The IFPA is proud to announce that Johannes Ostermeier has finished at #1 on the World Pinball Player Rankings, thus earning IFPA’s top honor as the 2019 “World’s Greatest Pinball Player”. No single tournament victory will ever secure this title for a given year. Only consistent play at the highest level over the course of multiple years leads to players reaching the pinnacle of the World Pinball Player Rankings. This is the 1st time that Johannes has been crowned the World’s Greatest Pinball Player and the 5th player in history to receive this award (Keith Elwin (7), Jorian Engelbrektsson (3), Zach Sharpe (2) and Raymond Davidson (1) being the other four).

Johaness’ greatest achievement of 2019 was his IFPA World Pinball Championship title with a victory at IFPA16, with a game 9, ball 3 comeback of over 3 billion points on Bram Stoker’s Dracula to capture the crown. Johaness also had victories at the Dutch Pinball Masters, German Pinball Open and Austrian Pinball Open, along with a 3rd place finish at the 2019 European Pinball Championship.

Overall, Johannes won 35% of the 31 events he played in, while placing in the top 4 at 65% of his 2019 events, a truly remarkable achievement. Congratulations to Johannes, and best of luck to everyone on the upcoming 2020 season in the race for #1. Johaness will receive his WGPP trophy at the IFPA17 World Pinball Championship in Florida in June (depending on his school class schedule).