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9AM Finals Start for 1st-16th position

Once the finals start there is no practice allowed on the machines that are in the finals.

Top 16 Players from the Main Event Qualifying will play in the Finals. If someone doesn’t show up, the 17th or next highest person from qualifying will take their place. The format will consist of 3 rounds of 4 game banks. Groupings for the first round will be (1st, 8th, 9th, 16th), (2nd, 7th, 10th, 15th), (3rd, 6th, 11th, 14th) (4th,5th,12th,13th) Games will be played one at a time. High seed in each group will get a choice of Bank and game and Order on the 1st game and they get game pick for the whole playoff. Subsequent games the order choice is reversed with 4th place getting to pick first, then 3rd place next, etc. Scoring will be 3/2/1/0 for each of the 4 games. Top 2 advance bottom 2 are eliminated. Should there be a tie for 2nd/3rd place a 1 game playoff will be played by the 2 affected players. That game will be chosen at random by the TD if needed.

The 8 eliminated players from the 1st round will be ranked 9th-16th according to how many points they accumulated in this round. Ties will not be broken.

In the semifinal Round, the players advancing from the previous round will be reseeded according to their original ranks and divided into four groups as follows.

The 4 eliminated players from this round will be ranked from 5th-8th based on the accumulated points from this round. Ties will not be broken.

The four remaining players advance to the final round. The final round is conducted in the same manner as the Semifinal Round. The total scores for this round will determine the ordering of the winners. All ties in the final round are considered significant and will be broken with a 1 game playoff. The final reporting of points to IFPA will show 1st-4th place with no ties.

Top 4 Trophies/Plaques and Top 8 Cash Prizes