it's still a commitment
My Sunday night league is only 2 two a lane so if 1 or 2 people are missing the nights over in like an hour. When I have one of those nights I feel kind of disappointed I would rather be at the bowling alley than at home watching tv or listening to the kids fight any day any time.
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Yeah. My Monday night league is 4 per team. 2 weeks ago only 2 people showed up on the team we were playing and we were missing a guy as well. The night went by so quick and it was a huge disappointment.Originally Posted by Amyers
Half the league is missing every week for me so I get done with league in 30-45 minutes.. It sucks
I couldn't even imagine if that was the case for me. I like my 2 hours of bowling time.
If the league by-laws allow for unlimited pre-bowling for the season, there is really no rule being broken. My Sunday night league has no limit on pre-bowling. If I wanted to pre-bowl the whole season I could.Agree, leagues are a contract between the house and the bowlers for XX weeks.
That is a steaming pile of Shenanigans to allow the pre-bowl every week. Special banner too. LOL. If my sharpie could reach it, I would add some expressive and creative doodles.
The special banner is a bit much...
My league is pretty good. We have about 20 teams and rarely does a team ahve less than 4 when its a 5 person team league. Our matches last 2.5 hours usually.
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Dear open bowlers, please don't be so sad, it works both ways, especially since BowlMor cut center hours. As a league bowler who needs to practice, I can't even think of doing so on Friday evening, all day Saturday or all day Sunday. Those are wild party days and cosmic bowling nights, the center is full of open bowlers and there's a long waiting list. I can't practice after league either because the center is once again full of open bowlers, there is a long waiting list and they like to turn the lights off at the drop of a hat. The only time I can squeeze in is weekdays about two hours before league time when most people are busy eating dinner. Even then it's a race with the lane machine before it reaches my pair and I get kicked off.
True Dat.
My home center is quite popular with the college crowd and young adults. So getting there after 5PM...especially when leagues are taking up many of the lanes....good luck! I've gotten there on a Monday at 5:30PM and been told there is a 45 minute wait for a lane. In the summer, they raised their rates so I started practicing in the dark from 9:30PM to 12AM on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Since most league bowlers are lame and don't practice...it's not a huge deal for everyone. But for those of us committed to improvement...practice is essential and it's definitely beneficial to practice where you bowl your league games...but not always easy to do so. Even in my Sunday morning league that starts at 8AM...I'll get there and the place will be nearly filled and if I want to practice on THS conditions when sport league is over...there's a waiting list.
Bowling definitely is alive and kicking...it just took a lot of centers going under and now the remaining centers are pretty full.
And AMF/Bowlmor are idiots. They immediately closed at least 2 centers around me for all bowling before like 4PM on weekdays...which pushed all their senior leagues out...so now the private center nearby is packed from morning to night.
Wow that's tough to hear. So you rarely get a chance to go and practice then, huh?
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