We finished up the front half of Season 1 on March 28 with, unfortunately, a much smaller turnout than the previous meet. Linda was living it up on the JoCo Cruise, Mackenzie and Sarah were in California, and we were also missing new players Beatrice and Jen. The up side is that with eight players we were able to have four-player groups for everyone.
Tim made sure it was a pretty long night for their group by completely blowing up multiple games. I know that at least Indiana Jones and Fall of the Empire were huge games and the others must have been good too as Tim took all firsts in their group against Abby, Lexi, and Marnie. Unfortunately, Marnie had been told by her mom that league would only run until about 6:00 and was very much over it by the time her group finished another hour-plus later.
In fact, because we had a (relatively) long league meeting, everyone who was qualified to play in the Lightning Rater finals on The Flip Side decided to go home instead, except for Tim. Because the IFPA doesn’t allow any tournament to be submitted that has no direct-play component, I dropped a quick score on the game and actually was the top qualifier. Tim and I then played a two-player finals which they won.
In my group, which included Amy, Dana, and Stephanie, I had first choice and chose Attack from Mars. Second game choice went to Amy who chose Stranger Things. I pointed out, “That’s basically the same game!” Amy hadn’t thought of it before but conceded, yeah, the playfield is pretty similar. This gave me the chance to reuse a joke I learned from Tim and call Stranger Things “Vaporwave Attack from Mars.”
I’m hoping to see everyone back at our next meeting in a few hours. New players are also still welcome! I have really been loving the format and chill vibe of this league and hope you are (or will) too.
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