Group Matchplay

Tournament Date: Saturday, December 7th, 2024
Please go to NPC Facebook Event page for full details on this tournament
$20 Location Entry – $5 Tournament Entry

Tournament Format: Group Matchplay (2 Game Banks)
2:00pm Tournament Start, Doors Open @ 11:00pm
9:00pm Projected End Time (estimate 7 hours)

Qualifying Format: 5 Rounds of 2 Game Banks Group Match Play with 7/5/3/1 scoring. You play 2 games with the same 4 players each round. 1 Classic Game and 1 Modern Game. You play each of these games one at a time. Automatic Tie Breakers turned on and will be used to break all ties with the exception of ties for a bye or to qualify (bye and qualifying tiebreakers will be played on a randomly selected classic game). Match Play Software is used. Top 16 players (or top 50% if less than 32 total players) with the most accumulated points move onto finals

Finals Format:
3 Games Group Elimination (PAPA Format). Players are seeded from qualifying and broken up into groups of 4 players. Top seed gets to pick games or order for each of 3 categories (one modern, one mid and one classic). Remaining selections are made in order of qualifying seed. Each Group plays their 3 game bank with 4/2/1/0 scoring. Top 2 Players advance Bottom 2 eliminated. Goes from 16 to 8 to 4 players. Final 4 will play their 3 games for the final placement of 1st-4th.

Tiebreakers will be played for top 4 positions on a randomly selected classic game.