Previous winners include Mark Casey, Nathan Rice, Lynsey Armitage as well as a host of other Australian representatives.

In this first year, BQ combined the previously separate competitions of Queensland Blind Bowlers Association, Deaf Bowlers, Lifestream (intellectual disabilities) and Sporting Wheelies (physical disabilities).

The winners of each section qualify for the disabled draw of the Australian bowls open.

The current state squads are listed below Queensland has supplied 26 men and 23 women to the Australian team since 1950.

Lynsey Armitage, a current representative, was also named the first ever Australian bowls captain.