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INDISC 2019 - Classics I Playoffs - Finals

IE Pinball·video·51m 5s·analyzed·Mar 5, 2019
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TL;DR

INDISC 2019 Classics Finals coverage from Museum of Pinball with Corey Dunn and Bob John Matthews competing.

Summary

IE Pinball streams the INDISC 2019 Classics I Playoffs Finals from the Museum of Pinball in Bandon, California. The tournament features three classic pinball games (El Dorado, Eight Ball, and Mystic) with four finalists competing in a match-play format. Corey Dunn and Bob John Matthews finish tied for first place, with Bob winning the finals on Eight Ball. The stream showcases competitive classic pinball play, tournament operations using the Scorbit live scoring system, and features commentary on game strategy and player skill.

Key Claims

  • Eight Scorbit devices are set up at the tournament this year, up from one last year

    high confidence · Commentators discussing Scorbit setup and noting increase from previous year

  • Scorbit automatically sends results to a leaderboard API that tracks live scores

    high confidence · Brian O'Neill explaining Scorbit technology and live score tracking system

  • Bob John Matthews has been playing pinball since the Alice Cooper album was released in the 1970s

    medium confidence · Commentators discussing Bob's history and mentioning an Alice Cooper album story

  • Scorbit is operational on eight games at the tournament with solid state support

    high confidence · Brian O'Neill's explanation of Scorbit deployment and functionality

  • The Scorbit system reads game scores via device on display and sends data to an API for scorekeeping

    high confidence · Brian O'Neill detailed technical explanation of Scorbit architecture

  • Scorbit developers are planning to add operator features including game uptime status and financial data

    high confidence · Brian O'Neill discussing future features for operators

  • Scorbit prototype was previously used on Theater of Magic at a pinball expo last year

    high confidence · Brian O'Neill discussing evolution from Theater of Magic prototype to production version

  • El Dorado top qualifying score was 115 (Louise), followed by Ben Clement with 107

    high confidence · Commentators reviewing qualifying scores during El Dorado finals

  • Eight Ball top qualifying score was 846 (Zach Sharpe Wallens), with scores dropping significantly in lower qualifiers

    high confidence · Commentators reviewing Eight Ball qualifying scores during finals commentary

Notable Quotes

  • “He clips all of us. I've seen pictures of his 70s tournaments like, whoa.”

    Tournament commentator @ ~23:30 — Reflects Bob John Matthews' legendary status as a long-time competitive pinball player

  • “No bouncing is a crime. Support your local arcade.”

    Bob John Matthews (shirt message) @ ~1:06:00 — Community messaging emphasizing proper pinball technique and arcade support

  • “I don't mind losing as long as I played well”

    Oscar H. Ray @ ~1:23:00 — Reflects philosophical approach to competitive pinball play

  • “This is something that me and two other guys have been working on for the past couple years”

    Brian O'Neill @ ~1:33:00 — Introduction of Scorbit live scoring system development history

  • “We're living in the future”

    Commentator @ ~1:42:00 — Commentary on Scorbit technology advancement for tournament operations

Entities

It Never DrainseventBob John MatthewspersonCorey DunnpersonRaymond DavidsonpersonKeith ElwinpersonKarl D'AngelopersonBrian O'NeillpersonMuseum of PinballvenueINDISC 2019eventScorbit

Signals

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    event_signal: INDISC 2019 Classics tournament with multi-day schedule including Classics 1, Classics 2, A/B divisions, and women/kids finals at Museum of Pinball

    high · Multiple references to tournament schedule spanning Friday, Saturday, Sunday with specific division breakdowns

  • ?

    community_signal: Tournament infrastructure and educational support demonstrated through live streaming, professional commentary, and use of standardized tournament software (It Never Drains)

    high · Professional production quality, detailed rule explanation for games, player education on strategy, software suite adoption

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Strategy variations across classic games: El Dorado emphasizes shooter accuracy and drop selection; Eight Ball focuses on spinner accumulation and bumper luck; Mystic rewards card completion and bonus multiplier building

    high · Extensive commentary on game-specific strategy, player choices, and optimal shot selections throughout finals

  • ?

