What is Bowling Survivor?
Bowling Survivor is a tournament similar to King of the Hill. The object is simple, just stay alive longer than everyone else.
Here are the rules:
Using scores from actual league play, take each participants series total and add their series HDCP to get their total series plus HDCP. Each week the participant with the lowest series total plus HDCP is eliminated from Bowling Survivor. This continues each week until there is only 1 remaining survivor.
Here are the start-up procedures:
Establish an entry fee for all of your participants. This is a one-time fee to enter.
Have all participants vote on a final prize list. (pay just Final Survivor or as many as you like)
Have all participants vote on a HDCP percentage. (we haveused 80% of 200 avg.) It's that simple!
FAQ's
What if there's a tie?
In the event that two or more bowlers tie for lowest series plus HDCP, use the following week's 1st game plus game hdcp for each bowler to determine who is eliminated. If tied after 1st game,
continue with each game thereafter until one is eliminated.
What if a participant cannot attend a week?
If a bowler has a planned absence, you can have them pre-bowl for the league and Bowling Survivor and use those scores plus their HDCP to determine whether they survive or not.
We recommend that none of the other participants be told what the scores are prior to bowling the week the bowler is absent. After everyone has finished game one, you can then tell them what
the absent bowler pre bowled for game one. Continue this method for games two and three.
If a bowler is unexpectedly absent or cannot pre-bowl, use their blind score (their avg. minus 10 pins) plus HDCP to determine whether they survive or not.
What if I have more participants than bowling weeks?
In the event that too many people want to enter, fear not, you have many options to resolve this. If you have double the amount of people as weeks, simply have the 2 lowest people eliminated every week. If you have just a few too many than weeks, you can throw week numbers into a hat and have some participants pick them to determine which weeks will have 2 people eliminated, all other weeks will have one person eliminated.
A 200 avg. bowler last year wants to enter with a 180 avg.
This happens everywhere and not just in Bowling Survivor. We recommend establishing a 10-pin drop rule whereas a bowler who averages more than 10 pins lower than last years avg. will be handicapped in Bowling Survivor no more than 10 pins lower, thus a 200 avg. bowler can only get HDCP on 190 and not anything lower. Establish this rule at the outset before anyone enters
the tournament or else problems are bound to arise.
If you have any further questions that have not been answered here, please feel free to send an e-mail to info@bowlingsurvivor.com