Thursday - Sunday IFPA Certified Tournament

64 rated players required for 20% wppr bonus

Best Game/Herb style qualifying on at least 5 machines. Only cost is coin drop per play.

QUALIFYING (32 hours)

Thurs Noon - 10pm
Friday Noon - 10pm
*Saturday 10am - 10pm
Sunday 10am Finals

* Saturday WWW 4 games take precedent over qualifying for the certified tournament. WWW 4 players can not qualify during WWW 4 active rounds, once your group completes your WWW 4 round you may make qualifying attempts. (Machines will not be held). Machines used for qualifying will not be used for WWW 4.

FINALS

Sunday 10am Finals

Top 16 make IFPA style head-to-head play (minimum best of 5 matches per round).

Format of Matches

Seeding of finalists
Once all participants are finalized, the 16 players will be seeded based on their qualifying rankings position. In the event that any players are tied, it will result in a play-in tiebreaker game to determine who joins the field of finalists. Game will be Fire Power or similar. Position will be drawn at random by the TD.

Machines

All working machines in the arcade are available for finals. In order to keep the tournament moving forward, players may not pick a game that is currently in use.

Head-to-Head Single Elimination Format
Players will be placed in a single elimination bracket once the seedings have been completed.

First round pairings are as follows:

1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15, 3 vs. 14, 4 vs. 13,
5 vs. 12, 6 vs. 11, 7 vs. 10, 8 vs. 9

Second round pairings are as follows:

1/16 winner vs. 8/9 winner, 2/15 winner vs. 7/10 winner,
3/14 winner vs. 6/11 winner, 4/13 winner vs. 5/12 winner

Third round pairings are as follows:

1/8/9/16 winner vs. 4/5/12/13 winner,
2/7/10/15 winner vs. 3/6/11/14 winner

Fourth round pairing are as follows:

Two winners of round 3 play for the tournament Championship.

Two losers of round 3 play in the Consolation Final for 3rd/4th place. No shows will forfeit.

Each match will be a best-of-five. The higher seeded player will have choice of machine or position for the 1st game, with the loser of each subsequent game having choice of machine or order, until someone has won 3 games. A machine may not be played more than once in the same match. Once a player verbally announces their game choice, or chooses position, that decision will be locked in and cannot be changed.

Each player will have the opportunity for 30 seconds of practice time before starting every game of every match. This is to ensure that both players have a chance to get familiar with the machine.

The winner of the match advances to the next round, while the loser is eliminated.

The 3rd/4th place Consolation Final will be played as a best-of-three instead of a best-of-five like all other rounds, using the same rules.

The following will be used to determine 5th through 16th place.

Finals round 1 losers, position 9 - 16 will be determined by your finals ranking e.g. players ranked 1, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15 & 16 all lose in round 1. Tournament finishing order would be:

Tourney
Position Rank
9th 1
10th 5
11th 6
12th 9
13th 13
14th 14
15th 15
16th 16

Finals round 2 losers, position 5 - 8 will be determined by your finals ranking e.g. players ranked 2, 3, 11, & 12 all lose in round 2. Tournament finishing order would be:

Tourney
Position Rank
5th 2
6th 3
7th 11
8th 12