The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Month for December 2013 is [player]Andrei Massenkoff[/player] from San Francsico, CA. Andrei earned a total 127.23 WPPR points in December, winning the fall season of both the SFPD League and BAPA League. Andrei also swept the Main and Classics divisions at City Champ, and a 1st/2nd place finish in Main and Classics respectively at the Nutcracker Duel.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of December included [player]Eden Stamm[/player] from White Rock, BC, Canada, with 97.19 WPPR points, [player]Tatsunori Naruke[/player] from Japan with 96.06 WPPR points, [player]Joshua Henderson[/player] from Plainfield, IL with 90.26 WPPR points, and [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] from Delaware, OH with 86.23 WPPR points.

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

The IFPA is pleased to announce that for the second month in a row our Player of the Month for November 2013 is current World No.1 [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] from Chicago, IL. Zach earned a total 96.39 WPPR points in November, with a victory at the Dutch Pinball Open, and second place finish at the Southern Pinball Festival.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of November included [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] from Delaware, OH, with 89.56 WPPR points, [player]Jon Replogle[/player] from Pittsburgh, PA with 89.41 WPPR points, [player]Roberto Pedroni[/player] from Italy with 88.52 WPPR points, and [player]Marcus Hugosson[/player] from Vetlanda, Sweden with 82.34 WPPR points.

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

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.