Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 25: Maybe We Are Making This Too Complex
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 25: Maybe We Are Making This Too Complex Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie In this episode we discuss what all happened at Super Series, as well...
Highlights
- Carl D'Angelo won Super Series with 80+ points in every tournament, placing top 10 in all six individual tournaments.
- Mandalorian pinball has an unlimited multiball exploit in the Encounters mode where players can indefinitely add balls via the mini playfield targets.
- Zach McCarthy won Chicago Pinball Expo 2024; Carl D'Angelo had top qualifying scores in 4 of approximately 15 games.
- Precision Flip metal flipper systems increase flipper power and consistency through metal bushings, making shots more accessible but potentially unbalancing tournament machines.
- Younger competitive players (under 25) dominate Expo partly due to superior reflexes, rules knowledge, and physical stamina compared to older competitors.
- Chicago Pinball Expo tournament required rules modifications mid-event: TDs removed post rubbers and deleted ball saves/multiballs to speed up play.
Notable quotes
“If you're going to get deep in the games, it's going to be a marathon, but you've got to know how to navigate it in order to not waste your flips, in order to be efficient.”
“Carl did have the top score in qualifying. For like four of them. Yeah, it was ridiculous. He qualified in 12 plays. So you had 15 total and 12 count, and Carl's like, okay, I'll just do 12 and I'm good.”
“There's basically an unlimited multiball kind of exploit... So you just use all five targets up there, that adds a ball, and you can just do that in perpetuity.”
“I mean, it would sound like such an old person saying, but this is the truth. My arthritis in my left hand was just so bad that I could barely flip anymore.”
“The reason they feel more consistent is the tolerances in the bushing, the metal bushing are way... there's almost no slack.”
Entities
- Chicago Pinball Expo· event
- District 82· event
- Super Series· event
- Deadpool· game
- Godzilla· game
- Mandalorian· game
- Turtles· game
- Andy Bagwell· person
- Brian Dye· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Chuck Wuer· person
- Eric Thorne· person
- Jared August· person
- Joel· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Rachel· person
- Tom· person
- Travis· person
- Zach McCarthy· person
- Precision Flip· product
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