5th December, Hong Kong: Mitch Hupe of Canada, defied all odds by defeating Kyle Troup of USA, 2-0 in the finals to win the coveted Masters gold medal at the concluding 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

Trios gold medallist, Troup took an early lead after marking his first two frames followed by two consecutive strikes in frames 3 and 4 while Hupe was contented with converting all his spares and managing just a strike in the fourth frame.

An opened frame from the American in the sixth frame allowed the Canadian to draw level. Both were unable to string together any connecting strikes and eventually ended in a 192 tie. Kyle rolled nine pins while Hupe struck to clinch the first match.

The win gave Hupe the much needed momentum starting off with three strikes-in-a-row for an early lead. Troup responded with a double in the third and fourth frames but again was unlucky to stumble to a 4-10 split which he failed to take one pin in an attempt to spare it.

Hupe successfully help Canada retain the Masters title his compatriot, Francois Lavoie won at the 2017 World Championships in Las Vegas.

His victory also gave Canada their first gold medal of the championships after making the medal rounds in four events and failing to win the elusive gold.

The champion advanced to the title match after dispatching team-mate and winner of a silver and three bronze medals, Dan MacLelland, 2-0 in the first all-Canadian semi-finals. Troup defeated Ireland's Christopher Sloan, 2-0 in the other all-two-hander semi to face Hupe.

MacLelland picked up his fourth bronze medal while Sloan became the first-ever Irish to win a medal at the World Championships. In the earlier Round 3 finals, Hupe edged Andrew Anderson of USA, 2-1 to advance to the semi-finals.

4th December, Hong Kong: Underdog Italy out-performed defending champion, USA with a 2-0 victory in the 5-Player Team Final of the 2018 CGSE &£149; Million Tinkle World Men Championships to win their first-ever gold medal.

Team USA's Chris Barnes, Kyle Troup, Andrew Anderson, EJ Tackett and Tommy Jones were able to settle down quickly and rolled a double in the third and fourth frames. Third-seed Marco Reviglio, Pierpaolo De Filippi, Nicola Pongolini, Erik Davolio and Antonio Fiorentino fought back with a double in the fourth and fifth frames.

Barnes failed to make a 6-10 spare in the sixth frame as the Italian made no mistake marking up to eighth frame. Anderson also made a similar error when he failed to spare a simple 2-8 pin allowing their opponent to take a 27-pin lead. Italy encountered a split in the ninth frame but managed to end with 189-169 to take the first match.

The match and the tie was very much in favour of Italy as they went on to end the match with a 210-166 victory to clinch their country's first-ever gold medal of the World Championships.

Their best showing was way back in 1971 when they took home a bronze medal.

Italy edged their stronger opponent Canadam 2-1 (162-176, 244-210, 179-190) in the second semi-final match to advance to the final. USA took out Singapore, 2-0 (238-194, 216-189) to move closer to successfully defend the title won in 2017.

USA settled for the silver medal while Canada and Singapore were awarded a bronze medal each. After four finals and All Events, USA led the medal tally with 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. Malaysia is placed second with just 2 gold medals. Italy finished third with one gold from the 5-player Team event.

4th December, Hong Kong: Sixteen Masters qualifiers positioned 9 to 24 contested the best-of-3 Masters elimination Round 1 finals of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships where the field was cut to eight for Round 2 on Wednesday.

2008 World Ranking Masters champion and 13th-seed, Jari Ratia of Finland was the standout averaging 245 when he dispatched Shogo Wada of Japan, 2-0 with 214-203, 277,216 to advance to the next round. Canadian Mitch Hupe averaged 211 bnut had to go into the third deciding match.

Hupe took the first match, 221-201 against Yannaphon Larpapharat of Thailand but lost the second match, 184-194. The Canadian bounced back with a superb 258-224 in the decider for a 2-1 win. Trios silver medallist, Ryan Leonard Lalisang of Indonesia had the third higest average to advance to the next round.

The Indonesian took the first match 246-204 against Colombia's Manuel Otalora and 205-170 in the second match for a 2-0 victory.

3rd December, Hong Kong: After near misses in two events, fourth-seed Team USA delivered its first gold medal at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships with victory over Indonesia, 632-551 in the Trios final.

