Here are the November IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Trent Augenstein (162.08 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Kim Hoffart (+27,123 spots), Thomas Sunhede (+24,720 spots) and James Roth (+19,777 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2017. Congrats to everyone!

The IFPA European Championship Series has completed the qualifying portion for the 2017-18 season. Featuring 16 events across 15 countries, the top 32 players have earned a right to play in the IFPA European Pinball Championship to be held in Austria in March 2018.

Current IFPA European Pinball Champion and 2-time Major Champion Cayle George finished on top of the qualifying standings by over 60 WPPR points. The final ECS standings are available HERE.

An incredible 1154 players have participated in the 2017-18 ECS season, up from 746 players in the 2016-17 season. 14 different countries are represented in the top 32 qualifiers list.

Invitations will be going out soon to those that have qualified for the finals. Please be sure you have a registered account with the IFPA to make sure you are eligible to participate.

blog post courtesy of Daniel Spolar

 As I write this, we are on the verge of placing our 31^st and 32^nd pinball machines in the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. This reminds me of how far we have come in this short time and hope that everybody can feel the impact and to know that they hold a part of this success story in their hands as well.

 We started on this journey by finding one broken and badly worn Spider-man pinball machine back in November 2011, which seems like a lifetime ago. Our journey has been rewarding and full of joy as we help others in those Children’s Hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses across our nation.

 We have a full new year that will keep us very busy as our charity’s public awareness rises and our pinball placement program and other programs are increasing in demand.

 We have a list of waiting hospitals and RMHC locations that we look forward to moving to our pinball machine dedication completed list. We are receiving high praises from the hospitals and RMHCs that we serve. They have been busy talking about our charity’s helping programs to other hospitals, RMHC and more and now these new locations are being opened to us at a growing rate.

 Plus, we have had tremendous success with our year-old RxPinball Program that has been helping children with special needs. We have been working with school and hospitals to show them the therapeutic benefits of a pinball machine as a development tool. We are expanding our program to reach even more communities and will build to keep pace with this increased demand as well.

 We are busy redesigning our Project Pinball Charity’s website and adding some new features to make it easier for you to view the great things that keep us growing. We need to have a page that host our videos and photograph that can showcase our charity’s growth, history as well as the lives that we have touched.

 We will be adding new community fundraising tools, so you can easily see where Project Pinball is targeting and where you can donate to your community or others that you wish to help with your support and donations.

 We have a brand new and exciting fundraiser event planned for a January 1^st, 2018 launch with the help from our friends at MatchPlay.Events and the IFPA. We will be announcing all the details here next week.

 We have wonderful things on the horizon and our future looks bright! We cannot work as charity without all the incredible support to keep our mission moving forward. With the holiday season upon us and with the end of the year quickly approaching, we would like for you to think about giving to help our cause. We would like to be your charity that you believe in “to get things done”. I ask you to consider Project Pinball Charity as one of your charities that you chose to help. A charity that has a beneficial impact that you can see, hear and feel good about.

 If you would like to help our charity with your kind donations there are several ways that we can assist you.

 You can donate by:

·         Home Page at http://www.projectpinball.org/donate

·         Paypal at projectpinballfundraiser@gmail.com

·         Pinball Machine Raffles at http://projectpinball.org/sweepstakes/

·         Check to:      Project Pinball Charity

                             PO Box 368022

                             Bonita Springs, Florida 34136

 Please contact us for a tax certificate for your donations.

 If you would like to hold a fundraiser, maybe a pinball tournament or other, please contact us add [email protected]om to talk with Emilee, our Director of Development.

 We love our volunteers. If you would love to join our charity, please contact us at [email protected] to found out how you can help.

 For any questions or other, please contact [email protected]m

 Thank you for all your help and support throughout our journey!

We’re excited to announce that an anonymous donor has agreed to sponsor the IFPA Women’s World Championship prize pool with a $200 donation!

This now puts the prize package at over $3200 and growing! We will certainly follow up with any future news!

A reminder that our GoFundMe campaign is still going on as well HERE.

The IFPA is proud to announce the return of the IFPA Heads-Up Pinball Championship for 2018! A new twist on competitive pinball, players will be battling head-to-head simultaneously on two different machines of the same title attempting to complete challenges the fastest.

The winner of the tournament will receive a brand new Stern Pro Pinball Machine.

Registration for the 2018 IFPA Heads-Up Pinball Championship is now OPEN! For details on the IFPA Heads-Up Pinball Championship, check out the Overview page HERE. To register, click HERE!

The 2018 IFPA Heads-Up Pinball Championship is scheduled for Sunday, March 25th, 2018 at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago, IL. The Heads-Up Pinball Championship coincides with the PAPA Circuit Final held the Saturday of that weekend.

Should you have any questions about our qualifying process or to find out more information about the tournament, please contact the IFPA at [email protected].

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 2018 IFPA Pin-Masters is now OPEN! For details on the IFPA Pin-Masters, check out the Overview page HERE.

To register, click HERE! Please note registration will be capped at 72 players.

The 2018 IFPA Pin-Masters: World Pin-Golf Championships are scheduled for March 2nd-4th, 2018 at Flipperspiel Wunderland in Las Vegas, NV. The Pin-Masters coincides with the Amusement Expo held Wednesday and Thursday of that week where any players that pre-register will receive a complimentary badge into the trade show.

In addition, the IFPA US National Pinball Championship and the IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship will also be at Flipperspiel Wunderland, and take place Thursday March 1st. This will include all the various State and Provincial Champions currently battling it out in the 2017-18 SCS and PCS (Canada), along with those women that qualify for the Women’s Championship.

The 2018 IFPA Pin-Masters will also be on the inaugural Stern Pro Circuit.

Should you have any questions about our qualifying process or to find out more information about the tournament, please contact the IFPA at [email protected].

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??

As we come to an end of another season, the 2018 season brings us some additional challenges, the biggest being the launch of the IFPA endorsement fee for North America.

Up first is closing the books on 2017, and in order to do that we are asking that any organizer that has open tournament results submit those to us by Thursday, January 4th. Furthermore, any corrections to player misspellings, incorrect results, improper scoring issues, etc, all need to be addressed by January 4th as well. Please take some time to review your own personal results to see if anything looks out of place.

Our plan is to lock down 2017 on January 4th, and use the standings at that time for IFPA15 World Championship qualifying purposes, as well as the other Championship Series purposes (State Championship Series, European Championship Series, etc). Any errors caught after that point in time will NOT impact the 2017 standings, although those changes will be reflected in the 2018 rankings going forward.

Any questions please contact us at [email protected], and remember that if your profile doesn’t say ‘Registered’ with a green check mark, that we do NOT have your email address on file. This means we will not be able to contact you for any IFPA World Championship or other Championship Series qualifying issues.

With the State Championships planned earlier than normal on January 20th, 2018, registration process for SCS is going to be QUICK (not quite Pinburgh fast, but faster than usual). Players will have until the end of January 7th, 8pm CST to declare the state they wish to compete in. Contact your IFPA State Representative to make sure you are registered for the state you wish to play in.

After seeing the sponsorship from Madison Pinball, the Superelectric Pinball Parlor and Cleveland Pinball League have volunteered to match that sponsorship!

The $250 sponsorship to the Women’s World Championship will go to the 2nd through 4th place finishers distributed equally at $83.33 each.

This now puts the total prize package at $2050 . . . and growing! We will certainly follow up with any future news!

A reminder that our GoFundMe campaign is still going as well HERE.