PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR -- Episode 62
"2018 Brunswick Zone Roswell All Star Varsity and Junior Varsity Tournament of Champions"
Recorded Sunday, May 20, 2018 for releast on Friday, May 25, 2018
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It's our annual end-of-the-league-season event, our Brunswick Zone Roswell All Star Varsity and Junior Varsity Tournament of Champions..
Each week throughout the league season, starting back in September and running all the way through May, our league bowlers qualify for this eason-ending tournament by becoming the latest bowler in the league to post league scores that are the most pins over their average. Typically, most all of our league bowlers qualify over the course of the season. And on the final weekend of the league season, the weekend after we decide the team championships, the kids gather for this unique, two-day event.
On Day One (Saturday), they bowl Round One, consisting of three games. This is a pins-over-average tournament, so players are ranked based on how many pins they bowl over their average for those three games. At the end of Round One, we cut the field in half, to no fewer than 8 bowlers.
Those who survive that first cut then bowl Round Two, consisting of three more games. Their Round One scores carry over, so at the end of their sixth game of qualifying, scores are added up and the Top 5 in the Varsity Division and the Top 5 kids in the Junior Varsity division who have bowled the most pins over their average for those six games advance to the Championship Round for the stepladder finals.
And that's what you'll see today on PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR. It's ten kids in all -- five in the Varsity and five in the Junior Varsity.
They're bowling for SMART Scholarship Awards. Specific payout amounts are detailed in the show.
Remember, they're bowling pins over average, so for our purposes, we simply take the two players' averages and subtract the lower average from the higher average. The difference is their "handicap differential," and that amount gets added into the score of the lower average player in the very first frame of their match.
So in other words, if Player A has an average of 150 and Player B has an average of 100, then Player B will received 50 pins handicap in their match, the amount equal to the difference of their two averages.
For many of these kids, this is the biggest bowling tournament they'll participate in all year. For some, it's the biggest tournament they'll EVER bowl in.
Three of the kids on this show are making their first appearance bowling on PRODIGY, and they're also completing their first year bowling in youth league. So for them (and their parents), this is exciting stuff.
As always, your play-by-play announcer is USBC Silver Certified Coach Randy Brown, who also serves as the Volunteer Youth Director, running the Youth Program at Brunswick Zone Roswell. Randy is also the Executive Producer of PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR and a 2009 inductee in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. For five years from 1997 to 2002, Randy served as the lead play-by-play voice of PGA TOUR Radio and walked the fairways of America with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and some of the other top golfers in the world.
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This is one of my favorite shows we've done so far. I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers!
- Coach Randy
24 май 2018
