Tournament strategy, the numbers behind competitive pinball, and what is new on Tilt Stats.
The Uncanny X-Men is two years old and its rules are still changing, which means a lot of advice online is out of date. What works on current code, which shot to fall back on, how missions and multiball fit together, and what 427 tracked games say.
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Firepower is famous for its multiball, and the multiball is worth almost nothing. The points are in a lit spinner, a bonus multiplier and a kickback. What to shoot, what carries over, and what 413 tracked games say about picking it.
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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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Twenty-fifth in the state, 220 tracked tournaments, 1,528 games and thirteen wins, all of them outright. His sheet is the story of what it costs to spend a decade at Blainbrook.
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The third-largest field win in this year's top 25 belongs to No. 24, along with a 150-game rivalry he loses two thirds of and an 0-9 record against a Blainbrook regular.
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1,485 games, 180 machines, 31 unbroken months of entries, and the lowest conversion rate in this year's top 25. His season is the purest argument for showing up.
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Fifteen outright wins spread across Broken Clock, LITT, 56 Brewing, Bad Penny and Northstar. Twenty-second in the state, 192 machines on file, and a 131-game rivalry with the player ten places above him.
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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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