Given the plethora of honor and high scores at this years USBC Open in Reno, who thinks USBC will put out a tougher condition in 2012?  Who thinks they will continue with high scoring conditions to combat what appears to be a steady loss of participants?

I think with todays equipment and bowlers using a group effort to break down the lanes the scores will continue to be higher then preferred.

 

If they wanted to change that I'm sure less oil would do it. Most of the bowlers using newer mid to high end equipment will burn up big areas of the lane quickly and struggle to adjust,carry, and score well.

Lots of rumors out there including them going to more of a RWB pattern. Lets hope thats not the case. Any way you look at it I am looking forward to Baton Rouge. Last time down south I had my best outing at least financially. I am hoping lightning strikes again. That is if I can bowl at all. Currently sidelined with a new flair up of my back disc problems. I remember the first trip the lanes being tight for a lot of our group, but I had the right ball and a bit more area. With this being a new surface as opposed to the worn track at Reno, I suspect if they go with a tradional nationals pattern we could be back to normal. One thing that might help if you live around DFW, they put out the pattern at the training center for practice. This year everyone said it played wetter, but that might not be the case when you go from their to new lanes in Louisiana.

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Weren't they talking about fresh oiling for Doubles/Singles?  That would probably help keep the top D/S scores down at least a little bit.

Can't see that happening either. The week we in Reno in June that was one of the rumors.

 

 I talked a bit with Eric V at the USBC convention about the fresh oil scenario's. Sounded like they are considering it but have to revamp the squads. We were talking about what if on 6 bowlers per lane for D/S. Issue there is not being paired up with your team mates and catching lower divisions on your pair. That happens here in Texas in State and really gets guys ticked off to put it nicely. That happens now I guess, but with only four bowlers and broken down conditions on a lot of the doubles/singles squads it is not as detrimental or doesn't seem to be.

 

I was hoping to run into you at the convention, but did not stick around on Friday. I went as an athlete delegate so was there most of the week.

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I oil every squad of both tournaments I run in the North East Texas area. I have been doing it this way since back around 1999. Just makes sense to me. Prior to taking over the older event that we operate they ran fresh for the doubles & singles squad, but teams got left overs. While in the laquer days with rubber and plastic that might have been ok. Just did not make sense once we started shreding the pattern with urethane and reactive. Pair to pair they aren't the same for sure, but as close as we can get.

 

Only downside is how they sort the squads. I make sure every team that enters with 3 sets of doubles is on the same pair of lanes. If they have a second team then there are only four bowlers on that pair unless I have an odd set I can drop on to even up the lames. I allow mulitple doubles entries and have numerous bowlers that do only the D/S. So most of the time can even things out. If I end up with 4 on some pairs and 6 on others then that is how it falls. They enter together, they bowl together. I may miss a pair of teams once in a while, but never interntionally and not if they list the same team captain. Not sure Nationals can afford to follow my example, but if they could then it would be fantastic.

 

I also think with fresh every squad it really opens up the options for the conditions they put down. No more how is it going to hold up for 3 squads in the morning or team and a D//S. All they worry about is what is a tough fair condition for 10 bowlers for 3 games. Options are really endless with the fresh on every squad.

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