During the last game on our Tuesday night mens league, one of the guys on the team we were playing walked out just before the 5th frame. Not because of injury, not because of an emergency, but because as he briefly said "I'm done with this crap!".
We waited around for about 10min thinking he maybe went outside to have a smoke or blow off steam, but nope, he was gone. He's probably a casual bowler at best, around a 150 average, and wasn't that far off his average when he walked out. So we figured we'd just mark him absent and move on. That's where the chaos ensued. In the process of marking him absent, the other team accidentally marks the wrong guy absent (touch screens suck!) His score was erased, and no one knew exactly what he had up until that point. So we go to the counter, they don't have it either! Now we're really screwed. The shouting begins as we're all arguing over what this guy had in the 5th frame, meanwhile we are looking up the ruling on the guy that left.
After about 15min we come to an agreement on what the guys score was that was erased. We found the rule on what happens when someone leaves for no reason, they get the score they had when they left. We couldn't find what to do on a erased score though. We ended up winning the game, so no big deal, but what a mess!
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-Clint