GENERAL INFORMATION:

Tournament Director: Jimmy Nails and Jason Lambert.

Tournament location: Rydges Hotel Fortitude Valley - 601 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, QLD 4006

Tournament Date/s: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd July 2018.

Tournament times: Saturday from 9.30am to 7.30pm. Sunday from 10.30am to
5pm.

There will be loads of cash & prizes up for grabs for the Brisbane Masters, including trophies for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place, awards for Highest Placed Female player, Highest score on each machine during qualifying and more.

This event is also proudly sponsored by AMD (Amusement Machine Distributors) and Young Henrys.


TOURNAMENT FORMAT DETAILS:

Qualifying will start at 9.30am on Saturday, 21st July.
All 6 rounds will be played on Saturday.
Anticipated finish time on Saturday will be approximately 7.30pm.
Finals on Sunday will commence at 10.30am and should be finished by around 4-5pm.

QUALIFYING:
* Once all participants are finalised, all players will be seeded based on their IFPA rankings position as of 30/6/2018.
* The games chosen will be based on what is available at the Venue. (minimum 30 machines, list will be made available closer to the date)

Players will be placed into groups of 4 once the seeding has been completed. (4 player games).
Each group will be assigned 3 games at random. Each game has the same points ... 7 for 1st, 5 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 1 for 4th.

* First round groupings - Slaughter (Strongest seed plays weakest, second-strongest plays second-weakest, etc)
* Second & subsequent round groupings - Swiss (Players will be paired against players with the same win-loss record. No attempts will be made to pair players against opponents previously not faced (adjacent pairing is used)).

All games will be played as 4-player games (unless machine is unable to allow it and/or notified otherwise). Matchplay will allocate your machine banks, along with player order for each game.

There will be 6 qualifying rounds (18 games per player). The top 24 players will advance to the Finals on Sunday morning.
Ties for any placings in the Top 24 will be determined by the number of 1st place finishes, then by 2nd place finishes, then by a single game playoff (if required).

FINALS:
Will start at approximately 10.30am on Sunday 22nd July. Players with byes will be allowed to 'warm-up' on a game or two on a machine allocated by the Tournament Director(s) in the round before they are due to start.

Round One: (24 players remaining)
* Top 4 finalists are awarded a bye.
* Best-of-5 game, head to head matches according to final seeding. Highest seed for each match chooses a machine bank or play order for their game (play order reverses for each subsequent game)
* Matches are determined as follows: 5 vs 24, 6 vs 23, 7 vs 22, 8 vs 21, 9 vs 20, 10 vs 19, 11 vs 18, 12 vs 17, 13 vs 16, 14 vs 15.
* The 10 Winners advance to Round 2.

Round Two: (14 players remaining)
* Top 2 are awarded another bye, 3rd & 4th seeds now join in.
* Best-of-5 game head to head matches according to seeding of remaining players
* Same as Round 1, with highest seed playing lowest seed, and so on. Same again for choice of machine bank & order of play.
* The 6 winners advance to Round 3.

Round Three: (8 players remaining)
* 1st & 2nd seed now join in.
* Same format (best-of-5 games, etc) as Round 2 above.
* The 4 winners advance to Round 4.
(If 1st place was to be knocked out here, the lowest they could finish is 5th)

Round Four: (4 players remaining)
* Same format (best-of-5 games, etc) as Round 2 above.
* The 2 winners advance to the Grand Final, while the 2 other players will playoff for 3rd place.

3rd Place Playoff:
* Best-of-5 game head to head series, same format as above to determine winner of 3rd place.

Grand Final:
* The 2 remaining players will play a best of 5-game series, same format above, to determine the tournament winner.