Seven 300 games rolled at Leisureplex Stillorgan in Dublin, Ireland (Jan. 19-22, 2012)
PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (right) of the United States and English international Hayley White (left) emerged as the men's and women's champions of the Columbia 300 Irish Open Tenpin Bowling Championships, which were held at Leisureplex Stillorgan in Dublin, Ireland from Jan. 19-22, 2012. Voss, a 25-time PBA champion and the PBA Player of the Year 1988, pocketed 3.500 Euro while White, who led the women's division in all rounds, received 1.200 Euro. The tournament drew 153 players from 15 countries.
PBA champ becomes the first non-Finnish winner since 1996
In all-American affair, three-time WTBA World Champion Bill O'Neill (l.) defeated fellow PBA champion Mike Fagan (r.), 236-224, to win the 42nd Brunswick Ballmaster Open Sunday, Jan. 15 in Helsinki, Finland, and the 12.000 top prize. O'Neill and women's ranking winner Krista Pöllänen, Finland,
became the first leaders of the men's and women's ranking in both the
2012 European Bowling Tour and the 2012 World Bowling Tour rankings.
Players with country, ranking point total and number of top 50 finishes
The European Bowling Tour is heading into its 13th season featuring 22 events in 17 countries. The 2012 EBT consists of two Platinum, five Gold, eight Silver and seven Satellite tournaments. The total prize fund of the 2012 Tour exceeds 1.125 million Euro. The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The top 16 men and top 16 women in the EBT rankings will qualify for the 6th EBT Masters to be held Sept. 23rd, 2013 at BNC Bowling Center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Two-time defending champion Mika Koivuniemi targets fourth Ballmaster title
Four PBA champions advanced to the stepladder finals of the Brunswick Ballmaster Open at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. Three-time WTBA World Champion Bill O'Neill (pictured), United States, finished the 23-game preliminaries with 5391 total to earn the No. 1 seed. Joining O'Neill in the shoot-out are two-time defending champion Mika Koivuniemi, Finland; three-time EBT titlist Mike Fagan, United States, and 2010 EBT ranking champion Dominic Barrett, England. The winner will walk away with the 12.000 Euro top prize.
Players with country, ranking point total and number of top 50 finishes
The European Bowling Tour is heading into its 13th season featuring 22 events in 17 countries. The 2012 EBT consists of two Platinum, five Gold, eight Silver and seven Satellite tournaments. The total prize fund of the 2012 Tour exceeds 1.125 million Euro. The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The top 16 men and top 16 women in the EBT rankings will qualify for the 6th EBT Masters to be held Sept. 23rd, 2013 at BNC Bowling Center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Krista Pöllänen wins women's ranking to take the lead in 2012 EBT and WBT ranking
Mike Fagan (l.), United States, used back-to-back 279s games to lead Final Round One in the Brunswick Ballmaster Open Sunday morning at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The two-time PBA champion knocked down 1839 pins, an average of 229.88 for eight games, to lead the top 16 players into round robin match play. Three-time Ballmaster champion Pasi Uotila (r.), Finland, was mere six pins behind in second place with 1833.
American leads a field of 48 players into Sunday's finals; cut for top 44 is 1319 (219.83)
Ronnie Russell (pictured), United States, finished the qualifying portion of the 42nd Brunswick Ballmaster Open atop the leaderboard to lead total 48 players into Sunday's finals at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The PBA exempt player, who led the 425-player field from 17 countries with 1455, a 242.50 average, pocketed a 2.000 Euro bonus. Pasi Uotila, Finland, was mere one pin behind in second place with 1454 and Estonoa's Kert Truus was third with 1405, worth 1.000 and 500 Euro, resp.
Number of participants surpasses 400-mark; cut for 44th place is now 1302 (217 avg.)
