How come no matter which website you visit, you cannot find the winners of the 2022 Pinball Awards listed? Would be great to see a single chart of the winners.

2022 TPA Game Winners

Best Art - Cabinet and Backglass: Toy Story 4
Best Art - Playfield: Toy Story 4
Best Lighting Effects: Rush
Best Theme Integration: Alien
Best Toys: Weird Al
Best Innovation: Weird Al
Best Playfield Layout: Rush
Best Music: Rush
Best Sound Effects: Alien
Best Call Outs: Weird Al
Best Animation, Display & Effects: Toy Story 4
Best in Show: Rush

Excellence in Streaming: IEPinball
Excellence in Podcast: The Pinball Show
Excellence in Writing: Knapp Arcade
Excellence in Social Media: Knapp Arcade
Excellence in Photography: Nudge Magazine
Excellence in Videography: Straight Down the Middle

Harry Williams Pinball Legacy Award: George Gomez

^ joelbob beat you to it. I was looking for Meff but couldn’t find him.

Did a quick summary:
Total of 12 game awards -
Rush 4
Toy Story 3
Weird Al 3
Alien 2
Bond 007 0

Surprises me that 1) Weird Al received 3. That is an outstanding accomplishment. Also surprising is 2) Alien was in the running. Same game that HP created 7 years ago. The game should be thrown out imo. But with eligibility arguments aside, it deserves the 2 it won. That game will grab ahold of you and probes your mind while you play it = I N T E N S E ! ! ! Finally, 3) amazing that Bond 007 won NOTHING.

Guess the people have it figured out.

Bond doesn’t feel like a 2022 game to me. Too early in its existence to count for 2022.

Here is a link to the Youtube video of the podcast!

Yea wtf Zach what have you been doing. Slacker. Ha

WildRover That was a really fucking good interview with Scott Danesi.

Aww thank you

WildRover - I’d like you to get George Fisher on a future show. Is he the sexiest man alive? Pretty sure he wasn’t in the running on cover of people magazine. Sorry George. Is he the most interesting person in pinball? Perhaps, I’d vote yes.

So maybe have him on to discuss sound mixing technique or how to make a podcast. Something to get him talking about sound engineering, (your area of interest also), please.

I agree. It’s the best one out there… neat to hear more about the person. Excellent pod!

Next year, just wait

Those two Canadian co-hosts sure have a hard time keeping on topic and being succinct with a story. Not sure if one of them was trying to be funny by not getting to a point, but it was a rough listen and I had to bail out.

They were probably hopped up on maple syrup. I wouldn’t sweat it.

What’s up with the part 1,2,3 stuff recently?

Editing. It takes forever to edit, so Zach will edit a bunch and release parts as soon as he can rather than making people wait. He's so good to the community!

colder than a witch's titty - definitely a saying up here in frigid MN

Puppet Palz (and Macho Pinball) secret identity revealed. Talented guy.

Who was it?

I think I noticed one podcast recently putting a timestamp in the show notes as to when the actual on topic show started. That’s my suggestion for any Pinball podcast, give us a timestamp of when you all get on topic, so those of us who want to get there can just jump to it.

What is frustrating is when I am multitasking and don’t have my hands free to get to my phone to start skipping. It can be annoying if I am on my tractor, vacuuming the house, pinball repairing, etc, to stop what I’m doing, reach into my pocket, unlock the phone, get to the app and start skipping to on topic discussion. At a certain point of off-topic, discussion about some mundane, daily activity, I am like WTF am I listening to and why?

A guy named Eric. Discussed in the last fifteen minutes or so of this https://specialwhenlitpinballpodcast.libsyn.com/ep-92-macho-pinball-revealed-pinball-podcast-bombshells

His name is Lucas P. (Not sure of spelling of his surname. Sounded like Pepke.)

https://www.instagram.com/lucaspepke

Didn't consider that Macho would be the same guy as the Puppet Palz guy. But I always assumed Puppet Palz guy had to be a voice actor because of the quality (and he apparently is).

I’ve been enjoying the recent pinball podcasting ruling that requires 50% of podcast content to be 100% Canadian origin. Heck, who knew there was a pinball market there that trades on funny money? Fortunately we haven’t been regulated to listening to 50% Canadian music. I’d do anything to enjoy pinball and listen to podcasts, but I couldn’t do that.

So what is there to look forward to? Well, the Canadians always pronounce things funny. They add extra sounds. So far, we haven’t heard a good rip, as David D and Craig B have long been gentrified and aren’t authentic Canadians. I call them CINO - Canadians in Name Only.

Anticipate more stories and adventures involving Canadian bacon and/or maple syrup. How about your last late night at Tim Hortons? Hockey is a good topic, who’s doing well this year? Curling is an Olympic sport, seeing just enough until we don’t need it before four more years. Exceptions for luge, skeleton and bobsled footage that could run 24/7. Any interesting stories of getting drunk on cheap Canadian beer or Fireball whiskey?

Hey - some of your geese keep coming down here. Each one is dressed the same and we call their outfits - Canadian goose gear. You can’t keep these geese happy back home? Maybe David D and Craig B have some friends in Canada that can represent. Looking for good storytellers here to fill up the podcast and keep the 50%-made-in-Canada law abided.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

American beer is a lot like sex in a canoe - f**king close to water.

I laughed a bunch at this. There are times I avoid things like 'goin' for a rip' but I did drop a Giv'r which is pretty damn close.
Also, geese are assholes!

I love “figure it out”.
The sound byte is awesome, catchphrase is great, but it’s getting a little over-used in the episodes. To the point where from something you look forward to hearing a few times an episode, it’s used every couple minutes and the charm is starting to wear off.

Noted, and I agree. Appreciate the feedback

That doesn’t bother me and in fact, I liked the new Figure it Out / FlipNOut infomercial song. It got me tapping my foot to the rhythm and smiling.

SWMRS and goto 1:10.

Listened to the podcast on the way to a trade then turned on Spotify and this song came on made my chuckle, keep up the good work

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PS love love love the show
Thank you!

It’s so weird seeing peoples faces now. I thought Tom was an old guy. Haha.

I got nothing!

ZMeny If the goal is to get 100's of judges vetted, I'd like to make some suggestions regarding IFPA players/tournament directors.

There are roughly 30k active players in IFPA. Top 100 is the extreme tip of the top. It takes many tournaments and skilled playing just to crack the top 1000. I would suggest opening that up to the top 500 or even top 1000. These are players who are very familiar with the newest games because these games inevitably show up in tournaments.

As far as tournament hosting, I think the requirement was at least one tournament with over 40 players in the last year? Something like that. Many TD's live in areas that will never or rarely support those numbers. I would suggest opening it up to any TD who has hosted over X number of tournaments in the previous year, or X number of tournaments lifetime. Another idea would be to include State and Provincial IFPA reps.

FWIW I was one of the judges on the basis of being a collector, streamer, tournament player, tournament organiser and location operator

Neil.

Glad Den Den is back