Official Allentown Pinball Tournament Info - May 2-3, 2025:
We are changing it up a little bit this year after carefully considering your nuanced feedback, providing extra chances and reducing the cost per game!
The Allentown Pinfest Tournament entry fee has been slashed from $130 to $100 in 2025!
$100 gets you 12 games to test your mettle; Play each one of the games in our bank. Every one of your 12 games counts.
Also new for 2025, you can buy three “do over” entries! Buy them for an additional $40 and play THREE additional “do-over” entries on the three games of your choice. Improve your scores! Unbeef your beef! Take a mulligan - or three!
If you’d also like to play in the Pinfest Women’s Tournament, it’s an additional $30, or $50 if you are only playing in Women’s and not in the main.
—Tournament Rules and Schedule ------
Qualifying - Friday, May 2, 12-9 pm. You will play 12 one-player qualifying games, at your own leisure. Lines are never an issue as this is a limited entry tournament. This year, you can buy three additional “mulligan” entries on the games of your choice. The top 40 (24 in A, 16 in B [restricted to IFPA rank 250 or higher]) will play in the finals.
Finals - Saturday, May 3, 9:30 am - 7ish Finals will be held Saturday. These will be four-player groups, PAPA style, until we whittle it down to the final 4, with one final four player game deciding the champ!
Cash prizes will be determined on site, depending on number of participants. Trophies and glory will be awarded to the winners!
We are looking for scorekeepers for shifts on Friday, any help appreciated. We’ll be awarding schwag and other compensation. If you want to help us out with an hour or so of scorekeeping please let us know!
----Contribute Your Game for the Tournament; Free Show Entry and Other Perks!—
Bring a game for the tournament, get into the show all weekend (including Thursday, May 1, early entry) AND the tournament, for free. THat’s a $145 value! Please contact me directly if you are interested in these perks and benefits!
Exclusive Benefits include-
EARLY ENTRY! Get into Allentown on Thursday for tournament setup when all the sweet early deals go down.
BEAT THE LINES! You don’t have to wait in the long entry lines with the unwashed masses; pick up your wrist band on Thursday, or come in the back to the tournament entry Friday/Saturday and pick up your Allentown Pinfest wristband.
MORE PERKS:
Your game gets played 150 times max all weekend, vs. the untold hundreds of plays it will get on the free play floor all weekend. Less wear and tear, and all games played under watchful and protective eyes of our staff. We will also have techs on hand to address any issues.
You can still easily sell your game. We sold five games out of our tournament bank last year. Only stipulation is the game has to stay through the tournament Saturday night (around 6pm)
You can play in the tournament for free, which is fun. You play 12 games the entire day on Friday, and if you make the finals, you’ll play in them on Saturday. Fun, chill, limited entry tournament you play on your own time at your own pace on your own schedule. No endless match play death march here!
We are looking for games of all eras. I’ll be reaching out next month to folks who have brought us games before, look forward to seeing you all and working with you again this year. We are going to downsize the bank a little (having 20+ games was more work and more games than we needed), so let me know if you are planning on bringing something for us!
Requirements-
Get the game there on Thursday so we can set up for the tournament. Certain exceptions will be made for people who can get there (very) early on Friday
Game works and is tournament-ready. No issues, with a working tilt. We don’t really care about cosmetic condition as long as the games play nicely and will likely hold up for the weekend. We love “players” games!
We will need the game till Saturday evening around 6pm.
Be prepared to help setup and break the game down for us as we’ll be very busy.
THanks gang!