Austria Challenge cancelled

We have unfortunately received information from the organizer of the 1st Austria Challenge, originally scheduled to be conducted on 28 April - 2 May 2010 in Vienna, Austria, that the tournament is cancelled as a consequence of too few entries booked.

Furthermore, by the cancellation of the 1^st Austria Challenge, the reason for conducting the 3^rd EBT Masters 2010 in Vienna late April / early May is no longer existing, so the ETBF Presidium have decided to move the Masters to Aalborg, where it will be conducted on 31 May and 1 June, which is just after the conclusion of Bowltech Aalborg International 2010.

The organizer of the 1^st Austria Challenge have promised and underlined, that all full or partly non refundable flight tickets, lost as a consequence of the cancelled tournament, the moved Masters or both, WILL be refunded by the organizer.

Players qualified to the EBT Masters 2010 must send their flight ticket invoices to me at ktj@etbf.eu, while other entered players in the 1^st Austria Challenge must send their flight ticket invoices directly to Wolfgang Lohschmid at wolfgang.lohschmid@chello.at.

It is also important to mention, that this WILL NOT influence the conduction of the 8^th Columbia 300 Vienna Open, which WILL be conducted on 28 September - 3 October in Plus Halle as originally scheduled and with the originally announced conditions. Furthermore it is announced by the organizer, that Vienna Open will continue, also in the coming years.

2 March 2010
Kim Thorsgaard Jensen