Wow, if he was only this paranoid about Kevin Kulek's ability to produce anything in his Mom's basement.

From what I understand, achievements will only be "verified" if done at a coin drop locations, to try to thwart the glass-off idiots. I don't know how this will exactly work for hobbyist/at home owners of these games when we get an achievement. Is the achievement worth less points? Is there two totals for achievements "Verified" and "Non-Verified"? I dunno. Even at coin drop locations, you could have some ne'er do well tech stay after hours and "glass-off" the achievements. Not that I know or have ever known any ne'er do well techs of course.

And I've found I have to have the brightness turned up pretty high on my phone for my QR code to be seen, so I'm wondering this as well.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Sorry everyone. It had to be done.

Yeah, I had this problem with the IC scanner in my Stranger Things Pro. Eventually the lights on the scanner just went out and stayed out, so I opened a ticket with Cointaker and Eddie Yates in Stern Support, and Eddie sent me a replacement IC Scanner under warranty, then unbelievably (or quite believably in this case), the replacement IC scanner started doing the SAME thing.

Eddie wants me to take a scanner from one of other pins where the IC scanner is working fine, and swap the scanners between pins to see what happens, then report back. I need to do that ASAP. Maybe they'll send another.

Bummer, but glad to know it's not just me.

During the final week of the contest I think I personally propelled Michigan from the mid teens up to the #3 position with a 65 billion point game of Batman 66 (my second best game of BM66 ever). Unfortunately I could never duplicate or beat that on subsequent days, so Michigan kinda stalled out there.

BM66 is kind of a game breaker for a tournament like that, not that I mind, as I have one in my gameroom. I just wonder if Stern will take that into consideration and somehow weight scores across all machines somehow to even things out a bit, as I know they must look at scores across all machines playing in the tournament, and I think they'd see that far and away BM66 was probably the highest scorer in the states that were in the very tops of the rankings.