Susanna Kiiskinen, Anton Persson crack the 1300-bar in Squad 4 at 34th AIK International

    01/02/14

    Sweden

    Jimmy Wogel continues to lead the 148-player field with 1479; cut for 62nd place is 1184 (197.33 average)

    Two players cracked the 1300-bar on New Year's Day to add their names to the leaderboard of the 34th AIK International Tournament 2014 currently underway at Bowl-O-Rama in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Susanna Kiiskinen of bowling club Stjärnan posted a 1264 series and added 48 pins handicap to lead Squad 4 and to move into 12th place in the overall standings with 1312. Kiiskinen, who averaged 210.67, is the best of 18 women in the 148-player field.

    Anton Persson of Team Clan BK was nine pins behind with 1303 and the high average of 217.17 to leap into 14th place.

    Jimmy Wogel of bowling club Tyresö held on to the lead with 1479 and an average of 246.50 for six games. Tommy Wendel of Stureby BK is 27 pins behind in second place with 1452.

    Team Pergamon's Robert Andersson sits in third place with 1439 and is followed by fellow Swedish international Dennis Eklund of Stureby BK, who is distant fourth with 1359.

    Rounding out the top 5 is Squad 1 leader Øyvind Harang of KS Edsbowlarna with 1358. Lars Pejstrup of Team Mariestad BK holds the 62nd and last place to qualify directly for the finals with 1184 or an average of 197.33.

    Qualifying continues on Thursday, January 2, with Squad 5 scheduled to start at 5 p.m. CET.

    2014AIKLogo_small.jpg The 34th AIK International Tournament runs from Dec. 26, 2013 through Jan. 6, 2014 at Bowl-o-Rama, a 28-laner in Stockholm, Sweden, and offers total prize fund of 309.500 Swedish Kronor or approximately 34.660 Euro with 60.000 SEK (€6,720) going to winner, 30.000 SEK to the runner-up and 20.000 SEK and 15.000 SEK to the third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    Qualifying (six games; unlimited re-entries) started on Dec 26 and runs through Sunday, Jan. 5 with the final qualifying squad starting a 4 p.m. CET. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game.

    Total 92 players advance with 36 of whom going directly to Final Round 1 on Sunday including the top 30 qualifiers, players 1-4 from the Early Bird squads and the top player each from Turbo 1 (qualifying game #5) and Turbo 2 (qualifying game #6).

    56 players including qualifiers 31-62 and another 24 players who qualify through various "gateways" (Ladies, Juniors, 60 & over, 50 & over, dynamic handicap, Turbo 1 and Turbo 2) bowl four games (2+2) scratch in Semifinal Round 1 starting on Sunday evening, Jan. 5.

    The top 24 advance to Semifinal Round 2 to bowl another three games with the four-game total of Round 1 being carried over. The top 12 players join the 36 players, who received a bye, in Final Round 1 starting Monday morning Jan. 6.

    Those 48 bowlers bowl six games scratch to cut to the top 24 bowlers who bowl further four games after which a cut to the top 10 is made. Pins carry over after each round.

    The remaining 10 players determine the champion in nine games round robin match play plus one game position round. During match play, players receive 20 bonus pins for winning a match and 10 pins each in the event of a tie. No bonus pins is given in the position round. The winner is the player with the highest total after 20 games including handicap and bonus.

     


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