Category: Recaps
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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,…
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League Night Update for 9/8/15
September 8th was the fifth meeting of the fifth season of the League, and was the first meeting Chris has missed since he joined during Season 1. In response to this historic non-event, some mysterious prankster posted a Chris-themed motivational poster in the downstairs alcove. “We can’t all be Chris Tabaka,” reads the poster, “but if…
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League Night Recap for 8/25/15
The league night of 8/25 was the fourth meeting of Season 5, putting us halfway through the season. League Night #4 also had the most players of any meeting yet this season (and, I think, any meeting for quite a while), 19, though some of those people were absent from the actual meeting and did makeup games.…
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League Night Recap for 8/11/15
I was not present for the league meeting of August 11. Instead, I was just wrapping up an amusement park tour of New England, with visits to six parks in Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. At the end of the trip we drove to New Jersey in order to visit a couple of our old familiar…
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League Night Recap for 7/21/15
The selected games for the second meeting of Season 5 were Fish Tales (new at the Avenue), World Cup Soccer, Medieval Madness, and Getaway. Chris was so excited about the prospect of playing Fish Tales’ video mode that he kept saying “I want to shoot waterskiers!” in, for some reason, a Marvin the Martian voice. I asked…
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League Night Recap for 7/7/15
July 7 was opening night for Season 5. It’s amazing to think we are starting a fifth season already! In addition to most of the usual suspects, we had a new joiner, the Avenue’s own Jimmy, and the return of one of the original League stalwarts, Amanda, who had temporarily dropped out in favor of…
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Heather and Mike S. Win Super-Ball IV
Regular readers know I am a strong believer in the adage “better late than never.” So with the new season beginning in just a few hours, what better time to report on May’s post-season Zen (split flipper) tournament? Look, I went to Europe almost right afterward on important philosopher business. And then the rest of…