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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 39: 5 Minutes Of Endless Ball Save

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Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 39: 5 Minutes Of Endless Ball Save Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie Tom is back baby and ready to catch us up on all his European tournament...

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Highlights

  • Tom Graff achieved Twitch partner status after a concentrated two-week push with high viewership
  • There are only four partnered pinball Twitch streamers: Buffalo, Deadflip, IE Pinball, and Tom Graff
  • Johannes won the World Pinball Championship after advancing from near the bottom of the bracket through dominant play
  • The World Pinball Championship featured 80 of the world's top-ranked players competing in eight rounds of three games each
  • European tournament setups had stricter tilt sensitivity on older games, making nudging more risky than American machines
  • Nearly all Stern machines at the European World Championship had plastic protectors on the playfield
  • The Epstein Cup is a team competition with eight North American and eight European players, selected by IFPA ranking
  • North America won the Epstein Cup; Neil McCrae played on the team, taking first on Centaur and Skateball after struggling on his opening game
  • Johannes is described by top players as nearly unbeatable, with Travis estimating he would beat any current world player more than 50% of the time in a 100-game series
  • Travis experienced severe jet lag affecting his performance during World Pinball Championship qualifying, particularly hitting a wall mid-day

Notable quotes

“I think anybody that's pretty much in the top 100 I've played. And playing against Johannes was probably – outside of playing ZMAC at Expo, it was like one of the few times that I felt absolutely helpless.”
Travis
“He's like a robot he barely moved... It's just like Terminator mode and it's just it's impressive to watch.”
Travis
“Everything seemed safe. like everything he shot at was he could get it back in control. It seemed like it. Yeah. Even if it was like an in lane, like he's back under control.”
Tom
“Probably not human. probably something sent back from the future.”
Tom
“It was like somebody dragging out somebody that's, like, drunk out of the pub. Like, you're my best friend. It's okay. Don't worry about it.”
Travis
“If you look at my. I could tell you were really tired. Oh, Tom was trying to like talk me through it. He was helping me.”
Travis
“There probably has to be someone that's just the absolute best right now. And, I mean, I don't know. I would be excited to see him come over and play Indus or something like that.”
Travis
“You game the system just like the IFPA.”
Joel
“We don't have that. Okay. A couple weeks at District 82.”
Tom
“He probably beats everybody like more than 50 times. he probably wins more than half the time against anybody else in the world.”
Travis

Entities

  • Twitch· company
  • Epstein Cup· event
  • European Pinball Championship· event
  • World Pinball Championship· event
  • IFPA· organization
  • Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
  • Arvid· person
  • Colin· person
  • Daniele· person
  • Eric Stone· person
  • Escher· person
  • Greg Bone· person
  • Jared August· person
  • Jason Zoller· person
  • Joel· person
  • Johannes· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Marcus Six· person
  • Neil McCrae· person
  • Stephen Bowden· person
  • Tom Graff· person
  • Travis· person
  • Tyler· person
  • Vigo· person
  • Zach McCarthy (Z-Mac)· person

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