The Brooklyn Paper released an article on the upcoming IFPA New York State Pinball Championship. Feature in the article is IFPA Chairman Steve Epstein and [player]Franecsco La Rocca[/player] (#2 seed in the NY SCS). Click HERE to read the article.

The Gazette out in Maryland published an article on the upcoming IFPA Maryland State Pinball Championship. Featured in the article are Rob Wintler-Cox (#4 seed for MD SCS) and [player]Shawn Hillman[/player] (#6 seed for MD SCS). Click HERE to read the article.

The Rome News-Tribune published a piece about the upcoming IFPA Georgia Pinball Championship. [player]Bryan Broyles[/player] is featured (#3 seed in GA). Click HERE to read the article.

California Newswire published an article about the Pacific Pinball Museum, who will be hosting the 2014-15 IFPA California State Pinball Championship. Click HERE to read the article.

The Alameda Sun released an article about the upcoming IFPA California State Pinball Championship, which will be held at the Pacific Pinball Museum. Click HERE to read the article.

We're looking to round up some volunteers to help us with hosting the Stern Wrestlemania Pinball Launch Party tournaments.

The date Stern is targeting is February 20-22nd weekend.

If you are interested in helping serve as an IFPA representative for a launch party in your city, please send me an email (ifpapinball at gmail dot com) including the city you live in. We'll then get that information to Stern to try and find a distributor/operator/location owner in your area to match you up with to get the party set up.

IFPA representative duties would include game setup at the site, along with running the tournament portion of the party.

The IFPA is excited to be teaming up with Alice Cooper, Mike Ditka and Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund for a special Pinball Tournament during Super Bowl week at Alice Cooperstown! A portion of the proceeds will directly benefit Solid Rock and Gridiron Greats. If you want to compete, registration and qualifying rounds start Wednesday, January 28th at 5 p.m.! Winners will be awarded on Saturday night the 31st at 6 p.m. followed by a live concert with Dash Cooper and CO-OP!

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.

Get behind Coach Ditka's Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund and "LIKE" Gridiron Support on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gridironsupport.org.

For the 2014-15 season, the IFPA launched the European Championship Series. 1136 players participated in the 17 ECS events held throughout the year.

While nearly 600 players from the US and Canada will be battling in their various States and Provinces on February 7th, we can't forget about the 32 players that will be competing to become the first ever IFPA European Pinball Champion.

Here are the first round matchups:

1 Daniele Celestino Acciari – 32 Dirk Klaver
2 Michael Trepp – 31 Roland Schwarz
3 Robert Sutter – 30 Greg Mott
4 Roberto Pedroni – 29 Cesare D'Atri
5 Paul Jongma – 28 Giuseppe Violante
6 Franck Bona – 27 Martin Ayub
7 Markus Stix – 26 Marcus Hugosson
8 Lukasz Romanowski – 25 Levente Tregova
9 Jorian Engelbrektsson – 24 Helena Walter
10 David Mainwaring – 23 Philippe Bocquet
11 Norman Heikamp – 22 Jérémy Reynaud
12 Jonas Johansson – 21 Ramon Richard
13 Peter Blakemore – 20 Jan Anders Nilsson
14 Olli-Mikko Ojamies 19 Albert Nomden
15 Linus Persson – 18 Gabriel Ortiz
16 Marcin Krysinski – 17 Martin Janczyk

Besides the prestigious title on the line, those players not yet qualified for the IFPA12 World Pinball Championship will be competing to earn one of the two Satellite Spots available.

We're also excited to announce that the ECS will be back for the 2015-16 season. Details about the ECS can be found HERE.

Vox Magazine from Columbia, MO interviewed Missouri's top ranked player [player]Adam McKinnie[/player]. Adam will be participating in the Missouri SCS coming up in a few short weeks. Click HERE to read the article.

blog post courtesy of Don Johnson

On Saturday January 17th and Sunday January 18th Kidforce Pinball League had thier Winter League Pinball Finals. We had to stretch it over 2 days as our league has grown by leaps and bounds

On the 17th Kidforce Pinball had the Finals for divisions C and D

We had a fairly large turnout for these divisions as everyone competed for the custom pinball trophies, made by Angela Drobka, and that coveted title of Division Champion. The competition was fast and furious as you can see below.

Click HERE to read full details and see pictures