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Electric Bat Arcade Tuesday Night League — Season 22-1, Week 1 Recap
Season 22-1 is officially underway, and apparently I decided to make Week 1 as dramatic as possible. 😂 Tuesday night at Electric Bat Arcade means five rounds of four-player group match play, with 7 points for 1st, 5 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, and 1 for 4th. And with a Tuesday league that regularly draws…
Monday Pinball Shower Thoughts
If you are ever in Boise, Idaho, go to their Pinball Museum! So much fun! The Idaho Pinball Museum in Boise is an interactive, nonprofit arcade and museum featuring a large collection of over 90 to 100 working pinball machines spanning from the 1940s and 1950s to brand-new modern releases. – According to Google This…
Epic Women’s Monday Night Pinball League — Season 5, Week 2 of 6!
Week 2 is officially in the books, and WOW… this week was a bit of a roller coaster! 😂 I had one of those nights where my brain apparently needed to reboot before it remembered how to play pinball. 🤦♀️ Round 1 Metallica: 4th place – 1 point Round 2 Buck Rogers: 3rd place -…
🤖 Pinball Shower Thoughts — AI Edition
1.If AI ever becomes self-aware, do you think its first question will be “Why did humans make me play pinball?” Because honestly, teaching a machine to recognize cats and write emails seems reasonable. Teaching it to understand why I intentionally launch a silverball into a machine designed to punish me? That’s where the existential crisis…
🎯 NMB League Week 3 of 6 — Party Crasher Edition
North Mountain Brewing League, Week 3 of 6, and tonight’s theme was apparently: “Start strong, held on, then started to kind of peter out, and then finish by getting absolutely mugged by Rush.” 😂 ⚔️ Round 1 — Black Knight: Sword of Rage2nd place! Not a bad way to start the night. Silverballs were immediately…
Tilt Studios Thursday League — Season 5, Week 2 of 6
Pokémon, Addams, John Wick, Jurassic Park & The Beatles Week 2 of Tilt Studios Thursday League was one of those nights where the competition was absolutely stacked, the machines had opinions, and I apparently decided that third place was my spiritual home. 😂 Tilt Studio’s Thursday league at Arizona Mills is five rounds of four-player…
Epic Women’s Monday Night League Season 4: B Division Finals Recap
Sometimes a pinball tournament is a beautiful display of skill, strategy, and controlled chaos. And sometimes pinball looks at you, laughs, and says, “Oh, you thought you were in charge?” The Epic Women’s Monday Night League Season 4 B Division Finals was very much the second kind of night. 😂 But it also turned into…
Throne Brewing Company Transformers Launch Tournament Recap
August 17, 2026Throne Brewing Company — Glendale, Arizona Transformers Launch Tournament | August 2026 There are tournament days where everything clicks. And then there are tournament days where the machines apparently get together beforehand and decide, “Let’s see what we can do to this woman.” This was somewhere in between. 😂 The Transformers launch tournament…
Belles and Chimes Phoenix August Monthly Tournament Recap
August’s Belles & Chimes monthly tournament at The Outpost Arcade was one of those pinball days that managed to be equal parts thrilling, frustrating, hilarious, and rewarding. And honestly? That’s pretty much exactly what I signed up for. 😂 Match Play: Welcome to the CrapshootI love pinball. I also fully recognize that sometimes pinball loves…
Tilt Studios Thursday League Season 5: Week 1 Recap
Well, Season 5 is officially underway, and apparently I decided to start it with a little bit of everything. Five rounds. Five very different machines. One win, three second-place finishes, one third-place finish, a whole lot of walking, a whole lot of stairs, and one extremely successful post-league Foo Fighters therapy session. Not a bad…
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