The 2019 PBA Tour season, the 60th season of play for the U.S. Professional Bowlers Association's ten-pin bowling tour, began in January 2019 with the PBA Hall of Fame Classic in Arlington, Texas. The current season schedule has 28 singles title events, two doubles title events, and two non-title team events.
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The 2019 season introduced major changes, with Fox Sports assuming the media and sponsorship rights to the PBA Tour, as well as the introduction of a revamped PBA Tour Playoffs as a 24-player, bracketed elimination tournament.
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On March 21, 2018, Fox Sports announced that it had acquired the television rights for the PBA Tour, replacing ESPN, with a commitment for 26 broadcasts on Fox Sports 1 and four on Fox beginning in 2019 (totalling 58 hours, in comparison to the 30 hours of coverage provided by ESPN linear channels in 2018).[1][2] To launch its coverage, Fox broadcast an invitational event, the PBA Clash, on December 23, 2018.[3] Fox will air four events per-season, including the CP3 PBA Celebrity Invitational (which aired on the afternoon prior to the Super Bowl).[2] Fox and FS1 will air 14 final rounds live, as compared to the four live broadcasts aired on ESPN in 2018. Fox Sports will also assume the role of sponsorship sales for the tour.[2] The PBA saw the deal as an effort to increase media exposure for the tour and its top players.[2]
In a similar manner to Fox's recent acquisition of NHRAdrag racing, there will be a focus on developing new on-air features and technology to improve viewer understanding of the intricacies of the sport, and additional shoulder content.[2] One such feature is StrikeTrack, a graphic (based on technology from the company Kegel) that displays the trajectory, speed, and rotation (RPM) of the ball as it travels down the lane. Broadcasting & Cable considered this feature akin to the network's 'FoxTrax' system, infamously used during its National Hockey League coverage.[4]
Fox and the PBA have declared their first year partnership a success. Through the June 2 PBA Playoffs final round, viewership on Fox, FS1 and FS2 (including reruns) was 20,923,000. This is up 85 percent from the 11,327,000 total viewers for all PBA telecasts in 2018 (on ESPN and CBS Sports Network). The February 10 PBA Tournament of Champions finals, broadcast on Fox, has had the highest 2019 first-run audience at 1,132,000 viewers. The ten PBA Tour Playoffs broadcasts drew a total of 7,941,000 viewers on FS1, FS2 and Fox.[5]
Tournament schedule[edit]
On August 28, 2018, the PBA announced that all events televised on Fox and FS1, except for the USBC Masters, will only be open to members of the association. The USBC Masters has traditionally allowed qualifying USBC members who may not be PBA members to participate, and will continue to do so. PBA Xtra Frame Tour, PBA Regional Tour and PBA50 Tour events will also continue to allow qualifying non-members to participate.[6]
The 2019 PBA Tournament of Champions and PBA Players Championship majors were held in February. In order to include it in Fox's new contract, the PBA's World Series of Bowling X (which includes three standard PBA title events and the PBA World Championship — the season's third major) was postponed for 2018 and moved to March 2019, with live finals broadcasts occurring in prime time across four consecutive nights.[7][8] For the first three majors of 2019 and the PBA Indianapolis Open, Fox and the PBA offered a $1 million bonus for any player who rolls a 300 game in the televised title match. Of the PBA's 26 televised 300 games, only two came in the title match, and neither of these was in a major tournament.[9]
The season's fourth major, the USBC Masters, will take place March 26–April 1 in Las Vegas. The U.S. Open, the season's final major, has been scheduled for October 23–30 in Mooresville, North Carolina.
A new PBA Playoffs event features the top 24 players in points after the first 13 events of the 2019 season (through the USBC Masters), and offers a $100,000 top prize. The single-elimination tournament is set up in a split format, with the elimination rounds held April 8–10 and the final four competing in two live broadcasts on June 1 and 2.[10]
The PBA League team event, which has been held since the 2012–13 season, will continue into 2019. For the first time, all rounds of this tournament will air in live broadcasts, between July 16 and July 18.
As in the previous two seasons, CBS Sports Network will carry the PBA Tour Finals, which takes place July 20 and 21 in Las Vegas. (PBA Commissioner Tom Clark later announced a four-year agreement with CBS Sports Network to cover the PBA Tour finals through the 2022 PBA season.[11]) The tournament retains a similar format as in 2018, with eight top players seeded into two groups of four. The main difference for 2019 is that the eight players will be determined based on Tour points ranking since the beginning of the 2018 season. (In previous PBA Tour Finals, the eight bowlers were chosen and seeded based on Tour earnings, not points.) CBS Sports Network will broadcast an unprecedented ten hours of live coverage over the two days.[12]
The PBA Xtra Frame summer tour returns with some additional incentives. Renamed the USBC Cup tour, this consists of nine title events in seven cities, beginning with the PBA Lubbock Sports Shootout in late June and concluding with the three-event PBA Summer Swing on August 24–31. All events will air live on the FloBowling Xtra Frame webcast service. The top five PBA members in points over these nine events will share in a $40,000 bonus pool, with the top points earner winning a $20,000 bonus and the honor of USBC Cup champion.[13] In addition, the top eight PBA members over these events will earn berths in the FloBowling PBA ATX Summer Tour Finals on September 21 and the PBA China Tiger Cup on November 19–21. In the China Tiger Cup, the eight players will join eight Chinese PBA members in singles and team matches at the first PBA event to ever be held in China.[14]
Tournament summary[edit]
The 2019 PBA tournament schedule is shown below. Major tournaments are in bold. Career PBA title numbers for winners are shown in parenthesis (#).[15][16] Prize money is shown in US dollars.
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Tour points are awarded for most events. Besides the season-ending Harry Smith PBA Points Winner award, points are one consideration for Player of the Year voting, and also affect eligibility for the PBA Playoffs, PBA Tour Finals (combined with 2018 points), PBA China Tiger Cup (USBC Cup event points only) and the 2020 DHC PBA Japan Invitational. Points for tournaments are awarded differently based on a 'tier' system. The tier of each qualifying tournament is shown in the Notes column on the tournament schedule, and is explained below.[17]
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