This will be my last post on this site and hopefully will be read by those doing any sort of debrief in relation to the bowling and considered by those organising the wpfg2017 in Montreal.
This event suffered on so many levels
1..Lack of knowledge and experience of running a high level bowling tournament.
2..Failure to correctly place bowler in the correct divisions and age groups
even though they had been told either verbally or by email
3..Late notice of scheduling changes
4..Delayed start...This will be my last post on this site and hopefully will be read by those doing any sort of debrief in relation to the bowling and considered by those organising the wpfg2017 in Montreal.
This event suffered on so many levels
1..Lack of knowledge and experience of running a high level bowling tournament.
2..Failure to correctly place bowler in the correct divisions and age groups
even though they had been told either verbally or by email
3..Late notice of scheduling changes
4..Delayed start times and prolonged delays in changing lanes
5..Spliting Divisions to bowl over two days, therefore giving the bowler in the 2nd squad (next day) the knowledge of the top scores to beat.
6..This was a very large bowling alley. Single, Doubles, Team event could have been done on the same day. This would helped with a later start time and negate point 5
7..Recording and collating of the scores. This was so badly done that bowlers were made to wait hours for the medal ceremony, only for medals to be seized back, or no medals awarded due to suspect recording of the scores
8..Posting of daily scores for everyone to see. this helps bowlers and organisers, with finding errors at early stage
9.Total lack of policing the averages.This resulted in a certain bowler whose submitted average placed him in the B Div, when in fact this bowler was a high level bowler and should have been in the Open Div. The organisers should have disqualified that bowler.
10..Implementing a tournament average, policed by the wpfg/cpaf. This has been a problem at various past games. If all events scores are available from previous games, use them as well.
11..Perhaps a New Tournament Director
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The points above are a mixture of my own views and views from others who took part in the bowling. Please take them on board
If mistakes are repeated in Montreal, expect attendances for the bowling in future games to fall off expected levels
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