firstly Zane.....im all for the handicap rule for the ladies, its a great way to attract more lady bowlers as well as increase prize fund as well as showing the country your not affraid to try something new up north.
It worked great at the Brunswick YOUTH cup (record number of bowlers.....with 3 girls making the top 16 in the scratch divison) and i think it will be a huge success for your event.
The fact is we need more ladies bowling against the guys to improve the skills and the level of our womens teams....
our "amature" girls are not the girls we once had......there was a time AUSSIE girl bowlers were the best in the world, now we are a little behind and i think playing with the guys will make them a better player (playing against those better always makes you lift and learn)......if giving 5 pins a game will help that than so be it.
Also if guys are worried about "loosing" to girls because of a 5 pin start and decide to not play because of that rule...... than thats a weak attitude to have.....if you think you cant compete with ladies because of 5 pins than what makes you think you can compete against the Walsh's, Bottomley's and the Brando's (dude im not even going to try your last name
) fact is its time to SACK up and attempt to work on your games to improve yourself and not blame a rule like this for not supporting the event.
bfcc said:
george u seem to think that the overseas tournaments are run the right way but think of it this way -
overseas tournys get 500-600 bowlers and if 10 guys decide not to bowl because they don't want to give start the tournament isn't really affected.
To the quote above.....
Im not sure which events your talking about which have 500-600 players in them.....the only event i have seen with that many people is VEGAS HIGH ROLLERS and ELIMINATORS. (and they are run only twice a year)
Most Asain events are run as a RE-ENTRY event. (dont need to explain that do i?) with perhaps a maxium of 80-100 actual bowlers (no more than us, but the re-entry adds a huge amount to the prize fund) so i dont think its has anything to do with the amount of players we have its more the formatts...buts thats another topic altogether.
The only thing i cannot understand is why on a national forum someone would try and drag down a event...a event that someone is holding not to benefit his business but for the bowlers up north..... i completly understand the right of free speech and the right to express it but why start something that is so trivial at the expense of someone trying to better bowling in our country.
In the famous words of a famous mother in the world "if you don't have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all"
JASON BELMONTE
ps- Zane.....SVEN HELSBERG says hello to your wife
