WPPR Chopper 2025

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

TOURNAMNET PAYOUT PREDICTION BELOW:

Also note the cool belt artwork, this was just ordered for our event Grand Champion.

Here is the example of the payouts if we hit 100% attendance of 100 people at our tournament.

1st 17% $2,550.00
2nd 9% $1,350.00
3rd 7% $1,050.00
4th 5% $750.00
5th - 8th 2% $300.00 each
9th - 16th 0.5% $75.00 each

Plus a chance at winning a NIB Stern Pinball Machine.
As people buy additional tickets for the machine during the tournament the prize pool will also increase.
Here is an example of 100 attendees and 30 additional tickets sold.

1st 17% $3,060.00
2nd 9% $1,620.00
3rd 7% $1,260.00
4th 5% $900.00
5th - 8th 2% $360.00
9th - 16th 0.5% $90.00

For the secondary tournament you need to already have joined the main. Here are the predicted prizes if we also hit 100 people.

1st 35% $1,225
2nd 18% $630
3rd 10% $350
4th 8% $280
5th - 8th 2.25% $79 Each

We will be adding additional “Benefits” to the event. There will be food for players on certain days, daily drink and food specials, raffle prize support from our local sponsors and more.