I ran a kids/youth tournament last year in Delaware and had 24 kids show up, well technically 22 since 2 of the kids were mine. I had 12-13 games available but used 10 for the tournament. Since pinball in the wild is pretty non-existent in Delaware I wanted the kids to come play and enjoy all of the machines and since 18 of the kids had never played pinball at all, I didn’t want them intimidated by match play or strikes. Instead I had pre-printed score sheets for all 10 games, with 2 lines to record their scores. At their leisure, and within the 2.5 hour “qualifying session”, they had to go play each game 2 times, have the “official scorekeeper at each game” record their scores and then turn in the sheets to me. From there I manually entered their high scores into match play to determine who advanced to the finals. Due to the large turnout, and assorted ages, I had 2 separate divisions. The finals, were standard PAPA style finals across 3 games to determine overall winners. Everyone had a blast and I’m currently in the process of planning the next one. By the way, this was NOT IFPA sanctioned.
Details of my tournament are here: