Dave Wouters, Gery Verbruggen set the tone in 2011 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament

    02/28/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #3

    Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg in Tilburg, Netherlands (Feb., 27 - March 6, 2011)

    2011EBT03DaveWouters.jpg 2011EBT03GeryVerbruggen.jpg The European Bowling Tour's 2011 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament got underway Sunday at Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg in Tilburg, Netherlands with the first two out of 14 qualifying squads.

    Dave Wouters (pictured left), Netherlands, rolled games of 237, 226, 203, 257, 233 and 212 in Squad 2 to lead the overall qualifying standings after day one with 1368 six-game total and an average of 228.

    Four-time EBT ranking champion (2000-'03) Gery Verbruggen (right), Belgium, led Squad 1 to sit in second place with 1356 (226 average). Third place belonged to Xavier Milet, Belgium, with 1333. Johnny Spil, Netherlands, was fourth with 1312 and Jimmy Ravez, Belgium, fifth with 1309.

    Rounding out the top 6 was Christian Kweens, Netherlands, who toppled 1297 pins. The top 6 from the first four qualifying squads will earn automatic berths into the finals.

    Ghislaine van der Tol, Netherlands, was the best of ten women in the 59-player field from Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and United States, with 1253 including handicap, good for 13th place.

    Qualifying continues on Monday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. CET with Squad 3.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournamen is the third stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and first of seven EBT "Silver" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from Sunday Feb. 28 through Sunday March 6, 2011 at Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg, a 20-laner in Tilburg, Netherlands.

    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 such as the Bronzen Schietspoel earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament 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 5th EBT Masters at Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012.

    Participants in the 2011 Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournamen will compete for total prize money of 51.200 Euro or approximately US $70,390 with 8.000 Euro going to the winner, 6.000 to the runner-up and 4.000 and 2.000 to third and fourth place finishers, respectively.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament features dual lane condition. The left lane is dressed with the 46 feet long pattern (pdf file), the right lane with the 33 feet short pattern (pdf file).

    2010EBT02DennisEklund_small.jpg2010EBT02MartinaBeckel2_small.jpgDennis Eklund (pictured left) of Sweden rolled two big games, 251 and 259, to claim the title in last year's Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament while fourth place Martina Beckel (right), Germany, led the women's ranking in Tilburg in 2010.

    Qualifying runs through Saturday March 5 with the final qualifying Squad 14 scheduled for 6 p.m. CET. Qualifying concludes with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad slated for 9.30 p.m. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 48 players - the top 38 qualifiers, the top 4 from the Desperado Squad and the top six from a separate leaderboard of the squads conducted Feb. 27th through March 1st (Squads 1-4) will advance to the finals on Sunday, Feb. 14. The top 8 qualifiers will receive three byes and qualifiers 9-16 will earn two byes.

    The remaining 32 players will be divided into eight groups of four players each for the first round of two games scratch with the total pinfall determining the position. The top two players from each group will advance to the next round.

    The field will be cut to 32, 24, 16, eight and then four, who will determine the champion in the sixth and final round of two games.

     


    Qualifying Standings after Squad 2

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