UK tournament pinball thread (+ Large international comps)

[Lickashot]

Am I now mystic Glen?

 

[Lickashot]

He is in the final, woohoo !!!

 

[Tilt_Birmingham]

CONGRATS to Nathan for coming 4th in the classics! Such an amazing achievement

 

[Taxiturn]

Great effort by Nathan, didn’t get the luck in the final and Daniele in particular was playing amazingly. Didn’t look out of place at all in a stacked field

 

[broomstick]

Well done Nathan

 

[cyberkryten]

Great performance by Nathan

 

[Taxiturn]

In today’s main finals we are represented by:

Craig Pullen
Emily Stokes
Josh Iles
Nathan Garwood
Pete Blakemore

Matchplay link: https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/164114

Streaming by JDL_Pinball on Twitch:

Good luck and go well!

 

[mufcmufc]

In today’s main finals we are represented by:

Craig Pullen
Emily Stokes
Josh Iles
Nathan Garwood
Pete Blakemore

Matchplay link: https://app.matchplay.events/tournaments/164114

Streaming by JDL_Pinball on Twitch:

Good luck and go well!

And Jim

 

[Taxiturn]

And Jim

My bad

Down to just Pete in the last 16

 

[broomstick]

Well done to all the UK entrants you did us proud.

 

[Taxiturn]

Final standings for the British finalist contingent

=9th Pete Blakemore
=17th Josh Iles and Jim Lindsay
=54th Nathan Garwood
=58th Craig Pullen and Emily Stokes

Well done all!

 

[Jackpot]

My locked-in prediction for DPO2025: Simon Love on the list of entrants

 

[Taxiturn]

My locked-in prediction for DPO2025: Simon Love on the list of entrants

Leave it with me might have to make a decision between this and trying to get a spot at EPC

 

[Jackpot]

My picks to watch:

Josh
Gene
Jmac
Reece
Gareth Arnold

+Craig

Quick recap:
So how did these predictions do?

Josh and Craig qualified strongly, but everyone would expect that...

Good/exciting performances from all the others I would say:

Gene played well - he was winning his group almost all the way and was unlucky to miss qualifying in a tie break; similar for Jmac who won 8 games and narrowly missed out - a strong European debut for him.

The People's champ Arnold was flying in his group, leading with a 6-1 record at one stage and wowing fans across the globe with his stylish play on stream. Sadly his run faded and he ended at 6-6. Still, an exciting outing from Gareth. Finally Reece had a creditable debut himself, staying in the qualifying hunt until a couple of games left.

Remember qualification was extremely tough with only the top 2 out of 13 qualifying and some of the 3rd place players in each group.

So in summary maybe a B or B+ for the predictions this time.

 

[Jackpot]

One more shoutout - the commentary and streaming from JDL was great as ever, but @Genotime did a cracking job with a load of time spent in the booth, often solo which isn't easy at all, and it was entertaining and informative, making a huge difference to the stream in my view. Nice one.

 

[AndyB]

One more shoutout - the commentary and streaming from JDL was great as ever, but @Genotime did a cracking job with a load of time spent in the booth, often solo which isn't easy at all, and it was entertaining and informative, making a huge difference to the stream in my view. Nice one.

Very true, the commentary was great. Knowledge, insight and entertainment rolled into one, well played @Genotime

 

[DeadPin]

One more shoutout - the commentary and streaming from JDL was great as ever, but @Genotime did a cracking job with a load of time spent in the booth, often solo which isn't easy at all, and it was entertaining and informative, making a huge difference to the stream in my view. Nice one.

It was great to watch. I have watched other tournaments and there has been no commentary. JDL do a great job and @Genotime popping on to co-commentate was brilliant too!!