Fourth-seed, Kyle Troup, EJ Tackett and Andrew Anderson had to dig deep to beat topseed, Kim Kyungmin and Park Jongwoo of Korea, 695-654 in the first semi-final to earn a third crack at the gold medal match.

Second-seed, Billy Muhammad Islam, Hardy Rachmadian and Ryan Lalisang of Indonesia also had a narrow victory over third-seed, Mattias Wetterberg, Jesper Svensson and Martin Larsen of Sweden, 632-591 in the other semi-final match.

In the final match, Indonesia had a slight advantage when Sweden's anchorman, Anderson failed to spare his opening frame while Indonesia's anchorman doubled in the second and third frames.

Troup struck out from frame eighth, Tackett doubled again the in the ninth and tenth frame allowing USA to seal the well-deserved victory for the gold. Indonesian men, who have never won any medal in the World Championships, created history when they picked up the silver.

Korea and Sweden were awarded a bronze medal each as losing semi-finalists. Meanwhile, Tackett claimed his first individual gold medal after topping the All Events standings with 5352 pinfalls over 24 games.

Anderson, who also won a bronze medal in the Singles, secured the silver medal with 5285 while Singles bronze medallist, Dan MacLelland of Canada won his second bronze finishing third with 5277. Troup missed out of the podium in fourth, just 27 pins away.

The top 24 in the standings qualified for the Masters finals. Qualifiers positioned first to eighth earned a bye and automatically advanced to Round 2 finals while qualifiers positioned 9 to 24 will contest the Round 1 finals in a best-of-3 matchplay format.

3rd December, Hong Kong: Team USA hauled themselves up from third in the first block with 1077, 1074 and 1031 to end the second block of the 5-player Team event to qualify for the Semi-finals of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships as topseed.

EJ Tackett, Jakob Butturff (alternated by Chris Barnes). Kyle Troup, Andrew Anderson and Tommy Jones got off the block with 1077 in the fourth game to take over the lead from overnight leader, Germany, who slipped to second with 1018.

France stayed in third position with 1059 and Indonesia remaining in fourth position with 1086. Singapore, who was tenth in the first block, posted the highest fourth game of 1105 to hail themselves up to fifth spot.

France was lucky to remain in third as others were unable to make headway. Indonesia also remain in fourth position with Singapore in fifth and Germany dropped out of contention with a disastrous 848.

1st December, Hong Kong: Third-seed, Adrian Ang and Tun Ameerul Al-Hakim outclassed topseed, Team USA, 433-370 in the Doubles final to win Malaysia's second gold medal of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

Ang (196) and Al-Hakim (262) edged second-seed, Singles silver medallist, Dan MacLelland (228) and 2017 World Championships Masters gold medallist, Francois Lavoie (184) of Canada, 458-412 in the second semi-final match to earn a crack at the title.

EJ Tackett (259) and Singles bronze medallist, Andrew Anderson (236) sailed past fourth-seed, Park Jongwoo (188) and Kim Kyungmin (189) of Korea, 495-377 to advance to the final and face the Malaysian pair. Canada and Korea was awarded a bronze medal each.

Both title contenders started cautiously marking their opening frames. Tackett's early split in the second frame put the American pair on their back foot. Whilst the Ang and Al-Hakin continued to mark their next two frames, Anderson stumbled to another split in the third frame to trail further behind.

Anderson bounced back with a double in the fifth and sixth frames but Al-Hakim responded with three-in-a-row. Although Ang suffered a split in the sixth frame, Anderson was unlucky to encounter another costly split in the seventh frame.

When Ang fought back with a three strikes-in-a-row from seventh frame and championship debutant Al-Hukim added a fourth strike, they went on to seal a convincing 433-370 victory and winning the second gold medal for Malaysia.

Team USA settled for the silver medal adding to the two bronze medals won by Kyle Troup and Anderson in yesterday's Singles Semi-finals. Competition will resume with the second block 5-Player Team Squad A tomorrow morning.

The top four from this squad will qualify for the Semi-finals and Final championship round. The Trios Semi-finals and Final will be held after the 5-Player Team event ends.

Photos by Terence Yaw in Hong Kong, China.

1st December, Hong Kong: Third-seed, Muhd Rafiq Ismail won Malaysia's first-ever individual gold medal at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships with victory over third-seed, Dan MacLelland of Canada, 217-204 in the Singles final.

