📍 Location: Bowlero Garland

📅 Start Date: November 9, 2025

🕒 Time: Sundays @ 2:30 PM - 6:00PM

📆 Duration: 10 Weeks

👥 Format: Mixed Four-Person Teams (4 Bowlers + Bench Bowlers Allowed)

🎯 Starting Lane: Lanes 45 - 57

🌀 Total Lanes Used: 13

🎮 Games per Week: 3

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🎯 Handicap Rules

🧍 Individual Handicap

• 90% of 220

• Both bowlers receive handicap

• Bowler’s handicap will not be limited

👥 Team Handicap

• Team handicap = Sum of all individual handicaps

• Team handicap will not be limited

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📊 Averages

⚖️ Average Rules

• Bowlers use their entering average for 0 games before establishing a new average

• Previous season average requires 21+ games to qualify

• New bowlers must complete 3 games to qualify for leaderboards

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🧮 Scoring & Standings

🏁 Points System

• 1 point per game won

• 2 points per series won

• Total Possible Points per Week: 5

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📈 Standings

• Determined by Total Wins

• Ties for weekly matchups are broken by Total Pinfall

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🏅 Leaderboards

🏆 Leaderboard Divisions

• Split between Men’s and Women’s divisions

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🚫 Blind & Vacancy Rules

🙈 Blind (Absent) Bowlers

• Score = 10 pins under average

• Automatically marked absent if no show by Frame 4

• Blind or vacant teams cannot win points

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🚷 Vacancy Rules

• Vacancy scores 125 for all matchups

• Vacancy receives handicap

• When blinds/vacants face each other, winning point goes to the higher team

• Opposing team must bowl within 40 pins of average to win against a vacant team

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✅ Legal Lineups

🧾 Lineup Requirements

• Legal lineup = 2 or more eligible bowlers

• Substitutes count as eligible bowlers

• Illegal lineups are considered forfeits

• Opposing teams must bowl within 10 pins of average to win points against a forfeit

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