It was a fair tussle for honors between Stuart Williams of England, Chris Klerk of the United States and Denmark's Frederik

Ohrgaard going into the last of the four games for those finishing qualifying in 25th to 42nd places.

That is until 'shining light' Sami Lampo of Finland decided to spoil the party by firing eight straight strikes in his home straight, finishing with 1597 points after bringing forward 664 from 50 per cent of qualifying pinfall.

That gave Lampo, from some unprounceable town in his home country ("Just say I come from Finland"), an eight-point buffer over Williams and leaving Ohrgaard and Klerk in third and fourth places respectively.

Action now switches to those who qualified 1 - 24, heading across Bowling Pedralbes for four games, again bringing forward 50 per cent of qualifying pinfall.

The scores of these two squads are combined and the leading 24 will advance to the semi-finals for four games, the leading three to contest the one-game stepladder final, screened live on Eurosport 2 and local TV3 at 18.15 CET. Also web streamed on internet: www.fcbb.cat at 18.15.

Full tournament information and results: www.fcbb.cat

STANDINGS OF QUALIFIERS 25 - 42 PLUS SIX INVITED WOMEN:

P	Player	Federation	Qualify	1	2	3	4	Pins	Hdcp	Total
1	Sami Lampo	Finland	664	192	205	268	268	933	0	1597
2	Stuart Williams	England	651	187	238	279	234	938	0	1589
3	Frederik Ohrgaard	Denmark	661	259	243	179	237	918	0	1579
4	Chris Klerk	USA	666	243	225	205	228	901	0	1567
5	Kim Ojala	Sweden	664	180	258	226	232	896	0	1560
6	Erik Gulbrandson	USA	653	220	233	211	236	900	0	1553
7	Alexander Medveditskov	Russia	653	203	223	218	245	889	0	1542
8	Moises Perez Ibañez	Catalonia	661	184	232	211	226	853	0	1514
9	Krista Pöllänen	Finland	661	197	244	179	195	815	32	1508
10	Josefine Linderoth	Sweden	622	202	233	201	212	848	32	1502
11	Catalin Gheorge	Romania	651	190	211	192	247	840	0	1491
12	Sandra Andersson	Sweden	641	153	229	225	196	803	32	1476
13	Joline Persson-planefors	Sweden	653	233	202	147	207	789	32	1474
14	Cristina Sanz Moreno	Catalonia	644	200	192	227	176	795	32	1471
15	Adam Ishman	USA	656	198	203	220	193	814	0	1470
16	Nina Flack	Sweden	622	183	193	203	224	803	32	1457
17	Cassie Staudinger	England	661	190	190	206	167	753	32	1446
18	Luz Adriana Leal Gonzalez	Catalonia	624	182	189	186	222	779	32	1435
19	Julien Sermand	France	656	212	199	201	161	773	0	1429
20	Romeo Gagenoiu	Romania	657	166	235	170	183	754	0	1411
21	Daniel Vezis	England	658	205	179	189	169	742	0	1400
22	Aude Saint Marc	France	628	150	192	180	214	736	32	1396
23	Christian Racpan	Germany	660	193	160	168	191	712	0	1372
24	Vincent Cayez	France	662	139	159	0	0	298	0	960