Since July of last year, the GC spot on my Scared Stiff has been occupied at a 61 million point epic game by the talented Marshall Youngstrom . 61,nnn,nnn is a seriously high score on a 3-ball Scared Stiff. The game was setup from SFGE with open outlanes and factory rules. When I research IFPA and World Championship games involving Scared Stiff, those games rarely exceed 20 million. Even pinside game-scores which are an unverified big fish stories, puts 61.5 million in the top 25.
So… I’ve been practicing and trying all sorts of various techniques, states of mind, strategies to try to beat Marshall’s epic score. I’ve definitely found a strategy that seems like it will work but each time I get close, my head gets in the way towards the last few million and..womp womp womp.. I’ve attempted over 20 times per week for the last 2 months to beat his score. That’s how good he is! :)
Yesterday evening, wanting to test out some new noise cancelling headphones (Sony WH-1000xm3’s are on sale, clearing inventory to make room for the next model), I decided to put on some Jams and give it a shot. I’ve listened to everything from Sean Carroll’s recent book on Quantum Mechanics, favored Soundtrack composers, through favorites from Pink Floyd, trance-y glow party drug high stuff from Enigma, old favorites from Rage Against the Machine and Tool, newer stuff from Eminem and Run the Jewels, classical remixes from Vanessa Mae and even some of the bull-crap my teenager listens to. Last night, it was Public Enemy, Apocalypse 91. Ironically, of all of these varied attempts, I’ve found that deep discussions on weeds-y P-topics like Physics, Philosophies, Public Policy all tend to encourage a flow-like state for doing consistently better.
Ultimately though, on this attempt I missed the opportunity to stretch my 2nd Monster MultiBall across the finish line and I missed the opportunity to ring that final Extra Ball shot to give myself another attempt to earn it traditionally.
Bonus, previous attempt….