For those of you new to JANBA (Japanese American National Bowling Association), the tournament is a week-long tournament, but you can enter events for only 1 day or as many as 5 days — it's up to you. The tournament runs every year in a different city in the first FULL week of March. Ragtime doubles kicks off the tournament on Sunday night.
Sunday
Ragtime doubles kicks off the tournament on Sunday night
Monday
Women's 4‑gamer and Men's 6‑gamer all day
Tuesday
Mixed doubles events are run all day
WednesdayMain event
Women's and Men's team events all day
ThursdayMain event
Doubles for the men's and women's
FridayMain event
Women's and men's singles
Saturday
JANBA Awards Banquet
The official Events, numbered #1 to #9 in squad order: the order of the lane schedule.
Women's 4-Game Classic
Individual
Men's 6-Game Classic
Individual
Mixed Doubles
Pairs
Women's Team
Teams of five
Men's Team
Teams of five
Women's Doubles
Pairs
Men's Doubles
Pairs
Women's Singles
Individual
Men's Singles
Individual
Handicap and novelty competitions outside the nine Events.
Titles won on totals across the Events, not Events of their own.
The tournament is scratch, but you are scheduled and will bowl against and with bowlers in your same average group. The idea is to win or cash in your division, and if you win that and you are high over all of the divisions, you can be declared the JANBA champion of the main board and declared the "Overall Champion" — which is quite an honor!
You don't ask for squad times; you will be assigned a squad time based on your average (or your team's average in non-singles events). You will get a schedule weeks prior to the tournament — just make sure you save the whole day in case you aren't sure what time you will bowl.
Just be flexible, and plan to get there the day before the event. Since the main events are team, singles and doubles, you can bowl those on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday night is the Awards Banquet, where all awards are presented and unclaimed prize money can be picked up. It's really a lot of fun at the banquet, so attend — it's the last time you see everybody for another year.
One National tournament every March, a different Host Location each year, and a tradition that reaches back to 1947.
The National tournament began under the JACL, 28 years before JANBA was founded.
The first National tournament
Salt Lake City, run by the JACL
JANBA is founded
and takes over the tournament
The next Host Location
To be announced