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TL;DR

NYC pinball competition roundup: tournament results, league standings, venue updates, and upcoming events.

Summary

NYC Pin Pod covers local pinball competition results from late March through early April 2026, including tournament wins, league standings updates, venue machine conditions, and upcoming events. Hosts Benjamin Furiga and Eric Sweetland discuss Pinball NYC's left and right flipper divisions, Scrapple League season 2, and location-based competition across New York City venues. Notable outcomes include Leland Kuykendall's first city tournament win at Barcade Fi-Di, Chris Caffaro's victory at Scrappleland's Immaculate Inning, and multiple tiebreaker matches in the league play.

Key Claims

  • Leland Kuykendall won the Barcade Fi-Di Monthly on March 28th with 28 players competing, marking his first tournament win in the city

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga reporting results from Barcade Fi-Di Monthly hosted by Greg Pavarelli

  • Chris Caffaro won the Immaculate Inning at Scrappleland on March 29th with 18 players in a nine-game strike tournament

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga describing Sunday tournament results directed by Tommy Ortega and Harlan Aida-Linda

  • Matt Grady won the South Slope Friends Golf tournament at Buttermilk with 15 machines on scorecard and best 9 scores counting

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga reporting tournament results from March 29th

  • In Pinball NYC's left flipper division round 7, there were four 8-8 tie matches, leading to the term 'ties of March'

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga noting multiple tiebreaker matches on March 30-31

  • Balls of Steel are leading Pinball NYC's left flipper division with 6-1 record and 71 points

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga providing standings update after round 7

  • Greg Pavarelli is first seed in Scrapple League season 2 finals with 112 points across four visits

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga reporting on Scrapple League qualifying session held April 1st at Scrappleland

  • As of April 3rd 2026, there are 360 pinball machines in NYC at 74 public locations

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga citing Pinball Map data for venue/machine inventory

  • Lord of the Rings at Scrappleland has multiple issues: Gimli extra ball scoop doesn't register, Vuk gets stuck, ball save light doesn't reflect actual status

    high confidence · User Flipper Fiends commenting on Lord of the Rings machine condition at Scrappleland on April 2nd

  • The Rolling Stones machine at Margarita Island in Coney Island has chronically weak and sticky flippers and plunger

Notable Quotes

  • “Leland came back, if you look at the way the three matches went in the finals, he got fourth on Congo and then won Godzilla and Strange Science.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ early in episode — Describing Leland Kuykendall's clutch performance in finals of Barcade Fi-Di Monthly

  • “There was never a point until the very last moment of the bonus count up in this match that it was not tied.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ discussing Colliders vs Worms match — Describing dramatic tiebreaker finish where Colliders lost by narrow margin on Worms

  • “It's the ties of March.”

    Julia (Colliders team member) @ after reporting multiple 8-8 tie matches — Clever observation about four tiebreaker matches occurring in one round, coining term 'ties of March'

  • “Barcade managers are not checking pin map comments, but all games are playtested daily, so this was noticed and repaired the next morning. I'd recommend pointing out issues to bar staff instead of the internet.”

    User Bonsai @ Monday comments on venue updates — Best practice guidance for reporting machine issues at venues, emphasizing direct communication over online comments

  • “That is the very best thing that anyone has said about the state of its play. It has at times been in a position that the only way to play it is to also have your left hand touching a crane machine.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ discussing Rolling Stones at Margarita Island — Hyperbolic but pointed critique of chronic maintenance issues at the Rolling Stones machine in Coney Island

  • “You have to be faster than the people you are with. That's where you are right now.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ discussing Scrapple League standings pressure — Advice to players climbing standings by analyzing point accumulation pace needed to secure playoff seeding

  • “They've designed like swag for it. They've got art and they call it the jack off.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ discussing upcoming Jack Bar vs Jack Bar match — Humorous reference to intra-venue rivalry branding for upcoming Ball Drainers vs Schlubs match

Entities

Benjamin FurigapersonEric SweetlandpersonGreg PavarellipersonLeland KuykendallpersonChris CaffaropersonHarlan Aida-LindapersonTommy OrtegapersonMatt GradypersonPinball NYC Left Flipper DivisionorganizationPinball NYC Right Flipper Divisionorganization

Signals

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    competitive_signal: Three major tournament wins documented: Leland Kuykendall (Barcade Fi-Di Monthly), Chris Caffaro (Immaculate Inning), Matt Grady (South Slope Friends Golf)

    high · Direct tournament results with player names, scores, and final match details provided by tournament directors

  • ?

    community_signal: Active multi-league ecosystem with Pinball NYC (left and right flipper divisions), Scrapple League, South Slope Pinball League, and location-based tournaments showing sustained community engagement

    high · Detailed standings, match results, and upcoming schedule across 4+ organized leagues with 60+ participating teams/players

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    venue_signal: Multiple machine reliability issues reported across venues: Lord of the Rings has scoop/Vuk malfunctions, Rolling Stones has chronic flipper issues, various games have reported offline status

    high · User comments from Flipper Fiends, Do0, and Mayor of Now detailing specific mechanical failures; Benjamin Furiga corroborating Rolling Stones history

  • ?

    operational_signal: Best practice guidance provided: venue staff should check machines daily and direct reporting through staff rather than online comments yields faster repairs

    high · Bonsai's comment about Barcade managers not checking PinballMap but repairing Congo the next morning after staff notification

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    venue_signal: Coney Island pinball access severely limited with chronic maintenance issues at Rolling Stones and limited quality venues; contrasts with Brooklyn/Manhattan venue density

Topics

NYC pinball tournament results and competitionprimaryPinball NYC league standings and team recordsprimaryScrapple League season 2 qualifying standingsprimaryVenue machine condition reports and maintenance issuesprimaryUpcoming pinball events and tournament scheduleprimaryPinball venue infrastructure and map datasecondaryCompetitive pinball meta and gameplay strategiessecondaryConey Island pinball accessibility and preservationsecondary

