Yeah Escher is great, and my guess will be one of the best in a few years. Very friendly kid, and since he didn't make the top four he is still eligible for the C division. If I were him I would go for the C division again (or whatever division has his best set of games).

Yeah though the play isn't nearly as crisp as the A division, there were still some great moments in the C division that would've been priceless if recorded. Escher toured the mansion in Addams family in the first round, Nick Campbell was dominating on the hardest Avatar that I've ever played (huge posts blocking the link shot and he was still hitting it consistently when noone else could), and even some dq's in the finals (myself on woz and Les on Avatar). I had a great time and was very very very lucky that I qualified.

Well in avatar, les had a brain fart and played out of turn. The next game was on wizard of oz and I did the exact same thing which makes my offense ten times worse. Must've been instant Karma for me being happy that les was dq'd on avatar.

Yeah competition brings out the worst in me. Chris Compton was one of the nicest people I met there during the qualifying rounds (as was Chad Hyatt) but a part of me celebrated every time either one of them had a low score on acdc, tron, transformers or ripleys.

wow...i just read that Andreas Wesik should've advanced to the quarterfinals but due to a miscalculation in points he lost in a tiebreaker that we shouldn't have even done. I thought he was a cool cat too, came here all the way from Sweden to play in it. Dems da breaks I guess...I'm glad papa did the best they could to rectify the situation.

I feel like the qualifying rounds I put in made me a better player. Just talking to people there about the rules and learning different things definitely helped. I haven't been to a Pinburgh ever, but I do agree that in that situation you're learning even more and becoming an even better player.

Those PAPA games were set more difficult than I knew a game could be set up. It's very awkward walking up to a game that you own and thinking to yourself "i got this!" and then it turns out the machine is a drain monster.

They are definitely set up so that if you are a better overall pinball player then you'll have more success.