GENERAL INFORMATION:

Tournament Directors: Simon Wisbey and Peter Milner.

Tournament location: Amusement Worx 285-287 Torrens Road West Croydon SA 5008.

Tournament times:
Unlimited Qualifying commences Wednesday 7 November to Friday 7 December 2018 inclusive and during the following business hours at Amusement Worx: Monday to Friday 10am-5pm and Saturdays from 10am-1pm inclusive. Qualifying times also include lock-ins.

Finals will be held on Tuesday 11 December 2018 during the following times below.
Registration and warm up from 6pm-6.30pm sharp.
Information and questions from players from 6.30pm-6.40pm.
Tournament from 6.40pm-10pm.


Two machines will be set to $1 per play.

Players can come along at any time during the qualifying period to play and register scores.
Any score that a player wishes to enter will need to be verified by an official scorer at Amusement Worx.
Selfies cannot be accepted for qualifying scores but will be ENCOURAGED so Simon can upload some of them to Facebook.
Scores will be regularly entered/updated to Matchplay so players can see where they stand on MatchPlay live.
It will be a good idea for players to register to MatchPlay events so they can monitor where they stand.
Each players 2 highest scores on each of the 2 machines will be counted towards qualifying for the finals.
There is no point registering a score on a particular machine if it is LOWER than your two highest previously registered scores as it will not count!
During the qualifying period, players need to be prepared to play doubles etc if there are other players wanting to play.
At lock-ins the machines will be quarantined for the mini league qualifying.

50% of the qualifying field up to a maximum of 16 players will qualify for the finals.


TOURNAMENT FORMAT DETAILS:

QUALIFYING: Best Game.
50% of the qualifying field up to a maximum of 16 players will qualify for the finals.

FINALS: Group Matchplay.
1) Seeding: Players will be seeded according to their qualifying position.
2) First round pairing: Slaughter.
3) General pairing: Balanced - Players will be randomly paired with previously unfaced opponents.
4) Player order: Rotating - Random order for the first game, then rotates player order evenly.
5) Scoring system: IFPA (7/5/3/1) (7/4/1).
6) Arena draws: Balanced - Attempts will be made to assign an arena that has been played the fewest times by all opponents.
7) Duration: Four rounds.
8) Matches each round: Two matches.
9) Tiebreaker: Ties will be broken by the number of first place finishes, then by the number of second place finishes and finally, if necessary, a single game play-off.