Hi ToPL,

We’ve all been through a challenging year and a half without league pinball and tournaments, yet as more people get vaccinated, the return to pinball appears to be on the horizon.

As many of you know, the IFPA has set August 1st as when the IFPA will resume sanctioning tournaments and events, and some of our members have inquired about when our own league activities might resume.

The situation in Ontario is still such that we are not yet able to provide a timeline.  While Myles, Mike, and myself have been evaluating a variety of strategies and requirements for when we are able to resume league activities, Provincial re-opening phases don’t even yet cover the group size and social conditions that our activities operate in.  The nature of our activities, the large social groups, and the size of the locations we play at, require a more comprehensive consideration of risk regarding COVID than Provincial guidelines currently cover.

Compromising the safety of our members, our hosts, and the safety of the people you go home to isn’t worth jumping the gun.  We’re as eager as you are to get back to ToPL league nights as soon as it is safe and responsible to do so.

As things progress in Ontario, as vaccination numbers increase and we get a clearer picture of the risks of emerging COVID variants, we will update the ToPL community.

Stay tuned!

David Newman
President – Toronto Pinball League
ToPL.ca