear.
That's right. In the front viewer non mirror. Yes, exactly.
So, uh, you're looking at for us, uh, what do you, what do you got here? Is it one one two?
Two for Tim and Nick, one for Derek and Scott. Um, oh, he had 5x. Oh, he had five. So, he had 70. Oh, so he had big bonus built in.
I didn't realize he had 5x.
Was it about half his score? Yeah.
You know, with Tim having another ball in hand. I mean, we know we've seen we have seen from time to time someone like that spinner for 4,000 and go to town on it and rip it once, twice, three, four times while it's at 4,000 and then no score is safe.
It's that powerful. It does seem to turn amazingly. They didn't really destroy that spinner too much in the end. I feel like that left one got a lot of play.
They they didn't destroy it on this game, but we know it can happen. So, you know, uh certainly no one was safe, but Tim's going to walk away with a win. He is up 2 to0. And over here, Derek and Scott are one to one. Very exciting stuff.
Yeah, I'm going refresh that, too, and just see if Derrick and Scott has changed.
Okay, thank you.
Yeah,
Carl, still working the magic in the booth.
Working the magic is Carl. Yeah,
that's all up to date.
Carl's the bomb. We love having Carl. Yeah, this is Andrei here playing
Yeah. talking to you
running in disk was not enough.
Yeah. No,
he's just like I'm gonna make a game.
Yeah.
A really original.
Yeah. Winchester Mystery House. You can play that. I think you can play that up at Ace Goi in uh in Vanise, I think.
Yes. That's what I spent yesterday doing. And Wow. I got to say, wow. You know, everyone loves it.
Originality. Sometimes there's some historically like original games that aren't awesome, but this one in a creative, productive, exciting, thinking kind of way um in a lot of ways. It took a while to get my mind around even the most basic sides of it. But, uh, Winchester Mystery House um is really something and I'm very impressed and pleased with what Carl and the team there did.
Yeah, it's really awesome. Barrels of fun, right? Fun.
Barrels of fun pinball. Hey, it's literally barrels of fun figuratively. Yes, someone mentioned, you know, uh, Marlin's Arcade and and that also was there. I never played that before.
Now, I don't know about Marlin's Arcade. What is What is Marlin's Arcade?
It's an arcade where there are all these kind of games. Merlin's Arcade such as Foosball, Pool, Darts,
Pinball, which is the left ramp, um, and a few others. and and you kind of you go through these games, you battle other imaginary characters on these games.
How about that?
I had heard about it. It was my first time seeing and that's from that company that made
Ninja Eclipse. Oh, they're okay.
And you know, their games, they're simple, but they're fun kind of in the way TNA is.
Okay.
Um I don't know. There's a different feel to them.
Um but it's kind of refreshing, I guess, the way they play. Hey, and also the prices for those who buy them.
Okay. All right. I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm going to just do this real quick at risk of showing uh something strange happening. Okay. Yeah, we're here. Okay. For some reason, we just didn't know that we're here, but we're here. Um, so I think that this is the uh they're pra this is the 30 seconds of practice uh on Jurassic Park
or they started out terribly, one or the other. and and they started so terribly they agreed to restart. I don't think they'd be allowed to do that. So, um so yeah, they're going to play Jurassic Park again. This is uh one of Tim's choices. And to be honest with you, we saw this earlier and uh it was a struggle. He was playing very difficult, very difficult, actually.
Uh I just uh experienced it during warm-ups. The flipper's very strong game very fast. Outlane's very big. Yeah, we saw a lot of outlan drains on this. Um,
here's Jim. Here's Jim. There he is.
Jimmy B.
This is his place. Isn't it beautiful? Look at his beautiful place. Look at this place.
They call it the barn. It's not really a barn. It's like the It's the annex.
Way more beautiful than any barn I've been in. For sure. You know, actually, I don't think I've ever been in a barn anyway. But
it's been a long time for me.
Yeah.
Yeah. I've been in a barn, but it was a long time ago. Where are you from?
Pennsylvania.
Oh,
yeah. We got some uh you know, we got some farmland out there.
Yeah. Did you see that Eagles uh Niners game by the way?
Uh did I? I think I did. Yes, I did.
Okay. Or the end of it.
I don't know if you're You know,
I have a lot of Eagles fans back home, but I have a lot of Niners fans up in Northern California.
So, there you go.
Um Yeah, that's right. We're Jared and I are both from Westchester, Pennsylvania.
There you go. Little little California pinball player trivia.
Wow. Small world.
Yeah, small world. But anyway, here we go. We're actually playing.
He opened with the C, so he's thinking towards Chaos.
Um opening with the C. I like opening with the C.
The hardest thing is that letter O on the right loop after he gets letter A on the right. Well, second from the right ramp.
Yeah, you're not you're not entirely wrong there, Potter. A lot of farmland in Pennsylvania. Um I'm a Chaos fan. We saw this earlier. We No one got chaos, but we saw people trying.
Um, another way to get us through the smart missile, but he's already two uh fifths of the way there.
I usually pick raptor myself if I succeed in getting a smart missile. Um,
great save.
And one dinosaur down.
Onto the next one. This is lit. But he may wait and try and do it
in uh in like Raptor multiball or something.
Let's see. This will be telling how how he plays this ball right here will be telling of what he's going to try and do.
Yeah, we do. You think players have been going for Raptor on this copy of Jurassic Park here.
They have been. Yeah, they have been. And uh I'm a big fan. I'm a big Raptor guy.
And this is not a pro, so it will hold the ball, right?
That's right. Yeah. So here uh he just went for control room. So, he's going to play system boot in single ball play. And uh he's going to hit some blue shots. He's going to hit some blue shots. A beautiful catch. It's so pretty when it works that well.
Excellent. Great timing.
So good.
Great angling.
System boot. Ideally, you're hitting combos.
Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was just saying earlier when we streamed this, I didn't realize for a long time, but in system boot the combos have wildly differing values depending on which shots you pick. I was just thinking, oh yeah, it's blue shots. Well, if you dig a little deeper, a lot of the combos are a lot more valuable than some others. And and and uh Carl was really emphasizing these right flipper shot, these upper flipper shots are a lot more valuable. And I think in particular this tower shot can be up to like 25 million
coming off the right ramp or off the side loop just above it.
So either the side loop or the right ramp. Both these both these feed one way or another to here and then it's like is that right? Is it like 25 million out of there when you're in system?
I'm not sure. I just always try to shoot combos and I don't look up when I'm doing it. So
yeah,
I'm not sure on those values. It's interesting that they're different values.
Yeah, those you're right though. You're definitely right when you say that there's good value in the combos. Absolutely.
Look at that calm maneuver knowing the ball save was on. Oh boy. But that plunge did not feed to the left in lane. I hope it doesn't punish him or to the right in lane.
It's a nice rollover.
Yeah, this is a great game for uh ski jump passing.
Okay, he's he's 60% of the way to chaos. Wow, that was a sick patch. Yeah, I get frustrated on Jurassic Park. A the O is hard to hit. But then also on some machines, I'm assuming this one works fine. It doesn't register well.
If it doesn't register, that's a heartbreaker. Does he go for O here or something else? Something else. He's just going to try and complete the dinosaur.
That's what it looks like. Trying to backhand the trap target.
Yeah.
Ooh,
he was there.
He was up there. Just didn't didn't quite get it.
Thing is, yeah,
that's too dangerous right there. I doubt he wants to like prematurely start his T-Rex multiball,
right? He's still two letters away. Interesting.
Great job.
Again, strong flippers. I think he was probably early on that just cuz the power of the flippers is unusually high.
It's appreciated, but it takes some getting used to. Okay, now here we start grinding some Raptor. This is how I play. I like Raptor. So, he locked the ball.
Is he just Is he ready for Raptor right now? I guess he might be. Oops.
Probably want to finish that paddic first at the very least.
Yeah. I mean, for me, so Carl's saying he actually doesn't like stacking stuff. For me, I like finishing a paddic, letting control room, starting control room, and then bringing Raptor into the control room that I play. Now, some people really prefer to be in single ball play during their control room. Uh, for me, I'm a big fan of being in raptor.
I can see the value of the single ball play
because sometime, especially if you do like virus where you have to shoot C over and over again. Honestly, if you tell if you say, "Dennis, shoot C during multiball." I'm going to be like, I'm not going to be that successful. But um so some people they really like it in single ball play. But here we saw we saw Tim play system boot in single ball play as well. So but for me yeah I like paddock and raptor. Is that how you play? You like paddock and raptor. Paddock control room.
I don't go for raptor too much.
Okay.
Um and then I go for chaos later. I tend to really go for paddock and the T-Rex multiball.
Paddock and a T-Rex.
U maybe finish one Paddic and then Paddock two. It depends on how hard the game's playing. if it's impossible. It's like world champion difficulty. I go for T-Rex right away and just try to cash in.
I like T-Rex.
Yeah, I like T-Rex and get some points out of it and help me finish a paddic whether it be the first or second.
Yeah, it's really interesting, too. I mean, you can just hit the regular jackpots or progress from left to right for those highest values. So,
yes,
I I I'd say most the great players, that's what they do, left to right. I guess uh I don't Maybe that's why they tend to do better these control guys. where they go sequentially because it is much more value.
It's a big boost,
but it's also Yeah, it could be your kindling for something else and just really getting through a nasty attic.
Um, you know, more so than the jackpots, but I love multiballs as just ways to help out other things.
For me, that's how I use a lot of my multiballs. I'm I'm not the greatest multiball player of all time by any stretch of the imagination, but I use them to stay safe. Um, yeah, I use them to stay safe. Oh, yeah. Brooklyn. Uh, hey Brooklyn. This is a
right in the T.
This is Dennis Andre. Yeah, Dennis.
He did not build the value. He just went right for it.
Okay, interesting. So, he may not be that No, he's going for value.
Um, yeah, pre multiball start, he didn't hit any of the arrows to raise.
He didn't He didn't pre-build it,
but he's raising.
He is going He is trying for sequential now that we're doing it. He's in the So again, he hit a jackpot on the on the Cshot and then he hit a jackpot on the H. Again, he'll he'll continue like doubling the value if he can shoot on the A next before hitting the O or the S for those of you who don't play that this that much.
Also, target just to the right of the center spinner would light uh the supply drop, which would light Adabal, which he just did. He lit the supply drop. He didn't hit it yet for the att. And let's see what he does.
Lanes are powerful. He's thinking long game.
Not a quick score.
Plus, raptor multiballs on the table there.
Yeah, a lot of people don't know how to light supply drop, but exactly as you described, it's by making all three of these blue stand up solid. And that's exactly what he did to light supply drop.
Here he Here he is trying to wake it up. Use the supply drop to keep the multiball going.
That was kind of his backup plan when he drained. He went right for it.
Didn't get it, but that was that was the plan.
The table was set.
And about even with Tim scorewise at the moment,
so he's getting wrapped already. It looks like he's doing what I like, which is control room raptor stack. I'm a fan of gorgeous dead bouncing. What excellent play. That's just so good.
What control room do you use during raptor?
I like restore power. Yeah, I like restore power as he does. So that's going to be
So he's going to try and go into raptor here, which he does. And then it's going to be restore power is you got to hit the center spinner and then all your shots light.
Nothing starts until you've done that.
You got to hit that center spinner. And he did it. And I guess if I understand correctly, you can continue to build the value of your shots with more center spinner. But uh for me, I usually hit the center spinner once and then I try and pick up a bunch of blue shots. And he's in raptor. So he already got he already got his left ramp and right ramp jackpots uh in raptor.
Spelling chaos.
And now he's spelling chaos.
Just like that. Data east game.
And he's got two out of the five chaos letters spelled. I mean he is ruthless here. He's just I mean he's already gotten four jackpots. Two X's lit. That's interesting.
And then he's got one shot left here.
So I think take him into raptor hex ball, right?
And not the hardest shot, too.
Yeah,
he got it. He got it. There it is.
Amazing picking those off so quickly.
Amazing. And extra ball.
Um
letting balls drain on purpose with the ball saber.
Yeah, I love it. I absolutely love it. Wow. And he's in 2x.
I I almost never get this far in raptor to be honest with you.
Oh, for sure.
Very difficult.
Now he's going for the pen.
2x scoring, this is the ultimate combo right here if he shoots the inter loop off the combo
off that uh right ramp.
So again, yeah, he's capturing stuff in the pen here.
I'm kind of curious how restore power went. Yeah. I mean, good lord. What in the world? I mean, I'm going to say it's all going pretty well. I mean, that's just enormous.
Yeah, that 2x scoring definitely had a hand in that massive number.
I mean, that is absolutely massive.
And he's still in this raptor. I mean, good gracious. Jack.
Wow.
Yeah. So, that's some good stuff.
Yeah.
That's fine.
Finally, Nick getting some serious traction in a game and how this helps build his momentum
after losing uh the first two games.
Exactly.
Helps build the confidence. He's back on the horse um in this game and in this match.
You know what Tim's thinking? Who the hell picked this game?
Yeah, I tell you, I wish I would say that I I win my picks more often than I do, but boy, I make so many picks where I just get my opponent just pounds me. And so far, that's what we're seeing here.
Yeah. Plus, you lose the power position. There are often times in this kind of tournament where your opponent actually picks a game you love.
Mhm. Yep. You don't let them know that, but inside you get a nice nice feeling. So, Essen Chaos is the last one to light Chaos. It looks like he's been going for it. Chaos is ready. He's in the paddic.
All right. How's he going to get up there?
Control room first, maybe.
Yeah, control room first, then Chaos.
Oh, man.
So, this is This is What a stack. What?
So, he'll pick Virus.
I mean, I don't know cuz Virus is so hard in multiball. No, you're right.
Good for him.
I had a 50/50 shot there. I mean honestly I struggle in virus even in single ball play in multiball. Wow. It's so hard. Oh my gosh. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful chaos.
Now this is a good time right now for Tim, you know, get a drink of water.
Yeah.
Go for a little walk.
Yeah. Maybe a jog.
Out of California.
Yeah.
Wow. I guess we don't see Vyro being displayed, but
looks like Yeah, he's taking a shot at the uh that shot the chaos. Yeah, which is the virus shot.
Yeah. Yep. He's definitely thinking virus here. It's also It's also a chaos jackpot. So, the chaos jackpots are either all on the left or all on the right. And moving the truck switches them
for those who don't play this that often. Oh, yeah. That's good. He just got 22. I think he just finished virus actually.
And another fossil.
That's great.
Yeah, these things that are running silently um
what?
I don't even know what that is. He got the Triceratops trifecta. I've never even heard of that.
Yeah. So, by completing a certain combination of things, I I won a tournament once doing it accidentally. It's a bonus. the new code that came out with the special anniversary LE involved these trifectas.
I want a trifecta.
I'm going to assume that was his plan.
I I don't know anything.
Up over Ailski, which is Russian for a billion. A lot of people don't know that.
I didn't even know that I'm Russian.
Yeah, there you have it. Yep. So, what are you thinking? Chaos jackpots. Does he have any really uh special amber modes going right now?
Amber ramps, jets.
Sure.
I'm honestly kind of curious what else is feeding.
I don't know why supply drop is blinking.
Super supply drop. So, that would turn on something like uh super amber.
So, that means it's lit for super
supply.
Amber targets. Yeah.
So, does that mean these targets by the way? I don't actually know. Is that what it's referring to?
I'm not sure. I think it might be any target. Although up top is the amber
right up here.
Ah, it's kind of like the supers on uh Black Knight's sort of range. Wow.
Wow. That's amazing. Uh yeah. Uh over a billion. Super fabulous. Uh Brooklyn pin, thank you. He got the trifecta for the dino, its DNA, and its combo.
Okay, so I guess it's tied to a dino, its DNA, and its combo. So he captured the Triceratops. We saw that. But then when he got the Triceratops DNA and the Triceratops combo, he got the trifecta.
Thank you, Brooklyn, for explaining that.
It's really good.
I like how they added to those rules. It's like when they came out with the Jaws anniversary edition, too. They added to those rules as well.
Yeah. I love that. I love that.
So there's even more reason to, you know, pick up one of those special editions.
Yeah. So
yeah, remember um remember uh remember how we were saying that sometimes when you're way behind it's a little liberating?
Yes.
That is the situation Tim is in right now. He is behind by a billion and he's behind by a ball.
So he's like, "Hey, you know what? I just got to do it all and I'm just going to go ahead and try and do it all, you know,
in whatever order I feel like cuz I have to do it all anyway."
Yeah. and stack everything he can,
you know, just just go for it. Um he's in 2x, he's in raptor and he's just got to go for it, you know. He's just got to go for it.
Oh yeah,
one ramp down.
Yeah,
there we go.
And those raptor jackpots, they're huge. That was 11 million and 22 million because he's in 2x and just raptor is good value. Um now, let's see if you can spell chaos. Like it's really subtle, but as you pointed out, like if he goes here, that's going to spell that's going to complete supply drop for Adabal, which is exactly what he just did
and he got the so he's got four balls. Now,
a lot of people don't notice that. So, I was it was interesting you pointed that out cuz that's a very subtle point that a lot of people miss, but
if I was playing, I wouldn't have the presence of mine many of the times, but commentating, yeah, I can pay attention to stuff like that.
Not keeping those balls alive myself.
Yeah. and collecting that supply drop of course lit his 2x here. So if he gets that it's going to be back into 2x playfield for him. Um
and there it is the 2x playfield.
Wow.
Raptor pens lit.
[ __ ] has been called.
