Escher Lefkoff – World’s Greatest Pinball Player for 2022!

The IFPA is proud to announce that Escher Lefkoff has finished at #1 on the World Pinball Player Rankings, thus earning IFPA’s top honor as the 2022 “World’s Greatest Pinball Player”. No single tournament victory will ever secure this title for a given year. Only consistent play at the highest level over the course of multiple years leads to players reaching the pinnacle of the World Pinball Player Rankings. This is the first time that Escher has been crowned the World’s Greatest Pinball Player and one of six players in history to receive this award (Keith Elwin (7), Jorian Engelbrektsson (3), Raymond Davidson (3), Zach Sharpe (2) and Johannes Ostermeier (1) being the other five).

Escher played in 49 IFPA sanctioned events during the 2022 season, facing World #2 Raymond Davidson 28 times (going 20-8 against Raymond in those events). His greatest achievement of 2022 was his 1st place finish at the D82 Great Lakes Pinball Open Main Event, earning him 97.48 WPPR points. Escher also finished in 4th place at the IFPA17 World Pinball Championship earning his 2nd top 4 finish in a Major Championship. Overall, Escher won 33% of the 49 events he played in, while placing in the top 4 at 63% of his 2022 events, a truly remarkable achievement.

Congratulations to Escher, and best of luck to everyone on the upcoming 2023 season in the race for #1. Escher will receive his WGPP trophy at the IFPA18 World Pinball Championship in Germany in June.

Someone out there let Escher know that his IFPA profile picture is quite old. I blame Adam Lefkoff.