Intergalactic Pinball Championship @ ReplayFX Announced!

No glitches just some bad code for A level players.

clearly none of us found anything odd at pintastic based on our scores lol

Did they do anything special in the setup, or did it just play that hard? I love ghostbusters, but I am still of the opinion it is too long playing to be a good tournament game. Clearly, these results go against my view. That is a lot of plays to not have a single person have a good MH or WCWSWKIA and break a billion.

I would be curious what the loop champion score was after the weekend.

I’ve never found it to play long, and have never found one that felt “good” to play. Airballs, tight tilt, no outlane rubber posts, and huge center gap keep the ball in that drain. How long does a good “dialed” game of Ghostbusters last?

  1. phantom slimer hits if tilt is not set tight
  2. 6x Michelin man
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I will check my audits tonight. I don’t really know, when I play well I lose track of time. I personally can’t hit the left ramp all day, but I image many A players can. In WCWS… this seems possible. In my head this will turn into Cayle on who dunnit kind of times, in reality this may not happen.

  1. I don’t think will be a problem with the new mech. Slimer really doesn’t swing any more. We will see over time, but right now I am not worried.

  2. Please explain.

If you complete the modes on the right loop then you get to “choose the destroyer”. If you select the marshmellow man it is worth about 50M a shot. with a 6x multiplier it is about 300M a shot.

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TLDR; Longer times than AC/DC, shorter than STLE.

My perception may not be supported by fact (although I am a B player, so A players should push it longer). Here are my audits after a couple days of play from myself and a couple friends. There are some debugging games and I was cheating and restarting after some bad balls (127 games, only 82 scores) :). There are 2, 1.5B games in these audits.

3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:10
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 3:23
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 0
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 6
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 5
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 9
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 6
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 8
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 7
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 10
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 11
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 12
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 4
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 4
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 0

And here are the score audits
30 0.0M-1.99M SCORES 01
31 2.0M-3.99M SCORES 01
32 4.0M-5.99M SCORES 03
33 6.0M-7.99M SCORES 01
34 8.0M-9.99M SCORES 03
35 10.0M-12.49M SCORES 03
36 12.5M-14.99M SCORES 01
37 15.0M-17.49M SCORES 01
38 17.5M-19.99M SCORES 02
39 20.0M-24.99M SCORES 02
40 25.0M-29.99M SCORES 03
41 30.0M-39.99M SCORES 06
42 40.0M-49.99M SCORES 03
43 50.0M-74.99M SCORES 09
44 75.0M-99.99M SCORES 09
45 100.0M-149.99M SCORES 08
46 150.0+M SCORES 26
47 AVERAGE SCORES 150,244,140

For comparison, my AC/DC Premium has
3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:01
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 2:30
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 1
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 39
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 113
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 78
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 89
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 63
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 52
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 80
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 66
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 36
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 12
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 5
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 0

and STLE
3 AVERAGE BALL TIME 1:26
4 AVERAGE GAME TIME 3:50
59 0 - 1 MINUTE GAMES 0
60 1 - 1.5 MINUTE GAMES 2
61 1.5 - 2 MINUTE GAMES 14
62 2 - 2.5 MINUTE GAMES 22
63 2.5 - 3 MINUTE GAMES 23
64 3 - 3.5 MINUTE GAMES 34
65 3.5 - 4 MINUTE GAMES 25
66 4 - 5 MINUTE GAMES 41
67 5 - 6 MINUTE GAMES 35
68 6 - 8 MINUTE GAMES 37
69 8 - 10 MINUTE GAMES 21
70 10 - 15 MINUTE GAMES 7
71 15+ MINUTE GAMES 2

Of course those games have been played in league and have more diverse player base.

It’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow man, just FYI.

Stay Puft is worth a lot but takes some time to get to so not really an easy “exploit”

Hanging it up in the jets over and over by backhanding the right loop is the easiest exploit in my opinion even though it is slower than Stay Puft. EOB bonus gets obscene along with all of the random awards that get lit. “We’re Ready to Believe You” has a major bug where if one of the balls goes into the right saucer it will just sit there and the mode gets stuck. So for that reason the game might not be good for tournaments although it is difficult to get to in tournament mode. Anyway this bug may have already been fixed.

Any results? cannot find it online

Finals are on matchplay here https://matchplay.events/live/6v63/standings

Mostly correct, except tie breaking was done by initial seeding and Eric actually is not tied with Joonas and I, there was just an error that makes it look like he has one less win than he has.

Qualifying results here.
http://replayfx.org/ipc2016/playerIndex.php

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I took the goose egg- when presented with the choice of waiting in line to play qualifying games, or drinking and playing dollar games on Spanish EMs, I chose the latter. I regret nothing!

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Yeah, after A finals the lines were way long. We chose to walk around playing dollar games too. I did put two more entries in at 1am, but left 4 unused entries.

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The key was to start when they opened. Lines where only about 3 deep for first few hours. I was finished all my entries by 1pm. Unless of course you qualified for one of the divisions. After finals was crazy. I would have skipped it had I not started until after the finals.

All and all, I still enjoyed it much more then the brackelope tournament last year. It also seemed easier to run. Of course I am biased and probably shouldn’t get a vote.

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I played 4 myself and then realized I had no desire to wait 20 minutes to play brutally setup games with so much other stuff going on, so I bailed. A little regret, but not that much. Glad they offered it, though, especially for good causes.

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Congrats to twitch handler stash kid for winning intergalactic tournament

I think a bunch of us did that. I was watching finals and sitting near those games and realized they started up again and I was in a queue so I ended up playing Lethal Weapon and left like 6 entries :slight_smile:

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