018 - Highlights of Pinball Expo '25
Punk Rock Pinball Podcast
50 min
Summary
Post-Expo '25 recap: tournaments, homebrews, Winchester Mystery House hype, and streaming challenges.
Punk Rock Pinball hosts recount their Pinball Expo 2025 experience in Downers Grove, Illinois, covering tournament participation, standout games (Monster League Hockey homebrew and Winchester Mystery House), vendor discoveries, and community connections. They discuss tournament structure improvements, the Stern Pro Series challenge-based format, and propose a streaming competition with other content creators.
Highlights
- 252 people competed in the main division tournament at Pinball Expo 2025
- Winchester Mystery House by Barrels of Fun was brand new at Expo and sold out through Flip N Out Pinball within the show
- Monster League Hockey homebrew won best homebrew award at Expo
- Spooky Pinball is working on a Planet of the Apes game and a Pee Wee game after that
- The Stern Pro Series finals on Wednesday night used a challenge-based tournament format instead of head-to-head scoring
- A dealer in Peoria had three Winchester Mystery House allocations and sold all of them
- Neil Graf (Tom Graf's son) competed against Keith Elwin in the Stern Pro Series and the match was extremely close
- The Monster League Hockey homebrew builders indicated they may produce a small run if there is sufficient interest
- The main Expo tournament had extremely tight tilt debounce settings compared to PAPA September 2024
- Indianapolis Bells and Chimes organization is starting a pinball skill school/workshop program for beginners
Our first Pinball Expo is in the books. It was a real good time filled with tons of friends, cool machines, and a ridiculous amount of games. Here's a link to the Stern Pro Circuit event where the top 32 players participated in a challenge based competition on many of your favorite machines. 10 hours of pinball action! Stern Pro Circuit Finals 2025: If you're enjoying the podcast (or can tolerate it) it would mean a lot if you subscribed and took a couple seconds to rate/review the show:) It helps more than you know!! Discover some new music on the PRP playlist! - Find Local Tournaments - Find Amazing Pinball Locations -
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