Ismail had narrowly defeated second-seed, Kyle Troup of Team USA, 171-170 in the semi-final match to advance to the championship match. Defending champion, MacLelland breezed past topseed and another American, Andrew Anderson, 256-170 in the first semi-final match to face the Malaysian in the final.

The Canadian had a cracking start in the final with four strikes-in-a-row to open up a gap of 19 pins as Ismail delivered four perfect pocket shots only for a strike in the first frame followed by two 9-pin spares and a second strike in the fourth frame.

But Ismail struck twice in the fifth and sixth frame putting pressure on the Canadian, who failed to spare a single pin 10 in the fifth frame. Just one seprated the title contenders when MacLelland spared hi sixth frame.

There was still nothing seperating Ismail and MacLelland up to the ninth frame. MacLelland delivered a seemingly perfect shot in the tenth frame but saw a stubborn pin 10 standing firmly. Had the Canadian spared his final frame and a good pin count in his bonus frame, it would have forced Ismail to also mark his final frame for a victory.

But MacLelland again failed to pickup the spare, handling the match to his opponent when Ismail downed 9 pin, which he subsequently spared and finished off with a strike to seal the win. MacLelland, who won the Singles gold at the 2017 World Championships in Las Vegas, settled for the silver.

Both Anderson and Troup took home a bronze medal each. The semi-finals and final were broadcast LIVE by host broadcaster, I-Cable TV and was fed to 16 TV networks in Europe and Asian.

The broadcast was also carried LIVE over Flo Sports and Olympic Channel. The Doubles Semi-finals and Final will also be broadcast LIVE tomorrow commencing at 6.30 pm local time after the 5-Player Team event concludes with their second block of three games.

1st December, Hong Kong: France held on to the 5-Player Team lead in Squad 2 to finish the first block in second overall at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships with Team USA in second and Team Indonesia third.

Valentin Saulnier, Maximilien Fialon, Thibaut Lanos, Julien Sermand and Gaetan Mouveroux of France got off to an impressive start with 1094 in their opening game to lead Indonesia by 85 pins. Ryan Lalisang, Hengki Susanto, Yeri Ramadona, Billy Muhammad Islam and Hardy Rachmadian downed 1009.

Italy's Marco Reviglio, Pierpaolo De Filippi, Nicola Pongolini, Erik Davolio and Antonio Fiorentino surprised the field with 977 in their opening game to stay in third while Team USA managed only 974 for fourth, just 3 pins behind the Italians.

Indonesia upped the pace with 1105 to take over the running with the French team following their first game with 1019 in the second game to trail the leader by just one pin. Sweden rolled the highest second game of 1115 to move up to third ahead of the Americans in fourth.

1st December, Hong Kong: Germany led from start to finish in the 5-Player Team first block preliminaries of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships and topped the squad ahead of Sweden and Singapore in second and third.

First perfect gamer, Fabian Kloos led his team-mates, Pascal Winternheimer, Oliver Morig, Tobias Bording and Frank Drevenstedt with a superb 1065 in their first game to set the pace of the first block of three games.

Trios Semi-finalists of Mattias Wetterberg, Jesper Svensson, Martin Larsen teamed up with Pontus Andersson and Peter Hellstrom to post a respectable 1012 to trail the German team by 53 pins. China's Du Jianchao, Wang Hongbo, Qi Wankang, Deng Heng and Mi Zhongli followed in third with a promising 1008.

Costa Rica's Marcon Moretti, Erik Roy, Jonaykel Conejo, Juan Rodriguez and Rodolfo Madriz was third with 994. 2017 South-East Asian Games Team gold medallist of Basil Ng, Jonovan Neo, Joel Tan, Darren Ong and Muhd Jaris Goh of Singapore followed in fourth, just one pin adrift.

30th November, Hong Kong: Korean trio of Park Jongwoo, Koo Seonghoi and Kim Kyungmin advanced to the Semi-finals of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships as topseed with Indonesia, Sweden and USA as second, third and fourth seeds.

The second block of the trios preliminaries started off with Squad 2. Overnight leader of Mattias Wetterberg, Jesper Svensson and Martin Larsen had a splendid start with 658 in the fourth game but stumbled to a poor 563 in the fifth.

Finland's Kimmo Lehtonen, Jari Ratia and Niko Oksanen did not start as well as the Swedes with 602 but recovered with 690 in the fifth to trail by 106 pins. Sweden closed out the block with 633 to remain in the lead with 3883.

