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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: Elimeno Pee on January 09, 2014, 12:17:03 PM
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I'm looking at setting up a mini-tournament series in my local 1.5 hour radius area. I know I've got 2 houses on board, and was told I've got a third and 4th if I ask them. I don't really want to get too busy with them the first year, I'd like to keep it at 3 or 4 events, spread in like October, December, February kind of range. I want them to all be stand alone tournaments, with an all tournaments leader board (for prizes) This area doesn't have a TON of scratch bowlers. I'd like ideas on formats to entice bowlers to travel a couple hours to play, with out scaring away locals.
I"m thinking the one house is only an 8 lane house, so a 4 game sweeper, move every game, would be good, and if enough interest is there, run a second shift/day. I was told lineage here would be around 12 bucks.
The other known usable house is a 20 lane house, and I would kind of like a longer tournament, maybe 6 or 8 games. Lineage would probably be in the 15-20 range for here. I could also just run these as 4 gamers and probably be around 12 a piece all the way around.
I'd like to keep the tournaments under $30-40 per person, and try to gather either local or bowling company sponsorship money to add to it all.
Suggestions would be appreciated
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well there is always plenty of scratch bowlers... you just need a way to coax them out of their shell..
what places are you looking at holding these tournaments at?
as for the formats.. keep it simple, 5 game qualifiers, then cut to top 16, single game eliminator brackets.. and if you are only getting say 40 people.. in reality someone only has to beat 23 other people to make the cut, instead of trying to make the top 5...
as for the lineage,, barter about getting a lower fee.. i mean see about getting a flat rate of 10$ per person.. cuz if you are going per game, and have to include your elimination brackets it cuts into your prize fund.. especially if you get 30 to 40 people..
the other thing you could do is, have a points system.. say everyone gets 10 points just for bowling.. if you make the cut, you get another 5.. if you win that match you get 7 points, then maybe 9, and so on till the finals..
and at the end of the season the top 32 get to bowl in the finals... and do a double elimination bracket... winner side bowls 3 games total pin fall,, loser side is 2 games..