Our league night on January 27 wrapped up the first bank rotation, consisting of the banks named “Kant” and “Descartes,” the two philosophers who ended and started the Early Modern period, respectively. Stephanie asked, given I have made reference to owning a “Kant Touch This” T-shirt, why I didn’t wear it. I had thought of it that day, and then realized I already played Kant during the first league night and would be playing Descartes now, so it wouldn’t match. I probably should have done it anyway.

We had a couple of new players join this time. One was Karrah, who previously played in a Lightning Flippers tournament. She did not realize league was going on but Stephanie spotted her and asked her to join, which she did by joining in on the last game with that group and then finishing the rest of the bank on her own. Greg, who previously played in part of a league season a couple years back, also made a return. Greg was very enthusiastically talking up Danny’s abilities to me – as though I needed a reminder! The last time I played A division in LPL, Danny is the one who took me out when I brought a knife to an H-bomb fight on Rush.

At one point I wandered over to Derik and asked what I thought of the new league logo I had commissioned from a graphic designer. He said “pretty sweet” but obviously knew that I was leading up to asking about T-shirts. We are currently planning to get shirts done soon and just need to work out acquiring some art assets from Pinball Pete’s so we can include their sponsorship.

Now that the two banks are complete, we can declare the winners on them. Joseph held on to his top position on Bank 1 “Kant” (and I kept my #2, because Joseph always has to one-up me). Danny took top honors on Bank 2, “Descartes,” ahead of Brian K. Right now there is still no way to declare an overall frontrunner because everyone drops two nights, so we’re all tied for first. Get your screenshot in now!
Our Tuesday Night Smackdown game was Godzilla, and the random number generator chose TMNT as the B division game, because of course it did. Anytime it can pick TMNT, it does. Tim was our Smackdown Champion and Joseph won the B division.

I’ll be seeing everyone very soon for our next rotation, in which we will be playing Banks 3 and 4, known (to me and maybe Joseph and no one else) as “Hobbes” and “Spinoza.”
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