Steel City Pin-Golf Tournament #5


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2	https://tinyurl.com/pghpingolf5
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15	INSTANT INFO
16	Where:			Velum Fermentation 2120 Jane St. Pgh, Pa 15203
17	When:			June 19th - 21st, 2025
18	Fees:			See fees section below
19	Format:			Pingolf (score based)
20	Prizes			Top 8 in A & Top 4 in B Consolation.
21	Event Organizer/TD:			NICK JAQUAY
22	Contact			nick@pghpinball.com
23	Additional TDs			JARED SCHMIDT DJ RIEL
24	Pre-Registration Link:			Click Here!
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26	PINGOLF IS A GOLF THEMED PINBALL TOURNAMENT WHERE PLAYERS WILL PLAY A "COURSE" OF 9 PINBALL MACHINES, WHERE EACH MACHINE HAS A TARGET SCORE. THE AMOUNT OF BALLS THAT IT TAKES TO COMPLETE THE OBJECTIVE IS THE SCORE FOR THE HOLE.
27	YOU MUST PLAY THE COURSE WITH 3 OTHER PLAYERS*, AND HOLES DO NOT NEED TO BE PLAYED IN ORDER.
28	IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE A HOLE IN 3 BALLS A 1 STROKE PENALTY WILL BE ADDED TO YOUR SCORE FOR THAT HOLE.
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30	Rulings / Malfunctions:					IFPAPINBALL.com
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32	SCHEDULE
33		Thursday Qualifying Starts					7:00 PM
34		Thursday Qualifying Ends					11:00 PM
35		Friday Qualifying Starts					7:00 PM
36		Friday Qualifying Ends					10:00 PM
37		Saturday Qualifying Starts					11:00 AM
38		Last Call for Ticket Purchase					4:45 PM
39		Qualifying Ends (Hard Cut)					6:45 PM
40		Finals Start					7:00 PM
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43	THE COURSE
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55	OVERVIEW
56	-The INITIAL cost for the event is $40. (One-time $20 registration fee and (1) $20 Pin-Golf entry. On-site transactions are to be paid via CASH or CARD. (If paying card, we will add a 10% fee to cover local taxes and service fee.) Pre-registrants will receive one additional Pin-Golf entry. All pre-registrants can be paid via Venmo to venmo.com/u/n-jqy or PayPal to paypal.me/jqy Pre-Registration opens May 1st 2025 and will close on June 13th, 2025. Pre-registration is not required. All items are non-transferable. All payments are non-refundable. If you would like to purchase an additional ticket, all following tickets are $20. Last ticket sold at 4:30pm Saturday. Pre-registrants will receive one additional entry for free. NOTE: in buying an additional ticket, you still must be paired up with at least one other player before starting your course.
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59	FEES
60	Registration Fee					$20
61	Pingolf Entry Fee					$20
62	MiniGolf Entry Fee					$2 Paid via tokens at the minigolf hole
63	Service Fee					10% if paying via card
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66	PARKING
67	Being that we will be here all day, the brewery asks that we park 1 block over in the UPMC lot at 2310 Jane St.. (See map) Velum’s parking lot can hold about 20 cars but we should save them for their non pinball customers who are coming and going. The UPMC lot has about 70 spots. The security guard that monitors itknows we will be parking there. If you have any questions, please text Nick @412.706.3293
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70	RULES RUNDOWN
71	Full IFPA Rules for the PinGolf format can be found here: https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournament_pages/pingolf/
72	- Players will be play a course of 9 games in groups of 4 players. You may not begin until your group has 4 players. (Players may play in groups of 2 -3 players on Saturday only after 3pm with permission from a TD only.) Players do not have to play the course in order but it is recommended to prevent errors on score sheet. ( In the event that a game should go down in the middle of the tournament and it is unrepairable, a new game will be selected in it's place. The new game will be as similar as possible to the disabled game. The TD will make the final decision on the substituted game if necessary.) Each Pin-Hole will consist of a pinball machine with a target score objective. The number of balls it takes for the player to reach that target objective will represent the number of Pin-Strokes earned for that hole. Should a player not reach the target score after a full game is completed, a 1 stroke value will be applied to their score. All machines will be set to 3 ball. A maximum of 4 Pin-Strokes per Pin-Hole will be enforced. Scores will be cumulative across all rounds played. All attempts will be made for extra balls to be disabled for all machines. Should a player earn an extra ball, they will play it as part of the same Pin-Stroke on that particular Pin-Hole. Tilting through someone elses ball will result in a one stroke penalty for the offender. The player whose ball was tilted will wait until their turn is up again and play with 1 stroke subtracted from their score. TD will attempt to take measures with older games to prevent tilt throughs. Slam tilting a game in progress will result in a score of 4 strokes for that hole. A second offense will result in a disqualification from the tournament. Only thr Pingolf qualifying games will be on free play at Velum but will be reset back to coindrop after qualifying, before final rounds as more than just the qualifying games will be used for finals. Rulings and Malfunctions will follow the IFPA/PAPA rules: www.PAPA.org;
