Julio Vicario Soriano d. Nick Zendejas (4-1)
Julio won on Flash Gordon, Indy 500, Lizard, Hokus Pokus
Nick won on Party Zone

Jon Replogle d. Andy Rosa (4-1)
Jon won on Lost World, Attack from Mars, Wizard, Genesis
Andy won on Indy 500

Adam Becker d. Marcus Hugosson (5-3)
Adam won on Metallica, Wizard, Quicksilver, Attack From Mars, Demolition Man
Marcus won on Tommy, Dracula, Robocop

Trent Augenstein d. Keith Elwin (4-2)
Trent won on Eight Ball, Metallica, Surf N Safari, Wizard
Keith won on Party Zone, The Shadow

Mats Runsten d. Robert Gagno (4-2)
Mats won on Dirty Harry, Demolition Man, Flash Gordon, Volley
Robert won on Hokus Pokus, Eight Ball Deluxe

Colin Macalpine d. Jorgen Holm (4-2)
Colin won on Meteor, The Addams Family, Robocop, Avengers
Jorgen won on Harlem Globetrotters, Metallica

Johan Genberg d. Cayle George (4-2)
Johan won on Mousin’ Around, Harlem Globetrotters, Eight Ball, Dirty Harry
Cayle won on Party Zone, Indy 500

Markus Stix vs. John Delzoppo (4-1)
Markus won on Wizard, Harlem Globetrotters, Time Fantasy, World Cup Soccer
John won on The Addams Family

Bracket available HERE.

Game list available HERE.

Nick Zendejas d. Paul Jongma (4-0)
Nick won on Flash Gordon, Last Action Hero, Lizard, The Addams Family

Jorgen Holm d. Roberto Pedroni (5-3)
Jorgen won on Eight Ball, Whirlwind, X’s & O’s, Heavy Metal Meltdown, Metallica
Roberto won on Harlem Globetrotters, Dirty Harry, World Cup Soccer

John Delzoppo d. Erno Rotter (4-2)
John won on Tommy, Robocop, Space Race, Wizard
Erno won on Heavy Metal Meltdown, Avatar

Cayle George d. Brett Goodwin (5-3)
Cayle won on Indianapolis 500, Mousin’ Around, Harlem Globetrotters, Dirty Harry, World Cup Soccer
Brett won on Attack from Mars, Dracula, Space Race

Marcus Hugosson d. Adam McKinnie (4-0)
Marcus won on Tommy, Demolition Man, Dracula, Space Race

Mats Runsten d. Philippe Bocquet (4-1)
Mats won on Wizard, Dirty Harry, Surf n Safari, Avatar
Philippe won on Taxi

Jon Replogle d. Per Schwarzenberger (4-0)
Jon won on Centaur, Wizard, Dirty Harry, Attack from Mars

Trent Augenstein d. David Riel (4-2)
Trent won on Party Zone, Space Race, Wizard, Mousin’ Around
David won on Avatar, Avengers

Bracket available HERE.

Results through Session #8 at the link below.

First round starts at 4pm EST.

Live results HERE.

68 players competed in the 3rd annual IFPA Pin-Masters, the World Pin-Golf Championships held in Las Vegas. Players competed across 9 pin-holes on Friday and Saturday, with the top 16 players advancing to the finals based on their cumulative 18 pin-hole score.

Jim Belsito shot a 6 in the finals to best Jason Werdrick (2nd), Keith Elwin (3rd) and Johnny Modica (4th) to take home to the title of Pin-Masters Champion.

Full results of qualifying and playoffs are available HERE.

For those interested in following the action, the 2016 IFPA Pin-Masters is streaming on the IEpinball Twitch Channel.

Click HERE to watch the stream.

Click HERE for the live standings.

The top 16 players after 2 rounds will advance to the finals to be played Sunday morning.

Finals starts at 10am, check-in at 9:45am.

Novice finalists include –

Derek Thomson, Anna Wolk, Priyanka Kochhar, Sal Ayoob, Kevin Nickel, Craig Sengstock

We’ve been so busy with IFPA related activities that we forgot to mention that February 27th, 2016 marked the 10 year anniversary since the rebirth of the International Flipper Pinball Association.

On that day in 2006 the AMOA assigned the rights of the then defunct IFPA over to Steve Epstein and Roger Sharpe to see if they could elevate the awareness and visibility of pinball across the globe.

The World Pinball Player Rankings now has over 39,000 players from 41 countries, and the events being run by the IFPA continue to expand. Country Championship Series have started in Australia, Austria, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, to go along with the continued series in the US and Canada.

This week will kick off an insane month with the inaugural IFPA Women’s World Pinball Championship, 3rd annual IFPA US National Pinball Championship and the 3rd annual IFPA Pin-Masters. Shortly thereafter the 13th annual IFPA World Pinball Championship will be taking place in Pittsburgh featuring the 4th annual Epstein Cup.

Thanks to everyone for the continued support, but most importantly to the hundreds of volunteers that help the IFPA truly cover the globe in competitive pinball 24/7. We’re looking forward to seeing where we can take things in the years ahead!

With the 2015 pinball season officially behind us, the World Pinball Player Rankings continues to show no signs of slowing down within the competitive pinball community. We wanted to take a quick look back at the growth we’ve seen during 2015.

