Start Date: October 16, 2024?End Date: October 19, 2024
Expo’s Pinball Flip-OUT! Brought to you by TILT Amusements, Fox City Pinball, Stern Pinball, and Neverdrains.com

STERN PRO 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 Drains Tournament Manager queuing and SMS system and for the fourth fabulous year in a row our friends at Fox Cities Pinball will again be there to stream every gentle nudge and serendipitous slap save. And yes, the winner gets to take home A PRO STERN PINBALL MACHINE of their choice used in the tournament!!!

Overview (tl;dr):
* A and B Divisions
* 24 limited seeding entries per person; top score on 16 distinct machines (currently this means one entry minimum on every title) will count toward seeding
* Qualifying: See below; Wed-Thurs 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 & continue thru Sat until a winner is declared; see schedule posted at flipOUT! website for more deets
* Top 32 in A finals are in the money. Top 16 in B
* Bounties! Most matches won in A and B - $100 each

Registration:
NEW for 2024: Main registration opens WEDNESDAY 5pm
Entry Fee: $110
Format: 24 entries max, up to a max of best 16 scores taken. Finals Double Elimination Big Bracket A & B divisions

Qualifying:
- Wed 5pm-12am*
- Thurs 10am-11pm*
- *There will be a 1hr volunteer qualifying hour after reg qualifying ends Wed & if necessary also on Thursday. Our goal is always to have all players get to play their limited entries


Players MUST report in to the Tournament Registration desk NO LATER than 10:59pm on Thursday in order to participate in the Main Tournament

A Finals (Friday 10am start)

* 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
- $100 bounty for player with the most match wins in A!


B Finals (Friday 10am start, beginning right after A gets started)

- Head-to-head, double elimination, matches are best 2 out of 3 in winners and losers bracket
- $100 bounty for player with the most match wins in B!


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

For questions about the flipOUT! tournament or interest in volunteering for flipOUT!, please reach out to Deborah at deborah@tiltamusements.com