Is There a Doctor in the Pinbar?
in whicn a panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC's final regular season week.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of...
Highlights
- As of May 1st, 2026, there are 366 pinball machines in New York City at 74 public locations
- Balls of Steel took the top seed in Pinball NYC Left Flipper Division with a record of 8-2 and 96 points
- Dr. Dina Eckert (previously A.B.D.) has completed her dissertation and is now Ph.D.-eligible
- Matt Grady won SSPL Season 2 A Finals at Buttermilk Bar with 28.29 Whoppers total for the season
- Attack from Mars at Buttermilk Bar had a malfunction where balls kicked into the scoop from the pops were not being ejected, allowing potential infinite multiball exploitation
- Gabe Chasanoff (GC) won Thursday Night Strikes on April 30th with 5.6 Whoppers after 11 rounds
- A 1977 Williams Electromechanical Hot Tip was added to Red Hook Pinball Museum and was 'freshly shopped and playing fast'
- Monica Weidekamp won SSPL Season 2 B Finals and chose not to drive the bus in the final round, allowing another player to make strategic game choices
Notable quotes
“Emergency. Is anyone here a doctor of philosophy? Dina, I am... She's Ph.D. Dina. We have been A.B.D. Dina... Dr. Dina Eckert has been A.B. Dina, which is to say all but dissertation. Dina, A.B.D. She is now Ph. Dina. And I couldn't be happier to hear it. A hearty congratulations.”
“There's a lesson here, which is that if you don't have to make a lot of decisions, you just have to perform. Sometimes that's a lot easier.”
“What we should have learned when there was a global pandemic a few years ago is if you don't feel well, stay home... please, if you're not feeling well, stay home. Do it for you and do it for them.”
“I could have got jackpot after jackpot after jackpot potentially without anyone noticing... But like it just seemed weird. And I called Ted over and showed it to him.”
“Mini Flipper is just like going from place to place and saying it doesn't work. And then they come behind Mini Flipper and say, oh, it works now.”
Entities
- Attack from Mars· game
- Hot Tip· game
- Balls of Steel· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Scrapple League· organization
- South Slope Pinball League· organization
- Stern Army· organization
- Benjamin Furega· person
- Dr. Dina Eckert· person
- Eric Sweephland· person
- Gabe Chasanoff· person
- Greg Fertel· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Kate Martin· person
- Kevin Stanley· person
- Matt Grady· person
- Monica Weidekamp· person
- Barcade Fidei· venue
- Buttermilk Bar· venue
- Jack Bar· venue
- Red Hook Pinball Museum· venue
- Scrapple Land· venue
- The Wallace· venue
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