First of all, I realize a lot of the allure of the tournament is that you only have one shot at it.  It makes everything that happens just that much more impressive instead of saying, "Well, 7th time's the charm."  But with several empty lanes per squad, with bowling dropping off, with the tournament itself getting fewer and fewer entries, I'd like to see them offer re-entries, or maybe at least debate the idea. 

Most of the time bowling is a low-income deal.  Guys go out there and may hit it big on brackets, but it's just a one time deal.  Imagine being able to spend a week out there and make your year's worth of income.  Prize money for the tournament would go through the roof, imagine first place in singles being worth what they pay out for a PBA tournament or more?  That also equals a LOT of extra revenue for the host city's businesses. 

What would be the cons?  Yeah it would suck to go out there and be up against bracket sharks every squad, but you about can't avoid that now anyway.  Yeah I'm sure winning scores would go up and records would be reset pretty often.  But how cool would it be to maybe go in March, bowl a week, watch scores, and then go give it another shot in June?  I'd say whenever you bowl, only the last time you bowl counts for placement. 

The idea just hit me, so I haven't really thought it through much.  Go ahead and dig in. 

I agree with being able to compete in each event twice.  I think you would have to set a maximum number of times as this would prevent the local bowlers from entering every weekend if they so choose.  If you made 2 the maximum then I think it you might get some people to increase their stay by a day or two so they can bowl twice and it wouldn’t require another trip later in the tournament if you were bowling say 5 times.  This might also help out some of the other tournaments such as the BTM, BJ and 40 frame game. 

I would like to have another shot at it while there.  It would make it more worth it to me.  It usually costs me about a grand to go when all is said and done.  Don't have any way to practice on the patterns ahead of time. 

I've never entered brackets, so not really sure how that would enter into it. 

If multiple entries were allowed, how long would it take for a number of bowlers to soar past Joe Norris' all-time ABC/USBC tournament pinfall of 123,770?

Also, there are 15 current members of the tournament's "100,000 pins club" ... but how rapidly would that number increase if entrants had the opportunity to keep re-entering?