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Transcript

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Happy Sunday, pinfolk, or whatever day you're listening. This is NYC Pin Pod, in which a panel talks location pinball in New York City and nearby surrounding areas. My name is Benjamin Furiga. My initials are BCF, and I expect to have Pennsylvania pinball in my bullet journal next week. My name is Eric Sweetland. My initials are HIP, and I'm a pinball tournament director in New York City. On this week's pod, we'll do those things we always do in Balls 1 and 2. First, we'll run down local competition results.
1:02
Next, venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users and thanks to Eric. Then, we'll have our bullet journal to end up Ball 2. And in Ball 3, we will announce the NYCPPAA tournament champion. And we'll prop Windham up a little bit more. Let's get started. Let's talk about competitive pinball in New York City and nearby surrounding areas.
1:34
On Saturday, March 28th, 28 players went to Barcade Fi-Di for the Barcade Fi-Di Monthly hosted by Greg Pavarelli with assistance from Harlan Aida-Linda and Jess Warren. They did six rounds of group match play with Swiss pairing. They just got that one extra round in. I presume that Greg is cooking the Whoppers the best he can, maximizing for a single day tournament. They cut to a pop of finals and at the end, Leland Kuykendall won the day, besting Sean
2:10
Grant, Nintu, and Matthew Gross respectively. Leland came back, if you look at the way the three matches went in the finals, he got fourth on Congo and then won Godzilla and Strange Science. I was watching that stream. Wild game to finish with. Yeah, Strange Science is crazy. Leland got fifteen point one whoppers for his efforts

high confidence · User Do0 reporting machine condition at Margarita Island; Benjamin Furiga corroborating with historical context

  • Stern Army is hosting Pokemon Pinball Launch Party on April 12th at Jack Bar with 12 rounds of match play and Papa-style finals

    high confidence · Benjamin Furiga listing upcoming events directed by David Potluck

  • “Patience is as a virtue, especially when playing this game. Gimli, the extra ball scoop doesn't register. Leads to 15 to 20 pauses before ball search process begins.”

    User Flipper Fiends @ Wednesday venue updates — Detailed technical complaint about Lord of the Rings machine malfunction affecting gameplay experience

  • “sticky and weak flippers, sticky and weak plunger, ramps are easy”

    User Do0 @ venue updates section — Concise summary of Rolling Stones machine condition at Margarita Island, noted as 'the very best thing' said about it

  • “This has always been the most disappointing pinball game at Coney Island, in one of the most disappointing places in New York City.”

    Benjamin Furiga @ discussing Coney Island venue situation — Reflects broader frustration with pinball access and machine maintenance in underserved NYC location

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    Barcade Fi-Divenue
    Scrapplelandvenue
    Buttermilk Barvenue
    Jack Barvenue
    Stern Armyorganization
    David Potluckperson
    Pokemon Pinballgame
    Lord of the Ringsgame
    Godzillagame
    Rolling Stonesgame
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    Attack from Marsgame
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    high · Benjamin Furiga describing 15-year history of Rolling Stones malfunction, comparing to Guardians of the Galaxy and Walking Dead as better-maintained alternatives

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    event_signal: Stern Army Pokemon Pinball Launch Party scheduled for April 12th at Jack Bar with 12-round match play and Papa-style finals structure

    high · Event announcement by Benjamin Furiga with director name (David Potluck), venue, date, and format details

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    product_launch: Pokemon Premium machine installed at Jack Bar replacing earlier Pokemon Pro model, indicating product tier availability shift

    medium · Benjamin Furiga noting Sunday March 29th replacement of Pokemon Pro with Pokemon Premium at Jack Bar

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    competitive_signal: Both Pinball NYC leagues tracking 12-team playoff cutoff with tight competition for final spots; teams at 3-4 record competing for in-lane positions

    high · Detailed standings analysis showing playoff line calculations and point projections for 8+ teams on playoff bubble

  • ?

    community_signal: Jack Bar hosting intra-venue match (Ball Drainers vs Schlubs) with custom branding ('jack off') and pre-match verbal sparring in team chat, indicating playful competitive culture

    medium · Benjamin Furiga describing custom swag and 'week of hell' pre-match dynamics with specific team communication patterns

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    product_concern: Lord of the Rings has ball save light design issue where indicator doesn't reflect actual ball save status, called 'objectively bad design and coding'

    high · User Flipper Fiends detailed complaint about misleading ball save indicator combined with Gimli scoop registration failures

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    venue_signal: NYC has 360 pinball machines across 74 public locations as of April 3rd 2026, per PinballMap data

    high · Benjamin Furiga citing PinballMap database with specific machine and location counts

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    event_signal: Dense tournament schedule with 6+ events scheduled for April 6-12 including multiple league rounds, strikes tournaments, and themed launch party

    high · Detailed calendar provided by Benjamin Furiga listing specific dates, venues, formats, and directors for upcoming competitions

