Tag: silver balls
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Silver Balls in the City
The annual Silver Balls in the City, our original and oldest charity tournament, returns to The Avenue Cafe at 6 pm on December 29 at 6 pm. We will have a charity raffle (one free ticket for all participants), holiday snacks, and festive fun. The cost to enter is $10 plus coin drop and the…
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Silver Balls in the City returns
It’s time for the annual Silver Balls in the City charity tournament, supporting the Capital Area Humane Society! The tournament will be on Dec. 27 (there will be no league meeting that day). This will be a group (progressive) strikes tournament. The number of strikes is tentatively set at 10. The cost is $10 plus…
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League Night Recap for 12/14/21 (plus Silver Balls)
As everyone knows (and likes to give me a hard time about), I’m notoriously terrible at writing the league night recaps except under deadline pressure. The “deadline” is that I have a strict rule to get them up before the next league night. Unfortunately, that bad habit combined with our having a six week gap…
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Zen Night and Other News from the Break
We’re about to come back after over a month off league, with a new theme for our banks (the Labors of Hercules) and a new game (Stranger Things). By the time of the Zen tournament we had an exciting development: The Beatles was back! And other games too, but mainly The Beatles, that’s the important…
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Silver Balls in the City to Return Dec. 27
The fourth annual Silver Balls in the City charity pinball tournament will be held at 6:30 pm on Dec. 27 at the Avenue Café in Lansing. The tournament will once again support the Capital Area Humane Society, but this year there will be a new twist. We will be holding a 10-strike progressive strikes tournament.…
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Some Catching Up
Good heavens, how the time slips by. It has been quite a while since my last update, long enough that I never even got a chance to write about the two between-season events, and here we are about to have the third meeting of the “new” season. Let me do something about that. After Season…
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Pinball Holidays
It’s been a long while since my last update (just about two months, in fact). Does that mean everyone in the Lansing area took a break from pinball? Ha ha ha ha ha… yeah, right. First of all, we had the traditional end of season “just for fun” tournament for the Lansing Pinball League, Super-Ball…
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Silver Balls in the City 2016
Announcing the 2nd annual Silver Balls in the City charity pinball tournament, supporting the Capital Area Humane Society! The tournament will be held at the Avenue Cafe in Lansing at 6:30 on Tuesday, December 27. It will be a four, three, or two strikes tournament depending on turnout (probably three). The entry fee will be…
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First ‘Silver Balls in the City’ Tournament Raises $260 for CAHS
You may have heard rumors about a tournament held Dec. 29 at the Avenue — no, who am I kidding? You were there. Everyone was there. Well, maybe not everyone. But including the tournament director, yours truly, there were 26 entrants, a number beyond my wildest dreams and most feverish nightmares. “The only way anything…
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Silver Balls in the City Charity Tournament
The first Silver Balls in the City charity tournament will be held on December 29 at 7 p.m. in The Avenue Cafe, 2021 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing (the league’s normal venue). The entry fee will be $10, plus coin drop. All entry fees (excluding coin drop) will be donated to the Capital Area Humane Society.…