When Furballs Strike (WFS) 47 - Kenmore Lanes Furbowl

Our 47th When Furballs Strike is set for Saturday, Nov. 18, the weekend before Thanksgiving! In the spirit of the season, our theme will be "Fall Furry Foodies" where we celebrate the joy of cooking, eating and gathering together for a great meal. We will have many food & kitchen-themed prizes in our raffle, and as high-level sponsor gifts!

Supersponsor/Ultrasponsor Gifts: The Special gifts for WFS 47 will be two unique food plush: Supersponsors will get an 8" baguette plush and Ultrasponsors will be upgraded to an adorable 10" Boba Tea plush! Both make great fursuit props or mini-pillows! Ultrasponsors can also choose either the FurLife Backpack (WFS 46) or Tumbler (WFS 45) instead of the Boba plush, while supplies last. If you want an alternate gift please let me know when you pre-reg!

FURSUIT CHANGING/GROUP PHOTO

We have a dedicated room for fursuit changing/storage (behind the party room partition). Please be courteous to other attendees and only use this room if you need to, and try to space out usage so it doesn't overcrowd.

The fursuit group photo is taken at 2pm before bowling starts. When setting up for the photo please let shorter fursuiters be in the front, and spread out side-to-side as much as possible since the photo is taken as a panoramic.

REGISTRATION & COST

Each registration comes with 2 games of bowling & shoe rental. To pre-reg, send your payment here via Paypal OR Venmo using the "Family & Friends" option: http://paypal.me/kijani / https://www.venmo.com/u/kijanilion

Include in the Notes/info section your FurLife username or what name you want on the bowling score screen. We will be assigning 5 bowlers per lane.

IMPORTANT: If you would like to bowl in a group, please make sure ALL members pre-reg (put in the notes section who you want to bowl with) or check in together in-person.

$12 Base Reg - Bowling, shoe rental, 1 raffle ticket

$15 Sponsor - Bowling, shoe rental, 5 raffle tickets, 1 FurLife decal

$20 SuperSponsor - Bowling, shoe rental, 15 raffle tickets, 1 FurLife Decal, 1 Supersponsor (SS) drawing ticket to win special SS-Only prizes

SuperSponsor Gift: Baguette Bread plush (8")

NEW $30 UltraSponsor - All Supersponsor swag + Extra SS drawing ticket + WFS Holographic Decal

UltraSponsor Gift: Boba Tea Plush (10"), or alternate gift as specified above. Please consider UltraSponsoring to support the event, as our costs have gone up significantly.

If you pre-reg, there will be a separate, much faster-moving line for where you check in, pick up your raffle tickets and lane assignment. Pre-Reg closes at NOON on November 17 (day before WFS).

For on-site registration, Cash or card is accepted. For cards there is a .50 fee per reg through our secure payment processing system.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

11:30am - Party room opens
12:15 - Pre-Reg Check In opens
12:30 - At-event Registration opens
1:40 - Registration closes
2:00 - Fursuit Group Photo (usually in the middle of our assigned lanes, listen for announcement)
2:15 - Bowling starts
4:15 - Bowling ends
4:30 - Awards & Prize Raffle

PRIZE RAFFLE

There will be many amazing prizes (many food or kitchen-themed!) for attendees to take home in our prize raffle which takes place in the Party Room after bowling.

Extra tickets may be purchased for $1 each (or $4 for 5) anytime prior to the raffle beginning.

DJ
DJ NUBZ (SikuTheBear) will be spinning beats for us! He played at Furvana and is excited to make his WFS debut.

FOOD

Kenmore Lanes has a full restaurant and bar for us to order from at our leisure. Please do not bring in any outside food or drink as this is against Kenmore's house policies. Things like bottled water/sport drinks kept in the party room for our fursuiters is fine and encouraged.

WFS GROUP DINNER UPDATE

Unfortunately due to low turnout at the last Group Dinner, we have decided to discontinue it for the time being as we are not reaching the buffet's minimum reservation to rent out their party room. We will still do the Pizza Party occasionally and may return for a special Group Dinner at some point!

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First WFS meet or if you'd like to see what it's like? Check out these videos from a recent WFS and also our world record meet several years ago!

When Furballs Strike 45

When Furballs Strike 30 - New world record! 340 attendees & 158 fursuiters!