Tournament strategy, the numbers behind competitive pinball, and what is new on Tilt Stats.
Minnesota's No. 2 holds the highest Match Play rating in the state's top 25 and a 35-month entry streak that has never broken. Almost all of it has happened at LITT Pinball Bar.
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The state's No. 1 has 429 NACS points, almost double the next name on the list, and a 61% game win rate across 1,879 tracked games. He also has a losing lifetime record against the man sitting at No. 11.
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Twenty-five players, 25,000 tracked games, and what the numbers say about each of them. Where they play, what they play well, who they cannot beat and what you should pick if you draw them.
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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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A look inside the busiest tournament room in Minneapolis: 47 machines, a six-week league that fills every Tuesday, monthly opens that have topped 100 players, and the one man who has won 45 of them.
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A weekend-only collection with the deepest classic lineup in Minnesota, a tournament on almost every open day, and a director who happens to be ranked 15th in the world.
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