What difference does it make if you go their with ten and bowl on the same pair or go with five get a randomly selected team to cross with and agree with the crossing team in the squad room to break them down a pre determined way?

Its not really a five man team event either, well not if you want to have a good score.

Let's not beat around the bush here. 

The random draw worry is you have a team of strokers and you draw a companion team of super crankers.  Sure they want to play together, but their definitions are slightly different areas of the lane due to their game.

And lets also face it, most companion teams have some level of associated talent and have prepared together.  If the group says bowler x should ball down, he has that ball with him.

In a random draw, you goto companion team bowler and suggest that he ball down because of reaction and blowing open the pattern wrong he tells you that is the least aggressive piece he brought.

Then you plan is in trouble.

All of this discussion is simple.  Some bowlers in small town America, which they cannot change, or should not have to change, may not have 9 other talented bowlers  which has become necessary to win the team eagle.

So can USBC do something to level out that playing field since it is a 5 man event?

The only answer I have mentioned that no one can argue with other than tradition, is bowl on 1 lane.  You still bowl with you companion team, buddies etc.  You can still use their knowledge and expertise, but only you and your 4 team mates create your scores.  Not you and your 9 buddies, which some bowlers do not have access to.

And in singles tournaments in foreign countries, you see this more often.

If it separates scores, so be it.  Right now, it gives certain teams an appearance of a competitive advantage.  I think that is what everyone here is talking about.

Before fresh oil for everyone on every event, some groups through luck of the draw, got a competitive advantage.

Before posting the pattern online, some people with inside knowledge (per Riggs, these people existed) had the pattern and practiced on it.  A competitive advantage.

Couple of years ago, a super talented team bowled by themselves and shot lights out due to an odd # of teams on the squad.  And everyone complained that they had a competitive advantage.

I believe all everyone here is asking is, if it is possible to remove a competitive advantage.  Then remove it.  What ever that advantage may be.

Then the 5 member team from the 8 lane house in small town Alaska has the same chance to win as the 10 member teams from Arlington, or Wisconsin, or Wichita because small town Alaska probably cannot find the "talented" companion team that today's team bowling event has involved into to win the eagle.

That's all I am discussing.  And it is simply a discussion of ideas.

I see 5 men random draw for lane selection as the only fair solution. Otherwise, call it a ten men 2 team tournament because that is what iit is.

mainzer,

Thanks for the reply. I find this very similiar to me fishing the outer banks two weeks ago. I was in the right location and had the right bait. Everything was in place except me not catching fish. Nice Man at the bait shop showed me a rig to use, and that was it! I was catching fish almost every cast that night. Difference - Rig I was using had one hook and was on the bottom, new rig had 3 hooks on it and they were spaced 12 to 18 to 24 inches from the bottom. I caught 99% of my fish on the top two hooks.

Bowling is no different. You can have the right equipment and throw great, but if you don't play the pattern the right way, it can be a very long day of with no fish ... I mean no strikes.

Never knew there were 10 man teams?