Welcome to the IFPA Quarter Drop
This is the first edition of the IFPA Quarter Drop, a new quarterly update intended to give the community more visibility into the work happening behind the scenes at IFPA.
Most people naturally see the public facing side of IFPA through rankings, events, and results. But there is also a significant amount of ongoing work that supports those systems and helps keep everything running reliably.
The purpose of this update is simple: transparency.
Each quarter, we’ll share what the IFPA staff has been working on, including technical infrastructure, rankings related improvements, policy and process updates, and longer term projects that support the growth and stability of competitive pinball worldwide.
Our goal is to give the community a clearer view of what is being worked on, why it matters, and where things stand.
- Changes we’ve made
- Added a Code of Conduct (announcement)
- Expanded the Diversity and Inclusion Code (announcement)
- Updated the IFPA Mission Statement
- Announced 3 new IFPA staff members (announcement)
- Updated the tournament submission form to include a checkbox requiring the TD to agree to the Code of Conduct & Diversity and Inclusion Code
- Removed opt-outs from the IFPA WPPR Rules (announcement)
- Other discussions and activities
- Answered interview questions from Kineticist (article)
- Answered interview questions from NBC News (article)
- Provided guidance to TDs and players on the 24 incidents officially reported during the last 3 months.
- Added Punk Rock Pinball as a Silver Level Sponsor – Punk Rock Pinball has since decided to be pulled from our list of sponsors
- Have added 7 additional community members to the IFPA in private Advisor roles, with the potential to become public Staff in the future.
- Held first live Q&A session on Discord with IFPA Staff member Ashley Weaver answering community questions, more of these will occur in the future.
- Changes and other plans we’re discussing
- Possible venues for 2027 IFPA championship events (WNAPC, WWC, IFPA22, WEPC)
- IFPA requirements and rules for venues
- IFPA website navigation reorganization
- FAQ page cleanup
- Incident reporting web form
- WPPR rule changes for Pingolf
- Discord role cleanup for state reps
- Changes to the NACS/WNACS 3rd/4th place match rules to make them consistent
- Resources and guidelines for NACS/WNACS State/Province/District Representatives