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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 64 2024 GSPF Pre - Show Chat (1)
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 24 min listen
Spencer, Dan, and Mark preview what's coming up at the Golden state pinball festival.
Highlights
- The 2024 GSPF main tournament (128 players across Friday/Saturday qualifying sessions) sold out in minutes
- Volunteers who complete 2 shifts or one long shift receive a free weekend pass; additional shifts unlock progressively better rewards (patches, posters, water bottles)
- The tournament uses target match play format (25-point cap, 3-2-1-0 scoring similar to Pinburgh) with top 16 finishers from Friday and Saturday qualifying advancing to 32-player Sunday finals
- 300-350 games were brought to the 2024 show; the organizers are actively recruiting more game submissions
- Camp Silver Ball RV camping slots sold out in approximately two minutes
- Jason is returning to Camp Silver Ball and will bring rare, unique games to the show
- A separate Women's International Pinball Tournament is being held at GSPF 2024 with registration still open
- The tournament will be streamed on Elk Grove Pinball's Twitch channel with professional equipment and commentary
- A homebrew game called 'Q' (6 prototypes, never went to production) will be playable at GSPF 2024, brought by Jason
- Multiple Northern California pinball collectors will bring rare vintage machines to Camp Silver Ball, including Godzilla (Sega) and Barb Wire (last Gottlieb)
Notable quotes
“It's one of the best shows, I'm telling you.”
“The more volunteers, the better the show runs, especially.”
“It's legitimately the most fun I think that I have at the show every year.”
“If you don't have games, you're on a show.”
“Minutes. Yeah. I think it sold out about as fast as the RV slot.”
“There's almost an unofficial show that happens out at the campsite. That's right. It's the after party.”
“It's so cool. It's just a great opportunity.”
“You're going to play a lot of pinball. And you're going to get to socialize with everybody in the tournament area.”
Entities
- Elk Grove Pinball· company
- Lynn's Arcade· company
- Camp Silver Ball· event
- Golden State Pinball Festival (GSPF)· event
- Q· game
- Tiltalica· game_event
- Brian Allen· person
- Brian Dunn· person
- Dan· person
- Emoto· person
- GeneX· person
- Jack· person
- Jason· person
- Joe· person
- Mark Steinman· person
- Mike· person
- Rick Demmel· person
- Rusty· person
- Ted Slavacek· person
- Wig· person
- Match Play· platform
- The Flipper Room· venue
- goldenstatepinball.org· website
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