Welcome to the UK Pinball Open. When: Saturday 13th August 2011 Qualifying (all players): 10am - 4pm A & B Division play-offs, semi-finals and finals: 4:15pm - 6:30pm (approx) Price: £10 per player (in addition to show entry), pre-registration required - see below Maximum number of players: 96 Prizes: Trophies, medals and cash prizes WPPR points awarded: Yes Tournament head: Richard Wade
Play a single 3-ball game on your 6 favourite machines from the 12 available during the qualifying period. All scores are ranked and when qualifying ends, the 24 players with the highest number of ranking points go through to the A Division play-offs. New for this year - the next 16 qualifiers (ranked 25th-40th) go into the new B Division play-offs. Entry to the B Division is restricted, so see the rules section for full details. In the A Division first round of play-offs, the 24 players are split into pairs and play a single 3-ball game on 4 of the 12 available machines. Players have a brief warm-up play before starting their game and change both machine and partner after each game. When everyone has played their 4 games, ranking points are awarded as in the qualifying round, and the top 8 ranked players proceed to the semi-finals. The two A Division semi-finals consist of a 4-player 3-ball game on two chosen machines. Qualifiers in 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th place from the second round play in one semi-final on the first machine while qualifiers in 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th play concurrently in the second semi-final on the second machine. The top two scoring players from each semi-final go into the final, the lowest scoring two take part in a 5th-8th place playoff game. In the B Division first play-off round, the 16 players are split into 4 groups of 4 and play a single 4-player game on their allocated machine. The top 2 scorers from each group go forward to the semi-finals. The B Division semi-final follows the same format as the first round of play-offs, with 2 groups of 4 playing a single 4-player game each, with the top 2 proceeding to the final. Both the A and B Divisions finals are single 4-player winner-takes-all games on the allocated machines to decide the top 4 places. The winner of the A Division will be the UK Pinball Open champion.
In addition to the pre-registered players, if time allows we will also be making more places available to purchase at various times during qualifying on Saturday. These will only be released if it looks like we'll have time and machine space available for the games to be played, but we will make an announcement over the PA system at 11am, 1pm and 3pm if and when these become available. Players may register for one of these places at the tournament desk from 10am Saturday 13th August and names will be called in the order of registration. If a player does not come to the tournament desk within 5 minutes of their name being called, they will be removed from the list.
The following players have submitted their details and are registered for the UK Pinball Open 2011.
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