The Capital Combo
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March Hare Madness Returns
It’s the return of our annual March Hare Madness pinball tournament, held in March or April of each year. This tournament, in memory of my beloved rabbit Stephen, benefits the Rabbit and Small Animal Rescue of Westland, Michigan. The cost to enter is $10 plus coin drop ($.75-$1 per game). The entry fee, not including…
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League Night Recap for 2/10/26
At our last league night, we embarked on the second set of banks, known as “Hobbes” (Bank 3) and “Spinoza” (Bank 4). Thomas Hobbes was a 17th century English philosopher known for his social contract theory, particularly its basis in his conception of the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short,” which very well…
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League Night Recap for 1/27/26
Our league night on January 27 wrapped up the first bank rotation, consisting of the banks named “Kant” and “Descartes,” the two philosophers who ended and started the Early Modern period, respectively. Stephanie asked, given I have made reference to owning a “Kant Touch This” T-shirt, why I didn’t wear it. I had thought of…
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League Night Recap for 1/13/26
Our 24th season opened on January 13 and we had several new players join us. Gabe and Fred, already known to many of us for their great performance at Super-Ball XXIII (the split flipper tournament) and for playing at Silver Balls, officially started with the league. New players Charlee and David also made their debut.…
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Season 24 Results and Standings
This is a link to our league’s results spreadsheet for Season 24: Season 24 Results
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Deja VUK: Same winners, same runners-up for Season 23
The playoffs came to a quicker, but still late finale for Season 23 as #1 seed Danny C. defeated #3 seed Tim to defend his LPL championship. Unlike the two-round final match of Season 22, Danny needed only one round to secure the win. Meanwhile, #1 seed Heather defended her Season 22 B division title…
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League Night Recap for 11/25/25
Our last league night was a mere two days before Thanksgiving, but the proximity to the holiday did not keep many people away. No, everyone was too eager to secure the best seed they could. For those of us scrambling for the last position in A division it made for an exciting (and some might…
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League Night Recap for 11/11/25
Last league night was meeting #7 which means that we started our final bank rotation between “Pythagoras” and “Thales.” The race is really close around the A/B cut line, so tensions are running high for the players clustered there. We needed to vote to determine which game to take up the final slot in Bank…
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League Night Recap for 10/28/25: Costume contest edition
For several years starting in 2015, the LPL had an annual Halloween costume contest. While nothing ever topped the first year in which three people came as Chris Tabaka (only one of whom was, in fact, Chris Tabaka), it had a pretty good turnout for a few years before petering out. After only a couple…
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League Night Recap for 10/14/25 (plus: Fear and Trembling!)
Our last league night was the fifth of the season and we began the Bank 5/Bank 6 rotation. Bank 5 is named for Socrates, who needs no introduction. Bank 6 takes its name from pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander, who along with Bank 8’s Thales is a member of the Milesian School. Philosophers from this school were…
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