Strike Out

NEW!!: The first leg of the Pincinnati Triple Crown will be held at Arcade Legacy the Thursday before Pincinnati. Starts at 6pm, check in at 5:30pm. Limited to 80 entries. Matchplay.events will be used to run the tournament.

This will be a 9 strikes progressive tournament where 1st place gets no strikes, second place gets one strike, third place gets two strikes, and 4th place gets 3 strikes. When you have 9 strikes, you are out. We will go until only one player remains. Once there are only 2 players left, the loser of each game will receive 2 strikes instead of 1.

First round groupings are random. After that, you will be grouped with players that have a similar number of strikes. Player order will be balanced.

If you are late for your current round's game and you have not communicated with your group where you are, you will be plunged until you return. Please be respectful of the other players' time. If your entire game has to be plunged for you, you will receive a game score of zero for that round. If you are late more than once in the event, you will be eliminated from the tournament.

Payouts will be to the top 8 players. After a $500 show fee, IFPA fees, and trophy expenses, the payouts will be as follows:

Strike Out Tournament Payouts

1st - 40% and trophy
2nd - 20% and plaque
3rd - 10% and plaque
4th - 6% and plaque
5th through 8th - 6%

Friday Women's Tournament

Group matchplay (7/5/3/1) is on Friday 12/5 from 1pm to 4 pm for 3 hours. Groups were 3 or 4 players, balanced pairing, IFPA scoring. After 2.5 hours, the top 50% (capped at 24) of women advance to the finals. Tie breakers are determined by a full game to decide player position for the "ladder" style finals.

Finals will take place on Saturday, 12/6 at 9:45 am. Please arrive at 9:15 am to check in and determine order for the race. Finals are amazing race style. With our determined ladder seating coming out of the Best Game qualifying, the first seed will walk up to the first game in a 6-8 game row and place the highest score they can with three balls. They will stay at that game till the second seed plays their first game on the same machine. If player two surpasses player ones score at anytime within their 3 ball limit they will move on to machine two and start playing their game on that machine. If player two is unable to surpass player ones score with three balls they will remain waiting on game one and player three will start their first game on machine one, while player one proceeds to play machine two. Whomever has the lowest score and did not proceed to the next machine in line will be eliminated from the competitors. Play will continue until one stands who will then be crowned the winner.

Entry into Pincinnati is required and not included in the women's fee. Entry is $20 dollars and the top half will receive payment with top 4 receiving money and trophies. Pre-registration is on matchplay under “Pincinnati Women's 2025”

Players may add themselves or email tournament director Bre Reynolds at brescrossstitch@gmail.com. It is NOT necessary as you can sign up the day of.

Whodey Memorial Match Play Tournament

NEW: IFPA top 250 ranked players on 7/1 will owe an additional $60 0f entry fees (on top of the initial entry fee of $60) for a total of $120. All additional fees will be added to the total prize pool of the event. Day 1 starts at 5 pm on 12/5, check in at 4:30 pm. We will play 12 rounds of qualifying and then stop for the day. Estimated finish time Friday is 12am. limited to 140 entries. After 6 of the 12 qualifying rounds, there will be a 30-min break. Log into Matchplay.events to see your groupings, enter results for your group, and follow along with the event.

Qualifying rounds of 13-20 will be played on Day 2, 12/6. Starts at 2pm with check in at 1:30pm. After the qualifying, there will be a 2 hour break from after all tie breakers are played out. Estimated start time of finals is 8:30pm.

Qualifying will be single game matchplay (3 and 4 player groups). First round groupings are Random. After that, you will be grouped based on tiered Swiss pairings. Scoring will be IFPA which awards 7,5,3,1 points for 4 player groups, and 7,4,1 scoring for 3 player groups.

Top 40 players after 20 rounds will make A finals. The next 8 players will make B finals. Qualifying will end approximately at 6:00pm on Saturday and finals will start at approximately 8:30pm and B finals will finish approximately at midnight. There will be no IFPA ranking restrictions on making the finals. Anyone ranked in the top 100 IFPA at the start of the event can play in B but cannot win cash prizes. Those will move down to the eligible players.

A division Finals - Top 4 will receive a double bye, the next 12 will receive a single bye. 16 will play in the quarterfinals. Each group will play 3 games using PAPA 4,2,1,0 scoring. The top two players from each group will advance to the next round. First two rounds will be played Saturday night and the final two rounds will be played on Sunday starting at 10am and finishing approximately at 2pm.

Sunday. The final 8 will play in the semifinals with the same rules with the top two from each group advancing to the final 4. The final four will play 3 more games to decide the winner.

The three games played each round of finals are chosen by picking a 3 games, one from each bank from the list which will have three lists of various eras. The top seed of the group will choose the games (once a game has been chosen 3 times that round, it is out for the rest of that round). They cannot choose position. The player positions are predetermined and are as follows:

Game 1: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 2, P4 - Seed 1
Game 2: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 2
Game 3: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 2, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 3

B division finals - Same format as A division. B Division will play along with A Division however if a game has been chosen 3 times already by A, that game is not available for B. See A finals above for the order in which B groups choose.

Payouts will be the top 24 players in A and the top 4 in B. After a $1000 show fee, IFPA fees, and trophy expenses, the payouts will be as follows:

Whodey Memorial Match Play Tournament Payouts

A division payouts:
1st - 30% and trophy
2nd - 12.5% and plaque
3rd - 7.5% and plaque
4th - 5% and plaque
5th-8th - 2.5%
9th-16th - $120
17th-24th - $60
B division payouts:
1st - 9% and a trophy
2nd - 4% and plaque
3rd - 3% and plaque
4th - 1% and plaque

Sunday Running of the Gauntlet

Gauntlet runs start at 10 am. Pay at the Gauntlet entrance in cash only. $10 per run. There are 6 games in the Gauntlet. Each game will have a posted goal on them. These goals will be posted on the games all weekend at the show so practice early! This is a time trial type event. When you start, you have 6 mins to complete all 6 tasks.

If you complete the 6 tasks in under 6 mins, we will take down your time and rank it against the other players. If you fail to complete all 6 tasks, we will use the number of tasks you did complete for the standings.

Before you can run the gauntlet a second time, there must be no one waiting to play their first attempt. We want to get a chance to as many unique players as possible.

If you are in the top 8 of times recorded by 2pm, you will make finals. First round of finals will have each player run the gauntlet again in groups of 4. Top 2 from each group will. Once 4 players remain, they will run the gauntlet one more time, and the best time will win. Players with the fastest times from the previous round will go last in the following rounds.

Payouts will be to the top 4 players. After a 20% show fee, IFPA fees, and trophy expenses, the payouts will be as follows:

Sunday Running of the Gauntlet Payout

1st - 50% and trophy
2nd - 25% and plaque
3rd - 15% and plaque
4th - 10% and plaque