Dear friends,

We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to all the people who participated in the 2nd Navigators Cup 2011. That many of you travelled long distances serves to remind us all just how important our work is. We thank all of our committee members especially our tournament manager Sokratis Socratous, the tournament assistant manager Dinos Sofokleous, the tournament media manager/coordinator Paris Klerides, the tournament control/technical manager George Phylactou and the transportation manager Antonis Ioannou, who have done their utmost for the accomplishment of this event and their efforts need no introduction.
The results speak from themselves. We brought our passion and knowledge together and lead this event to great success.

We want to express our gratitude to our tournament director Mr. Costas Sakellariou who travelled all the way from Greece under such a risky circumstances to help us and ensure that the event would be performed as perfect it could be. 
Special thanks to my personal assistant Annita Galati for being next to me all these months supporting me in order to organize and set up this team tournament with her great effort and patience. We thank the participant teams LBA Guest Stars (Cyprus), IDM (Romania), Glyfada & Strike (Greece), Jura (Poland), Rollrite (England) and New Star (Italy) for accepting our invitation and joining our challenging team event.
We would like to congratulate the 2nd Navigators Cup 2011 winner, Rollrite team from England as well as our team players for their very good performance.
Our appreciation goes also to Cyprus Bowling Federation and Limassol Bowling Association for joining and supporting our event. Many thanks to the president of ETBF Mr. Addie Ophelders and the technical committee chairman Mr. Roni Ashkenazi for sharing such a great moments and happy memories with us. It was also a really great pleasure for us having the support and promotion of the specialists in live streaming Dom Gall and Andy James who have merged their professionalism and publish through internet our event worldwide with a huge number of hits.
A huge thank to our valuable sponsors for their generous contribution and great support. Without them we wouldn’t be able to make our vision a reality.
We want to express our gratitude to BRUNSWICK and BBBS for their special support, valuable help and commitment during the event. It is honor for our team, our academies as well as our training program to be backed and supported by such a professional and reliable organizations.
Finally many thanks to the Galactica Bowling Centre for hosting the 2nd Navigators Cup 2011, assisting and providing us all the facilities needed, as a result the event has been concluded with a great success.
Thank you all for your support. Your contribution has made this event to become very prestigious. We feel exceptionally blessed and fortunate that we shared those three wonderful days with all of you. We hope that you enjoyed it and looking forward to seeing you in the 3rd Navigators Cup 2012 to rise up again the SPIRIT OF NAVIGATORS!

Loucas Evripidou
TEAM NAVIGATORS

Tight at the top... Finals day at last and the question was who would be crowned the 2011 champions? We still had one round left in the team event and Strike Bowling Club in group A looked to have already booked a place in the finals but who would be joining them, could it be the Romanians, Italians or Cypriots? As for group B all four teams were on three points and the Navigators looking win their event, Rollrite, Jura Powerhouse and Glyfada any one of them could make it.
The only this we did know was that it was going to be a fantastic days bowling and would be available worldwide on our live streaming.

So on we went and a nervous Navigators in group B lost their first game against Jura but then went mental racing to a 6-1 lead before Juri kept them at bay for a game but finally lost 2-7, Rollrite never looked in too much troble as they too raced to a 6-1 lead and same as the Navigators had to wait for the win as Glyfada came back at the before Rollrite took the match 7-2. Group A was a lot closers in the end as the LBA Allstars took on and defeated IDM 7-3 and from fourth place went up to second and into a semi final match against the also Cypriot Navigators team. No such trouble for the early leaders Strike BC as they beat the Italian ASD New Star team 7-4 and would meet Rollrite in the semi finals.

We found our two finalists after the semi finals, first the Navigators came flying out of the blocks and soon has a 6-1 lead over the LBA Allstars but had to wait before they could relax as the Allstars staged a mini comeback but it ended 7-2 and the Navigators would meet the winners of the second semi final.
Rollrite also came out fighting with a 3-0 before being pegged back to 3-2 but the English showed their class and ran out 7-2 winners.

