The date is set for the next (fourth) round in the 2009 Pinball Passion/Castles N’ Coasters Pinball Tournament series, dubbed The Phoenix…  For those of you who do not realize, Castles N’ Coasters has one of the largest collections of pinball machines in the country and we are happy to support another event at CnC. Additionally, all rankings are submitted to and kept in the World Pinball Player Rankings which you can find at: http://www.pinballrankings.com/

Information:
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Registration: 5:30 PM
Tournament Start: 6:00 PM
Cost: $10.00 to enter
Prizes: 40% of the pot for 1st, 25% of the pot for 2nd, 10% of the pot for 3rd, and 4th place gets 20 arcade game credits
Castles N’ Coasters is located at 9445 Metro Parkway East Phoenix, Arizona 85051

Rules:
The tournament manager will select 6-8 machines for the tournament
Pinball machines will be placed in tournament mode with 3 balls total, no “extra” balls
Each player will have one chance/play on the machine, scores will be recorded and ranked
Points will be awarded by place/rank on score, starting from 50 and working down in 2 point increments
(1st = 50 points, 2nd = 48 points, 3rd = 46 points, etc.)
The overall tournament winner/places will be determined by combining the points from all games played at the tournament, the highest scores will be ranked from 1st to last
Stuck balls will be reset in the shooter lane
In the event of a machine failure, all games played on the machine will be voided and re-played on a back-up/pre-selected machine

Once the event is over we will post up the full season’s standings/results.

As always, you can contact us at info@thetemplearcade.com to answer any questions, feel free to post up comments/questions here as well.

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