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The 14th edition of Oslo Open will be held on September 4th, 2010 at the BLS Conference Center in Oslo.
Oslo Open is Norway's main international table hockey tournament. It is organized by the Norwegian Table Hockey Association and is the first Big Six tournament organized this season as part of the World Table Hockey Tour.
The tournament begins at 09:00 and should end around 20:00.
There will be a simple kiosk on the premisses where soft drinks, coffee and snacks can be bought. Lunch can be bought from one of the nearby grocery shops.
Entry fee
The entry fee for Oslo Open is 100 NOK (approx. 12 €) for foreign players, 200 NOK for players living in Norway (75 NOK for Norwegian first-season players). Entry fee is to be paid on the day of the tournament. We will only accept payment by cash in Norwegian Kroner.
Tournament series
In addition to the open series, the tournament will include a junior, women and veteran series. These additional series, however, depends on the number of registered contestants within each of the categories.
Trophies
- Winner, runner-up, and semifinalists of the Open series
Tournament venue
BLS Conference Center is located in Nordahl Bruns gate 22. The venue is the close neighbour to Blitz (Oslo's infamous autonomous counterculture-center) and only a short distance from the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel and the Royal Palace.
How to get there
Either by tram no. 11, 17 or 18 to Tullinløkka or Holbergs plass (SAS Hotel), or by metro to Nationaltheatret station. Metro map
NB. Wet outdoor shoes are not allowed in the tournament hall. Bring indoor shoes.
Travel
Several budget airlines operate flights to Oslo, e.g.:
- Air lines
- Sterling (from Copenhagen, Prague, Budapest, Paris, etc.)
- Norwegian (from Stockholm, Riga, Berlin, Prague, etc.)
- Blue1 (from Helsinki)
- Germanwings (from Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn)
- Air Baltic (from Riga, Moscow, Kiev, etc)
- Fly Nordic (from Stockholm)
If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a message on our forum.
Preliminary Tournament schedule
- 08:00
- Doors open for registration and warm-up
- 08:55
- Information
- 09:00
- Beginning of the tournament
- Open series, round 1
- The top players from each group advance to Final Groups, the rest to Placement Groups B and Placement Group C.
- 12:00
- Lunch break
- 13:00
- Open series, cont.
- Final groups (A), the top 16 players advance to playoff.
- Placement groups (B), the top 4 players advance to playoff.
- Placement group (C), no playoff.
- 16:30
- Open series, playoffs
- Final group begins with 1/8 Finals
- Best of 7 games. Bronze final - no.
- Placement group B begins with semifinals
- Best of 7 games. Bronze final - no.
- 20:00
- Finished