Bowling Extravaganza 2024 - Winners BLAGSS Bowling
Congratulations to BLAGSS Bowling winning the 20th annual Extravaganza beating off a close challenge for BLAGSS Badminton who finished second again and Outdoor Lads in third.
Next Bowling Extravaganza - Wednesday 12 November 2025
A date for your diary, start planning!
The Bowling Extravaganza returns for 21st year, we are taking over the whole of Hollywood Bowl for the evening for a range of LGBTQI+ groups
Registration is open now, please email bowlingex@blagss.uk to register your team.
Bowling Extravaganza 2024 - Results
BLAGSS Bowling 1727
BLAGSS Badminton 1704
Outdoor Lads 1529
BLAGSS Squash 1517
BLAGSS Thursday Football 1464
Tonic 1 1435
BLAGSS Tennis 1 1394
Frontrunners 2 1388
Out to Swim 2 1374
BLAGSS Saturday Football 1353
BLAGSS Tennis 2 1334
Rainbow Families 1272
Out to Swim 1 1268
BLAGSS Walking 1196
Rainbow Golfers 1189
Frontrunners 1 1177
Tonic 2 1168
Womens Walking Football 1123
The Clare Project 1053
Lunch Positive 920
Bowling Extravaganza Past Winners
2005. BLAGSS Racquets
2006. Gay Bikers MC Club
2007. BLAGSS Bowling
2008. BLAGSS Bowling
2009. Rainbow Chorus
2010. Ishigaki
2011. Kickass
2012. Kickass
2013. BLAGSS Badminton
2014 BLAGSS Bowling
2015. BLAGSS Bowling
2016. The Camelford
2017. BLAGSS Walking
2018. BLAGSS Badminton
2019. Outdoor Lads
2020. Outdoor Lads
2021. Lunch Positive
2022. BLAGSS Tennis
2023. BLAGSS Squash
2024. BLAGSS Bowling
Bowling Extravaganza 2024 - £500 to Lunch Positive Charity
Over 175 bowlers representing 22 LGBTQ+ organisations gathered at the Bowlplex at the Marina to compete for this year's trophy, the seventeenth year the event has been organised by BLAGSS. To see the venue exclusively used by local LGBTQ+ organisations was a fantastic sight - an ideal time to meet up with old friends and make some new ones.
At this year's event BLAGSS raised £500 for LUNCH POSITIVE
BLAGSS Chair John Moore said "this is a fantastic event that brings the local community together. We are delighted to support LUNCH POSITIVE who provide valuable services for local people”.
Gary Pargeter, Lunch Positive Service Manager said -
Thank you so much to everyone at BLAGSS for staging this wonderful event and the brilliant funds raised for Lunch Positive. Lunch Positive is a small charity that reaches widely and involves many people with HIV. We help in many ways. This fundraising will directly support our emergency food bank and community food provision for people with HIV. This will especially help the development of additional food provision for people with HIV who are insecurely housed, street-homeless, and people experiencing both financial and housing difficulties. These funds raised will have a direct impact on the level of support we provide and the people we reach. We are deeply grateful.
Bowling Extravaganza Rules
Each team has 8 players. In the event that a team has less than 8 players this is how it will be handled.
The system for calculating the results for teams with different numbers of players will be as follows:
At the start of each game the numbers of players are entered into the system by the Bowling Management eg 6, 7 or 8 players. Teams will complete the Team Sheet, using actual names and return to the Organisers Table, before the games begin.
A team with less than 8 members cannot play additional fictional members to make the numbers up to 8.
Team scores are calculated as follows to enable scores between teams with a different number of members to be comparable.
• Team of 8 - total score from 2 games
• Team of 7 - total score from 2 games, divided by 7, then multiplied by 8
• Team of 6 - total score from 2 games, divided by 6, then multiplied by 8
• Teams of less than 6 could play but not count on the final results.
The computerised system will provide the scores of each team member on each lane, which will then have to be added up by BLAGSS officials who will then apply the above calculation. The computer cannot do the maths across the two games.
This system is the one recommended by Bowlplex Management and is widely used at Corporate and Social events such as the BLAGSS event and will be used for this event.