Diehard Pinball Presents: The First Annual “Survivor Tournament Weekend”

6 fun filled tournaments November 8-10, 2019.

Where: Arkadium Retro Arcade
This is the newest and coolest pin and arcade joint in the Edmonton area. All games are set to free play.
Members: Pay nothing to enter the facility and play the machines all weekend long for free
Non-Members: Pay $40 to cover all of your coin drop all 3 days, or pay $17.50 for a single day individual pass.
Note: Entry fees or membrships into Arkadium do not cover tournament fees.

When: (Friday – Sunday) - November 8-10, 2019 (Monday Nov 11 is a holiday)

THIS TOURNAMENT WILL BE LIVE-STREAMED

Friday November 8, 2019 - Daily Tournament I
6PM – 11PM

$10 entry fee for tournament (you must also purchase a daily or weekend pass for the facility if you are not an Arkadium member)
100% of entry fees collected from the $10 goes to prizes – There are no trophies for this tournament.

Maximum number of entries is 80

There will be 5 rounds of qualifying play in groups of 3 or 4 with 3/2/1/0 scoring (3/1/0 for 3 player groups)
There will be one playoff spot for every 3 entrants in the tournament (rounded down) if there are 36 or less participants. For example, 30 entries will allow 10 playoff spots. 32 entrants will still have 10 playoff spots, to get 11 playoff spots there must be 33 entrants. If there are more than 36 entrants, there will be one playoff spot for every 4 entrants (rounded down)
Playoff structure is a survivor format. This means that all playoff players will play one player games on each machine. The lowest qualifying seed will play the first game in its entirety. The next lowest seed will play the same game until they beat the lowest score to date or finish the game with the lowest score to date. Players will continue playing one player games trying to be the low score. Once the low score is beaten, the player stops playing the game. The worst score in each round will be eliminated. Lowest seed will always play first, top seed will always play last. No playoff group will be larger than 10 players. If more than 10 players qualify for the playoffs, then multiple survivor groups will be created, which will allow multiple players (1 per survivor group) to be eliminated each round. Groups will be collapsed when it is possible to have less than 10 players in a single group.

For Example: if there are 72 entrants in the tournament, this will allow for 18 playoff spots. This will create 2 groups of 9 survivor brackets. All 9 players in a group will play the same game (2nd group plays a different game) lowest score from each group is eliminated. Next round both groups will rotate to a new game and all 8 players play, with lowest score eliminated. This continues until there are 2 groups of 5 left, at which point the groups combine to make a 10 player group, which continues to eliminate 1 player per round until there is only 1 survivor. If the tournament is taking longer than expected the tournament director, at their discretion, may keep the two groups separate until the final 4 players to speed up the finale.
Note: If there is a tie for the last playoff spot, there is no tiebreaker game, all tied players will make the playoffs.
Cash prizes will be paid out based on 1 payout per 12 participants with a minimum of 3 payouts and a maximum of 6.
Groups will be allocated randomly and randomization of machines will be set to minimize playing same players and machines when possible. Playoff machines will be determined ahead of time by the tournament directors based on a random draw that we will do well in advance of the tournament to save time on tournament day.
If you are travelling to Edmonton on the Friday and cannot make the start of this tournament, please still come by late and play some of the non-tournament bank machines on your weekend pass.