    technology_signal: Scorbit live scoring system representing advancement in tournament operations with automated score tracking, API integration, and planned operator features (uptime monitoring, financial data)

    high · Brian O'Neill detailed explanation of Scorbit technology, API architecture, and roadmap for operator features; device now on 8 games with solid state support

Transcript

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0:00
Welcome to the Left Cough Lab. Oh, incredible. Saved his tournament life right here on ball three. Oh, he got it. He got it. Oh, my gosh. There we go, we're down to four. Yep, up in Keith. We're watching It Never Drains in Southern California 2019. We're just getting into the final four of our Day One Classics Tournament. We're here in Bandon, California at the Museum of Pinball.
1:27
Like that says. Hopefully everyone's enjoyed some pinball tonight and hopefully they're going to have some amazing pinball adventures this weekend.
1:38
There's still a lot of pinball this weekend so make sure you tune in tomorrow. Make sure you tune in Sunday.
1:44
It's going to be awesome. Insidium Lighting, big shout out to Scott. CC Captain's Auction Warehouse. Thank you, Joe Soap.
1:59
Keep forgetting about chat. I'm just getting reminded that I've left my cat at home. There it is, Scorbit.
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2:14
Exciting stuff. Can't wait to see how that all plays out here. I think we only had the one last year and now we've got four games set up with it. Eight? Oh, eight? Yeah, we had one last year and we have eight this year. Yeah, crazy. I only thought it was four, but eight, wow.
2:33
Yeah, there's a TV on across the room with the score bit and you can see the live scores of a lot of different games in Maine. Really cool stuff. Very nice.
2:43
Like we said, it's got the auto-send to results too, which is pretty cool. Yep. All right, looks like we're going to get into the final round. Yep. Let's jump in there, guys. Moving right along.
2:58
Well, it's 10.07 here, which means it's just after 2 a.m. on the East Coast. All our East Coast brothers, shout out. Hey, thanks for joining us tonight.
3:12
Goes in the central, 1.07, mountain time. you realize you just made that mistake i did yeah yeah it's 1 a.m on the east coast but it's well that means everybody's still up then here we go el dorado everyone should be up it's a friday for crying out loud and el dorado is a one-player game your goal is pretty much to go through the it lit in lane or hit the lit drops. You can see the lit drops here and here.
3:49
Of course, if the drop's already knocked down, it's not available. Now you move those drops by this target and this target, and it will move them over one. And each of those drops are worth 5,000 points, and each of those in lanes that are lit are worth 5,000 points.
4:08
Oh, man. That was a rainbow. That's pretty much the game though. That's it. Very much a shooter's game. Very accurate to hit the drop you want to hit. You can see, unfortunately, he's already got that drop down, so he elects to change the target.
4:24
He's already in the ball five. Yes. This is the last ball right here. It does have that right in lane lit, which is not the safest thing to go for.
4:37
And there's an out lane. That's tough. That is a very tough game, and a lot of these classic games had those type of games. You could see 50,000 to 75,000 on this, or you could see 7,000 to 10,000 right there. Thank you, Carl, for the giant number. Player of the year getting, well, 10,000 points on El Dorado.
5:01
Yeah, there we go. Player two is Bob Matthews. see what top qualifying on el dorado was was oh louise 115 15 outstanding ben clement 107 so ben had some good scores yeah to get him in asher with the 73 so yeah now there was a lot of 70s to 50s sure yeah games like this get bunched up real fast we got bob if anyone knows this machine it's bob i wonder who picked this game keith i'd have to believe raymond ouch yeah raymond is me and raymond probably picked the game um perennial classics player bob matthews You know, we joke a lot about how long a lot of us have been playing Bob.
6:07
He clips all of us. I've seen pictures of his 70s tournaments like, whoa. You know, I got to talk to Bob when he was at the Alice Cooper tournament, talking about how he played pinball when the Alice Cooper CD or album got released. and he got it signed by Alice Cooper. That's right. He told me about that. We were roommates down in Florida, and he had mentioned that story. Yeah. And it was kind of an interesting little note of how long he's been doing pinball. That's right.
6:46
That feed is not super clean over there on the right side, obviously. And it could skip over that right slingshot and right in the drain, too, just like that on the left side. That was tough. That was the commentator's curse. Do you nudge it or not? Ball four. Ball four, 9,000 points, so he is not much further away than Raymond is.
