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Mikael Roos, Arnar Davíð Jónsson move to the top in Norwegian Open 2018

07 October, 2018
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Mikael Roos of Sweden and Iceland’s Arnar Davíð Jónsson took over the lead in the qualifying of the Norwegian Open 2018 by Brunswick with seven out of 23 squads completed at Lucky Bowl Veitvet in Oslo, Norway.

Roos (featured photo) averaged over 257 over his first three games in squad 6, scoring 256, 257 and 259, then suffered a low game of 196 before he closed out with 247 and 229 to catapult himself into the lead with 1444 and an average of 240.67.

Jónsson (left), who won his first European Bowling Tour title in the Odense International last month, overtook previous leader Alfred Berggren of Sweden by four pins in squad 5 on Sunday morning.

Roos pushed back Jónsson to second place with 1426, while Berggren, who won the gold medal in doubles with Robert Lindberg in the 2018 World Youth Championships, fell another spot to third place with 1422.

Norwegians Audun Boye Hansen (left) and Roy Snuggerud-Åsheim were close behind Jónsson in squad 5 with 1393 and 1385 to finish the third day of qualifying in fourth and sixth place, respectively.

Sandwiched between the two Norwegians is two-time 2017 European Youth Champion Emanuel Jonsson (right) of Sweden, who led the last squad on Sunday with 1385, but had the higher last game than Snuggerud-Åsheim (225 to 192).

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Thor Kristian Østlie Solberg (left) of Norway was second in squad 7 with 1371 to leap into seventh place in the overall standings. His compatriot Jonas Dammen fell from second to eighth place with 1366.

Swedish champion Annie Thorell, who toppled 1318 pins in squad 7 and added 48 pins handicap to tie Dammen (right) at 1366, was seeded ninth due to Dammen’s higher last game (226-202). Thorell (below left) is currently the best of 19 women in the 98-player field from Norway, Sweden and Iceland.

Qualifying continues on Monday, Oct. 8, with squads 8 & 9 scheduled to start at 5 and 8.30 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST).

The Norwegian Open 2018 by Brunswick is the 12th and final stop of the 2018 European Bowling Tour and the second EBT “Bronze” tournament this season. The tournament, which will be contested Oct. 5-14 at 26-lane Lucky Bowl Veitvet in Norway’s capital city of Oslo, will decide the outcome of the 2018 EBT men’s and women’s point rankings.

Raymond Jansson of Sweden is the defending champion.

Bowlingdigital will provide onsite coverage from Lucky Bowl Veitvet featuring stories, photos and results after each round commencing Thursday, October 11, all the way through to the finals, which will be completed Sunday, October 14, in the late afternoon.

The lanes will be conditioned with a Brunswick sport pattern with medium difficulty and 22.00 ml volume oil total.

The NO 2018 offers total prize money of 275.000 Norwegian Kronor (currently 28.900 Euro) with 45.000 NOK (approx. 4.730 Euro) going to the winner and a last-to-cash payout of 2.000 Kronor or 210 Euro for 60th place.

Qualifying at the Norwegian Open 2018 by Brunswick began Friday, Oct. 5 and concludes Saturday, Oct. 13 with the final Squad 23 scheduled to start at 5 p.m. local time (CEST).

Women receive 8 pins handicap each game (maximum is 300), an equality handicap provided to women in all EBT events. The top 3 women after qualifying will receive 5.000 NOK, 3.000 NOK and 2.000 NOK bonuses, respectively.

Total 60 players will advance to the finals on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 & 14. The top 8 qualifiers will be seeded in Round 4, qualifiers 9-16 go to Round 3, qualifiers 17-24 start in Round 2 and qualifiers 25-28 begin in Round 1.

The other 32 finalists advance to Saturday’s semifinal round which begins at 9 p.m. CEST. All players bowl six games from scratch with the top 12 advancing to Round 1 starting on Sunday morning at 10 a.m.

The remaining forty players will determine the champion in five three-game rounds (rounds 1-4 starting from scratch). The field will be trimmed to 32, 24, 16, and then eight players who bowl one last three-game round with the pinfall from Round 4 being carried forward.

The player with the highest six-game total will win the title, the 45.000 NOK top prize and 100 EBT ranking points (men and women in separate rankings).

For more information on the Norwegian Open by Brunswick and a list of the previous winners, please read our Tournament Preview.

The 2018 European Bowling Tour features 12 tournaments in 10 countries including two “platinum”, two “gold”, three “silver”, two “bronze” and three “satellite” events, which offer total prize fund of roughly 625.000 Euro.

The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. Those points will be tabulated throughout the season to determine the top 8 men and top 8 women, who will be eligible to compete in the 12th EBT Masters July 8, 2019 at Bowling Chamartín in Madrid, Spain.

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Total 60 players, including the top 42 qualifiers, will advance to the finals on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 & 14

Herbert Bickel

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