The Rocky Mountain Collegian from Cororado State University published an article about the Pinball Jones arcade in Fort Collins, CO. They run monthly tournaments as well as a league where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for both the IFPA Colorado State Championship as well as the IFPA World Pinball Championship. Featured in the article is [player]Barry Beck[/player] (ranked 10,007th in the world) and [player]Kim Jones[/player] (ranked 5091st in the world). Click HERE to see the article. Click HERE for more information on Pinball Jones.

Global News in Toronto reported on the Toronto Pinball League, one of the nearly 50 IFPA endorsed pinball leagues around the world where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship. Featured in the report is [player]Chris Bardon[/player] (ranked 1031st in the world), [player]Les Kowal[/player] (ranked 461st in the world) and IFPA Canada Country Director [player]Adam Becker[/player] (ranked 43rd in the world). Click HERE to watch the video. Click HERE for more information on the Toronto Pinball League.

The Register Guard in Eugene, OR published an article about the 2013 Northwest Oh-Pin tournament, which was recently held on January 19th. The Northwest Oh-Pin tournament is one of the nearly 450 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship. Featured in the article is [player]Dylan Kennedy[/player] (ranked 5705th in the world), [player]W. Clark Davis[/player] (ranked 512th in the world) and [player]Hayden Harker[/player] (ranked 625th in the world). Click HERE to see the article. Click HERE for pictures from the tournament. Click HERE for results from the tournament.

TribLive in Pittsburgh has an article promoting the upcoming 3rd annual Pittsburgh Pinball Open which starts this Friday, June 22nd. The Pittsburgh Pinball Open is one of the nearly 350 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship. Featured in the article is [player]Doug Polka[/player] (ranked 714th in the world), [player]Al Thomka[/player] (ranked 122nd in the world) and [player]Virginia Hendricks[/player] (ranked 2178th in the world). Click HERE to see the article. Click HERE for more information on the Pittsburgh Pinball Open.

February 19^th, 2012 – The event was held at Ace’s Breakaway and Play, an arcade at the middle of the city on Smithfield street. In addition to the two AC/DC machines available for play there, Ace’s also features five other pinball machines among its games every day. This weekend it was Family Guy, Avatar, Tron, Batman (Stern), and Transformers. Over 60 people attended the launch party.

The tournament on AC/DC was the main feature of the night. There were 30 competitors and over 70 entries placed. After the dust from qualifying ended, four players remained at the top of the standings. [player]Jon Replogle[/player] (IFPA ranked at 135^th in the world) had the top qualifying score of 181,516,810. Second in qualifying was [player]Pete Hendricks[/player] (148) with a score of 140,711, 840 followed by [player]Cryss Stephens[/player] (234) with 89 million and [player]Al Thomka[/player] (91) with just over 70 million.

The finals were a one game playoff, winner take all. [player]Al Thomka[/player] started off the grouping strong putting up a score of over 50 million on his first ball and really putting the pressure on the rest of the group to perform. In the end [player]Pete Hendricks[/player] captured the win with a score of 92,233,320.

Along with the cash for 1^st place, each of the final four also received entries to the PAPA World Championship (www.papa.org).

Special thanks goes out to Stern Pinball, the IFPA, PAPA, Ace’s Breakaway and Play, Betson Distributing, [player]Doug Polka[/player], [player]Nick Jaquay[/player], [player]Pete Hendricks[/player] and [player]Al Thomka[/player] for their support in running the event.