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Cleveland Pinball & Arcade Show

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Tournament Information

Director : Tommy Bizzi
Location : Independence, OH
Country : United States
Information : Website

WPPR Snapshot

Ranking System :Main
Ranking Strength :17.16
Ratings Strength :11.00
Base Value : 32
Rated Players :81
Total (before TGP) : 60.16
TGP :100.00%
Event Booster :100%
Tour Value :60.16
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Results for the Classics event on September 08, 2018

Pos Player Rank Rating Points
1 Eric Stone 6 2011.89 60.16
2 Greg DeFeo 56 1666.45 48.80
3 Lewis Bevans 154 1685.18 42.54
4 Derek Fugate 77 1724.07 37.69
5 Fred Cochran 99 1556.35 33.68
6 Amy Kesting 332 1488.93 30.26
7 John Delzoppo 28 1815.45 27.29
8 Valencia Kelly 972 1542.93 24.67
9 Tommy Bizzi 248 1626.30 22.36
10 Zak Bowers 602 1518.69 20.31
11 Phil Harmon 358 1659.92 18.48
12 Jason Bokor 166 1546.79 16.83
13 Jack Tadman 27 1826.95 15.36
14 Andrew Rosa II 58 1789.25 14.02
15 Jeff Teolis 112 1688.61 12.83
16 Craig Morse 171 1716.21 11.75
17 David Riel 16 1736.53 10.78
18 Rod Lawrence 87 1737.20 9.91
19 Connor Stowe 582 1504.87 9.13
20 Matt Schwab 173 1624.40 8.42
21 Brian Benton 4030 1365.95 7.79
22 Trent Augenstein 2 1844.50 7.22
23 Jeremy Ways 1261 1427.26 6.71
24 Mark Salas 751 1568.09 6.26
25 Tedd Mirgliotta 1945 1393.04 5.86
26 Mike Gin 1234 1502.51 5.50
27 Michael Trombetta 669 1471.74 5.18
28 Jeff Becker 2144 1400.21 4.90
29 Evan Bookbinder 170 1646.07 4.65
30 Steve Stakem 749 1375.78 4.43
31 Darren Kamnitzer 106 1779.21 4.24
32 Jeffrey Thompson 1839 1387.12 4.07
33 Kevin Manne 859 1463.69 3.91
34 Keith Elwin 4 1961.49 3.78
35 Nick Lane 671 1581.22 3.66
36 DJ Toth 581 1524.30 3.56
37 Aaron Burke 209 1696.02 3.47
38 BT Rambeau 2045 1346.39 3.38
39 nate adams 1293 1645.46 3.29
40 Andy Rosa 23 1860.01 3.22
41 Tim Zjaba 1081 1502.49 3.15
42 Summer Galarneau 2097 1506.26 3.08
43 Carl Herceg 449 1523.42 3.01
44 Nathan Webster 5426 1299.74 2.94
45 Robert Gaines 621 1616.88 2.86
46 Jake Kolojejchick 626 1462.76 2.79
47 Spencer O'Neill 2166 1415.59 2.72
48 Gretchen Kamke 1867 1552.79 2.65
49 Deborah Tahlman 578 1469.68 2.58
50 Karli Pigford 1219 1490.10 2.51
51 Scott Reppert 742 1543.24 2.43
52 Chad Hobbs 492 1539.44 2.36
53 Derek Price 226 1763.51 2.29
54 Paul Caras 532 1567.82 2.22
55 Angela Pecora 1326 1254.16 2.15
56 Bre Reynolds 2300 1191.32 2.08
57 Mark Brown OH 264 1657.11 2.01
58 Scott August 483 1603.16 1.93
59 Megan Brown 732 1505.41 1.86
60 Jen Ruper 2540 1206.34 1.79
61 Al Raymond 10574 1397.53 1.72
62 Justin Burkett 813 1476.50 1.65
63 Matt Noll 4048 1238.65 1.58
64 Steven Clute 190 1535.25 1.50
65 Rob Hytree 4299 1286.10 1.43
66 Nick Kennedy 1211 1511.79 1.36
67 Al Demor 5016 1363.57 1.29
68 Pete Hendricks 184 1568.46 1.22
69 David Ludick 4200 1229.19 1.15
70 Michael James 1328 1526.12 1.07
71 Nick Mann 12028 1286.69 1.00
72 Shannon Webster 21966 1028.24 0.93
73 Mark Smith USA 3154 1394.94 0.86
74 Mike Stewart Jr 382 1643.52 0.79
75 Greg Poverelli 119 1691.73 0.72
76 Kyle Williams PA 1821 1400.32 0.64
77 Erik Wurtenberger 708 1609.21 0.57
78 John Finnegan 1544 1402.97 0.50
79 William Clark 2718 1422.89 0.43
80 Gregory Kennedy 2724 1470.92 0.36
81 Jonathan Snyder 807 1551.20 0.29
82 Lisa Arthur 3761 1239.29 0.21
83 Joe Banner 1967 1423.53 0.14
84 Roger Hord 7583 1287.00 0.07
Highlighted players are not applied to strength calculations due to lack of played tournaments.

