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USBC CANCELS REMAINING 2020 NATIONAL EVENTS
« on: July 15, 2020, 11:34:24 AM »
USBC CANCELS REMAINING 2020 NATIONAL EVENTS
USBC COLLEGIATE SEASON POSTPONED

ARLINGTON, Texas – The United States Bowling Congress has canceled all remaining national events for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

“These decisions are tough on everyone, but mostly our players, athletes and members,” USBC Executive Director Chad Murphy said. “USBC’s mission is to serve our bowlers, and canceling the most significant events in the sport certainly is heartbreaking for all involved. Nevertheless, USBC has a responsibility to consider the health of its members and their communities. Given the increasing spread of COVID-19 in several states, along with constantly changing guidelines and travel restrictions, we sadly do not see a responsible way to conduct national events in 2020.”

This cancellation includes the previously postponed USBC Open Championships, USBC Women’s Championships, USBC Masters, USBC Senior Masters, USBC Senior Queens and Super Senior Classic.

The 2020-2021 USBC Collegiate season will be postponed until January 2021 and be conducted as a second-semester sport. The dates for the Intercollegiate Team and Singles Championships will be determined at a later time, with plans to hold them in the late spring or early summer.

USA Bowling events and in-person coaching seminars for 2020 also have been postponed to 2021.

USBC previously announced the cancellation of the 2020 Professional Women’s Bowling Association Tour season, with a possibility of conducting events in the fall and winter months. In light of current conditions, plans for a PWBA event in late 2020 now are indefinitely on hold.

USBC plans to resume a traditional schedule of events in January 2021, starting with USBC Team USA Trials, as conditions allow.

 

“While USBC national events are canceled, bowling certainly is not shut down for 2020,” Murphy said. “USBC is confident competitive bowling can take place locally, and we are seeing many proprietors taking proactive steps to responsibly host leagues in accordance with local guidelines. Those steps will help leagues begin and tournaments to take place during the rest of the summer and into the fall. Our hope is that conditions improve to allow national events again in 2021.”

Teams registered for the 2020 Open and Women’s Championships may request to have their payments rolled forward for the 2021 tournaments, or they can request full refunds.

Individuals who have submitted entries for any USBC short-duration event (Masters, Senior Masters, Senior Queens, Super Senior Classic) will be refunded in the upcoming weeks.

United States Bowling Congress

The United States Bowling Congress serves as the national governing body of bowling as recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). USBC conducts championship events nationwide including the largest participation sporting events in the world – the USBC Open and Women’s Championships – and professional events such as the USBC Masters and USBC Queens.

 

Founded in 1895, today USBC and its 1,638 state and local associations proudly serve more than a million members. USBC is headquartered in Arlington, Texas, working toward a future for the sport. The online home for USBC is BOWL.com.

 

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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2020, 08:47:33 AM »
If they really want to stop or at least slow this down, everyone needs to be wearing N95 level masks.

The current bullshit isn't doing anything except preventing one person from spitting on others.

While I agree with you.  Nobody should have to tell us we have to wear a mask.  It really boils down to two simple things.  1.  Dont stand near someone you dont know.  2.  Dont touch your face when out in public.  I live in the new hotbed for this thing (Florida) and rarely wear one.  When I am out in public, as soon as I am done doing what it is I am doing, I rub sanitizer on my hands.  The only time I wear a mask is when I go to a gas station or grocery store and I am forced to wear one.  There are people however that should wear one simply because they may have an underlying condition that puts them at a higher risk.  But for the majority of us that do not have any health issues, two simple precautions can keep us from being a statistic.  It amazes me how many people cant do that.

To counter your argument, I submit the story of Typhoid Mary. If you're not familiar with her, she was the one who was asymtomatic with typhoid fever, yet was able to infect roughly 50something other people with it, 3 of whom died of it. It took them a while to find her, including quarantining her twice, even though she showed absolutely zero signs of having typhoid fever herself. So while she showed no signs of it, she had it, was a carrier of it, and was able to transmit that virus to other people, who died from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

The point here: just because you think you are healthy and able bodied does not mean you are immune or not susceptible to COVID, nor should that preclude you from wearing a mask. If anything, wearing a mask help you to protect others from catching it from someone who could be an asymtomatic carrier of it.

Hell, if we called for vigilance after 9/11 for people who may or may not be "terrorists", why should we not have the same vigilance for something that is a threat to our lives? Besides, we're bowlers and as such, we bowl on different oil patterns; we're used to fighting an invisible enemy. What should make our reaction to COVID any different?

