Start Date: Saturday, 19th July, 2025
End Date: Sunday, 20th July, 2025
Tournament fee: $100 AUD.

Welcome to the 10th annual Brisbane Masters, part of the BPAC Tournament week, in Brisbane, Australia. Also part of the 2025 Stern Pro Circuit and an IFPA Certified + Tournament.

Tournament Schedule: (Round times are an estimate)

Saturday:
Warm-Up: 8am-9am
Check-In: 9-9.30am
Briefing: 9.45am
Round 1: 10am-11.30am
Round 2: 11.30am-1pm
Round 3: 1pm-2.30pm
Round 4: 2.30pm-4pm
Round 5: 4pm-5.30pm
Dinner Break: 5.30pm-6pm (½ hour after last group has finished Round 5)
Round 6: 6pm-7.30pm
Round 7: 7.30pm-9pm
Tie-Breakers (if required): 9.30pm

Sunday:
Check-In by: 8.30am
Briefing & Finals Presentation: 8.40am
Round 1 finals: 9am

**This event will be capped at 250 entries**

QUALIFYING:
* All players will be seeded based on their IFPA World ranking as at the time of the event
* Players will be placed into 4-player groups once seedings have been completed.
* Each group will be assigned 3 games across each era (70s-80s, 90s, New) and play order at random by the Matchplay software.

First round groupings - Slaughter
Second & subsequent round groupings - Swiss
All games will be played as a 4-player game (unless the machine is unable to allow it and/or notified otherwise).

There will be 7 qualifying rounds (21 games per player). The top 32 players will advance to the Main Division Finals, with qualifiers 33-112 to be split into B/C/D/E/F Division Finals on Sunday.

Ties:
Ties for any meaningful placings in the Top 32 (byes, make finals), or for 112 spot for F division finals will be broken by a single game playoff on a machine to be drawn at random. Tie breaker matches will be played on the Saturday night after qualifying rounds have been completed. All other ties for finals seedings or division finals will be broken according to Original IFPA seeding.

FINALS:
Finals will start at approximately 9am on Sunday. First round players who do not turn up by the 8.30am check-in time when names are called may be excluded from participating.

A Division - Top 32 Qualifiers:
*Finals will be contested under the IFPA Head-To-Head Best-of-5 game single elimination format.
*9th-16th placed qualifiers will receive a single-round bye, while the Top 8 will receive a double-round bye.
*In all matches in all rounds, the highest available seeded player will play the lowest available seed, with the next highest to play the next lowest, and so on until all players are paired up.
*Highest available seed will get to choose the machine bank for their match, or defer their choice to their opponent instead. Once chosen, that player cannot pick the same bank again for the remainder of the finals.
*The player who does not have machine choice will be able to choose the play order for Game 1 of the match. Player order will then alternate each game.
*The first player to 3 wins in their Head-to-Head match will advance to the next round.

B/C/D/E/F Division finals:
*B Grade - 33rd-48th placed qualifiers
*C Grade - 49th-64th placed qualifiers
*D Grade - 65th-80th placed qualifiers
*E Grade - 81st-96th placed qualifiers
*F Grade - 97th-112th placed qualifiers

All B/C/D/E/F Division finals will be contested under Best-of-3 game matches, with the winner advancing. Highest available seed will always play the lowest available seed.

In the event that a player does not turn up for the Minor division finals, players will NOT be able to jump up a division, and instead will be replaced with a BYE in the lowest spot of that division.

Minor division finals results will NOT alter the final placings when submitted to IFPA and will be submitted based on original finishing position after qualifying.

** At the start of each round the highest seed in A Division will get first choice of machine bank going down to the final match in F Division choosing last **