The 12th Annual Pinhead Cup

MPL Major Tournament The 12th Annual Pinhead Cup 

Participate in our Time-Flexible Pinball Tournament, where you have the freedom to drop in, join and play your cards at any time between 10am and 10pm on November 10th, as well from 1 pm to 9 pm on November 11th

Event held at David Morris’ private collection at 66 Prairie View Road

Games in tournament to be revealed soon

The Pinhead Cup consists of open card-based qualifying and match play final rounds and is open to all players attending the event. During open qualifying, each player may purchase as many cards as they like to attempt to qualify for the final rounds. A point system is used to rank each player’s score on each machine. Those who possess the highest ranking card (5 consecutive games on one card) at the end of qualifying will participate in the match play final rounds.

In the final rounds, qualifying players play against each other in multiplayer games. A point system (3,2,1,0)  is used to determine who advances to the next round and, ultimately, who wins the division.

Qualifying: Friday, November 10th (10am – 10pm)  – Saturday, November 11th (1pm – 9pm)
Format: Unlimited card-based qualifying with 5 games per card.
Finals: Sunday, November 12th @ 9am B-side Start and 10:30AM A-Side Start. Top 50% qualify divisible by 4 to a maximum of 16 players. Pinburgh Scoring (3/2/1/0), 4 games per round. 8 players to Division B playoffs, no byes.
Entry Fees: Initial $10 Door Fee to cover IFPA, MPL and Host Costs and B-side pool. After that $5 for 1 Card (5 games) or $20 for 8 Cards (40 games total, 5 games per Card).

****$3 of every entry goes to the MPL to cover costs and IFPA fees. Also $5 of every package entry goes to the host as a “hosting fee” as a thank you for hosting. It takes a lot of work getting the games ready and a lot of wear and tear on games during events like these. It’s something that will be also used to hopefully entice other people to host events at their private locations in the future

The money from the Card Purchases will go 100% towards the prize pool.

$1 from every $5 card and $4 from every $20 card Purchased will go towards the B-side prize pool

The Pinhead Cup

The Pinhead Cup is the premier open tournament in Manitoba it predates the creation of the Manitoba Pinball League. Starting in 2011 The Pinhead Cup is the longest-running pinball tournament in Manitoba. The event has also been the longest event to complete besides the provincial championship series.
For this Major tournament, stakes have been raised, entry fee is $10 plus an exciting playoff format. 8 rounds of match play will be played. After the 8 rounds, the person in first will get a bye to the finals. Second and Third will play a best of three where the winner will go on the finals. The person who does not win the 2 vs 3 match will face off in the third-place match. The other contestant will be the winner of the forth versus fifth match which is a best of three.
The winner will get their name on the Pinhead Cup as well as a plaque, Second and Third will get a plaque for their placement.

November Events With The Return of The Pinhead Cup

November Events

Pinhead Cup

November 10, 7pm, $10 Entry Fee

The Pinhead Cup is the premier open tournament in Manitoba. It predates the creation of the Manitoba Pinball League. Starting in 2011, the Pinhead Cup is the longest-running pinball tournament in Manitoba. The event has also been the longest to compete in, besides the provincial championship series.
For this Major tournament, the stakes have been raised. Entry fee is $10. There will be an exciting playoff format. 8 rounds of match play will be played. After the 8 rounds, the person in first will get a bye to the finals. Second and third will play a best of 3 games, where the winner will go on the final. The person who does not win the 2 vs 3 match will face off in the third-place match against the winner of the fourth vs fifth match which is also a best of three.
The champion will get their name on the Pinhead Cup, as well as a plaque. Second and third will each get a plaque for their placement.

The Pinhead Cup

MPL Women’s Open Tournament

November 15, 7pm, $2 Entry Fee

8 rounds of match play

 

Playoff Seeding Tie-breaker At The Pinhead Cup

The playoff bracket seeding might need to be updated as Jody and Lance are tied with 193 points. In order to break the tie there will be a best of 3 match at the Pinhead Cup. Next league season Manitoba Pinball League will have a set way to break ties. To offer input into how ties should be broken send an email to mr.miller@manitobapinball.com

The playoffs for the league are best of 7. The highest seed has choice of game or position. The person who does not win gets the choice for the next game.