

Register NowDon’t miss your chance to take part in this historic tournament. The USBC Open enjoys over 100 years of tradition and routinely attracts legions of bowlers from across the country each year. It is an experience that some bowlers return to for decades on end. Download our entry form to enter this stories event now.Deadline to enter is April 1st, 2010
TravelUSBC Travel offers our members great discounts on tournament participating hotels, airfare and car rental.
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.Additional Discounts apply to group leaders holding 15 rooms or more!!! Contact USBC Travel to begin, then finish by making all reservations
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directly!USBC's Headquarter Hotels are
Circus Circus
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Eldorado
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Silver Legacy
. Each of the headquarter hotels offer a variety of unmatched amenities to Open Championship guests.Hotels
Circus Circus Reno (Headquarter Hotel and Presenting Sponsor)Located in the heart of Downtown Reno and only 2 blocks from the National Bowling Stadium, Circus Circus Reno is your destination for fun! Circus Circus Reno will make you feel at home with 1,572 guest rooms and suites, six sensational restaurants, a unique Midway of Fun, and an expansive casino floor with all the latest gaming action. Amenities include free airport shuttle service, fitness center, complimentary valet and self- parking, and daily live entertainment.
Eldorado Hotel Casino (Headquarter Hotel and Presenting Sponsor)The Eldorado Hotel Casino is a rare mix of upscale atmosphere with a relaxed vibe. Boasting nine award-winning restaurants, unlimited nightlife, a Broadway-style showroom, luxurious accommodations and dynamic casino action, the Eldorado is located in the heart of downtown Reno. The Eldorado provides personalized service, offering guests a richer overall experience in Reno. The hotel/casino is located just 1 block from the National Bowling Stadium and 4 miles from the Reno/Tahoe International Airport and offers airport shuttle service.
Silver Legacy Resort Casino (Headquarter Hotel and Presenting Sponsor)Located 1 block from the National Bowling Stadium and 4 miles from the Reno/Tahoe International Airport (airport shuttle service available), Silver Legacy is a historically themed masterpiece with every amenity for a perfect getaway. There are 1,720 elegant guest rooms and suites, top-name entertainment, six fabulous restaurants and eateries, Catch a Rising Star Comedy Club and 85,000 square-feet of thrilling gaming space. Located within minutes of the Truckee River arts district, golfing, shopping and more, Silver Legacy is the perfect place for your next resort getaway.
Terrible's Sands RegencyThe exclusive Bracket Pay-Out property of the USBC Open Championships offers you an exclusive experience in 2010. Terrible's Sands Regency has created a brand new private USBC Lounge, where you can enjoy a daily complimentary continental breakfast and happy hour with your stay at the Sands. With a convenient central downtown location within walking distance of the National Bowling Stadium, newly renovated guest rooms and the exclusive USBC Lounge, you are sure to help you stay on top of your game when you stay at Terrible's Sands Regency.
AtlantisExperience your NEW Atlantis Casino Resort Spa, voted “Best Casino Resort!” Atlantis has always been a favorite resort destination for travelers near and far. Recognized for luxurious accommodations, heart-pounding casino action, award-winning dining and a revitalizing spa- Atlantis offers everything you are looking for and more! Bowlers are high rollers at Atlantis! Your luxury accommodations include: FREE Ball handling, FREE Party Pak, FREE T-Shirt, FREE Airport Shuttle, FREE National Bowling Stadium Party Shuttle and so much more!Harrah'sHarrah's offers luxury, comfort and matchless service. Amenities include room service, Nintendo, coffee makers, blow dryers, irons and boards. Your choice of feather or foam pillows, safe deposit boxes and pet kennels. Full service health club, outdoor pool sauna, and massage packages. Six outstanding restaurants. Outdoor excitement. 65,000 square feet of casino, table games and slots. Airport shuttle, arcade, free parking, and bowling ball storage. Check In Time: 4:00pm Check Out Time: 11:00am
PeppermillThe Peppermill’s recent $400 Million expansion brings the warmth, beauty and classic lifestyle of Tuscany to northern Nevada. The resort offers 1,635 luxurious rooms and suites, 10 award-winning restaurants, 17 bars and lounges including EDGE Nightspot and casino cabaret offering free nightly entertainment, 24/7 gaming action, two wedding chapels, Arcade Xtreme, two resort pools and our 43,000 square foot Spa & Salon Toscana and Fitness Center.Book your travel now!Flight:To make flight reservations:
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Team Captain’s Eagle’s NestALL LANES LEAD TO RENOEXCLUSIVE BOWLING CLUB LAUNCHEDThe USBC Open Championships experience is a lot more than nine games of team, doubles and singles competition. It’s a multi-event extravaganza that provides participants with a number of optional “side events” to fulfill competitive urges and expand opportunities to win additional prize money.
