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The Hose

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What do you think about this....
« on: February 24, 2004, 10:26:42 PM »
Our home town only has one 16 lane house.  We run a city tournament which people really get all excited about.  Winning city titles is a way to pad your resume' in order to get into the city Hall of Fame.

Because of the small number of teams, the association decided several years ago to let you bowl on three different teams as long as you change out two of the bowlers.

I happen to think this is unfair and I've never bowled more then one team.  If you take the top 7 or 8 bowlers and just change them out, sooner or later, one of teams will win even though they never bowl together in league.

I made a suggestion to a friend that I thought that you should only be able to win a "so called" title if it's your first team.  You can win the tournament and get the money but no recognition of a city title unless it's your first team.  Therefore, you could have two guys bowl on a second team, win it, but not be able to claim a title whereas the three other bowler who are bowling their first team could claim a "City Title".

I know it sounds crazy but I just don't think it's right to rack up the city titles because of a crap shoot.  I'm sure that if I took myself and the top 5 or six bowlers to choose from, I'd have a chance to win it every year but I don't feel it's right so I only bowl with a team that I bowl with in league.

What are your thoughts?
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Re: What do you think about this....
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2004, 01:33:32 PM »
We are only allowed to post scores for all events on are first team event only. We dont get to pick and choose what team we will use are scores from.
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The Hose

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Re: What do you think about this....
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2004, 01:40:11 PM »
I think you are missing the point.  You can win and you can get the money. You just can't claim a city title for your resume' unless it's your first team.  You may wish to bowl with your loaded up team the first one if you wish.  You do have to claim your first team for all-events.
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Re: What do you think about this....
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2004, 02:00:31 PM »
I would tend to agree that it cheapens titles. They don’t give multiple re-entries for doubles and singles so why team events.

I’m not sure that team event titles are very good criteria for election into a hall of fame anyway. A bowler could simply always be on a very good team and by default alone they might win several titles over a career, particularly in a small association.

Singles and doubles title show more of the individual performance needed.

It’s sad that so few now day’s want the competition of city tournaments and that they have to resort to these types of things to increase entries.
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Re: What do you think about this....
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2004, 02:12:00 PM »
I dont know about the rest of you but we bowl team, singles and doubles and each one is added up to total a all events pin fall. i.e team I shot 787 doubles I shot 520 singles I shot 560 for a grand total of 1847. you can bowl team three times but have to switch two members out and can only bowl doubles and singles once.
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