Slam23
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- Jul 21, 2012
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I would love to see Rescue911. It may not be a top 10 Pinside/IPDB table but I have good memories of it. The first time I actually played it, I was with Roy Wils, one of the best if not the best Dutch pinball players. He was also one of the top ranked TPA players in it's first 2 years, but he then became a beta tester and stopped playing for scores. I don't know if he still does that but he did provide some pro advice in some of the earlier seasons games. Anyway, I was there being the average pinball player that I am (on real life tables for sure) and I was actually beating Roy! He said he never played this particular table (as I did). I don't remember if I eventually won that first game but it was surely close. Then we decided to play another and I got absolutely destroyed from ball 1 on in. Roy proceeded to get to the end game and beat the GC score by a mile. All the while with me cheering him on... 
That taught me two things:
1. I liked Rescue911 as a table (although the helicopter ball transfer got a bit old after a while) and,
2. This is the difference in competence level between me and a top player, any illusion I had of challenging one of them was crushed instantaneously.
The biggest difficulty I have with tournament play is delivering the goods in a first game on a new machine. This is so hard to do and top level players make it look so easy. Sure they also have to adjust if a particular table behaves very differently from the average, but mostly they just seem to get "it" instantly. Fascinating....
That taught me two things:1. I liked Rescue911 as a table (although the helicopter ball transfer got a bit old after a while) and,
2. This is the difference in competence level between me and a top player, any illusion I had of challenging one of them was crushed instantaneously.
The biggest difficulty I have with tournament play is delivering the goods in a first game on a new machine. This is so hard to do and top level players make it look so easy. Sure they also have to adjust if a particular table behaves very differently from the average, but mostly they just seem to get "it" instantly. Fascinating....
