December 12, 2025 Nolan Hughes

The National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev. welcomes the best PBA Regional Tour players in the nation, and across the globe, this weekend. 

The 2025 BowlTV PBA Regional Players Invitational will crown a grand champion in the PBA and PBA50 divisions.

The tournaments offer a combined $125,000 prize fund across both the PBA and PBA50 divisions, including a $15,000 top prize in the PBA division and $10,000 for the PBA50 division winner.

The PBA RPI trophies are named in honor of Chris Warren, who is tied with Pete Weber for the record with 47 career PBA Regional Tour titles. Add in his 13 PBA50 Regional Tour titles and Warren trails only Walter Ray Williams Jr. in total regional titles.

Additionally, the winner will receive an automatic entry into their respective 2026 PBA Tournament of Champions field.

The PBA and PBA50 divisions will compete concurrently with qualifying beginning Friday at 10 a.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) and continues at 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET) in both divisions.

The top 24 PBA players and top 12 PBA50 players will advance to match play following Saturday morning’s third round of qualifying, which begins at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. ET).

Match play will begin at 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET) in both divisions, and continue at 6 p.m (9 p.m. ET) in the PBA division on Saturday.

Sunday’s final day of competition includes the Round of 8 at 9 a.m. (noon ET), Round of 4 at 11:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. ET) and the championship match at 1 p.m. (4 p.m. ET).

All qualifying and match play rounds will be livestreamed on BowlTV.

Players were invited to the RPI based on their performances throughout the 2025 PBA Regional Tour season.

Fourteen players from each of the seven PBA Regional Tours (East, Central, Midwest, South, Southwest, West and Northwest) qualified for the event, including 10 from each region’s points list and four from each region’s RPI qualifier event.

In the PBA50 division, four players qualified from each region’s points list and three from each region’s RPI qualifier event.

One player qualified in the PBA and PBA50 division from each of the PBA Sweden, Japan and China regions, respectively.

  • Sweden: Joachim Karlsson and Oskar Broström
  • Japan: Yuta Saito and Toshihiro Sakuraba
  • China: Otto Leung of Hong Kong and Shu-Kuo Yang of Taiwan

Additionally, three players will earn priority entry status for the 2026 PBA Tour based on their final qualifying position. Only players who finished top five in their region’s points list were eligible to compete for this distinction. Players who are competing for 2026 PBA Tour priority entry status are bolded below.

PBA East Region

RPI Qualifier: Alex Horton, Joe Paluszek, Andrew Hall, Andrew Suscreba

Points List: Aaron Major, John Furey, Ethan Crouse, Andrew Lazarchick, Tom Sorce, Dylan Bowers, Mike Ruben, Sam DeWitt III, Jake Rollins, Kevin Bienko

PBA Central Region

RPI Qualifier: Zac Tackett, Zach Weidman, Jeff Mann

Points List: Dean Vargo, Ryan Speer, Evan Genz, Scott McIntire Jr., Ryan Liederbach, Patrick Dombrowski, Michael Davidson, Gage Blackford, Treg Smart

PBA Midwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Cam Crowe, Spencer Robarge, Ryan Burton, Darin Bloomquist

Points List: Ben Sobel, Brent Boho, Phillip Watson, Ryan Lopano, River Van Veghel, Blake Reiger, Seth Tegtmeier, Jace Meyer, Drew Sacks, Brett Lloyd

PBA South Region

RPI Qualifier: Mathew Woodall, CJ Petrin, Johnny Quach, Thomas McLaughlin

Points List: Matt Taylor, Trevor Roberts, Josh Lewis, Colin Champion, Zachary Dwyer, Nicholas Fisher, John Watkinson, Zack McSwain, William Little, Corey Knight

PBA Southwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Deo Benard, Chasten Pojas, Dallas Leong, Corey Umbrello

Points List: Zach Rhoades, Gabe Alvarez, DeeRonn Booker, Rick Benard, Roger Petrin, Riley Patton, Kris Koeltzow, Stu Williams, Alex George

PBA West Region

RPI Qualifier: Hunter Mayes, Michael Fitzgerald, Chad Lusche, Tim Cagle II

Points List: Jake Peters, Chase Nadeau, Tim Ursillo, Kyle Morrison, Nickolas Freiberg, Michael Romero, PJ Haggerty, Michael Marmolejo, Cerell Cardines

PBA Northwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Lanndyn Carnate, Riley Woodard, Cameron Weier, Evan Nash

Points List: Harry Weigle, Jerry Jennings, Thomas McNeal, Manny Ferrell, Tanner Acosta, Jordan Jung, Shawn Horenberger, Clay Rees

PBA50 East Region

RPI Qualifier: Rick Graham, David Handlowich Jr., Stephen Haas

Points List: Jeff Ripic, Charles Harris, Scott Kinkaid, John Neral

PBA50 Central Region

RPI Qualifier: Kyle Bigelow, Michael Clark Jr., Darryl Bower

Points List: Michael Haggitt, Larry Verble, Chuck Lupica III, John Shreve Jr.

PBA50 Midwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Ron Hurt, Scott Merritt, Jeff Johnson

Points List: Tony Oliva, Anthony Jovanovich, Bill Fabian, Rick Woloszyn

PBA50 South Region

RPI Qualifier: Dennis Killough, Mark Dillard, Rudy Kasimakis

Points List: Randy Weiss, Dan Knowlton, Allan Pomatto, Victor Florie Jr.

PBA50 Southwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Paul Fleming, Tony Lanning, Michael McHugh

Points List: John Burkett, Chris Warren, Mike Bailey, Robert Lawrence

PBA50 West Region

RPI Qualifier: Michael Hartter, Tony Rodriguez Jr., Joe Petrovich

Points List: Curtis Woods Jr., Robby Porter, Eric Adolphson, Gerald Vertigan

PBA50 Northwest Region

RPI Qualifier: Michael Kennedy, Craig Tuholski, Rich Corwin

Points List: Blaine Weninger, Shawn Copeland, Randy Macomber, Robert Reed Sr.