We're supposed to go in June.  I hope things are more opened up and normal but who knows....

Ask and you shall receive.

I just got the email from USBC while a little vague it basically stated my team had been moved to the 8:00 am squad.

I'm an early riser and it is really 10 our time.

We used to bowl the 10:30 pm team squad and it was always late getting started sometimes up to an hour. With the time change by the time we got done it was like 4:00 AM and we were walking zombies.

Nothing on doubles/singles yet.

We used to bowl the 10:30 pm team squad and it was always late getting started sometimes up to an hour. With the time change by the time we got done it was like 4:00 AM and we were walking zombies.

The last time I bowled nationals(Vegas-09?) we had that shift, finished around 3:30 AM, and had to be on the plane @ 6. Not a lot of fun, that.

drillbit

Quote from: drillbit on January 05, 2021, 06:12:40 PM

Quote from: Pinbuster on January 05, 2021, 02:11:34 PM

We used to bowl the 10:30 pm team squad and it was always late getting started sometimes up to an hour. With the time change by the time we got done it was like 4:00 AM and we were walking zombies.

The last time I bowled nationals(Vegas-09?) we had that shift, finished around 3:30 AM, and had to be on the plane @ 6. Not a lot of fun, that.

drillbit

Plenty of time to catch that flight... 

Can't argue that!

Back when National Airlines was still flying, I had a flight to catch for a weekend convention down by LAX that started on Friday, but I still had to bowl league on that Thursday night.

At McCarran in Vegas, you could only check in up to 4 hours ahead of time for your flight. Well, National not only had a deal with the Rio and Harrah's (they were partly owned by them at the time) where you could check your bags in at their ticket counter they had at the Rio, but also check in 8 hours in advance. So I checked in at 4, ate dinner at the Rio, walked back across the street to bowl league at Gold Coast, then drove to the airport (next exit up off the freeway), parked, and went straight to the flight with an hour to spare.

With Vegas, you can definitely get there with plenty of time! If not, just catch a cab; they're trained to run over and through everyone to get to the airport anyway! 

BL.

I guess I "bitched" too soon. Our squad times for team actually improved and we kept the original 5 PM squad for Doubles/Singles.

Quote from: milorafferty on January 18, 2021, 04:08:26 PM

I guess I "bitched" too soon. Our squad times for team actually improved and we kept the original 5 PM squad for Doubles/Singles.

Question for you.. I'm assuming you're up in my area (NorCal).. how are you practicing, with everything closed down? Are you making the run over to Reno/Sparks/Carson City? I can't imagine you wanting to drive up to Redding or so just to practice..

BL.

I'm in Stockton. I have not thrown a bowling ball since last March when our local houses shut down for "Three weeks to lessen the surge on the hospitals".

In late June, we were on our way to Newport Oregon for vacation and traveled through Redding. There was a bowling alley there that was open for business, we stopped in(actually stopped there because of Liquor Barn which shares a parking lot) and checked it out. The bowling alley was open for business at that time. Nice smaller house, probably a nice place to bowl.

The shut down hasn't been that bad for me overall. I work for a very large mental health hospital company that has campuses all over California. We have Skilled Nursing as well as Mental Health treatment. Also having a serious impact on my ability to bowl is I'm taking classes to finish a degree at UC Berkeley. So the shutdown has made life a bit easier since I don't have to drive to Berkeley for classes four days a week.

I'm gonna pay my $185 and bowl like shit in Las Vegas. My Open Championships average is 176, so I figure to knock it down and move me out of the top division.

Yep, I intend to be a sorry-low-down-cheating-sandbagger. 

Our TEAM time on May 12, 2021 got pushed to 8:00 AM. 

Everyone we are with (I think 15 people) just rolled over our 2020 Entries.

Flying in from Richmond, VA and last week several people got
Southwest roundtrip at $175!  I bought airfare the  next day (January 12, 2021)
for $220 roundtrip.