Episode 247. Snow Galvin and the big Colorado weekend
The North American Championship, Women's World Championship, and the Stern Pro Circuit event PinMasters all come to Denver this weekend. You can catch the action live on Twitch on Colorado Pinball...
Highlights
- Pinmasters has doubled in size compared to Vegas events due to increased space at Game Exchange in Colorado
- The Women's World Championship features 24 top women players competing in best-of-seven single elimination bracket with qualification structure: top 16 from open rankings, top 8 from women-only events, with top 8 getting byes
- Snow Galvin is seeded 8th in the Women's Championship after being bumped up due to Daniel Peck's withdrawal
- NACS has 53-54 registered players competing in the Finals
- Pinmasters will run in pin golf format with up to 144 players potentially participating
- Kerry Wing won the Women's World Championship last year
- Colorado Pinball Collective sourced 10+ machines for the tournament weekend from various local collectors and venues
Notable quotes
“I've been really thrilled with the support from local players and people that are traveling in who have actually just offered without even being solicited to help us out.”
“it's my husband and I, and he's doing so much work. He's gone above and beyond. I'm so happy for everything he's contributed.”
“I don't know how carl and jim do what they do you know i don't know how they play so well and run the event and like stream it and all of these things”
“It is all about delegation. Oh my God. Yeah. One person cannot do it all.”
“one thing that we're trying to do is get the camera on a meaningful game, a consequential game...we have people that are going to be monitoring the cues and the brackets...notifying us ahead of time, hey, you got to get the rig over to Iron Maiden. This is a game seven”
“My husband wrote a really nice piece of software that we're going to be using for the first time during the NACS and Women's Broadcast...it basically uses Challenges API to pull up real-time event notifications anytime a match is updated”
“if I recall, I think Kaylee George last year had a 10, which is the worst you can do on a hole in pin golf. and he still made the playoffs.”
“We're dense. We're rich with the pinball talent, you know? It's a smaller population, but it's a very difficult scene to compete in.”
Entities
- Game Exchange· company
- Lion Spring Classic· event
- North American Championship Series Finals· event
- Pinmasters· event
- Women's World Championship· event
- Colorado Pinball Collective· organization
- Stern Pro Circuit· organization
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Daniel Peck· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Jim Belsito· person
- Kaylee George· person
- Kerry Wing· person
- Snow Galvin· person
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