Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 10: We Couldn't Get Neil, But We Got His Dad
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 10: We Couldn't Get Neil, But We Got His Dad Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie This episode we discuss watching sensitive content on planes...
Highlights
- Free Play Florida had four tournaments total: classics, main, women's, and strikes/losers bracket
- Travis spent $160 on qualifying entries and played approximately 56 games total
- Tom spent over $200 on qualifying entries
- Classics tournaments typically feature pre-DMD games; main features DMD and modern games up to Deadpool
- Travis qualified tied for second in the main tournament but lost tiebreaker to Neil on Cosmos, dropping him to third seed
- Tournament structure allowed low seeds (like Tom at 14th seed) to gain decision-making power in later rounds despite losing earlier
- Vector is characterized as a poor tournament game choice with complex drop target mechanics
- Swords of Fury was the longest-playing game across all four tournaments and featured rolling games during qualifying
Notable quotes
“I bought $160 worth of entries... I made a big boo-boo.”
“My goal is to make sure this game does not get picked for the rest of the night. And he failed at his goal.”
“The one that got to decide our fate was old Nils dad, the 14 seed. He got to decide the final game. And I knew that this was going to happen.”
“If you're a tournament director... The only time that this really works is if you're picking a full bank of games... so the bus driver would pick the bank and they would have choice of position.”
“Your qualifying really didn't mean anything. So even if you were the top seed in your group, you got that first pick. But then after that, it's just you're leaving your fate up to whoever decides to pick what.”
“He's very good at using little flippers. Yes. Very familiar in District 82 with them.”
“I was in an aisle seat... I don't know who saw it behind me, and I don't know who saw it besides me.”
“I think it's pro pinball... No, it's a vacation. Yeah, it's the more expensive tournament, though.”
Entities
- Free Play Florida· event
- Pentastic· event
- Cosmos· game
- Freedom· game
- Swords of Fury· game
- Vector· game
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Alex Harmon· person
- Andy Rosa· person
- Bob Matthews· person
- Derek Price· person
- Eric Stone (Johnny Stone)· person
- Fred Richardson· person
- Jason· person
- Jeff Palmer· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joel· person
- Neil· person
- Nick Mueller· person
- Sebastian Bobio· person
- Shannon Stafford· person
- Steve Bowden· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
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