Tournament Nite 13

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
-Michel de Montaigne

13 proved unlucky for Buks as he lost to Balki in a tightly fought contest last night. Buks travelled away to visit Balki in Huddersfiled and the travelling combined with an attempt by Balki to poison Buks again proved his undoing.

Bomb Jack

Balkis first choice and not a game that Buks has ever been any good at. Balki was first up and posted a poor score but it was too much for Buks who crashed to earth with an even worse and quite frankly appalling score. Balki then went on to top his all time best score for the second round leaving Buks a huge mountain to climb. But Buks almost caused the shock of the tournament by scoring almost double his previous best score. It was not to be though and Balki took the first game 2-0.

Black Widow

Cynically picked by buks purely because Balki hates dual joystick games. Buks steps up first and posts a personal best, Balki was unable to get anywere near. Next round and buks has a disaaterous game and can only hope that Balki falters. But no ! Balki plays a blinder and takes the point. Into the final round Buks scores an idential score to Balkis previous round which proves too much for him and buks takes the round 2-1 leaving the scores at 3-2 to Balki.

Bomberman World - 2 Player

A tricky game this one. In Vs mode you play against human players and computer players, so the points go to wehoever lasts longer than the other player - even if both players lose to the computer. Balki chose this game despite taking defeat in a previous Bomberman tournament - and thats exactly what happened this time. Balki started well, taking the first point bu then lost every single round losing the whole game 2-0. Buks now leads 4-3.

Tecmo Millenium Soccer - 2 Player

Brazil v Argentina. Buks was confindent going into this game on the grounds that he'd practiced all week and Balki hadn't even loaded it up. Buks was still laughing when Baslki scored his goal in the first round. Unable to retaliate, Buks lost the first game. Swapping teams to ensure balance saw Buks playing as Brazil for the 2nd game. And saw balki win 1-0 again. Balki wins the tournament 5-4.

Next tourney in a couple of weeks and may involve a couple of future Pinball games.

	Balki			Buks
Bomb Jack	1	1		0	0
Black Widow	0	1	0	1	0	1
Bomberman World	0	0		1	1
Tecmo millenium Soccer	1	1		0		0
Totals			5			4

Sure plays a mean pinball .....

If you haven't got it already get Future Pinball ! Its free (as in FREE not as in pirate software free) and its ace ! Lots of tables - some totally excellent ones.

In fact, its so good I drilled two more holes on the sides of my control panel to add flipper buttons - and yes it sort of feels like you are playing pinball, much better than using the existing buttons on top of the CP.

Get it here : http://www.futurepinball.com/

I may be sad and take some photos (they're only buttons for gods sake !!!).