Our city tournament is under way. Today was singles and doubles....1st squad was at 11.30.....the oil machine broke down,only oiled half he house.  we bowled on the dry side, there was oil but it broke down by the third game, we were bowling 6 games, and the shot got tough as the ball was HOOKING.......so the squad ends, the next squad comes on and there is a group of the best bowlers in town, the real cream of our crop, all bowling on a pair that never got oiled.  They start practicing and stop after 5 minutes....the alleys are 2 dry, the shot sucks, and they refuse to bowl. They got the tournament directors to admit the oil problem, and agree that they can reshedule their squad.  Now every one else in the squad is bowling, no one is offered the option of rescheduling, or moving......the prima donnas decide they will move to the oil side instead of changing squads, the directors agree and thats when all the other bowlers start complaining....that results in the prima donnas reschedling after all.  what a mess.  I have never seen anything like this before, what do you guys think?  These bowlers we are talking about are borderline pros, pro shop owners, real pillars of the bowling community etc.
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any day bowling is a good day

stikes can win the game but spares can win the tournament

thats just stupid
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15 years and still going strong! 15 years old that is! The names Warrior Princess, Xena..Warrior Princess
AM not A CHICK OF BOWLING but I wanted to be in Manda's clique And why would I "saw" pins in half, THATS A WASTE OF PINS! I'd rather blow it over with my storm, and 21mph ball speed on dry shots.

yes basiclly the NAME bowlers wound up leaving.....everybody else still was b..chinh
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any day bowling is a good day

stikes can win the game but spares can win the tournament

Being that the conditions were unfair, as in not consistent for all competitors, it should have been called off and rescheduled.  As for the whining about the dry conditions, I'm sick of all the complaining about conditions from all these "adult" bowlers that can't handle it if they don't have a perfectly fresh cake shot every week.  Makes me sick.  Learn how to bowl, geez.
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The weekly signature series, by Hamster, presenting a mini-series of quotes from Shrek!

"Oh I'll find those stairs, I whip they butt too.  They won't know which way they going.  Give me a step right here and now, I'll step all over it, kick it to the curb.  I am the stair masta, I've masta'd the stairs."

I agree with Sawbones.

Hamster - it is not a matter of learning to bowl.  These "prima donnas" just wanted the same chance to win as everyone else.  A fair tournament should have the same conditions for ALL bowlers that enter.
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RW (THB)

Any way you cut it the house messed up big time.

No matter what the shot turns out to be squad to squad,
it should start out the same the first squad.  If it
does not then the house itself is guilty of tipping
the scales in one direction or the other right off the
bat.

I am not sure if the original poster is upset that these
guys were able to reschedule or that he went ahead and
bowled on a crappy condition instead of asking for a
reschedule himself.

Jac

That's nothing. I went to a state tourney about 10 yrs ago. We had to bowl the second squad, but thought it was because our entry was late.

 We found out it had nothing to do with the state tourney. It was the morning the yaba league had it's rolloffs and they were rolling it on the pair we were scheduled to bowl on. Then, when our shift started, the house refused to re-oil our pair saying that everyone else would want their pair re-oiled.

 Needless to say, it is different bowling a squad after people who know how to bowl and a bunch of kids chunking house balls right down the middle. The oil on our pair was smeared to high heaven and you couldn't get a read on it to save your life.

 I really didn't think this was a fair situation, but we drove 450 miles to bowl in it and didn't have the option to re-schedule, so we just had to take what we got, which was screwed.
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Just call me Darreyl, it's much easier to say!

Perfecone,

This is the reason why a lot of people on here don't go to city tournaments- whether it's a youth tournament or an adult tournament. They are usually run by people who have no idea about how to run a tournament anyway.
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-Jeremy Vitug

MFBSB!!!