No changes atop the leaderboard after day three qualifying in Wroclaw Open

    02/17/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #2

    Alessandro Silletti, Łukasz Zjawiony move into third and fourth place on Wednesday

    2011IWOLogo.jpg Falco Gutsche and Tilo Matthies, both of Germany, remained atop the leaderboard after day three qualifying in the fifth International Wroclaw Open by Hammer underway at bowling center Galeria Rozrywki Miraz in Wroclaw, Poland.

    Gutsche leads the field of 57 players from five countries, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden and the host country Poland, with 1463 six-game total and an average of 243.83. Matthies sits in second place with 1424.

    Alessandro Silletti started the fifth qualifying squad on Wednesday with a huge 288 game and added five games between 221 and 236 to jump into third place in the overall qualifying standings with 1422 (237 ave.). Łukasz Zjawiony was next to Silletti in Squad 5 with 1365 to overtake fourth place from Patryk Preus, both Poland, who slipped to fifth with 1364.

    Bartosz Bryłkowski, Poland, led Squad 6 on Wednesday evening with 1228 and holds 14th place with his high series of 1260. Blanka Hanusíková, Czech Republic, is the best and only woman in the tournament so far with 1147 including 48 pins handicap, good for 32nd place.

    Dariusz Matyśniak, Poland, currently holds the 40th and last place to advance with 1086 or an average of 181.00.

    Qualifying continues on Thursday, Feb. 17, with Squads 7 through 10 scheduled for 10 a.m., 1.30, 5 and 8.30 p.m. CET.

    2011IWOLogo_small.jpg The 5th International Wroclaw Open by Hammer (IWO) is the first of six European Bowling Tour "Satellite" events of the 2011 season. The tournament will be held from Monday Feb. 14 through Sunday Feb. 20, 2011 at bowling center Galeria Rozrywki Miraz, a 10-laner in Wroclaw, Poland.

    Since the Viborg International in Viborg, Denmark originally scheduled for July 30-Aug. 7, 2011 has been cancelled, the 2011 European Bowling Tour consists of 21 tour stops in 17 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, seven Silver and six Satellite tournaments.

    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 International Wroclaw Open gets 50 ranking points.

    The total prize fund of the 2011 Tour exceeds one million Euro. The top 16 men and women in the EBT ranking will qualify for the fifth EBT Masters at Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012.

    Participants in the IWO will compete for total prize money of 26.000 Euro or approximately US $35,200 with 4.250 Euro going to the winner, 2.750 to the runner-up and 2.100 and 1.800 to third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    Qualifying (6 games, unlimited re-entries) runs through Saturday, Feb. 19, 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 41 ft. lane conditioning pattern (pdf file).

    The top 40 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals on Sunday Feb. 20. The pinfall will be carried forward from the qualifying through the stepladder finals. The top 40 will bowl 4 games with the top 20 advancing to the second round.

    Those 20 will bowl another 4 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.

     


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    Qualifying standings after Squad 6/18