from the 4th Vienna Open powered by Columbia 300
10/17/06
The 4th Vienna Open powered by Columbia 300 is the 18th out of 20 events on the 2006 European Bowling Tour and one of the EBT's "majors".
The tournament will be held at 32-laner Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, from October 17-22 and offers total prize money of 55.230 Euro (approx. US$69,100).
Helmut Schmekal (right), manager of Plus Bowling and Kegel laneman John Janawicz (left) are looking forward to welcoming 255 players - 195 men and 60 women from 23 countries in Europe, America and Asia.
Click on the image to see it full size.
The tournament will start Tuesday at 7pm with a 9-pin no-tap tournament. The real action will commence Wednesday at noon with the first of fourteen qualifying squads.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live all the way through to the finals on Sunday, October 22, with updates after each squad and each round of the finals.
Check out here for our podcasts from the final weekend. It's easy to receive updates distributed via RSS in popular podcatchers whenever there is new content. Subscribe here!
As of today, 389 of total 420 qualifying spots are booked. The remaining spots can be booked online on a first-come first-serve basis. Click on the Vienna Open banner on the right and go to 'Registration 2006'.
The qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. All players roll six-game blocks. A bowler can only cash once with the same partner. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible. The winners of the Doubles event will split 1.600 Euro ($2,002).
68 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals starting on Sunday, October 22 at 8am:
- The eight players with the highest six-game blocks will earn one bye and will be seeded 1-8 in the match play Round of 32.
- Players positioned 9-56 after qualifying,
- the leaders of Squad 1 through 6 not among the top 56,
- and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
All but the top 8 qualifiers will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 24. Those 24 will be seeded 9-32 in the play Round of 32.
Match Play Rounds of 32, 16 and 8 are in a best-of-three games format, highest seeded player vs. the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player vs. the second-lowest seeded player, etc.
The semi-finals and the championship match will be decided in one game. The Vienna Open champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize (approx. $8,758).
Anders Öhman (l.) of Sweden won the inaugural Vienna Open when defeated Amedeo Spada of Italy 2-0 in the best-of-three games finals in the year 2003. Spada (r.) improved on his second-place-finish the year after when won the title with a 2-0 victory against American Bill Hoffman.
The Finns dominated the 2005 Vienna Open and brought three players into the four-player stepladder finals. Osku Palermaa (front), seeded third, defeated Team USA's David Haynes (right) and Lasse Lintilä (center) before he topped No. 1 seed, Petri Mannonen (left), in the championship match, 228-181. Click on the image to view full size.
The following 31 spots are available (as of October 17, 2006)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
19:00 - 9 Pin No Tap - unlimited entries
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
12.00: Squad 1 - 2 free
16.00: Squad 2 - 2 free
20.00: Squad 3 - 6 free
Thursday, October 19, 2006
12.00: Squad 4 - 3 free
16.00: Squad 5 - 1 free
20.00: Squad 6 - 1 free
Friday, October 20, 2006
09.00: Squad 7 - 12 free
13.00: Squad 8 - 1 free
17.00: Squad 9 - 1 free
Saturday, October 21, 2006
08.00: Squad 11 - 2 free (entry fee MUST be paid until Friday evening)
Format
Schedule
Prize Fund
Live Coverage
Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria (October 17-22, 2006)
The 4th Vienna Open powered by Columbia 300 is the 18th out of 20 events on the 2006 European Bowling Tour and one of the EBT's "majors". The tournament will be held at 32-laner Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria, from October 17-22 and offers total prize money of 55.230 Euro (approx. US$69,100).
Helmut Schmekal (right), manager of Plus Bowling and Kegel laneman John Janawicz (left) are looking forward to welcoming 255 players - 195 men and 60 women from 23 countries in Europe, America and Asia. Click on the image to see it full size.
The tournament will start Tuesday at 7pm with a 9-pin no-tap tournament. The real action will commence Wednesday at noon with the first of fourteen qualifying squads.
Bowlingdigital will cover the event live all the way through to the finals on Sunday, October 22, with updates after each squad and each round of the finals.
Check out here for our podcasts from the final weekend. It's easy to receive updates distributed via RSS in popular podcatchers whenever there is new content. Subscribe here!
As of today, 389 of total 420 qualifying spots are booked. The remaining spots can be booked online on a first-come first-serve basis. Click on the Vienna Open banner on the right and go to 'Registration 2006'.
The qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. All players roll six-game blocks. A bowler can only cash once with the same partner. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible. The winners of the Doubles event will split 1.600 Euro ($2,002).
68 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals starting on Sunday, October 22 at 8am:
- The eight players with the highest six-game blocks will earn one bye and will be seeded 1-8 in the match play Round of 32.
- Players positioned 9-56 after qualifying,
- the leaders of Squad 1 through 6 not among the top 56,
- and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
All but the top 8 qualifiers will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 24. Those 24 will be seeded 9-32 in the play Round of 32.
Match Play Rounds of 32, 16 and 8 are in a best-of-three games format, highest seeded player vs. the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player vs. the second-lowest seeded player, etc.
The semi-finals and the championship match will be decided in one game. The Vienna Open champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize (approx. $8,758).
Anders Öhman (l.) of Sweden won the inaugural Vienna Open when defeated Amedeo Spada of Italy 2-0 in the best-of-three games finals in the year 2003. Spada (r.) improved on his second-place-finish the year after when won the title with a 2-0 victory against American Bill Hoffman. 
The Finns dominated the 2005 Vienna Open and brought three players into the four-player stepladder finals. Osku Palermaa (front), seeded third, defeated Team USA's David Haynes (right) and Lasse Lintilä (center) before he topped No. 1 seed, Petri Mannonen (left), in the championship match, 228-181. Click on the image to view full size.The following 31 spots are available (as of October 17, 2006)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
19:00 - 9 Pin No Tap - unlimited entries
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
12.00: Squad 1 - 2 free
16.00: Squad 2 - 2 free
20.00: Squad 3 - 6 free
Thursday, October 19, 2006
12.00: Squad 4 - 3 free
16.00: Squad 5 - 1 free
20.00: Squad 6 - 1 free
Friday, October 20, 2006
09.00: Squad 7 - 12 free
13.00: Squad 8 - 1 free
17.00: Squad 9 - 1 free
Saturday, October 21, 2006
08.00: Squad 11 - 2 free (entry fee MUST be paid until Friday evening)
Format
Schedule
Prize Fund