Location


6001 Rockside Road, Independence, OH 44131

Format Details


Event Name : Classics
Qualifying Format :
Finals Format : Unknown
Player Limit : Unknown
Unlimited Qualifying? : No
Qualifying Hours for TGP : 25

Tournament Overview


Start Date: September 06, 2018
End Date: September 08, 2018

Stern Pro Circuit Event

Herb-Style Tournament.
IFPA approved. Tournament is open to the public with paid admission.

The event will feature a main tournament as well as a separate classics tournament. Tournament tickets are usable in either the classics or main tournament.

The Junior’s tournament begins at 4 PM on Saturday, with free entry and a trophy for the winner.

The Women’s tournament begins at 7 PM on Friday, also with a trophy for the winner. The Women’s tournament is approved for the IFPA Women’s Rankings.

QUALIFYING
Pricing -
$10 for 4 Tickets or $20 for 9 Tickets , 1 ticket is used per game.
Tickets must be bought at the front desk, not the tournament area.
Main and classics use the same tickets.
Tournament ticket sales cut off at 6 PM Saturday
No refunds

Ranking -
Best 5 out of 9 games will be used for main division qualifying.
Best 4 out of 6 games will be used for classics division qualifying.
Each game score is translated to a qualifying score based on rank (1st 100, 2nd 90, 3rd 85, 84, 83, 82…), with the top 5 qualifying scores being totaled up to determine a player’s positioning.
Top 24 players qualify for main and classics division playoffs, with the top 8 qualifiers getting a bye through the first round.
Players can check qualifying status at http://neverdrains.com/clepin2017

Schedule -
Qualifying will take place all day Thursday From 5 pm to Midnight, Friday 10 am to Midnight and Saturday 9 am to 7 pm Finals will begin Saturday at 8:00 pm.
Classics qualifying times are the same, although it ends at 2 pm on Saturday, with classics finals starting at 2:30 pm.
Cut off for starting games in main division is 7 PM on Saturday night.

Catastrophic malfunction cut off is Friday at 4 PM. If a game must be replaced after this cutoff then scores from the previous game still stand in the rankings.
Queuing -

The Cleveland Pinball Show will use a virtual queuing system available at http://neverdrains.com/clepin2017
Players may add themselves to queues through either their own device, or the designated queuing computer in the tournament area.

There will be a chair behind each game. If a player is next on a game then he or she should be sitting in the game’s respective chair. When a game opens up the next player will be called, if he or she is not present then the individual is removed from the queue and the next player is called.
The tournament must keep moving, and score keepers will not wait for a player who is in the queue but isn’t present.

Ties -
Significant ties (either to make it into finals or to receive a bye) will be played off on a randomly selected game, with the winner of that game being the winner of the tie breaker.
Ties for other positions in main division will be determined by whichever player has the higher ranking on their highest qualifying game. (ex. One player in the tie’s best game rank was the second highest score on a game, and the other player’s best game was a 6th place score. The first player wins the tiebreaker).
If both players in the tie breaker have the same highest game rank, then it will defer down to their second highest game rank. If that is tied it will defer down again, etc.
In the extremely rare case that both players have the exact same rankings across all their qualifying games, the tie will be broken by a coin flip.

