After having taken hold of the top spot in the league standings in Week #6 and not relinquishing it at all, Bowltron wrapped up their run Tuesday night by racking up enough wins to be untouchable in the Finals next week. Congratulations to four time champion John Boren and first time winners Bryan Mohr and Rob Kaszuba! Oh, and Ryan Doll was carried along for the ride as well. The Finals this week will merely be for a formality as the rest of the league just divides what's left over. Ready to hear how it all played out in Week #15? Read on...They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder so it's pretty apparent that there will be no yearning in the Finals between Split It and Hit It and Will Strike if Provoked as they will face off once again like they did this week. Entering the night in 3rd place and 4th place respectively, the teams battled one another to a standstill with Split It's Dennis Blake hoisting a 527 to Will Strike's Aubrey Moren 621. The wins keep them right where they were, with a single win separating them.On Lanes 43 & 44, Bewbie Dance needed to add big wins in order to keep their championship hopes alive but ran face first into Ballz Out and this season's #1 Rookie of the Season contender Chadwick Andrews. Putting up a team high 495 series – and netting both #1 Power Ranked bowler as well as Most Valuable Bowler honors in the process – Andrews led his team to a surprising 3-1 matchup victory and effectively ending the Bewbs big second half of the season. The wins allow Ballz Out to hop up to 5th while Bewbie Dance remains in 2nd place. Carl Goetz led the Bewbs with a 536 series in the losing effort.With Even Brunker Than Defore running late, Gutterfingers opted to let 'em catch up once they arrived and the matchup was on. This proved to be a boon for Even Drunker as they earned a 3-1 matchup victory, nearly sweeping their opponents, with only a loss in Game #2 by a mere nine pins. Eric Lynch led Defore with his 490 series while Anita Osthoff's 473 series was the best from the Gutterfingers. Despite the wins, Even Brunker remains in 8th while, despite the losses, Gutterfingers remains in 7th place. The two teams will face one another again next week in the Finals.The last time Breaking Bad faced Bowltron, they battled one another to a standstill. The same could be said after the first two games of their matchup down on the last pair of lanes, with Bowltron taking Game #1 by 21 pins and Breaking Bad taking Game #2 by 21 pins to make Game #3 a winner-takes-three battle. Naturally, as they have done all season, Breaking Bad shit the bed and Bowltron was not only rewarded with the 3-1 matchup victory but sealing the title for the Fall 2013 season. Ryan Doll's 565 series led Bowltron for the night while Bad's Ken M. Wilson and his 594 was the best they could offer. Bowltron ends their run in 1st place while Breaking Bad takes their commanding 27-33 record into 6th place.The Tournament of Champions seeds are officially set now that the regular season has concluded. Despite Freda Schroeder thinking that she was battling everyone in all the divisions tonight (no one quite understands that one, seeing as how the ToC has been around for a couple of years now and we thought everyone understood how it works), here's how it all sits:Division 1 = Ryan Doll (35) is the #1 seed, Ken M. Wilson (23) is the #2 seedDivision 2 = Angela Bradford (29) is the #3 seed, Jonathan Vigliaturo (18) is the #4 seedDivision 3 = Freda Schroeder (33) is the #5 seed, Bryan Mohr (21) is the #6 seed (narrowly defeating Matt Bunyard due to the seasonal Power Ranking tie-breaker)Division 4 = Chadwick Andrews (29) is the #7 seed, Steve Kohlmeyer (23) is the #8 seedGood luck to these eight rollers! For those of you interested, you can check out the bracket for next week.This week's rollers spied at The 200 Club include: Aubrey Moren (215, 217), Carl Goetz (200), Dennis Blake (224), John Boren (212), and Ken M. Wilson (247).Voting for this season's Hall of Fame ballot is now officially closed. Thank you to all who voted. See you next Tuesday!

THIS WEEK'S MVB Chadwick Andrews Runner Up: (See Posting)	#1 POWER BOWLER Chadwick Andrews Runner Up: Aubrey Moren	#1 H2H BOWLER Chadwick Andrews Runner Up: Aubrey Moren
FROM THE GUTTER (GUTTER QUOTE) "Aaaaaaaand THAT'S how you win a championship. Standing there." Seth Gunderson, taking this week's cover photo after his team lost their matchup causing Bowltron to wrap up the season.