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This is a good argument you bring up.  But that brings up my point on the social distancing.  Even if you are asymptomatic.  If you keep your distance, you wont spread it.  It really is that simple.  The numbers started to spike again at the same time people just had to go out and protest.  So to your point, and a valid one.  You get someone who feels perfectly fine and they are a carrier and they go out and protest with thousands of other people, they just probably infected most of those people.  Now you have a snowball affect and you see the numbers where they are. 

My apologies guys.  I know this got off on a tangent.  Regarding the original post.  Good decision by the USBC.  While I know it was a very difficult one to make.  It was the right one.  Optimistic that everything will calm down and get back to some normalcy for 2021.
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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2020, 11:52:08 AM »
Deaths rates have totally fallen. They are just testing more people.

The tests are garbage as the virus has never been isolated or proven to cause anything. Lots of dead people in NYC from panic medicine and putting them on ventilators for no reason.

I can't believe this fear mongering is still going on. People prefer to see civilization collapse than face a common cold virus.

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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2020, 12:03:02 PM »
Deaths rates have totally fallen. They are just testing more people.

The tests are garbage as the virus has never been isolated or proven to cause anything. Lots of dead people in NYC from panic medicine and putting them on ventilators for no reason.

I can't believe this fear mongering is still going on. People prefer to see civilization collapse than face a common cold virus.

You might be the dumbest person I’ve ever encountered on this site and that’s a mighty accomplishment.

Actually, they're testing less people, and this thing isn't going to go lay down come September. Like I've said, my tin foil hat is as big as anyone's, but I'm not stupid. This is going to have far reaching long lasting effects and people like you will be saying "Why didn't the government warn us??"

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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2020, 12:10:44 PM »
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." - Christopher Hitchens

Man......how we miss that dudes wisdom in these times.
« Last Edit: July 16, 2020, 12:16:02 PM by Good Times Good Times »
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« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2020, 12:30:32 PM »

This is a good argument you bring up.  But that brings up my point on the social distancing.  Even if you are asymptomatic.  If you keep your distance, you wont spread it.  It really is that simple.  The numbers started to spike again at the same time people just had to go out and protest.  So to your point, and a valid one.  You get someone who feels perfectly fine and they are a carrier and they go out and protest with thousands of other people, they just probably infected most of those people.  Now you have a snowball affect and you see the numbers where they are. 

My apologies guys.  I know this got off on a tangent.  Regarding the original post.  Good decision by the USBC.  While I know it was a very difficult one to make.  It was the right one.  Optimistic that everything will calm down and get back to some normalcy for 2021.

The problem though, is that it doesn't have to be a one-to-many exposure for something like this to happen. With that, I also ask you this: Which would you rather have: $1 million upfront right now, or $.01 per day, doubled every day for 30 days?

The million in one day is what you'd get if one person was asymptomatic and hanging around people at a protest. the penny a day doubled every day for 30 days? By day 27, you're at roughly 670,000. By day 30, you're at 5.4 million. Swap those pennies for people who caught COVID from one asymptomatic person being in near contact - social distancing or otherwise - with 2 PEOPLE. Those 2 infect another 2, those 2 infect another 2, so on and so forth.

The point here is that the amount of people that you are nearby has nothing to do with it; if you're around the least number of people, you can not control who they are around, nor can they control what other people they are around. The laws of compounding and exponential growth beat you on that, and people either naively or ignorantly overlook or are unaware of that.

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« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2020, 12:59:41 PM »

This is a good argument you bring up.  But that brings up my point on the social distancing.  Even if you are asymptomatic.  If you keep your distance, you wont spread it.  It really is that simple.  The numbers started to spike again at the same time people just had to go out and protest.  So to your point, and a valid one.  You get someone who feels perfectly fine and they are a carrier and they go out and protest with thousands of other people, they just probably infected most of those people.  Now you have a snowball affect and you see the numbers where they are. 

My apologies guys.  I know this got off on a tangent.  Regarding the original post.  Good decision by the USBC.  While I know it was a very difficult one to make.  It was the right one.  Optimistic that everything will calm down and get back to some normalcy for 2021.

The problem though, is that it doesn't have to be a one-to-many exposure for something like this to happen. With that, I also ask you this: Which would you rather have: $1 million upfront right now, or $.01 per day, doubled every day for 30 days?

The million in one day is what you'd get if one person was asymptomatic and hanging around people at a protest. the penny a day doubled every day for 30 days? By day 27, you're at roughly 670,000. By day 30, you're at 5.4 million. Swap those pennies for people who caught COVID from one asymptomatic person being in near contact - social distancing or otherwise - with 2 PEOPLE. Those 2 infect another 2, those 2 infect another 2, so on and so forth.