    • 2:42
    and this was Leland's first win in the city, I'm pretty sure. On Sunday, the immaculate inning took place at Scrappleland, directed by Tommy Ortega and Harlan Aida-Linda. Eighteen players came out for a nine fair strike tournament, with strikes stopped with eight remaining going on to a Papa-style final. Chris Caffaro won that final.
    3:14
    In the final round, beating out Leland Kuykendall, Svika Geft, and Steven Perrillo. Kaffaro did the opposite of what Leland did the day before. He got first and first and then could rest on his laurels, but he also happened to get second in the third game. Chris picked up 10.78 Whoppers. Also just a generally a big Whopper weekend for Leland. And also on Sunday, March 29th, South Slope Friends Golf is what it is called on Match Play.
    3:44
    I think it was called the South Slope Friends Tournament previously or on IFPA. But it indicates that it was nine games, I presume that was nine holes of pin golf, and then they went to a group match play finals where Matt Grady bested the field, which were Nintu and then George Underwood and August Kaplan respectively. George and August had to take it to one more game, which was the Walking Dead. All of that went down at Buttermilk.
    4:16
    And uh, Rulos. There were... Oh! There were 15 machines on a scorecard, and your best 9 golf scores were counted, so you got 6 throwaways. Play every game once, best 9 work. Yeah. I wasn't able to get to all 15 during the qualifying period. Uh, I played 13 of them, but I even taken out the bad ones, I shot a pretty lousy 35 and was nowhere near finals. Huh, sorry to hear it.
    4:47
    On Monday, March 30th, at bars all around the city, Pinball NYC's left flipper division held its seventh round. Our New York City Flipper Sport Association had a bye week. The aristocrats went to Midway to face Balls of Steel, and the visitors picked up a 9-7 road win. Aristocrats got sick of losing to teams with zero or one wins, and they did something about it, man. Pinpals and the two-for-oners were slated to battle at Gebhardt's Beer Culture.
    5:21
    There are no results in the app as of Friday. I made a presumption about pinpals last week. I do not know what to presume about the lack of reported results. Benjamin, your colliders went to Milo's yard to see worms, and I see it went to a tiebreak. What happened? We split every round to get there. In the tiebreaker, they chose player per ball, we chose jackpot.
    5:51
    I tilted on ball three. They won the match when their card in hand bonus of 4.3 million points was added to Fred's ball three bonus. It was the last item to count up in his bonus and the final score was 255.2 million worms to 251.4 million worms. That is to say less than... Colliders. Colliders, sorry. That's who we are. We're the Colliders. We had 251.4 million. There
    6:23
    was never a point until the very last moment of the bonus count up in this match that it was not tied. And it was Fred's bonus and frankly my tilt. When I did, there was a dramatic cry from the assemblage in the back of Milo's yard. I kind of shrugged it off because I was like, nah, I mean, all Fred has to do is hit a couple of shots. And all Fred did was hit a couple of shots. But it was enough. That's their first win. Well, it seems like maybe ties were in the air.
    6:54
    Indeed. The Deluxe Horses hosted the lesser players at Barcade Brooklyn. It was eight to eight, and those horsies won the tiebreak. That's their third win after that tiebreaker. Lion Persons went to solid state to meet the mutants. They went to an 8-8 tie and Lion Persons got the road tiebreak win. Oh it's a tie score again? How about that? On paper, this looks like a big win for the Lion Persons after a rough start.
    7:28
    The Pinbots hosted Parliament at Scrapple Land. It went to an 8-8 tiebreaker that the Pinbots picked up. And the pinbots pulled even with Parliament in record with the win when they pulled even with Parliament in the tiebreaker. When I mentioned this to the Collider's encrypted message chat, and yes, we have our own proprietary one, I swear. One of our very clever members, Julia, like when I sent them the screenshot of like there
    8:00
    There were four ties on this night that we tied. Julia immediately said, it's the ties of March. It was 15 days late for the Ides of March, but it was the ties of March. And Special When Lit hosted Intermission Dolores at Rulos and broke the streak by getting an 11 to 5 home win. There it is. It's their first win. Well, we're quite a bit into this season now. Some teams only have three left. Well, we have no more lossless teams and no more winless teams.
    8:34
    That's right. Balls of Steel are leading the way with a record of 6-1, 71 points. And the Aristocrats are 5-2 with 65 points. Having just beat them last week, BT dubs. There's a whole bunch of teams at 4-2, but the two-for-oners don't have this week's result In yet. So, this could change, but the two-for-oners have 59 points, the mutants have 58, NYC FSA 56, Parliament 53, the pinbots 47.
    9:18
    And I just want to point out that we don't have two-for-oners result this week yet, but they are, if they won, they're definitely like vaulting up the standing All of these are important things because they're ahead of everyone whose results we do have this week at 4-2. In points, that is. That gets us to seven spots in the standings, which means at the moment the pinbots at the bottom of that list of 4-2 teams would be starting out in the left in-lane playoffs. Right. Presumably. We still don't exactly know. Have we learned for sure whether it's 12 going in?
    9:54
    We've done it. We presume, because in recent history, 12 teams have gone to the playoffs in, on both the Monday night and the Tuesday night leagues, we presume that is what will happen this time. If so, the pinbots would be joined by Lion Persons and the Colliders, both 3 and 3 with 50 and 44 points respectively. Also Intermission Dolores and the Deluxe Horses are both 3 and 4. They have 51 and 46 points, respectively.
    10:26
    And the pinpals at 2 and 4 with 43 points would round out the in-lane playoffs. And they almost necessarily, even if they're 2 and 5, because they have this week's result not reported, just as the two-for-oners don't, but even if they were 2 and 5, they would still be above this line, because below it, it's 1 and 5. It's worms at 1 and 5 and 37 points. Special when lit and the lesser players are both one win and six losses.
    10:56
    They have 46 and 42 points respectively. On Tuesday, March 31st, it was round six of Pinball NYC's right flipper division. It happened at bars all over the city. It happened in all the boroughs that matter. I see you boogie down. Staten Island, get a real fucking borough. But I see you boogie down. I'm sorry when I said it's all the boroughs that matter. You matter too. Your Butterballers hosted the replays and picked up a 10-6 win.
    11:27
    That's gonna keep us just shy of the orbit line for now, but it was a good match. I had a particularly strong game of Walking Dead in the third round, playing against Mason of the replays. It was just a slugfest back and forth. I was player one, I put up 36 million on my first ball. And then Mason put up 32 million on his first ball.
    11:58
    Ah. And I said, wow. And he said, well, you made me do it. That's right. So after ball two, I managed to get myself to 46 million. And Mason countered with his ball two, getting himself to 49 million. And then on ball three, I hit some big multiplied shots. I finished at 89. And Mason's ball three crapped out about 58.
    12:30
