Hello everyone!

K15 Open is back after a short 5-year hiatus! The tournament location in downtown Helsinki and the general structure of the tournament weekend remain the same, but some changes have been made to make the main tournament eligible for IFPA certified event status. See our webpage https://k15.fi for more details about the event.

In addition, we also have another amazing pinball location in Helsinki supporting us this year: Flipperikellari (https://flipperikellari.fi) will be organizing their own one day tournaments throughout the tournament weekend to provide you with even more tournament playing opportunities for the times you are not playing in K15 Open qualifications or playoffs. It takes about 25 minutes by car or taxi to get from K15 to Flipperikellari, or about 45 mins with public transportation.

K15 Open consists of three qualifying sessions, one during Friday and two on Saturday, all play-offs will be played on Sunday. During the registration, each player will choose one of the available qualifying sessions. The preliminary schedule of qualifying sessions and Sunday play-offs as well as the Flipperikellari side tournaments is following:

Friday 25th
14:00-22:00 K15 Open qualification session 1
19:00->     Flipperikellari tournament (head-to-head matchplay, machines from all eras)

Saturday 26th
11:00-16:00 K15 Open qualification session 2
17:00-22:00 K15 Open qualification session 3
18:00->     Flipperikellari tournament (4-player group matchplay, classics machines)

Sunday 27th
09:00-12:00 K15 Open PinGolf final rounds
10:30-18.00 K15 Open Main tournament final rounds
14:00->    Flipperikellari tournament (strikes tournament, modern machines)

(NB: Flipperikellari tournament formats and machine eras subject to change. See latest information at https://k15.fi)

The schedule is designed with the idea of all players in qualification session 2 on Saturday and players present early in qualification slot 1 on Friday will have time to participate also in that day's Flipperikellari tournament. For Sunday, players from K15 Open PinGolf playoffs and the earliest eliminated players from K15 Open playoffs may have time to join that day's Flipperikellari tournament.

The registration will open on Wednesday 10th August at 20:00 Finnish time (EEST, UTC+3) at the tournament webpage https://k15.fi

We are providing four country exemption spots for each country until the start of the registration. Contact your IFPA country director for more details about the country exemption spots.

Hope to see many of you in Helsinki in November! (We apologize in advance for the weather. At least you'll be indoors playing pinball for the majority of the weekend )

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us by email at info@k15.fi!


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on behalf of the entire K15 tournament Krew (info@k15.fi), Olli-Mikko Ojamies

Hello everyone!

The Finnish ECS event K15 Open will be played from Friday 4th until Sunday 6th November in downtown Helsinki. The location, schedule and qualifications format remain unchanged from last year (see the tournament webpage for further details). Minor changes to play-offs bracket to fulfill the updated IFPA requirements of 100% TGP valued tournament.

The registration will open on Wednesday 3rd August at 19:38 Finnish time (EEST, UTC+3) at the tournament webpage http://k15.fi

We are providing four country exemption spots for each country until the start of the registration. If you already know your four highest ranked players who will attend, those players can pre-register by emailing us at info@k15.fi the participant details (name, tag, city, e-mail address and choice of qualification group) until the start of the open registration period.

Hoping to see strong Swedish attendance in our tournament again this year! Welcome to Helsinki!

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on behalf of all K15 Open organizers,
Olli-Mikko Ojamies (marble@pinball.fi)

Hello everyone!

Here's some information about upcoming Finnish pinball tournaments.

K15 Match Race (Saturday 11th April 2015)

The smaller annual K15 tournament, played within one (long) day. Six qualification rounds in 3-player groups, 3 games (all DMD) per round. Play-offs for best qualifiers. Max 36 players, the registration will open this Wednesday (Feb 25th) 19:45 Finnish time (18:45 Swedish) at http://k15.fi.

Sörkka Pinball Open (Saturday 30th May)

Taking place this year at tournament organizer Antti's private gameroom in Helsinki. Due to the games available, tournament will most likely be all-classics this year. Tournament info available at http://pinball.fi/events/spo-2015/

K15 post-IFPA pre-SPO 3-strike tournament (Friday 29th May)

A simple and fun pre-SPO night at K15 location, a WPPR sanctioned 3-strike tournament will be played during the evening. More information to come later.

K15 Open will be played later the year, no exact dates for the tournament yet. Probably not during the Chicago Expo this year...


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Olli-Mikko O. (marble@pinball.fi)

Hi all!

A couple of Finnish pinball tournament advertisements:

K15 Match Race (Saturday 15th March)

A tournament played in the same location as K15 Open in Helsinki. This is a smaller one-day tournament played with match-play format. Six qualification rounds in 3-player groups, 3 games (all DMD) per round. Play-offs for best qualifiers. Playing starts at around 10:00 and the tournament should be finished around 23:00. More detailed information to come to http://k15.fi/mr2014/

NB! The registration opens next Wednesday (Feb 19) at 19:45 Finnish Time at http://k15.fi. Due to the nature of match-play tournament we have to limit the number of players to 30. Spots are expected to fill in really quickly.

Sörkka Pinball Open (Saturday 5th April)

A tournament played in a public pinball gameroom Extraball in harbour area of Helsinki. Both classics and modern games used in tournament. Read more info from http://pinball.fi/events/spo-2014/

Both tournaments are IFPA sanctioned WPPR ranking tournaments.

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Olli-Mikko (marble@pinball.fi)

Hello from Finland!

We will arrange a pinball tournament here in Helsinki with following specs:

K15 Open (Saturday&Sunday November 10-11th 2012)

The location is a bunker in downtown Helsinki near St. John's Church (Johanneskyrkan).

Qualifications on Saturday (11-19): choose 5 games out of 11 possible. Play 11 attempts total (max 3 attempts per game). Only the best attempt of a player for a game counts. Points per game 25,20,16,13,21,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

Play-offs on Sunday (12-17) for 16 best qualifiers. Double elimination bracket. Best of three games on winners side, best of one on losers side. The best player from winners and losers side then meet in the final (best of 5 games). The games will be drawn randomly from the qualification bank.

Since the location isn't that big, we will set a player limit of max 32 players in order of registration.
Registration will open later on pre-announced time and date. Instructions to find the location and the full rules document will be given out to players after registration.

WPPR points will be given out. Entry fee is 15e. Machines will be all DMD games.

MCR visited the location a year ago, maybe he can chime in and tell how he liked the location and quality of the
games. And we have gotten bigger and better since then...

Questions? Ask here, email me at marble@pinball.fi or ask me directly this weekend in Borås.

I apologize for quite short notice, hopefully some of you could still make the trip. Welcome