The AAMA and AMOA are once again teaming up to host the Amusement Expo. It will be held Wednesday, March 14th through Friday, March 16th, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Details of the show can be found HERE. It's the place to be to see the latest and greatest from not only Stern Pinball, but other coin operated amusement companies.

IFPA staff will be on hand to run a tournament out of the Stern booth on Thursday, March 15th during show hours.. This will be a Pin-Golf format utilizing the machines within the Stern booth. Players that pre-register for the tournament will receive free entrance into the show (a $150 value). Contact the IFPA for additional details at ifpapinball@gmail.com, and to get on the registration list for a pass into the show.

Following the trade show, the 3rd Annual PinPin Plunge off Anti Drain Fest Pinball Tournament will be taking place Saturday, March 17th at the Pinball Hall of Fame. More details about that tournament can be found HERE.

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

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New for 2012, the IFPA is proud to announce the implementation of the IFPA Ratings System for all players. Currently the IFPA Ratings System uses an unmodified version of the Glicko rating system. Rather than focusing on head-to-head play we are using tournament finishing results as the data for the calculation. For a given player in a tournament, any player finished ahead of them is treated as a loss, and everyone they finish ahead of is treated as a win. Ties are when a player finishes in the same

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Back in early November the IFPA reported on the race for #2 in the World Pinball Player Rankings for 2011 between Jorian Engelbrektsson and Cayle George. As the year now comes to a close, it's looking like Jorian will finish slightly ahead of Cayle in the world rankings.

What we didn't see coming was Switzerland native Robert Sutter exploding in the final 6 weeks of the season to overtake the #2 position! Robert participated in three tournaments within Switzerland since November finishing in 1st place twice and 2nd place once.

In addition to finishing #2 in the World Pinball Player

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Frank Romero wins the first annual Washington Heights Pinball Open tournament

With over 85 people registered, over 200 people in attendance, and a $2,000 prize pool, the 1^st annual Washington Heights Pinball Open tournament was a big

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The last Brooklyn Championship of the year crowned 2 new champions: Alberto Santana won the tourney and Penni Epstein became the new Brooklyn Champion while retained the title of Brooklyn Woman Champion. The free tourney played in Williamsburgh at 4^th Down was a double elimination format

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After 8 weeks of plays in 2 machines (World Cup Soccer and Avatar) in Williamsburgh at 4^th down sports and bar, 4 players made it to the final: Steven Bowden, Frank Romero, Alberto Santana and Francesco La Rocca organizer of the league.

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With a record-breaking 197 competitors gathering in Gothenburg, Jorian Engelbrektsson rose highest to claim the throne with his third gold. In the final game, Engelbrektsson won 2-0 over Per Ahlenius, who was denied in his second big final (Beaten by Fredrik Malmqvist in Borås earlier this fall) and is longing for revenge, as well as making himself really comfortable

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Paul Brock covers the Christmas Cracker 2011 Tournament held recently in Thurcaston, Leicester, UK.

The competitive Pinball finally lands in South Italy!

In occasion of the Gaming Show Game Pride in Catania (Sicily), IFPA Italia, in collaboration with Fiera Game Pride and F.lli Landro (Who provided the pinball machines), organized a Pinball tournament on November 26^th and 27^th. The two days where structured with a PAPA style qualification round on all-day Saturday and Sunday morning, where the players had

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