Which one of you is the 12 year old ranked 75th in the world?

He's ranked "No. 75 in the world" and "No. 25 in the U.S."? What does that even mean? No. 75 and 25 according to whom, and on what title? What, is there a general "pinball player" category in some unnamed organization's ranking system? And how are they distinguishing a "world" ranking from a "U.S." ranking?
 
There's an international pinball ranking. Most of the pinball tournaments around the world count toward this ranking. One of the big ones is the PAPA tournament every summer in Pittsburgh PA. There's an invitation only tournament this weekend up in Minnesota (which I see he's going to). I've seen him play at a few of the tournaments around here, he's really good.
 
There's an international pinball ranking. Most of the pinball tournaments around the world count toward this ranking. One of the big ones is the PAPA tournament every summer in Pittsburgh PA. There's an invitation only tournament this weekend up in Minnesota (which I see he's going to). I've seen him play at a few of the tournaments around here, he's really good.

That's weird; but that goes to what I've said all along; pinball games are all pretty much the same thing; which is why I've never understood why people go to great lengths to seek out specific titles. From my point of view, if you've played one; you've played them all (roughly speaking).

Something like that would never fly with video games. For example, being good at Pac-Man means nothing with regard to your skill on Donkey Kong, Defender, Punch-Out, etc.
 
I think that kid needs to get his ass on a treadmill looks like hes sporting some high "A" cups there. Or maybe its just the picture angle can't really tell.
 
BTW, 12 years old isn't terribly young for this sort of thing. The teenage years are the beginning of your prime when it comes to hand-eye coordination. My best score on Super Punch-Out when I was 12 would have beaten the Twin Galaxies record by over 150,000 points.
 
That's weird; but that goes to what I've said all along; pinball games are all pretty much the same thing; which is why I've never understood why people go to great lengths to seek out specific titles. From my point of view, if you've played one; you've played them all (roughly speaking).

Something like that would never fly with video games. For example, being good at Pac-Man means nothing with regard to your skill on Donkey Kong, Defender, Punch-Out, etc.

Then fortunately they're only ranking him for pinball and it's consistent across the pinball games. :)
 
There's an international pinball ranking. Most of the pinball tournaments around the world count toward this ranking. One of the big ones is the PAPA tournament every summer in Pittsburgh PA. There's an invitation only tournament this weekend up in Minnesota (which I see he's going to). I've seen him play at a few of the tournaments around here, he's really good.

I saw him at SS Billiards last night for a tournament before the invitational tournament. I never played him or watched him play, but I think he was out pretty early.
 
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