Are Handicap/Scratch Pots and Brackets illegal?  Rule 15 of the ABC/WIBC rule book doesn't clarify or elaborate on whether any of the above are considered a form of "Gambling".

Would a fellow league bowler who feels they were wronged while participating in such an act (i.e. Side Pots) have a legal right to complain to the local association?
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Pat Patterson

50/50 isn't considered "gambling"...it is a drawing in which folks voluntarily make a "donation" to help support a group/cause...with the benefit of someone winning half the money collected.
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That which doesn't kill you will only make you stronger, that which doesn't make you stronger is a waste of time!

The last 2-3 times I've bowled the ABC's in the National Bowling Stadium, you can get in the brackets there but had to go collect your money at the old Reno Hilton(which is now the Golden Phoenix).  I thought this was their way of saying that gambling wasn't allowed.  However, in Tennessee, you got your money right there.  I don't know what their stand is anymore....I guess pots and brackets no longer affect the "integrity" of the game.