First State Flippers Presents - The 2022 Legacy of the Beast 24-Hour Battle - New Registration Date 8/22

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** TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION ALERT **

The 24 hour tournament is back in Delaware! Our first ever 24 hour battle took place in 2019 and sold out. Everyone who played in it had a blast and over the next 2 years players continually asked “when is the next 24 hour tournament??” Well, the time has finally come!!!

Did you miss out on a chance to play in the Sanctum’s 24 hour event for this year?

Did you play in our first ever 24 hour event and missed it so much you are ready to do it again?

Do you love pinball just as much as the rest of us and want to play in your first ever 24 hour event?

Do you love pinball so much that you are going to play in our 24 hour event as well as the Sanctum’s?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then make sure you set your reminders for THIS SUNDAY (8/14) at 8pm eastern as registration will go live on Eventbrite!

TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS SUNDAY (8/14) AT 8PM EASTERN ON EVENTBRITE (LINK BELOW)

NOTE - This event requires pre-registration. NO WALK INS ALLOWED

When: 10/1/22

Where: 1100 First State Blvd, Second Floor, Wilmington DE 19804

Time: 11AM SHARP START TIME (practice from 10:00am to 10:45am)

Cost: $80 for MEMBERS, $100 for NON-MEMBERS.

Must be paid in full within 48 hours using Paypal’s Friends & Family. Send all payments to firststateflippers@gmail.com

Players: Capped at 80 players (open to anyone)

Registration: All registration is handled through Eventbrite. Tickets go on sale 8/14 at 8:00pm est. When registering on Eventbrite you are allowed to buy up to 2 tickets at once. Registration closes on 9/30 at 5pm est. If you do not pay your entry fee within 48 hours, and we have a waitlist, your name will be removed from the player list and placed at the bottom of the waitlist. NOTE - When signing up for the waitlist, you can only sign up one person at a time.

FORMAT: Group Match Play for the entire event. No Finals. 3/2/1/0 scoring. Each round will consist of a 2 game bank (one modern and one classic). The banks may end up changing to random games, depending on the number of games that happen to die on us during the tournament. The first round will be a complete random pairing of groups, after that we will use Swiss pairing for all remaining rounds. We will play as many rounds as we can in the 24 hour block.

FINALS FORMAT: No Finals

**Full Refunds will be available until 9/4. After 9/4 we will still issue full refunds as long as we can fill your spot, otherwise 50% refund after 9/4 up until September 18th. 25% Refund until 9/25. No refunds after that.

*We will break for 1 hour around 8pm for dinner. Pizza will be delivered and provided by the Delaware Pinball Collective.

*Bottled water will be provided for free courtesy of the Delaware Pinball Collective.

*In addition to the pizza & water provided, we highly recommend that participants bring a cooler with food and beverages for the duration of the event. We do NOT have any freezer/fridge space. NOTE - I am in talks with a few local food trucks and as soon as I have confirmation I will let everyone know.

*Sodas & Coffee will cost $1 each. We may have energy drinks for sale at this event, price to be determined.

*We do not have our liquor license at this time, unless that changes before 10/1, you are allowed to bring your own adult beverages.

*We have SOME chairs and SOME tables. We encourage people to bring folding type chairs for additional seating as well as pillows/blankets should you need to find a place to catch a quick nap while waiting for the next round to start.

PRIZES AND PAYOUTS BASED ON 80 PLAYERS AND A $4000 PRIZE POOL***(subject to change):

*There are trophies for the top 4 finishers and cash prizes will be given to the top 4 competitors of the tournament.

***Finishing the 24 hour marathon will yield cash prizes to the winner of each 4-player group in the final round! The higher the ranking of your final group, the higher the prize purse for the final round. Any ties for the final round will be broken on a randomly drawn classic.

*Beating the Beast on Iron Maiden will win you $100

*Finally, every player who plays for all 24 hours and never sits out a round will be awarded a “First State Flippers Legacy of the Beast Battle” completion medallion, just like finishing a marathon.

Final Round Payouts:

Group 20 - $40

Group 19 - $45

Group 18 - $50

Group 17 - $55

Group 16 - $60

Group 15 - $65

Group 14 - $70

Group 13 - $75

Group 12 - $80

Group 11 - $85

Group 10 - $90

Group 9 - $95

Group 8 - $100

Group 7 - $105

Group 6 - $110

Group 5 - $115

Group 4 - $120

Group 3 - $125

Group 2 - $130

Group 1 - $135

OVERALL TOP 4 PRIZES:

1st - $1200 plus trophy

2nd - $600 plus trophy

3rd - $300 plus trophy

4th - $150 plus trophy

TENTATIVE GAME LIST (always subject to change):

Aerosmith Premium

Attack From Mars Remake LE

Avengers Infinity Quest Premium

Bank Shot (EM)

Baywatch

Beatles

Black Jack

Bobby Orr’s Power Play

Cactus Canyon SE

Comet

Conquest 200 (EM)

Dialed In LE

Eight Ball (with powerball)

Flight 2000

Future Spa

Getaway: High Speed 2

Godzilla PREMIUM

Grand Prix (EM)

Guardians of the Galaxy PRO

Harlem Globetrotters

Hot Shot (EM)

Iron Maiden PRO

Iron Man

Jet Spin

Joker Poker (SS)

Jurassic Park PRO

Meteor

Monster Bash Remake SE

NBA Fastbreak (x2)

Night Moves

Nitro Ground Shaker

Pro-Football (EM)

Rollergames (tournament ROM)

Rush PRO

Space Shuttle

Spirit of 76 (EM)

Star Trek PRO

Star Wars Comic PRO

TMNT Pro

Theatre of Magic (tournament ROM)

Tron

Whirlwind

White Water

Wild Fyre

World Cup Soccer 94

Wrestlemania

LODGING: Here are all the hotels located 3-4 miles from the Delaware Pinball Collective.

