Ball Save Social Club Pinball Tournament
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Introducing a new beginner-friendly monthly pinball tournament: Ball Save Social Club! Monthly on first Wednesdays.
The goal is to keep BSSC a casual space that boosts new players and further helps build the community. It's also a place to highlight the skilled players in our community that are willing to share the secrets and take on a challenge. The tournament starts at 7:00pm however if you are there at 6:00pm and are a newer or lower skilled player the TD can find a higher skilled player to play some games with you to either teach rules or flipper skills.
Getting wrecked constantly can be exhausting and discouraging. So the difference with BSSC and other tournaments is the introduction of a handicap system. Inspired by bowling leagues and golf tournaments to help even the playing field and make it more fair. The format will be 4 games of a matchplay format with a one game final for the top 4.
Handicaps will be determined by player ratings in Match Play. Handicaps will be a percentage taken off of your score at the end of the game.
Expert: 40% off
A: 30% off
B: 15% off
C: 0% off
D, E and unrated: 0% off and can play one extra ball
Example with a score of 1,304, 216,800 this is what would count
Expert: 782,530,080 (1,304, 216,800 × 0.6)
A: 912,951,760 (1,304, 216,800 x 0.7)
B: 1,108,584,280 (1,304,216,800 x 0.85)
C: 1,304,216,800
D, E and unrated: 1,304,216,800 (plus an extra ball)
Sometimes an experimental format may happen!
The goal is to keep BSSC a casual space that boosts new players and further helps build the community. It's also a place to highlight the skilled players in our community that are willing to share the secrets and take on a challenge. The tournament starts at 7:00pm however if you are there at 6:00pm and are a newer or lower skilled player the TD can find a higher skilled player to play some games with you to either teach rules or flipper skills.
Getting wrecked constantly can be exhausting and discouraging. So the difference with BSSC and other tournaments is the introduction of a handicap system. Inspired by bowling leagues and golf tournaments to help even the playing field and make it more fair. The format will be 4 games of a matchplay format with a one game final for the top 4.
Handicaps will be determined by player ratings in Match Play. Handicaps will be a percentage taken off of your score at the end of the game.
Expert: 40% off
A: 30% off
B: 15% off
C: 0% off
D, E and unrated: 0% off and can play one extra ball
Example with a score of 1,304, 216,800 this is what would count
Expert: 782,530,080 (1,304, 216,800 × 0.6)
A: 912,951,760 (1,304, 216,800 x 0.7)
B: 1,108,584,280 (1,304,216,800 x 0.85)
C: 1,304,216,800
D, E and unrated: 1,304,216,800 (plus an extra ball)
Sometimes an experimental format may happen!
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Where is it happening?
115 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR, United States, Oregon 97209
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Host or PublisherGround Kontrol Classic Arcade
