The Capital Combo
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Results for League Night #6, Season 3, 11/4/14
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League Night Preview: 11/4/2014
It’s League Night tomorrow (Tuesday 11/4) and not a moment too soon. This is meeting #6 of 8 for Season 3, so we are starting to head into the home stretch. The gods of chance have decreed the following games for our friendly little competition: Attack from Mars: AfM has been down for quite a while.…
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Happy Birthday to Us!
The Lansing Pinball League began on October 26, 2013, so we are now a year old! Thank you to organizer Matt Pries and the rest of the Capital City pinball crew for a year’s worth of good times. (My own anniversary with the league is a little bit later as I joined during the third meeting.)
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League Night Recap for 10/21/14
Tuesday’s league night, the fifth of Season 3, saw slightly lower attendance than the previous meeting, so we returned to playing four games. Matt had previously randomly selected Junk Yard, Getaway, Addams Family, and Monster Bash to be the night’s games. The best laid schemes of mice and Matt go oft awry, so that is not…
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Results for League Night #5, Season 3, 10/21/14
[table id=4 /] Players receiving 0 points this week were absent. They are all listed as a tie for 16th place to make table sorting neater.
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League Night Preview: 10/21/14
Rejoice! For tomorrow (Tuesday, if you’ve lost track of the week already) is League Night. Our beloved organizer Matt has announced the games (chosen by random lottery). Assuming no mechanical troubles, our games will be: Junk Yard: This one hasn’t been chosen as a league game for a very long time due to its frequent…
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Amateur Tips #3: Pinball Etiquette, Lansing Edition
I’m back with another round of “Amateur Tips” – advice for novices and from a novice. Today’s installment is all about pinball etiquette. It’s easy to commit a faux pas when you are new to the world of competitive pinball. Fortunately, PAPA’s Player’s Guide to Competition Play is a wealth of information for the new player and contains a whole…
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League Night Recap for 10/7/14
The third season of the Lansing Pinball League has reached its halfway point, as meeting 4 of 8 took place on Tuesday. It was a meeting that saw one heck of a performance from the night’s top-scorer, Danny. It was a high-scoring night in general as the increasing membership of the league led us to play five…
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Results for League Night #4, Season 3, 10/7/14
[table id=3 /] Those who scored zero points this week were absent. They have all been listed as a tie for 18th to make table sorting neater.
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League Night Preview: 10/7/14
Tomorrow is the night we all look forward to, League Night! The competition starts at 7 p.m. Our beloved organizer Matt has announced that the games for this time will be Lord of the Rings, World Cup Soccer, Indiana Jones and Junk Yard. This is, as always, dependent on the machines behaving. Junk Yard, particularly, has developed…
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