VILNIUS OPEN 2011

20-22 May, 2011

Vilnius, Lithuania

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Organizers
Nacionalinė stalo futbolo federacija (National Table Football Federation)

Tournament Director: Tomas Klimašauskas

Head official: Rytis Mitkus

Location
Havana Social Club, Šermukšnių g. 4A, Vilnius

Event Information
Tournament will be held on 10-14 Garlando tables. Ball is not included in tournament fee and may be
purchased at the tournament office.

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Preregistration form
The preregistration form can be found here:

http://www.britfoos.com/Registration/Li ... sterSeries

Thanks to the British Foosball Association for letting us use their registration form.

The deadline for preregistration is 18 May. There will be no possibilities to purchase a package deal after
this date, so we kindly ask you to register in advance.

Link to the thread to look for a partner in:

http://www.foosball.lt/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=680

The list of pre-registered players can be found here:

http://table-soccer.org/tournaments/registration.php?ID=350

Format & Recall

Changes to game formats may be made by the tournament office if needed.

Recall – Regulation: To avoid long waiting periods, Recall-Regulations are strictly used.

Announcement of the results: The winner of the game has to announce the result within 5 minutes after
the game has been finished. If not done, the game can be counted as lost.

Dress Code
The wearing of sportswear is required for all participants of open, women, junior and senior events

Schedule
Friday, May 20
18:00 Pro-Am Doubles 2KO
20:00 Open D.Y.P. 2KO
Saturday, May 21
10:00 Novice Singles/Amateur Singles/ Semi-pro Doubles/ Pro&Master Doubles 2KO
12:00 Open Singles Qualification
15:00 Woman Doubles, Junior Doubles, Senior Doubles 2KO
16:00 Open Singles Eliminations 1KO
20:00 Mixed Doubles 2KO
Sunday, May 22
10:00 Novice Doubles/Amateur Doubles/ Semi-pro Singles/ Pro &Master Singles 2KO
12:00 Open Doubles Qualification
15:00 Woman Singles, Junior Singles, Senior Singles 2KO
16:00 Open Doubles Elimination

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*D.Y.P. – Draw your partner.

Game formats
OS and OD will be played with qualification stage up to 6 games. Elimination format is first to 5, best of 5,
however, last game must be won with 2 points difference up to 8 points.

WS, WD, JS, JD, SS and SD events will have the format of double elimination. Games will be played best of 3
in winners bracket and first to 7 in losers bracket.

DYP, Pro-Am, Mixed and all category events will be played double elimination first to 7 in both brackets.

The tournament office keeps the right to change the format of any event.

Event eligibility
Open singles/Open doubles - everyone
Women singles/Women doubles– All women
Junior singles/Junior doubles – Any players born 1993.01.01 or later
Senior singles/Senior doubles – Any player born in 1960 or earlier
Mixed doubles – teams consisting of male and female player.
Open D.Y.P. - everyone
Pro-Am: Novice players can partner any other player
Amateur players can partner any player who is not Master
Semi-Pro Players can partner any player who is not Pro or Master
Pro Players can partner any Amateur or Novice player
Pro-Master Players must partner a Novice player
Novice singles/Novice doubles – any player ranked novice
Amateur singles/Amateur doubles – any player ranked amateur or novice
Semi-Pro singles/ Semi-Pro doubles – any player ranked semi-pro or amateur
Pro and Master singles/Pro and Master doubles – any player ranked Pro, Master or Semi-Pro.

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Rankings
All overseas players will be ranked according to ITSF rankings (lowest rank foreign players can get is Semi-
Pro, except players from Latvia, Estonia and Belarus, who will be ranked Amateurs).

Female overseas players may ranked Amateur, unless they are top 500 in ITSF open combined rankings
what would make them at least semi-pro.

Lithuanian players will be ranked according to Lithuanian ranking system.

Categories given to overseas players:

1-100 places in ITSF open combined rankings will be ranked as Master.
101-250 places in ITSF open combined rankings will be ranked as Pro.
All other players will be ranked as Semi-Pro.

Tournament fees
OS OD WS WD JS JD SS SD Mix Pro-Am ProS ProD SPS SPD AS AD NS ND
Master 70 70 25 25 15 15 25 25 40 25 35 35 x x x x x x
Pro 50 50 20 20 10 10 20 20 35 25 35 35 x x x x x x
Semi-Pro 35 35 15 15 10 10 15 15 25 20 x x 25 25 x x x x
Amateur 20 20 10 10 5 5 10 10 20 15 x x 25 25 15 15 x x
Novice 15 15 5 5 5 5 5 5 15 10 x x x x 15 15 10 10

Package deals:

Master - OS/OD/Pro-am /ProS/ProD/D.Y.P/Tourney fee - 200 LTL

Pro - OS/OD/Pro-am /ProS/ProD/D.Y.P./Tourney fee - 160 LTL
Semi-pro - OS/OD/Pro-am /SPS/SPD/D.Y.P./Tourney fee - 130 LTL
Amateur - OS/OD/Pro-am /AS/AD/D.Y.P./Tourney fee - 90 LTL
Novice - OS/OD/Pro-am /NS/ND/D.Y.P./Tourney fee - 60 LTL

Table fees
Tournament fee: 15 LTL - for all days, 10 LTL - for 2 days, 5 LTL - for one day.
Referee fee: 5 LTL per person

Change rates
1 EUR – 3.4528 LT (fixed rate)
1 GBP – 3.9280 LT
1 LVL - 4.8675 LT
1 PLN - 0.8570 LT
10 RUR – 0.8560 LT

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Transport toVilnius:
Fly directly

This is the list of airlines which fly to Vilnius:

http://vno.lt/lt/verslui/oro-liniju-bendroves/

Fly to Kaunas

Only Ryanair and AirBaltic offer flights to Kaunas, which is 100km away from Vilnius, however, flight
geography is still very wide. From Kaunas you can take a bus going to Vilnius.

www.ryanair.com

www.airbaltic.com

There are buses going from Kaunas airport to Vilnius, which usually go shortly after almost every flight. You
can book tickets here:

http://www.airport-express.lt/index.php?lang=en&back=1

Fly to Riga

The list of airlines, offering flights to Riga is here:

http://www.riga-airport.com/en/main/flights/airlines

Riga is 300 km away from Vilnius, so the best is to take a bus, which should cost around 15-17 euros.

Accomodation
Hostels:
http://www.oldtownhostel.lt
http://www.filaretaihostel.lt
http://www.latako.lt
http://www.litinterp.com/litinterp.php?id=141

Hotels within easy reach:

http://www.radissonblu.com/lietuvahotel-vilnius
http://www.eurobookings.com/vilnius-hotels-lt/neringa-hotel.html
http://www.novotel.com/gb/hotel-5209-novotel-vilnius-centre/index.shtml