That was a nice addition too. The right hand ball saves on that new code.
I couldn't agree more. I absolutely agree. So there it is. He got it. He got the last second. Time was out. He was down to one ball in the grace period. He hit his final letter of chaos, the S to bring it back to life. Unbelievable.
More thrilling than that as a spectator and as a player.
Gorgeous. Great grace period completing the chaos to keep himself alive in the multi belt. Now it's over now, but that was freaking beautiful. I absolutely love it. That was gorgeous. Yeah, that grace period shot. Uh, freaking amazing. Yep. Absolutely amazing.
Where'd that super come from? Did he hit that ramp?
Well, I think it's just spelling the chaos. Spelling chaos completely. So, when he got the S, I think that's what did it. I think
Okay.
I think I think
that's what takes you into Gaptor Hex Ball or, you know, add three more balls or
Yeah, I just wasn't tracking all the balls, I guess.
Yeah, Tim is super active when he plays. You know, so many times I'm playing and I'm like, "Hey, Dennis, you're being a little lazy." Tim never says that to himself cuz he's not. He's super intense, super focused, always like always really giving it his all. And that's like,
oh no.
Wow.
That dead dead dead bounce.
I thought for sure it was dead bouncing here as did he just a little behind.
Just a hair.
It was just a little behind and ow. A deadly bounce. So, uh, he was doing great, but like honestly, Nick, wow. I mean, a billion in two balls. A billion in two balls. Are you kidding me right now?
And again, this is set up so difficult.
It's set up so difficult. We saw so many people just getting torched earlier. Huge win by Nick. Totally fabulous. Uh, let's see what's going on around here. Has anything been updated? So, nothing has been updated here, but I guess if I look at my phone, if I go if I do the proper phone clickery, um, I can see, uh, what's going on here. Maybe you can do the proper phone clickery as well here.
Yeah. Looking it up now. Refreshing because I'm in that document. This amazing document I'm not used to. Wow. Scott with a
Yeah. What do we got?
Huge lead. 3-1 on
3-1.
No, I'm sorry.
No.
What is this? Is this
Yeah, that's 3-1.
Okay.
So, Scott 3-1
on Derek. Yes.
On Derek. And then we have Tim was up two zero. Now he's up 2-1. Uh, and that means we're going back to one of Nick's choices. Okay. Um, yeah. I'm not sure why this isn't updating. I don't know how to update this, but Well, I updated in yellow, didn't I? We have a yellow update.
That's clear as day.
We got yellow clear as day.
Um,
so Scott amazing beating the world number nine earlier today.
Yeah. No, I mean, he's fabulous.
Now against the world 19,
as if number nine wasn't enough.
Yep.
Um, and then this amazing match with two amazing players. So,
so yeah, Nick's other selections were Hoops and Metallica.
Okay, so where are we going? Where are we going? Where are we going?
I see Carlid. Maybe he's deciding. I think he's deciding.
He's got one 87 million to 73 million on surf and safari. Wow.
Those guys can surf and those guys can safari. I'm not going to lie.
Boy, not going to lie. Those guys know how to surf and they know how to capture wild game. They do both in the same game. I don't know how they do it to be honest with you. I don't know.
That's enormous.
Good for them.
Okay, let's play a little uh boy. Why is something really loud all of a sudden? I don't know, internet. What do you think of that? Want me to make the Want me to make the sounds? I don't know. Um Oh, yeah. Jonathan has been updating scores on match play. Okay, fabulous. Yeah, we got the match play link. We got this link. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Carlson,
we're not updating the Never. It's not up.
It means that you have to actually manually refresh it,
which is Yeah, I haven't shown you how to do that. that goes that
maybe while they're warming up.
This is just warm up internet.
This window.
Okay. Thank you. Very good.
Yeah. This is just a little little warm-up ski here. Uh yeah. You want me to sing the Metallica songs? You know, sing the songs. I wish I knew the lyrics better. I would sing the songs, but I don't really know these. Well, thank you, Matt, for not asking me to.
Yeah, there you go. Um,
well, why are they asking? Have you sung on stream before?
Occasionally, I'll sing a little bit. Never Metallica. Not yet.
You know, it's still warm up, so you want to sing some non Metallica.
If I was going to sing, this would be the time.
What kind of song would you sing if you had the choice of what to sing?
I would probably sing happy birthday. I mean, it's someone's birthday out there somewhere.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I will say this. It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.
Amen. Well,
yeah.
Anyway, I don't think they'll have a problem with you singing. Oh, no.
Yeah, you got to sing the Mystery Castle.
Oh, boy. That's even worse.
That's some good stuff. I would love to hear Andre singing some Mystery Castle.
Oh, I forgot. I forgot though.
Okay, we seeing some short plunging here. Again, this is still warm-up.
I'm kind of curious, speaking of songs, which one they will pick. Yeah, for me I pick the same one all the time just for consistency. I pick Battery. I don't really even I mean I just only pick that one. Do you pick the same song every time?
Almost all the time. Yeah, I pick one.
Okay. You like You like one?
Well, no. It's just short. It's easier to spell
now. I mean, I don't think I never thought of it in terms of uh you know, length of the name of the song.
I play everything's fast.
Okay. However you read the name of the song, it's fast. Um, unfortunately, all my balls were really fast today when I was competing. But
yeah,
I got to tell you, the expression, lighting, the effect on that right ramp. Take a look at that.
Yeah.
You know, like nice little flames.
Yeah.
Uh, beautiful from this angle.
Ray, we're very honored to have you join us. Thank you for coming out. Uh, Ray, the mastermind behind this Metallica Remastered. Uh, what a fabulous game. I talk about it all the time on the pins and pirate stream. Uh, I absolutely love this. This is an incredible remaster. Um, and uh, yeah, absolutely. Hats off to Raya. Amazing stuff. Yeah, we'll see what they do. Will we see Nick with remastered new stuff and Timmy old school? I don't know. I don't know what we're going to see. This was Nick's choice.
And I know Tim's got the old school Ellie at home.
Oh, okay.
You know, he he's the kind of guy who will probably learn the new school strats, too.
Oh, yeah. He's
for example, those left drop targets giving you that ball save in the outlanes. I especially like it during crank it up mode and not to burn them during multiball. Although sometimes you need to burn them to get to a multiball. But that's the biggest thing at the kind of base initial level of Metallica Remastered for me. Lighting ball saves on the outlanes with a handful of left drop targets in the graveyard. Grave markers.
Oo crud. Uh we just got news that Scott MSAS made it to finals. Congratulations.
USA.
USA. That's right. USA. USA. That's right. knock those Canadians out of here. Um, it's so funny you were talking about Tim's knowledgeability and what he's learned. We saw him off camera. He was looking at his notes while while Nick was playing. He was looking at notes on his phone about what he wants to do on this game. Um, so, uh, yeah, great job, uh, Scott. Rough first ball for Nick, but this is Nick's choice, so he knows what he's doing. Um, and let's see how Tim goes about this. Yeah, we'll we'll Yeah, we'll crank it up. That's right. We'll know then. Um, the one thing also I was gonna mention, the players can see it.
What?
Yeah, Tim's actually reading something you can't see on the back, but but Andre, you were talking about how hitting these gives you outlane ball save on the backlash. It's written you need five.
That's impossible cuz there only three there.
Yeah, I know you. So, it's interesting, but you need a total of five inline drops here to light uh both outline ball saves. Um, so so a little harder. I like that.
Oh, there's the back end of the left ramp. I tend to hit more ramps, left ramps that way accidentally on purpose.
Oh, yeah. For me, it's Oh, that's a tilt. So,
secondary shade.
Okay. Um, for whom still better than fade to black? That would be bigger giveaway. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, that would be a bigger giveaway. You can combo them uh to count multiple hits. You can combo into the drops to count multiple hits. Is that what you're telling us? I had no idea. Is that what you're saying?
I will say uh unlike some other Stern games, you know what you can do? Okay. You can combo into them for multiple hits. I had no idea. You know what you can do on this game? You can press and hold the flipper and get a status check. And you know what the status check will tell you? It'll tell you things like how many more hits you need for the resurrect ball save or you can even see just here on the graphical uh interface how many uh how many drop targets hit you you need for the interface
which is a massive improvement over the regular Metallica.
Massive improvement over the regular Metallica. And I love this outlane ball save that you get by the way from the drops. So many great improvements. Uh these among them. I didn't know that about the combo. Very interesting. In any case, back to the game at hand. Hilarious Curly. Uh he he's in multiball. He's in his uh his sparky multiball and he is immediately with no hesitation trying to make every flashing 72 guitar pick solid. He did. They're all flashing again. But that means he can put a ball in the snake uh for add a ball and 2x playfield. Uh and but he's still in his original ball save. So he's still got three balls going. But he hit all those 72. He all he he hit all the flashing 72 guitar pick standups. So now he can go into the snake. He can go into the snake for 2x playfield and add a ball. Uh yeah, I don't think he did that already. Did he do that? I don't think he did that already. No. Yeah, he did. Um okay, good save there. Okay. Now, is he going to wait to put a ball in in the snake until later in
that as his ball saver? He has not used it yet. So,
okay. So,
he can do a lot of damage.
See that? He's going for inline drops to work himself towards that ball save.
Yep.
Picking up jacks
and a super jack. I love
I love how those balls will get held on the new Metallica Masters.
Yep.
It's more dramatic. I think
it is more dramatic.
Oh, well, he's still got that backup, too. So, maybe he'll just wait till that last possible moment
if he feels like he Sometimes you can you can backhand the snake and sometimes it's harder than others. It depends. Um I'm not sure on this one how hard the backhand is. He picked this game. He's still holding on the right. So, it's possible he knows that it is backhanded.
He may just feel good about the backhand.
I also like the tiers of super jackpots and the different color changes in the remastered.
Yeah, these colors are cool.
The next one.
Yeah, you thought he already got his Advil. I feel like he did not, but I'm not sure because the Yeah, he has it now. You see, he's locked the ball away because you get this nice timer that lets you know how long you have 2x and how long you have until that ball comes back out.
Oh, wait.
Oh, so maybe he had the add ball earlier though and this is a second 2x.
That's a nice thing to not hold it.
I understand. Okay. So, yeah. So, he you're right. You're absolutely right. Thank you, internet. He did have the 2x and Adabal earlier and then by completing the guitar picks again and putting it in the snake again, he got another 2x playfield. But the second one doesn't come with Adabal. It's just 2x playfield. Thank you very much. That's a great explanation. Thank you so much, internet. Thank you, Carolina Pin Farm. Um, yes, exactly correct. Exactly correct. Um, yeah, Ram Metallica Comboron. We'll see.
There's that combo mode on the new Metallica Remastered.
I forgot what it's called.
There's a new what?
Well, it's like a combo mode and you get to it by uh playing with the topper. Uh, even without the topper and it's uh
I just remember yellow shots.
Do you mean like Lady Justice?
It's got a special name. It's new to Metallica Remastered. It's qualified through combos and also you have ball saver throughout it.
I forgot the name. I'm sure Ray knows.
Yeah, he's just saying Ray is just telling us there's a sick combo mode that will be play that could be played for a long time with ball save, but not sure people know how to get it. Ray, I think this is what Andre is talking about. I have no idea how to get that. There's a combo.
I have no idea, but I got it. And maybe it's from just shooting a lot of combos. It wasn't like my intention was to get to the new mode. I had a lot of fun with it. I think I've gotten to it twice ever.
I love this game and I do not know it.
I'm sure it's one of the requirements to get to Unforgiven, the ultimate final wizard mode as well.
I haven't made it yet. I've not made it yet.
Okay. So, in any case, just to recap here, Nick up to 47 million on ball two. Looks like uh Tim is putting some focus on his coffin locks.
They're not working to get that for the multiball. So then you can build towards your next lock.
Yeah, that's how it works, isn't it? You can build towards coffin locks during your sparky multiball or your grave marker multiball. You can't collect them, but you can build them. So now that he put that away, these 10 more hits on the coffin that he needs for his next lock. Hey, he can just do that during this sparky multiball that he's hoping hopefully about to start.
What a nice dead bounce.
He's got a lit.
Oh, he took a warning just for that little bit of juice. Interesting.
By the way, do these games have earplugs on the tilt bomb.
You know, I didn't even ask. I assume that they do, but I don't know that. Um,
well, Tim's always thorough, you know.
Lux Eterna specific combos matched with completing specific modes and multiballs. Wow. Okay. So, here he is. And now again, so for me, when I'm in this multiball, I'm always trying to complete my flashing guitar picks, whichever ones are flashing. And three of them are flashing, and then put a ball in here to get 2x Playfield and add a ball. Um, but then also like you're saying, he's also potentially working his way towards c his next coffin lock by getting coffin hits, especially if they're comboed from the inlanes to give him double credit like that.
I'm looking at his coffin numbers. What is that? Four more.
Four more. Yeah, cuz he got one. He got some normal hits and then he had an in lane followed by a hit which is worth two.
Um, it looks like he needs this stand up here to light his snake. And it looks to me like that's what he's going for.
He got it
and put in the snake. So he's just taking it right now. 2x for 20 seconds. He gets add ball. Fresh ball save with the attabal. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. I love it. I love my
2x additional 2x at the piston target far left.
He's got a lit, doesn't he? He's got fuel 2x lit. That would take him to 4x. You're right.
You're absolutely right.
There we go. Nice to get a super under these circumstances with the 2x on top of the 2x.
Somehow I can't hear you that well. Can you hear us?
I can hear you.
Uh I'm going to hit the button.
You're going to hit the button?
Yeah.
Now we can hear. Sorry.
Yeah, Miamiy's back.
Everybody's back. Anyway, uh super jackpots. Uh lots of balls. Dangerous uh dangerous scoop feeds, but he's still got two balls in play. He's still jamming. He's still jamming out.
And then the progress needed for Crank It Up are on Snake and Markers. Yeah.
Yeah. Beautiful. It's such a great graphics display. He's two more two more grave markers from Resurrect. Ball saves on the outlanes. And he's looking around. What's he look What's he going to do? Trying to separate. I don't know what the plan is. Uh, grave marker targets. Was he just doing grave marker targets while he was still in multiball?
Now's the time to get that coffin lock before he starts any other multiball cuz it's lit, isn't it?
Mhm.
Yeah. You see that nice purple glow.
Mhm. Yeah. I guess he really wants
well that plus the hurry up which is going to help out as far as getting to uh
this is interesting that he's not taking this coffin lock and coffin hurry up.
That's interesting.
He he just cried out in agony, but he is ahead. So he's at 73, Nick's at 47. This is definitely still game. Yeah, Brian O'Neal. We're at Jim's house. Yep. We are at Jim's house in in the annex
in the barn.
Yeah,
we're back here.
Yeah. Let's see. Not sure. I bet it's
And Nick's crank it up. Progress. Um I see the numbers up top. 314.
That's what it looks like. Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Pi.
There you go.
Whoa. Whoa.
Well, that missing number between three and one is the decimal point. Of course, everyone knows that the
well seen
the throw switch,
you know, Tom. Hey, Brian.
Another match guy would have appreciated that if he's watching right now.
Yep. Yeah.
Jim's Barnito.
Yep. It's Jim's Barnito.
All right, Nick's here making a plan.
We have the the stream on upstairs the staircase. So, Nick was watching from up there.
And how about that sweater wall on brand? Yep. goes for the short plunge.
He made a plan. Now, let's see him execute that plan.
Oh, right into 2x.
So, um, wait, is he in 2x or not yet? He's not in 2x. Oh, maybe he did the super skill shot with lit fuel for 2x. Okay. And his outlane ball saves are lit. Kind of looks like he's going for grave marker again. He's super He's two snakes and one coffin away from Crank It Up. I assume that's what he's doing.
They're both fully lit columns on the right should help him get there. Especially that ramp safely. That right ramp.
Yep. So, now he just needs
one more.
Nice combo.
So, somehow he didn't get he didn't you don't get a coffin for those, but he did get a snake for that. So, I think you can only get a coffin from the coffin, but you can get electric cares, snakes, and engrave markers from like these fully lit columns.
Yes.
So, he needs a coffin in here somewhere. And then any snake shot is fine. Oh, a stucky
jaw stuck now. Boston search should do something.
Hopefully, it's a
I'm going to guess he munches it and spits it out.
Yeah, Dirty Pool Pinball. Scott MSAS has made it to the final two. So, it's the winner of this against Scott MSAS. Um, yeah, he's looking so spiffy. He's
He is holding up the flipper.
Okay.
So, I guess Ball search
is not catching it there.
Yeah. And I guess I think I think Jim is maybe watching upstairs. So, when he raises his hand,
unless he's not watching upstairs. Okay. Tim is finding Jonathan who is like assistant tournament director. Oh, I see Jim at the top of the staircase.
Okay, Jim is descending.
I think he's assistant to the tournament director.
Could be.
Could be.
I think he might be assistant tournament director. I think he has a tournament director status. I'm not sure though.
I think Yeah, if you ask him. Definitely assistant tournament director.
Well, he would go the other way. He would be more humble approach himself, but um Okay, it looks like Jim is going to the corner. Going to get some keys and get himself a little magnet and he's going to extract that thing. And away we go.
Yeah. So after this match, the loser will play Derek Thompson for third and fourth.
Oh, is there is that true?
I think three and four usually duke it out.
Okay. Okay.
Three game match.
Yeah, Jared, you're the email guy. You sure are, Jared. You sure are.