7:10
He's going to cradle up and probably go for that very far left. Correct. Drop. A little late. There you go. That's five. That's 5,000. That will at least get him over past Raymond. He didn't let that bounce. Uh-oh.
7:28
and this ball five yes it is last ball and he's passed raymond he's trying to short plunge it into that in lane for 5 000 points of course and then he keeps barely missing it and it's rainballing over so here we go here we go come on there it is that's exactly what you want to do yep see what this does but it bounce over definitely with the nerves up and whatnot get as many 5,000s as he can.
8:01
That second one, that's the last of his bank. Don't reset. Oh, he's got some down on the bottom though.
8:09
Oh, and he moved that light too off his one target he had lit. Got those. He's got to finish the ones on the bottom.
8:18
Looks like he's trying to backhand with that upper flipper into those in lanes up top. One more. There it is. Now they reset.
8:30
Feels so good when you reset the bank. He's already up to 38,000. God, how many times has this play field been used?
8:40
Four, five. Oh, Ray. Bob. Well, comes back on that ball. Five. Real nice. Finishes with a 45. 40,530.
8:57
And, okay, Corey steps up. We'll see how that ranks up against our other two opponents. Lifetime versus Bob, 115 wins.
9:13
NorCal Pinwall, thank you for the host. Yeah, it's so tough you. Yep. Oh and he gets the pop so yeah, zero point there. That's rough.
9:51
I love you. Straight into that left outline. we're trying for that short plunge let's get there drip over come on and honestly if you just go up on that gate that gate will feed it to there hopefully yeah i'm just gonna stay patient yeah stay patient and that's a little too much i'll probably go for that right drop for 5 000 points no there it is Yeah, it was already down. No, he hit it.
10:34
He went from 2,000 to 7,000. Going for the one up top. He misses it. Hits the one on the left. You'd much rather hit it on the left than the right because now you're going to want to change the drops. Correct. He just goes for the drops, though.
10:50
Yeah, snipes a couple of them. That was real nice. he's just this oh yeah nice and he gets a change oh that change didn't work though 22 000 good got patient didn't get too crazy there that's oh yeah gets the save gets the change over and then hits the 5. The 5,000 nails it.
11:24
Hit the spot where it would have been. Hits it again just for good measure. Wants to remind himself when he was up there. And he hits the one on the side for another 5,000. One more drop. That's right.
11:38
This is where the game can get tough. If you just need that one drop at the top and you're having trouble hitting it. Yep. Not many points on the board until you get that last drop. Yep.
11:51
On top of that, he has that right in lane lit too, so for 5,000. So he could potentially get some points that way. There it is. Going to reset. Nice.
12:03
All right. Time to go target hunting. Yeah. Go for that drop on the right. Top one. Nice. Nails it. He's up to 43,000. just lifts the top one. Yep.
12:20
Passes up Bob. Surpasses Bob and he's still got a ball left. Is it two? I think that was three, ball three, but I could be wrong. The ball number is right there. You can't read it. Yeah. He's got at least this ball and he might have another ball after it. We're going to find out right now. He's staying up, so here's ball five, I guess. Guaranteed to take at least second place Have a great night Lockboy Thanks for dropping by Hitting all the drops except for the lit one
12:54
Yeah, it's tough because you realize you've got to hit ten unlit shots to, you know, excuse me, yeah, ten unlit shots versus one lit one. Yep. That's the difference. Yep. Going to finish up with 48,000. That's going to at least give him second, depending on how Keith Owen takes this table.
13:16
Tilt ends game. Don't want that. Says Corey qualified seat number 10, so outstanding. Yeah, he's been playing very well today. Bob qualified seat was 11, so good job there he's six here we go down to keith keith was six and raymond was first all right that's a tough shot oh gets that drop for 5 000 good way to start off the ball how does he do this he does the alley pass a little tap pass nice i mean that's the difference a lot of people would just wail on the unlit drops. Yeah. But like you said, that 5,000 is so important.
14:12
Well played. Okay, hit that drop on the right. Oh, no, it's the wrong one. Yeah. He switched, unfortunately. I always forget there's that rollover right here in the middle. That does switch the shots. Sure.
14:26
I forgot that one. Got a left one. He's got nothing. I would probably go for the unlit drop up there in the in lane.
