October 17, 2025 Nolan Hughes

The PBA East and Northwest Regions have solidified their automatic qualifiers for the 2025 BowlTV PBA Regional Players Invitational (RPI).

An additional four PBA and six PBA50 division players punched their ticket to the regional tour’s end-of-season tournament.

The RPI will take place Dec. 11-14 at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev.

PBA50 East

Rick Graham came up big in Binghamton, N.Y., tallying a 10-2 match play record to claim the PBA50 Ripic's Carousel Lanes East Region BowlTV RPI Open title. Graham averaged 212 across his 20 games.

Graham will make the trek to Reno alongside fellow right-handers Robert Mockenhaput and David Handlowich Jr.

PBA Northwest

The BowlTV PBA RPI Jim Kent Memorial Qualifier, which honors the late father of PBA Tour star Marshall Kent, brings out a star-studded tournament field each year.

With talents like Kent, EJ Tackett, AJ Johnson and Sean Rash in the field, Darren Tang emerged with the title — his second regional title as a two-handed player and 16th of his career. Tang, who made the switch full-time earlier this year, Tang took down Cameron Weier, AJ Johnson and EJ Tackett in match play.

With several national tour players in the field, the RPI berths trickled down the standings. Lanndyn Carnate (who finished 16th in the PBA World Championship this year), Weier, Riley Woodard and Evan Nash will represent the Northwest Region in Reno.

PBA50 Northwest

The BowlTV PBA50 RPI Gary Mage Memorial Qualifier is named in honor of the region’s founder, longtime tournament director and PBA Hall of Famer, who passed away earlier this year.

A dominant performance from Michael Kennedy in match play powered him to the title. He went 6-0 across his three match victories while averaging more than 220.

Kennedy, Craig Tuholski and Rich Corwin earned the region’s three automatic RPI berths.

The first four players to secure their spot in the RPI were Alex Horton, Joe Paluszek, Andrew Hall and Andrew Suscreba out of the PBA East Region.

Ten additional players secured their RPI berths earlier this month out of the PBA Central and Southwest regions.

Qualifiers from the PBA Sweden, Japan and China regions will be announced soon.

There are no RPI qualifier events on tap this weekend, but the PBA Midwest Region’s event will take place Oct. 24-26.

More information on the RPI, including eligibility and rules, is available here.