Swedish Pinball Open International Pinball Tournament

Swedish Pinball Open
Yet Another World Pinball Championships

Swedish Pinball Open is the successor of the annual international pinball tournament Stockholm Open. Due to the quite similar name as the tennis tournament "If Stockholm Open", and due to the fact that the tournament will not take place in Stockholm this year, we have changed the name. This year, the tournament will take place the week before the IFPA World Pinball Championships, at the very same venue and on the very same machines. Elite players from all around the world mix with casual players from Sweden and other countries to compete and socialize for several days, until the Swedish Pinball Open Yet Another World Champion is crowned.

Jorian Engelbrektsson - Winner 2014

The tournament is open to anyone who wishes to attend, and there are no special requirements for skill or citizenship to participate.

The Swedish Pinball Open 2015 will be held at PinballsEye in Borås, in western Sweden, on May 15-17. Click the red drop on the map to get address info.

The Stockholm Open started in 2004, and was an immediate success. It grew to be one of the six major pinball tournaments in the world, with participants from many different countries on several continents. In 2009 the tournament took a pause due to lack of locations to host the event. Thanks to Heron City and O'Learys, it was reopened in 2013 with an A division, a split flipper division, a classics division and some mini-tournaments. The classics division is usually played on games manufactured 1985 or earlier. The A division and classics division participants receives WPPR points.

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
2013	Jorian "JOE" Engelbrektsson
2014	Jorian "JOE" Engelbrektsson
2015	You?

News

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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.