Part of the BPAC: Class of 2025 event, here in Brisbane, Australia.
This will be a HYBRID Certified event (at a minimum, likely PLUS, depending on total entries).


TOURNAMENT FEE: $50 AUD


TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:

Wed 16th July (Qualifying):
* Open from 10am-10pm

Thurs 17th July (Qualifying):
* Open from 10am-10pm

Friday 18th July (Qualifying + Top 24 finals)
* Qualifying open from 10am-3.30pm
(Tie-breakers will be played immediately after qualifying, if needed.
* Finals Check-in by 4.15pm
* Briefing @ 4.20pm
* Finals Start @ 4.30pm


QUALIFYING:

*Players will play across a bank of 12 machines, all from the Solid State era or earlier.
*Each player will receive a maximum of 48 attempts, with a player's best 15 results to be used for qualifying.
*Up to 2 best results from each game will count towards a player's total.

Players MUST queue on Matchplay before playing and MUST either have their score recorded or voided by a scorekeeper at the completion of a game. Yellow and red cards may be issued for breaches of queuing/scoring.

All games are to be played as single player only.

Points allocated for each machine will be based on the PAPA 150 system (150 / 140 / 135 / 134.....)

*Top 24 players on points will advance to finals on Friday afternoon.
*Ties for meaningful positions (8th & 24th) will be played as a single game playoff on a machine drawn at random.


FINALS:

*Top 24 players will advance to Group Matchplay finals, with the Top 8 players receiving a first-round bye. IFPA scoring will be used.
*Each group will play 3 games, with the top seed in each group getting the opportunity to choose 2 games for their round (game 1 & 3), with the 2nd highest seed getting 1 choice (game 2).
*Players with machine choice are unable to choose the same game more than once per round and cannot choose the same machine more than twice for the duration of the finals.
*Top 2 players in each group advance to the next round, with the other 2 players in each group being eliminated.
*Ties for any of the Top 2 positions in any group will again be broken by a single game playoff on a random machine.
*The player with the most number of points after the final round is completed will be declared the winner.


Tournament directors - Jason Lambert & Jimmy Nails