Here are the December 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Robert Sutter (175.01 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Brianna Bush (+20,140 spots), Leslie Norman (+17,681 spots) and Sam Parker (+16,390 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. 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 IFPA16 field is nearly set, with 62 out of the 64 players locked in. The IFPA European Pinball Championship and IFPA North American Pinball Championship Satellite spots will both be up for grabs in February/March to fill the final 2 spots.

A record 22 countries will be represented at IFPA16, along with 17 players in the field that have won a Major Championship at some point in their career (Keith Elwin, Jorian Engelbrektsson, Daniele Celestino Acciari, Raymond Davidson, Cayle George, Franck Bona, Albert Nomden, Zach Sharpe, Robert Gagno, Jörgen Holm, Colin MacAlpine, Jim Belsito, Robert Sutter, Adam Becker, Escher Lefkoff, Levente Tregova, Andrei Massenkoff).

At rank #48, Fred Richardson from the US became the last player above the cut line.

Check out the field HERE.

Here are the September, October and August 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
September 2018 – Trent Augenstein (171.48 WPPR’s)
October 2018 – Johannes Ostermeier (175.18 WPPR’s)
November 2018 – Drew Cedolia (175.23 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
September 2018 – Scott Macias (+22,605 spots), Scott Miles (+21,024 spots) and Michael Orrin (+19,753 spots)
October 2018 – Chris Dobell (+24,902 spots), David Davenport (+12,388 spots) and Ben Luttrull (+12,023 spots)
November 2018 – Christophe Berry (+29,277 spots), Gerald Kirchner (+25,721 spots) and Michael Ridgeway (+14,659 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the July and August 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
July 2018 – Trent Augenstein (217.61 WPPR’s)
August 2018 – Trent Augenstein (166.98 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
July 2018 – Isaac Rihn (+17,196 spots), Graham Stiver (+16,605 spots) and Kevin Corsmeier (+15,039 spots)
August 2018 – Mike Kulikowski (+15,944 spots), Jean-Guy Pagé (+13,453 spots) and Sven Nyström (+12,876 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the June 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Trent Augenstein (236.60 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Dan Mitchell (+17,200 spots), Rob Townsend (+17,184 spots) and Dean Story (+16,827 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the May 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
Julio Vicario Soriano (251.38 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
Lauren Hockemeyer (+17,692 spots), Mark Walz (+13,779 spots) and Garrett Meekin (+9,322 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

Here are the March and April 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
March 2018 – Cryss Stephens (170.39 WPPR’s)
April 2018 – Johannes Ostermeier (201.10 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
March 2018 – Kristin Castle (+19,303 spots), Aaron Wilbur (+15,633 spots) and Dominique Cuzzone (+8747 spots)
April 2018 – Carlos Bleycher (+13,688 spots), Will Bacon (+13,361 spots) and Doug Burgess (+10,034 spots)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

This weekend marked the 1-year anniversary of the PAPA 20 World Pinball Championships. That week Zach Sharpe earned himself 352.28 WPPR points solidifying his world No. 1 ranking position for the remainder of 2017. The time has come where the WPPR points earned at all of the PAPA 20 events have dropped in value by 25%, which in Zach’s case was a drop of nearly 90 WPPR points.

Between that and the stellar start in 2018 for Raymond Davidson, Raymond has reached the No. 1 spot in the World Pinball Player Rankings for the first time. Already in the first quarter of 2018, Raymond has chalked up victories at the IFPA US Nationals and the INDISC Classic tournament, as well as a 7th place finish in the INDISC Main tournament.

The race the rest of the year to see who will capture that No. 1 spot at year end and claim the title of “World’s Greatest Pinball Player” should be a great one. While there is no PAPA 21 scheduled for 2018, Raymond as well as Zach Sharpe and Cayle George will all be in attendance at both IFPA15 and Pinburgh 2018.

Best of luck the rest of the season, and congrats to the Bone Collector for this achievement.

Here are the December 2017, January 2018 and February 2018 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:

Player of the Month:
December 2017 – Ernö Rotter (115.37 WPPR’s)
January 2018 – Aaron Grabowski (131.59 WPPR’s)
February 2018 – Johannes Ostermeier (84.77 WPPR’s)

Biggest Movers:
December 2017 – Tyler Goad (+16,013 spots), Andy Pickens (+10,722 spots) and Matt Deibert (+10,345 spots)
January 2018 – Cheryl Jarosz (+10,318 spots), Rick Nordeen (+8851 spots) and Jay Adelson (+6581 spots)
February 2018 – Evan Boswell (+17,476 spots), Bobby Campbell (+17,012 spots) and David Krueger (+14,825)

These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2018. Congrats to everyone!

The IFPA15 field is nearly set, with 62 out of the 64 players locked in. The IFPA European Championship and IFPA US National Championship Satellite spots will both be up for grabs in March to fill the final 2 spots.

18 countries will be represented at IFPA15, along with 12 players in the field that have won a Major Championship at some point in their career (Adam Becker, Andrei Massenkoff, Cayle George, Colin MacAlpine, Daniele Celestino Acciari, Escher Lefkoff, Jim Belsito, Jorian Engelbrektsson,
Lyman Sheats, Raymond Davidson, Robert Gagno and Zach Sharpe).

At rank #66, Lyman Sheats from the US became the last player above the cut line.