As some of you may know the IFPA have introduced a £1 per competitor fee for all competitions to be registered with / sanctioned by the IFPA to earn WPPR pts.
Details can be found here:
As of the 1st of January the IFPA introduced a £1 fee per person (man, woman or child) for ALL events that wish to be registered, and thus be eligible for WPPR points. Payment is made by the tournament organiser at https://www.ifpapinball.com/payment/ This will allocate credits to your account...
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This effectively means that 50% of the monies raised will be allocated towards the UKCS finals. (Based on last years figures this should be around £1000).
That money will be split between trophies, prize money, and the venue hosting the Finals.
There will also be 20% of the total monies raised allocated to a charity of choosing by the highest seeded qualifier.
Most countries run a Championship Series based on the results, not of where there competitor comes from, but which country they competed in. The US runs it by each State.
What we are going to do in the UK is create a circuit of events which count towards the standings. These events will mainly be long established competitions, or competitions held in venues open to the public outside of the competition. The plan is to have about a dozen comps counting to the standings with as few duplications of venues as possible, so as not to give 'home advantage' to any site - be that familiarity of games, or ease of travel to.
If a venue hosts multiple competitions over a weekend, then the pts allocated will be the total WPPR pts earned by that player divided by the number of comps (regardless of whether they competed in all of them).
Each players total will consist of their 8 best out of 12 results (or scaled appropriately). In addition to qualify for the Final, players must compete in at least 3 events.
The top
24 competitors will be offered a place in the final.
Here's what the standing would be using 2022 results