PBA Bowling Tour: 2012–13 season
Event Airdate City Preliminary rounds Final round Winner Notes
Australian Masters N/A Sydney , Australia Oct 23-26 , 2012 Oct 27 , 2012 Jason Belmonte ( 5 ) WBT and PBA title event . $ 25,000 first prize
Bayer Advanced Aspirin World Bowling Tour Men 's Final Dec 9 , 2012 E Las Vegas , NV Multiple dates Nov 10 , 2012 Chris Barnes ( 14 ) WBT and PBA title event . $ 20,000 first prize
Bayer Advanced Aspirin World Bowling Tour Women 's Final Dec 9 , 2012 E Las Vegas , NV Multiple dates Nov 10 , 2012 Missy Parkin Not a PBA title event . $ 20,000 first prize
Alka Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Cheetah Championship Dec 16 , 2012 E Las Vegas , NV Nov 3-7 , 2012 Nov 10 , 2012 Bill O'Neill ( 4 ) Open event . $ 20,000 first prize
PBA Viper Championship Dec 23 , 2012 E Las Vegas , NV Nov 3-7 , 2012 Nov 10 , 2012 Brad Angelo ( 2 ) Open event . $ 20,000 first prize
PBA Chameleon Championship Dec 30 , 2012 E Las Vegas , NV Nov 3-7 , 2012 Nov 11 , 2012 Scott Norton ( 2 ) Open event . $ 20,000 first prize
Bowlers Journal Scorpion Championship Jan 6 , 2013 E Las Vegas , NV Nov 3-7 , 2012 Nov 11 , 2012 Tom Daugherty ( 1 ) Open event . $ 20,000 first prize
PBA World Championship 2012 Jan 13 , 2013 E Las Vegas , NV Nov 3-9 , 2012 Nov 11 , 2012 Parker Bohn III ( 33 ) Open event for WSOB entrants . $ 50,000 first prize
Round1 Japan Cup 2012 Jan 20 , 2013 E Japan Nov 29 - Dec 1 , 2012 Dec 2 , 2012 Mika Koivuniemi ( 10 ) Invitational for JPBA and PBA members . $ 71,700 top prize
WBT Qatar Open Doha , Qatar Dec 9-14 , 2012 Dec 15 , 2012 Mika Koivuniemi ( 11 ) Open WBT and PBA title event . $ 39,480 top prize
WBT Brunswick BallMaster Open Helsinki , Finland Jan 4-12 Jan 13 Jesper Svensson , Sweden ( amateur ) Open WBT and PBA title event . € 12,000 top prize
WBT International Bowling Championship Inazawa , Japan Jan 15-18 Jan 19 Tommy Jones ( 14 ) Open WBT and PBA title event . $ 75,000 top prize
PBA League Jan 27 , 2013 E Allen Park , MI Jan 19-25 Live ( Round 1 only ) Team event
Chris Paul PBA League All-Stars Feb 3 , 2013 E Los Angeles , CA n/a Jan 7 Chris Barnes and Chris Hardwick Invitational charity pro-am event
Carmen Salvino Classic PBA League Round 2 Feb 10 , 2013 E Allen Park , MI Jan 19-25 Jan 26 Andres Gomez ( 2 ) Open event . $ 15,000 top prize
Mark Roth Classic PBA League Round 3 Feb 17 , 2013 E Allen Park , MI Jan 19-25 Jan 26 Michael Haugen Jr. ( 3 ) Open event . $ 15,000 top prize
USBC Masters Feb 24 , 2014 E North Brunswick , NJ Feb 18-23 Live Jason Belmonte ( 6 ) Open to PBA and qualifying USBC members . $ 50,000 top prize
Don Carter Classic PBA League Round 4 Mar 3 , 2013 E Allen Park , MI Jan 19-25 Jan 26 Jason Sterner ( 1 ) Open event . $ 15,000 top prize
Earl Anthony PBA Players Championship PBA League Round 5 Mar 24 , 2013 E Allen Park , MI Jan 19-25 Jan 27 Scott Norton ( 3 ) Open event . $ 25,000 top prize
WBT Bahrain Open Bahrain Mar 3-8 Mar 9 Osku Palermaa ( 3 ) Open WBT and PBA title event
Tournament schedule and recaps -- Tournament summary
Below is a schedule of events for the 2012–13 PBA Tour season . Major tournaments are in bold . Career PBA title numbers for winners are shown in parenthesis ( x ) .
This is a recap of the 2012-13 season for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. It was the tour's 54th season, and the fourth straight season in which all of the North American fall events are condensed into the PBA World Series of Bowling (WSOB). The season consisted of 34 individual title events, plus a PBA League team title event. The PBA billed 2012-13 as a super season, running longer than one full year, in preparation for a return to a calendar-year season format for 2014. This is also the first season since 2003-04 in which all events are open to any PBA member, as the Tour has abandoned the exempt tour format that began in the 2004-05 season. While exempt status for touring players has been dropped, the PBA Tour will still have a points system which affects a few events as well as Touring 1 and Touring 2 player statuses.