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SPOILERS OK - GAME THREAD

Use this thread to chat about the TV finals before, during and after the telecasts. Have questions? Post them below and I will do my best to answer them.

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The World Series of Bowling is 5 events held over 2 weeks. This post is for the 4 Animal Patterns only. There will be a separate post for the 5th event (World Championship) which will have its TV finals take place in June. Each Animal Pattern pays $20k for first place.

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All Animal Pattern events have the same format: 10 games qualifying (2, 5 game blocks same day), then cut to top 12. Top 4 qualifiers get a bye in bracket match play. Seeds 5-12 will bowl on TV to determine who meets the players with the byes. All will be carried out on TWO TV SHOWS the same day on CBS Sports Net.

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2026 PBA Cheetah Championship - Saturday May 9th 1st TV Show 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific. TV Finals Show 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific

(8) Brandon Bonta vs. (9) Kris Prather : Winner meets (1) Cameron Crowe

(7) Brandon Kreyer vs. (10) AJ Johnson : Winner meets (2) Spencer Robarge

(6) Bill O'Neill vs. (11) Hayden Stippich : Winner meets (3) Matt Sanders

(5) Packy Hanrahan vs. (12) Chase Nadeau : Winner meets (4) Zachary Tackett

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2026 PBA Chameleon Championship - Sunday May 10th 1st TV Show 4pm Eastern, 1pm Pacific. TV Finals Show 6pm Eastern, 3pm Pacific

(8) Anthony Simonsen vs. (9) Mitch Hupe : Winner meets (1) Jason Belmonte

(7) Tobias Boerding vs. (10) Boog Krol : Winner meets (2) Darren Tang

(6) Santtu Tahvanainen vs. (11) Deo Benard : Winner meets (3) Jason Sterner

(5) Kyle Sherman vs. (12) Riley Woodard : Winner meets (4) Jakob Butturff

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2026 PBA Scorpion Championship - Monday May 11th 1st TV Show 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific. TV Finals Show 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific

(8) Thomas Larsen vs. (9) Kris Prather : Winner meets (1) Zach Wilkins

(7) Sean Rash vs. (10) Santtu Tahvanainen : Winner meets (2) Chris Via

(6) Jesper Svensson vs. (11) Nate Stubler : Winner meets (3) EJ Tackett

(5) Graham Fach vs. (12) Darren Tang : Winner meets (4) Zach Weidman

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2026 PBA Shark Championship - Tuesday May 12th 1st TV Show 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific. TV Finals Show 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific

(8) Packy Hanrahan vs. (9) Tommy Jones : Winner meets (1) Ronnie Russell (Yes, Ronnie Russell!)

(7) Tobias Boerding vs. (10) Alex Horton : Winner meets (2) Chris Via

(6) Hayden Stippich vs. (11) Kyle Sherman : Winner meets (3) Patrick Dombrowski

(5) EJ Tackett vs. (12) Mitch Hupe : Winner meets (4) Brandon Bonta

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Next event: 2026 PBA World Championship. Preliminaries are done, Top 9 players move on to Television Finals 6/12 & 6/13 (not June 16th as shown on PBA.com)