Here are the February and March 2025 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

February 2025

Player of the Month:
Escher Lefkoff from Australia for real now (487.52 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Alice Young from San Antonio, TX (205.28 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)

Biggest Movers:
Tammy Cameron from Topeka, KS (+31,639 spots)
Chris Jones from Springfield, MO (+28,648 spots)
Nathan Webber from Wisconsin (+20,272 spots)

March 2025

Player of the Month:
Jason Zahler from New Jersey (336.15 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Keri Wing from St. Louis, MO (221.08 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)

Biggest Movers:
Ashleyanne Krigbaum from Ontario, CA (+31,699 spots)
Seamus Fagan from Laconia, NH (+30,398 spots)
Van Pavao from North Stonington, CT (+29,892 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2025. Congrats to everyone!

THE BEAST returns July 31-Aug. 3 at Pocketeer Billiards in Buffalo, NY.  Now part of the 2025 Stern Pro Circuit!

Weekend passes for THE BEAST (Main, Classics, Women’s) are $99 and go on sale NOW at:
https://forms.gle/iuSAm9KaquyChyne7
Limited to the first 160 players.

More information will be posted on www.pinballprofile.com/thebeast, Facebook, and THE BEAST Discord

NEW in 2025!

– top 40 make playoffs (up from 24) in Main & Classics, and top 8 for B Division
– 2 Certified+ events!
– you can register for Women’s only (just $20 + entries), if you can’t do the whole weekend
– an hour of FREE practice time for ALL machines on Thurs., July 31 from 2-3pm.
– play in the new addition to Pocketeer Billiards…more machines, more fun!
– Crazy 8’s optional event returns Sunday, August 3rd from 11am-5pm

Follow along with the action for the 2024-25 IFPA European Pinball Championship where players will be battling for the last spot at the IFPA WC in Austria, the Title and a NIB Stern Pinball machine!

LIVE STREAM – Click HERE

RESULTS – Click HERE

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Today, Zen Studios — the leading global producer and publisher of digital pinball video games — is proud to launch Pinball FX VR. This exciting, innovative take on the digital pinball experience brings the studio’s beloved pinball tables to virtual reality for Meta Quest players with quick trigger fingers.

Watch the Pinball FX VR launch trailer here:
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We are pleased to announce the PAPA 22 World Pinball Championships, the 2nd annual Memorial for Suicide Awareness in memory of Lyman F. Sheats, Jr.

The event will be held September 4-7, 2025, at Enterrium in Schaumburg, Illinois. This is a charity event that we hope will be rewarding for players, while honoring Lyman’s memory and raising money for suicide awareness.

Pre-registration is not required but is encouraged as there is a cap of 300 players. Full details are at https://lfs.papa.org/ and we encourage anyone interested to spread the link.

This past Saturday and Sunday, the 8th annual IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship was held at Port City Pinball. A field of 32 of the world’s top women competitors based on both open and women’s-only standings traveled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to crown a new Women’s World Pinball Champion.

After a long and exciting day of qualifying – consisting of 4-player groups competing in 8 rounds of 3-game matches – the top 16 players moved on to compete in a single-elimination best-of-7 bracket.

Congratulations to Keri Wing of St. Louis, Missouri, our 2025 IFPA Women’s World Champion! Keri is the only person to win this event multiple times, making this year a record three-peat. She and her finals opponent Kaylee Campbell both earned double byes in qualifying with a weekend of phenomenal play (with Kaylee as top qualifier), and they delivered one of the most thrilling final rounds of any high-level championship. Keri came back from a 0-3 position, including a monster ball 3 on Deadpool, and took the match to a game 7 tiebreaker where she prevailed on Iron Maiden.

Keri won a NIB pinball machine courtesy of Stern Pinball, as well as a reserved spot to compete at the IFPA20 World Pinball Championships to be held in Austria later this year. 

Elizabeth Gieske and Kassidy Milanowski placed 3rd and 4th respectively, decided in a best-of-3 bronze match where Elizabeth won 2-0.

Congrats to the top 4 finalists, who played amazingly well all weekend. Our gratitude goes out to all the competitors who came to support the event and make it a success.

Thanks as well to our hosts Brian O’Neill, Brian Yurick, and Allison O’Neill (who also participated as a competitor) at Port City Pinball, to our steadfast techs David Volansky and Ty Ueda, to Marc Patenaude at Backhand Pinball for the exceptional stream, and to Gene X Hwang at Orange Photography for helping capture this entire weekend of women’s pinball. (You can view Gene’s high-quality photos of the Women’s World Championship in this album!) 

None of this would be possible without the generous support of our sponsors, including a $1,500 contribution to the prize pool from The Pinball Company. Warm thanks as well to Stern Pinball, AtGames, Chicago Gaming Company, Marco Specialties, Replay Museum, Coastal Hemp Company – North Carolina, Builds By Bex, and Captain Crazy’s Arcade. 

We look forward to next year’s event! Location and date information to come.

This past weekend marked another milestone for women’s pinball: the 2nd annual Women’s North American Pinball Championship was held at Port City Pinball in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The IFPA Women’s Advisory Board and the team at Port City Pinball hosted 54 players from 6 Canadian provinces, 47 US states, and the District of Columbia to crown the titles of Canadian Women’s National Pinball Champion, US Women’s National Pinball Champion, and Women’s North American Pinball Champion. That included 45 first-time competitors in this championship, as well as defending champion Amy Kesting, who won the inaugural event in 2024. 

Congratulations to Gabrielle Mountenay from Quebec, who was crowned the Canadian Women’s National Pinball Champion, winning in a best-of-three final against runner-up Chantelle Mercier from British Columbia.

Congratulations as well to our 2025 Women’s North American Pinball Champion and US Women’s National Pinball Champion, Miriam Nadler from New York. Coming in as the 12th seed, she played amazingly well and prevailed across all 6 rounds in the single-elimination, best-of-7 bracket, including a 4-2 win against Kaylee Campbell in the finals. Along with the championship titles, Miriam won a NIB pinball machine from Stern Pinball.

Joining Miriam and Kaylee in the top 4 were Jane Verwys and Stacey Moritz, who took 3rd and 4th place respectively.

Our thanks to all the competitors for coming out to support the event, as well as our incredible hosts Allison O’Neill, Brian O’Neill, and Brian Yurick of Port City Pinball, streamer extraordinaire Marc Pautenaude of Backhand Pinball, and Gene X Hwang at Orange Photography. (Check out Gene’s photos from the event in this album!) 

Special thanks to Stern Pinball, Marco Specialties, Replay Museum, Coastal Hemp Company – North Carolina, Builds By Bex, Captain Crazy’s Arcade, AtGames, and Chicago Gaming Company for supporting this event with additional prizes, swag, and logistics. 

The New Hampshire Union Leader published a story in their Human Interest section on the IFPA Women’s World Championship held this past weekend at Port City Pinball. Click HERE to read the article.