The results of tonight's Tournament of Champions matchups will officially determine which eight bowlers will do battle next week for the whole thing. While certain bowlers have already secured their spots, there still exists several key contests tonight that will fill out the remainder of the seeding.Here's a closer look into each of the four divisions...DIVISION 1While it's still up in the air if he will be handed his first championship title or not, Ryan Doll has definitely secured one thing already – the top spot in Division 1. He'll enter the ToC next week as the #1 seed. The second seed is still up for grabs between Ken Wilson (20), Carl Goetz (20), Aubrey Moren (18), Seth Gunderson (16). Even better? All four of these contenders fighting to be the #2 seed are facing those not competing for a spot in Game #1. Seth (+25) faces Kody Karnes, Carl takes on guaranteed #1 seed Doll (+11), Aubrey (+11) battles John Boren, and Ken squares off against Bill Krejci (+15). If all four contenders are blanked in the first round, it'll end up as a tie between Carl and Ken and ultimately settled by their individual power rank scores from tonight. DIVISION 2Angela Bradford has already wrapped up the top spot in Division 2 guaranteeing her as the #3 seed in the actual Tournament next week. The battle for the overall #4 seed (second place in Division #2) is up for grabs amongst Jonathan Vigliaturo (18), Dennis Blake (16), Anita Osthoff (16), and Cliff Barendsen (16). In the first round, Dennis faces off against Cliff (+11) while JV (+3) faces off against guaranteed #3 seed Angela Bradford. Anita will be giving 13-pins to Eric Lynch to round out the rest of those fighting for the overall #4 seed spot.DIVISION 3No one has garnered more ToC points this season than Freda Schroeder, guaranteeing her the #5 seed in the final showdown. The battle for the overall #6 seed is still up for grabs, albeit barely. Currently, Bryan Mohr (21) is favored to walk away with it but there still exists a shot by Matt Bunyard (15) who needs to win each of the three rounds tonight and come away with a higher power rank score than Mohr to advance into the tournament next week. Matt (+3) will face off against Erik Stark to begin his quest to earn his tournament berth.DIVISION 4In our opinion, this will be the most fun division to watch. Why? No one has secured either of the two seeds and it all comes down to Chadwick Andrews (23), Steve Kohlmeyer (22), Michael Smith (19), Dave Winger (17), and Adam LaRocca (15) to figure out who will be the #7 and #8 seeds in next week's Tournament tonight. Even better? The first round of action tonight pits two sets of them against one another – Michael will take on Winger (+15), while Steve (+21) will try to take it to Adam. Chadwick, the current leader of the division, will be going up against Stephen Miller (+19). This, along with Division 3, could provide the best finishes of the night on the march into the Tournament.With the Tournament of Champions having become a popular staple of our league, we're wondering if you all are ready to take it to the next level. Participation into the ToC has been a mere $2 with the winner taking home $42 and second place earning $22. Would you all be willing to kick in a one-time entry fee of $5 for the tournament next season? The winner would walk away with $104 with second place getting $56. Not too shabby.After having retroactively running the ToC back as far as we could with the scores from seasons past, the Tournament of Champions has truly proven to be in anyone's hands – and rarely, if ever, in the hands of the best bowler in the league. Throughout the twenty seasons of winners we were able to calculate, TEN of those were from people in Division #2. Bowlers in Division #4 have produced SEVEN champions. Rounding it out were only TWO champs from Division #3 and ONE lone champ from the top division. Good luck to all of those still fighting for a shot into the Tournament.

