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Ep 6: Pinball Polka!
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 36 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
Final Round Pinball Podcast Episode 6: Pinball Polka! Pinburgh Tournament Director Douglas Polka joins Martin Robbins & Jeff Teolis. On today’s show hear about things that will help your tourney....
Highlights
- Pinburgh has approximately 27 dedicated staff members (not counting Doug Polka) handling tech, TV, and broadcast work
- Pinburgh sells out 1,000 player tournament tickets in approximately 10 seconds and generates 300+ waitlist entries within 20 minutes
- Melbourne Silver Ball Championship has a 3-4 hour setup window and operates with approximately 8-16 machines
- Pinburgh core Pittsburgh-based setup team works 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, then 8 a.m. to 11-12 p.m. Thursday through the event's conclusion
- Karl DeAngelo completed Open Season wizard mode after approximately 500 attempts
- Martin Robbins completed Wizard of Oz's 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' wizard mode after struggling with the Rescue Multiball mega jackpot
- Pinburgh balances being both an elite and casual tournament with 800+ non-elite players out of 1,000 total participants
- Melbourne Silver Ball Championship is growing with 120 players and is part of the larger Flip Out pinball festival
Notable quotes
“The other five, dog shit. This one, this is the one where it all comes together.”
“I've been playing a lot of my games as well. And by the way, I don't know if I've been to many wizard modes on any of my games.”
“If only 50 players are having fun, you're not going to end up with a thousand player tournament in a few years.”
“It becomes a race to see who can hit the website first.”
“If we could have 1500 people in the tournament and we had the machines to support it, we absolutely would.”
“There's a not insignificant amount of time dedicated to that.”
Entities
- Flip Out· event
- Melbourne Silver Ball Championship· event
- Pinball Profile World Tour· event
- Pinburgh· event
- Replay FX· event
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- PAPA foundation· organization
- Silver Ball Chronicles· organization
- Bob Betor· person
- Doug Polka· person
- Eric Hansen· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- John Popadiuk· person
- Joseph Kitzrow· person
- Karl DeAngelo· person
- Mark Steinman· person
- Martin Robbins· person
- Robert Kitzrow· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Tim Kitzrow· person
- Tom Kitzrow· person
- David Lawrence Convention Center· venue
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