MEN'S ALL CITY TEAMS

The Men's and Women's All-City teams were originated by Bob Schabert,
Bowling writer for the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, following the 1956-57 season.
In 1960-61 the paper presented plaques to the bowlers signifying honor.
The Greater St.Paul Bowling Association took over the selection of the
men's team sometime in the 1960's.

 ALL CITY TEAM ELIGIBILITY RULES
(Rules revised 3/6/2002 to apply beginning with 2002-03 bowling season.)

ELIGIBILITY

All USBC sanctioned bowlers are eligible provided they:
a. bowl at least 60 games in a St Paul league,
b. average 195 or better in that league.           
(A St. Paul league shall be defined as a league  which bowls at least 50% of its games in centers
under the jurisdiction of the Greater St. Paul Bowling Association)

 All eligible bowlers shall receive points as follows:

 LEAGUE HIGH AVERAGE

   1.   Bowlers with the top 5 averages in St Paul Scratch leagues (no handicap) shall be awarded points on a 10-8-6-4-2 basis provided that:

                                 a. they bowl at least 60 games in that league,
                                 b. they averaged 195 or better in that league,
                                 c. the league has a composite average of 185 or higher,
                                 d. the league has at least 20 members,
                                 e. if a Mixed league, at least half of the league members are men.

(Ties for any of the top 5 positions will divide the points for those positions equally.
I.e. If 2 bowlers are tied for the high average, they will divide 10 + 8 = 18 points, and each will receive 9 points.
The next highest average shall receive the points for 3^rd place = 6 points.)

 ALL EVENTS

   2.   The top 5 Actual All Events scores of eligible bowlers in the St. Paul Open Championships, the Minnesota State Tournament and the USBC Open Tournament shall receive points on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis.

 MASTERS TOURNAMENTS

   3.   Eligible bowlers who finish in the top 16 places in the St. Paul Masters or the Minnesota Masters shall be awarded 8, 7 1/2, 7, ..., 1/2 points, if they finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ..., 16th place respectively.

 700 SERIES

   4.   Each Actual 700 Series in the City, State or ABC Tournaments will receive 1 point.

 HONOR SCORES

5.     Points for the following sanctioned series or game(s) in any ABC sanctioned competition under the jurisdiction of the St Paul USBC Association, in the Minnesota State Tournament, ABC Tournament or Minnesota Masters. 

     800 series - 4 points;    300 game -  3 points;   299 game -  2 points;    298 game -  1 point

700 CLUB TOURNAMENT

   6.   The top 3 scores of eligible bowlers in the AA Division of the St. Paul 700 Club Tournament shall receive points on a 3-2-1 basis.