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Format Details
| Event Name : | Main Tournament |
| Qualifying Format : | Matchplay Qualifying |
| Finals Format : | Match Play |
| Player Limit : | 140 |
| Unlimited Qualifying? : | No |
Tournament Overview
Registration for this tournament opens on June 24, 2025
Start Date: December 05, 2025
End Date: December 07, 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Sign ups for Pro Players (top 250 in IFPA) is 6/24/2025 at 7pm eastern. Sign ups for everyone else is 7/1/2025 at 7pm eastern.
Day 1 starts at 5 pm on 12/6, check in at 4:30 pm. We will play 12 rounds of qualifying and then stop for the day. Estimated finish time Friday is 12am. limited to 128 entries. After 6 of the 12 qualifying rounds, there will be a 30-min break. Log into Matchplay.events to see your groupings, enter results for you group, and follow along with the event.
Qualifying rounds of 13-20 will be played on Day 2, 12/7. Starts at 2pm with check in at 1:30pm. After the qualifying, there will be a 2 hour break from after all tie breakers are played out. Estimated start time of finals is 8:30pm.
Qualifying will be single game matchplay (3 and 4 player groups). First round groupings are Random. After that, you will be grouped based on tiered Swiss pairings. Scoring will be IFPA which awards 7,5,3,1 points for 4 player groups, and 7,4,1 scoring for 3 player groups.
The top 24 players after the 20 qualifying rounds will make A finals. The next 16 players will make B finals. Qualifying will end approximately at 6:00pm on Saturday and finals will start at approximately 8:30pm and B finals will finish approximately at midnight. There will be no IFPA ranking restrictions on making the finals. Anyone ranked in the top 100 IFPA at the start of the event can play in B but cannot win cash prizes. Those will move down to the eligible players.
A division Finals - top 8 will get a bye. 16 will play in the quarterfinals. Each group will play 3 games using PAPA 4,2,1,0 scoring. The top two players from each group will advance to the next round. First two rounds will be played Saturday night and the final two rounds will be played on Sunday starting at 10am and finishing approximately at 2pm.
Sunday. The final 8 will play in the semifinals with the same rules with the top two from each group advancing to the final 4. The final four will play 3 more games to decide the winner.
The three games played each round of finals are chosen by picking a 3 games, one from each bank from the list which will have three lists of various eras. The top seed of the group will choose the games (once a game has been chosen 3 times that round, it is out for the rest of that round). They cannot choose position. The player positions are predetermined and are as follows:
Game 1: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 2, P4 - Seed 1
Game 2: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 2
Game 3: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 2, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 3
B division finals - Same format as A division. B Division will play along with A Division and will not be able to play the same games that were already chosen by A. See A finals above for the order in which B groups choose.
Payouts will be to the top 16 players from A and top 4 players from B. After a $1,000 show fee, IFPA fees, and trophy expenses, the payouts will be as follows:
Whodey Memorial Match Play Tournament Payouts
A division payouts:
1st - 30% and trophy
2nd - 12.5% and plaque
3rd - 7.5% and plaque
4th - 5% and plaque
5th-8th - 2.5%
9th-16th - $60 (entry fee back)
B division payouts:
1st - 15% and trophy
2nd - 5% and plaque
3rd - 4% and plaque
4th - 2.5% and plaque
Day 1 starts at 5 pm on 12/6, check in at 4:30 pm. We will play 12 rounds of qualifying and then stop for the day. Estimated finish time Friday is 12am. limited to 128 entries. After 6 of the 12 qualifying rounds, there will be a 30-min break. Log into Matchplay.events to see your groupings, enter results for you group, and follow along with the event.
Qualifying rounds of 13-20 will be played on Day 2, 12/7. Starts at 2pm with check in at 1:30pm. After the qualifying, there will be a 2 hour break from after all tie breakers are played out. Estimated start time of finals is 8:30pm.
Qualifying will be single game matchplay (3 and 4 player groups). First round groupings are Random. After that, you will be grouped based on tiered Swiss pairings. Scoring will be IFPA which awards 7,5,3,1 points for 4 player groups, and 7,4,1 scoring for 3 player groups.
The top 24 players after the 20 qualifying rounds will make A finals. The next 16 players will make B finals. Qualifying will end approximately at 6:00pm on Saturday and finals will start at approximately 8:30pm and B finals will finish approximately at midnight. There will be no IFPA ranking restrictions on making the finals. Anyone ranked in the top 100 IFPA at the start of the event can play in B but cannot win cash prizes. Those will move down to the eligible players.
A division Finals - top 8 will get a bye. 16 will play in the quarterfinals. Each group will play 3 games using PAPA 4,2,1,0 scoring. The top two players from each group will advance to the next round. First two rounds will be played Saturday night and the final two rounds will be played on Sunday starting at 10am and finishing approximately at 2pm.
Sunday. The final 8 will play in the semifinals with the same rules with the top two from each group advancing to the final 4. The final four will play 3 more games to decide the winner.
The three games played each round of finals are chosen by picking a 3 games, one from each bank from the list which will have three lists of various eras. The top seed of the group will choose the games (once a game has been chosen 3 times that round, it is out for the rest of that round). They cannot choose position. The player positions are predetermined and are as follows:
Game 1: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 2, P4 - Seed 1
Game 2: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 3, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 2
Game 3: P1 - Seed 4, P2 - Seed 2, P3 - Seed 1, P4 - Seed 3
B division finals - Same format as A division. B Division will play along with A Division and will not be able to play the same games that were already chosen by A. See A finals above for the order in which B groups choose.
Payouts will be to the top 16 players from A and top 4 players from B. After a $1,000 show fee, IFPA fees, and trophy expenses, the payouts will be as follows:
Whodey Memorial Match Play Tournament Payouts
A division payouts:
1st - 30% and trophy
2nd - 12.5% and plaque
3rd - 7.5% and plaque
4th - 5% and plaque
5th-8th - 2.5%
9th-16th - $60 (entry fee back)
B division payouts:
1st - 15% and trophy
2nd - 5% and plaque
3rd - 4% and plaque
4th - 2.5% and plaque
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