Earlier was the singles masters and in our first match Rollrite's Darren Cundy went up against Stavros Parasakis of the Navigators, both players struggled to line up the strikes but Cundy did enough to win 193-152.In the second semifinal LBA Allstars George Panayiotou played ASD New Stars Marco Reviglio and despite the Italian Reviglio missing a single pin in the tenth frame George failed to capitalise and threw a split to hand the match to Reviglio 193-207. In the title match that went down to the wire it was the Italian Marco Reviglio that just edged out an unlucky Darren Cundy 170-168 to claim the singles title.

It was the final that the Navigators dreamed of a chance to play the mighty Rollrite and hopefully win the title. The match was a tense too and with one team leading then the next leveling the match, time after time the teams battles in the individualmatches went right down to the last frame making this must see watching for the livestream viewers and crowd, The stream at the end had over 1300 people willing the Navs and Rollrite on and it was left to Darren Cundy to win the evnt for the English when he defeated the Navigators captain Kostas Kyriakou by the smallest of margins, What a final and what an event.

The first round of matches saw  Strike BC defeat IDM club 7-4 taking their first two points of this years event, also in group A ASD New Star beat the LBA Allstars in a close match 7-5. In group B Glyfada from Greece easily defeated an unlucky Jura (Poland) - 7-3 and The Navigators lost in a very close battle 7-6 after being 1-4 down and pulling it back to lead 6-5. Coach for Rollrite Rob Thurlby put in a captains performance in the final clincher to beat Navigators George Stavrinou and took the two points.

The second round of matches and in group A Strike bowling club from Greece continued to win by defeating the LBA Allstars from Cyprus and The romanian team of IDM beat the ASD New star Italian team meaning Strike BC had 4 points IDM 3 points ASD New star 3 points and LBA Allstars 2 points. In group B The Navigators defeated The greek Glyfada team and the Polish Jura Powerhouse team beat England's Rollrite in a close match and all teams moved onto 3 points meaning it would be an exciting final round on sunday.

Cypriot Star George Panayiotou ranked 1st in Individual Qualifications with 210 avg

Next up was two squads of singles and four games that would be added to the team event singles and doubles to make up the masters list with the top four at the end making the masters semi finals on sunday afternoon.

Leading the masters after the team qualifying was Darren Cundy (Rollrite from England) with a 231 average followed by George Panayiotou (LBA - Cyprus) with 230, Alessandro Silletti (Jura from Poland) on 223 and John Wells (Rollrite from England) on 221. George Panayiotou rolled games of 212, 218, 186 and 227 and his 220 avergae took him into the lead with 220 with half the field playing the first squad, England's Darren Cundy was second with games of 137,189,204 and 255 for a 211 average and England's John Wells was third with a 202 average and games of 210, 181, 173, 173 and fourth was Romania's Deaconu Gabriel with a 201 average.
After the second squad of players, the cypriot star George Panayiotou held his first place on a 220,38 average and Darren Cundy held his second place too with a 211 average. Into third place went Italian Marco Reviglio with a 210 average thanks in part to a 297 in game three. John Wells took fourth place with a 202 average as some players failed to capitalize on their previous good bowling.

The presentation started with Tournament Manager Socrates Socratous welcoming everyone and then it was onto some short videos showing all the organizers and helpers. The teams were then lead out one by one with the help of Navigators Academy children carrying the flag of each country and a banner with the team name on.
A further group of academy kids joined the players and they and the wathing crowd were shown the new Navigator videos which received much applause after their screening. Next up was Paris Klerides the media director for the event who talked for some time about the event and about the Navigators Team. A couple of shorter speeches then came from the Cypriot Bowling Federation President and ETBF president and finally Socrates again who showed the video of all the sponsors and finally thanked everyone for coming and to those who organised the event. Socrates then invited then all to a coctail buffet which was pretty awesome with much food and coctails supplied. Andy James and Dominic Gall streamed the Opening Ceremony through out to the watching viewers through Europe and even America with PBA legend Brian Voss tuning in. Match started at 9.00 am on Saturday.