Keeping a tournament qualifying entry either unfinished or purposefully not starting one you’ve purchased as the qualifying time moves onward throughout the day.
New Pinball Dictionary: Pocket Entry / One in the Pocket
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For the record: Varney Cup Finals
Held at the Level Zero Arcade in Upstate New York
Top-10 Most Intriguing People of 2019
Jeff Teolis presents segments with the Top-10 most intriguing pinball people of 2019.
New Pinball Dictionary: Unicorn
An entry submitted during a ticket-based format that contains a number-one ranked score on every game played within that ticket.
Sonic Spinball update 5
The game is really coming along now! Gotta go fast! Gotta go faster to score more points for each shot you make.
Backbox Pinball Podcast: The Year in Review
The ladies of the Rip Tide Pinball Podcast help count down the top 10 pinball happenings of 2019.
New Pinball Dictionary: Threading
Barely flipping a very fast moving ball that is heading for a drain down the middle, such that it goes off of the center post, under the opposite flipper, up the outlane and back into play.
The Phantom Menace
Multiple hours of butt-kicking administered by The Phantom of the Opera.
Slam Tilt 138: Strange podcast, stranger decade
After the Decade In Review, Bruce warms up the bus to run stuff over with an end of decade rant.
New Pinball Dictionary: Bathroom Stall / Restroom Stall
A “strategy” that can be used during the Final Rounds of a tournament where there is a stipulation that the player choosing a game to play MUST choose a game not currently being played by someone else.
(AKA “no waiting for games”)
TWiPY Awards 2019 voting is open!
The voting period for This Week in Pinball Yearly Awards 2019 has arrived! Vote for your favorites in the pinball world NOW through the end of January.
New Pinball Dictionary: Icarus Round
The Pinburgh round where a player gets owned after previously performing well above their own perceived level of competition.