Arvid Flygare is the First SweCS Champion

The inaugural IFPA Swedish Championship Series finals were played at LPA – Lund Pinball Academy in Lund, Sweden the weekend of January 27^th-29^th of 2023.

Every Swedish tournament in 2022 counted toward qualifying and Viggo Löwgren was the top qualifier with a mind-melting 1514 WPPR points earned just in Sweden in 2022. He was also IFPA’s global player of the year. Arvid Flygare qualified second with an almost as impressive 1368 WPPRs earned in Sweden. For contrast, the third qualifier earned 593 WPPRs and the cut line for the 64^th ranked player was 155 WPPRs.

917 players participated in qualifying across 306 tournaments in Sweden during the year. Players from three countries attended the final.

For the 64-player final, everyone was seeded into groups of 16 where everyone played everyone once in a round-robin format and the top 6 players in each group went through to the best-of-seven head-to-head rounds. At the end of the bracket only Marcus Hugosson and Arvid Flygare remained. Their final battle went to seven machines with some huge matches on the way. For game 1 on Harlem Globetrotters, both players ended ball 1 with around 1-million points. On Road Show, Marcus played Super Payday and Arvid earned an astonishing 10+ jackpots during his first multiball. The seventh game came down to Godzilla Pro and Arvid put up 1.3 billion for the win.

Arvid earned 130 WPPRs for his win, the most ever awarded for a tournament in Sweden, including EPC and IFPA World Championships held here. Plus, this tournament was only rated at 240% TGP.

IFPA SweCS qualifying for 2023 is already under way with a 300% TGP final planned for January 2024.

Photo: David Dahl-Hansson