News

Posted 2010-04-02 18:19 By Patrik

This is how the front page looked on April 1, 2010, creating much amusement among the pinball community: Nobel Stockholm Open and Nobel IFPA World Pinball Championships 2011

Posted 2009-12-13 20:58 By Patrik

We congratulate Jorian Engelbrektsson to the victory, beating Taco Wouters on Indiana 500 and Demolition Man (7+ billion points). Lars Blomgren got third, and Patrik Bodin got fourth. Congrats to all and see you next year!

Posted 2009-12-13 14:35 By Patrik

The A-divisions finals are now under way, follow them semi-live here: https://www.stockholmopen.nu/finalResults.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=A

Posted 2009-12-13 12:52 By Patrik

The qualification for A is now over, and the standings are final.you can see the final ranking here:
https://www.stockholmopen.nu/standings.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=A

Posted 2009-12-13 12:22 By Patrik

The sixth (and seventh) winners of the Stockholm Open 2009 is the split flipper team "RIC" (Micael Lindström and Fredrik Malmqvist), who won the split flipper tournament. Second came "Gurkmajonäs är gôtt" (Karl Broström and Per-Olof Romell) and third came "PAJ" (Harald Jönsson and Patrik Lindberg). Congrats to them all!

See their way to the medals at https://www.stockholmopen.nu/finalResults.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=S

Posted 2009-12-13 10:38 By Patrik

Now the Split Flipper finals are playing. Watch it semi-live on https://www.stockholmopen.nu/finalResults.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=S#cup

Posted 2009-12-13 00:31 By Patrik

The fifth winner of the Stockholm Open 2009 was Olli-Mikko Ojamies, who won the Classics tournament! Second came Taco Wouters, and Henrik Hultin was the best domestic player ending up on third place. Congrats to all three!

Watch their way to the medals on https://www.stockholmopen.nu/finalResults.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=C#cup

Posted 2009-12-13 00:23 By Patrik

The fourth winner of Stockholm Open 2009 was Svante Ericsson, who won the "Pinball Orienteering", by making C + A + S on Jurassic Park, S + H + O + O + T on NBA Fastbreak and a ramp lock on Cirqus Voltaire, all in 2 minutes and 29 seconds. Congrats to Svante!

Posted 2009-12-12 23:45 By Patrik

The Classics finals are now playing - watch it semi-live at https://www.stockholmopen.nu/finalResults.php?iYear=2009&sDivision=C#cup

Posted 2009-12-12 16:03 By Patrik

The third winner at Stockholm Open 2009 is Roger "ROS" Ström. "Reach the Score" was played on Cirqus Voltaire and fastest to 5 million points was the goal.

5 quick lock-ramps and Strike-an-arc multiball made Roger get to 5 million points in 52 seconds.

Posted 2009-12-12 02:45 By Patrik

The second winner at Stockholm Open 2009 is the European champion Taco Wouters, who won the Friday Set the Highscore mini-tournament with 121 million on Cirqus Voltaire. Congrats to Taco!

Some Classics and Split Flipper entries from Friday are not yet registered. We will correct this tomorrow morning. If your entry is still not in the system by noon tomorrow, please contact the reception.

Posted 2009-12-11 20:07 By Stefan

The first winner at Stockholm Open 2009 is Rolph Ericsson/REC who won the Tense One Minute Drill Mini-Tournament.

277.425.880 on STTNG was the winning score.

Congratulations!

Posted 2009-08-27 16:19 By Patrik

Ignition initiated for 2009!! New location, new date, now three free entries in all divisions and the registration is now open. Get in there and fight!

Posted 2008-06-08 22:56 By Patrik

Other prizes:

Best in show (voted by the players): Spider-Man, supplied by Svante SVE Ericsson.

Best female player: Helena Walter (out in the 1/8 final).

Best foreign player: Paul Jongma (obviously).

Posted 2008-06-08 22:52 By Patrik

Paul PFJ Jongma won the A division finals! Karl KGB Broström got on second place, and Per PER Ahlenius got on third place. Congratulations, Paul!

Posted 2008-06-08 22:51 By Patrik

Split flipper winner were CCCP (Karl KGB Broström & Alvar C P Palm) with Lag Peja (Per APB Holknekt & Linus S P Jorenbo) on second place and Chicks with Dicks (Jörgen BOT Boström & Magnus LIX Rostö) on third place. Congratulations CCCP!

Posted 2008-06-08 18:20 By Patrik

The A division finals are now playing, watch it live here.

Posted 2008-06-08 18:19 By Patrik

The mini-tournament has now ended.

Set the Highscore on Who Dunnit was won by Fredrik F L Lindberg with 12 billion points.

Set the Highscore on Tales of the Arabian Nights was won by Per APB Holknekt with 113 million points.

