Czech Open 2007 - invitation
13th Czech Open 2007 is WDF ranked and for first time BDO ranked too. It will be held 2nd - 4th November 2007. We have new biger venue, biger price money (over 1 000 EUR for men singles winner), mixed pairs tournament for first. Russ Bray as a caller again. You are welcome.
![Czech Open 2007](../storage/CzechOpen2007eng.gif)
13th CZECH OPEN
International Darts Tournament - WDF ranked category 3, BDO ranked category C
Friday 2nd November 2007
Mixed Pairs, Warm-Up (men’s, women’s singles)
Saturday 3rd November 2007
Men’s, Women’s singles
Sunday 4th November 2007
Men’s, Women’s pairs, Youth singles
Venue:
Sports centre TJ Bohemians - hall Hagibor,
Izraelská 6, Prague 10, Czech Republic
Hall is situated about only 200 meters from subway station Želivkého (line A).
You can reach Old Town or Down Town for less than 10 minutes.
![Venue](../obrazky/hagibor.jpg)
Closing date for entry: Monday 29th October 2007
Playing format: All legs 501 straight start, finish on a double. In the final leg the players have to throw for bull to find out which player who have to start.
All events are run on a knockout basis (Bracket system adopted).
Men’s singles: Best of 7 legs, semifinals best of 9 legs, final best of 11 legs.
Women’s singles: Best of 5 legs, final best of 7 legs.
Men’s pairs: Best of 7 legs, final best of 9 legs.
Women’s pairs: Best of 5 legs, final best of 7 legs.
Mixed pairs: Best of 5 legs, final best of 7 legs.
Youth singles: Best of 5 legs, final best of 7 legs.
The CDO is proud that the event is WDF Ranked, and it also carries points for the BDO, International
Darts League and World Darts Trophy events. The Women‘s event carries WDF and BDO points.
The Singles Champions will be invited to the Winmau World Masters 2008.
Schedule:
Friday 2nd November
15:00 Mixed Pairs - Payments of entry fees
16:00 Mixed Pairs - Start
20:00 Mixed Pairs - Final
19:00 WarmUp - Registration and Payments of entry fees
20:00 WarmUp - Draw
23:00 WarmUp - Final
Saturday 3rd November
09:00 Singles - Payments of entry fees
10:00 Women’s, Men’s Singles - start
18:00 Finals and Men’s Semifinals (On stage) - TV coverage for CT 4 channel
20:00 Prize presentation (On stage)
Sunday 4th November
09:00 Pairs and Youth - Payments of entry fees
10:00 Women’s, Men’s Pairs and Boys and Girls Singles - start
16:00 Finals (On stage)
17:00 Prize presentation (On stage)
Entry: Closing date: 29th October 2007
Entry form to:
Czech Darts Organization
Pražská 16
102 21 Praha 10
Czech Republic
or e-mail: president (at) czechdarts.org
or on-line registration on <http://www.czechdarts.org> website.
Entry fees:
Women’s and Men’s Singles: CZK 350,-(USD 1 is WDF Levy)
“I understand that a US$1.00 WDF Player Levy is part of my entry fee for this event. This levy will fund the monetary WDF Rankings Awards, attempts toward Olympic recognition and other WDF benefits and services.”
Women’s, Men’s, Mixed Pairs CZK 400,- (200,- per player)
Boy’s and Girl’s Singles CZK 100,-
WarmUp Singles CZK 150,-
Cash at the venue
WDF RULES APPLIES IN SINGLES EVENTS.
Youth players (born 4. 11. 1989 or later) can also participate in the Mens/Womens event.
Rules:
- The organisers reserve the right to alter the schedule and playing format.
- Players are not to be called out, please check bracket sheets where and when you have to play next game.
- Report at official 5 minutes before game.
- When the player not report in time, he/she looses the game by rules.
- When the player does not show up at the prize giving, he or she forfeits the right to receive trophy and prize-money.
- Players are expected to dress appropriate, by means no jeans or denim type trousers on stage.
- Smoking and drinking is not permited in the whole playing area, after second warning the player will be taken out of the tournament.
- Order of throw will be decided by single toss of a coin.
- Every player is allowed to throw 9 darts, to practise before start of game.
- All questions concerning score checks have to be made before the player throws again.
- The looser writes the next game.
ALL PRIZES TOTAL over CZK 110 000,-
(aprox. EUR 4 000,-)
Prize money structure (CZK):
This prize money structure is applicable if the number of players exceeds 128 MS, 32 WS and MP, 16 WP and MixP, according to each category.
MS | WS | MP | WP | MixP | Boys | Girls | |
Winner | 30 000 | 10000 | 10000 | 5 000 | 5 000 | Gifts | Gifts |
Runner Up | 8 000 | 3 000 | 3 000 | 2000 | 2 000 | Gifts | Gifts |
Joint 3rd place | 3 000 | 1 000 | 1000 | 1000 | 1 000 | Gifts | Gifts |
Joint 5th place | 1 000 | 500 | 500 | ||||
Joint 9th place | 500 |
Trophies made from Czech glass for all players on 1st to 3rd place.
Accommodation:
Official Czech Open 2007 hotel - Dorint Don Giovanni- is situated only 200 meters from venue.
Special prices for darters. Deadline for guaranteed booking is 15th September 2007.
Information brochure about hotel HERE.
Please use attached booking form HERE
Transport:
Closest airport is Praha - Ruzyně (PRG) with big number of low-cost flights to whole Europe.
You can find all information on
www.flylowcostairlines.org
You need only 40 minutes by public transport to reach venue. Take BUS 119 to end station and switch to subway line A to station Želivského, ticket costs less than 1 €.
There is lot of train connections to all Europe and direct highway links to the West and the East.