Ronnie Russell (l.), United States, and Pasi Uotila (r.), Finland, set the tone on the penultimate qualifying day in the Brunswick Ballmaster Open Friday at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. Uotila started the day with with 1454 in Squad 10 en route to overtake the overall qualifying lead. Russell, who fell to second place with 1423, countered in the evening squad with 1455 (242.50) to regain the lead by one pin.
PBAers set the tone in Thursday's qualifying; cut for 44th place is now 1272 (212 avg.)
PBA pros set the tone in Thursday's qualifying of the Brunswick Ballmaster Open in Helsinki, Finland. PBA exempt player Ronnie Russell (l.), United States, moved to the top of the 349-player leaderboard with 1423 six-game total (237.17 avg.). Two-time world champion Robert Andersson (r.), Sweden, paced the eighth qualifying squad with 1386 to move into sixth place.
Qualifying continues on Friday with Squads 10, 11 and 12.
Martin Paulsson (r.) has been selected as the Bowler of the Year 2011 by the Swedish Bowling Federation. For the 40-year-old Paulsson a dream came true. In 2009 at the age of 38, Paulsson made his debut in the Swedish national team. One year later he and Mathias Ă…rup won the gold medal in Doubles gold medal at the Men's World Championships. At the European Championships in 2011, Paulsson showed another outstanding performance en route to capture the coveted Masters title.
Swedish national team member Karl Wahlgren (pictured) struck on eight of ten shots to become the last "VBS Super Star" of the Swedish Super Six Tour. The SSST ceased operations in December after more than 12 years and 72 tournaments. The shoot-out was the final event of the 2011 Tour. Total seven players - the top six in the 2011 SST ranking plus the best
female player - qualified for the event.
Estonia's Kert Truus holds on to the lead; cut for 44th place is now 1228 (204.67)
Sean Rash (l.), United States, averaged 232.50 Tuesday evening at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland to lead the sixth qualifying squad and to overtake second place in the overall standings in the Brunswick Ballmaster Open. The four-time PBA champion totaled 1395 pins to miss the pole position by ten pins. Kert Truus (r.), Estonia, held on to the lead with 1405 and an average of 234.17. Qualifying continues on Thursday with Squads 7-9.
391 players, 309 men and 82 woman, from 35 countries have registered for the March 16-25 event; 106.000 Euro (approx. US $150,000) at stake in the European Bowling Tour and World Bowling Tour event
Valcke Bowling, organizer of the 2012 Brunswick Euro Challenge, has announced that the number of players registered for this tournament nears 400. The BEC is the fourth tournament on the 2012 European Bowling Tour schedule and one of just two "Platinum" events, the EBT's highest category. The BEC will be held from March 16-25 in Saint Maximin near Paris, France and offers total prize money of 106.000 Euro (approx. US $150,000).
Bowlingdigital.com will cover the event live.
Estonian becomes first player to crack the 1400-bar; cut for 44th place is now 1208
Qualifying of the Brunswick Ballmaster Open heatened up Sunday at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland, while it was minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 °F) outside the bowling center. Sunday's squads were reserved for senior and youth bowlers. Kert Truus (l.) stunned the Finns as the Estonian rolled six games between 202 and 266 to overtake the qualifying lead with 1405 (234.17). Squad 1 leader Petteri Salonen (r.), Finland, slipped to second place with 1393.
EBT Gold tournament kicks off 2012 World and European Bowling Tour
The Brunswick Ballmaster Open kicked off both the 2012 World Bowling Tour and the 2012 European Bowling Tour season when the first of 16 qualifying squads got underway on Friday evening at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland's Petteri Salonen (oictured) took the early lead with 1393 six-game total and an average of 232.17. The multiple European champion posted games of 210, 246, 279, 196, 235 and 227 to lead compatriot Panu Nurmilo by 39 pins. Qualifying continues on Sunday with squads 4 and 5.
