Call it Mega, Monster or whatever you like, but this will be an EPIC Best Game tournament to be held at Netherworld over 4 days. 3 days for qualifying, with finals on the Sunday morning.

The aim for this event is to hopefully reach at least 48 players to register scores over the 3 days period, with Top 24 finals, so that this event will receive the Certified boost for WPPRs.

There is no cost to enter, however all games will be on coin drop. Prizes will be supplied by Netherworld.

All machines at the venue will be entered in to the tournament, however none will be reserved specifically for the tournament. Members of the general public will still be entitled to play games as normal and it is asked that the public aren't 'bumped' for a tournament game.


Qualifying times:
Thursday 26th Feb - 10am-6pm
Friday 27th Feb - 10am-4pm
Saturday 28th Feb - 10am-4pm

Finals:
Sunday 1st Mar - 10am start


Qualifying:
*UNLIMITED qualifying over 3 days / 20 hours on allocated bank of machines. (See qualifying times above)
*Players can post as many scores as they wish over the qualifying period, with their best 12 overall scores to count. No more than 2 best scores will count per machine.
*All machines at Netherworld will be used for the tournament and will be on coin drop, with Extra Balls, Replays and Specials turned off where possible. Any Extra balls earned can be played as normal.
*Players MUST queue on Matchplay before playing and MUST either have their score recorded or voided by a scorekeeper at the completion of a game.
*When queued, a player can only play 1 game on the allocated machine before moving to the next game (no multi-games)..
*Yellow and red cards may be issued for breaches of queuing/scoring.

Points allocated for each machine will be based on the INDISC system which is as follows: 100 for 1st, 97 for 2nd, 95 for 3rd, 94 for 4th, 93 for 5th, and so on.

The Top 24 players will advance to the finals. If less than 48 players participate, finals format will be reviewed.

Ties for any meaningful placings in the Top 24 (byes, make finals) will be broken by a single game playoff on the Sunday morning on a machine to be drawn at random. All other ties will be broken automatically for seeding purposes.


Finals:
*Top 24 players will advance to Group Matchplay finals, with the Top 8 players receiving a first-round bye. Marburg scoring will be used.
*All machines will be changed to tournament settings for finals, with any changes noted on the backglass.
*Each group will play 3 games, with the top seed in each group getting the opportunity to choose all 3 games for their round.
*Player order for Game 1 will be selected by the 2nd highest seed in the group, then next seed and so on.
*Player order for Games 2 & 3 will start with the 4th placed player from the previous game and so on.
*Players with machine choice are unable to choose the same game more than once per round and cannot choose the same machine more than twice for the duration of the finals.
*Top 2 players in each group advance to the next round, with the other 2 players in each group being eliminated.


Tournament directors - Jason Lambert & Jimmy Nails