Author Topic: Pros in local tournaments? (Read 10501 times)

n00dlejester · « **on:** April 13, 2008, 11:37:24 PM »

So yesterday I bowled in the NJ State Tournament, and lo and behold Parker Bohn III was there for the 9:00AM singles/doubles squad, and the 12:30PM 5-man team squad. So we start the day bowling doubles, and the first game he fired a 300. He was part of about 10 brackets and obviously destroyed anybody. Because of this people near my pairs (I was on 3-4) were saying that having a pro is a non-PBA event is just not fair. One guy made the analogy that "it's like having Ryan Howard playing for the high school varsity team."

I personally think having pros in local events is fine. The talent gap between the pros and the locals (at least on a THS, which this tournament was) is nowhere near the talent gap between local and pro baseball players. And it was a lot of fun watching him tear it up on a THS (he shot 780 for doubles, and a low 7 for singles). What are your thoughts on all this?

Atochabsh · « **Reply #91 on:** April 16, 2008, 01:07:25 AM »

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Pro's are pro's for a reason, and the local State and City tourney are for the local bowlers, not emempt touring pros that make $150,000 throwing 6 strikes.

Most of the PBA exempt pros did not make $100,000/yr much less per event, and I bet a good proportion of them did not make $50,000/yr.

Here's the problem from a local assoc. view. If you keep the "masters" tournament closed to only local/city bowlers then your entries will be lower. When your entries are lower your prize fund is lower. When you have local high level bowlers looking for a tournament they want high prize fund. But they also don't want to pay over $100 to get in. So at the local level there's a dilema.

Do we open the tournament up and possibly get some PBA players but get more bowlers.

Or keep it city only and keep the prize fund down?

What do you folks want? Higher participation and the chance at bigger better bowlers or smaller field with lower prize funds?

Or do you just want to eliminante any one that has a PBA card regional or otherwise? If you do that, it will lower local participation and of course prize fund.

Erin

n00dlejester · « **Reply #92 on:** April 22, 2008, 10:27:31 AM »

I thought this was incredibly ironic: last week I did the same state tournament with a different doubles partner, and bowled next to Johnny Petraglia, Sr.

Madiballz23 · « **Reply #93 on:** April 22, 2008, 03:30:56 PM »

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Tell you what .. next time one of these TOURING PROS enters an amateur tournament I'll put him up in all the brackets .. I'm a REAL GAMBLER
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So where does it list the State tournament as an "amateur" event? If it were truly an amateur event, then the pros wouldn't even be allowed to bowl. It's a Sate tournament, and as as member of the state USBC, he has every right to enter that tournament. He's lived there all his life. Get over it.
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JOE FALCO · « **Reply #94 on:** April 22, 2008, 06:04:33 PM »

No Problem ... let me know when the games are run again .. if one of the Pros are entered .. I'll send you some money to enter them in brackets .. I know it's a gamble .. but I feel LUCKY already! Thanks!
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Hit them light and watch them fight
J O E - F A L C O

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