Presentation of the European Bowling Tour 2010

It is a pleasure for the ETBF Presidium to present the 11th edition of the European Bowling Tour (The EBT 2010), including 21 stops as presented at the following page. Detailed information for each stop is available at www.etbf.eu.

It is in many ways a tour introducing a lot of different news.

For the first time we are introducing 4 different categories in the tour and for the first time we are using the category names EBT Platinum (1 tournament in 2010), EBT Gold (7 tournaments in 2010), EBT Silver (9 tournaments in 2010) and EBT Satellite (4 tournaments in 2010).

The tour takes off early January with a firework of a Platinum Tournament in Helsinki, where rich of tradition Brunswick Ballmaster Open celebrates its 40 years jubilee, with for the very first time in the history of the tournament to present a prize pool higher than 100.000 Euro.

Six tournaments is included in the tour for the first time, namely the IV International Wroclaw Open in Poland (Satellite), the 1st Austria Challenge in Austria (Silver), the 1st Dream Bowl Palace Open in Germany (Silver), BNC Bratislava Open in Slovakia (Silver), the 1st Torneo Internazionale di Roma in Italy (Satellite) and the 1st Pavlovskiy Posad Open in Russia (Satellite).

For the first time a tour stop will be conducted in Poland, Slovakia and Russia.

The total prize fund (including tour prize money) in the EBT 2010 will be approximately 1.2 million €, with an average prize fund of approximately 55.000 € per stop.

It is in many ways a stormy period in the world economy, just like many domestic economies are facing numerous local challenges. In such a situation it has been fantastic to meet the many wishes to take part and to contribute to keep the EBT not only alive, but still dynamic and vital. We are very grateful to the many organizers, who are taking the risk and whom are showing their strong dedication to our sport. We hope all organizers and their tournaments will be well supported by players, federations, sponsors and media.

The 16 highest ranked women and the 16 highest ranked men by the conclusion of the EBT 2010 will qualify for the 4th EBT Masters 2011, which will be hosted by the organizer of the 5th Qubica/AMF Open 2011 in Ljubljana, most likely in April 2011.

The final of the ongoing EBT 2009, the 3rd EBT masters 2010, will be hosted by the organizer of the 1st Austria Challenge in Vienna on 3-4 May 2010.

Kim Thorsgaard Jensen
EBT Director

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