We had “The Rumble in the Jungle” and “The Thrilla in Manila.” Now we have “The Match at District 82.”
In the future, many will misremember this match as the Grand Final. It was only the Quarter Final round!
Before this match concluded, Multiple Time World Pinball Champion Daniele Celestino Acciari had already fought his way through the other side of the bracket to clinch his seat in the Grand Final.
There, he waited for his eventual opponent at the top of the mountain.
Posted by Pinball Rebel on Facebook:
A difference of .19%
Just needed to get in one more hole!
A genre-crossing milestone in pinball has been reached: The first ever speedrun of an arcade pinball game on the main stage!
Ryan McQuaid (McSquid) went to Game Done Quick in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and absolutely CRUSHED the speedrun of Total Nuclear Annihilation (TNA)!
LIVE, in front of an auditorium audience and with 35,000 livestream viewers watching, he posted a time of 18:45 for destroying all nine reactors.
The comprehensive, “Definitive Review” of video pinball games (as in ALL of them!) by Indie Gamer Chick (AKA The Pinball Chick) is imminent.
In anticipation of that review series, here is a warmup by YouTuber “i am a dot.” called The Unreality of UNHINGED Pinball.
