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Ep 42: Locked Up
PodcastAnalysis updated 4d ago1 hr 25 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
David Peck (rotodave) joins us as we discuss: – worst lockdown ever – Pinside – Stern Connected – System 11’s – Data East– Spinal Tap Plus: – sponsor of the week – betting – feedback –...
Highlights
- Melbourne is on track to become the longest locked-down city globally, surpassing a previous record of ~234 days
- New Zealand lockdown allows only supermarket and gas station visits; McDonald's and KFC are closed
- Jeff Teolis was going to travel to Cleveland tournament but border restrictions and COVID test costs (~$1,200 total) made it prohibitive
- Brisbane Masters has grown from ~40 people five years ago to 150 people at the most recent event, with potential for 200+ if all regional players had attended
- David Peck hasn't purchased a brand new Stern machine in seven years (since ~2014), citing significant price increases
- Star Trek LE in New Zealand increased in price by ~$2,000, contributing to Peck stopping new machine purchases
- Pinball LE machines cost ~$18,000 AUD in Australia (equivalent to ~$16,000 CAD)
- David Peck has only yellow-carded one player in all of IFPA New Zealand history: his own grandchild for smashing a lockdown bar
Notable quotes
“Life's too short for moaning, especially in the pinball world. Most of us guys who are putting on tournaments... there's a hell of a lot of effort goes into it... If somebody is moaning about it and they're not happy, well, there's the door, buddy.”
“the people that you can't please with a well-run tournament are people that you can never please because they don't want to be pleased. They don't want to be happy... they're doing everyone a favor, to be honest, including most of all the organizers”
“When you announce the tournament on IFPA, you've got to put the rules up as they are, and those are the rules you've got to use. So you can't actually, like IFPA legally, change the rules halfway through the tournament anyway.”
“I haven't bought a brand new Stern machine for seven years now... the rate of the price increases on the new machines... I pretty much stopped buying them”
“You can go around the world, and it's pretty cheap to jump in a car and drive around America. There's plenty of cheap hotels everywhere. You can eat cheap food everywhere.”
“Pinsified is such a great resource... People help me. I get stuck sometimes fixing, especially the EM machines... Within half a day, I've got it fixed. But there's a few [problematic users]... probably 10 or 20 people on there that probably need to take a little bit of a step back”
Entities
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern· company
- Brisbane Masters· event
- Indus· event
- Melbourne Silverball· event
- System 11 show· event
- World Champs (IFPA 17)· event
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- Head to Head Pinball Podcast· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Brian C.· person
- Danielle Peck· person
- David Peck· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jimmy Nails· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Martin Robbins· person
- Stacey Borg· person
- Tobias· person
- Museum of Pinball· venue
- Pinside· website
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