Nobel Stockholm Open
Yet Another World Pinball Championships

Stockholm Pinball, IFPA and the Nobel Foundation proudly present the Nobel Stockholm Open and Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships 2011!

The Nobel Stockholm Open is an annual international pinball tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden. Elite players from all around the world mix with casual players from Sweden to compete and socialize for several days, until the Nobel Stockholm Open Yet Another World Champion is crowned.

The Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships 2011 will be held in conjunction with Stockholm Open. Go here to read more about this event.

The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm Pinball and IFPA have signed a sponsorship agreement where the tournaments will honor the great Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize awards and inventor of the dynamite, by changing their names to include his name. The Nobel Foundation will in exchange cover all logistical costs of the events, and provide the facilities for the tournaments.

This means that on April 1-3 2011, exactly one year from now, the Nobel Stockholm Open will be played in the Stockholm City Hall ("Blå Hallen" in Swedish), the very same hall where the Nobel banquet is held after the Nobel Prize awards each year. A week later, April 6-8, the Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships will be held at the same place.

The Nobel Foundation will also provide gold, silver and bronze plated replicas of the Nobel Prize medals, to be granted to the winners and runner-ups of the tournament divisions. First prize in the main division of the Nobel Stockholm Open, and the first prize in the only division of the Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships, will be an invitation to the Nobel banqet ("Nobelmiddagen" in Swedish) - the banqet attended by the Nobel Prize winners and the royal Swedish family - on December 10 2011. Travel expences will be covered.

The Nobel Foundation have also convinced Mr Charles K. Cow, the father of fiber optics and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, to participate in the tournaments, and IFPA will keep a wild card spot open for him.

"I've never played pinball before" says Mr Cow and smiles, "but I do know some stuff about physics, so i hope to calculate my way through the tournament".

"This is an opportunity for us to reach outside our normal target group" says Bo Fors, targeting manager of the Nobel Foundation, "we believe pinball players could be the hotbed for future laureates".

Josh Sharpe, president of the IFPA and organizer of the Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships, and Patrik Bodin, head of operations at the Nobel Stockholm Open, says that "we hope this is just the beginning of a long streak of successfull years in cooperation with the Nobel Foundation, both in Stockholm and in the cities where the Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships will take place in the future".

See you in 2011!

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The A division winners throughout the years:

2004	Fredrik "F L" Lindberg
2005	Stefan "FEZ" Andersson
2006	Fredrik "F L" Lindberg
2007	Mats "MCR" Runsten
2008	Paul "PFJ" Jongma
2009	Jorian "JOE" Engelbrektsson