In Squad 3 that followed, Korea, who topped the squad yesterday and failed to make the top four overall, had a disastrous start with 553 in the opening game of the second block. Their margin over Japan was significantly reduced to 60 pins. Whilst Park struggled with only 183, Koo and Kim posted big games of 279 and 263 for a stunning 725 fifth game.

The leading trio ended with another sizzling 711 in the sixth game for a total of 3960 beating Sweden by 37 pins. In Squad 1, Billy Muhammad Islam, Hardy Rachmadian and Ryan Leonard Lalisang of Indonesia had a moderate start in their second block with 627.

Team USA of EJ Tackett, Kyle Troup and Andrew Anderson continued to trail in second. The Indonesian trio posted an improved fifth game to extend their lead slightly to 66 pins over the Americans. Islam, Rachmadian and Lalisang managed to end with 621 to slip behind Korea by 17 pins with 3918 in second overall.

Team USA made the cut in fourth overall with 3881, just two pins from Sweden in third. Canada's Dan MacLelland, Francois Lavoie and Mitch Hupe poor start in their fourth game of 560 may have costed them a place in the Semi-finals medal round.

Although they bounced back with a stunning 745 in the fifth game, the Canadians were trailing the American trio by 37 pins. They needed a big game of at least 680 to have any chance of toppling either Sweden or USA but ended with 618 to miss the cut by 69 pins.

29th November, Hong Kong: Korea's second trio of Park Jongwoo, Koo Seonghoi and Kim Kyungmin finished fifth overall despite topping the third squad of the Trios preliminaries at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

The Korean trio got off the block with brilliantly with 679 in their opening game to lead the second Danish trio of Jesper Agerbo, Carsten Warming Hansen and Thomas Larsen by 52 pins. The second Chinese trio was third and Costa Rica fourth.

Park, Koo and Kim followed it with a strong 658 in their second game to extend their lead to 111 pins. Scotland's second trio of Kenny Jamieson, Mark McQueen and Steven Gill moved up to second as Denmark, China and Costa Rica managed only 571, 524 and 574 respectively.

Korea needed a minimum of 647 or better to clinch fourth overall but managed only 634 in their third game to end in fifth overall with 1971, missing by 13 pins to fourth-placed Team USA. The second Japanese trio and Scotland tied second spot with 1839.

29th November, Hong Kong: Swedish trio of Jesper Svensson, Martin Larsen and Mattias Wetterberg took over the lead of the Trios qualifying event of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships after topping the second squad.

The Swedes set a cracking pace with a sizzling opening game of 702 to take a commanding lead over the second Dutch trio of Johnny Spil, Jord van Weeren and 2017 World Championships Singles gold medallist, Xander van Mazijk by 65 pins.

Svensson, Larsen and Wetterberg added another strong 647 in the second game but had their lead reduced by Manuel Otalora, Oscar Rodriguez and Andres Gomez, when the second Colombian trio shot 689 after their first game of 636.

Netherlands also posted a strong game of 696 but slipped down to third, just one pin behind Colombia. Sweden ended with another superb game of 680 to top the squad with 2029 and overtook Squad 1 leader, Indonesia by 28 pins to become the new leader from two squads. Billy Muhammad Islam, Hardy Rachmadian and Ryan Lalisang settled for second overall with 2001.

29th November, Hong Kong: 2017 SEA Games Team silver medallists and Indonesia's first trio of Ryan Lalisang, Billy Muhammad Islam and Hardy Rachmadian led from start to finish to lead the first squad of the Trios at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

The Indonesian trio got off to a splendid start with 676 in their opening game to lead the strong first Canadian trio of Dan MacLelland, Francois Lavoie and Mitch Hupe by 23 pins. Denmark's Mike Stampe Dan Ostergaard-Poulsen and Jimmy Dan Mortensen was third, just one pin adrift.

Doubles Semi-finals topseed of EJ Tackett and Andrew Anderson teamed up with Kyle Troup also started off well with 639 for fourth with France and Singapore keeping pace. Indonesia added another fine 673 in the second game to extend their lead to 48 pins.

Canada shot 648 to remain in second. Sweden's first trio of Markus Jansson, Pontus Andersson and Peter Helstrom rooled a superb 676 to take up third spot with the Danes slipping behind the Team USA.

