Osku Palermaa wins tenth career EBT title in Bowltech Aalborg International 2011

    05/30/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #9

    Finnish two-hander earns 9.000 Euro and widens his lead in EBT ranking

    2011EBT07OskuPalermaa.jpgThree-time European Bowling Tour ranking champion Osku Palermaa (pictured left) won his tenth career EBT title in the Bowltech Aalborg International 2011 Sunday at Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark.

    The Aalborg International drew only 135 players - 97 men and 38 women - from mere eleven countries. A total of 48 players advanced to the finals. Rounds 1-3 featured 4-game series starting from scratch which trimmed the field to 12 players who determined the champion in a final six-game block with the pinfall from Round 3 being carried forward.

    Palermaa made the first cut by one pin and never led the tournament until the third round of the finals, when it counted the most. The two-hander fired games of 299, 253, 218 and 235 for 1005, an average of 251.25, to take a comfortable 106-pin lead.

    Palermaa closed things out with a 1350 six-game series including games of 214, 215, 246, 235, 226 and 214 to cruise to the title. He finished with 2355 for ten games and received the 9.000 Euro top prize.

    The Finn, who has won his first PBA title in the 2010-11 PBA Tour season, is just the second player with multiple titles this season. His compatriot Mika Koivuniemiis the other.

    2011 EBT Men's Ranking
    2011 EBT Women's Ranking


    2010EBT15RikkeHolmRasmussen.jpg2011EBT04MikStampe.jpg Trailing by 129 pins to finish in second place was Rikke Holm Agerbo (left), Denmark, who totaled 2226 pins including 8 pins handicap each game. Agerbo, who was already the best woman in qualifying (third place) earned 5.000 Euro and won the women's ranking for the first time in her career.

    Mik Stampe (right), Denmark, started the final round with the tournament's third 300 game (Jesper Agerbo had the first in qualifying and Perttu Jussila, Finland, the second in Round Two) en route to land in third place with 2211, worth 4.000 Euro.

    Qualifying leader Martin Larsen, Sweden, was eliminated in the third round and finished 14th.

    BAILogo_small.jpg The Bowltech Aalborg International 2011 was the 9th stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and the third out of six EBT "Gold" tournaments this season. The tournament was held from May 22-29, 2011 at 30-lane Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark and offered total prize fund of 60.000 Euro.

    Since the Viborg International in Viborg in Denmark 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 top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament such as the Aalborg International gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    The top 16 men and the top 16 women at the end of the 2011 season qualify for the fifth EBT Masters to be held at Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012. The event will become the first EBT Masters to be contested on single lane condition.

    The qualifying of the Bowltech Aalborg International 2011 (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) ran from Sunday May 22 through Saturday, May 28 and ended with qualifying squad 14 and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad. Women received 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    The Bowltech Aalborg International 2011 featured a 37 feet Kegel lane conditioning pattern with 24.55ml oil volume.

    A total of 48 players qualified for the finals on Sunday, May 29 - the top 38 players from the overall qualifying standings plus the top two players each from a combined standing of Squads 1-2, 3-5 and 6-8 which were not among the top 38, and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad.

    The top 12 qualifiers earned two byes while players ranked 13-24 bypassed the first round of the finals.

    Rounds 1-3 featured 4-game series starting from scratch which trimmed the field to 36, 24 and then 12 who advanced to the final Round 4. Those 12 players rolled a six-game series with the pinfall from Round 3 carried forward. The player with the highest 10-game total including handicap was declared the champion.

     


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    2011 EBT Schedule and Champions

     

     

    Round Four Results (Final Standings)

     

     

     

    Round Three Results


    The top 12 advance with the pinfall being carried forward. Places 13-24 eliminated, earn 900 Euro.

     

     

    Round Two Results


    The top 12 advance to the third round. Places 13-24 eliminated, finish 25th through 36th, earn 700 Euro.

     

     

    Round One Results


    The top 12 advance to the second round. Places 13-24 eliminated, finish 37th through 48th, earn 600 Euro.

     

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