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League Night Recap for 8/11/26
August 11 was our opening night of our silver Season 25! It’s like America’s 250, except something fun actually happened. This doesn’t mean 25 years, since we have had 2 seasons a year for a while and prior to that sometimes had 3 seasons a year. But the 25th season still seems like a great…
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League Night Recap for 1/13/26
Our 24th season opened on January 13 and we had several new players join us. Gabe and Fred, already known to many of us for their great performance at Super-Ball XXIII (the split flipper tournament) and for playing at Silver Balls, officially started with the league. New players Charlee and David also made their debut.…
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League Night Recap for 4/8/25
When the league last met, we started our final bank rotation between 7 (Canis Minor, “The Little Dog”) and 8 (Coma Berenices, “Berenice’s Hair”). Bank 7 is our designated back-up bank that games move into and out of based on need. Bank 8 is our “everything else” bank, made up of anything we haven’t played…
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Ethan Reynolds Memorial Charity Tournament
The Ethan Reynolds Memorial Charity Tournament will be held at The Avenue Cafe in Lansing on April 1 at 6:30 pm to celebrate our recently departed member Ethan. The tournament will be “pay what you wish,” with $1 being the minimum to cover IFPA fees, and anything past that being a donation to the Capital…
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye Coming to The Avenue
The Avenue Cafe will be receiving a limited edition model Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye! We will be holding two launch parties. The open launch party will be on March 4 and will start at 6:30 pm. It will be a 4-strikes, head-to-head tournament with arena priority set to D&D, meaning one match every…
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Finals Recap Part 1: Biff Gets Away with B Division
Finals night for Season XXI on December 10 finished with Biff winning the B division championship and A division still left with a final match to go. This season the plan was to break before the final match and run it by appointment, since we would likely be unable to finish the 11-person bracket before…
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League Night Recap for 11/26/24
We had the last qualifying night of Season 18 two days before Thanksgiving, which probably accounts for it being a slightly smaller turnout than usual. Some of the bad luck we had with games in the last two banks continued. Joseph had his score suddenly jump by 160 million points just by flipping a few…
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Silver Balls in the City Shines Again
The annual Silver Balls in the City charity tournament will take place on December 26, 2024 at The Avenue Cafe. The festivities will kick off at 6:30 pm. This tournament will support the Capital Area Humane Society. We will be doing group strikes again this year, but instead of progressive strikes we will be doing…
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League Night Recap for 8/28/24
We had our second meeting of the season, and our last on a Wednesday, on August 28. This was a hectic meeting for me because it was also a work day, my semester having started that week. I rushed over, exhausted, after quickly eating something at home and found everyone waiting for me to arrive.…
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Launch Parties for John Wick
The Lansing Pinball League and the Lansing Lightning Flippers will be celebrating the arrival of our new John Wick with two launch parties! There will be prizes, Stern swag giveaways, and a Grand Champion plaque at both tournaments! The Lightning Flippers women’s launch party will be Saturday, July 20 at 4:30 pm. We’ll play a…