Local favorite ﾅ「kasz Zjawiony leads qualifying in 6th International Wroclaw Open by Hammer

    02/11/12

    2012 European Bowling Tour #2

    2011EYCDanielVezis.jpg2011EBT04MikaelKanold.jpgﾅ「kasz Zjawiony of Poland led the 6th International Wroclaw Open by Hammer after the 12th of 18 qualifying squads Friday afternoon at Galeria Rozrywki Miraz in Wroclaw, Poland. The local favorite averaged 226.67 for six games to lead the field of 81 players - 75 men and six women - from eleven countries with 1360 pinfall total.

    Daniel Vezis, a two-hander from Latvia (pictured left), and Swede Mikael Kanold (right) were the only other players who have cracked the 1300-bar so far to sit in second and third place with 1321 and 1315, respectively.

    Defending champion Paweﾅ Bielski, Poland, sits in 18th place with 1210 and is followed by 2011 IWO ranking winner Daria Pajﾄk, Poland, who is the top-ranked woman in the field with 1206 including 48 pins handicap.

    With another six qualifying squads to go, MirosﾅＢw Pajﾄk, Poland, holds the 40th and last place to advance with 1131 or an average of 188.50.

    Qualifying continues on Friday and ends on Saturday Feb. 11, with Squad 18 scheduled for 8.30 p.m. CET.

    2011IWOLogo.jpg The 6th International Wroclaw Open by Hammer (IWO) is the second stop of the 2012 European Bowling Tour and the first of seven EBT "Satellite" events this season. The tournament will be held from Monday Feb. 6 through Sunday Feb. 12, 2012 at bowling center Galeria Rozrywki Miraz, a 10-laner in Wroclaw, Poland.

    Participants in the IWO will compete for total prize money of 26.000 Euro with 4.250 Euro going to the winner, 2.750 Euro to the runner-up and 2.100 and 1.800 Euro to third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    Qualifying (6 games, unlimited re-entries) runs through Saturday, Feb. 11, and ends with Squad 18 slated for 8.30 p.m. CET on Saturday night. Women will receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    The tournament will be contested on a 39-feet "Kegel Challenge Series - MIDDLE ROAD" lane conditioning pattern (pdf file) with 22.72ml volume oil total.

    The top 40 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals on Sunday Feb. 12 with the qualifying pinfall being carried forward. The top 40 will bowl four games with the top 20 advancing to the second round.

    Those 20 will bowl another four games to cut to the top 8 who advance to round robin match play. The top 4 players after seven match play games (20 pins bonus per win, 10 for a tie, 5 pins bonus for each game between 250 and 300) will advance to the stepladder finals.

    Stepladder matches one and two will be decided in one game, while the championship match features two games decided by total pinfall. The No. 4 seed bowls the No. 3 seed, the winner takes on the No. 2 seed and the winner of that semifinal match earns the right to bowl the No. 1 seed for the title.

    2012EBTLogo_small.jpg The 2012 European Bowling Tour consists of 22 tour stops in 17 countries including two Platinum, five Gold, eight Silver and seven Satellite tournaments.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament such as the Wroclaw Open gets 50 ranking points.

    The top 16 men and the top 16 women at the end of the 2012 season qualify for the sixth EBT Masters to be held Sept. 23rd, 2013 at BNC Bowling Center in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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