Results of the tournament season 2009

German Impressioning Contest - Mai 2009 in Hamburg, D
2nd Swiss Championship - June 2009 in Littau, CH
DEFCON Lockpicking Championship - August 2009 in Las Vegas, USA
Results of the LockCon#02 (ex Dutch Open) - August 2009 in Vierhouten, NL
Results of the 13th German Championship - 31/10/ to 01/11/2009 in Cologne.

German Impressioning Contest - 2009

On the competitors' decision the contest took place on the Hamburg workshop at the "Kulturhaus Hamburg Eppendorf" on 3/05/2009.

Competition SponsorImpressioning

In the sector Impressioning Technique [the filing of keys] again, we chose a identically pinned standard ABUS C83. Out 36 competitors, 11 opened successfully. Champion Barry wasn't able to defend his last year's 05:13 (min:sec) record. Champion Oliver Diederichsen from Hamburg was the first to open in the new record time of 04:23 (min:sec) and became once more German Champon in Impressioning. We compliment him on this outstanding achievement.

The winners top f.l.2r.: Champion Oli, Vice-Champion Arthur, Ingo, Roland and Manfred
bottom f.l.2r.: Gerhard, Jens, Volker, Jos, Django and Oliver

	Impressioning	Name	Time	Organisation
	German Champion	Oliver Diederichsen	04:23	SSDeV/Hamburg
	Vice-Champion	Arthur Meister	12:25	SSDeV/Hamburg
	3rd Place	Ingo Zschippang	15:20	SSDeV/Hamburg
	4. Place	Roland Geyer	16:31	SSDeV/Nuremberg
	5. Place	Dr. Manfred Bölker	19:29	SSDeV/Hamburg
	6. Place	Gerhard Hepperle	27:10	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	7. Place	Jens Andrews	42:51	SSDeV/Hamburg
	8. Place	Volker Löding	46:05	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	9. Place	Jos Weyers	46:40	TOOOL.NL
	10. Place	Django Bijlisma	46:53	TOOOL.NL
	11. Place	Oliver Jans	52:09	SSDeV/Oelde

The winners were rewarded with security fittings by the sponsor Drumm Sicherheitstechnik,
Impressioning books donated by Tresoröffnung Diederichsen,
and as consolation gifts hand-signed books by Heinz Pickshaus.

Champion Barry handed the challenge trophy (an ABUS watch) over to Champion Oli.
Champion Oli will also be provided with a free flight and lodging in Turkey at the 1. European Lock Picking Championship.

2nd. Swiss Championship

Results of the 2nd Swiss Championship 2009 in Littau on 06/06/2009
by SPASS

There were 11 contestants from Switzerland and Germany at the 2nd Swiss Championship on 6/6/09 trying to pick standard Euro-profile cylinders with their pick sets. Last year, most of the German athletes dropped out on the proprietory opening, this time only the Swiss did. Thus, the actual contest was carried out by only 6 athletes.

The winners f.l.2r: Vice-Champion Simon, Marco, Champion Gerhard, Peter, Clemens+son, Volker

	Swiss Championship 2009	Name	Organisation
	Swiss Champion	Gerhard Hepperle	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	Vice-Champion	Simon Keller	SPASS
	3. Place	Peter Schaub	SPASS
	4. Place	Clemens Oberwinkler	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	5. Place	Volker Löding	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	6. Place	Marco di Lorenzo	SPASS

The winners were granted certificates of victory and locks.

See also the report by SPASS.

DEFCON Lockpicking Championship 2009

In Las Vegas, at the DEFCONTOOOL.US hosted once more the American Lock Picking Championship which took place in early August 2009.

So far, there weren't any German athletes taking part in US contests.

In the finals f.l.2r: Second Schuyler, host Barry and Babak, Champion JGOR

	DECFON Championship 2009	Name	Organisation
	1. Place	JGOR	Longhorn LP
	2. Place	Schuyler Towne	TOOOL.US
	3. Place	Chris Pentacoff	TOOOL.US
	3. Place	Tokey	France

Since neither Chris nor Tokey managed to open in the finals, they were both granted third place.

