Tempe, Arizona
Tonight was one of those “survive the shark tank” kind of nights. 😅
The room was absolutely stacked with killers — top Arizona players, finals-level players, and a whole lot of people capable of putting up terrifying scores at any moment. Andrew and I spent most of the night knee-deep in alligators trying to keep up.
I had a couple decent balls here and there, but overall it was rough sledding. Creature from the Black Lagoon never really settled down for me and Congo decided to become an agent of chaos. Cleopatra was a 5-ball grind where I spent the first half trying to convince the machine to stop throwing the ball around like it had a personal grudge. Eventually recovered a little late and finished with 72,400, but still ended up in 4th.
Pinball Receipts
Meanwhile, Andrew quietly kept fighting all night long and put together a really solid performance.
He battled through marathon rounds, survived a brutal Twilight Zone group, put up a huge comeback game on Pulp Fiction, and ended the night tied for 25th overall with 23 points in a ridiculously competitive field.
Proud of him. ❤️
The funniest moment of the night may have been when the Cleopatra scores accidentally got entered wrong and I briefly appeared to be in 3rd place… only for me to have to go find John Shopple and explain that unfortunately, no, I was definitely still in 4th. 😂
Incidental Exercise Receipts
Also important:
– Nick Mesa has excellent glow-in-the-dark coin drop earrings.
– Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” is approximately seventeen years long.
– It was somehow “only” 94 degrees in the parking lot.
– Pinball players move like a herd of turtles slogging through peanut butter after 8:30 PM.
Even on rough score nights, it’s still hard not to love this ridiculous hobby. Great people, great machines, lots of laughs, lots of chaos, and somehow I still want to come back and do it all again next Tuesday.
Still counts.
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