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