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.
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