JGOR will be provided with a free flight and lodging in Turkey at the 1. European Lock Picking Championship

See further information on Blackbag.

Results of the LockCon#02

The annually international meeting LockCon (hosted by TOOOL.NL) took this time place at the dutch hacker camp HAR2009 from 13/08/ to 16/08/2009 and was once more well visited. Besides many interesting presentations there were also three contests held there.

host of the LockCon ex DUTCH OPEN

Lock Picking Contest

About 36 international athletes (NL, UK, F & D) took part in the Lock Picking Contest (the opening of cylinder locks only by pick set). With roughly 11 contestants the SSDeV provided the majority of the most renowned international athletes. Even before the final, it was clear that the winner would be German. As last year, none of the international competitors could qualify for the finals!

The winners f.l.2r: Champion Julian Hardt, Vice-Champion Peter Fuhrmann, Arthur Meister and Gerhard Hepperle

	Picking Contest 2009	Name	Organisation
	1. Place	Julian Hardt	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	2. Place	Peter Fuhrmann	SSDeV/Labor/Bochum
	3. Place	Arthur Meister	SSDeV/Hamburg
	4. Place	Gerhard Hepperle	SSDeV/Stuttgart

Julian will be provided with a free flight and lodging in Turkey at the 1. European Lock Picking Championship.

See further information on Blackbag.

Impressioning Contest

At Impressioning Technique there were 24 international athletes competing to file a matching key for a identically pinned standard ABUS C83. Jos Weyers became the first to open in the incredible time of 1:27mins. That is world record and almost unbeatable in the future. Congratulations! Furthermore, the opening times have dropped sharply compared to the pentecostal contest in Hamburg.

The 5 best f.l.2r.: Manfred, Champion Jos Weyers, Second Oliver, Arthur and Jens

	Impressioning 2009	Name	Time	Organisation
	1. Place	Jos Weyers	01:27	TOOOL.NL
	2. Place	Oliver Diederichsen	03:08	SSDeV/Hamburg
	3. Place	Dr. Manfred Bölker	03:50	SSDeV/Hamburg
	4. Place	Jens Andrews	05:50	SSDeV/Hamburg
	5. Place	Arthur Meister	08:15	SSDeV/Hamburg
	6. Place	Sebastian Steuer	17:27	SSDeV/Munich
	7. Place	Django Bijlsma	22:11	TOOOL.NL
	8. Place	Gerhard Hepperle	23:58	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	9. Place	Florian Kirstein	25:31	SSDeV/Munich
	10. Place	Alexandre Triffault	26:13	France
	11. Place	Julian Hardt	36:00	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	12. Place	Mike van der Stelt	42:25	TOOOL.NL
	13. Place	Michael Kiesel	43:35	SSDeV/Munich
	14. Place	Claire Fillit	52:30	France

The challenge trophy (an ABUS watch) was received by Jos.

See further information on Blackbag.

Jos will also be provided with a free flight and lodging in Turkey at the 1. European Lock Picking Championship.

Here is a video of the Impressioning Contest 2008 - 16mins in WMV (330MB).
Here the Impressioning Contest 2008 - 17mins in MP4 (avc1/mp4a) (242MB).

Safe Combination Lock Manipulation Contest

This is about the non-destructive opening of a vault combination lock. You can feel and read out the combination by the acoustical and palpable feedback of the lock. Last year no-one managed it, this year 2 athletes turned the lock open.

f.l.2r.: TOOOL.NL Secretary Han Fey, Champion Julian Hardt, TOOOL.NL Captain Barry Wels, Runner-up Michael Hübler

	Vault Dialling	Name	Organisation
	1. Place	Julian Hardt	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	2. Place	Michael Hübler	SSDeV/Munich

Since Julian already had a free flight, Michael received a free flight and lodging for the 1. European Lock Picking Championship in Turkey.