28th November, Hong Kong: World Championships and Asian Games multiple gold medallist, Park Jongwoo and Kim Kyungmin of Korea clinched the fourth Doubles Semi-finals spot after topping the final squad of the preliminaries of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

2017 PBA Cheetah Championship winner and 2016 PBA-WBT Thailand champion, Jesper Svensson and Martin Larsen of Sweden got off the block with a sizzling 484 in their opening game to lead 2018 World Youth Singles bronze medallist, Abdulrahman Alkheliwi and Hassan Alshaikh of Saudi Arabia by 24 pins.

Finland's third pair of Joonas Jahi and Sami Konsteri and Germany's third pair of Pascal Winternheimer and Tobias Boarding shared third spot with identical 455 while Indonesia's third pair of Billy Muhammad Islam and Ryan Lalisang was fifth with 444.

Canada's third pair of Zach Wilkins and Mitch Hupe, who had a moderate start with 419 in their opening game, posted the high score of 523 in the second game to move into the front of the pack.

But the Swedes bounced back with a srong 445 to take over the lead. Finland also added a superb 456 to move back up to second. Korea also put in a decent 446 to take up third spot with Canada dropping down to fourth.

The inconsistent Swede managed only 385 in the fifth game to allow Finland to move ahead of them with a better 452. Korea kept their strong momentum with 448 to force Sweden into fourth as Singapore took up fourth.

Finland needed 433 or more to topple Squad 2 leader, Malaysia, who was third overall and 386 or more to beat Squad 1 leader and the first American pair. Korea required 442 or more to beat Malaysia and 395 to overhaul the Americans.

Park and Kim kept their composure to end with 425 and although they did not overtake the Malaysian, the Koreans clinched fourth spot with 2579 and topping the final squad.

28th November, Hong Kong: EJ Tackett of Bluffton, Ind. and Singles Semi-finals topseed, Andrew Anderson of Holly, Mich., regained the lead for Team USA after the duo won the third squad of the Singles preliminaries at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

Singles Semi-finals fourth-seed, Dan MacLelland of Canada almost rolled the third perfect game of the championship but ended with 299 in his opening game as his partner and 2018 World Championships Masters gold medallist, Francois Lavoie shot 200 to take the early lead with 499.

Tackett and Anderson did well to take up second, 41 pins behind the Americans. Markus Jansson and Pontus Andersson of Sweden was third with 454 while a further seven pins was Finland's Kimmo Lehtonen and Jari Ratia in fifth.

The Canadian pair added 448 in the second game to remain in the lead as USA responded with 449 to stay close in second.

Canada managed only 408 and slipped behind the Americans by 83 pins. Korea moved up to third as Sweden and Finland shared fourth spot. The new leader added two consistent fourth and fifth game of 443 and 449 to extend their lead to 90 pins and poised to overhaul overnight leader, Malaysia.

The pair needed ony 219 or more which they went on to end the squad with 426 to become the new leader with 2756.

Canada recovered with 411 and 427 and needed 309 or more to surpass Malaysia. MacLelland and Lavoie ended with an identical score of 426 to finish second to USA and claimed second overall with 2666. Adrian Ang and Tun Ameerul Hakim settled for third overall with 2596.

Squad 1 leader, Jakob Butturff and Singles Semi-finalists, Kyle Troup hung on to fourth spot with 2549. Finland, who was third in this squad, missed the top four by 20 pins with 2529. Squad 2 second-placed, Colombia dropped out into sixth position with 2512.

27th November, Hong Kong: 2016 World Youth Doubles silver medallist, Tun Ameerul Hakim and 2017 SEA Games two silver medallist, Adrian Ang topped the second squad of the Doubles preliminaries at the 2018 CGSE • World Men Championships en-route to become the new leader.

2018 Palembang Asian Games Team gold medallist and Korea's first pair of Koo Seonghoi and Kang Heewon set a cracking pace with 479 in the opening game of the second Doubles squad to lead Denmark's second pair of Mike Stampe and Jasper Agerbo by 18 pins.

But their lead was immediately handed over to Hakim and Ang when the Koreans managed only 391 in their second game. The Malaysian pair started moderately with 445 but posted a superb 483 in the second game.

