We’re excited to announce that the 2016 IFPA Pin-Masters will be part of the 2016-17 PAPA Circuit.

Registration continues to be open, and is filling up fast! 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 will be held at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, and take place Thursday March 17th. This will include all the various State and Provincial Champions currently battling it out in the 2015-16 SCS and PCS (Canada).

The inaugural IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship will also be held as part of the IFPA Pin-Masters week. This features the top 16 ranked women battling it out for a World Champion title.

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].

CTV news in Montreal was covering the pinball prohibition that has been lifted in the city. Click HERE to watch the video.

Bring Me the News out in Minneapolis covered the IFPA Minnesota State Pinball Championship out at Sun Ray Lanes in Maplewood, MN. Click HERE to read the article.

3-time (or 5-time depending on who you ask) World Pinball Champion [player]Bowen Kerins[/players] was recently on the Versus the GOAT Podcast talking competitive pinball. Click HERE to listen.

Yesterday was one crazy day, with 35 states across the US participating in the 3rd annual IFPA State Championship Series Finals (along with 6 provinces in Canada and the District of Columbia).

While the SCS was created with the interest of the players in mind, the bigger picture has always been about using the SCS as a tool to help promote the awareness of competitive pinball across the country. This year has been the best yet, with millions of media impressions generated across all the various media outlets run all over the US.

A full list of media pieces is available HERE.

As some of you may have noticed, the World Pinball Player Rankings had not been updated since the end of 2015. The challenges to migrate over to the new system were tougher than anticipated, but we are excited to announce that we have made the necessary changes to implement version 5.2 and we are now LIVE.

The current rankings reflect some of the backlog of January events that we received, along with all of the results in the database being recalculated under v5.2 rules.

Full details fo the WPPR v5.2 system can be found HERE.

Registration is now closed for the inaugural IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship and we couldn’t be more excited about the field of participants!

The IFPA went down to women’s rank 24 to fill the field of 16 participants, with 4 countries being represented. The tournament will be held in conjunction with the IFPA US National Pinball Championship out in Las Vegas on March 17th, 2016.

These 16 women will be competing for $800 in cash, along with the title of “Women’s World Pinball Champion”.

Full details of the championship are available HERE.

The current Women’s Rankings are available HERE.

blog post courtesy of IFPA Italia

Roberto Pedroni rules in Milan having two successes in two tournaments during the same weekend. Everything happened within the Showroom Morlacchi where the player from brianza has first won the title of Champion of National Circuit ICS 2015 defeating Daniele Acciari in the final match.

And to crown it all, the next day he also won the tournament Mad 4 Pinball defeating, in this case, a much wider competition, taking into account the approximately 65 participants from all over Italy.

In Mad’s final match, Pedroni has easily defeated the other finalist Paolo Gogni, real revelation of the competition, who in the quarterfinals eliminated the very unlucky Acciari, that so does not go beyond the fifth position.

Third place for Gabriele Tedeschi from Rome, more and more confirming to be a great level player.

These are the final results in the final match of the National Circuit ICS:

1,Roberto Pedroni
2,Daniele Acciari
3,Cesare Datri
4,Fabio Francescato
6,Enrico Giorgio De Stefani
6,David Della Ianna
6,Daniele Baldan
6,Pablo Iacoponi
12,Fabrizio Amiconi
12,Gabriele Tedeschi
12,Matteo Filippin
12,Giuseppe Violante
12,Pierangelo Villa
12,Paolo Luise
12,Alberto Olivero
12,Danny Iuliano

750AM The Game in Portland, OR had IFPA Oregon State Rep [player]Greg Dunlap[/player] on their Local’s Only show to talk about the upcoming IFPA Oregon State Pinball Championship. Click HERE to listen to the interview (starts at 20 minutes in).

CBC News in Nova Scotia talks with [player]Danny Baldwin[/player] about the inaugural IFPA Nova Scotia Provincial Pinball Championship. Click HERE to listen to the interview and read the article.