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Ballmaster Open

annual ten-pin bowling tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ4851815 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Brunswick Ballmaster Open is an annual ten-pin bowling tournament.

The first tournament took place in 1971, with Josef Wiener from Sweden winning First Place at the Sporthall Bowl in Helsinki. The event then moved to the Ruusula Center in 1972, before making the Tali Bowl its home from 1974 onward.

The events has €83,000 of total prize fund, with the first prize of €10,000.

It is the first European Bowling Tour (EBT) ranking event of 2006.

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“Ballmaster Open” enters the record as annual ten-pin bowling tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ballmaster, annual and ten-pin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1972, 1974, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ballmaster, annual and ten-pin.
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“Ballmaster Open” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ballmaster, annual and ten-pin provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4851815. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1972, 1974 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ballmaster Open” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.