Brackets
The idea of brackets is simple: each “bracket” includes eight randomly-selected bowlers on your squad during team, doubles and/or singles events. You need to bowl a higher game than the bowler you are paired against to advance out of each round. If you win all three matches, you win your bracket.
First prize in the $10 brackets is $50 and second place pays $20. In addition to regular brackets, there are special brackets for senior bowlers age 50 and older. A bowler may enter a maximum of 80 brackets.
During the team event only, $5 brackets also will be available. First prize will be $25 and second place pays $10. New for 2010, a bowler may enter a maximum of 40 $5 brackets.
Second Chance Brackets
For $10 during the team event only, the Second Chance Brackets are similar to regular brackets but four of the eight bowlers will have a chance to at least win back their entry fee. Bowlers may enter 40 Second Chance Brackets.
Bowlers who lose the first game will advance to a losers’ bracket. Bowlers who lose again will be eliminated. Bowlers whose first loss comes in the second game will advance to a second sub-bracket. The bowler who loses again will be eliminated.
The person who makes it through the initial bracket undefeated will win $30. Two wins and a loss in the final will earn the bowler $20. A win in the first game, followed by a loss in the second and a win in the third will earn the bowler $15. The winner of the initial losers’ bracket will earn $10.
Reverse Brackets
A new spin on an old favorite, Reverse Brackets work like traditional brackets but the only difference is that instead of using your scores in order (Game 1, Game 2 and Game 3), they are used in reverse order (Game 3, Game 2, Game 1).
The cost for Reverse Brackets has been reduced from $10 to $5. First place now will pay $25, while second place will pay $10. The maximum number of Reverse Brackets you may enter in each event is 40.
Super Brackets
USBC offers a “Super Bracket” program that allows bowlers to compete in side events which last more than just the traditional three games. Bowlers are randomly matched up the day after the USBC Open Championships concludes. Super Brackets are offered for individual bowlers only.
Entries into the individual Super Brackets will be $25 with a top prize of $5,000 in each. Bowlers may enter up to 20 individual Super Brackets. The individual Super Brackets include 512 bowlers, and include all nine games. Also, players 50 and older can enter individual 50+ Super Brackets for $10 each.
Captain-only Brackets
This year, we are proud to introduce a new bracket product designed specifically to reward our team captains for their hard work and dedication.
This product will be set up like a traditional eight-person bracket, but instead of using individual games, winners each round will be determined by their three-game series in team, doubles and singles. This new format makes things a little more exciting and gives you a chance to bounce back from a bad game.
Competitors will be divided into two divisions – Regular and Classified – so bowlers of similar skill levels will be bowling against each other. The cost will be $10 per bracket.
Another unique aspect of this product is that it will be yearlong. All bowlers will be randomly placed into the brackets at the conclusion of the 2010 USBC Open Championships, and winners will be determined.
As an added incentive to test your luck, all captains who bring teams and enter at least one of the captain-only brackets in 2010 AND 2011, will be eligible to win a portion of a $10,000 Super Jackpot. Stop by the brackets window on-site for more details.
Century Doubles
With an entry fee of just $10, Century Doubles pairs two bowlers who are a combined 100 years or older in the current calendar year. Bowlers may only enter with other competitors on their squad (up to five partners) in this tournament-long event.
For example, a bowler who is 35 years old must find a bowler on his/her squad who is 65 or older in order to enter his event and vice versa. Bowlers will use their combined doubles scores to determine the winner at the end of the tournament’s run in July.
Prize money goes to the bowler who signs the pair up, but the two bowlers can enter with each other and share the place in the standings. For example, Joe Bowler can sign up with Jim Bowler, and Jim Bowler can then pay his own $10 to sign up with Joe Bowler.
1-5-9 and 3-6-10 Strike Jackpots
Once again, the 1-5-9 and 3-6-10 Strike Jackpots will feature a $10 entry fee, which puts bowlers in the jackpot for all three events (team, doubles and singles).
