2020-2021 ENTRIES, SCHEDULE, FORMAT & PRIZE MONEY
(Event format, schedule and prize money are all subject to change)

Bowl Canada is very happy to offer the Canada Cups ONLINE SHOOTOUT in every province and territory where the following requirements are met;

  • ALL fivepin and tenpin league bowlers bowling in a Bowl Canada member centre are eligible to enter
  • Bowlers must be nineteen (19) years of age or over at April 1st, 2021. Members of Youth Bowl Canada are eligible to participate if they meet all eligibility requirements
  • Entrants must be domiciled in Canada
  • Bowlers must enter at a Bowl Canada member centre where they bowl in a league (fivepin league for fivepin entrants and tenpin league for tenpin entrants)
  • Club 55 Cup entrants must be current members of the Club 55 program and meet the eligibility requirements listed here as well as the eligibility requirements of the Club 55 program and tournament
  • Travelling leagues are ineligible for entry and averages established in these leagues are excluded.

TEAM ENTRY (POA event):

  • Eligible bowling teams may purchase entries online
  • Bowl Canada Cup Fivepin Entry fee is $30 per team ($25 of which goes to the prize pool and is paid out 100%)
  • Bowl Canada Cup Tenpin Entry fee is $25 per team ($20 of which goes to the prize pool and is paid out 100%)
  • Club 55 Cup (fivepin) Entry fee is $25 per team ($20 of which goes to the prize pool and is paid out 100%)
  • Payment is accepted by credit card only and must be paid in full before scores can be submitted.

SINGLES ENTRY (Scratch event):

  • Eligible bowlers may purchase an entry online
  • Two Scratch Singles Shootout events are available; Fivepin Scratch Singles & Tenpin Scratch Singles
  • Entry fee in the Singles event is $20 per bowler ($18 of which goes to the prize pool and is paid out 100%)
  • Payment is accepted by credit card only and must be paid in full before scores can be submitted.

TEAM COMPOSITION:

  • The Bowl Canada Cup Fivepin Online Shootout will see 5-player teams compete
  • The Bowl Canada Cup Tenpin Online Shootout will see 4-player teams compete
  • The Club 55 Cup Online Shootout will see 4-player teams compete.

For all team events, teams may be comprised of all men, all women, or any combination of women and men. All bowlers must meet the eligibility requirements as above. For teams that bowl league with a different number of bowlers than the event team composition allows (example, 6-player teams), please read “Team Composition Suggestions”.

SCHEDULE (all dates subject to change due to Pandemic):

January 1: TEAM QUALIFYING AVERAGE DATE (see “AVERAGES” section below)
January 1: SCRATCH SINGLES AVERAGE DECLARATION DATE (for doe scores)
TBD: ENTRY PERIOD & PAYMENT DEADLINE (Team and Singles)

February 22 – 28 – Brackets Round of 16
March 1 – 7 – Brackets Round of 8
March 8 – 14 – Brackets Round of 4
March 15 – 21 – Brackets Round of 2
March 22 – 28 – Championship Event – Week 1
March 29 – April 4 – Championship Event – Week 2

NOTE:

  • SCORES MUST BE ENTERED THE TUESDAY MORNING (BY 9am EASTERN) FOLLOWING THE CLOSE OF EACH WEEK/ROUND.
  • BRACKET FORMAT MAY BE ADJUSTED ON AN EVENT BY EVENT BASIS, DEPENDENT UPON NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED IN EACH EVENT.

AVERAGES – TEAM EVENTS

All 3 team events in the Canada Cups are scored on the Pins Over Average (POA) system, or 100% handicap. Averages to be used for each bowler to be determined as follows;

  • Bowlers shall enter the qualifying round using their highest league average (from all leagues in the bowling centre of entry) at January 1st, 2021 (21-game minimum)
  • Bowlers who do not have a 21 game average for the current season shall use their highest league average (from all leagues in the bowling centre of entry – 21 game minimum) from the previous season (2019-20).
  • Bowlers who do not have a 21 game average this season or last season shall use their highest average (from all leagues in the bowling centre of entry) at January 1st, 2021.
  • Any averages established in travelling leagues are excluded.

AVERAGES – SCRATCH SINGLES EVENTS (Tenpin and Fivepin)

Scratch Singles bowlers must report their averages for the purposes of Doe Score calculations. Averages to be reported at January 1st as follows;

  • Bowlers shall declare their highest league average (from all leagues in all centres) at January 1st, 2021 (21-game minimum)
  • Bowlers who do not have a 21 game average for the current season shall use their highest league average (from all leagues in all centres – 21 game minimum) from the previous season (2019-20).
  • Bowlers who do not have a 21 game average this season or last season shall use their highest average (from all leagues in all centres) at January 1st, 2021.
  • Any averages established in travelling leagues are excluded.

Due to Covid-19 bowling season restrictions, the 3 week qualifying rounds have been removed from the events. Instead, all teams/bowlers will be randomly placed in a bracket of 16 and will compete in a head to head elimination format. The first 3 regular weekly league scores bowled will be used each round. Prebowled and doe scores can be used (as described below). If there is a tie in any bracket round, all 3 scores bowled will be compared on a game by game basis, and the team/bowler with the highest score 2 out of 3 games will be declared the winner. If the tie cannot be broken by this method, the highest game team total/singles score will determine the winner.

One half of the successful teams/bowlers each round will advance until 1 winner is declared in each bracket and these teams/bowlers will advance to the Championship Event.

CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT: All bracket winners will advance to Week 1 of the Championship Event. Three games will be bowled and the top ten teams/bowlers will advance to the Championship Finals and will compete for the Championship Title the following week.

