The 40th Ballmaster Open was big success to the organizers, but also big success to bowling. Mika Koivuniemi who after 12 years had a possibility to come to Ballmaster and Tali showed to all of us that he still is the Big Finn. He beat all three opponents in the stepladder and travelled home with the 15.000 euro in his pocket.

The legend of PBA bowling, Parker Bohn III, was a runaway leader in the round robin and took the first place for the stepladder. Also our female guest, very technical bowler star from Singapore, Cherie Tan jumped easily to the TV-show.

In the half way of the round robin the decisions are taking shape. Parker Bohn III has played clearly best bowling and he has taken the lead and is pulling away from the others.

Top four looks totally foreign at the moment; Dom Barrett is second, Cherie Tan third and Tomas Leandersson fourth. Best domestic player right now is young Tony Ranta, who is still very much in the picture. So is Kimmo Lehtonen and Mike Fagan, who started bad, but is climbing fast.

The first stage of the Ballmaster Open finals was real banging. There were three 300-games and that means there will be a one ball tie breaker after the tournament TV-final. These fireworks took the attention away from the final itself for a while.