USBC CANCELS REMAINING 2020 NATIONAL EVENTS
USBC COLLEGIATE SEASON POSTPONED

ARLINGTON, Texas – The United States Bowling Congress has canceled all remaining national events for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

“These decisions are tough on everyone, but mostly our players, athletes and members,” USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy said. “USBC’s mission is to serve our bowlers, and canceling the most significant events in the sport certainly is heartbreaking for all involved. Nevertheless, USBC has a responsibility to consider the health of its members and their communities. Given the increasing spread of COVID-19 in several states, along with constantly changing guidelines and travel restrictions, we sadly do not see a responsible way to conduct national events in 2020.”

This cancellation includes the previously postponed USBC Open Championships, USBC Women’s Championships, USBC Masters, USBC Senior Masters, USBC Senior Queens and Super Senior Classic.

The 2020-2021 USBC Collegiate season will be postponed until January 2021 and be conducted as a second-semester sport. The dates for the Intercollegiate Team and Singles Championships will be determined at a later time, with plans to hold them in the late spring or early summer.

USA Bowling events and in-person coaching seminars for 2020 also have been postponed to 2021.

USBC previously announced the cancellation of the 2020 Professional Women’s Bowling Association Tour season, with a possibility of conducting events in the fall and winter months. In light of current conditions, plans for a PWBA event in late 2020 now are indefinitely on hold.

USBC plans to resume a traditional schedule of events in January 2021, starting with USBC Team USA Trials, as conditions allow.

 

“While USBC national events are canceled, bowling certainly is not shut down for 2020,” Murphy said. “USBC is confident competitive bowling can take place locally, and we are seeing many proprietors taking proactive steps to responsibly host leagues in accordance with local guidelines. Those steps will help leagues begin and tournaments to take place during the rest of the summer and into the fall. Our hope is that conditions improve to allow national events again in 2021.”

Teams registered for the 2020 Open and Women’s Championships may request to have their payments rolled forward for the 2021 tournaments, or they can request full refunds.

Individuals who have submitted entries for any USBC short-duration event (Masters, Senior Masters, Senior Queens, Super Senior Classic) will be refunded in the upcoming weeks.

United States Bowling Congress

The United States Bowling Congress serves as the national governing body of bowling as recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). USBC conducts championship events nationwide including the largest participation sporting events in the world – the USBC Open and Women’s Championships – and professional events such as the USBC Masters and USBC Queens.

 

Founded in 1895, today USBC and its 1,638 state and local associations proudly serve more than a million members. USBC is headquartered in Arlington, Texas, working toward a future for the sport. The online home for USBC is BOWL.com.

It's been here longer than February because I know someone that had it in late October and someone else that had it in early November. Thanks for the numbers, I was more interested in the actual numbers and not in unfounded guesses. Watching the coverage I had the impression it was far more widespread than that.

We were having a severe flu season to begin with. Worst since 2017-18.

Link to CDC’s number on last several years of flu statistics

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

Estimates for 2017-18 are 61,000 deaths, 45,000,000 infected (symptomatic).

It's been here longer than February because I know someone that had it in late October and someone else that had it in early November. Thanks for the numbers, I was more interested in the actual numbers and not in unfounded guesses. Watching the coverage I had the impression it was far more widespread than that.

It had to be here before March. People fly. It goes around the world quickly. Therefore, if we look at numbers, the immediate rise in deaths had to be from lockdown, not virus. No virus is going to be around, do nothing, then suddenly kill tens of thousands, then stop killing and just "infect" millions of asymptomtic "cases."

This makes no sense.

https://ibrahimtaher.com/covid19-a-perfect-tool-for-expanding-the-global-authoritarian-technocracy/

Lockdown will turn United States into essentially a 3rd world nation. Tens of millions in poverty will not be good for bowling, or USBC. Hard to go bowling when you have no job b/c it was too dangerous to exist due to the fact that people breathe.

Expect to see vastly accelerated decline of bowling. Hopefully it will be able to survive to some degree. Some states may become bowling free zones as governors such as Newsom and Cuomo will not rest until they destroy all joy and beauty in their states and reduce their citizens to jobless beggars dependent on state handouts.

There is a big difference between how HIV (AIDs) and Covid -19 are contracted.
HIV is not an airborne disease. One cannot catch it from a sneeze, or a cough. With Covid -19 you can.  The primary method of transmission of HIV from one person to another is through sexual intercourse, followed by the exchange of bodily fluiids directly into the bloodstream. That's not likely to happen on a crowded beach, or inside a bar or restaurant crowded with people. However, with Covid-19, the evidence
is showing that when folks don't practice social distancing guidelines, the number of Covid-19 cases skyrockets. There is a big, big difference between these two diseases.

Also, even during the height of the AIDs epidemic, hospitals were not overrun with AIDs patients as they are now with Covid-19. We didn't see scores of refrigerated trucks being brought in to act as temporary morgues. But we are certainly seeing that now with the coronavirus.

In addition, there is no comparison between the sheer number of Americans who are dying from the coronavirus than have ever died from AIDs. For example, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) reported that in 2018, close to 13,000 Americans known to have been diagnosed with AIDs died. It is uncertain how many of this number had actually died from AIDs itself. However, even if we assume that all of them died as a direct result from AIDs, that number, as tragic as it is, pales in comparison to the number of Americans that are projected to die in 2020 of Covid-19, which currently stands to be in excess of 200,000 lives.  That's quite a big difference (13, 000 v 200, 000+).

Also,when the AIDs epidemic began, there was a lockdown of sorts. Bathhouses were off limits. Elective surgeries were temporarily halted until the nation's blood supplies were deemed safe. People were urged to avoid any activities known to increase the risk of catching AIDs. Unfortunately with Covid-19, the general population is at a much higher risk of becoming infected due to its much higher degree of transmissibility.

I too, am "dying" to get back to bowling but I'm not willing to become infected with this virus and risking passing it onto my family and friends. That would be a much worse death. We are still learning about this terrible disease as time goes on, but in the meantime, the evidence across the country shows that when we practice social distancing, wear our masks when in public, the rate of infections goes down. It's not perfect, but until we get a vaccine and effective therapies to better fight it, we are stuck with what we know is working so far.

If we are concerned about the future of our local bowling establishments and our economy in general, as we all should be, we need to heed the advice to the medical professionals.  The sooner that folks come to understand this, the quicker we can return to SOME semblance of normalcy. Otherwise, the deaths will continue to explode, our hosipals will be overrun with Covid-19 patients and more businesses will be forced to close.

MJS you are spot on. We could die from about 10000 different things every day. I’m not living in a bubble hoping to not get something. I will take adequate measures but I’m going to continue to live my life.