Hello Florida Pinballers, Pinball Family, and Fellow
Asylum Inmates--
In JUST 3 DAYS we open the 9th Edition of our LEGENDARY Annual
Asylum PAPA-Style Tournament!
This year we contuinue with the popular rule that on our bank of 15 available machines that you must play 5-- one game from each era-- EM, SS, DMD/Video. This continues through finals and levels the playing field!
Spanning Friday-Saturday-Sunday, June 27th-28th-29th, you can start playing Friday night, or arrive on Saturday.
Or, if you are Elwin or Stone (or Coyle or Palmer or Bobbio or Geneau) level, be a daredevil and arrive on Sunday when qualifying goes from 9:00am to 1:00 pm. It only takes one great card!
Click here to pre-register:
https://waiver.fr/p-oTZFUOur address is 13721 Jetport Commerce Parkway, Unit 6, Fort Myers, Florida
Last year's WINNER, Sebastian Bobbio, is coming back this year to defend his title. As is 3-time winner Dan Coyle. Not yet sure about 3x winner Jeff Palmer. Regardless, with money, prestige, and trophies on the line it will be a star-studded weekend.
The winners for the first 8 PAPA-Style tournaments were:
2015: Joe Geneau
2016: Jeff Palmer
2017: Jeff Palmer
2018: Dan Coyle
2019: Jeff Palmer
2021: Dan Coyle
2023: Dan Coyle
2024: Sebastian Bobbio
As usual, you do not have to play in the tournament to participate in the FUN! We'll have over 60 machines on FREEPLAY all three days. If you just want to hang out and play pinball, a special admission pass for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is just $30.00. Or $20 for any one-day admission, either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
DETAILED INFO on hours of operation, and the PAPA-Style Tournament can be found below. Complete rules will be posted soon.
Hope to see you at PAPA-STYLE 9!
Best,
David, Matt, Mike, Eric, Rebecca, Vince, and Shaun
Details on the 2025, 9th Annual Asylum PAPA-Style Tournament:Our PAPA-Style tournament is a Friday-Saturday-Sunday Event.
You DO NOT have to play all three days! A very skillful player could actually just play Sunday, have an amazing entry, and make the finals! You can play one day, two days or all three days and still qualify.
Our hours of operation will be:
Friday, June 27th: Doors open at 6:00 pm. Qualifying 6:30 pm - 11:30 pm. Qualifying continues Saturday.
Saturday, June 28th: Doors open at 9:00am. Qualifying 9:30 am - 11:30 pm. Qualifying continues Sunday.
Sunday, June 29th: Doors open at 9:00am. Qualifying is 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. Finals start at 2:00 pm.
The PRE-REGISTRATION link is HERE:
https://waiver.fr/p-oTZFUAbout the format:
PAPA (The Professional & Amateur Pinball Association) historically held an annual championship tournament where the best players in the world competed for the title, World Pinball Champion. In support of that goal, PAPA designed a very challenging format that allows the best of the best to rise to the top.
While PAPA has come back after a hiatus, they no longer use this same challenging "PAPA-Style" card-based system. But The Pinball Asylum likes to be "old school, babee" and has continued this very challenging tournament again for 2025!
The format for our "PAPA-Style" Tournament calls for each player to put together their best single entry or scorecard during qualifying. An entry consists of five (5) games chosen by the player from a bank of 15 available machines-- with one game from each era required. All games in each entry count equally toward a player’s qualifying total, meaning the system is intended to reward consistently good play, rather than a mixture of good and poor play.
The player selects what games each card consists of in an attempt to get the best composite score on those five (5) machines. Players may play as many entries in any combination of the five (5) qualifying games as they like, but each scorecard stands alone and cannot be combined with any other entries.
Scores from each game in each qualifying attempt are ranked against all other players, yielding a composite qualifying point total. Only a player’s single best multi-game qualifying total will determine his or her qualifying position for the final rounds.
With this format it is virtually impossible for a player to buy his or her way into the final rounds.
Advanced pricing for the tournament is as follows:
-- Admission all weekend, and Six (6) Tournament Entry Tickets/Cards Included (30 Plays Total, 5 plays each ticket/card)— $50.00
-- Each Additional Entry Ticket (5 plays): $10.00
(PLEASE NOTE: Pre-Purchase Discounts for additional entry tickets are available when you pre-register on-line!)
Group Finals Format:
Finals will be played on 3 machines per round. The final rounds will start promptly at 2:00 pm Sunday. Top 8 players will play in the finals. A possible expansion to 12 or 16 will be considered depending on the number of players participating.
In the final rounds, qualifying players play against each other in multiplayer games. A 4-2-1-0-point system is used to determine the two top players in a group who advance to the next round. Points for the three machines in the round will be added, and the two best will advance to the next round.
