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The Arcade's End of the Year Plunge

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Tournament Information

Director : Sam Swain
Location : Wichita, KS
Country : United States
Information : Website

WPPR Snapshot

Ranking System :Main
Ranking Strength :0.11
Ratings Strength :1.28
Base Value : 8.5
Rated Players :17
Total (before TGP) : 9.89
TGP :100.00%
Event Booster :100%
Tour Value :9.89
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Results for the Main Tournament event on December 31, 2022

Pos Player Rank Rating Points
1 Preston Pywell 1145 1695.86 9.89
2 Logan Wiehn 1517 1575.75 5.10
3 Marion Richards 615 1532.67 3.17
4 Steve Brown USA 2021 1452.83 2.04
5 Steven Ewertt 6383 1361.24 1.37
6 Rob Huffman 1394 1590.08 0.97
7 Sam Swain 1405 1479.82 0.73
8 Dave Chapman 967 1511.01 0.60
9 Chad Cowan 1921 1562.24 0.52
10 Kathy Camden 5042 1144.74 0.47
10 Keegan Couey 7936 1029.90 0.47
12 Conard Bush 2986 1444.87 0.35
12 Brian Wiles 13184 929.30 0.35
14 David Topham 11777 1112.27 0.23
15 Casey Swain 8938 1050.06 0.17
15 Trilby Rau 27977 934.30 0.17
17 Kinlee Hooser 20510 796.55 0.06
Highlighted players are not applied to strength calculations due to lack of played tournaments.

Location


139 N Mead Wichita, Kansas 67220

Format Details


Event Name : Main Tournament
Qualifying Format : Matchplay Qualifying
Finals Format : Ladder Format
Player Limit : 56
Unlimited Qualifying? : No

Tournament Overview


Tournament Date: December 31, 2022

The Arcade's End of the Year Plunge

Saturday, December 31st

Entry fee to tournament is $5, IFPA Fees will be paid by The Arcade.

Doors open at 1, Matchplay will begin at 2!

Format for this month's Plunge will be a tiered swiss, 8 round Group Matchplay, using IFPA scoring. Each qualifying round will be groups of 4 (or 3) playing 1 game, using IFPA (7,5,3,1) scoring. After 8 rounds, the top 8 players will move on to a Ladder Matchplay Final.

The Ladder Finals will be groups of 4, beginning with the 5,6,7,8 seeds, playing 1 game. Whoever takes last in the game is eliminated. The other players move on and we will add the 4th seed. Ect… We will play out all games down to 1 player remaining.

During the finals, the top seed in the group will have a choice of game OR their player order for that game, an individual player may not choose the same game more than once.

Last person standing will be declared the final champion of the year and receive the Silver Ball trophy!

All games are 2 tokens to play.
All extra balls will be off, if you are awarded an extra ball, please plunge it with no flips.
All rulings from Tournament Directors are final.
This is an IFPA Sanctioned event.

Thank you for continued your support of The Arcade and The Wichita Pinball Community!

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