Double Danger Pinball Accessories – Providing high-end and innovative pinball related apparel and accessories for pinball enthusiasts.

Oklahoma City, November, 2015 – Double danger Pinball accessories proudly announces that it is open for business. Double Danger (DD) seeks to be the premier supplier of pinball themed and related apparel and accessories in the market. With designs and ideas created by award winning designers and artists, DD looks to be the leader in contemporary pinball related products.

Double Danger is also a Premier Sponsor of the IFPA. In that capacity, we will be the exclusive provider of IFPA apparel. We already have one unique shirt design available online of the logo from the 1991 first annual IFPA pinball championship. It features a perfect reproduction of the original IFPA logo from the era on an ash gray ringer shirt. Look for several more re-release vintage and new designs to come with exciting IFPA related graphics.

Double Danger will also focus on a segment of the pinball market we feel has been largely ignored up to this point – the female pinball enthusiast. Providing both ladies apparel and accessories targeted towards the female enthusiast such as earrings and numbered limited custom jewelry pieces. We believe we can break the market wide open for shoppers of all genders! Along with that, DD is ramping up to provide several offerings for our younger enthusiasts in the form of child sizes and even onesies for the youngest little pinheads in training. Keep an eye on our web site for updates as we will be constantly updating and changing our inventory.

Double Danger will of course provide a simple and concise online shopping experience, but we also plan to attend various pinball events to provide live shopping opportunities. Starting with the Texas Pinball Festival in 2016, we hope to ramp-up on-site sales to include several events and tournaments across the country in the coming years. Visit www.ddpinball.com 24/7 for a full listing of available products and look for us at some of the upcoming major events soon.

Another major component to our unique offerings, and one we think sets us apart in the best possible way is the fact that we offer tournament directors complete packages for the tournaments they host! Packages are tiered and can include any or all of these options: custom designed trophy plaques, custom award medals, tournament T-shirts, tournament patches, tournament stickers, buttons and even hats or key-chains. All of which include the use of your art or can be provided with custom art from our award winning design team. Please visit the “Tournament Directors” tab on our website (ddpinball.com) for details and a brief form you can fill out to get the process started.

About Double Danger and it’s owners:
DD is owned and operated by pinball enthusiasts providing products for pinball enthusiasts. We bring our love of pinball to the products we produce. DD’s owner/operators consist of an award winning graphic designer/fine artist with over 20 years experience in graphics and fine art. Another owner is a veteran of the 82nd Airborne, US Army and owner/operator of an independent silkscreen company. The third partner is a pinball repair and restoration specialist and computer tech specialist with experience in web site design and coding, networking, marketing and hardware support. We believe this perfectly diversified team will help DD provide not only the best products, but the best shopping experience for all pinball enthusiasts.

Double Danger Pinball accessories
Jay Hollopeter • Robert Hoggard • Tim Larsen
www.ddpinball.com • Email: orders@ddpinball.com
IG: @double_danger_pinball • FB: facebook.com/ddpinball

The IFPA European Championship Series is through Event #15 for the 2015-16 season.

2014-15 IFPA European Pinball Champion [player]Daniele Celestino Acciari[/player] currently sits on top of the current ECS standings, with a 24 point lead over. The current ECS standings are available HERE.

An incredible 935 players have participated in the 2015-16 ECS so far this season.

The upcoming schedule of ECS events is available HERE.

The Sydney Morning Herald out in Australia published a pinball story as part of their “Good Weekend” magazine, covering the resurgence of competitive pinball within the country. Click HERE to watch the video and read the article.

Adam Turgeson, playing in the NFC North (Green Bay) is this week’s lucky winner of the autographed Rich Gannon hat and Gannon 2002 MVP Medallion.

Adam also scored an Entry to the FWTG Final Pinball Party in January at Alice Cooper’s sports bar – “Cooper’stown”.

Next week’s FWTG Fantasy League giveaway drawing is for the classic slot machine “Wild Africa”, winner to be selected Tuesday, Nov 17^th @ 8pm (CST).

As noted in the FWTG rules, shipping will be paid by prize recipient (machine can be picked up in the Mpls area, or we will help coordinate a wholesale carrier).

Make sure to join the FWTG Fantasy League now, to get in on this and all future prize drawings, including a Firepower 2 pinball machine!

Reminder- The Fantasy League “Division” with the highest combined player WPPR Point total, will receive a bonus round of prize giveaways to its players at the conclusion of the campaign.

Also…Anyone interested in the Flippin’ With the Greats “Tournament” Series, please visit GridironSupport.org to view the complete FWTG tournament schedule AND the Prize Pool (with pics!) available to All First Place finishers from each regional tournament.

Please consider scheduling an FWTG tournament in your area to benefit Coach Ditka’s Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund AND Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center.

For more information or questions, please call Vicki @ 612-999-3984(FWTG)

Join the League Now to be eligible for this and All upcoming giveaways.

A quick reminder that there are TWO components of the Flippin’ With the Greats campaign:

1) The FANTASY LEAGUE – A “League” where IFPA members can support their favorite NFL team (and win cool stuff) by simply buying an IFPA medallion Personalized with the Player’s name, IFPA #, and the NFL team they support.  Great prizes will be distributed to League Participants throughout the season. Click HERE for more details.

2) The TOURNAMENT SERIES – A Nationwide series of tournaments to be scheduled throughout the NFL season culminating in the SUPER BOWL Pinball Party at Alice Cooperstown in Phoenix, Az. Click HERE for more details.

The Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund (GGAF) is a non-stock, non-profit 501(c)3 organization, providing financial grants and “pro bono” medical assistance to retired NFL players in dire need.  The organization focuses on the humanitarian side of post-football related issues, which include coordination of social services to retired players who are in need due to a variety of reasons including inadequate disability and/or pensions.

Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, also. Solid Rock’s primary mission is to make an everlasting difference in the lives of teens by helping them meet their spiritual, economical, physical, and social need.  Alice Cooper’s Rock Teen Center offers a safe, engaging environment during non-school hours –a time when they are most vulnerable to drugs, violence, and gangs. Maintaining a teen’s worst enemy is too much time on their hands Solid Rock provides the music, arts, vocational programs and fellowship that challenge teens to discover their passion through music, dance, self-expression, and creativity. Learn more at www.alicecoopersolidrock.com.

Support and Follow our 2015 Flippin’ With the Greats Pinball Campaign and “Like” Gridiron Support on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gridironsupport.org

Two Dutch guys are developing an app called “The Pinball Assistant”. With

this app you have knowledge about every pinball machines ever manufactured in the palm of your hand. You can look up pinball machines, get fun facts, playing tips, write your personal reviews as well as rate the pinball and register your personal high scores.

The Dutch pinball players Gerard Vos and Richard van Zijll de Jong are

launching a Kickstarter to raise money for their pinball app. They launched the Kickstarter at the Dutch Pinball Open, the crowdfunding will continue untill December 31st.

The Kickstart-contributors are rewarded with cool presents for their support. Depending on the pledged amount, the contributors will receive cool pinball photographs, a t-shirts, or a signed “Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Mellons” translite or even a signed Harlem Globetrotters backglass.

How did you get the idea for the Pinball Assistant?

Richard: “Gerard and I are always playing pinball against each other. We keep

scores, review pinballs and talk about strategies. We often try to find information about the played pinball machines. We noticed that good information is hard to find. It’s often incomplete, incorrect or it’s so extensive that it’s boring. With The Pinball Assistant we want to make an app that’s fast, practical and easy to use. We want to make a product that all pinball players will like.”

But there’s more to the story…

Gerard: “Yes, we also want to make sure that the pinball heritage is preserved. During the fifties and sixties the most beautiful machines were made. It is a terrible shame if information about those machines gets lost or will be stacked away to never be seen again. With our publishing background in mind we thought that it was time to do something about it.”

You’re asking for 17.000 US dollars. What will you use it for?

Richard: “We are planning to use the kickstarter-money for the technical development of the app. We not only have a huge database we want to share but we want to develop a good interactive component as well. We also need the money for getting the app in the stores and to inform the world about our app. The more money we raise, the more extras we are able to put in, our ideas are endless.”

Gerard: “But we also think it’s important to bring future players in contact with pinball. Therefore we will start in February 2016 providing opportunities for kids to play pinball in competitions in the Dutch Pinball Museum in Rotterdam and at the Dutch Pinball Association in Veenendaal. We would like to organize such an event a few times a year in other countries as well, depending on the success of the Pinball Assistant, of course.”

How can the pinball fans help?

Richard: “By backing our kickstarter-project. If you check out the link https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thepinballassistant/the-pinball-assistant

you can read all about our project The Pinball Assistant – Your PA to pinball.”

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 2016 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 2016 IFPA Pin-Masters: World Pin-Golf Championships are scheduled for March 18th-20th, 2016 at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. The Pin-Masters coincides with the Amusement Expo held Wednesay 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 inaugural IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championshipwill also move to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, and take place Thursday, March 17th.

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.

The IFPA is excited to announce that the following players are now qualified for the $tern Rewards Program based on their September 2015 IFPA endorsed tournament performance! These players have until August 15th, 2016 to exercise their reward option.

PLAYER OF THE MONTH – Jörgen Holm
BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Gary Kahn[/player]
BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Rob Iggulden[/player]
BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Gema López Torralba[/player]

The $tern Rewards Program rewards dedicated players by providing them with the opportunity to use their rewards to purchase new Stern Premium games and other Stern merchandise at special IFPA prices.

Qualifying participants will also be eligible for discounts at the Stern online store which features a wide range of Stern and $tern Rewards Program merchandise exclusive to the IFPA rewards program.

Pinball players around the world can qualify for the program by participating and performing in IFPA-sanctioned pinball events. Top-ranked players, most-improved players, and player-of-the-month earn rewards points in the annual program.

To learn more about the $tern Rewards Program, visit the IFPA website at www.ifpapinball.com/SternRewardsProgram

The IFPA is pleased to announce that the following players saw the biggest jump in their world ranking based on their September 2015 tournament performance.

The biggest movers for September 2015 included [player]Gary Kahn[/player] from New York, who moved up 15,090 spots from the following results:

Gary moved up to a rank of 2061st in the world, and 81st in the New York SCS.

[player]Rob Iggulden[/player] from Portland, OR moved up 9,293 spots from the following results:

Rob moved up to a rank of 6176th in the world, and 127th in the Oregon SCS.

[player]Gema López Torralba[/player] from Madrid, Spain moved up 8,085 spots from the following results:

Gema moved up to a rank of 7599th in the world.

Congratulations to Gary, Rob and Gema, as well as the other players that saw a jump in their ranking from their September tournament performance!

The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Month for September 2015 is IFPA10 World Pinball Champion, Jörgen Holm from Stockholm, Sweden. Kevin earned a total of 174.16 WPPR points in September. This included the following results:

Jörgen is currently ranked 6th in the world and is in the 21st qualifying position for the 2015-16 IFPA European Championship Series.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of September included [player]Helena Walter[/player] from Stockholm, Sweden with 142.30 WPPR points, [player]Mats Runsten[/player] from the Stockholm, Sweden with 119.62 WPPR points, [player]Martin Ayub[/player] from London with 107.38 WPPR points, and [player]Olli-Mikko Ojamies[/player] from Espoo, Finland with 96.97 WPPR points.

Congratulations to Jörgen and the other top WPPR point earners of the month!

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