The idea of the tournament

Our aims
	We want to offer as many innings as possible for a low entry fee to all interested players
		The problem of many international tournaments is based on the fact, that you have to pay at least 200 DM entry fee and that very often you have to play in the KO mode. For all second or third level players this isn't very attractive, the number of participants is a proof for that. Our mode of tournament takes care of these problems, by using different entry fees it is made sure, that players without a chance of receiving prize money don't have to pay a big entry fee. By using the group mode for the qualification you have to play at least 2 matches (3 in the tournaments up to now), in the group you have at least one very good player, on the other hand you always have a chance to win a match.
	We want to make some public relations for our sport in Northern Germany
		Unfortunately there is only a very small number of billiardplayers in the NBV (Northern German Billard Confederation). We didn't lose our hope, to reach new members for our clubs with an event like the Kiel Open. In fact every spectator is fascinated by our sport on a tournament like this one.
	We would like to build up new contacts
		We would like to build up new contacts Especially in a confederation like the NBV it is very boring to meet the same players every weekend. For this reason we want to offer the opportunity to match new opponents at least once in a year to all our 3-cushion-players. We are also very glad, when this tournament helps to start new contacts like our visit in Hattem / NL this year. The number of participants from foreign countries in the last two years have been a big and positive surprise to all of us, we hope, that we can continue in this way.
History
	The origin of the tournament as you know it now were the Christmas-tournaments in Hamburg 1986 to 1992 (winner i.e. Maximo Aguirre) organized by the Billard Club Harburg-Wandsbek (BCHW) and the Easter-tournaments in Bremen 1989 to 1994 (winner i.e. Christian Rudolph). After a break we started the first big tournament in cooperation between BCHW and bg Hamburg with the Hamburg Open '98 (winner Frank Eversmann). In this tournament there was a big support by the Billardverein Kiel which led to the Kiel Open, initialized by a team based on the crews of BV Kiel and BCHW added by our main sponsor Keld Sogaard.
Our crew
	Gunter Mylius
		Turnierdirektor, verantwortlich für fast alles, insbesondere Kontakte zur Stadt, zum LSV, zu den Hotels und zu den Sponsoren
	Jürgen Wieduwild
		Turnierleiter, verantwortlich für den sportlichen Bereich, d.h. Ausschreibungen, Anmeldungen, Auslosung, Spieplan und Ergebnisdienst, Homepage
	Angelika Mylius
		Turnierleitung, verantwortlich für die Finanzen, Verpflegung der Turnierleitung und Helfer, Vorbereitung der Spielerplätze
	Kai Brzezinski
		Turnierleitung, Ergebnisdienst, Kontrolle der Spieleberichte, Auswertungen
	Bettina Kriegel
		Turnierleitung, Vorbereitung Aufnahmezettel, Vorbereitung der Spielerplätze, Urkundengestaltung und -druck
	Ludwig Bellach
		Turnierleitung, Ergebnisdienst, Kontrolle der Spieleberichte, Auswertungen
	Torsten Eichhorst
		Turnierleitung, Digitalfotos und Raumbeschallung
	Stefan Schmid
		Turnierleitung, Ergebnisdienst, Kontrolle der Spieleberichte
	Eckehard Schoen
		Auf- und Abbau Tische, Verkabelung
	Torsten Rubbert, Sascha v. Karger, Fam. Bielefeld u.v.a.
		Fahrdienst, Tresendienst im Club