The Capital Combo
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Season 21 Standings
This is the spreadsheet for the Season 21 standings: Season 21 Standings There is a separate one that includes guest players: Season 21 Standings with Guest Players (non-official)
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League Night Recap for 8/14/24
Season 21 got off to a huge start on August 14 with one of the biggest groups we’ve had in a while and possibly the most people who have ever joined at once since I became director. A total of 22 people played including a guest player. Our new players were Dana, Amy, Jessica, Donald,…
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Rocket Robin Tournament for the Animals Returns in July
It’s time for Rocket Robin, the summer charity tournament to benefit the Capital Area Humane Society! The entry fee will be $10, with $9 going to the charity and $1 to the IFPA for sanctioning. The format will be straight up head-to-head match play in a round robin style. Because we almost certainly won’t have…
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Launch Parties for John Wick
The Lansing Pinball League and the Lansing Lightning Flippers will be celebrating the arrival of our new John Wick with two launch parties! There will be prizes, Stern swag giveaways, and a Grand Champion plaque at both tournaments! The Lightning Flippers women’s launch party will be Saturday, July 20 at 4:30 pm. We’ll play a…
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Brian defends league title for Season XX in epic two-day battle
Season XX ended with an unprecedented two-day league finals as Brian took two long matches to triumph over Tim. The hour grew so late that the bar began closing and the tournament director had to call time and reschedule the last match for another night. Some had predicted that this might finally be Tim’s season,…
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League Night Update for 4/16/24
The league night of 4/16 was our last night of the qualifying season, and we finished banks 7 and 8. This night finally determined who would be in A, who would be in B, and who would play whom in the first round of the final tournament… sort of. The problem is that Ghostbusters threw…
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League Night Recap for 4/9/24
We started our final bank rotation on 4/9 and mercifully, this time people voted for the wild card games to be stuff upstairs rather than in the alcove. The talk before league started centered on the previous day’s total solar eclipse. Joseph and I had gone to Cedar Point to watch it. Ethan wanted us…
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League Night Recap for 3/19/24
Our last league night was three weeks ago now, a longer gap than usual due to the bar unexpectedly closing Monday and Tuesday last week. Between that, the mountain of grading I’m buried under (students are going to riot soon if I don’t get some old grades back), and the fact that I’m still shaken…
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League Night Recap for 3/5/24 (plus March Hare Madness!)
We passed the halfway mark of the season with our last meeting, at which we played banks 5 and 6, Argo Navis (the ship Argo) and Cetus (the sea monster). These were very appropriate banks for our first night with our shiny new Jaws LE game. Jaws was conveniently slotted into Argo Navis to replace…
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League Night Recap for 2/20/24
Our last league night was the fourth of the season, so we finished up our rotation of banks 3 and 4, Corvus (the crow) and Perseus (the guy named Perseus). My notes don’t include mention of any particular shenanigans this week, but that’s probably just because I wasn’t looking. I’m sure they happened; it’s Lansing…
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