Free event · Flying Phoenix PCs · Phoenix, AZ · SUN OCT 18 · 9AM – 3PM
YOU CAN'T GET
KNOCKED OUT
Six titles. One Sunday. Winner stays on, loser goes to the back of the line, and you get back on as many times as you want.
No bracket. No team. No entry fee.
30 seconds. Pre-registered players get queue priority for the first hour.
The headline prize
Win Modern Warfare 4
before it's out.
MW4 releases Friday, October 23. Whoever finishes Sunday with the most Call of Duty wins walks out with the pre-order code in hand — so it unlocks Friday night and you already own it, while everyone else is deciding whether to spend the seventy dollars.
The other five titles have their own prize, and every one of them is the same size. There is no main event here.
01 · The Format
THE ONLY RULE THAT MATTERS
Most local tournaments are a bracket. You lose twice, you drive home, your Sunday is over by eleven.
This is not that. Every station runs King of the Hill. The winner stays. The next person in line steps up. The loser goes to the back of the line and gets back on. All day, as many times as you want.
Losing isn't elimination.
It's a place in line.
And the prize doesn't go to the longest streak — it goes to whoever wins the most matches in that title by the end of the day. Which means losing early costs you nothing but the wait.
Five wins in a row and you're CROWNED. Your name goes on the board, it gets announced, and then you go to the back of the line like everyone else. You can do it again. People will.
Why it's scored that way
We could have given the prize to the longest win streak. We didn't, on purpose. Under a streak rule, the person who gets beaten early has no reason to get back in line — their day is effectively over at 9:40 and they know it.
Under most-total-wins, every loss is recoverable, and the correct response to losing is to get back in line. The whole format is built around the person who loses, because on any given day that's most of the room.
02 · The Titles
SIX TITLES. FOUR RUNNING AT ONCE.
Four stations are live at any given moment. Play one title. Play all six.
Formats shorten if a queue gets deep. We'd rather you play more matches than wait through longer ones.
03 · Prizes
SIX WINNERS. ONE PER TITLE.
Most total wins in a title, at the end of its last block, is the Title King for that title. Equal prizes across all six — the racing and the platform-fighter people are not the undercard here.
Three punches on your Circuit card gets you in the draw. It's drawn live at 3:00, right before Flying Phoenix draws their flagship giveaway — so the last thing that happens on Sunday is two people walking out with hardware.
Flying Phoenix also runs giveaways every hour on the hour, all day.
04 · The Circuit
RUN THE CIRCUIT
You get a card at check-in with your Circuit ID on it. Every title you compete in gets punched.
Three punches puts you in the draw for the monitor. Every punch after that is another entry. Join the Discord on the day, that's another one.
Six punches means you played every title we ran. Your gamertag goes on the Circuit board — and that board comes back to every event we run after this one — plus an invite to the Foundry closed beta.
You don't have to be good at any of them. You just have to sit down.
Six is hard on purpose. We expect somewhere between five and fifteen people to get there. It takes most of the day.
Your Circuit ID is assigned the moment you register — not on Sunday.
05 · Registration
WHAT REGISTERING GETS YOU
Everything here is free and none of it runs out — there is no cap and no deadline. Registering ahead just means the first hour of your day is spent playing instead of standing in a doorway filling out a form.
You can absolutely walk up on Sunday and play. Plenty of people will.
- —Queue priority, 9:20 to 10:20. Registered players get called first in the first hour.
- —Express check-in. Your card is already printed with your number on it. Separate line, no form at the door.
- —An extra raffle entry. Check in before 11:00 and you get a seventh ticket. Walk-ups can't get it.
- —Your Circuit ID, the schedule for your title, and the Discord — all in your inbox within a minute, not on Sunday.
06 · Read this part if you're on the fence
QUESTIONS
“I’m not good enough for a tournament.”
There is no bracket, no seeding, and nobody gets sent home. Lose your first match and you are back in the queue playing again a couple of minutes later. The worst thing that happens to you on Sunday is that you played a lot of games on someone else’s hardware for free.
