ECPC 2019 will happen on the weekend of December 13th-15th, in Boras, Sweden at Pinballseye.
Cost is 520 SEK (about €52) for the entire weekend.
Address: Pinballseye. Bryggaregatan 20, Borås, Sweden.
The location has around 80 pinball machines set up. The location is in central Boras within walking distance of many hotels and restaurants, as well as the Boras train and bus station. Boras is close to the GOT/Landvetter airport as well as the city of Gothenburg. From Landvetter, there are buses, cabs, or rental cars.
www.flixbus.se offers cheap bus transfer from the airport to Boras in about 30 minutes. From Gothenburg there are regular trains and local buses.
Friday at 19:00It starts with a 2.5h Frenzy with top 16 through to four-player semi and final. This is the Stern Army monthly tournament for this location, so there are Stern Army dogtags up for grabs for the top two, as well as some Stern swag like translites.
Registration for the Frenzy is at the venue before 1845 (cost included).
SaturdayPlayers will be assigned two of three shifts on Saturday. One each for the main tournament and for the modern side tournament. Players will be seeded into 13- or 14-player groups where everyone plays everyone once in a round-robin format. The same group and the same format will then be repeated during the next assigned shift, but with a switch in eras. Modern playoff rounds will start Saturday evening.
SundayRemaining modern round and the classics playoffs will be played.
There will also be a progressive strikes consolation tournament for those not still in Main or Modern divisions on Sunday.
Playoffs Classic / ModernSecond round. Six players per group will advance to the next round (group A will merge with group H, group B with group G etc so total 12 players per new group) where everyone plays everyone once in a round-robin format. The best four players per group will advance to matchplay, best out of five all the way to the final.
All EMs and most solid-state machines will be set to five balls.
For the modern tournament, there is a full selection of basically all modern Sterns including BKSOR Pro, JP Pro. Most of the big 90s machines are also represented, as well as some big late 80s machines, JJP machines, Alien, TNA, etc.
Other than some sideshow tournaments, such as killswitch or set-the-high-score, all machines on free play.
Registration for ECPC now open here:
https://billetto.se/en/e/european-classic-championships-2019-tickets-390768 (English)
To register, they require a Billetto account, a Facebook account, or a Google account. If those options are not possible, contact the organizers at the email below.
info@pinballseye.se
Facebook-sidan:
https://www.facebook.com/European-Classic-Pinball-Championships-2019-113546626740468/
