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European Bowling Tour "Satellite" tournament offers total prize fund of 224.000 Norwegian Kronor; 176 players have registered so far; top 60 instead of top 40 players will cash

As a result of a sponsorship agreement with Brunswick, the NO 2013 has increased the total prize fund to 224.000 NOK (currently 27.935 Euro). The winner will receive 35.000 NOK (almost 4.365 Euro) and the runner-up gets 20.000 NOK.
As of Monday, September 30th, 176 players, 41 women and 135 men, from eight countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Iceland, Ireland, United States and Norway) have booked 359 entries.

The qualifying of the Norwegian Open begins Friday, Oct. 4 and runs Saturday, Oct. 12 with the final Squad 18 scheduled for 5 p.m. local time (CEST). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour
In a change for 2013 the last qualifying squad on Saturday evening was replaced by two semifinal rounds and the top 60 instead of the top 40 players will cash.
A total of 60 players will advance to the finals on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12 & 13:
- the top 42 players from the overall qualifying standings
- two players from a separate leaderboard of Squad 1-7, who are not among the top 42
- the next four women
- the next four juniors (must not be born before Sept. 1, 1995)
- the next four seniors (must be 50 years of age at the first day of the tournament)
- and two players each from the Turbo 1 and 2 list (highest score in qualifying game 5 and 6, respectively; separate fee necessary).
The top 8 qualifiers are qualified for Round 4, places 9-16 go to Round 3, places 17-24 start in Round 2 and places 25-28 begin in Round 1. The other 32 finalists advance to Saturday's Semifinal Round 1 which begins at 9 p.m. CEST.
The top 24 players after three game scratch advance to the Semifinal Round 2, which gets underway at 10:30 p.m. Those bowl another three games with the pinfall carried over. The top 12 qualify for Final Round 1 starting on Sunday morning at 9 a.m.
The remaining forty players will determine the champion in five three-game rounds. The field will be trimmed from 40 to 32, 24, 16, and then eight who bowl a final three-game block with the pinfall from Round 4 carried forward.
The player with the highest six-game total will earn the EBT title, 50 ranking points and the 35.000 NOK top prize.
The 2013 European Bowling Tour consists of 19 stops in 13 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, four Silver and seven Satellite tournaments.
The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament such as the Norwegian Open 2013 by Brunswick gets 50 ranking points.
The top 12 men and the top 12 women at the end of the 2013 season qualify for the seventh EBT Masters to be held March 3, 2014 at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands immediately following the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2014.
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