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.
The European Bowling Tour (EBT) is one of three tenpin bowling tours that form part of the ranking system of the World Tenpin Bowling Association (WTBA).
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.
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.
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.
Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul, having outranked İzmir in the 20th century.
Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. East Thrace, located in Europe, is separated from Anatolia by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorous strait and the Dardanelles. Turkey is bordered by Greece and Bulgaria to its northwest; Georgia to its northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the south. Istanbul is the largest city, but more central Ankara is the capital. Approximately 70 to 80 per cent of the country's citizens identify as Turkish. Kurds are the largest minority; the size of the Kurdish population is a subject of dispute with estimates placing the figure at anywhere from 12 to 25 per cent of the population.
Osku Palermaa is a Finnish Ten-pin bowler now living in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a competitor on the European Bowling Tour, World Bowling Tour, and PBA Tour.
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.
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 1 - 2 | 8 | | 227-205, 215-226, 226-246 |
| 2 |  | 2 - 0 | 7 |  | 210-179, 223-191 |
| 3 | | 1 - 2 | 6 | | 290-238, 183-209, 182-225 |
| 4 | | 1 -2 | 5 |  | 233-258, 258-181, 243-252 |
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | | 2 - 1 | 8 | | 196-216, 234-232, 224-197 |
| 5 | | 1 - 2 | 6 | | 257-254, 231-239, 198-278 |
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | | 2 - 1 | 6 | | 180-212, 220-207, 242-209 |
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 1 - 2 | 8 |  | 225-199, 196-214, 225-237 |
| 2 |  | 1 - 2 | 7 | | 234-182, 197-210, 204-222 |
| 3 | | 2 - 1 | 6 | | 259-217, 188-225, 257-170 |
| 4 | | 1 - 2 | 5 | | 225-196, 186-195, 190-238 |
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | | 0 - 2 | 8 | | 233-245, 202-222 |
| 5 | | 0 - 2 | 7 | | 187-204, 208-226 |
| Seed | Player | Score | Seed | Player | Game Scores |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | | 0 - 2 | 8 | | 187-188, 179-237 |
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