Czech Lockpicking Championship

On September 19-20 2015, the sixth Czech Lockpicking Championship took place and Vranov Ranch. The contestants arrived on Friday afternoon and spent a pleasent evening chatting with their international colleagues, picking locks and eating grilled meat. The championship started on Sunday morning with lockpicking of padlocks. This discipline was conquered by Tamas Varadi (Hungary), followed by Manfred Bölker (Germany) and Torsten Quast (Germany). In freestyle, 3 winners were awarded: a lucky lockpicking beginner Viktor Kučava (Czech Republic), Evžen Ivanov (Czech Republic) and Akos Subecz (Hungary). Several skilled lockpickers failed to pass the elimination rounds of lockpicking of cylinders, including the last years champion [...]

Already fourth Czech Lockpicking Championship took place in the Nectiny Castle on November 16-17 2013.  We had 130 visitors and contestants, including  Ken Peterson, the famous American pick manufacturer, lockpickers from Germany and Hungary. PHOTO GALERY

On November 17 - 18 2012, the third Czech Lockpicking Championship took place in Prague. The competition included four traditional disciplines: lockpicking of padlocks (time limit of 5 min), lockpicking of cylinders (time limit of 15 min), freestyle (time limit of 5 min) and blitz (time limit 1 minute). PHOTO GALERY

On November 12-13 2011, the second Czech Lockpicking Championship took place. Compered to previous year, the rules were updated. Since Evžen Ivanov was the only one that truly mastered impressioning, this discipline was cancelled. Raking was merged with single pin picking and padlocks and cylinders were separated. From now on, all the championships contained 4 basic disciplines: opening of padlocks with time limit of 5 minutes, opening of euro profile cylinders with the time limit of 15 minutes, freestyle with the time limit of 5 minutes and blitz with 1 minute elimination rounds. ACL supplied new padlocks for the first discipline and new [...]

The very first Czech Lockpicking Championship took place on September 18th 2010 in Prague. There were four disciplines: racking, single pin picking, blitz and impressioning. Locksmith CZ was the first official sponsor of Czech Lockpicking Championships. PHOTO GALERY