Last night was our start of season league meeting. We have a small (10 team) mixed league. Last year, our center was blessed with a new, state of the art, Kegel oil machine. We were told the we could bowl on any shot we wanted for league. So we voted and we picked 3 different Kegel Challenge shots. Overall I felt it was a success and actually 3 teams that rarely make the 4 team roll-off, were in the roll-offs. It turned out to be a great equalizer. Many of the older bowlers enjoyed returning to the days of when shot making was important. So with a mostly positive response from the league we voted on returning to that format. Unfortunately we were told by the head mechanic because the "manager" didn't want to do it, that the BowlMor "policy" forbids him from putting down anything other than a house shot for league.
When pressed, he implied that the reasoning was that BowlMor wants people to have a fun experience, and doesn't want people to quit because of the difficulty of the shot.
I find so many things sad about this, but overall I was wondering if anyone has heard of this official/unofficial policy? I have my doubts about this being the company line, but perhaps it is.
I also find it kind of ironic that they gave our center a state of the art oil machine that costs more than $30k, and can handle something like 40 pre-programmed shots and then say "you can only put down a house shot with it". I think they could have saved themselves a little bit of money.