IMPORTANT…BRACKET & CHAMPIONSHIP FORMATS MAY BE ADJUSTED ON AN EVENT BY EVENT BASIS, DEPENDENT UPON NUMBER OF ENTRIES RECEIVED IN EACH EVENT.

Regular weekly league scores will be used for these Championships and scores must be reported online, prior to the deadline date & time by the Team Administrator (designated by the Team) or bowling centre staff/volunteer.

Pre-bowled scores are allowed (using House rules). All prebowls must be verified and documented by the Proprietor, and retained for possible audit by the tournament committee.  Additionally, a 90% doe score will be used when a competitor misses league bowling and has not pre-bowled. For leagues that bowl more than 3 games each week, scores from the first 3 games bowled are to be used.

Bracket weeks begin on Mondays and conclude on Sundays. ALL SCORES MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE PRIOR TO THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY AT 9:00 am (EASTERN). ALL DEADLINES ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED.

In each of the 3 Team events (Bowl Canada Cup Tenpin, Bowl Canada Cup Fivepin & Club 55 Cup Fivepin), and the two Singles events (Fivepin Scratch Singles and Tenpin Scratch Singles), a portion of every Entry Fee (see Team Entry and Singles Entry sections) will be diverted to that event’s Prize Pool.

Each event’s Prize Pool is built solely from Entry Fees paid for that event (example; The Club 55 Cup Prize Pool will be comprised of funds derived solely from Club 55 Cup entry fees…the Tenpin Scratch Singles prize pool will be derived solely from its entry fees, etc.).

100% of the Prize Pool in each event will be paid out.

In the case of all ties, prize money will be split between tied teams/singles evenly. Prize money will be mailed to applicable bowling centres at the end of the event.

The Canada Cups Championships have been designed to have bowlers competing on the team they like most…their own. Every team bowling in a Bowl Canada member centre league is eligible to enter, and because the team events are POA based ANYONE CAN WIN!

  • The Bowl Canada Cup Tenpin event is based on 4-player teams
  • The Bowl Canada Cup Fivepin event is based on 5-player teams
  • The Club 55 Cup (Fivepin) event is based on 4-player teams

If the number of bowlers on your team does not match up with the team composition as listed above, consider trying one of the following suggestions;

If your league team has too many players;

  • Consider using the two weeks prior to the start of the Qualifying Round as a pre-qualifier to get to the right number of team members
  • There’s always a possibility that one of a team’s members may be quite happy to sit out the event. Determine which team members may not be as interested in participating to whittle down to the right number so that elimination may not be required.

If your league team has fewer players than needed to fill a team in the event;

  • Promote the option that your team is looking to add a player (either from other teams in your league or, if required, from other leagues in your bowling centre). Bowlers who do not bowl in the Bowl Canada member centre where you are entering the event are not eligible to fill out your team
  • As an option, the bowling centre or league may conduct a pre-qualifier event to determine teams of the right number of players as required to enter.

Keep in mind that teams may be comprised of all men, or all women, or any combination of genders. Because the team events are all Pins Over Average (100% Handicap), all’s fair regardless of team composition.

#1 – The general playing rules and conduct rules of the Canadian Tenpin Federation (Tenpin) and the Canadian 5-Pin Bowlers Association (Fivepin) will be in effect where Bowl Canada rules are not specified.

#2 – All bowlers who compete in the Canada Cups Online Shootout (Team POA and Scratch Singles events) must abide by ALL rules of the Championship. Failure to comply with these rules may result in automatic disqualification.

#3 – A bowler may enter the Team event on more than one team, and may participate in the event more than once.

  • If the additional team(s) are in the same league as the first, the same league scores shall be used for all teams entered.
  • If the additional team(s) are in another league, each team shall use the scores from its own league for the event.

#4 – A bowler may enter the Singles event in every league in which the bowler competes. Scores from each league shall be tied to that league entry throughout the event so that a bowler entered more than once shall have distinct scores each week for each entry.

#5 – Bowlers may participate in both Singles and Team events if they so choose.

#6 – Ties shall be broken to determine advancement as per the tie-breaking methods outlined. Should a tie remain in play after those methods have been exhausted, the Tournament Directors, at their sole discretion, shall determine further methods to be used to break the tie(s).

#7 – Bowl Canada reserves the right to authenticate the scores and averages of all participants in the event. Any falsification or misrepresentation of scores or averages, knowingly or unknowingly, may result in automatic disqualification.

#8 – Bowl Canada reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify or disallow any entry in the championship where it can be reasonably shown that a bowler’s average is inconsistent with the bowlers ability or past performance.

#9 – Substitution / Disqualification:

  • Substitutions shall not be allowed in the Canada Cups Online Shootout. Absent bowlers may prebowl, and if no prebowl score is available a doe score of 90% of the bowlers average (per these rules) may be used.
  • Should a bowler be disqualified at any stage of the championship, only the scores of the remaining bowlers on the team shall be counted (team continues to compete against its full roster average). No doe score shall be allowed for the disqualified bowler(s).

#10 – Cancellation & Refunds

If cancelling entry prior to commencement of competition (Bracket Round), Entry Fees will be refunded 100% and the affected event’s prize pool will be adjusted accordingly.

Due to the pandemic, there may be situations in which a bowling centre is required by its local Health Authority to close its doors for a period of time.  Should this be the case during the Online Shootout;

  • Bowlers should prebowl, where possible, to get in the required number of games prior to the bowling centre closing its doors as required.
  • All prebowls must be verified and documented by the proprietor, and retained for possible audit by the tournament committee.

If prebowls cannot be banked in time, bowlers/teams will use a doe score (as described in Format Section).

#11 – In case of any dispute, the decision of the Bowl Canada Tournament Director will be final.