Yep. He emailed. He emailed all about all this stuff. That's the only reason I know anything is because Jared emailed.
So there you go. Yeah, he's got a lot of keys and he's got a magnet and he's got he's literally doing something at the feet of the game.
What is he doing? I don't know. Does he have the key hidden at the feet?
Maybe.
I think he had the key hidden at the feet of the game or
not a spontaneous pitch adjustment.
I don't think I don't think
maybe Nick was totally fine with that stuck bomb.
Yeah. So, that disengaged that disengaged the flippers. So he can put it in the plunder lane.
I think maybe. Yeah, I think he might even be able to drain it. A lot of these games are so smart now
with Coindor Ball Saver. Unfortunately, some people don't turn it on a place like gyms with all the competitions. I suspect Coindor Ball Saver is on.
Okay. I'm surprised that Flipper's disengaged. Actually,
he does. Yeah, he does have that option though
to put in a shooter lane. I would just try to short plunge it immediately.
Yeah,
Jimma locks up.
That's interesting.
I think he just put the ball in his pocket.
Wait, wait.
I don't think he's going to let him keep playing. I think he pocketed it in.
Okay. Did he Did Nick commit some kind of foul?
I don't think so.
Yeah. And Nick's a nice guy. I don't think he said anything, you know, that would get him thrown out.
No. Okay. Nick, I don't know. Jim's looking around for the power ball. He's switching to power mode.
Oh boy.
No, this is not true.
This was not exciting enough.
What I'm saying is just silliness. Internet, this is just this is please, this is the uh Dennis's comments did not reflect the opinions of the stream.
Okay.
Or of Andre Miami or reality.
It's or reality. There's really nothing there.
Um yeah, Jim palm the ball and replace it with the problem. That's what I was saying was going to happen.
I don't know what they're saying.
Don't know. I didn't take my head off. We turned off the game video because it was so much echo
cuz a very simple uh removal of that ball around the snake's jaw. I don't know if the snake's jaw itself is compromised or broken.
Jim's looking around the room. He's on the frontier. He's going to Frontier for something.
Okay, this is like a relief pitcher.
What is going on?
Except it's a relief ball.
I think he's getting
he's going to Frontier coming back.
What is going on? something. I have no idea what just happened. He just went to Frontier and did something.
Yeah. 13 ball. I
He's got a slower. Okay, there we go.
So, somehow he was able to do that.
I don't know how he was able to do that.
There's that button in the box. He pulled out that button or pushed in that button on the left side that gives power back to the game. But but what did he do with Frontier? Why did he go to Frontier and pull something out of Frontier?
We need to know.
We need to know.
I have no idea.
No idea.
Shouldn't it go on left flipper? Agre flipper or right flipper. I feel like it belongs on the right flipper.
Belto house rules.
What's that? It always goes on the
Yeah, I feel like it should go on the right flipper
cuz the snake was on the right side.
Interesting. Well, there it is. Okay, so I'm going to watch this game. Later on, we'll find out what what guy came out of Frontier.
So, it's interesting that he postp pass there. Um,
okay. So, he still needs a coffin.
Yeah.
Yeah, just the coffin.
Looks like he is doing something else. Is he going to grave marker first?
He's hardwired ready at the the scoop,
but you're just one coffin away. It's coughing and crank it up, but I don't know.
And that coffin shot will lead to a lock presuming the magnet grabs it. Unless he skims off the side of it.
That's right. Cuz he lock it's going to So no, he's doing grave marker first. I don't know what's going on here.
Well, he could get the Well, he can't lock during this, right? for the the coffin.
No. And Lock was
You know what? Maybe he doesn't want the uncertainty of the all or nothing single ball play nature of crank it up, even though he's a shot away. U maybe there's something about that coffin lock that he didn't like. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing he prefer to play this multiball over crank it up
first.
Maybe for safety. There is more safety in a multiball. Crank it up just gives you that little ball saver at the beginning.
This is fascinating. So, he does have a ball in the snake, so he's in 2x Playfield and he's just waiting for it to come out. Interesting. He has fuel lit. I don't know if he's going to save it or not. He knows what he's doing. Needs one more grave for super back. So maybe he felt like he wanted to just make sure he was in multiball to survive his coffin hit
cuz he just took the coffin hit. So now Crank It Up is lit. So maybe he thought that was safer. It's not impossible.
Yeah, he's quietly caught up to Tim. He sure has. Yeah,
sneaky.
He sure has
trying to get a good separation here.
There it is.
Cough in a hurry.
Yeah. No. Oh, MS, that's exactly right. That's what's exciting about pinball is there's so many different ways to play. Absolutely. Um I I I love it. I mean, he knows exactly what he's doing
and now he's got to crank it up.
Plus,
and hardwire. Okay.
Oh,
I had a lot of trouble hitting that scoop.
Fell into the luck.
It counts.
So, one luck.
Yep. Dangerous kick out. He handled it.
Maybe that's what he was avoiding, right?
Yeah. Well, Tim has to play.
Tim has to play.
You know, an interesting thing is sometimes when someone just needs a few points. Those strategies are good to know, too.
Mhm.
So, you know, he does not need coffin multiball, although lock two is lit. So, let's see what he does.
Yeah. So here, um, he needs 10. Metallica scoop. Very difficult. Very difficult. Difficult feed, difficult to hit. I was trying to play earlier. I couldn't hit the darn thing. Um, okay. Tim's looking at his notes. Go ahead. Okay. Pause and zoom in. Enhance.
Internet. You can learn a lot about Metallica Remastered right now. Um.
Oh, he heard you.
Ramp piston.
Okay. He's just trying to make a 10 million play.
Ramp piston combos are extremely well relatively safe. I mean, you could get Borg when it comes out of the ramp piston, but yeah, those values build nicely.
Just a few of those and he that put him over the top.
Yeah, it's it's interesting. I'm Thank you guys for mentioning that. That's really not on my radar, in fact. So, that's very interesting. Well, he's got his outlane ball saved. So,
he's a long way from Sparky, but he could do Sparky. He could do Grave Marker. He's closer to Grave Marker. Yeah, he
I like the Grave Marker. Okay.
Wow, that went into the sling. I wasn't doing that earlier.
Yeah, I hate snakes that spit out differently.
Grave marker.
Got it. Yes. Gorgeous. I love him. I I like this a lot. I think this is a great play. Um he's just got these two flashing. So if he hits those two, he can put it in the snake for 2x and add a ball. And he's not wasting any time. He's just going for it. Um now he got it. Snake's open for business. And he put it in there. He put it in. That's a ball. That's 2x Playfield. I love it. I love it. He's up to 78. He's chasing 83
ball savers on the outlings.
Yeah, which is fabulous. He's
looking for those grave markers,
I think. So, yeah, it's not impossible that he's trying to light the snake again. He's only got one more here to light.
Plus, remember each time he hits one of those markers, it's an addition to his bonus multiplier, which
I mean, I doubt it's going to come into play. He's in such great shape to beat the score without bonus.
I didn't know that. Okay.
Okay. So, Snake's lit again.
So, again, he'll get 2x Playfield and it'll hold the ball. That's That's probably what he really wants because then he's playing with impunity because he can just he can trap a ball in the snake.
Yeah, it's not that easy sometimes.
Oh, what a beautiful little micro flip. I love it.
So, these guys are so great.
Amazing. Now, what? How you play this? Okay. He's so good with these little micro flips to tip the ball over. Wow.
Wow.
Nice separation.
Okay, he got the snake.
So now 2x playfield, but he's playing with impunity. That's the beauty. If he even if he drops both these balls, he's still alive.
Yeah, you got two right off the bat, JM.
Yep. Now it's a pinball turn. We got some impunity.
They've been released. now just keep on happening.
Mhm.
Mhm.
Wow. He's in double 2x and he goes
for the win. Nice job.
I mean, I'm going to clap just cuz I'm pretty sure there's no uh cap. There's no like compensation ball or anything.
Yeah, I think uh Nick's shot over at the scoop to start crank it up. Just show you
how difficult games are set up here.
Sure, there's a protector.
Very difficult. You know, they're rubbers that may or may not help you with the aiming. Cuz you know when a phenomenal player like that misses so many times,
you know it's tough.
You know it's the scoop. It's not Nick Stein missing.
100%. 100%. You couldn't be more right.
So I think we're What does Tim have left? Jurassic Park.
Um nope. We played it.
We played it. So Hot Tip.
Hot tip. Yeah. Let's play a little hot tip, shall we?
He had such a good handle on that earlier. So, uh, Jim, uh, Carl told us how to update this.
I'll show you. Yeah, I think I know why.
Oh, I'll let you do it. You're When I touch things, they break. Um, so if you don't share that property,
so we go here and refresh it. And
yeah, I think so.
What a refreshing button press.
Okay, there it is. So, we see Scott uh, knock I mean Derek uh, Fat. Oh, sorry. I stole your mouse.
Okay.
No, I mean I mean I did it with my finger.
Okay, whatever works. I just Do I need to close what I refreshed or No, we're back where we need to be. Maybe click OBS, I guess. Probably
no like click that.
That.
Yeah, that's good.
All right, good. Thank you.
Um, so yeah, we're going a little hot tip. Okay. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Don't do that. Oh my god. Oh no. Don't do that. No, stop licking. Stop licking.
And at that point, Andre, close the stream. Ah, thank you.
Wait, wait, wait. I'm playing Mind Sweeper. Give me a sec.
Yeah, he's playing Mind Sweeper. Nothing Nothing could go wrong. Okay, but anyway. Um, yeah. Tim 3-1 Nick playing for his proverbial tournament life on a little hot tip. Yeah. Yeah. Hot tip. You know, if you look at the artwork, you would say that this is a horse race themed game, but really it's spinner themed, isn't it?
It's really about hitting this spinner and especially if you can spell hot and tip and light the spinner. Oh, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Um, this is the electromechanical. So, there's electromechanical and there's a solid state hot tip. This is like 1977 or something like that around the time when uh when games were were changing from uh electromechanical to solid state. And this hot tip comes in both. This one electromechanical. They're going to do 30 seconds of warm-up, but expect to see a lot of up top all day play along with some spelling of hot tip to light this spinner for a thousand a click. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
And we're playing this as one and three.
That's right. Right now, this is just warm-up, but when they play, they'll play as players one and three to make sure no one can tilt through and and destroy themselves.
Shenanigans.
Yeah. Like I I did that four years ago in state finals
on Joker Poker, one of my best games.
I went on to not win, which is fine. I played against a great player. So,
um
Oh, yeah. Just practicing the alley pass going left to right.
Yeah, cuz everyone wants the spinner. So if you're on the left, you want to be on the right. Saucer is very important.
Yeah. And my guess is he's again, he's chosen it. He's practiced it. He just plunged into the double bonus. One ricochet to move the light to double bonus. I'm guessing that's intentional.
Yeah, it's pretty interesting. If you get in that saucer when that red column is lit, you get double bonus on that ball. Um and then you see hitting here or here changes which light is lit, as does the slings and the pop bumper. So, in theory, you could have five plunges to move it up to four spots or not move it um if you play this game enough, but that would be pretty tough to know.
Yeah. No, you can. That's right. You could have all sorts of different plunges on how many uh how many clicks you wanted to move. So, there uh it was not a saucer. Oh, I think he hit nothing.
Anyway, it's just warm up.
Yeah, I think he wants to focus his practice on plunging, so he didn't want to bother flipping. train as fast as possible.
This one likes the captain ball for 30,000 uh and it's bonus advance. So, captive ball is dangerous, but it's actually decent points.
Yeah, I saw in the last game in their warm-up ball or the plunged non-playing player Slingshot actually hit the captive ball and collected it
off of the the non-player plunge.
That's amazing.
I'm guessing these guys won't intentionally decide to do that with their flippers, but you never know.
Probably not. Anything could happen.
They play safe, they play smart, they play great.
Bank.
And again, this will be played as a four-player game and players one and three will be active.
It's It's one thing to lose this game to your opponent. It's It's worse to lose to player two or four,
right? No. Let's hope in a five ball game that will not be what happens.
Okay. Um, did he start a four-player game? I don't even know. I can't though.
Uh I can see the four from here. Yes, it is a four.
Way we go. Five ball game.
So yeah, similar to Argusy in the Bank 2. Uh it's a bonus game. It's a lit spinner game. Also Tim Hansen, owner of uh Grand Prix, another spinner bonus game. Feels like a cousin of this game.
Okay. Except for those inlanes and outlanes are not Grand Prix.
Oh boy. Yeah. At least he doesn't have to worry about draining off a drop catch up the in lane.
See, that's a nice shots,
but the ball didn't slow down much, but he still fired away and got that spinner. That's really well played.
And it's also do it's fast and it's challenging, but it's also doable. It's such a wide channel. Two uh shots alley pass.
It's a nice channel. Yeah, it's a nice It's a nice alley to pass into, you know, very quick alley.
Mhm. one, two, three, double bonus
or four or four and 5,000.
Um, again, for any of you that happen to play the solid state, you might be wondering, oh, why isn't his bonus higher? Well, the reason is is because on the EM, the spinner doesn't advance bonus, whereas on the solid state, it does. So, this game is a lot lower in bonus than the solid state hot tip. Let's see if he goes for that right target just because
now a spinner's fully lit for the remainder of the ball.
So juicy.
Not punished by that move.
So juicy. Let's Let's enjoy. What's he at? He's at 23.
I love that yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum.
Nope.
That was a good That was a good That was a good 30,000. That was a good 30,000 out of that lit rep. Yeah.
I mean, he did it. At least he got one.
That's a very solid.
At least he got one. Yeah. 118. Not too bad.
A lot of these balls could go slingshot drain.
Mhm.
Miss drain.
Okay, this is this is what this is what you said. You saw it. You saw it happen. No,
the artificial player did not get the lid captive ball. Even though the captive ball was lit, but you don't count them out. Don't count yet.
Don't count them out yet.
I was talking to Jim Belto about this game. You know, the solid state one I haven't seen as much, but he said the solid state one is more common.
Yeah, I believe it. Yep. I think they they must have switched kind of early on. They made some ems and then they're like, "Okay, let's make it a solid state."
Nice advance.
Yeah, the kick out ideal gnarly,
but at least it doesn't go straight down the middle.
At least not on that one.
Oh,
he knew there was smack.
That was really good.
Yeah, we'll see. Maybe we'll find the tilt during this game.
Maybe. Wow.
I I you know, Nick can tap on anything is very hard on this. I don't know if there's a tap to be had on this.
Yeah, it looks like he is going alley pass.
Yeah.
Or other means like that one on the live ball.
He's making some good pops on the game here. Doing well.
Oh wow.
Little bonus advance there. That's that captive ball is dangerous but gives a little bonus advance.
Oh man, that was gorgeous little like shots on the fly. exceptional into safety.
And extra balls are playable on this game if he does light the extra ball.
Yeah, I think you have to spell hot tip twice.
I think you have to spell hot tip twice and that gives you your second horseshoe and then extra ball lights here, I believe. I've never I haven't seen anyone done it, but I think that's what you have to do.
Yeah. Off to a good start.
Yeah. No,
some of those things, you know, you might get close to lighting the extra ball just like you might get close unintentionally. to lighting the spinner with those targets and then you go for it when you're near enough.
Mhm.
I just don't see these guys going all out aggressively going for the targets cuz they'll get more certainty hitting that spinner.
A lot more safety just kind of going up top all day. But at the same time, we did see them go for hot tip when it was time to spell the spinner to like the spinner. So, I don't know.
Yeah, when there's one left, might as well just take that down.
Yeah, I mean I I do want the spinner lit. It was worth He did get one rip for 30,000 and you're allowed to get more than one rip. So like it's a it's a good investment in your future if you spell hot tip.
Yeah. And it stays on unlike on uh Stargazer.
Yes.
Right. Mhm.
All right. Can Nick hit two targets and drop into the saucer for double bonus?
One, two,
three. Three is too many. I'm seeing a lot of plunges go one too many.
Yep.
Just playing for control there. I like that.
It's not easy to shots on the fly to shoot the alley there. It's a lot harder than from rest.
Wow.
I mean, he's getting it over there, but it's very difficult on the fly. Wow. Yeah. Hard and bouncy.
Mhm.
O.
And that kick out.
So, it's interesting.
That's about as bad as it could get without going down the middle.
Here's how Tim was playing it before. Tim was just holding this up and it was doing fine
as defense.
Yeah. He was not slapping on on the kick out. He was just holding the right flipper up and it was tipping over. Wow. Whereas Nick's trying to he knows he doesn't like the feed, so he's slapping when it comes out because he wants to adjust it.
And he's approaching it with the right flipper.
Yeah. And he's trying to get it over to the right flipper. It did not work that time. Um we'll see. Again, they're not intentionally shooting this, but just sometimes it falls in there. Okay. He wanted one thing, but he was one off.
I hear Mystery Castle. Hilarious. So very well
distinctive. Yeah. Good. That means I don't have to sing it tonight.
Right.
I hope everyone else can hear that.
Yeah. Again, the spinner. The nice thing he'd love to hot tip, but the spinner might do that because he goes up top and the ball comes down and it's starting to pick up some some drops for him. Oh, that's a great shot.
Yeah. And he's willing to ski pass a little more than Nick was. I noticed Nick was going more alley pass than uh tried like the very light ski pass to the tip. Mhm.
Again, these guys are really nudging well in those out lane off those metal rails.
They sure are.
And no double bonuses to be found just
So, does he go H or back up top?
He still needs P, too.
Yeah.
