[FSPA] Silverball Sanctum machine status & league night poll

[Bob K Mertz]

Wait... the Wed night thing isn't official?

On 09/04/2018 02:31 PM, Roland Joyal via FSPA wrote:
> Hi everyone-
> Fall season is here, and wanted to point out a couple changes.  
> League-favorite 50 cent Jungle Lord is back ...and nothing is going 
> away!   Location manager is pleased with the league and has allowed a 
> 7th machine.  And who you gonna /love/?  Ghostbusters!  That's right, 
> you are going to fall in love with the game now that it has the "RoJo" 
> mod.  Some people have told me they /should/ love the game because of 
> the great play field design, toys, theme, artwork, sounds, etc, but they 
> have a hard time loving it because of the darn large flipper gap ...and 
> I agree.  I have listened to your woes and have devised a solution so 
> that the gap is now the same as any normal machine, and flipper angles 
> remain the same, only now you won't be losing the ball SDTM as much and 
> feel ripped off that you can't get far in the game.  Plays soooooo much 
> better now, the way it /should/ have been from the start coming out of 
> factory.  And for whatever reason the particular GB we have does not 
> start video mode nearly as easily as others, which was the minor 
> complaint some GB's have.  Dracula now has Mist multiball working, and 
> all games have play field and backbox LED's for better visibility w/o it 
> being over the top annoying.  And the air conditioning in the 
> place won't be much of, or any issue since it will be cooler with the 
> Fall/Winder weather.
> As far as what night of the week Fall/Winter/Spring should be on, as I 
> have mentioned before, the location /can/ hold the league on Thursday 
> night versus Wed night /if you prefer/, and if you all want to move it 
> to Thursday they are willing to keep the place officially open until 
> 10PM and will not kick you out if you are still playing when they are 
> cleaning up after 10PM (just like they won't do now on Wed after 
> 9pm).  This will allow league to start at 7:30 or 8PM, whatever is more 
> desirable, and give people more casual time to play after league play is 
> complete for the night.  When I polled the league a couple months ago, 
> the only difference was a "negative" difference to switch to Thursday 
> nights, with 2 people indicating that most likely they could not make 
> Thursday nights if it was switched.
> So/if /it does NOT benefit anybody (by allowing a league member to play 
> when otherwise they would not be able to) to change it to Thursday with 
> a later start time then we will keep it at Wed at 7PM so we will not 
> lose those 2 people that indicated they cannot make Thursdays.  But now 
> that we have our Fall schedules for work, etc, maybe things are 
> different for other players, and maybe for those 2 players as well, *so 
> let me know ONLY IF *it makes a difference one way or the other, 
> otherwise we will leave it the way it is.
> Thanks in advance for your input.  -Roland
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