Pinball tournaments starting at 7pm on Friday nights. Come to just one, or to all six!
There will be playoffs for the series in Open and B Divisions. 24 Players will advance to Open Playoffs, and another 12 players (restricted to those who have a world pinball player ranking no better than 1000) will be invited to B Division playoffs.
Open playoffs will be held on Saturday, September 26th starting at 1pm.
B Division playoffs will be held on Friday, September 25th starting at 7pm.
Scarlet City Espresso Bar, 3960 Adeline Street, Emeryville, CA.
Friday night tournaments have a $5 entry fee, plus the cost of games played during the event. There will be no additional entry fee for either of the playoff tournaments.
Format for all Friday qualifying tournaments will be double elimination bracket with best-of-one matches.
These are intended to be casual, beginner-friendly events. We love to see new tournament players and encourage interested pinheads of all skill and experience levels to join us and give it a shot. Meeting other pinball fans is fun no matter how well you play!
For each Friday night tournament, participating players will be awarded points on a set scale according to their finishing position. (Current standings available here.) Aggregate scores over the course of the series will be used to award playoff spots and to determine final series rankings as submitted to IFPA (for players who do not advance to open playoffs).
Rankings are maintained for the benefit of players who want to come to multiple events, but there is no expectation or requirement that series participants do so. Players are welcome and encouraged to attend only one Friday night event if that's what suits them. (Although we of course hope they'll have so much fun that they just have to come back!)
The series will have playoffs in two divisions.
Playoffs in Open Division will be four strikes knockout swiss, and B Division playoffs will be three strikes. Players will be paired with an opponent and play one two-player game on an assigned machine. The player who gets the lower score receives a strike. Once a player has accumulated four (or three, for B division playoffs) strikes, they are out of the tournament. The last player standing is the winner!
Matches for the first round will be drawn randomly. For subsequent rounds, participants will be paired (as much as possible) against players who have the same number of strikes as they do.
24 players will be invited to Open Division playoffs on Saturday, September 26th at 1pm. The tournament format will be four strikes knockout swiss.
There are two paths to qualifying for playoffs. The first, second, and third place winners at each Friday night tournament will automatically win a space in the playoffs. The remaining spots will go to the players with the highest aggregate score over the course of the series.
After the 24 Open Division spots are filled, the next twelve players in the overall series rankings who have a world ranking no better than 1000* will be invited to B Division playoffs on Friday, September 25th at 7pm.
Results from B Division playoffs will not impact overall rankings for the series as reported to IFPA, but there will be awards and cash prizes for winners.
*Eligibility for B Division will be determined by the player's ranking on the date of the first Friday evening tournament they play in.
Players whose names are displayed in orange are eligible to qualify for B Division playoffs. Players with an * following their name have automatically qualified for open playoffs based on finishing in the top three at one of our Friday evening tournaments.
Rank | Name | Total Points | 8/14 Points | 8/21 Points | 8/28 Points | 9/4 Points | 9/11 Points | 9/18 Points |
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1 | Echa Schneider * | 553 | 87 | 92 | 87 | 95 | 92 | 100 |
2 | Andy Kuntz * | 533 | 90 | 90 | 85 | 92 | 89 | 87 |
3 | David Lee * | 452 | 100 | 87 | 81 | 89 | 95 | |
4 | Ellen Frankel | 436 | 89 | 90 | 85 | 87 | 85 | |
5 | Eustina Daniluk | 415 | 87 | 77 | 89 | 85 | 77 | |
6 | Jen Atherly | 413 | 77 | 87 | 77 | 87 | 85 | |
7 | Gen Egea | 401 | 81 | 77 | 77 | 85 | 81 | |
8 | Jared Garvey * | 370 | 100 | 100 | 81 | 89 | ||
9 | Louise Wagensonner * | 362 | 81 | 89 | 100 | 90 | ||
10 | Jonathan Bair | 332 | 77 | 81 | 87 | 87 | ||
11 | Chris Connelly * | 270 | 92 | 89 | 89 | |||
12 | Mike Miller * | 268 | 81 | 92 | 95 | |||
13 | Eric Wagensonner * | 266 | 81 | 95 | 90 | |||
14 | Mark Birsching | 255 | 89 | 81 | 85 | |||
15 | Danielle Sciocchetti | 247 | 85 | 77 | 85 | |||
16 | Mike Villarreal | 235 | 77 | 81 | 77 | |||
17 | Christine Hopkins | 235 | 85 | 69 | 81 | |||
18 | Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen * | 184 | 89 | 95 | ||||
19 | Per Schwarzenberger | 180 | 90 | 90 | ||||
20 | Neal Patel | 170 | 85 | 85 | ||||
21 | Elliot Van Fleet | 166 | 81 | 85 | ||||
22 | Chris Gershtein | 158 | 81 | 77 | ||||
23 | Matt Hansen | 158 | 81 | 77 | ||||
24 | Jose Godinez | 158 | 77 | 81 | ||||
Open Division Playoffs Cut-Off | ||||||||
25 | Neil Harkins | 154 | 77 | 77 | ||||
25 | Chloe Mortensen | 154 | 77 | 77 | ||||
27 | Lindsay Kraybill | 152 | 77 | 75 | ||||
28 | David Joud * | 100 | 100 | |||||
29 | Aaron Nelson * | 95 | 95 | |||||
30 | Chris Lindboe | 89 | 89 | |||||
30 | Chris Kochan | 89 | 89 | |||||
32 | TJ Beyer | 87 | 87 | |||||
32 | Dan Amrich | 87 | 87 | |||||
34 | Bella Gershtein | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | Ryan Hess | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | Mike Robertson | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | Audrey Abeyta | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | David Lettieri | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | John Morales | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | JR McGonigle | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | John Cena | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | Jonathan Snyder | 85 | 85 | |||||
34 | Addison Herndon | 85 | 85 | |||||
Current B Division Playoffs Cut-Off | ||||||||
34 | Gene X Hwang | 85 | 85 | |||||
45 | Michelle Rosenthal | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Eugene Gerhstein | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Aaron Taylor | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Dan Schulman | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Pete Haffner | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Becky Swafford | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Wesley Swafford | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Zena Wallace | 81 | 81 | |||||
45 | Megan Landers | 81 | 81 | |||||
54 | Jacqui Delgado | 77 | 77 | |||||
54 | Nick Simberg | 77 | 77 | |||||
54 | Brittany Shoot | 77 | 77 | |||||
54 | Katina Compoginis | 77 | 77 | |||||
54 | Katrin Auch | 77 | 77 | |||||
54 | Devon Yates | 77 | 77 |
The cumulative prize pot from entry fees throughout the series of qualifying tournaments will be split 70%/30% between Open and B Division playoffs.
There will be cash prizes and awards for first through fourth place in the playoff tournaments in each division.
For Friday night tournaments, there will be prizes including Scarlet City gift certificates, passes to Playland-not-at-the-Beach, and pinball coupons to use on the machines at Hi-Life Pizza for first through third place winners, as well as the highest finishing novice player (world ranking no better than 2000).
The Set Phasers to Flip tournament series is an IFPA sanctioned event, and all participants will receive points towards their World Pinball Player Ranking (or become a world ranked player at the end of the series, if they are not already).
Current machines at Scarlet City are Star Trek (Stern, 2013), Transformers (Stern, 2011), Demolition Man (Williams, 1994), Star Trek: The Next Generation (Williams, 1993), Terminator 2 (Williams, 1991), Silver Slugger (Gottlieb, 1990).