So, might as well just keep going up top and pray he gets
He wants that double bonus, obviously. Yep.
When he played earlier, See, there you go. See that?
Oh, that's a nice one. Yeah,
he just held it up. You know what he might have done? He might have been flipping the right flipper to decrease the power on the kick out. I think he held up the left and then was like flipping the right to decrease the power on the kick out.
Probably a pretty good idea.
And then the action when it hit the left flipper, it's kind of like the loop pass action.
It sort of it sort of relaxed a little, didn't it, when the ball hit it. Yep.
Um, so he is spelled hot tip. So he has a lit spinner. His bonus is at 10,000. So the thing is he gets
double bonus. He's in the wizard mode with
the spinner lit and double max bonus.
But but no, he doesn't have double.
No, if he does, he will be there. Yeah. And here it is. One, two, three.
So many.
I guess 10,000 is max. Oh, sorry. 100,000 is max. I thought max might be more, but no, he's locked in at 100 max.
Yeah, they don't let you build any below it.
Yeah. So, he's just trying to get double bonus. Two, three.
And he's not nudging too hard. He doesn't want to give up that bonus
cuz that one might have gotten over with some help.
Oh, just needs the T.
And he would have extra ball lit.
He has been hitting that left saucer where the extra ball is a few times.
Yep. Not on purpose.
Might as well get some serious credit for it.
See here, I would shoot T.
Why not?
Yeah.
Well, the reason why not is cuz the spinner's lit. So he's I mean I like what I mean he's saying you know what I'm ahead I'm ahead and my spinner's lit and I it's got a lot of merit. I mean basically when you're spinners lip that's a huge opportunity. I mean maybe it's an opportunity when you're one one drop away from letting extra ball too. I don't know but
I like what he's doing.
Plus he can get that double bonus from upstairs.
Yeah, he still wants Dennis but double bonus is worth another 100,000. So, I think yeah, I think I think he's playing better than I would be playing here. Um, I think he's very smart.
Jen doing great keeping the ball in play and out of danger for the most part.
Wow. Yep. Fabulous.
Almost got the tea there.
Oh, kind of came up a little at the end. That's
That was really great. Yeah, he's so smart. He's such a smart player. Um, you know, really good. Really good.
Yeah, tomato guy in warm up. The scoop went straight down the middle. I saw him playing earlier and he was doing the same thing with holding left flipper up and it was safe. I didn't realize that he was flipping with the right though to weaken the kick out. That's also uh might be that might be a key element
in what he's doing.
Almost double
almost again.
Jeez Louise.
All right. [ __ ] bunk.
I'd like to see someone get double bonus. Yes, you got it. You got it.
Excellent.
Did I just will that to happen when I said like Oh, he just willed that ball back into play from the other.
That was super difficult. I am That was amazing.
There's no loose tilt. And again, you know, he hit the double bonus saucer just for good measure in case the first one didn't count. In case
the crowd missed it.
Great. Captain ball.
Captain ball. I love it. Gosh. Oh my gosh. I love it.
Oh, he wants cap ball all day now. He says, "You know what? 30k in bonus advance. Sign me up.
Sign me up."
Yeah, cuz that's basically a 50k shot.
Yep.
Man, these guys are so smart and so good.
Yeah, I didn't even think about that until he started doing
smart and so good.
Oh,
okay. A little dunkage, but he's got 160,000 in bonus. I think he pulls barely ahead. It's amazing how quickly he scored those points.
That is amazing.
His points per second
definitely got 10. That was incredible.
Even though he's still a little behind
in Crayob.
Okay, so now we're on ball number
four,
I think. Four. Yeah,
four or five.
That's not bad. 500 after three balls. That's pretty strong. We saw 600 somewhere in earlier. So
yeah, a game like this will toss out some really bad house balls that drain quickly, but these guys are doing some good preemptive nudging and saving to keep that from happening. I was really impressed with Nick's left out lane save the way it just kind of curled over them.
Absolutely. Their their nudging is top first rate nudgers. Absolutely.
Yeah. Well, it's like they're two of the best players in the world.
Hey Leslie, welcome. So Tim I think has 522 360.
Yep.
This is part of semis. Yes.
Yes it is.
The loser of this goes on to play Derek Thompson for third and fourth. Winner goes on to play Scott Msias.
This is ball four of five.
Mhm.
Tim is player one. Nick is player three. And we have ghost players for two and four. And like someone pointed out, player two is uh definitively beating player four.
Get your act together, player four, please.
Just salvage some dignity here.
No, Tim is frustrated. He wants that double bonus so bad.
He sure does. Uh
oh. Oh wow.
Defense.
Gosh, these guys nudge like nobody's business. Yeah, for those who don't play a lot, you know, preemptive nudging early on when it a ball's going to go near a dangerous place is as powerful as being able to save it at the flipper or outlane level. And just kind of knowing which bounces, which feeds from which directions are dangerous. And uh you have to save less if you could do these preemptive saves.
Yeah, that was a good try. Yeah, that
so 643 pretty good.
And again, anything can happen on Nick's ball.
I mean, this is super close. They basically began this ball almost tied.
Yeah, excellent play. Big scores and it's close. Thrilling.
Yep. Their nudging is just it is a real It's a real clinic. It's a real nudging clinic going on here. I should watch this again. and try and learn something cuz these guys are amazing. Oh, maybe. No.
Oh.
Oh, okay. Oh, tilt.
I guess so.
O,
I'm wondering from his angle if he's seeing Tim's mechanism for saving. You know, the way Tim holds that left flipper up for defense
because of course Nick's way back there. He can't see the tip of Tim's left flipper, I guess, on those kick outs.
Looks like Tim is playing or Looks like Yeah, looks like Nick is playing Attack from Mars.
No, no, he's just leaning. He's just saying no to drugs. He told him to say no to drugs and he's like, "You know what? I will I will do that. Maybe."
What does uh Nick's sweater say?
Uh here it is right here. What does this I don't know, but it's really cool.
I think it's warm and wonderful.
Warm and wonderful. 1979. It's from London.
Yeah, London. Yeah, it's a nice sheep.
He is sheep walla after all.
Yeah. No, it's gorgeous.
So, all five.
Yeah. All five of
all the marbles for some of the marbles.
Okay.
Definitely some 650.
690.
690. I think
690.
I'm pretty sure it's 690. Um,
is that an eight? Could be an eight. No, it's probably a nine.
It's It's It's definitely It's definitely not an eight. It's got the lower left. Um, yeah. Okay. I mean, this is very possible. This is like basically he needs to get slightly more than the average ball he's had so far during the game. So,
if he doesn't pass Tim, it is the end of his tournament. That's true. And there's that feed, that wicked feed that caused him trouble.
He's playing it from the right. Very interesting. That could be his own.
Oh, baby doll. Okie dokie.
Game on.
Oh, great nudgery.
Mhm.
Okay. So, that bonus is 80k because it's a double 40. It's 100.
I don't think it's
It is not enough. So, sadly, uh Nick is going to bow out gracefully. uh the fashion icon. Uh super close game. Super close game. Um it would be a festivist miracle on Festivus, but uh yeah, super close. So Tim's going to advance. It's going to be Tim and Scott MSAS. Norcal versus SoCal.
And the states number one versus the states number What was Scott?
He had a number.
He had a number.
He wasn't He didn't get
number 15.
He was number 15. Very exciting. Very exciting. Okay. Scott descends from on high. and he's going to he's going to play. And uh yeah, they're going to pick. So, I mean, we can go here if we can go here if we want. Um so, they're going to advance here. And uh what's going to happen is is they're going to Oh, sweet.
I like the
while you're doing the That was awesome.
Wow, that was stylish.
Yeah, was that us? We did that together.
It was me with my my uh my clicking. I don't know if they put it in yet, but Oh, yeah. Jonathan probably put it in. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.
All right. And back to
All right.
Um Yeah. Um, so they're gonna pick. So again, Tim, the top seed, Scott, lower seed than Tim. Scott picks a game. Tim picks a game. Scott picks a game from a different era, new, mid, or old. Tim picks a game from a different era. New, mid, or old. Again, Scott picks a final game,
completing all three. New, mid, old.
Uh, and then, uh, Tim picks, and then we play, and away we go. That's what's going to happen. So, they're over there picking now. They're writing down games. They're checking their notes. They're making their list. They're checking it twice
for the state title. For a trip to nationals, something um Tim Hansen's done once and Scott has not done yet.
Okay.
Where is nationals this year?
Chicago.
That's a good question. I think it might be.
I don't know. I know that I don't know. Nationals.
Nationals.
That
I think Chicago, but not in Tarion. I can't remember though.
It's in the United States.
I think Worlds is at 82.
Worlds might be at 82. Okay.
And they've hosted nationals in the
Chicago. Yeah. Chicago.
Chickal.
Chicago.
Chickal. Thank you, Twitter maker. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah. GG's, Nick. GG's
district 82 for worlds or something.
I don't think it's in uh Kentucky there. Uh Potter, but thank you for the suggestion. Maybe next year.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Let's hope not. Uh, okay. So, there are picking. Uh, good luck, baby. Okay.
Oh, I see. Uh, Scott's girlfriend has been upgraded to Scott's
fiance. That's right. Yeah.
Congratulations.
Yeah. I haven't been to District 82, but a lot of great stuff going on up there.
Yeah. Exceptional place. Amazing setups.
Shout out to Depir.
Yeah,
it's at OD Private Club. Thank you.
Fancy.
Oh, I should have been listening to their game picks
now. So, I think that Jonathan is probably entering them.
Oh, I think Carl's doing it
or Carl's going to enter them and they're going to show up.
I think match play side.
Yeah.
As Southern California players. I don't I'm familiar with Scott. I believe he made the finals of Golden State Pinball Festival in Loi, California, Northern California a few years back. But like for those who don't know him as well um as say Tim, could you tell the viewers about Scott and his game and his biggest accomplishments thus far?
He's a fantastic player. I'm not sure his biggest accomplishments, but he's done really well in a lot of things cuz he's a great player. Oh, and we're going back to Hot Tip. Um he's done really well in a lot of things. He's a really great player. Um and uh um he's super good at the modern sterns. He's absolutely a beast. He's especially good at the modern sterns. He can hardly play any modern stern without putting up a billion. No matter what the game is, he is a beast. Um,
he'll find the way.
Yeah. And he's getting better and better. So, that's fabulous. Uh, and Tim is fabulous. So, everyone's fabulous.
I don't know how to do the updating of their game selections, but we're going to find out what their games are. Or maybe I can find out on my phone.
Oh, so right. So Carl, great as Carl is, there was a little boo boo on the software. So when I would input the sudden death game, it would not advance them to the next round. So I had to give them an extra win for a sudden death. That's why it says eight.
If you see if you see someone with five wins, they actually had four. It's just a typo, basically.
Yep. So no one has five wins. So, all these sudden death death matches are listed as 5-3, but they were actually all 43. Um, it's just a coding issue. And for some reason, I can no longer find this tournament. It's too bad there's not a QR code right next to me. Oh, wait. There is.
It's just out of reach.
It's, you know, it's actually these QR codes are so robust.
Um,
all right. We got Tim's Prodigy in chat. First time chatter saying, "Go Tim."
Yeah, there you go. There you go. Um, so I think
there was a tie on Fast Break. That's so exciting.
Wow.
So they had they had to go to eight games.
I love Fast Break. It's a great game.
Mhm.
I think if I do like So Okay, so Tim has picked Hot Tip, Party Zone, and Jurassic Park. Again, Scott has tip picked Viking, Surf and Safari, and Foo Fighters.
Oh, okay.
So pretty interesting.
We've seen some good Foo Fighter games today. It's a fun game. I'm a big fan.
Um, so anyway, we're going to start off with uh with with Tim
and we're going to play a little hot tip. And a lot of times it makes sense when you've been playing a game, you got it all warmed up. Um, he's ready to keep going. So, he's just sticking with it.
I just want him to get a double bonus this time whether he needs it or not. Just to get that satisfaction.
Just to get that double bonus.
Joe Hills, thank you for the raise.
Hey, Joe Hills. Yeah, happy. Welcome. Welcome to the jungle. Oh, with a party of 137. Yeah. So, Joe Hills, thank you for joining us so much. We uh are in the we're just starting the final two in the finals of the California State Championship.
Tim Hans,
best of seven, player one against Scott MSAS. It is going to be a total pinball knockdown drag them out throwdown uh involving saucers and spinners and glory and uh unfortunately some defeat. Anyway, so here's Tim on ball one of Hot Tip. Our first game of the final best of seven series.
20th in the world right now.
Won the state championship before a decade ago.
Mhm. And is about to alley pass and hit the spinner.
What's the modern? We just had the games. What was the Do you remember?
Um,
Fighters is one of them.
Jurassic Park is
Jurassic Park.
Yeah, Tim did okay on that even though Nick got
Oh, he got the double bonus, Andre. He got the double bonus just as you requested. you, Tim.
Just as he requested.
Yeah. Up top. Back up top. He'd love to spell hot tip now.
Oh, why not? Another double bonus.
So, he's got that should be quite double bonus.
It should be, but it's not. If he spells hot tip, he's going to get lit spinner for the rest of the ball. He's got the lit captive ball, which he lit by getting this going on up here, which is big points.
Almost maxed his bonus.
Yeah. Yeah, cap the ball would do it. So, by going over this rollover twice, he got two bonus advances. He's at max bonus 100,000 double 200,000. Don't tilt, sir.
Uh and then if he can finish spelling hot and tip, he's going to light his spinner. Oh, that would be sweet.
Perfect opener so far.
Yeah,
that lit spinner though will be some serious gravy to put even more pressure on.
Look at this here. He's going to get 200 in bonus. He's going to be at 341,000. They're playing as players one and three only. So, you can ignore these scores. They're just plunging those off to make sure nobody tilts through.
And for those who just came in, Rick, uh Tim's last game,
he scored a little over 600,000
on five balls. Here, he's played one and he's already at 340. Some
incredible. Yeah, the hot tip inside information on horse race. That's right, Swizzlefish. That is the hot tip. I'm picking Smiling Scott in the first to either win, place, or show. Uh, a lot of times we're going to see a lot of up top all day as people try and collect uh valuable rewards from the saucer, especially double bonus. Um, but also they're getting hot tip letters when they go up there, too.
Again, spelling hot tip would light that spinner. Click. Click. One more. Almost double. Almost double bonus.
He has spelled tip. So if he spells hot, he's going to like that spinner.
Nice rip.
Still looking for that hot drop target. M.
Oh,
that's the worst feeling. You're trying to keep it from going out. And I I think in this case, he accidentally sent it out. But that was good. He was proactive. Just sometimes it will backfire.
Yep. Yeah. Hey, you couldn't you couldn't be more right. Uh Tim Hansen State Finals. I mean, these guys are fantastic players. Basically, 24 fantastic players played today and these are the final two. Pretty freaking amazing. Um yeah, for those of you who don't know the game at all, I'm good. Uh for those who don't know the game at all, uh spinner all day is a good way to start. Why? Because double bonus is really valuable. And if you get in the saucer when this is light is lit, you get double bonus on that ball. So, that's a really good thing to get. Um, in addition, if you spell hot and tip by dropping these six drop targets, the spinner is lit for a thousand a click for the rest of the game. And boy, is that valuable. So, that's what you're going to see people doing, trying to get in that saucer when double bonus is lit and trying to spell hot tip uh to get that spinner lit. But a lot of times to spell hot tip, instead of shooting the drops directly, they'll just go back up top again and try and pick up some in the uh in the rebounds off the uh pop bumper. So that's what they're going to do. They're playing as players one and three only just so nobody tilts through. So you can disregard uh these two and four scores. They're not real scores. They're just phantoms. It's a fiveball game. And this is ball two.
It's a five ball game because it's brutal. Tim's uh ball lasted seconds. You want to tell them about the captive ball, too?
Yeah. If you if you go in the saucer when this is lit, you light the captive ball for an extra 30,000,
which Scott just did.
Which Scott just did.
So, it becomes a 50,000 point shot when you have double bonus going. Nice dig. And here he goes. He gets another chance to handle that kick out.
It's so funny cuz Tim is playing this differently from everyone else. And he's playing it successfully. He's playing it by holding up this flipper and then flipping this flipper to take power off the kick out. And he's getting a safe tip over. We'll see. We'll see what he does. I mean, we're going to see Tim go in the saucer, so we'll see how he does it.
It has not cost him caused him any trouble. It caused Nick as well as Scott here some trouble.
Um, and it's not like they're shooting for that saucer. Um, it just tends to fall in there quite a bit.
Yes,
there he goes.
He got a double bonus. Great plunge.
Now, let's see if he gets a bonus. This is the most heartbreaking thing. Opening with double bonus and getting no bonus.
Well, you're just trying to jinx him, are you?
Not Tim. No, I'm Noral. Oh,
but I did, you jinxed the hell out of him. Oh my god.
Anyway,
um 450. He's at 450 basically. Um so I mean that's still good after three balls.
Excellent.
And Scott seemed to have a nice handle on this game. The way he's handling the outlanes, the gentle nudging, he looks comfortable for a game that can be really tough, especially around going out the sides.
Yep.
Yes. Yes.
And there's his plunge. He's got that double bonus right away.
I love it.
And that saucer advances your bonus by one as well. So, you know, no one minds going in the saucer. Of course, he didn't get it. As soon as I said that, he didn't get it. He didn't get
Can we stop jinxing our Nor we're self jinxing ourselves?