14:38
Supposing to let that bounce over. It goes through an in lane, but it's not the lit one. They are worth 500 unlit, I believe. Yep.
14:48
Just like the drops. He has that left drop lit. He thinks. A little late. Try it again. There it is. Boom. Great shot. Doesn't miss the second time.
15:01
looks like he's going for that rollover actually trying to move at one yep he's got two drops ready next uh thing there it is he gets it but it goes straight down the middle but yeah it's okay we've got a nice in lane option here but he just full plunges it oh here we go so it's going to be 10,000.
15:32
Oh, he sneaks into that right in lane for 5,000. Nice bounce. Good nudge. Nice patience. There we go. See it. Oh, late.
15:49
Oh, that's frustrating. It is. Going to go for that in lane now. ah that's frustrating yeah he um one ball left keith is in third place with 26 000 needs 40 to catch bob 48 to catch cory yeah there we go bounce oh didn't get that bounce oh it just comes out of there so wild so here's ball five there we go still has a shot gets the 5 000 in lane it's up to 33 000 wow all right snipe that one up top or are you going to backhand late.
16:46
It's down to Nodal. Tough. He does take a point. So Corey's going to win that game with 48,000. It's a way to come out of the gates there.
17:00
Hello, everyone. How are you doing, guys? You're watching the classic finals here at It Never Drains in Southern California. We just finished game one.
17:10
Of three games. Three games. finals day one classics and Raymond will be choosing all the way throughout this round so we'll see what he chooses for game two keep in mind he did use up a good amount of his picks during the qualifying rounds up to this so he might be you can't pick the same game twice so he might actually be out of picks he'd actually pick he had to fight his way through the semis for sure and I think the quarters were pretty tough too.
17:45
Well, there's what? 10 games on the bank. If he's choosing every time... 9 now with Bonera. That's a total of 12 picks so he will get to come back around in theory. I haven't been following it the whole final. I do know he held up a pick the one round because he was in. He had 8 points. He definitely held up at least one pick A lot of strategy. Plus, when you want to be picking something you don't want to play later.
18:17
Yeah, instead, I think he gave up his pick to his opponent, which also works in your favor if you decide at this point you're going to pass it to your opponent, which then doesn't have his picks. Eight ball.
18:32
Eight ball. Here we go. Keith Elwin must have picked this because he's playing first. I believe Ray picks throughout. driving the bus unless he gave up. Yeah, which he's playing fourth now, so that would make sense that he did give up his pick. There you go. Keith Elwin had some good luck on this earlier, if I recall.
18:56
Destroyed this game, actually. Yeah. Oh boy. Like shot out of a gun. So player two is going to be Bob Matthews. He's got two points. So in this game you want to collect all the pool balls, similar to Leja Q. ideally you want to plunge into that far right rollover and get a chance for the bumper to bounce it into the eight ball correct light your spinner it's got the tough sling down to your uh flippers on that left side just difficult to get a catch a lot of times here we go oh it bounces into it spinners lit kickbacks lit which goes out at the end of the ball if you don't use that correct i believe so well here's the kickback and it works so thank goodness yep bob did you not read my shirt apparently not Yep, no bouncing is a crime. Support your local arcade. He did not let that dead bounce over to the other side for the pass to the right. Yep. Because you want to be sending it up top. Yep. You know, keeping it out of danger and just getting points. Well, he did get one good spinner rip. He's up to 82,000 points on it. Here comes Corey Dunn.
20:54
Lifetime stats versus Bob. Three wins, 12 losses. Probably sees Bob out here on the West Coast once in a while. From time to time.
21:04
And plays it in disc as well. Nice. There we go. We see Bob all year long. Everywhere. Yep.
21:18
Always great to see him. Good player. Great attitude. Fun guy. Great nudge. Great knowledge. Yeah. Classics master. Yep.
21:32
Keeps hitting that third rollover. Oh, that was brutal. And here comes Raymond Davidson. After taking last last game, he definitely needs to come up with the ball.
21:53
Bounces right into the eight ball. Oh, that was ugly. So, Bob comes out with the strong lead after ball one. 82, up walks Keith. Yep. Keith Owen trying to heat up his hands. It's getting cold in this place.
22:15
It's nice if you can just drop it in that number four, but... Gets an unlit one. There we go. Oh, look at that. That always is nice. There we go.
