Here are the December 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Emil Dreiborg (164.81 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Mark Farina Jr (+29,300 spots), Jerry McCoy (+18,091 spots) and Bryce Althouse (+17,338 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

We’ve also added any eligible players that finished in the top 1000 for the end of the year World Pinball Player Rankings to the Stern Rewards Program.

The IFPA is pleased to announce a new award from the 2019 season, and that’s the Rookie of the Year award. This award is given to the player that earns the most WPPR points in their first year of active play. Our Rookie of the Year for 2019 is Axel Blonde from Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Axel racked up an incredible 366.09 WPPR points during 2019. Axel participated in his first IFPA sanctioned tournament in April 2019. Fast forward 8 months and Axel currently sits as the 226th ranked player in the world, and is the top seed in the upcoming 2019-20 IFPA British Columbia Provincial Championship.

Axel’s greatest achievement of 2019 was his 16th and 9th place finishes at the NW Pinball Championships Main and Classics events, one of the stops on the Stern Pro Circuit during the 2019 season. Overall, Axel won 27% of the 44 events he played in during 2019, while placing in the top 4 at 73% of his 2019 events, a truly remarkable achievement.

Congratulations to Axel, our first IFPA Rookie of the Year! Best of luck to all the players that have yet to start competing on their journey to becoming IFPA’s next Rookie of the Year.

The IFPA is pleased to announce that our Player of the Year for 2019 is Johannes Ostermeier from Munich, Germany. Johannes racked up an incredible 1231.38 WPPR points during 2019. Johannes currently sits as the #1 ranked player in the world having moved himself up from 5th at the start of the year.

This is where I typically list all of the achievements from the Player of the Year, however it’s the first time in IFPA history that the Player of the Year is also the player that won the World’s Greatest Pinball Player award. We’ll just leave that fact here and move on.

The IFPA wishes to congratulate Johaness on all of his success throughout 2019!

Here are the November 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Eric Stone (159.72 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Christopher Greif (+19,072 spots), Erik Etheridge (+18,091 spots) and Chris Rozek (+16,702 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the April and May 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
September 2019 –> Karl DeAngelo (183.86 WPPR’s)
October 2019 –> Julio Vicario Soriano (362.25 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
September 2019 –> Richie Rampershad (+12,305 spots), Rob Presley (+10,159 spots) and Jennifer Johnson (+7,016 spots)
October 2019 –> Anthony Cirillo (+31,570 spots), Daniel Fell (+13,915 spots) and Alex Bishop (+13,451 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the August 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Colin Urban (407.80 WPPR’s)
*ALL-TIME RECORD FOR ONE MONTH*

Biggest Movers:
Brett Smith (+32,933 spots), Tom Law (+27,086 spots) and Jessica Rausch (+23,807 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the July 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Craig Pullen (95.23 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Scott Yager (+22,070 spots), Conrad Rustad (+13,455 spots) and Harrison Kwik (+9,078 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the June 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Peter Andersen (331.16 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Jennifer Rath (+23,262 spots), Michael Eccleston (+22,847 spots) and Adam Vatterott (+20,475 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the April and May 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
April 2019 –> Germain Mariolle (186.43 WPPR’s)
May 2019 –> Bowen Kerins (157.98 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
April 2019 –> Samuel Hulbert (+18,409 spots), Sarice Greenstein (+17,447 spots) and Mike Robertson (+17,346 spots)
May 2019 –> Stefan Haberl (+22,709 spots), Michael Field (+18,315 spots) and Jenna Kelly (+18,174 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the March 2019 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Franck Bona (167.18 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Dimitri Demers (+12,806 spots), Jason Cody (+9,998 spots) and Edmund Nash (+9,624 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2019. Congrats to everyone!