Participating in any of the events requires you to pay an entry fee of 30 €, for each event you want to play. This option of paying for separate events is intended for the case that you want to play only a few events. In most cases it will be simpler and less expensive for you to buy a package deal!

The package costs 125 € end allows you to play all events that you are entitled to play according to your classifiation. (To see exactly which events those are, and to find out your classification, look at the section "Classification" and at the Tournament Flyer.) The package deal also includes a tournament T-shirt. So the package deal is your best option if you intend to play four or more events.

In contrast to our World Championships two years ago, we don't sell the packages in advance this time (it didn't save us the amount of work that we had hoped for at the time). So you will be able to buy the package deals at the tournament site during the event, without the hassle of advance payment or ordering.

Important: you are not signed in automatically for any event, even when you have bought a package! You still have to fill in an inscription form and give it to us at the inscription desk, for each event that you actually want to play. This is to prevent lots of recalls in the first round of each event.

Every player has a ranking / classification: Rookie (Neuling), Semi-Pro (Amateur), Master (Master) or Pro-Master (Elite). I have listed the German words in brackets, in case you come across them elsewhere.

The ranking decides which events a player is allowed to participate in: in general, you can't play a "lower ranked" event – a Pro-Master or Master cannot play the Beginner and Semi-Pro events, and a Semi-Pro cannot play the Beginner events.

The table Who Can Play Which Events gives a detailed list about that.

How Are the Players Sorted into the Different Classification Categories?

• Crucial for the ranking of players is the P4P ranking list 2008, to be found on www.players4players.de (there are separate rankings for singles and doubles.) Click on "Player's Gallery" and find your name and classification in the alphabetical list (if you have ever played at one of our tournaments).

• Players who have never attended a P4P tournament, but are listed in the old Löwen rankings (of 2000), will be ranked according to that classification.

• Players who are neither in the P4P nor in the Löwen rankings, but are listed in some other ranking system (different country and/or table) will be ranked one category lower than this "native" ranking.*

• All other players who are not in our list will be ranked as Rookie.

* Some additional notes regarding the classification of foreign players:

1. If a player is listed in several ranking systems, P4P reserves the right to decide which of those lists is to be considered his "native" ranking, for the purpose of determining his classification for our tournament(s). This applies e.g. to players from countries where there are several different ranking systems, for different tables; or to players who participate in international tournaments, and are therefore listed in the rankings from different countries.
2. Furthermore, P4P reserves the right to decide on how to classify a player who is listed in some other ranking system, but that system doesn't have any categories comparable to our 4 levels (Elite / Master / Amateur / Rookie). As an example, we will consider the top 16 players of the ITSF-ranking as playing in the "highest category", and thus classify them as "Master" in our system. Of course, if such a player is also listed – differently – in some other ranking system, and we think that other ranking better characterizes his real playing abilities, note 1 above may apply.
3. Finally, P4P reserves the right to correct mistakes in our ranking (even on short notice), i.e. to change the classification of a player in our list, if we come to the conclusion that his classification is wrong, and was caused by some error in applying the rules given above and on the P4P web site.

In all cases, we try to make the classfication as fair as possible – to the players who are being newly classified as well as to all other players. This is not always an easy task, due to the large number of different ranking systems, many of which are not readily comparable. If you are unsure about which events you will be allowed to play, send a mail to rangliste(at)players4players.de to ask what classification you will have in our system. (Don't forget to include your name, country, and all ranking systems that you know you are listed in already, and with what classification.)

Event	Who can play
P4P Rookie Doubles P4P Rookie Singles	Everybody who is listed as a Rookie (=Neuling) in the P4P ranking list 2008. Players who are not in that list will also be ranked as Rookies, provided they are not listed in another ranking system (from another country or on another table). In that case, they will be ranked one category lower than that ranking.*
P4P Semi-Pro Doubles P4P Semi-Pro Singles	Everybody who is ranked as Semi-Pro or lower in the P4P ranking list 2008; including the cases mentioned above.
P4P Open Doubles P4P Open Singles	Everybody
Women's Doubles Women's Singles	Every woman
Mixed	Every mixed double (woman and man)
D.Y.P.	Everybody
Pro-Am	A player ranked as Pro-Master (=Elite), together with a Beginner or Semi-Pro player. A player ranked as Master, together with another Master or lower ranked player. A Beginner or Semi-Pro, together with any other player.
Nation's Cup	A national team from each invited country, consisting of at least 6 men and two women. (Crucial for deciding the nationality is the passport, not the country where a player lives.)

This special event is meant for "absolute beginners", i. e. players who have never been to a fossball tournament. The following conditions apply:

• Players can participate in this event if
  
  • they have never played in any other event at a P4P tournament AND
  • they play no other event during the P4P European Championship.
• Simplified rules will be used in this event - only two things are forbidden: spinning the rods, and making the opponent loose the ball by jarring. Should any dispute arise, the tournament direction will decide what to do.
• The entry fee for this event is 5 € per player (10 € per team). The three best placed teams will be rewarded trophies.