About BowlRadar
Youth bowling schedules are scattered across association Word documents, Facebook posts, tour websites, and entry platforms. A family deciding whether a tournament is worth a Saturday drive should not have to check six places. BowlRadar puts them in one list you can filter by date and by distance.
- Events
- 194
- Centers
- 101
- Organizers
- 26
Where the data comes from
Four ways in, in rough order of how much we trust them:
- Published association schedules. Entered from the schedule the association itself distributes, which is the most reliable source there is.
- Submissions from organizers. Anyone can add an event. A moderator reviews each one before it appears.
- Automated feeds. Calendar feeds and structured data from tours and entry platforms, re-checked on a schedule. Imports are reviewed before publication rather than going straight live.
- Pasted schedules. Facebook posts and Word documents are pasted in and parsed. Facebook cannot be read automatically — its terms forbid it and its content sits behind a login — so a human does that step.
Feeds currently enabled: Beast of the East Tour, Elite Youth Tour, Junior Bowlers Tour, PBA Jr. tournament schedule, Storm Youth Championships, Tough Shots Tour, TournamentBowl.com — Mid-Atlantic, Wyoming Junior Bowlers Tour, Youth Scratch Master's Tour.
Why some events say TBD
Associations publish a season schedule months ahead, often before every host center is booked. BowlRadar keeps those entries and labels them Center TBD or Date pending rather than hiding them, because knowing a tournament exists is useful even before the venue is settled. Those events cannot appear in distance search until a center is assigned.
Always confirm entry details with the tournament director before travelling. BowlRadar is a directory, not an entry service.
Organizers listed
- NCAUSBCA Youth · association
- Virginia State USBC · association
- USBC · national
- NoVA High School · school
- 600 Club · series
- Baker Doubles · series
- Junior Gold · series
- City Tournament · series
- Invitational · series
- Vern Burke · series
- Virtual Vern Burke · series
- All Star · tour
- Beast of the East · tour
- EYT · tour
- GOAL · tour
- GYBT · tour
- JBT · tour
- NJYBT · tour
- ODYBT · tour
- PBA Jr. · tour
- SATX YBT · tour
- SYC · tour
- Tough Shots · tour
- WJBT · tour
- YSMT · tour
- YATS · tour
Use this data elsewhere
Every search is available as JSON and as a calendar feed, so an association can embed its own events on its own site:
/api/events?zip=22556&radius=100/api/calendar.ics?org=odybt
Something wrong or missing?
Corrections are welcome and go to a moderator, not into a void.