PAPA 22 World Pinball Championships – September 4-7, 2025
We are pleased to announce the PAPA 22 World Pinball Championships, a Memorial for Suicide Awareness in memory of Lyman F. Sheats, Jr.2025 IFPA Pin-Masters – LIVE RESULTS
Click 2024-25 IFPA North American Pinball Championship – LIVE Results!
IFPA’s Player of the Month/Biggest Movers for January 2025!
Here are the January 2025 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:
Player of the Month:
Arvid Flygare from Lund, Sweden (808.57 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Stephanie Traub from Washington, DC (160.22 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)
Biggest Movers:
Gage Glupker from Seattle, WA (+25,510 spots)
Michael Harris from Beavercreek, OH (+23,526 spots)
Dan Madere from Silver Spring, MD (+22,254 spots)
These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2025. Congrats to everyone!
2024 IFPA German Pinball Champion is crowned
The finals of the German Championship Series 2024 were held at Freeplay.ruhr in Herten, Germany, this weekend.
64 players from all over Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland and France battled through 20 rounds of Group Matchplay qualification followed by 8 player Group Elimination play-off finals. There was a lot at stake: the title of the IFPA German Pinball Champion, 200% TGP plus 150% event booster, a Play-In Exemption spot for Germany at the IFPA20 World Championship and a ticket to the 2024 ECS Finals.
Axel Vercauteren from Belgium won the title of “2024 IFPA German Pinball Champion” having fought a tight final battle ahead of Johannes Ostermeier from Germany, Paul Jongma from the Netherlands and Stefan Herold from Germany.
Stefan Herold won the 2nd country exemption spot to represent Germany in the IFPA20 World Championship at Flippnic in Austria.
Nico Wicke, finishing in 6th position, won the ticket for the 2024 ECS Finals in Middelkerke giving him a chance to battle for the last European spot at IFPA20.
You can follow the action at both the ECS Finals and IFPA20 on JDL Pinball streaming channel.
We wish everyone a good start to the 2025 Championship Series season.
Win a Zaccaria Farfalla pinball machine in Asheville NC!
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UUFL Invitational is a charity tournament hosted by Level 256 in Asheville, NC between March 18-23 to remember and celebrate their departed friends Frank Hayden (UUF) and Reed Wilson (L). The winner of the tournament will receive a 1983 Zaccaria Farfalla pinball machine ($3500 value) and Level 256 will be raffling off approximately $4000 worth of prizes on Sunday, March 23 from almost 20 sponsors.
All proceeds from raffle ticket sales will be donated to the Asheville Humane Society and the American Cancer Society.
$45 entry fee; $20 admission to Level 256, $25 to the prize pool. Fee includes admission into Level 256 Tuesday-Saturday (also Sunday if you make finals) along with 5 raffle tickets.
Tuesday, March 18: 5PM-10PM
Wednesday, March 19: 5PM-10PM
Thursday, March 20: 5PM-10PM
Friday, March 21: 5PM-11PM
Saturday, March 22: 12PM-11PM
Sunday, March 23: 12:30PM
If 32 – 47 players, Top 16 will advance.
