Osku Palermaa shoots into lead in Singles and Doubles in Qualifying Squad 11

10/02/10

2010 European Bowling Tour #15

Chris Barnes rolls the fourth perfecto of the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open

2010EBT15OskuPalermaa.jpg2010EBT15ToreTorgersenOskuPalermaa.jpgTwo-hander Osku Palermaa (pictured left), Finland, had games of 201, 223, 259, 267, 224 and 288 in the 11th qualifying squad Friday afternoon at Plus Bowling in Vienna to shoot into the lead in Singles and Doubles at the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open.

The 3-time defending EBT ranking champion and 2005 Vienna Open winner felled 1462 pins and averaged 243.67 over six games to overtake team mate Mika Koivuniemi by 13 pins.

Palermaa teamed with Norwegian Tore Torgersen (right) in Squad 11 en route to overtake the lead in the Doubles competition. Torgersen, who led the duo after five games with 1202, finished with 181 to contribute 1383 (good for 9th place in Singles) to help crack the 2800-bar with 2845 pinfall total (237.08 avg.).

Palermaa and Swede Martin Larsen, who led in Doubles with 2789, slipped to second place. Players are allowed to cash more than once but only with a different partner.

2010EBT15ChrisBarnes2.jpg2010EBT15ChrisBarnes300.jpg12-time PBA champion Chris Barnes (pictured left), United States, finished Squad 11 by rolling the fourth 300 game of the tournament. The PBA Player of the Year 2007-08, who has 40 career PBA 300 games, checked in with 1359 to move into 15th place. Squad 11 was the fourth consecutive qualifying squad which produced a 300 game (Squad 8 - Martin Larsen; Squad 9 - Mika Koivuniemi; Squad 10 - Dennis Larsen, Denmark).

 


2010EBT10DominicBarrett.jpg2010EBT15StuartWilliams.jpgCurrent EBT ranking leader Dominic Barrett (left), England,, was second to Palermaa in Squad 11 with 1392 including six games between 211 and 257 to crack the top 8 and to move into 7th place.

Torgersen was third, followed by Darren Cundy, England (1380, 10th)), Chris Klerk, United States (1362, 13th), Barnes, Martin Larsen (1353), Stuart Williams (right), England (1305) and Josh Blanchard, United States (1303, 31st).

Daniel Hahn, Austria, is currently the "man on the bubble" in 52nd place 1265 or an average of 210.83.

Qualifying continues on Friday with Squad 12 and 13 scheduled for 5pm and 9pm CET.

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2010VOLogo.jpg The 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 15th stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Gold" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sept. 28 through Sunday Oct. 3, 2010 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

Since the Ankara Open and the Austria Challenge have been cancelled and the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2010 EBT Tour consists of 18 events - 2 EBT Platinum tournament (formerly Premier), 6 EBT Gold tournaments (formerly Major), 6 EBT Silver tournaments (formerly Challenger) and 4 EBT Satellite tournaments (new category).

More than 300 players from 26 countries will compete for an increased total prize money of 70.630 Euro - 60.400 € in Singles and 10.230 € in Doubles. The singles champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600.

Once again the qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. Each duo rolls at least one six-game block. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible but each player can only cash once with the same partner.

2009VOClaraGuerreroStuartWilliams.jpg The team with the highest total pinfall including handicap will be declared the winner (no finals will be played). The top 20 doubles will cash. Pictured right: Clara Juliana Guerrero, Colombia, and Stuart Williams, England, won the Doubles competition in 2009.

Qualifying runs from Tuesday through Saturday and ends with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad on Saturday night Oct. 2 slated for 11.30 pm local time (GMT +1). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour

A total of 64 players will qualify for the Vienna Open finals on Sunday, Oct. 3:
  • the top 52 players from the overall qualifying standings
  • the first player each from Squad 1-6, who is not among the top 52 (total 6 players)
  • and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.


2010EBT15OilPattern.jpg The top 8 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round of the finals.

The other 52 players will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 22, who will join the top qualifiers in Round Two.

Those 30 players will bowl another 6 games starting from scratch after which the field will be trimmed to the top 18, who will carry their pinfall forward into Round Three. After another 6-game block the top 4 with the highest 12-game total will advance to the stepladder finals.

The No. 4 seed meets the No. 3 in the opening match and the winner takes on the No. 2 seed for the right to bowl the top seed for the title, 150 ranking points and the 7.000 Euro top prize.

Tournament Format
Schedule
Prize Fund

2009VOThomasGross-7_small.jpg2009VOBrittBrondsted_small.jpg In the 2009 title match, hometown favorite Thomas Gross (pictured left) defeated tournament leader Stuart Williams, England, in a high scoring encounter, 246-231, en route to become the first Austrian winner in the Columbia 300 Vienna Open. Britt Brøndsted (right), Denmark, was the best female bowler in 10th place to win the women's ranking. Review the live streaming of the stepladder finals here.

Click here to review Bowlingdigital's Live Coverage from the 2009 Columbia 300 Vienna Open
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BowlingdigitalBanner.gif BowlingdigitalFlavioCuvaBeatGrauwiler_small.jpg Since the inaugural Vienna Open in the year 2003, Bowlingdigital covers the event live from Plus Bowling with stories and results after each round commencing Monday Sept. 27 all the way through to the finals on Sunday Oct. 3.

Once again, our Swiss friends Flavio Cuva (left) and Beat Grauwiler (right) will be on hand to support the Live Coverage with our much-anticipated high definition videos and photos.

USBCCommentatorLucasWiseman_small.jpg Defending fifth-place Desperado Squad advancer from last year, Lucas Wiseman (pictured left) of USBC Communications, will also return and fill in as play-by-play announcer.

Bowlingdigital will be providing free Live Streaming of the four-player stepladder finals on Sunday, Oct. 3rd starting at 5pm CET. We are also planning to provide live streaming broadcasts of portions of the qualifying and the final rounds prior to the stepladder.

 


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2010 Vienna Open Singles - Squad 11 Results



 


2010 Vienna Open Doubles - Squad 11 Results



 


Singles Qualifying - Standings after Squad 12 of 17

 


Doubles - Standings after Squad 12 of 17

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