The Pinball Office is turning four years old and to celebrate we are running our traditional annual tournament on Sunday 25th January.

Registration will be £20 for children (14 and under) and £25 for adults. Parking is an additional £3 per car if you wish to park on site.

Tickets will be available to purchase in advance on our book now site (https://www.thepinballoffice.co.uk/book-online), going live at midday on Sunday 14th December.

The event is capped at 26 players.

Doors open at 9:30 for practice, with the qualifying starting at 10:30. Based on previous events, we expect the qualifying to finish around 17:30 after which we will move directly to the finals.

We will take a short break for lunch but there will not be time to go out to purchase food - PLEASE BRING A PACKED LUNCH.

This year we will be running a Max Matchplay format for qualifying, which means that everyone plays everyone else once during the day in a two player head-to-head game, scoring a point for a win.

The final will be three rounds of single elimination Matchplay for the top 10 qualifiers, with the top 6 receiving a bye to the second round. Each round will be 3 four player games. Games score 4/2/1/0 - top 2 players advance to the next round.

We will have trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and, new for 2026, 4th place thanks to the tireless work of the Campaign For Fourth Place Trophies - CFFPT.

Max Matchplay is a fast format with very little waiting between rounds but practice will be allowed between rounds when time permits (please be respectful of competition games in progress). When your next competition game becomes available you will be expected to let your practice ball drain and continue with the competition to keep things moving.

Anyone remaining in the finals is not allowed to practice at any point during the finals (in particular, but not limited to, top 6 finalists being not allowed to practice whilst the first round of finals for positions 7-10 is taking place).