The Capital Combo
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Results for League Night #4, Season 5, 8/25/15
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League Night Recap for 8/11/15
I was not present for the league meeting of August 11. Instead, I was just wrapping up an amusement park tour of New England, with visits to six parks in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. At the end of the trip we drove to New Jersey in order to visit a couple of our old familiar…
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Results for League Night #3, Season 5, 8/11/15
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League Night Preview: 8/25/15
In just a few short hours it’s time for pinball again. This will be your humble webmaster’s last league night before work starts up again, so I will be saying a bitter goodbye to arriving early and practicing… not to mention arriving early to play Betrayal at House on the Hill. Enough about me, here are…
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League Night Recap for 7/21/15
The selected games for the second meeting of Season 5 were Fish Tales (new at the Avenue), World Cup Soccer, Medieval Madness, and Getaway. Chris was so excited about the prospect of playing Fish Tales’ video mode that he kept saying “I want to shoot waterskiers!” in, for some reason, a Marvin the Martian voice. I asked…
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Results for League Night #2, Season 5, 7/21/15
[table id=19 /] These results are tentative, pending some makeup games.
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League Night Recap for 7/7/15
July 7 was opening night for Season 5. It’s amazing to think we are starting a fifth season already! In addition to most of the usual suspects, we had a new joiner, the Avenue’s own Jimmy, and the return of one of the original League stalwarts, Amanda, who had temporarily dropped out in favor of…
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League Night Preview: 7/21/15
Tonight is the second meeting of Season 5 of the Lansing Pinball League. The custom is always to play any game that is new to the venue, plus others that are randomly selected. The new game this time is Fish Tales. I have made a couple of visits to the Avenue to practice on it…
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Results for League Night #1, Season 5, 7/7/15
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Heather and Mike S. Win Super-Ball IV
Regular readers know I am a strong believer in the adage “better late than never.” So with the new season beginning in just a few hours, what better time to report on May’s post-season Zen (split flipper) tournament? Look, I went to Europe almost right afterward on important philosopher business. And then the rest of…
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