GENERAL INFORMATION:
1. Qualifying on Saturday from 1.30-5.30pm and Sunday from 10.30am if needed.
2. Finals on Sunday after qualifying has been completed.
3. Group matchplay qualifying with single elimination best of three finals on different machines for 50% of field up to maximum of 16 players.
4. Players will be grouped in fours and if necessary one or two groups of threes. There will be five separate rounds of two matches. This means every player will play ten matches in total.
5. In each round each group will play a single game on two different machines and allocated points according to their finishing position; 7/5/3/1 for four player groups and 7/4/1 for three players groups. This is the IFPA system of scoring.
6. For the first round grouping will be based on IFPA rankings.
7. After the first round the computer will randomly group players for subsequent rounds.
8. At the close of the fifth round, players will be ranked.
9. Ties will be broken by the number of first place finishes, then by the number of second place finishes and if necessary a single game play-off.
10. 50% of the qualifying field up to a maximum of 16 players will qualify for the finals.
11. Finals will be single elimination best of three games on different machines. The higher ranked qualifier for game one of each best of three has the choice of either: machine played OR going first or second.