Sunday brought sunny skies and a capacity crowd to Mo-Kan Dragway as the first round of eliminations kicked off with a powerhouse match-up between Bobby Marriott and Donny McSwain.  The quickest four winners from this round would advance to the semi-finals.  McSwain had the performance advantage heading into the bout, but fell off in his first round pass as his 4.23 at 163 mph wasn't enough to hold off Bobby Marriott's 4.14 at 181 mph as "Shockwave" moved on.

Raymond Dawson's "High Octane" blown alcohol entry was out next alongside the new look "Metal Mafia" nitro burner owned and driven by Sean Belt.  Belt was making his first OFAA appearance of the season in his beautiful machine.  Dawson showed no mercy, clicking off a strong 4.04 at 176 mph while Belt fell off to a 5.37 at 111 mph.  Aaron Leyda brought the Dale "Lurch" Wilkens owned and tuned "Hemi Hunter" to life ready to take on Mark Bowman's "Blown Income" machine as the first round of eliminations continued.  Leyda took the starting line advantage and never trailed with a winning 4.26 at 166 mph to Bowman's close 4.33 at 169 mph.

Number one qualifier John Broussard and points leader Jimmy Jones were up next.  This pairing had huge points implications as Broussard trailed Jones by just seven points after qualifying at Mo-Kan.  The winner here would have the chance to take major strides towards the 2014 Painless Performance Products Championship title.  The cars crept to the line after side by side burnouts and crew chiefs made their final adjustments before sending their drivers to the beams.  Broussard was on his game and took the advantage at the hit.  Jones was charging hard as the cars were side by side at half-track, but at the stripe, Broussard's 4.02 at 177 mph held off Jones' very close 4.04 at 178 mph to knock out the points leader in round one.