swingset
05-14-2013, 09:24 PM
I wanted to bowl a summer league, but couldn't get a team together for a co-ed league, and the scratch leagues are on days I can't bowl. I signed up for a Sunday night league, that was supposed to be a league with 4-people to a team. Figured I'd fill a spot and bowl with who knows who...beats not bowling all summer.
So I show up to the first night and it turns out very few people who signed up showed...so we were left with 16 people total in the league. We pondered what to do for a few minutes, and the house said we had 8 dressed lanes allocated so we could do whatever we wanted. So, we decided to bowl singles - each person being their own team, 3-game format. Just a fun league, there are some new bowlers so it's a 90%/220 handicap and all that....but since we won't build a decent prize fund we decided to do something kind of interesting. We pay just the lineage of $9 a week each, and then all put an additional $4 into two 8-person brackets that get drawn randomly each week. The winners of the brackets (taking scratch scores) have a one-game rolloff, winner takes $32, 2nd place takes $10. The person with the highest series handicap wins the rest ($22)....so even the new bowlers have a shot to take some cash home each week and it makes the regular league one friendly competition and the brackets another one. No prizes at the end, but lots more fun week to week.
What looked like it might be a sad little league now has me looking forward to it each week. If anyone runs into this in forming a league, it's a fun alternative to 4 teams playing each other over and over again.
So I show up to the first night and it turns out very few people who signed up showed...so we were left with 16 people total in the league. We pondered what to do for a few minutes, and the house said we had 8 dressed lanes allocated so we could do whatever we wanted. So, we decided to bowl singles - each person being their own team, 3-game format. Just a fun league, there are some new bowlers so it's a 90%/220 handicap and all that....but since we won't build a decent prize fund we decided to do something kind of interesting. We pay just the lineage of $9 a week each, and then all put an additional $4 into two 8-person brackets that get drawn randomly each week. The winners of the brackets (taking scratch scores) have a one-game rolloff, winner takes $32, 2nd place takes $10. The person with the highest series handicap wins the rest ($22)....so even the new bowlers have a shot to take some cash home each week and it makes the regular league one friendly competition and the brackets another one. No prizes at the end, but lots more fun week to week.
What looked like it might be a sad little league now has me looking forward to it each week. If anyone runs into this in forming a league, it's a fun alternative to 4 teams playing each other over and over again.