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Format Details
| Event Name : | Womens Division |
| Qualifying Format : | Matchplay Qualifying |
| Finals Format : | Match Play |
| Player Limit : | 92 |
| Unlimited Qualifying? : | No |
Tournament Overview
Registration for this tournament opens on October 12, 2025
Start Date: January 31, 2026
End Date: February 01, 2026
Hang on to your hats, compadres! Belles & Chimes San Antonio is back to host the best lil’ pinball event in Texas! The Southwestern Belle Pinball Rodeo (SBPR) is a three-day pinball extravaganza in the Alamo City! The event is open to women and female-identifying players and will include five (5) IFPA sanctioned tournaments played across a bank of 30+ machines. Join the best players from all over the country to celebrate women in pinball, compete for WPPRs, cash prizes, and more loot than you can shake a stick at!
This event is brought to you by What’s Brewing? San Antonio Coffee Roasters, MJM Amusements, Doyle Amusements, and our other amazing sponsors.
Registration begins on October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM and will be capped at 92 players.
***** Marquee event ***** Our group Matchplay tournament followed by PAPA style finals for the top 16 players *****
QUALIFYING: Qualifying begins Saturday, January 31st at 9:00 AM. Format is group matchplay. Groups of 3 or 4 players will play 7 rounds (2 games per round) or more over 6 hours. Players will be matched using balanced pairing. This means that the software matches players with a random opponent they haven’t faced previously in the same tournament. At the end of each round, players will earn points depending on their finishing positions of each game (7, 5, 3, 1). Results will be submitted by players via the Matchplay.events software.
Playoffs will be held on Sunday, February 1st immediately following the Best Game Finals or no later than 1PM. Finals format is PAPA-style. The top 16 players will advance. The top 4 finalists will receive cash prizes.
TIEBREAKERS: Ties will only be broken when a player's participation in the finals is impacted. The tie will be settled by a one-game tiebreaker, with the game randomly selected. Ties that impact whether or not the involved players will advance will be settled by a one-game tiebreaker selected at random. Inconsequential ties will not be broken.
SEEDING: Seeding will be determined based on players’ qualifying results. Any ties among potential qualifiers who did not play in a tiebreaker will be determined by the strength-of-opponents as calculated by Matchplay.Events.
FINALS: All finalists will be divided into groups of four players based on standard seeding procedures. Each round the group will play three separate four-player games, each on a different machine from different eras (EM, SS/Mid, and Modern). Each four-player game will be scored as follows: (4,2,1,0). The highest-seeded player within each group may choose either: (1) the machines to be played or
(2) the order of play.
If the highest-seeded player chooses order of play, the remaining players may choose their order, in descending order of seeding, and choice of machine then goes to the next highest-seeded player in the group. Conversely, if the highest-seeded player chooses the machine to be played, then the next highest-seeded player chooses the order of play, with the remaining players choosing order of play in decreasing order of seeding. Players who elect to choose their machines for a given round may not select the same machine in a subsequent round. This rule only applies to the final.
No group may select a machine which has already been selected by a group in the same round. When all three games have been completed by a group, each player will have a point total for that round in their division. Two players will advance from each group to the following round.
This event is brought to you by What’s Brewing? San Antonio Coffee Roasters, MJM Amusements, Doyle Amusements, and our other amazing sponsors.
Registration begins on October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM and will be capped at 92 players.
***** Marquee event ***** Our group Matchplay tournament followed by PAPA style finals for the top 16 players *****
QUALIFYING: Qualifying begins Saturday, January 31st at 9:00 AM. Format is group matchplay. Groups of 3 or 4 players will play 7 rounds (2 games per round) or more over 6 hours. Players will be matched using balanced pairing. This means that the software matches players with a random opponent they haven’t faced previously in the same tournament. At the end of each round, players will earn points depending on their finishing positions of each game (7, 5, 3, 1). Results will be submitted by players via the Matchplay.events software.
Playoffs will be held on Sunday, February 1st immediately following the Best Game Finals or no later than 1PM. Finals format is PAPA-style. The top 16 players will advance. The top 4 finalists will receive cash prizes.
TIEBREAKERS: Ties will only be broken when a player's participation in the finals is impacted. The tie will be settled by a one-game tiebreaker, with the game randomly selected. Ties that impact whether or not the involved players will advance will be settled by a one-game tiebreaker selected at random. Inconsequential ties will not be broken.
SEEDING: Seeding will be determined based on players’ qualifying results. Any ties among potential qualifiers who did not play in a tiebreaker will be determined by the strength-of-opponents as calculated by Matchplay.Events.
FINALS: All finalists will be divided into groups of four players based on standard seeding procedures. Each round the group will play three separate four-player games, each on a different machine from different eras (EM, SS/Mid, and Modern). Each four-player game will be scored as follows: (4,2,1,0). The highest-seeded player within each group may choose either: (1) the machines to be played or
(2) the order of play.
If the highest-seeded player chooses order of play, the remaining players may choose their order, in descending order of seeding, and choice of machine then goes to the next highest-seeded player in the group. Conversely, if the highest-seeded player chooses the machine to be played, then the next highest-seeded player chooses the order of play, with the remaining players choosing order of play in decreasing order of seeding. Players who elect to choose their machines for a given round may not select the same machine in a subsequent round. This rule only applies to the final.
No group may select a machine which has already been selected by a group in the same round. When all three games have been completed by a group, each player will have a point total for that round in their division. Two players will advance from each group to the following round.