Start Date: Saturday July 20th, 2024
End Date: Sunday July 21st, 2024
Tournament fee: $85 AUD.

Tournament Schedule:

Saturday July 20th:
*8.30am - 9.30am - Free Warm Up & Player registration (event players only).
*9.455am - Tournament briefing
*10am - Round 1 begins
*7 rounds will be played, no breaks.

Sunday July 21st:
*8am - 8.30am - Free Warm Up for Finalists.
*8.45am - A Division presentation & check-in
*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
Second & subsequent round groupings - Swiss
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 into B/C/D/E Division Finals on Sunday 21st July. Ties for any meaningful placings in the Top 32 (byes, make finals) will be broken by a single game playoff on a machine to be drawn at random. Tie breaker matches will be played on the Saturday night after qualifying rounds have been completed. All other ties will be broken automatically for seeding purposes.

FINALS:
Finals will start at approximately 9am on Sunday 21st July. Players who do not turn up by 8.45am 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