One of bowling’s biggest challenges is competing on a pair of lanes dressed with one short pattern and one long pattern. The beauty of this format is the ongoing challenge of playing a long pattern inside while being forced outside to play the shorter pattern.
Format: Scratch
Number of games: 3, 4 or 5
Length: 36 weeks, each quarter would be 9 weeks (8 weeks of bowling with one week for roll-off). Each teams winning a quarter would bowl at the end of the last night's roll-off in a special championship round. This could be very exciting with one team earning a berth into the championship with a great performance on the last night.
Lane conditions: One idea is to try 35 feet for the short pattern and 45 feet for the long patter. This is similar to what is used in international championships.
Points: One point per game and three points for total
Submitted by Joe Slowinski, a USBC-certified Silver level coach, USBC-certified Level I Coach Instructor and Director of Coaching and Coach Certification for the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress.
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