By the way, we should make some kind of bet like NorCal versus Southern California. like um you know I get you if So SoCal wins I get you like a dungeonous crab and then if uh NorCal wins you get me some what what what do you guys put smog? Um just like a package of smog. I don't know what else you got down there.
I feel like if I feel like if SoCal wins you have to give me some of that pickle flavored popcorn.
Oh, okay.
I think that is the typical Northern California uh pinball prize.
Well, that'll be easier to get to than a crab. So, right. Right.
Okay. You're on.
Yeah. You know, we have some regional biases, but honestly, I feel like we're kind of like a big family here in California. I I'm a I'm a huge fan of Scott. I'm a huge fan of Tim. Um, absolutely. 100%.
That California will actually get this title, a California player, which hasn't happened for since the last time was three years ago,
right? Yeah. We knocked out Yeah. We knock, you know, we knocked out the can. We We like it when Californians win for sure. So, um, but no, I'm I'm a huge fan of Tim. He's a great player and he's a he's a student of the game. He works so hard. He's so attentive. He studies. I love it. I love it. And I'm a big fan of Scott. Scott's a fantastic player. I've I've seen him I I was on the scene before he was. I saw him come onto the scene and he's just blowing things up left and right. So, I I I Yeah, it's very easy for me to root for both of these great players. Uh, definitely.
It's enjoyable watching Tim here.
Oh, they're so great to watch them play. He just needs tea here to light that spinner.
Oh.
Oh, good try.
Hey, wait. You're not supposed to jinx my guy.
I didn't try to.
Oh, okay.
You know,
okay. In Memphis, in Tennessee, you got the three uh factions.
Yeah, we talk about Norcco versus SoCal, but um there's so many great players. We just have so many great players in California. We're just happy to watch them all play. So Tim with a lackluster ball four kind of there. I would say 577 200 for Scott. Scott needs a big ball probably both. He probably needs a big ball four and a ball five to catch. Um yeah, he probably needs a big ball four and a ball five. So here he is
and he's out. It's going to be difficult. There's no bonus of like automatic double bonus on ball five or anything like that. There's no perk
Mhm.
uh for being on ball five. So, he'll need that and a lot of lit spinners, maybe some captive balls, and maybe he might go for the extra ball by hitting the targets down two times and then hitting the saucer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The irony of that saucer is if he lights extra ball, it goes in there. How would he handle the difficult feed? So,
yeah, it's interesting. Uh, yeah. You want to talk about Derek Thompson? Did the Americans cheat to knock him out? Uh, I'm gonna say no comment. No, Derek uh played fan Derek Thompson played fantastic today. Um and right now he's playing for third and fourth. Uh and I mean just a great player. So we were really happy to have him visit. Um we're happy to have all sorts of people visit. And uh yeah, he's not going to win, but he's going to get third or fourth. Meanwhile, back to this game.
Tim went for to light his spinner
and he did it and drained, but he's at 614 here. You know, I think what he's thinking there is I don't need I don't need like a double bonus blow up here. I'm just going to try and pad my lead with spinner points.
Absolutely.
So, I'd like I like the decision. He's at 614. Scott needs the ball of the day, I think.
Uh very well. Would be a heck of an opener and a momentum builder for him, but it is a long shot as they say in the hot tip business.
Indeed, it's a long shot.
But step one, oh, almost got that double bonus lit. And wow.
Well, okay. Yeah, you're allowed to wait for the till ball Bob to sell. That's exactly right. You are. Yep.
It's not even specifi. I don't think it's specified as 30 seconds. I think it's in the rules as a reasonable amount of time. Um, so Tim with a nice win there. I mean, that's a substantial win. We've seen a lot of these games that are like someone gets 600 with a fantastic game and then someone else doesn't come close cuz it's hard. It is hard. Um, but anyway, so that was uh one of Tim's choices.
So, yes, Viking surfing safari
or Foo Fighters. And Scott gets to pick.
Yeah, I wonder if he'll start old or new. I think you can look back to his past matches and kind of see what his tendencies might have been there.
They're kind of looking at Foo Fighters. So, I think they're going to Foo Fighters. And I am not uh authorized to move the rig, so I'm not going to. We're But we're going to go We're going to go move the rig. Yeah, Foo Fighters. Uh, we need we need uh we need Carl. Oh, there's Carl. Carl is watching something else. And we're ready to move the rig. And Carl is the rig owner and operator. And we're going to play a little foo fighters. Fufitters, if you will. Do you know what? That's great. If you're in a hurry and you want to say foo fight, do it again.
Fouitters.
Yeah, we all know what you're saying. It couldn't be anything but.
There's nothing else it could be. Fouitters.
Oh boy. Yeah, we're playing a little foofitters.
I mean, do you think someone might think you're saying Frankf Ferter?
Could they might,
but I I I think
most of the time it's going to be
quick little fufitters. Now, every game we're going to see, does the rig explode if Dennis touches it? We assume so. When Dennis touches things, things break. We don't know why, but we know it's true. So, we just try and let Dennis not touch things when possible. Absolutely. Um, uh, yeah, Foo Fight is Foo Fighters.
Now, by the way, you may see in here in the background, Derek Thompson and Nick Stein playing off for third for threeame match.
Yeah.
Uh, again, all these games, 30 seconds of practice,
so he's practicing. Uh,
look at that. He's hitting the skill shot.
Mhm.
That's two combo skill shots in a row. It remains lit. It's set up for you to do it quite a few more times if you keep hitting it.
But he's really just trying. He's really just practicing. He's just trying to do practicy business.
But I have a guess if he's that good at that, he might push that skill shot and repeat it over and over. Mini left ramp up to the side ramp. We'll see.
He might. I think that he has picked this several times today already. I think I'm guessing he picked this I know he picked it at least once. I'm guessing he picked it every single time so far today. Um, so yeah. Oh yeah. Uh, and hit you played this Scott earlier and you would have won, but you got pinged by IND trivia and got distracted.
Oh my,
that is hilarious. I didn't even know Indis trivia was up. That is freaking hilarious.
Yeah. M. Welsh apologizing with the hello everyone. Here's the trivia.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That is some of the most impossible trivia. I know my pinball, but I do not know my indis trivia. It's hilarious. It is so hilarious.
So, Foo Fighters, I don't know if you've seen Tim play this or um Scott and and see their approach.
I'm trying to think what I saw today. I I I'm having trouble remember. I don't feel like I saw Tim play this today. Did I? I'm gonna guess knowing Tim I mean part of his initial strategy will be starting Area 51 multiball by shooting the right ramp given it safety.
Yeah
and repeatability. Um the good strong flippers. It's not an easy shot but I mean that's the only thing my best guess for Tim. And again, Scott, maybe he'll do that repeatable
um skill shot, that light blue arrow on the far left, which is followed by
uh a light blue arrow on the top left side ramp.
We'll see. It just he did it so well during warm-ups. I was thinking he might do it once the game begins.
Yeah, we'll see.
And look at that, Tim. Just
There's that right ramp you talked about.
Yeah. And he's already got his uh city lit. Yeah, Dennis Robin, he's a good good uh uh he is a trivia answer on that NBA Fast Break.
Yeah. No, joke. Yeah, Scott's really good. Yep, he is freaking good. Yep. Tim is handsome. We are going to agree there, too. Okay, we're finding out where the tilt is. Yeah, a lot of times, you know, they say 30 seconds, but usually the players both give each other more than 30 seconds just because it's kind of the custom. I don't know. I think that if they want to, they could just tell each other, "Hey, let's keep it to just 30 seconds." And I think everyone would agree,
but but a lot of times, uh, someone goes goes longer, and I don't think anyone usually minds. And then usually in turn, the other player also goes longer.
Yeah. I really haven't seen anyone say, "Hey, your 30 seconds is up."
Yeah. Um, and I think if anyone wanted to be strict with it, I think both players would say, "That's absolutely fine." You know, that would be totally fine. Um,
yeah. No, it's good to stare back into their head no matter what. Even if you're don't mind how long they're taking, it's good to stare to get that stare working.
Yeah.
Good old evil eye.
Yeah, the evil eye. Uh, power stare. Uh, I don't remember. You know, Rodman being on a pro wrestling thing. I don't know. That might have been a fever dream.
Um, okay. They're going to do it. They are going to do it. Here we go.
Rodman got involved with a lot of stuff, including international relations. So,
yeah,
I wouldn't put it past them.
Mhm.
And uh, what's your name? Carmen Electra.
Mhm. Yep. True story.
Okay, let's see.
There is that skill shot. No, I think he went for the continuous skill shoting like you suggested he might.
I personally found that upper side ramp, that left high ramp
harder to hit than on as far as the timing than on most Foo Fighters. Again, this was just during warm-up, so I didn't play it heavily, but generally it's a pretty easy shot to hit. I don't think so on this one, but Scott's got a good feel for it.
I found it a little harder as well on this. Found I I thought the same.
Yeah. And the flipper power is fine. And it just might be a matter of flipper angling
or just the speed of the ball as it's coming through the loop.
Yep.
So curious a what song Tim will pick and then secondly
which city he will pick.
Mhm. Yeah. The songs don't affect gameplay but they affect your mood.
Yeah. Is AC/DC the only game where the song affects game? Oh Led Zeppelin AC/D.
Elton John. Lots of games.
So yeah. And then others like it doesn't matter.
Yeah. Some games they do, some games they don't. Uh there's only 40 songs. I didn't realize it was 40. It's a lot of songs.
It's just unfortunate on those games where the strategy is affected by the song cuz you know the best strategy songs one you hate.
So that could cause some problems
actually. Even Beatles, right? Even Beatles the song affects a big a big effect there.
So here we go again. These white arrows are going to light his van mode. His right ramp, as Andre was saying, is going to move him closer to Area 51 multiball. And up the middle is going to move him closer to multiball. Uh the the overlord multiball. It's interesting. He seems to have a a higher focus on on Area 51 than he was having on the ordinary multiball. Maybe he's just likes to do both,
you know. And one nice thing to do is set up Area 51 if you want to trigger it while you are in Overlord, the center multiball. It's interesting. You can go overlord into Area 51, but you cannot go Area 51 into Overlord. It's nice though. At least they allow that stacking. A lot of Stern games don't allow stacking um multiballs. Although they've improved on that.
A lot really don't. You're absolutely right. Um
but this one, yes, if you do it in the right direction. Jersey Jack game. Basically, you could stack anything you want except for like wizard modes and special multiball mini wizard modes. Okay, he's getting a good skill shot sequence here.
Great combos, too.
Skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill. Starting the man mode. Nope. Okay, he's going to move a little closer to Overlord first and then start the mode. What's he go with here? New Orleans.
Cuz he's going to repeat the shot to the Overlord perhaps
cuz he's like two shots away from starting multiball.
Well, he's still going to be two shots away. Tough outlanes there. Oh, you had Harry Potter. I Harry Potter is a great game. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh
yeah. Aerosmith. Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yep.
Okay. He's He's definitely gone. He's picked his piece. He's picked the song he wants.
Soft plunge. Let's think about it. Let's aim it up.
Oh, timing that. Working on van parts to increase scoring on the and also finishing time.
Yeah, on the mode.
I don't work on drops myself. Someone asked in the chat, do you work on drafts? Some people do though. It it increases the value of your modes. Um, Yep. You can take it as a skill shot. Yep. Maiden no song effect. Yep. He's got his van mode lit here, but he wants to get closer to overlord multiball first. I I always want that first overlord multiball with my first mode if I can if I can arrange it. So, I think that's what's happening here.
He's got a smart missile available. You cannot see his flashing button, but we can from here.
Yeah. Uh he's at green right now
and he's just one shot from multiball here. So he's doing New Orleans as well. Interesting. And he's in multiball. Okay. So he's in New Orleans and multiball. Um did he already get an add ball? The mystery during multiballs is add ball. He did not already get a an addabal.
Just getting started here. I suspect he'll go for it at some point. Ball saver short. Yeah, I think he's going for radio here to get the add a ball. That's what I would do. But
tough to aim at. Real important though.
Yeah. Um he's got a ball locked away here. Um which gives him multiplied jackpots and keeps the ball out of the way for a little while. So, he's disappointed. He's going to be out of the multiball, but he finishes New Orleans right there. That final shot that he just put in there finished New Orleans. Um, all of the modes end at the Overlord. So, he finished New Orleans, which is why it's solid here. And he's probably on to light his next mode start. But then the question is, is he going to try and do like Area 51 with it or a second overlord multiball? I tell you what, that second overlord multiball I have learned is pretty darn valuable. Uh Robert Potter taught me that the second overlord just by itself, it can be pretty good points.
Yeah. Well, we got caliber of players who could actually get to that despite the hard settings and no extra balls here.
Exactly. Exactly. Right. So, uh he's in Los Angeles. It's a ramps mode.
So, yeah. I like to combine Los Angeles. Well, I'm going for Area 51 cuz that right ramp is prominent in Los Angeles.
Absolutely.
Do you know where he's at in his Area 51 progress? How many ramps he's got?
I don't. My guess is about two. Um but I'm not sure. So Scott's got 86. Um yeah, Scott's got E6. We'll see what happens here. Tim's letting it settle. Oh yeah, you see him. He's right there. Look at him in solitude. Look at his contemplative solitude preparing for ball two.
Looking at the notes again.
Looking at the notes. He's got the water. He's got the gloves.
He's got the sideburns.
He's got the sideburns. He's stretching his shirt. He's wiping the game. This is great playbyplay.
Oh yeah, we're covering it all.
We're covering it all.
Hey, Dr. Blueberry Johnson. Thanks. It's good to see you. Good to see you, Blueberry. Or is it blubbery? It's very blueberry.
So, I'm wondering when Tim starts a city if he'll he'll start a different city or go
Yeah.
back to Nolins.
I don't know. That was a big move. I'm surprised he only got away with one danger on that to be honest with you.
Just letting it chill a little. probably in a backhand for Moar.
Yeah, he's been good with this backhand. Nice powerful flippers for that
in a way. Much safer than the forehand.
Back to New Orleans. Okay. A lot of people want to finish the modes because you get to, you know, if you if you finish three modes, you can play Austin or DC. Um,
which are a blast and can be lucrative. Lots of balls as well.
So, he's got multiball lit. No, this is this is what he wanted. Yep. Very good. Very good.
And he's got two or three of the needed I would guess at the settings five uh right ramps. If he wants to bring Area 51 in, perhaps he'll want to play Area 51. Fresh mode though.
Yeah, you mentioned that that he that he that he has a bigger focus on Area 51 than some other players.
Yeah, the questions now are later. Um looks like he wants the Attab ball. Yep, he lit it. He lit a ball. He's got one ball locked away. Add a ball's lit. And he got it. Good.
I love I always want the attab ball. I want that third ball. And I want that fresh ball saved.
Yeah.
So, they've got him really short on some of the games here.
Yeah. Jeez, that was a short ball save. You're not wrong.
This is very dangerous. Oh, but not that time. That's good. Again, he's getting that ball put away. I think New Orleans is ready to finish. And he finished it. Okay. Didn't get a big time bonus there. It took him a little while. Um, but while he has a ball trap, the jackpots are double. Jackpots are always red. Right now, it's here.
Area 51 is how many shots?
Three more. You need
three more. Okay. I think they probably have more than the five shot requirement then cuz I feel like you're ahead too. Yeah,
but still he's halfway there then.
He's great at like lighting this and getting balls locked away during multiball. He's doing a great job of that. Oh, that's an awesome nudge.
Mhm.
Okay. Plus, he's got that warning.
Yeah.
Multiball worth the same number of points as Scott's just about.
But it's kindling for those modes, too.
Yep.
Yeah. Cuz he's built up his van, didn't he? Built up his van for a little for his next mode. So, two more.
Okay, this is what he wants. So LA is going to do two right ramps and bring Area 51
in Rome
or LA. I mean it depend when when you are where you are. You might as well bring an Area 51 multiball as the old saying goes.
Right ramp. And he's going to try and find one more right ramp.
Uhoh. Good save. He wants that right ramp. It's not that easy.
Getting closer to double scoring, too.
He is. Yeah.
Oh my god. He got it.
Party time. Excellent.
Yeah, he's getting double scoring by going through here enough, isn't he? You get 2x playfield for a limited amount of time. Go through there enough. So, Area 51, I mean, it what is it? It's like collect here, but like do you build on these standups or something too? Is that what's going on there? And the super's upstairs, I believe. I'm not There is no upstairs. I just shoot whatever lit, I guess, for the
Yeah, it's definitely blue business.
Yeah,
plus the green mode going.
Yep. He's still in way.
I just checked. No smart bombs. Some of those can be some welltimed ones can be excellent modewise, especially.
Yeah. No,
there's that animal.
Great pinball. Yeah, I love it. I love the add ball. Oh, and 10 million for the instead of an extra ball. Okay, pink. Yeah, like you said, he's staged this flipper down, this flipper up.
Yeah, and score-wise, he's making excellent progress. There's that upper uh value boosted jackpot to 1.5. That was painful.
Not what he wanted.
Finished with a grace period shot. Maybe
I mean, he's okay. Hey, he's over 200.
That was a painful sequence, but yeah, he is.
Yeah, it was a painful sequence.
Plus, he's got that uh second player position.
