The Capital Combo
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Season 12 Standings
This is the permanent link for the spreadsheet where we are keeping the Season 12 standings. You can see the standings for a specific night or overall, and check game scores.
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League Night Recap for 1/8/19
Super-Ball XI in November finished with Mike and Bryan beating Joseph and me in an epic six-game finale that finished after last call, then the league took a break for the holidays. We started up again on January 8, the opening night of Season XII. There were a few changes this season. First, my work…
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New season starts Tuesday
Hello everyone! Time for some start of the season announcements. First and most important, our first meeting is Tuesday. We will be switching this season to a SEVEN O’CLOCK start time. That’s right, my work schedule has shifted so I have Tuesdays off this semester, so we can start earlier, which I think is going…
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We have a winner: Mike becomes second-ever LPL champion
When the Lansing Pinball League was young, there was Chris, and there was everyone else. Chris’s victory was so certain that everyone focused instead on who would be the runner up. Matt called it “the Battle for Second.” After we switched to having a final playoff tournament instead of just basing standings on the points…
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Silver Balls in the City to Return Dec. 27
The fourth annual Silver Balls in the City charity pinball tournament will be held at 6:30 pm on Dec. 27 at the Avenue Café in Lansing. The tournament will once again support the Capital Area Humane Society, but this year there will be a new twist. We will be holding a 10-strike progressive strikes tournament.…
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The Beatles are coming!
Ladies and Gentlemen… THE BEATLES! LAUNCH PARTY! That’s right, The Beatles are coming to the Avenue Café in Lansing, in the form of the new pinball game. We will be one of the few places in the state to have this game on location! And to celebrate we are taking part in the official Stern…
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League Night Recap for 10/23/18
So it turns out that I only took two (2) pictures during our league night of 10/23 (actually both of the Smackdown winners), which was also the final night of regular play for season 11. I think my mind was really elsewhere because I was a bit worn out from preparing for the Fear and…
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League Night Recap for 10/9/18
Our penultimate meeting of the regular season happened on October 9. We were all surprised not to see Lupe and Caleb. Just as league was starting I got a worried message from Lupe: she had misunderstood and thought league night was the following week, and would not be able to make it on short notice.…
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League Night Recap for 9/25/18
September 25 was the sixth meeting of Season 11 (out of eight) so we are starting to head into the endgame. Unsurprisingly, this has some members starting to pay close attention to the current standings. The day of league, I found a message on Facebook from Chris, who (understandably) misunderstood what was actually a spreadsheet…
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League Night Recap for 9/11/18
Our fifth meeting of Season 11 was supposed to be the one that would bring us up to date on all the games we had not yet played so far this season. Instead, by the time it rolled around, we had received a new game at The Avenue: Road Show, or as I call it,…
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