“I don’t have a team.”
Every title is 1v1. Show up alone. Most people will be.
“I only play one of these games.”
Then play one. The Circuit rewards breadth, it doesn’t require it. Camp your title all day, stack wins, take the crown.
“I don’t have a PC I can bring.”
Don’t bring one. Stations, peripherals and games are all provided — monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset, chair. Bring your own mouse, keyboard or controller if you’re particular about them and plug it in.
“What if I drive out there and it’s dead?”
Four titles are live from 9:20, Smash runs continuously all day, and if a queue empties we switch that station to Trackmania rather than leave it dark. The rest of the building isn’t ours either — Flying Phoenix is running retail, free PC cleanings, build workshops and a giveaway every hour on the hour whether thirty people show up or three hundred. You are not betting your Sunday on our turnout.
Is it actually free?
Yes. Free to get in, free to play, free to compete for every prize, free to enter the raffle. Flying Phoenix is also running free PC cleanings and hourly giveaways on the retail side. There is nothing to buy.
Do I have to stay all day?
No. Doors are 9:00 to 3:00 and you can come and go. Title King goes to whoever has the most total wins, though, so time on station is the whole game. If you want a crown, come early.
Can I show up late?
Yes, but the headliners are weighted to the afternoon on purpose. Fortnite and Rocket League open at 9:20. Call of Duty and CS2 start at 11:15. Fortnite comes back at 1:15. Smash runs the entire day.
I’m under 18. Can I play?
Yes. Register and we will email your parent or guardian the media release ahead of time, so nobody is filling out paperwork in the doorway on Sunday.
Where is it?
Flying Phoenix PCs, 401 E Watkins St, Phoenix, AZ 85004. Parking lot on site, plus street parking.
What happens to my email?
You get your Circuit ID, the schedule, one reminder the night before, and results afterward. After that it is updates on the Tempe venue and the coaching platform. We do not sell it or hand it to sponsors, and one click unsubscribes.
Free, and there is nothing to buy at any point.
07 · Who's Running This
WHO'S RUNNING THIS
The Farm is building a 24/7 esports training venue in downtown Tempe — fifty stations, opening 2027 — and an AI coaching platform that launches with Valorant.
This is the first thing we have ever run. That is not a disclaimer. The Circuit board you sign on Sunday comes back to every event we run after this one, and in two years there is a version of this with a building attached. The people in the room on October 18 were there before there was anything to be there for.
Flying Phoenix PCs is hosting. They build custom PCs in the Phoenix metro, and they are running retail, free cleanings, build workshops and hourly giveaways all day.
Every level. One standard.
— The Farm
What your email actually gets you
Registering does two things. It gets you on the floor on Sunday, and it puts you on the list for both units — first access when the Barnyard opens, founding-member rates before they are public, and the Foundry closed beta ahead of launch.
What we send: your Circuit ID, the schedule, one reminder the night before, results afterward, and then updates when there is something real to say. We do not sell it or hand it to sponsors, and one click unsubscribes.
08 · What you get
WHAT'S ACTUALLY INCLUDED
- —Six 1v1 tournaments, and you can enter every one of them.
- —Six prizes, one per title, roughly a hundred dollars each.
- —A station, monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset and chair, with every game already installed.
- —Unlimited re-entry. No bracket, no elimination, all day.
- —A crowning and your name on the board if you take five in a row.
- —Entries in the draw for a high-spec gaming monitor, starting at your third title.
- —Your gamertag on the Circuit board, and a Foundry closed-beta invite, if you run all six.
- —Flying Phoenix's hourly giveaways, free PC cleanings and build workshops, running all day alongside.
Cost to walk in and do all of it: nothing.
There is no ticket, no entry fee, and nothing to buy at any point in the day.
Lock in your Circuit ID
Two screens, about thirty seconds. Free, and there is nothing to pay for at any point.