    Still a great game. I mean, a really good game. But yeah, it was, that was a really fun match against a tough opponent. Yeah, super cool. Everybody Loves the Sunshine went to Jack Bar where the Schlubs hosted them and served them a 9-7 loss. Schlubs grab a tight win in a week that will seem more consequential momentarily. Solid State saw No Quarters for Laundry hosting Scrapple Squad and No Quarters for Laundry picks up a 13-3 win.
    13:09
    That's no quarter's fifth straight win, and it's their third straight win with 13 or more points. Pinister Six hosted the Baldrainers at Skylark, and Pinister Six won 9-7. Well, unfortunately, uh, Zen is in a different continent, so I can't fill in any of the gaps here, but that's a big win for Pinister Six, and it's the Baldrainers' first loss. Trolls went to At The Wallace, where Harlem Globe Flippers bettered them 11-5. That makes four wins for the globe flippers and they have the most points of any of the four win teams.
    13:46
    The third ball is home at midway and Neptune's Treasure came bearing 14 points to win 14 to 2 over the home team. Neptune's Treasure piled on the points and that has them just above the orbit playoff line for now. Birdies saw Harry's Hand Grenades coming to visit the Pin Babes and Harry's Hand Grenades won 9-7. The Hand Grenades pick up their second win a week after their first and inch into a tie at the bottom of the in-lane playoff bracket for now.
    14:24
    Rest in Pinball hosted Danger Danger at Barcade Brooklyn and it was 15-1 What works the best for oval baseball? The next team with the same record of five and one. We're going to presume 12 teams again here, even though this division has 16 teams. We're going to presume that 12 will go to the playoffs when we talk about this.
    14:58
    But it also turns out that like if you look at the top six, well, the top eight have the record. You know, have all have a four and two record or, you know, the cutoff of a four and two record is at eight teams, Not six teams anyway. The five and one teams, the teams that at this point they can't be under 500. They've won five games already. It's six weeks in. They've won five games already. They have to be over 500 and all of them have, like most of them have a loss against one
    15:34
    another. That's how this has worked by and large. So danger, danger, no quarters, schlubs, ball drainers, all five and one. Awesome. 위해위에 � soring 하는 Gusto leagues, a structure ofdanι Just the window that's left with,
    16:10
    The four and two teams are Harlem Globe Flippers and Neptune's Treasure. They would be above the line right now with 61 and 55 and Butterballers and Pinister Six in theory they below the line right now with 53 and 51 scored on the season We move down the standings and two of those four and two teams would be below this line at this time it butterballers and pinister six and they would be joined by everybody loves the sunshine the pin babes scrapples squad harry hand grenades and rest in pinball
    16:51
    Well that would be too many. Well it is one too many, but they're all 2 and 4. These bottom, the pinbabes who rest in pinball are all 2 and 4, and the bottom two, 12 and 13, lucky 13, which is currently rest in pinball the way it sits in the standings, are tied at 2 and 4. Have they played? They won't face each other this season, so the first tiebreaker isn't there. They have respectively the Pin Babes 38, Scrapple Squad 37, Harry's Hand Grenades and Reston Pinball tied at 36. It's drama.
    17:29
    One of those two and four teams is not in the playoff picture at present and they would be joined outside the playoff picture by Trolls, Replays and the Third Ball. The Trolls have one win and 33 points, the Replays and the Third Ball have zero wins and 35 and 21 respectively. Replays and third ball are now... it is impossible to be 500 or above. On Wednesday, April 1st, 45 players showed up at Scrapple Land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
    18:01
    for the fifth qualifying session of the second season of Scrapple League for 2026. Directed by Greg Pavarelli, myself, and Harlan Aida-Linda, Woody Richman was away this week. We played five rounds of group match play with IFPA scoring, trying to add to our series total for the finals coming up in two weeks. Parlin made use of the new label colors available in match play on Wednesday nights.
    18:35
    For our TD labels in the standings, they've got pride flags. There's also a trans pride flag, one that you can choose. Greg Pavarelli was at the top of the night. He got 31 points. Chris Caffaro picked up 29. Adam Kane, Harlan Aida-Linda, CJ Smith, and Steven Perrillo all got 27. Five weeks in the books, one week of qualifying remains. Last chance to adjust your season total. Right now Greg Pavarelli is sitting in the first seed position with 112 points across four visits.
    19:13
    Big number. CJ Smith is in second with 106. Harlan Aida Linda, Sean Grant, Steven Perillo, Adam Kane, myself, and Dustin Bailey round out the top eight that would be going to A finals. And that rounds down, we talked about the top of that is 112, the bottom of that is 91. With 90 points, sitting in 9th place at the top of the B Division finalists, if they were held today, Pat Carawan.
    19:45
    Woody Richman has 88 and would be driving the second B bus. They'd be joined at the moment by Alberto Santana, Mike Pantino, Dan Merrill, Lindsey Rhodes, Jackie Bailey, and Chris Caffaro. But a few of these players only have three meetings on their card and could easily jump real fast into A. Uh, two of them, specifically. Alberto and Caffaro both have exactly three meetings. If they can show up for week six, you should expect them to be...
    20:26
    Eric, you have 94. It's only 11 points down to where Caffaro is, and he has three meetings. You are two above the line. No offense. No, I expect to see Chris over 100. Right, and Alberto has 87 and is seven points behind you today. So like you, if I'm sitting where you are, I'm looking at my job and saying you have 25, 23, 23, 23 for your 94s.
    21:00
    I'm looking at my job as I've got to get over these 98 people in front of me. It's outrunning the bear. It's, it is, you have to be faster than the people you are with. That's where you are right now. It looks like I need like a 29. Right, yeah, you need six-ish. A hundred at the end of this feels good. Also sitting just below the B-finals line, Susie Zalewski's at 82 and Matt Raz is at 80. Susie improving on a 19, Matt on a 17. Anything over that.
    21:35
    The winning over that adds to this total that they score next week. There are also notable comers for the B division that have three meetings on their scorecard. I went down through. These are people who have three meetings and 60 or more points. They are Sam Atlas, Ida Kreutzer, Nitsan Gabai, and Zvika Geff. Oh hey, what about the money? 17 players participated in the optional side pot.
    22:06
    Greg Pavarelli took home the first place money. On Thursday at Jack Bar. And I just, I just don't know. I don't, it was, it was April 2nd. Gabe texted us and said that it was going to be at 7.30, but it says 8.30 on the Match Play listing. It says 8, but it started at 7.30. Match Play says what it says. Match play also tells me that Ian Leone bested the field with only a strike to his name. Greg Fertel got second.
    22:38
    Alex Weisenberger, Ida Kreutzer, and John McGregor tied for third at No Bro Presents Thursday Night Strikes on Thursday, April 2nd. I am judging from a screenshot of match play that was taken during the course of Strikes Last Night. Round one there was at the time this was taken an ongoing game of Godzilla
    23:12
    at 24 minutes. I think the screenshot was taken around 8.04pm, which would mean the start round button was hit about 7.40. Could have been earlier if the screenshot took a while to be sent. Uh... yeah, that Godzilla was being played by Adam Robinson and Adam Kane. At the beginning of his Ball 3, Kane was down 680 million, and
