Episode 423: Timber Engelbeen
Timber is looking to do well in his first IFPA World Championship. Hear Timber tell about his big win earlier in the year in his home country of Belgium, his first ever trip to INDISC, how he got his...
Highlights
- Timber won the Belgian Championship and is competing at major international tournaments
- Paul Englert was the first European to stop the streak of major winners from North America winning the European Pinball Championship
- Timber started playing pinball competitively in 2019, after being casual about it for years
- COVID lockdown was a turning point that made Timber take pinball seriously after spending years on Xbox gaming
- Timber qualified for Indisc main tournament on his final possible ticket after struggling in qualifying rounds
- Timber just completed a thesis in automotive engineering and has graduated university
- Timber is planning to travel to Spain for a year to learn Spanish and work as an engineer before committing to permanent employment
- The IFPA World Championship is coming to Austria and happens every other year
Notable quotes
“The mental game is the most important part in pinball at high level that that for sure... if I play my third ball I don't think about what I did in the first two balls”
“I don't think about the past and I just try to execute what I have in mind... the only thing that matters is the next ball”
“If I lose the ball in the moderns, I always think it's my own fault... In classics, if you shoot it up there through the spinner and it comes down straight on the middle, you can't do anything about it”
“I really like Spain... it's really lovely... the fiestas and stuff and the food is really good”
“I have three balls. I can have one bad ball. That's very likely, two bad balls could happen... three bad balls is like almost impossible”
Entities
- Belgian Championship· event
- European Pinball Championship· event
- IFPA World Championship· event
- Indisc· event
- UK Open· event
- Austria· organization
- Belgium· organization
- Fox Cities· organization
- IE Pinball· organization
- JDL Pinball· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- pinballvideos.com· organization
- Spain· organization
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Julio Vicario Soriano· person
- Paul Englert· person
- Timber Engelbeen· person
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