QUALIFYING:

* Once all participants are finalized, all players will be seeded based on their IFPA rankings position as of 30/6/2017.
* The games chosen will be based on what is available at the Venue. (minimum 16 machines, list available soon)
* Qualifying will be played similar to the IFPA World Format.

Players will be placed into groups of 4 once the seedings have been completed. (4 player games)
Each group will be assigned 3 games at random. Each game has the same points ... 7 for 1st, 5 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 1 for 4th

First round groupings are as follows: (based on 64 players)
1,32,33,64 .... 2,31,34,63 .... 3,30,35,62 .... 4,29,36,61 .... 5,28,37,60 .... 6,27,38,59 .... 7,26,39,58 .... 8,25,40,57 .... 9,24,41,56 .... 10,23,42,55 .... 11,22,43,54 .... 12,21,44,53 .... 13,20,45,52 .... 14,19,46,51 .... 15,18,47,50 …. 16,17,48,49

From then on, groupings are determined from the scoring thereafter as follows:
1,2,3,4 .... 5,6,7,8 .... 9,10,11,12 .... 13,14,15,16 .... 17,18,19,20 .... 21,22,23,24 .... 25,26,27,28 .... 29,30,31,32
33,34,35,36 .... 37,38,39,40 .... 41,42,43,44 .... 45,46,47,48 .... 49,50,51,52 .... 53,54,55,56 .... 57,58,59,60 …. 61,62,63,64

All games will be played as a 4-player game (unless machine is unable to allow it).
Matchplay software will allocate the games and order for each match.

There will be 6 qualifying rounds (18 games per player). The top 24 players will advance to the Finals on Sunday afternoon.
Ties for any placings in the Top 24 will be determined by a single game playoff, on a machine chosen at random.


FINALS:

Round One: (24 players remaining)
* Top 4 finalists are awarded a bye.
* Best-of-3 game head to head matches according to final seedings. Highest seed for each match chooses play order for their game (play order reverses for each subsequent game)
* Matches are determined as follows: 5 vs 24, 6 vs 23, 7 vs 22, 8 vs 21, 9 vs 20, 10 vs 19, 11 vs 18, 12 vs 17, 13 vs 16, 14 vs 15.
* The 10 Winners advance to Round 2.

Round Two: (14 players remaining)
* Top 2 are awarded another bye, 3rd & 4th seeds now join in.
* Best-of 3 game head to head matches according to seedings of remaining players
* Same as Round 1, with highest seed playing lowest seed, and so on. Same again for choice of machine & order of play.
* The 6 winners advance to Round 3.

Round Three: (8 players remaining)
* 1st & 2nd seed now join in.
* Same format (best of 3 games, etc) as Round 2 above.
* The 4 winners advance to Round 4.
(If 1st place was to be knocked out here, the lowest they could finish is 5th)

Round Four: (4 players remaining)
* Same format (best of 3 games, etc) as Round 2 above.
* The 2 winners advance to the Grand Final, while the 2 other players will playoff for 3rd place.

3rd Place Playoff:
* Best of 3 game head to head series, same format as above to determine winner of 3rd place.

Grand Final:
* The 2 remaining players will play a best of 5-game series, same format above, to determine the tournament winner.