EBT Gold tournament offers 90.300 Euro total prize fund and a 12.000 Euro top prize
The Brunswick Ballmaster Open will kick off both the 2012 World Bowling Tour and the 2012 European Bowling Tour season when the 42nd edition of Europe's most prestigious tournament gets underway at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The EBT Gold event offers 90.300 Euro total prize fund and a 12.000 Euro top prize,
The presidium of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) has announced the sites and venues for the European Bowling Tour Masters 2014 and 2015. The EBT Masters 2014, the men's and women's finals of the 2013 European Bowling Tour, will be held March 3, 2014 at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands, while the EBT Masters 2015 takes place June 29, 2015 at Bowling Red & Black in Asti, Italy.
Tour ceases operations after more than 12 years and 72 tournaments
Finnish two-handed star Osku Palermaa (pictured left) won the final stop of the Swedish Super Six Tour 2011 defeating the No. 1 seed James Gruffman, 246-204, in the title match of the Malmö International on Sunday, Dec. 11 at Baltiska bowling center in Malmö. The win was a special one for Palermaa as the Swedish Super Six Tour will cease operations after more than twelve years. The first tournament took place in Norrtälje in August 1999 and the final stop in Malmö was the 72nd tournament.
Top 16 men and women qualify for 2012 EBT Masters in April 2012
Finland's two-hander Osku Palermaa (l.) and Joline Persson-Planefors (r.) of Sweden finished the 2011 European Bowling Tour season atop the men's and women's point ranking. Palermaa, who led the men's ranking from 2007 through 2009, ties Gery Verbruggen (2000-03), Belgium, as the only four-time winner while it was the first career victory in the women's ranking for the young Swedish national champion.
Defeats Mika Koivuniemi in the title match, 460-441, to earn the 30.000 Euro top prize
Dominic Barrett (l.), England, defeated reigning PBA Player of the Year, Mika Koivuniemi, 460-441, in two games with the total pinfall determining the winner, to win the European Bowling Tour season-ending Qatar Bowling Open and the 30.000 Euro top prize. The Englishman, who missed the first half of the season due to injury, was down by three pins after the first game and rebounded with a 22-pin win, 237-215, to seal his second victory on the Tour this season.
PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (right) of the United States and English international Hayley White (left) emerged as the men's and women's champions of the Columbia 300 Irish Open Tenpin Bowling Championships, which were held at Leisureplex Stillorgan in Dublin, Ireland from Jan. 19-22, 2012. Voss, a 25-time PBA champion and the PBA Player of the Year 1988, pocketed 3.500 Euro while White, who led the women's division in all rounds, received 1.200 Euro. The tournament drew 153 players from 15 countries. 
In all-American affair, three-time WTBA World Champion Bill O'Neill (l.) defeated fellow PBA champion Mike Fagan (r.), 236-224, to win the 42nd Brunswick Ballmaster Open Sunday, Jan. 15 in Helsinki, Finland, and the 12.000 top prize. O'Neill and women's ranking winner Krista Pöllänen, Finland,
became the first leaders of the men's and women's ranking in both the
2012 European Bowling Tour and the 2012 World Bowling Tour rankings. 
The European Bowling Tour is heading into its 13th season featuring 22 events in 17 countries. The 2012 EBT consists of two Platinum, five Gold, eight Silver and seven Satellite tournaments. The total prize fund of the 2012 Tour exceeds 1.125 million Euro. The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The top 16 men and top 16 women in the EBT rankings will qualify for the 6th EBT Masters to be held Sept. 23rd, 2013 at BNC Bowling Center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Mike Fagan (l.), United States, used back-to-back 279s games to lead Final Round One in the Brunswick Ballmaster Open Sunday morning at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The two-time PBA champion knocked down 1839 pins, an average of 229.88 for eight games, to lead the top 16 players into round robin match play. Three-time Ballmaster champion Pasi Uotila (r.), Finland, was mere six pins behind in second place with 1833.
