WA State Match Play Tourney

Name: WA State Match Play Tourney
Start: 2026-01-17T15:00:00-08:00
Location: The Ice Box Arcade

Schedule

Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 03:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

The Ice Box Arcade | Seattle, WA

Washington State Match Play Tourney, Open to All, All Ages, 64 limit
To enable players to watch the state championships while competing in their own tournament, we're hosting a co-located Match-Play tournament that is open to all.
Register and pay Entry Fee ($10) by 2:45pm. Doors open Noon.
This tournament will begin at approximately 3:00pm, after the quarter finals (round of 8 of the state championships begins.
Players can practice on machines (pay-for-play) prior to the start of the tournament. However, all players are asked to immediately give up their game if there is a state championship match waiting on that particular machine.
Each round, for 6 rounds, players will be grouped into 4-player games (possibly some 3-player games), 7-5-3-1 scoring in 4-player games, 7-4-1 in 3-player games.
With 21 or more players, top 8 players after qualifying move on to semi-finals. First tie-breaker is number of 1st place finishers, then number of second place finishers, etc. If still a tie for a key position of who moves on, then a one-game tie-breaker is played on a randomly selected machine among the tied players. Ties that affect seeding only will be broken randomly. With 20 or less players, top 4 move on straight to finals.
Semi-finals played as two groups of four, each group playing three games (2 classics and 1 modern), with 4-2-1-0 scoring. The two players with most points move on. In case of a tie to move on, there will be a one-game tie-breaker among tied players on the 1st machine of the players' bank in this round.
Finals is again played as three games (2 classics and 1 modern) with 4-2-1-0 scoring. A tie-breaker game is played among tied players to break any tie for the top 4 positions on the 1st machine of the players' bank in this round.