Qualifying for the 5th annual IFPA State Championship Series is now complete, and it’s now time for us to find our qualifiers for the 43 different IFPA State Championship finals (plus Wash DC). These finals will all be held simultaneously on January 20th, 2018, with 704 finalists competing for not only a State Championship title, but also a spot in the 5th annual IFPA US National Championship.

View the final qualifying standings HERE.

IFPA State Representatives should be sending out emails to the top 100 from each state shortly, although most have already done so with our short registration period. Important to note that if the IFPA does not have your email address on file, we have no way of being able to contact you. If you feel you should have received an invitation to one of the IFPA State Championships and did not, contact the IFPA immediately at ifpapinball@gmail.com, or Click HERE to edit your profile.

Registration for all 43 states closes on Sunday, January 7th at 8pm CST. Any player that has not accepted their invitation by that time will be ineligible to participate.

Remember that no player is allowed to compete in multiple IFPA State Championships. Players that qualify for more than one IFPA State Championship will have to make their choice during this open period of registration. This will mean that many states will go far past the top 16 players in order to fill all 16 spots.

Any questions about the SCS, or anything IFPA related, please contact us at ifpapinball@gmail.com

As State Representatives alert us to who is attending, we will be updating the registration page HERE.

For our Canadian friends, the PCS registration page is available HERE.

The IFPA is excited to announce the launch of the IFPA Tournament Manager for tournament and league organizers.

The IFPA Tournament Manager will be a one-stop-shop for everything an IFPA organizer needs. Once you create an account (done HERE), you’ll be able to submit to the IFPA calendar, submit results, check the current status of those submissions, follow your NACS balance (for North American organizers) and even have some stats available about the tournaments and leagues you have organized.

For any tournament/league organizers that have outstanding results, you will have to create an IFPA Tournament Manager account to submit those results. The ‘old way’ of submitting through the website has been retired.

It’s fair to say sponsorship of the IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship is now trending!

Following the sponsorships from Spooky Pinball, Madison Pinball, Superelectric Pinball Parlor and Cleveland Pinball League, Stern Pinball has stepped up to sponsor the Women’s World Championship with the donation of TWO official toppers from their catalog ($1000 value). Both finalists will receive a topper of their choice following the tournament.

This now puts the top prize at over $3000 . . . will it ever stop??

In September 2017, Mike Burgess out of Fort Wayne, Indiana moved himself 11,581 spots up the World Pinball Player Rankings. This earned him a “Biggest Mover” award and qualified him for the $tern Rewards Program. The rewards program allows qualifiers to purchase a brand new Stern pinball machine at a special IFPA price. Mike redeemed his reward for a Batman 66 Premium.

Since September ended, Mike has played in 5 more events in 2017, moving himself up from 7942nd to 5394th in the world.

Congratulations to Mike, and remember if you’re interested in qualifying for the $tern Rewards Program, check out the rules here. A reminder for anyone with a 2016 reward, you have 3 more weeks to redeem it before it expires.

In May 2017 we announced that there will be EIGHT Wild Card spots up for grabs for the 2018 IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship based on the Women’s World Pinball Player Rankings system, increasing the field to 24 players. The 2018 IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship will happen in conjunction with the IFPA US National Pinball Championship on March 1st, 2018 in Las Vegas.

These Wild Card spots will go to the 8 highest ranked women in the Women’s WPPR ranking that haven’t already qualified for a spot in the championship through the Main WPPR ranking system.

If qualifying were to end today, here’s what the qualifying list would look like:

OPEN SPOTS (based on World Ranking):
1st  Robin Lassonde 377.47
2nd  Helena Walter Higgins 309.7
3rd  Zoe Vrabel 256.58
4th  Louise Wagensonner 255.27
5th  Sunshine Bon 248.4
6th  Danielle Peck 231.84
7th  Julie Gray 196.17
8th  Hannah Holmberg 157.51
9th  Keri Wing 156.9
10th  Sara Little 142.15
11th  Priyanka Kochhar 141.55
12th  Jessie Carduner 135.06
13th  Anna Wolk 133.81
14th  Snow Galvin 130.85
15th  Allison ONeill 129.98
16th  Sarah Schudel 121.85
——–CUT LINE——–
17th  Karyn Kiser 120.47
18th  Michelle McCleester 116.63
19th  Maya Nigrosh 111.64
20th  Theresa Nessel 111.55

WILD CARD SPOTS (based on Women’s World Ranking):
1st  Megan Brown 102.23
2nd  Alexa Philbeck 100.86
3rd  Echa Schneider 85.03
4th  Ellen Frankel 70.65
5th  Maureen Hendrix 62.89
6th  Jodine Hatfield 51.11
7th  Tracy Lindbergh 44.87
8th  Amanda Case 43.3
———CUT LINE——–
9th  AJ Replogle 41.29
10th  Sara Urban 40.22
11th  Nycole Hyatt 36.55

The Women’s WPPR ranking used for these Wild Card spots are available here:

https://www.ifpapinball.com/rankings/women.php?type=w

The highest ranked women under the Main WPPR ranking system can be found here:

https://www.ifpapinball.com/rankings/women.php

The IFPA shirt store is back open for business!

If anyone is interested in helping us continue to raise some funds please buy a shirt!

Click HERE to visit our online store.

We’re nearly halfway through the 2017-18 IFPA State Championship Series season, and we couldn’t be more excited about the continued growth of interest in the SCS.

Last year we saw approximately 10,000 players participate in the SCS, and this year through June we’re already at 8,000 players that have participated.

We currently have 40 states included in the SCS, which will all culminate in the IFPA State Championship finals. These finals will all be held simultaneously on January 20th, 2018, with 640 finalists competing for not only a State Championship title, but also a spot in the IFPA US National Pinball Championship.

View the current SCS standings HERE.

For those players north of the US border, the IFPA Canada Provincial Championship Series is also currently in progress. Current standings for the Canada PCS are available HERE. A reminder that the Provincial Champions also qualify to participate in the US National Championship.

A reminder that the official satellite spots for the IFPA15 World Pinball Championship will come from the 2017-18 IFPA US National Pinball Championship, and the 2017-18 IFPA European Pinball Championship. The highest finisher in each final that has not yet qualified for IFPA15 will win a free spot into the World Championship.

64 of the World’s greatest players traveled from 20 countries to compete in the 14th Annual International Flipper Pinball Association’s World Pinball Championship out in Copenhagen, Denmark. After nearly 3 days of the most intense competitive pinball experience the world has to offer, there could only be one World Pinball Champion.

After defeating Nicklas Lindahl from Sweden (4-1), Daniele Acciari from Italy (4-1) and Jason Werdrick from the USA (4-0), Raymond went on to defeat Cayle George from the USA (5-4) to become the new World Pinball Champion. Mats Runsten defeated Jason Werdrick for 3rd place.

This is Raymond’s first Major Championship, making him the 28th player in competitive pinball history to do so.

Bracket for finals available here:
http://challonge.com/ifpa14

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Raymond Davidson d. Cayle George (5-4)
Raymond won on Johnny Mnemonic, Tron, Captain Fantastic, Jack*Bot, World Cup Soccer
Cayle won on Paragon, Indianapolis 500, Game of Thrones, Whitewater

CONSOLATION CHAMPIONSHIP
Mats Runsten d. Jason Werdrick (2-1)
Mats won on World Cup Soccer, Johnny Mnemonic
Jason won on Roadshow

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

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