Austrian Pinball Open 2015 report

Posted By Josh Sharpe, on September 24, 2015

unnamedblog post courtesy of Stefan Riedler
picture courtesy of Martin Ayub

On the weekend from 18th to 20th September 2015 was the Austrian Pinball Open 2015 held by Flippnic Pinball club (www.flippnic.at) at the Hall of Pinball Fame in Badendorf near Graz.

The Austrian Pinball Sport Association “Union – Flipper Sportverein Austria” (www.flipper-sv.at) supported the event very strong in the preparation and also during the tournament with organization like tournament director and also a live streaming of the final matches on the second day.

The APO was the 10th Event of the European Championship Series and 86 Participants joined the main tournament. They came from all over Europe like France, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Bosnia, UK and for sure Austria to meet a lot of pinheads and enjoy a nice weekend.

A warm up party has been held on Friday the 18th were 35 participants joined and during the side (classic) tournament ~80 participants joined.

The Austrian Public Television visited the tournament on Saturday and a report of the tournament has been shown already on Sunday. You can find it in the Mediathek of the ORF

http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Steiermark-heute/70020/Steiermark-heute/10614743 (it is the report Steirerblicke: Internationales Flipperturnier + Kürbisfest)

Andrew Heighway and RS-Pinball e.U. (www.rs-pinball.com) presented also the Full Throttle for the 1st time in the German speaking countries.
One of the 2 games has been used for the Final match (best of 3) of the main tournament between Roland Schwarz and Markus Stix. Roland won then the 3rd game (~ 153m) with a fantastic 2nd ball against Markus with ~15m. This game was live streamed as well as some others by Richard Pyrker, Markus Schrodt & Robert Glashüttner.

The final games has been even co moderated by Andrew Heighway and so there are a lot of good information about the gameplay and rules included. This video could be found in the archive of twitch.tv at http://www.twitch.tv/pyrker/v/16935460

And last but not least there has been a tombola for everybody who joined the event and bought a ticket. The main price has been a Funhouse pinball machine sponsored by Niegelhell GmbH. And a lot of other prices have been available to from Pinball Magazine, PinSound, RS-Pinball and Flippnic.

Results:

APO 15 Main

  1. Roland Schwarz
  2. Markus Stix
  3. Martin Ayub

APO 15 Side / Classic

  1. Stefan Karlhuber
  2. Arno Nöbl
  3. Andrew Heighway

APO 15 Warm Up Party

  1. David Mainwaring
  2. Martin Ayub
  3. Bálazs Pálfi

The APO 15 and APO 14 has always been held in September, and so keep it in your mind there is also an APO 16 coming probably in September next year 🙂

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