Brunswick Kyrene

This event was an awesome one! We had all kinds of exciting finishes and firsts. The event had 82 entries (49 qualifying entries and 33 economy parlay entries), 21 cashers, a 1 in 3.9 cash ratio and paid out over $3,000.00 in main and side event prizefunds. The players bowled on the 40ft Brunswick Edge pattern that had some very interesting results. The scores for the entire tournament were much higher in the A division then any other division. Typically this is the opposite as the scores are usually higher in either the B or C divisions. However, scoring well on the pattern had a lot to do with playing the correct part of the lane which most of the A division bowlers seemed to be doing. However, the cut was also inflated by a very impressive performance that Jason Satterlee put on. He had a very nice 846 during qualifying that cemented that he was bouncing back from his slump and looking to win back to back events.

The event this weekend drew 107 entries, had 30 cashers, a 1 in 3.5 cash ratio and paid out nearly $5,000.00 in main and side event prizefunds. The players bowled on the newest version of the Scorpion pattern which was at 47ft long. It was pretty clear there wasn't going to be many players hooking it a whole lot. The pattern however, did allow players to play further right as long as they had slower ball speeds. It was very clear however, that players that could play a tighter angle in the middle of the lane had the best ball reaction. Although the pattern was longer, and had less "hook", the scores were fairly high all weekend with the average cut score being slightly above +100.

Well we weren't sure how these new Minor formats were going to work out, but it is clear now that they are going great so far! We had our biggest turn out so far for a one day event with 93 total entries! The event had 62 qualifying entries and 31 economy parlay entries, 22 cashers, a 1 in 4.2 cash ratio and paid out over $4,000.00 in main and side event prizes. The incredible turn out allowed us to pay FAR MORE then our advertised guaranteed payouts. We were able to payout $1,000 for first instead of $600, $600 for 2nd instead of $300 and $300 for third instead of $200. We also increased the semi-finalist payouts from $160 to $175 and all of the quarter finalists went up $25. We can't thank all of the members enough for their incredible support over the years. We were suprised the very first time we got over 90 entries for 6 squads, and today we were able to accompish that with only 3 squads.

There is no doubt in my mind that we will never have as inspirational as a story that we had this weekend! The event drew 110 entries during a weekend full of other events, had 31 cashers, a 1 in 3.5 cash ratio and paid out over $5,000.00 in main and side event prizes. The players bowled on a fairly open 37ft Brunswick Rhino oil pattern that played a lot like the PBA Cheetah oil pattern that we bowled on at Brunswick Kyrene before. There was a clear advantage for the players who naturally liked to play the lanes straight, especially the straighter lefties. Although there were some players that had incredibly high scores, the overall average cut score for the weekend wasn't very high at all. The average insurance cut in each division was around 680 - 700 with handicap. This means the players had to bowl approximately 10-20 pins overage average a game which wasn't too bad considering how high a handful of players scored.