The 10th Annual Final Battle is a 24 hour long non stop marathon tournament taking place the weekend of November 8th-9th 2025
Cost of entry is $155. All players will receive a medal upon completion of the event and this year’s poster. Entries to this tournament will be limited to 100 spots with one spot reserved for the previous year’s winner if they choose to play and defend their title.

We kick off the weekend with a pre tournament Friday November 7th with a 3 strike knockout tournament open to the public to give players a chance to see the games being used and try them out. Tournament will be held on pre DMD games to allow for the event to end in a timely manner. Cost of entry is $40 Tournament starts at 6 PM. The facility is closed at 10 PM so everyone goes home to rest. All prize money from this will be donated to The Andrea Ritz Clinics in Paraguay.

The main event starts Saturday the 8th at 10 AM. Doors to the facility open at 9 AM. This is a group matchplay format with straight Swiss seeding throughout the event. The first round will be a complete random pairing of groups.
Each round will be 4 player groups playing a bank of 3 preselected games. The first round will be random pairings. Scoring is 3-2-1-0. In the case of a player count where we have a 3 player group they will always be at the bottom and scoring will be 3-1.5-0.
After the first round is complete we will immediately start the next round. New groups will be formed by top points working our way down. Ties for groupings will be broken by the player with most 1st place wins and then go down to most 2nd place wins to break any further ties. Any critical ties for top positions after final round will be broken by a game of Stern Electronics Stars. We will play as many rounds as we can in the 24 hour block. Statistically we run 16 rounds for this event. Event will conclude at 10 AM Sunday the 9th
We will have a few small periodic breaks in between rounds to allow people to head out to local places for food/supplies. We will have a fridge for everyone to use and a water cooler. Please bring your own water bottle to fill to help us keep down on the waste and clutter of empty cups everywhere during the event. We have chairs and couches for seating but welcome people to bring folding type chairs for sitting in our hallway. We will be using matchplay.events for tracking results and this will provide notifications to all players.
Prize money will be structured as follows:

In years past starting with the first round we will have a $100 bounty available to any player who at any time during the 24 hour period can beat The Final Battle on The Shadow. With this being the 10th running of the Final Battle we will pool together the 10 years of that $100 bounty and will have a $1000 bounty for anyone who completes it.

After round 1 if any player scores a perfect score of 9 for the round they will receive a bounty of 50$. If more than one player scores a 9 the 50$ bounty will be split between all of them. If no one scores a 9 the 50$ moves on to the next round and another 50$ is added to the bounty purse. This continues for every round and keeps building until collected and then starts fresh with another 50$ for the next round.

When we start the final round every group is playing for a prize purse. The top 4 players will be awarded trophies and the following cash prizes
1st place-$1500
2nd place-$1000
3rd place-$700
4th place-$400

After that the 4 players in each group below are playing for a prize purse for the winner of the group you are playing in. The higher your group number the higher the prize purse. The purses are as follows

Group 1-$170
Group 2-$165
Group 3-$160
Group 4-$155
Group 5-$150
Group 6-$145
Group 7-$140
Group 8-$135
Group 9-$130
Group 10-$125
Group 11-$120
Group 12-$115
Group 13-$110
Group 14-$105
Group 15-$100
Group 16-$95
Group 17-$90
Group 18-$85
Group 19-$80
Group 20-$75
Group 21-$70
Group 22-$65
Group 23-$60
Group 24-$55
Group 25-$50

This is all based on a full field of 100 players and is subject to change based on entry fee and if the field is not full when we start the event.
This is a marathon tournament so there is no finals and anything can happen in the last minute just like in a marathon. Don’t let someone with a burst of energy bolt past you in the final round!
Every player who plays for all 24 hours and never sits out a round will be awarded a completion medal just like finishing a marathon. These will be custom cast medals just for this event.