    23:42
    As of the last report I got was closing in on it. Right. But they were done before midnight. Nice. What else happened? Also on Thursday, South Slope Pinball League's second season of the year had its third qualifying week at Buttermilk Bar directed by Kate Martin. Twenty players were there for five rounds of match play with IFPA scoring. There wasn't a banner that said, sorry, all the games are broken this week. Matt Grady picked up 29 points.
    24:14
    Both Morgan Levinson and Steven Christopher got 27. And Taylor Connolly, Monica Weidekamp, Joan Samander, and Matt Carlson had 23. This week on Monday, April 6th, at bars all around the city, Pinball NYC's Left Flipper Division will contest Round 8. The Pinbots will go to Barcade Brooklyn to visit the D-Lux horses.
    24:45
    Worms will visit Solid State where the Mutants will be their host. The Mutants will look to rebound from a loss. Worms will look to continue their positive momentum. The Pinpals will take the week off. It's maybe still not clear if they took last week off. 2for1ers will visit Lion Persons at Barcade Fi-Di. We don't know what 2for1ers did last week either, but Lion Persons used to be home at 2for1ers' new home. It's kind of a weird intersectional Gebhard's matchup.
    25:23
    The Lesser Players will actually be at Gebhardt's hosting your New York City Flipper Sport Association. The Lesser Players won in week one and they've lost every week since. They're currently at the bottom of the standings. We Colliders will host Parliament at Buttermilk. Parliament has lost two in a row. Colliders have alternated wins and losses. They lost last week. Balls of Steel will go to Commonwealth where Intermission Dolores will host them.
    25:54
    Balls of Steel took their first loss last week. Intermission Dolores has lost two in a row in the slope and they've won one of three at home. Special when lit? We'll visit the Aristocrats in a Rulos vs. Rulos matchup. We got a couple more of those coming. Because on Tuesday, April 7th, Pinball NYC's right flipper division We'll contest its seventh round. Ball Drainers go to Jack Bar to see Schlubbs. That's not going very far.
    26:27
    That's right. Ball Drainers go to Jack Bar. I mean, they're both at home, right? They're both the same place. I was, uh, talking with Eda at Scrapple Land this week about the upcoming Jack Bar v. Jack Bar match. They've designed like swag for it. They've got art and they call it the jack off. Oh. And I said, oh wow. And people complain that I want to refer to the butter brawl as the
    27:02
    battle of the butts. Yeah, right. Apparently the week before the match is known as the week of hell in the team group chats with a a lot of verbal sparring going on ahead of ahead of the match interesting like it's gonna be like a lot of fun the ball drainers lost their first one last week that makes this one all the more dramatic because they're both five and one and they're separated by a point in the standings trolls will
    27:33
    host everybody loves the sunshine at barcade fight I everybody loves the The Sun and the Sunshine lost 9-7 away to a good team. Trolls lost in upstate Manhattan. They're hoping that the south end of the island will bring better fortune to the Trolltar. Rest in pinball parenthetically RIP and Scrapple Squad will be at Scrapple Land. Scrapple Squad lost their last two. RIP has lost three in a row.
    28:04
    Butterballers will play the virtual away team as we face Danger Danger at Buttermilk Bar. It's the Butter Brawl. Another. The Battle of the Butts. It's another cross bar rivalry. No Quarters for Laundry goes to Milo's yard to see Neptune's Treasure. The Pin Babes hosts Penister Six at Birdies. Pin Babes lost their win streak last week. They'd won two in a row before the loss.
    28:37
    Penister Six killed the longest win streak in the division last week with a win over the Ball Drainers. Harlem Globe Flippers will visit the replays at Rulo's. Replays are 0-6, but they've scored also nearly 6 points a game. They're 0-6 with 35 in 6 games. It feels like they'll break through for a win sometime. And the third ball will go to Bar Grade Harry to face Harry's Hand Grenades.
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    The third ball has also lost their 6 straight, and Harry's Hand Grenades has only been close enough the last two weeks. On Wednesday at Scrapple Land at pinball 8 o'clock, the last meeting of Scrapple Land Season 2, 2026 will be convened under Greg Pavarelli's direction with assistance from Eric and presumably Woody and Harlan. On Thursday, April 9th, No Bro- No! No Presents Thursday Night Strikes will be happening at Jack Bar at 730 Sharp.
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    Also on Thursday, the fourth meeting of South Slope Pinball League's second season in 2026 will be convened at Buttermilk at pinball 8 o'clock. And on Saturday, April 11th, South Slope Strikes will be held primarily out of Rulo's. Sign ups at 5 o'clock, tournament starts at 5.30. Usual tournament director, Jess Warren, will be out of town, so I'll be stepping in as the guest TD.
    30:24
    Four strikes. And since Philadelphia is an easy day trip that kind of feels like a really long and partially luxurious if very also expensive subway ride, Philly Pinball Club is having an off-season tournament on Sunday, April 12th at Barcade Center City, which is very close to the train station. You can get there very quickly. I think New Yorkers can certainly walk that distance. I haven't walked it so I don't know what the path is like but I'm pretty sure you can get a cheap lift from there and you can get a subway from a place to a place just continuing one more transfer on your subway after Penn Station basically.
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    That happens 1pm to 6pm in Philadelphia on Sunday, April 12th and those folks are cool. At 2pm on Sunday, April 12th at Jack Bar, it's the Stern Army Pokemon Pinball Launch Party, directed by David Potluck. It'll be 12 rounds of max match play, followed by a Papa-style finals for an A and B division. Well, let's talk about venues. As of April 3rd, 2026, there are 360 pinball machines in New York City at 74 public locations.
    31:45
    Thanks to the creators and users of Pinball Map for this data, here are machine updates from the past week. On Sunday, March 29th, user Flipper Fiend was at Scrapple Land and left a few comments. Of Beetlejuice they said, Beetlejuice's latest bad habit? Trapping the ball in the Bridge Out Outlane Diverter. And of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Flipperfiend said, Multiple Playfield Lights Out, including missed multiball and the C in Dracula.
    32:16
    I know what that means and I don't think I'd be super fussed by it, but I appreciate the callouts. And of Elton John, Flipper Fiend said, not letting players select song before start of game, skill shots not registering or awarding. My gift is my song. User Mayor of Now was also at ScrappleLand. They let us know that Attack from Mars was off and the Scoop on Dune shoots Straight Down the Middle.
    32:49
    Good acronym SDTM Straight Down the Middle at Barcade Fideye and commented on their Congo lower left flipper is dead Also on Sunday the Pokemon Pro at Jack Bar was replaced by a Pokemon Premium Although I thought I had heard in conversation that both were set up. Well, maybe both were set up for a minute and one's about to show up at, I don't know, say Transmitter Brewing?
    33:25
    On Monday, user Bonsai also commented on the Congo at Barcade Fideye. Bonsai said, just FYI, Barcade managers are not checking pin map comments, but all games are playtested daily, so this was noticed and repaired the next morning. I'd recommend pointing out issues to bar staff instead of the internet and they can often fix simple issues like this in minutes. It helps us and you.
