The play-offs consist of "Showdown"-style, head-to-head, best-of-3 matches.

Players will play in pairs drawn at random at the start of each round.

Each player in the pair may choose 1 machine to play.  The players play a 2-player game on both their chosen machines with the player not choosing the machine having the choice to play first or second.

The first player to win 2 games goes through to the next round.  If both players win 1 game each, they should come back to the competition desk and they will be allocated a third, deciding machine with player order chosen by the toss of a coin. 

The 24 qualifiers will be reduced to 12 in the first round of play-offs, then 6 in the second round and then the last three who will play in the final.

The 3 losing players from the semi-finals will also play a single 3-player game on a randomly selected machine to determine overall 4th, 5th and 6th places.