22:27
And a nice live catch. So you're going to post-transfer. Oh, nice little tap. There we go. He wants to work that right turnaround. There we go.
22:41
He's trying to tap, but that slings over there. It's just brutal. Well, let's see if he tries it again or if he decides to change his strategy. He does. That sling doesn't do all that much. Yeah. There we go. Still seems dangerous. He does light his spinner now. And he has kickback lit. So he'll go for his spinner instead. A little more insurance.
23:03
Yeah, real tough to get a catch on that left side to hit that turnaround shot, which is what I remember the money. Yeah. Well, now that his spinner's lit, he's going to go for the spinner instead. Boom. But there's the turnaround shot. There's the spinner. Let's get all the shots. Gorgeous. Bounce there we go nice.
23:38
Carl's getting some trophies ready. Yeah, look at that. He's taking his time. Yep, he's gonna show off the trophies here. Brutal.
23:53
So Keith finishes up with 185 after that ball too. Real nice effort. Yep. Bob looking to have another good ball like he did first ball.
24:23
turnaround shot. Gets the seven. He was talking to me earlier about how that seven's all luck because it's that in lane, so he's got it. Yep.
24:37
Oh, outling. Yep. Saw that coming. Let's see what our top qualifying on eight ball was. Let's pick up some bonus, though. It's up to 123. Zach Wallens was our top qualifier with an 846. Ben Granger, 827. But then it significantly... Volley 717 and then drops to 470 with Sunshine Bond. Yep.
25:01
So... Yeah, a lot of 200s. Yep. A lot of 100s. Oh, Cory. Nice backhand. Wow. Shake it out of there. All right.
25:21
That is kick. Every time that kickback works, I'm grateful. Yep. So many times in the field they kind of dead Tried to let it bounce over wasn strong enough Yep a little panicky but he catching it Yep, there we go. It's so hard to get control on the left flipper like that. Yep, you have that opportunity, you gotta take it.
25:47
That way too. And his kick back. Nice, good patience. And there's the spin, there's the spin. Real good patience right there. Gets it in lane.
25:58
Let it come down on the flipper. There you go. Another spinner up top. Gets the in lane he needs. Eight balls lit.
26:11
Can go for that or turn around? Turn around. There you go. Smart. Because you come off that pop bumper, you got a good chance of smacking that eight. Yep.
26:24
Probably go for this spinner. Yeah, maybe all day. All of the spinner. That's going to put him ahead of Bob. Pop an eight. There we go.
26:34
Popped his eight ball with that. That was tough. Good ball. Great ball. Good ball. Good bonus. That's going to let him catch up to Keith.
26:45
And well surpassed Keith. Yeah, that bonus played in. Yep. Still going. 257. After two balls. Nice ball, Corey Dunn.
27:01
He could lock up the victory here. There we go. And spinner. Oh, too early. Ripped it. Too early on that spinner shot. so after two balls we got uh cory dunn leading in 257 keith's got 185 bob bethues has 123 000 and raymond has not enough to really count but all it takes is one ball Oh, no. The sling straight to the right out, man.
27:55
Primus is not in the bank, CNK. That's it for Keith after three balls. Keith gets 231,000. That's not shabby, but it's not enough for first. He didn't catch Corey. Did not catch Corey. We'll see how Bob finishes up here.
28:14
Trying to get a handle on that. Kickback is lit, spinner is lit. That kickback worked, yup, but it went out, so did the spinner. Bob's making a lot of nudge in here.
28:45
Oh nice nice save trying to get that one last lit is nudge there. Gets it balls with finish the rack.
29:00
All that pop not helping him out. But to bounce. Yeah, and he gets the 8 ball. There's the rack. He's up to 142,000. Kickback is lit.
29:16
All right. Bob Mountain a comeback here. Let it bounce. That's okay. He gets his spinner. Probably gets that 25 foul up there, even though it bounces back and forth.
29:36
A little late on that spinner. Trying to cram that shot. Gets a horseshoe and it's matched. There we go. Gets that spinner to surpass Keith.
30:02
And he's got Corian bonus as well. He does? Yeah. That kickback worked again. and hits that center pop bumper.
30:12
Swans come down the center. Yep. Nice spinner rip. Wow. Back up with more spinner. Just on the fly, nailing it. Bob's up to 320,000 guys and he's gonna dream on us, but that bonus is huge. That's a turning ball. Sure was.
30:59
Giving Corey a little bit of work. 440,000 to finish that ball. Courtney's about 108,000. No, he does have the super bonus.
31:12
How much is that worth? 50? 29. That's what I thought, yeah. So I was close. So 29 times 5. If he could get his multiplier, he is close to Bob, I'd say. He could get up there.
31:36