    33:56
    User Flipper Fiends had another comment for ScrappleLand saying that for World Cup soccer, a ball is stuck in the goal assist and it doesn't seem particularly motivated to move elsewhere. On Wednesday, user Flipper Fiends commented on the Lord of the Rings at Scrapp-O-Land. They said, Patience is as a virtue, especially when playing this game. Gimli, the extra ball scoop, doesn't register.
    34:27
    Leads to 15 to 20 pauses before ball search process begins. Once found, takes multiple attempts to make it through the Vuck. Left Flipper gets stuck halfway up. Additionally, having a ball save light which doesn't actually reflect ball save status is objectively bad design and coding. Listener, if you heard Vuk and said, what does that mean? V-U-K, vertical up kicker. In this instance, it's the thing that's almost right in the middle of the playfield, just slightly right.
    34:59
    It kicks the ball up onto a wire form ramp to bring it back to your right flipper, but it's a vertical up kicker, is Vuk. User Do0 played the Rolling Stones at Margarita Island in Coney Island. They said, sticky and weak flippers, sticky and weak plunger, ramps are easy. That is the very best thing that anyone has said about the Rolling Stones at Margarita Island in the 15 years that there has been a Rolling Stones at Margarita Island.
    35:42
    That's the very best thing that anyone has ever said about the state of its play. It has at times been in a position that the only way to play it is to also have your left hand touching a crane machine or a claw machine rather. It like, it has never been in a full, I have played it every time I have put a dollar into it, at least one flipper has not worked. It's right around the corner from what is an occasional best, you know, venue in New York in a way because it has all of these classic games at Coney Island Pinball Museum slash whatever it's called when Dennis is able to set up his games somewhere near the Freak Bar.
    36:30
    I think right now he has a pinball listing that, a pinball map listing that is active and probably accurate, but also probably only open on weekends when the Freak Bar is open. But yeah, that one's never worked. That one's... like, the floaty Guardians of the Galaxy at the Eldorado bumper car arcade was always in better shape than this. The almost acceptable Walking Dead that you had to buy a card for Dino's Wonder Wheel Park to go play was always in better shape than this,
    37:06
    And those were the only three games that you could play at Coney Island or some combination of, you know, those three locations games and maybe like the free play, no one ever pays attention to it, Coney Island Pinball at Coney Island USA. That one has been sitting there for a long time and often is on free play and ready to go. This has always been the most disappointing pinball game at Coney Island, in one of the most disappointing places in New York City.
    37:40
    Insert the Glenn Frey song, In the City, that is played at the end of the Warriors here. Alright, well you played last weekend, didn't you? Yeah, well I made it out to the South Slope Friends pin golf tournament. We set up a foursome of butterballers, me, AJ, Steven, and Mike. And we played a quick road show at Rulo's and decided to go hit up buttermilk.
    38:13
    And we played all through buttermilk. Oh, was it willy-nilly? Was it not like a shotgun start where everyone started on one game and moved one game to the right? No, it was willy-nilly. That's why nobody got all their games in, or why some people didn't get all their games in. Yeah, we played all through buttermilk as the foursome and then realized it was almost, you know, like we barely had a half an hour left and we had only played one Rulo's game. Right. And so then we broke up into singles and had people verify at the end of the game for us, which other people had figured out earlier and were doing and filled out a full card.
    38:56
    Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah. Right, I mean, even if there were... There weren't... It didn't require... There weren't so many players that it would have required a shotgun start wherein there were four players on every single game, or even a group on every single game. As long as everyone was friendly and was willing to group up with some homies to go through it. Right. So, you're saying that wasn't organized from the standpoint where you were assigned a foursome or anything, right?
    39:29
    No, no. Or it was necessary for you to go out in a foursome? Right, it wasn't. Right. But I think, you know, I mean, they suggested a group of, you know, more than one. Right, sure, yeah. It's hard to get it done if everyone's trying to play one game at a time. That said, it's also going to go fast enough when a fast player is done on one if you just go through, but yeah. As I said earlier, you know, I didn't play particularly great pinball, but it was a fun time. I heard that we raised a sizable amount of money for a good cause.
    40:05
    Good. I went out on Monday. Ah. I went to Milo's like we talked about. I texted you because I thought it was funny and I wanted to remember it to say right now. I'm not sure if you can hear me now, but I saw a, I saw like an Uber car or a Lyft car or whatever, probably someone who drives for every possible app service car drive by me with a license plate that said FAIRS, F-A-R-E-Z, after I had got off the subway in Ridgewood to get to Milo's.
    40:42
    I was really glad to go there, but because it had the F-A-R-E-Z and I was playing the W-U-R-M-Z or E-R-M-Z, I just assumed that one of them was like wrapping up their shift, driving people around before it was time to go to pinball. I was there that we're getting their fares so they could go to their worms match. That was I I've sent Eric that that joke of a text because I wanted to remember that to say right now.
    41:15
    I was really glad to go to Milo's. I had an awful in the theme from I think two weeks ago you talked about your awful commute home late at night. This was an awful rush hour commute. I was coming from the Upper West Side. I had just a couple of express stops to get to 14th Street and then to get on an L to go out to the Myrtle Wyckoff stop is usually how I get there, although I could probably take... there might be... the DeKalb stop might be a little closer or something. I don't really know. That's just... I think of that stop because I've gone there on both of the trains that stop there.
    41:56
    I found myself walking back and forth between the Sixth Avenue F and M platform and the L platform to see which one would come first. And it took me about 20 minutes to actually get on a train when I was in just that station. Radio of the Year ран martyrs Compối
    42:48
    Everyone just wanted to get through with grace. I think we did our best, but man, it was a trying commute to get to Milo's, but my goodness, it was as if, you know, after the sky having opened up and poured on you, it is as if the rainbow thereafter. When you get off the train and you walk through just a New York City neighborhood where people live
    43:19
    where families live not where like, some real estate developer decided people should live but just where people naturally lived and yeah, sure, what's sitting there are some brick real estate developments that were put up in the 70s or so, probably But it's their family homes. They're not body storage. And a lot of New York real estate is body storage.
    43:49
    I like Milo's. They're a super fun team. I challenge anyone else who goes to Milo's this season to choose Berrio's BBQ. I did it. By the way, Till was a great partner in that endeavor and also was probably exasperated that I made him play it despite the fact that he was smiling the whole time we played. You told me you went to play Neptune's Treasure and the home team didn't choose that game. That's insane to me.
