Trios: two-game block format

PMB PBA EXP Season 2
Pla-Mor Bowl PBA Experience League Rules

May, 2008

1. This league will be a “Sport League,” Sanctioned by USBC under the Sport Bowling Program. All lane patterns shall confirm to the Sport Bowling definitions. All players must pay for the special Sport Bowling sanction card.
2. Bowling shall be held for 13 weeks, commencing Tuesday, May 13, 2008, and finishing Tuesday, August 5th, 2008. Fun night shall be Tuesday, August 12th, 2008, at which time all awards and prize money shall be handed out at Pla-Mor Bowl. 9 minutes of practice shall start promptly at 7:00pm; scoring starts at 7:09pm.
3. Weekly fees are $15.00 per bowler: $9.00 for lineage (4 games); $6.00 for prizes. NO IOUs are allowed; please pay ahead and/or stay current in the envelope. President shall appoint a 5 member committee to determine prize list by the third week of bowling. Prize list shall be presented and approved by week 5.
4. Format for this league: Bowl 2 games as prescribed by USBC schedule; take a break after the first two games (10 minutes maximum); process scores and then bowl 2 more games in a position round. In the event of ties for wins, total team pins with handicap will break ties (except for league championship). In the even of a tie for first place at the end of week 13, a one game roll-off shall be held immediately to determine league champion, determined by total pins with handicap for the one game roll-off.
5. Individual point system in addition to team points shall be used: man v. man are worth 1 point; team game is worth 3 points, for a total of 6 possible points each game. There will be 18 total points available each two game block.
6. Handicap shall be 80% of 200, with no limit.
7. Blind score (for absent bowlers) shall be the absent bowler’s average minus 10. Vacancy score (for incomplete teams) shall be 150, with the vacancy receiving the proper handicap.
8. This league will not allow team subs (exclusive use of a sub); all substitutes are available to all teams in the league. All subs must obtain a Sport Program sanction card.
9. In the event a team can not bowl a regularly scheduled league match, they are allowed to bowl ahead (as a team unit only). Make-up bowling shall not be permitted, except in the most extreme cases and allowed by appeal to the board of directors (Pres., VP, Sec/Tres., and team captains.)
10. Lane patterns schedule:
    5/13: Sport pattern
    5/20: Viper
    5/27: Shark
    6/3: Scorpion
    6/10: Chameleon
    6/17: Cheetah
    This pattern will repeat for the second half of the league (6/24; 7/1; 7/8; 7/15; 7/22; 7/29). The final week shall be the US Open pattern from 2006, as posted on Bowl.com.

2008 League Officers:
President: Dave Pooler
Vice Pres.: Doug McDonald
Sec./Tres.: Mick Hackbarth

All other issues not explicitly covered by these rules shall defer to the USBC rulebook.

If you have questions, or need to schedule a bowl-ahead, please call Pla-Mor Bowl at 641.648-9740.

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