Another superhero joins the pinball family: it is the very famous X-Men, a must for comics lovers, to whom has been dedicated the new Stern pinball coming this month in Italy and it will be presented to the public with a series of events that we can't miss. But there are also other 'heroes' in the world of pinball, beside the ones of comics. We're talking about the players of sport pinball, increasingly popular globally by now, with over 12 thousand players in the ranking of the Wppr (World pinball player rankings) and a greater propensity of players to move from one country to another to follow the official calendar of Ifpa tournaments. It is enough to look at the Italian case, where the recent pinball tournament in Marmore, organized by IFPA Italia in the beautiful location of the Marmore Waterfall, in Terni, has had a big success with players from all over Europe and is not a case that the Hungarian Kristzian Szalai won the tournament. But even in Marmore, where Daniele Acciari, the World Champion in office, came only at the third place, an emerging player of the Italian ranking, Cesare D'Atri, distinguished himself, coming at the second place after defeating Acciari in the semifinal. And the podium gained by Cesare gave the right confidence to the player of Bari, to the point of convincing him to get on the road to Madrid, where over the weekend of 14-16 September will take place the European pinball Championship (EPC), where, besides the individual tournament, there is also a team competition involving the national teams of various European countries and Italy between them, with the presence of the Tecnoplay Team once again.
Among the brave members of the Italian team, as well as Cesare D'Atri, even Enrico Giorgio De Stefani, number four in the Italian ranking and the number one Daniele Acciari, playing the role of captain of course, will be present. A new experience in Europe after the third place of the Tecnoplay team obtained last year at the Epc in France.
THE DEBUT OF A STAR - For a superhero, they was obliged to organize a debut like the one of a star. Pinball lovers are waiting for months, and now is the time to try it, the new Stern's X-Men. Even in Italy. Yes, because after the success of the 'launch party' last October in Rome, for the launch of the Ac/Dc pinball – at the time the last novelty - in the Joy Village playroom, Tecnoplay, the organizer of the event, and IFPA Italia decided not only to repeat the initiative, but to go further, presenting the pinball through a tournament valid for the ranking in three different locations on the Peninsula. In addition to Rome, then, the new X-Men can be tested in absolute preview - before its debut - in Milan and Padua also, in three launch parties that offer as a prize important points for the ranking, as well as a good quantity of entertainment. Everything, few days before the Enada fair in Rome (17-19 October), where there will be the usual appointment with sport pinball thanks to the third edition of the Rome Pinball Tournament, crowned by the debut of the same X-Men on the Italian market .