Qualification
The player will select and play 1 game on 10 different machines of his/her own choice out of a bank of 36 machines.
The 10 games must be started in the player's allotted time slot, no games can be started after the time slot has ended, a game begun prior can be finished.
If for any reason a player has not played all 10 games at the end of his/her timeslot, the remaining games will be given a score of 0.
The individual machines are ranked and players are given a score on all machines they have played.
The scores are then accumulated across all machines to determine the players final score and final ranking order of the qualification.
There will be live scoring available, but please note that it will only show the final standing, and not the individual player scores on their played machines.
The top 96 players will proceed to the finals, all remaining players are out of the tournament.
All ties will be determined by most machines won in the qualification, then most 2nd places, then 3rd, and so forth until the tie has been resolved.
The final tiebreaker will be IFPA world rank. Players are divided into the final rounds based on their qualification rank.
Final Rounds
First round will be for players ranked 33rd to 96th. They will play a heads-up best of 5 to determine who will continue to the second round.
Second round is for all the remaining players from top 32 plus the 32 winners from round 1.
The players play heads-up best of 5 machines.
The winning player will move on until we have the final four, who will meet for the title in a 3 machine grand final.
For the final four, we will have a rematch for the first place only, otherwise the qualification rank will be used as tiebreaker.
Danish Pinball Open (DPO), Format
Qualification
The player will select and play 1 game on 8 different machines of his/her own choice, out of the bank of 24 machines.
The 8 games must be started in the open time slot between 09.00 – 19.00 on Day 1 or between 09.00 – 16.30 on Day 2.No games can be started after the individual time slots has ended, but games begun prior can be finished.
If for any reason a player has not played all 8 games at the end of the time slot on Saturday, the remaining games will be given a score of 0.
The individual machines are ranked and players are given a score on all machines they have played on, the scores are then accumulated across all machines to determine the players final score and final ranking order of the qualification.
There will be live scoring available, but please note that it will only show the final standing, and not the individual player scores on their played machines.
The top 64 players will proceed to the finals, all remaining players are out of the tournament.
Please note that machines will be added after qualification, in order to make the tournament run more smoothly.
All ties will be determined by most machines won in the qualification, then most 2nd places, then 3rd, and so forth until the tie has been resolved. The final tiebreaker will be IFPA world rank.
Players are divided into the final round groups based on their qualification rank.
Final Rounds
Players ranked from 1 to 64 will play in groups of four on 3 randomly selected machines. Two players are eliminated from each group per round. This will continue until we have the final four, who will meet for the DPO title on 3 machines.
All ties will be determined by the qualification rank, except for the first place in the finals, where there will be a rematch, in case of a tie.
EPC National tournament
Each country will be allowed to participate with one team each.
A team consists of five players from the same country.
Before a match against another team, the team must choose a substitute player.
The other 4 players will play two 1vs1 and one split flip game game.
After those games, a substitution must be made, and a 4 ball game, where each ball will be played by different players will be played.
One point is awarded for a 1vs1 player game, two points is awarded for a split flip game and 4 points for the 4 ball game. The winning team will be awarded one additional point.
In case of a tie, the substitute players that didn’t play 1vs1 or split flip must play for the team win.
Qualification
All teams will be divided into four groups, in which each team will play a match against every other team in the group once.
The team with the most points proceeds to the finals.
In case of a tie the individual result decides. In case of an unsolvable tie, involving three or more teams, there will be a tie breaking game, played by a player chosen by the team.
Finals
Each team chooses 4 players, and they will play two 4 player games and a 4 player split flip game.
After that each team must make a substitution. And a 4 player game 4 ball game is played.
Points for 4 player games are 3-2-1-0, for split flip it is 6-4-2-0 points and 12-8-4-0 for the 4 ball game.
In case of a tie, the substitute player that didn’t play 1vs1 or split flip must play for the titles.
Danish Pinball Open second chance
All players eliminated from EPC Main are invited for a second chance tournament. The first round will be played as a one game group elimination round, to determine who will play the rest of the Second Chance tournament, due to lack of machines.
The amount working machines will determine the amount of groups, and the players will be randomly divided into those groups.
Only the winning player from each group will continue.
After that we will play three rounds of group play. Each round is played in 4 player groups on 3 machines.
Top 4 players will meet for the title in a 4 player final on 3 machines.
FORMAT SUBJECT TO CHANGE! NOT FINAL YET!
This tournament will be a WPPR tournament for all eliminated players, and will make sure that Sunday is just as important for everyone, and not just for the players that moved on from Saturday.
