Tournament Date: May 22, 2022

Join us on Sunday all day long. Every month is a brand-new tournament, as your host David Balsamini and your TDs Francesco La Rocca and Uchendu guide you to a year full of pinball competition and fun.

Monthly Rotation

Each month, we’ll host a tournament using one of the following formats :

1) Matchplay Group Knockout Each round, groups of 3 or 4 players compete, and the top 2 players in each group avoid a strike. Get 4 strikes and you’re out! Play continues until only one player remains. EM and Solid State machines will be used mostly with DMD just in every other round .This can also be and will be more than just 4 Strikes depending on attendance .
2) Group Matchplay Each round, groups of 3 or 4 players compete and receive 7, 5, 3 or 1 point according to their result. After six rounds( subject to change as in more possible rounds !) , the top 4/6/8 players advance to the Semi-finals/Finals . In Semi-finals, 2 groups of 3/4 compete, getting 4, 2, 1 or 0 points per game. After 3 or 4 or more games, the bottom 1/2 players in each group are eliminated and the top two advance to the Finals. After 3 or more games, a champion will be crowned. Only EM and Solid-State machines will be used in general for the final rounds.Semifinals/Finals could also be a head to head best of ...
3/4) Progressive/Fair Group Matchplay Knockout Each round, groups of 3 or 4 players compete. The worse your finish, the more strikes you receive (exact number of strikes will be announced). Hit the strike limit and you are out! Play continues until only one player remains.
5) Flip Frenzy (Pinball pinball pinball ) with Finals or without Finals
6) Head to head strikes knockout ( 4 strikes minimum ) until reach top 6/8 then finals either Papa/Pinburgh or best of
7) 12 Minimum rounds of Group Matchplay with no Finals
8) Single/Double Elimination (best of ) Head to Head format
9) Head to head strikes knockout ( 5 strikes minimum )
10) Pinburgh Style ( 4 games x round from different eras) with Finals on 4 games for top 4/6/8 players and for this format cost will be $15 in addition to the $20 to The Vault
11) Papa Style qualifying (Card based games )unlimited with Semifinals/Finals on 3 games for top 4/6/8 players
12) Herb Style qualifying (Best game/s ) unlimited with Semifinals/Finals on 3/4 games for top 4/6/8 players


How to play

Come to Morristown Game Vault on Sunday at opening time (10 am ) .Tournament usually starts around 2 pm . It’s $20+tax to get in, stay and play free until closing or tournament end. Tell the front desk you are playing in the tournament.

In addition, it’s $10 to register for the tournament and top 4 players (at least ) win cash . Tournaments will be run on https://matchplay.events. IFPA standard competition rules apply. NO Extra Balls will ever be played and any machines can have last minute adjustment on settings ( Hard ,very hard etc etc ) ;pairing for any tournaments will be either randomly or based on IFPA ranking or States ranking or even on a short qualifying session on one or more games . For a few tournaments the $10 will just cover a certain number of entries (see 11 and 12 formats ) with additional cost for extra entries . TDs have final say in all tournament rulings and decisions.

Tournaments may be canceled for any reason. Any formats may be adjusted at TDs discretion, to keep tournaments from running too long.