Texa Pinball Festival Tournament Rules Explained

Xerico

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Hi Everyone!

I will be one of the main tournament officials at the Texas Pinball Festival Tournament this weekend.

I have had a few people ask about how to join the tournament.

Official Rules can be found on at http://texaspinball.com/tpf/tournaments/tournament-rules-and-guidelines/

Here is my synopsis.

During the TPF, there will be multiple tournaments. The four major tournaments are EM, Classic (Solid State games w/o DMD), Modern (DMD Games) and Texas Shoot Out. The EM, Classic and Modern tournaments will have two qualifying machines. The Texas Shoot Out will only have 1 qualifying machine, ACDC LE/Premium. But there will be 6 versions of the machine to play.

Each machine requires a tournament coupon to play. A Tournament Coupon costs $5.00 at the front door. Only one type of tournament coupon will be sold. You will announce the game you want to play when you redeem your coupon for tournament entry.

A Tournament Coupon will give you two games on one machine. After each game, a tournament official will write down your score provided it is your highest score for the game.

For example, if you played a game and scored 14 million, the tournament official will write down 14 million since it is your first game. Then you play your second game, but only score 10 million. The tournament official will not record the score since your first score was higher.

If you entered again, and both games were lower than 14 million, then no new score would be recorded. However, if one of the games was 15 million, then the official would record the 15 million as your score.

You can enter any of the tournaments as often as you like unless otherwise stated. But you can only play 1 particular machine for each coupon redeemed. You cannot play 1 game on EM#1 and the 2nd game on EM#2.

The EM Tournament will have 2 EM qualifying Machines. To qualify for the playoffs, you must enter a qualifying score on each machine. Which means that you need to use 2 coupons. 1 coupon for each game.

After all qualifying is completed, we will rank the players on each machine individually. The top score will earn 100 points. 2nd Place earns 90 points. 3rd Place earns 85 point. Every place after 3rd will reduce points by one. 4th will be 84, 5th will be 83, etc.

Then we add all player pointsfrom both machines for a composite score. Then we rank the players based on composite scores.

The top 8 scoring players will compete in A Division Playoff.
The next 8 will compete in B Division Playoff.
The next 8 will compete in C Division Playoff.

Repeat this process for the Modern (DMD) Tournament with 2 machines, Classic (SS) Tournament with 2 machines and the Texas Shoot Out (ACDC Machines). The Texas Shoot Out is the only tournament with 1 qualifying machine.

We will then add up all scores and rank players for the Texas State Championship Playoffs based on total points earned in the EM, Classic, Modern and Texas Shoot Out. The best possible score is 700 points. To earn this, you would have to be the top score on all 7 tournament machines.

The top 16 will play in the A Division Playoffs.
The next 16 will play in the B Division Playoffs.

If you have any questions, please send them to me and I will do my best to answer your questions.

Come play in the tournaments! See you all this weekend!

Marcus
 
So 35$ just to even attempt to qualify for state championships then.

Yuck. Guess I'll pick one of the modern tournaments and give it a run...not wasting my money to try for state when my EM skills sux. :p
 
So 35$ just to even attempt to qualify for state championships then.

Yuck. Guess I'll pick one of the modern tournaments and give it a run...not wasting my money to try for state when my EM skills sux. :p

I would recommend trying the Texas Shoot Out if you are going for one tournament only. It only requires one coupon to enter. And it is on ACDC LE/Premium. As I recall, you came in 7th at the ACDC Launch Party!

Marcus
 
I did, but that's a long way away from money. ;)

I will probably enter it anyways, and the modern one. I'll have to think about if it's worth my money on the other two depending on the games used.
 
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