A 19-year-old Longmont man won first place in the Open IFPA World Championship in Riverside, California on Jan. 15
"I started playing pinball when I was about 3 years old. Before then, I kind of just watched the ball roll around while my dad played, just drooled on the glass," Lefkoff said.
Lefkoff had to play his final round on a machine that had lost him tournaments in the past: Flash Gordon. "Instead of playing bonus on the game, I swapped to lightning and hitting my spinner with a playfield multiplier," he explained."All I could do was stand there and watch as the score slowly ticked up. I stood there with my fists out like, come on! Please, please!" Lefkoff remembers.As players will tell you, there's no luck in pinball. Everything is earned, including Lefkoff's new title: Open World Champion.
"These world championships are run either mostly by the IFPA and people like Karl DeAngelo, who put in hours and hours and hours. They supply their own games and put all this effort into it. They don't make any money. They do it for the love of pinball and seeing people that are devoted to something and willing to put themselves out there and make something," Lefkoff said.
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