{"id":24259,"date":"2022-05-01T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/uk-pinball-open-classic\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T19:58:30","slug":"uk-pinball-open-classic","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/events\/uk-pinball-open-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Pinball Open &#038; Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely'><img src='https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/flip-out-london\/07-flip-out-london-300x169.jpg' width='300' height='169' \/><\/div>\n<p>The UK\u2019s two premier tournaments will be held on Friday 19th, Saturday 20th &#038; Sunday 21st July, 2019 at the country\u2019s largest pinball club, Flip Out London in Croydon. Not only that, we are arranging two additional days of tournaments on the Wednesday and Thursday to produce a full five days of competitive pinball in the UK\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The first tournament will be held at Chief Coffee in Chiswick on Wednesday 17th July.<\/p>\n<p>The fun starts at Flip Out London on Thursday 18th July, where tyou will find around fifty pinballs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Then on Thursday 18th July Flip Out London will host a tournament run by London Pinball which will run alongside the regular weekly Flip Out London League for a busy night of pinball fun.<br \/>\n\u2013 Friday 19th July is the start of qualifying for the UK Pinball Open \u2013 the IFPA European Championship Series qualifying tournament \u2013 and the UK Pinball Classic. Qualifying will be in groups, with the first groups playing Friday evening.<br \/>\n\u2013 The majority of the groups will play their qualifying in both tournaments on Saturday 20th July, after which the full list of qualifiers will be announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Those qualifiers will then compete in the play-offs on Sunday 21st July, while an additional tournament will be run at Flip Out London for those who didn\u2019t qualify or choose not to take part in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>There will be trophies for all tournaments, with cash prizes for the top players in the UK Pinball Open and Classic. The exact cash prizes depend on player numbers, but last year we gave away more than \u00a31,300 (\u20ac1,520\/$1,730) and paid out down to 16th places in both tournaments, so there\u2019s plenty to play for.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: <a class='ai1ec-ticket-url-exported' href='http:\/\/tournaments.pinballnews.com\/'>http:\/\/tournaments.pinballnews.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-24259","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","hentry","event_location-flip-out-london-mill-ln-croydon-cr0-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}