Chicago Gaming Company, Play Mechanix and the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) are pleased to announce an exciting livestreaming challenge for Pulp Fiction pinball machines.

This livestreaming challenge is open to players beginning on February 1, 2025, and running through March 31, 2025.

Challenge must be Livestreamed to the public via Twitch/YouTube/Facebook Live/etc. (taped challenge attempts will not be eligible)
Players must send the link to their stream along with the timestamp of the challenge being submitted within 72 hours of the challenge being completed.

The challenge is to successfully collect the highest MPH Bonus amount that you can! For example, cashing out your MPH Bonus at 212 MPH with a 3X playfield multiplier would be 636,000 points.

Please note that games should be set to default settings (Kahuna Max at 3X). For anyone that cashes in an MPH Bonus at greater than 3X, we will use the 3X equivalent score for purposes of this challenge.

We’ll be awarding $100 to the player with the highest submitted MPH Bonus.

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In the history of competitive pinball, very few (35 in fact) have had the chance to call themselves a Major Champion. Like professional golf or tennis, the opportunity to join this elite club only happens a handful of times every year. THE OPEN – IFPA World Championship brought together one finalist looking to add their name to this list (Viggo Löwgren) and three finalists looking to add to their already established legacies (Escher Lefkoff – 4-time Major Champion, Jason Zahler  – 2-time Major Champion and Zach McCarthy – 2-time Major Champion).

After qualifying as the #15 seed, Zach McCarthy had not just one, but TWO ball 3 comebacks (Grand Lizard and Johnny Mnemonic) in the final round to capture his 3rd Major Championship, becoming only one of 9 players to do so.

With his 2nd place finish, Jason Zahler earned his 6th top 4 finish in Major Championships. 3rd place went to Escher Lefkoff who earned his 9th top 4 finish in Major Championships. 4th place went to Viggo Löwgren who earned his 3rd top 4 finish in Major Championships.

To view the most current list of Major Championship stats, click HERE.

Here are the December 2024 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Jared August from West Bloomfield Township, MI (300.86 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Jane Verwys from Chicago, IL (71.82 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)

Biggest Movers:
Rodney Olsen from Seattle, WA (+29,990 spots)
Kimberly McMillan from Ontario, CA (+20,862 spots)
Paul Meredith from Fort Wayne, IN (+20,288 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2024. Congrats to everyone!

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The IFPA sanctioned 12,758 events in 2024, the most we’ve ever had. Those events have to go through a calendar approval process as well as a results approval process. As the number of events we sanction continues to grow, so does the workload our staff puts in to review and approve these events. Sometimes there’s re-reviews and re-approvals when questions pop up. Just when our deck of approvals is clean, wait 5 minutes and more are sure to come in.

There are two people I just had to highlight as there’s no way our organization could keep up with this demand without them. When you see your event on the calendar or results on the website within only a few days, it’s really these two individuals that make it happen. These two individuals are Germain Mariolle and Michael Trepp! If you see either of these two, don’t hesitate to thank them for their effort. Any chance to embarrass them in any way is at the top of my list!

Here were the final numbers for 2024 approvals (both results, calendar and updates):

Germain Mariolle – 18.016
Michael Trepp – 17,001
Josh Sharpe – 772
Andy Bagwell – 346
Zoe Vrabel – 86
Brian Shepherd – 42
Adam Becker – 40

A serious THANK YOU for not only Germain and Michael (and of course Brian Shepherd for all the behind the scenes work), but all the volunteers, representatives and directors of IFPA that allow us to keep this crazy thing going!

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Too many media pieces coming in to list them separately. Click below to read/watch/listen the following:

NACS/WNACS Weekend is upon us!

Best of luck to the over 1000 competitors spread across the United States and Canada!

Stay up to date on all the brackets, all the streams, all the winners!

CLICK HERE!