I like the term bracket sharks.  I feel like they would definitely be lurking in every single squad. 

I feel like people could move the location and make a living off them if they wanted. 

How about limit to 2 or 3 entries?  Still sounds fair to me.

The CA USBC Open went to this model this year.

I would not want "unlimited", but at least let us bowl each event twice.

Bad idea as a few top bowlers would dominate the tournament and brackets making cashing more difficult for the ordinary league bowler

The only ones it would really benefit are the locals...few people are going to be in a position to take the additional time off from work much less want to spend money to make multiple trips to whatever city/town is hosting in a given year.

This would definitely be one of the negatives against a re-entry proposal. That, and "bracket sharks" have been mentioned, and such local and area "sharks" would be able to pick and choose which squads are there for easy bracket "pickings."

Quote from: michelle on May 16, 2014, 12:19:39 PM

The only ones it would really benefit are the locals...few people are going to be in a position to take the additional time off from work much less want to spend money to make multiple trips to whatever city/town is hosting in a given year.

This would definitely be one of the negatives against a re-entry proposal. That, and "bracket sharks" have been mentioned, and such local and area "sharks" would be able to pick and choose which squads are there for easy bracket "pickings."

I don't see how they would be able to do that. Most of us have a hard enough time staying away from the 7 AM and 10:30 PM Minors as it is.

I think this idea has some merit. It might help increase entries. I would definately say let's take the "unlimited" entries off the table now. I know some State tournaments allow you bowl additional Team events, but don't know of any that allow additional D/S entries.
 
There are multiple ways to look at cashing....you can allow people to cash multiple times in team and doubles if you force them to change a minimum number of team members, and bowl with a different partner the 2nd time around or make them stay the same and only cash once. If you say you can only cash once....do you take their highest score, their first score, last score, etc. And what about All Events....do you take their 3 highest series, the first 3, last 3. And what about the year long side pots and Super brackets. How do handle paying for and paying out for these items? Such as 30 Clean, High Game sidepots, etc. As long as you spell the rules out specifically around this, it might work. You will always have people complaining no how you structure it though.
 
Taking all that, and probably other things I haven't thought of, this would be my proposal:
 
You can bowl a maximum of 2 team events. The 2nd team event must have at least 3 players different from your first team entry. You may cash multiple times in team event.
You can bowl a maximum of 2 Doubles events. THe 2nd doubles event must be with a different partner than the first. You may cash multiple times in doubles
You can bowl a maximum of 2 Singles events. You may only cash once in Singles. Your highest score will be your singles event score.
All Events consists of the first series you bowl in each event. For example if on Day 1 you bowl 2 team events, Day 2 you bowl 1 D/S event,and Day 3 you bowl 2nd D/S event. Your AE score will be your first team event on Day 1 and your D/S scores from Day 2. You may only cash once in All Events.
Sidepots will now be per event. So instead of paying $10 for all 3 events for the 30 clean, or 3-6-9 Strike Jackpot....it will $3 per event (thinking maybe make it $5 so more even, not sure on that). Super Side pots are already per event, so they can stay at $25. 
Super Brackets are a tough one. You can't allow people to enter twice or potentially they could wind up bowling against themselves somewhere down the line. I have two options on this one and I am torn. You can handle like AE, using your first series in each event and keep the cost at $25. Or you can use this as a way to generate interest in multiple entries....raise the price to $30 or $35 and let people use their highest series in each event.

Placement would be the last event you bowl.  Last 3 sets equal all events.  That way people don't have a decent first round and then basically get a couple more "free shots" at doing better.  Gotta have the risk in there of possibly doing worse.  I like the idea of the opportunity to bowl more than once, but I don't like the idea of "do-overs."  I think you still need the pressure to do well every set rather than, "Oh well, if I suck this time, I still have a couple more shots at it."  And I don't like it being the first set that counts for all events, because then the rest of the time you have nothing to shoot for after that. 

Just like everything else, Super Brackets are good for the only qualifying set you bowl, 3-6-9, 30 clean, etc.  Those you would enter once.  Brackets would be the only thing you could collect for every time you bowl.