See full details on player cap, format, and finals at the event link!

TLP is back in 2026 with our second ever Pace Match Play tournament! Think of it as a match play qualifier with a sense of dread: a pace car behind you at all times! Play will be done in balanced pairings all day, starting on a shorter play game and alternating each round between shorter and longer playing games. Scoring will be 7-5-3-1, or 7-4-1 in 3 player groups, for each round.

At the end of the 7th round, the pace will become active at 22 points. All players below the pace line will be eliminated, and all players above the pace line will play again. Each round, the pace line goes up 7 points. Win your next round and you’re safe for sure — anything else, and you better hope you banked up enough points to continue!

Play will continue until we conclude a round at 8 players (or fewer!). We will take the top 8 players into the finals and will tiebreak for anyone in the top two seeds. If we end with less than 8 players (likely), seeding for top 8 will be the number of points scored in the round prior to elimination. In the case of any ties for the 8th spot, we will tiebreak on a classic (short play) game.

Top 8 will move on to a 3 game a round final scored 4-2-1-0 a game. Games will be a random drawn long play and short play game, while the top seed in the group will have choice of game 3 at the start of the round. Game choice can not be repeated in the final. Play order in the final rounds will be same each game and will be chosen by high seed, descending, prior to the first game.