
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 44: Expo 2023 Recap Fun!
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 44: Expo 2023 Recap Fun! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, and Travis Murie We made it back from Chicago Pinball Expo! On today's episode we discussed all the...
Highlights
- Raymond Davidson won the UK Open
- Goldeneye (Bond) experienced recurring code/mechanical issues during Stern Pro Circuit tournament, particularly with ball save and magnet trap-behind mechanics during multiball
- Escher won the Stern Pro Circuit Final at Expo
- Cactus Canyon has strong appeal to younger players and casual family audiences
- Travis Murray placed fourth in Super Series main event and third in Classics (Fair Strikes)
- Stern factory tour showed single production line operational with second line being set up; significant expansion capacity available
- Labyrinth code improvements have made the game substantially better than earlier versions
- Max Senesac won the Super Series main event
Notable quotes
“There's dozens of us, okay, that like it. I love Cactus Canyon.”
“But screw the premium. I'm telling you right now. That game effed me three times during the tournament.”
“He's okay. Yeah. He does fine. He's all right. Yeah. [Escher's] lucky there's ball saves in games, for sure. And he's lucky that... He's lucky there's flippers on the game, too.”
“Commentating Bond and watching Bond and listening, there was a few different times I commentated, but like Raymond Davidson was sitting next to me one time. Dalton was sitting next to me one time... it felt like the Twilight Zone.”
“There's a little graphic showing the seats. Every seat on that graphic was red except for mine, which was green because [I did nothing].”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Expo 2023· event
- Stern Pro Circuit Final· event
- Super Series· event
- UK Open· event
- Cactus Canyon· game
- Goldeneye (Bond)· game
- Labyrinth· game
- District 82· organization
- Evil Pinball West· organization
- Fox Cities Pinball· organization
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Brian Allen· person
- Brian Eddy· person
- Colin McAlpine· person
- Craig Bobby· person
- Escher· person
- Joel· person
- Keith Allen· person
- Max Senesac· person
- Neil McRae· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Tom· person
- Travis Murray· person
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