USA vs. USA and Chinese Taipei vs. Mexico to bowl in Trios semifinals

08/18/10

2010 MWC

Live Streaming broadcast starts at 8 p.m. CET (2 p.m. EST)

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Team USA's Bill O'Neill, Chris Barnes and Tommy Jones (pictured left, l-r) set a 3-game new championship record (2196, 244 ave.) en route to claim the No. 1 seed for the Trios playoffs at the Men's World Championships in Germany. The Americans felled 4081 pins and averaged 226.72 over six games.

In the first semifinal, the top seeds will take on their team mates Rhino Page, Wes Malott and Patrick Allen (right, l-r), who finished the preliminaries in fourth place with 3801 pinfall total.

In the other semifinal match the spinners from Chinese Taipei, second seeded Hung Kun-Yi, Cheng Hsing-Chao and Wu Hao-Ming (3914) will take on Mexico's Jorge Rosado, Alejandro Cruz and Ernesto Franco, who landed in third place with 3839.

The entire field of 115 trios was split into three squads who bowled two 3-game series, one each on the 38-foot Atlanta (Tuesday) and 45-foot Mexico City (Wednesday) oil pattern. The top four trios after 6 games advanced to the playoffs starting on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CET (2 p.m. EST).

 

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The 2010 WTBA World Men's Championships will run through Aug. 21st. Players will compete for medals in six events - Singles, Doubles, Trios, five-player Team, All Events and Masters match play.

Bowlingdigital.com will provide live streaming of the semifinals, finals and award ceremonies of each event.

2010MWCBowlingdigitalTVWisemannVossThompsonXXL.jpg2010MWCBowlingdigitalTVFlavioCuva.jpg The Bowlingdigital team consists of Herbert Bickel (editor), Flavio Cuva (Live Streaming/Video) and Beat Grauwiler (photos).

PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (pictured left) will serve as color commentator and Ted Thompson (right), lane maintenance expert with Kegel, the official lane maintenance provider of the Championships, will serve as analyst. Lucas Wiseman of USBC Communications will assist as play-by-play analyst.

L-R Bowlingdigital's TV commentators: Lucas Wiseman, Brian Voss, Ted Thompson and Herbert Bickel.

Live streaming will be available at Bowlingdigital's Ustream TV Channel

 


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Here's the live streaming broadcast schedule:


Wednesday, August 18, 2010
09.00 - 19.15 Trios preliminaries
20.00 - 21.00 Trios - Semifinals
21.00 - 22.00 Trios - Championship

Thursday, August 19, 2010
09.00 - 13.30 Team preliminaries
13.30 - 14.00 Trios - Medals Ceremony

15.00 - 19.30 Team preliminaries

Friday, August 20, 2010
08.00 - 18.00 Team preliminaries
19.30 - 21.00 Team - Semifinals
21.00 - 22.30 Team - Championship

Saturday, August 21, 2010
08.00 - 10.00 Masters - Round of 16
10.00 - 12.00 Masters - Quarterfinals
13.00 - 15.00 Masters - Semifinals
15.00 - 17.00 Masters - Final
17.00 - 17.30 Masters - Medal Ceremony

(all time Central European Time)

 


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2010 Men's World Championship - Trios Standings after 6 games Preliminaries

 

 


Team High Games/High Series (WTBA Atlanta Pattern):
1 Game - Massimo Pirozzi, Italy, 279
3 Games - Cheng Hsing-Chao, Chinese Taipei, 700

Individual High Games/High Series:
1 Game - Anthony Fabre/Alain Nicolas/Xavier Lotthe, France, 723
3 Games - Alex Liew/Syafiq Ridhwan/Aaron Kong, Malaysia, 1964

 


Team High Games/High Series (WTBA Mexico City Pattern):
1 Game - Ernesto Franco, Mexico, 288
3 Games - Bill O'Neill, United States, 763

Individual High Games/High Series:
1 Game - Ernesto Franco, Jorge Rosado, Alejandro CruzMexico, 760
3 Games - Bill O'Neill, Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones, United States, 2196

 


Team High Games/High Series (overall):
1 Game - Ernesto Franco, Jorge Rosado, Alejandro CruzMexico, 760 (Mexico City)
3 Games - Bill O'Neill, Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones, United States, 2196 (Mexico City)
6 Games - Bill O'Neill, Chris Barnes, Tommy Jones, United States, 4081

Individual High Games/High Series (overall):
1 Game - Ernesto Franco, Mexico, 288 (Mexico City)
3 Games - Bill O'Neill, United States, 763 (Mexico City)
6 Games - Bill O'Neill, United States, 1417

 

 

All Events - Standings after Singles, Doubles and Trios (18 game)

 

 

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