Maybe it's because people can't get into their #$*&ed up website to register a team.


I registered a few teams earlier this year, but now it doesn't respond to the log in. I've sent emails to USBC and no response. Perhaps it's time I called and chewed out some ass.


Another thing, why the hell does the sub board and the team registration pages require separate log-ins?


And one more thing, why do we have to go though the process of entering the team information before we can see what dates are available on the team registration site?


Who runs the website for USBC? Whoever it is, they need someone better.

Location Location Location.

Are you saying people didn't want to go to El Paso? It can be blamed on Reno all you want, but it's more than that. Although I did enjoy the trips to Baton Rouge and El Paso more than Reno.

This problem with their website is pissing me off. I think my next email will have every email address on the Bowl.com site I can find CC'ed. 

Too many are starting to realize the negatives with the USBC and well as the olde statement goes - you wanna get at a business do it with your money as in don't give it to them
At some points use something will change or happen...

My only problem with Reno is that they have not utilized the money gained from the Open to revitalize the downtown area especially the hotels. 

Joe Bowler never stood a chance. If you take any bowler who gets regular practice on the type of condition they will face in the open vs someone who will not see it till they get there the advantage will always go to the person who has been bowling on the condition.

Many great bowlers spend countless hours bowling on the condition and game planning for it months in advance. Many other bowlers can't or won't do the same.

Location is a big factor. I have no desire to waste my vacation time and money to go to Reno. Vegas...hell yes. been twice and cant wait to go back. Baton Rouge was fun. Looking forward to going to NY as well.

The end results is there is more then one reason why the numbers drop. There is more then one solution to help turn things around. There is only one organization that is in position to do anything of it.

 Yeah. Kidlost2000 and Juggernaut are right about those points each described. Total numbers for sanctions are and will dwindle. Then there are the 10 to 15% of bowlers who bowl the Nationals and show up to bowl the without a sanction card like myself.
 Expressing the words "bowling needs to change" is not what the USBC wants to hear as well a great many people who do actually read these posts. It would actually mean taking away something they have been bottle fed for the last 23 years. Instead of the sport of bowling growing for the great majority it has turned into creating monstrous Baby Huey's whom have turned out individually more honor scores in such a short period of time than what 100,000 bowlers could over a seasons worth could accomplish.
 The bowling Proprietors had expressed concerns over the matter many times over many years only to be rebuffed by the ABC and USBC. The stance was always we are observing and it is under control. Just like a nuclear meltdown. The men at the controls just looking at each saying "What the hell do we do now"??

My team treated the tournament as a vacation that also had a couple days of bowling involved.  and most of my teammates are tired of going to reno.  So we skipped a Reno year, and then 2 teammates did something different with their time off from work for a family vacation and that took their priority and my team hasn't gone to nationals since.

For me to go again, it would have to include a place worth visiting on its own merits; because quite honestly it is so expensive to travel to a tournament with bowling equipment, reno and vegas are the only 2 locations I could even think of driving to; everywhere else would require a flight, or 3 weeks of vacation for the drive.

 My hat's off to you gentlemen for sticking it out for as long you have. Nationals had been fun to bowl with a competitive team I bowled with. Then it became just a vacation. It's a shame that there are no less than fifty teams that actually remain at the top of the leader boards year in and year out. No every Joe Bowler has the opportunity to practice for an entire month or months with their teammates at home houses that provide the Nationals shot. It really takes away from the respectability of what Nationals had been throughout the many decades it had without giving away the oil pattern. Many bowlers before would just practice for accuracy before going. Now it's getting a team to burn a track. Setting up the right multiple angle layouts on multiple balls for each game bowled. Nationals will eventually shrink to less than 25000 bowlers who are only game for just the bracket money. Eventually it will go away just as The High Roller and Team Challenge had. Only the USBC can reign in the advantage by not providing oil patterns before the tournament begins. In all fairness they should just oil every lane just drastically different.