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Chris Barnes moves into second place in Singles and Doubles in Squad 12

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10/02/10

2010 European Bowling Tour #15

Finn Perttu Jussila cracks top 8 in 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open

Two PBA Payer of the Year, 12-time PBA champion Chris Barnes (pictured left), United States, and 8-time PBA champion Mika Koivuniemi, (right) Finland, joined forces in the 12th qualifying squad of the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open to move into second place in Doubles with 2828 pinfall total or an average of 235.67.

Barnes, who shot the tournament's fourth 300 game in Squad 11, had games of 230, 247, 244, 268, 238 and 235 for 1462 (243.67) to overtake second place in Singles qualifying, Barnes' feat came at the expense of Koivuniemi, who slipped one spot to third place with his high series of 1449. "The "Big Finn" had games of 268, 201, 231, 248, 202 and 216 for 1366.

Finnish two-hander Osku Palermaa held on to the lead in Singles with 1462 (243.67) and in Doubles with partner Tore Torgersen, Norway (pictured right, r-l), with 2845 (237.08 avg.).

4-time PBA champion Sean Rash, United States, teamed with defending Vienna Open champion Thomas Gross (pictured left, r-l), Austria. The duo combined for 2780 pinfall total to leap into fourth place. Rash was second to Barnes with 1415 including a 279 but missed his high series of 1447 (5th) by 32 pins.

Perttu Jussila, Finland, used high games of 259 and 256 for a 1393 series to move into 8th place in the overall qualifying standings with 1393.

Former PWBAers Wendy Macpherson and Lynda Barnes, Chris' wife, had sets of 1323 and 1369 including 48 pins handicap, each, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour, and 2692 pinfall total, good for 10th place in the Doubles standings. Lynda is now the top-ranked woman in the 278-player field in 15th place.

35-time PBA champion Pete Weber (left), a PBA and USBC Hall of Famer, closed out his first attempt with games of 257 and 217 to sit in 47th place with 1290.

With five qualifying squads to go, one on Friday evening and four on Saturday, Germany's Achim Grabowski (right) is the "man on the bubble" in 52nd place with 1281 (235.50 . Qualifying continues on Friday with Squad 13 scheduled for 9pm CET.

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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.

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.

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

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
or click here to go straight to the 2009 VO Video Section.

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.

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.