I'll admit that I'm skeptical of the product idea in general. I just don't believe pinball is a great fit for this kind of tracking, even across just one machine's day to day lifespan things play so differently, but I'm pretty into the photos of that sweet looking Star Trek!

(If you missed the joke that's an alternate translite I designed on that Star Trek.)

I'm open to being convinced, so color me skeptical but certainly not looking to crap on people's hard work.

It's just that pinball is a physical game, with everything the comes with it. That's the joy and sorrow right?

So let's take the best case scenario, which is a machine on location, running an asynchronous virtual tournament. I play one week, you play another week, we use the app to log in and log our scores. I think that's one thing this will do right?

That's interesting, it's a tech spin on the "selfie league" idea, right? Stop me if I'm off on anything.

But it's just hard to take it too seriously, because of the nature of how pinball works. Even if the pitch doesn't change, and the software settings are fixed, presumably the op is taking care of their games. We all know how differently a freshly waxed game plays vs one that's a little overdue for a shop. Ball just whips around differently.

Carry that out to the 'worst' case scenario, my game at my house with the hardware, vs your game at your house with the hardware. I don't know what you're able to measure. Is there something to check the pitch? Different pitch alone radically changes how a game plays. I can't believe you'd be able to verify software settings are exactly the same across multiple machine architectures, but maybe I'm wrong? Like, easy example, I have a Metallica, is it set so that pick lights carry over from ball to ball or reset? Are you able to look at that?

Even if you can check pitch, check settings, it means that we have to standardize somehow. Like agree that to compete we're doing strict 6.5°, and I gotta turn off all the custom changes I made to my software settings to enjoy the game. It just feels like a ball of yarn that's almost impossible tangled.

But you've all thought this through already I'm sure, so if I'm missing something or not representing things right please correct me.