PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR -- Episode 85
"The Baker Dozen"
Recorded February 9, 2019
For release on February 15, 2019
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On this week's show, we began the day with twelve kids hoping to make the show. When I saw that they were evenly divided between six scratch bowlers and six handicap bowlers, I thought this would be a good opportunity to create a format that would enable all twelve kids to be on the show.
So the six handicap kids and six scratch kids bowled a one-game qualifier, where the handicap kids would compete with one another and the scratch kids would compete amongst themselves, so we could seed players 1 thru 6 in each group. At the end of the qualifying game, we paired 'em up -- 1 with 1, 2 with 2, 3 with 3, and so on -- in a six-team, 5-match stepladder finals in which they would bowl Baker-style doubles matches, with one player on each team bowling in the odd numbered frames and the anchor bowler on the team bowling in the even numbered frames (including the 10th).
The handicaps for the kids in the handicap division were 90% of the difference between their current league average and 200. So they are taking one half of their handicap into the doubles match (since they're each bowling one-half of the game, or 5 frames).
As you'll see, this format produced a series of very interesting matches, with a number of close finishes that went down to the 10th frame to decide a winner.
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-Coach Randy
13 фев 2019
