NYC Pin Pod
in which a panel talks location pinball in New York City and nearby surrounding areas.
The Doubly Illusory Phenomenon of Lunchtime
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, ZEN) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Competitive pinball results from the city including pinball nyc.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP thanks to pinballmap.com and its users plus our weekly pinball bullet journals.Ball 3: We NYCPPAA Round 2 results and Bracket Challenge results. We whittle it down the final 4.Got get 'em in Weeks 6 & 7, boppers.
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Astounding Cacophony
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, ZEN) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). Thsi week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users and our weekly pinball bullet journals.Ball 3: NYCPPAA Tournament first round results!Go get 'em this week, pinfolk!
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The Madness Begins (2026)
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, ZEP) talk location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC and Rock Fantasy Winter Open.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP thanks to pinballmap.com and its users.Ball 3: We reveal the NYCPPAA Brackets. Fill yours out today (or at least by Friday 3/20 at noon Eastern)!See the blog for complete rules for the Bracket Challenge.
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Roughly Iambic Pentameter and Delicious
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talks location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local pinball competition results including Pinball NYC leagues.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users, plus our weekly bullet journalsBall 3: A dicussion of about Pokemon and what effect Stern Pinball's recent licensing may have on the types of pinball licenses we see .Go get 'em this week, pinfolk!
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Super Nerdy Audio Tech Sh_t
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, RCA) talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:Ball 1: Competitive pinball results including the second week of Pinball NYC.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus our weekly bullet journals.Ball 3: RCA joins the panel to tell us about some pinball accessibility historyLinks and info from Rob's research: Pinside thread: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/twin-win-what-are-these-things
Some images that RCA collected that are not in the pinside thread linked above can be seen at nycpinpod.wordpress.com.
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Not a Minimum Number of Beers
...in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talks location pinball in NYC. This week:
Ball 1: Local competitive pinball results including Pinball NYC's Left Flipper Round 1.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP thanks to pinballmap.com and its users, our weekly bullet journals.Ball 3: it's a house ball this week. It happens to even the best players sometimes (and to us way more often than sometimes).
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Resigned Discord or Hopeful Energy
...in which a Panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results since last season and this coming week's schedule including Pinball NYC's Left Flipper action.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users and our weekly bullet journal.Ball 3: Brief updates to the fallout from the IFPA bias incidentPlease enjoy responsibly.
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Yellow Card
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, PJV) discuss location pinball in NYC (and gobally). This week
Ball 1: Competition results including the Pinball NYC Championship rounds.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus our weekly bullet journalsBall 3: Polly-Jean Vernon joins the panel to discuss her call to boycott IFPA events circumstancially.We'll be taking a long winter's nap with no regular episodes until Pinball NYC's Spring season kicks off in February. You can still connect with us (even if we'll be slow to respond) by emailing us at nycpinpod@gm...
The iPad Sherpa
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surronding areas). This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results for the last two weeks including Pinball NYC semifinals.Ball 2: Venue updates with Erik thanks to pinballmap.com and its users, our bullet journals for the last two weeks.Ball 3: More discussion of the OBX Fallout, Controversy in Pinball NYC's finals venues.Please enjoy responsibly. Email us at nycpinpod@gmail.com or leave us a voice message here.
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Another Week to Contemplate Their Fate
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC and the WPP-timized weeklies.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus the panel's pinball bullet journals.Ball 3: A discussion about the discord between the pinball community and the IFPAPlease enjoy responsibly. Part of doing so may be reading Colin Altscheimer's great work reporting on the OBX bias controversy. See it here: https://www.kineticist.com/
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Clinging to a Plank
in whicn a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including The Harvest and Pinball NYC.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus our weekly bullet journalsBall 3: We discuss the IFPA's and the tournament director's reactions to an incident of bias that occurred at an out-of-town tournament last weekend.Please enjoy responsibly.
Please enjoy responsibly.
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Hoedown Hotel
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, JGN) talks location pinball in NYC. This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including week 10 of Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue updates with Erik courtesy of pinballmap.com and its usersBall 3: The panel designs a game mad-libs style thanks to JGN's clever algorithmPlease enjoy responsibly.
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A Good Plank for a Platform
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local Competition Results including Pinball NYCBall 2: NYC Location Updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users and our weekly pinball bullet journalsBall 3: We lay out the initial planks in our Pinball Party Platform since it's electrion week in NYC.Please enjoy responsibly.
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A Part of the Greater Shitload
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue updates and our weekly pinball bullet journals.Ball 3: ...everybody has a house ball now and then...Please enjoy responsibly and don't sleep on the 6-Game, 6-Song Challenge.
