General

Those preparing their travel to the Open Dutch in Helmond, it is possible to take the train from Eindhoven or from Schiphol to Helmond. The Dutch Railway website is: https://www.ns.nl/en/. When you enter the dates and the locations (pick train station “Helmond”) then you can provide a time and it will provide you a time table when you click “plan”. A one-way ticket from Schiphol to Helmond is € 21.10. An example of the fields you need to fill out can be found below.

For those traveling with larger groups, note that there’s also an option to buy a group ticket, this only works with a group of 4 or larger. But does provide a relatively low fair, note that these can’t be used during rush hours. The people in the group all need to travel together at the same time, and the ticket can only be bought online, with 4 people the ticket will cost 7.50 per person. More details can be found here: https://www.ns.nl/producten/en/losse-kaartjes/p/groepsticket-daluren

Print-Station.nl will be at the Open Dutch and they will be manufacturing and selling the official Open Dutch tournament shirt. If you want one, make sure to pre-order it here. You can also follow them on facebook of course. They will have this cool Open Dutch shirt, but of course will also offer other designs and the opportunity to customize shirts.

Top-Ten just informed us that they will have vouchers for 10/20/30% discount at their booth at the Open-Dutch for Bronze/Silver/Gold winners. The voucher can also be used for online orders on budoland.de , but note that depending on where you are located there may be a shipping cost involved. We recommend those who want to use the voucher to try to use it at the tournament. That way you get the most out of it.

Thanks Top Ten for providing these!

As some people already asked, yes we will have the option again to do the weigh-in (or height on Saturday evening at the venue. Note that this will only be possible between 16:00 and 19:00. With ~600 participants we are expecting it to be super busy on Sunday morning, so anyone who is capable of doing the weigh-in or height check on Saturday evening, please stop by and avoid the rush on Sunday morning! (Sports venue Fitland Helmond, Scheepsboulevard 2 5705 KZ Helmond, Netherlands)

The end of registration is closing in, you have until Tuesday 16th of January 2018 to register your team and until the 23rd to make changes to the currently registered participants. When the registration has closed our team will work hard to get the draw published on this website, our aim is to have it online on Thursday the 25th of January 2018. Currently we have over 30 teams registered from many different countries The Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Ireland, England, Russia, Italy etc. Many more to follow!