St. Paddy's Day Pinball Tournament at Firefly

Name: St. Paddy's Day Pinball Tournament at Firefly
Start: 2025-03-17T17:00:00-04:00
Location: FIREFLY Charlottesville

Schedule

Mon, 17 Mar, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

FIREFLY Charlottesville | Charlottesville, VA

Come celebrate St. Patrick's Day with us! Firefly is usually closed on Monday's but they are opening their doors at 5:00 for a special holiday evening! The bar and kitchen will be open and the IFPA sanctioned pinball tournament will start at 6:30 sharp. This tournament will be supported by the Charlottesville Derby Dames with prizes and merch for sale. The custom rethemed pinball machine at Firefly has been raising money for the team which will be handed off at the beginning of the tournament!
$10 entry fee (cash only - ATM on site) plus coin-drop (estimated to be another $10 cash). In hopes of making for a more complex and engaging experience, this will be a two-stage tournament. The first stage will be a progressive fair-strike qualifier. We will play in groups of three or four players on assigned games. Winner gets 0 strikes, middle places get 1 strike, and the loser gets 2 strikes. 7 strikes result in elimination, until we are down to the final four players. Once we have four players, we will move onto an 'amazing race' finals round. The worst seed puts up a 1-player target score on an assigned game, and the following three players all attempt to beat that score. If you beat the score, you move onto to the next machine. If someone doesn't beat the target score, that becomes the new target score. The person with the lowest score on the first game gets eliminated. This will continue until three different games are 'raced' and we will crown a winner!
All four finals qualifiers will get prizes. 100% of the $10 cash entry fees will be divided up; 1st gets 40%, 2nd gets 30%, 3rd gets 20%, and 4th gets 10%.