Jack Copeland has played 256 tournaments and never stopped for a month
Thirty-eight consecutive months with an entry, 1,316 games, 186 machines, and seven outright wins. He is twenty-first in the state and among the five busiest players in it.
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Since the summer of 2023, Jack Copeland has not missed a month of competitive pinball. Thirty-eight in a row, which is one of the four longest active streaks in the 2026 Minnesota top 25.
In that time he has accumulated 256 tracked tournaments, 1,316 games and results on 186 different machines. Only one player in this list, Andy Fleming, has entered more events.
He is twenty-first on 120.04 points from a full twenty-event calendar.
Two home rooms
| Venue | Events | Games | Average finish | Firsts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LITT Pinball Bar | 115 | 534 | 2.16 | 177 |
| Blainbrook | 65 | 560 | 2.33 | 159 |
| Broken Clock | 27 | 187 | 2.30 | 61 |
| Bad Penny | 27 | 178 | 2.22 | 57 |
| Northstar | 10 | 80 | 2.29 | 26 |
| 56 Brewing | 7 | 55 | 2.29 | 19 |
Six venues, four of them past 25 events, and an average finish between 2.16 and 2.33 in every single one. That is the flattest venue profile in this year's list. Copeland plays the same standard of pinball wherever he goes.
The LITT and Blainbrook split is unusual too. Most players in this top 25 belong to one camp or the other; he has 115 events at one and 65 at the other, which means he takes the Blainbrook regulars on their own floor a couple of times a month.
What that costs
| Opponent | Record | Games |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Larson | 22-68 | 90 |
| Chris Frame | 12-36 | 48 |
| Trevor Klungseth | 35-49-1 | 85 |
| Bryan Moen | 32-58 | 90 |
| Nathan Reardon | 21-47-13 | 81 |
| Adam Turgeson | 29-42 | 71 |
| Daniel Hammond | 11-32-4 | 47 |
Seven top-25 opponents, 512 shared games, behind in all seven. Playing both of the state's strongest rooms means meeting both of their strongest players, over and over.
Where he holds up: Derek Fagerwold at 37-27 over 65 games, Zach LaVone at 24-17 over 41, Jenny Gunsallus at 23-4 over 27, and Brian Spencer at 15-2 over 17.
Against Louis Acre-Kendall one place above him he is 12-17 over 33 games, and against John Schollmeyer one place higher still he is 10-10 with three ties over 23.
Machines
| Machine | Score | Win rate | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Walking Dead | 0.694 | 73.4% | 11 |
| Monster Bash | 0.690 | 73.1% | 10 |
| Cactus Canyon | 0.684 | 72.4% | 14 |
| Game of Thrones | 0.682 | 77.3% | 8 |
| James Bond 007 | 0.641 | 69.4% | 18 |
| Nugent | 0.626 | 67.9% | 28 |
| JAWS | 0.620 | 66.7% | 15 |
Nugent at 28 games is his deepest record: twelve firsts, eight seconds, seven thirds, one fourth. A 1978 Stern is a strange signature machine and the sample says it is real.
James Bond 007 at 18 games with six firsts and nine seconds is the other one with weight, and it is a useful data point on a machine that turns up in half the profiles in this series.
His weak list:
- KISS, 0.349 over 8 games, a 31.8% win rate
- Metallica Remastered, 0.351 over 9 games
- Eight Ball, 0.355 over 12 games
- Bobby Orr's Power Play, 0.373 over 16 games
Sixteen games of Bobby Orr's Power Play at 34.4% is the most reliable, and Eight Ball at twelve games is close behind. Both are Bally solid states that live at Blainbrook, which is part of why his average there is his worst.
The wins
- Finals, LITT January 2025 Open, 32 players
- LITT Holiday Competitive League #6, 18 players, December 2025
- Friday Night Fight Club at Bad Penny, 18 players
- 3rd Plair Monthly, January, 13 players, January 2026
- LITT Fall Competitive League #1, 12 players
Seven outright wins and two shared firsts from 256 events. The 32-player LITT January 2025 finals is the biggest, and his 2026 has produced wins at 3rd Lair in January and the Spring Competitive League finals in April.
Nine firsts from 256 entries is a 3.5% conversion rate, among the three lowest in this year's top 25. Forty-one podiums is the number that has kept him in the standings.
Form
Flat: 58% over ten games against a 58% baseline, which is as precisely average as the metric produces.
If you draw him
Bobby Orr's Power Play or Eight Ball, both Blainbrook regulars where 28 games between them have him around a third.
Avoid Nugent, where his 28-game record is one of the better marks on that machine in the state. The scouting report will tell you what is actually on the floor and how your own list compares. The rest of the 2026 top 25 is here.