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when did they stop selling pre-registration tickets - I got hit by this last year and again this year? shows still weeks away so seems strange to stop selling them so early?
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Quoted from Methos:The Stern room was rocking last night, those DJs spinning 45s were quite entertaining.
Great expo - better than the last few previous years.
I have to say it was better the night before, hard core dance music isn't really the staple of pinballers (although I personally love it) I tried to get the DJ to play something a little less hard core but he seemed to be enjoying it more for himself! Also think the way they booted everyone out before it started wasn't as managed as good as it should have been, quite a few folks unhappy and demanding a refund.
Overall though expo was great, huge amount of games, folks say no big announcements but Elvira was the big announcement and there was lots of ops for people to play it. Tournament/Stern/Marco room was epic for the tournament.
My only concern is that lots of folks saying it was good lots more folks come next year and the hotel and expo is pretty much at capacity so they'd have to find another location.
Neil.
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:For me, I think JJP announcing WONKA and their future pins would have code updatable via bluetooth was a BIG announcement. We take technology for granted sometimes.
I didn't make it to the JJP event as I've got no intention of buying another JJP after clear gate - but I'm in consumer electronics and I have to say updates via bluetooth seems pretty questionable to me, its not a great platform for doing that type of update, Most things that update via bluetooth are like headphones with tiny updates. I can't imagine doing a 3G update via bluetooth!
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Quoted from CrazyLevi:Just a horrible choice for a tournament game, from both a playing and streaming angle.
BKSOR pro is a fine tournament and streaming game. BKPerpetual Edition is not.
When are people going to put a little more consideration into what is going to make for a fun to watch tournament bank? At NYCPC this is one of the main considerations we put into assembling our game banks, and it shows during finals/broadcast stream. You may not want a Rolling Stones Stern in your basement, but it's a good streaming game. You might find Walking Dead to be too tough for your wife and kids to enjoy, but it makes for good TV. Stuff like Alien Star, Quicksilver, and other classics of that era are always going to be fun to watch, due to the luck involved and the relative rarity of even a great player blowing them up.
It’s really starting to get frustrating. It’s getting harder and harder to try to convince people tournament pinball can be fun to watch when through bad game choice and sleep-inducing commentating teams so many organizers seem to be going out of their way to prove me wrong.
It's not rocket science. Games with only one way to play, or games with one thing that easily exploitable for hour long games by top players = bad. Games with one shot players will make over and over again, or where you shoot endlessly up the middle like X-files or Breakshot = bad. Games with different ways to play or that behoove players to makes shots all across the playfield = good. machines where marathon games by excellent players are going to be the exception and worth getting excited about also = good.
If we can't take a little care to allow these highest of profile tournaments the possibility of being interesting for viewers, how can we expect to move this ahead as a spectator event?
they asked for pro's but stern only had premiums - i didn't think it was that bad and its only a handful of players that can do this successfully, Simon when you are down at my house we'll stream you play BK:SOR LE and see what score you can get LOL.
Tim was watching so I'm sure he'll change things so there is more balance to it.
Quoted from pinball_keefer:Bluetooth headphones support and internet (wired or WiFi) updating.
Normally I wouldn't bother correcting this, but we did announce it and the information provided regarding the announcement was absurdly incorrect.
thanks Keith.
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