Enada Pinball Tournament will take place on the three days of the show from Wednesday Ocotber the 8 to Friday October 10st. Rules of the Enada Spring Tournament (below: EPT) EPT will have a main tournament starting on Wednesday October 8th until Friday Ocotber 10st, and two side tournaments on Wednesday and Thursday.
The cost of ESPT is 5 Euro (To pay when you register at ENADA), that will give the possibility to play freely the pinball in the tournament. Regulations of the tournament The number of the participants at ESPT is not limited and no pre - registration is necessary. Every player can register at any time on site during the time dedicated at ESPT qualifications. EPT qualifications will start at noon of Wednesday October 8th, and will be open until noon of Friday October 10st. The tournament will be played on Pinball machines. Every player has to play two games for each of the 5 pinballs. Best score on each machine will be considered for the final standing The playoff for EPT is a simple playoff tree with 8 players as shown below. The matches are played best of 5 games on a single pinball. Which machines are to be played is decide d by the competition management. The two players that meet in each match will chose with position they want to play in the coming game. In the first game, the player with the highest qualifying rank gets to choose order first. In the following games the order will be chosen by the looser of the previous game. Only the final for first-second place will be played on three different pinball, always pre-assigned by the organizers. The final for third place will be played by the losers of the semifinals in a single match, played simultaneously with the main final. Position from 5th to 8th place will be decided by a single 4-way games between the 4 players who lost on the quarterfinals. Order of playing will be opposite to the qualifying ranking. Side tournaments On Wednesday October 8th and Thursday October 9th two side tournaments will be organized. The format of these is very simple: on each day every player can play single-games on the pinball. At the end of the day the standing will be determined by the highest score obtained by each player. Side tournaments will be played on the new Stern "Jurassik Park" if it will be delivered as planned. There is no limit of games a player can play, but nobody can play 2 consecutive games. After a game, everybody needs to register again and wait his turn.