Spring Pinball Rumble is a tiered-swiss, target matchplay, with playoffs, format tournament @ Sych Drywall (8 Don Valley Parkway, Sunnyside MB)

Doors open at 11am tournament starts at 12 Noon

Dinner Provided

$20 entry or $35 entry for players with an IFPA rank of 1500 or better

Players will be placed into four-player groups (occasionally three-player) to compete on an individual, randomly selected machine. alternating between a Modern era round and a classics round

Points will be awarded based upon performance on that machine (3/2/1/0) and added to a running total for the tournament.

A player qualifies for finals by reaching or passing a target value of 30 points at which point the player no longer competes in the qualification rounds.

Match play will continue until all available finals positions are filled.

Top 12-16 will make it to playoffs depending on attendance

Next 8 will make it to B-side (cannot be ranked 1500 or better to play in B-side)

Substantial ties for qualification will be broken with a 1 game playoff. Position ties will be broken by the number of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for each of the completed rounds.

Playoffs will then start for A-side and B-side. 3 games per round. 4 player matchplay final with 4/2/1/0 scoring. Top 2 players with the most points at the end of 3 games will move to next round. For final round 4 players on 3 games, final order will be determined by points at the end of 3 games. Tiebreakers will be done on a randomly chosen game. 1st machine is chosen by the highest seed, highest seed then chooses playing position, second seed chooses second, etc. On subsequent games, the person with the lowest score on the previous game gets to choose game/position first. Once a game is chosen, it may not be picked for the remainder of the playoffs

Prize money will be split 50/50 between A-side and B-side

Cash prizes will be given to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th for both A and B sides.