Just a few days left to register for Vienna Classics

Just a little bit more than a week left to register for the start of the 2017 FIR World Tour. The tournament will take place in Vienna from 6th to 8th January at the City and Country Club Wienerberg, which is also the location of the Austrian Racketlon Federation´s office combined with a Racketlonshop. The center furthermore offers a great setup having 5 courts of each sport available to be competed and practiced on, a nice restaurant and even Sauna to improve regeneration!

The tournament itself offers the high standard that the Austrian Racketlon Federation tries to hold and improve each year. Perfect court conditions, well organized time schedule and experienced and helpful staff at the tournament desk.

To give you a brief overview of what the RFA offers for all players:

  • Vienna Classics gift
  • Players Dinner Saturday Evening
  • Free entry to the Playersparty
  • Voucher www.racketlonshop.at
  • Minimum of 3 matches per player in each singles class, 2 matches in doubles
  • Balls for all matches, feathercocks for all badminton matches
  • Referees on all Centercourt Matches
  • Charity Project of the RFA

Furthermore located 2 and respectively 7 minutes walking distance away from the tournament hotels, you can go to the room relax and refresh yourself and prepare for the next matches

For more information visit: http://racketlon.at/vc2017/tournament-information or contact the tournament director via: Ptacnik@rackelton.at

The RFA together with the new tournament director Florian Ptacnik is looking forward to hosting many players and create a Racketlon weekend for everyone to enjoy!

For now we wish you a merry Christmas and hope to see you healthy and well in the New Year!

 

Florian Ptacnik
Tournament Director

Champions League 2017

Who Can Play in the New Champions League?

Champions League is open to all FIR registered players. It will be played on the Friday (24 th Feb) at the Swedish Open and on the Friday (28 th July) at the German Open. Even if you are only able to play one of these tournaments you can still sign up to play Champions League.

 

How Do I register to play Champions League?

Go to the normal FIR Tournament Software page: www.fir.tournamentsoftware.com and you will see an entry called “Champions League, Player Registration” Go to this page and register yourself here stating whether you are available to play Champions League at the Swedish Open or at the German Open…or ideally at both tournaments! NB To enter the IWT Swedish Open or IWT German Open, please go to their separate entry pages as normal.

 

What are the Teams and which Team will I play for?

All the players who register to play Champions League will be put into a large pool of players and then in January 2017 there will be a Draft where the 8 team captains from the 8 brand new franchise Teams, will select their squad of players. This will create 8 very even strength teams to compete for the 2017 Champions League title.

Who are the New Franchise Teams?

Technifibre Copenhagen – Team Captain: Morten Jaaksland
Bergahain Berlin Boasters – Team Captain: Amke Fischer
iPro London – Team Captain: Duncan Stahl
KoR Oudenaarde – Team Captain: Lieselot de Bleeckere
Three Percent Malta – Team Captain: Kresten Hougaard
Helsinki Hawks – Team Captain: Marko Valimaki
Swiss Eagles – Team Captain: Nicole Eisler
Nottingham Nicks – Team Captain: Dan Busby

What’s the Format of the New Champions League?

Champions League 2017 will be in a league format, where every team plays each other once. Each team will play their first 3 matches in Sweden (24 th Feb) and their remaining 4 matches in German 28 th July).

Team Match Format

Each match will consist of 3x Men’s singles, 1x Women’s singles, 1x Men’s doubles and 1x Mixed doubles (all to 11up), but the singles players are also able to play in the doubles matches, meaning a team only needs a minimum of 3x men and 1x women per match.

 

The Draft

The Draft will be done LIVE via various social media platforms so that all players can see what team they get picked for!

Nb Each team captain will be free to pick any player from any country.

 

Team Fees

Each team will pay an entry fee to the Tournament Director (this would be made up of payments from each individual team member).

 

For any Champions League questions – please contact: duncan.stahl@aureus-sv.com

Combine Racketlon with holidays in Thailand

2017 will be another great year for Austria on the FIR World Tour. From 6th to 8thJanuary the year will traditionally kick-off with the 7th Vienna New Year Classics in City & Country Club managed by the new tournament director Florian Ptacnik. At the same location RFARacketlon Federation Austria will then host the FIR 2ndEuropean Championships in singles, doubles and teams from 30th August to 3rdSeptember. One weekend earlier the European Champs for juniors and seniors will be held in Wr. Neudorf from 25th to 28th of August. Tournament information is now online on www.racketlon.at/vc2017 and www.racketlon.at/ec2017

Cheaper rooms at Vienna Classics

Please be fast to book your rooms at the tournament hotel Arion Cityhotel, where the prices were lowered by 10€ per room compared to 2016 until latest 4th December 2016 via e-mail to RFA office reischer@racketlon.at

Register for Vienna Classics!

RFA-President
Marcel Weigl