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Don’s First Tournament! | New Pinball Collective | Dune

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Don plays in his first tournament at the Triangle Pinball Collective, our favorite new local spot! The tournament doubled as a Dune launch party — many games are played and discussed. Video coming on...

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Highlights

  • Triangle Pinball Collective had over 60 people attend the Dune launch party tournament on a Wednesday night
  • Barrels of Fun donated a Dune playfield as the tournament prize
  • Tournament used five-strike format with position-based ranking (0 strikes for 1st, 1 strike for 2nd-3rd, 2 strikes for 4th place)
  • Don had jitters on his first game (Swords of Fury) and came in third place
  • Dune game has an innovative pain box mechanic requiring players to hold action button while flipping
  • Game of Thrones Pro is more enjoyable than Premium version due to smaller upper playfield
  • Triangle Pinball Collective has roughly 20 well-maintained machines
  • New venue is run by Triangle Pinball Players tournament organizers who pooled resources
  • Dune artwork is brown because it's a desert-based movie and that's thematically appropriate

Notable quotes

“It finally happened. Yes. And I enjoyed it. Yeah. 10 out of 10 would do it again.”
Don
“This is probably one of the most real collectivy type places as opposed to an arcade. You can tell that the games are cared for. The people that have them and own them and maintenance them actually are about pinball.”
Bash host
“I had like the jitters, man. I had like the, I don't know, just like first game, first tournament kind of jitters.”
Don
“It's a theory. Honestly, yeah, I would like to know more about that. Let me know. Hit us up, pod at bashpinball.com.”
Don
“That's a whole nother skill in pinball to be a tournament player, to be able to quickly adapt, just like shift from like an 80s game to like a 90s and then 2000s.”
Bash host
“I think the big complaint was that it's very brown, which to me of course it's brown. That makes sense. It's a brown movie. You couldn't make a Dune game that wasn't brown.”
Bash host
“The pain box...you have to hold down the action button while you're playing so you have to be flipping on both sides while holding down the action button the whole time”
Don
“I actually really like the Pro. Oh, really? It was way more fun...I really don't like the Premium at all. I've never played a Pro until this one, and it's way more enjoyable.”
Don

Entities

  • Barrels of Fun· company
  • Black Knight 2000· game
  • Brandy Smokers Dracula· game
  • Dune· game
  • Game of Thrones· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Pulp Fiction· game
  • Swords of Fury· game
  • Bull City Solera· organization
  • Flight Deck· organization
  • Richmond Pinball Collective· organization
  • Triangle Pinball Collective· organization
  • Triangle Pinball Players· organization
  • Bash· person
  • Don· person
  • Hacker J· person
  • Jacob· person
  • Jared· person
  • Jason· person
  • John· person

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