The Riverfront Times posted an article on The Silver Ballroom in St. Louis, one of the premiere locations for competitive pinball in the city. Click HERE to read the article.

Metro News in Ottawa published an article on the Ottawa Punk Pinball Tournament held this past weekend. Click HERE to read the article.

NBC2 in Fort Myers, Florida recently covered the Project Pinball charity. Click HERE to watch the video.

Team USA currently holds the Epstein Cup for another 3 months before it is once again up for grabs at IFPA12 in Sweden. 8 players per side earn the right to represent their country in this prestigious event, so let's take a closer look at the rosters for both sides.

Team Europe includes current IFPA World Pinball Champion and 2014 World's Greatest Pinball Player [player]Jorian Engelbrektsson[/player] from Sweden, current IFPA European Pinball Champion and 2-time IFPA World Pinball Champion [player]Daniele Celestino Acciari[/player] from Italy, former IFPA World Pinball Champion Jörgen Holm from Sweden, 1-time Major Champion [player]Robert Sutter[/player] from Switzerland, 2-time Major Finalist [player]Mats Runsten[/player] from Sweden, 1-time Major Champion [player]Roy Wils[/player] from the Netherlands, 1-time Major Finalist [player]Michael Trepp[/player] from Switzerland and 1-time Major Champion [player]Paul Jongma[/player] from the Netherlands. The 8 members of Team Europe 2015 have accounted for 10 Major Championships won along with 27 Major Championship Top 4's.

Team USA includes 2013 World's Greatest Pinball Player and 6-time Major Finalist [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] from Chicago, current PAPA World Pinball Champion [player]Cayle George[/player] from Seattle, 1-time Major Finalist [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] from Ohio, 2-time Major Finalist [player]Cryss Stephens[/player]from Pittsburgh, 4-time Major Finalist [player]Josh Sharpe[/player] from Chicago, [player]Jon Replogle[/player] from Pittsburgh, 2-time Major Finalist [player]Sean Grant[/player] from New York and 2014 Missouri State Pinball Champion [player]Chris Basler[/player] from St. Louis. The 8 members of Team USA 2015 have accounted for 2 Major Championships (thanks Cayle!) along with 21 Major Championship Top 4's.

For more details on the event, click HERE.

blog post courtesy of Michael Biasi

On February 14, 2015, IFPA player and OCPC League member [player]Keri Censi[/player] (ranked 4345th in the world) was involved in a horrible car accident which broke her spine completely and left damage along the lower cervical nerves of her spinal cord, including cervical vertebraes c5-c7, with others left fractured. Without the occurrence of a miracle, Keri is expected to experience total paralysis of her wrists, hands, trunk and legs. Keri is currently receiving breath support from a ventilator. Keri remains in the hospital and operations are ongoing. Upon being released from the hospital, Keri will require life-long support including rehabiliation therapy and facilitative equipment to enrich daily needs and enhance quality of life. 

To ease financial stress, any donations that can be made on behalf of Keri and her family would make a world's difference. Please maintain warm and positive thoughts and prayers for such a special family during this difficult time.

A GoFundMe page has been set up HERE.

IFPA President [player]Josh Sharpe[/player] (ranked 16th in the world) was recently interviewed by Coast 2 Coast Pinball host [player]Nate Shivers[/player] (ranked 4430th in the world) to talk about the changes to the WPPR system for 2015 SCS and more! Check out the interview HERE.

2-time World Pinball Champion [player]Cayle George[/player] was recently interviewed for the latest edition of the Pinheadz Pinball Podcast out of Australia. Cayle spoke with [player]Greg Siegele[/player] on how to play tournament pinball for both beginners and experts along with his experiences getting into the tournament scene. Click HERE to download the podcast.

We're excited to announce that the 2015 IFPA Pin-Masters will be part of the 2015-16 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 108 players.

The 2015 IFPA Pin-Masters: World Pin-Golf Championships are scheduled for March 27th-29th, 2015 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 also move to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, and take place Thursday March 26th. This will include all the various State and Provincial Champions currently battling it out in the 2014 SCS and PCS (Canada).

The Flippin' With the Greats Grand Final will also be held as part of the Pin-Masters. The best finisher amongst the Flippin' With the Greats finalists will win a NIB Stern pinball machine.

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].

As some of you may have noticed, the World Pinball Player Rankings had not been updated since the end of 2014. 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 verions 5.0 and we are now LIVE.

We've changed the calendar submission and result submission pages to help fit the new WPPR rules, so IFPA endorsed tournament organizers please pay attention. Should you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

Please be aware that EACH tournament now requires a calendar submission. If your side event is not on our calendar, you will not be able to submit us results when the time comes. Please drop us an email and will add it for you.

The current rankings reflect some of the backlog of January events that we received, along with the expansion of player resumes from the top 15 results to the top 20. While pre-2015 event values have not changed, we have split any periodic events or combo events (Main+Classics) into separate line items on a player's resume.

Full details fo the WPPR v5.0 system can be found HERE.

To celebrate the launch of the Wrestlemania pinball machine, Stern and the IFPA are teaming up to host 14 launch parties going on across the globe!

Click on the flyer to find the Launch Party nearest you, or visit the IFPA Calendar HERE!

There will be machines set up at each location on free play, with a cash prize tournament also being held throughout the party. Please see flyer for location information, and contact the IFPA at [email protected] should you have any questions.