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The IFPA is excited to announce that Stern is offering a special IFPA Stern Rewards Program promotion this holiday season.

They are not only adding Star Wars Comic Editions (Pro and Premium) to the Rewards Program, they are also allowing qualified players the opportunity to purchase a 2nd game if they had already purchased a machine earlier this calendar year.

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

Here are the October 2024 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Andy Rosa from Flint, MI (353.88 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Jackie Olson from San Francisco, CA (100.44 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)

Biggest Movers:
Sierra Norris from Portland, OR (+20,822 spots)
Lucas Recoaro from Argentina (+19,374 spots)
Paul Tvedt from Woodbury, MN (+17,908 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2024. Congrats to everyone!

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The IFPA and Stern Army organized the Jaws Global Leaderboard for October 2024!

We’re happy to announce the winners from this contest! Please email ifpapinball@gmail.com for details on how to redeem your prize.

Here are the September 2024 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Escher Lefkoff from soon to be Australia (1209.90 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Stephanie Traub from Washington, DC (83.37 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)

Biggest Movers:
Phil Redmon from West Sacramento, CA (+27,404 spots)
Weston Higgins from Colorado Springs, CO (+17,436 spots)
Chris Rummel from Fargo, ND (+17,384 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2024. Congrats to everyone!

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The IFPA will be introducing a new class of the Best Game qualifying format called HYBRID Best Game in 2025. To be eligible for this class of format, the tournament must allow a specific number of limited entries which will be based on the number of machines available for qualifying at the tournament. This entry number must be 4X the number of machines available to be played. For example, if the tournament utilizes 10 machines in qualifying, players must be limited to 40 entries to be eligible. This number of entries is regardless of how many games count towards the qualifying standings.

Tournaments that run a HYBRID Best Game qualifying format with a minimum 20 hours of qualifying time, will have those qualifying games counted at 3X value (12% increase to TGP for each game included in the qualifying standings).

HYBRID Best Game is meant to combat players ‘buying their way’ into finals. We feel qualifying under these HYBRID Best Game conditions is a better test of skill than UNLIMITED Best Game while also helping to address the advantages players get through their increased opportunity/privilege at these UNLIMITED Best Game events.

For purposes of Certified rules for 2025 we will be adding HYBRID Best Game to the eligible format list, along with updating the requirements for LIMITED Best Game:

• LIMITED → Minimum 5 games count, 20 hours of qualifying, entry total must be at least 2X the amount of machines being used (4% TGP per game played)
• HYBRID → Minimum 5 games count, 20 hours of qualifying, entry total must be exactly 4X the amount of machines being used (12% TGP per game played)

These changes will be included in the WPPR v6.1 update that is planned for the 2025 season.