Great post, thanks. The yomi concept is at play when deciding what strategy to use against opponents, ball-to-ball.

i'm a scrub

Should this be in the Off topic category? The article appears to only be discussing video games.

Well im sure there are scrubs in pinball but it's less common then video games since pinball is not predictable. Ive been known to be a scrub in fighters, I never felt the need to put 100s of hours into them to learn every counter or bugs
to exploit. If a pin has a well balanced ruleset I don't know how any play could be considered "cheap"?

Apart from "That's Cheap", pretty much the rest of this article directly applies to pinball. Just because it doesn't use pinball examples doesn't mean it should be in the "Off Topic" section. If a few people are interested I could probably provide a bunch of examples from my experiences of the concepts in this article.

No, this is applicable to pinball. For example, being a scrub would be not shooting the ramp in Data East Star Wars in a tournament because it's more fun to shoot the rest of the table, even though spamming ramp is the best way to get points.

Good article that does relate directly to pinball. I have heard "scrubs" complain about "pro" players who catch the ball too much! "I like to play on the fly. It drives me nuts to watch these pro players catch the ball between almost every shot". They equate fun to fast paced, on the fly shot making, making lots of outlane saves, getting to the wizard mode, etc.

I've heard Bowen say more than once "We're not playing for fun, we're playing for points". So true! And just like the article says, the advanced pinball players ARE having fun, just on a different level. It can be a grind, but it is fun to find a way to dominate a game and beat your opponents in a way that may not be the typical way of playing that game. I remember watching KME destroy Cheatah in the PAPA13 finals by tap passing to the right flipper and then shooting the far left lane over and over. Fun and exciting to watch? Not really. But I guarantee Keith was having fun doing it!

I've read this one on Pinside, "Tournament players take all the fun out of pinball". Ha! We are having fun, trust me on that!

I like playing "on the fly" but love watching players that can catch and hold, flipper pass, etc. It's quite amazing the control they have on the ball(s) in play.