Bowlers who record strikes in the first, fifth and ninth frames (or the third, sixth and first shot in the 10th frame for the 3-6-10 Jackpot) of all three games in an event will split the accumulated total at the end of the tournament. Last year in Las Vegas, 17 winners earned $3,459 for hitting the 1-5-9 Jackpot, and 25 winners took home $2,534 in the 3-6-10 Jackpot.
Additionally, bowlers who hit eight of nine strikes in will share 10 percent of the jackpots. So even if you miss in the first shot of the first game, you still have a chance to cash.
Super Side Pots
Revised in 2008, the Super Side Pots are a modern version of the traditional side pots that reward you for being the best on your squad. There’s also a built-in bonus feature that allows you to cash in for a share of the yearlong jackpot.
For a $25 entry fee for each event (team, doubles and singles), players are entered into traditional side pots during each squad ($18 from each entry), along with a yearlong high game jackpot ($4.50 from each entry).
Beat the bowlers on your squad and take home your prize money that day. Then see how your scores hold up in the yearlong jackpot. The yearlong jackpot will feature a prize fund-style payout, and the cash ratio will be 1:10. For example, the Super Side Pot entrant with the highest overall score (and all bowlers who match that score), will finish in first place and receive equal shares of the jackpot. If there are 1,000 people entered, the top 100 each will receive prize money.
If you enter the Super Side Pots, you have nine chances at the squad prizes and nine opportunities to earn a share of the yearlong jackpots. There will be a separate yearlong prize fund for each event.
30 Clean Jackpot
The 30 Clean Jackpot offers participants three chances to earn a share of a tournament-long jackpot for a $10 entry fee.
Each bowler will have three chances – team, double, singles -- to record 30 consecutive frames with a strike or spare. If a bowler is successful in any of the three -- or all three, for that matter -- he/she will share in the end-of-tournament payoff. Last year in Las Vegas, the 30 Clean Jackpot was hit 257 times for $232.
Each 30 Clean qualifier also will receive a special award to commemorate the achievement.
Out of each 30 Clean Jackpot entry fee, $1.50 will be donated to the Earl Anthony Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Clean Frame Super Pot
New this year, the Clean Frame Super Pot will give bowlers more incentive to make all of their spares. There is a $10 entry fee, paid prior to competing in team, and the concept is simple- have more clean frames than anyone else.
This yearlong jackpot will feature a prize fund-style payout, and the cash ratio will be 1:10. The Clean Frame Super Pot entrant with the most clean frames (and all bowlers who match that number), will finish in first place and receive equal shares of the jackpot. The next highest number will finish in second place and so on. If there are 1,000 people entered, the top 100 each will receive prize money.
Team USA Qualifying
Open Championships bowlers are encouraged to use their nine-game all-events totals as qualifying scores to earn paid entries into the USBC Team USA Trials, an event that gives bowlers a chance to be on Team USA.
For a $30 entry fee, one out of every 10 entrants earns a paid Team USA Trials entry.
In addition to a chance to represent the United States in international bowling competition through the optional qualifying program, USBC donates $1 from each all-events entry fee to support the Team USA program.
Bowlers interested in a chance to qualify for the Team USA Trials can register when they sign up for brackets before team event.
Classified Cash-O-Matic Bracket
The new Classified Cash-O-Matic Bracket gives Classified bowlers their own product with a same-day payout. Currently, it is available during team event only. Bowlers may enter a maximum of 40 at $10 each. All Cash-O-Matic entrants must be verified as Classified bowlers prior to the start of their team event.
The Cash-O-Matic Bracket plays out just like a traditional bracket, but in this case, every bowler cashes. The four bowlers who lose the first game each will receive $3. Those who win the first game but lose the second each will receive $8. The bowler who wins all three games will receive $24, while the person who wins two games and loses the final will take home $18.
Classified Tic-Tac-Toe will not be available in 2010.
Note: This year, all same-day payouts will be made at the Sands Regency Casino Hotel.
Also, in order to participate in any side event that requires scores from all nine games, specifically Super Brackets and Team USA qualifying, bowlers must bowl team event before doubles and singles and must sign up prior to throwing their first ball.
