current exempt

Your $30 entry fee is a "pipe dream" at best. $80 entry fee isn''''t high at all for a once a month tournament. Your example of not cashing would put you down $240 over a three month stretch. In the DC/MD/VA area, there are a ton of bowlers who bowl 2-4 nights a week at $20/per league, paying another $20 for pots and another $40 for brackets. So by my math, that''''s $80 per league night, $240 per week (3 league nights for this example) and $960 a month.

These are the same bowlers who say "$80 is too expensive to put up for a tournament".

How expensive does that $80 entry fee look now?

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Tony Walton
VMSBT Tournament Director
http://www.vmsbt.com

Edited on 1/22/2010 5:52 AM

Edited on 1/22/2010 5:58 AM

Trump we see a 100 bowlers at 3 events in the area right now.
Dec - The Big One
Some bowled three squads at $100 a pop and it took 944 for four to qualify.

Jun - Opposites Attract
You see a 100+ bowlers because each takes two people to enter. Last year we had 69 men and 69 women.

Aug - VMSBT BBWSC
Tony asked people for money and they gave it to him, in turn $3K was GUARANTEED up top. That bought folks from as far as Massachusetts and North Carolina. Plus, people re-entered with it only taking +46 for 8 games to make the top 16.

The common theme at these events is there is more money to bowl for thanks to the increased participation. Bennett drew around 60-70 to Perry Hall on Thanksgiving Eve and honestly there would 100 people there if there was not so much competition that night.
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I know when I was out west for a little bit the cheapest tournament I could find was $100. So hats off to Jeff and Tony! Its kinda funny how cheap people are out here in the east. Now if I could only figure out my timing issue and stop being laid off Id join ya guys!