In the ongoing coverage of the Rose City Showdown out in the Portland, The Oregonian has an article that was released over the weekend. The Rose City Showdown is one of the nearly 350 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points, and qualify for the IFPA World Pinball Championship.

Featured in the article is 58th ranked [player]Aaron Nelson[/player], 43rd ranked [player]Adam Lefkoff[/player], 457th ranked [player]Kevin Kerr[/player] and the world’s current #1 player [player]Keith Elwin[/player]. Additional players mentioned in pictures from the article include 423rd ranked [player]John Fujita[/player] and 34th ranked [player]Eden Stamm[/player]. Aaron, Adam, Keith and Eden are 4 of the 64 qualifiers for the upcoming World Pinball Championship, June 8th-10th outside of Seattle, WA.

To read the entire article click HERE. To read more about the Rose City Showdown, including full results, click HERE.

KATU in Portland had some coverage of the 4th annual Rose City Showdown, one of the nearly 350 annual IFPA endorsed tournaments where players can earn World Pinball Player Rankings points. Top ranked Portland player, and 58th ranked in the world [player]Aaron Nelson[/player] and 43rd ranked [player]Adam Lefkoff[/player] are both featured. Aaron and Adam both recently qualified for IFPA9 the upcoming World Pinball Championship held outside Seattle later in June.

Click HERE to see the video. Click HERE for more information on the Rose City Showdown, including full results of the event.

The Orange County Register just did an article on the Orange County Pinball League. Featured in the piece are [player]Jim Belsito[/player] and [player]Bob Matthews[/player], both of whom will be representing the US at the upcoming IFPA9 World Pinball Championship outside Seattle later this year.

Click HERE to read the article.

Click HERE to find out more about the Orange County Pinball League.

The IFPA is proud to announce that registration for the 9th Annual IFPA World Pinball Championship is now open! For more details check it out HERE!

The initial invite list is open for the top 150 players in the World Pinball Player Rankings as of 1/1/2012. 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.

One of the 64 spots will also be available at the 2012 NW Pinball Show tournament, to be held the weekend before IFPA9.

IFPA9 is sponsored by Stern Pinball, Jersey Jack Pinball, Betson, Raw Thrills, Planetary Pinball Supply, Pinball Life, Farsight Studios, Zen Studios, Marco Specialties, Pinball Center, Play Meter Magazine and Gameworks.