Colony Park Lanes North is hosting on:
Sunday January 31st..
### THE DON KAUFFMAN MEMORIAL SINGLES TOURNAMENT ####
10am start time-- cost $50-- lineage $10, prize fund $40
10 game marathon on a modified house pattern.
$800 dollars for first place based on ONLY 40 ENTRIES!!!
High game and brackets also being held.
This will be by far the best tournament of the year to attend locally!!!
Call ahead and reserve your spot today.

Colony Park Lanes North
1900 Pennsylvania Ave. York, PA 17404
(717) 848-6262
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Rick Mitchell
Roto-Grip Staff Member

You lazy arsewhole!!!!

Please stay in NY!!!!!

We do not want Donald  no profile Chumps on here complaining about tournament they do not have the guts to attend.

35ft and 50 mls which is what he posted should play tough.

You are a no talent no brain no profile idiot..... PLease stay home.

Let me say once again Thank You for all that attended. I truly tried my best. For those that know me, I am a bowlers first, a center manager second, so I feel "DONALD TRUMP" has no clue. I can re-run the pattern at ANYTIME you want to come in and look at it, graph it, whatever you want "MR DONALD TRUMP". I took a house from the 80-90's era, and added volume to the outside to make it a little flatter. I did it to show how tough the lane conditions were when Don Kauffman was alive and bowling at his peak. If I would have had more prepaid entries, I could have said to the owner I need more lanes, I had 9 prepaid entries, 71 were either emailed me or were walk-ins. I was un-sure if all the people that emailed me would show up, If everyone that emailed me would have shown up, I would had over 100 entries. With only 11 prepaid, it was hard to judge how many lanes I would need. I WILL run a similar tournament in March with the modern modified house pattern that I used in the fall and on New Years Day here with the same $50 entry and $800 first place based on 40 entries. Thanks again for everyone attending and look for a post of March's tournament.
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Rick Mitchell
Roto-Grip Staff Member

I would like to thank Rick and Colony Park for a great tournament. Sure it took 8 hours to bowl 10 games on a grind out pattern, but that is a true marathon event, isn't it? lol.  I also would like to thank Rick for putting out something tough for us to bowl on.  It wasn't the toughest pattern I bowled on, but it was 35', outside was OB, and it had quite a bit of volume (sounds eerily similar to Rick's post on here about the pattern before the tournament, doesn't it?).  Bottom line, it played fair.  I do think we got more entries because people thought it was going to be more walled up.  

On top of that, people have the nerve to come on here and chastise the tournament director saying he lied about the pattern.  He spent tons of time and effort putting this great tournament together, only charged us $1/game lineage (don't even get me started on Bowl America's $3.50/game lineage fee for tournaments), and spread the word to get 80+ entries, and all anyone can complain about is the pattern being too hard, cause it was supposed to be a "modified house shot", which could play like literally anything, depending on how "modified" it was.  Would you have rather it had been The Red Eye where it took a 240 average to make any money?  I would rather go to Atlantic City and put $80 on red than bowl that BS.

Overall, I think lower entry fees might attract more bowlers, even if tougher conditions prevail. As Mike L said, pots/brackets are where most of the money is, so let those who want to spend a few hundred put it into the side action, and the entry fee is a sort of bonus at the end if you bowled well. I think the $50 entry fee was good, or even go lower to attract those who are just looking for experience in tournaments, not necessarily to make money bowling them.

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Dave Lughermo
Michigan State University Bowling Alumni

I try and stand up for the tournament director and the sport of bowling itself and this is what I get, last time I post on here...this site is full of trolls.  You''re right "Mich St Bowler as well", I''m horrible and I never bowl well.  And I don''t need to post my bowling resume cause I''''m sure you will find something else wrong with it, plus I have a real job. Sure, my head is in the clouds at times, but I''''m not the only one. My temper is something I was born with, and it sucks.  You tell me how easy it is to control it when you have walked a day in my shoes.  Everyone says I have an ego at first, have you tried having a legitimate conversation with me?  I''m quiet off the lanes and have a temper on the lanes, not a good combination for gaining rapport from people when you first start bowling with them. Maybe I''ll just stop caring as much anymore, I''m sure that will help. Yes, I am a slow bowler, you are right about that, and sorry if I have offended you with my slow pace, I will try and speed things up.  Obviously you know of me, at least somewhat. I''m sure you will turn my words against me again, good luck.
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Dave Lughermo
Michigan State University Bowling Alumni

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