-St. Louis Area Pinball Championship 2025-

**Biggest pinball tournament weekend in state history**

October 3rd - 5th, 2025

@The Pinball Company
601 Trade Center Blvd.
Chesterfield, MO 63005

NO PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED!!

Three Huge Tournaments !!!!

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Main (IFPA Certified)

Side Card (IFPA Certified)

Death ??

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Both the MAIN and DEATH tournaments will feature the famous Herb Qualifying, with the Side tournament using Card Qualifying. All tournaments will feature PAPA Style Finals (three games per round in Death/Side, four games per round in Main)

Streamed LIVE on Twitch thanks to Fox Cities Pinball



******SLAPC 2025 Schedule******

:::Friday October 3rd:::

10:00am : Doors Open to Public

11:00am: Main(Herb), Death(Herb) and Side(Card) Open Qualifying Sessions Begin (Day 1)

11:00pm: Main(Herb), Death(Herb) and Side(Card) Day 1 Open Qualifying Sessions End

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:::Saturday October 4th:::

9:00am : Doors Open

9:00am - 10:00am : Volunteers/Scorekeepers - ONLY Qualifying Hour on Main(Herb) and Death(Herb) Banks

9:30am: Side (Card) Qualifying Session Opens

10:00am: Main(Herb), Death(Herb) Open Qualifying Session Begins (Day 2)

1:00pm: Death(Herb) Qualifying Closes (tiebreakers played out immediately after)

1:15pm - 4:45pm (approx): Death Finals *16 Players*

5:30pm: Side(Card) Qualifying Closes (tiebreakers played out immediately after)

6:00pm - 11:30pm (approx): Side Finals * 24 Players *

10:30pm : Main(Herb) Tournament Qualifying Closes (Tiebreakers played on Sunday Morning)

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:::Sunday October 5th:::

8:30am : Doors Open to Public

9:00am : Significant Tiebreakers for Main Played Out (one game of Stars)

9:15am - ?? : Main Tournament Finals *40 players*



Weekend Admission: $40 (This fee covers entry and access to the Pinball Company venue for the entire weekend and includes 7 herb game attempts, which can be used for either the main or death (herb) tournaments) This weekend admission is required to compete in the three tournaments. The admission serves as fee to TPC for use of their venue and to cover the IFPA fees. All games will be set on Free Play.


Additional attempts for the Herb Qualifying(Main and Death) tournaments can be purchased for $10 (for 5 attempts) , $20 (for 12 attempts), $40 (for 26 attempts). All money raised from additional attempts will fund the respective tourneys’ prize pools after all tournament expenses have been covered.



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Main Tournament Format: The Main Tournament of SLAPC 2025 will be a Herb(best games) format featuring over 24 hours of Open Qualifying with unlimited attempts allowed. The Main Tourney will be IFPA Certified with effectively 250% TGP* (300% if over 128 ranked players) and the finals taking place on Sunday(see schedule above). Main Tournament will feature a bank of 12 games with a player's best 6 games counting. We will be using the NeverDrains Software for Qualifying. --- The Top 40 Players after the qualifying session will advance to FINALS on Sunday. Finals will be contested using a 40 Player PAPA Matchplay Bracket with (4,2,1,0) scoring and groups of four(two advancing from each group) for four games per round. The Top 4 Seeds from qualifying will receive a double round bye in finals, with the Top 16 Seeds receiving a single round bye. The Top 16 Finishers in the Main Tournament will receive a percentage of the prize pool (consisting of additional buy-in attempts minus tourney expenses). Please see the SLAPC Facebook Page for more information.