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

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.