Tournament fee: $85 AUD.


This is the MAIN EVENT of the BPAC 2023 Pinball Calendar, the annual Brisbane Masters.
This year's Brisbane Masters event is one of the 20 events on 2023 Stern Pro Circuit, and will also receive the IFPA Certified+ 50% event boost.


Tournament Schedule:

Saturday July 22nd:
*8.30am - 9.30am - Free Warm Up & Player registration (event players only).
*10am - Tournament briefing and start of Round 1.
*7 rounds will be played, no breaks.

Sunday July 23rd:
*9am - Round One of Finals will commence.


**This event will be capped at 220 entries**


QUALIFYING:
* Once all participants are finalized, all players will be seeded based on their IFPA World ranking as at the time of the event
* Players will be placed into 4-player groups once seedings have been completed.
* Each group will be assigned 3 games across each era (70s-80s, 90s, New) and play order at random by the Matchplay software.

First round groupings - Slaughter (Strongest seed plays weakest, second-strongest plays second-weakest, etc).
Second & subsequent round groupings - Swiss (Players will be paired against players with the same win-loss record. No attempts will be made to pair players against opponents previously not faced (adjacent pairing is used).
All games will be played as a 4-player game (unless the machine is unable to allow it and/or notified otherwise).

There will be 7 qualifying rounds (21 games per player). The top 32 players will advance to the Main Division Finals, with qualifiers 33-96 to be split in to B/C/D/E Division Finals on Sunday 24th July. Ties for any placings in the Top 32 will be determined by the number of 1st place finishes, then by 2nd place finishes, then by a single game playoff to be played on the Saturday night (if required), immediately following the conclusion of the qualifying rounds.


FINALS:
Finals will start at approximately 9am on Sunday 23rd July. Players who do not turn up by 9am when names are called may be excluded from participating.

A Division - Top 32 Qualifiers:
*Finals will be contested under the IFPA Head-To-Head Best-of-5 game single elimination format.
*9th-16th placed qualifiers will receive a single-round bye, while the Top 8 will receive a double-round bye.
*In all matches in all rounds, the highest available seeded player will play the lowest available seed, with the next highest to play the next lowest, and so on until all players are paired up.
*Highest available seed will get to choose the machine bank for their match, or defer their choice to their opponent instead. Once chosen, that player cannot pick the same bank again for the remainder of the finals.
*The first player to 3 wins in their Head-to-Head match will advance to the next round.

B/C/D/E Division finals:
*B Grade - 33rd-48th placed qualifiers
*C Grade - 49th-64th placed qualifiers
*D Grade - 65th-80th placed qualifiers
*E Grade - 81st-96th placed qualifiers

All B/C/D/E Division finals will be contested under Best-of-3 game matches, with the winner advancing. Highest available seed will always play the lowest available seed.

In the event that a player does not turn up for the B/C/D/E finals, players will NOT be able to jump up a division, and instead will be replaced with a BYE in the lowest spot of that division.

** At the start of each round the highest seed in A Division will get first choice of machine bank going down to the final match in E Division choosing last **


Tournament Directors - Jason Lambert & Jimmy Nails.