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More things going on than I have time to write about so please enjoy my pictures from pinball league finals a whole week and a half ago:

The trophies! For league finals we had the traditional three glass plates for both the A and the B divisions, plus the Zen tournament trophies behidn them. And medal ribbons for the most-improved player and the person with the best single game. The Loser ribbon was for the person who had the worst single game. (Best and worst game measured by z-score away from the league median on that table that night.) If you look close in the box you might see another Zen tournament trophy; the shop gave us replacements for old trophies that one of our players had sulked was smaller than the rest. These, now, they're bigger than the rest.

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Another angle on the trophies along with two of the pinball comics that I've printed out and share and that people sometimes glance over and try to parse. The top is a 'Bozo' strip where Bozo gets annoyed at a baseball-themed pinball and throws a pop bottle at the background.

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bunnyhugger seems to be disappointed in my photography.

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Getting ready to give the B Division trophies, one of which went to MC, having his first season in league and also incidentally the most-improved player we had.

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RED (player one) and MWS (player two) had these scores on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is incredible because that's like ten times the score any normal game of this very hard table would show. This is titanic, a game going on way longer and way better than anyone should expect.

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DMC signing the scorecard confirming the final game of the night.

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Trivia: The meaning of ``concourse'' as a great open space through which many people regularly pass is an Americanism, first attested in 1862 in referring to the Sheep Meadow of New York City's Central Park. Source: Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning, Sol Steinmetz.

Currently Reading: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.