Category: Recaps
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Ethan Reynolds Memorial Tournament Recap
In accordance with the adage that anything worth doing is worth doing late, I bring you the recap of the Ethan Reynolds Memorial Pinball Tournament. The tournament was held on April 1 at The Avenue Cafe in Lansing and used a group strikes format. I chose the format because I thought that group play was…
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March Hare Madness 2025 Recap
The annual Stephen T. Kendrick Memorial Pinball Tournament, held in memory of my rabbit Stephen who died in 2016, returned to The Avenue on March 18. This tournament benefits RASA Rescue (Rabbit and Small Animal Rescue) of Westland, the rescue from which I adopted Stephen in 2007. In recent years this tournament has used a…
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League Night Recap for 3/25/25
On March 25 we played our sixth league night of Season 22, wrapping up the bank rotation between Bank 5, “Argo Navis,” and Bank 6, “Cetus.” As I arrived, Devon told me he had been waiting for a recap of March Hare Madness and was disappointed not to see one. I actually felt really bad…
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League Night Recap for 3/11/25
Our last league meeting started the second half of the season and a rotation between banks 5 (Argo Navis, “The Ship Argo”) and 6 (Cetus, “The Sea Monster”). An interesting fact about Argo Navis is that it depicts a ship and yet appears to rotate around the pole backwards. What the ancients made of this,…
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League Night Recap for 2/25/25
On our last league night, we finished banks 3 and 4 and the first half of the season. It was our first league night without Ethan, which made it a hard one for many league members. People kept commenting on how quiet the night was. We had another technical mishap as the flipper decided to…
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League Night Recap for 2/11/25
It’s sad to write the league night recap this time since it marks the last league night that Ethan played. We lost Ethan unexpectedly last week. I was hoping to feature photos of him in this recap, but then I discovered that it was one of those nights when I got distracted and didn’t start…
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League Night Recap for 1/28/25
We had our second league night of the season on January 28, which finished our bank rotation between the first two banks (known to me and Joseph and probably no one else as “Ophiuchus” and “Lepus”). Due to an issue with Batman ’66, we had to switch in Ghostbusters for a backup game, which I…
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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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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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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,…