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109	FINALS
110	Finals Rounds: Top 8 qualify for A division finals. Top 8 B eligible players qualify for B. , All remaining players qualify for a consolation 3 strikes. Top 4 will receive prizes! Significant tiebreakers into A and B division and byes (if applicable) will play 1 FULL game, 3 ball outcome based on a pre-selected game by the TD. Insignifiacnt tiebreakers within division will be based on most hole-in-ones. If the number of hole-in-ones are equal than a 1 ball playoff will be held. Finals rounds will be played on 3 games with PAPA scoring (4-2-1-0). Banks will be selected at the end of qualifying. Banks will cheage after each round. Seeding and games selection are based on the session play format, and top seed gets first choice of order on the first game. After the first game the lowest score gets choice of order on the 2nd and 3rd games , followed by 3rd, 2nd and 1st place scorers. If there is a tie at the conclusion of the 3 game final, the tiebreaker will be 1 full game on a TD selected machine and the person with the originally higher seed will get choice of position. FINALS GAME BANKS Finals games will be selected by TDs after qualifying has ended. From all games in the facility, not jsut from the pingolf games. For A division, 4 banks of 3 games will be created at the beginning of Round 1 of finals. Top seed of each group will have selection of bank and choice of order for the first game. The group with the highest seed will have bank selection first, followed by the second highest, etc.. No two banks can be selected in a single round. At the end of each round, banks will be redrawn and a new list of banks will be presented to the proceeding round players. This process will take place for all 4 rounds of finals. For round 2, only 3 bankls will be created. For the final 4 player group, only 2 banks will be created and the hightest seeded player will be able to choose between the 2 of them. FINALS FOR B DIVISION WILL BE A THREE STRIKES FORMAT WHERE THE BOTTOM 2 IN A 3 OR 4 PLAYER GROUP RECEIVE A STRIKE. A restricted players are any players rabked higher than 1500 in the IFPA rankings.
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112	SCPL HIGH SCORE MINI GOLF
113	A SINGLE GAME WILL BE SELECTED AND A HIGH SCORE TOURNAMENT WILL BE RUN ON IT EACH NIGHT. WINNER WILL RECEIVE 50% OF THE TAKE. THE MINI GAME SCHEDULE WILL RUN ALONGSIDE QUALIFYING EACH NIGHT.
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115	THURSDAY GAME:				TBD
116	FRIDAY GAME:				TBD
117	SATURDAY GAME:				TBD
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126	THINGS TO KNOW
127	Parking at Velum is limited, however, the UPMC lot a block and a half over allows Velum patrons to park there on evenings and weekends. Please park there and save the limited spots in front of the building for their regular patrons since we'll be there all day. Games are all on coin drop, only the tournament games will be on free play. No atm on site but one of the changers takes cards. The arcade is not closed so please be courteous to non-tournament players. If someone is on a game that is needed for the tournament, feel free to call for a TD.
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130	2025 PINBURGH TICKET DRAWING
131	All registered players will receive 1 entry into the drawing for 2025 Pinburgh Match Play Championships. All players who qualify for finals in A and B division will receive 1 extra entry into the raffle. Players will receive 1 more additional ticket for every finals round advancement in both A and B. Top 4 in the consolation tournament will also recveive an additional entry to the raffle. Any additional pingolf entry purchased will receive an additional entry into the raffle. The drawing will take place at the conclusion of all competitive play. Restrictions: - The Pinburgh ticket is non-transferrable once awarded. - If the person who wins the Pinburgh ticket already has a ticket or cannot attend they will be given the cash value of the ticket ($350) by Pinburgh, as long as they contact doug@pghpinball within 7 days of the draw. The ticket CANNOT be sold or transferred to anyone.
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133	SCPL Pinball Machine Giveaway
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135	Steel City Pinball League will be raffling off a pinball machine! The Pinburgh 2025 Pingolf Satellite Tournament will be a qualifyed event to earn entries to win a pinball machine! see more info by following the link here: tinyurl.com/scplclassics [giveaway section is all the way at the bottom]
136	RULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE UP TO THE TIME OF EVENT. ANY QUESTIONS, EMAIL STEELCITYPINBALL@GMAIL.COM