Ego and Laziness. I have been bowling in this house for seven years now. When I started to bowl league in this house in the Winter league of 1998, the leagues were full. It was a 32-lane house and our Tuesday league had 32 teams. There was a scratch league (after our 6:00 P.M. league) at 9:00 P.M. and sometimes I stay to watch them and there was an honor score almost every week or two. This was because the lane pattern was a true wall, outside of the seven board was dry and if they miss outside the ball comes back to the pocket, if they tug, the ball holds to the pocket. A couple of years ago, the shot changed, outside of 5 was out of bounds, there was no longer that much area. Result, there was no more Scratch league at 9:00 P.M. Our league has only 24 teams now. I think the saying should be, "Give them a wall, they will come". It looked like the bowlers who left just wanted to shoot high scores and feel good about themselves to boost their ego but do not want to make the effort to work on their game to solve the pattern that has become challenging.