GENERAL INFORMATION:
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Tournament Directors: Jimmy Nails, Jason Lambert? & Chris Wade.
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Tournament Director's email: jimmy@netherworldarcade.com, or dj_j2008@hotmail.com?
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Tournament location: Brisbane Showgrounds 600 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills, QLD 4006?.
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Tournament Dates and times:?
Qualifying - Saturday 17 August? from 10am.
Finals - Sunday 18 August? from 10am.
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Tournament fee: $75.
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TOURNAMENT FORMAT DETAILS:

QUALIFYING:
* Once all participants are finalized, all players will be seeded based on their IFPA World ranking as of 30/6/2019.?
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Players will be placed into 4-player groups once the seedings have been completed. ?
Each group will be assigned 3 games across each era (70s-80s, 90s, New) and play order at random by the Matchplay software.?
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First round groupings - Slaughter (Strongest seed plays weakest, second-strongest plays second-weakest, etc)?.

Second & subsequent round groupings - Swiss (Players will be paired against players with the same win-loss record. No attempts will be made to pair players against opponents previously not faced (adjacent pairing is used).?
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All games will be played as a 4-player game (unless machine is unable to allow it and/or notified otherwise).?
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There will be 7 qualifying rounds (21 games per player). The top 24 players will advance to the A Grade Finals on Sunday morning, Qualifiers 25-72 will be split in to B/C/D grades. Ties for any placings in the Top 72 will be determined by the number of 1st place finishes, then by 2nd place finishes, then by a single game playoff (if required).?
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FINALS:?
Finalists will be welcome to warm up on machines between 9am - 10am.?
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Finals will start at approximately 10.00am on Sunday 18th August. Players with byes will be allowed to 'warm-up' on a game or two on a machine allocated by the Tournament director(s) in the round before they are due to start.?
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A Grade - Top 24 Qualifiers?:
Round One: (24 players remaining)?.
* Top 4 finalists are awarded a bye.?
* Best-of-5 game head to head matches according to final seedings. Highest seed for each match chooses a machine bank or play order for their game (play order reverses for each subsequent game)?.
* Matches are determined as follows: 5 vs 24, 6 vs 23, 7 vs 22, 8 vs 21, 9 vs 20, 10 vs 19, 11 vs 18, 12 vs 17, 13 vs 16, 14 vs 15.?
* The 10 Winners advance to Round 2.?
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Round Two: (14 players remaining)?.
* Top 2 are awarded another bye, 3rd & 4th seeds now join in.?
* Best-of-5 game head to head matches according to seedings of remaining players.
* Same as Round 1, with highest seed playing lowest seed, and so on. Same again for choice of machine bank & order of play.?
* The 6 winners advance to Round 3.?
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Round Three: (8 players remaining)?
* 1st & 2nd seed now join in.?
* Same format (best-of-5 games, etc) as Round 2 above.?
* The 4 winners advance to Round 4.?
(If 1st place was to be knocked out here, the lowest they could finish is 5th)?
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Round Four: (4 players remaining)?
* Same format (best-of-5 games, etc) as Round 2 above.?
* The 2 winners advance to the Grand Final, while the 2 other players will playoff for 3rd place.?
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3rd Place Playoff:?
* Best-of-5 game head to head series, same format as above to determine winner of 3rd place.?
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Grand Final:?
* The 2 remaining players will play a best of 5-game series, same format above, to determine the tournament winner.?
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B/C/D division finals:?
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- B Grade - 25 vs 40, 26 vs 39, 27 vs 38, 28 vs 37, 29 vs 36, 30 vs 35, 31 vs 34, 32 vs 33.?
- C Grade - 41 vs 56, 42 vs 55, 43 vs 54, 44 vs 53, 45 vs 52, 46 vs 51, 47 vs 50, 48 vs 49.?
- D Grade - 57 vs 72, 58 vs 71, 59 vs 70, 60 vs 69, 61 vs 68, 62 vs 67, 63 vs 66, 64 vs 65.?