Author Archives: Heather

League Night Recap for 3/28/23

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Heather

The Capital Crushers descended on The Avenue Cafe on March 28 to kick off the eighteenth – you read that right – season of the Lansing Pinball League. It was our best-attended night in a long time as 25 people … Continue reading →

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Heather and Joseph return as Super-Ball champs after 15 seasons

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Heather

Joseph and I won our first Super-Ball split-flipper “Zen” tournament as a team since Season 2 during Super-Ball XVII on Tuesday, March 21. Although we have played as a team more often than not subsequently, our only previous victory was … Continue reading →

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Season of Dan: Clark and Nelson win Season 17

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Heather

Season 17 ended on March 14 with Danny Clark winning the double-elimination playoff and Dan Nelson taking home the B division trophy. Ten people qualified to play in the top division and the tournament wrapped up shortly before midnight, helped … Continue reading →

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League Night Recap for 2/28/23

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Heather

The last day of February was also the last night for the regular league season. The final seeds for the playoffs, and even more importantly who would make it into A division, was decided on this night. It promised to … Continue reading →

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League Night Recap for 1/24/23

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Heather

Our penultimate league night was way back on January 24, and it was the conclusion of a two-bank rotation between Hades (Indiana Jones, AC/DC, Deadpool, Ghostbusters, Stranger Things) and Ares (The Simpsons, The Mandalorian, Scared Stiff, Star Trek, and Attack … Continue reading →

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The madness returns!

Posted on February 2, 2023 by Heather

The annual Stephen T. Kendrick Memorial March Hare Madness tournament, a charity tournament benefiting the Rabbit and Small Animal Rescue of Westland, returns to The Avenue Cafe on March 7, 2023. This will be a timed group matchplay tournament using … Continue reading →

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League Night Recap for 1/10/23

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Heather

Our first meeting of 2023 on 1/10 was our sixth of the season and we ended up having a big enough crowd to need to split into two banks. Unfortunately, this does mean that league night #8 will have to … Continue reading →

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League Night Recap for 12/13/22

Posted on January 10, 2023 by Heather

It’s been a while since our last league night because we took December 29 off to play the annual Silver Balls in the City charity strikes tournament. Unfortunately, I didn’t take notes about the night like I sometimes try to … Continue reading →

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League Night Recap for 11/22/22

Posted on December 13, 2022 by Heather

Our last league night was the fourth of Season 17, and it was also two days before Thanksgiving, which I predicted would result in a low turnout. This was good, actually, because we needed to even out the banks. We … Continue reading →

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Season 17 Standings

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Heather

The below Google doc has the standings for Season 17: Season 17 standings (follow this link)

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