The race for No. 1 and title of World’s Greatest Pinball Player for 2013 heats up!

As the 2013 season winds down, we couldn't help but notice how close the race for the IFPA's "World Greatest Pinball Player" title is between 6-time World's Greatest Pinball Player and current world No.1 [player]Keith Elwin[/player], and IFPA10 runner up [player]Zach Sharpe[/player] currently sitting in the No. 2 spot. How close is it?? The IFPA takes a closer look!

Keith's current 5.61 point lead is deceiving in that it doesn't take into account the points each player will be losing before the end of year (based on our 100/75/50/0 decay as tournaments age). The IFPA did a quick analysis, and based on our calculations using today's rankings, if Zach and Keith sat out the rest of the season, Zach would finish at 849.57 WPPR points besting Keith who would finish at 845.01. This margin of 4.56 WPPR points would be the closest in the history of the IFPA's World Pinball Player Rankings.

A big piece of this puzzle will be solved after Pinball Expo, coming up the week of October 16-20th in Chicago. Beyond that it will be up to the travel schedules of both players to see if there will be any more opportunities to improve their WPPR total before year end.

Will Keith make a trip to Riverside to play in the Pinball at the Lake Match-Play Classic? Will Zach's european tour continue to be successful, with a stop at the Dutch Pinball Open coming up November 2nd?

Best of luck to both Keith and Zach as they play for the 2013 title of World's Greatest Pinball Player! We couldn't be more excited to see how things play out!