Category: Recaps
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League Night Recap for 3/8/16
Season 6, meeting #5 of 8 Games played: Medieval Madness, Indiana Jones, Getaway, Attack from Mars, The Simpsons Pinball Party Joseph is a prolific writer with several blogs, and posts in at least one of them (and often more than one) every single day. One of the habits he has cultivated is to take notes…
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League Night Recap for 2/23/16
It’s just about time for another league night, so of course it’s time for my customarily delinquent report of last league night. February 23 brought us to the fourth meeting, and thus the halfway mark of the season. There is still plenty of time left in the season for positions to change, but at this point it is…
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League Night Recap for 2/9/16
The league continues to grow this season, as last league night – the third of Season 6 – saw three new players. Kandus brought her husband Joe, who fortunately goes by the short form of the name while my own husband Joseph never does, so I’m sure that will prevent any confusion. Chris brought his friend…
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League Night Update for 1/26/16
Prior to the start of our second league night, Mike S. told me that he was going to be playing in my group. I asked how he could know that, and he said that he just had a feeling that we would be grouped together. But it didn’t happen: when Mike’s group was called, I wasn’t in…
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League Night Recap for 1/12/16
January 12 began Season 6 of the league. Season 6! It’s amazing to think back on the changes that have come to the league since Joseph and I first joined during the third meeting of Season 1. At the time there were only four games (Medieval Madness, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings, and Johnny…
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Sam and Sarah Win Super-Ball V
It’s time for the tournament report you’ve all been waiting for. Silver what? No, I’m talking about the Zen Tournament, also known as the Super-Ball, the traditional end-of-season party for the league. Yes, there was a split-flipper tournament again for the fifth season, held back on December 8th… in other words, just as the end-of-term crunch started,…
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Season 5 Ends with Another Victory for Undefeated Chris
Season 5 of the Lansing League came to an end on November 10 with the final playoff tournament. Starting in Season 4, final standings have been determined by a double elimination tournament with best-of-three matches. Chris trailed Alex by 1 point going into the playoffs, making him the #2 seed, but battled his way back to a…
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League Night Recap for 10/27/15
I decided to run a costume contest for League Night #8 as it was the closest night to Halloween and I love any chance to dress up and get others to dress up. I had hoped to create an entirely new costume, but I got busy and ended up using one I already have, my…
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League Night Recap for 10/13/15
October 13 was the seventh meeting of eight for the season, leaving players with little time left to improve their seeding for the final playoffs. We were supposed to play Getaway, but Chris managed to break it (or, perhaps I should say, failed to talk it out of breaking) during a practice game, so Indiana Jones…
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League Night Recap for 9/22/15
Our last league night was officially held on September 22, but so many came in to pre-play makeup games or just hang around the preceding Friday that it felt like league night was split into two smaller nights. I was one of the people who showed up Friday just to gawk, along with Joseph, of course. Greg, Chris,…