The Dane added 415 to move into second spot as Korea slipped six pins behind the Danish pair. Malaysia continued to set a blistering pace with another strong game of 448 to stretch their lead over Denmark to 97 pins.

Although the leader dropped their pace slightly with 398 and 382 in the fourth and fifth games, they were able to remain in the lead. Germany continued to make good progress and retained second position, 64 pins adrift.

Malaysia only needed 393 or more to topple Squad 1 leader, USA and the pair delighted their coach with 440 in the sixth and final game to win the squad and become the new leader after two squads with 2596.

Jaime Gonzalez and Santiango Mejia of Colombia stormed home with 455 and 459 in their last two games to snatch second position of the squad with 2512 and finished third overall from both squads. Jakob Butturff and Kyle Troup of Team USA settled for second overall on 2549.

Germany finished third to the Malaysia with 2504 to claim fourth overall. Singappore's Joel Tan and Jonovan Neo, who was second in the first squad, missed out of the top four ending up in fifth with 2491 while Korea rounded out the top five with 2489.

27th November, Hong Kong: 2018 Palembang Asian Games Team silver medallists, Tony Wong and Ivan Tse of Hong Kong finished in fourth position of the opening Doubles squad on the third day of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

Maksim Krupenin and Pavel Sobolev of Belarus surprised the field when they started off with 439 to lead Youris Fens and 2017 World Championships Singles gold medallist, Xander van Mazjik of Netherlands in second by six pins.

Surasak Manuwong and Sithiphol Kunaksorn of Thailand started off well with 432 to take up third spot followed by the American pair and the Russian pair in fourth and fifth positions.

Butturff, who owns four PBA titles, and finished first runner-up in both the 2018 and 2017 U.S. Open, and the two-handed Troup added a superb 465 to take over the running.

Singapore's first pair of Joel Tan and Jonovan Neo took up third spot, a further 37 pins away with Thailand and Belarus slipping away. Butturff and Troup set a consistent pace with 433, 437 and 438 in their next three games, stretching their lead over their nearest rival up to 188 pins.

Malaysia reduced their gap to four pins after the third game but allowed the Americans to pull away as they were lack luster in their fourth and fifth games. Singapore also did not make headway while Hong Kong's Tony Wong and Ivan Tse made up good grounds.

Despite ending with a lowly 362 in the sixth game, USA topped the squad with 2549 with Butturff scoring 1203 and Troup contributing 1346. Tan and Neo stormed home with 494 in their final game to snatch second position with 2491.

Malaysia, after a disastrous 314 in the fifth game, recovered with 460 in the sixth game to clinch third position with 2459.

26th November, Hong Kong: American pros, Andrew Anderson and Kyle Troup remained unbeaten to advance to the Singles Semi-finals of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships as Yannaphon Larpapharat of Thailand missed the cut despite topping Squad 4.

Valentin Saulnier of France set a cracking pace of 254 in his opening game to lead 2016 PBA-WBT Thailand champion, Jesper Svenson of Sweden by 19 pins with 2018 Palembang Asian Games Team Gold and Masters Silver medallist, Park Jongwoo of Korea in third with 234.

Scotland's Steven Gill added a superb 246 to his first game of 214 to take over the running while Svenson downed 224 to stay in second, just one prin adrift. Aleksei Parshukov of Russia had 212 and 245 in his first two games to move up to third.

Park slipped off with a poor 187 but bounced back with a stunning 266 to become the third leader. 2017 World Championships Team bronze medallist, Manuel Otalora of Colombia fired back-to-back 237 and 233 to move into second.

Gill recovered with two superb games of 223 and 245 to take up second spot while Otalora added 235 for third spot and Park still in contention in fourth. Lalisang needed 223 or more to overhaul third-seed Muhd Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia and 211 or more to overhaul fourth-seed, Dan MacLelland of Canada but ended with 202 for a total of 1340.

The Scot needed 235 or more to beat the Malaysian and 223 or more to beat the Canadian, but managed only 214 to tie with Lalisang on 1340. Larpapharat stormed home with a big game of 268 but missed the Semi-finals cut, 9 pins behind MacLelland despite topping the final squad.

American Squad 1 leader and perfect gamer, Andrew Anderson of Holly, Michigan remained unbeaten to advance to the Semi-finals as topseed with 1473. His Team USA team-mate and Squad 2 leader, Kyle Troup also remained unbeaten with 1368 to give USA a one-two finish.

