No more medals for Singapore
The Singapore quartet followed it up with two more decent 875 and 863 in their final two games, their total of 5091 moved them up from 11th to a respectable seventh but not good enough for the strong field assembled here.
In the end, SIngapore finished 104 pins off fourth-placed UAE, who stormed home to clinch the last semifinal knockout spot. Korea posted a record-breaking 983 and followed it up with 930 and 836 to advance as topseed with 5405.
Malaysia made up one spot from third to second with 4814, 371 pins off the Koreans while Japan dropped one rung to third with 4783. The last semifinal spot went to Hong Kong, who remained fourth with 4743.
Chinese Taipei and Indonesia, who had a chance to take fourth spot, failed to improved in their final game to finish fifth and sixth positions respectively.
Detailed scores: Men's Team 2ndBlk | Women's Team 2ndBlk.