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F I V E days of Pinball, including the UK Open

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

You told us you wanted competitions, you told us you wanted a challenge, we brainstormed, we video conferenced, and we ate pizza:

Pinball News, Flipout London, London Pinball, Chief Coffee, and DOMINO are proud to announce a UK First -> a pinball event like no other, hosted in the best city on the planet London, putting London fairly and squarely, as it always should be, at the top of the worlds greatest pinball cities!

17th July - Chief Coffee and London Pinball Host Tournament 1 at Chief Coffee, Hosted by Matt Vince and Sam McCourt
18th July - Flipout London hosts its regular league night and Tournament 2 in association with London Pinball at The World Famous Flipout London Pinball Club
19-21st July - Flipout London in association with Pinball News and DOMINO host the UK Open and UK Classics, Tournaments 3 and 4
21st July - In addition to the above tournament 5 will run alongside the UK Open and Classics Finals for those who don't quality on the Sunday.

Ladies and Gentleman - THIS is the UK's FIVE days of Pinball.

For more details please check out http://tournaments.pinballnews.com

More news on formats and timings to follow...


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Welcome to the World Famous UK Open - If you are registered for this - it’s the best pin-balling decision you made all year! There is no bigger IFPA Ranking event in the UK - this is the real deal. Hosted at the UK biggest and best Pinball venue the world famous Flip Out London.

This is a family event thus no swearing will be tolerated.
No machine abuse will be tolerated.
Everyone is expected to have showered in the morning of each day of the open.

UK Open Schedule:

Please pay attention to the check in times - if you do not check-in on time you are disqualified - nobody can check you in but you! We will be actively managing the qualification process to ensure we get through the games in a timely manner! Qualification is head to head.

Friday:
Doors 18:00
Check in Game test / Practise 18:30
TD Intro: 19:00
Qualification Group 1 19:00
Qualification for Group 1 closes 23:30
Classics - Best Game Format
Classics Qualification Session 1 Starts 18:30
Classics Qualification closes 23:30

Saturday
Doors 08:30
Classics - Best Game Format
Game test / practise 9:00
Classics Qualification Starts 9:30
Classics Qualification session 2 ends at 13:30
Volunteers special qualification time starts 13:30
Classics qualification session 3 starts at 14:30
Classics Qualification Ends 22:30

Saturday Open
Check in / Game Test / Practise 09:30
TD Intro 10:00
Qualification for group 2 starts 10:00
Qualification for group 2 ends 13:30

Check in 13:30
TD Intro 14:00
Qualification for group 3 starts 14:00
Qualification for group 3 ends 17:30

Check in 17:30
TD Intro 18:00
Qualification for group 4 starts 18:00
Qualification for group 4 ends 21:30

Sunday
Classics finals check in / Game test / Practise
Classics finals 09:00

Open Finals

The opens final consists of a double elimination bracket - there is no check in time but there will be an estimated game time, if you are not present at this time you will automatically forfeit your place, we will be tightly managing this, yes folks tightly! game times will be advertised on Saturday post qualifying and you should aim to be ready 30 minutes ahead of your final!

Everybody qualifies for the finals and qualification sets your bye. Qualify well and get some extra sleep. Qualify badly and your up with the crows! Each round is a head to head best of three games.
Winners proceed and losers are moved to the elimination bracket. It is possible to win the UK open via the elimination bracket. (We are using Chicago Pinball Expo Flipout format). Between rounds there will be no play permitted on competition games but there will be a free play area.

Doors 8:00
Game test / Practise 08:30
Finals begin 09:00
Finals end (approximately 22:00)

We will be live streaming the event.

There will also be a Sunday Best score tournament aimed at those eliminated early in the day.

Machine list will be finalised closer to to the event.
 
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Is there any news on the schedule for the Open? Will there be qualifying all day Friday? Not sure I can make the Saturday.
 
There will be a short test the games slot but not really practise.


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Interesting Classic format...

Let me see if I have this correct -
Assuming a full entry, everyone (80 players) to play 10 games on only 6 machines (so 800 games / 6 = average of 133 games per machine). Lets say each game takes 10 minutes to play, record scores and hand over to the next player, etc (10 minutes is probably being generous given that it's classics). So that's 1330 minutes divide by 60 minutes (1330/60= 22.17) meaning it will take approximately 22.17 hours to play all 800 games. That is without any delays or machine problems. With 4 sessions of 4 hours = 16 hours.

How do you fit 22.17 hours into 16...?
 
Peter,
A lot of assumptions but worst case scenario fair point. I think if we have concern about congestion we can add more games. Will monitor the number of folks who register for it and adjust accordingly.

Neil.
 
You have to play all 6 at least once then you get to play some of them again? But only the best score counts of the replayed games, so theres no danger of losing a good score if you then have a shìte game. Is that right?
 
DanLewell said:
You have to play all 6 at least once then you get to play some of them again? But only the best score counts of the replayed games, so theres no danger of losing a good score if you then have a shìte game. Is that right?
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yes.
 
We are looking for volunteers to manage the front desk on the Sunday and scorekeepers for the classics.

Those who volunteer will get two extra classics qualifying times on Saturday morning at 9am-10am and during Saturday at Lunch time.

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You must be able to use an iPad and deal with challenging pinball players :D So be a hero for the tournament!
 
Thanks, Safari on IPad didn’t seem to like the page and with the 404 assumed there was a problem
 
Yes apologies for that not sure what happened


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Neil McRae said:
yes.
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Now this is starting to make sense.... assuming we get 80 people makes sense for 10 classic games right?

Suggested games.

1. Spooky
2. Beat the Clock
3. Fantom
4. Robop
5. Earth Shaker
6, Black Knight
7. High Speed
8. Centaur
9. Emboyn
10. Spirit.

Very do able!
 
Benleigh250 said:
Now this is starting to make sense.... assuming we get 80 people makes sense for 10 classic games right?

Suggested games.

1. Spooky
2. Beat the Clock
3. Fantom
4. Robop
5. Earth Shaker
6, Black Knight
7. High Speed
8. Centaur
9. Emboyn
10. Spirit.

Very do able!
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@Neil McRae could this potentially work? Machiene list is a suggestion. Another idea is play 6 out of a selection of 10 allows players to avoid games they are not best at. As always maximum 10 goes on nominated 6 out of 10 to produce top scores.
 
The World Famous 5 days of Pinball event in the World's best City - London is selling out fast!

Day 1 - we have ONLY 2 spots left for Frenzy with Matt and Sam at Chief Coffee
Day 3/4/5 - we have sold more than half of the spots for the UK Classic - the biggest classics tournament in the UK. There are only ten places left of the UK open on Saturday qualifying and twelve for Friday qualifying! Flip Out London is the amazing location for this event.

This will be the biggest IFPA scoring series in the UK this year - so don't delay get your place booked!

Cheers,
Neil.
 
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