There has been a tournament running at Robbinsdale Lanes all year long.  This tournament was the Bud Light Sunday Sweeper. Actually, they have been weekly tournaments, running on Sunday mornings.  This past weekend was the final tournament of the year, the Championship Tournament if you will.

To be eligible for this final tournament, you had to bowl in 10 tournaments during the year.  It is easy to do, considering the Sunday Sweeper runs from the 1st Sunday after Labor Day through the first weekend in May.  Even with the Association tournaments that they had to take off, there still were plenty of opportunities to get the required number in.

Plus, with this tournament, if you were unable to get 10 tournaments bowled, but have five participations, you can “buy in” for $25 per tournament missed.

Additionally, when you bowl this championship tournament and do not win your match, you still make money.  I do not know any tournaments that are quite like this.  The winners advance, the losers go home with money.  Then another game is bowled, the losers go home, and the winners go on.  We go from 24 to 12 to 6 to three bowlers left.

The top three bowlers were Tom Clarke, Chris Sterling and Laurie Sumners.  These three bowlers bowled one additional game.  The low bowler was out, the other two advanced.  Laurie Sumners went home in third place.

That left two bowlers and one more game to be bowled.  The winner is the Champion; the loser is the runner up.  At the end of the Championship game, there was a tie score.  In that event, the 9th and 10th frames are re-bowled.  

The winner of the Sunday Sweeper, and the “Eagle” trophy was Tom Clarke.  Chris Sterling got second place.

This is a good, fun tournament.  There are “regular” bowlers like league.  It is challenging and interesting.  If you have the opportunity to do so next year, you should consider bowling it.