Quoted from dgpinball:I was at Expo 2014 when they announced TBL, for the rest of the weekend it was like the crowd was carrying the DP guys around on their shoulders singing "We are the Champions"!! It was the same on the forum here, everyone seemed to be basically declaring DP to be the new face of the industry, and TBL the second coming.
Yeah that was a crazy time. I can vividly recall watching the live stream of the TBL seminar, and Jared on camera saying something along the lines like "Oh my god, they just walked in like a boss", and then Phil makes his deceleration on stage that Stern was dead. The VIP party that people were plunking deposits on the game just to attend. That was something.
And now here we are.