The final few weeks of each season are always an exercise of "what will happen if" scenarios. While some seasons have already been settled and decided, the Fall 2013 session is not one of them. Mathematically, the top four teams are still in the running albeit with two of those teams sitting in there with very long odds. Next week's matchups will truly set the stage for how the Finals will go down but, for now, Week #14's action brings us just the right amount of intrigue to keep it interesting. Here's what went down...Not having won a series against any opponent since the position round, the men of Breaking Bad finally managed to leave the bowling alley on the positive side of a battle after taking a 3-1 victory over Gutterfingers. With Kody Karnes leading the entire league with his 651 series, Bad bounced back after a narrow Game #1 loss to secure three victories and moved up one place into 5th place. Gutterfingers' Anita Osthoff led her team with a 538 series and remains in 7th place.Needing to stave off the surging of the teams just below them in the league standings, the men of Bowltron fired on all cylinders to emphatically bounce back after a lax second half of the season against opponents Even Brunker Than Defore. With anchor Ryan Doll finally earning his keep with a team-leading 621 series as well as Bryan Mohr's stint as this week's #1 Power Ranked bowler , 'tron earned one of two sweeps Tuesday night. Eric Lynch's 405 series led the way for Defore but it simply was not enough to derail the revitalized Bowltron. Both teams remain in their respective spots with Bowlton in 1st and Brunker Than Defore in 8th place.With time running out, every win that Bewbie Dance can secure keeps them in the hunt for the title this season. Facing reigning champs Will Strike if Provoked, Bewbie came out to take Game #1 by two pins and then Game #2 in a big way behind anchor Carl Goetz and his 641 series. When things looked rosy for the Bewbs, Provoked emphatically struck back. With Aubrey Moren's personal season high series of 643 just in time, Will Strike turned the tables to even the matchup at 2-2 to keep their hopes at repeating alive...barely. The wins keep Bewbie Dance in 2nd place, although they now trail Bowltron by three, but find Will Strike if Provoked slipping one spot into 4th place.If there is a team that has turned it around this season, it's definitely Split It and Hit It. After having knocked around the league for the past few sessions, the men have found a way to win a lot this season and did so again when they needed to the most against opponents Ballz Out. With anchor Dennis Blake's 562 series coupled with this week's Most Valuable Bowler performance from teammate Matt Bunyard, the Split It gang notched a 4-0 matchup victory to improve to 3rd place with their impressive 33-23 record. Ballz Out, whose jets seem to have cooled here recently, fall one spot down into 6th place. Anchor Cliff Barendsen led the team with his below-average 389 series.The Tournament of Champions rolls on:Division 1 = Ryan Doll (29), Ken M. Wilson (20)/Carl Goetz (20)Division 2 = Angela Bradford (26), Jonathan Vigliaturo (18)Division 3 = Freda Schroeder (30), Bryan Mohr (21)Division 4 = Chadwick Andrews (23), Steve Kohlmeyer (22)This week's rollers spied at The 200 Club include: Anita Osthoff (210), Aubrey Moren (223, 224), Bryan Mohr (202), Carl Goetz (222, 216, 203), Dennis Blake (224), John Boren (202, 225), Jonathan Vigliaturo (204), Ken M. Wilson (215, 202, 229), Kody Karnes (202, 213, 236), and Ryan Doll (201, 219, 201).Voting for this season's Hall of Fame ballot is only open for one more week so, if you haven't voted yet, get in there and cast your vote(s) today! See you next Tuesday!

THIS WEEK'S MVB Matt Bunyard Runner Up: (See Posting)	#1 POWER BOWLER Bryan Mohr Runner Up: Aubrey Moren	#1 H2H BOWLER Aubrey Moren Runner Up: Ryan Doll
FROM THE GUTTER (GUTTER QUOTE) "I'm too tired...I throw too many balls." Anita Osthoff, telling her grandson full on TMI.

Week #13 is in the books and just about everything stayed the same with the standings still remaining super tight. A mere six games separate the top half of the league with two weeks of "regular season" bowling remaining before the Finals. With a few key matchups left to go before the big showdown, it's still mathematically any of these four teams season to win. In the first (and last) matchup of the night, Ballz Out battled opponents Will Strike if Provoked to a tie in Game #1 and then took Game #2 behind this week's #1 Power Ranked bowler performance out of the Ballz' Cliff Barendsen and his 578 series. The momentum stopped there, however, as Will Strike's Dennis "Pops" Laube turned the tide with his team-leading 532 series that secured Game #3 as well as the total pins victory to take a 2.5-1.5 win. Will Strike ended the night as the only team to move up at all in the league standings, improving to 3rd place. Ballz Out remains in 5th place.In the most watched matchup of the night, the two teams that have exploded in the second half of the season – Bewbie Dance and Split It and Hit It – collided head on Tuesday night...and it ended up almost entirely belonging to the Bewbs. With anchor Carl Goetz leading the way with his 616 series, the Bewbies came just one game shy of blanking Split It by winning the first two as well as total pins. Split It's anchor Dennis Blake kept his team alive with his 518 series but slipped one spot down into 4th place with the losses. Bewbie Dance remains in 2nd place, back one single game.All season long, Even Brunker Than Defore has been picked on by their opponents. Not this week. With anchor Eric Lynch putting up a Most Valuable Bowler performance with his 510 series against laughingstocks Breaking Bad, the team finally broke into double digits in the win column after splitting their series at 2-2. Bad's Kody Karnes led his team with a 616 series to keep them in 6th while Even Brunker remains in 8th.Down on lanes 47 & 48, Bowltron desperately tried to hold onto their perch atop the league standings and managed to do so against opponents Gutterfingers. With John Boren leading the entire league with his 632 series, Games #1 and #2 – as well as total pins – ended up going their way but it was Scott "Scooter J" Murdock's 498 series (mainly from his Game #3 score of 202) that secured the come-from-behind 3-pin victory in their final game. Both teams remain in their respective positions on the league standings, Bowltron in 1st and Gutterfingers in 7th place.The Tournament of Champions rolls on:Division 1 = Ryan Doll (23), Ken M. Wilson (19)Division 2 = Angela Bradford (26), Cliff Barendsen (16)Division 3 = Freda Schroeder (30), Bryan Mohr (15)Division 4 = Chadwick Andrews (22), Michael Smith (18)This week's rollers spied at The 200 Club include: Aubrey Moren (221), Bill Krejci (223, 215), Carl Goetz (213, 207), Cliff Barendsen (202), Dennis Blake (205), Dennis Laube (206), John Boren (226, 214), Ken M. Wilson (203, 205), Kody Karnes (224, 201), Scott Murdock (202), and Seth Gunderson (208).Voting is only open a couple more weeks for the Hall of Fame ballot this season and is looking for your vote(s) today! Get in there and make it happen for someone.See you next Tuesday!

