The Capital Combo
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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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Announcing the 3rd Annual ‘Fear and Trembling’
The third annual Fear and Trembling tournament will be held at the Avenue Café on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. For the second year this will take the form of an objective-based pingolf tournament. Fear and Trembling is the tournament where, as Kierkegaard said, “anxiety is the dizziness of freedom” and we make our choices in…
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League Night Recap for 8/21/18
Our league night of 8/21 brought us through the halfway mark of Season 11. It also was a bittersweet night for me, as it marked the end of my freewheeling, early-to-league days. By the time we met again, I would have started my semester and would be back to racing in at the last minute…
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League Night Recap for 8/7/18
Our third night of the season, on August 7, began ominously. Our new scheme for rotating through the games had ended up putting us in an unfortunate cluster: Attack from Mars, Ghostbusters, Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons Pinball Party, and Theatre of Magic. While Ghostbusters and Simpsons aren’t known for being very long-playing at…