Expo’s Pinball Flip-OUT! Brought to you by TILT Amusements, Fox City Pinball, Stern Pinball, and [Neverdrains.com]

A STERN CIRCUIT EVENT!

Everyone registered for the Main Tournament plays in the finals! (”A” Restricted players WPPR ranked 1-250, must seed in the top 50% of the field to be eligible to play in the finals).

As always we will be using [Neverdrains.com](http://Neverdrains.com) queuing and SMS system and for the second year in a row the fantastic Fox Cities Pinball crew will be there to stream every shimmy and slap save! And, as always, the winner gets to take home A PRO STERN PINBALL MACHINE of their choice used in the tournament!!!


# REGISTRATION

Main registration opens at 10:00am Thurs.
Entry Fee is $100
Players have all day to play their 15 entries.
Players MUST report in to the Tournament Registration desk NO LATER than 11:59pm on Thursday in order to participate in the Main Tournament

* A and B Divisions
* 15 seeding entries per person; top score on 12 distinct machines will count toward seeding
* Qualifying: Thursday (10am-midnight) is seeding only
* Top 50% of field will be placed in A, bottom 50% into B
* If you decide not to seed, you will be randomly placed at the bottom of the B Division bracket; **”A” restricted players (WPPR
rank 1-250) MUST seed in the top 50% of all players to compete in finals **
* A and B finals start at 10:00am on Friday
* Top 32 in A finals are in the money. Top 16 in B
* Bounties! Most matches won in A and B - $100 each

A Finals

* Phase 1 FINALS:
* Head-to-head, double elimination; matches are best 2 out of 3 in winners and losers bracket
* Every 8 spots in seeding gets you another bye

* Phase 2 FINALS:
* Top 16 Qualifiers seed directly into Phase 2 (with top 8 of Qualifiers receiving a bye); these 16 players are joined by the last 8
players standing from Phase 1;
* Phase 2 will be double elim, head-to-head; winners bracket best of 5 matches, losers bracket best of 3 matches until a winner is
declared
* For Phase 2 each player can only choose a game title once, until all games are chosen, rinse and repeat. You can choose the
same game your opponent has chosen, if you have not chosen it already.

B Finals

* Head-to-head, double elimination, matches are best 2 out of 3 in winners and losers bracket

*** PLEASE NOTE - For finals we will work with women finals players who have scheduling conflicts with Main finals, as necessary!

For additional information refer to the tournament schedule on pinballexpo.com