Might work, haven’t got the time right now to try and figure out just how it would work.

If you want to try something a little different, try this.

1.   You automatically advance if you beat your opponent.
2.   You also advance if you have a losing score over 200.
3.   Bye’s go to the highest winning score of the previous round.

This helps increase entries since everyone is sure they can shoot a measly 200.  It also helps in that you aren’t eliminated if the draw turns out bad for you in the first few rounds.

We eliminate rule 2 once we get into the cash positions.

You would be surprised how hard it is to shoot 200 when your opponent already has the match locked up.
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~~~SrK - Have balls, will travel

1st law of combat, "Bullets always have the right of way"

Good point...however what made me wonder a bit, I am also into softball, and it is very common for teams to commit entire weekends Fri-Sunday night for a double maybe even triple elimination tournament.  Maybe bowlers are simply a different mind set.  Around here, I see 20-30 softball tournies a year, without prize money where you get 60 teams of 15 guys each to play in an all-weekend tourny, with teams from several different states.  If only there was a way to capture that dedication and comptetitiveness to our game.