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Episode 300: Mr. 300!

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Since November 2016, over 500 different people have appeared on Pinball Profile...thank you!!! This person had to be #300.

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Highlights

  • Eric Stone has 55 perfect games in bowling, with his most recent one approximately 3 weeks before this episode
  • Stone's parents purchased a Captain Fantastic pinball machine when he was 4 years old to help develop motor skills after doctors noted slow nervous system development from being born premature
  • Stone won the North American Championship in 2017, going 19-0 before losing on WorldWin
  • Stone won InDisc tournament after qualifying 11th in the main event with only 2 qualifying tickets
  • Raymond Davidson won both IFPA World Championships that Stone attended (Denmark and Toronto)
  • Stone's current job contract was ending shortly at time of recording, with uncertainty about future employment in Florida
  • Stone has never beaten Daniele Iaccari from Italy on any single game despite playing against him
  • Keith Elwin started competitive pinball at a very young age and has played nearly every game in existence

Notable quotes

“Making a 7-10 split is like playing a 1950s pinball machine. You might get lucky and get a good game out of it, just like you might get lucky and get a 7-10 split.”
Eric Stone
“It's all about hand-eye coordination, right? Now, bowling is more of a physical sport... But either way, you still – it's all about math and about angles.”
Eric Stone
“I would get distracted easily. I would probably play pinball all the time and not do my schoolwork if my parents didn't motivate me.”
Eric Stone
“I have the same intensity bowling as well... that intensity drives me to do so much better than I would if I lacked that. But... I do get a bad rap because I'm very passionate.”
Eric Stone
“I put up somewhere around $9 billion on attack from Mars. Nope, that's not good enough... Raymond Davidson beat me on all three of them and swept me.”
Eric Stone
“I believed it was kind of God put in my heart that hey you need to go to InDisc... And then I got there and I thought, wow, this is almost like a mini Pinberg.”
Eric Stone
“Escher... he reminds me of me when I was that age, although he's even better because he understands this new age of computer coding of pinball and rule changes.”
Eric Stone
“I don't want to make these tournaments and the things we do on the air about me. I want to make it about other people, and I want to make it about just the sport of pinball.”
Eric Stone
“The bowling ball I'm using is 14 years old, and I don't like using new equipment.”
Eric Stone
“Raymond, he never staggers. He's always just focused and he always plays the same game... he's one heck of a player.”
Eric Stone

Entities

  • Freeplay Florida· event
  • IFPA 17· event
  • InDisc· event
  • North American Championship· event
  • Pin Masters· event
  • Pittsburgh Pinball Open· event
  • Captain Fantastic· game
  • Fox 4· organization
  • Pinball Asylum· organization
  • Pinball Profile· organization
  • Adam Lefkoff· person
  • Alec (from Pittsburgh)· person
  • Colin Urban· person
  • Daniele Iaccari· person
  • DJ Ryle· person
  • Eric Stone· person
  • Escher Lefkoff· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Johannes Ostermeyer· person
  • Josh Sharp· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Nate Shivers· person
  • Norma Jennings· person
  • Raymond Davidson· person
  • Trent Augustine· person

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