The last practices of the autumn season are on Friday 20.12. The spring season starts on Tuesday January 7th. Training registrations continue automatically for the spring season. If you want to make changes to your registration, please contact Nella Siilasmaa at nella.siilasmaa@gmail.com. Memberships will also automatically continue for the next year, if you wish to cancel your membership, please inform the club of this in January at the latest.
During the break from guided training, free courts for members of our club are available at Esport within the hall's opening hours. The following courts are available at following times:
Hopefully many can come and play!
Junior Elite 2024 was a great success and a lot of happy faces were seen on the courts! There were 49 juniors from Tapion Sulka participation in the tournament, which might be an all time record. A few first timers, a lot of experienced tournament players and everything in between.
In under 17 boys singles, we saw four TS-players: Axel Gras won his semi final match against Joakim Jäntti (21-10, 21-11) and Viljami Opari was the winner in the semi final between him and Felix Parry (21-15, 21-5). In the final, Axel got the gold with the score 21-12, 21-7.
Other TS medalists from the tournament:
U9: Noah got bronze
U11: Sanvi and Timi got silver in singles, Sanvi and Timi got bronze together in mixed doubles, Timi and Zirui got bronze together in doubles
U13: Suvi got gold in doubles and bronze in singles, Sanvi and Nithilla got bronze together in doubles
U15: Evelin and Sunny got gold in doubles, Vilma got gold in mixed doubles and silver in singles
U17: Axel got gold in singles and mixed doubles, Viljami and Joakim got gold together in doubles, Viljami got silver in singles and Vilma got silver in doubles
HERE to the tournament photo gallery
The following hotel offer will be available during the competition weekend (22-24 November 2024). Room reservations must be made by 6pm on 22 November 2024. Please note that there are a limited number of rooms available at special prices.
Book through Sokos Hotels Sales Service
Phone: +358 300 870 000 / individual room reservations
Email: sokos.hotels@sok.fi
Please kindly mention the quota code BTSJUNNUELIITTI when making a reservation.
You can also make a reservation directly on the website www.sokoshotels.fi – Reservation code online BTSJUNNUELIITTI
The room price includes a nice hotel breakfast (at Heymo Hotell Well 7 – light buffet breakfast at the restaurant), wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) and VAT. We reserve the right to change the price. The room price includes S-bonuses. There is no separate customer owner discount on the price. The hotel rooms are available for your use from 3:00 PM on the day of arrival until 12:00 PM on the day of departure.
Confirmation of reservation
Quota room reservations must be confirmed by credit card or paid at the time of booking. The last free cancellation date for individual reservations made from the quota is 7 days before the date of arrival. We primarily recommend making a reservation by phone or online. Please note that for data protection reasons, credit card information cannot be sent by email. Each guest is responsible for their own accommodation costs.
This is the week of Tapion Sulka junior elite!
OBS: in case of withdrawal, please email elina.h.vaisanen@gmail.com as soon as the withdrawal is confirmed.
Draw and schedule HERE
The tournament is played in Esport Center as usual (Koivu-Mankkaan tie 3). There is a possibility to buy some bread and other snacks from the Esport cafeteria, and also lunch salads. There is a Alepa next to the metro station behind the hall and also few restaurant (Putte's pizza and Noodle Master). A 5-minute drive or one metro stop away there are both Ainoa shopping center and the Niitty shopping center.
There will be a stringing service and Forza stall at the hall during the weekend!
Hotel offer for the tournament weekend is still available. Check the details here: https://tapionsulka.fi/en/hotel-offer-during-junior-elite-22-24-11-2024/
Welcome!
PS. We need a lot of volunteer showing points during the weekend. Everybody is warmly welcome to come and help or just to watch and cheer for the amazing juniors!
Tapion Sulka junior elite will be played on 23.-24.11. in Esport Center as every year! Players can register to classes U9 (only singles), U11, U13, U15, U17 and U19 (singles, doubles, mixed doubles). Three categories is the limit, and one of them needs to be singles. There will be stringing service and Forza stand at the hall during the competition weekend.
Registration closes on Friday 8.11!
