Hurricane Matthew Postponement Puts PBA’s Xtra Frame Reality Check Classic in the Spotlight for 2017
Re-scheduled tournament to kick off new $50,000 Storm Cup point series
TAMARAC, Fla. (March 9, 2017) – Hurricane
Matthew’s arrival in south Florida last October forced postponement of
the Professional Bowlers Association’s inaugural PBA Xtra Frame Reality
Check Classic, but the delay turned into good news for Sawgrass Lanes
and the Tamarac area.
In
the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, the tournament has been
re-scheduled for March 17-19 as the kickoff event for a new eight-event
Storm Cup Xtra Frame Tour series in 2017. In addition to
competing for prize money and a PBA Tour title in Tamarac, all PBA
members will compete for points toward $50,000 in end-of-season Storm
Cup bonus money.
As part of PBA’s Xtra Frame Tour series, the
Reality Check Classic will be live streamed around the world on the
organization’s online, subscription-based bowling channel. Bowling fans
can watch the entire event for as little as $3.99 for a three-day
subscription (or for roughly $1.25 a week, have access to hundreds of
hours of PBA, PBA50 and PWBA women’s tournament programming for a full
year). Visit xtraframe.tv for details.
More than 100 of the PBA’s best-known stars will
be on hand at Sawgrass Lanes. Among the established veterans already
entered are 18-time PBA Tour titlist Tommy Jones, superstar Walter Ray
Williams Jr., England’s Dom Barrett and PBA Tour titlists Dick Allen,
Josh Blanchard, Ryan Ciminelli, Tom Daugherty, Bob Learn Jr., Bill
O’Neill and Ronnie Russell. Representing PBA’s legion of emerging young
stars will be 2016 Player of the Year EJ Tackett, two-hander Kyle Troup
and former Rookie of the Year Marshall Kent. A significant number of
collegiate bowlers also will be in the field, bowling as non-members.
The XF Storm Cup series provides unique
incentives for PBA members to compete in all eight of the series events
and encourages performances at a high level in every event because every
point earned will be meaningful in the chase for shares of the
end-of-season bonus pool.
Competition will be intense because points
awarded to the top 20 players in each Xtra Frame event begin with the
winner earning 25 points, second place 19, third place 18, etc., with
points declining by one through 20th place. In 2016, the points race was
decided in the final event when Jones won by five points over Tackett,
who led by three points going into the finale, and by six points over
Ciminelli, who led early in the series.
Following the Reality Check Classic, the Xtra
Frame PBA Tour series will include stops in North Carolina, Arkansas,
Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and Delaware before its final event in
Coldwater, Ohio, in late August. Fans will be able to track XF Storm Cup
news and current point standings on a special link on pba.com once the
series gets underway.
PBA XTRA FRAME REALITY CHECK CLASSIC
Sawgrass Lanes, Tamarac, Fla., March 17-19
Friday, March 17
3 p.m. - Practice session
4:15 p.m. – First-time players’ orientation meeting
6 p.m. – Pro-am
Saturday, March 18
9 a.m. – A Squad, eight qualifying games
2:30 p.m. – B Squad, eight qualifying games
Top one-third after eight games advance to Cashers Round
Sunday, March 19
8:30 a.m. - Cashers Round, four games
Top 16 after 12 games advance
11:30 a.m. – Round of 16, three games
Top 8 after 15 games advance
1:30 p.m. – Round of 8, two games
11:30 a.m. – Round of 16, three games
Top 8 after 15 games advance
1:30 p.m. – Round of 8, two games
Top 4 after 17 games advance to stepladder finals
3 p.m. – Top 4 stepladder finals
3 p.m. – Top 4 stepladder finals
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