    44:25
    I really enjoy the way it shoots. I think the rules are... So forgiving, at least the way that it's set up. It may very well be set up in an easy mode or something like that. But like I think the rules are very forgiving. Speaking of which, rules, Steve Bowden, they're all so good. They just... There's a lot there, man. There's a lot there. There's a lot there on Lawler's games too, and that's what makes him great.
    44:57
    I also want to quickly shout out Lee whom I had several conversations with. We sort of had an ongoing conversation throughout the night kind of like I described I had with George Underwood last Thursday at Skylark. The pinball was a little bit more organized throughout the evening but it was a really pleasant conversation and also congrats. I didn't realize at the time that he just had a massive Whopper weekend so congrats to Lee on that. Well, NYCFSA had the buy on Monday. Yeah. So I was out again on Tuesday for the Butterballers hosting replays at Buttermilk.
    45:37
    I told you about that The Walking Dead game. I also played Metallica twice, once in singles and once in doubles. I had good games both of those times so that was just a strong pinball night for me which was very nice after Sunday's disappointing golf. Yeah, right, right. What about Wednesday? You did alright at Scrapple League, I think. Yeah, Wednesday was Scrapple League. We were particularly proud.
    46:11
    It was our largest attended week yet for Scrapple League. Oh, 45's insane. It's great. And lots of cool new players. In the first round, I was in a group with three Erics. Both of the other Erics, though, spell their names C. C-H. Oh my goodness!
    46:41
    Those are shifty motherfuckers. And they work together. One is the boss of the other. Oh my. They look very different, but I don't know which one's which. You mean which one's last name associates with which human? Yes, quite. Yeah. Well, that's fun. Any fun games? Did you get any more Pokemon in, or did you play a good Gold Strike or anything? In the last round, I had a very satisfying Pulp Fiction.
    47:13
    Nice. I think it's set up particularly brutally. It's hard to get a handle on it. In fact, going into ball three, three of us had not gotten much of a handle on it. I think there were three scores under 100K. Player one finished their ball three at just over a million.
    47:43
    Connor Fleming had done that. He got, he got a hold of it in ball two and then yeah, racked up a nice score on a tough Pulp Fiction. Right, right, right, yeah. On my ball three, I was, I was chopping wood for a long while. I was finally able to figure out if I had a mode that got me a couple hundred K, I played
    48:14
    I was getting up maybe around six or seven hundred thousand. The ball started landing in the saucer at the top a lot, which it had not been doing for the rest of the game. It seemed to always live out of it, but it started landing in it a lot. I quickly had four of the cast members lit to be collected at the right scoop.
    48:47
    And then as it was coming out of the scoop at the top, it kept bumping into the little targets in the pop nest that light the big kahuna bonus, the playfield multiplier. Got the playfield multiplier up to 3x and then backhanded the right scoop. And just collecting the four characters was huge and put me like just under the one million
    49:20
    and a little bit more flipping around I passed it and I drained shortly after and my bonus happened to have been another several hundred K So I was in a good spot But it was a very satisfying fall three there in the last round What about Thursday? Alright. Yeah. I came back to Earth and had just a lousy 16. Lousy? Alright then. It was a lot of fun. Matt Carlson said the funniest thing ever. I've completely forgotten
    49:52
    That's how Thursday night goes. Yeah. Let's talk about the final round of the NYCPPAA. That's the New York City Pinpod Awesomeness Archive, in which 64 pinball machines were pitted against each other in a bracket, similar to what the NCAA does every March. And then winnowed down to a final four and soon to a single champion, the greatest pinball machine of all time, at least for right now.
    50:34
    Over the past few weeks, Benjamin and Zen and I originally seeded 64 machines into the tournament into regions based on their era. We know those down to the best of each era and they meet now in the final four. What we do? How do we get here? What are they? The four machines competing to be crowned champion from the electrical mechanical era,
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    Argosy, from the solid state era, Stargazer, from the DMD era, Theater of Magic, and from The era, Theater of Magic, and from the flat screen era, Deadpool. Okay, let's have a little bit of suspense here. Each of us ranked this foursome with IFPA scoring as if it were a pinball game. Myself, Benjamin, Zen, we each separately and without consultation assigned one of these machines a seven, that is our favorite,
    51:41
    We've added those together to see who wins this round. We talked about this a little bit right before we started recording and I think that it is at least a little bit interesting that these four games can all be played like bonus builders. There are a couple of like I did in the very first iteration of NYC Pin Pod, I did this series of of ball three topics that I called strategy trends worth remembering or something like that.
    52:27
    But it just like there are certain strategies that appear over and over and over again in pinball machines and it's really worth noting a thing that you should do on particular games in particular from the older eras but in this instance all of these games are games where like you you can score so much more on your bonus If you are a fan of the game, you can't be more excited about the game than on your ball if you do it right.
    53:02
    And it's such an interesting phenomenon that all four of these games came through. Deadpool, obviously being the most modern, that would be the least usual place for there to be a bonus builder type game. You would think there would be a little bit deeper strategy to it. And the fact is that there are a million deeper strategies to it. I think it was last season, but it might have been earlier this season, about getting a couple of snicked on a ball.
    53:32
    And just getting a snicked and doing almost anything is a pretty good strategy on Deadpool. Just being like, hey, I can hit that shot a couple of times and then do a thing, even if that thing wasn't a huge point thing. I think playing the top lanes on Deadpool is... should be a priority. Because it's a multiplier and your bonus builds from all the things you do on the game.
    54:05
    But it's four across, and so it takes a little longer than you might be used to with a usual three-lane top over a Bob Betts. Does it maybe also only move in one direction or only with one flipper, question mark? It moves normally, just a little bit, but I think it's a good thing. This is normally during regular gameplay. It's during the skill shot that if you don't hold the left flipper and you just go for the standard skill shot, you can choose the lane first, but once you've released the ball, you can't move the lane further.
    54:35
    Got it. It's a bonus builder. Zen was talking about it last week, Theatre of Magic. The low risk, high reward strategy of Theatre of Magic is left orbit all day because you get the theatre letter and when you're short of the ramp you get to build up the bonus multiplier and one of them contributes to the bonus, the other multiplies what you just did. bzw your game, or offer the game, or buy the game, or get your pen.
