IFPA Ontario Provincial Championship, January 17, 2026
This is INVITE ONLY for the top 24 players in Ontario from 2025.
Location: OTTAWA PINBALL ARCADE.
2559 Baseline Rd, Ottawa, ON
Ottawa has for a long time been a huge pinball community, and it's exciting to hold the Ontario Provincial Finals for the first time outside of Toronto area, as we celebrate the pinball growth within the province. As of this posting, Ottawa and area tournaments have contributed 35% of the Ontario prize pool in 2025 alone.
Time: noon. Doors open at 11am for an hour of practice, check-in by 11:45am. Owner Mike Loftus has graciously offered to close his venue to the public for our players (thank you!). Player One Amusement Group will also be contributing to this event. Note that the IFPA Women's Ontario Provincial Championship will also be in Ottawa this weekend. These makes it easier for those who individually (or family) are participating in both.
Announcements and tournament start at noon. (Note: there's an additional/optional Friday night tournament at 7pm on Jan. 16 to practice).
The top 24 players in Ontario as of January 1st, 2026 will be invited to play in the provincial championship. Top 8 receive first round byes.
Current Ontario standings here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/series/nacs/2025/standingsView.php?l=ON
The tournament will be a head-to-head, single elimination bracket with best-of-7 matches using 3 eras of machines (Old, Mid, New). Prior to each Head-to-Head matchup each player will select one game from each era. These are the only games available to them in their matchup unless Game 6 ends in a 3-3 tie. If this happens, a one game tie breaker will be played. Any game (any era) not previously used in the round will be available for the 7th game tiebreaker.
NEW! This year, the top 25% of finishers will be invited to the first ever IFPA Canadian National Pinball Championship (CNPC), Feb. 19-22/26 in Sherwood Park, AB. This is by invite only for the 48 participants. See more on the CNPC here:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=103308
The sole winner of the Ontario Finals will also represent Ontario at the North American Championship Series, Thursday, March 5/26 at ORD Pinball in West Chicago, IL.
Game list (tentative) of available games to be provided by Jan. 9/26.
Current rules:
https://www.ifpapinball.com/series/nacs/2025/rules.php
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