Next Season i am planning on coaxing my house into having a tournament for the YABA bowlers... BUT seeing how my league is run by only 2 people basically and i dont see them doing much to try to get a tournament set up I figured i would get the idea down on paper and present it to them.

The only problem is the line up... I figured on having about 24 people (ABOUT) bowl a handicap tournament... The problems come in with the line up, i would like it to be a 1 day tournament and for 20ish people to bowl on only 6 lanes that can be diffiicult... PLEASE help me in anyway possible (this is only line up, i will have to take care of prices later).

I am thinking 3 games of qualifying, with 4 bowlers on each lane, so 8 on a pair. Then taking the top 16 bowlers from qualifying and having them go through more qualifying, 2 games again, top 6 from that. Then matchplay will bring the top 6 against echother, they will bowl 2 on each pair, the winner will have to win 2 games against his/her opponent. The 3 remaining will bowl a 1 game qualifying match, with the high 2 games moving on. Then a 1 game match to decide the winner.

SOOOO, besides it being short, what do you think? And if there are any improvements you can think about PLEASE tell me...

Thanks

Mike
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Edited on 5/14/2005 4:37 PM

I bowl in the ABT in the chicagoland area, & they do a 4 game set to qualify, then those that qualify. bowl a 3 game set to qualify for the semi-finals, then they do a step ladder format for the top 5, 5 bowls 4 then the winner bowls 3, and so on.  The whole tournament is based on handicap.  You could do something similar by taking the top half to requalify, then take the top 5 for the semi-finals.
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