Red Roof PLUS+ Wilmington (2 star hotel) - 415 Stanton Christiana Rd, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 292-2870

Days Inn by Wyndham Newark Wilmington (2 star hotel) - 900 Churchmans Rd, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 368-2400

Hilton Wilmington/Christiana (4 star hotel) - 100 Continental Dr, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 454-1500

Extended Stay America - Newark - Christiana - Wilmington (2 star hotel) - 333 Continental Dr, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 283-0800

Sonesta Select Newark (3 star hotel) - 48 Geoffrey Dr, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 456-3800

Quality Inn (2 Star Hotel) - 65 Geoffrey Dr, Newark, DE 19713 - (302) 292-1500

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When did this happen?

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Coming in hot with pedantic questions.

  • When this change go into effect?
  • Is there any grandfathering? Seems like events (like this one) are potentially caught in a new rule with no enactment date.
  • Is this listed anywhere on the IFPA website aside from this new page? I wasn’t aware of this change until this post. The FAQ page still says 30 days prior and doesn’t mention pre-registration: Frequently Asked Questions
  • In your post are you questioning the submission date for this specific event? IFPA site doesn’t appear to keep track of Tournament Submission Date as a field, but it seems like this event has been on the site since at least late July based on dates of similar Tournament ID numbers.

On the Tournament registration page, even though the text is updated the form still lets you submit when you put in a pre-registration date prior to 30 days. So even though there’s (now) text on the page, there’s no enforcement mechanism on the site itself.

Everyone is invited to my “Test Tournament Please Delete” which will be in 2024. Pre-registration opens tomorrow.

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or = must pass one condition
and = must pass all conditions

so by the wording it’s should be fine

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:man_shrugging:

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I forget when @shep added it to the submission page, but it was after multiple complaints about people finding an event on the IFPA calendar only to realize they never had any chance of participating because the event was already filled months before it even made it’s way onto the IFPA calendar.

We’ve been rolling with a soft launch on this, although this pops up every time someone goes to submit an event to the calendar. Typically we’ll waive through a first time offender and expect them to be well aware of this rule from that point forward.

I don’t believe it’s anywhere else, although it does pop up every time a TD goes to submit an event to the IFPA calendar.

@Shep alerted this to me and said it wasn’t submitted to the IFPA calendar yet. If it has been already then it’s a nothing burger and all is well.

I think @Shep is still working on the functionality of how this is integrated to the submission module of our site. Plan on things being much tighter before we hit the 2023 season.

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Yeah looks like it’s #52998 International Flipper Pinball Association

Appreciate the replies!

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It was approved earlier in the week, so go sign up this Sunday at 8pm eastern!

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Yeah, not really sure how it happened, but I never saw this tournament on the pre-registration page, but now it’s there and I can’t explain why. Apologies for the mix up, I got up early for the 10 hour drive to District 82.

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good luck Shep~!

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did you change the wording to say that both must be 30 days prior?

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Get it Brian!

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   ** FINAL REGISTRATION REMINDER **
   ** REGISTRATION OPENS TONIGHT **
     ** DELAWARE’S 24-HOUR EVENT **
       ** CAPPED AT 80 PLAYERS **

The 24 hour tournament is back in Delaware! Our first ever 24 hour battle took place in 2019 and sold out. Everyone who played in it had a blast and over the next 2 years players continually asked “when is the next 24 hour tournament??” Well, the time has finally come!!!

Did you miss out on a chance to play in the Sanctum’s 24 hour event for this year?

Did you play in our first ever 24 hour event and missed it so much you are ready to do it again?

Do you love pinball just as much as the rest of us and want to play in your first ever 24 hour event?

Do you love pinball so much that you are going to play in our 24 hour event as well as the Sanctum’s?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then make sure you set your reminders for THIS SUNDAY (8/14) at 8pm eastern as registration will go live on Eventbrite!

TICKETS GO ON SALE THIS SUNDAY (8/14) AT 8PM EASTERN ON EVENTBRITE (LINK BELOW)

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Delaware’s 24-hour registration has been postponed. New date TBD. Issues with Eventbrite. My apologies everyone!

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*** NEW REGISTRATION DATE ***
THE 24-HOUR BATTLE TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE 8/22 AT 8PM EASTERN

Eventbrite was able to figure out the issue with the event. We did a test earlier tonight and everything worked. Tickets will go live Monday the 22nd at 8pm. The Eventbrite link is the same. Thank you and sorry for the snafu!

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*** TOMORROW NIGHT TICKETS GO ON SALE ***

THE 24-HOUR BATTLE TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE MONDAY NIGHT (8/22) AT 8PM EASTERN

Eventbrite was able to figure out the issue with the event. We did a test earlier tonight and everything worked. Tickets will go live Monday the 22nd at 8pm. The Eventbrite link is the same. Thank you and sorry for the snafu!

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Last chance to register for Delaware’s 24-hour event!