The 13th German Lock Picking Championship.

Since 1997 the "Sportsfreunde der Sperrtechnik - Deutschland e.V." host their annual German Lock Picking Championship under increasingly international participation. This year the Championship was held in the "Naturfreundehaus" Cologne, Kapellenstr. 9 A on the 31/10/ and the 01/11/09.

The team of the 13th German Championship - Cologne on 31/10/2009

Manual Opening Contest

Sponsor of the Manual Opening Contest

In the showcase domain Manual Opening [Opening exclusively via hand picking] skilled athletes competed with their own (mostly) high quality cylinders.

Though, there were 29 contestants, two failed to unlock their own competition-cylinder. Thus, 27 contestants took part in the preliminary. They were arranged into 3 groups of 9 athletes. The best four of each group qualified for the final and the subsequent four for the B-final. Both, the preliminary and the final lasted over two hours each!

The winners f.l.2r back: Michael, Gunnar, Ingo, Arthur, Roland, Dieter and junior boss Enrico Wendt
The winners f.l.2r front: André, Dr. Manfred, Vice-Champion Gerhard and Champion Julian

	Final Manual Opening	Name	Openings - Time	Organisation
	German Champion	Julian Hardt	10/11 3518secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	Vice-Champion	Gerhard Hepperle	9/11 5708secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	3. Place	Dr. Manfred Bölker	7/11 6518secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	4. Place	André Matuschek	6/11 8260secs	SSDeV/Moers
	5. Place	Dr. Torsten Quast	6/11 8775secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	6. Place	Roland Geyer	6/11 9194secs	SSDeV/Nuremberg
	7. Place	Mathias Schröder	5/11 10451secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	8. Place	Dieter Ade	5/11 10872secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	9. Place	Arthur Meister	4/11 11075secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	10. Place	Ingo Zschippang	4/11 11783secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	11. Place	Gunnar de Hahn	3/11 13166secs	-
	12. Place	Michael Hünseler	1/11 13705secs	SSDeV/Cologne

The B-Final f.l.2r: Dörthe, Uwe, Martina, Tobias, Támas, Kevin, Roland, Jan, Philipp, Ulrich, Alex
And especially arriving for the award ceremony: Son and Junior Director of "Wendt Sicherheits & Aufsperrtechnik" Enrico Wendt

	B-Final Manual Opening	Name	Openings - Time	Organisation
	1. Place	Alex Wolf	11/11 2551secs	SSDeV/Frankfurt
	2. Place	Ulrich Schütter	10/11 3108secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	3. Place	Jan Kornett	10/11 3489secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	4. Place	Uwe Armbruster	9/11 4000secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	5. Place	Kevin Schmidt	9/11 4803secs	SSDeV/Cologne
	6. Place	Martina Falkenreck	9/11 5619secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	7. Place	Támas Váradi	8/11 6914secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	8. Place	Philipp Schneider	7/11 8960secs	SSDeV/Darmstadt
	9. Place	Roland Bunjes	6/11 9636secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	10. Place	Tobias Modschiedler	5/11 9350secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	11. Place	Dörthe Clemens	3/11 15792secs	SSDeV/Dusseldorf
	12. Place	Fabian Pütz	0/11 Placeiert	SSDeV/Cologne

Have a look at this YouTube Video of Manual Opening for further information.

The winners of the finals received high class prizes (i.e. an electrical pick set and S&G combination locks) by the sponsor WENDT Sicherheits & Aufsperrtechnik.

Since Champion Julian had already won 3 tickets, Vice-Champion Gerhard will be provided with a free flight and lodging in Turkey at the 1. European Lock Picking Championship.

Padlock Opening Contest

Contest Sponsor of Padlock Opening

In Padlock Opening [Opening of brandnew factory packaged padlocks exclusively via hand picking] there were 27 contestants arranged into three groups of nine athletes. The best four of each group qualified for the final and the subsequent four for the B-final. The steadiest three athletes were eliminated after the preliminary.