THIS WEEK'S MVB Eric Lynch Runner Up: (See Posting)	#1 POWER BOWLER Cliff Barendsen Runner Up: Dennis Laube	#1 H2H BOWLER John Boren Runner Up: Cliff Barendsen
FROM THE GUTTER (GUTTER QUOTE) "Oh sure, you can put ME down but you can't put down Doll's weak ass team?!?" Diglett, flipping Scoot shit from beyond the grave after a 1-3 matchup loss.

Now with less than four weeks until the Finals, the season that seemed to be almost wrapped up by a single team a little while back has been drastically rewritten. A mere four and a half games now separate the top half of the league standings setting the stage for an interesting November. Week #12's action was definitely owned by the help this week, as teammates stepped up to collectively aid their team on the pathway to victory. Now let's get into the recap...If there was ever a team to be feared this second half of the season, it's Bewbie Dance. Despite a roller coaster start to their season, this band of cagey veterans has weathered the storm and is currently on its way to overtaking the top spot in the league standings. Against this week's victims Gutterfingers, the Bewbs took a 3-1 matchup victory led by Hall of Famer Angela Bradford and her 551 series. The wins keep the team in 2nd place but now sit just a single game out of first. Anita Osthoff led the Fingers with a 511 series in the losing effort and remain in 7th place.In what could possibly have been the longest recorded matchup in league history, Will Strike if Provoked ended up taking cursed team Breaking Bad 3-1 on lanes 43 & 44. With anchor Aubrey Moren leading the way with his 546 series, Will Strike bounced back after a Game #1 loss to take the remaining games in the contest — including a single pin victory in Game #3. Bad's Kody Karnes led not only the team but the league with his 623 series. Will Strike remains in 4th while Breaking Bad slips a spot into 6th place. Things are not looking good for the men of Bowltron. Three weeks ago, 'tron sat atop the league standings with a solid eight game league over everyone and showed no signs of slowing down. Since then? They have combined for a 2-10 record. Their latest beatdown came at the hands of surging Split It and Hit It, who is enjoying their best season to date. Led by anchor Dennis Blake's 555 series – and aided by this week's Most Valuable Bowler performance out of Matt Bunyard – Split It refused to back down after a Game #1 misfire to end the night with a 3-1 matchup victory. The wins keep Split It in 3rd place but they now sit just four games behind 1st place Bowltron. John Boren led Bowltron with a 585 series.The only team to sweep their opponents – and, subsequently, improve their position in the standings this week – was Ballz Out. Taking aim at opponents Even Brunker Than Defore, the Ballz' anchor Cliff Barendsen and his 560 series put up this week's #1 Power Ranked bowler performance to propel his team up a notch into 5th place. Brunker's Eric Lynch provided the most fire power for his gang with a 460 but it simply wasn't enough to turn the tide, despite two games being very close. Even Brunker Than Defore remains in 8th place.The Tournament of Champions rolls on:Division 1 = Ryan Doll (23), Ken M. Wilson (18)Division 2 = Angela Bradford (26), Dennis Blake/Jonathan Vigliaturo (15)Division 3 = Freda Schroeder (24), Bryan Mohr (15)Division 4 = Chadwick Andrews (22), Michael Smith (18)This week's rollers spied at The 200 Club include: Angela Bradford (203), Aubrey Moren (227), Bill Krejci (203), Dennis Blake (203), John Boren (214, 209), Ken M. Wilson (202), Kody Karnes (232), and Ryan Doll (203).The Hall of Fame ballot is open and ready for your vote(s) today! Get in there and make it happen for someone.On a final note, it's a sad day in GutterAlley history as Anastasia "Stasia" Gregory (pictured above, on the right) will be leaving the employ of the bowling alley as she recently received a promotion at her other job and will be focusing on that. Her Tuesday with us was her last. Good luck, Stasia! You'll definitely be missed.See you next Tuesday!

THIS WEEK'S MVB Cliff Barendsen Runner Up: (See Posting)	#1 POWER BOWLER Matt Bunyard Runner Up: Cliff Barendsen	#1 H2H BOWLER Cliff Barendsen Runner Up: Matt Bunyard
FROM THE GUTTER (GUTTER QUOTE) "There's no way that that dude's ass is that big. Damn!" Chelsea and Stasia, commenting on the size of Chadwick's badonkadonk.