Ronnie Russell (pictured), United States, finished the qualifying portion of the 42nd Brunswick Ballmaster Open atop the leaderboard to lead total 48 players into Sunday's finals at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The PBA exempt player, who led the 425-player field from 17 countries with 1455, a 242.50 average, pocketed a 2.000 Euro bonus. Pasi Uotila, Finland, was mere one pin behind in second place with 1454 and Estonoa's Kert Truus was third with 1405, worth 1.000 and 500 Euro, resp. 
PBA pros set the tone in Thursday's qualifying of the Brunswick Ballmaster Open in Helsinki, Finland. PBA exempt player Ronnie Russell (l.), United States, moved to the top of the 349-player leaderboard with 1423 six-game total (237.17 avg.). Two-time world champion Robert Andersson (r.), Sweden, paced the eighth qualifying squad with 1386 to move into sixth place.
Qualifying continues on Friday with Squads 10, 11 and 12. 
Swedish national team member Karl Wahlgren (pictured) struck on eight of ten shots to become the last "VBS Super Star" of the Swedish Super Six Tour. The SSST ceased operations in December after more than 12 years and 72 tournaments. The shoot-out was the final event of the 2011 Tour. Total seven players - the top six in the 2011 SST ranking plus the best
female player - qualified for the event. 
Sean Rash (l.), United States, averaged 232.50 Tuesday evening at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland to lead the sixth qualifying squad and to overtake second place in the overall standings in the Brunswick Ballmaster Open. The four-time PBA champion totaled 1395 pins to miss the pole position by ten pins. Kert Truus (r.), Estonia, held on to the lead with 1405 and an average of 234.17. Qualifying continues on Thursday with Squads 7-9. 
Qualifying of the Brunswick Ballmaster Open heatened up Sunday at Tali Bowl in Helsinki, Finland, while it was minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 °F) outside the bowling center. Sunday's squads were reserved for senior and youth bowlers. Kert Truus (l.) stunned the Finns as the Estonian rolled six games between 202 and 266 to overtake the qualifying lead with 1405 (234.17). Squad 1 leader Petteri Salonen (r.), Finland, slipped to second place with 1393.
The Brunswick Ballmaster Open will kick off both the 2012 World Bowling Tour and the 2012 European Bowling Tour season when the 42nd edition of Europe's most prestigious tournament gets underway at Tali Bowling Center in Helsinki, Finland. The EBT Gold event offers 90.300 Euro total prize fund and a 12.000 Euro top prize, 
The presidium of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation (ETBF) has announced the sites and venues for the European Bowling Tour Masters 2014 and 2015. The EBT Masters 2014, the men's and women's finals of the 2013 European Bowling Tour, will be held March 3, 2014 at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands, while the EBT Masters 2015 takes place June 29, 2015 at Bowling Red & Black in Asti, Italy.
Finnish two-handed star Osku Palermaa (pictured left) won the final stop of the Swedish Super Six Tour 2011 defeating the No. 1 seed James Gruffman, 246-204, in the title match of the Malmö International on Sunday, Dec. 11 at Baltiska bowling center in Malmö. The win was a special one for Palermaa as the Swedish Super Six Tour will cease operations after more than twelve years. The first tournament took place in Norrtälje in August 1999 and the final stop in Malmö was the 72nd tournament.
Finland's two-hander Osku Palermaa (l.) and Joline Persson-Planefors (r.) of Sweden finished the 2011 European Bowling Tour season atop the men's and women's point ranking. Palermaa, who led the men's ranking from 2007 through 2009, ties Gery Verbruggen (2000-03), Belgium, as the only four-time winner while it was the first career victory in the women's ranking for the young Swedish national champion.
Dominic Barrett (l.), England, defeated reigning PBA Player of the Year, Mika Koivuniemi, 460-441, in two games with the total pinfall determining the winner, to win the European Bowling Tour season-ending Qatar Bowling Open and the 30.000 Euro top prize. The Englishman, who missed the first half of the season due to injury, was down by three pins after the first game and rebounded with a 22-pin win, 237-215, to seal his second victory on the Tour this season.