With sport bowling on the rise in the state of Michigan, would any of you Michiganders or midwestern bowlers (or anybody else for that matter) participate in a Sport Bowling National Championship event?  No I'm not talking about singles/doubles/team format, because ABC Nationals and WIBC Nationals are pretty close to sport shot and may indeed be a sport shot.

One idea would be to hold local qualifiers around the country.  Up here in Michigan, we could probably hold 2-3 qualifiers or even just one big qualifier for the whole state.  If we held 3, we could hold one in Kalamzoo or Grand Rapids, one in northern Metro Detroit or Waterford, and one way up north for the northern bowlers, possibly in Cheboygan, Gaylord, or Traverse City.  I suppose a 4th one could be added for U.P. bowlers maybe in the center of the U.P.

The national championship event would include qualifying games for seeding purposes and possibly to cut to a round number like 64 or something.  Then best 2 out of 3 matches or even single game elimination matches could take place.

Is $70 a good price for this tournament?  If we could find sponsors to cover the lineage at the championship event, then maybe we could charge even less, like $50-$60.

What do you guys and gals think?  I don't want to know if you think others would bowl in it, I want to know if YOU would bowl in it.
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Brian
MichiganBowling.com
http://www.MichiganBowling.com

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Edited on 7/1/2004 11:56 AM