Entry Fees
You must buy a VIPE VIP tournament package to compete in our Matchplay Championship. Tournament is limited to 100 entries. Tickets available now! You can find more information on the expo or purchase tickets at
vipinballexpo.com

General Information
On Friday, each participant will compete in a total of four rounds. Each of the rounds consisting of three (3) machine, four-player matches to determine the skill division for all competitors. Divisions will then be divided into Main and B. The A being most highly skilled players in the tournament for play the next day.

On Saturday, players will be put into their specific divisions based on their placement in the previous round and compete against other competitors that are solely within their own skill division, the top 24 in A and top 16 in B will move on to the playoff round the next day.

Playoff Information
On Sunday, the top 24 for A and top 16 from B division will compete in a separate division final in an exciting three (3) machine, four-player matches where only the top 2 will advance until we reach the finals. The top 3 will also take home trophies or plaques.

Finals start at 2:00 pm sharp on Sunday, players must show up to be registered by 1:45 pm, please check the standings in each division if you qualified and be prepared to play on Sunday. No substitutes will be allowed in the playoff rounds. The schedule is only a guideline and we will start the rounds as soon as the round before has been completed.
Each elimination (playoff) round will be a three (3) game, four-player scoring format (3,2,1,0 scoring) knockout round with two players advancing until the final 4 grouping.
Top seed will get choice of bank (can defer) or position. After first game, position will be determine in descending order of rank on the previous machine.
A person cannot pick the same bank twice throughout the competition unless they have exhausted all bank choices.

Match Times
Friday September 29th
Match Play Round 1 4:30pm start
Match Play Round 2 6:00pm start
Match Play Round 3 7:30pm start
Match Play Round 4 9:00pm start

Saturday September 30th
Match Play Round 5 9:30am start
Match Play Round 6 11:00am start
Match Play Round 7 1:30pm start
Match Play Round 8 3:00pm start

Sunday Oct 1st
Match Play Finals 2:00pm - 7:00pm

General Rules

All rules, malfunctions, machine settings and player conduct to be based on PAPA rules.
Extra Balls will be turned off or a sign posted to ‘Play Extra Balls’ on particular games if needed.
Event will have 200% for TGP and will qualify for
A detailed listing of all the rules being used for this event can be found on our rules page.