but he's going to get the left out lane he's going to finish with second unfortunate well best he can finish his second still got ray coming up i completely that's okay it's hard to see his score there we're joking because bray's a great player he is just having fun could very well catch up some nice bumper load spinners lit grace quote when you're standing over here was if i'm going to poop the bed i want to at least poop with good scores up there lose those that's always my strategy i don't mind losing as long as i played well all right time to get to work he's got his axe he's got his overalls on time to get busy interesting tries for the alley pass wants that spinner yep oh but he gets the outland bummer he's going to finish up with zero points here
32:51
Bob Matthews going to finish the round with six as well as Corey. Keith Elwin's going to get another point tacked on, so he's going to have two and Raymond Davidson. 6-6-2-0. Wow. Exciting.
33:08
Kind of a two-man race at this point. Yes, already 1,000 to spin. Yeah, so I guess Raymond's thought in that situation was he didn't have a lot of pool balls. He had a mountain to climb and you're going to need to rip the spinner to get more pool balls. Yeah. might as well do the alley pass, hit the spinner. Unfortunately, it didn't work out for him there. Yep.
33:28
But we're getting into the final game. So, yeah, Bob Matthews and Corey are tied. Is that correct? And here. Show off the trophy. We have our first place classics trophy. Nice. That's a nice piece of hardware. And you said they're going to add a nameplate on here? No, I'm saying there's enough room on here. Oh, I see. If you wanted to. You take first place, you get a little brass plate right there. it says Frederick Richardson. Yeah. Well, maybe not for this one, but there's some over there for you.
33:57
Keep that alive. Awesome trophies. Good stuff. Great logo work. See through there. Nice. So we've got quite a few on the table in front of us.
34:09
Two classics this year. Got a classics division tomorrow. I believe it is the same machines played. We are going to get to see Mystic. We haven't seen this yet. Wow. And Raymond's just starting off and playing.
34:24
We have this on location, Minneapolis. I actually like it. Yeah. Learning to play it, filling in your card. I've actually never played this before. So, yeah, you hit the drops and it fills in the card with symbols. Yeah. And you want to fill it in. Either X's and O's, basically. I was told to hit the drops. I had my cat helmet on. I scored 20,000 points, so there we go. Switch hit changes which symbol is active, correct? Yep. And saucer is great because it lights your spinners. That's right.
35:01
Got that crazy little captain ball up there on the right side. Hey, y'all, this is Mike Welsh signing off. I'm handing it over to Brian O'Neill. Both Raymond and Mike were trying to jump at the opportunity to run Brian O'Neill coming back into the Hello Hey Brian Welcome We've had some great balls to watch Yeah Now Brian's going to tell us about the Squirt bit Yeah I talked a little bit about it earlier But yeah this is Something that me and two other guys have been working on for the past couple years and we kind of showed it off a little bit last year at Indisc and now we have solid state support we also work on DMDs and so yeah we're in eight games here this weekend there's at least one in each bank at Indisc and so yeah it's really exciting so there's a device in there hooked up to the display, and it's reading the scores live and sending it out to an API that we built.
36:19
And then that's what we're seeing here. We're seeing a scoreboard being shown with those scores that we're tracking. Yep. And it definitely helps the scorekeepers. I did the scorekeeping for Mystic today, and it definitely helped out. I know it was on the Theater of Magic last year. Yep. Yeah, we were just in theater last year. We were using one of our first prototypes, and this one is sort of the production version now.
36:49
Outstanding improvement. A lot of fun. We were talking about it earlier. The sending results automatically to the scorekeeping is outstanding. Cool. And we're hoping to add a lot more features, especially features for office. operators.
37:11
Telling if the game is active, when it's uptime, things like that. Financial data, like how much is it making.
37:19
Yeah, I can collect all of that at any location. Yep. Give you a notification if your game has a credit dot or something like that. Nice.
37:30
Cool stuff, Brian. Very neat. We were talking about earlier about living in the future. Yeah. This is our last game right here for Classics Finals. I would imagine this is about when Ray will blow up a game because he's coming in with no points. I mean, he started the ball with 50,000, which is by far more than any one of our opponents. So we talked about strategy on this game yet? Not yet. I don't know the game.