One-handed Junk Yard was won by Mats MCR Runsten with 15 million points.

Reversed flippers Doctor Who was won by Jörgen IFK Holm with 1 billion points.

Delirium pinball was won by Reidar LEL Spets scoring 80 million points (two jackpots) on a reversed flipper Fish Tales with Terminator 2 sound ROM, one upsidedown banana flipper and one Twilight Zone mini "Thing" flipper.

Posted 2008-06-08 03:12 By Patrik

Classics finals have now finished, and Leif LEF Spångberg is the winner! Trent got second, third came Fredrik Lindberg and fourth was Morgan
Dunmark. Congratulations Leif! Finals ladder.

Here's some pictures from the event.

Posted 2008-06-07 19:23 By Patrik

Parallel Pinball has finished! It was played on two linked NBA machines, and the winner was Linus Jorenbo from Stockholm beating Trent Augenstein from Delaware in the final. Patrik Bodin from Stockholm and Fredrik Malmqvist from Skövde shared the third place. Congratulations, Linus!

Posted 2008-06-07 14:03 By Stefan

Vinnaren i juniorklassen blev Selatin Yildis. Selatin spelade sedan en tajt match mot världsmästaren.

På andra plats kom Hoda Lamari. På tredje plats kom Ibrahim El Chamas. Stort grattis alla medaljörer. Kvalettan Jacob Steggos fick inte till det i finalen och slutade fyra. Stort tack till alla som varit med.

The winner in the juniors-division was Selatin Yildis. Hoda Lamari finished at 2nd place, 3rd was Ibrahim El Chamas, and the qualifications-winner Jacob Steggos ended up at 4th place.

Posted 2008-06-05 19:35 By Stefan

Stockholm Open goes mobile, you will be able to direct your mobile-phone-browser to...

mobile.stockholmopen.nu

...to view the standings.

Posted 2008-04-02 15:38 By Patrik

As it seems, four of the latest STERN games: Family Guy, Spider-Man, Shrek and Indiana Jones 4 will be present at the event! We thank Lutande Dörren and Parts4Pinballs for their contributions. The last two games are so new, that they're not even in the IPDB database yet...

Posted 2008-03-30 05:15 By Stefan

Ignition initiaded, again. The new web-page is out, and (finally) you can register to the 2008 tournament.

Posted 2007-04-10 14:45 By Patrik

Here are some more pictures.

Posted 2007-04-10 02:34 By Patrik

More congratulations:

Mats Runsten won the main tournament, after a very well played final on Dirty Harry, Pinball Magic and Road Show. Last year's winner Fredrik Lindberg got second, and our Pinball Princess Helena Walter got third. Congrats to all three!

Here's the happy guy.

Posted 2007-04-08 17:22 By Patrik

We congrat JFK (Jorian JOE Engelbrektsson and Jörgen IFK Holm) to the Split Flipper victory!

Second came Betandlose (Patrik PAL Bodin and Stefan FEZ Andersson), third came Fred Perry (Fredrik F L Lindberg and Per APB Holknekt) and fourth came Dutch Pinball Elite (Albert ANO Nomden and Paul PFJ Jongma).

Congrats!

Posted 2007-04-08 16:24 By Patrik

Mats Runsten won the classics tournament. Second place came Patrik Bodin. Martin Tiljander and Dan Hagman got 3rd and 4th.

Congratulations!

Posted 2007-04-08 16:14 By Patrik

The top-3 for the mini-tournaments are as follows.

Parallell pinball (NBA): Jorian Engelbrektsson, Henrik Tomson, Michael Lindström.

One-handed (DH & T2): Fredrik Malmqvist, Fredrik Lindberg and Helena Walter & Sebastian Evans on tied third.

Reversed Flipper (TZ): Jörgen Holm, Mats Runsten, Stefan Arkinger.

Set the Highscore (BBB, 1 007 609 920): Reidar Spets.

Congrats!

Posted 2006-05-28 03:20 By Patrik

We congratulate Fredrik Lindberg to the glorious victory! Runner-ups were Jörgen Holm, Patrik Bodin and Karl Broström in that order. Best foreigner was Chris Newsom on fifth place. The Dutch Pinball Elite (Albert Nomden and Paul Jongma) won the split flipper tournamnent.

Posted 2006-04-25 11:41 By Patrik

We're following in the footsteps of the Swedish Championships, so there is now betting available! The betting is provided by one of the biggest net betting companies in Sweden. Since it is their Swedish division providing the betting, some text may be in Swedish, but I've been told that international betting works fine.

Betson Online Betting

Posted 2006-02-17 03:42 By Patrik

Ignition initiated. All systems go. And we have a lift off!

The registration is now open!

