Episode 393: Bonus Day with Steven Bowden
Once every four years you get a bonus day, so let's have Fun With Bonus. It's Steven Bowden! He's off to a strong 2024 with the Wisconsin state championship and the Stern Pro Circuit win at...
Highlights
- Stephen Bowden won the District 82 Stern Pro Circuit event despite being a 45-1 underdog on the first game according to betting odds
- Wisconsin is Bowden's first state championship win across multiple attempts in different states
- Pinberg is returning with 144 players and will expand to at least 300 next year
- Papa tournament is being revived in September at Interium in Chicago with 72 players to finals plus 8 B Division
- Modern pinball games provide more recovery opportunities than classic games when plunging fails
- District 82 hosts approximately 100+ games in working condition throughout the tournament
- Stephen Bowden is designing game rules for American Pinball
- Pin golf tournaments are more popular in Europe (particularly Germany) than in North America
Notable quotes
“I was a 45-1 underdog on the first game, according to Dalton Ely's betting of channel points”
“Volley hates me and I don't appreciate volley that much either... that game is evil it knows things it knows you talk about it”
“Wisconsin is my first state championship win”
“State championships are tough because a lot of those people are people that don't travel. So you might not recognize some of the names, but they're local legends.”
“If you plunge that middle lane on Kiss Classic... the ball might go up and down that middle lane a few times. And depending on how many times that is, you might have a huge scoring advantage before you even get a chance of touching the ball”
“I try to make sure I make my booth mates sound good. If I can tell they're very up and energetic, I can bat back.”
“I want every ball to be the best ball ever. Because then we win. We get entertained.”
“It's like oh, I only need, I got to get $50 million on Aerosmith... and you drain and it's $49,700,000”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- District 82· event
- North American Championship Series· event
- Papa· event
- Pin Masters· event
- Pinberg· event
- Texas Pinball Festival· event
- WIPP· event
- Ace Goge· organization
- Interium· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- Stern Pro Circuit· organization
- Andy Bagwell· person
- Jason Zahler· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Luke Nahorniak· person
- Lyman F. Sheets· person
- Penny Epstein· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Stephen Bowden· person
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