I finally got to adding the rest of the PPO 2015 games, thanks @PinballNarcissist for making my job a lot easier.
@stevevt: Yes, those PAPA 16 videos are not in there. My notes say that the quarter- and semifinal streams were just too disjointed to put them up in an archived format. If I remember correctly, there was a 1h+ match on Godzilla that would have been awesome to add, since there’s no tournament footage at all on that machine, but it was cut away from so often to show other matches that it just didn’t make sense adding it to pinballvideos.
Thanks. Yup, there are cutaways throughout these videos.
If it’s worth it, you might want to include the quarterfinals heads-up tiebreaker on Genesis between Robert Gagno and Sean Grant that starts around 3:14:09.
You might want to add this pretty thorough thrashing of X-Men by Keith Elwin on the pinball101 channel:
@stevevt: Thanks, I’ll look into it. If I remember correctly, I didn’t use a few pinball101 tournament videos because there was no commentary.
@genex: If your question was directed at me: If it were up to me, I would have added Expo 2015 in October, but it’s not – I don’t have any control over when those videos become available on YouTube. Over at PAPA tutorial edit schedule Mark said that uploading streams to YouTube isn’t high priority, but he didn’t give an ETA for Expo.
Thanks. It makes sense to draw the line somewhere, but I’d personally rather see high-level competition with no commentary than a gameplay video with no commentary.
OK, so you want competition videos with commentary that you don’t already have?
Take a look here:
I’ve spot checked a handful, and none of them is on your site. Not sure if that’s going to true for all of them.
Thanks for posting that Steve. There is lots of good footage there that should be aggregated on pinballvideos. Namely the Pinburgh 2012 B Finals - WCS and Fast Draw.
Putting them on pinballvideos is fine, but it would be better if you linked to those videos via PAPA’s youtube account, rather than CGR’s. The proper links for all four can be found on papa.org.
Thanks a lot for doing this again – I added the videos.
You know how it is with those hobby projects, sometimes they just don’t get the time they deserve. You’re absolutely right that it’s become harder than it was when I was just archiving the PAPA back catalogue, but I absolutely intend to continue adding all tournament footage.
More of an issue is the abundance of footage from regular twitch streamers. Most of that doesn’t fit well, but I might easily be missing out on some nice tutorials.
Another thing, papa.org had a major redesign of their website, now featuring a video archive on their home page. I haven’t read about that anywhere and found out about it by accident – gonna post another thread, in case other people missed that too. (Edit: papa.org video index)
