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Ep 87: Virtual Fun
PodcastAnalysis updated 6d ago1 hr 12 min listenBy Jeff Teolis & Martin Robbins
Ryan and Jeff discuss: – last few weeks – IFPA 20 in Austria – making pinball competitions more exciting for the general public – virtual pinball explosion – AI – concerts – Jaws 50th – pinball in...
Highlights
- Jason Zoller won IFPA 20 back-to-back world championships despite Escher not competing
- Virtual pinball rankings on IFPA website have over 1,000 players after only a few months
- Pinball tournaments are not growing exponentially due to slow pacing and long format requirements
- AtGames runs virtual pinball tournaments weekly with $25 prizes for winners at no entry cost
- Mad Ben Hand is the top virtual pinball player and is also from New Jersey, like Jason Zoller
- Geoff commentated the World Championships online from Austria
- Kate Martin visited Australia and had a flight delayed due to hurricane/bad weather
Notable quotes
“I really believe this time that you'll edit the podcast and release it within a week of us recording, not a month later. That's how excited I am, Jeff.”
“Pinball is at a standstill right now. You can show me all the numbers showing tournaments are growing in number of games played, number of people. Yeah, that increases every year. Whatever. It's not an exponential increase.”
“Nobody in their right mind wants to watch a competition where somebody takes five minutes in between a ball or waits for a tilt bob to settle or cradles up, makes a decision.”
“I wish somebody would put together something and the pinball players would back it where they said, okay every game is pick the number of minutes five minutes ten minutes whatever it is and then you done next person up.”
“The greatest player in pinball right now is Jason Zoller from New Jersey. The greatest virtual pinball player also from New Jersey, Mad Ben Hand.”
“I think of what got me back into pinball and it was the pinball arcade and seeing, holy shit, there's Attack from Mars, there's Medieval Madness, there's all these games I used to play years ago.”
“I will see the boom in virtual pinball overtaking physical pinball in one year you heard it here first.”
Entities
- AtGames· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Zen Studios· company
- Brisbane Masters· event
- IFPA 20 World Championships· event
- Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
- The Beast· event
- Attack from Mars· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Final Round Pinball Podcast· organization
- Flipper Friends· organization
- IFPA (International Flipper Pinball Association)· organization
- Escher Lefkoff· person
- Galvin Morgan· person
- Geoff Teolis· person
- Greg Kennedy· person
- Jason Zoller· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Kate Martin· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Mad Ben Hand (MBH)· person
- Ryan C· person
- Pinball Arcade· product
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