Event: PBA World Series of Bowling
Tournament: PBA World Championship -- Don Carter Division Finals (First of four divisional final rounds)
Where: South Point Hotel and Casino Convention Center (Arena installation) in Las Vegas, Nev.
Purse: $542,120, winner's share: $50,000
Eliminator Format: Four finalists will bowl a one-game match. The player with the lowest score will be eliminated. The three survivors will bowl another game, with the low man ousted. The two finalists will then bowl a final game, with the survivor advancing to the PBA World Championship finals.
Final Round: Four division winners meet Jan. 15 in final eliminator round to determine champion.
Television: ESPN (Sunday 1 p.m. ET)
An international finals field will include two-time PBA Tour titlist Jack Jurek of Lackawana, N.Y., Dom Barrett and Stuart Williams of England, trying for their first Tour title and Finnish two-handed player Osku Palermaa trying for his second title.
Jurek, a 48-year-old 25-year veteran of PBA Tour competition, will take on England's Stuart Williams and Dom Barrett, and two-handed Finnish star Osku Palermaa, in the first divisional final, named in honor of legendary PBA star and former World Champion Don Carter. None of the four have won a PBA major title. Both British players are trying for their first PBA Tour titles. Palermaa won his only PBA Tour title in the 2010 Shark Championship.
Last Week: Finland's Mika Koivuniemi, reigning PBA Player of the Year, won the inaugural GEICO World Bowling Tour presented by the PBA men's championship. Koivuniemi defeated Sean Rash 237-224. Carolyn Dorin-Ballard defeated Sweden's Sandra Andersson 207-162 in the women's final. Koivuniemi and Dorin-Ballard each earned $10,000.
Last Season: Chris Barnes captured his 13th PBA Tour title and became the sixth player in PBA history to earn a lifetime Triple Crown (victories in PBA World Championship, U.S. Open and PBA Tournament of Champions) by defeating Bill O'Neill 267-237 at South Point Bowling Center on Jan. 16, 2011.
PBA:39X60 Pregame Show: (Free on PBA.com, PBA YouTube Channel) Tune into pba.com's Xtra Frame for interviews with the finalists as they give their insight into strategy and equipment selection. All World Championship preview shows on Xtra Frame will be available the Wednesday before each Sunday ESPN telecast for free.
PBA:39X60 Postgame Show: (Free on PBA.com, PBA YouTube Channel) Sunday 2:30 p.m. ET -- Xtra Frame interviews the winning player and provides in-depth ball rep analysis of the winner's equipment selection and ball preparation.
Xtra Frame Coverage: Exclusive individual PBA World Championship qualifying rounds of the Bayer Viper Open (8 games), Chameleon Open (8 games), Scorpion Open (8 games), GEICO Shark Open (8 games) and World Championship Cashers Qualifying (8 games) are available at www.xtraframe.tv
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