Name: Northwest Pinball Championships 2025
Start: 2025-08-22T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-24T23:00:00-07:00
Location: Lynnwood Bowl and Skate

This year we are returning with TWO MASSIVE IFPA CERTIFIED+ events (potential 300% total value), part of 5 total IFPA events across the weekend.
We also continue to be part of the Stern Pro Circuit
https://sternpinball.com/stern-pro-circuit/
2025 updated changes:
CLASSIC has an expanded finals, with TOP 28 in the main finals (top 4 with a bye).
We are changing the high stake tournament to a charity tournament with $20/card and 50% of the prize pool going to the Project Pinball Charity. This is still limited to 80 players.
Introduction of the "Pinhead package" on sale first starting 6/14 which is the only way to play in the Charity event.
Details:
NW Pinball Championships 2025
August 21st to 24th (Qualifying Thu 5-8pm for Women, Fri noon-midnight / Sat 10am-11pm, Finals Saturday for Women's and Classic, Sunday for Open and Charity tournaments)
Registration (limited to 150 players max) will open on 6/14 at Noon Pacific on the website for Pinhead package, 6/21 for general registration.
100% of the tournament tickets/cards money is paid back to the players as prizes, topped with generous contributions from our sponsors. Over $32,000 was paid out in prize last year (including trophies)!
We are continuing to receive great feedback about our new venue of the past 4 events and we are happy to announce we will be returning to the Lynnwood Bowl & Skate for 2025!
More at http://www.nwpinballchamps.com/
We take great pride in having an extremely dialed and enjoyable lineup and overall providing a world-class tournament experience.
The OPEN division qualifying will continue with the "card of 5 games" format this year, the top TOP 2 cards will now count toward your ranking. The bank will be 10 games.
The CLASSIC tournament qualifier will continue with the "card of 4 games" format this year, the top TOP 2 cards will now count toward your ranking. The bank will be 8 games.
The WOMEN's tournament qualifier will use the same format as the OPEN division, with a "card of 4 games" out of a bank of 6, TOP 2 cards will count.
The CHARITY division will use the same format as the OPEN division, with a "card of 5 games" out of a bank of 6, TOP 2 cards count.
The SUNDAY REVENGE tournament will be a 4 player group Knockout tournament on the Classic bank.
For finals, a player cannot repeat the same machine pick across all the rounds in the finals. The tournament director will track the machine pick to make sure there is no repeated machine choice until that player picked all the games available.
All the games and position shall be picked by the players at the beginning of each rounds for all 3 games in that round.
We will be streaming the finals on Saturday and Sunday all day. We will also stream the qualifying on Friday and Saturday (depending on availability). All this thanks for our partnership with GeekGamer.TV
The Northwest Pinball Championships is open to players of all skill levels and ages. It is a multi-day qualifying tournament followed by a day of finals. During qualifying on Friday and Saturday players purchase cards for OPEN/CHARITY (5 games per card), CLASSICS/WOMEN (4 games per card) to play on the tournament machines. Players may purchase as many cards as they like but there will be lots of opportunities for free tickets (Volunteering, pre-tournaments...).
A $40 registration fee is required to play in any of the tournaments (also required to use free entries).
Pinhead package will be priority registration for $120 including registration, 1 card for Open, Classic and Charity as well as our NWPC 2025 Tee-shirt. Limited to 80 tickets, these are the only online tickets for the charity tournament.
OPEN division cards (5 games per card) will be 1 for $20.
CLASSICS division cards (4 games per card) will be 1 for $15.
WOMEN'S division cards (4 games per card) will be 1 for $15.
CHARITY division cards (5 games per card) will be 1 for $20.
The SUNDAY CONSOLATION event will be a Group Progressive 11 strike classic revenge tournament (0/1/2/3 strikes per group), limited to 40 players. $10 sign up, anyone is welcome (registered for NWPC main event or not), registration open at 11:00AM or after round 1 Open finals finish, whichever is latest, trophy for winner, pay out to top 4.
Combo #1 - 1 Open Card, 1 Classic Card, and 1 Charity Card for $55.
Combo #2 - 2 Open Cards, 2 Classic Cards, and 2 Charity Card for $110.
Each player's best score on each machine is tracked in a computer and those scores are ranked against all the other competitor's scores on that machine. Players then receive an aggregate of their machine rankings (on a card or through all their best individual tickets) to determine their overall qualifying position in their division.
Anyone making it to a final on Sunday will get cash prizes! All top 4 finalist will get trophy/plaques to take home!
There will also be several activities including charity drive, swag raffles and more...!
We will have more announcement in the future as well as the banks line up!