An eliminator is simple to explain and unpleasant to administer — the field halves every game and somebody has to work out who is still alive while bowlers are standing at the desk asking.
The lowest-scoring half of the field is eliminated each game. The program applies the cut as scores are entered and keeps the alive list current, so the answer to “am I still in?” is on a printed sheet rather than in somebody's memory.
You decide how many positions pay, based on entries. The program works the payouts from the pool that was actually collected and shows them before you commit — there is no fixed structure imposed on your event.
An eliminator produces more disputes per dollar than almost any other side format, and nearly all of them come from the same place: two bowlers sitting on the cut line, or several survivors finishing level. The software applies the cut and tracks who is alive; what it cannot do is decide, halfway through, how your house wants a tie handled.
Post that rule with your entry information before the first ball — how a tie on the cut line is resolved, and how a pot is divided if more than one bowler survives. Written down in advance it is a footnote. Decided at midnight with people waiting, it is an argument.
This runs inside the same session as your brackets and side pots. You are not exporting to a second tool or keeping a separate sheet — entries, scores, counts and payouts all live in one place, and the printed reports come out of the same program.
The free demo is the complete program, not a limited trial — every feature unlocked, capped at 16 bowlers per session so you can see exactly how it works.
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