USBC developing new Red, White and Blue lane conditions

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USBC DEVELOPING NEW RED, WHITE AND BLUE CONDITIONS; BPAA TO ASSIST IN TESTING

ARLINGTON, Texas - The United States Bowling Congress plans to introduce a new series of lane conditions for certified competition. The group of patterns is designed to provide bowlers a better description for the difficulty of traditional "house" conditions.

As part of the plan, leagues and tournaments will have the option of using oil patterns falling into USBC Red, White or Blue condition categories. USBC Red pattern will be the most forgiving condition, USBC White will be more challenging and USBC Blue will be the most difficult of the new "house" conditions. USBC Sport Bowling conditions will continue to be the most challenging level of oil patterns.

"We know that lane conditions have a tremendous impact on the sport," USBC Vice President-National Governing Body Neil Stremmel said. "House shots can be very easy or reasonably challenging. Knowing the difficulty of the condition helps build credibility for the sport and adds a new fun element for bowlers."

The new condition categories are scheduled for testing later this year in cooperation with the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America. The conditions should be available for tournament use in spring 2010 and for the fall 2010 league season.

"This program can provide proprietors an excellent marketing tool to attract and maintain league bowlers," BPAA President Jim Sturm said. "Red, White and Blue can be used like stepping stones to progressively increase a bowler's interest in the competitive side of the sport. We are eager to test the program and hear feedback from customers and proprietors."

Use of the USBC Red, White and Blue conditions will be completely optional and the patterns will be available for download at no cost.

"A primary goal of the project is to make the USBC Red, White and Blue conditions easy for bowlers to understand and proprietors to utilize," Stremmel said. "The industry's lane machine manufacturers have been extremely supportive in making sure this program will work for nearly any center wanting to participate."

As part of the effort to gain attention for the new condition categories, USBC is sponsoring a stop on next season's Lumber Liquidators PBA Tour. The Red, White and Blue Open presented by USBC will be held at Northrock Lanes in Wichita, Kan., Dec. 7-13.

United States Bowling Congress and Bowling Proprietors' Association of America

Do you think we should trial this idea here in Oz??
 
Here is a new system for Australia
The ABF System
A = Awfully Hard
B = Bloody Hard
F = Don't Ask!!!
 
sounds similar to the different tees in golf...
red for ladies white for juniors and blue for the men.

and will the blue pattern actually be difficult or will it just be a house shot(/ditch) thats a litle bit harder than usual?
 
I think this is a great idea. Anything that raises the credibility of the Sport can only be good for the game.
I do wonder though - how are they going to police it? It only takes a tech to press the wrong button and the specified pattern goes out of the window.
Unless of course the Centre takes a reading immediately after every oiling and somehow I cant see that happening.
 
Andrew I don't think it is meant to be policed, it mentions that it is not compulsory so I think the idea is to give bowlers something to aim for, without pushing it down their throats. Centres aren't required to lay these conditions if they don't want to.
 
With Mackay insisting on laying the great wall of China for a Nationally ranked event I thought it would be only fitting to bump this up. I for one hope TBA bring back some sort of lane conditioning policy closing down the ratio's of oil to make things tougher.
 
George this has already been done.I spent 2 full weeks at the testing lab in milwaukee at the end of 1987 setting all this crap up.
It was bei9ng done because of bowling being in the Olympics in 1988 I was the Australian womens coach at the time.
I was sent there by the Aust and NSW Govt in the way of grants.
It will never change only the faces.
 
I bowled on the house shot in Geelong last night. It was refreshingly honest, without being nasty. These patterns are a great idea, but so long as bowlers give the impression to centre's that the way to attract bowers is to cheat with the lanes, then the big ditches will remain.

And I agree with Chris Bateup. I'd love to be able to play on my own side of the approach (or at least have the option to!)
 
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