Not sure what else they recently changed, but here are PAPA's game notes for TAF as listed on their site:

Tournament Issues: Thing Flips will need to be dialed in after any moving or leveling of the game.

The locking mechanism can prevent players from earning skillshots in multiplayer games, which can create a competitive imbalance between the players involved.

Setup Notes: The difficulty of Addams Family is primarily determined by the consistency of the chair and swamp kickouts, the style of posts guarding the electric chair, and whether or not the right ramp is makeable from either flipper. Players should be capable of dead-bouncing the electric chair kickout from the left flipper to the right, and the swamp kickout from the right flipper to the left. While both of these feeds should always be physically possible, whether or not these feeds are actually controllable in this manner is up to the tournament director to decide.

Be sure to check ALL of the switches in front of the bookcase in switch test.

Lock Stealing: No
Preferred Software Revision:
Reasonable Competition Game: Yes

Source: http://papa.org/learning-center/director-resources/directors/game-notes/#a

The biggest difference for the PAPA TAF is you need to break the weldmelts on the scoop kickouts in order to achieve the most unpredictable chair and swamp kickouts I have ever experienced.

Other than that they had the fat inverted cone posts on bear kick/ vault and I think big yellows on chair.
Dead passes were deadly and bear kick was not makeable from right flipper except on the fly.

On mine, bear kick is easily makeable from right with a clean shot and it is pitched at 7.0.

Maybe rebuild your flips including new bushings? I love being able to backhand on TAF.

The one at PAPA was extremely random in kickouts. I was not a fan and should have bailed from even attempting to play it much earlier in the weekend.

I thought the magnets ran for a bit, paused, then kicked off another run. When I had mine I always waited for the pause between magnet pulses for an unmolested shot at whatever...that's a cheat? I thought it was just patience.

It's not a cheat, but Chryss Stephens timed it out every single time at a recent event and had a 30 min multiball or something like that...

Probably a good idea for an elite-level tourney.

As for the posts, they do that all of the time. TAF has some easy mode starts once you're dialed in. Making it tougher was the only way to make it tough but fair.

I'd call it more of an exploit than a cheat, but either way it slows down tournament play, which is boring.

With that said: For me, outside of tournament play, TAF just wouldn't feel like TAF without The Power. Nothing like having it grab a kickout and throw it down an outlane to start multiball! It's not a hard game, but it sure loves to screw ya.

Oh, I see. Wow, I would much rather the pulsing never stop than get rid of The Power. That's like playing whirlwind without the discs spinning.

BLEH!

when extra balls are off in WPC games it also turns off the EB / light EB at X (stern games give points for EB's when set to off)

This is not possible in the current TAF software.

No extra balls at all on any machine, including TAF. Add bouncy rubbers and a very tight tilt and you've pretty much got it.

Yeah, that was kind of a backdoor nudge to the software gurus to write out the break in pulses in the code. It's just Addams aint the same game without the power.

You guys do a fantastic job, though. I enjoyed watching you and the other guys in the late rounds.

As previously posted, a lot has to do with the chair kickout -- PAPA's wouldn't dead bounce over to a cradle.
And make sure your slings are tight and strong.

Key phrase there is: once you get used to it. In Finals, the most "getting used to it" you'll get is 2-3 games on it, spaced out between other games, and in 4-player setting.

But setting your pins up to PAPA A bank difficulty is a great way to improve your game!

Most of the people were just holding up the left thing flips flipper and not allowing the ball to even have a chance in the random left side outlane. Once you were able to avoid that area safely by doing that, you were in pretty good shape.