January MN Monthly

What: Bring Your Partner Foosball Tournament

MN Shuffle DYP and Singles Tournaments to follow

Double Elimination on four T-3000 Tornadoes

When: Saturday, January 5th

BYP Sign Ups close at 4:45 pm. First matches called at 5:00 pm.

No-Conflict Singles Sign Ups Close at 7:15, first matches called at 7:30

DYP Sign Ups close at 8 pm. First matches called at 8:30 pm (or as tables open up from the other events).

Where: Jimmy's s Pro Billiards

4040 Central Ave NE Columbia Heights, MN

100% payback** plus $50 kick-in from vendor split across the two main events.

$11** entry for BYP and DYP;

$6 entry for Singles, plus -beginners, -female foosers, -those with beginner partners, (foos guru discount) -and those that go 0-2 in the BYP. (Beginner status at TD discretion)

-BYP matches will be given priority when the events are running concurrently

-Expect the DYP to be split into an early and late bracket if we have more than 20 entrants

- Singles is No-Conflict w/ the BYP, meant for players knocked out of the BYP and as a warm up for later arrivals. Expect single elim or race to 7 in the loser's for singles with more than 8 players.

* As Jimmy's closes at 1 am, I want to ensure we finish by 1 am.

** $1 of each entry fee goes to new balls/parts.

Formats:

MN Shuffle DYP -

A form of 'every player for themselves hyper-draw' draw your partner invented by Tony Mason. The bracket is drawn up like a standard 'draw your partner.' As teams proceed in the bracket, they will 're-shuffle' with their tentative 'opponents' to form new teams for each match. For example, if A and B and C and D each won their previous match and meet each other in the next round, they will have a mini-draw between those four players to determine the teams for that round (usually by coin tosses). A would have a 1 in 3 chance of ending up with their former partner, B, but a 2 in 3 chance of playing against B with either C or D as their new partner.

This proceeds through each round. In double elimination, King Seat honors (requiring a double dip) only becomes relevant if the partners that won kings seat re-draw themselves at the final shuffle (there would be another shuffle before the 2nd set if necessary).