Please see for latest updates:
http://bit.ly/festivus-2025

Entry Fee: $10

Schedule
Doors open: 12:00 PM
Airing of Grievances: starts 7:00 PM
Tournament Begins: 7:30 PM or immediately after Airing of Grievances ends

Format:

Round 1: 45min Flipper Frenzy (seeding round)
Win-Loss Differential + Hidden standings
Fewest losses is tie-break
Final positions are used for seeding round 2
Any ties for top 2 positions will be broken with a 1 ball playoff
Any other ties will be broken by a coin flip / dice roll / Random.org
LATE PLAYERS WILL BE ADDED TO THE END OF THE QUEUE WITH FOUR LOSSES

Round 2: 5 rounds of Group Match Play (7/5/3/1 IFPA scoring)
Using seeding from round 1
Top 2 seeds from round 1 get a round 1 bye / +7 pts
Top 4 seeds from round 1 get to ban an additional machine: no ranting necessary!
Top 8 move on to next round

Round 3 (Finals): Ladder Playoff (Top 8)
Games will be randomly chosen by MatchPlay each round.
Starting with seed 8 and proceeding to 1, each player may ban 1 machine still left in the bank.
Top seed from round 2 gets a bye into final 4
2nd seed from round 2 gets a bye into final 5
3rd seed from round 2 gets a bye into final 6
etc


This tournament has a complicated rules set, so please see this link for full details:
http://bit.ly/festivus-2025