Organizing committee of Baltic Sea Tour approved money purse for overall Tour winners in 2012. It is a first year the Tour has money prizes – top 3 players of Open division will share purse of 800 EUR. Winner of Tour will receive 525 EUR – it’s more than player gets winning the Eurotour! 2nd place will receive 175 EUR, and 3rd – 100 EUR.

Read more about overall Tour points system at General info.

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Vilnius Open’2012 (1st tournament of BST’2012)

Short description:
Puckoriai Park is still a project for a permanent disc golf park. It’s a Public Park with ideal landscape for disc golf. There are few wonderful down and uphill shots, some challenging OBs, some really long shots for big arms. Fantastic and pictorial park in spring time.
The course will be 18 holes for the first time. Lovely holes of 2010 comes back, challenging additions of 2011 stays, and there will be some new holes too!
Come to the tournament, support disc golf development in heart of Lithuania – Vilnius.
Be part of Baltic Sea Tour’2012!

Organizer: Lithuanian Flying Disc Federation
Where: Puckoriu Park, Vilnius, Lithuania
Tournament center: Belmontas (video of tournament center and course surroundings )
Date: 21, 22 April, 2012, (Practice and Doubles on 20 April)
Divisions:
● MPO (obligatory for male players age from 17 to 49 (born 1963 through 1995),
● MA1 (juniors <17, grandmasters >49 and female players).

Player`s fee (paid on site before tournament):
MPO – 15 Eur (55 Lt)
MA1 – 5 Eur (20 Lt)

PDGA sanctioning: C-Tier

Staff:
● TD: Darius Gricius (#41932), tel. +370 687 81223, e-mail: darosg@gmail.com
● co-TD: Tadas Uselis (#41940), tel. +370 611 14105, e-mail: tadascc@gmail.com

Dress code: Please follow PDGA rules regarding dress code.

Prizes:
There is no money purse, Trophies only.
First three places in both divisions get trophies.

BST points: The tournament is part of Baltic Sea Tour and all participants are awarded with BST points which count for overall BST standing.
Overall winners (top 3) of the Tour will receive money prizes (total purse – 800 EUR) – No1 – 525 EUR (more than EuroTour winner!), No2 – 175 EUR, No3 – 100 EUR.

Tournament format:

3 rounds of 18 holes + 9 holes final (two groups – MPO top5 and MA1 top4)

1st round – random mix of player (both divisions together)
2nd round – players grouped by results of 1st round (both divisions together)
3rd round – players grouped by total result of 1st and 2nd rounds and by divisions
Final – top5 MPO and top 4 MA1 (9 holes)

In case of tie for finalist (more players qualifying to the final) after 3 rounds sudden death competition played among tied players on 3 holes (exact holes will be announced later). If it is still a tie – CTP is played.

Rules: Official PDGA rules are applied.

Doubles: Played on Friday (20th April). Best shot rules. Make a team, register (starting fee – 5 EUR/team) find another team to play with, and start the round from 2 to 4.30 pm (finish by 7 pm). Doubles is open for everyone – not only tournament players.

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Due to technical reasons registration form is not functioning – we are working on that!

In meanwhile – you can send your registration via e-mail – read required info bellow. Sorry for inconvenience!

Registration – please read info on this site before registering!

Registration deadline: registration is open until 13^th April (TD might decide to extend the deadline) and is made by filling registration form bellow. Player is registered when his/her name appears on official website.

Cancellation deadline: in order to avoid Sanctions (see bellow) you have to cancel not later than 8th April. To cancel simply send an e-mail to TD Darius Gricius (darosg [at] gmail.com). Your cancellation is approved when your name is removed from official website.  Players with later notice can be released from Sanctions only because of legally validated health related problems and only by BST board decision.

Sanctions: Players, who register to the tournament, don’t cancel and don’t come to the tournament pay 15 EUR penalty before playing next BST tournament.

Tournament size: maximum number of players – 90. 80 players will be registered by registration time. TD keeps 10 wild cards. In case of more players registered waiting list will be established.

Registration Form (please fill to register):

The Form is not functioning due to technical reasons.We hope to restore it during Monday.

In meanwhile – please register by sending an e-mail to darosg [at] gmail [dot] com . We will reply to you confirming receipt of your registration.

Required info (* indicates mandatory info):

1. Your Name*
2. Your Surname*
3. PDGA#  (if a member)
4. Year of birth*
5. Gender* (Female/Male)
6. Country*
7. Tel. number
8. Your Email*
9. Division* (“MPO (15 EUR or 55 LTL)” or “MA1 (juniors <17, grandmasters (>49) or women (5 EUR or 20 LTL)”

10. Food* (Saturday lunch – both options include soup) We encourage to choose 1 of food options, as it supports our relationship with tournament center owners. If in anyway you don’t want to order lunch, please select “No, thanks”

a. “Chicken (6 EUR)”
b. “Fish (6 EUR)”
c. “No, thanks”

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VilniusOpen'2012 - Registered players

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Course & Equipment: public park, 18 holes.
Holes lengths are between 70 and 290 meters. There are quite few challenging OBs, wonderful up and down hill shots.

Course map: Coming soon!

Location and driving directions: Parking place at tournament center (Belmontas)

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Friday (20^th, April)

12.00             Course open for practice

14.00-16.30 Starts of Doubles (Winner gets it all – fee 5 EUR or 15 LTL/pair)

(Please finish by 19.00)

Saturday (21^th, April)

8.30               Players Registration

9.30      Players meeting (track introduction, scorecard distribution)

10.30             1^st round – 18 holes

14.00   Collecting of the scorecards

14.00             Lunch break

15.00             Gathering, scorecard distribution

15.30             2^nd round – 18 holes

19.00             Collecting of the scorecards

19.00             Registration for putting contest

19.10             Putting contest at the tournament center (Winner gets it all – fee 2 EUR or 5 LTL)

21.00   Player‘s party at Belmontas (tournament center)

Sunday (22^nd, April)

8.30               Gathering, scorecard distribution

9.30               3rd round – 18 holes

13.00             Collecting of the scorecards

13.30             Final – top5 MPO and top4 MA1 players – nine holes (staggered start, MA1 starts)

15.00   Collecting of the scorecards

15.15   Prize ceremony

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Lodging: Information coming soon! We hope to publish recommended hostel/hotel on Thursday 23/4 as the latest.

Food: Saturday lunch at tournament center will be offered. Please book it when registering. Otherwise you have to buy it on site, and won’t be able to use a special discount we have for tournament players!

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The tournament has not been played, yet!