FINALS
General information -
Round 1 of the Main Division finals begins at 8 PM on Saturday.
Round 2 of the Main Division finals begins at 9 AM on Sunday.
Classics finals begin at 2:30 PM on Saturday.
Finals are played in 4-player “PAPA Style groups”.
Four player games are scored with 1st earning 4 points, 2nd earning 2 points, 3rd earning 1 point, and 4th receiving 0 points.
Three-player games will be scored as if a nonexistent fourth player received the 4th place finish (i.e., 1st earns 4 points, 2nd earns 2, and last earns 1).
Finals brackets can be found online at http://neverdrains.com/clepin2017

Game Selection -
At the start of each round, the group that contains the highest-seeded player gets first choice of machine or order of play, with groups of descending seeding to follow. This process repeats two more times. During each cycle of selection, no two groups in the same division may pick a game that has already been selected.
In the case that a player chooses to pick position instead of game, the choice of game is then deferred to the next lower seed in the group.
One group can not play the same game multiple times in one match.

Final Standings -
IFPA standings for people who were eliminated in the same round as each other will be determined by the players scores in the respective round.

Ties in final round scores will be broken by player’s initial seedings.

Prize Pool -
Prize pool is based on tournament entries, with a guaranteed minimum of $1500+ in cash prizes for the main tournament, and $750+ in cash prizes for the classics tournament

Main and Classics award cash prizes to the top 16 finishers with 1st receiving 25%, 2nd at 16%, 3rd at 11%, 4th at 8%, 5th through 8th each at 5%, and 9th - 16th each at 3%.

Actual values will be determined on-site after tournament expenses have been deducted and are subject to rounding to the next higher or lower $5 increment.
All other rules and procedures for anything gameplay related are based on PAPA rules (ex. malfunctions, interference, stuck balls, etc.)

Full rule documentation available here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/15EyobOc2r461_hRTBD6oYYEy2IdDS3943rhA25jkJas/edit?usp=sharing

Miscellaneous
Supplying Machines
Any game that's in the tournament lineup can not be removed at any point during the qualifying period unless it's due to a game malfunction which can not be repaired within the constraints of the tournament. If a game must be removed on the finals day, the time it will be removed at must be communicated to the tournament directors before the tournament begins, so it can be factored into the game's selection for tournament use.

Tournament directors must have access to the keys to your machine.

All other rules related to bringing a machine to the Cleveland Pinball Show itself still apply (damage liability, etc.)

Scorekeeping
Attendees can sign up to scorekeep for either the Main Tournament or Classics Tournament with 1 hour shifts.
Scorekeepers are given 6 tournament tickets per hour that was spent scorekeeping.

Scorekeepers are able to sign up for multiple shifts, however the amount of scorekeepers per shift is limited, and can be seen on the scorekeeper schedule - https://goo.gl/gomwiW

Contact a tournament director via email or Facebook to register for open scorekeeping spots (Tommy Bizzi at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016458762908 or gamesrus774@yahoo.com, and Jeffrey Dickson at https://www.facebook.com/jeffrey.dickson.79 or leveltwogames@gmail.com)

All or Any Rules, Procedures, Regulations can be changed before Tournament Start Time on Thursday Sept. 6th at 5PM.

For other questions and information please contact either Tommy at gamesrus774@yahoo.com or Jeffrey at leveltwogames@gmail.com

2018 the IFPA has a sanctioning fee of $1 per player per tournament held in the United States and Canada

Other events related to this Tournament

Event Date Ranking System Winner
Main Tournament September 08, 2019 MAIN Luke Nahorniak
Classics September 08, 2019 MAIN Drew Cedolia
Main Tournament September 09, 2018 MAIN Keith Elwin
Womens Division September 07, 2018 WOMEN Karli Pigford

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