Episode 419: Lukas Ott
Another great young German player has cracked the top 100 in IFPA standings. He recently made his first trip to INDISC this winter, and now has his sights on big events in Europe including this...
Highlights
- Lukas Ott made the playoffs (top 40) at InDisc with over 300 players competing, finishing around 24th place
- Lukas Ott is from Germany where the nearest pinball machine to his location is 35 minutes away and is the only one within a 2-hour radius
- European Pinball Championships (EPC) will be held May 28th to June 1st in Austria at an ice skating arena with multiple tournament formats
- The first-place prize for EPC is a new in-box Jersey Jack pinball machine
- Lukas Ott spent half a year in New Zealand playing in pinball tournaments with fellow young player Tyler Dipper
- Lukas Ott has been studying English since grade 5 and practices by listening to English podcasts and watching English videos
- InDisc uses a card format requiring five consecutive games where players' combined scores are compared against others
- Lukas Ott's preferred tournament format is Swiss pairing/head-to-head match play
Notable quotes
“I would love to push pinball on social media. So when I'm back in Germany, I'm going to try to do some YouTube shorts, TikToks and everything to get more people into pinball because I feel like it's most important to get the youth into pinball.”
“There aren't really a lot of pinball machines. So basically the only way to play is if you have some at home. For example, like the closest pinball machine to where it's like 35 minutes away.”
“I've had somebody once ask me, who's the best player in the world? And I said, we don't know who it is yet. And the reason I said that is... the best player hasn't been exposed to a pinball machine.”
“I think it's just really important, because in the future, everybody's going to have to be able to talk to everybody, because the world has to stay connected.”
“If you want to play in a big pinball tournament, there's homework to be done. And if you don't do it, maybe that costs you a game.”
Entities
- RS Pinball· company
- European Pinball Championships (EPC)· event
- German Championship Series· event
- InDisc· event
- Austria· location
- New Zealand· location
- Bulls and Balls· organization
- Flipper Arena· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- Arvid· person
- Escher· person
- Jason Zoller· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Johannes· person
- Lukas Ott· person
- Nico· person
- Paul Englert· person
- Stefan Riedler· person
- Tyler Dipper· person
- ZMAC· person
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