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SUMMARY:Friday Night Flips Episode 3: Cream of the Crop
DESCRIPTION:Friday Night Flips is a series of 4 player match play get togethers at The Lower Playfield. 4 players will compete on the games downstairs in 4-2-1-0 matches until a player hits 21 points. They will be the winner! Each player will put in an ante to the match and the winner goes home with it all. \nAll the fun of the Lower Playfield\, now available wherever you are! All the action will be broadcast on Twitch at twitch.tv/mutterfudder starting at 7PM. \nEpisode 3: Cream of the Crop\nWe have a real barn burner for you this week\, with 4 incredible top 500 IFPA-ranked players that also happen to be pinball power couples. These are all players that have had a lot of success in the world of competitive pinball — a true everyone could win it battle! \n\nAllison O’Neill (IFPA highest rank 313) is an owner/operator of Port City Pinball\, the creator of Minty’s Mods\, and the creator of the backglass for the esteemed Metallica retheme “Michael McTallica”. In addition to volunteering at tournaments and fixing pinball machines\, Allison enjoys being the person that everyone tells their bad drain stories to after a ball.\nBrian O’Neill (IFPA highest rank 33) is one of the owner and operators of Port City Pinball in Portsmouth NH. A seasoned tournament player\, Brian is also the 2022 IFPA New Hampshire state champion and the state representative to the IFPA. Brian is a focused player and pinball advocate\, who also loves teaching games to players.\nDaniel Rone (IFPA highest rank 63) is the current IFPA State Champion for Maine\, as well as a prior IFPA State Champion for Oregon. Though a recent transplant to the New England area\, Daniel has quickly made his presence known by ranking highly in many New England events. In addition to being a great player\, Daniel has an appreciation for well made fast food.\nZoë Vrabel (IFPA highest rank 196) is a member of the IFPA Women’s Advisory board\, an IFPA Director\, the IFPA Womens State Champion for Massachusetts for the last two years running\, and the runner up at the 2024 Women’s World Championships. In addition to her many accomplishments in Pinball\, Zoe also shares an appreciation for well made fast food\, which very quickly endeared her and Daniel to us at the Lower Playfield.\n\nOn commentary: \n\nDerek Correia is an owner/operator of The Lower Playfield\, and got this job by knowing someone.\nWill Parks is the longest tenured (2 episodes) and most seasoned commentator (2 episodes) at Friday Night Flips. Despite not living in the same area\, Will has more fantastic breakfast recommendations in the area than folks that have lived here for 10 years do.
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Flips Episode 4: Cosmic Cottage Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Friday Night Flips is a series of 4 player match play get togethers at The Lower Playfield. 4 players will compete on the games downstairs in 4-2-1-0 matches until a player hits 21 points. They will be the winner! Each player will put in an ante to the match and the winner goes home with it all. Learn more about Friday Night Flips and watch past episodes on our dedicated Friday Night Flips page. \nAll the fun of the Lower Playfield\, now available wherever you are! All the action will be broadcast on Twitch at twitch.tv/TheLowerPlayfield starting at 7PM. \nEpisode 4: Cosmic Cottage Arcade\nFlipping back to a location focus\, this week we focus on four competitors from the Cosmic Cottage Arcade in Nashua\, New Hampshire. A private collection of beautifully restored arcade games and a bevy of pinball machines from all eras\, Cosmic Cottage is one of the prime spots to play in the New England Pinball League. From the CCA come 4 players ready to flip their way to glory: \n\nRoss Bergen is the owner\, operator\, repair and restoration mind behind the Cosmic Cottage Arcade. His popular YouTube channel shows a wonderful tour of the space. In addition to being a collector and tremendous restoration expert\, Ross is a fantastic pinball player who routinely is near the top of the seeding lists in NEPL.\nCody Gamache is a quickly-rising star in the New England pinball scene\, with an IFPA ranking shooting up over the past two years to currently in the top 1400 players worldwide. Cody recently finished 4th in WPPRMania 2’s main event\, making him a dangerous foe on copies he knows well.\nIan Hobson is a regular at the Cosmic Cottage Arcade and one of the nicest people in the hobby. His play at Cosmic Cottage will set him up well for competition on the equally diverse lineup at the Lower Playfield\, despite the tough field.\nZheanna Murray is the current WPPRMania Survivor Series Champion\, and the reigning runner up in the IFPA State Championships for New Hampshire in 2023. A skilled and focused player currently ranked 1601 in IFPA ranking\, Z is someone who can get on a roll and beat any player. (Editors note: I have\, as of this writing\, been eliminated from every NH State Championship I’ve played in by Z. I’m not bitter. At all.)\n\nOn commentary: \n\nDerek Correia and Jordan Knights are the owner operators of The Lower Playfield\, and have nothing better to do on a Friday than watch other people have fun and play pinball.
