Thought I'd throw out our schedule so those of you who want to golf, shop, or sightsee could have an idea of the times available to do a little planning.



Friday:

9-1 Golf Outing for those interested.
9-6 Instruction from Ron
6-? Supper as a group
8/9-? More bowling - Poker tournament at Geoff's


Sat

9-11 Practice on the Bragging rights tournament shot
11-12 Sponsors time, drawing for some of the donated equipment.  This year we have Ritchie Sposata, owner of Lane 1, possibly Dave Graber from Storm.
12-1 Lunch while Ron has the lanes reoiled
1-? Bragging rights tournament
7-? More bowling - Poker at Geoff's

I think last years tournament was very fair, scores were pretty close to each other.  We will do the same thing this year.  Handicap will be 100% of 200, shoot 2 games on each lane condition.  Not sure what shots Ron will put out but we've always had one pair with the USBC shot on it.

Winner receives the coveted Bragging rights T-shirt plus the ball of his choice of what we have remaining, the remaining items will be given away by another drawing immediately following the tournament.
Sun

? 12 Free time (Another golf outing?
12-? Coaching from Ron for the people who don't have to leave early.

Ron will also be available for free lessons on Thursday for those of us arriving early.  Seems most of the [deleted] lefties need more coaching than normal bowlers so he is putting in that extra day.  Righties are welcome but are warned about the potential "whining" that is normally prevalent among that class of bowler.

Please message Strider or myself if you are interested in the poker tournament.  Nothing fancy, maybe $10 entry fee???  Geoff and I are welcome to suggestions.

If there is any activity you are interested in, let me know, I'll see what we can set up.

So far, the following companies have promised to donate equipment to the gathering.

LANE 1
DYNOTHANE
VISIONARY
STORM

As other companies sign up, I'll keep you posted.

Remember, the only cost for this event is $1 a game.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again this year.
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put me down for the poker tourny.
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As I said before in the other thread, I am interested in pool.  However, I'll be using a "house cue."  I hope I don't do too much to mess up the shot.  
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Edited on 6/20/2006 2:09 PM

I'll check with Ron to be sure.  Last year they open at 9 on Sat, Ron was up late Friday making up the T-shirts and didn't get there until about 10 or so.

If I remember correctly, we stopped practice around 10:30 for the meeting with Dave Graber from Storm.

In the past, we didn't really have that big of participation, maybe 20-25BR members.  Ron didn't really have to schedule anything, just kind of went with the flow.

Now that we are looking at around 75 people, he has to do a little more planning to make sure we don't run out of lanes or time.


we will probably have sign up for the Bragging Rights Tournament Sat morning during the meeting so Ron will know how many panes to set up.

I'm also going to have a drawing during the meeting/practice session and give away some Dynothane or Visionary equipment.
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No change.  Count me in for all bowling activities.  My flight is scheduled to arrive in Raleigh Durham around 6 PM on July 19th.  I should be in Winston Salem around noon.  I fly home Monday.

With 3 flights between 6/29 and 7/24, I mixed up my arrival times.  It was Reno I had the early morning arrival.  I leave LAX for NC at 8:20AM, transfer planes in Vegas and leave Vegas at 10:20AM arriving in Raleigh Durham ar 5:55 PM.  So it probably means arriving in Winston-Salem around 9PM.
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Edited on 7/6/2006 8:30 PM

My tickets have been purchased, plane scheduled to land at 2:10pm the 21st and leave Monday morn.
I am bringing my partner for the scotch doubles tourney this year, have to be extra nice to her that week so she won't try and leave me spares I can't pick up.
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Edited on 6/28/2006 4:29 AM

I'm still in.

Sigfan,
Yes, it is a BallReviews gathering in Winston-Salem, NC.  Here is the link to the original thread with all the information.

http://www.ballreviews.com/Forum/Replies.asp?TopicID=108602&ForumID=16&CategoryID=5
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