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Episode 310 - Play On, Player
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in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC & Nearby Surrounding Areas. This week:Ball 1: Competition results for NYC (and nearby surrounding areas) including Pinball NYCBall 2:...
Highlights
- South Slope Strikes October on October 26 had 18 players at Rulos; David Schumister won.
- X-Men launch party at Jack Bar on October 27 gathered 30 players with Alex Kelly winning.
- PinballNYC matches on October 28 showed Pin Pals C Barpoons undefeated through 4 rounds; Balls of Steel beat Mutants 11-5.
- At Solid State, a Pulp Fiction machine auto-plunched a ball into dead playfield without warning, ruled as minor malfunction requiring replay.
- NYC FSA division leads at 8-0 with 91 points; Mutants in third at 6-2.
- Walking Dead at Boat Bar stopped reacting after center drain; Pinnister Six was substituted and won match on Guardians.
- Cbar Pinball Brooklyn League Finals leaders are Adam Kane (117 points) and Matthew Grady (115 points).
- Eric Sweetland applies "play on" ruling when a ball remains in play and player can continue making shots, distinguishing minor from major malfunctions.
- On Godzilla at Jack Bar, a malfunction preventing one major feature was ruled play-on; preventing two major features would be catastrophic malfunction.
- An Uncanny X-Men Pro arrived at Skylark on Tuesday, October 29.
Notable quotes
“Machine failures are part of pinball.”
“If there's a ball in play and the player can continue to do things with that ball, the game is playable. We've had a minor malfunction.”
“The unique charm of pinball lies, in large part, in the physical nature of the game. Unfortunately, this means that unusual events and outright malfunctions cannot be prevented.”
“If you just can do the thing that the pinball designer put in front of you to do if it just not possible to do it then that seems like that is inevitably a major malfunction.”
“One thing that just makes you play a way you don't want to play is something. Another thing that gives you two different ways that you can't play that you want to play, that's a lot.”
“I have the ball, I have trapped right, you said it's gonna be play on.”
“I find it strategically interesting that with the case of a single minor Malfunction, but one that is still relatively impactful, where some parts of the game aren't playable, I think it's strategically interesting then to have to adjust your play as a tournament player.”
“It looks grim for either of us to even make our way into the playoffs. We would both need to win out and hope for some help in addition.”
Entities
- Cbar Pinball Brooklyn League· event
- South Slope Strikes· event
- Game of Thrones· game
- Godzilla· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Uncanny X-Men· game
- Bells and Chimes NYC· organization
- IFPA· organization
- PinballNYC· organization
- Adam Kane· person
- Alex Kelly· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- David Schumister· person
- Eric Sweetland· person
- Gabriel Chasanov· person
- Matthew Grady· person
- Miriam Nadler· person
- Zenzakniak· person
- Barcade Brooklyn· venue
- Buttermilk· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Rulos· venue
- Skylark· venue
- Solid State· venue
- Sunshine Laundromat· venue
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