How Do Collegiate Bowling Tournaments Work?
Nov 15, 2024 | Women's Bowling
NEW ORLEANS – College bowling tournaments take place over three days. Each day, a team plays a series of matches. Each team will go head-to-head against another team for one match. In each match, five games will be played. Each game consists of ten frames, and players can score up to 300 points per game.Â
On the first day of competition, bowlers will compete in five baker matches. In baker matches, five members of a team will take turns bowling frames, with each member bowling two. So, the first athlete will bowl frames 1 and 6, the second will bowl 2 and 7, the third 3 and 8, and so forth. Whichever team knocks down the most pins by the end of the games will win the match.
Day two consists of traditional matches. In traditional matches, each bowler bowls ten frames, then the total of each teams' combined bowlers are compared. The highest score wins the match. On day three, the teams will compete in a bracket to determine the tournament winner, with the counts of pins from the previous days determining a teams' bracket ranking. They will then compete in three baker matches, with each match going to whoever wins four games out of seven.
