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riggs

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Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« on: February 27, 2013, 11:04:54 AM »
FYI:

The 11th Frame: Update: Syracuse, Baton Rouge set to announce they're hosting future USBC Open Championships or Women's Championships?

http://11thframe.com/page/blog_id_5686
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DrBob806

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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 12:48:28 PM »
Not crazy about Baton Rouge, but I can drive there again. It looks like the USBC is listening to the bowlers, and thankfully other cities appear to be bidding again.
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tipgrinder

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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2013, 01:30:12 PM »
So, I must be missing something. If it's Reno, Reno, El Paso and Reno, then Syracuse in 2018, where are we going in 2017?
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milorafferty

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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 01:46:03 PM »
Quote from: tipgrinder on February 27, 2013, 01:30:12 PM
So, I must be missing something. If it's Reno, Reno, El Paso and Reno, then Syracuse in 2018, where are we going in 2017?

Humm, I would say Reno.
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tipgrinder

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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2013, 02:05:12 PM »
So, it's Reno in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017!
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2013, 02:28:15 PM »
RENO sucks. but I'll end up going each year probably. Wish it would move around. Never been to Syracuse would be nice, maybe Albuquerque again. Baton Rouge is a dirty place but I can drive. Even like Wichita would be nice. Someplace easy for the majority to get to and won't cost an arm or leg.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2013, 02:32:44 PM »
Too little, too late. I know DOZENS of bowlers that aren't going to USBC's this year and have said they are done for good because they are tired of being screwed. Midwest and East Coast bowlers have $1000 in expenses before they've even seen the lanes ... and NOBODY wants to go to Reno to vacation.

Over the last 30 years between USBC and PBA you could not of created a better blueprint to kill a sport. Glad I was around to see when people actually bowled these things.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2013, 03:01:53 PM »
I went to Baton Rouge last year, and discounting air fare, it was much more expensive than Reno. Of course, you can't discount air fare, but everything else costs more.

Quote from: Bowl_Freak on February 27, 2013, 02:28:15 PM
RENO sucks. but I'll end up going each year probably. Wish it would move around. Never been to Syracuse would be nice, maybe Albuquerque again. Baton Rouge is a dirty place but I can drive. Even like Wichita would be nice. Someplace easy for the majority to get to and won't cost an arm or leg.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2013, 03:09:01 PM »
I'm thinking I'll try El Paso in 2015 for my first taste of Nationals. I know it will be hot as Hell, but I know bowling centers are air conditioned.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2013, 03:53:50 PM »
I happened to make baton rouge last year because I could coordinate with a work trip.  I had been to reno/Vegas the past several times, all but once since Billings!  Just had it though..not doing Reno this year, and probably not in subsequent years as well...  I support bringing to the east coast so a majority of the bowling population can drive..

I agree, Reno is not a vacation destination...
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2013, 04:36:24 PM »
The only thing good in Reno is the Bunny Ranch...lol.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2013, 05:18:56 PM »
Didn't people that worked the tournament get killed while it was in Syracuse last time? One of the few things I remember from there is that the hotel we stayed at was just on the edge of "where not to go". A few of us needed to make a beer run and where told do not what ever we do, do not turn left out at the corner and to make sure we turned right.
Kevin Dornberger tried to get Nationals in Sioux Falls when he was living up here. It was shortly after our Convention Center was built. It was just on the to short side to hold the tournament. Now I know many people are wondering why here. Well it would have been somewhere different. Sometimes it is not a lack of places to attempt to host it.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2013, 05:48:38 PM »
I went to Albuquerque and Vegas. Albu was AMAZING, loved that city. Would go there again in heart beat. Vegas, on the other hand, was pretty crappy...Way overpriced and just not really fun for somebody not into gambling.

And from what I've been told, Reno is worse. So no, thank you. Going to go when it's in El Paso, though! And gonna try for the next Baton Rouge.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2013, 07:14:01 PM »
My first time was in Baton Rouge and I really enjoyed it. Thought it was held at a great location, ate really well, and had a great room for a very reasonable price.

I hate Louisiana in every since of the word, but I would gladly go back there again for the tournament. It is a 6 hour drive and makes it much easier to put more $$$ in to the tournament when air fare isn't involved.

I will never go to Reno to bowl this event. It isn't worth the days off and the money for me to do so. Every one I have talked with who has been all say the same thing....Reno isn't bad. Well that means it isn't that great either. Why waste the time and money for that experience.

I have been to Las Vegas twice and will go again eventually. There is so much to see and do that doesn't involve gambling that you can't get to a fraction of it when you are there in one visit. I will also try for the El Paso event but am in no way crazy about the drug war city by any means.
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Re: Back to Syracuse & Baton Rouge?
« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2013, 07:16:04 PM »
I don't care where it is, i enjoy bowling the tournament and will go where ever it is.
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