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IFPA 20 - streaming this weekend

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This year’s IFPA World Championships are being hosted in Austria, and have kicked off tonight with North America narrowly beating Europe in the “Epstein Cup” team tournament.

Of the 80 players invited, we have three UK representatives at IFPA this year - Andy Foster by ranking, Will Jarvis by being the highest placed UK player at the UKCS finals in March, and Craig Pullen who qualified by reaching the semi finals of the ECS Finals in Belgium.

Main tournament qualifying kicks off tomorrow around 9am UK time, and the event will run all weekend with finals for the top 32 starting at some point on Saturday afternoon and running through Sunday. All of the action is being streamed on Twitch via JDL Pinball https://twitch.tv/jdl_pinball

Good luck!
 
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AlanJ said:
8 Rounds of 3 games of 4 player matchplay. Wow
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It's brutal.

Six rounds today and two tomorrow. First round is "slaughter" with Seed 1 v 40, 41 and 80. Then the rounds are seeded on the standings and it closes up as each round progresses until the final round where you play the players immediately next to you so Players 1,2,3,4 together.

Players get a brief 30 seconds of practice before each game to gauge the setup but it is 24 games with hard settings, no ball-save, no rubbers, no outline posts and tight tilts - all so they can manage to keep it as pretty much two hours per round with the best players in the world.
 
cyberkryten said:
It's brutal.

Six rounds today and two tomorrow. First round is "slaughter" with Seed 1 v 40, 41 and 80. Then the rounds are seeded on the standings and it closes up as each round progresses until the final round where you play the players immediately next to you so Players 1,2,3,4 together.

Players get a brief 30 seconds of practice before each game to gauge the setup but it is 24 games with hard settings, no ball-save, no rubbers, no outline posts and tight tilts - all so they can manage to keep it as pretty much two hours per round with the best players in the world.
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Wow, that is a killer - but then they are the best in the world
 
Good to see Will, @nottud , starting as well as expected. Won every non-Stern game he's played (including a round with Arvid and Danielle). I suspect that he just hasn't the experience of those game to know the intricacies of scoring on them - yet.
 
Good luck everyone!

Quick reminder for anyone following along and inspired by the brilliant players - we have a UK championship series (UKCS) event where the top 64 players gaining points from UK based tournaments in 2025 will qualify. Last year the format was near identical to the world championships - it was superb.

This year the exact details are to be announced, but if you have aspirations to play in the UKCS one day - get yourself down to some tournaments, support UK pinball and you never know - UKCS places filtered down to over the 100th place player in the end as others could not attend.

*end of public service announcement*
 
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