URL:https://www.thelowerplayfield.com/event/fnf-episode-4/
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Flips Episode 5: Back to the Start
DESCRIPTION:Friday Night Flips is a series of 4 player match play get togethers at The Lower Playfield. 4 players will compete on the games downstairs in 4-2-1-0 matches until a player hits 21 points. They will be the winner! Each player will put in an ante to the match and the winner goes home with it all. Learn more about Friday Night Flips and watch past episodes on our dedicated Friday Night Flips page. \nAll the fun of the Lower Playfield\, now available wherever you are! All the action will be broadcast on Twitch at twitch.tv/TheLowerPlayfield starting at 7PM. \nEpisode 5: Back to the Start\nTonight we go back — way back. Before Friday Night Flips. Before The Lower Playfield. All the way back to the genesis of all of these things: Pinball with Fudd and Jord\, our irreverent pinball stream that started in 2020 and sent us from having a couple of games at home that we’d share and broadcast online to the full blown problem that is TLP today! In honor of all of that\, we present four players who were very early supporters of our stream during the pandemic times\, and the opportunity for us to bring Pinball with Fudd and Jord to the modern era of Friday Night Flips. You may not know all of these players\, but they’re near and dear to us: \n\nDerek and Ivy Beam are a dynamic father/daughter team who were some of our earliest viewers\, channel moderators\, Twitch stars of the “Friday Night Ivy League” stream\, and are now mainstays of many a Lower Playfield tournament. Derek was goaded by the Other Derek into playing more pinball and it seems to have stuck\, as he has a penchant for blowing up a game while insisting he doesn’t know what he was doing. Ivy has a knack for EM’s and prefers not knowing whats going on\, which is normally when she pushes her scores to the max.\nBarrett Huntress is another early moderator\, viewer\, and supporter who also possesses a Joe Hinkle score of 1*. In Pinball with Fudd and Jord streams\, Barrett is also famous for the Careless Whispers dance. A long time friend of the stream\, Barrett got in to pinball because of the stream and has since logged a ton of FX hours\, in preparation for his recent move back to the area and dreams of TLP dominance.\nRich Lasker\, in addition to being a long time supporter of the original form of the stream\, is the member of this quartet we’ve known the longest. Derek and Rich worked together for many years prior to the pandemic and the start of the stream\, when pinball at TLP went from a hobby to a clinical diagnosis. Along with his wife Jaime and son Ricky\, Rich got bit by the pinball bug over too many beers and long nights of Total Nuclear Annihilation. Rich is responsible for our amazing AFM translite and provides a good retirement home for the ex-TLP Godzilla\, helping it live it live it’s best life.\n\n* The Joe Hinkle Score is a metric similar to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in which you try to determine if you know this person because of Joe Hinkle\, if this person knows Joe Hinkle\, or if you can connect them to Joe Hinkle via a series of other people you mutually know. Virtually 78% of New England has a Joe Hinkle score of 1. \nOn commentary: \n\nDerek Correia and Jordan Knights are the owner operators of The Lower Playfield\, and since we’re partly responsible for getting some of these people into pinball in the first place\, it only felt right for them to do commentary for this very special episode.
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