Please enjoy responsibly.
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Platonically Played Balls
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC team leagueBall 2: Venue updates with HIP thanks to pinballmap.com and its users and our weekly bullet journals.Ball 3: We talk about Gold Strike/El Dorado/Target Alpha/etc - one of Benjamin's favorites that just moved into SunshinePlease enjoy responsibly and don't sleep on the 6-Game, 6-Song Challenge.
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Awaiting Pat's Response
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, & GC) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results (including Pinball NYC team results and GC's inside info on the Drop Target Derby)Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.com and its usersBall 3: GC tells us all about The Harvest, upcoming at Gebhard's Beer Culture on Manhattan's Upper West SidePlease enjoy responsibly.
Don't forget to engage with the 6-game, 6-song Challenge through 10/31 at 11:59:59 PM.
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Episode 505 - Utterly Stochastic
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) talk location pinball in NYC. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC's team leagueBall 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus our weekly bullet journalBall 3: HIP teaches BCF some of the important initial settings and features of matchplay.events for TDs to watch out for.Register and submit scores for the 6-games, 6-songs Challenge (where we ask you to listen only to this playlist while submitting tournament scores).
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Please enjoy responsibly.
The Ever Expanding Scrapple Tent
in which a panel (BCF & HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results and this week's upcoming schedule including Pinball NYC's team league.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.comBall 3: We talk about the ever-expanding lineup, floorspace, and hospitality offerings at ScrapplelandPlease enjoy reposibly.
Also, even though we forgot to mention it, don't sleep on the 6-game, 6-song Challenge where you submit selfie scores while listening exclusively to this playlist. It runS through October 31 and you can win glory and a Har...
Music of the Spheres
in which a panel (BCF & HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results from the past week including Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users, plus BCF's & HIP's pinball bullet journalBall 3: BCF Challenges you to play pinball while listening to an off-beat playlist (link to register for selfie tournament and required spotify playlist below.Register and submit scores for the 6-games, 6-songs Challenge at Barcade FiDi here: matchplay.live/6games6songs
Listen only to this playlist while submitting scores: https://open.spot...
Flipperception
in which a panel (HIP, JGN) discuss location pinball in NYC. This week:
Ball 1: Competitive pinball results including Pinball NYC team league.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users plus our pinball bullet journalBall 3: JGN shares lots of details and finals plans for the NYC Triboro Series.Please enjoy responsibly. Go get 'em pinfolk.
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Lobster Rolls and Avocado Toast
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, DAP, QQQ) discuss location pinball in NYC (and on Summer vacation). This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results from the last week and next week's competitive pinball schedule.Ball 2: Venue updates with HIP courtesy of pinballmap.com and our pinball bullet journalBall 3: DAP & QQQ share with us what it was like to win out of town this summerPlease enjoy responsibly and go get 'em in the first week of Pinball NYC!
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Various Simpsons Characters' Holes
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, ZZZ, WBM) talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). this week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC Champions!Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of Pinballmap.com and its users plus the panel's weekly pinball bullet journals.Ball 3: Kevin Murray and Wesley Muchalski join the panel to talk about their hurculean efforts to put together the collection at the Red Hook Pinball Museum at Seaborne.Thanks for a great season. We expect to be back in the Fall.
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Put That in Your Pipe
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: Competition Results from NYC including Pinball NYC's semifinalsBall 2: Updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users and our weekly pinball bullet journalBall 3: A discussion of New York's super state status in IFPA North American Championship seriesTo all the Pinball NYC Championship contenders: The Mutants, NYCFSA, The Deluxe Horses, The Aristocrats!, Ball Drainers, Danger Danger, The Replays, and Butter Ballers, Go get 'em!
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Please enjoy responsibly.
And It's Rainbow-Colored
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, JLW) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: NYC competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its usersBall 3: A dicussion about Brooklyn PinPride coming up in June at Scrappleland.Please enjoy responsibly.
(As discussed in Ball 1, registration is still open for Pinburgh Ticket event here.)
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Feel Free to Pray for Me
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, TMO) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas for the past week. This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including the thrilling conclusion of Pinball NYC's regular season (Jim Carrey does not star, but plays an odd role, as happened so often in his career.)Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of Pinballmap.com and its users plus the panel's weekly pinball bullet journal.Ball 3: Discussion of Silverball Sundays - the long-running tournament series in Astoria with a special shout-out to SingleCut as friends of pinball (and beer drin...
How They Do It In Their Family
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, JGN) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week...
