Friday Pre-tournaments
I. Pre-Silverball Beat-the-Clock
Tournament director: Austin Trent
Registration/check-in
– Friday, May 3rd, 9:30 am
– $5 entry fee
Format
As many rounds of Matchplay as can be played with the last round starting no later than 1:30 pm. All matches will be played on modern machines. Swiss pairing. 3-2-1-0 scoring. Best cumulative score at the end of play is the winner.
Payouts (minus $1 IFPA fees)
1st- 50%
2nd- 25%
3rd- 15%
4th- 10%
II. Silverball Warm-up
Tournament director: Austin Trent
Registration/check-in
– Friday, May 3rd, 2:00 pm
– $25 entry fee
Format
Qualifying will consist of five rounds of Matchplay. Each round will consist of two games, one classic and one modern. 7-5-3-1 scoring. Groups will be reassigned each round using tiered-Swiss-pairing. Top 16 qualify for finals. Meaningful ties will be decided on one randomly-selected machine.
Finals will consist of group elimination, three games per round with PAPA scoring (4-2-1-0). The highest seeded player in each group will have choice of games with the following restrictions: a minimum of one machine per round must be from the classics pool (early SS or EM), and no machine may be selected more than once by the same player, including within subsequent rounds. Meaningful ties will be decided on one randomly-selected machine.
Payouts (minus $1 IFPA fees)
1st- 50%
2nd- 25%
3rd- 15%
4th- 10%
Sunday Side Tournament
Tournament Director: Shawn Lee
Restration/Check-in
– Sunday 9:30 am
– $1 entry fee
Format
7-Strike, group progressive strikes tournament conducted on randomly-selected machines per Matchplay software. Players in each round will be assigned to groups of 3 or 4 via Swiss pairing and play one game on a randomly selected machine. Play order will be as indicated in the software. Players will receive 1 strike for each player in their group whose score exceeds theirs. For example: 1st-> 0 strikes, 2nd-> 1 strike, 3rd-> 2 strikes, 4th-> 3 strikes. After each round, players will be re-paired with other players of similar records. Once a player accumulates 7 or more strikes, that player is eliminated. Otherwise play will continue until only one player remains.
Trophies will be awarded to 1st-4th place