Event: The Results Of The Nintendo Life Pinball FX3 Tournament

Well done SpoonyTech and everyone who played. I was darn near the bottom.

So, if we do this again, I vote that we introduce three "heats" for score tiers. The disparity between the top players and the bottom was vast, and I think more people would be game if they knew they had a shot at winning!

Congrats to Gaz as he made me work to even get as close as I did. Nerves got me in the end lol.

@SwitchVogel I agree! Could you explain how that would work though.

I really enjoyed doing this! I just wish I placed higher. LOL

@Spoony_Tech I was thinking we have three tiers: 0-100M (Apprentice), 100M-500M (Wizard), and 500M+ (Supreme). They would technically be three different tournaments in the game, but we'd list all the top scores here.

@Spoony_Tech
Congrats on 2nd place. You scored really well. I'll have to get in the mix sometime.

72nd out of 179 players. I guess that's not -too- bad.

Congrats guys! Hope to see more of these in future . Implementing tiers seems a nice idea!

I suck (103 last I checked), but hells yes!!!!

Keep em comin

Woo, on the podium

Congrats folks. Count me in for next time!

I could only play a few matches (weekend is all for the family) but had a great fun. And I didn't like pinball back then!
Count me in for the next time!

Great idea to keep having these tournaments. I know I will never have any chance of winning after seeing the scores, but pinball is always a blast so I don't care.

Thanks, Mitch! And thanks NL for putting on the tournament! Was great fun. The "fun fact" is a little misleading, as my 24 billion was in a different game mode (with powerups, rather than without). Having said that, Tech and I would be #1 and #2 in the world on this game mode, if these tournament scores counted in the leaderboards. We both set personal bests, which we probably wouldn't have done without the extra motivation of the competition.

Well done to all, what a great turnout.

Also, I think the "tiers" idea is a good one - looking forward to the next NL tournament!

At one stage I made it into the top 50 🤗, didn’t look to see where I finished.
This should be a regular thing maybe a monthly tournament.

I was number 1 at one point (mainly because only me and one other had played it ) Any chance of showing the top 100?

Oh, fifth!
Nice to see my name here, thank you very much!
@Spoony_Tech it gives me error, too.
Let's be friends in the traditional way. Give me your friend code and I'll add you later, please.

Congratulations everyone. And a special congratulations to SpoonyTech and Stuzz from Constantine and the Hyna Gang We are proud of you

Defo do more of these please! I was super busy the weekend so couldnt find the time to get a score up, but will in the future. I've got like 80% of the tables available, so would be happy to open it up to a wider choice of tables.

I had fun! Marty Flan, not sure where I finish but I enjoyed taking part.

Are these tournaments cross platform or Switch only?

Alright, so how often would y'all like to do these tournaments and what tables? I was thinking we do Son of Zeus next, or maybe Sorcerer's Lair again, but we set a five ball limit and all power ups allowed. Just for the mad scores that would bring.

@Spoony_Tech I knew you would be on this!!! Ur on my friends list and I always see your amazing scores when I play

This got me to download the game and play it... Enjoyed it for sure! Does a death or gutter ball exist and how the heck do you do it In this version?

This was loads of fun! I hope you do another one in the future!

This was a really fun tournament! Thanks for hosting!

@SwitchVogel I say do SoZ and Adventure Land as the next 2 as many may have picked those up when they were free. Personally I would save SL for down the road as we just did it. Then maybe stick to the single tables so people don't have to invest in packs. Walking Dead and Portal are single tables.

If we ever get Fallout 3 or 4 on the Switch we would have to do a Fallout tournament. All the Bethesda tables are great especially Doom!

good job everyone! had a blast participating!

I missed this but would totally be down, I love pinball!!

Up for the next one!

Performance patch made much difference?

@SwitchVogel changing up tables is nice. Maybe 1 free and 1 purchasable table per tournament? That way, everyone can join in and people that bought the table chosen have another extra challenge to participate in. Regarding frequency, I dunno. Twice a month would be nice IMO.

I'm not a fan of the idea of allowing powerups. Sure, it brings mad scores on the table, but it gives those that played a lot a sheer advantage over those that didn't since the former's powerups are more powerful.

Did not expect the competition to be this tough. Good game.

@SuperCharlie78 Sure it's 7353-2587-4117

I really enjoyed this competition! Let’s do it again!!

This tournament was great fun. Me and both my daughters (got them both Switches for tax time) played in it, and we all had a great time not only trying to jump onto the tournament list, but trying to outdo each other on the table as well. Since they tried it, they both want more tables (they only downloaded the game for the tournament, so only have the 1 free table available right now). One of them especially wants the Skyrim table; she made a new user on my Switch to try it out since I have it...and she got hooked). Looking forward to more of these being done!

I was the first one to attempt it, therefore, for one moment in time, I was the greatest on Nintendo Life with just over 7 million.

I soaked it iiiiin, man!

@Highlar That's really cool, a bit of friendly (I hope) pinball competition with your kids.

@Syntaxkita The "tiers" proposal should help to alleviate your concern about it being dominated by the "top players" - I think it will be more fair and interesting than FX3's current Matchup mode, at least.

@gaz5021

Oh, it was fun. Although in the end one of my daughters took the win in the household...she whooped my high score by several more million. lol... But...it was a great time all around for us.