Hotel discount (text in Finnish): https://tapionsulka.fi/hotellitarjous-junnuelitiin-22-24-11-2024-ajan/
The tournament is high level as all junior elites but also a great place for new juniors who are interested in competing. The hall is familiar, we have a lot of coaches there to help and cheer for the players and competition is also free of charge for the members of our club (who are also representing our club).
How to join the competition as a first timer:
BUYING THE LICENSE
Since the competition is an official Badminton Federation licensed competition, participants need a competition license. The license is purchased from the Suomisport.fi website, licenses are sold as one-time licenses (entitled to only one competition) and as season licenses (valid until June). When buying a license, the player gets their own player number (MemberID), which is needed in the next step.
REGISTER TO TOURNAMENT SOFTWARE
The competition calendar, competition registrations, competition draw and schedule and results can all be found on the same website, badmintonfinland.tournamentsoftware.com. When registering for the first time on the site, you have to create an account, which will always be used when doing registrations in the future. To create the account, you need the MemberID (player number) from the license purchase. It may take a few hours to log in the license before the account can be created in the tournament software. After signing in, you can register for competitions.
Link to the TS junior elite competition page: https://badmintonfinland.tournamentsoftware.com/tournament/7cb81bfb-5551-4447-9f8a-235413cb0c6a
REGISTER TO THE COMPETITION
Registration is done on the competition page (link above) from the red button in the upper right corner. Select the lowest age categories that are available for your player (U9 = 2016, U11 = 2015&2014, U13 = 2012&2013, U15 = 2010&2011, etc.). PK/BS means boys' singles, TK/GS means girls' singles, PN&TN / BD&GD means doubles, SN/XD means mixed doubles. You can register for singles games by yourself, and you can also register for doubles either with a partner (the partner must also register and choose you as a partner) or as an open / I'm looking for a partner. In this case, the tournament organizer will match you with another person registered in the same category as an open player. The draw and the schedule will be published on the same competition page at the beginning of the competition week.
Badminton superstars will come to Finland in October to play a part of the World Tour called CLASH ROYALE Arctic Open powered by YONEX!
The Arctic Open is a part of the Badminton World Tour, where amongst registered players are some Olympic medalists and multiple TOP-10 players in all five disciplines.The arena is the Vantaa Energia Arena, where the competition will be played on October 8-13, 2024. The prize pool in the tournament is significant for Finnish standards, almost 500,000 dollars. As badminton is the second largest sport in the world, the World Tour competitions also have an impressive television presence: as the Arctic Open is a Super 500 competition, the reach will be more than 500 million households. In the fall of 2021, Finland organized the mixed team World Cup in the same arena, and according to newspaper reports, it was the most watched TV signal broadcast from Finland ever, when the final broadcast reached approx. 640 million households. We warmly recommend all players of our club and anyone outside the club who is even slightly interested in badminton to buy tickets to the arena for at least one day. Badminton is the best live!
Check the full player listings here
How to buy the tickets
Still time to buy the tickets! Do it here: https://www.lippu.fi/artist/arctic-open/
When buying tickets for the Arctic Open, use Tapion Sulka's club code "TAP24" in the section Seuramyynti - Kampanjakoodi (Club sales - Campaign code). For every ticket sold with a club code, the badminton association will gift our club €5!
Juniors' club day at Arctic Open
Here is a unique opportunity for all junior players of Tapion Sulka (born in 2006 or later) to get to watch the world's best badminton players' matches for FREE for one evening on Wednesday 9.10.! There is a coach from our club there to giving the players their tickets and guiding them to the Tapion Sulka seats. It's not mandatory to sit on the Tapion Sulka seats though. Juniors can also sit with their friends or family. The club practices run as usual at the Esport Center on that day, but we even recommend the Wednesday's players to skip that week's training and come to watch and learn from the world's best players. Ticket's can be gotten at 17:00, 17:30 or 18:00 at the arena. If you have to arrive later, please note the coach present (Nella, nella.siilasmaa@gmail.com) that she knows to come and give the ticket to the junior. You can leave according to your own schedule.
Registration takes place in MyClub, the deadline for registration is MONDAY 31.9!!!