The Million Dollar PBA Tournament of Champions

The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is gearing up for the richest tournament in professional bowling history, the $1 million PBA Tournament of
Champions, and for the first time is creating an opportunity for any player who has ever won a PBA title to take a shot at the record $250,000 first prize.

The rewards for bowling well will be unprecedented in PBA history. The payoffs 
for making the four-player stepladder final on Saturday, Jan. 22, will be 
$250,000 to win, $100,000 for second, $60,000 for third and $40,000 for fourth 
place. Based upon a starting field of 216, last-to-cash will be $2,500 for 54th 
place.

The PBA Tournament of Champions will be conducted Jan. 16-22 at Red Rock 
Lanes in Las Vegas, Nev., and it will feature an all-new format featuring a
“Champions field” to determine the players who will advance to the “Elite field.” 

The “Elite field” will be composed of: 2010-11 Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour 
exempt players; any player who was listed among the “50 Greatest Players in PBA 
History” during the PBA Tour’s 50th anniversary celebration in 2009; any PBA 
Hall of Famer; any player who has won five or more PBA Tour titles; any player 
who has won a PBA major championship; the 2010 PBA Senior U.S. Open and USBC 
Senior Masters champions, and the 2010 PBA Regional Players Championship and 
Regional Players Invitational winners.

All other PBA title winners, up to a maximum of 180, will make up the 
“Champions” field. The Champions field will include players who have won four or 
fewer PBA Tour titles or a PBA regional, PBA Women’s Series, PBA Senior Tour or 
PBA Senior Regional title as of Jan. 9, 2011. Titles won by players who were not 
members at that time are not eligible.

The first key step, however, is that all players eligible and wishing to enter must 
be full-fledged PBA members as of Oct. 1.

The entry fee for all Tournament of Champions competitors will be $750 if paid 
by Dec. 15 ($1,000 after Dec. 15). To enter, look for the Tournament of 
Champions entry link when you log on to pba.com as a PBA member.

Concluding the week will be the PBA Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday, Jan. 22. 
Details on that event will be announced soon.

The entire Tournament of Champions will be covered live on pba.com’s Xtra Frame 
video streaming service. To subscribe, visit pba.com and click on the Xtra Frame logo.