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Ep 3: NACS, Women’s World, ECS, deeproot, & MORE!
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 53 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
Big show this week on FINAL ROUND pinball podcast and a lot of topics with Martin Robbins & Jeff Teolis – Discussing some recent Steve Ritchie games– ECS recap with Dina & Jim Lindsay– coronavirus...
Highlights
- Levente Tregova from Switzerland won the European Championship Series, defeating Marco Stix from Austria in the final on game four
- Game of Thrones recent code updates (from a couple months ago) made it phenomenal and better than Star Trek ruleset-wise
- Star Trek Pro is better than Premium/LE because the Vuk (left-side toy) creates constant danger vs. safe shots in other versions
- Tournament players prefer Pro models over Premium/LE because the additions (upper playfields, etc.) slow down fast-flowing gameplay
- Stranger Things machine at ECS showed that tournament players will completely avoid center shots due to the scary Demi-Gorgon toy
- The ECS allowed best-of-five matches with no game waiting (unlike NACS best-of-seven with extended queues), but both tournaments ran extremely long
- Raymond Davidson recently purchased Star Trek to enjoy and improve at the game
- Paul Englert, a 13-year-old German player, is ranked 22nd in the world and was in the ECS commentary booth
Notable quotes
“I think why the better players might like it [Addams Family] is because if you can figure out what the kickouts are on the chair... you can bounce it over to the left flipper to backhand the chair”
“To have that nice, safe shot does feel good. Otherwise, it really is cosmetics.”
“If you want pinball to grow, and you want it to be something that's watchable visually on the stream, I don't know how this is that attractive to have people sit and wait and wait and wait and wait.”
“The Demi-Gorgon won't have any fade or any wear on it because no one's going for it. I mean, you know, it's a very scary thing... To put something that scary on a pinball machine could be actually taking people away from wanting to play pinball.”
“I will not shake anyone's hand at TPS and I'm not a fist bump guy but not doing it, sorry. I might even wear gloves in the tournament.”
“When you're playing pinball, you are effectively touching flippers that somebody else has touched. So I don't know whether that's really something that, at the moment, people are really worried about with the pinball community and tournaments.”
Entities
- Addams Family· game
- Game of Thrones Premium· game
- Star Trek Pro· game
- Stranger Things· game
- Theatre of Magic· game
- Deep Root Pinball· organization
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- JDL Pinball· organization
- Brian O'Neill· person
- Dina Lindsey· person
- Flavio Badaria· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jim Lindsey· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Levente Tregova· person
- Marco Stix· person
- Martin Robbins· person
- Matthias Kluba· person
- Paul Englert· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Robert Souta· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Sunshine Bond· person
- Tim Saxton· person
- Tobias Wagermann· person
- Bolzen Ball· venue
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