Steve tells about ST and DPO.pngAfter a succesfull event in 2013 (won by Zachary Sharpe) the date for the event in 2014 has been set on 1&2 november.

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Review on 2013 version can be seen at http://www.pinballnews.com/shows/dpo2013/index.html

So, reserve these dates in your agenda and perhaps you can hold the cup this year

Edit 25th august :

Website http://www.nfvpinball.nl/wedstrijden/dpo/ !

Steve announces changes in ST : http://www.nfvpinball.nl/steve-ritchie-star-trek-dpo-2014/

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Edit 31st august

Announcement Jack from JJP is coming to !

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Edit 16th september

With the compliments of sponsor Ministry of Pinball Austin Powers gives his opinion on DPO 2014

More details on the DPO event can be seen also at https://pinside.com/pinball/events/dutch-pinball-open-dpo-2014

Edit 22nd september

Thanks to sponsor Ministry of Pinball TWD PRO can be played at booth MoP

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BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER

Have you always been jealous on your wife when she enjoys fairs with her friends, and returns home with great stories? Wouldn’t you be willing to miss (or share) your friend for a weekend, for the ultimate pinball experience? Then DPO Expo 2014 is the place to be.

Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger. The members of Daft Punk couldn’t have phrased it better. Think about more pinball machines, more vendors, national and international speakers, sidegames, great food, ‘Meat & Greed’ (yes!) with a pinball celebrity, signature sessions but most important Atmosphere with the capital P of Passion.

There are plenty of ideas ‘behind the Dot Matrix Screens’ and hard work is being done already, to realize as many as ideas with a DPO-team which has never been this big and this eager. And this is all done for you. When you prefer spending the weekend with your parents in law in a holiday bungalow, go ahead. But don’t be upset afterwards, when you hear all the great stories from those who participated. After all, you got a warning.

Negotiations with international celebrities have already succeeded. Nobody less than Steve Ritchie (see Steve on Wikipedia) will be visiting the country of tulips, wooden shoes and windmills and Steve will attend DPO Expo 2014 !

DUTCH PINBALL, ‘THE BIG LEBOWSKI’

And do not forget that 2014 is going to be a remarkable year, also for the Dutch Pinball Industry. It has seen the start of the first Dutch pinball factory. The team members of Dutch Pinball will attend DPO Expo 2014. For the true pinball enthusiasts, a big new development like this, is already more than enough reason to be there.

AND OF COURSE…

Of course still the tournaments will be there. After the American victory in 2013 (Zachary Sharpe), with an excellent 2nd place for ‘our’ Dutch Taco Wouters, the NFV-members will do their utmost to get the trophy back to Holland again. And we challenge all the players from abroad to keep us from getting it.

So, follow http://dpo.nfvpinball.nl and our NFV-Facebookpage (https://www.facebook.com/nfvpinball) as more info will be revealed when available.

Event is now added in the event section of pinside

DPOteam has been wrking hard to get everything on the road and all details on the website and pleased to inform you that that work is done.

Coming to DPO is, among other, Steve Ritchie. Has been very nice working with Steve Ritchie in organizing his visit to the DPO and he was kind of enough to give us the headup on his work on ST and changes we can expect for the next version

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Want to know what he says? Than click http://www.nfvpinball.nl/steve-ritchie-star-trek-dpo-2014/

Besides Steve also Dutch PInball will show off the Big Lebowski and Silver Castle Pinball will reveal more of their Timeshock

Wanna visit DPO? Than also visit the other DPO webpages at http://www.nfvpinball.nl/wedstrijden/dpo/, they are available in English and Dutch now. In for a challenge? Than participate in the competition, you will have to beat Cayle George who is attending DPO to

See you in Holland in november (or in Chicago in october) !!

Exact date for 2015 is unknown yet but we always aim for 1st weekend November. It depends however also on availability of the location (this changes every year).

So pls be patient till end 2014/ start 2015

Dear muppet man

Thanks for letting me know your reason for the confusion. Changed my post slightly to hopefully make more clear that 25tj august was meant as EDIT date.

Hope to see you in NL !!

Good question, see https://pinside.com/pinball/events/dutch-pinball-open-dpo-2014 for details to among which also location.

Adress is

Voorste Venne
Anton Pieckplein
5152 LZ Drunen
Netherlands
www.voorstevenne.nl

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In case you were still wondering why the heck you should visit the Dutch Pinball Open this year, then for sure the following announcement will convince you:

In association with our sponsor Ministry of Pinball we're very proud that we can announce that "Jersey" Jack Guarnieri will be at the Dutch Pinball Open this year also! As everybody knows, Jack is the founder of Jersey Jack Pinball and with the Wizard of Oz and later this year The Hobbit is setting a new standard in the pinball world!

So with "The King of Flow" Steve Ritchie and "Jersey" Jack Guarnieri, hundreds of Pinball machines, food, drinks and the best pinball players of the world, the only person we miss is you! So be there on the 1st and 2nd of November in Drunen!

Stay tuned for more exiting news as we believe we have more treats for you very shortly!

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yeah baby yeah.

See you all in Drunen Netherlands !! Pinball center of the universe

Bump for a great vid and tournament

Thanks to sponsor Ministry of Pinball we are pleased to announce that the latest from Stern, the TWD PRO, can be played at MoP booth

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Great news.

The Hobbit will fly this weekend to Europe and is expected to be at DPO if the transport all goes well
So another reason to visit DPO and see the newest JJP creation with your own eyes
And don't forget, jack will be there too to meet you

As mentioned earlier, another hot news on expo, TBL from DP, will be there to in playable version !

No membership card required

Come on man, Breda Drunen is 15 car-minutes. Come and enjoy the best expo of all time

No worries

No worries, you can go also when you are not registred. Preregistration is mainly for tournament players so that the organization can prep as much as possible. Max is 196 players and 'only' 153 have preregistered so if you come saturdaymorning I expect no issues if you want to participate in tournament.

If you just want to come as visitor as a lot of people do no worries at all, always welcome

We will have approx 120 pinballs of which approx 40 are for tournament so plenty left for free play !!

So, DPO is over. We had a good time thanks to the many volunteers and sponsors and special guest like jack and Steve. Having the hobbit as first in Europe and TBL making his first public appearance in Europe also did help

So, see you in 2015