Lumberjack Johnny’s infamous WPPR Chopper tournament. New format for 2025! Hybrid Best Game.
The Event has 30 hours of Qualifying plus a day and a half of finals. Ignore the Eventbrite 8 Hour call out
Start Date: February 27, 2025
End Date: March 02, 2025
Lumberjack Johnny’s WPPR Chopper Pinball Tournament 2025
Thursday February 27th thru Sunday March 2nd
Location:
Lumberjack Johnny’s – APPLETON, WI
2701 N. Oneida Street
Appleton, WI 54911
Format: Hybrid Best Game qualifying on 12 machines - total of 48 entries
Each participant must play each of the 12 games at least once.
30 Hours of qualifying, need not be present for the entire time of qualifying.
Limited to 100 people.
Entry fee $150
Top 16 making playoffs with 32-47 people
Top 24 making playoffs with 48-79 people
Top 40 making playoffs with 80-100 people
Playoffs will be papa style three (3) games 4-2-1-0 in groups of 4 with
The top Two (2) advancing from each group.
Highest seed will pick all three (3) games in each group.
Available games based on game position (1st, 2nd, 3rd), therefore, a game can only be picked Three (3) times each round by all groups. Aka once a game is picked three (3) times in a round it is no longer available to picked by the remaining groups.
Qualifying times:
Thursday Noon – 10pm (10 Hours)
Friday noon-11pm (11 hours)
Saturday 9am-6pm (9hours)
Tiebreakers Saturday 6pm-7pm if necessary.
Playoffs
Saturday first round 7pm,
Saturday second round 9pm.
Sunday 10am completion of remaining rounds.
Payouts
1st place 17%
2nd Place 9%
3rd Place 7%
4th Place 5%
5th – 8th Place 2%
9th - 16th Place 0.5%
New in box pinball machine to given away at the tournament.
Minimum of 60 tournament entries for game raffle to kick. If game raffle does not kick player winning percentages will be adjusted favorably.
Earned raffle ticket format.
Must be present to win, player must enter the tournament to qualify for game.
Earning opportunities:
One ticket with each tournament entry
One additional ticket for GC score on tournament games (As recorded at end of qualifying)
One additional ticket for advancing to finals.
One additional ticket for finishing in the top 8 in finals
One additional ticket for advancing to the top 4 in finals
Five additional tickets for taking first place in finals
$100 buy in for extra tickets.
Registration opens December 1st.
$150 registration fee
REFUND POLICY – Registration can be refunded minus a $10 service fee up to one week before the event start, no refunds within one week of event start.
For more information please e-mail dave@escaperoomwisconsin.com
Secondary Tournament
This is available as an add on in the shopping cart upon check out.
8 Games to qualify on.
These games are different games from the primary tournament
Qualifying is all day Thursday and Friday.
Top 24 contestants make the playoffs
9AM Saturday playoffs begin
Format: Hybrid Best Game qualifying on 8 machines - total of 32 entries
Each participant must play each of the 8 games at least once.
20 Hours of qualifying, need not be present for the entire time of qualifying.
Entry fee $35
Prize Pool is sperate from the main tournament
No new in box game tickets are earned in this secondary tournament
Top 16 making playoffs with 32-47 people
Top 24 making playoffs with 48+
Limited to a max of 24 players in the finals
Playoffs will be papa style three (3) games 4-2-1-0 in groups of 4 with
The top Two (2) advancing from each group.
Highest seed will pick all three (3) games in each group.
Available games based on game position (1st, 2nd, 3rd), therefore, a game can only be picked Three (3) times each round by all groups. Aka once a game is picked three (3) times in a round it is no longer available to picked by the remaining groups.
Qualifying times:
Thursday Noon – 10pm (10 Hours)
Friday noon-11pm (11 hours)
Finals:
Saturday 9am-5pm