The finals were carried out with 12 athletes and 12 different padlocks. Each group received identical brandnew locks by lot. You score for each opened padlock. If there is a tie on the opened padlocks, the total opening time will be decisive. The one opening most padlocks will win according to experience.

The winners f.l.2r: Jan, André, Michael, Dieter, Jürgen, Walter, Ingo, Gerhard, Dr. Torsten, Vice-Champion Julian, Champion Dr. Manfred und Marlon

	Final Padlock Opening	Name	Score / Time	Organisation
	German Champion	Dr. Manfred Bölker	12 / 1072secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	Vice-Champion	Julian Hardt	11 / 756secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	3. Place	Marlon Heller	11 / 885secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	4. Place	Dr. Torsten Quast	10 / 985secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	5. Place	Gerhard Hepperle	9 / 431secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	6. Place	André Matuschek	9 / 562secs	SSDeV/Moers
	7. Place	Walter Belgers	9 / 663secs	TOOOL-NL
	8. Place	Ingo Zschippang	9 / 784secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	9. Place	Dieter Ade	8 / 1087secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	10. Place	Jan Kornett	7 / 797secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	11. Place	Michael Hünseler	6 / 250secs	SSDeV/Cologne
	12. Place	Jürgen Dreeßen	6 / 712secs	SSDeV/Leipzig

The B-Final f.l.2r: Uwe, Mathias, Arthur, Lars, Martina, Alex, Támas, Frank, Gunnar, Ulrich, Kevin und Phillip

	B-Finale Padlock Opening	Name	Score / Time	Organisation
	1. Place	Mathias Schröder	10 / 911secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	2. Place	Arthur Meister	9 / 674secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	3. Place	Lars Jelonnek	9 / 913secs	SSDeV/Cologne
	4. Place	Frank Siegel	7 / 679secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	5. Place	Martina Falkenreck	7 / 796secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	6. Place	Phillip Schneider	7 / 824secs	SSDeV/Darmstadt
	7. Place	Ulrich Schütter	7 / 1062secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	8. Place	Alex Wolf	6 / 734secs	SSDeV/Frankfurt
	9. Place	Támas Váradi	6 / 972secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	10. Place	Uwe Armbruster	5 / 485secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	11. Place	Gunnar de Hahn	5 / 489secs	-
	12. Place	Kevin Schmidt	3 / 489	SSDeV/Cologne

The winners of the finals received high class prizes by the sponsor SGH - Aufsperrtechnik Schmitz.

Freestyle Contest

Contest Sponsor of Freestyle

In the field of Freestyle [all tools allowed as long as the lock doesn't get damaged] we used brandnew factory packaged Euro-profile cylinders. Again, there were 27 contestants competing in 3 groups of 9 athletes. The best four of each group qualified for the final and the subsequent four for the B-final. The steadiest three athletes were eliminated after the preliminary.

The finals were carried out with 12 athletes and 12 different padlocks. Each group received identical brandnew locks by lot. You score for each opened padlock. If there is a tie on the opened padlocks, the total opening time will be decisive. Since we also used high quality Euro-cylinders, it didn't surprise us that some locks remained locked. Theras simple models were slaughtered in seconds by many athletes.

We were especially pleased about the high standings of some "non-members". It doesn't happen to often that athletes make it up straight to the main final on their first championship. For the first time ever, a "non-member" even managed to grab the crown. Our congratulations!

