Date: Thursday 14th May – Saturday 16th May 2026.
Qualification: from 10:00, registration starts at 09:00

General:
- Tournament Format is planned for 384 Players.
- Qualification takes place over Thursday and Friday and Finals are played on Saturday.
Your qualification day will be the same as your Main qualification day.


Qualification:
- Participants get divided into four 6 hours long timeslots A/B/C/D.
- Timeslots A/B are on Thursday and timeslots C/D on Friday.
- Austrian Pinball Masters Main Qualification shall be played on the same day but at the other time slot
(e.g. Main in morning, then Classic in afternoon /evening
- Each timeslot plays Group Matchplay with 8 rounds and the best 12 Players advance
- Top 4 qualifiers of the group receive a bye.
- In case of equal number of wins, a tiebreaker for the advancement to the finals and
the byes in the group will be played on a machine defined by the Tournament
Director.

Finals:
- TOP 48 Players Single Elimination best of 5
- For seeding of Finals the following will be considered between the groups in the
priority as mentioned
1. Position in the group
2. Number of points in the group
3. Ties from Matchplay
4. Seeding from IFPA
- Selection of machines in the finals is based on available games on the “Game Board”
- Players must return the chosen machine tag immediately after concluding the match
and choose a new game from the available ones. This practice is aimed at
eliminating waiting times on Saturday.
- Each machine can be chosen once per round in a player pairing