Episode 333: Neil Graf
Another young superstar pinball player in the making. Neil Graf talks with special guest host Travis Murie about his recent climb up the IFPA rankings, District 82, his dad Tom, plus other...
Highlights
- Neil Graff is currently ranked #21 in the world among pinball players
- Neil has been playing competitively since age 9
- District 82 has multiple top-100 ranked players who play regularly there without competing outside the venue
- Neil and his father Tom are finalists for best player of the year in the Twippies awards
- Neil won the classics tournament at Freeplay Florida
- The District 82 super series had over 100 signups with significant out-of-state participation
- Neil beat Kaylee George in a Police Force match during the super series
- Neil was notified about Indisc only 2 weeks before the event
- Neil has missed approximately 10 days of school for pinball competitions, near Wisconsin's attendance cutoff
- Iron Maiden is Neil's favorite pinball machine
Notable quotes
“I actually didn't like playing pinball so much until I played one tournament at District 82, and I just loved it ever since.”
“I feel like it did, yeah. It definitely motivated me a little bit.”
“We just play so much pinball it's crazy it's kind of creating its own ecosystem almost”
“District 82 definitely helped for that. It's just a lot of classics there.”
“you seem to be able to adapt very quickly to any one of these games and obviously just like you alluded to district 82 has really helped you out there”
“I can't believe how many people signed up for that and how many people out of state signed up for it. It was just crazy.”
“That's just surreal. I just can't believe that.”
“Definitely, I'd say so. Especially, yeah, Indisc is a big one. And you got Florida. I want to try to travel to a few tournaments a year.”
Entities
- District 82 super series· event
- Freeplay Florida· event
- Indisc· event
- Pinball Expo Chicago· event
- Twippies· event
- Fishtails· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- Police Force· game
- District 82· organization
- Fox City's Pinball· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- Kaylee George· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Neil Graff· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Travis Murray· person
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