This happens to me OFTEN. Each time I do it correctly it feels like a magic trick like, “OH! I did it right!”. Then I have to remember that I need to make a shot soon afterward. That is, if I can’t catch it on the other flipper so I can have a chance to THINK.
Either that or the flipper doesn’t move AT ALL, and the ball just drains. Or, I have to desperately flip the ball away in a late attempt to save myself.
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.
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Here is a time when I could definitely say I was “LOCKED IN” or “IN THE ZONE” while playing pinball. At District 82 Arcade, it’s me vs. Police Force with the “TAKE HIGHEST SCORE” challenge set to 8 ramps in a row. Also, JACKPOT is lit. 8 consecutive ramps needed to win the game.
Erik Thoren from District 82 Pinball Arcade presents quick-fire tutorials to games that you will see at the arcade and possibly at your next tournament.
Look! Here’s a time when I remembered how to play pinball well, consistently. Well … for most of it.
Tom Graf of Fox Cities Pinball tells us how competitive pinball has grown and helped to advance the pinball hobby.
“TiltTrek visits the Midwest tournament hub, District 82 in Green Bay Wisconsin. We tour the place, interview owner Erik Thoren and the #1 female player in the world Kassidy Milanowski, and ask the question about being a whopper farm…”
Green Bay Classics tours and competes in the Triple Flip Open tournament series at District 82 in De Pere, Wisconsin.
Are you brave enough to test the electromechanical devil that is Volley? Well, Colin MacAlpine was one of those brave competitors. See what happens when nearly everything goes right.
The WPPR harvest is in season this October! Will you reap what you have sown?
The Tournament Director presents a post-mortem of what went down, what really went down, what couldn’t get back up, and tournament director decisions.
Did you register for the Pinball Super Series coming up in October at District 82? The cash prizes have been increased due to a sponsorship by The Pinball Company!
“We are now paying out to 6th place instead of just 4th for the overall series:
$2 per person per tournament goes into this pool but the overall winner is going to receive $1,000 regardless of participants.”
