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Ep 72: Big

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 44 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
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Final Round Pinball Podcast Episode 72: Big The ULTIMATE tourney talk podcast EVER! Hosts: Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins Plus: Direct feed to Final Round Pinball Podcast:...

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Highlights

  • The Beast tournament generated $15,000 in cash and prizes ($10,000 in classics), with winners receiving $3,000 (main) and $2,000 (classics)
  • Pinberg (1,000 players) required approximately 400 machines across tournament banks
  • A tournament needs roughly 40% of player count in available machines for proper match play logistics (100 players = 40 machines)
  • Stern Pro Circuit finals only feature new Stern machines as a marketing tool for Stern
  • Over 100,000 unique players are registered in IFPA
  • The Beast had 11 games in Classics (best 6 counted), 15 in main (best 7 counted), and 9 in women's division
  • Terminator 3 at Melbourne Silver Bowl championship created a 45-minute queue due to long play time
  • The host spent almost six months organizing The Beast; Marty spent six weeks organizing a smaller Melbourne tournament

Notable quotes

“My goal with this show, and I'm not joking, is to be maybe the definitive podcast, this one episode for listening to if you want to run a big, big tournament”
Host (unnamed)
“The top three tournaments are Indisc, UK Open, and Yagpin. Those are the models to watch.”
Host
“If you're running a pump and dump, and you don't want long, long queues: get a few more games in there. That is the best advice I can give you.”
Host
“Stern Pro Circuit finals are always new Sterns. It's a marketing tool for Stern. It's not who the best pinball player is.”
Host
“If you've got all games that you've had to bastardize so much, I guarantee to you it is not a fun game and people aren't going to have fun playing games along the way.”
Marty
“Test your games. Play them before. That is critical.”
Host
“If you want to start a tournament, reach out to somebody that does tournaments and get some advice. That's your first step right there.”
Host
“There's got to be a sweet spot. And in surveying the people at the Beast... the one game that kept coming back was that we made Foo Fighters too tough.”
Host
“At the end of the tournament, I looked back and I wrote down a hundred different things I would do differently the next time.”
Marty
“I have 27 on my list for the Beast so far, and that was the day after. And they're all little things, but easy fixes.”
Host

Entities

  • Stern· company
  • Brisbane Masters· event
  • Indisc· event
  • Melbourne Silver Bowl· event
  • Pinberg· event
  • Stern Pro Circuit· event
  • Texas Pinball Festival· event
  • The Beast· event
  • UK Open· event
  • Yagpin· event
  • Bobby Orr's Power Play· game
  • Centaur· game
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines· game
  • Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
  • IFPA· organization
  • Adam Becker· person
  • Bob Matthews· person
  • Bruce Dengel· person
  • Escher· person
  • Jason Zoller· person
  • Marty· person
  • Raymond Davidson· person

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