Bracket for finals available here:
https://tinyurl.com/ifpa15playoffs

Levi Nayman d. Peter Andersen (4-2)
Levi won on Robocop, Mousin Around, Countdown, Stargazer
Peter won on Iron Maiden, Ironman

Tim Sexton d. Phil Birnbaum (4-2)
Tim won on Seawitch, Monaco, The Walking Dead, Congo
Phil won on Flash Gordon, Quicksilver

Johnny Modica d. Dave Stewart (4-2)
Johnny won on The Walking Dead, Space Station, Dracula, Ironman
Dave won on Radical, Seawitch

Josh Sharpe d. Jorian Engelbrektsson (4-1)
Josh won on Radical, Hot Hand, The Shadow, Viking
Jorian won on Mousin’ Around

Adam Lefkoff d. Rich Mallett (4-1)
Adam Harlem Globetrotters, Attack from Mars, Jacks to Open, Radical
Rich won on Countdown

Andrei Massenkoff d. Jack Tadman (4-2)
Andrei won on Twilight Zone, Butterfly, Countdown, Genesis
Jack won on Dialed In, Arena

Daniele Acciari d. Gabriel Ortiz (4-0)
Daniele won on Class of 1812, Jacks to Open, Big Game, 4 Square

Kyoichi Miyaura d. Steven Bowden (4-1)
Kyoichi won on Radical, Congo, Harlem Globetrotters, Butterfly
Steven won on Spiderman

Qualifying results available here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/world_championships/results/

LIVE Streaming will be here when available:
https://www.twitch.tv/buffalo 

The IFPA15 World Pinball Championship has begun. Follow along here!

STANDINGS:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/world_championships/results/

STREAM:
https://www.twitch.tv/1mpicklerick

With the start of IFPA week this Friday culminating in the IFPA World Championship happening on May 31st – June 3rd calendar submissions, result submissions and profile updates will be delayed. Normal operation will not resume until June 5th.

Thank you for your patience.

While pinball has had many prestigious events over the years, whether it was the Pinball Expo Flip-Out tournaments of the 90’s, Pinburgh of the early 00’s, and the Doubles and Team events held at the IFPA and PAPA World Championships of the 90’s, the IFPA has limited what we consider the current Grand Slam of Major Championships. These Majors include the IFPA World Pinball Championship, PAPA World Pinball Championships, European Pinball Championships and Pinburgh Match Play Championship.

As the landscape of competitive pinball continues to evolve, events outside of these Grand Slam events have proven to hit a level of prestige among the player community that the IFPA thinks should be recognized. This event is the current Stern Pro Circuit Championship (previously the PAPA Circuit Final).

There’s no doubt the individual events on the Stern/PAPA Circuit have seen a positive impact specifically due to being on this circuit. The level of prestige for all of these events over the past 6 years have been increased. The IFPA feels it’s only right that the culmination of this circuit deserves a seat at the table among the most prestigious events competitive pinball has to offer.

While we typically don’t make WPPR point adjustments during the year, we feel so strongly about the inclusion of the Circuit Final as one of pinball’s Major Championship, if not the MOST PRESTIGIOUS Major Championships of them all, that we’re putting this change in immediately. All previous PAPA Circuit Final events will receive a multiplier of 1.5X the calculated tournament value.

April 2nd update . . .

While undecided as to whether this was going to be an April Fools Joke or not, we figured it was best to let the past champions of the Circuit Final decide the fate of whether it should be considered a Major. Thanks to the finalists who participated in our survey. Here were those results:

Daniele Acciari – NO
Keith Elwin – NO
Jorian Engelbrektsson – NO
Zach Sharpe – NO
Josh Sharpe – ABSOLUTELY YES IT DOES, THESE OTHER FOUR PLAYERS ARE IDIOTS

By a vote of 4-1 . . . the Circuit Final will NOT be a considered a Major.

Grand Champion –> Zach Sharpe
2nd Place –> Bowen Kerins
3rd Place –> Alberto Santana
4th Place –> Raymond Davidson

Full results here:
https://challonge.com/2018IFPAHUC

IFPA Pin-Masters has started!

Twitch Stream : HERE!

Results : HERE!

blog post courtesy of Mike Burgess

This past weekend 16 of Ontario’s best and brightest gathered for the Provincial Champion in the basement of one of its local collectors.

Player One Amusement group was generous enough to provide some of the latest and best games to come out of JJP and Stern Pinball in a long while. Specifically players were treated to an opportunity to play Dialed In, Star Wars and the latest from Stern Guardians of the Galaxy.

At the end of the night Adam Becker was victorious in Ontario and will now be making the trek out to Vegas to participate in the IFPA North American Championship.

Jerry Power from Player One Amusement group was on hand to present Adam with his trophy.

We would like to thank Player One for their support of the Ontario Provincial Championship!
http://www.winwithp1ag.com/

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 2018 IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship is now open! For more details on the Women’s Championship click HERE!

The initial invite list is open for the top 32 women in the World Pinball Player Rankings as of 1/1/2018 (to fill 16 spots), as well as the top 16 women in the Women’s World Pinball Player Rankings (to fill 8 Wild Card spots). Based on the interest of the top 32/top 16, we may extend the invite list additional spots so please monitor the registration page at your leisure. Should you be interested, please send payment to the IFPA as your way of committing to attending the tournament. Should you not be interested, it is equally important that we know, so please send an email to the IFPA stating you will not be available to participate.

A reminder that through fundraising and sponsorship efforts, the prize pool for the Women’s World Championship this year is over $3600!

Should you have any questions about our qualifying process or to find out more information about the tournament, please contact the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com.