OK, this is an idea I think on/off about.

My post is to see if there are enough interested parties both for houses to play at and people to come. I have no problem with my house but need to have some other members step up to offer their pinball collection also.

Assuming monthly league nights between Sept to June (summer off due to other stuff to do outside) that would be 10 league nights max and could probably do with 5 houses (2 meetings each). I'm just making this up as I type, so feel free to throw suggestions out. I would assume 4 machines min and would probably have to limit to a max number of members per meeting or per league? If we only limited by meeting, then could be first "whatever #" to respond to the posted meeting date and time? or if limit to actual members like some leagues then would be always the same people and maybe more competitive.

My personal thoughts is open league night to first to respond so kind of like a mini meeting but gets everybody playing and keeps the competition friendly and less labour intensive for the host/hostess.

Anyways, let's see if this idea could fly as the last few get togethers have been fun and it's always fun to play other peoples collections.

The official MAACA meetings are great and I would still host at least one a year but it's a whole other experience to get your games ready for an open meeting vs just having 5-10 people over for a fun playing night with no promises about 100% perfect machines.

Thoughts? Offers to be a league meeting house? Interested in making a monthly league night to play?

Let's hear it guys/girls.

ME

I'm game, my house is on offer. All my games are playable, but only one is in medvet condition See my sig for the games. T2 and Shadow would be great tournament games, TAF and LOTR have much longer ball times, but we can turn up the difficulty, open the outlanes, etc.
Also, my basement is kinda small, so I'd only be able to have ~10 people at any given time.

As for time to meet, how about the second Sunday night of the month? I suggest Sunday since most people don't have plans that night, and spouses wouldn't object too much.

If people are interested, I can look into league software for keeping stats.

Oh, and medvet, this means you'll have to play LOTR, you okay with that?

I'm happy to offer any assistance you guys might need in starting up, if you guys want to use the same TOPL structure that we use, I'd be more then happy to pass on that information to you to help out.  

I would be game.
But I only have one pin at current time.
Probably be like that for a long while due to finances.

I'd be up for that...

I'd even possibly offer to host,
but anyone who's seen my games room
knows it's standing room only  (...and "snug" at that ).

I could probably fit six people at once,
but anymore than that and players would start to "bump" into each other !

Sundays is a good night  (...after 8:00pm when the kids are down... )

Steph

Awesome! Im in for a league....for sure!
I, however, only have one machine so I couldnt ever have a league day at my house...but I could always bring mine to Jonny's place on his day (Jon and I are pros at moving pins now...without lifters straps)...grunt, grunt

I would definitely be interested in participating, and could offer to host a small gathering once I get a couple more machines working.

I'm definitely in for something too.   Agree on "winter months" only - and Sunday might work as the Sunday family dinners are less often than in the past.

Family dinners belong on Friday! Or is that just a Jewish thing?

I'd be in as a participant in the "cellar" division, I suck but I dont' care! . Unfortunately, with only one pin for the forseeable future, I don't think I could host though.

We tried years ago here... coudn't get it to happen. Even meetings are impossible now...

I hope it works out for you all.

I don't see how it can fail, me and Hippo can just meet in my basement regularly and call it a league.