Last league night was meeting #7 which means that we started our final bank rotation between “Pythagoras” and “Thales.” The race is really close around the A/B cut line, so tensions are running high for the players clustered there. We needed to vote to determine which game to take up the final slot in Bank 8, Foo Fighters or Star Wars (both games having been played by only half the league due to backups getting switched in mid-rotation). As usual there wasn’t a high voter turnout, but Foo Fighters won by a mini-landslide. (Star Wars will be the backup game if needed during Week 8.)
Once again I came rushing in at the last minute due to having an Academic Senate meeting. We were in the second round of a contentious discussion that had started at the previous Senate meeting and the discussion still didn’t finish. It’s going to be going into round three tomorrow, so everyone should expect Joseph to be checking people in again. The good news for my rivals at the bottom of A division is that I will once again probably not get any warmup time.
At this point, the standings in the banks aren’t very meaningful, since only half of the league has played each won. But so far on Bank 7 (Pythagoras) Mike is in first, which has done a lot toward moving him up in the rankings, having been held back by a couple of missed nights this season. Jason is in the lead so far on Bank 8 (Thales). Down in the cut line cluster, Joseph, Heather, and Devon are in seventh through ninth places, and only 5 points separate Joseph and Devon, so our positions are all very tenuous. Even Mike is only four more points ahead of Joseph.
Too many power players being drawn into the same group along with some very high scores (like billion-plus games on Deadpool for Danny and on Jaws for Brian) made for an especially long league night and a late starting Smackdown game. Unfortunately for my school-night bedtime, the Smackdown game was also a long one on Rush. Jason triumphed over Danny, Joseph, and Devon to win. Meanwhile, I won in the B division on Munsters by pulling out a third ball rally that got me from around a million to around 13 million points on my final ball.
That’s it for the recap from last week, but we did also have two other events recently: the women’s and open launch parties for our new Star Wars: Fall of the Empire LE. Tim won both tournaments, making them the first ever Lansing double launch party winner!