We've done a careful review of the site, and we think that we've covered everything, including all changes since last year. If you encounter any fishy stuff, please let us know.

Posted 2006-02-01 22:06 By Patrik

The site has gone through a major rewrite, to reflect the new year. Not everything is completely finished, mainly because there are still things yet to be decided, but we will continously update the pages as we determine how things will be this year.

The registration will open shortly, so please be patient!

Posted 2006-02-01 22:03 By Patrik

A new date is set! Since a large majority voted for the 26th to 28th of May, this is when this year's tournament will take place. We hop to see many players from all around the world in beautiful Stockholm in May!

Posted 2005-04-07 12:49 By Stefan

There's a gallery online here now.

If you have some pictures or footage, from the tournament (the more the merrier): please contact us at steanders(at)gmail.com

Posted 2005-04-05 15:17 By Patrik

All results have been published on this web site now, but we will reorganize them shortly, to prepare for next year's tournament, so please do not link directly to any results pages.

Also, a big THANK YOU goes to all the participants. The last few weeks has been extremely exhausting, but after this great weekend, made possible not only by us, but also by you guys, we all feel that it was worth all the struggle.

We hope to see all of you, and of course a bunch of new faces, back here in next year, since our intention is to make an even better tournament in 2006!

Posted 2005-04-03 17:59 By Stefan

For a picture gallery from the weekend, go to: Stockholm Open Picture Gallery. Thanks to Robert Eldrim for the pictures.

Posted 2005-04-03 17:22 By Stefan

The qualification scores and results are now, hopefully, complete on this site now.

We're adding the final results later today.

Posted 2005-04-02 13:18 By Stefan

Our computers are not doing to well right now. Sometimes the TOTAL score of the entries is not displayed correctly. But all scores are correctly stored in the database and we have the correct scores at the reception. No worries!

Posted 2005-04-02 02:13 By Stefan

All entries should be displayed correctly on Live Standings now. Hopefully, no more "n/a". We're sorry for these problems.

See you tomorrow, and may you be in the zone!

Posted 2005-04-02 01:35 By Patrik

The tales has begun!

After almost two hours delay due to technical problems, the tournament was started. The computer system hasn't crashed yet, and all the games are still working.

We've run into some problems and bugs though. The automatic update of the live standings are working onsite, but not on the Internet. Hopefully we can fix that tomorrow morning. Until it is fixed, we will try to update the standings manually as often as possible.

Also, some players with played entries still has "n/a" as their points, but if you click the player, you will see their actual scores and rank on the games. Hopefully we will fix this tomorrow morning as well.

Posted 2005-03-29 02:17 By Patrik

We've decided to increase the number of players advancing to the finals from 16 to 32, with players 17-32 entering the system directly on the B side.

Read more about the finals here.

Posted 2005-03-29 01:47 By Patrik

Finally, we have some prizes to announce! Not all prizes are determined yet, but the first prize of the main tournament will be a trip to the PAPA 8 or the EPC pinball tournament!

Read more about the prizes here.

Posted 2005-03-15 10:18 By Patrik

We've now reached 100 registered participants! And we know there are more to come...

We've added a classics tournament to the event. Check out Classics Highscore Cup!

Posted 2005-03-09 15:43 By Patrik

We're very happy to give a warm welcome to the americans and the finns! The number of participants are now closing in to the (first) 100 people, which was our goal.

There are now flyers available for download. Please help us attract more players by putting them up at your local pinball joint!

Posted 2005-02-25 11:20 By Patrik

The list of registered players starts to look very promising! We have a couple of dutch and german people that has been in there for a while, and now the danes have woken up. In addition, a little bird whispered in my ear, saying that a couple of americans probably will sail the seas to participate. If i dig a little deeper into the list, I can find at least six national champions from several countries. This is gonna be a great tournament!

Posted 2005-02-11 13:17 By Patrik

There are 57 registered participants so far, and 21 of them has already paid the registration fee. We regard these numbers as very good, especially that such a large percentage has already paid. The sooner you pay, the better our opportunity to make this event as good as possible for you!


All money will go directly into the tournament and the party, and none of the staff get a penny for their work.

Posted 2005-02-07 18:12 By Patrik

Only three days after going live, we have already registered more players than attended the tournament last year! Now, we are aiming for the first 100 participants...

Posted 2005-02-07 17:58 By Patrik

Machine list has been updated! Note that the list is preliminary, and that changes may, and will, occur as the tournament date approaches.

Posted 2005-02-04 12:24 By Patrik

IGNITION INITIATED. WE HAVE A LIFT OFF!

This site is now public. Go ahead, click, surf, register, pay and play!

Posted 2005-02-01 22:38 By Stefan

The site is up for beta testing. Please, click around and report any errors or things you think should be changed.