Sponsored by the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) and its website bowl.com, it ran concurrently with several stops on the Professional Bowlers Association's men's tour.
After the PWBA folded, female bowlers have had very few national venues in which to bowl, other than the USBC Queens event.
A few female bowlers, including Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, Liz Johnson and Kelly Kulick, began competing on the "men's" PBA Tour with limited success.
The top five doubles teams competed in a "Baker style" stepladder final (male and female bowlers alternate frames during each game).
[3] Each event at the World Series of Bowling had the final round taped September 5–6 for ESPN broadcasts in October–December, 2009.