The Toronto Pinball League held its end of season Playoffs on July 12th in Carlisle, Ontario at one of the member’s homes. The double elimination tournament saw attendance of 25 participants across two divisions. Over eight hours of play the field was whittled down to a finals match up between Adam Becker and Charles Blaquiere. In the end Adam bested Charles in the 2 out of 3 match taking the title of Toronto Pinball League Tournament Champion. 2nd place went to Charles Blaquiere and third place went to Sean Oneill.

The show was bigger than ever this year, with an approximate 50% increase in attendance over the previous year, and the tournaments reflected this increase with around 80 people participating in EACH of CAX’s 3 Tournament Divisions: Modern, Solid state, and EM.
Neil Inn was the winner of the EM division while Keith Elwin, just like last year, won BOTH the Solid State AND Modern divisions. Neil Shatz pulled a ‘2nd place sweep’ of all divisions, while other winners included Trent Augenstein and Tom Neighbors (3rd and 4th in Solid State), Jim Belsito (3rd in EM) and Johnny Modica (3rd in Modern), and Andre Massenkoff (4th place in Modern and EM). Also, Robert Gagno was this year’s winner of the Casual Division Tournament.

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The second annual Michigan Pinball Open saw 24 players battle it out across 4 divisions for the coveted prize of Michigan Open Grand Champion. The tournament saw players from neighbouring states as well as neighbouring countries for a day of pinball at Marvellous Marvin’s Mechanical Museum. After qualifying concluded, the field of 12 players in the A division was whittled down into 4. The semi finals were decided by match play in a best 2 out of 3, with Andy Rosa facing Mike Wiley and Trent Augenstein facing John Flitton. The finals came down to John Flitton and Mike Wiley in a best of 3 on Family guy. In the end, Michigan native Mike Wiley was victorious and took the Michigan Open Grand Champion Prize. So 2nd place was John Flitton, 3rd was Andy Rosa and 4th went to Trent Augenstein. The EM Division winners were (1) Trent Augenstein, (2) Andy Rosa, and (3) Josh Henderson.

The Tournaments at the 2009 Northwest Pinball and Gameroom Show were a huge success this year, with over 80 players participating including some of the top players from around the country. In the Open Division, the top 16 players were narrowed to 8, and then 4, the final rounds culminated with both Josh Sharpe and Eden Stamm playing a one-game-tiebreak on Twilight Zone for the Northwest Pinball title. In what was a very exciting finish, Eden was able to put up one of the highest scores of the weekend to secure the victory, and win the Open Division, becoming the show’s first Double Champion having also won the Classics Tournament earlier that day. Other OPEN finalists were Zach Sharpe (3rd) and Trent Augenstein (4th), while the other CLASSICS winners were Neil Shatz (2nd), Josh Sharpe (3rd) and Jeff Gagnon (4th).

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After the success of the first GameWorks Pinball Tournament of Champions last December in Chicago, GameWorks once again teamed up with the IFPA to host the 2nd event at the Chicago location. 38 players competed for 16 qualifying spots on Family Guy, Soprano’s, 24 and Stern’s latest NBA. The finals came down to Trent Augenstein and Zach Sharpe, which went all 3 games where Trent defeated Zach on NBA to capture the title. Dave Hegge took 3rd place, while Jason Werdrick took 4th place.

28 ladies showed up for the bi-annual event, and after several rounds and 26 gals eliminated, the final match was held on a Bally Night Rider between Bonnie Bedford (winners bracket) and Jamie Beth Einsohn. After Jamie Beth won the first game, it came to sudden death… this game would decide it! Both girls had eclipsed each others’ scores back and forth, and when the last ball had drained the final scores were: Bonnie – 48,310 . . . Jamie Beth 48,150! This was one of, if not THE closest match in all of Shorty’s finals history!

The IFPA is proud to announce it will be teaming up with GameWorks once again for the 2nd Chicago Pinball Tournament of Champions the weekend of May 22nd through May 24th at the Schaumburg location (Streets of Woodfield). Over $1300 in Cash and prizes, along with the first tournament to feature Stern’s latest, NBA. This is one of the over 100 tournaments throughout 2009 where players can earn world rankings points and a chance to compete in the IFPA 7 World Pinball Championship to be held in 2010. Email the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com for more details.

The IFPA is proud to announce it will be teaming up with GameWorks once again for the 2nd Chicago Pinball Tournament of Champions the weekend of May 22nd through May 24th at the Schaumburg location (Streets of Woodfield). Over $1300 in Cash and prizes, along with the first tournament to feature Stern’s latest, NBA. This is one of the over 100 tournaments throughout 2009 where players can earn world rankings points and a chance to compete in the IFPA 7 World Pinball Championship to be held in 2010. Email the IFPA at ifpapinball@gmail.com for more details.