The AAMA and AMOA have teamed up to host the Amusement Expo. It will be held Wednesday, March 10 – Friday, March 12, 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. IFPA staff will be on hand to run a tournament out of the Stern booth. For more information on the show check out http://www.amusementexpo.org/. It’s the place to be to see the latest and greatest from not only Stern Pinball, but other coin operated amusement companies.

The AAMA and AMOA have teamed up to host the Amusement Expo. It will be held Wednesday, March 10 – Friday, March 12, 2010 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. IFPA staff will be on hand to run a tournament out of the Stern booth. For more information on the show check out http://www.amusementexpo.org/. It’s the place to be to see the latest and greatest from not only Stern Pinball, but other coin operated amusement companies.

The IFPA is proud to announce it will be teaming up with GameWorks once again for the 4th Chicago Pinball Tournament of Champions the weekend of February 26th through 28th at the Schaumburg location (Streets of Woodfield). Over $1300 in Cash and prizes! Participants will receive $5 in tournament dollars for the Midwest Gaming Classic, to be held at the end of March in Milwaukee, WI (www.midwestgamingclassic.com). Email the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com for more details. Check out details here.

The IFPA is proud to announce it will be teaming up with GameWorks once again for the 4th Chicago Pinball Tournament of Champions the weekend of February 26th through 28th at the Schaumburg location (Streets of Woodfield). Over $1300 in Cash and prizes! Participants will receive $5 in tournament dollars for the Midwest Gaming Classic, to be held at the end of March in Milwaukee, WI (www.midwestgamingclassic.com). Email the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com for more details. Check out details here.

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 7th Annual IFPA World Pinball Championship is now open! For more details check it out here: http://www.pinballrankings.com/ifpa7.phpThe initial invite list is for the top 150 players as of 1/1/2010. Based on the interest of the top 150, we may extend the invite list additional spots so please monitor the registration page at your leisure. Should you be interested, please send payment to the IFPA as your way of committing to attending the tournament. Should you not be interested, it is equally important that we know, so please send an email to the IFPA stating you will not be available to participate.

Should you have any questions about our qualifying process or to find out more information about the tournament, please contact the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com.

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 7th Annual IFPA World Pinball Championship is now open! For more details check it out here: http://www.pinballrankings.com/ifpa7.php

The initial invite list is for the top 150 players as of 1/1/2010. Based on the interest of the top 150, we may extend the invite list additional spots so please monitor the registration page at your leisure. Should you be interested, please send payment to the IFPA as your way of committing to attending the tournament. Should you not be interested, it is equally important that we know, so please send an email to the IFPA stating you will not be available to participate.

Should you have any questions about our qualifying process or to find out more information about the tournament, please contact the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com.

The IFPA is proud to announce that Jorian Engelbrektsson of Sweden has finished at #1 on the World Pinball Player Rankings, thus earning IFPA’s top honor as the 2009 “World’s Greatest Pinball Player”.No single tournament victory will ever secure this title for a given year. Only consistent play at the highest level over the course of multiple years leads to players reaching the pinnacle of the World Pinball Player Rankings.

During 2009, Jorian posted 2^nd place finishes at both World Pinball Championships (IFPA 6 and PAPA 12 respectively). He also won the Stockholm Open, Boras Pinball Open, Lidkoping Pinball Masters and Bacchi Orden Open. Overall, Jorian won 50% of the events he played in, while placing in the top 4 at 77% of his 2009 events, a truly remarkable achievement.

Jorian will be given his award at the IFPA 7 World Pinball Championship, scheduled for May 21-23, 2010 in Cokato, Minnesota.

Congratulations to Jorian, and best of luck to everyone on the upcoming 2010 season.

The IFPA is proud to announce that Jorian Engelbrektsson of Sweden has finished at #1 on the World Pinball Player Rankings, thus earning IFPA’s top honor as the 2009 “World’s Greatest Pinball Player”.

No single tournament victory will ever secure this title for a given year. Only consistent play at the highest level over the course of multiple years leads to players reaching the pinnacle of the World Pinball Player Rankings.

During 2009, Jorian posted 2^nd place finishes at both World Pinball Championships (IFPA 6 and PAPA 12 respectively). He also won the Stockholm Open, Boras Pinball Open, Lidkoping Pinball Masters and Bacchi Orden Open. Overall, Jorian won 50% of the events he played in, while placing in the top 4 at 77% of his 2009 events, a truly remarkable achievement.

Jorian will be given his award at the IFPA 7 World Pinball Championship, scheduled for May 21-23, 2010 in Cokato, Minnesota.

Congratulations to Jorian, and best of luck to everyone on the upcoming 2010 season.

The inaugural season of the Downingtown Pinball League completed with an end-of-season tournament on December 1, 2009 and the playoffs on December 9, 2009 at the Pinball Gallery in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. A total of 17 players competed in the league across two divisions. Jerry Rubinow won the end-of-season tournament by cruising through the competition without losing a single game. In the playoffs, Steve Mowrey the #1 seed from Division A at the end of the regular season, was true to form and won the championship. The sleeper was Bill Paterno, the #5 seed from Division B at the end of the regular season, who saved his best pinball for when it counted and won the playoffs as the champion of Division B.

Saturday Dec 5th the second Pinferno tournament was held in New York. 24 players from New York and New Jersey area battled all day on four machines: Creature from the Black Lagoon, High Speed II: the Getaway, Star Wars and The Who’s Tommy Pinball Wizard. The top 16 seeds made it to the final bracket to determine the champion.

After few surprises, the first semifinal saw the seed #1 Sean Grant easily defeat seed #13 Adan Cane. In the second semifinal seed #3 Steven Bowden won to seed #7 Jon Ehrlich 3-1 to face Sean in the final. Sean went quickly up 2-0 and was one shot away on ball 3 (Videomode was lit) on Getaway to take home the title. It didn’t happen and Steven tied 2-2, getting to the final game #5 on Tommy. The game was really close and well played by both players. On ball 3 Steven ended up 60 millions away from the win.

Congratulations Sean and hope to see everybody at the next Pinferno in February. Finally a fun and well represented tournament in New York!!