The point here is that the amount of people that you are nearby has nothing to do with it; if you're around the least number of people, you can not control who they are around, nor can they control what other people they are around. The laws of compounding and exponential growth beat you on that, and people either naively or ignorantly overlook or are unaware of that.

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What about taking the $1,000,000 up front and having it double everyday for 30 days????  LOL!!! 
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« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2020, 03:57:58 PM »

This is a good argument you bring up.  But that brings up my point on the social distancing.  Even if you are asymptomatic.  If you keep your distance, you wont spread it.  It really is that simple.  The numbers started to spike again at the same time people just had to go out and protest.  So to your point, and a valid one.  You get someone who feels perfectly fine and they are a carrier and they go out and protest with thousands of other people, they just probably infected most of those people.  Now you have a snowball affect and you see the numbers where they are. 

My apologies guys.  I know this got off on a tangent.  Regarding the original post.  Good decision by the USBC.  While I know it was a very difficult one to make.  It was the right one.  Optimistic that everything will calm down and get back to some normalcy for 2021.

The problem though, is that it doesn't have to be a one-to-many exposure for something like this to happen. With that, I also ask you this: Which would you rather have: $1 million upfront right now, or $.01 per day, doubled every day for 30 days?

The million in one day is what you'd get if one person was asymptomatic and hanging around people at a protest. the penny a day doubled every day for 30 days? By day 27, you're at roughly 670,000. By day 30, you're at 5.4 million. Swap those pennies for people who caught COVID from one asymptomatic person being in near contact - social distancing or otherwise - with 2 PEOPLE. Those 2 infect another 2, those 2 infect another 2, so on and so forth.

The point here is that the amount of people that you are nearby has nothing to do with it; if you're around the least number of people, you can not control who they are around, nor can they control what other people they are around. The laws of compounding and exponential growth beat you on that, and people either naively or ignorantly overlook or are unaware of that.

BL.


What about taking the $1,000,000 up front and having it double everyday for 30 days????  LOL!!!

You'd simply take that and go into business buying a bowling alley.  ;D

Seriously though, if you took the penny option, after that 30 days, you'd have $5,368,709.12 Now, if you replaced the amount with people and you being the penny and asymptomatic, you'd potentially infect 5,368,709 people. currently, that's roughly the entire population of Las Vegas, and that's in a month. And that's just from being around 2 people that catch this virus from someone asymptomatic.

Deaths rates have totally fallen. They are just testing more people.

The tests are garbage as the virus has never been isolated or proven to cause anything. Lots of dead people in NYC from panic medicine and putting them on ventilators for no reason.

I can't believe this fear mongering is still going on. People prefer to see civilization collapse than face a common cold virus.

Time to once again call you out on this. provide evidence for everything you say here. In short, put up, or shut the hell up, because everything you are saying here is an absolute crock.

BL.

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« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2020, 05:40:12 PM »
This reminds me of an old saying.  Reading something on the internet that offends you and feeling the need to respond is like seeing dog poop on the sidewalk and choosing to step in it.  You are being trolled my friends. 
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« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2020, 06:17:17 PM »
This reminds me of an old saying.  Reading something on the internet that offends you and feeling the need to respond is like seeing dog poop on the sidewalk and choosing to step in it.  You are being trolled my friends. 

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« Reply #25 on: July 17, 2020, 01:11:12 AM »
This was a very interesting discussion. I think it addresses some concerns over my statements. The Highwire is my first go to place for health information in this crazy world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5meH2iAjIU&t=2164s

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« Reply #26 on: July 17, 2020, 05:37:38 AM »
Does anyone know the percentage of the population that has contracted this...20%, 30%?

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« Reply #27 on: July 17, 2020, 08:33:55 AM »
Does anyone know the percentage of the population that has contracted this...20%, 30%?

Based on confirmed cases:

1% of the US population

0.1% of the global population

No telling what the actual numbers really are

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« Reply #28 on: July 17, 2020, 11:21:06 AM »
How can that possibly be true?  A virus that has been spreading like wildfire for the past 8 or 9 months and 1% of the US population has contracted it?

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« Reply #29 on: July 17, 2020, 01:18:22 PM »
331,000,000 people in the US

3,680,000 confirmed cases in the US

It didn't start in the US until Feb 2020, so 3.68M cases in 5 months



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« Reply #30 on: July 17, 2020, 09:06:18 PM »
Based on the number of asymptomatic cases some experts think the US case could be 10 times higher.