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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 29.5: INDISC 2023 Recap
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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 29.5: INDISC 2023 Recap Hosts: Joel Engelberth & Travis Murie This is a "mini" episode with just Joel and Travis as they recap INDISC 2023. It was an amazing...
Highlights
- There are only three major pinball tournaments yearly: EPC (Europe), The Open, and IFPA (Germany, rotates)
- 60 of the top 100 world-ranked pinball players were at INDISC
- High Stakes tournament had 80 participants at $500 per entry (10 tickets), totaling $40,000 with $15,000 for first place
- Car Hop (Gottlieb) was identified as exploitable with a repeatable spinner shot worth 2.5-3 million points and safe left orbit strategy
- Keith Elwin won Classics 2 finals, defeating Teolis, Johnny Mnemonic, and Jack Tadman with scores of 263 (Eight Ball), 620 (Paragon), and dominant performance on Stars
- Carl D'Angelo's IE Pinball stream reached 10,000-15,000 concurrent viewers when featured on Twitch front page
- Carl D'Angelo achieved Twitch Partner status after multiple prior applications
- Travis qualified 8th in High Stakes but was bumped by Robert Byers (Top Rope Pinball) who became #1 seed
- Qualifying requires 5 consecutive games (4 for Classics) on a single card with consistent high scores near 900-point range to advance
- Keith Elwin is arguably the best pinball tournament player of all time, particularly dominant in classic EM/alphanumeric games
Notable quotes
“Indisc is essentially the Super Bowl of tournament play”
“It's a ticket system... you have to play good or at least halfway decent on five straight games... they maxed out the participants in that tournament too. There was 80 people total.”
“So the whole entire game turned out to be that... it basically all but guaranteed you 1 million points, possibly even two up to 5 million if you just followed it through.”
“Keith Elwin... is arguably one of, if not the best, like, pinball tournament player of all time. I don't think there's any argument.”
“It's getting specials left and right. He's trying to roll it. We're just all watching like, oh, my God, what is going on? This is not human, what he was doing.”
“So IE Pinball, Carl D'Angelo is streaming this whole thing. Carl got partnered on Twitch... it finally happened a few months ago. He got partnered.”
“Now, partners is a whole nother story because they limit the number of people within each category... Carl has met those requirements for quite a long time.”
“What it did do, though, was it kind of opened a door for him... Twitch is aware of who he is. And so I think what happened was there was somebody at Twitch working in the background that liked Carr or liked Pinball and knew this was coming.”
“The number of people that popped into chat, I mean, it got over 10,000 people, which is normally for a stream like this type of tournament stream... somewhere right around there... But like that's the normal pinball community watching is a thousand.”
“I know I got several messages, just text messages from different people that didn't even realize I was at a pinball tournament. But they get on Twitch all the time. They're like, you're on the front page.”
Entities
- INDISC· event
- Car Hop· game
- Eight Ball· game
- Paragon· game
- Stars· game
- IE Pinball· organization
- Silver Ball Swag· organization
- Twitch· organization
- Andy Bagwell· person
- Andy Rosa Jr.· person
- Ben Smith· person
- Carl D'Angelo· person
- Colin McAlpine· person
- Eric Stone· person
- Hayley George· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jack Tadman· person
- Jason Zoller· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joel· person
- Johnny Mnemonic· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Robert Byers· person
- Tom· person
- Travis Murray· person
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