New Dick Weber PBA Playoffs To
Conclude Lumber Liquidators
PBA Tour Season

The Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour will reward 180 PBA exempt players and PBA Regional competitors for their performances during the 2010-11 season with seeded positions into a new end-of-season Dick Weber PBA Playoffs, scheduled for March 8-13 at Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis.> > The inaugural PBA Playoffs will feature five preliminary elimination rounds leading up to three “television elimination round” shows which will narrow the field to six players for the final telecast of the 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour season on Sunday, April 17, when the PBA Playoffs championship will be decided.> > “The PBA staff, players, news media and other interested parties have talked a great deal over the past two or three years about the need for a special event to conclude our national tour season,” said PBA CEO and Commissioner Fred Schreyer. “After a great deal of discussion, we arrived at the PBA Playoffs concept. We think it’s going to become one of the most exciting and most anticipated events on tour.”> > The PBA Playoffs, borrowing a chapter from end-of-season championship playoff series in virtually every other sport, will provide a showdown for 108 of the nation’s top regional players along with 72 players from the Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour. The better every player bowls during the season will determine his/her seeding position at Playoffs time.> > The new PBA Playoffs format will include six unique elimination “pods,” each featuring 18 top PBA Regional players based upon competition points accumulated between Oct. 1, 2009, and Nov. 30, 2010. The PBA’s East, South, Central, Southwest, Midwest and combined West/Northwest each will be assigned to a pod.> > Each Regional pod also will include seeded PBA Tour players based upon their 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour competition points rankings, with higher-ranking Tour players earning bye rounds based upon their standings on the points list. The seeding of PBA Tour players into the pods will be based exclusively on points, and will have no bearing on the region where they live. The seeded Tour players will be added to pods by random drawing at a later date.> > The Dick Weber PBA Playoffs is named in honor of the PBA legend who was born and raised in Indianapolis.> > DICK WEBER PBA PLAYOFFS> Woodland Bowl, Indianapolis, Ind., March 8-13 (April 24)> > Tuesday, March 8> 9 a.m. – Practice session (108 regional and 72 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour qualifiers)> > Wednesday, March 9> 8 a.m. – East, Central and South Pods, five qualifying games (18 regional and 7 PBA Tour players per pod)> 11 a.m. – Midwest, Southwest and West/Northwest Pods, five qualifying games (18 regional and 7 PBA Tour players per pod)> 4 p.m. - Midwest, Southwest and West/Northwest Pods, five qualifying games> 7 p.m. - East, Central and South Pods, five qualifying games> > Thursday, March 10> 8 a.m. – East, Central and South Pods, five qualifying games> 11 a.m. – Midwest, Southwest and West/Northwest Pods, five qualifying games> Top nine from each pod after Elimination Round One (15 games) advance> 6 p.m. – Elimination Round Two (six pods including nine Round One survivors plus one PBA Tour player in 13-18 seeded group), six games> Bottom three from each pod after Round Two (6 games) eliminated> > Friday, March 11> 8 a.m. – Elimination Round Three (six pods including seven Round Two survivors plus one PBA Tour player in 7-12 seeded group), six games> Bottom three from each pod after Round Three (6 games) eliminated> 1 p.m. – Elimination Round Four (six pods including five Round Three survivors plus one PBA Tour player in 1-6 seeded group), six games> Bottom two from each pod after Round Four (6 games) eliminated> 6 p.m. – Elimination Round Five (six pods including four Round Four survivors), six games> Lowest score after Round Five (6 games) eliminated> > Saturday, March 12> Pro-Am squads (times to be announced)> > Sunday, March 13> Tape-delayed TV Elimination Round shows (three shows, two pods of three players per show, top score from each show advances to live PBA Playoff finals on Sunday, April 17)> > Sunday, April 17> 1 p.m. – Six pod winners, live television finals> > Understanding the PBA Playoff Pods> Each of six pods will initially feature 18 PBA Regional qualifiers based upon 2010-11 points plus nine seeded Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour players based upon their PBA World Points Ranking status following the U.S. Open. After each elimination round, additional “seeded” PBA Tour players will be added to each pod based upon their 2010-11 PBA World Ranking Points standing. Seeded Tour players will be added to each pod by random drawing at a later date.