Backhand Pinball on Twitch will be streaming all finals over the weekend, as well as some qualifying Friday night!
The Blazers are finished and looking sharp. Weâve been working on our booth guidelines!
NYCPC Commentary Booth Staffing:
PLEASE do not join the booth without first checking in with a NYCPC representative. Most time slots will be staffed by NYCPC-appointed teams.
All commentators should don a burgundy âNBPâ Blazer when in the booth.
Commentary Notes:
Please consider the following guidelines. These are rough guidelines and suggestions, your individualism is appreciated and important.
-This is a âPG-13â rated booth. Colorful language is acceptable if not excessive or out of context.
-Please steer clear of racial or crude humor.
-Try to focus on the action at hand and what the players are doing.
-Listen to your boothmates and provide them with space.
-Do not dwell on complicated descriptions of rulesets. Point out simple things, and things as they happen, and things a step away, but itâs not important to go over an entire ruleset before and during every game. People will get the hang of it if you are engaging.
-Remember that you arenât playing, and your personal strategies and experiences are not the focus. Itâs ok to point out possible strats or potential scoring opportunities but focus on what the player IS doing, not what they are not or âshould beâ doing. Feel free to question playersâ strats and mindsets but donât dwell on them.
-Try not to start any story that you canât finish within 20 seconds or so. If you are in the middle of a story, anecdote, or description, break away immediately if important on-the-field action occurs.
-Discussing odds or âfavoritesâ among the players in the field is fine, but please refrain from plugging or referring to any specific wagering or gaming web sites.
-Have fun! Your interest, enthusiasm and excitement carries over to the audience.
You asked for it (over and over and over!!) and here it is!! (finally)! And it Fân rules!
Your tentative Pingraffix Main Division Bank! :
Ali
Walking Dead
Flash Gordon
Dialed In
Stern Rolling Stones
Transformers
WHirlwind
Alien Star
Shadow
Cosmic Gunfight
8 (power?) Ball
Black Knight 3
Great lineup! Wish I was going
Our tentative streaming schedule at Backhand Pinball on twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/backhandpinball/videos/all
Friday, May 17:
9pm-midnight: Hot qualifying action
Satuday May 18:
3pm-4:30 pm: Qualifying action
5pm-9pm: Classics finals
9pm-10pm: The KNobs/ Sean âthe Stormâ Grant
10pm-midnight: Womenâs Finals
Sunday May 19:
10am-5pm: Main Finals
I may have missed it on the website, but do we have an option to pre-purchase entries?
Its the absolute worst to be attending an NYC pinball tournament on a Friday evening from NJ. Iâve been in traffic for 2 hrs and counting, sigh. Hopefully Iâll get there by 8pm???
Hop on a train!
Hope you guys are having fun.
More to come tomorrow.
Just the qualifying stream last night was one of the best competition streams Iâve seen in a long, long time. Kudos to the NYCPC crew and looking forward to the next two days of coverage!
Favorite Levi quote so far, as Keith steps up to Alien Star in the last hour of Friday qualifying. âNow for some hot hairy GOAT actionâ.
Womenâs finals were very exciting! Nice job commentators.
That sounds disgusting.
Hats off to everyone involved. Very probably the most entertaining sets of matches Iâve seen streamed to date, and the production value on top was just the icing on the cake.
It looked to me like there was just one guy running around getting cameras set-up, entering titles, running adverts, transitions and so on? If that truly was the case then that guy deserves a huge pat on the back. Honestly Iâm a little amazed at how slick it was if it was just one guy doing all that.
Well done everyone, and thanks for all the work.
Always appreciate Sean Grant in the booth! He actually focuses on all the little things happening that make the game fun to watch.
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With regards to that, NYCPC is a show like no other and now that Iâm on the inside looking out, being there in person (let alone being in a broadcast match or qualifying game) is electric. The commentary may be not what we usually see in pinball (and I didnât hear anything out of line in the Classics I watched), but damned if it isnât infectious.
âGood luck, have fun, make Levi yell his head offâ was my go to in Classics
Absolutely was just the one guy behind Backhandpinball! I thanked him for all his hard work with the production.
Backhand Pinball ran a mini-PAPA production with audio mixer boards, a sweet looking portable rig, and some quality mics on games. It was a one man show and although things were definitely overwhelming he crushed it for 3 days straight.
Seriously deserving of every bit and sub!