Ball 1: Local competition results including pinball nyc's Week 9 resultsBall 2: Location updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users, plus the panel's weekly pinball bullet journalBall 3: Discussion of the NYC Tri-boro Series and Pinball Marathon plus we discuss some funny terms of art from the pinball sphere courtesy of our friend Steve Bowden's New Pinball Dictionary.Please enjoy responsibly and go get 'em in Pinball NYC's Week 10!
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Everybody Hates Moral Philosophers
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1 : Local competition results including Pinball NYC standings breakdown with liekly playoff scenaria.Ball 2: Location updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users.Ball 3: Discussion about showing up or leaving early to/from tournament pinball.Please enjoy responsibly.
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Episode 408-Seawitch the Patron Saint
in which a panel talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC Week 7Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of Pinballmap.com and its usersBall 3: Miriam Nadler, IFPA Women's North American/United States Champion joins us to discuss bringing the trophy home to NYC.Please enjoy responsibly.
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Play More Pinball
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, ZEN) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). this week...
Ball 1: Competition results from the five boroughs including Pinball NYC.Ball 2: Venue Updates courtesy of Pinball Map and its users plus a feature on Solid State in Woodside.Ball 3: ZEN joins us to discuss his triumphant win as the Awesomest Pinballer of All Time (at least for now) and to talk about the bracket that got him there.Please enjoy responsibly.
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Tidal Estuary
in which a panel talks location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: Pinball competition results including Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue updates and a fond farewell to Barcade Jersey CityBall 3: NYCPPAA Final Four Announcement!Please enjoy responsibly.
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Stargar
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: local competition results including week 4 of Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue updates and a quick word on the grand opening of Scrappleland on Friday night courtesy of Pinballmap.com and its users.Ball 3: Round 1 results from the NYCPPAA Tournament and Bracket Challenge.Please enjoy responsibly.
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Episode 404 - Brackets found
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1: Competition Results incluing Pinball NYCBall 2: Location updates including Marine Park(!?!?)Ball 3: NYCPPAA Bracket release. Download yours here and submit to nycpinpod@gmail.com by next Friday for a chance to win an Awesome Prize.
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Lego Spotting
in which a panel (HIP, JGN, MXL) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: Pinball competition results from NYC including Pinball NYCBall 2: Venue review of Singlecut Beersmith QNSBall 3: Pinspotting discussionPlease enjoy responsibly.
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Episode 402 - Eclectic Vending Machine
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC's week 1Ball 2: Review Sunshine Laundromat in Greenpoint as a pinball venueBall 3: Scratch the surface of how gambling and pinball are relatedKeep your eyes and ears peeled for NYCPPAA Tournament and Bracket Challenge. You could win an Awesome Prize by completing your bracket.
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Episode 401 - Unlicensed Taxi
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL, & JLW) discuss location pinball in NYC. On this episode:
Ball 1: BCF, HIP, & MXL run down local competition results from the break.Ball 2: BCF, HIP, & MXL talk with tournament director extraordinaire, JLW about Valentine's Gay.Ball 3: BCF, HIP & MXL share what they did on their Winter break.Please enjoy responsibly.
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Episode 317 - The Most WPPRful Time of the Year
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) discuss location pinball in NYC and nearby surrounding areas. This week...
Ball 1: We review local competitive pinball results for the past two weeks Ball 2: We review Minnie's as a pinball venueBall 3: We discuss where the state championship brackets stand with only a few remaining events to complete the year....and now, we'll settle in for a long winter's nap. Please enjoy responsibly. We'll be back in mid to late February.
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Episode 316 - BCF goes to Rochester
in which BCF goes to Rochester to play at the Rochester Pinball Club's Royal Rumble Fall 2024.
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Episode 315a - Tap Pass
in which BCF briefly explains the delay in episode 316. Standby for an RPC Royal Rumble travelogue to hold you over.
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Actually Not Sponsored
in which a panel (BCF, HIP, MXL) talks location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1: Local competition results including Pinball NYC semifinalsBall 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users.Ball 3: MXL challenges BCF & HIP to a new kind of $10 Challenge. See visual aids at nycpinpod.wordpress.com.Please enjoy responsibly. Email us your comments, questions, observations, and beefs here or connect with us on facebook for updates.
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Greenpoint Laundromat in Sunshine, BK
in which a panel (BCF, HIP) discuss location pinball in NYC (and nearby surrounding areas). This week:
Ball 1: Local Competition results including Pinball NYC Quarterfinals with BCF & HIP.Ball 2: Venue updates courtesy of pinballmap.com and its users with HIP.Ball 3: Thankful thoughts and a holiday grab bag with BCF.Please enjoy responsibly and be safe out there!
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