2025 Aurora Fall Open will take place on Sunday September 7th, 2025.  The venue is the Eola Community Center located at 555 S. Eola Rd. Aurora, IL.

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.

Registration

Registration will be conducted using ttAurora website at https://www.ttaurora.com.  Here are the Instructions for ttaurora.com website if you can’t figure it out.

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.

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. Players rated below 1500 USATT rating will start at 9 am on and those above 1500 at 2 pm.

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 $1,350 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 2:00 PM $140 $120 $100
B 9th – 16th seed Sunday 2:00 PM $120 $100 $80
C 17th – 24th seed Sunday 2:00 PM $100 $80 $60
D 25th – 32nd seed Sunday 2:00 PM $100 $80 $60
E 33rd – 40th seed Sunday 2:00 PM $90 $70 $50
F 41st – 48th seed Sunday 2:00 PM trophy trophy trophy
G 49th – 56th seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy
H 57th – 64th seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy
I 65th – 72nd seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy
J 73rd – 80th seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy
K 81st – 88th seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy
L 89th – 96th seed Sunday 9:00 AM trophy trophy trophy

Equipment

We will be using white 3-star JOOLA Prime ABS 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.