Englishmen atop the 12th Qualifying Squad in Brunswick Euro Challenge
03/15/07
3-time European ranking champion Paul Moor (l.), Darren Cundy (r.) and Stuart Williams took on the lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday evening.
When the 12th of 27 qualifying squads was finished, the Englishmen were in 1st, 2nd and 4th position of that squad.
Moor felled 1292 pins, an average of 215.33, to move into 9th place in the overall standings. Cundy was second at 1284 (10th) and Williams (20th) was tied with Tim Mack at 1243, but Mack had the higher last game. Mack's highest series was 1319 including a 300-game.
As Squad 13 was cancelled, qualifying continues on Thursday with Squads 14-16 at noon, 4pm and 8pm local time. Qualifying ends on Saturday, March 17 with the 27th and final qualifying squad scheduled for 8pm followed by the Desperado Squad, the ultimate one-game chance to qualify for the finals on Sunday, March 18.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live from Thessaloniki commencing March 15 all the way through to the TV finals on Sunday.
The BEC is the fifth stop of the 2007 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Majors". Since the cancellation of the Viernheim Open, the Brunswick Euro Challenge is the richest event on the 2007 European Bowling Tour.
The total prize fund for the Open Division, Women and B-Bowlers plus special prizes is 90.000 Euro (approx. US$116,600). The Open Division champion will pocket 16.000 €.
A total of 64 players will qualify for the finals on Sunday, March 18. The top 52 from the qualifying, the top six from the qualifying squads conducted March 9-11 not among those 52 and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
The top 16 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round. The other 48 finalists roll six games starting from scratch. The top 16 will join the 16 qualifying leaders in the best-of-three games single elimination finals. The highest ranked player will bowl the lowest seed, etc.
The rounds of 32, 16 and 8 trim the field from 16, to eight, then to four. The remaining four players will be seeded 1 to 4 for the stepladder finals to determine the champion in three one-game matches: No. 4 vs. No. 3, winner vs. No. 2, winner vs. No. 1.
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Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
3-time European ranking champion Paul Moor (l.), Darren Cundy (r.) and Stuart Williams took on the lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday evening. When the 12th of 27 qualifying squads was finished, the Englishmen were in 1st, 2nd and 4th position of that squad.
Moor felled 1292 pins, an average of 215.33, to move into 9th place in the overall standings. Cundy was second at 1284 (10th) and Williams (20th) was tied with Tim Mack at 1243, but Mack had the higher last game. Mack's highest series was 1319 including a 300-game.
As Squad 13 was cancelled, qualifying continues on Thursday with Squads 14-16 at noon, 4pm and 8pm local time. Qualifying ends on Saturday, March 17 with the 27th and final qualifying squad scheduled for 8pm followed by the Desperado Squad, the ultimate one-game chance to qualify for the finals on Sunday, March 18.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live from Thessaloniki commencing March 15 all the way through to the TV finals on Sunday. The BEC is the fifth stop of the 2007 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Majors". Since the cancellation of the Viernheim Open, the Brunswick Euro Challenge is the richest event on the 2007 European Bowling Tour.
The total prize fund for the Open Division, Women and B-Bowlers plus special prizes is 90.000 Euro (approx. US$116,600). The Open Division champion will pocket 16.000 €.
A total of 64 players will qualify for the finals on Sunday, March 18. The top 52 from the qualifying, the top six from the qualifying squads conducted March 9-11 not among those 52 and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
The top 16 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round. The other 48 finalists roll six games starting from scratch. The top 16 will join the 16 qualifying leaders in the best-of-three games single elimination finals. The highest ranked player will bowl the lowest seed, etc.
The rounds of 32, 16 and 8 trim the field from 16, to eight, then to four. The remaining four players will be seeded 1 to 4 for the stepladder finals to determine the champion in three one-game matches: No. 4 vs. No. 3, winner vs. No. 2, winner vs. No. 1.
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