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 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, Turkey. The winners of the Event were Osku Palermaa of Finland and Kamilla Kjeldsen of Denmark.
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
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores1 Dominic Barrett 1 - 28 Paul Moor227-205, 215-226, 226-2462 Osku Palermaa 2 - 07 Robert Andersson210-179, 223-1913 Dennis Eklund 1 - 26 Pasi Uotila290-238, 183-209, 182-2254 Martin Larsen 1 -25 Wu Siu Hong233-258, 258-181, 243-252
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores2 Osku Palermaa 2 - 18 Paul Moor196-216, 234-232, 224-1975 Wu Sui Hong 1 - 26 Pasi Uotila257-254, 231-239, 198-278
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores2 Osku Palermaa 2 - 16 Pasi Uotila180-212, 220-207, 242-209
Matchplay Results - Women
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores1 Isabelle Sacco 1 - 28 Kamilla Kjeldsen225-199, 196-214, 225-2372 Ghislaine van der Tol 1 - 27 Britt Brøndsted234-182, 197-210, 204-2223 Kirsten Penny 2 - 16 Krista Pöllänen259-217, 188-225, 257-1704 Nina Flack 1 - 25 Zara Glover225-196, 186-195, 190-238
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores3 Kirsten Penny 0 - 28 Kamilla Kjeldsen233-245, 202-2225 Zara Glover 0 - 27 Britt Brøndsted187-204, 208-226
SeedPlayerScoreSeedPlayerGame Scores7 Britt Brøndsted 0 - 28 Kamilla Kjeldsen187-188, 179-237
External links European Bowling Masters Results since 2008 from European Tenpin Bowling Federation website Bowlingdigital.com, Tenpin news website Talktenpin.net, Tenpin news website Bowlinglinks all over the World, sorted by categories