Polish Open cancellation affects European Bowling Tour

08 February, 2017

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With the cancellation of the Polish Open, originally scheduled for July 25-30 at Sky Bowling in Wroclaw, the European Bowling Tour loses its fifth tournament in the 2017 season.

Prior to the announcement that the EBT Bronze event in Wroclaw has been cancelled due to the low number of entries in the past two years and the lack of sponsorship for the 2017 event, the EBT has lost its flagship event and richest tournament on the Tour, the Qatar Bowling Open (Platinum), the once popular Columbia 300 Vienna Open (Gold) and two satellite events, the 11th International Wroclaw Open and the 2nd Emax Open.

The 2017 EBT schedule is down to 10 tournaments in 8 countries including two “Platinum” events, two “Gold”, two “Bronze” and four “Satellite” events, which will offer total prize fund of roughly 460.000 Euro.

In its 18th season since the inception in the year 2000, the EBT schedule includes the lowest number of tournaments since the year 2002 when the EBT also featured 11 tour stops. That’s only a little more than 50 per cent of the all-time high of 20 tournaments in 2005, 2006, and 2011.

Click here for the revised 2017 European Bowling Tour Schedule.

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Herbert Bickel