Results, machines, upsets and rivalries from Minnesota's largest pinball tournaments, written from the tracked game data.
Forty-three players, 259 games, 161 hours of clocked playfield time and 56 WPPR points to the winner. A round-by-round look at the largest single payday in Tilt Stats' Minnesota records.
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The December 30 event that let people bank one more result before the calendar turned. Double-up matchplay, 124 hours of game time, and one player taking four games off a top-1,000 opponent.
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Super Series Event #3 spread sixty-nine players across fifty different machines, more than any other tournament in the Minnesota data. Here is how the widest lineup in the state played out.
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Two weeks after opening its doors, LITT Pinball Bar packed eighty-five people into a group knockout and ran eleven rounds. Tony Midtling won ten of his eleven games and never looked like stopping.
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Kentucky Derby #5 at LITT is the only Minnesota tournament on record with more than a hundred entries. Thirteen rounds, 205 games, 84 hours of playfield time and a final on Cirqus Voltaire.
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The smallest field on this list and one of the most valuable tournaments in the state. Thirty players, 145 games, forty-nine machines, and the world number six finishing eleventh in qualifying.
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October 14, 2023, LITT Pinball Bar opens its doors with a Venom launch party and eighty-seven people sign up. Three players went 6-for-6, twenty-eight played their first tracked tournament, and a scene got a new center of gravity.
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Every other tournament in this top ten spread itself across forty machines or more. Broken Clock put sixty-five players through thirteen, which meant you played the same games over and over against people who were getting better at them in real time.
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A Saturday-night send-off for two players leaving town turned into the ninth-biggest tournament in the Minnesota data. Eric Fryc won eleven of thirteen, Luke Nahorniak went out eighth, and two brothers played the only tracked tournament of their lives.
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