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Pinbuster

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Honor score tournament
« on: June 03, 2011, 03:37:19 AM »

A local group owns 3 houses in our city.


This year rather than pay any money for honor scores they put $10k into a prize fund.


If you shot a 298, 299, 300 or 800 during the season in one of the houses during league play you were allowed to enter a tournament for the $10k prize fund.


Entry fee was $30 and during the month of May you needed to shoot a 3 game series at each of the 3 houses in town for a 9 game total series. First place was guaranteed $1500.


The only real issue I have heard with the tournament is that they allowed anyone to enter, including house employees.


They would only guarantee fresh lanes at 12:00 noon on Saturday. Any other time it was pot luck and some houses are known for not running the lanes for several days at a time.


So the question is should employees be allowed to enter the tournament?


 



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Bill Thomas

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Re: Honor score tournament
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2011, 12:30:50 PM »
As a former bowling center employee and a tournament director, IMO employees should never be allowed to bowl in the center where they work.  It just invites people to say "fix" if the center employees do well or win.


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ksucat

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Re: Honor score tournament
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2011, 10:37:43 AM »
I liked the concept when I first heard about it, but execution can kill a good idea.  Gives a chance for someone to reap a big reward.  I also liked the idea of bringing top local bowlers to compete against each other.

 

Employees shouldn't be allowed because of perception.  It doesn't matter if employees have an advantage or not, it's what the public thinks. 

 

I also favor having a couple different weekends open just for this tournament so all are competing on the same set shot.  I'm just guessing, but there's likely going to be around 250-300 people eligible.  That many should be able to get done over a few squads.  I'm also too skeptical of people's honesty.  Sounds like there's too much left up to the bowler's honor to record his own scores.  I'd rather have a squad with other competitors around to police each other.


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Pinbuster

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Re: Honor score tournament
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2011, 02:31:16 PM »
I don't know how many were eligible for the tournament. Like you I would have thought a couple hundred would be. But having multiples at one house only got you 1 entry.

 

54 completed all 9 games and I believe there were another 10 to 15 who bowled one or two sets and didn't complete the 3 house cycle.

 

A house employee (former touring pro and major winner) won the event. Several others that I know work for the chain were in the top 10.

 

After the first 5 they pretty much spread the money out evenly. I ended up 17th and got the same money as 32nd.


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