The European Bowling Tour (EBT) is a single tournament, with the top 16 men and top 16 women in the final standings of the
European Bowling Tour
The European Bowling Tour (EBT) is one of three tenpin bowling tours (Europe, Americas, Asia) that form part of the ranking system of the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA).
The tour is run by the European Tenpin Bowling Federation
The Eur ...
being invited.
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Format
The current format of the tournament is 3 qualification squads of 6 games each (one squad at short oil, one squad at long oil and one squad at mixed oil). The top 8 bowlers in each division will then bowl an 8-game Round Robin (on mixed oil), and the winner of this round will be crowned the 2009 EBT Masters champion.
Prize money
A prize pool of €36,000 will be provided (€18,000 for each gender) with last place in each division winning €300. Additional prize money will be given to daily squad winners and the winner of qualification.
History
2008
The Inaugural EBT Masters was held in the Rollhouse bowling centre in
Ankara
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,
Turkey
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. The winners of the Event were
Osku Palermaa
Osku Palermaa (born 18 November 1983 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish ten-pin bowler now living in Partille, Sweden. He is a competitor on the European Bowling Tour, World Bowling Tour, and PBA Tour.
Today
Palermaa has 18 professional bowling ...
of
Finland
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and
Kamilla Kjeldsen of
Denmark
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.
The format for the tournament was 3 qualifying blocks of 8 games (totalling 24 games). The 1st block was bowled on Short Oil, the 2nd on long oil and the 3rd of mixed oil (long oil on the left lane and short on the right lane of every pair of lanes). The top 8 in each division after these 24 game then played a "best of 3" single elimination matchplay with the highest seed playing the lowest seed every round until the winner is decided.
Matchplay Results - Men
Matchplay Results - Women
External links
European Bowling Masters Results since 2008 from European Tenpin Bowling Federation websiteBowlingdigital.com, Tenpin news websiteTalktenpin.net, Tenpin news websiteBowlinglinks all over the World, sorted by categories
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