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2009 ResultsThe Open Championships are hardly the only game in town. Every year, a host of side events and participation prizes accompanies the tournament, including standings for the Bowlers Journal Championships, winners of sidepots and brackets, prizes for those who are bowling the tournament for over 25 years, and much more. Even if you’re just looking to see standings for the 3-6-10 jackpot or the Super Solo Brackets—you can find it all here.Leaderboard
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Women’s ChampionshipsThe USBC Women’s Championships (formerly the Women’s International Bowling Congress Championship Tournament) has long been the world’s largest participatory sporting event for women. The event generally runs between 80 and 100 days to accommodate 40,000 to 70,000 competitors annually.Bowlers of all ages and skill levels are seeded into one of five divisions: Classic for bowlers with averages of 190 and above; Division 1 for averages of 170-189; Division 2 for averages of 150-169; Division 3 for averages of 131-149 and Division 4 for averages of 130 and below. The bowlers compete in team, doubles, singles and an optional all-events competition with a total prize fund ranging from $1.5 million to $3 million.Read More
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Brenda EdwardsBrenda Edwards was ready to quit bowling for good—her father, whom she identifies as her only reason for bowling—had recently lost his battle with pulmonary fibrosis, leaving her unsure of where she was in her life and how bowling fit in. But the former Team USA member comes from a family in which bowling is just what you do—sister Jeri Edwards coaches Team USA, her other sister Kathy Zeilke won PWBA Rookie of the Year honors in 1993, and her brother designs bowling balls for Brunswick.Brenda herself already had learned how to operate a ball spinner at 11 years old in the makeshift pro shop of her father’s basement. So when boyfriend and USBC Silver Coach Stephen Padilla asked her what her father would want her to do, an answer was easy to come by.“He said ‘If you give up on this, you’re not honoring your Dad, because he started you on this path and you’re going to stop walking before this path is done,’”Edwards recalls of the conversation with Padilla that inspired her to bowl the 2009 USBC Queens. “And I decided to bowl.” She also, it turned out, decided to bowl extremely well—finishing 5th in the event when, just weeks prior, she was not even sure if she wanted to bowl league anymore. But the many realizations that Brenda Edwards has come to since losing her father have a lot more to do with life than with bowling. The gift her father gave her in death was an appreciation for the fragility and fleetingness of life.“Tomorrow isn’t promised to anybody,” Edwards asserts. “We’re not even promised the next moment in time. You have to live in the present.”Read More
Liz JohnsonLiz Johnson’s success over the past few years has made her such a transcendent figure in the sport that all Kelly Kulick could say after losing to her in the championship round of the 2009 USBC Queens was that she could not think of anyone better to lose to.“If there is any bowler I want to finish second to, it's Liz,” Kulick said. “She's having a great career. She just keeps fighting and seems to overcome everything." “Liz is unbelievable,” says former Queens champion and two-time Women’s U.S. Open winner Kim Terrell-Kearney. “She can be the best player man or woman when she sees what she likes.”Liz Johnson is seeing what she likes with increasingly frequency these days, following up her historic appearance as the first woman to make the televised finals of a Men’s PBA Tour event in 2005, when she defeated Wes Malott in the semifinal match before losing to Tommy Jones in the championship round, by clinching a Team USA Trials title and adding the 2009 USBC Queens crown to a spoil of championships that includes two titles at the Women’s U.S. Open.“I'm a fighter,” Johnson said after winning the 2009 Queens event. “When it comes to anything, especially bowling, I'm going to fight my way through."Read More
Kelly KulickIf you doubted for a second that Kelly Kulick would win the 2007 USBC Queens event when the news broke that she had made the telecast, you might not have known that she had a force on her side far more powerful than any mere mortal—that force, of course, was Spider Man.When Kulick discovered that a Long Island fan of hers happened to have a father who wrote the Spider Man series, it wasn’t long before professional bowling made an appearance in #20 of the Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man comic book series which, incidentally, just happened to be released on the very day Kulick won the Queens.“I never thought that something like that would happen to me,” Kulick told the New York Times. But no one will fault her for coming just short of a second Queens victory this year when she ran into one of the hottest bowlers in the world—Team USA member Liz Johnson who, to this day, remains the only woman ever to compete on a men’s professional bowling telecast.Kulick finished a mere second at the 2009 Queens tournament—a loss which, given the caliber of bowler it took to best her that day, Kulick can live with."If there is any bowler I want to finish second to, it's Liz,” Kulick said. “She's having a great careerRead More