Currently the Professional and Amateur Pinball Association (PAPA) uses a variety of machines in it's tournaments, do you think there should be a 'standard' competition machine? A machine specifically for competition could breath new life into pinball, elevating it's status to that of a sport like darts or pool.
If there was a standard competition machine what features would you want it to have? What rules?
No and no,
but I do think that certain pins should never be used and others used more frequently.......which is what I think happens.
LOTR on standard settings would be a VERY BAD competition pin. Don't need a match lasting several hours. Or a pin like JM where you can do crazy scoring on one shot (the spinner).
Ritchie's seem to work well. 
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