MELODY Yeung Ka-ling yesterday kept alive Hong Kong's hopes of winning a medal at tenpin bowling when she finished in fourth place at the end of the first eight games of the women's Masters competition.
Melody, who collected 1,581, is just two pins behind third-placed Malaysian Lydia Kwah and is perfectly poised to finish in the top three.
The top three bowlers after 15 games will qualify for the Masters final which is conducted on a step-ladder system, where the bowlers in third and second place meet to decide who will take on the bowler in first place.
In this match, if the first-place bowler wins, he or she is declared the Masters champion.
But if the opponent of the first-placed bowler wins, another game is played to decide the Masters champion.
Complicated? It certainly seems so, especially in a competition where the calculator is a vital part of the kit and a credit pass in mathematics is essential.