Thinking about the upcoming fall season dealing with social distancing ideas. Maybe have each team on a pair of lanes. I know some leagues take the entire house so it's possible teams may have to bowl on different days. Maybe we can all brainstorm with different ideas during the summer to address it. I hope everything will be back to normal by the fall but we should have some contegeency ideas. Let's see what we all can come up with during this down time in the season.
I brought up a similar idea of one team per pair on another forum, and immediately everyone said absolutely not because it wouldn't be fair. The main objection was that a team could shape the lane the way they wanted and drive up their scores by not having the other team there to push oil around. Personally, I don't think it would be that big of a deal. I bowl on a super competitive scratch league, and we literally never have discussed a strategy where we try to create a track area on the lane for our team.
The biggest thing I am hearing that centers are considering is limiting teams to 3 per team. Also removing furniture/seating to allow people to stay the typical 6ft away from others while waiting for their turn.
At the end of the day, it will just come down to doing whatever it takes to get back to bowling. If that means one team per pair, reducing team size, bowling on different days and matching up scores, bowling with a mask on, whatever! I'll go with it.
