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Episode 416: European Pinball Championship – coming to Austria May 2025

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago22 min listen
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Stefan Riedler of RS Pinball discusses the massive undertaking to bring the EPC to Austria this spring. But it's much more than just the best players in the world at one of the biggest events...

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Highlights

  • The EPC main tournament will have 320 participants with a 200% booster (400% TGP total), potentially scaling to 384 if demand is high.
  • The venue is an 18,000 sq ft ice hockey hall with space for 140–150 machines, with 5 meters (15 feet) between games and 0.5 meters (20 inches) between back boxes.
  • General public tickets go on sale February 23, 2025 at 1 p.m. Central Time (8 p.m. Austrian Time).
  • The team event format features 16 countries with four-player teams competing in single elimination best-of-seven using four-ball games, split games, and direct play games.
  • Stefan plans to have nearly all Spike 2 games from Stern, all Spooky games, all American Pinball games, Jersey Jack games, Chicago Gaming games, Pinball Brothers games, Dutch Pinball games, and games from Barrels of Fun and Hexa Pinball at the EPC.
  • Elvin Brower from Dutch Pinball will attend; Abe Flips will provide a sneak peek of his new movie; Martin Ayab will do live streaming; Andrea from Piedetti Pinball will present.
  • Gary Stern was spoken with in January in London and it 'looks good' that somebody from Stern or Gary himself will attend the EPC.
  • A functional one-meter long Lego pinball machine will be on display Friday with tournaments for children and adults, with Lego prizes.

Notable quotes

“We're going to Austria right now because Austria really is going to be just humming in 2025.”
Jeff Teolis
“if you can imagine a pinball machine made in the last 10 years. It will be at the EPC. That's our plan.”
Stefan Riedler
“We do have a lot of helpers and if it will be a success, then I will have most likely already a potential date for a similar event maybe next year.”
Stefan Riedler
“So we really take care that we have here a lot of space that the players feel comfortable. And I was looking in this stream a few weeks ago, And this was very nice what I have seen in the stream that the players and machines they had very lot of space And this is very rare in Europe.”
Stefan Riedler
“It should be a lot of fun. Well, I always thought of the EPC as really just a big tournament and a major tournament with 300-plus players. It's that, but the fact you've done this expo and seminars and everything else, I mean, first of all...”
Jeff Teolis

Entities

  • American Pinball· company
  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Chicago Gaming Company· company
  • Dutch Pinball· company
  • Hexa Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Piedetti Pinball· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • RS Pinball· company
  • Spooky Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • European Pinball Championship (EPC) 2025· event
  • Flipnick Club· organization
  • Flippergarage Landshut· organization
  • IFPA· organization
  • JDL Pinball· organization
  • Kugelklopfer· organization
  • Abe Flips· person
  • Elvin Brower· person
  • Jeff Teolis· person
  • Martin Ayab· person
  • Stefan Riedler· person

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