Osku Palermaa powers his way into the lead in Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament

    03/05/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #3

    Squad 9-11 leaders overtake top six positions heading into last qualifying day

    201011PBA06OskuPalermaa.jpg2011EBT03GeryVerbruggen.jpgTwo-hander Osku Palermaa (pictured left) of Finland, who has won his first PBA title in the PBA World Series of Bowling in the GEICO Shark Championship last November, overtook the lead in the qualifying of the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament Friday at Dolfijn Bowling Tilburg in Tilburg, Netherlands.

    Palermaa, who has won the EBT rankings in 2007-09, had games of 249, 227, 218, 279, 278 and 227 to win Squad 9 and a 500 Bonus by tournament sponsor Hammer with 1478 six-game total and an average of 246.33. Four-time EBT ranking champion Gery Verbruggen (right; 2000-03) was second with 1394 to leap into fourth place.

    2009WWCAnjaGingeJensen2.jpg2010EBT10ToreTorgersen.jpgDane Anja Ginge Jensen (left) and Tore Torgersen (right), Norway, led the 10th qualifying squad with 1451. Jensen, who received 8 pins handicap each game moved into second place with Torgersen third due to Jemsen's higher last game (280 scratch to Torgersen's 249).

    Jensen is the best of 44 women in the 182-player field from 18 countries. Raymond Teece was third with 1391 to jump into sixth place. Previous leader Michael Krämer, Germany, fell to seventh place with 1371.

    With the final three squads to go on Saturday, Jimmy Ravez, Belgium , is the "man on the bubble" in 38th place with 1309 or an average of 218.17.

    Qualifying concludes on Saturday, March 5 with Squad 12-14 scheduled for 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad slated for 9.30 p.m. CET.

    The Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 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 fifth 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 Tournament 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.jpg Dennis 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 first (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.

     


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    Qualifying Standings after Squad 11/14

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