2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet Tournament
Dave Stewart wins 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet grand finals over Carlton, Scout, and Sterling.
2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet Tournament
Synopsis
Coverage of the 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet tournament grand finals, featuring Dave Stewart, Scout Bevins, Sterling Matoska, and Carlton Plord competing across six pinball machines (Game of Thrones, Pulp Fiction, Walking Dead, Bone Busters, Atlantis, and Diamond Lady) in a speed-based gauntlet format. Dave Stewart won the championship with a time of approximately 232 seconds, Carlton Plord finished second, Scout Bevins third, and Sterling Matoska fourth. The event was the seventh running of the Pincinnati Gauntlet and included discussion of the triple crown bounty ($800 prize and trophy for winning three consecutive local tournaments).
Highlights
- Dave Stewart is the 2025 Pincinnati Gauntlet champion with a winning time of 232 seconds
- Sterling Matoska was the gauntlet winner from the previous year and is back-to-back gauntlet finalist
- The triple crown bounty of $800 and trophy will not be claimed this year because two different winners won the previous two legs and neither is in the finals
- The gauntlet format allows players to choose game order and start multiple games simultaneously
- This is the seventh running of the Pincinnati Gauntlet tournament
Notable quotes
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”
“Dave Stewart is your gauntlet champion”
“It's not like the old Southland days where they clipped me up with a mic and made me commentate on my own game of Taxi, which was a lot of fun.”
“If you win the Pincinnati, you win the Head match play, and you win this tournament, there's an $800 extra bounty and a really sick horse trophy on the line.”
Entities
- Pincinnati Gauntlet· event
- Atlantis· game
- Bone Busters· game
- Diamond Lady· game
- Game of Thrones· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Walking Dead· game
- Carlton Plord· person
- Chuckwurt· person
- Dave Stewart· person
- Scout Bevins· person
- Sterling Matoska· person
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