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The Hop Herb Series Quarterly

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Tournament Information

Director : David Riel
Location : Pittsburgh, PA
Country : United States
Information : Website

WPPR Snapshot

Ranking System :Main
Ranking Strength :4.92
Ratings Strength :2.77
Base Value : 11.5
Rated Players :23
Total (before TGP) : 19.19
TGP :100.00%
Event Booster :100%
Tour Value :19.19
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Results for the Main Tournament event on October 21, 2017

Pos Player Rank Rating Points
1 David Riel 16 1691.44 19.19
2 Aleksander Kaczmarczyk 37 1806.52 11.33
3 Polly Pocket 226 1558.31 7.84
4 Jason Bokor 160 1621.92 5.59
5 Greg Galanter 88 1662.21 4.06
6 Dave Lancaster 335 1575.46 3.01
7 Jake Kolojejchick 512 1512.29 2.29
8 Matt Schwab 105 1511.43 1.80
9 Jeremy Ways 2084 1342.96 1.47
9 Silas Russell 744 1511.83 1.47
11 Evan Bookbinder 550 1581.96 1.13
12 Robert Sneed 916 1387.33 1.04
13 Evan Callahan 1929 1414.87 0.96
14 Brian Bower 974 1404.34 0.88
15 Jared Schmidt 1335 1533.46 0.80
16 Joel Francis 29644 Not Rated 0.72
17 Walt Lannis 96 1607.18 0.64
18 Jared Chambers 1037 1382.34 0.56
19 Peace Nick Mann 521 1445.42 0.48
20 Priyanka Kochhar 530 1534.68 0.40
21 Pete Hendricks 202 1570.66 0.32
22 James Kunz 1599 1370.17 0.24
23 Sandy Graver 2798 1320.49 0.16
24 Vinnie Ciaramella 6325 1039.27 0.08
Highlighted players are not applied to strength calculations due to lack of played tournaments.

Location


Pittsburgh, PA 15216, United States

Format Details


Event Name : Main Tournament
Qualifying Format :
Finals Format : Unknown
Player Limit : Unknown
Unlimited Qualifying? : No
Qualifying Hours for TGP : 13

Tournament Overview


Start Date: October 20, 2017
End Date: October 21, 2017

The Hop "Herb" Pinball Tournament Series, #4 of 4!

Follow the stats live at: http://sh.steelcitysoul.org/

Qualifying Hours:
9pm-1am Friday, October 20th (Following PPL)
10am-7pm Saturday, October 21st


Finals:
5:30pm Saturday, October 21st - Classics
7:30pm Saturday, October 21st - Main

Pre-registration is available for $15 (entry + 1 ticket) - Pre-reg is not required. Pre-Register via Paypal, Venmo, or Google Wallet to the following email address: djriel75@gmail.com. Or register with cash in person.

Unique to this tournament, those who pre-register get to vote on the 7 machines used in the main tournament, and the 4 machines used in the Classics tournament! See tournament rule set for more info.

Voting closes on 10/14 at 11:59PM.

Last entry sold at 4PM for Classics, and 6PM for Main. All tickets must be played by 5PM for Classics, and 7PM for Main. No refunds on unused tickets. 1 "ticket" = 4 entries (Classics) or 5 entries (Main) towards any qualifying game(s).

Scoring will be done in best game "Herb" format, best 4 of 4 games count towards your overall qualifying for Classics, best 5 of 7 games count towards your overall qualifying score for Main. Only a player's best score on each machine will be counted. You will be ranked based on your best scores from all of the games.

The cost to enter the tournament is $5. All games will be on free play. Qualifying will be $10 for 1 ticket. Players may rebuy up to a maximum of 7 tickets in both Classics and Main. All ticket sales go to their respective prize pools minus 10% which will go to the pool for The Hop Quarterly Main and Classics Finals at the end of the year.

All games will be on "Free Play" and non-tournament games will be available to play to tournament entrants only.

At the end of qualifying the top 50% of players will make the playoffs.

Finals for Classics will be a head-to-head, best of 5, single elimination bracket. In non-multiples of 4 qualifiers, the top seed(s) will get a bye to the next round).

Finals for Main will be a Pinburgh Style 4 Games, 3-2-1-0 scoring. Top two from each group qualify to move to the next round. In non-multiples of 4 qualifiers, the top seed(s) will get a bye to the next round).

You may not pick any game more than 2 times throughout the playoffs for Main.

This is approx. a TGP 92% Base Value + TVA participation WPPR value IFPA sanctioned event. We'll do our best to make sure you receive the highest quality, premium WPPR's.

Full Tournament Rule Set Here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1llQEg5DmM_dBS-r5JzNtv05PSWBMpfSgimmWd2F3_1k

Other events related to this Tournament

Event Date Ranking System Winner
Main Tournament August 13, 2017 MAIN Aleksander Kaczmarczyk
Main Tournament May 06, 2017 MAIN David Riel
Main Tournament February 25, 2017 MAIN David Riel
Main Tournament October 22, 2016 MAIN David Riel

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