News
New statement
Posted by Balac, 2011-05-24 15:31:43.
Regarding the IFPA World Pinball Championships will be played as planned! The National Gaming Board of Sweden has now officially announced that the Stockholm Pinball association has a license to put up 74 games at the Vårgårda Park during this weekend. This means that the tournament will be played as planned! We are very grateful that the gaming board came to this conclusion, and that they did it in time. We will still NOT pay out any prizes, since this is explicitly forbidden in the license. Instead, the top 16 players in the championships will be the only ones invited to play in an exhibition tournament, probably in connection to next year\'s IFPA World Pinball Championships in Seattle. Hopefully this increased honor and glory will compensate for the lack of prize money. More information about this will be announced in the future. There will not be any changes in the time schedule. All events will happen as scheduled, and as previously communicated on the ifpapinball.com web site. Refund Policy Since the conditions have changed, and there will not be any prizes, any players that decide to withdraw from the tournament will be fully refunded, and players from the reserve list will be called in instead. Please contact ifpapinball@gmail.com with details if you would like to be refunded. We\'ve naturally had a lot to do the last couple of days, and have not been able to recalculate the financials yet. Different aspects of the course of events have both increased (mostly the license application fee) and decreased (mostly the prize money) our costs. If the recalculation ends up in a significantly better financial situation, we will use this money for equal refunds to all players. More information about this will be announced in the future. If it ends up significantly worse, we will probably have to do the dishes at the local restaurants... Balacs Pinball Party There have been discussions about trying to play a mini-BPP during this week. A decision has been made not to do this, and to concentrate on the IFPA World Championships. Any other questions about the cancelled Balacs Pinball Party are best asked to Christian Balac himself. Stockholm Pinball will continue to pursue the matter of licenses for pinball tournaments further, since we will not be able to pay this amount of money every time we arrange a tournament. More information about this will come as we proceed.
Announcement
Posted by Balac, 2011-05-21 01:54:02.
Announcement about Balacs Pinball Party and IFPA8 World Pinball Championships The National Gaming Board of Sweden informed us this Tuesday that the pinball tournaments Balacs Pinball Party and IFPA8 World Pinball Championships are illegal according to Swedish law, and thus we need a license to be able to run the tournaments. They also filed a report at the local police about the tournaments, and that they would be considered illegal if played without a license. We spent the Wednesday to collect all the documents from different sources needed for the application, and yesterday morning Stockholm Pinball (which is the legal entity in Sweden that have the closest connection to the tournaments) applied for this license. Normally the handling timeframe is one month, but the gaming board gave our application the highest priority and rapid treatment. However, about two hours ago they informed us that they will not be able to make the decision in time for this weekend (since they closed about two hours ago). This means that we cannot run the Balacs Pinball Party tournament this weekend without breaking the law. They also requested additional information from us, and we are now working on providing them with this information. They will continue to work on our application Monday morning, and well before that we will have given them the information requested. We still have hope that we can save the IFPA8 tournament without having to postpone or cancel the tournament. The National Gaming Board of Sweden have also informed us that winning prizes consisting of money or having a value of money at pinball tournaments are not allowed by Swedish law. The IFPA World Pinball Championships will thus not pay out any prizes. If the gaming board will grant us a license, we will have to play for the honor and glory alone. Information about the outcome of the application, and the economical consequences for the participants, will be announced as soon as we know how things will turn out.
BPP Shutdown by Swedish authority
Posted by Balac, 2011-05-20 17:31:09.
Spread the word.
Q
Posted by Balac, 2011-05-17 00:40:39.
Groups are now up, wanna change ? Please send us an email. More people on Friday would be nice.
Games:
Posted by Balac, 2011-05-14 09:03:19.
Time to present the qual-games for BPP2011
2 groups in main plays either of this:
Lord of the rings
Demoltion man
Whirlwind
Johnny mnemonic
The shadow
Scared stiff
or
Spider-man
Road show
Diner
Jack*bot
Indianapolis 500
White water
2 groups in classic plays either of this:
Centaur
Black hole
Flash gordon
Eight ball
or
Fathom
Circus (Gottlieb)
Medusa
Nine ball
Groups will be presented shortly.
Joining?
Posted by Balac, 2011-04-26 21:48:01.
There are plenty of people that haven´t paid. Will you come, please tell me asap.
Update
Posted by Balac, 2011-04-03 17:33:07.
Updates available regarding rules/qualification/time schedule
Statement!
Posted by Balac, 2011-01-17 22:35:12.
Good to know is that foreign visitors will qualify on Saturday!
Finally!
Posted by Balac, 2010-12-20 22:49:12.
Now registration has opened.
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