From now until Christmas Day 2025 (Wednesday 12/26/2024) there will be 10 free holiday games featured in posts here at PGM. These games will drop at random times, almost like bonus gifts under a virtual tree.
Free Game #2 of 10 is below: The Enchanted Christmas Workshop.
Let’s get you over the hump of the week, not by playing more games, but playing the games you love more. Get better at them. Improve your best score.
Stern Pinball Cup 2024 is Grindfest 2024
Speaking of playing more games, that’s the Stern Pinball Cup 2024 event premise, and it’s not a very good one, IMO. I played a bit of pinball last weekend and determined that the average race points earned over 20 games was around 30.
My guess is the average player, because I consider myself a slightly above average player skill-wise, is around 20 race points per game.
The current leaderboard as of this writing has the top ranked players in this event at over 8,000 race points. That’s something like 400 games played at an average of 20 points per game and 266 games at 30 points average (my average over 20 games).
An event to play hundreds of games, maybe 100 games or more of pinball per day to be top ranked? Not my idea of a fun time, but for those that enjoy this type of event, have fun. I’m going to sit the sidelines on this one and cheer on those willing to give up that kind of time sacrifice playing pinball.
Don’t get me wrong, I still love the fact Stern is creating and running events. Other pinball manufacturers aren’t doing anything, so it’s a good thing they are doing these events. I don’t have to enjoy every event they are doing to still like that they are doing events. It’s a positive thing for the pinball community.