Archive for October, 2018

Results Toool NL championships

Friday, October 5th, 2018

Toool organises an ongoing competition that ends every year at LockCon. A box with locks travels to all meetings and members of Toool can have a go at them and Toool competition. Since you can really get to know the lock (you can try as often as you like), the opening times become very fast over the year.

The results of the competition were:

1. Walter 266.5
2. Jos 235.5
3. Tom 204
4. Decoder 198
5. Rob 127
6. Rolf 66
7. Martin EHV   36
8. J-W 32
9. Christ 19
10.   Maykel 2

Here we see the winners, from left to right Tom, Walter and Jos:
Toool competition winners
Picture by Urs

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Results Lever Lockpicking championships

Friday, October 5th, 2018

The newest of the competitions is the lever lock competition. This is really fast paced, four locks to be opened in each round, with just two minutes per lock. This is done in groups of four, the winners of each group go to the final. One group had no winners (no locks opened). The first rounds went as follows:

Round  Name Lock 1  Lock 2  Lock 3  Lock 4 
1 Nigel 1’28 1’59 – –
Femurat 1’05 – – –
Torsten – – – –
Walter – – – –
2 Julian 0’43 0’56 – –
Lars 1’09 0’58 – –
Decoder 1’42 0’54 – –
Cattani 1’28 – – –
3 Oli 1’32 0’51 1’58 –
Kilae – – – –
Dune – – – –
Zanella – – – –
4 Harry 0’23 0’47 1’59 –
Jaakko 1’39 – – –
R@y – – – –
Jascha – – – –
5 BenD – – – –
DG – – – –
Klepas – – – –
Topy – – – –
6 mkie 0’34 1’15 0’24 –
Morris 0’24 1’33 0’39 –
Marc 1’27 – – –
Tom – – – –

The finals were exiting, with the following end result:

# Name Lock 1  Lock 2  Lock 3  Lock 4 
1. Julian  1’07  1’32  1’20  1’52  0’56
2. Oli – 0’34 1’28 1’58 0’34
3. Harry – 1’37 1’24 – 1’22
4. Nigel – – – – 1’50
5.  mkie – – – – –

Here we see the winners, from left to right Harry, Julian and Oli:
Lever lockpicking winners
Picture by Urs

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Results Impressioning championships

Friday, October 5th, 2018

Also many people participated in the impressioning championships. Given an Abus C83 cylinder and some blank keys, the goal was to make one of them into a working key as fast as possible. The first six would then proceed to the A-final, the second six to the B-final, to open another set of six locks.

The first round lasted an hour, but the first two times were under a minute!

The results of the first round:

1. J-W 0’51
2. Jos 0’59
3. Manfred 1’11
4. Oli 1’12
5. Harry 1’32
6. Morris 2’10
7. Alex 2’34
8. Holly 2’40
9. Walter 3’03
10. Django 3’38
11. Jord 5’51
12. Torsten 6’34
13. Zahella 7’48
14. Nigel 8’04
15. RFGuy 9’46
16. Marc 10’36
17. R@y 14’08
18. DG 15’43
19. mkie 15’50
20. Julian 22’31
21. Hotaru 23’41
22. Tom 28’05
23. Matt B. 30’12
24. mh 31’02
25. Lars 44’45
26. Martin.BE  26’28
27.  Jascha 47’42

Then the top-6 were to compete in the (A) final. The numbers 7 through 12 did the B-final. The results were as follows:

A FINAL

1 Jos 1’55 7’27 13’54 8’14 5’12 4’28
2 Manfred   7’17 5’45 7’06 – 2’42 5’40
3 Oli – – 2’53 8’14 3’14  11’28
4 J-W 10’38   3’51   12’02   12’02  – –
5 Harry 6’16 – 4’58 6’45 – –
6 Morris – – 11’02 11’57 – 6’42

B FINAL

7 Jord 7’46 2’55 – 3’57   – 7’35
8 Alex 7’56   11’06   5’05   – 6’42   –
9 Torsten   8’09 – – – – 5’52
10 Walter – 8’48 – – – 12’20
11 Django – – – – – 6’08
12 Holly – – 6’21 – – –

Here we see the winners, from left to right: Oli, Manfred and Jos:
Impressioning winners
Picture by femurat

Walter doing impressioning
Picture by Dennis van Zuijlekom

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Results Lockpicking championships

Friday, October 5th, 2018

Quite a lot of people participated in the Lockpicking championships (the “Dutch Open”). We had 67 participants! Six groups were made where every person tried to open six locks. The best two would go on to the knock outs. Here are the results of that first round:

Winner Runner-up
Table 1  Julian Max
Table 2 Locknoob   Femurat
Table 3 Walter Decoder
Table 4 Marc Gorilla
Table 5 Torsten Jos
Table 6 Catani Jascha

In the first knock out round, each number one would compete one-on-one with a number two, leaving only six people:

Competitors Winner
Julian – Femurat   Julian
Locknoob – Max Max
Walter – Gorilla Walter
Marc – Decoder Decoder
Torsten – Jascha Torsten
Catani – Jos Jos

The next knock out round left three people:

Competitors Winner
Julian – Walter Julian
Max – Decoder   Decoder
Torsten – Jos Torsten

Those three people went to the final round, having to open three high security locks:

CISA C3000  KALE KILLIT  ISEO F6
1. Decoder   – – 1’13
2. Torsten – – 11’26
3. Julian – – –

Here we see the winners, from left to right Julian, Decoder and Torsten:
Lockpicking winners
Picture by femurat

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LockCon 2018

Friday, October 5th, 2018

LockCon 2018 was another success. For the second time at Kasteel De Berckt, for the first time completely sold out. We had a lot of repeat visitors of course, but also some newcomers. People from the US, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and possibly some countries I am forgetting now joined us for a three day event filled with lectures, workshops, competitions and of course networking (meeting new people over a beer, reconnecting with others, swapping locks and techniques).

The BBC was present to shoot some footage for an upcoming One Show.

I would like to thank our sponsors, who made the event possible. Abus sponsored all the C83 cylinders and the brass keyblanks used in the impressioning competition. They certainly know what they are doing, the bitting was perfect for the game. Multipick and Sparrows Lockpicks gave away some fantastic prizes for all of the winners. They both have some interesting new gear, be sure to take a look. Paclock made wonderful engraved padlocks for all the winners, in different colours. M&C, Tokoz and EVVA sponsored locks as prizes and for the competition. Spoox sponsored picks and pick holders. Thanks!

Picking away
Picture by Sarah

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