The Capital Combo
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Season 22 Results and Standings
Here is the league’s Google spreadsheet, used to keep track of season standings: Season 22 Results and Standings
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League Night Recap for 1/14/25
Season 21 got off to an exciting start on January 14. The biggest development was that Peter brought the new streaming rig he had built. That’s right, after 11 years of existence*, LPL has joined the big league! It had its soft launch during the previous week’s Lightning Flippers meet, but we had trouble keeping…
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When the March Hare gets mad, does he rage tilt?
The annual Stephen T. Kendrick Memorial March Hare Madness tournament, a charity tournament benefiting the Rabbit and Small Animal Rescue of Westland, returns to The Avenue Cafe on March 18, 2025. The tournament is named in honor of Stephen (2006-2016), the greatest rabbit ever to hop the earth, a giant among rabbits. This will be…
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye Coming to The Avenue
The Avenue Cafe will be receiving a limited edition model Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye! We will be holding two launch parties. The open launch party will be on March 4 and will start at 6:30 pm. It will be a 4-strikes, head-to-head tournament with arena priority set to D&D, meaning one match every…
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Finals Recap part 2: Tim’s Long Winter Is Over
The long-predicted new champion of the Lansing Pinball League finally emerged on December 17 as Tim dethroned season 20 champion Brian K. in a two-round final playoff match. Many in the league had been predicting “the season of Tim” for a few seasons now, but in Season 20 Tim was defeated by Brian K. in…
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Finals Recap Part 1: Biff Gets Away with B Division
Finals night for Season XXI on December 10 finished with Biff winning the B division championship and A division still left with a final match to go. This season the plan was to break before the final match and run it by appointment, since we would likely be unable to finish the 11-person bracket before…
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League Night Recap for 11/26/24
We had the last qualifying night of Season 18 two days before Thanksgiving, which probably accounts for it being a slightly smaller turnout than usual. Some of the bad luck we had with games in the last two banks continued. Joseph had his score suddenly jump by 160 million points just by flipping a few…
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League Night Recap for 11/12/24
November 12 was our seventh night of the season and the beginning of our final bank rotation. Bank 8 is always used to finish up anything that hasn’t been played yet in the season, and then the remainder is decided by vote. We had very few votes this time, but the clear winner was Jaws,…
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Silver Balls in the City Shines Again
The annual Silver Balls in the City charity tournament will take place on December 26, 2024 at The Avenue Cafe. The festivities will kick off at 6:30 pm. This tournament will support the Capital Area Humane Society. We will be doing group strikes again this year, but instead of progressive strikes we will be doing…
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League Night Recap for 10/22/24
It’s been a tough week, so this is going to have to be a very short league report. Our last league night was actually three weeks ago due to our returning to the previous calendar pattern of 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Sorry, I know it makes for long gaps sometimes, but it makes it easier…
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