26th November, Hong Kong: 2017 World Championships Trios Gold medallist, Micahel Mak of Hong Kong missed out of a chance to qualify for the Singles Semi-finals of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships after finishing in fifth overall.

Adam Hayes got of the block with a splendid 247 in his opening game of the third squad to lead Carsten Warming Hansen of Denmark by one pin. Yorick van Deutekom of the Netherlands and Lee Tak Man of Macau also had a good start posting 231 and 229 respectively for third and fourth.

Hansen added 216 in the second game to take over the running as 2013 QubicaAMF World Cup champion, Or Aviram of Isarel rolled a sizzling 266 to move into second spot, just two pins behind the Dane.

MacLelland, who had a moderate start, added a stronger game of 232 to move up to third as Hayes suffered a lowly 165 ending a short-lived lead.

2017 World Championships Trios Gold medallist, Michael Mak gave host nation, Hong Kong a glimpse of hope to make the top four when he knocked down a stunning 262 to become the fifth new leader. MacLelland was content to sit in second and Aviram in third.

With the first two leading Americans, Andrew Anderson and Kyle Troup from the first two squads leading comfortably with 1473 and 1368, it was down to Mak and Maclelland going after third-placed Muhd Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia and Niko Oksanen of Finland to beat with a strong sixth and final game.

MacLelland could have beaten the Malaysian had he marked his final frame but encountered a 4-6-10 split to end with 243 and failing to beat Ismail to end up in fourth overall despite topping the squad with 1349.

Mak could only end with 212 to finish second to MacLelland and missing out in fifth overall with 1327. Aviram, who was third to the Canadian, finished sixth overall with 1324 while Oksanen was pushed off the top four into seventh position.

25th November, Hong Kong: 2018 Lucky Larsen Masters champion and two-handed PBA pro, Kyle Troup of Taylorsville, N.C., topped the second squad of the Singles preliminaries at the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

2017 Philippine Open champion, Kenneth Chua opened account with a superb 253 to take an early lead, seven pins ahead of 2017 World Championships two bronze medallist, Niko Oksanen of Finland in second with 246.

Mitch Hupe of Canada rolled back-to-back 233 to take over the running after the second game as Costa Rica's Marco Moretti added 247 to his 199 opening game to move up into second. Troup was third after Chua stumbled on a 181 to slip down to fourth.

The Canadian followed up with a splendid 258 in the third game to remain in the lead as Troup moved up to second with another superb 245, 41 pins adrift. Moretti was third with Jord van Weeren of the Netherlands in fourth.

Hupe slipped three pins behind the American as the Finn remained in third. Indonesia's Hardy Rachmadian rolled 248 and 227 in his fourth and fifth games to haul himself up the field. The 27-year-old Team USA rookie and owner of 3 PBA titles, ended strongly with 243 to top the squad with 1368.

Oksanen snatched second spot with 1310 while Hupe settled for third with 1296. Rachmadian also finished strongly with 236 to round out the top four with 1293. Troup's effort put him second overall from two squads contested to give Team USA a one-two.

Squad 1 leader and Team USA's Andrew Anderson of Holly, Michigan remained the leader with his 1473. 2018 Palembang Asian Games Masters champion and PBA Rookie of the Year nominee, Muhd Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia slipped to third, seven pins behind Troup.

Oksanen made up the top four and 51 pins further away. Edward Rey of Colombia, who was third in the first squad dropped down to fifth.

25th November, Hong Kong: 2018 USBC Masters champion, Andrew Anderson of Holly, Michigan, rolled the first perfect game of the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships to lead the opening squad of the Singles qualifying round.

2017 South-East Asian Games Team gold medallist, Basil Ng of Singapore got off to a great start with 255 to lead debutant, Ray San Nicolas of Guam by 12 pins with Joel Tan of Singapore, a further 18 pins away in third.

Ng's lead did not last as recently-awarded PBA Player of the Year, Anderson posting a stunning 279 following his average start of 200 in the first game to take over the running. Nicolas continued to trail in second. Edward Rey of Colombia and Ng taking up third and fourth.

The 23-year-old added another sizzling 278 in the third game before rolling the championships' forst 300 in the fourth game to open up a huge gap of 156 pins.

