It isn't that hard.  Pay a little attention to your surroundings and time it so you aren't walking at the same time as somebody 2 lanes over.  Like 1 1/2 lane courtesy that doesn't slow the pace. 

Lemme first start out by saying that I bowled the "8:30 pm shifts" on 3/22 and 3/23, and it was frustrating...especially on the singles/doubles shift that didn't start til 10pm.

I'll be the first to admit, that my group is far from pros. With that said though, I'm not sure what all attributed to the horrendous wait times. I know day 1, 8 of the screens to the right of us literally did the Windows Blue Screen of Death (which by the way, was hilarious since I wasn't bowling on those lanes). Other than that, my pair had 1 OOR and that was all that I noticed for delays. I can say that on day 2 the squad before us had like 26 teams all from the same place, so maybe they were kinda waiting on each other maybe? All I know, is that sitting in the weigh-in room for what seemed like an eternity sucked.

Quote from: notclay on March 30, 2017, 11:45:49 AM

+1 Luke

My friends followed a squad with a PBA member, who will remain nameless for this discussion.  He wanted not 1, not 2, but 3 lanes!   This meant his whole team wanted 3 lanes, and the squad took forever. 

I'm sorry.  When they announce time after time that 1 lane courtesy is what is expected, and that's not acceptable to you, then don't bowl the tournament.

I know that sometimes 2 lane courtesy can move quite fast, except when no one is used to doing it then everyone stands around, ball in hand, looking left and right waiting for everyone to acknowledge, etc. 

P.S.  That certain pro bowler shot about 580, which is not to knock him (he has more talent in his off hand than I do with my right), but probably a testament to the difficulty of the condition.  I struggle every year because I seem to love leaving splits, but I'm not worried about it.  I can plan my next shot, good or bad, while on the bench, so when it's my turn I'm ready to bowl.  I also don't have "PBA expectations".  I don't throw the ball perfectly on house shots...

pete weber?

I can't say for sure who he's talking about, but you're correct either way. My team event followed his D/S shift. We were told to be in the squad room at 4:30 to prep for our shift at 5. At that point, Pete was just about to start singles.

Just got back from Nationals.  There were very few breakdowns that caused big delays that I saw.  Mostly, egos caused the delays.   
 
We saw Pete Weber bowl the last game and a half of singles.  When we arrived, they were the only ones bowling but there was a crowd behind the pair so we were curious.  Obviously, Pete will draw attention.  Even with no one else bowling, they were still slow.  Mostly 1 person up at a time and the next person waited until the bowler in front was well off the approach.  I got bored even though there was some really good bowlers in the group.  This group got singled out by me as they were so far behind the rest of the squad and that everyone knows the PDW brand.  I don't remember even seeing any other bowlers putting stuff away when they still had game and a half to go. 

I didn't see the incident, but got an earful from some stranger that did.  Apparently Pete didn't want to walk out with the common folks and flipped off the worker that was trying to get things moving.  This stranger that gave my wife an earful sounded like she totally regretted seeing one of her heroes.  May have totally been taken out of context, but it sure made an impact....in a bad way on this stranger.  Again, this was stranger telling story, so can't verify accuracy.  Only heartache in stranger.

I'm not the quickest person as I had a few too many times where I had to back off the approach as inner demons caused doubt as to what I was doing.  I make up for those shots by greeting the bowler in front of me at the back of the approach.

Maybe I was just lucky. I bowled last week, and both my squads were almost on time. There were about 15 minute delays for both, but nothing unusual. I've experienced far worse delays in past Nationals.
 
I believe whatever time delays that occurred are mostly due to the tougher conditions. There are lots of individual scores in the 300-450 range for three game totals. It's brutal to watch, brutal to experience, and it chews up time. I saw no evidence of slowness due to switch grip transfers, bowlers not getting up to the line in a timely fashion, or any of the other reasons speculated in this thread. I was only there for my sliver of time, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

4/31 on the 5pm squad for team we walked out onto the lanes at 5:48pm.  We were one of the last teams done at around 8:50pm. One of our lanes broke down for 10mins during game two putting us behind.