Lansing Pinball League

Category: Previews

  • League Night Preview: 7/7/15

    It’s time to begin another season of the Lansing Pinball League.  It’s hard to believe, but this is going to be the fifth season.  I joined during the third meeting of the first season, and it hardly seems like so much time could have passed already.  The league is still going strong – growing, in fact.  Capital…

  • Zen Tourney Tonight

    Tonight at 7:00 p.m. is the traditional post-season Zen Tourney.  This is a split flipper tournament in which each partner may only touch one of the flipper buttons.  The tournament is usually handicapped by pairing the top finishing player with the bottom, the second with the second-to-last, and so on.  Because it’s impossible to know…

  • League Night Recap for 4/21/15 (and preview for 5/5/15)

    April 21 was the eighth and final regular season meeting for Season 4.  As Addams Family had been repaired, and in keeping with the tradition of always playing games that are new (or in this case, newly returned) to the Avenue, it was selected to be one of the league games for the night.  World Cup…

  • League Night Preview: 4/7/15

    Hard to believe it’s already time for another league night – the seventh of Season 4.  Here is the (very) tentative list of games (and a couple of notes about maintenance issues): Theatre of Magic: watch out for Midnight, because the magnet likes to drop the ball straight down the middle. World Cup Soccer The Addams…

  • League Night Preview: 3/24/15

    It’s that time again (or at least it will be in about four hours): time for the sixth meeting of the fourth season of the League. Our benevolent pinball king, Matt P., tentatively selected the following games: Lord of the Rings Austin Powers Indiana Jones Getaway Attack from Mars (if more than 16 players show…

  • League Night Preview: 3/10/15

    Tonight’s the night: the fifth meeting of the fourth season of the incomparable Lansing Pinball League!  Aaron is going to be running things again this time, as Matt is traveling during his Spring Break.  As for me, well, the saying among professors is that Spring Break is neither in spring nor a break.  In my case…

  • League Night Preview: 2/24/15

    In just a few hours it will be time for the fourth meeting of Season 4, the halfway point of the season.  Last meeting saw an unprecedented number of players which led us to play five games instead of our usual four.  Matt has lined up four games for us to play with a fifth…

  • League Night Preview: 2/10/15

    Tonight is the third meeting of our fourth season.  Some members of the league have barely recovered from the IFPA state championship in Grand Rapids on Saturday, but last meeting’s shakeups mean that no one can relax!  Matt’s random number generator managed to choose the exact same games this time as last (one of our league mathematicians, Joseph, tells…

  • League Night Preview: 1/27/14

    It’s time for another League Night, the second of Season 4.  As usual, Matt has randomly chosen our games: The Simpsons Pinball Party. Arrrrghhhhhhhh…. World Cup Soccer. This one seems likely to get switched with something else, since recently the left flipper has not been staying upright when held. That’s fine; I’d hate to break…

  • League Night Preview: 1/13/15

    Season 4 of the Lansing Pinball League starts tonight.  It’s traditional for any new addition to the Avenue’s games to be included in the next league night, and this time the new addition is Theatre of Magic.  ToM was my original favorite pinball game, back in the days before I discovered FunHouse, and it’s still…