Minding the bumpers and kick-out holes, pinball’s elite crown state champions at intense Concord tournaments

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Minding the bumpers and kick-out holes, pinball’s elite crown state champions at intense Concord tournaments

From noon to nearly midnight, they hunched over more than a dozen machines in Concord, trying to score as many points as possible before missing a critical flipper hit or losing balls rolling into the outlane and down the drain.