Adam Turgeson has more tracked games than anyone else in the top 25
1,978 games, 226 tournaments, 48 wins, and a rivalry with the player two places above him that has run 489 games and finished dead level.
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Nobody in this year's top 25 has played more tracked pinball than Adam Turgeson. One thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight games across 226 tournaments, 48 of them won outright and 116 finished on the podium.
Almost all of it happened at Blainbrook, where he has 212 events, 1,872 games and 805 firsts on the board at an average finishing position of 2.01.
He is ninth in the 2026 Minnesota standings on 181.83 points, with IFPA crediting him 11 event wins on the series calendar, more than anyone in the state except the No. 1.
The 489-game coin flip
| Opponent | Record | Games | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Moen | 246-241-2 | 489 | 50.5% |
| Trevor Klungseth | 206-208-4 | 418 | 49.8% |
| Chris Frame | 174-195-1 | 370 | 47.2% |
| Phil Frazier | 108-65-1 | 174 | 62.4% |
| Luke Nahorniak | 47-56-1 | 104 | 45.7% |
| Rob Koppelman | 43-16 | 59 | 72.9% |
The Moen record is the most-played matchup in this entire top 25. Four hundred and eighty-nine games and a five-game margin. The Klungseth record is 418 games and a two-game margin the other way. Between those two rivalries alone he has played 907 tracked games and is up by three.
That is what a decade of the same Blaine room does. Three players of near-identical strength, playing each other every week, converging on 50%.
His most interesting number is against Luke Nahorniak: 56-47 to the state's No. 1 with one tie, a 45.7% clip for Turgeson. Over 104 games that is among the more respectable defenses anybody in Minnesota has mounted. The full split is here.
The name that gives him the most trouble is unexpected. Zack Schuster, ranked eighth, is 8-3 up on him. Outside the rankings, Paul Madison has taken seven of ten and Elvira Khanaveral the same.
Machines: modern and loud
| Machine | Score | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Bond 007 | 0.837 | 93.3% | 10 |
| KISS | 0.802 | 86.2% | 10 |
| Rush | 0.797 | 83.3% | 16 |
| Elton John | 0.795 | 84.6% | 24 |
| Iron Maiden | 0.773 | 81.4% | 15 |
| Metallica | 0.749 | 78.4% | 26 |
| Jurassic Park | 0.751 | 80.7% | 20 |
Scan that list. Bond, KISS, Rush, Elton John, Iron Maiden, Metallica. Turgeson's best games are almost all music licenses and modern Sterns, which is a genuinely unusual signature in a state where most of the top 25 have a 1978 Bally near the top of their list.
Elton John over 24 games is the most solid one: 18 firsts, three seconds, two thirds, one fourth. Metallica at 26 games and 78.4% is close behind.
The 55-game hole
Then there is Firepower. Fifty-five tracked games, a 0.482 score, a 48.4% win rate.
Fifty-five games is more than anyone else in this top 25 has on any of their weak machines, and it leaves no room for doubt. He plays Firepower a great deal and he does not beat the field on it. Against a player of his standard, an even record is a substantial edge for everybody else in the group.
The rest of his soft list:
- Centaur, 0.467 over 8 games
- Attack From Mars, 0.497 over 15 games
- Pinbot, 0.505 over 22 games
Twenty-two games of Pinbot at 53.3% is the other one worth remembering, particularly since Chris Frame runs an 81.7% win rate on the same machine over 33 games in the same building.
Results
- Pinball 300!, 49 players, December 2025
- Broken Clock 3-Strike, August, 42 players, August 2024
- Blainbrook Spring Strikes #3, 41 players, April 2023
- Blainbrook Spectacular Strikes, 41 players, March 2022
- Blainbrook Strikes #5, 35 players, February 2026
Forty-six outright wins plus two shared firsts, which is the second-highest win count in this year's top 25. His 2026 has produced wins at Matchplay #8 out of 30 in April, Matchplay #6 out of 29 the week before, and Summer Matchplay #1 out of 19 in July.
The streak that stopped
For 35 consecutive months he entered at least one tournament. That run has ended; his current streak reads two months. Form is steady at 60% against a 64% baseline, so the drop is in appearances rather than in results.
Scouting him
Firepower is the pick and it is not close. Fifty-five games of evidence that he is beatable there. Pinbot, Attack From Mars and Centaur after that.
Keep him away from anything with a band on the backglass. Bond, KISS, Rush, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Metallica between them carry 101 tracked games at an average win rate over 80%.
The scouting report compares his list against yours for whatever is actually on the floor. The other 2026 top 25 profiles are here.