8th Annual Kalamazoo Open
All Day
March 7, 2026
CONTACT
Brian Regan
cell (810) 240-6175
email brian@scratchbowling.com
Entry Fee $100
***ONCE AGAIN, ALL RAFFLE PROFITS WILL GO INTO THE PRIZE FUND OF THIS EVENT! THANKS TO OUR SPONSORING PRO SHOPS AS ALWAYS FOR THEIR SUPPORT***
OIL PATTERN
A House Shot will be used
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE OUR SQUADS FILL AND WE DO NOT TURN ANYBODY AWAY, YOU MUST BE IN THE CENTER AND AT LEAST IN LINE TO REGISTER NO LATER THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES PRIOR TO YOUR SQUAD. AT THAT TIME WE WILL START TAKING OTHER ENTRIES, AND YOU WILL LOSE YOUR SPOT IF THE SQUAD FILLS.
QUALIFYING SQUADS
Squad A -- Saturday, March 8 @ 9:30am (Eastern); Check-In -- 8:30am - 9:25am (limited to 90 entries)
Squad B -- Saturday, March 8 @ 1pm (Eastern) Check-in -- Noon - 12:55pm (limited to 90 entries) -- this squad could start late if A squad is big.
Squad C -- Sunday, March 9 @ 9:00am (Eastern); Check-in -- 8:00am-8:55pm (limited to 90 entries) ***this squad has it's own cut***
SPECIAL SQUAD RULES
--> Top 4 from Squad A are guaranteed to Sunday's Cashers Rounds
--> Top 4 from Squad B are guaranteed to Sunday's Cashers Rounds
FORMAT
Qualifying: 5-games across 5 pairs of lanes.
Sunday Casher's Round: Warm-ups will start at Noon (assuming the lanes are oiled and ready for us by then). The cut to Sunday will be an overall cut from A and B after combining scores from those squads plus the top 1/4 from the Sunday squad. Top 4 from each squad will automatically advance to the Cashers rounds. Cashers bowl 5 games Sunday and then cut to match play rounds. Remaining bowlers will compete in a seeded, single-elimination bracket, 2-game total pinfall in each round. Once we know how many cashers we will have for the event, we will announce what number we will cut to for match play
Prize Ratio: 1 in 4 entries will cash in this event
MATCH PLAY
I vividly remember making up a "thing" that explained how many make it to match play from the cashers rounds...but I cannot find it for the life of me. Here is what we have done in the past which gives you a solid idea. We always have it all figured out BEFORE we start the cashers round...I can promise you that. But it is always based on entries