We’re proud to say that the total number of players the IFPA is now ranking at the end of 2015 is 38,651. This represents a 32% growth from the end of 2014 where we had 29,369 players. In addition, the number of players that played in an IFPA endorsed tournament during 2015 was 16,436, up 23% from the number of players that were active during 2014.

We’ve also seen continued growth in the number of tournaments popping up all over the world. Total number of events for 2015 was 2727, up 11% from last year.

The IFPA wishes to thank everyone in the competitive pinball community for continuing to support everything we do to spread the world about our incredible sport to the masses.

Qualifying for the 3rd annual IFPA State Championship Series is now complete, and it’s now time for us to find our qualifiers for the 35 different IFPA State Championship finals. These finals will all be held simultaneously on February 13th, 2015, with 560 finalists competing for not only a State Championship title, but also a spot in the second annual IFPA US National Championship.

View the final qualifying standings HERE.

IFPA State Representatives should be sending out emails to the top 50 from each state shortly. Important to note that if the IFPA does not have your email address on file, we have no way of being able to contact you. If you feel you should have received an invitation to one of the IFPA State Championships and did not, contact the IFPA immediately at ifpapinball@gmail.com, or Click HERE to edit your profile.

Registration for all 35 states closes on Sunday, January 17th at 7pm CST. Any player that has not accepted their invitation by that time will be ineligible to participate.

Remember that no player is allowed to compete in multiple IFPA State Championships. Players that qualify for more than one IFPA State Championship will have to make their choice during this open period of registration. This will mean that many states will go far past the top 16 players in order to fill all 16 spots.

Any questions about the SCS, or anything IFPA related, please contact us at ifpapinball@gmail.com

As State Representatives alert us to who is attending, we will be updating the registration page HERE.

For our Canadian friends, the PCS registration page is available HERE.

​The IFPA and Gridiron Support are thrilled to announce that the “King of Shock Rock”, Alice Cooper, and his charity – Solid Rock – is joining with Coach Ditka’s Gridiron Greats Assistance Fund for the 2015 “Flippin’ With the Greats” Pinball Campaign.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper are excited to partner with the IFPA to raise money and awareness for their respective charities, while bringing the competitive pinball experience to their NFL and Rock & Roll Fans!

Once again, Players will be competing for WPPR Points, as well as Tens of Thousands of $$$$ in Cash and Prizes, including a BRAND NEW PINBALL!!!!

This year’s Flippin’ With the Greats campaign will again consist of 2 elements:

1. 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.

2. 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.

For details on the FWTG LEAGUE, including how to register, format, prizes and more, click HERE.

For details on the FWTG TOURNAMENT SERIES including registration fees, format, prizes and more, click HERE.

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

blog post courtesy of Stefan Riedler
picture courtesy of Martin Ayub

On the weekend from 18th to 20th September 2015 was the Austrian Pinball Open 2015 held by Flippnic Pinball club (www.flippnic.at) at the Hall of Pinball Fame in Badendorf near Graz.

The Austrian Pinball Sport Association “Union – Flipper Sportverein Austria” (www.flipper-sv.at) supported the event very strong in the preparation and also during the tournament with organization like tournament director and also a live streaming of the final matches on the second day.

The APO was the 10^th Event of the European Championship Series and 86 Participants joined the main tournament. They came from all over Europe like France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Bosnia, UK and for sure Austria to meet a lot of pinheads and enjoy a nice weekend.

A warm up party has been held on Friday the 18^th were 35 participants joined and during the side (classic) tournament ~80 participants joined.

The Austrian Public Television visited the tournament on Saturday and a report of the tournament has been shown already on Sunday. You can find it in the Mediathek of the ORF

http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Steiermark-heute/70020/Steiermark-heute/10614743 (it is the report Steirerblicke: Internationales Flipperturnier + Kürbisfest)

Andrew Heighway and RS-Pinball e.U. (www.rs-pinball.com) presented also the Full Throttle for the 1^st time in the German speaking countries.
One of the 2 games has been used for the Final match (best of 3) of the main tournament between Roland Schwarz and Markus Stix. Roland won then the 3^rd game (~ 153m) with a fantastic 2^nd ball against Markus with ~15m. This game was live streamed as well as some others by Richard Pyrker, Markus Schrodt & Robert Glashüttner.

The final games has been even co moderated by Andrew Heighway and so there are a lot of good information about the gameplay and rules included. This video could be found in the archive of twitch.tv at http://www.twitch.tv/pyrker/v/16935460

And last but not least there has been a tombola for everybody who joined the event and bought a ticket. The main price has been a Funhouse pinball machine sponsored by Niegelhell GmbH. And a lot of other prices have been available to from Pinball Magazine, PinSound, RS-Pinball and Flippnic.

Results:

APO 15 Main

1. Roland Schwarz
2. Markus Stix
3. Martin Ayub

APO 15 Side / Classic

1. Stefan Karlhuber
2. Arno Nöbl
3. Andrew Heighway

APO 15 Warm Up Party

1. David Mainwaring
2. Martin Ayub
3. Bálazs Pálfi

The APO 15 and APO 14 has always been held in September, and so keep it in your mind there is also an APO 16 coming probably in September next year 🙂