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When will IFPA-sanctioned pinball events return? Poll included.

By Russell

3 years ago


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    “When will IFPA-sanctioned pinball events return? Poll included.”

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    #33 3 years ago

    While I'm analyzing things globally with the amazing help from our volunteer reps from all over the globe, my vote is strictly for Illinois as the IFPA State Rep here (and the only metrics I'm actually following close enough to comment on).

    When we hit Phase 4 is when I voted "YES". I looked at what the Phase 4 rules were, which allowed for gatherings of 50 or fewer people to occur with certain social distancing guidelines in place.

    I then pulled up all the sanctioned events within Illinois from the 2019 season and saw that 93% of our sanctioned events had 50 or fewer players. To me that was a reasonable amount of events that COULD take place based on the guidelines that we were in.

    Illinois has now reverted back to Phase 3, so we're back to being a "NO".

    That's me analyzing ONE STATE. Our army of volunteers go through their process and based on some pro rata metrics (think House of Representatives style), we come up with a percentage of the world that has indicated to me that sanctioned events are okay to occur based on existing guidelines.

    We plan on only considering reopening once we have a majority in favor, and we're currently at some crazy not even close number (I think ~19%).

    Perhaps once Illinois hits Phase 4 again I'll change the rules to Levi's approach ... If Zach and I can play that's all we need!

    #35 3 years ago
    Quoted from razorsedge:

    It's a bit silly to hold back entire countries that are open, just because other countries still decide to not have official tournaments.

    That's interesting because Australia is still a "no" vote on our spreadsheet from the Australian Country Director.

    Australia alone has a 24% impact on the international vote to reopen, roughly 7% impact on the global vote to reopen.

    We feel comfortable in our process, knowing at some point there will still be areas of the world where sanctioned events won't be happening once we reopen.

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    #40 3 years ago
    Quoted from WJxxxx:

    IF (and I have no reason to believe this will happen) IFPA were to start sanctioning events and issuing WPPRs before close to 100% of people could attend AND travel to, I for one would never host/organise a sanctioned event again.

    We have received emails on both ends of the spectrum. We already have organizers refusing to run IFPA sanctioned events in the future because we aren't already re-open, and we have people like yourself that will refuse to run IFPA sanctioned events if we aren't waiting for the whole world to be able to do so.

    Like most things we do, we are definitely going to piss off some cross section of organizers with whatever decision we make, and that's something we've learned to live with over the years.

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