Tickets:
Tickets will on sale on October 1st at 11AM PDT. They will be $60 (plus fees) sold through Eventbrite. Tickets include entry to the arcade both days and tacos at the break both days. All games are set to free play.

Tournament location:
Seaside Champ will be played at Lynn’s Arcade. There are stools to sit on betweeen rounds and large outside space to hang out in as well. We strive to put on a fair tournament and we welcome players of all skill levels to participate. Above all else, FUN is of the upmost importance, if you’re not having fun then what’s the point right?
Lynn’s Arcade is located in the University Plaza Shopping Center at 1760 Fremont Blvd, Seaside Ca. We are in the back building with Sanctuary Rock Gym.

Tournament Format
The qualifying format is group match play. The player limit is 72 players. Qualifying will be 12 rounds in groups of four players. New groups will be drawn for each game/round. Scoring will be 3/2/1/0. Pairings will be random for the first round and tiered Swiss for subsequent rounds. The Match Play software we utilize to run the tournament picks games. Playing order and arena draws will be balanced.
The 24 players who earn the most points will qualify for playoffs. Seeds 1-8 get a bye round. We will only play tiebreakers that determine who will make it into the playoffs, for getting a bye round, and first overall seed. Tiebreaker matches will be best of 1 game on a random game chosen from a bank of games deemed to be playing well by the tournament directors with random playing order. For other ties, we will use the built in tiebreaker in Match Play that counts your 1st and 2nd place finishes.
If for example two players have the same point total at seed #10, and also have the same number of 1st and 2nd place finishes, we will use a randomizer to break the tie. This will be used only for the playoff bound players. For example, if three players are tied at seed #48, they will remain tied.

Playoffs format
In each playoff round, there will be groups of four players where the top two from each group advance to the next round, until we reach the finals. # games per round. The scoring will stay 3/2/1/0. We will only play tiebreakers when advancement is at stake.
Game/Order selection on the first game will go in order of seeding (top seed gets first selection of game or order highest seed gets second selection). A player cannot choose the same game twice for the entirety of the finals, choose wisely my friends. :-)
In subsequent games, order selection will be in the order of the result of the previous game.
The first playoff round will be four groups of four players. The bottom two in each group will be placed in positions 17-24 depending on their point total in this round.
Quarterfinals will be four groups of four players, with the 1-8 seeds entering the playoffs. The bottom two in each group will be placed in positions 9-16 depending on their point total in this round.
Semifinals will be two groups of four players. The bottom two in each group will be placed in positions 5-8th depending on their point total in this round.
The Finals will be one group of four players. A tie-breaker game will be played for any ties in the final group.