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Ep 21: FinalRoundFlix
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 39 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
Final Round Pinball Podcast Ep 21: FinalRoundFlix Hosts: Jeff Teolis & Marty Robbins Special Guest: Escher Lefkoff Escher’s Rise To The Top Of The World Rankings Sponsor Of The Week Playing New 2020...
Highlights
- Escher Lefkoff is on pace to potentially become the number one pinball player in the world within the next five years
- Escher is currently ranked 6th in the world in WPPR
- Black Knight Sword of Rage (Pro) of Black Knight Sword of Rage (Premium) required design changes after tournament dominance by top players
- Escher won the World Championships at age 13 on Jungle Queen
- Pinball at the top competitive level is 'nearly 100% a mental game'
- Escher learned drop catch technique at age 8 by practicing on Indiana Jones with glass removed
- Lyons Lyons Classic Pinball closed and was purchased by Ryan Wenger of Comet Pinball
- Pin Clash tournament scheduled for December 5th with IE Pinball
- Escher achieved fastest time of approximately 1:35 on Jurassic Park at Pin Clash
Notable quotes
“pinball is nearly 100% a mental game at a point, especially in the top, I would say, like 25. Once you're playing against the best, everyone has the skills. Everyone has the knowledge. It's just who can apply it the best.”
“I would not be where I was without him as my pinball mentor. he got me from when I was very very young just starting to play into where I was”
“A place is only as good as its best player a lot of the times... even if you end up like losing because of it it's like yeah good for them right they applied the knowledge”
“I can play a game one or two times and then I'm like, okay, this seems good. I'm going to focus on this, and then from that I focus on this, then I can usually figure out what I want to do on a game pretty quickly.”
“My strategy is to play so long that I break the machine.”
“I think he's also exposed you to a lot of the old era games? Because that's what I found a lot with the younger players... you seem... to be good on all the different eras?”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pin Clash· event
- Black Knight Sword of Rage· game
- Jungle Queen· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- Alexander Kazmarchuk· person
- Bowen Kerins· person
- Colin Urban· person
- Donovan Stepp· person
- Escher Lefkoff· person
- Johnny Modica· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Keith Elwins· person
- Kevin· person
- Martin· person
- Nick Wehner· person
- Ryan C.· person
- Ryan Wenger· person
- Trent Armstrong· person
- Zach Parks· person
- Comet Pinball· venue
- Lions Classic Pinball· venue
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