Overview

The Stockholm Open is an international pinball tournament. Anyone is welcome to register for the A division (including the classics division) and/or the Split flipper division and participate in the event, as long as they pay the tournament entrance fee. Friends, relatives, press, general audience and other people not participating in the tournament are welcome to enter the premises to watch the tournament free of charge. Leisure/training coin operated pinballs will be available.

Schedule

This is the preliminary schedule for the Stockholm Open 2010 tournament. Please note that some minor changes may be done.

Friday, 11th of December

18.00 - 01.00   Qualifications (all divisions).
19.00   Mini Tournament: One Minute Tense Drill

Saturday, 12th of December

09.30 - 20.00   Classics division qualifications
09.30 - 01.00   A division and split flipper division qualifications
15.00   Mini Tournament: Reach The Score
19.00   Mini Tournament: Pinball Orienteering
21.00 - 01.00   Classics division finals

Sunday, 13th of December

09.30 - 12.30   A division qualifications (last entry buy: 11.30)
09.30 - 12.30   Split flipper division finals
13.30 - 19.30   A division finals
19.30   Awards ceremony
23.00   Closing time

Qualifications: A division and split flipper division

The qualification rounds (for both the A division and the split flipper division) will begin on Friday, December 11th, 18.00 and continue on Saturday, December 12th, 09.30. The A division players will have a last chance to make it on Sunday morning, December 13th, starting at 09.30. The qualifications end time somewhat depends on the final number of participants, but our estimation is that the qualifications will end around 12.30 on Sunday, December 13th. No more entries can be bought after 11.30. The split flipper finals will be played at the same time, Sunday morning, December 12th, 09.30 - 12.30. The A division finals will start as soon as we've finished all calculations, which should be around 13.30. The participants may choose to play their qualification entries at anytime during the qualifications. I.e. a player can choose not to play on Friday, December 11th, and even not to arrive in Stockholm until Sunday morning, December 13th. Playing as early as possible is though an advantage, since you can adapt your decisions to your results, and you'll have the time to play more qualification entries. Read more about the qualification system here

Finals, A division

The A division finals will be played on Sunday evening, December 13th, and the match system is a cup system where players play head to head, best out of three games. Depending on their position in the qualifications, players enter the cup ladder in different stages. The cup system can be viewed in detail here.

Finals, split flipper

The split flipper finals will be played on Sunday morning. The 8 best teams in the qualifications will advance to a straightforward head-to-head cup system, playing matches in best out of three. Read more about the finals here.

Classics division

The qualifications will start on Friday, December 11th, at 18.00 and the finals will be played on Saturday evening, December 12th, at 21.00. Read more about the classics division here.

General Rules

General rules applying throughout the tournament can be found here.

Mini-tournaments

During the tournament there will be a couple of mini-tournaments for those not playing in the main divisions at the moment. They will end at 20.00 on Saturday, December 12th, and any finals needed will be played at 21.00. These are open to everyone, and not only to the participants in the main divisions. Very stylish prizes will be awarded to the winners! The mini-tournaments are:

Parallel pinball - Two machines next to eachother and you'll play your opponent in real time. This will be played on NBA Fastbreak at 16.00 on Saturday.
One-handed pinball - Let's see how good you are when playing with one hand in your pocket...
Reversed flipper - Your right hand will control the left side of the pinball, and the other way around.
Set the highscore - Just make sure that you have the greatest score when the dust is cleared.

Prizes

The prizes in the tournament are still being kept secret, but will be announced shortly. However, this year there will be CASH prizes. The winners may of course buy pinball journeys for the cash, but we will not force them to do so, as we've done earlier years. There will be some stylish prizes for the winners of the mini-tournaments. There will also be a prize for the best female participant and a special fair-play prize.

Note: If there are any taxes laid on any prizes, it is up to the winner to clear these with the taxation authorities of Sweden and/or the homeland of the winner.

Training

Some of the tournament machines might be located somewhere in the Stockholm area already today. If you are looking for games for training purposes, Stockholm Pinball Locator is a useful tool. During the tournament, there will also be training machines available on site. The machines that will be on the premises are listed here.