Awaiting Pat's Response
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, & GC) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week...Ball 1: Local competition results (including Pinball NYC team results and GC's inside...
Highlights
- David Long won Catskill Classic on his wedding day with a drop-target-only format requiring manual scoring on index cards
- Balls of Steel is 4-0 undefeated in Pinball NYC Left Flipper Division with 47 points but one fewer game played than most teams
- Ball Drainers and Danger Danger both 5-0 undefeated in Right Flipper Division with 59 and 52 points respectively
- 348 pinball machines at 80 public locations in New York City as of October 10, 2025
- Scrapple League Season 4 qualifying ends after Oct 15th with cutline expected around 90-95 points for A-division qualification
- Greg Fertel won Thursday Night Strikes on Oct 9 without drawing any strikes (undefeated)
- Matthew Carlson won South Slope Pinball League Season 2025 A-finals; Eric Sweetland won B-finals
- QED figure on Dialed In at Barcade Brooklyn was hanging by one elbow with missing screw likely stuck in subwoofer magnet
Notable quotes
“It was head to head. It was almost honor code. It was like, well, okay, do you want to count it yourself or I'll have someone behind you counting it.”
“David Long picked up a beautiful bride and 13.47 whoppers on the day.”
“Ball Drainers and Danger Danger are undefeated... You can almost guarantee both of those teams are in the playoffs.”
“If it goes the other way, if Balls of Steel wins, they're going to be 5-0 and special when lit is going to be at 3-3... but if Special Win Lit wins and Balls of Steel comes back to the pack they're looking at 4-2 versus Balls of Steel's 4-1 that's a pretty big move”
“I took off the glass and got in there, took a look at that figure. The figure is just attached by two screws in the elbows. And then the lightning bolt is actually just held in its hands.”
“I am 99% sure as a former sound designer that I know how that speaker is mounted inside that box, that if it dropped down there to the subwoofer, then the magnet of the subwoofer is holding the screw onto it.”
“the tilt bob must be set so that it can play perfect on two legs because it will be on the back left and front right leg 100% of the time”
Entities
- Catskill Classic· event
- Harvest tournament· event
- Scrapple League Season 4· event
- Silver Ball Sunday· event
- Thursday Night Strikes· event
- Ball Drainers· organization
- Balls of Steel· organization
- Danger Danger· organization
- Pinball NYC Left Flipper Division· organization
- Pinball NYC Right Flipper Division· organization
- South Slope Pinball League (SSPL)· organization
- Stern Army· organization
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- David Long· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Gabe Chazanov· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Howard Levine· person
- Matthew Carlson· person
- Dialed In· product
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Owl Farm· venue
- Rulo's· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
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