Anže Grabrijan, Rainer Köpf set the pace in 3rd Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open

    04/26/12

    2012 European Bowling Tour #7

    Squad 1 and 2 leaders are automatically qualified for Sunday's finals

    2012EBT06AnzeGrabrijan.jpg84 players including six women from 14 countries took to the lanes at Dream Bowl Palace in suburban Munich, Germany on the first day of qualifying in the 3rd Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open, an European Bowling Tour silver level event.

    Anže Grabrijan (pictured) of Slovenia set the pace after two of 12 qualifying squads with 1376 six-game total and an average of 229.33. Grabrijan had games of 248, 235, 234, 213, 202 and 244 in Squad 2 to lead German international Kai Günther (1371) by five pins.

    Marco Parapini, Italy, was third with 1334. Local favorite Rainer Köpf, who led Squad 1 with 1331 slipped to fourth place.

    As one of the squad leaders, Grabrijan and Köpf are automatically qualified for the finals if they don't finish in the top 44 of the qualifying leaderboard.

    Qualifying continues on Thursday, April 26, with Squad 3-5 scheduled for 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. local time (CEST).

    2012TrackDBPOpenLogo_small.jpg The 3rd Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open is the seventh stop of the 2012 European Bowling Tour and the third out of eight EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from April 25-29 at 52-lane Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring, a suburb of Munich, Germany and offers total prize fund of 50.000 Euro with 7.000 Euro going to the winner, 3.000 Euro to the runner-up and 4.000 and 2.000 Euro to the third and fourth place finisher, respectively.

    Qualifying of the 3rd Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open runs from Wednesday April 25 through Saturday, April 28 with the final qualifying Squad 12 scheduled for 8 p.m. CEST. Qualifying will conclude with the one-game Desperado Squad slated for 11.30 p.m.

    A total of 48 players including all squad winners and the top 4 of the Desperado Squad will qualify for the finals on Sunday, April 29. The top 8 qualifiers will receive two byes, while qualifiers 9-16 will bypass the first round of the finals.

    Three four-game rounds each starting from scratch will trim the field to 32, 20 and then eight players, who will determine the champion in single-elimination match play rounds. In each round over two games decided by total pinfall, the highest seeded player meets the lowest seeded player, the second-highest meets the second-lowest, and so on.

    Following April 30 and May 1 at the same venue will be the 5th EBT Masters featuring the top 16 men and women of the 2011 EBT season.

    2012EBTLogo_small.jpg The 2012 European Bowling Tour is made up of 21 events in 16 countries including two Platinum, four Gold, eight Silver and seven Satellite tournaments.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event earn ranking points based on how they finish in the event. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament such as the 3rd Track Dream-Bowl Palace Open earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    Those points will be tabulated throughout the season to determine the top 16 men and top 16 women who will compete in the sixth EBT Masters in Bratislava, Slovakia in Sept. 2013.

     


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    Standings after Qualifying Squad 2/12


    Squad leaders in boldface.

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