Game format:

11th KUWAIT INTERANTIONAL OPEN 2014
PBA-WBT #9 World Bowling Tour 2014 stop
Kuwait City – Kuwait,
March 10 - 14, 2014
ABF Tour March 15, 2014

Tournament Information:
 Date March 10 - 14, 2014
 Date March 15, 2014, ABF Tour

Place : Cozmo Bowling Center - Salmiya Center – 16 lanes
Entry Fee : US$ 1,000 ( One Thousand US Dollars), including the T-shirt of
the championship.

Format:
 Round 1 - All bowlers play 15 games qualifying in 3 blocks of 5 games (5 games
per day).
 The Top 38 bowlers will qualify for the 2nd round as follows:
o Top 6 – ranked 1 to 6
o Highest Kuwaiti – rank 7
o Next 27 qualifiers – rank 8 to 34
o Next highest 4 Kuwaitis – rank 35 to 38
All pinfalls then dropped.
 Round 2 – Qualifiers from Round 1 ranked 23 – 38 (16 bowlers) will bowl 6
games and the top 8 scores scratch will advance to the Round 3
 Round 3 – Qualifiers from Round 1 ranked 15 – 22 plus the 8 qualifiers from
round 2 (16 bowlers) will bowl 6 games. The top 9 scores scratch will advance to
the Round 4
 Round 4 - Qualifiers from Round 1 ranked 8 – 14 plus the 9 qualifiers from
Round 3 (16 bowlers) will bowl 6 games. The top 8 scores scratch will advance to
Round 5
 Round 5 – Qualifiers from Round 1 ranked 1 – 7 plus the 8 qualifiers from
Round 4 will play 4 games. (3 bowlers on one pair of lanes) Scores from Round
5 will be carried over to the Modified Matchplay Round
 Modified Matchplay Round – Bowlers will play 7 games modified matchplay
and one game position round with bonus with 3 bowlers on each pair of lanes.
Winner of each match on a pair of lanes will receive 20 bonus pins while the 2nd
place will receive 10 bonus pins.
 The top 5 bowlers after match play will contest a stepladder final.
 The top qualifier has the right of re-challenge should he/she lose their first
match.
 Handicap for women is 5 per game.
 In case of ties in Round 1 – 4, the bowler with the higher last game will prevail.
If there is still a tie, the bowler with the higher 2nd to the last game will prevail
and so on.  In case of tie in the Modified Matchplay for 1st place, 15 bonus points will be
given. In case of tie for the 2nd place, 5 bonus points will be given.
 In the event there are less than 128 bowlers participating, there will be only 3
 squads per day bowling 6 games per squad.