Wow, sounds like a great format <sarcastic tone>. First, let's only bowl 5 games at 2pm on Saturday, then make 1/2 of the field come back on Sunday (mind you 1:4 cash) to bowl 5 more games. So, you are telling me you are going to make people stick around and get a hotel Saturday night, and half of those people will not cash in the tournament? Or the other option for those who live within an hour is to drive back home, then leave early Sunday morning to drive back for the "Semifinals". Also, I love how the flyer says, "No extra charge to bowl in the Semifinals!". Actually, the cost of a hotel or gas money there and back twice is the "extra charge", and why would there be an extra charge anyways? Yes, we appreciate you running tournaments, but please make the formats make a little more sense in the future. If you are going to make people stick around, be it for match play following qualifying or not bowling until the following day, at least pay the bowlers who advance past qualifying! If they dont advance, let them go home!
I would like to see two things for this tournament's future. It has been running 41 years so it must be fairly successful, but could be much bigger if these two things were implemented. 1) Make the qualifying portion of the tournament longer, as bowlers don't want to drive hours to have one bad game and they are done. Plus, there is the option for much more side action. 2) Only make 1/4 of the field come back for Sunday's semifinal round, and you get to pay them all for sticking around. With these two additions, I bet you could get many more people willing to travel more than an hour to bowl this tournament.
Good luck.
