i couldn’t catch most of the stream, any link/timestamp recommendations? 
Here’s a good example on TWD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1504452542?t=07h23m35s
Compliments of JDL_Pinball channel.
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That game is just so much more fun to watch and play when you can light modes at any point.
And holy soggy flippers Batman. Never seen a pro that it’s tough to make the cdc ramp.
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Agree about the mode setting. It was the first thing I noticed.
Good ol tourney pinball, taking all the fun out of pinball since forever to save 2 minutes.
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That’s funny, Erik, because I had the exact opposite reaction. TWD is stupid easy when you can light modes at any point and definitely not a setup I’m remotely interested in watching (or playing), lol. Any schlub can flip away during multi-ball and luck into huge mode collects over and over without the slightest idea of what they did or how they did it. I would much rather see deliberate and controlled single ball play that applies a dynamic risk vs. reward decision making process in setting up the one (or two) big possible payouts available by skillfully stacking one of the modes with Prison and one other of the modes with Blood Bath/Well-Walker. That, in my opinion, would be a far more satisfying game of TWD to see in competition rather than a game where 100% of the “dangerous” drop target shots are neutered to 0% danger because they all occur during safe multi-ball play. ymmv.
I thought Colin’s link above was actually going to be a different game of TWD from Johannes last weekend, lol, where he absolutely obliterated Barn in single ball play with his spectacular control and accuracy.
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Disagree. 
When TWDs start holding up tournaments, I’ll hear the arguments for comp instal. Maybe.
But I’d rather see the play separated by players that can navigate 4 balls at once without accidentally tripping their X and get big collects.
On comp install, those types of stacks rarely, if ever, happen.
That’s exactly what Johannes did in this game with that 133mm collect and what Prusa did at Pincinnati with a 200-300 million collect. The schlubs wouldn’t be able to do that.
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LFS agrees with this 100% 
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For the Fulda WPPR Farming series, I forecasted 7726 total WPPRs three weeks ago. The actual total was 8218.77. My guesstimate wasn’t half bad.
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Watching him play Godzilla, someone in chat said the loop was dangerous and not to shoot it, he is like nah bro, I will just shoot it then shoot the tail whip every time with perfect accuracy for an easy flipper feed. Truly bonkers.
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Reminds me of a time I played Andy Rosa on Shadow and I couldn’t get anything going ball one with vengeance due to flipper hop. Warned Rosa about it when he stepped up and he ignored me and got over a billion from one vengeance mode ball 1. Haha.
Daniele must have set the record for amount of WPPRs individually earned in one extended weekend farming event: 351.6!!! Holy crap.
A full 8 events for his Top20 card, at an average of 44 per tourney. Wow.
That just beat Zach out from his PAPA farming weekend in 2017:
Zach did 349.09 WPPR’s in 5 events, nearly 70 per tourney average.
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RIP PAPA farming 
Yeah. I never got to play there. Still holding out hope they somehow resurrect it.
Here’s the summary, ranked by most WPPRS for all events:
| PLAYER | Rank | WPPR Total |
|---|---|---|
| Daniele Celestino Acciari | 1 | 351.56 |
| Johannes Ostermeier | 2 | 338.06 |
| Andrew Foster | 3 | 269.87 |
| Flavio Baddaria | 4 | 260.67 |
| Markus Stix | 5 | 248.40 |
| Paul Englert | 6 | 245.60 |
| Arvid Flygare | 7 | 222.95 |
| Robert Sutter | 8 | 203.01 |
| Reidar Spets | 9 | 189.56 |
| Tobias Wagemann | 10 | 185.02 |
| Markus Virtanen | 11 | 178.11 |
| Viggo Löwgren | 12 | 158.74 |
| Eric Houtteman | 13 | 153.79 |
| Stefan Herold | 14 | 148.52 |
| Bart Volman | 15 | 141.04 |
| François de Wrangel | 16 | 133.99 |
