We're looking to round up some volunteers to help us with hosting the Stern AC/DC Launch Party tournament.

If you live in or near the following cities, and would be interested in helping out the IFPA and Stern, please drop the IFPA an email at ifpapinball@gmail.com.

Duties would include game setup at the site, along with running the tournament portion of the party.

Looks like it's going to be 10 cities in total, including:

- CHICAGO (Gameworks, 2/24)
- PITTSBURGH (Ace's Break a Way, 2/19)
- PORTLAND (Good Foot, 2/15)
- CLEVELAND (Kidforce Collectables, 2/18)

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The first official tourney of 2012 in NY was held at Rock Fantasy in Middletown NY thanks to the hosts Steve Keeler and Steve Levine. It was a big success with 31 players and 95 entries which all went to the pot! The tourney started at noon with the entry fee of $10 which let you play the set

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If anyone is interested in helping us continue to raise some funds, we've put together the IFPA World Pinball Tour t-short, showing the list of events for 2011.

Number of unique tournaments went up from 52 in 2006, to 74 in 2007, to 102 in 2008, to 182 in 2009, to 228 in 2010, to 343 in 2011!

Number of players has now also passed 12,000 from 33 different countries!

$3 from each t-shirt sale goes into the IFPA funds, so help us raise some funds and get a t-shirt or two.

Click HERE to visit our online store.

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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