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Ep 31: Bonding
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 53 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
Final Round Pinball Podcast Ep 31: Bonding Hosts: Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins Special Guest: Ryan C Join Martin and Jeff for: Streaming Updates IFPABurgh? Josh Sharpe has some explaining to do, so...
Highlights
- IFPA posted an April Fool's announcement about 'IFPA Berg' with 1,500 players, $400,000 prize pool, and five Stern machines as giveaways
- IFPA now has 78,915 registered competitive players
- Josh Sharpe has been playing competitive pinball since 1993 (nearly 30 years)
- Stern Pinball machines qualified for manufacturing priority in Illinois vaccine rollout due to being classified as manufacturing
- Multiple major tournaments have been cancelled: Pinberg and Papa (at least in the near future)
- The Whopper system was created to allow indirect competition between elite international players who had never directly played each other
- Reach Around trophies were delayed because Josh miscalculated the order quantity and had to reorder extras
- Multiple new streamers were announced for The Pinball Network (TPN) this week including Mr. Scoop, Hup Challenge, The Pinballers, and Brian and Alison O'Neill
Notable quotes
“With streaming, it's just about talking to people. So if I didn't have people to talk to and it was just playing the game, I probably wouldn't stream as long as I do.”
“I think somebody needs to start doing pinball streaming in a hot tub. Oh, that is money to be made, I'm telling you right now.”
“I always believe, so when the things that are, when I'm going joke style, there's always an intentional, like, nuggets of information for people to be able to snuff it out.”
“IFPA was founded just to help continue to spread people playing competitive pinball, right? So to me, there's nothing, and I mean this is sort of just how Zach and I were raised from our dad. It's less about the IFPA needing to be any kind of integral part of the growth.”
“It was always just good to be able to see where you were, mainly with people around you, like friends and close people to have a bit of friendly rivalry with.”
“The fact that I look at mine and I say, this player, that player, and that player, they're in my sights. They're my nemesis. And then someone comes up to me and says, you're my nemesis. I'm like, wow.”
Entities
- IFPA Berg· event
- NICS Day· event
- Papa· event
- Pinberg· event
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Pinball Underground· organization
- The Pinball Network (TPN)· organization
- Vipers (Victoria)· organization
- Fliptronic· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joe Lemire· person
- Josh Sharpe· person
- Laser Loss· person
- Martin Robbins· person
- Mr. Scoop· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Reach Around· product
- Whopper System· product
- WPPR· product
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