Stern Army Flippin’ Friday Tournament

Registration will open on Sunday October 1st at 1:05PM. You are only registering for the tournament. You do not pay in advance for this one. Tournament itself is free with paid admission to Flippin’ Friday.

• $25 Admission Cost with no separate tournament fee
• Please register in advance but walk-ins are welcome as long as we have space on this Friday
• This is the ‘Pre-Tournament’ for Frosty Flipper Tournaments
• New format from past ‘Pre-Tournaments’
• 150 Person Capacity Today

Food Truck

Captain Quesadilla Food Truck will be here from 4PM-8PM!

Live Stream

Fox Cities Pinball Stream will be broadcasting the tournament live on Twitch here:
https://www.twitch.tv/foxcitiespinball

Tournament Format:
NEW PLAYERS WELCOME!
No tournament experience necessary. You just play pinball. We will show you how it works.
This tournament is free with paid admission on Friday nights

Qualify Format: (Everyone plays 8 games)
Group Match Play
4 Rounds of 2 games per round with the same 4 people in your group
One Modern and One Classic Game per round
7/5/3/1 scoring per game
Random seeding to start, swiss pairings thereafter
Top 16-32 Players with the most points after 8 games make playoffs
Number of players in finals is based on number of players in qualifying but we take roughly half the players
Final playoff place will be determined by a 1 ball tiebreaker for everyone tied at that position
If you do not make the finals your tournament is over but you can still play the 100+ pinball machines on free play

Finals Format
There is no advantage to qualifying 1st or 16th in this type of finals format
Finals will be a 3 strike group knockout (4 player group 3rd & 4th get a strike, 3 player group only 3rd gets a strike)
Random Pairings to Start – Swiss pairings thereafter
This finals will be done on all classic games
3PM Doors Open
6PM Tournament Starts
Trophy’s for 1st-4th place
Stern Translite for 1st Place
IFPA points for everyone
TGP should be about 140%
No Cash Prizes