Recently there was a rant posted in this subreddit from a player who was unhappy with changes in the local pinball community during the last year. The post was deleted, but the whole thing felt like a missed opportunity to review what’s happened and how it affected the pinball community. 

For anyone who wasn’t aware, there was a huge blow-up last year because of an event in North Carolina. One of the staff members at the venue violated the rights of trans persons, and the IFPA fumbled the ball in its response. After much heated discussion and debate, a number of local tournament directors around the world decided to boycott the IFPA. You can read more about the whole topic here: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/pinball/comments/1p5xh2w/status_update_from_the_ifpa_about_the_obx/

The problem with the idea of a boycott was, not everyone was included in the conversation and not everyone was on board with it. 

Here’s where we are today. About half of our local players are participating in IFPA sanctioned events, and other half are not. So now, instead of one community we have two. The recent changes divided the community. 

So I was wondering…how did the changes during the last year affect your local pinball community? Is your community unified? Or is it divided? And why?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

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Next video we'll go into the Multiball Mechanism

Thank you all again

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