Click 2024-25 IFPA North American Pinball Championship – LIVE Results!
IFPA’s Player of the Month/Biggest Movers for January 2025!
Here are the January 2025 IFPA winners for Player of the Month and Biggest Movers:
Player of the Month:
Arvid Flygare from Lund, Sweden (808.57 WPPR’s – MAIN)
Stephanie Traub from Washington, DC (160.22 WPPR’s – WOMEN’S)
Biggest Movers:
Gage Glupker from Seattle, WA (+25,510 spots)
Michael Harris from Beavercreek, OH (+23,526 spots)
Dan Madere from Silver Spring, MD (+22,254 spots)
These players have now all qualified for the Stern Rewards Program for 2025. Congrats to everyone!
2024 IFPA German Pinball Champion is crowned
The finals of the German Championship Series 2024 were held at Freeplay.ruhr in Herten, Germany, this weekend.
64 players from all over Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland and France battled through 20 rounds of Group Matchplay qualification followed by 8 player Group Elimination play-off finals. There was a lot at stake: the title of the IFPA German Pinball Champion, 200% TGP plus 150% event booster, a Play-In Exemption spot for Germany at the IFPA20 World Championship and a ticket to the 2024 ECS Finals.
Axel Vercauteren from Belgium won the title of “2024 IFPA German Pinball Champion” having fought a tight final battle ahead of Johannes Ostermeier from Germany, Paul Jongma from the Netherlands and Stefan Herold from Germany.
Stefan Herold won the 2nd country exemption spot to represent Germany in the IFPA20 World Championship at Flippnic in Austria.
Nico Wicke, finishing in 6th position, won the ticket for the 2024 ECS Finals in Middelkerke giving him a chance to battle for the last European spot at IFPA20.
You can follow the action at both the ECS Finals and IFPA20 on JDL Pinball streaming channel.
We wish everyone a good start to the 2025 Championship Series season.
Win a Zaccaria Farfalla pinball machine in Asheville NC!
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UUFL Invitational is a charity tournament hosted by Level 256 in Asheville, NC between March 18-23 to remember and celebrate their departed friends Frank Hayden (UUF) and Reed Wilson (L). The winner of the tournament will receive a 1983 Zaccaria Farfalla pinball machine ($3500 value) and Level 256 will be raffling off approximately $4000 worth of prizes on Sunday, March 23 from almost 20 sponsors.
All proceeds from raffle ticket sales will be donated to the Asheville Humane Society and the American Cancer Society.
Register for the tournament at https://app.matchplay.
— Tournament Details —
$45 entry fee; $20 admission to Level 256, $25 to the prize pool. Fee includes admission into Level 256 Tuesday-Saturday (also Sunday if you make finals) along with 5 raffle tickets.
200% TGP expected. Unlimited qualifying across 10 arenas with your best two scores counting per arena; top 18 scores counted overall.
Qualifying:
Tuesday, March 18: 5PM-10PM
Wednesday, March 19: 5PM-10PM
Thursday, March 20: 5PM-10PM
Friday, March 21: 5PM-11PM
Saturday, March 22: 12PM-11PM
Tuesday, March 18: 5PM-10PM
Wednesday, March 19: 5PM-10PM
Thursday, March 20: 5PM-10PM
Friday, March 21: 5PM-11PM
Saturday, March 22: 12PM-11PM
Finals:
Sunday, March 23: 12:30PM
Sunday, March 23: 12:30PM
Best of 5 double elimination bracket finals. Winner receives Farfalla and there will be a cash payout for 2nd-4th (50%/30%/20%).
If less than 32 players, Top 8 will advance.
If 32 – 47 players, Top 16 will advance.
If 32 – 47 players, Top 16 will advance.
If 48+ players, Top 24 will advance with Top 8 receiving byes.
IFPA celebrates 19th Anniversary!
Today marks the 19 year anniversary since the rebirth of the International Flipper Pinball Association.
On this day in 2006 the AMOA assigned the rights of the then defunct IFPA over to Steve Epstein and Roger Sharpe to see if they could elevate the awareness and visibility of pinball across the globe.
The World Pinball Player Rankings now has over 130,000 players from 49 countries and over 73,000 sanctioned events in the system.
Thanks to everyone for the continued support, but most importantly to the hundreds of volunteers that help the IFPA truly cover the globe in competitive pinball 24/7. We’re looking forward to seeing where we can take things in the years ahead!
Need players for TV interview – Rochester NY – March 6th!
Attention any players in the Rochester, NY area! In advance of the 2024-2025 North American Pinball Championship, local news will be showing up to the Rochester Pinball Collective to cover the event.
TV crew plans on arriving at RPC around 6:10 in the morning.
First segment would be around 6:40am.
Second segment would be around 7:00am.
Third segment would be around 7:40am.
Fourth segment would be around 8:15am.
Fifth segment would be around 8:40am.
Each segment they would like to talk to a different player.
Any interested players, please email the RPC at “info@rocpinball.com”.
All players welcome.
No playing on tournament games.
Australia to decide National Champions this weekend
The countdown is now on to this weekend’s ACS and first-ever Women’s ACS tournaments here in Townsville.
64 of Australia’s best are about to battle it out to determine the next IFPA Australian Champion. Players are split into 4 Pools of 16, with the
Top 6 players in each group advancing to the finals.
Top 6 players in each group advancing to the finals.
All Pools have been added to a “tournament series”, so players will be able to check out in real time where they are positioned overall against all other players.
This year will also see the first ever Australian Women’s Champion crowned, being played in it’s own stand-alone time on Saturday night. 16 of Australia’s best women will battle it out in 2 groups of 8, with each player playing each of their group opposition twice. Top 4 in each group will advance to finals.
The events will also be streamed across the weekend over on the Pinhead Twitch TV channel:
