Why Hold the tournament is the same location over and over?
2018 - Syracuse, N.Y.
2019 - Las Vegas
2020 - Reno, Nev.
2021 - Las Vegas
2022 - TBD
2023 - Reno, Nev.
2024 - Las Vegas
2025 - Baton Rouge, La.
2026 - Reno, Nev.

And the 2 places not in Nevada are Syracuse and Baton Rouge, now those are some great vacation destinations.

I live in CT and have no interest in going to Syracuse even being able to drive there and I can't think of any reason to go to Baton Rouge. I used to go to Reno (6 times), once to Vegas, and once to Albuquerque.

To me I love Reno but convincing teammates to go became impossible. Vegas was fun but not a trip that is for everyone and most who like it have gone number of times and IMO its a done that type of trip. Albuquerque was a lot of fun going to a place never been and visiting around New Mexico was a blast. I think its shortsighted not to move the tournament to other cities that bowlers could/would like to make a vacation out of the trip. Bowlers come from every state yet this tournament is held in Nevada and a few other non destination cities. How about CA? FL? TX? etc. There are a lot of great places to visit in the US and Syracuse or Baton Rogue don't often make those lists.....

Just my $0.02
Former Open Bowler

At least when the east coast crowd travels west they don't lose the whole day to time zones like what would happen if I travel to Syracuse.

Without question, trip isn't worth it to me either.

It's 100% cost.  To rent a convention center for 4 solid months and put up all that equipment and all the lanes and create what they do, that's a TON of money, much more than they pay for the NBS and South Pointe. 

They have gotten in a catch 22.

Bigger cities don't care about a 6 month convention with 40K to 50K attendees. They are unwilling to tie up a convention center for that amount of time.

Smaller cities can't compete because of hotel space, restaurants, airport, etc. and they can't give the USBC enough money and tax breaks.

So you end up with a handful of mid sized cities willing to put up with it and pay for it. Ones that have put on the tournament before know the benefit and may bid again.

As Luke said USBC is going to Reno and Vegas for cost and ease of operation. There was a proposal in Orlando 10 or 15 years ago to build a facility but it fell through. Or we would be going to Reno, Orlando all the time.

I don't mind Vegas. Lots of flights, easy connections, plenty of different things to do. Reno is another story all together.

You can only go where you are wanted. If cities don't submit bids you end up in Reno and Vegas where it is wanted. There were a bunch of cities in the 90's that we went to that were new convention centers. Once they start scheduling events that want to come back every year they no longer are interested in an event that ties up their convention center for 6 months.

I get the Vegas & Reno thing to an extent. I would like to see a rotation more similar to Vegas - Random - Reno - Random- Vegas..so on and so forth. I would love to see them get something in the Carolina's, Ohio (Columbus Airport)/Indiana (Indianapolis airport) Washington(Seattle Airport)/Oregon(Portland Airport). Variety would be a good thing.

Perhaps some of the large cities in the east should step up to the plate. Reno did and built a bowling palace. In Vegas, South Point put their money where their mouth is and built a venue for bowling. There was once rumors that Orlando was going to do the same, but I guess it fell through.

Chicago, New York, Houston and Atlanta are all large enough and with enough convention traffic to support such a venue.

And the facility doesn't even have to be a uni-tasker like Reno and South Point have. Build the bowling alley with the ball returns and have a removable floor that covers it when not being used, like Boston Gardens, Staples Center in LA, Verizon Center in Washington etc. Those facilities are used for both basketball and Ice Hockey and can be changed from one to the other in a matter of hours.