38:00
So I feel like there's two main goals here, lighting that spinner and just going for that. But it's not always lit. With each switch hit it comes off and on. I think with each pop hit it will rotate Another strategy is just do that Hit the bonus That what Keith was doing But Keith went for the captain ball bonus strategy I like to fill a card and build bonus that way because that will carry with you ball to ball. Yeah, I asked the strategy, Jay Collins, who had a great ball on this head, and he said, fill out the card and then start going to your multiplier.
38:46
Yeah, that's sort of the road map I'm trying to take. Bob's got his spinners lit. The multiplier hit.
39:02
Yeah, it looks like those slings do alternate them as well. Not only is it doing your spinner light, It's changing your triangle versus circle, whatever the orange one is. Yep.
39:18
Nice. Just not want to let them bounce over. That spinner going wild. Bob's catching up here. It's a Raymond score.
39:38
got his spinners lit right now sends it back up to that saucer nice in lane missed a spinner uh oh just nips it and it goes down the drain that's a great ball though right yeah he's leading by about 24,000 with his bonus there. Yep. Here comes Keith. Ball two for Keith.
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Kind of reminds me of X's and O's a little bit. Yeah, for sure. Another pretty fun game. You see in the Pittsburgh events quite a bit.
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Oh, he knew it too. Yep. We didn't even try to save it. Yeah. There we go. There's Corey. Corey needs this.
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We'll see him mount a nice comeback here on ball two. Boop. There we go. That gets the spinners going.
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Nice little flick. There we go. Good. God, what a save. Gets a few. And let's see that's been it up top.
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Spinner is not wet right now though. But let's go for it in the back up top and try and get that saucer. don't really see anybody going for the drops at all filling their cards so now it's lit the one thing I always remember is if you hit some shots you're going to hit the pops and then it's going to turn off the spinner and on the spinner so it's something to consider definitely if the spinner is spinning long it's not a bad shot alright let's see what Ray can do on his final ball on the final game of this match. Finals here in Classics.
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Fortunate. Not quite enough to get up there. Looks like that multiplier carries from ball to ball. It does. Oh, wow. So, yeah. There you go. You definitely want to go for that. Okay. That's why Keith was going for that early. I was wondering why he was doing that with no bonus, but got it.
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Oh, nice. Yeah, you're the best. Come on. There we go. Bounce over. Oh, another one. And he gets his spinner's lip. That's right.
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Told you Ray would mount a furious comeback on game three because he was coming in with zero points. And, you know, he could still take third here. There's money at stake. That's right.
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Oh nice Don't know if it was intentional or not But it worked It did work At this level everything's intentional That's right Spinner time A little late Hit the drops
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And there's also something with The four rollover stars too collecting those. Those add up for something. Those two top and the two on the returns.
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I can't remember what they Those the ones on the bottom maybe? They might be those three there. Carl, do you remember those? The stars? The two rollovers up top and the two return lanes. Those four give you a package for something.
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We've got Bob here. Bob's got $137,000. Ray finishes up with a 370. Nice. Hell of a game. Nice. Good third ball comeback. Okay, four stars gets you 10,000. Then extra ball. Then special. That's right. All right. Did it for the extras. That's what I was.
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I knew there was a reason I went for it for something. There we go. Gets a nice multiplier hit. Oh, that was fortunate. Good. And good save. So the stars do light down below, so that's the extra ball, right? Correct. Yeah, if he were to get a set right now, it would be an extra whatever that's worth.
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Maybe it's turned on. Who knows? It might be turned on. There's no card on the machine. Oh. I don't know if he could have called that left flipper.
