Wes Malott and Choi Bok-Eum share the bronze medal

In an all-Team USA affair, Chris Barnes (pictured left) swept his team mate and fellow PBAer Patrick Allen (right), three-games-to-none, to win the gold medal in Masters in the Men's World Championships Saturday, Aug. 21st at Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany.

Barnes eliminated Canada's Michael Schmidt, 3-1, in the Round of 16 and went the distance against Petteri Salonen, Finland, in the quarterfinal and Choi Bok-Eum, Korea, in the semifinal to advance to the title match.

Meanwhile Allen swept all three of his opponents in the best-of-five games format, Pasi Uotila and Osku Palermaa, both of Finland, and his compatriot Wes Malott to come into the title match with a perfect 9-0 won-loss record.

Barnes, the higher seeded player after finishing second in All Events, decided to start on the 38-foot Atlanta oil pattern and defeated Allen 213-188.

The second game on the 45-foot Mexico City oil pattern was a strike fest of both players with the better ending for Barnes, 257-236, to lead two-games-to-none.

Both players continued to strike in the third game, once again on the medium pattern, but while Allen sandwiched a spare between two doubles, Barnes didn't stop striking even when Allen was waving with a white towel after the 7th frame.

Barnes had the front ten and was targeting for his second 300 game of the Men's World Championships, when a 9-pin spoilt his dream. Barnes spared to wrap up the title with a 289-212 win.

Allen took silver while Malott and Choi shared the bronze medal. Team USA dominated the Championships winning a record five gold medals plus two silver and four bronze.

 

356 players from 65 countries competed in the 2010 WTBA World Men's Championships for medals in six events - Singles, Doubles, Trios, five-player Team, All Events and Masters match play.

Bowlingdigital.com provided live streaming of the opening ceremonies, preliminaries, semifinals, finals and award ceremonies of each event. Live Streaming was sponsored by Kegel, the official lane maintenance provider of the MWC, co-sponsored by the brands of Ebonite and supported by the German Bowling Federation (DBU) as well as the host bowling center, Dream-Bowl Palace.

The Bowlingdigital team consisted of Herbert Bickel (editor), Flavio Cuva (Live Streaming/Video) and Beat Grauwiler (photos).

PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (pictured left) served as color commentator and Ted Thompson (right), lane maintenance expert with Kegel, the official lane maintenance provider of the Championships, served as analyst. Lucas Wiseman of USBC Communications assisted as play-by-play analyst.

L-R Bowlingdigital's TV commentators: Lucas Wiseman, Brian Voss, Ted Thompson and Herbert Bickel.

Videos of live streaming broadcasts are available at Bowlingdigital's Ustream TV Channel

 

Hundreds of photos photos can be found on Facebook:
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2010 WMC Masters Finals - Championship Match

Single elimination, best of three games. Winner receives the gold medal. Loser earns the silver medal.

2010 WMC Masters Finals - Semifinals

Single elimination, best of three games. Winners advance. Losers share the bronze medal.

2010 WMC Masters Finals - Quarterfinals

Single elimination, best of three games. Winners advance. Losers finish 5th -8th.

2010 WMC Masters Finals - Round of 16

Single elimination, best of three games. Winners advance. Losers finish 9th -16th. In each match the highest seeded players bowls the lowest seeded player, the second-highest bowls the second lowest and so on.