Oh, super lightning was running. You know, that's totally not on my radar. This whole lightning business. Um I've heard it can be good points, but I don't know. Um yeah, stage flipping is cool and these guys do it with with ease. Yeah, you know, I've heard super lightning can be a lot, but I didn't know. Ray, I know that you were on the code on this, so that was probably you're doing. Um, yeah. I gota I gota I I have no idea how much Super Lightning is worth. I definitely believe you when you can say it's big side points, but I just don't know about it. Um, so we're in Seattle. Okay, this is interesting. I don't see a lot of players choosing Seattle. Um, I feel like I should be good at Seattle and in practice I know that I am not. Seattle starts these two and then as you shoot the rightmost shot goes out and they move like across as you collect them. They're not moving across on their own. They're moving across as you collect them.
So you got some nice choices.
Yeah. Huh. I guess it goes well with working towards Area 51, which is probably what he's trying to do. He's probably thinking, I want right ramps for Area 51 anyway. the first two Seattle shots can both be to the right ramp.
And if he's thinking big, which he needs to as player one, um also I would consider Seattle a little easier to complete than other like right now. This is a sweet spot where he can
Yeah.
make great progress. Yeah. If he's thinking uh DC Austin,
I mean, which you always would be thinking and hoping for, but if it's a realistic option,
then maybe going for he got he got the Area 51. He got it.
Excellent. This is huge. So, I think this is a big part of what he had in mind is getting to Area 51 here. So, this is great. Um, he should close out this mode. I notice he's got one smart missile at least.
Yeah, you're right. You're right. He does. He has one. So, he's got four balls in play.
Three of them on reserve.
This is good. Oh, we tried to micro flip that one over. Didn't quite work the way he hoped. So, let's go for a little right ramp here. Right. Nope. Is he What is he doing? Oh, he's just shooting the lit shots here. Again, I don't know Area 51 rules as well as I should. Great air defense there. Excellent. He is getting a lot of mystery awards. He might be getting close to that radio mode.
Yeah. Do you think he's actively going for that in order to get to radio mode? That can be
I am not positive. to me.
He might have lost that ball in the light show by the way. Did you see that as it went down?
It might have been it just passed by flipper. Sorry, what were you saying to
um he might So that's going to be it for that game. Okay.
So Tim's going to go up two zero. Um for me, I do a lot of times try for the radio for the mystery awards. One of them it gives you like full UFOs. Um and I play the radio mode. For me, I think of the radio mode as one of the things that I think you have to do to get to Fubot multiball. So, for me, that's that's kind of would be the reason I'm doing if I'm really playing long game. And I think I'm getting to Fubot.
And isn't there an excellent stack you can do once you've completed radio or during radio? I forgot. It's not something I've done intentionally.
If there is, I don't know it. If there is, I don't know it. I'm not sure about that. I wouldn't be surprised, but if there is something good, I'm not sure. Yep. Okay. So, where are we going? We're going back to a Tim pick. And it looks like we're going to Jurassic Park. I mean, uh, he's he's been enjoying his Jurassic Park. Um, again, we saw Nick stand right there who just melted down Jurassic Park. Basically, he burned the whole park down.
I think when he left, all the dinosaurs were gone.
I think he ate the dinosaurs.
He did. And the thing is, I guess it made him sluggish afterwards. It could be
because he didn't do as well as the following games. But yeah,
I tell you what, though, he's going to be eating dinosaur jerky tomorrow.
You know, he may not, you know, he may I don't know if he's going to be third or fourth. I don't know if they're still playing for third or fourth or if they're done, but um yeah, he's going to be eating dinosaur jerky all this week.
Well, well, what do you see here? Look at this. We got a Derek here.
Uh what is
So, this is uh
What is happening right now? Oh, they're going to do a four player game. They're going to mix they're going to mix the finals game with the third fourth match. Just kidding. Just kidding.
I don't know. Maybe.
Uh looks like warm-ups for their match.
I don't see third fourth anywhere. So maybe they're waiting.
Um I will look at the third fourth. Uh
I can't find it here.
Here. I'm going to get the third fourth status. Um again, it should be a three-game match if I remember correctly. Last
it should be threeame match. So maybe
so this other game is one.
Okay. So it's 1-1 between Derek and Nick and
um Remaster won that one and then
Nick won remastered. Derek won high speed and so we're going to watch this game at Draic Park which will determine third and fourth.
That's great. We get to see both because these guys are are waiting for this game
and then we're going to see uh Tim and Scott again. Tim's up two zero. There's been a good Ryan Policky for the players here because it is hard to make the championships is that you may wait for any game that's in progress. There could be a line of multiple pairs of players waiting.
Yes. Eating dinosaur jerky is a euphemism for having scored over a billion on Jurassic Park and two balls earlier.
It is now.
Yeah, it is now. Um I'm actually going to step away for a snack, but I'll be back. Oh, I leave you are making you hungry.
They are all this.
Maybe Nick will give you some of that jerky. Heck, he's gonna he's gonna make some more right now.
He might have to cure for a couple days.
Nick opening with Raptor here.
Soft plunging. Oh, or hard plunging there. Love to ski pass on this game. So they always you always got two options off that far left ramp because you can ski past or just fire. very powerful flippers, so you will see some shots go early. All right, time to make some more dinosaur jerky. So Nick was the higher seed. He got to choose game or order for this final kind of tiebreak game of this best out of three match. Um so I presume he picked game and then Derek picked order. See what Dererick's approach is. Opening with a signaling he's working toward the chaos multi bomb by spelling ca OS. And already a warning or two. So yeah, I guess this is the I keep thinking he's soft plunging, but he's not close to Raptor in that paddic. Oh boy, he lost his T-Rex multiball cuz he initiated it but did not collect it on the left ramp. That's just something that's been taken off the table for him. But still, he's he's very close to Raptor. He could use his ball save to attack Raptor and likely get into it pretty quickly. And that's what I'd expect him to do right away. Depending on what Derek does. If Dererick has a strong ball, I could imagine Nick wanting to uh if he has a really if Derrick has a really strong ball, I can imagine Nick trying to stack maybe a new paddock in on top of Raptor. But then again, well executed raptor can be quite lucrative. We'll see. Risk and reward, everybody. Risk and reward. Something about Derek that not every player has. He's a good classics player and a good modern player. He's done quite well, including winning Papa Classics. And again, using up those warnings, but he's still going. It's got a dinosaur to catch on the center spinner shot as well. That shouldn't be any trouble. Going left to right. Red arrows for jackpots. Smart missile lighting outlanes for some ball saves. It's the the awards now. Extra ball, which would be points and not an extra ball. Raptors in the pen. Time to work on chaos. And there's the A. Two more shots to light chaos. And uh couple more shots to light up Paddock. These Keith Elwin games always have kind of like one easier bailout shot and one or more tough shots like the right loop, which he needs for the Owen Chaos. Let's see what he picks for his control room mode. System boot. Looking for combos on the white arrows. I do believe he's shooting for Oh, which he does have now. Only two shots away. An easy one and a relatively easy one. Perfect paddic before chaos begins. Wow. There's no way to react to that. I mean, maybe just prayer. Yeah, someone just posted, you know, the dollar differential. Um, that's a lot of money for a state championship with no entry fee besides the single dollars thousands of players put in. I think it was 2,000 some uh this past year in California. Thank you. Ball save. And again. Gets a little more ball save from skill shot. And expect him to attack that raptor pen. There we go. Party time. And he hits two ramps just like that. He's already in the chaos portion of this multiball. Spell chaos. Good points here. This will put some pressure on Derek for sure, especially if he takes it deep. Paddock finished. Looking for that right ramp. A He had a two-stage to pull the upper flipper out of the way of the right ramp shot. And now we're on to the ideally you hit the right ramp and then the side loop. Let's hit that loop. Nick, I couldn't tell if he hit it because of flashing lights, but I think he did. I think he hit the nice combo. I think it's worth triple points if you combo it. See how he handles this. Maybe a backhand right like that. Try it again. A little more oomph. It's a pretty shot if it can go. The angling and the power might be there, but it's not easy. I wonder if he'll be going for a trifecta. 166 million. That's the bulk of his score. Just 50 million or so just from other points. Working off the tips of those flippers nicely. putting some English and nudging on the game there. So, what do we got? Virus attack. Okay. Got to hit that center shot first before anything else happens. Nick does have his outlanes lit, so the only way he can lose the ball is through the center right now or by tilting. 2x scoring definitely helps us control room scoring. Nick looking in control in an out of control fast difficult game. Perfect nudge. Let's get that collect on the C. That was some fast pretty scoring there in that control room mode. Adding another over 50 million I think to a score. Plus a little double scoring added to that as well. They're shaking his head. Derrick's capable of catching it. It's just not easy on a game like this. Again, he hits that S right ramp, which he's had trouble with. Chaos will be lit to the right of the truck by the bumpers. That right red arrow. Got close but didn't clip that target he needed to. If he wants to get greedy, he could try to put a T-Rex mode on top of Chaos. He'll need more than chaos points, unless they're massive chaos points.
Oh jeez, you guys haven't had game audio this whole time.
I think we shut it off during Metallica.
Yeah, during Metallica.
Welcome back. Is that so you don't get DCM8 or
No, no, no. It's because there was a lot of echo between these two because they're so close.
Oh, there. It's our third place finisher, Nick Stein from Davis, California.
Do I need to raise the camera a bit? Could you see this both scores or was it hard?
I'm not sure cuz my score screen is so small.
Let me uh let me go.
Yeah, you could do a little bit, I think. And uh fourth place, Derek Thompson from Canada, organizer of that great tournament up there. I remember years ago he was at city champ um tournament in San Francisco. He talked about his plans to make an awesome tournament, an excellent run for both exceptional world leader type players. Um I'm sure the rest of the match was great as well on Metallica and I forgot what they said the other game was.
Highspeed was high speed. Uh would that be Derek who picked it?
Yes, Derek picked high speed. Yes. Um, so now we're going to see
the next game.
We need to update. I think they're 20 in their match.
Tim Hansen.
Yes. Thank you.
There we go.
With the two wins. And then this is his game choice. He'll go first on. Takes four wins to win the California State Championship.
Scott definitely needs to get some traction here with the win. Um because it's tough winning four straight on these machines against Tim Hansen in particular. California's number one out of a competitive state after you're competing.
He needs to Oh, this is practice.
Yes, he needs to practice. I just saw one player and went panicked a little.
Well, that's nice. We got to see the third fourth match. And again, congratulations to those players and everyone who made it. Congratulations to you watching. You're watching this state finals for California um and pinball and so many great players and you're just looking at a small sample of them. But these two guys really earned their way to the top through a heavy day on some not easy machines playing some really exceptional worldass opponents
as they are world class themselves. and thank you for stepping in to commentate here. Appreciate that.
Oh yeah, I'm glad to. I don't do it much, but when the circumstances are right where it's a real special opportunity, I'm glad to. Plus, I know one of these players really well and uh intimidating as heck as a player, but as a guy, real solid, great work ethic as a player.
Great attitude, thoroughess, study of the game, and then his approach to the game is very controlled and measured. He doesn't do anything accidentally besides miss shots.
Why would this? We were talking earlier about how the 30 second warm-up time tends to be uh more than 30 seconds, which is fine with us and most players.
It tends to be a thing, doesn't it?
It is very little warming up for such a high stakes tournament. And our 1-hour warm-up period definitely didn't even give me time to touch all the games in the tournament, especially cuz so many I wanted to try were occupied. Um, so I mean we said, "Hey, if nobody's complaining."
Oh, looks like Scott did not want to practice. So,
okay.
I'm assuming that's why Tim just reset the game. So, we'll be starting uh starting fresh.
Practice. Who needs practice?
Tim's pregame routine and he he does like to jump a lot.
Yeah.
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That dinosaur is getting mad. He wants him to plunge.
So start with the C skill shot plus work toward chaos. That's what he's done before. Yeah,
still has not started the ball saver and technically hasn't started the ball as far as the game's concerned.
Still no
Now that ski pass came up a little short.
Oh, nice sling into the into the rescue.
Well played, Tim. Oh, you're muted. I'm sorry.
There you go. Now you're good, Dennis.
Hi, Dennis is back.
So, again, Scott really could use a win here. Tim's already got a pressure on pressure on him with the two wins, but
yeah,
he's excellent on this game.
But Scott chose not to warm up. Is that something Scott doesn't do?
Not that I know of. I don't know.
Maybe Maybe it's a mind game. I don't need to warm up. What?
I don't need my 30 seconds, but you do. It seems Mr. Hands,
right?
He said that all
by not warming up. Quite a lot.
Little nudge tried to save that ball saver. Almost
got a little danger there, didn't he?
Yep.
Felt it was worth it to preserve that ball saver, which will not be easy to light again.
Yeah. Although here's his chance.
Here's his chance for the slingshot or him. Oh, two for two. Maybe this is on purpose. I know Tim really thinks hard about what he does. Maybe. Yeah,
I like that.
I'd like me some sling escape. That's some good
anytime. Of course. Any sling assist is good.
I've seen players go for the lock targets on Game of Thrones off that left sling.
At least it looks like it.
Wow. All right, the classic system boop.
Yeah.
Yeah, he did this earlier. He likes it. He likes a system boot, I guess.
Great catch.
Yeah, very live live catch.
All right, let's get some dino jerky.
Yep.
Actually, you're saving them. You're not actually collecting them to eat them.
You're You're saving them. I guess that's why you're catching them. They're just run around too much.
Yeah, you're trying to get the dinosaurs off the island. Yeah.
Oh, I think Nick ate them. I don't think Nick knew that. And I think he devoured several dinosaurs.
You know, if that gets you a billion points, heck, I' I'd devour dinosaurs.
He really did. He He He devoured.
That's an interesting reject on the S there.
Yeah,
it looked clean. There you go.
The S for pretty open shots been given a lot of people trouble. It's not uncommon on this game, though, because it's so far in the flipper. You know, that shot is so far on the right. So,
it looks easier than it is, right?
Yeah.
That's why it's such a short U-turn because it needs to be for the uh you know, it's reduced power on the flipper there.
Yeah. Uh I agree. Uh that was a gorgeous backflip to collect the the the quick system boot finishing bonus. He got a lot of points out of this deal. This is not bad. Yeah. 167. Okay, I like it.
Heck of an opener.
I like it. I like it. It's a good start.
We'll see what Scott's approach is.
You know, I' I've played with Scott for a long time and he tends to shoot the flashing shots.
Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. That's one of his uh main strategies.
What does he Does he do the thing where he tries not to lose the ball like between the center and the sides or just the center or the sides?
Yeah, he does do that and he's really good at it. That's a complete strategy.
I was just saying earlier when we were talking about Scott, he he is such a beast on these on these modern sterns, he very frequently scores a billion no matter what the game is. Um he's just really really good. So uh here he is on his way to Raptor. Um I like it. I'm a big Raptor fan. Look
like he's going to start a paddock here. Wow. A little danger right there. I wonder what that was from preemptively as the ball was coming off that ramp miss or was that just delayed reaction from lower in the game?
I think that was preempt. That was so sensitive.
I can't post catches here.
Yeah.
Surprise. So, what I I'm not sure what he was doing there. I was expecting him to backhand this and go for raptor, but he was doing something different. He post fast pass. Nope. I'm just not sure. Tim just waiting for that that tilt bob to settle down. Oh, do these have earplugs? Do we know?
Probably not.
Probably not. Ah, interesting. What's the what's the philosophy on that on if you want to include earplugs or not?
What do you mean by the philosophy?
I mean, you know, what would an someone who is is setting the game up, they have a choice to put an earplug in to help the tiltb settle or not? What would affect your choices? And you know, what what what would the result of putting an ear plug in do or not do that you would want to I mean, if you want the if you if you want a tighter tilt,
you put the ear plug in cuz a
tighter tilt.
Yeah. To make it a little more fair for the players, but at the same time,
they can't take advantage of it because it settles so much quicker. You can get away with a lot bigger move with an ear plug. that happened at the IFPA World Championships 2023 near Frankfurt where uh there were uh earplugs and and players played really long balls in games and it was a little too much and then IFPA backed off of the ear plugs at world championships just cuz player
those games last long enough already. All right, back into Raptor. Okay. Yes, the tilt Robert. Sorry. Thank you, Blue. Um, yeah, I sure love this raptor. And he's got he got himself one jackpot on the left ramp and now he needs the right ramp. And then he'll go to phase two where he has to spell chaos in any order.
Is there a bonus for doing them in order? I'm guessing not.
No, there's an achievement, but no.
Oh, it's an achievement.
I believe I believe there's an achievement for doing it.
Cool. Yeah, some of those achievements are fun cuz the game doesn't reward you, but the achievement does.
Yeah, that's sweet.
Like finishing gold finger on James Bond with uh only uh standup target shots.
Okay.
Ouch.
Wow. I mean, the good news is he got at least one jackpot, so his control room is lit. I mean, that's big.
How do you get raptor mode? asks the chat. It's It's You're just shooting in here a couple times and you lock a ball in there and then you shoot it some more and that's how you start it.
Yep. The Raptor pen.
The simple explanation.
Mhm.
Yeah. I remember when the game came out at a show, it was very easy to just keep hitting the raptor pen over and over
uh geometrically.
Strategically, it was the way to go. But that was very early code.
Yeah. that I exploited at Pinberg.
Again, Tim with solid lead here.
Yeah, I don't think he's happy with a ball. Not too happy. He would have liked to gotten more out of Raptor, but uh he's ahead. Like you say, he's ahead. Uh yeah, Jared, that's interesting that you don't have to jam the whole earplug in there. Very interesting. That's good to know. Thank you. So yeah, I guess it I didn't know that it's an earplug or a fraction thereof.
