1st Annual BowlingBoards.com Virtual Tour!!!

[Aslan]

Aslan, in the time it's taken for you to refuse to change the handicap to make it accurate, it could have been changed and done with.

I WILL!!! Christ almighty. Did it occur to anyone that I might be busy paging through 600 bowling centers at the moment??

Fine, I'll change it right now….and then wait for the next MWhite problem with some minute thing….then I'll go back to the bowling centers.

And noeymc….you lost me at not being sure why I'm attaching.

[Mike White]

Mike White, for most of your last post it is a hot mess of what you were trying to quote.

I removed the mess, I got a little busy at work and needed to restart the computer. I noticed the unsent message, so I hit send.

Afterwards I noticed I hadn't deleted the "crap" at the top.

[Mudpuppy]

I see participants and handicap - is there a list somewhere of where everyone is going to bowl?

[vdubtx]

I WILL!!! Christ almighty. Did it occur to anyone that I might be busy paging through 600 bowling centers at the moment??

Fine, I'll change it right now….and then wait for the next MWhite problem with some minute thing….then I'll go back to the bowling centers.

And noeymc….you lost me at not being sure why I'm attaching.

As usual making it more difficult than it really needs to be. Just let the competitors choose a center they want. Then like you had previously stated, if at your home center -10 pins. Done.

[Mudpuppy]

As usual making it more difficult than it really needs to be. Just let the competitors choose a center they want. Then like you had previously stated, if at your home center -10 pins. Done.

I thought each competitor could choose 5 centers that they would bowl at and then they rotate throughout those. Yes home center(s) are -10 per Aslan.

[Bunny]

Just let the competitors choose a center they want. Then like you had previously stated, if at your home center -10 pins. Done.

I concur. Seems a lot easier.

[Aslan]

I see participants and handicap - is there a list somewhere of where everyone is going to bowl?

Still working on it. Got tired last night and went to bed. Only a few more participants left to complete. Should be done this evening; tomorrow at the latest.

[Aslan]

I thought each competitor could choose 5 centers that they would bowl at and then they rotate throughout those. Yes home center(s) are -10 per Aslan.

I don't recall that ever being on the table. Someone had mentioned it,but I don't think we ever went down that road.

As usual making it more difficult than it really needs to be. Just let the competitors choose a center they want. Then like you had previously stated, if at your home center -10 pins. Done.

Yes, it is more difficult than I thought it would be. But thats just because:
A) I made the redius too large.
B) I vastly underestimated how many bowling centers there are.

But I'm almost done, so it's something to reconsider next time around.

I concur. Seems a lot easier.

It was done this way for a "good reason". I just didn't grasp how difficult the center generation process would be (or I would have started it earlier). Essentially, since it's a Tour, I wanted to make sure all the bowlers were on as equal a playing field as possible. Since we all can't physically bowl in the same houses (thus "virtual" tour)….I wanted to make the equal footing the fact that we'd likely be bowling in houses that are strange to us.

This is very important because center to center can change a great deal…AND…we have some bowlers that are very used to certain houses. Making them go to a house, even one that they play less frequently, levels the playing field. In addition, it gets people to explore a bit…maybe play somewhere they normally wouldn't…which I think adds a little excitement/adventure to the whole thing.

I'll still probably have to do a lot of re-drawing for safety and distance related challenges, but thats no big deal. I just wanted to get away from the idea of bowling at 3 centers the participants know….or bowl in leagues or travel leagues….because then we might as well scratch the entire idea and just have everyone submit their league scoresheets each week.

ALL: Check for an update to the other thread tonight or sometime tomorrow. Afterwards I'll check back to see if there are any challenges where I need to redraw…or you can PM me or email me to re-draw. But remember, safety and/or distance will be the 2 valid reasons. "I don't like that place" or "the general manager there is a $*%^" are examples of less valid reasons.

ALMOST THERE!!!

[Mudpuppy]

Good stuff Asian
Like Bernie Mack in Mr 3000 we can always count on you to do your thing

[Mike White]

I guess it's torture Aslan time again.

These first two quotes were from the Billy Hardwick thread.

If possible, schedule April 5th for your wood lanes before they disappear.

They said it would be in April, now I heard June. So its hard to say. I posted the proposed schedule on the other thread. We could always move them around as needed.

If you guys don't like the proposed centers, we could always just each pick our 3 favorites and do it that way.

The rest of the quotes are from this thread

As usual making it more difficult than it really needs to be. Just let the competitors choose a center they want. Then like you had previously stated, if at your home center -10 pins. Done.

I thought each competitor could choose 5 centers that they would bowl at and then they rotate throughout those. Yes home center(s) are -10 per Aslan.

I don't recall that ever being on the table. Someone had mentioned it,but I don't think we ever went down that road.

The original idea for a monthly tour was to have 5 locations. You came up with the "pick our 3 favorites"