Reprint of MHI Press Release For the Benefit of the Disorganized and Scattershot SLC Contingent (authored by McCracken)

ANNOUNCING THE 2005 MCCRACKEN HOLIDAY INVITATIONAL!

While the McCracken Holiday Invitational will undoubtedly be the time of your life, it is a serious tournament. Anyone who has bowled in a Classic will tell you that the final rounds equal the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. If you are not able or willing to roll with the following, please do not commit to the tournament (but feel free to drop by, roll a few games on the side, and share the good times):

1) MHI will be a single competitor tournament. If the number of entrants exceeds expectations, we may make a game-day decision to form teams.
2) MHI is a double-elimination tourney with one warm-up game; thus each bowler is guaranteed to bowl three games (or more if you continue to win).
3) Sign in, ball selection and warm-up games are between 11am and 11:45am. Anyone who arrives after 11:20am will not be permitted to bowl in the tournament. The elimination portion of the tournament will begin at approx. 12 noon (after all warm-ups and seedings are completed).
4) The entry fee is $20 per bowler and is due upon arrival at the lanes. No fee, no bowl. This will cover all tournament bowling until elimination. The fee does not cover shoes. The fee does not cover any additional bowling should you be eliminated and decide to stay and roll a few games on your own (but you are certainly welcome to do so at your expense and on a non-tournament lane).
5) Please do not commit if you plan to leave early. MHI will likely run between four and five hours for those who continue to win.
6) MHI will be the greatest sporting event in the history of the universe.