BOWLINGS BACK! AND WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE LANES!!!!
UPDATE! UPDATE! Aug 12th, 2010!!
I have sent emails out to some Bowling Specific Web sites, blogs and magazines. It will be interesting to see who will respond to my request for comments and suggestions. More importantly, I hope they will participate in the testing and help spread the word of the existance of this unique new idea. Fingers Crossed.
An Inter House event is a Bowling Tournament with the roster made up of bowlers from Bowling Centers from ALL OVER! There will be two simulated Inter House competitions with a winner take all and a one winner in 40 - tournament ON A DAILY BASIS. The simulated events are now being conducted at 12:45 in the morning. This is to accomodate bowlers in the West Coast late shifts. This is just to simulate how it will be done when we go live. When you go to see the results of an event, the date you need to enter is the previous days date or earlier.
The BIG NEWS is that we have developed a way to run an event with the roster of Bowlers from only the house you are Bowling at. The difference is this will be a FREE EVENT! There will be a limited number of winning teams, say 1 or 2 or more depending on the size of the roster. The prizes will come from the Proprietor of your Center. They could be Free Games or half hour of Instruction or a Bucket of Beer! Whatever the House comes up with would be available each and every day. (This is only if the Proprietor is willing to run the local event) OR the House will allow you to set your own entry fee's and payout cash prizes from the Local Pot. (Pot Bowling, remember?)
When I think the changes are running smoothly I will invite certain houses to test the tournament, no fee will
be accepted and no prize will be awarded until we are satisfied in how it is running. Once we are satisfied we will charge a $6 entry fee per event.
As Houses are added you may bowl in any or all of these events on a daily basis. You must still have a USBC card as we will use the last five
numbers of that ID. We will payout 80% of entries. The house or a designated representative running the daily events will receive 10% of the entry fee. We will share 10% of our proceeds with the Young American Bowling Alliance.
If you want to see the score from your Bowling Centers FREE Local event, click
here:
If you want to see the score from a simulated Inter House event, click
here:
Please NOTE: The Bowling Centers listed in this simulation are NOT CURRENTLY participating in Pot Bowling, though we hope they will consider it soon. We use real Bowling Center names only to demonstrate what the potential is for the Pot Bowling INTER HOUSE events. They have not endorsed the concept. The simulated Bowlers, Pincounts and Averages are randomly generated to create a realistic Pot Bowling INTER HOUSE event environment with thousands of particpants. We will run a Pot Bowling INTER HOUSE simulated event daily at 1:35 AM while we build our House Roster. There will be 2 events: Winner take all and 1 winner in 40.
The Internet has made it
possible for League Bowlers all over the world to come together in
one place, throw a few bucks in the pot and roll in your regular
league for Cash or just for Fun!. By having one central place to
conduct this tournament we are enabling bowlers to compete in Pot
Bowling for prizes that could total in the millions of dollars each
and every day! We’ve created a way to do this so bowlers of ALL
skill levels can compete on a level playing field! We use the
principle of SCORE OVER AVERAGE and WE MAKE THE TEAMS!
This represents a change in thinking from the traditional way of
conducting tournaments, but it enables us to offer bowlers from ALL
OVER THE WORLD a way to compete in a tournament that is FAIR and
VERIFIABLE!
We
have created some initial rules. These are found on the rules page.
There are many variations to tournaments that we can add. Later on we can add Singles events, Events where you submit your
own league, Tournaments treated as if they were a league so the
results could be posted here. Events within time zones, Regions,
Countries. Real tournaments where we bring winners together from
these events to bowl together in resort locations (hint Vegas,
DisneyWorld….) the list is endless. So now what?
If this concept intrigues you, please contact us at webmaster@potbowling.com. Thanks!