| John van der Wulp | 17 | 131.86 |
| Dirk Elzholz | 18 | 129.63 |
| Arno Nöbl | 19 | 127.80 |
| Ben Moser | 20 | 116.33 |
| Thomas Mästerman | 21 | 107.87 |
| Dominique De Cock | 22 | 106.09 |
| Mario Kertels | 23 | 105.90 |
| Boldizsár Botka | 24 | 105.26 |
| Benjamin Gräbeldinger | 25 | 101.62 |
| Philippe Craul | 26 | 99.14 |
| Vid Kuklec | 27 | 96.12 |
| Martin Janczyk | 28 | 92.85 |
| Alexander Muer | 29 | 89.43 |
| Hugo Ritter | 30 | 88.55 |
| Ivan Geentjens | 31 | 88.22 |
| Helen de Haan-Verbeek | 32 | 86.72 |
| Bo Mertins | 33 | 81.27 |
| Paul Jongma | 34 | 77.00 |
| Frank Nilsen | 35 | 75.24 |
| Didier Dujardin | 36 | 73.05 |
| Patrick Pehrs | 37 | 71.55 |
| Artur Natorski | 38 | 71.32 |
| Mika Marttinen | 39 | 69.11 |
| Martijn Van Amsterdam | 40 | 68.06 |
| Philipp Unger | 41 | 65.62 |
| Kurt Louwie | 42 | 60.59 |
| Jürgen Letzel | 43 | 60.54 |
| Peter Blakemore | 44 | 58.58 |
| Eberhard Hattemer | 45 | 57.88 |
| Johan Flygare | 46 | 56.10 |
| Wolfgang Haid | 47 | 54.64 |
| Jari Nuutinen | 48 | 54.23 |
| Axel Vercauteren | 49 | 53.80 |
| Kevin Roelants | 50 | 52.93 |
| Laurent Gregoire | 51 | 52.39 |
| Fredrik Löwgren | 52 | 51.97 |
| Denis Ritter | 53 | 51.53 |
| Perttu Pesä | 54 | 51.37 |
| Željko Vasic | 55 | 51.05 |
| Zsolt Mészáros | 56 | 50.91 |
| Morten Søbyskogen | 57 | 50.65 |
| Lea Muer | 58 | 46.80 |
| Peter Kroiss | 59 | 46.04 |
| Jürgen Zwilling | 60 | 44.69 |
| Peter Schmidt | 61 | 42.06 |
| Jim Lindsay UK | 62 | 41.15 |
| Dan Lewell | 63 | 40.61 |
| Stefan Schichtl | 64 | 40.51 |
| Carl Bierkens | 65 | 40.50 |
| Stefan Hänsch | 66 | 40.08 |
| Rafal Wasik | 67 | 39.63 |
| Thomas Stenbäck | 68 | 39.47 |
| Roger Wirz | 69 | 37.73 |
| Luukas Marttinen | 70 | 36.74 |
| Dirk Dröden | 71 | 35.41 |
| Kirk Sadler | 72 | 34.85 |
| Mariusz Tkacz | 73 | 34.45 |
| Olivier Renders | 74 | 33.27 |
| Lars Ørskov Jensen | 75 | 33.16 |
| Patrick Gelbarth | 76 | 31.44 |
| Hervé Pierru | 77 | 30.83 |
| Amy Ziegenhagen | 78 | 30.47 |
| Rakesh Kanhai | 79 | 30.09 |
| Juha Viitanen | 80 | 28.72 |
| Alexander Bienzeisler | 81 | 27.80 |
| Fabio Villanueva | 82 | 25.67 |
| Tomi Virtanen | 83 | 25.56 |
| Bernd Eder | 84 | 24.98 |
| Mathias Jäger | 85 | 24.22 |
| Craig Pennuto US | 86 | 24.20 |
| Mike Christiansen | 87 | 22.75 |
| Barbara Sprenger | 88 | 22.41 |
| Volker Levien | 89 | 22.30 |
| Kevin Sultana | 90 | 22.17 |
| Daniel Kruzinski | 91 | 21.92 |
| Maximilian Bösel | 92 | 21.87 |
| Marc Twiehaus | 93 | 21.77 |
| Jan Hop | 94 | 21.73 |
| Louis Hänsch | 95 | 21.64 |
| Anders Helboe Poulsen | 96 | 21.63 |
| Kay Kuster | 97 | 21.00 |
| Matthias Ziegenhagen | 98 | 19.86 |
| yvan raets | 99 | 19.63 |
| Karol Gracz | 100 | 19.35 |
| Sven Engelland | 101 | 19.27 |
| Guido Christiansen | 102 | 18.07 |
| Oliver Dold | 103 | 17.51 |
| Thomas Doepelheuer | 104 | 16.98 |
| Florian Thomas | 105 | 16.84 |
| Olle Strandh | 106 | 15.99 |
| Dina Lindsay | 107 | 15.55 |
| Zana Hrastovsek | 108 | 14.11 |
| Carsten Wieske | 109 | 14.03 |
| Reiner Pfeiffer | 110 | 13.28 |
| Sascha Klenke | 111 | 12.33 |
| Andrzej Olszewski | 112 | 11.56 |
| Roland Brandes | 113 | 10.97 |
| Eugen Brunner | 114 | 10.81 |
| Bettina Kykebusch | 115 | 9.97 |
| Wolfgang Lackner | 116 | 9.69 |
| Jenna Muer | 117 | 9.35 |
| Kim Danielmeier | 118 | 9.18 |
| Daniel Poturica | 119 | 8.46 |
| Patrick Blösel | 120 | 6.55 |
| Gudrun Baechle | 121 | 6.41 |
| Daniela Thomas | 122 | 5.97 |
| Margit Danielmeier | 123 | 5.48 |
| Thomas Behr | 124 | 5.41 |
| Jens Schmidt | 125 | 0.18 |
Impressive! The harvest has come in!
Is there a way to quickly calculate the net WPPRS (on their Top20 card)? For at least the top 10-20 from Fulda Olympics?
Perhaps their WPPRS now vs their WPPRS pre-Olympics weekend?
Post-fulda update to the analysis that I previously shared. Some interesting stats:
- For Euro players in the top 50, Fulda accounts for ~50% of all active WPPRs. Only ~25% of European WPPRs come from non-farm events.
- There is only one Euro player in the top 200 who hasn’t played in a farm event.
Zooming in a bit on the front page, down to only 2 players who are using only organic/non-GMO WPPRs.
Not easily, but I do archive the Top 500 periodically, and I did so just after IFPA. I can compare that listing with the current one and flag players who were in either the June D82 series or Fulda.
Your missing the Delaware farm Phil.
