Hi all!

K15 Open, a competition played solely on DMD machines in a basement location in the heart of Helsinki Finland, will be played this year too!

Dates: from Friday 17th October until Sunday 19th October.

Location: basement in downtown Helsinki 1km away from central railway station.

Time: three qualification groups to choose from. One on Friday (17:30-22:30), two on Saturday (11-16 and 17-22).

Qualification format: 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 80, 75, 70, 66, 62, 58, 54, 51, 48, 45, 42, 39, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

Play-offs: on Sunday (12-20) for 32 best qualifiers. 30min warmup time before play-offs (11:25-11:55). 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 play-offs machine bank.

There is also a 3-game PinGolf side tournament to be played during your qualification group. Possible tied first place finishers play an additional hole at Sunday noon.

Registration will open on Wednesday 27th August 20:00 Finnish time (19:00 Swedish) at http://k15.fi. You must pick one of the qualification groups while registering. Full rules document is available at the tournament website.

We are providing two country exemption spots for each country until the start of the registration, so if you already know your two 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) before the start of registration. One Swedish spot is spoken for MCR (JOE confirmed not being able to attend).

Since the location isn't that big, we will run qualifications in three groups and will set a player limit of max 25 players per group in order of registration.

Instructions to find the location will be sent to players after registration.

WPPR points will be given out (main + side). Set highscore competition and some freeplay machines also available.

Questions? Ask here, email me at marble@pinball.fi or ask me directly at BPO next month.

Hope to see many Swedish players in the tournament again!

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On behalf of all K15 Open organizers
Olli-Mikko O. (marble@pinball.fi)
Espoo, Finland