Down on St. Claude Avenue, local pinball juggernaut Roland Nadeau captured his fourth consecutive top-3 finish at Season 7 #5 of the Emporium Pinball League. Get the full recap of the 22-player showdown at Emporium Arcade Bar, featuring 76-million-point high scores and a dramatic final-round thriller on Fish Tales!
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A 50-year-old Williams machine still ruled the floor as 22 players battled through 48 games at The Game Preserve — ending in a co-championship decided one ball at a time.
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After a spring spent drifting through mid-pack finishes, Justin Derazza topped his group on three of six machines and won the fifth TPL Bonanza in Oviedo — out-flipping his closest rivals on Big Guns and Rush to lead a Lake Mary 1-2 over brother-in-arms Brayden Derazza and Orlando’s Doug Bernard.
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Forty-nine competitive pinball athletes converged on De Pere’s District 82 Pinball Arcade for a single-machine Best Game qualifying shootout. Step up to the glass as Joe Reynolds masters the center drop targets of Stern’s classic 1981 Freefall, posting a dominant 2,000,000-point high game to outduel Joe DeCleene and capture the midweek IFPA crown!
Forty-nine players, 104 machines, and zero room for a bad round. Inside District 82’s latest Tilt’n Tuesday, Neenah’s Matt McCarty used a masterclass in consistency to outlast a field of Wisconsin’s top-ranked pinball veterans.
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Usually, a pinball tournament spreads the drama across a dozen machines. At Texas’s Game Preserve, every score that mattered happened on just one: Williams’ 1995 Congo. Inside a grueling, high-stakes shootout where either you solved the jungle, or it solved you.
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