A scouting notebook for competitive pinball. Keep your read on every machine, and have it ready the moment you step up to play.
Record how a machine is set up: tilt, pitch, flippers, outlanes, plunge, shots and feeds, plus your own strategy. Setup notes stay with the venue's copy, while your strategy and anything true of that title anywhere follow the game to every venue.
Import a Match Play, neverdrains or Pinburgh tournament, pull any Pinball Map location, or hand-build a custom venue: type the games or paste a list, with banks for Pinburgh-style events. An event's odd spellings get linked in one pass, and your notes from another venue copy across by title.
When the round posts, see who you're playing and on what machine, with your notes one tap away. Follows Match Play, Neverdrains and Pinburgh events in every format, group play and knockouts to neverdrains' own match play rounds, shows what you need to make the cut, down to which games and scores to shoot for on card formats, plus the finals bracket, and can buzz your phone when you're up. Friends and favorites light up on every board.
Your IFPA and Match Play numbers, the points about to decay off your ranking, and the state championship race: live cutoff, year-end projection, and a predicted field of who actually shows up, for every state you hold points in. Disagree? Tap anyone in or out.
Full rule sheets for nearly 90 tournament staples, searchable right from the machine's panel. Look up a skill shot or a mode start mid-tournament, even with no signal, and read the maker's code changes or the alternate ROMs a machine might be running, quoted from the author's own notes.
Share an event with a code or a QR code and your group collaborates on setups and venue notes, each labeled by player. Add friends with a scan to see each other's setups wherever you both play, get a buzz when a friend adds notes, and keep any one venue to yourself. Strategy stays yours unless you choose to share it.
pinballscout.com/scoreboard turns any screen into an event wall, a phone included: sign in, pick your event, and the standings fill the screen with the cutoff and bye lines drawn in. Follow players in their own live windows, put the Twitch stream beside them (crop it, or cut it into your own layout), and when the playoffs start the wall shows the finals groups live: who advances, the tiebreaks, and tap any finalist for what they need. Share the wall as one link that opens the same wall for anyone with a free account. You can even paste a Twitch stream link and the wall reads the players on screen to find the tournament for you.
Works offline at the venue, syncs across your devices, installs to your home screen like any app, and is free to join: create an account with your email, right in the app. An iPhone app with an Apple Watch companion uses the same account.