Dear Budapest Open participants!

We would like to thank you all in the name of the Organizing Committee, that you have taken note that the competitors are not allowed to double start. We hope we can make up for it in the quality of the competition. We have already made the estimated time schedule which is available on www.sportdata.org.

The time schedule is a planned program, for which we try to stick. However it can change for reasons beyond us. We would like to ask all the participants to be in the arena one hour prior to their categories.

We would also like to inform you about an important change:

The competition will start at 8 o'clock both days!

Please keep in mind that Budapest Open is going to take place in a different spot from the years prior. The new place is:

Vasas Jégcsarnok,

1046 Budapest

Homoktövis utca 1

I would like to wish everyone a successful preparation,

Gerd Rebicek

Organizing Committe

Please check the actual timetable for the 22nd Budapest Open
https://www.sportdata.org/karate/set-online/veranstaltung_info_main.php?active_menu=calendar&vernr=4164&ver_info_action=veruploadfiles#a_eventheadend

Dear Budapest Open participants,

due  the enormous number of participants in 22nd Budapest Open and due to 300 competitors already wait-listed, and because there are still many emails - messages phone  calls we receiving daily from lot of clubs  asking organization committee for registration, mainly due the fact that lot of countries are using Budapest Open as a qualification tournament for upcoming EKF-WKF events we were forced to do some changes:

- we cancelled all team categories

- in general it is allowed to take part in kata and kumite categories - only one age and one weight category with following exceptions:

- U21 male and female kumite competitors can attend also senior kumite categories and the open category

- U21 male and female kata competitors can attend senior kata categories

- except above mentioned categories no other double starts are allowed this year in Budapest Open

- in case of any change on the spot, or not showing up  - 20 Euro/change must be paid.

We will inform all registered and waiting listed clubs when we will open the registration, again. Please all participating coaches make a changes according above written new rules. If you will miss this opportunity to withdraw your competitor from the second or third category yourself, the OC will do it  according to the birth date of the competitor and maybe you will not be satisfied with our decision.

Dear Sport-friends, please try to understand our decision. We got every day plenty of calls, mails etc informed us that how important is for the countries to take part for qualifying competitors in Budapest Open. Some countries use our tournament as the last one before  WCH in Chile and it will be decided here, who will take part. Lot of them are not registered yet. You may say, why they did not register before? That´s right, but we never had so many participants in Budapest before and nobody was expecting  this situation. I hope you all will accept this and you will take a part in unforgettable high level tournament.

I wish you all pleasant stay in Budapest and good result in Budapest Open.

Best regards,

Gerd Rebicek