Second round, to the delight of everyone except the people who lost in the first round. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger now faces the Delaware representative. She's not from Delaware; she's from Washington, DC. But it's easy to get ranked in multiple states around there, and with the district not having enough of a women's pinball scene to send a representative to the Women's North American Championship Series, she took a state that was open.
bunnyhugger does not know this until after, and is glad she did not: the player --- SST --- was very highly rated. As in, a top-250 player in the world. Open, not women. As in, has played in the International Flipper Pinball Association open world championship multiple times, including as recently as this January. bunnyhugger, planning to use the same games, is outclassed and doesn't know it.
And here's the amazing thing. bunnyhugger wins. And not just one game. She keeps winning, once again with a third-ball-rally that takes her from behind. It's attracting interest, as people following the brackets being updated on Matchplay notice a big upset is possible. Sadly, they don't get on stream. ... At least, I think, until the end when they have a game of Jurassic Park that bunnyhugger wins with her second-ball score, where the streamering started just for the last ball, so bunnyhugger didn't even get to play. And, I may have mentioned, got misidentified during the stream.
Anyway, the amazing thing is that this happens: bunnyhugger beats SST, four games to one, and soon is getting texts from friends congratulating her on what a great finish this was. I don't know that she got retroactively nervous about the match, but she was amazed she beat a top-250 player in a best-of-seven match.
bunnyhugger has gotten into the Round of Sixteen, as they call it, and has some time before the next round will start. (The tournament had every match in a round finish before the next round started, even if two competitors for the next round were available. This made the tournament last longer, but avoided the confusion of who should have first dibs on a game, people in round 2 or round 4.)
Her next opponent, AMK, is there from Ohio. Columbus area, so we might theoretically have met her if we had ever used Anthrohio to go to some pinball event nearby. (We've never found one happening when we could go.) She made a couple of jokes about the Ohio-Michigan rivalry and asked whether Ohio State University was the one with the rivalry with Michigan State. (bunnyhugger gave the correct but complicated answer, Michigan State has this rivalry with Ohio State, but Ohio State hasn't yet noticed, so it's easier to just be rivals with University of Michigan.) From there it's just waiting for the second round to finish, so the third round can start, and try to not think too hard about what if bunnyhugger makes it through one more round? If she could beat SST, why couldn't she go all the way? Dangerous to have expectation crowding your game.
Now for some more of the Jackson fair:
Cliff Hanger, nice little paraglider-style ride that looks attractive with how it's set in the grass.
Got our tickets! And I photographed some of the tickets for the sake of being able to better counterfeit them later. Looks like they're all number 23-265007, which should help.
Swinging chair ride, the Sky Screamer, that's looking good.
More art on the sides of rides: a buck with some bucks.
Now, finally, we get to the carousel. Here's the blue horse.
Another angle on the blue horse. I'm surprised to see it's on the inner row here. It is nice to see against the bright red and yellow of the center post.
Trivia: G.I.'s in World War II were issued a clear plastic envelope to hold their paybooks. Similar plastic covers would protect maps, blueprints, repair checklists, and other frequently-referenced papers. Source: The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meaning of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Tubes, Thomas Hine.
Currently Reading: The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, From the Ancient World to the Modern Age, Andrew Whitby. (I am really really interested in this, I just had my reading time eaten up this week.)
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Date: 2024-04-06 03:00 pm (UTC)THAT's the book I was looking for! I read it, gave my copy to a co-worker who never returned it, and have been trying to hunt down a copy ever since!