    55:22
    Why did the return dropping out of the right orbit is nicely catchable? I definitely subscribe to that as my competitive strategy. Yeah. I think it's what the Bowen Papa video tells you is the easiest way to a billion points or whatever and it's probably right. Stargazer is a bonus builder because it was designed to be a bonus builder. It is you build it on ball one and you have a great game.
    55:52
    Right? Yeah, well, your bonus and your bonus X both carry over the entire game. Bonus X is the drop target banks. The two side drop target banks, yeah. Right, right, right, the safe ones. And the bonus is the number of zodiac signs that you've collected, but there are a lot We have a lot of ways to spot them which include, uh, rolling over those star things, those star rollovers that aren't inlanes but kind of act like inlanes on Stargazer. Right?
    56:26
    Yeah. Like, two of the four, is that right? Two of the four things are spotted zodiac? Yeah, two of the four are spotted zodiac. The other two are light spinner. Yes. And light's the op- the opposite spinner. Right. Right. Or that side spinner. I can't remember. No, it's opposite. Opposite, yeah. I thought one was light spinner and one was like light drops or something like that. Otherwise, the 12 zodiac symbols are stand-ups around the playfield, mostly around the top. Yes, but you can get them spotted and that to me is maybe the better way to build the bonus.
    57:00
    And Argosy, it just, it has that, it's also a star rollover, right? It's not a star rollover, it's just a button rollover, right? Maybe, maybe. You probably know it better than I do. I have played it several times at tournaments, but I have never stood in a room with it where I was not playing a tournament also. I debated between two for my top two. I knew what the bottom two were, but I debated between two for my top two. Did you have a similar debate or did you know what to do?
    57:36
    I had my seven in mind and my feelings about the other three just kept swapping around. I see. And I finally locked it in this afternoon. Okay. All right. Well, I had not, as Eric knows, I had not actually voted yet. I had tried to be impartial and I actually didn't plug the formulas in that calculated I didn't really know what the results were until I voted.
    58:09
    I knew that Deadpool and Argosy were the second tier. I knew that those two were the second tier for me. They were not seven point material or five point material. That Theater of Magic and Stargazer were seven point and five point material. I flip-flopped. I first put down Theater of Magic because I was trying to correct for the bias of, as I said to Zen and Eric last week, the question for me when you ask me, like, what's a better pinball machine is if I walk into a room and those two pinball machines are there, which one would I play?
    58:58
    That is, there's a binary decision here and I can move to one side or another and you can offer me another one and I can move to one side or another. I understand how to make this distinction. Which one would I play first? I walk into a room, which one do I play first? That's easy. But it's complicated by the fact that Stargazer isn't in as many rooms. And so I tried to correct for it by choosing Theater of Magic and I asked myself, I said, stop, don't just correct for it, ask another question.
    59:33
    And the other question was, which one of these games do I feel best when I blow up? And Stargazer is the answer. Like when you're playing a great game of Stargazer, oh my God, that's the best game of pinball ever, partially because it's the one you're playing right now. But it's also just, man, when you get a hold of it, it's so good. When you feel like you can give it just that right love to keep it in between the slings so that it does not go to those two kind of forgiving out lanes because of the geometry of the game, and you can get it to roll over that star rollover because you can kind of keep it between the slings.
    60:19
    There is no feeling in pinball like playing that game like that and so that's why I gave Stargazer my first place. What did you give Stargazer? Stargazer is clearly the best of these. It's awesome. I love that game for many of the same reasons that you were just elaborating. Boy, I really like the bonus builder part of this. It's fantastic. You just shoot for the side drops, work on your bonus acts, the rebounds are going to be picking up the stand-ups for you, and then as you're in recovery, it's going to be rolling over those star rollovers.
    61:06
    I do really think that you can kind of rock back and forth over those star rollovers if you can get a trap up. Yeah, yeah, you can backhand one from the flipper zone. Yeah, well, but also I think you can backhand it and then it will probably result in a ski slope pass to the other one where you will be able to get another one. And if you're very clever, you might be able to keep doing roughly that all day. But it might be a good way to play ball one at least.
    61:36
    If you built up your bonus quite a bit by collecting a lot of zodiacs or just built up your principle quite a bit by hitting a lot of lit spinner, it might be pretty kick ass. So Stargazer did it. It got through. Both of us put it first. I want to recognize, Zen said this last week, Zen as Eric I think said earlier is on another continent. So, Zen is not joining us this week. This was, Zen gave this one.
    62:09
    We heard from Zen and I totally want to recognize this and recognize that I may well be wholly complicit in problematic thinking here, but that there is a sexist element to the revealing Ballywin costume worn by the woman on the back glass. To me, this one doesn't feel quite as difficult as something like Woe Nelly Big Juicy Melons.
    62:48
    This one is not as thought-provoking to me as that or as worthy of thoughtful criticism as that. I do not want to dismiss thoughtful criticism of it. And, you know, I see that. We had, because we both had that first, and because I had Theatre of Magic second, which
    63:19
    is to say that Theatre of Magic came in last with what is probably an outsized score since I had it second. I gave it five points. It has nine points, which means Zen gave it three, Eric gave it one, right? Yep. Deadpool and Argosy. Argosy came in second, Deadpool third. How'd you go? Uh, well, I gave seven to Stargazer, five to Argosy, three to Deadpool, and one to Theatre of Magic.
    63:57
    And I had them in, I had those two in the same order, Argosy and Deadpool, but they were three and one for me instead of five and three. Zen's votes were seven for Deadpool, five for Argosy, three for Theater of Magic, and one for Stargazer. Well, Stargazer is our champion. Yeah. It is the best pinball machine of all time, at least for right now. Now, and it is getting enshrined in the NYC double P double A. But Benjamin, we have to enshrine something else in the NYC double P double A.
    64:40
    Well, we might call them someone else. And their name is Wyndham Manning. Wyndham has participated every time. I have run the NYC double people double a this includes before the pandemic Wyndham has participated every time Wyndham is a longtime listener Wyndham is awesome and that's why Wyndham is being inducted at this time into the NYC pinpot awesomeness archive
    65:17
    That's all for this week's pod. Join us next week. We'll do the usual things in Balls 1 and 2. And in Ball 3, I hope we're going to talk to a pinball tournament director in the city about some of their upcoming stuff. But we'll see. We're definitely going to do something in Ball 3. Between now and then, whatever you're up to, go get them, pinfo!
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