Tag: recap
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Lansing Lightning Flippers Recap 4/11/26
The last Lightning Flippers meet was our fourth, which also means we were starting the second half of the season. We had seven attend which means we were missing a few members, but we were graced by the return of Linda, Sarah, and Mackenzie after their absence last time. We were split into the top…
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League Night Recap for 3/24/26
We finished up our rotation of banks 5 and 6 at the last league night. The banks are named Berkeley and Hume. Berkeley is Bishop George Berkeley, is an underrated (in your league director’s view) 18th century empiricist known best for his claim that esse est percipi, “to be is to be perceived.” There is…
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Lansing Lightning Flippers Recap 3/28/26
We finished up the front half of Season 1 on March 28 with, unfortunately, a much smaller turnout than the previous meet. Linda was living it up on the JoCo Cruise, Mackenzie and Sarah were in California, and we were also missing new players Beatrice and Jen. The up side is that with eight players…
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Lightning Flippers Recap 3/10/26
After a promising start to the season, our second meeting upped the ante even further with a record turnout of 14 members. Our newest joiners were Mackenzie’s friend Jen and Lexi’s kids, Marnie and Beatrice. This was Jen’s first pinball competition but she came in second for the night. Congrats! But that means she is…
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League Night Recap for 3/10/26
Our last league night started the second half of the season with a rotation of banks 5 and 6, named for Bishop George Berkeley, the underrated and often misunderstood empiricist-idealist; and David Hume, the probably-correctly-rated and mostly-understood empiricist-skeptic. This is also the last night a player can still officially join the league this season, because…
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Lightning Flippers Recap 2/28/25
My longtime dream was finally realized: Lansing now has a true women’s league! We previously held monthly women’s tournaments under the Lansing Lightning Flippers name, but they have now been transformed into a semi-monthly league. The league uses match-play scoring instead of best-game scoring (like the open league uses). Everyone plays five games against two…
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League Night Recap for 2/24/26
We finished up the first half of the season at our last league night. We had a couple of new players, Eric and Sarah, although Sarah has previously played in some tournaments, just not league. Eric kept being confused every time I called out “Derik” in the megaphone because between the amplification and my mask…
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League Night Recap for 2/10/26
At our last league night, we embarked on the second set of banks, known as “Hobbes” (Bank 3) and “Spinoza” (Bank 4). Thomas Hobbes was a 17th century English philosopher known for his social contract theory, particularly its basis in his conception of the state of nature as “nasty, brutish, and short,” which very well…
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League Night Recap for 1/27/26
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…
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Deja VUK: Same winners, same runners-up for Season 23
The playoffs came to a quicker, but still late finale for Season 23 as #1 seed Danny C. defeated #3 seed Tim to defend his LPL championship. Unlike the two-round final match of Season 22, Danny needed only one round to secure the win. Meanwhile, #1 seed Heather defended her Season 22 B division title…