12th November, Doha: One hundred and eight, sixty women athletes and fifty-eight officials from eighteen Asian member federations will be vying for glory at the 28th Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships which will be held from November 12 to 22, 2027 at Qatar Bowling Federation center.

Athletes were finalised during the team managers meeting held at the Grand Regency Hotel this afternoon at 6.00pm local time. The participating federations are China, Hong Kong China, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Macau China, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and host Qatar.

Dr Danny Santos, Tournament Director conducted a roll-call of the participating federations before inviting Mr Saeed Al-Hajri, Host Tournament Manager to give his welcome address. He thanked all the federations for their support in taking part in this 28th edition of the Asian Championships hosted by Qatar Bowling Federation for the second time since the year 2000.

He also extended his sincere appreciation to Asian Bowling Federation in awarding the championship to Qatar Bowling Federation and their confidence in their ability to host such an important championship.

He also went through some of the important matters pertaining to the championship schedule, the official practice sessions and the opening ceremony. He also touched on each of the events to be contested regarding the lanes range used and the lane rotation format.

He added the importance in adhering to the deadline for submission of line ups for each event and that the submission will be done online via the official ABF website.

Five events will be contested consisting of Singles, Doubles, Trios, Team of 5 and Masters Finals. The top 3 at the end of each event will be declared medal winners. The top 16 men and top 16 women based on their All-Events Standings (24 games) will qualify for the Round-Robin Matchplay Masters Finals to be staged over two blocks of 8 and 7 games with the final position-round game for the top 3 men and top 3 women advancing to the Stepladder Finals.

As this championship is the qualifying round for the 2027 IBF World Championships to be held in Korea, the combined All-Events total of the top 5 bowlers from each federation will be added together to determine their standings.