Category: Recaps
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League Night Recap for 9/19/23
During our last league night, we started a new set of banks, “Corvus” and “Canis Minor.” When I reminded everyone of the names of the banks (as though anyone but me cared about the names I always insist on picking out), I explained that they were “Corvus, the Crow, and Canis Minor, the Little Dog.”…
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League Night Recap for 9/5/23
September 5 was the completion of our first two-bank rotation, including the banks I have dubbed “Ophiuchus” and “Lepus,” as part of this season’s theme of constellations. Unfortunately, Scared Stiff ended up having a flipper issue and had to be substituted for its designated substitute game, The Addams Family. This was our first time using…
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League Night Recap for 8/22/23
We started Season 19 on August 22, with some revisions to our rules and structure. One is that we will be (mostly) meeting every other week this season instead of the second and fourth Tuesdays. That pattern was created to avoid meeting the same week as Grand Rapids Pinball League, but as there is little…
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Derik and Danny win Super-Ball XVIII
Derik and Danny battled it out with Jason and Josh in a late-night final match to become the Super-Ball XVIII champions. The previous champions, Joseph and Heather (this writer), failed to defend their title, losing to Derik and Danny in the winner bracket and Jason and Josh in the second-chance bracket. The traditional post-season split…
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Another season of Dan: Danny C., Dan N. defend A and B division titles
Season 18 came to a close on July 25 with a hot, sweaty night of playoffs at The Avenue Cafe. Danny C. ultimately retained his title as league champion after a battle with Jason. Returning B division champion Dan N. also repeated his victory, this time in a final battle against league newcomer Devon. Receiving…
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League Night Recap for 7/11/23
Our league night on July 11 was the final night of qualifying for Season 18. As we got ready to send people to their respective banks, Ted got confused because he remembered playing bank “A” last time and we gave him an A group again this time. He pointed this out as he thought it…
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League Night Recap for 6/27/23
June 27 was the beginning of the end of the qualifying season, since we started the final rotation of banks 7 and 8. Bank 8 is always a catch-all of whatever games are left to play, including ones added to the venue during the season. This time there was only one remainder slot, for which…
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League Night Recap for 6/13/23
Our most recent league night closed out the third quarter of the season as everyone finished playing either Bank 5 or 6. (Except for one person; more on that in a bit.) We also had a Tuesday Night Smackdown bout on one of the league’s classic games, Medieval Madness. While it’s not the same physical…
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League Night Recap for 5/23/23
May 23 was not just James Blish’s birthday; it was also the beginning of the back half of the league season. We started a rotation of Banks 5 and 6, known to me (and possibly only to me) as “Athena” and “Hades.” The former includes Avengers, Cactus Canyon, Rush, Jurassic Park, and Black Knight: Sword…
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League Night Recap for 5/9/22
May 9 was the last night of the first half of our eight-night season. We had a healthy crowd for it as usual, and split everyone between banks 3 and 4, which I have dubbed Poseidon and Hermes. Since this completed the rotation of those two banks, the standings for each bank and the first…