Can you describe what happens when you're holding up the flipper and the ball comes down and hits it? Is the solution just to have the hold power strong enough to handle it?

Just curious: How does the match sequence work with the non-zero last digit?

Watching this video, it appears that the generated match value is still a 2-digit number ending in zero.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/219636741

The video I linked has a lot of multiplayer games. Interesting if what you're saying is true for a 1-player game. Haven't seen a 1-player game yet.

The solution, of course, is to just use the second-to-last digit for all players. But it'll need a pretty slick animation to keep players from being confused, I think.

Didn't see a list on their site, but I know of these off the top of my head:
http://www.pinballstar.com/
https://www.kingpingames.net/

Is it the same for each player in tournament mode?

If I had one on location, I'd put a sign on it that explains what co-op mode is and how to start it.

Nope. I'd do the one that's possible.

That won't solve the problem when the tilt bob is still swinging as the next player's ball is in play. Just use an ear plug; it's not that hard.

And here's another reason to use the earplug. It reduces the waiting time between turns during competition. I don't add an earplug to every machine, but I absolutely have them installed where they're needed like TNA.

Minor bug encountered last night:

A) 2-player co-op game started.
B) P1 is playing, and has 1 reactor destroyed on ball 1. His score is, let's say, 300001.
C) While P1 is still up, I pressed the start button to join the co-op.
D) I was added and everything worked as expected, but...
E) The "1" got removed from the end of P1's score.

The playfield still showed that we were working on Reactor 2, of course. Over the rest of game, P1 destroyed another reactor or two, and his last digit increased each time but was always -1 from where it should be.

I'm not surprised that this wouldn't have come up before.

Dave reported it to you based on me reporting it to him last night.

So, we're only talking about 1 incident.

You're going to seal in the dimples rather than playing the machine without the protector and having the dimples smoothed out naturally? That seems like a strange choice.

Toyguy has an earplug installed, and I'm pretty sure it's not causing the tilt bob to rest on the ring.

In the last 10 years (i.e., the Pro/Pre/LE era pretty much), I count 14 Stern Pros I'd take over a TNA. TNA is a lot of fun, but I have no idea what "happening" means in this context.

This thread probably isn't the place for this kind of comment, but I found the text I quoted to be really provocative and weird.

#yesIveseenthebottomsideoftheTNAplayfield