08/02/2022 - There were actually some big tournaments this time.

This week we have the biggest, most powerful, and most shocking update to the Pinball Statistics Power Rankings since its creation way back in June 2022. Let’s be honest, the pinball world has been a little sleepy for the past few weeks before we had the double stack of the BPAC 2022 and the YEGPIN results come in. These events have woken up the Pinball Statistics Power rankings from its slumber and given me the chance to post about some great players that I have had the pleasure of learning about in just the past few weeks.

Also, get your tickets to the New York City Pinball Championships (plug.)

Big Movers in Brisbane

We have 3 Oceanian players who are brand new to the Pinball Statistics Power Rankings this week: Tom Casey, Richard Rhodes, and Mitchell Stewart NZ. I have never seen any of these players play in person or on video, but I can provide 3 quick facts that apply to them as a group:

1. They are good at pinball.

2. They played great pinball in Brisbane, some of which you may be able to see on Jimmy Nails YouTube channel.

3. They do not live in Queensland (I think) which appears to be the pinball capital of Australia.

I’m sorry that I don’t really have anything more to add, but I think it is really cool that the team in Brisbane has put together such a popular series of tournaments in a part of the world that has yet to see an IFPA World Pinball Championship or any other IFPA Major event.

Notable results in Brisbane also came from Steven Bowden who now sits ranked #10 in the world in the IFPA World Pinball Player Rankings, and the unstoppable Escher Lefkoff who now sits as the definitive #1 player in the IFPA World Pinball Player Rankings with his 66.76 point lead over Raymond Davidson.

The Greats of The Great White North

I had the pleasure of traveling up to large hamlet known as Sherwood Park, Alberta which looks a lot like if Iowa and Texas had a baby that grew up in the climate of Norway. Here within the lovely county-run Millennium Place recreation center, the YEGPIN team put together an incredible 160-player Pinburgh-style match play tournament alongside a massive pinball and arcade show. I had a great time on this trip, and my biggest complaint of the whole thing is that direct flights from O’Hare to YEG have not resumed since the non-essential travel border closure.

But the story of this event was not about my moderate success, it was about John Kottmann who finished:

• 2nd/160 in the YEGPIN Match Play Championships

• T-5th/112 in the 2022 YEGPIN Knockout Cancer Pinball Tournament

• 13th/84 in the YEGPIN Pro Pinball Championships

Notable results additionally came from the Bob Matthews (the legend), Keri Wing, Luke Nahorniak, and Jack Tadman.

	A	B
1	Escher Lefkoff	No Change
2	Johannes Ostermeier	No Change
3	Eric Stone	1
4	Jason Zahler	-1
5	Raymond Davidson	No Change
6	Keith Elwin	No Change
7	Cayle George	1
8	Jared August	-1
9	Colin Urban	No Change
10	Daniele Celestino Acciari	No Change
11	Aleksander Kaczmarczyk	No Change
12	Bowen Kerins	No Change
13	Stephen Prusa	No Change
14	Walt Wood	1
15	Dalton Ely	-1
16	John Delzoppo	1
17	Zach McCarthy	1
18	Colin MacAlpine	-2
19	Julio Vicario Soriano	No Change
20	Andy Rosa	No Change
21	Germain Mariolle	1
22	Marcus Hugosson	4
23	Paul Englert	-2
24	Flavio Baddaria	-1
25	Markus Stix	-1
26	Robert Sutter	-1
27	Steven Bowden	11
28	David Riel	-1
29	Gabor Solymosi	No Change
30	Carlos Delaserda	3
31	Phil Grimaldi	-3
32	Arvid Flygare	-2
33	Peter Andersen	-1
34	Derek Price	1
35	Andrei Massenkoff	-1
36	Jim Belsito	-5
37	Karl DeAngelo	No Change
38	Robert Byers	3
39	Viggo Löwgren	6
40	Neil Graf	9
41	Jason Lambert	2
42	Jason Werdrick	-3
43	Nico Wicke	-3
44	Tom Casey	unranked
45	Drew Cedolia	-3
46	Roberto Pedroni	-2
47	Robert Gagno	-11
48	John Miller MO	-2
49	Lonnie Langford	-1
50	Andrew Foster	-3
51	Andy Bagwell	1
52	Josh Sharpe	-1
53	David Daluga	1
54	Travis Murie	-4
55	Joe Lemire	-2
56	Luke Nahorniak	15
57	Zach Sharpe	5
58	Dave Hubbard	6
59	Richard Rhodes	unranked
60	Alberto Santana	-5
61	Adam Becker	-5
62	Emil ED Dreiborg	-1
63	Timothy Street	2
64	Franck Bona	-5
65	Mark Pearson	5
66	Mats Runsten	-9
67	Markus Virtanen	-4
68	Elliott Keith	-8
69	Tim Sexton	6
70	Paul Jongma	-4
71	Jerry Bernard	-3
72	Will McKinney	-5
73	Lewis Bevans	-4
74	Johnny Modica	7
75	Trent Augenstein	2
76	Jesse Baker	-2
77	Jonas Valström	-5
78	John Shopple	-2
79	Jack Tadman	13
80	Adam McKinnie	5
81	Jordan Semrow	-3
82	Keri Wing	16
83	Roland Nadeau	-10
84	Tobias Wagemann	-5
85	Mads Kristensen	14
86	John Kottmann	unranked
87	Derek Thomson	-7
88	Sebastian Bobbio	6
89	Tom Graf	-5
90	Donavan Stepp	-3
91	Shannon Stafford	-8
92	Olli-Mikko Ojamies	-6
93	Billy Brown III	-11
94	Matthew Stacks	-3
95	Levente Tregova	-6
96	Bill Mason	-6
97	Phil Birnbaum	-9
98	Sean Davis	-2
99	Mitchell Stewart NZ	unranked
100	Jörgen Holm	-5