An important message from Grand Master Harry Vones and Grand Master Willy van de Mortel, please read carefully!

Dear participants of Open Dutch 2026,

We are approaching the participant limit of 700. Therefore, from now on, all registrations will be placed on a waiting list and accepted according to the time of registration. This will continue until the limit of 700 is reached. Once the limit of 700 is reached, participants can only be accepted if participants who had already been accepted withdraw.

IMPORTANT:
In case of changes (e.g., change in participants’ weight class), please do not delete the participants and re-register them with a different weight class, as this will move them to the end of the waiting list. Please send change requests by email to h.vones@itf-d.de and copy in wvdmortel16@gmail.com. Changes are considered accepted once they have been confirmed by email.

Best regards,

Harry Vones

Little over a week ago, we reported that we had 200 competitors registered. Happy to announce that we just passed 350 competitors. We normally don’t hit 350 competitors until the end of December, so we expect this edition to be sold out long before the registration deadline. As always, we have a strict deadline, so don’t wait until the last minute. Full = Full! Note that all the important rules, and requirements around coaches and number of umpires are in the invite. So make sure to read it through!

• Invite English
• Invite Dutch / Uitnodiging

We say this every year, and yet every year we have people contacting us who say that they can’t register and that they did not expect the event to sell out before the final registration date. We have a maximum of 700 competitors, and we are ahead of the number of registrations at this point last year. This means that we expect the event to sell out even earlier this time. If you want to compete, don’t wait until the last minute to register, as it simply may be too late. We are closing in on 200 participants as we speak, so don’t sleep on it, register now.

We see this every year: people wait until the last moment to register and then realize the event has sold out. We’ve said this many times already, but we have a strict limit of 700 competitors. If you wait until the last minute to register, there’s a chance you will miss out! Every year, we get emails with various reasons why people were late, but unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions. So if you are planning to compete, register as soon as possible. You can find all the details below!

2026 edition:

• Poster
• Sportdata Page
• Invite English
• Invite Dutch / Uitnodiging

We just posted the official Open Dutch 2026 invite with all the details of the event. Make sure to read the invite, and share it with your team, coaches, and referees. We want to point out a couple of things, as unfortunately some people read over these important details. On Saturday the weigh-in/height-check will start at 7:15 and end at 8:15. For Friday, we don’t have the times just yet, those will be announced closer to the event. Another thing to stress is that this year we will once again have a limit of 700 participants. Every year we have people who wait with registering until the last week which results in disappointment. Make sure you register as soon as registration opens up, as we expect it will sell out once again.

• Invite English
• Invite Dutch / Uitnodiging