EPC & UK Open 2026 Pinball Results and Stats

This year’s UK Open was a special one, doubling as the European Pinball Championship and bringing players from across Europe and beyond to the Wandsworth Civic Suite in London. Massive thanks to everyone who set up, packed down, kept the games running and directed the tournaments. It’s a huge amount of work and the weekend ran smoothly because of it. First up, the final results for all five headline events.

EPC & UK Open 2026 final results

The bracketed number next to each name is that player’s IFPA world rank at time of writing.

For the full finals breakdown of each event, click through the finals links on the timetable in the original EPC & UK Open 2026 post.

EPC and UK Open qualifying stats

Lots of the fun data can be pulled from the qualifying sessions as they were card qualifying format: buy a card, play 5 games on it, and your best card counts. If a card is going badly you can void it and start a fresh one. Across the four events that came to 20,542 games logged on 5,871 cards.

The most dream-crushing games of the weekend

Worth remembering that the games at these tournaments are set up much harder than the typical location pinball table. Rubbers are removed from the outlane and centre posts and the settings are all on the mean side, all to keep game times short.

Every voided card has a last game, the one where the player looked at the score and decided it was over. Count those up per machine, divide by the total games played on it, and you get a void rate. That’s the share of games on that machine that killed a card. Across the whole weekend 2,881 games ended a card, about 14% of everything played.

Here are the top 25. The EPC bank takes the most spots, probably down to its longer qualifying period and the more intense grind towards the end as players fought for a place in the top 72.

When did players post their best card?

Each event had its own qualifying sessions, so the charts below measure time in that event’s playing hours only, with the overnight gaps cut out. 0% is the start of its first session and 100% the end of its last.

Here’s when each player’s best card went in:

Share of each event’s players whose best card was finished in each tenth of qualifying. The UK Open Ladies is left out of both charts, as with only 28 players its line was too noisy to read anything from.

Very few best cards came in early and the numbers climb right to the end. Part of that is just more cards going in later on. Not everyone was there for the first session, and the busier the room got, the more cards were going in. Here is every card, either submitted or voided:

Share of each event’s finished cards that were finished in each tenth of qualifying.

What score do you need?

Every game on a card is ranked against every other counted game on that machine. The top score gets 200 points, second gets 195, third gets 190, and then it drops by one point per place. Your card’s total is the sum of its 5 games.

The UK Open cut for the A finals was 40th place, which finished on 812 points. That’s an average of 162.4 points a game, so to keep pace with the cut line you needed around a 30th best score on every machine. Here’s what that looked like on Iron Man, the most played game in the UK Open bank:

Every score posted on Iron Man during UK Open qualifying, including games on cards that were later voided. The score axis is on a log scale, where 1M to 10M takes up the same width as 10M to 100M, so a few monster scores don’t squash everything else into one corner.

Every game, every bank

Here’s the same chart for every game in each of the four qualifying banks. The cut line pace is worked out the same way for each event, from the points total at its finals cut. A few games had fewer than 93 counted scores, so they have no 100 point line. That’s Total Nuclear Annihilation, Torch, and most of the Ladies bank. All the charts use the same log scale as Iron Man.

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