![]() We were in the later session on Saturday, so we took the opportunity of the late start and the fine weather to have a wander around nearby Heroes Square (Hősök tere). If you were playing in the Friday session your Classic Tournament options were somewhat restricted, so that was understandably the least popular option players could choose when registering and paying their €35 entry fee. There was one session on Friday evening, a second at 9am on Saturday morning and a third at 2pm on Saturday afternoon. Speaking of which, this too began on Friday over at the Dürer with the first of three qualifying sessions. The format meant that the Classic Tournaments wouldn’t be worth as many WPPR points as a single big event, so it was played more for fun and as a warm-up for the main HPO. The original intention was to start a new tournament every hour, but almost inevitably delays crept in and the start times slipped so that the 6pm tournament started closer to 8pm. Each tournament stood alone and awarded small trophies to the top three. If you didn’t make it through to the second round of the 1pm tournament, never fear as there was another scheduled to start at 2pm which used the same format.Īnd another at 3pm, 4pm, 5pm and finally at 6pm. They were again grouped into fours to play the same format all the way through to the final. Points were awarded for position in each game, and the top two from each group progressed to the next stage. Signing up for the next Classic Tournament They were put into groups of four (or sometimes three) and given three of the twenty-four classic machines to play. The first began at 1pm on Friday, when up to 64 players could register to compete. Instead of a single Classic Tournament, there were in fact six of them. The organisers were determined not to repeat that experience, so this year the Classic Tournament was scaled back, moved to the Museum, and run on Friday, giving the HPO a clear schedule on Saturday and Sunday. The upshot of that and other decisions was that everything overran significantly, pushing the final of the HPO into the early hours of Sunday morning, finishing around 5am. In 2016 the Classic Tournament ran alongside the main HPO at the Dürer and was a full-blown tournament in its own right. ![]() ![]() The somewhat denuded Museum played host to this year’s new Classic Tournament which departed significantly from last year’s format. A rather empty Museum The bar was fully stocked though You never know where a coveted Pinball News mug will turn up While much of the Museum’s collection had been relocated to the Dürer, the older machines remained in the caves beneath the streets of Budapest. However the competitive action began on Friday night 3.7km away back at the original home of the HPO, the Budapest Pinball Museum. This year’s Hungarian Pinball Open (HPO) was once again part of the Arcadia pinball and video game event, and was held at the Dürer Rendezvényház to the East of the centre of Budapest Budapest Pinball Museum, Radnóti Miklós utca 18., Budapest 1137, HungaryĪnd Dürer Rendezvényház, Ajtósi Dürer sor 19-21 Budapest 1146, Hungary ![]()
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