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All right, Bob's going to finish. 290. Currently in second place. Nice finish by Bob. Here's Keith Alwyn. Unfortunately, didn't have that much going for him going into this ball. Nope.
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He gets his multiplier. He's got some drops down. He's going up top. He needs that saucer to start his spinner.
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We saw that. Yeah. And there's the drill. We all saw that. best you can finish his third on this game Corey needs this it's for the win right here it's for the win he's got to come back and beat Bob score a 290 if he does that he will be our classics champion otherwise he's second finds the saucer so he has his spinner lit Oh, no.
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Outstanding job anyway. Corey's going to finish in second place. I'm sure he's going to be quite happy with that.
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Who finished third? Keith finished third? No, Raymond finishes. Oh, there's a... Oh, yeah, because he took first. Actually, no, there's going to be a playoff between Raymond and Keith. Did Keith take second? Keith took... 4-2-1-0. Keith had two going into that. And got two for being... Second? No, he took third. Okay. So Raymond's going to take third and Keith's going to be fourth.
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There we go. A little awards presentation from your two lead tournament directors. Jim Belsito, Carl D'Angelo. Carl D'Angelo, mastermind behind Never Drain Software, what we use for many, many, most of our tournaments. Yep. And you want what? This guy? That one. But I just ordered my nameplate. You could win one tomorrow, Fred. Okay.
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Some very nice plaques as well. You got a microphone and all? Microphone or no? You want to do it here? Thank you. I don't have any mics. Okay.
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Yes. Guys, thank you for watching the Pinball Classics 1 event. We will have a Classics 2 tomorrow starting at around 6 p.m. Okay. we'll have on Sunday we'll have the A and B main division finals or quarterfinals and whatnot we're going to then have the women and kids finals and then we'll go back to the A and B finals you know I was telling Carl a little bit earlier you know I jump in the broadcast from time to time and my favorite commentating all last year was doing the women's finals here at indes when uh danielle peck won yeah when danny won it was just such a great run great finals a lot of fun to watch her win that was the favorite thing i commentated on all year i remember doing that yep a lot of fun and last year was the first year they did the uh the women's only event they brought it back this year they've actually had several bells and chimes uh events here in la now and there's a bellas and Chime Chapter League in the Santa Ana location. Is there really? Yeah. They're on their second or third season now. Is that CeCe doing that? Yeah, CeCe's doing it. Okay, I thought so. Yep. So she had the Bells and Chimes tournament just a few weeks ago as well. Saw that on Facebook. So, yeah. Keith taking fourth. Fourth place.
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Raymond Davidson's going to be taking third. Taking the third place back. I believe he's got his name on a few of these banners, doesn't he, last year? Yeah. Yep. He had a classic last year. It was Robert Gagno took Maine. That's right. I would have to say, in my opinion, Raymond Davidson had the strongest 2018 last year. Oh, yeah. Phenomenal. Played so great all year long. Corey Dunn, second place. Outstanding, Corey. Great job. That's got to feel great. That was amazing. Joker Poker. Yeah.
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And we got the winner, Bob Matthews. Cool trophy. Wow. He's got to be happy with that. He is. He unfortunately couldn't participate in the main event or the high stakes this year because he's not going to be able to be here Sunday. So this is his tournament. He'll be doing it again tomorrow. Yep. Thought he will. Always count on Bob being in the classics. Yep. Well, big group photo right there.
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And can we get some hype and chat for all the competitors and amazing games they played? Great stuff.
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Melbourne Silver Ball League, congratulating Bob. Streaming from Australia. Hi, Martin. good stuff I think we're going to get ready to wrap it up here aren't we we'll do that from all of us tune in tomorrow at 6pm this is Raymond Ashby this is Brian O'Neill Fred Richardson Funky Fresh see you tomorrow have a great night everyone thanks for watching
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