Back hand for the secret skill shot.
Shots like that are fun. You can do that. Uh
yeah, the lock shot on taxi here the same way.
Oh, wow. Looks like he's spelling chaos. Got cha. Now he's doing something else.
That was a raptor. A uh not a raptor, sorry. A panic um hit to to prep the final shot. So he's going to wait till it's on the spinner or the left ramp right now.
Yeah. So the dinosaur is just roaming around, isn't it? Yep. And it's moving from left to right. It moves towards the rescues, I guess.
On this one, it just goes right to left. Oh, okay.
And there's two shots that you can capture it with. That's the first one.
Okay.
With the brachiosaurus.
They get harder later on.
Oh, especially when there two of them with the
Oh, yeah. The the pterodactyls.
I never know how to say that word.
I could tell you it starts with the PT.
I mean, the bigger issue with those is they jump. They don't just stay, you know, it doesn't go just like right to left. They can jump from one spot to the other.
I did not know that.
Yeah. You can't count on them.
Restore power. I'm a fan. I'm a restore power guy. I like restore power.
Oh no.
Oh my gosh. Cuz he's on two dangers, too, and he knows it. Oh my goodness.
Look at that raptor pit.
All right, there we go.
All right, Raptor. Raptor restore power.
Restore power. D. Well, now he definitely hit
Yeah. the center shot.
Yeah, the spinner could be Well, you know, you can build that value for power quite a bit.
Second one in there. Yeah.
Yeah. Same time I was telling Dennis earlier that I don't like the stack modes on on this game. I feel like you you you lose focus of them pretty much.
When you say boats, do you even mean
I mean the control? Yeah, the uh No, no, no. The uh control room modes. The panics can run at any time cuz there's no real there's not a lot of points in those, but the control rooms have so so many points in them.
Yeah, especially since the updates after they made the 30th anniversary. Escape ready.
So he is in 2x here. 2x control room is a recipe for success. Certainly a little trouble finding shots right now.
Yeah,
that was a big 33 million rafter jackpot.
Was that a backhand left ramp?
Yes, that was. Yeah,
I hit a lot of those accidentally, not on purpose. I wonder what he was doing there.
He's looking pretty good.
And he's in the lead. Yeah, he he got like 120 something out of that uh restore power. So, really well done. Really well played.
Restore score. All this on two dangers as well.
Yeah, he's hitting his shots.
Yep. Perfect timing for the uh Oh my gosh. So, what what just happened there? He he started the T-Rex multiball somehow. Did that go up the left ramp? So,
I feel like
I think that's what
it must have. Yeah,
that's incredible.
That's That's pretty fortunate.
That was
Yeah, that it registered but did not uh well did not drain him despite it falling out of dinosaurs. So, this jackpot will be at 1 million if you can make it on the left ramp
or 1.5, excuse me.
Yeah, somehow it goes like 500 1.5. I don't know what's going on there.
Oh, well.
Yeah.
All right, next control room, I bet.
Yep. Carl, do you have a favorite control room that you like to play in single ball play that you enjoy the most or you find the most lucrative?
Um,
I want to say the one on the left now. I can't remember the name of the maybe virus attack. Yeah,
virus.
The one where you hit C over and over again.
Yeah, because you don't have to just hit one shot and then go to C. You can hit other shots to build it now, can't you?
Is that true?
Yeah.
I I don't know. I I'm not a Virus player, so I I definitely seen some people do some good work with Virus today. Really good system move combos. That's one of the big ones we were discussing earlier in the semiis.
Mhm.
Oh, look at that sling assist again.
How sweet. know how to get that ball safe.
Super supply drop lit.
There's that 25 million for that tower shot
after so many tower shots. Extraordinary trying to close it out here with that left. See? Oh, come on. And another another slingish almost.
He's over 300.
Yeah. Well, this will set up his flipper for that C shot. that too.
Save.
Okay,
he's gotten every kind of save, including the T-Rex multiball save.
Wow. Got 17 seconds still in this.
And he's on two dangerous, too.
That's got to be satisfying.
46 million final shot. Let's get back to the paddic
or the chaos or both.
All right, here's chaos lita.
And right into the chaos. Look at that. Nice clean shot to the target. Excellent. Pop bumpers, add balls.
Pop bumpers, add balls. Yep.
The uh you build the jackpot around the playfield and you uh there's a you hit the target, right, for the chaos jackpot.
Yes. And you get the letters
right there. You can see the chaos jackpot. Yeah, exactly. You get the letter.
Plus, he just got a super supply drop. I didn't see what it was for. Amber something. I would think.
Working that paddic too. Another addab. Amber pops total 52 million.
Yeah, if you're in multiball and get that. It can it can build pretty quickly.
Yep. Double scoring's on.
Now it's time to make Hey, I think he just closed out his attic
with the double scoring and C H Chaos. Nice amber ward there. Still on his paddic,
is he?
Well, he's still on the paddic. He He He captured the dinosaur, though. So, he can still rescue additional people.
Perfect paddic,
right? If if it didn't if the dinosaur didn't um
if they didn't escape. I'm I'm trying to do quotes here that say because they don't get killed, right?
Yeah. looking really sharp.
13 more pops out of the ball.
Yeah.
So instead of going there just like that.
Human jerky.
Even better. How many more pops I had?
34. It's
Oh, it does get progressively harder.
All right, we have spelled chaos. So now he's got the super jackpots left and all the various letters, I believe.
Sure. Would supply drop given at a ball right here or not?
No, I don't think so. So the jackpots are based on the, you know, left to right chaos letters based on what your jack your jackpot was when you hit it.
Wow.
Yeah, he took that pretty dang far. Pretty dang far. He said 646. Wow. Didn't he start this ball with like 2 million?
Yeah. Nothing. Yeah. Great ball, Scott.
That's fabulous. I mean, like I said, he's he's a beast. Uh he's extremely good at all forms of pinball, especially these modern sterns. Really good. In Tim's case, don't count him out. He picked this game for a reason. He went back to it despite losing to Nick on it in the semiis. So,
he knows what to do. We'll see if he can execute. He does have his left outlan ball save.
Yeah, that was amazing. That was amazing. for panic.
Yep. Now the switch has been triggered. He is playing for rail now. right ramp or is you going to wait to consider ramping
he will need that right ramp eventually for chaos. So,
unless he skips chaos.
Oh, he's taking the immediate T-Rex feed.
Okay.
Okay.
Interesting.
Nothing stacked on top of this.
Paddock's closed. Let's see some double jackpots.
Season doublers. There's one double.
I love that. Before the dino even spits out
the ball. Hey, he's got that upper flipper dropped. No, okay. Didn't pull it off. I mean, a little something. Not too much, though.
No, that nothing.
Not too much.
So, where do you guys see him going here besides starting another paddic?
Um, I don't know.
Maybe chaos in jail right now.
He He could do chaos. Next T-Rex mode, too. I mean, it's not going to put them over the top.
Yeah, but those the I mean, and T-Rex modes do get valuable, the the later ones or some of them. But you got to hit the truck, and the truck's so dangerous to hit.
Yep.
Yeah, cuz the next one would be that chase, right?
Right. But you can always switch them up also after, you know, hit the T-Rex, hit the truck to change the mode that's going to be played.
Looks to me like he's going for that. Oh, trying to get Chaos. That's an Edri.
Yeah. That's second time. Yeah. He's gotten a warning on an outlane that has a ball save on it because it's worth protecting that ball safe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He got that. Oh, finally.
Yeah. So, I I now I see chaos in his future, right?
Yeah. He started another paddic.
He's up. He's up here, isn't he?
Yeah. He's at the third paddic. Yeah. If you're going on the uh outsides, he could time them out, but that would be very boring.
All right, now we're doing chaos.
Can he hit it?
Oh, couldn't quite pick which one to abort it.
Like, so he has chaos lit. Does it ever make sense to abort?
So that's the second time he's hit the sorry the truck.
There it is. where it didn't move or it didn't register.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Does it ever make sense to abort the smart missile?
Yes. Well, yeah. Sometimes you want to save it for, you know, like he had chaos lit, right? So,
did a board allow him to start chaos with a shot instead
later? Yeah. If he aborts it and waits till after, he can maybe that's an award. I forget the sequence of wards. It's been a while since I
Yeah. Well, Chaos, I think this is this is what he wanted. So, I mean, this can be a lot, but um
you got to put a lot of work into it to get there.
Yeah, Scott did really well with it.
Uh free chaos jackpot there.
How sweet it is. And some more balls.
He really needs to get 2x running. His supply drop is lit. So, that would light his 2x.
Yeah, if he hits this, it lights this here. Yep.
Yeah. Raptor after chaos. That's that's part of it here. Yes, exactly.
I see. Okay.
And based on what you've seen, is he on his way to any trifecta?
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know the I don't know the uh I mean, I know the dinosaurs, but I don't know their DNA and their combos well enough to know uh if he's on the way to any trifectas.
Yeah, it's my memory I kept. Well, I think he got the trifecta in hot tip. That's for sure.
Yeah, he did. Good point. Oh, he's got to be one drop away. One pop away from Adabal.
There we go.
Boom.
Yeah, I love this Adabal mechanism. It's so fun. uh in dress in this chaos multiball. How your pops add add balls for you.
Breeds chaos.
Yeah, he only needs 49 more pops for for another add ball.
Nothing.
That's quite a lot.
Do it. Tim
got the 2x running but really isn't uh pulling anything out of it unfortunately right now. And that uses out lane save.
Yeah.
All right. Full control.
He's got he's got chaos lit.
He's going for the helicopter to try to finish off the paddic cuz then he would only have one paddic left before he gets the visitor center. At which point that would be a uh I bet a timeout on that fourth one.
Okay.
It's on the uh upper loop at the moment. Dino. Oh no. Now side ramp. My favorite mode turn on tech.
You have an interesting favorite mode.
Billions.
Oh, you've done some craziness with 10. It's just fun.
Can you get anything out of Teran?
Yeah, billions.
Really? Literally
when you have the fossil combination.
I don't understand how how does it I don't know. I don't understand.
Switch hits build it.
Okay.
And and the multiplier stays.
So every tron attack,
you keep building the multiplier as you play subsequent ones. So, you have to play several of them.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You have to be good to that right ramp to do it. Uh the Stego is escaped, but that's fine. That means the paddic's over.
I guarantee that's what he's working on right now to get to visitor center.
Tried for the escape or the uh
that outline save.
Look at that. Wow.
Very responsive.
All right.
See, he's saying timeout. What he's going to do? I made it. All right. Here's the paddic. Oh no, he's got to move the truck. Does he know? He needs to move the truck.
Yeah, cuz it's the wrong one, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. He's not paying attention. Oh, maybe he noticed.
But is there any chance he's doing this?
Yeah.
I was just wondering if he was trying to get to the Spinosaurus mode
cuz that's Spinosaurus, right?
What a city.
Uh, yes. Um, it's a little difficult though.
Invalid via smart missile. Yeah, that's a that's definitely strategy too.
Yeah, I don't understand when in invalid is lit as an option
in smart missile.
I just can't remember otherwise I tell you.
I I I think that I think that invalid is really good. Um, but I don't I don't understand how to get it.
All right, to be honest with you,
I think he's going to time this out.
Okay. And how long does it take?
Several minutes. That's just my guess, though. Let's see if he actually does it.
Nice DNA combo.
DNA.
Let's see. Nope, he is not. Oh, he locked him off for raptor. Okay, maybe he's going to try and bring raptor into it. Okay,
so that's a lot of
Why not just time it out?
Is there any reason to not time it out?
Cuz uh he wants to play pinball, not be like Zmac. I don't know.
It's for all these viewers sakes, too. for weaknesses. Okie dokie. Okay, electing the backhand, which is safer. I like it. Taking the forehand when he does the choice.
Here we go.
Wow, that's fabulous. Good job, man. Really great. Yeah, these guys are amazing. These guys are amazing.
Let that drain. Nope. Maybe not.
This is one of those uh strategically drained kind of things I feel here to make sure that you get a uh
make sure you get one.
Yeah, but at the same time, he doesn't need just one.
Mhm.
He needs a rescues if he's trying to get the visitor center.
Okay.
All right. Here we go. In the chaos spelling. That's fine. You're okay.
He's got supply drop lit. This is going to get Matabal, right?
Mhm.
Nice shot for here.
Wow. Two shots left to finish the chaos there to go.
This and these supers are big if you get to them.
Mhm.
And those are both hitable shots. Okay.
He's got the harder ones taken care of.
He stage flipped there. Oh,
don't don't don't don't don't just just just take it easy.
Jeez,
no more grace spirit.
I would have liked to have seen the add a ball there at the with the supply drop, but
All right, now does he time it out? I mean, how many more uh need to uh not be rescued? Yeah, now we're at timeout. Okay. Mhm.
The longer the timeout, the longer the chance more viewers tune in. I love that.
Yes. I absolutely love it.
So, uh, any New Year's resolutions, guys?
More pinball.
Yeah. So, just as far as this timing out is going, so there's a timer. So basically the dinosaurs roaming around and uh hitting people that are going to be rescued
right
and wiping them out and then when all the rescues are gone the mode the paddic ends.
Well there's no more res there's no more rescues you see. So once the dinosaur escapes then the paddic ends.
Okay. So
the dinosaur is going to escape. Now this is the pterodons which which jump around as you saw. They weren't moving left or right constantly. So he's gonna now wait for that to
time out. Now he's got to um get the white arrows. Dispelled map. And now it's lit on the left ramp. Oh no. Oh no. Not now. Okay, good. All right. Left ramp. Control room's lit. He spilled chaos.
Visitor center over control room.
Right.
So he's going to visitor center right now. Huh?
Right now. Right there.
So I've never Tell us about it. I don't know what in the world is going on. Well, watch these rewards. Carl will tell you about them.
Yeah, you get very based on how you've done. You're going to get points.
Okay.
And this is why I'm always trying for, you know, rescuing everybody when you get here.
Wow. And that's why you also want to zigzag because you'll get more points if you rescue more dinos.
You give the multiplier bigger.
But it's of course easier to get there if you don't zigzag. Right. Right. Right.
So, this feels a little bit like uh that uh Seattle mode on Foo Fighters
from right to left.
Yeah, but this this came before Foo Fighters. You got to say that Foo Fighters feels like this.
Yeah, except I I I can play I can get to Seattle in Foo Fighters. I don't know if I can get to the visitor center in Jurassic Park.
Watch him two stage to get the ball past the upper flipper. I just like that move. It's necessary to unblock that right ramp. So, this is like two shots at a time. I mean, what's going on?
Two shots are lit. You've got two raptors.
Okay.
Two raptors here.
Okay.
So, you've got two shots for the two raptors.
Okay.
So, you're trying to get them over to here to trap them.
Oh, okay. To the pen.
I remember this kitchen scene.
They do move back if you don't hit them in time. So, you saw you just lost progress.
Okay. So, you're chasing them over to the pen. This is fascinating.
Yeah. This is the kitchen scene.
I've never even seen it before to be honest with you.
Oh, really?
Yeah. I should watch more pinball. I I I'm always like to play.
Okay.
Well, you got to get to these places in pinball. That's what you got.
I gota I can't agree more.
Tide ramp. Come on.
This is the hardest pair of shots I feel.
Right.
Well, there's only one flipper that's going to hit him unless you want to ricochet off the uh the balls under the truck.
And now he lost progress. So now he's got to go back to uh going to go left ram. Push him back. Uh-oh.
Great, great staging here again. Lower flipper up,
upper flipper down.
Nice combo.
All right, into
It's tough. It's got to go all the way in.
Yeah, it's got to stick it. It's got to hit the target in the back of that. Perfect. All right. Into the scene.
You see, it's got this value based on
what you've done in the game. Also, and score-wise, he's about 200 million in front of
Scott.
Scott, I believe a little less than 200 million. Tim's on the cusp of a T-Rex when he gets out of this, too. Huh.
That was fascinating.
Still.
Oh, he's still going. So, he had balls. He had raptors locked away in there.
Yeah.
Now you're in victory laps.
Like tons of targets,
right? It's the targets. Exactly.
Stuff you never shoot for kind of stuff.
Well, that's why all the targets are flashing. So, it's not I see. Okay. This doesn't seem like a lot of points.
No, but if you have more balls in play, it helps, you know. It's It's points though. It's still
came with a nice long ball save.
Yeah.
Yeah. Don't double drain after that first.
Yeah.
Yeah. They're going up what, quarter million each, I think.
Yeah. Mhm.
Yeah.
Oh, little drink. Okay. Little mid mid multiball drink. A rare a rare sight.
Oh, great idea.
Mhm.
Just blew by that target. He's not missing by much here.
There's one. Got one left.
What happens if he gets that one?
They all relight.
Okay. For more victory.
Is there going to be a little point bonus like an annihilation jackpot kind of thing?
No, there isn't.
Just more stuff.
It just keeps going. It's It's hard to hit a shot like that because it's effectively missing a shot.
Using up that uh outlane save is uh unfortunate though.
It's almost to the point where I'd rather lose the multiball than outline save.
All right,
this will be control room number three,
I think.
Which right is it?
Plus, yeah, T-Rex.
Okay. Wow. I mean, you can't play T-Rex with control room, but Right.
The point of this after if he finishes this, he'll have invalid frenzy available.
No, no, no. I mean, what am I saying? Secure control room.
And do you have to like light a fourth control room to get the next
or does it like super secure control room just be like
sweet?