The Champions f.l.2r back: Gunnar, Arthur, Dörthe, Dr. Manfred und Vice-Champion Oliver Diederichsen
The champions f.l.2r front: Mathias, Julian, Champion Ingo Herges, Roland and Dr. Torsten

	Final Freestyle	Name	Score / Time	Organisation
	German Champion	Ingo Herges	10 / 252secs	Neunkirchen
	Vice-Champion	Oliver Diederichsen	10 / 257secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	3. Place	Julian Hardt	10 / 417secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	4. Place	Mathias Schröder	10 / 624secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	5. Place	Dr. Torsten Quast	10 / 1296secs	SSDeV/Berlin
	6. Place	Roland Geyer	9 / 1071secs	SSDeV/Nuremberg
	7. Place	Dr. Manfred Bölker	8 / 258secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	8. Place	Dörthe Clemens	8 / 263secs	SSDeV/Dusseldorf
	9. Place	Arthur Meister	7 / 224secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	10. Place	Walter Belgers	7 / 299secs	TOOOL-NL
	11. Place	Gunnar de Hahn	4 / 84secs	-
	12. Place	Carsten Menne	2 / 476secs	-

The B-Final f.l.2r: Támas, Michael, Gerhard & Hannah in front of Daddy Lars, Jürgen, Dieter, Jord, Frank, Ingo, Uwe, Alex, Tobias and Martina

	B-Finale Freestyle	Name	Score / Time	Organisation
	1. Place	Dieter Ade	8 / 227secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	2. Place	Michael Hünseler	7 / 352secs	SSDeV/Cologne
	3. Place	Gerhard Hepperle	7 / 356secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	4. Place	Tobias Modschiedler	7 / 393secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	5. Place	Jürgen Dreeßen	7 / 505secs	SSDeV/Leipzig
	6. Place	Uwe Armbruster	7 / 658secs	SSDeV/Karlsruhe
	7. Place	Alex Wolf	6 / 390secs	SSDeV/Frankfurt
	8. Place	Ingo Zschippang	6 / 846secs	SSDeV/Hamburg
	9. Place	Támas Váradi	5 / 313secs	SSDeV/Stuttgart
	10. Place	Jord Knaap	4 / 204secs	TOOOL-NL
	11. Place	Lars Jelonnek	4 / 728secs	SSDeV/Cologne
	12. Place	Frank Siegel	2 / 164secs	SSDeV/Berlin

The winners of the finals received high class prizes by the sponsor Sicher Haus Sylt.

Blitz-Opening

Contest Sponsor of Blitz-Opening

In Blitz-Opening [Opening of locks in max. 1 minute] there were about 34 athletes competing in one big round. Each athlete had a minute's time to open the lock of the opponent. If you fail, you drop out. After five turns, there were only four athletes left. These were again drawn by lot for the last round there only 2 athletes managed to open the locks.

Blitz-Opening action and on the right the "Last Men Standing": Winner Michael, Alex, Marlon und Winner Dr. Torsten

	Blitz-Opening 2009	Name	Organisation
	Winner	Michael Hünseler	SSDeV/Cologne
	Winner	Dr. Torsten Quast	SSDeV/Berlin

The two champions received high class SouthOrd pick sets by the sponsor Multipick Service.

Award for Fairness & Sportsmanship

Sponsor of the Award for Fairness & Sportsmanship

Roland Bunjes was granted a Dental Pick Set

Every year an athlete is awarded for outstanding fairness and sportsmanship. Roland Bunjes from Berlin was picked by the other contestants this year. He explained his cylinder to others in the Manual Opening Contest. In exchange for that Roland received a HPC-Dental-Pick Set sponsored and delivered by HPC Director David Reinhard.

The following competitions have already been listed for 2010:

1. European Lock Picking Championship - Turkey 2010

Cancelled!

TOOOL.NL hosts together with the European Locksmith Federation the LockCon#03 including the 1. European Lock Picking Championship in Istanbul from 27/05/ to 30/05/2010.

14th German Lock Picking Championship - 2010

The 14th German Lock Picking Championship takes place together with the 9th International Lock Collectors Meeting in the "Mainfrankensälen" in Veitshochheim (near Wurzburg) on the 24th and 25th of September.

We like to thank all of our sponsors for the excellent and long standing cooperation. Members may purchase all of our sponsors' items at good value via the local chapter's Service-Center. For beginners and interested parties we suggest the Beginners-Set.
The logos of our sponsors are registered trademarks.

The Jury / The President