You did a good job. As someone trying to guess, it is hard to think like the person writing the free association riddle. I also really wanted a band of heros to be Aerosmith because of guitar hero Aerosmith. But at the same time didn’t really believe you would have made that association.
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I thought it was great, too. I loved how everything fit naturally into the Argonauts story. Mostly I’m stunned that I didn’t find High Speed, even after figuring out “quickly rode” and looking at every IPDB page about 500 times… 
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I was ready to guess Elvis for “promised land”
I was ready to guess GOT with the mention of Harpies…
Not that I have a great chance to make finals on Sunday but what time would they start? I’m trying to make a train to LA at 2pm
Day 3—Sunday January 13, 2019
Qualifying
- High Stakes 10AM-5:30PM
Check In
- Main A & B Finalists 8:45AM
- Kids Finalists 9:30AM
- Women’s Finalists 11:30AM
- High Stakes Finalists 6PM
Finals
- Main A & B Early Rounds 9AM-12PM
- Kids 10AM
- Women’s 12PM
- MAIN DIVISION BREAK 12PM – 3PM
- Main A & B Final Rounds 3PM
- High Stakes 6:30PM
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Putting the custom game settings on this page is brilliant. So simple, but very handy. I hope to see this become the norm.
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I don’t see a link to the standings anywhere on neverdrains.com … am I missing something ? Seems funny to not have it linked somewhere 
Yeah I found it on the Facebook event, at least it’s easy to remember! Just figured it would be on the main site somewhere
This is also very nice
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Huge thanks to the entire organizing team for this event. Great space and games, excellent work on broadcasting and TDing, outstanding quantity and quality of prizes and celebration.
Thank you!
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What did the payouts end up being per division? I heard mention of a few dollar amounts on the broadcast, but no official payout listing.
https://www.neverdrains.com/2019/playerIndex.php?disp=prizes
These are approximate, the rounded to nice dollar amounts.
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Thanks, and nice job with the long haul in the booth!
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Hey @gammagoat
Monster Bash is the perfect game. The only mod I would conduct for that one would be a big fat loud mooooooo, if you plunge while holding the left flipper button.
Aaand Frank is too hard to wake up the second time around. But other than that 
Great broadcast!
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I want to echo Bowen’s comment and give thanks to the organizers, techs, scorekeepers, etc, for putting on a great tournament. This was my first experience at a major tournament and it was staggering to me how much work was put into this event to get the machines ready to play and to keep them playing (for the most part) perfectly through the entire weekend. Seeing a 40+ year old pinball machine (like El Dorado) play flawlessly through hundreds of plays over the weekend was truly impressive. When you are new to something as arcane as the world of tournament pinball, it really helps when everyone – staff, organizers and players – are as friendly and helpful as they were this weekend.
Thanks again!
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I’ll second all that - and add that the El Dorado was in mint condition too …
It’s really good to see how the Banning facility has grown from the old factory it was a few years back to what would have to be one of the best permanent arcade facilities in the world. Plentiful parking, good toilets, bar, food, inside/outside areas, plenty of accommodation and food nearby …
Hats off to John Weeks and Chuck Casey, and all the other volunteers who maintain all the machines there.
Dave.
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Hey guys I really enjoyed watching some of the finals stream on Sunday, thanks for a great production.
I was wondering if/when the streams would be available on YouTube?
Unfortunately it’ll be a while as I have a ton of editing to do to break them up into pieces and zero time to do it at the moment.
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