Usbc and bpaa to invest $5 million in support of new youth membership program

[classygranny]

The problem is now that Bowlmor is in charge of the AMF houses is that his business model sacrifices league bowling for Open/theme/cosmic bowling.

Some houses are being forced to massively reduce hours and unless it's during a league they have the house in 'cosmic' bowl mode(hearsay that I have read).
Other houses are moving/cutting leagues because they no longer fit into the business hours the company finds as profitable. example one house here has been informed they are not allowed to be open untill noon during the week and 11 on weekends. so they had to drop all their morning leagues and moved youth league later in the day.

Introducing people to bowling? great.

Doing so at the cost of the league where they could then start bowling competitively as a sport instead of as a just social fun activity..... not worth it.

This direction will turn bowling into billiards.

I don't understand this, as most of AMF lanes were the PBA's training centers for the pro's. Offering discounted practices and lay-down of oil patterns specifically for the practices. What's going to happen to all of that?

[Bunny]

I wish they would combine the "loungey" aspects of the Bowlmor/Lucky Strikes along with taking the sport seriously.

I like the comfy seating and modern decor of the "entertainment" centers. It would be nice to have that with well maintained lanes and league/tournament options.