Team Norway's Sandbækken, Tjernes set the pace in Linne Norwegian Open 2011

    08/21/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #14

    Veitvet Bowling Center in Oslo, Norway (Aug. 19-28, 2011)

    2011MECMadsSandbakken.jpg2009NOFredrikTjernes.jpgThe Linne Norwegian Open 2011 got underway this weekend with the first four out of seventeen qualifying squads at Veitvet Bowling Center in Oslo, Norway. Mads Sandbækken (pictured left) rolled a 1436 series in Squad 3 on Saturday to lead the field of 70 players with an average of 239.33. The Team Norway anchor had games of 202, 257, 195, 278, 236 and 268.

    His team mate Fredrik Tjernes (right) had a pair of 279s in Squad 2 to sit in second place with 1415. Rune Herold Andersen, Norway, was third with 1366 and was followed by Lars Lindbäck, Sweden, in fourth with 1365.

    Christer Aker, who led the opening squad on Friday, was fifth with 1363, Squad 4 leader Øyvind Harang, both Norway, rounds out the top six with 1356.

    Tim Davidson, Norway, currently holds the 36th and last place to advance to the finals with 1171 and an average of 195.17.

    2011EBT14NorwegianOpenLogo.jpg After a three-year hiatus, the Linne Norwegian Open is back on the European Bowling Tour schedule. The tournament, which will be held Aug. 19-28, 2011 at 30-lane Veitvet Bowling Center in Norway's capital city Oslo, is the 14th stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and the third out of six EBT "Satellite" tournaments this season.

    The tournament offers total prize fund of 160.000 Norwegian Kronor (NOK), approx. 20.000 Euro with 30.000 NOK or 3.800 Euro going to the winner, 15.000 NOK to the runner-up and 10.000 NOK to the third place finisher.

    2009VOFinalTobiasKarlsson.jpg2007EBT17IngunnOien4.jpgTobias Karlsson (left), Sweden, was the last EBT champion in Norway winning both of his two career EBT titles in the Norwegian Open 2006 and 2007. In 2007, Karlsson, seeded fourth, defeated tournament leader Ingunn Øien (right) in the semifinal, 226-219, and her compatriot Mads Sandbækken in the title match, 223-209, to wrap up the title. Øien finished third to win the women's ranking.

    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 gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament such as the Norwegian Open 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.

    Qualifying of the Linne Norwegian Open (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) runs from Friday, Aug. 19 through Saturday, Aug. 27 with the last Squad 17 scheduled for 9 p.m. CET Women will receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    The Linne Norwegian Open features a 41 feet Kegel lane conditioning pattern with 24.4ml volume oil total.

    A total of 40 players will advance to the finals on Sunday, Aug. 28: The top 36 players from the overall qualifying standings plus the top 2 from a separate leaderboard of Squads 1-7, who are not among the top 48, The last two spots are reserved for the leader of Turbo 1 and Turbo 2 (highest score in qualifying game #5 and #6, resp.; extra entry fee required).

    The top 2 qualifiers earn two byes, while players seeded 3-8 bypass the first round of the finals. The remaining 32 players will bowl four games starting from scratch with the top 14 advancing to the second round.

    Those 14 plus qualifiers 3-8 will bowl another four-game block from scratch to cut to the top 10, who will join the top 2 (seeded 1st and 2nd) qualifiers in Round 3. Those 12 will be split into four groups of three players (Group A: 1 - 8 - 12 seed; Group B: 2 - 7 - 11; Group C: 3 - 6 - 10; Group D: 4 - 5 - 9).

    Each of the following rounds will be decided in single-game matches. The player with the lowest score in each group will be eliminated. The four group winners advance to the finals. The player with the lowest score in quarterfinal will finish fourth and the player with the lowest score in the semifinal will finish third.

    The two remaining players will bowl for the title and the 30.000 NOK top prize.

     


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