It's on the way to uh, you know, escape new bar. Oh, darn. chunky ball.
That was a great ball.
Yeah,
that was a great great great ball. Wow.
So good.
Now you see how why he picked it.
Yep. Yeah. Fabulous.
Such a good game.
Yeah, it really is. It really, really is. Yeah. Scott needs about 275 I guess. And see he he unfortunately made a mistake on the quick path to
Uh-huh.
to the visitor center. He he probably didn't mean to do that pavoc right there, but but he did it. So now he's got a total of five that he would have to go through instead of four.
Where do you see him going from here?
Uh oh boy. Another raptor maybe. Looks like it.
Oh sh.
Oh, I mean Scott had such a big ball. One and two and then that's it.
Yeah, after these guys made it look easy, you could see how difficult this game is.
Plus, sitting down for a while watching Tim play definitely cool off.
Well done. to Tim strangle hold on this match in this state championship Scott must win the next four consecutive games.
True story. It's so funny because if you take a look here um so many close matches throughout the day. I mean we had some 4-1s but a lot of 42s and all these 5-3s are really 4-3s. Like look at all these close matches. So, we haven't even had a lot of matches get to We haven't even had a lot of matches get up to 3-0 like this today. So, this is pretty impressive. This is really impressive. I mean, Tim's just playing that well. I mean, Scott just lost with, you know, 700 million on Jurassic Park. I mean, that's basically just phenomenally high level play. Uh, which makes sense. It's a California State Finals.
Yeah. I mean, Scott's not playing poorly, but you know, Tim also taking full advantage of his picks, you know, even being able to hold off Scott's amazing ball, too, on Jurassic. And of course, Tim's got the best handle anyone I've seen here this tournament on that, uh, hot tip.
And so, uh, that's a really good hot tip. Yep.
He started with that early. He had just come off it in the semiis. And then also,
you know, it's a it's a winning proposition for him, too. Um he's dominated on that as far as I've seen.
I'll take the mouse.
Um yeah, you know, we need we bring it back, Scott. We need more pinball. I like that. We all want more pinball, I think. So, um yeah, little 30 second warm-up on Surf and Safari.
Well, it's a fun one. Or not. Or not.
I I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it today.
No, I'm saying it's two players, so maybe they're not. I would feel like they would want to warm up, but I don't know.
It's looking casual. So, let's say warm up.
Yeah,
we'll know very soon.
He looks pretty casual. This surfing safari was part of the first California state championships. And this is uh post uh I guess the California championships. I heard there was one in the 70s. I met a guy who competed in it. Okay.
I maybe Bob Matthews was there too. But uh the first one that was down in Riverside. I remember this uh I don't know if it was this copy, but Surf and Safari was definitely a prominent part of it. I remember you having some really ridiculous score as well as Keith, but yours was the most insane one. Alice.
Oh, the one like Alice. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Gotcha.
But yeah. Do you think it was the same copy or different copy?
Oh, the same copy. Yeah, cuz it was Jim's. This is his only one. Yeah.
Yeah. This is a neat game. I don't have a lot of experience with this, but I know that step one is shoot that left ramp enough to light to light your uh
so five times here. That's this the ladder for the left ramp. So once you reach five on this, it starts the it lights the lock for here for to start your multiball.
Yeah. And it's uh and it's you just lock one and you're in multiball,
right? Exactly.
It's not like locking three or anything like that.
And then there's awards when you complete entire rows and then the what you want is this third row
is another multiball.
Oh, okay. Okay. Cuz you know, for me, I've seen, you know, I've seen a little bit and I think a lot of people do this ladder and then they do this ladder. Do you like to do the the the the left ladder next or do you try and go three across?
Nice and easy pass over.
Try to go three across.
Yeah. I mean, you what ends up happening
is um you're ending you end up with the red and the yellow most of the time, which are the yellows the spinner lane and the reds the drops.
Okay. Okay.
Which are both death or most kind.
Right. Right.
And here's that 3 million death target.
Oh, he did it. He he's at the he's in the 3 millions.
So, he's got this little stand up for unlimited 3 millions cuz he made the left uh he went all the way up the left ladder.
Right. Exactly.
And it's not too long, but it's 3 million a hit. Is he What is going on?
He's just practicing. He's trying to So, there's another The other way to
gain items is there. The inlanes will light. These two little yellow lights that you see there. If you hit the inlane switch when it's lit, it will give you a random award. One of them. Really?
Yeah.
So, spot one.
So, how are the inlanes lit?
They are always lit, but like if you shoot the left ramp, the in lane switches over to the left in lane. So, it doesn't, you know, you don't get it for free. So, typically it's a the ball falls into it or you're shhatzing over to get that in lane.
I had no idea. That is really interesting.
Will these go over and out when you shhats? Um
I don't think so. There's rubbers on the inlanes.
Yeah, they look protected, but
yeah,
I know on Alien Star that was no guarantee.
True.
I do like the music. One more player. Oh, got to wait for the ball to drain. That's all right. So, there's like a a scoop right here that's kind of hidden underneath the warp pool.
I don't understand what just happened. Oh, cuz there was just still a ball.
There was a ball. Yeah, there was a ball sitting somewhere.
Okay.
So, he's going to try to do five left ramps first, I'm assume. Like I said, five left ramps.
If that roll, if that rollover pass doesn't go far enough onto the right flipper, it's very hard to make that shot, I think.
Yes.
Nice save there.
No danger.
It got danger.
Oh, it did.
It made that little bird.
Yeah, it made the beep. Yeah, the tweet.
Okay. I know it sounds like wild animals the rest of them in the game, but Yeah.
All right. Time for the left scoop for multiball. There we go. Nice. Good value there. 4.3 millionish
cuz it's a hurry up, isn't it?
It's a hurry up. And if it goes goes down to zero, you don't get your multiball
and you can't relight it again until you fill the entire grid up. So, you only have chance two multiballs really until you complete the complete the game.
Okay. So, so he did it and it's very important. He got 4.3 million and it's important that he did it at all. That's okay.
Right. So now he's got these two shots to light the uh jackpot.
And is this two random shots that are
Yes, it's two random shots. They're not unfortunately they're not the same for both players. All right, now the jackpot lit the left ramp.
Excellent. The way he hit those. One, two, three.
All right. Now he's got to shoot all five shots that'll light the super jackpot. And that's where the real points for this game are.
Okay. Jackpot
with a super jackpot. Three, four. So, all he's got left is the kicking target on the right.
Wow.
And there it is. There's the setup.
Oh.
Oh, no. All right. So, now he's going to have a chance
after multiball, shoot the left ramp. That then lights the whirlpool for millions.
Okay. I wasn't sure what the rule was. It shoots the left ramp once and then it's whirlpool for like unlimited millions
just for one shot
for one.
So you only got 2 million out of that.
Oh, depending on how much it goes around.
Yeah,
I didn't even know this. This is
stir the cup.
Okay. Okay.
Looks like he might be going for the unlimited 3 millions for Yep. So he's get three millions, right?
Yep. That target.
This is not long. How long is this?
Nine. eight.
You can see it on the inserts.
He's doing great with the nudging here. He's definitely got a good feel for this game and its limits.
Yep.
I never really care for shooting the target. It's It's It's dangerous.
Uh-huh.
So, but it's good points sometimes. And
I've seen people lose matches because they didn't shoot the target.
Yep.
So, and he's gotten this game.
He killed him, but he got good points. I mean, 30 is a lot.
Yeah. I mean, for one ball, of course, he can't play multiball again until he fills the whole grid. Exactly like you said. But, um, that's pretty darn Yeah, it's pretty darn good.
And then he can do that other multiball, right? The three the two,
right, once he gets all three of you,
but that center set of targets, it's just so
So, you have to be alley passing to to lane.
Oh, spot. Right. Right. Right. Okay. Yeah. I I I knew coming in I was afraid I was going to have to play this today cuz I don't know it very well.
I love the sounds on this. I love the music and the sounds.
Okay,
nice shot. Really well done. Yeah,
both guys max.
All right, he got the same two shots. So this is uh nice and fair.
By the way, how much is the jackpot that he lights after getting these two?
The two it's 5 million.
Five million. Okay.
And then after that it's 20 million. I think that sounds right. Right. Yeah. The super. Yeah.
This is excellent play to try and get the balls controlled on that left flipper while he shoots his shoots the spinner.
Oh, tickled the shot. See how he gets it over. Wow. Okay. Okay.
Jackpot's lit.
So, this is 5 million.
No time on this. It's just lit. You don't have to rush it.
Okay. Although the music's frenetic.
That is a win. Arcade Legacy.
Yeah, that's a win. Settle balls. Settle. Oh no. Okay.
Wow. Well done.
All right. Is he going to try for the kicking target to start? He's set up. A hard shot should do it. Oh, yes. It gave it to him.
That did not kick, but it's a It registered the switch.
I don't even know. That shot kicks back at you. Is that
Yeah, it's a kicking target. It's a gotly kicking target
again. Tim Hansen here if he can hit that super.
Yeah, the super
a long way.
Mhm. It's big on this game
towards icing this state championship.
All right, world pool is the only one left. That gave him credit cuz he just kissed the spinner. Oh, that's the
Oh my gosh.
So, could could anything have happened there? Like he he obviously was trying to quickly pick up that whirlpool. No, it would it it would have been dead. It was dead no matter what way. Yeah.
No grace, no nothing.
No. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's got leap. There's no grace period on anything. Yeah. Tim Tim is not much of a panicker. That's why I was surprised to see him shing that quickly. But he may just not know whether or not there's a grace period for that 20 million or not.
All right. So Scott uh didn't get awarded his double letter there. There's the double. That's weird that it didn't give it to him the first time. So, occasionally you'll see this lit right there.
Okay.
And that works on spelling double. And when you spell double, you have double you double the uh playfield for that ball.
That seems good.
Yeah, it can be.
But you have to have other things running with it, of course.
He would have needed the left ramp, I thought, for that super, right?
I think. Yeah,
right ramp and then left ramp. Right.
Right. Yeah. Yeah. The left ramp lights is where the jackpot has to be collected. The super.
He's in nice shape. Uh, you know, where he's got his three targets of death up to tier three. So now left spinner twice
and then he'll be up to uh the other multiball lock
just once actually cuz
because he got the he got so now he has to lock
lock right there and now he's in another multiball.
So that was exactly what you said. The inlanes gave him those two yellow targets. So like two yellow inserts. I see. shot.
Yeah.
Oh, no. And there's no restart on this. There's nothing. So, okay, that that's his second multiball. It's gone.
So, where millions are lit on the right ramp? Let's see if he gets more this time. And it's it's it's limited amount of time, so it's just timed out. You heard the little chime. You can see the red light blinking. That's gone.
And what is He's an extra ball round. What does that mean?
That's the uh He finished that column.
This this column.
And so he had shots to earn an extra ball.
And is it a real extra ball or points or
it's points?
Okay.
All right. Tim Yeah, Tim's got a lot of work to do. So really, he wants to, you know, do the same thing. Get to the multiball at that level if you can.
Okay. maybe go crazy on that 3 million target like Scott.
Yeah, but that's I mean he's only at 12 million. He's going to need a lot more than that
for sure.
Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, you're not wrong about that being pretty darn risky. That 3 million is very risky. He doesn't have extra balls to spare basically.
Some people like to grind out the whirlpool cuz you can get it up to 200,000 a spin.
Every spin is 200,000. But
the feed out of it is not predictable.
Exactly. Exactly.
One more for the pipeline.
All right. So, this will be the 3 million round.
See if he actually goes for it.
Yep.
Oh, he just kissed it.
he a nice way. Kind of not right in the face.
Yeah. So it ricochets sideways instead of punishing him.
Right. 12 million. 15. Nice nudge. Uh-oh.
All right. 15 million out of that is very good. I'd say
that's fabulous.
You can't do much better than that.
So there the whirlpool was 50,000 a spin.
Correct. Now,
every time you shoot it, he builds up. So, now it's at 100,000 right there.
I see. Okay. Ooh.
I like those indicators too on top of it.
So, he definitely put himself within reach that he definitely he closed the gap significantly on that ball, too. Definitely closed the gap.
Yeah, it helped.
Um,
Scottson Scott's got, you know, right now he's got two more to finish spinner, two more drop target sets. The drop targets are are
Oh, those are sets.
Yeah, you have to finish that this entire set.
He's got to win this. He cannot lose this game. It will be the end of his state championship and Tim will be the California state champion. Going for a double. Uhoh.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, we Oh my gosh. Still with a sizable lead. Tim's not close to anything significant.
No, he's not. So, at this point, I think Tim's going to Whirlpool out. That's going to be my guess.
Okay. Okay.
He's going to get 500,000 for the plunge. So, he's he's going to have about 8 million that he has to get off of the whirlpool.
Now, he might get to your three across along the way with inlanes or what have you.
It's just lucky in llanes unless he's going to purposely share things.
Mhm.
I mean, if the spinner he could get, right?
Yeah. The spinner has has some good points in it, too. So, that's possible.
Trying to make a plan. So, this ball for the California title, if Tim can pass, Scott's 38 million. True story. Going for whirlpool. Whirlpool. Here we go. Here we go.
So again, there it's at 50, but now it's 100,
right?
I see. Okay.
The inlanes are completely random as to which one it gives you with the flip. for the world.
Now, the wolf round is an extra ball round. I don't think the extra balls are I think it's 3 million for an extra ball.
Plan award here.
Maybe more.
There's a nice little bonus, right?
Yeah. 500,000 for falling into the soft there.
He's handling these unusual godly flippers. Well,
no. Yep.
You can post pass on these. And I love how easy it is to catch. Okay, this is 200 perk.
No one.
Oh boy. He is in striking distance.
He's going to time this out cuz he would have to shoot the center drop targets and he's not going to do that.
Okay.
He'd have to hit both the whirlpool and the center.
Okay. For the extra ball.
And again, this was the this lap.
Yep. That lane. Yep. That's the whirlpool.
You don't need to time it out to shoot Whirlpool. Yep. You're probably Yep. Yep. That makes sense.
Okay.
Sometimes if there's something like this and I have no reason not to wait, I'll wait so it doesn't distract.
That was a solid shot to the pool.
1.8 mil.
And then what kind of bonus we expecting here?
Uh bonus isn't really much, I think. Right. That one should do it though.
Oh, it does.
That's the game.
Tim Hansen, your California state champion, 2026 with a shutout win of awesome games. Wow.
Incredible. What a great game. Fabulous.
Fabulous. I mean, honestly, Scott played amazing, too. You know, uh Tim put up a bunch of wins. He's just incredible. Just fantastic play. Absolutely fantastic play.
Yeah. Great battle that the four zero score doesn't reflect how competitive this was, especially that Jurassic Park game.
Yeah. And this game, too.
Oh, wow.
Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Really good. Wow. Amazing. Fabulous.
Congratulations to Tim.
Yeah. Great job, Tim
and Scott for a performance. And if Tim Hansen is unable to fulfill his duties as California State Champion, it'll be Scott that will be going to the National.
Where where are Nationals? Did we figure that out?
In Chicago, not Inarium.
Okay.
Uh they named it before
the new place that Well, okay.
Yeah. Private club. I forgot what it was called.
All right. Good. Good.
Was that Arrow Club? Arrow Club.
I actually don't know. Dennis does not know.
Yeah. Uh, hey, uh, thank you, Shaosur. We really love doing the commentary. We really appreciate you all coming out. It's been a ton of fun. Are we gonna Are we going to do like a video award ceremon?
I mean, I can move this I can move the camera around to it. I don't know what Jim's planning on doing, but I will. Uh,
he's holding Crowns and Stor interview the winner first before the ceremony or after?
After. Probably after. Yeah.
All right. Hey everybody, thank you for watching and listening. We're not done yet. Let's see our California champion crown. And maybe we'll get a few words from him and maybe even the runner up afterwards. I've been Andre.
I mean, I missed Who got third? Who got third? Who got fourth?
Who got third? Did fourth. People got third and fourth. It's going to be great.
Who?
Nick third. Okay. I think he already went to Olive Garden. You know, sometimes a guy gets third, he goes to Olive Garden. But, uh, yeah. No, this is uh this is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
Yeah, really well played. So much great pinball today. This was I I'll be honest with you, internet. I really enjoyed doing this stream. I appreciate all you uh for coming out. You guys g a lot of we have very smart and wise chat. Uh I've really enjoyed it. I learned a lot today myself uh just watching uh and listening to you in the chat as well giving us a lot of great feedback and advice. really really interesting. Exciting exciting stream today. Super fun. Yeah, super fun.
Yeah, definitely. Big thanks to all the organizers. No doubt about that.
There they are.
There they are.
We should have some sort of musical fanf fair for this, shouldn't we?
Come and see us. Here we go. Congratulations. It's almost on camera. It comes with a plaque.
I don't know.
Great job, Tim. Absolutely fabulous.
Absolutely fabulous. online.
Fabulousbody.
A great group. A great group.
Amazing.
I think we'll uh shut it down now.
Okay. Shut her down. All right,
internet. Thanks so much for joining us. This is amazing. It's been a fun day of pinball. Let's do Let's do it again next year.
You think?
Yeah, let's do it.
Northern California next year.
You know what? I think that sounds like a great idea.
Fabulous.
It's going to be so fun.
Let's see. Get this final bracket up here and we'll uh call in.
Amazing.
All right.
Thanks everyone for watching.
We'll see you next time.
Yep. Take care.
All right.
Good night.
Byebye.