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League Night Recap for 10/22/19
Ages and ages ago, back in the mists of time, we had the final league night of the regular (qualifying) season. It was our closest league night to Halloween this year. In years past, we used to have a Halloween costume contest on the closest night to Halloween, but as the calendar has caused league…
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League Night Recap for 10/8/19
October 8 was our penultimate (that means 7th, in case you aren’t counting) league night of the season. Although Polyhymnia is traditionally our ad hoc bank, comprised of all the games we haven’t played yet plus the rest determined by vote, this season Polyhymnia ended up completely filled with as-yet-unplayed games due to the many…
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League Night Recap for 9/24/19
The league night of 9/24 – our sixth of the season – marked the return of an old joke. In the Matt era, we – usually Matt, but sometimes Mike – would bring our own lightbulbs to replace the dead ones or empty sockets around the Avenue. It was so dark in the bar in…
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Time for Some More ‘Fear and Trembling’
The annual Fear and Trembling pingolf tournament is returning to the Avenue Cafe in Lansing on November 6. This nine-hole course will have a unique twist, as usual: each hole will offer two objectives and you have to choose in advance which one to swing for. Hit the other one in the process? Tough luck,…
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League Night Recap for 9/10/19
I’ll just give everyone some time to get all the cracks about how OMG EARLY!!11!!!1 this league recap is out of the way. … Ah, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. Always worth another listen. Anyway, I’m back with your semi-monthly league update. Our last meeting was the fifth of Season 13, meaning we’re over the…
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League Night Recap for 8/13/19
There are no pictures this week (that is, the recap for Season 13, meeting #3), and for a change it’s not because I forgot to take any. No, I have pictures, they’re just inaccessible. This is because the exciting news I got Monday morning, which is that my computer had been stolen from Capitol Macintosh…
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League Night Recap for 6/11/19
Season 13 kicked off on June 11 with the largest league night I can remember happening in a long while. Nineteen people were in attendance, including two new members: Bryan’s father Jim, and Lexi’s fiancé Nick. Given that we were missing a few regulars (Jason, Chad, Tyler, Dan, and Russell), it’s possible we will cross…
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Tim and Dan Team Up for Super-Ball XII Victory
Tim and Dan became the new Zen Champions at Super-Ball XII, the league’s traditional post-season split flipper tournament, on May 28. The champs came out of the “loser’s” bracket to defeat the winner’s bracket finalists, Joseph and me, in four straight games. It was a revenge match, since we were the ones who put them…
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League Night Recap for 2/12
Cue the cracks about how I’m always “right on time” with my league updates. Done? OK, let’s move on… Our third league night of the season was a snowy night. So much so that we worried Mike wouldn’t make it (but of course he did, the thought of missing two meetings was too much!) and…
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More Madness Than Ever at March Hare Madness!
The annual Stephen T. Kendrick Memorial March Hare Madness tournament returns to the Avenue Cafe in Lansing on April 2nd, this time with a new format. This year it will be a Critical Hit match-play tournament. To the best of my knowledge, this will be the first Critical Hit tournament in Michigan. What are rabbits…