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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 34: TPF 2023 Recap with Colin MacAlpine

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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 34 – TPF 2023 Recap with Colin MacAlpine Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, Travis Murie & Colin MacAlpine TPF has come and gone and what a great show it was! On...

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Highlights

  • Colin MacAlpine is a rules designer in a consulting role for P3, working on an unannounced game project alongside other P3 collaborators
  • Rules design is significantly more complex than commentary suggests, requiring integration with choreography, video, graphics timing, and scoring mathematics
  • Texas Pinball Festival's Classics tournament is designed to hit exactly 100% TGP (Tournament Game Points) capacity
  • TPF tournament changed from attracting primarily local/regional players to attracting top players from across the country and world, including Stern Pro Circuit players
  • A new rating system (mentioned as 'Whopper system') launching next year will use efficiency percentages that make poor tournament finishes (like 140th place) significantly impact competitive standings
  • Escher Lefkoff won the TPF 2023 Classics finals, triple-rolling Old Chicago (300,000 points) in the tie-break against Preston (230,000 points)
  • Laura Streeter, a newer competitive player (approximately 2 years competitive experience), made the Classics finals final four
  • Triple Drain Podcast finished 7th place out of 10 in the Twippies awards (podcast category)

Notable quotes

“It's a lot of work. It's cool. But it has given me a new sense of appreciation for all those other people that have worked on or are currently working on games and doing rules design and doing just game design in general. It's so much more than anybody realizes until you've actually taken the plunge.”
Colin MacAlpine
“TPF is a world class premiere show and anybody that's been there will say that it is I would argue it's the best show but if it's not the best it's one of the best two.”
Colin MacAlpine
“The original intent was always to have a tournament that went along with this world-class show... I think we as a team of people that helped to run that have been successful. I think we've succeeded at turning that tournament into a world-class tournament.”
Colin MacAlpine
“For me personally, it would be just the volatility of it because there's only eight plays, right? Classics is much more difficult to control than a modern machine. You put me on a modern machine, in eight plays, I'll get a hold of it.”
Travis
“Nine balls in a row, three straight games, only two actually got to a flipper. Like seven were like legitimate house balls... I think I finished, like, 140th or something like that.”
Travis
“It was the best competitive game of Old Chicago I've ever seen before in my life... Escher triple rolled it... He put up $300,000 on Old Chicago in a very convincing fashion.”
Colin MacAlpine
“I feel like with these, they actually had time, which was pretty cool... for them to get a break, to ever leave the room, is so rare.”
Joel

Entities

  • P3 (Multimorphic)· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
  • Twippies Awards· event
  • IFPA/WPPR· organization
  • Stern Pro Circuit· organization
  • Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Colin MacAlpine· person
  • Ed Van Der Veen· person
  • Escher Lefkoff· person
  • Joel· person
  • Laura Streeter· person
  • Liz Dronet· person
  • Monica· person
  • Neil (Tom's son)· person
  • Preston· person
  • Tom· person
  • Travis· person
  • Zencastr· product

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