We had “The Rumble in the Jungle” and “The Thrilla in Manila.” Now we have “The Match at District 82.”
In the future, many will misremember this match as the Grand Final. It was only the Quarter Final round!
Before this match concluded, Multiple Time World Pinball Champion Daniele Celestino Acciari had already fought his way through the other side of the bracket to clinch his seat in the Grand Final.
There, he waited for his eventual opponent at the top of the mountain.
IFPA Pin-Masters – a tradition unlike any other. This year, the tradition was held at ORD Pinball near Chicago, Illinois. A site where many pinball Players, including State Pinball Champions, dared to navigate the most sensitive slingshots known to mankind and the toughest PinGolf target scores.
As Roger was making quick work of the electromechanical game Wild Card, it malfunctioned. That gave us the opportunity to have a conversation with him about Pin-Masters and competitive pinball in general while the game was being repaired.
Hear about Jason’s pinball journey starting at a young age in the Jersey Pinball Association (shout-out!), and what it took to become the top-ranked Player. How much does he practice? What does he know about the rules of the games? How does he balance school life and pinball life … and more.
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And perhaps the most important question, does he like Raven?
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I miss the time back in the day when I didn’t care if a fire engine drove through a wall while was playing. I’ve heard that you tend to get nervous about things you care about. Maybe I care about this too much.
This Ace (a difference of 0.364%) was livestreamed on one of pinball’s biggest stages, The Open World Pinball Championship.
Alex Kelley begins to document his journey toward becoming a PRO-ranked pinball player, that is, a player in the Top 250 of the IFPA PRO Rankings.
Jason Zahler and Pawley Primo talk about the many aspects of competitive pinball as a sport …
Friscopinball and JL4ND present the first episode of their podcast focusing on competitive pinball.
Fox4 released a feature introducing the IFPA World Pinball Championship at The Pinball Asylum.
I’m an educator of 16-plus years … To see not only pinball machines in a high school, but also to see them being used in a tournament setting, well that’s just a number of things that are relevant to my interests coming together. There is no way I could have missed seeing this.
The IFPA will be instituting an update to the WPPR system starting January 1, 2022 which will include the ability for any IFPA sanctioned tournament to receive an upgraded of “Certified”, if the event meets certain conditions.
Get the behind the scenes, behind the music, behind the flippers look at the who, what, where, when and why of those WPPR pointed pinball tournaments and leagues.
