
Yellow Card
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, PJV) discuss location pinball in NYC (and gobally). This weekBall 1: Competition results including the Pinball NYC Championship rounds.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of...
Highlights
- As of December 12, 2025, there are 362 pinball machines in New York City at 80 public locations
- Greg Fertel won South Slope Strikes December with only one strike over 12 games
- Sean Grant won Brooklyn Pinball Open qualifying with 74 points, 10 points ahead of Alberto Santana
- Alex Kelly won Brooklyn Pinball Open finals on Sunday, defeating Sean Grant, Greg Pavarelli, and Alberto Santana
- NYC FSA won Pinball NYC Left Flipper Division championship over the Mutants 10-6, their third consecutive title against the Mutants
- No Quarter for Laundry won Right Orbit playoffs at Sunshine Laundromat with a tie-break victory 8-8
- Cactus Canyon at Scrapple Land has multiple mechanical issues including a stuck lasso ramp rolling skillshot switch
- Randolph Beer in Dumbo has re-appeared on Pinball Map with new machines including Metallica Remastered Premium
- Benjamin Furiga received a yellow card at South Slope Strikes for sliding his Ghostbusters machine into the cup holder of Attack from Mars, tilting Tom Milburn's ball
- The Nike Pinball reference at Jack Bar references Nike's 100-pair minimum order requirement that destroyed independent skate shops, including John's former Reciprocal Skateboards
Notable quotes
“As of December 12th, 2025, there are 362 pinball machines in New York City at 80 public locations.”
“Greg Fertel got only one strike over the course of 12 games.”
“I got a yellow card... I heard the WOOOOW! And I got a yellow card.”
“Three. Big night. Three. Three seasons in a row, each time against the Mutants in the championship match.”
“Jess makes cookies or some other treats and this time Vietnamese coffee swirl brownies were scrumptious”
“the pin pals not only went uptown but they won beating a Manhattan team in Manhattan”
“Sam Hall scored 31 points this week if she had scored a very respectable 20 she would have had to have played a tiebreaker to get into B.”
“This will continue for the rest of the ball time as the right cannon continuously tries to fire the ball and stays stuck in a limited function of the game.”
“I felt a little bit bad that Jess had a shitty game of Ghostbusters... I felt really villainous.”
“Two dudes who shows up in a blazer on the scene.”
Entities
- OBX· event
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Bells and Chimes NYC· organization
- Buttermilk· organization
- IFPA· organization
- Jack Bar· organization
- NYC FSA· organization
- Pinball Map· organization
- Pinball NYC· organization
- Randolph Beer· organization
- Red Hook Pinball Museum· organization
- Scrapple Land· organization
- Scrapple League· organization
- Sunshine Laundromat· organization
- The Mutants· organization
- Alex Kelly· person
- Benjamin Furiga· person
- Eric Sweet· person
- Greg Fertel· person
- Greg Pavarelli· person
- Holly Jean Vernon· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Jess Warren· person
- Poly Jean Vernon· person
- Sean Grant· person
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