Hope Beemus is reading.

I had about the best night of pinball playing I've ever had at SS

Billiards tonight. I was about a half inch in several cases away from

it being super-duper-awesome­. Still it was pretty good!

I've only Battled for Kingdom once on Lloyd's MM. Tonight I had a

couple good long games and I got it lit This was in a game where I

only had 3 million at the start of my third ball. I shot at the castle

from the right flipper to start BFK and the ball did that thing where

it goes up and starts to turn the corner inside the castle, but runs

out of gas and then comes right back and goes STDM to end the game.

Heartbreaker! I shoulda yanked the game harder to try to save it but I

wasn't thinking straight.

So I ended with 169,000,000, which is a good score on his machine.

Best score of the last six months is 185,000,000 or so.

Then I went over to AFM. I've never ruled the universe on LLoyd's

machine, and if you've ever played it you know how fast and mean it

is. It's set to Hard, steep, and the outlanes are wide open.

I lit RTU and missed about 6 shots at the hole before draining to end

the game. 17 billion didnt even get me on the high score list. Bummer.

I played another game and had a great first ball. Eventually I lit RTU

while still in the extra balls I earned on my first ball. I started it

on my second shot to the hole, and, of course, somehow managed to NOT

complete RTU!!! That's only happened to me once before (I have an

AFM.) So that sucked.

But I still had some balls left so I kept going and got back around to

where I just needed Super Jackpot to RTU again. I've never RTU'd twice

in the same game, even on my own game. Well---- I started multiball

but couldnt complete the super jackpot, and drained out my last two

balls trying to get it started again.

I ended with 36,000,000, which was good for 1st place on the score

list. Paul Madison has GC with 90-something billion.

What a night that would have been if I BFK'd and RTU'd. Even so I'm

dang psyched about the evening. I am lucky to have such a good place

to play so close to where I live.

Thanks Lloyd!

Chris