The Baltimore Fishbowl took a closer look at some of the upcoming IFPA endorsed events in the area. Featured is the Baltimore DC Championship Series, which will host Round 3 of the series on November 26th. The Baltimore DC Championship Series is one of the nearly 450 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship. Click HERE to read the article and see the video.

The Flip Out Hunger event in Springfield, MO also caught the attention of NBC affiliate KY3. Click HERE to read the article and see the video.

The Flip Out Hunger series of tournaments ended up with thousands of dollars in cash and food to local food banks across the US. One of the cities to participate was Springfield, MO. Ozarks First was there to cover the event. The Flip Out Hunger tournament in Springfield is one of the nearly 450 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship. This tournament is also part of the IFPA State Championship Series, being included in the qualifying for the IFPA Missouri State Pinball Championship. Featured in the article is tournament organizer [player]Dayvv Brooks[/player] (ranked 534th in the world). Dayvv is also currently qualified in 6th place in the IFPA Missouri State Pinball Championship. Click HERE to read the article and see the video.

From GiocoNews:

Two exclusive tournaments in two days. And both played on the best Stern Pinball's pinball machines. Last weekend (Friday 15th and Saturday 16, November) two prominent tournaments went on stage in Verona: the first one is the Stern Pinball Star Trek launch party, realized by IFPA Italia and Tecnoplay – the distributor of Stern's pinball machines in Italy – and the second one is the Limited edition pinball tournament realized on ten exclusively limited edition pinball machines.

Both tournaments were played in the amusement arcade Playcenter into the shopping mall Grande Mela. The pinball machines for the tournament were: Ac/dc LE (Black and Red), Avengers Le (Green and Blue) , x-men Magneto LE, tron Le, Transformers Le, Star Trek, Metallica le and Metallico premium.

Roberto Pedroni, already the Italian champion, won the Limited Edition Pinball Tournament. He achieved success after a wearing challenge lasted more than fifteen hours, in which Pedroni also won a second place in the 'side tournament'.  

The previous day, when the Stern Pinball Launch Party dedicated to the new Star Trek pinball machine took place in the same location, Giuseppe Violante triumphed, before Roberto Pedroni itself, Matteo Filippin and, again, Cesare d'Atri.

So the battle for the second position currently held by Cesare d'Atri is even more fastened. Anyway in Verona he won the third place in the main, which allows him to remain at high position thanks to the advantage of about 20 points that he already had.
Now we have to wait until December to see who will be the second member of the Italian Tecnoplay team 2014. The next meeting will be in Milan on 29 and 30 December when the Star Trek launch party will be held in the Morlacchi showroom, and the next day the Milano Pinball Cup into the Milan club of sports pinball.

Then we come back again in Verona, in Villafranca, where the Pinball Comics tournament will take place in the weekend of 7 and 8 December into the homonymous event dedicated to comics, for the debut of sports pinball in an event of this kind.

More press for IFPA HQ. The Wall Street Journal just released an article featuring Modern Pinball NYC Co-owners [player]Steve Zahler[/player] and [player]Steve Epstein[/player]. Click HERE to read the article.

The IFPA is excited to announce that the following players have been now qualified for the $tern Rewards Program based on their October 2013 IFPA endorsed tournament performance! These players have until August 15th, 2014 to exercise their reward option.

PLAYER OF THE MONTH – [player]Zach Sharpe[/player]
earned a total 147.76 WPPR points in October, with victories at both the Pinball Expo Flip Out Tournament and the Danish Pinball Open. Zach also finished in 3rd and 2nd place in the Classics Divisions of each of those tournaments respectively.

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Ray Boyle[/player]
Ray moved up 7759 spots by earning 3.94 WPPR points from his 8th place finish in the London Ontario Pinball League. This boosted Ray into now being the 3854th ranked player in the world.

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Debbie Baiano[/player]
Debbie moved up 7005 spots from her 99th and 88th place finish at the Pinball Expo Flip Out Tournament Main and Classics tournaments respectively, as well as a 58th place finish at the Star Trek Launch Party in Chicago. In total, Debbie netted 3.43 WPPR points from her performances, which has moved her up to a rank of 4097th in the world.

BIGGEST MOVER AWARD – [player]Cory Brown[/player]
Cory moved up 6211 spots by earning 2.69 WPPR points from his 2nd place finish at the ContraFlow Convention IFPA Tournament. This moved Cory into now being the 4205th ranked player in the world..

Detailed rules for the $tern Rewards Program, including an updated list of qualifiers, and updated list of rewards available can be found HERE.

More press for IFPA HQ. Amusing the Zillion just released an article featuring an interview with Modern Pinball NYC Co-owner [player]Steve Zahler[/player]. Click HERE to read the article.

The IFPA is pleased to announce that the following players saw the biggest jump in their world ranking based on their October 2013 tournament performance.

The biggest movers for October 2013 included [player]Ray Boyle[/player] from Canada, who moved up 7759 spots by earning 3.94 WPPR points from his 8th place finish in the London Ontario Pinball League. This boosted Ray into now being the 3854th ranked player in the world.

[player]Debbie Baiano[/player] from Monroe Township, NJ moved up 7005 spots from her 99th and 88th place finish at the Pinball Expo Flip Out Tournament Main and Classics tournaments respectively, as well as a 58th place finish at the Star Trek Launch Party in Chicago. In total, Debbie netted 3.43 WPPR points from her performances, which has moved her up to a rank of 4097th in the world.

[player]Cory Brown[/player] from New Orleans, LA moved up 6211 spots by earning 2.69 WPPR points from his 2nd place finish at the ContraFlow Convention IFPA Tournament. This moved Cory into now being the 4205th ranked player in the world.

Congratulations to Ray, Debbie and Cory, as well as the other players that saw a jump in their ranking from their October tournament performance!

The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Month for October 2013 is current World No.1 [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] from Chicago, IL. Zach earned a total 147.76 WPPR points in October, with victories at both the Pinball Expo Flip Out Tournament and the Danish Pinball Open. Zach also finished in 3rd and 2nd place in the Classics Divisions of each of those tournaments respectively.

The rest of the top 5 for the month of October included [player]Trent Augenstein[/player] from Delaware, OH, with 114.17 WPPR points, [player]Marcin Kisiel[/player] from Poland with 92.69 WPPR points, [player]Josh Sharpe[/player] from Palatine, IL with 87.23 WPPR points, and [player]Roy Wils[/player] from the Netherlands with 86.35 WPPR points.

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

The Vending Times has an article in their upcoming December issue covering the opening of IFPA HQ at Modern Pinball NYC. In advance of the Flip Off Hunger event starting this Saturday the article was released online.

IFPA Co-Chairmen Steve Epstein and Roger Sharpe are interviewed, as well as Modern Pinball NYC co-owner Steve Zahler.

Click HERE to read the article.