2023 Aurora Fall Open will take place on Saturday and Sunday November 25th & 26th, 2023. The venue is the Eola Community Center located at 555 S. Eola Rd. Aurora, IL . The tournament will be sponsored by Paddle Palace. 
Venue
The venue will be setup with 12 tables and each court will be fully barriered. Courts are 16 ft x 38 ft.
The gym is lit with LED lights . Light strength has been measured on both sides of each table with a dedicated meter and it showed readings between 617 and 916 Lux with an average of 800 Lux.
The flooring is a sports linoleum flooring with a fairly good grip and not too hard on your feet. You are welcome to bring a towel for wetting your shoe soles if you like.
More information about the venue is on this page.
Format
The tournament will have a giant round robin format in groups of 8 players which means that players will be sorted by their rating from highest to lowest and seeded (divided) into groups of 8. The 48 lowest rated players will start at 9 am on Saturday and the higher rated players at 9 am on Sunday.
Unrated players have rating of 0 unless they obtain an estimated rating from their coach. Each group of 8 will have 2 tables to play on so that all matches will be finished in approximately 5 hours.
Prize Money and Trophies
The tournament will offer $1,290 in prize money and trophies. See table below showing which groups (classes) get prize money and which get trophies.
| Class | Player
Rating |
Start Day & Time | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place |
| A | 1st – 8th seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | $140 | $120 | $100 |
| B | 9th – 16th seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | $120 | $100 | $80 |
| C | 17th – 24th seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | $100 | $80 | $60 |
| D | 25th – 32nd seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | $90 | $70 | $50 |
| E | 33rd – 40th seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | $80 | $60 | $40 |
| F | 41st – 48th seed | Sunday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| G | 49th – 56th seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| H | 57th – 64th seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| I | 65th – 72nd seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| J | 73rd – 80th seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| K | 81st – 88th seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
| L | 89th – 96th seed | Saturday 9:00 AM | trophy | trophy | trophy |
Registration
Registration will be conducted using a brand new website accessible at https://www.ttaurora.com. It is designed to be used on the smart phone or desktop/laptop computer. The website only supports direct credit card payments. Unpaid registrations are removed by the website. No PayPal or other forms of payment are accepted. Here are the Instructions for ttaurora.com website if you can’t figure it out.
We strongly recommend using this website to register rather than mailing in the blank entry form. If you prefer to mail in your registration the blank entry form can filled out and mailed to the address indicated on the form. However, those who send their registration by mail are urged to send it early because the available spots may be taken by those who register online while the mail is being delivered. Number of spots is limited to 96 so consider registering early. To see who registered so far please check the tournament player list on ttaurora.com.
Tournament operations will be conducted exclusively using ttaurora website which means that directions to the venue, check in process, draws, player schedule of play, score entry and all other information will be done through this website. We hope this will allow to run tournaments without paper.
Equipment
We will be using white Premium Nittaku 3-star white plastic balls.
All 12 tables will be identical blue Donic Waldner Classic 25 tables which were bought in January 2022.
Tournament Operations
As promised we will use the ttaurora.com website not just for registration but also for tournament operations i.e. schedule and score entry. Here is a user’s guide explaining features which will be accessible via Home screen on the day of the tournament.
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