Rey also ended well to take up third position qith 1308 while Ricardo Tateishi of Peru stormed home with a superb 266 to snatch fourth position with 1298. Nicolas made up the top five with 1287. Hong Kong's Eric Tseng and Lau Kwun Ho only managed to finish 23rd and 49th with 1158 and 1066 respectively.

The second squad will take to the lanes after maintenance for their qualifying round. The two remaining Squad 3 and 4 will be staged tomorrow morning and afternoon.

The top four finishers from the combined four squads will advance to the Semi-finals and Final scheduled to take place on December 1.

Competition will shift to the Doubles preliminaries divided into four squads and contested over two days, November 27 and 28. The top four pairs from the combined four squads will advance to the Semi-finals and Finals scheduled to take place on December 2.

24th November, Hong Kong: A glamorous and colourful opening ceremony with the traditional dotting the the lion's eyes held at SCAA Bowling Centre, marked the start of the week-long 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships.

The ceremony was graced by His Excellency Sheikh Talal Mohammad Al-Sabah, President of World Bowling and Asian Bowling Federation, His Honorable Mr. Matthew Cheung Kin-Chung, GBM, GBS, JP, Chief Secretary for Administrative Office, HKSAR, Mr. Timothy T.T. Fok, GBS, JP, Honorary IOC Member and President of Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China.

Also present at the opening were Mr. Karl Kwok, MH., Vice-President of Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China and Chairman of Major Sports Events Committee, Dr. Haywood Cheung, Chairman of Title Sponsor, Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange and Ms Vivien Lau, BBS, JP, Chairman of HKTBC and Secretary General of World Bowling.

Speeches started off with the Organizing Chairman, Ms Vivien Lau extending a warm welcome to all the participating teams to Hong Kong's World City. She also expressed her heartfelt gratitude to HE Sheikh Talal for being awarded the hosting right of the prestigious World Men Championships.

She added that a championship of this magnitude is like making an exotic dish and that it needs many ingredients to make it happen such as government support and funding, endorsement and encouragement from Hong Kong National Olympic Committee, sponsorship from the commercial sector of the community, a good venue and efficient tournament official and staff.

His Excellency, Sheikh Talal Mohammad Al-Sabah then addressed the opening by thanking HKTBC for bidding for the right to host the championships. He also expressed his gratitude and appreciation to the government of Hong Kong, sponsors, partners and the participating countries.

23rd November, Hong Kong: A total of 265 world-class men bowlers and 106 team officials from fourty-seven countries have converged in the city of Hong Kong, China for the 2018 CGSE • Million Tinkle World Men Championships hosted at the SCAA Bowling Centre.

The World Men Championships, the most prestigious event of the 2018 bowling calendar, returned to Hong Kong, China, which previously hosted the 2011 World Women Championships. Six World Bowling member federations from the American Zone (PABCON), 21 federations from the Asian Zone (ABF), one federation from the newly-formed African Zone and 19 federations from the European Zone (ETBF) made up the fourty-seven countries.

Team officials attended the managers' meeting at Olympic House, chaired by Mr Michael Seymour, Tournament Director with Ms Vivien Lau, BBS, JP, Chairman of the organizing committee and Secretary General of World Bowling, Mr Kevin Dornberger, CEO of World Bowling, Mr Marios Nicolaides, Technical Delegate and Mr Frankie Cheung, Host Tournament Coordinator.

Ms Lau, in her welcoming speech, thanked all the federations for their support of the championships by sending their players to Hong Kong. She also highlighted some important aspects of the opening ceremony, to be held on November 24 after the official practice which will be graced by His Honorable, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-Chung, GBM, GBS, JP, Cheif Secretary for Administrative's Office, HKSAR, HRH Sheikh Talal M. Al-Sabah and Mr Timothy T.T. Fok, GBS, JP, Honorary IOC Member and President of Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China.

Mr Nicolaides stressed the importance of having players register their bowling ball before the start of official practice and at the same time announced that the oiling pattern used for the championships to be World Bowling Los Angeles, 38 feet provided by Kegel LLC, the official lane maintenance partner.

Ms Megan Tidbury, Public Relations and Marketing Director for World Bowling announced that the World Bowling's appointed sports consultancy agency Reddentes Sports will be live streaming daily highlights of the championship including the finals of the Singles, Doubles, Trios, Team and Masters finals.