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Episode 246: Friday Night friends

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago46 min listen
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What do you do when you're all alone with no friends in sight? You Skype with your pinball buddies and make a podcast. Here's what happened with Brian Dye, Bruce Nightingale, Deborah Tahlman and...

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Highlights

  • Intergalactic had 560 participants last year, with 470 of those also playing in Pinburgh, now capping at 800 players
  • IFPA rules require taking minimum 10% of qualifying pool to finals; Intergalactic needed 56 finalists from 560 players
  • Intergalactic game bank expanded from 18 games last year to 22 games this year
  • Seven additional hours of qualifying time added to Intergalactic spread out player base and reduce queue times
  • West Virginia IFPA started with ~10-12 players five years ago, now has league of ~29 players with four competing at Pinburgh
  • Silver Ball Saloon in East Rochester, NY is adding Whirlwind and Black Hole EM machines, plus seeking original Stern Electronics machine
  • Bruce Nightingale has Rick and Morty Spooky pinball on order, pre-order position #243
  • Deborah Tallman won OBX Classics Championship tournament 'the year before' (reference suggests ~2023)

Notable quotes

“I'm very excited to talk to him and looking forward to seeing him in July. He is the Intergalactic Tournament director. He was a TD last year at Pinberg. Brian Dye joins us right now.”
Jeff Teolis
“So we've increased the bank of games to 22. last year, I believe it was 18. And with the $30 donation entry, players will get 10 tickets, and they'll take their best five games from those 10 tickets towards their qualifying score.”
Brian Dye
“There was some concern about how we took qualifiers to finals and whether or not we were abiding by the IFPA rules about taking the minimum number. And the rule is that for any IFPA-sanctioned event, you have to take at least 10% of your qualifying player pool to finals.”
Brian Dye
“We will definitely need scorekeepers on scorekeepers on scorekeepers. And that's really, really where I'm at right now.”
Brian Dye
“It is. And we're going to have Whirlwind coming up soon, another good classic. Sure, yeah. And what's the third one we were talking about? I think we're going to bring Black Hole.”
Bruce Nightingale
“Black Hole is better than Haunted House. Haunted House is just eight flippers of no fun.”
Bruce Nightingale
“Silver Ball Saloon is one of the best places you play anywhere And you think of my travel, I play all over. I'm telling you right now, this is like no other place.”
Jeff Teolis
“You are a glutton for punishment when it comes to pinball. Yeah, well, I've got to win another tournament.”
Jeff Teolis / Deborah Tallman
“This place is just magical. And I think that you should come see it sometime is what I think.”
Deborah Tallman
“I'm going to be playing pinball for 24 hours and then driving to an airport and getting on a plane for Denver.”
Deborah Tallman

Entities

  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Bell's Bunkin 24-hour tournament· event
  • Intergalactic· event
  • Pinburgh· event
  • Pinburgh· event
  • Quicksilver· game
  • Rick and Morty· game
  • Stern Electronics· game
  • TNA· game
  • Slam Tilt Podcast· media
  • Crazy Martin's· organization
  • IFPA· organization
  • Pittsburgh Pinball League· organization
  • Replay Foundation· organization
  • Silver Ball Saloon· organization
  • Stern Army· organization
  • Brian Dye· person
  • Bruce Nightingale· person
  • Deborah Tallman· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person

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