The IFPA is excited to announce that the following players have been now qualified for the $tern Rewards Program based on their May 2013 IFPA endorsed tournament performance! These players have until August 15th, 2014 to exercise their reward option.

PLAYER OF THE MONTH – [player]Franck Bona[/player]
Franck earned 91.87 WPPR points in May, including a victory at the Tilt-Up Warehouse tournament. In addition, Franck had a top 10 finish in both the LNJF League and the Rodenbach Pre-IFPA Tournament.

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Richard Anderson[/player]
Richard moved up 4504 spots by earning 3.08 WPPR points from his 18th place finish at the Hattersheim Pre-IFPA Tournament, as well as 1.88 WPPR points from his 64th place finish at the Rodenbach Pre-IFPA Tournament. This moved Richard up to the 2889th ranked player in the world..

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]John Bengry[/player]
John moved up 4154 spots from his 3rd place finish at the Vancouver Metallica Launch Party. John earned 8.63 WPPR points from this performance, which has moved him up to a rank of 2159th in the world. Currently John is sitting in 9th place in the IFPA British Columbia Province Championship standings.

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Emma Oliver[/player]
Emma moved up 1789 spots from her 20th place finish at the May meeting of the UK Pinball South West league. This netted Emma .26 WPPR points and boosted her into now being the 9732nd ranked player in the world.

Detailed rules for the $tern Rewards Program, including an updated list of qualifiers, and updated list of rewards available can be found HERE.

The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Month for May 2013 is [player]Franck Bona[/player] from France. Franck earned 91.87 WPPR points in May, including a victory at the Tilt-Up Warehouse tournament. In addition, Franck had a top 10 finish in both the LNJF League and the Rodenbach Pre-IFPA Tournament.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of May included [player]Jan Anders Nilsson[/player] from Sweden with 85.48 WPPR points, [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] from Delaware, OH with 65.39 WPPR points, [player]David Grémillet[/player] from France with 64.12 WPPR points, and [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] from Chicago, IL with 63.73 WPPR points.

Congratulations to Franck and the other top WPPR point earners of the month!

Last week we announced who will be representing Team Europe in the inaugural Epstein Cup. With IFPA10 registration now officially closed, we're excited to announce that the roster for Team USA has now also been finalized.

Representing Team USA at the 2013 Epstein Cup will be IFPA8 World Pinball Champion and team captain [player]Cayle George[/player] (ranked 3rd in the world), [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] (ranked 4th in the world), [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] (ranked 6th in the world), [player]Josh Sharpe[/player] (ranked 12th in the world), [player]Joshua Henderson[/player] (ranked 15th in the world), [player]Andrei Massenkoff[/player] (ranked 24th in the world), [player]Lyman Sheats[/player] (ranked 22nd in the world) and [player]Jason Werdrick[/player] (ranked 36th in the world).

There is less than one week left of open registration for the IFPA10 World Pinball Championship, but with the top 8 ranked players from Europe all having signed up to compete, the roster for Team Europe has been finalized. Representing Team Europe at the inaugural Epstein Cup is current World Pinball Champion and team captain [player]Daniele Celestino Acciari[/player] (ranked 2nd in the world) from Italy, Jörgen Holm from Sweden (ranked 5th in the world), [player]Jorian Engelbrektsson[/player] (ranked 8th in the world) from Sweden, [player]Franck Bona[/player] (ranked 9th in the world) from France, [player]Robert Sutter[/player] (ranked 13th in the world) from Switzerland, [player]Levente Tregova[/player] (ranked 17th in the world) from Switzerland, David Grémillet (ranked 14th in the world) from France, and [player]Julio Vicario Soriano[/player] (ranked 18th in the world) from Spain. The Epstein Cup will be held Thursday evening prior to the start of IFPA10.

The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Month for April 2012 is [player]Trent Augenstein[/player], from Delaware, OH. Trent earned 96.42 WPPR points in April, finishing in 2nd place at Pinburgh as well as 1st and 4th place at the Pinball at the Zoo in the Main and Classics tournaments respectively.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of April included [player]Adam Becker[/player] of Canada with 91.41 WPPR points,  [player]Franck Bona[/player] of France with 81.11 WPPR points, [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] of the US with 75.83 WPPR points, and [player]Alain Boulieu[/player] of France with 73.20 WPPR points.

Congratulations to Trent and the other top WPPR point earners of the month!