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Delaware’s tentative game list:

Star Wars Premium
Walking Dead Premium
Deadpool LE
Iron Maiden LE
Guardians of the Galaxy Premium
Metallica Premium
Swords of Fury
Taxi
Mousin Around
Funhouse
Space Shuttle
Comet
Iron Man
Total Nuclear Annihilation
Avatar
Dialed In
Attack From Mars Remake
Tron
Vegas
Monster Bash Remake
White Water
Ghostbusters LE
Bram Stokers Dracula
Spider man vault
Batman 66
Lost World
Gilligans Island
World Cup Soccer
Theatre of Magic
The Addams Family
AC/DC LE
Transformers LE

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The last league meeting we had here, literally all anyone did was shoot ramps. I think everyone ended in the 40M range. I also noticed @thatguyoverthere and Kevin doing it last time they were in town. Soooooo … at least out here it seems to have become a viable strategy to shoot 450K ramps all day.

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Please remove GB. Watching people try to hit the plunge and play dumb video mode makes for awful competitive pinball.

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Scared Stiff

LEFT RAMP SCORING
10K Enter
25K Made
25K If bone beast completed and combo level > 1 ( * )
50K x Combo level ( * )
5K Inlane

Combo level starting at 1. Max at 9.

“Bony beast loop x” is the combo level.
Scoring indicated is the 50K multiplied value only.

RIGHT RAMP SCORING
10K Enter
25K Made
50K x Combo level ( * )
5K Inlane (sometimes?)

Combo level starting at 0. Max at 9.

“Web loop x” is a cross-game running counter with award levels (hold bonus, eb).
Scoring indicated is the 50K multiplied value only. Except first shot which is 25K.

As you can see, the game is a bit ambiguous about concepts of ramp awarding and the score indicated.

I do not see Scared Stiff as the easiest loop ramp all day game. And I do not consider it the obvious strat. But, there is a mod developed that offers an adjustment to limit ramp scoring. Hey @gdd.

The “baseline” option removes the (*) marked scoring. And indicate the ramp made value - 25K.

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And get Gilligans out while you’re at it. Haha.

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347

You’re both forgetting that Vegas is on that list. GB is a fine game and Gillgans has more features!

Come oooonnnn SEVEN

MILLEOONNN

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348

My favourite is when TD’s make the game “Harder” by disabling mode continuation after drain, thus making video mode automatically always available.

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The PA State Championships, live from Kickback Pinball Cafe! Predictions are open, games TBD.

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Illinois:

https://challonge.com/ILSCS

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Alabama bracket, predictions are turned on - https://challonge.com/zo1ngw94
We will be recording for later upload to youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuqYZ-mZY7Hnn3mm8wRnsOA

Game List:
AC/DC Luci
Aerosmith LE
Countdown
CV
Deadpool LE
Evel Knieval
GhostBusters pro
Guardians of the Galaxy pro
I-500
IJ
Iron Maiden premium
Iron Man vault
JackBot
Joker Poker
Kiss(Bally)
Lord of the Rings
Lost World
LW3
Mata Hari
Medieval Madness remake
Paragon
Playboy
Power Play
Rob Zombie
Scared Stiff
Silverball Mania
Sinbad
Six Million Dollar Man
Spider-Man vault
Star Trek(Bally)
Star Trek premium
Star Wars pro
Strikes and Spares
T2
Trident
TZ
Vulcan
Walking Dead pro
Whirl Wind
Wizard

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Here’s Maryland’s tentative game lineup:

  • Demolition Man
  • Bad Girls
  • Monster Bash
  • High Speed
  • Bally Eightball
  • Stern Star Trek
  • Tron Legacy
  • TX-Sector
  • Iron Man
  • Bally Atlantis
  • Bally Supersonic

I’m told that we may have Deadpool if the owner updates to 1.0+ code.

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Do you know something we don’t? Or have access to a beta version? Current code for Deadpool is .97

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Beats me, that’s just what we were told by the state rep. I have no idea why sub-1.0 code isn’t suitable for States.

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Michigan game list:

The Walking Dead Pro
Aerosmith Pro
Metallica Pro
Iron Maiden Pro
Shrek
Congo
Demo Man
Johnny Mnemonic
Road Show
Jurassic Park
Lethal Weapon 3
Fish Tales
Whirlwind
Taxi
Eight Ball
Embryon
Mystic
Firepower
Tri-Zone
Knockout
4 Square

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Wisconsin Game List:

Starlight
Congo
Warlock
FishTales
TNA
Safecracker; assult the vault mode
Fireball EM
Fathom
Andromeda
Space-station
Frontier
Earthshaker
Viking
Mousin Around
Flash Gordon
Paragon
Cyclopes

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I can get on board with sequential # board game, but this is an odd choice for sure (no skill-based time add).

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Yeah, hmmm. Keep one ball cycling the ramp as much as possible while sending the others back into the pops for drop targets?

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Most people like to avoid early code revisions due to possibly imbalanced scoring, incomplete modes and possible bugs.
Personally, I feel the Deadpool at .97 is fairly bug free with mostly balanced scoring and modes, but that’s up to your SCS TD to decide obviously.

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Well it really behooves you to hit the lower left bank as much as possible as well as keep the wheel spinning for higher jackpots, but pretty much what you said. I think cellar advances every spot once too.

It’s very possible to get like 25 jackpots which is decent bonus, but if you don’t get an assault from all sides as well you’ll have a hard time winning.

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Wasn’t my choice. I’m not the TD this year. :grin: