Live Coverage from the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open
09/27/10
The 8th annual Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 15th stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Gold" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sep. 28 through Sunday Oct. 3, 2010 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.
The Vienna Open offers an increased total prize fund of 70.630 Euro - 60.400 € for Singles and 10.230 € for the Doubles event. The singles champion will receive the 7.000 € top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600 €.
The traditional 9-pin no-top tournament on Monday evening will kick off the five-day qualifying portion with free entries into the Vienna Open at stake. Players will be divided in four different average groups, but only players with less than 200 average are allowed to enter the no-tap tournament.
As of Sept. 27th, 303 players from 26 countries, Belgium, Catalonia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United States, and the host country of Austria, have registered through ViennaOpen.com for the popular event.
The 248-player men's field is spearheaded by PBA stars Pete Weber, Brian Voss, Mika Koivuniemi (pictured left), Sean Rash and Chris Barnes, who recently won two gold medals at the Men's World Championships; World Doubles champion Mathias Ã…rup, Sweden; current ranking leader Dominic Barrett; England; 3-time EBT ranking champion Paul Moor, England; former World Ranking Masters champion Stuart Williams (right), England; and defending champion Thomas Gross, Austria.
Among the 55-player women's field are current EBT women's ranking leader Nina Flack, Sweden, former ranking champions Britt Brøndsted, Kamilla Kjeldsen, both Denmark, and Nick Ainge, England; World Games winner Krista Pöllänen (pictured left), Finland, as well as two-time Team USA member, Tina Stickney, 20-time PWBA champion and Bowler of the Decade (1990s), Wendy Macpherson, who bowls on the Japanese Professional Bowlers Association Tour, and USBC Queens and Clash of Champions winner, Lynda Barnes (right), all United States.
Nine out of 17 squads (No. 1-3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16) are fully booked. The most spots available are on Wednesday evening as well as on Thursday and Friday morning.
Click here to check the availability or better to reserve your qualifying spots before the tournament is fully booked.
The qualifying of the Vienna Open is traditionally contested as a Doubles tournament with separate prize money. Some players, who have already booked one or more Doubles spots, are still looking for a partner. Therefore, individual players might have a chance to enter even one of the fully booked squads. Please contact organizer Wolfgang Lohschmid at wolfgang.lohschmid@chello.at for more information.
Latest News: The registration desk will open 90 minutes prior to each squad. Walk-in entries will be accepted provided the field has not reached capacity,
The 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 15th stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Gold" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sept. 28 through Sunday Oct. 3, 2010 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.
Since the Ankara Open and the Austria Challenge have been cancelled and the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2010 EBT Tour consists of 18 events - 2 EBT Platinum tournament (formerly Premier), 6 EBT Gold tournaments (formerly Major), 6 EBT Silver tournaments (formerly Challenger) and 4 EBT Satellite tournaments (new category).
Players will compete for an increased total prize money of 70.630 Euro - 60.400 € in Singles and 10.230 € in Doubles. The singles champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600.
Once again the qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. Each duo rolls at least one six-game block. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible but each player can only cash once with the same partner.
The team with the highest total pinfall including handicap will be declared the winner (no finals will be played). The top 20 doubles will cash. Pictured right: Clara Juliana Guerrero, Colombia, and Stuart Williams, England, won the Doubles competition in 2009.
Qualifying runs from Tuesday through Saturday and ends with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad on Saturday night Oct. 2 slated for 11.30 pm local time (GMT +1). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour
A total of 64 players will qualify for the Vienna Open finals on Sunday, Oct. 3:
Tournament Format
Schedule
Prize Fund
Plus Bowling - Beheimgasse 5-7, 1170 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43-14056320
Website: www.plusbowling.at
Number of lanes: 32
Approaches: Synthetic Active FA-010
Surfaces: Synthetic Active FA-010
Pin decks: Synthetic Duratec PBA
Pin setters: Brunswick A2
Pins: Twister
Score system: Steltronic
The lane maintenance will be provided by Kegel, the official lane maintenance partner
of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation.
Oil machine: Kegel Custodian Ion C Sport
Oil: Kegel Prodigy
Cleaner: Kegel Fizzion
Pattern prepared by: Kegel
Tournament Director Wolfgang Lohschmid
Soldanellenweg 55 / 11 / 7
Vienna, Austria
Email: wolfgang.lohschmid@chello.at
Mobile: +43-69913154856
Fax: +43-1-405632023
www.viennaopen.com
2010 European Bowling Tour #15
Registration desk will open 90 minutes prior to each squad
The 8th annual Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 15th stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Gold" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sep. 28 through Sunday Oct. 3, 2010 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. The Vienna Open offers an increased total prize fund of 70.630 Euro - 60.400 € for Singles and 10.230 € for the Doubles event. The singles champion will receive the 7.000 € top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600 €.
The traditional 9-pin no-top tournament on Monday evening will kick off the five-day qualifying portion with free entries into the Vienna Open at stake. Players will be divided in four different average groups, but only players with less than 200 average are allowed to enter the no-tap tournament.
As of Sept. 27th, 303 players from 26 countries, Belgium, Catalonia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United States, and the host country of Austria, have registered through ViennaOpen.com for the popular event. The 248-player men's field is spearheaded by PBA stars Pete Weber, Brian Voss, Mika Koivuniemi (pictured left), Sean Rash and Chris Barnes, who recently won two gold medals at the Men's World Championships; World Doubles champion Mathias Ã…rup, Sweden; current ranking leader Dominic Barrett; England; 3-time EBT ranking champion Paul Moor, England; former World Ranking Masters champion Stuart Williams (right), England; and defending champion Thomas Gross, Austria.
Among the 55-player women's field are current EBT women's ranking leader Nina Flack, Sweden, former ranking champions Britt Brøndsted, Kamilla Kjeldsen, both Denmark, and Nick Ainge, England; World Games winner Krista Pöllänen (pictured left), Finland, as well as two-time Team USA member, Tina Stickney, 20-time PWBA champion and Bowler of the Decade (1990s), Wendy Macpherson, who bowls on the Japanese Professional Bowlers Association Tour, and USBC Queens and Clash of Champions winner, Lynda Barnes (right), all United States. Nine out of 17 squads (No. 1-3, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16) are fully booked. The most spots available are on Wednesday evening as well as on Thursday and Friday morning.
Click here to check the availability or better to reserve your qualifying spots before the tournament is fully booked.
The qualifying of the Vienna Open is traditionally contested as a Doubles tournament with separate prize money. Some players, who have already booked one or more Doubles spots, are still looking for a partner. Therefore, individual players might have a chance to enter even one of the fully booked squads. Please contact organizer Wolfgang Lohschmid at wolfgang.lohschmid@chello.at for more information.
Latest News: The registration desk will open 90 minutes prior to each squad. Walk-in entries will be accepted provided the field has not reached capacity,
The 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 15th stop of the 2010 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Gold" events. The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sept. 28 through Sunday Oct. 3, 2010 at 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. Since the Ankara Open and the Austria Challenge have been cancelled and the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2010 EBT Tour consists of 18 events - 2 EBT Platinum tournament (formerly Premier), 6 EBT Gold tournaments (formerly Major), 6 EBT Silver tournaments (formerly Challenger) and 4 EBT Satellite tournaments (new category).
Players will compete for an increased total prize money of 70.630 Euro - 60.400 € in Singles and 10.230 € in Doubles. The singles champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600.
Once again the qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. Each duo rolls at least one six-game block. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible but each player can only cash once with the same partner.
The team with the highest total pinfall including handicap will be declared the winner (no finals will be played). The top 20 doubles will cash. Pictured right: Clara Juliana Guerrero, Colombia, and Stuart Williams, England, won the Doubles competition in 2009. Qualifying runs from Tuesday through Saturday and ends with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad on Saturday night Oct. 2 slated for 11.30 pm local time (GMT +1). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour
A total of 64 players will qualify for the Vienna Open finals on Sunday, Oct. 3:
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- the top 52 players from the overall qualifying standings
- the first player each from Squad 1-6, who is not among the top 52 (total 6 players)
- and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
The top 8 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round of the finals.
The other 52 players will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 22, who will join the top qualifiers in Round Two.
Those 30 players will bowl another 6 games starting from scratch after which the field will be trimmed to the top 18, who will carry their pinfall forward into Round Three. After another 6-game block the top 4 with the highest 12-game total will advance to the stepladder finals.
The No. 4 seed meets the No. 3 in the opening match and the winner takes on the No. 2 seed for the right to bowl the top seed for the title, 150 ranking points and the 7.000 Euro top prize.
In the 2009 title match, hometown favorite Thomas Gross (pictured left) defeated tournament leader Stuart Williams, England, in a high scoring encounter, 246-231, en route to become the first Austrian winner in the Columbia 300 Vienna Open. Britt Brøndsted (right), Denmark, was the best female bowler in 10th place to win the women's ranking. Review the live streaming of the stepladder finals here.
Since the inaugural event in the year 2003, Bowlingdigital covers the event live from Plus Bowling in Vienna with stories and results after each round commencing Monday Sept. 27 all the way through to the finals on Sunday Oct. 3.
Once again, our Swiss friends Flavio Cuva (left) and Beat Grauwiler (right) will be on hand to support the Live Coverage with our much-anticipated high definition videos and photos.
Defending fifth-place Desperado Squad advancer from last year, Lucas Wiseman (pictured left) of USBC Communications, will also return and fill in as play-by-play announcer.
Bowlingdigital will be providing free Live Streaming of the four-player stepladder finals on Sunday, Oct. 3rd starting at 5pm CET. We are also planning to provide live streaming broadcasts of portions of the qualifying and the final rounds prior to the stepladder.
Click here to review Bowlingdigital's Live Coverage from the 2009 Columbia 300 Vienna Open
or click here to go straight to the 2009 VO Video Section.
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Tournament Format
Schedule
Prize Fund
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Plus Bowling
Plus Bowling - Beheimgasse 5-7, 1170 Vienna, AustriaPhone: +43-14056320
Website: www.plusbowling.at
Number of lanes: 32
Approaches: Synthetic Active FA-010
Surfaces: Synthetic Active FA-010
Pin decks: Synthetic Duratec PBA
Pin setters: Brunswick A2
Pins: Twister
Score system: Steltronic
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Lane Maintenance
The lane maintenance will be provided by Kegel, the official lane maintenance partnerof the European Tenpin Bowling Federation.
Oil machine: Kegel Custodian Ion C Sport
Oil: Kegel Prodigy
Cleaner: Kegel Fizzion
Pattern prepared by: Kegel
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Contact
Tournament Director Wolfgang Lohschmid Soldanellenweg 55 / 11 / 7
Vienna, Austria
Email: wolfgang.lohschmid@chello.at
Mobile: +43-69913154856
Fax: +43-1-405632023
www.viennaopen.com
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